News of Zhao's new policy soon swept to the courts of various countries with the spring breeze, immediately arousing the vigilance of all countries.
Other countries are fine. Anyway, there is already a Qin State, so it doesn't matter if there is another Zhao State. Even if the two tigers fight against each other, they may still have a glimmer of hope.
Only Qin State paid special attention to Zhao State's reforms.
King Qin has obviously realized that the only one who can compete with Qin in the future is Zhao.
Fortunately for Qin, with the series of tepid policies promulgated by Zhao Kuo and flowing into the Xianyang Palace, the King of Qin's fear of Zhao was somewhat reduced.
King Qin, who had been king for decades, saw Zhao Kuo's true intention almost at a glance - to take back power!
Naturally, there is no need to pay too much attention to a new policy aimed at curbing power. Even if he issued the so-called order to seek talents, in the eyes of the King of Qin, it was just an attempt to dilute the rights of the nobles of Zhao State with the people of the world.
The fact was just as King Qin expected. It can be said that most of Zhao Kuo's first move was to take back the power under his own banner. However, what King Qin didn't know was that the power was not Zhao Kuo's. Purpose.
While taking back power, other tasks such as farming, building canals, training troops, mutual trade, etc. were also progressing quietly and orderly.
Of course, what outsiders can see is the constant disputes over power within Zhao.
Even when almost all countries were not optimistic about it, Zhao's new policy was running wildly across this vast land.
For a year, the State of Zhao was still adjusting, and it seemed that it had not yet found a policy that suited him. Only Zhao Kuo and his ministers knew that they were constantly trying to make mistakes and correcting deviations. From then on, the State of Zhao also There are no longer static policies, only ideas that keep pace with the times;
In two years, Zhao's officials once again experienced large-scale transfers; the rotation system proposed by Lu Buwei was finally implemented with Zhao Kuo's support. Although it took more than half a year for just one rotation, it was This sounded the alarm for all officials, and domestic governance once again reached a historical height.
In the past three years, turmoil seemed to have become synonymous with the Zhao State, and the corvee was endless... During this year, Zhao Kuo implemented the work-for-relief method and built large-scale construction projects all over the country, but the ones he built were not his own. Palaces are instead channels and wells for the people.
Four years, five years...
In the blink of an eye, five years have passed, and Handan City seems to be still the same Handan City. Although the population has increased by 40%, the palace has become increasingly dilapidated in the wind and rain.
The bleak autumn wind has arrived again in another year.
People in various places in Guizhou are busy in the fields despite the tyranny of autumn tigers, harvesting the fruits of the year. Pieces of golden wheat waves, the breeze blew by, and the wheat ears bent by the fruits swayed gently, as if they were saying goodbye to the Guizhou leaders who had been waiting for it for more than half a year.
You watered it with your sweat the day before yesterday, now I will repay you with fruits! Yesterday you turned your face to the loess and your back to the sky for me, today I reward you with heavy wheat ears!
For the head of Guizhou who works tirelessly in the fields all year round, there is no more beautiful scenery than this.
And these Guizhou chiefs of Zhao State obviously wielded the sickles more vigorously and faster than the Guizhou chiefs of other countries!
This is obviously not the reason why the people of Zhao State work harder.
In fact, this enthusiasm had already prevailed in various fields of Zhao State as early as five years ago and as late as three years ago.
The reason is very simple. Their king said: "Whatever is given to the country and left in the clan is yours!"
Looking at the endless wheat fields, Qian Shou could not bear the bitterness and hatred of previous years in his heart, and there was no need for an overseer with a whip. Everyone's eyes are filled with the flames of excitement, and their whole body is full of endless energy!
Just because more than half of the current harvest can go into his own pocket, and even the newly cultivated acres of land, the country actually exempted him from taxes in the first year. In addition to giving some symbolic payments to the village and clan, the rest was almost Ninety percent of the wheat grains can be received in your own house.
The situation is naturally different when working for other people's homes and working for your own home!
There was no need to urge him. The poor and frightened Qian head rushed to attack his own fields, fearing that an autumn rain would hit and reduce his grain production.
The rest is all yours! For every additional acre of land opened, one's family will have one more grain, and one more grain will mean one more meal. Even the head of Guizhou understands this simple truth.
Corresponding to what the king said, the leaders of Guizhou also have a saying: "Three points faster, one more acre of field, one more acre of field, one more basket of rice!"
Among the boundless fields, countless families, young and old, came together to put on a harvest show in perfect harmony.
As the main labor force, the middle-aged couple were vigorously waving the sickle in front. They held the knife in their right hand and the wheat straw in their left hand. They held it with their left hand and stepped on it with one foot. The right hand immediately followed up with a knife. Each knife was a stubble of wheat straw without stopping at all. , threw the cut wheat straw to the side, and the man stepped forward again, repeating the action just now.
Several half-grown children followed their parents. The younger children picked up the wheat straws cut by their parents and skillfully tied them with one of the longer poles. The older children also While sorting, he took the wheat ears packed by his brother and sister and placed them neatly together in the huge burden he was carrying.
And the stumbling children at the back were not idle either. They followed their brothers and sisters carefully, carefully picking up the naughty things that had fallen off the ears of wheat, and then carefully putting them away. He was carrying a basket almost as big as himself.
While the hot sunshine makes the wheat fields rich, it also consumes the physical strength of the harvesters all the time. Big beads of sweat kept flowing down from the cheeks and backs of the people in Guizhou. They didn't bother to wipe them off, and had no choice but to let it stick to their close-fitting Gebu and dry it in the sun.
At noon, when the sun was at its strongest, several old men appeared in the fields carrying burdens. They each brought meals cooked by the old women at home, and of course, fresh water that the workers desperately needed.
"Let's eat!" The desolate voices echoed through the fields one after another.
Hearing the familiar calling voice, the couple raised their heads, straightened their sore waist and shoulders, waved the sickle in their hands at the old man under the tree, and then called to the children behind them: "Grandpa is coming! Go and eat quickly!"
The children, who had been looking forward to it for a long time, heard their parents' instructions and happily carried their burdens and baskets and ran to the familiar figure under the shade of the tree.
Some people died, but not completely...
