Wang Pu deceived and made Qin Huali and others agree that Huai State's attack on the state was for mutual love and not for attack. As for Mozi, he is currently looking through a large number of books in the collection room.
The opinions of hundreds of schools of thought were collected here in Huai State. There were too many opinions from each school, enough for him to study for a long time. Wang Pu knew very well that his remarks would definitely not fool Mozi, but if he saw the results, Mozi would not object.
Wang Pu knew very well that Mozi was both an idealist and a realist. This is not a contradiction. Idealism is his pursuit, but when the ideal cannot be achieved, making the people live a better life is his reality.
Compared with the state of Zhoulai, the Huai state treated its people better. At least it allowed the people to have food to eat, clothes to wear, and some freedom.
Huaiguo's annexation of Zhoulaiguo was very fast. It took almost only two months for Zhoulaiguo to settle down and it could be said that it was what the people wanted. If the system could give a numerical value to the state's popular sentiment, it would definitely exceed 90 points.
After annexing Zhoulaiguo, Huaiguo did not stop. There were also small countries such as Luguo, Liaoguo, and Xiangguo around Zhoulaiguo.
Most of these countries are small countries with a radius of about a hundred miles, with small countries and weak people, and they are basically still in semi-slavery societies.
The slavery system is backward. The Huai Kingdom had already advocated the abolition of slavery during the founding of Zijue. Now it is natural to drive away the nobles who oppress the people, love these people, and protect these people from being oppressed.
As Huai Gong who wanted to love all the people of Xia, how could he tolerate the oppression of his people? Huai's army began to attack continuously.
In September, Huai attacked Lu, and in October, Huai attacked Liao, both of which were defeated.
The expansion of the Huai State attracted a large number of scholars from the academy. Many Legalist scholars had been recruited by the Wei State, but now there were not enough of them. Fortunately, there were no more Legalist scholars, and Wang Pu also recruited some Confucian disciples.
Although Wang Pu did not agree with Confucian views and did not use Confucian kingship to govern the country, this did not prevent him from appointing Confucian scholars.
Confucian scholars are not without merit. Confucian scholars in this era still know many methods of governance. After all, they study in the academy all year round. No matter how stupid they are, they will still learn something.
These Confucian disciples may have various problems if you let them govern the country, but they can still manage the place competently, appease the people, measure the land, and allocate farmland. These are all in line with the concepts of the Confucian school.
Suddenly, a large number of Confucian disciples began to sing praises for Wang Pu. It's a pity that these people are destined to be just tool people. It is basically impossible to obtain high positions and become generals and generals.
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After being deceived by Wang Pu, the Mohist family had reluctantly accepted the Huai State's attack on other surrounding small countries.
But every time, the Mo family would send someone to check. Let's see if Wang Pu has fulfilled his promise to allocate fields, grain, clothes and salt to these people, and check the taxes collected from the people.
Wang Pu strongly supported this point. With these Mohist descendants on patrol, the Huai Kingdom distributed land to the people, and those in charge did not dare to do anything under the supervision of the Mohist descendants.
If there is corruption or favoritism, the Mohist disciples will soon discover it. With these people around, Wang Pu didn't worry at all that Huaiguo's policies would be undermined by grassroots officials.
The Huai State quickly annexed several small countries, and then moved the officials, officials and nobles of these small countries to other places to open up wasteland.
Most of these public officials, ministers and nobles had a lot of money, and they were also large in number and possessed military force. Although it was not the work of the Huai Kingdom, they were still good at dealing with some barbarians, so Wang Pu moved these public officials and nobles. Go to the border and use the power of these public nobles to open up wasteland bit by bit.
They have enjoyed a life of bells and dinners for so long, so it is appropriate for them to develop some strength for Zhu Xia. Of course, as long as he works hard, Wang Pu will not hesitate to reward him.
After the news of the end of the Central Plains War came, Huai State temporarily stopped annexing small countries. It was not that Huai State was worried about interference from other countries, but that most of the available scholars in the academy had been drawn.
Seeing this situation, even if Si Wang Pu wanted to continue to annex those small countries, the ones that had been annexed and restructured
There just aren't enough manpower. Simply put, these small countries are basically surrounded by the Huai State. After the Huai State digests the small countries that have been annexed, it will be enough to annex these countries.
As for the kings of these countries looking for other princes to rescue them, the war in the Xia Dynasty has just ended, and no one will pay attention to them at all.
What's more, your entire country is surrounded by the Huai Kingdom. Do you want to send an envoy for help? Do I agree?
Huai State annexed several small countries and increased its population by hundreds of thousands. For these newly acquired lands, Wang Pu also promoted iron plows and ox farming. After dividing the fields, these people would need at least tens of thousands of iron plows.
It's just that although there are more iron ores than copper ores, and after the smelting technology has matured, the output has increased rapidly, but the sudden increase in demand has made Huai Guojiang Supervisor unable to produce it for a while.
Fortunately, there are still many talented craftsmen and supervisors. Since the iron ore cannot meet the demand for a while, we should first produce iron-clad plows.
It is just a wooden plow wrapped with a layer of iron. The durability of the iron-clad plow is naturally not as good as that of the iron plow, but it is equally easy to use for farming. It is even lighter than the iron plow, making it more convenient to use.
The iron sheet covering the iron plow was invented by several skilled craftsmen of the Mohist family. The emergence of the iron-clad plow has reduced the iron material used by the iron plow by more than half, which has greatly saved iron materials.
Of course, this also has another benefit. Although the price of iron is lower than copper, the price of iron plows is still not cheap. Few people are willing to buy it, but the price of iron-clad plows is much cheaper.
People in these newly merged areas can also use Qingmiao Loans to make purchases. In Huai State, a large number of people who could not afford iron plows also came to buy them.
As a result, the number of iron-clad plows that originally saved iron materials increased rapidly, and finally the problem of insufficient iron supply arose again.
At the same time, Huai State also taught these people who had just obtained land according to local conditions. Because the Huai State spans north and south, various crops are grown, and planting techniques have been improved over hundreds of years. It has far surpassed these small countries.
Wang Pu ordered a group of farmers who were proficient in farming to be transferred from the Huai State to inform these people of the Huai State's advanced agricultural technology and help them increase their output.
The Huai State has always attached great importance to agricultural development, and its agricultural technology is also the most advanced among the states of Bang and Zhou. With the strong support of the Huai State, these people who had just obtained land were also developing rapidly in agriculture.
The promotion of iron plows, ox farming, and agricultural technology quickly brought the people of these small countries back home, and the strength of the Huai State was also steadily increasing.
