Countries fought with each other, all wanted to strengthen their national strength and make breakthroughs, but the war between Zhao and Yan did not benefit them, Yan lost its city, lost its virtuous minister, and there was a small-scale rebellion in the eastern Liaodong region, which completely destroyed the three-year Anliao policy. And many ministers of Yan Country also chose to leave, and King Yan's beating of Jiangqu made them very angry.

Such an impudent king was obviously not worthy of their service, and King Yan thought that all this was Jiangqu's fault, and secretly sent a warrior to kill Jiangqu.

And the samurai who went to kill Jiangqu couldn't bear to hurt Jiangqu, and after escorting Jiangqu to escape from Yan Kingdom, he committed suicide.

drove Qu to the Qi Kingdom, and no one saw him again.

Some people said: I once saw the ditch with a hoe and follow the people to plow. It is also said that Jiang Qu has been seen weaving straw mats for others to make a living. In any case, no one has ever seen this prime minister again, which makes King Zhao feel very regretful. King Zhao was very grateful to King Yan, and King Yan's attack made King Zhao successfully focus the attention of the Zhao people on Yan and inspired the hearts of Zhao by defeating Yan State.

There aren't many good people like this anymore.

The intervention of the Qi State in this war did not give them any benefit, the queen's illness, but the chaos of the temples of the Qi State, the government decrees were not comprehensible, the King of Qi was indecisive, and he had no own opinion on anything, he was used to obeying his mother's arrangement, and after his mother could no longer give him advice, Qi Wang Jian panicked, and even stopped seeing the ministers, and accompanied his mother all day long.

Some Confucians praised his behavior, believing that there was no more filial king in the world than the King of Qi.

But Xunzi severely reprimanded King Qi for this behavior, Xunzi thinks: King Qi governs the country with his heart and lives up to his mother's high expectations, this is the real filial piety, and accompanies his mother all day long, abandoning government affairs, only hoping that his mother will get better as soon as possible, and then help him deal with government affairs, this is a very selfish person, definitely not a filial son. Xunzi even told Zhao Zheng: Don't learn such selfish filial piety, the real filial piety is to fulfill the good wishes of your parents.

The original thriving situation of the Qi State suddenly disappeared.

In the Wei State, the King of Wei still did not find the most suitable and talented successor, which made the King of Wei sigh: Why are the talents of the world not in the Wei State? Kong Bin, whom he sent to invite, was sold by him to King Zhao only a few months later. The policies that Kong Bin had previously implemented in the Wei State were all abolished by the King of Wei, and incompetent villains such as Duan Ganzi, as well as those who were no longer willing to advise the King of Wei, were once again summoned to the temple.

The king of Wei was very disappointed in Kong Bin, believing that his talent was not worthy of his fame, and he still did not make Wei strong.

And King Zhao was still very happy, after he invited Kong Bin, he immediately set up a banquet to entertain Kong Bin, and replaced Li Mu with Kong Bin as a false appearance, and Li Mu continued to be sent to the clouds to guard the border fortress. King Zhao asked Kong Bin several times for advice on the policy of governing the country, and Kong Bin told King Zhao very resolutely: "In less than twenty years, the world will be owned by Qin." If you don't have the courage to change the law, and you can't make the Zhao Kingdom strong in a short period of time, the Zhao Kingdom will definitely perish in your hands. ”

The ministers were very angry when they heard Kong Bin's words, but King Zhao asked happily: "The widow heard that the Qin State is a brutal country, and the monarch never governs the country with morality and etiquette, please tell the widow, how to resist him?" After Kong Bin inspected Zhao State, he came up with a plan, which was different from the plan in Wei State, but the plan he came up with was to build granaries in various places in Zhao State, so that grain could be stored in various places, so that the people could be relieved in times of disaster, and the people could be avoided from starving to death in wartime, so that the soldiers could fight with peace of mind.

Among the countries, there is probably only Zhao State, which can be regarded as having some achievements.

As for the state of Chu, it was still busy with infighting, Huang Xie took a large amount of land from the nobles, distributed it to the common people, turned hired farmers into peasants, and promoted the advanced farming technology of the Central Plains to the remote areas of Chu State, mainly managing the land in the south and increasing the grain production of Chu State. Encourage the common people to have children, liberate the slaves of the nobles, the retainers, and the wild people who migrated to the mountains, and increase the population of the Chu State.

Of course, the Qin State will not stop moving forward, although during this period of time, the Qin State did not expand externally, but in terms of internal affairs, it did not stop, first in the Bashu region, the county guard Li Bing, he took his son, visited the water vein, adapted measures to local conditions, and built Dujiangyan on the basis of the predecessors, dividing the raging Minjiang River into two internal and external strands, turning harm into benefit, and having two major functions of flood collection and irrigation.

After the completion of the water conservancy project, he dug the beach danger, dredged the waterway, and built the Wenjing River, Baimu River, Luoshui, Mianshui and other irrigation and shipping projects, as well as repairing rope bridges and opening salt wells, which made the Bashu region rich and strengthened the connection between it and the Central Plains. The affluence of Bashu gave the Qin State a stable rear granary that could support the Qin State in launching a larger-scale war.

Good things come in pairs, and after Li Bing completed the big project in Shu County, the king of Qin ordered him to come to Xianyang to accept the reward.

Zhao Kuo also saw this sage who had been worshiped by the people of Bashu, Li Bing was very tall, but he was unusually thin and dark, looking like an old farmer in Xianyang City, he didn't talk much, he looked a little honest from the outside, and he was very polite to others. He came to visit Zhao Kuo, but because of the "Book of Horse Clothes", Zhao Kuo invited him into the hospital and let the sheep be slaughtered for hospitality.

"Wu Chengjun... It doesn't have to be that way. Li Bing was also a little surprised in the face of Zhao Kuo's unusual enthusiasm, he was just a local county guard, in terms of title, he was only a right watch, far inferior to Wu Chengjun, he didn't know why Wu Chengjun was so respectful to himself. Zhao Kuo shook his head and said seriously: "I have heard: as a general, if he defeats the enemy with elite soldiers, future generations will praise his bravery. ”

"As a person who is the minister of state, he governs the country and makes the people live a good life, and future generations will praise his wisdom."

"And people like you, running water conservancy, so that a region has benefited for thousands of years, future generations will definitely worship you, thank you for your kindness... I wish there were more people like you in the world. ”

"You have a good reputation, the canal I built can benefit the people of a county for a hundred years, and your "Book of Horse Clothes" can benefit the people of the whole world for a thousand years, I have never seen a person like you, I often go all night to read your books, which has benefited me a lot, the policies you mentioned in the book, your test method, a whip law, Tuntian law... I've never heard of anyone who could come up with so many systems... I have a lot of things I would like to ask you for. ”

Zhao Kuo smiled bitterly, where did he put forward these policies, he just said all the reforms he knew, from the Han Dynasty's light and meager endowment, to the later political, economic, and military reforms, everything he could think of was written, if it weren't for Han Fei, he wouldn't have been able to form a complete theory at all, just because it was too confusing.

It was Han Fei who combined what he said and did on weekdays with the policies he thought of, and only then did he form a barely visible policy system, although it was full of loopholes and out of date, but if it was not burned in the future, it should still be able to have some effect. China's feudal dynasty was a process of continuous strengthening of absolute monarchy, which reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

And Zhao Kuo's horse service book, it can be said that it is not outdated in any dynasty, and when the war is over, people will be surprised to find that this light and meager endowment, and the rest of the people is suitable for today, and when the strong and strong rise, they will find that the migration of the local Haoqiang, the policy to curb their development is quite suitable for today, and when the family is troubled, they will find that this imperial examination system can also be used... Zhao Kuo thought so, and didn't know what else he thought, and suddenly Zhao Zheng, who was playing in the courtyard, called over.

It's rare that Xunzi is going to travel with Gongsun Long to all parts of the Qin State today, Zhao Zheng has a holiday, and when he saw his father calling himself, he reluctantly walked in front of him, and saluted the dark-faced official, Li Bing looked at him with a smile and said, "This is your son?" Much younger than my son..", Zhao Kuo said to Zhao Zheng seriously with a straight face: "Books are very useful things and should not be burned. ”

"Father? I didn't burn books!! Zhao Zheng's eyes widened blankly and said aggrievedly.

"I know, and I'm not allowed to do that in the future."

"Hmm..."

"Alright, let's go play."

Zhao Zheng left in a hurry.

Li Bing didn't understand why Wu Chengjun was chatting with him, so he called his son over, gave him an inexplicable order, and let him leave. Li Bing also asked about some advanced systems, including Zhao Kuo's proposed system of migration and strength, which was a common method adopted by the Western Han Dynasty.

Of course, there is no such thing as a strong man in the Qin State... The heroes and heroes of the Qin State are all soldiers with knighthoods, and they have exchanged their military exploits for land and retainers. But they didn't dare to say that they oppressed the people and annexed land, which was a serious crime in the Qin State, not to mention a soldier with a third- or fourth-level title, even if he was a marquis, he couldn't do it. Li Bing said: "If there is no war, and those former meritorious soldiers lose the way to continue to obtain land, then they will definitely be like what you said... Illegal methods are used to obtain arable land. ”

Unexpectedly, Li Bing is still quite far-sighted, he talked to Zhao Kuo about his views on the post-war world, many of his ideas coincide with Zhao Kuo, and even in line with history, Li Bing's most worrying thing is the demise of Qin, Qin is a country built on war, if one day, the war is really over, then where should this country go?

The two of them were chatting, and Zheng Guo hurriedly walked in. He had heard the name Li Bing many times in Zhao Kuo's mouth, and after coming to Qin State, he also heard this name from other people's mouths, and now he heard that this person came to Xianyang, Zheng Guo hurriedly went to look for it, looked for a lot of places, and did not find him, and finally heard that he was here in Zhao Kuo, so he hurried here.

Zhao Kuo hurriedly introduced this Zheng Guo to Li Bing, and when the two big engineers met, both of them were a little excited.

The two shook hands, sat down and began to talk about the water conservancy project, Li Bing was talking about the canal that Zheng Guo wanted to build, thinking that this move would benefit Guanzhong for a thousand years, and Zheng Guo was praising Li Bing's Dujiangyan, thinking that no one could surpass it, the two met, and the words turned into professional terms, Zhao Kuo sat aside, there was no way to blend in, he couldn't understand what these two were saying.

Zheng Guo talked about his plan, he even brought the plan, Zheng Guo and he spread the plan on the ground, the two knelt on the ground regardless of etiquette, huddled together, took out their fingers to paint on the soil, Zhao Kuo could see that they were making design drawings, Zhao Kuo didn't dare to disturb them, he could only watch the drawings they drew from the side, the two sometimes quarreled, sometimes laughed, sometimes annoyed, there was no look like a big engineer at all...

Zhao Kuo quietly stood up and left here, just walked to the inner room, and saw Zhao Zheng looking at the two people in the distance with a blank face, Zhao Zheng raised his head and asked, "Father, what are they doing?" Zhao Kuo lowered his voice and said, "They are discussing to build a lot of canals in the Qin State...", Zhao Zheng suddenly realized, nodded, and asked: "What's the use of this?" ”

"It is good for irrigation and prevents flooding, and it has a great effect!"

"Politics, the construction of water conservancy is a matter of merit for a thousand years, this is something that must be taken seriously, but the problem is that it also depends on the impact on the present generation, and it cannot be said that for the sake of later interests, it is not possible to continue to squeeze the people of the present generation, this is not good, on the basis of not causing serious consequences and not harming the people, build useful channels, and turn the ferocious water into something that is conducive to agriculture and the people, which is very good."

"You have to respect people like that... Of course, anyone but the wicked deserves respect. ”

"I know that Mr. Gongsun told me that there is no one who is eternally noble, there is no one who is eternally lowly, and if you despise those who are lowly by virtue of your present nobility, you will one day be reduced to a lowly person and suffer the same treatment."

Zhao Kuo happily rubbed Zhao Zheng's head, "That's good." ”

Zhao Zheng raised his head and smiled proudly at his father, now he, under the influence of Xunzi and others, seems a little too mature, and only when facing Zhao Kuo's family, he will show the side of his child, Zhao Zheng was about to say something, suddenly looked ahead, and shouted: "Father!" Not good! They fought!! Zhao Kuo immediately looked ahead, and saw that the two were staring at each other angrily, bumping into each other like angry bulls.

Zhao Kuo hurriedly stepped forward and separated the two.

After inquiry, I learned that the two had a quarrel because of disagreement.

Zheng Guo is a thorough engineer, he will not calculate the cost of civil and material resources when doing projects, and he will not care how many people's normal lives will be affected by such construction projects, and Li Bing is different, Li Bing is a local parent official, in the process of construction, he will consider these, his starting point is to benefit the local people, and will not let the project affect the agriculture and mulberry, and affect the normal life of the people.

Therefore, the two quarreled.