Zhao Kuo accompanied his family and spent some time in Changping.

King Qin did not send anyone to disturb him, and Zhao Kuo's disciples and disciples were also arranged in the surrounding courtyards, and the daily meals were also very rich. Seven or eight days passed like this, and the King of Qin came to visit again with people.

This time, King Qin didn't bring many soldiers, but only brought a young man, and two scribes, Zhao Kuo knew that young man, it was Zhao Zheng's biological father, Ying Yiren, and one of the two scribes was Lü Buwei. Zhao Yiren looked a little excited, and as soon as he walked into the courtyard, he hurriedly bowed down to Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo helplessly helped him up.

"Thank you for helping me take care of my wife... I've heard that you treat Masato as your own son, and I'm grateful for your kindness. At this time, Zhao Yiren saw the little guy running back and forth in the courtyard, the little guy was not afraid of people at all, he was riding his toy chariot, waving the wooden sword in his hand, running around in the courtyard.

"He is...", Zhao Yiren said with some excitement, and Zhao Kuo nodded.

Zhao Yiren walked in front of the little guy at this time, Zhao Zheng stopped, frowned, and looked at the stranger in front of him. Zhao Yiren looked at this familiar face, he was speechless for a while, his eyes were red, he took a deep breath, and then asked with a smile: "What are you doing?" Zhao Zheng looked at the strange person in front of him, and was very confused, since he left Mafu and came to this place, he met more and more strange people.

He asked with some displeasure, "I'm playing, can't you see it?" ”

Zhao Yiren laughed, he nodded, and said, "Okay, just play, do you know, I'm your father..."

"Oh, I'm still your father!"

Zhao Yiren was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Zhao Kuo in the distance, hoping that Zhao Kuo could say something, but Zhao Kuo was also a little hesitant, he looked at Zhao Zheng, and fell silent, King Qin laughed, took Zhao Kuo's hand, and said: "The widow forgot to tell you, this is Cai Ze, the prime minister of Qin...", he introduced the people around him, Cai Ze and Zhao Kuo met him, and then said: "I was in Zhao before, I wanted to visit you, and I heard that you are digging channels... I haven't been able to see you several times..."

Zhao Yiren looked at them chatting in a daze, and then looked at his son, he asked with some surprise, "Don't you really know?" Ma Fujun didn't tell you? Zhao Zheng was very angry, and he said seriously: "I'm Ma Fuzi!" My father is Ma Fukun! I respect you because you are my father's friend, this is not because I am afraid of you, if you talk nonsense again, I will let Di Gong beat you! ”

"It turns out that he really didn't say it...", Zhao Yiren didn't know what to say for a while, he pondered for a moment, and then looked at the happy boy in front of him, only then did he feel relieved, he was still young, but he didn't know the truth. When he's older, he'll know, he's happy here anyway, and that's enough. Zhao Yiren didn't say anything more, he changed his way and asked, "You like chariots very much?" ”

"Yes, I like chariots very much, but I'm too small to reach chariots, this is what Du Gong made for me... But he left the horse clothes, I don't know why he left, Di Gong said that I will never see him again, I also saw him crying, but he didn't let me tell others... Ge Gong told me that when I grow up, I can avenge Du Gong..."

"Oh?" , Zhao Yiren seemed to understand something, he nodded and said, "When you grow up, you can indeed avenge him... Do you want a real tank? ”

"Yes!"

"I can give you one."

"So what do I need to do for you?"

"Don't do anything."

"That's still it, my father said: There is no free lunch in the world, and the harvest without payment often has to pay a greater price."

Zhao Yiren looked at the little guy in front of him in surprise, and he asked again, "Do you know how to read?" Zhao Zheng looked at him with some disdain, and said proudly: "Of course, except for the characters of Chu State, I can write my own name, the words and words of Chu State are too difficult to learn, every time I don't learn well, the teacher beats me... I hate the words and words of the State of Chu..."

"Hahaha, me too, so do I."

"Who is your teacher? Ma Fujun? ”

"I have a lot of teachers... At first, Senior Brother Han was my teacher and taught me to read and write, and my father taught me mathematics, astronomy, geography... Oh, Di Gong taught me to stab the sword and tell me stories, Ge Gong didn't teach me, he liked to take me to play, and Li Gong, he taught me poetry, but I couldn't learn it... Recently, there is another Xun Gong, and he is also very interesting to speak, as well as Gongsun Gong, and Zou Gong... There is also the exhibition of the public... Wei Gong... I can ask them if I don't know anything... But I don't like Wei Gong, he stinks. ”

"Hiss...", Zhao Yiren took another breath of cold air and widened his eyes.

"Don't you feel tired?"

"I'm not tired, the horse service is very fun, there is a group of people called Mo, they can make a lot of fun things, I like to play with them, there is a university room in the horse service, there are a lot of fun people there... Di Gong also taught me to fight the corner, I can wrestle many children older than me in the horse suit, but they didn't let me! ”

The father and son chatted like this, not even noticing that King Qin and Zhao Kuo had already left the courtyard.

King Qin took Zhao Kuo's hand, and when he walked out of the mansion, he happened to see Xunzi, Gongsun Long, Zheng Guo, and Han Fei chatting about the sky, Zhan Youyou went back, and there were only a few of them left here, Zhao Kuo and everyone met him, Lu Buwei didn't dare to speak at all, standing at the end, bowing his head, Cai Ze was okay, Cai Ze was very enthusiastic about chatting with these people about the affairs of Qin, and the King of Qin said his purpose, please come and see the national conditions of Qin.

Zhao Kuo originally thought that the King of Qin was going to take him to visit the official mansion of the Qin State, or to see the administration of the officials. But what he didn't expect was that King Qin just took him to wander around the city at will, they didn't even take a carriage, they just got two ox carts, one was Han Fei to drive, sitting on King Qin, Xunzi, Zhao Kuo, Gongsun Long, and the other was Li Silai to catch the car, sitting on Gongsun Long, Zheng Guo, Cai Ze, Lu Buwei and others.

Two ox carts drove on the road one after the other, slowly.

The King of Qin then recounted, "This is the newly acquired land of the Qin State, and many years ago, this place belonged to Korea. He glanced at Han Fei and found that Han Fei was not annoyed, so he continued: "At that time, the cultivated land of the Shangdang was very small, and the Taishou Feng Ting of the Shangdang was a person worthy of respect, but his ability to govern was not very good..."

Zhao Kuo looked around seriously, and he noticed the difference between this place and Zhao Guo.

He had been to Changping before, and he knew what Changping City was like.

Today's Changping, the road is spacious and clean, this is completely different from other countries, the houses on both sides of the road are also very neat, you can often see the people busy passing through the street, King Qin said with a smile: "The entire Shangdang Road has been renovated several times, connecting the surroundings." Wu Chengjun once said: Keeping clean can avoid disease. Therefore, the widow ordered that all localities should keep the city clean and tidy. ”

"No open defecation, no dumping."

"The widows set up vastries in various places to solve the problem of filth in the city, and ordered the ministers to build drainage facilities in the city to drain the sewage in the city..."

Zhao Kuo's eyes widened, but Gongsun Long said with a smile: "In order to achieve this, there must be a lot of conscription in the Qin State, right?" ”

"Hahaha, the conscription of the Qin State will not force the people to death, all the criminals who are responsible for the construction of the service...", King Qin said seriously, he said again: "It's a pity that the original Taishou Wang Ji is also an incompetent person, and he even wants to serve the Zhao State...", he shook his head and continued to explain. There were not many pedestrians on the road, and when passing through some streets, officials came to block them and interrogate their identities.

When they went out of the city, they also had to make records, and Zhao Kuo saw the thick bamboo slips they piled up, and noted in detail the identity, purpose and other contents of the people who went out of the city. Outside the city, there is a lot of arable land, and everywhere you can see the people working, accompanied by officials, and these officials do not come to meet these "nobles", the king of Qin told Zhao Kuo that if these officials can't show decent political achievements, they will be held accountable, so they are very serious.

When the king of Qin called the officials here and asked him about the situation of the cultivated land, the officials first asked him about his identity, and when he learned the identity of the king of Qin, the officials were also very excited, and they bowed to see him, and then they took out the bamboo slips, which recorded in detail the amount of cultivated land, production, annual harvest, from the distribution of ploughing cattle to the replacement of farm tools, nothing was missed.

Zhao Kuo found that they were even using Arabic numerals, he looked at King Qin in surprise, and King Qin smiled and said, "Because this kind of number of yours is very convenient, so the widow has promoted this kind of number of yours in the Qin State... This is of great help to the Qin State, because there are so many things to record and calculate... This is Wu Chengjun! When King Qin pointed at Zhao Kuo and spoke to the officials, the officials' eyes widened.

That excitement is no less than the excitement when you see King Qin.

Zhao Kuo's understanding of Qin has deepened a little, and Qin has another kind of rigor to the bones, which may have something to do with Shang Ying, Zhao Kuo feels that Shang Ying may have obsessive-compulsive disorder, from the neat and symmetrical architectural style, most of the Qin people may have obsessive-compulsive disorder, they have to form an array when they walk, and the cultivated land is also neat, calculated to the extreme, and they are very cautious in doing things, and there is no slackness.

They have written detailed laws, criminal laws, procedural laws, civil laws... The official system is very clear, so to speak, the officials of the countries are so simple that it is outrageous, but the officials of the Qin State are so detailed that it is outrageous, just the official system of a township, it has already had a later appearance, it can be said that this system has been used for thousands of years, not to mention the system of counties and counties.

The people of Qin were not happy, because the laws of Qin were harsh, and they had no entertainment, and there was no time, everything in Qin was farming and war, and everything else had to serve war, from officials to craftsmen, without exception. However, the people of the Qin State lived very safely, and on the basis that the Qin law was not seriously damaged, no one could take the lives of the people at will.

Not to mention an ordinary official, even the prince and grandson are not good, a person like Chang'an Jun, if he lived in the Qin State, he would have been sent to repair the Great Wall for homicide. When the people were arrested by the officials, they could even appeal to express their injustice to the verdict, and this kind of complaint could be sued all the way to the king of Qin... This made Zhao Kuo feel very frightened, China has no spirit of rule of law?? No kidding.

All the Qin people are doing things according to the provisions of the law, no one can disobey them, officials cannot raise taxes at will, everyone is required to only do what is within their own share, not much, even if it is a good thing... Moreover, in the Qin State, it is illegal not to act bravely, but it is also illegal to meddle in things, for example, if your neighbor suffers a disaster, you go to help him, help him, this is not allowed by the law.

If you encounter a thief on the road and you don't go to help, it's also a crime.

If a common person suffers a disaster, such as the destruction of farmland by animals, he can appeal to the local government, and the government will give him a subsidy according to his situation, but no one else is allowed to help.

Because of the existence of the military merit system, war and farming have become the best way to upgrade the title, first of all, on the battlefield, kill the enemy, you can change your title, improve the treatment you receive, the other is farming, weaving, through hard work, increase the output of food, increase the output of cloth, the farmer can also get the title. The elevation of the title represents everything, land, retainers, honor, status.

This made the Qin people work together and fight for the title.

The craftsmen continued to make better tools, the farmers worked hard, and the soldiers fought bravely.

Shang Ying set up a game server in the Qin State, set up twenty levels, and all players can fight monsters and upgrade in their own way to live a better life... Zhao Kuo had to sigh: Shang Ying's talent is really incomparable. And more importantly, it is the military merit system that provides a path to the upper class, and in other countries, the people at the bottom will always be at the bottom, and there is no opportunity to improve their status.

Unless it is suddenly valued by the king and soars to the sky.

And in the Qin State, everyone has a path that allows them to climb up. This gave Qin a lot of outstanding talents.

The Qin State was strong, not because of his generals and soldiers, but because of his system, which had long surpassed all countries.

Zhao Kuo followed the King of Qin and watched the situation in various places, from farming, to water conservancy, to road construction, economic system, and officials, those officials who had a straight face and conscientiously fulfilled the laws of Qin, from the crown, you could see the respective titles and ranks of these people, Zhao Kuo was dazzled, and he couldn't distinguish their specific titles. The crown worn by the King of Qin also seems to be of a high rank, because the officials first leaned down to meet him and then came to inquire about his identity.

Here, there are no idle rangers, no farmers singing with farm tools on their backs, no small merchants selling along the road with goods, and no one stopping to enjoy the scenery.

People here are living a fast-paced life, running back and forth, hurrying, with a straight face and a head down, so that no happy face can be seen or any laughter can be heard.

"What do you think of the Qin Kingdom?"

"It's powerful, but you can't hear the laughter."

"Nowadays, it's rare to hear breathing, and laughter is even more extravagant... What do you say? ”