Although this woman is beautiful, there are many beauties around Liu Bang, Qi Ji is the most satisfying to him, Mrs. Guan and Zhao Zier are also beautiful and moving, although Liu Bang is lustful, he will not delay major events because of women.

However, this woman is indeed very beautiful, Liu Bang said again: "Big things naturally have to be done, and it doesn't hurt to let the widow pamper one night first!" ”

Chen Ping said: "King, if she can't do things as a virgin, it will be greatly discounted. ”

At this time, Liu Bang finally died of this heart.

I only heard Chen Ping say: "This woman is the daughter of the county of Beidi, and the county and she are willing to do anything for the king." ”

Liu Bang nodded, he trusted Chen Ping, Chen Ping thought it would be okay, it should be no problem.

He said to the woman, "If you make meritorious service and the widow promotes your father and brother, as long as you can save your life and come back, the widow will definitely give you a good home." ”

Before the Song Dynasty, there was no such thing as a woman needing to start from the beginning, and a woman could remarry. Like Liu Bang's Bo Ji, Mrs. Guan, and Zhao Zi'er were originally Wei Wangbao's women, Liu Bang didn't care, as long as he liked it.

The woman said: "King, the little girl will definitely do a good job!" ”

Immediately, Chen Ping said to the woman: "If you dare to betray the King of Han, your whole family will suffer!" ”

The woman said lightly: "The little girl understands that the little girl will always be loyal to the King of Han. ”

After letting the woman step back, Chen Ping reported to Liu Bang about the espionage.

"King, Zhao Xie formed the Jinyi Guard and cultivated spies. As for how Jinyiwei is trained, our spies can't find out yet! But we just received an important piece of news, and this is news that is not good for us. ”

"What's the news?"

"Zhao Xie specially sent people north to Donghu to negotiate with Donghu in exchange for 12,000 Saibei horses."

When Liu Bang heard this, his face immediately turned gloomy, this is bad news.

Chen Ping said: "Saibei horses are better than Central Plains horses, Zhao Xie will form more cavalry, and the general's eastward expedition to Zhao State in the future will greatly increase the difficulty." ”

This news stimulated Liu Bang, and he also hoped that there would be a good horse to expand his strength, saying: "Zhao Xie can trade with the Hu people, and my Han can do the same." The widow can also send someone to envoy the Xiongnu. ”

Bordering the northern border of the Han State was the Xiongnu forces.

Chen Ping said: "The Xiongnu have always been hostile to the Central Plains, and the probability of success is not high. It's worth a try, though. ”

Li Shiqi has not come back yet, but Liu Bang is not the only lobbyist, Lu Jia and Sui He are good at this.

Chen Ping said again: "Zhao Xie has become more and more popular among the army and the people because of the implementation of the new military merit system, but it is not monolithic, and the minister has let the spies wait for the opportunity to spread rumors and take the opportunity to promote the benevolence of the king. ”

Since he defected to Liu Bang, because of his outstanding ability, he was quickly reused, and Liu Bang originally had spies in Zhao and Chu, but there were not many of them. Later, Chen Ping took refuge and had outstanding ability, so he simply handed over the intelligence to Chen Ping for management.

Chen Ping is very hard-working, expanding the manpower in this area, cultivating outstanding personnel, and taking care of this aspect very well.

For the important events that happened in Zhao State, including the defection of the Mo family to Zhao Xie, the establishment of the technical department, Jinyiwei, etc., these things can quickly spread to Liu Bang's side.

Although these could put pressure on Liu Bang, they never made Liu Bang seriously troubled, and he trusted Han Xin, believing that as long as the troops were sufficient and well-trained, Han Xin would definitely be able to capture the Zhao State. What can really make Liu Bang really annoyed is always Xiang Yu.

After talking to Chen Ping, Liu Bang immediately summoned Lu Jia and asked him to send an envoy to the Xiongnu to try to persuade Mao Dun.

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Since King Zhao tested the Zhuge repeater, Huang Tingjing's top priority was to improve the repeater to the greatest extent possible as quickly as possible. Since then, he has devoted most of his daily life to research.

Because of the defection of important figures of the Mo family and Confucianism, because of the world-facing order to seek talents, coupled with the influence of the two, more and more ink and Confucian scholars came to vote.

By the end of February, there were thousands of Mo scholars and dozens of Confucian scholars who had arrived in Xiangguo and been appointed by the imperial court. Some of these people served as officials, and only a small number of them were awarded official positions that met the standards of official service.

The Mohists not only studied science and technology, but also had full practice, and the Mohists had to participate in labor to ensure the basic survival and life, and there were relatively few people engaged in agriculture, mainly engaged in handicrafts, and there was no shortage of skilled craftsmen.

Among them, those who were good at machinery were incorporated into the arsenal under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and became skilled craftsmen; Those who are good at engineering construction are assigned to the Ministry of Engineering, or serve as officials, or serve as grass-roots officials, responsible for providing technical guidance for project construction and supervising the quality of projects.

At the end of February, the sky was clear.

Outside the city of Xiangguo, nearly 10,000 war horses gathered here, and Zhuo Zhongkai and the household officials returned.

Zhao Xie took some officials out of the city to greet them, looking at the good horses, his heart was full of heroism.

The addition of 10,000 horses will greatly increase the strength of the cavalry.

Eight thousand cavalry recruits were all here, and they were all elated when they saw such a good horse, and everyone could get a mount in the future.

For 2,000 breeding horses, Zhao Xie has his own plan, unless the situation is compelling, otherwise the ponies born will be retained at least half as breeding horses when they grow up, and the more breeding horses, the more ponies will be born every year, so that the number of horses of their own breeds will increase rapidly.

Zhao Xie's opponent is not only Liu Bang Xiang Yu, but also Mao Dun in the north. To fight deep into the Saibei steppe, to completely defeat the Xiongnu, it is simply impossible to do without a large number of war horses.

He Yan came to King Zhao and said respectfully: "King, the minister lives up to his trust and completes the task you have given. ”

Zhao Xie said: "Aiqing has done a good job, hard work!" This time, he made a great contribution and was promoted to one level. ”

Originally, He Yan was the fifth grade, and it was promoted to the fourth grade.

The officials who came out to greet him explained to He that it was because he successfully sent Donghu that he had so many good horses.

All the cavalry gathered, and according to Zhao Xie's instructions, the Saibei horses were given priority to the veterans, and the veterans' original horses were reserved for the new recruits.

Zhao Xie wanted to assemble a more powerful cavalry to charge into battle and expand his territory.

The next day, a court meeting was held at the Dezheng Palace.

After going to court, Zhao Xie first praised He Xian and publicly announced his promotion to his official rank.

Subsequently, Uncle Lang of the Ministry of Commerce left the ranks.

"Great King, according to your instructions, we will extend the official business to other industries, and we have prepared many manpower, especially in the inn."

The implementation of the salt and iron monopoly was only the first step, and Zhao Xie planned to expand the government-run business to other industries, equivalent to modern state-owned enterprises, and provide more financial resources for the imperial court.

It's just that this requires manpower to implement, and Uncle Gong has been preparing for this.

First of all, starting from the inn, not only to make money, the inn is a place where people flow back and forth, guests can listen to a lot of news in the inn to eat and talk, register for accommodation, and are more conducive to understanding people's livelihood and intelligence.

Hearing Uncle Gong's speech, Xiao Ping immediately thought of other aspects, Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Commerce have many places where they can cooperate with each other.