Two years have passed in a flash.

It is now 248 BC, and two years have passed since Zhao Jiaying married the eldest princess of Chu.

In two years, a lot has happened.

First of all, Li Mufu was the commander of the northern Xinjiang, and continued the previous tactics of shrinking and passive defense, although he did his best, but it also made the Huns helpless, and every time they went south, they couldn't grab anything.

In the past, Li Mu's actions would definitely make the military and civilians in northern Xinjiang talk about it.

However, after experiencing the change of generals, the military and civilians in Northern Xinjiang can deeply feel the benefits of Li Mu's actions.

Although this seems humiliating, it allows the defenders of northern Xinjiang to recuperate, so that the lives and property of the people in northern Xinjiang will not be lost, and the Huns will return in vain every time they go south.

Li Mu continued his previous practice, killing cattle and sheep all day long to reward his soldiers, and insisted on training.

In two years, the soldiers also made them grateful to Li Mu, and they all had the heart to fight.

Not only that, after two years, Zhao Guo also slowly digested the dividends obtained from the war with Yan State.

The five cities ceded by the Yan Kingdom, as well as the people who were plundered, although they were not completely reunited, they did not seem to be so repulsed at the beginning.

Zhao Guo also slowly walked out of the depression, and gradually showed some signs of rejuvenation.

Unlike Zhao Guo's prosperity, Zhao Jia's situation is not so good.

Originally, with Zhao Jia's merits and ability, coupled with marrying the eldest princess of Chu, he was completely able to gain a foothold in the court.

It's a pity that the more Zhao Jia is meritorious, the more vigilant his father Zhao Yan becomes.

Zhao Yan can rely on his father's identity to make various arrangements for Zhao Jia's life and future, even if Zhao Jia is unwilling to listen, he can't end up with the reputation of a rebel, so he can only endure it silently.

This also made Zhao Jia basically squeezed out of the court in two years, except for accompanying his wife Mifu and concubine Yu Zhu, he could only visit Lian Po every once in a while, and go to the army to work hard.

Of course, Zhao Jia has not done nothing in the past two years.

In the past, Zhao Jia was neglected and had no capital of his own, so he could only practice literature and martial arts to enrich himself.

But now, Zhao Jia's wife is the eldest princess of Chu Wang's favorite princess, and she has made friends with many generals in the army.

With the support of the Chu State, Zhao Jia at least did not lack much money.

Zhao Jia already has a good reputation, even if he is excluded by his father Zhao Yan, he still has a lot of prestige among the people of Zhao.

In order to avoid suspicion, Zhao Jia did not deliberately make friends with the ministers of the DPRK and the central government and celebrities from all sides, but began to recruit those chaotic strange people.

For example, there is a young man named Zhang Yu who loves cooking.

Zhao Jia taught Zhang Yu how to cook in later generations, and then let Zhang Yu train many cooks and build many restaurants, so that he could not only make a lot of money, but also listen to the news.

It has to be said that many cooking methods in later generations were very popular in this era.

Zhao Jia also taught his subordinates the method of distillation and liquor, and after letting them experiment for a long time, they finally brewed high-grade liquor, which was popular all over the world.

Not long after Tianxianglou opened, it caused a sensation in the whole Handan, and because of Zhao Jia's son behind him, no one dared to have any crooked ideas about Tianxianglou.

Zhao Yan just didn't want Zhao Jia to enter the court, and when he saw Zhao Jia indulging in wealth and messy things, he put his mind at ease, wishing that Zhao Jia would ignore government affairs from now on, where would he make trouble?

And as long as Zhao Yan becomes the king of Zhao in the future, if he is really short of money, he can ask Zhao Jia for it at any time.

No matter how much money Zhao Jia made at this time, as long as he didn't have power, he would be in the limelight after all, and he could be easily deprived.

Even Li Ji and her son Zhao Qian, under Zhao Yan's advice, did not stimulate Zhao Jia too much.

This also made the expansion of Tianxianglou very smooth, with Handan as the center and quickly spread around, and finally even entered the other six countries, becoming the favorite gathering place of the nobles of various countries.

In two years, while Tianxianglou was expanding, it also collected a lot of money for Zhao Jia.

With money, Zhao Jia can attract customers, no matter whether the other party is from a high or low background, as long as he has a skill, Zhao Jia is very welcome.

Among them, there were many craftsmen who lived in despair, who were recruited by Zhao Jia with a lot of money, and then bought a large piece of land and began to study things secretly.

Inside a huge enclosed factory.

The craftsmen held the jade-white paper, and their faces were all obsessed.

"This is simply a masterpiece of heaven!"

Unlike the shock of the craftsmen, Li Si and Fan Zeng both showed excited looks on their faces.

They know that the emergence of such a thing has the potential to change the entire course of history.

Fan Zeng said with a trembling voice: "As long as this thing is popularized, the inherent cultural inheritance model of the whole world will quickly collapse!" ”

Li Si also swallowed his saliva, first looking at the white paper obsessively, and then turned his head to look at Zhao Jia, and finally was completely convinced.

In the past, Li Si followed Zhao Jia, but he didn't have the confidence to assist the other party in sweeping the countries.

But in the past two years, Zhao Jia has given Li Si too many surprises, all kinds of whimsical ideas, and incredible things, all of which are constantly refreshing Li Si's three views.

First Tianxianglou, and then these white jade-like papers.

Li Si can predict that when the paper is introduced to the market, it will definitely cause a crazy chase by literati and scholars from all over the world.

At that time, the huge profits brought by paper were simply immeasurable.

As long as Zhao is rich enough, even if it is not as good as Qin in terms of political system, it may not be impossible to compete with Qin.

"These things must not be widely popularized!"

Although Li Si's eyes were still excited, he was not carried away by joy.

Zhao Jia's head: "If paper is too popular, not to mention that countries will steal papermaking technology at any cost, our profits will be greatly reduced." ”

"And movable type printing, combined with papermaking, can shake the vested interests of all the nobles of the nations, and will incur us unimaginably powerful enemies."

"Pass my order, seal this place tightly, and don't allow the craftsmen to reveal the slightest information about this place, otherwise their relatives will be involved!"

Listening to Zhao Jia's order, Li Si and Fan Zeng did not feel cold at all, but nodded very approvingly.

The advent of papermaking and movable type printing will make books incomparably cheaper, and knowledge that could only be learned by the upper classes will be easily learned by the common people.

At that time, the people opened up the wisdom of the people, which naturally touched the interests of the upper class.

Therefore, these two technologies must not be leaked until they have absolute strength to control everything.

"Two years, that's still too short!"

Zhao Jia put down the white paper and muttered in his mouth.

Two years seems like a long time, but even if Zhao Jia tried his best to recruit all kinds of talents and impart the knowledge he knew in later generations, it still took a long time to complete some of the products.

For example, in this papermaking technique, Zhao Jia only knows the general materials and production methods, the specific operation and the proportion of raw materials, and he is not too clear at all.

This caused a lot of trouble for the craftsmen, who made countless failed attempts before the papermaking technique was constantly changed, and finally this high-quality paper appeared.

It is so difficult to reproduce paper, let alone iron and steel.

In this era, there was already a simple iron-making technology, but unfortunately, due to the immaturity of the technology, pig iron lacked flexibility, so that the practicability of iron was very low, and it was impossible to manufacture weapons on a large scale.

Although Zhao Jia told the blacksmiths how to make iron according to the vague memories of later generations, it is a pity that Zhao Jia was not a professional in this area at all in his previous life, and the things he said were also fragments of memory.

As for the things he learned in junior high school, Zhao Jia had almost handed over everything to the teacher in his previous life, not to mention that after coming to this era for more than ten years, his memory must have become extremely blurry.

As for the online novels in the previous life, it was written that the descendants traveled to ancient times, and all kinds of things engaged in science and technology and gunpowder were all nonsense in Zhao Jia's opinion.

In this era, there are no such technical conditions, and there is no Baidu or the Internet to search for production methods at will.

With only a vague narrative of a non-expert, it is difficult to make a big leap forward in the technology of this era, and at most it can only be effectively promoted.

Even in later generations, the Internet has become widespread all over the world, and in many backward countries, many things still cannot be made, and they can only rely on imports.

Fortunately, Zhao Jia knew the importance of ironmaking and steelmaking, and although his memory was vague, those suggestions still inspired a lot of craftsmen in this era.

Coupled with Zhao Jia's investment regardless of the cost, although refined iron and steel are still difficult to refine, they can also be produced on a small scale.

Weapons made of fine iron and steel are definitely divine weapons in this era, and they are the dream of many military generals.

If you can equip your elite troops with this kind of weapon, you will be able to gain a lot of advantages when fighting the enemy.

"Childe, the envoy of Wei State has entered Handan and wants to ask the king to send troops to attack Yan State!"

At this moment, the border city walked in and said softly.

When Zhao Jia heard this, his brows furrowed.