Originally, the founding of Zhao was directly accused of rebellion, and other countries had Lin Haoyan's edict as a fig leaf, but Zhao was hacked to death and put under house arrest several feudal kings in Zhongzhou, relying on the strong influence of the Zhao family, controlling the economic lifeline of half of the Lanhe Empire, and the strong military strength of Zhongzhou's iron cavalry, forcibly establishing the country.

This kind of thing attracted a great backlash at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even Zhao Xiyuan had to take a step back and announce that he would officially establish the country, but this still could not hide the loss of popular support of Zhao State.

Zhao Qian was on the outside, he was in Lanting when the incident happened, far away from the political whirlpool in Zhongzhou, but he could see it clearly. Just take the more than 2 million refugees who poured into the northwest, and 400,000 of them moved from Zhao. More generally, among the 400,000 people, not all of them are refugees, and some of them are some big families in Zhongzhou, and the whole family has been relocated, and such families also account for 50,000 or 60,000 refugees who moved from Zhao State.

Although fifty or sixty thousand people are inconspicuous when looking at the entire Zhongzhou, it is not a simple matter to know that these families are separated from the control of the Zhao family, and not all families can move like them. They are not like those refugees who were squeezed by the Zhao State and abandoned with nothing, they are worthless abandoned children, these families have more or less a certain amount of energy in the Lanhe Empire. They broke away from the Zhao State and took away not only fifty or sixty thousand clansmen, but also some of the connections and even luck of the Lanhe Empire.

Zhao Qian even saw that the luck that originally belonged to the Lanhe Empire but was now displaced was converging towards the northwest bit by bit.

And this point is not detected by the Zhao family at all, after all, they are in the situation, compared to the tens of millions of people in the control of Zhao State, these people who have lost as refugees not only do not make them vigilant, but think that this is to remove the unstable elements of Zhao State, which is more conducive to their rule.

In the short term, it is true that the refugees have nothing, the state must spend a lot of money to appease them, and those families who oppose the Zhao family will also affect the rule of the Zhao family to a greater or lesser extent. And now that they have all gone to the northwest, it is equivalent to the transfer of all hidden dangers, which is a good thing for the Zhao family.

But in terms of long-term results, this is not the case. Although a population of 400,000 is dispensable, it will still drive a considerable part of the demographic dividend, which is equivalent to giving up the population of a city. Besides, 400,000 is just the beginning, and once this head is opened, it can't be stopped.

And more importantly, those big families who migrate, they have the ability to move the clan, although they will temporarily take away those opposing and discordant voices in the Zhao Kingdom.

But if a country is as calm as a pool of stagnant water, and there is not even a trace of opposition, then this pool of stagnant water will slowly turn into a swamp. The nation will sink into a swamp, sinking deeper and deeper into self-satisfied corruption until it is destroyed.

Now that it seems that the Zhao Kingdom, an invincible behemoth, has shown signs of collapse overnight.

Fortunately, Zhao Qian is an understanding person, and it is precisely because of this that he found the person who could save Zhao State, and even save the Lanhe Empire, Zhao Fu, for the first time.

For Zhao Qian, he does not have the ambition to dominate the world like Zhao Xiyuan, he lived to take revenge on Zhao Xiyuan, and now, without a dream, he just wants to be a good businessman first by inheriting his father's business. Of course, all of this is first and foremost to protect the Zhao Kingdom for the Zhao family.

It can be said that the Zhao family's business is actually not very good after the founding of the People's Republic of China, one is because large or small wars are being waged everywhere, resulting in the Zhao family's business road is often in a semi-paralyzed state, and the Zhao family cannot directly use the army to escort a few of its own caravans, so the Zhao family is just continuing some large transactions, and many small businesses have been completely taken over by other families. Fortunately, after the founding of the Zhao family, the national economy replaced the original commercial economy, at least in the territory of the Zhao State, their goods are still not sold, but even so, for the Zhao family, it is still a large part of the market.

Zhao Qian could see clearly that the Zhao family had completely gained a country's market, but at the same time, it had also lost the larger market of the Lanhe Empire. In his opinion, this is a great regression for the Zhao family - the original Zhao family has mastered nearly half of the Lanhe Empire's trading network, and even the Lin royal family can only be expected to compete with the power of the empire. At that time, the Zhao family was like the emperor of the Lanhe Empire, traveling under the banner of the imperial capital Zhao family, which one did not enjoy the most luxurious treatment under the emperor? However, after Zhao Xiyuan founded the country, the Zhao family's goods were quickly boycotted by the market, which was helpless, no matter how strong the Zhao country was, it could not force every person in the Lanhe Empire to buy his family's goods.

As a result, Zhao Guo later ate the old capital of the Zhao family again, and the accumulation speed of money almost stagnated.

Zhao Fu didn't have the heart to settle a financial account for Zhao Guo, he was more concerned about how much control Zhao Qian could have after returning to the Zhao family.

"Don't worry, I, the first heir, have not been in vain for so many years."

Zhao Qian patted his chest and assured Zhao Fu that as long as he returned to Zhongzhou City and raised his arms, the overall situation was decided, and the Zhao family, no, it should be that the entire Zhao Kingdom would be attached to the wind.

"Is there such a spirit?" Zhao Fu didn't believe it much.

"That's how awe-like!" Zhao Qian held his chest and confidently began to settle accounts for Zhao Fu.

There are a total of 37 main business routes of the Zhao family, including 16 horizontal business roads and 21 vertical business roads, each of which represents a big shopkeeper of the Zhao family, and there are as many as 25 big shopkeepers who support Zhao Qian.

"Yes, you kid." Zhao Fu was shocked, but he didn't expect that Zhao Qian was thousands of miles away from Lanting and could get the support of twenty-five big shopkeepers.

"Hehe, no way, this is the charm of personality." Zhao Qian blushed and boasted about himself.

And the actual situation is that in addition to him, the first heir in the Zhao family, the other heirs in line are scum at all. The second heir, Zhao Yu, is Zhao Xiyuan's parent, but it is the product of close relatives, and the result is that today's IQ has finally reached the height of an ordinary seven-year-old child, so Zhao Xiyuan also specially set up a banquet; The third heir, Zhao Yang, is a child of Zhao Xiyuan's brother, and his IQ is fine, but the whole person is sympathetic and has some problems with his sexual orientation. Zhao Qian knew that this was just Zhao Xiyuan, in order to settle his eldest brother, so he chose the most unthreatening Zhao Yang from his eldest brother's son as the heir of the Zhao family.

Reference: "Purple River" Liufeng family

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