The reason why Guo Kai has such a large percentage of votes is not because Guo Kai's election policy is good, nor is it the effect of Guo Kai's efforts to publicize. It's money that plays a big role.

Guo Kai also saw that the propaganda war did not work at all. Because this is not the Qin State, the Qin State has been opposed to bribery in elections from the beginning, and the elections are held in an open and transparent environment, and this kind of election requires the electors to be able to master certain media propaganda skills and speech skills, and fully publicize their views. Only in this way can more people be attracted to vote.

Moreover, the starting point of King Qin from the beginning was to check and balance the power of the prime minister. Therefore, the prime minister should be fully elected in a fair and transparent state. And the people who elected were Qin. This requires electors to be able to grasp the psychology and needs of voters and conduct propaganda. Under this electoral system, it is necessary to show a person's personality charm, which includes a person's character and a good first impression. The reason why Shang Wen was able to win the first election was not only because of his opponents and media propaganda offensive, but most importantly, because he was able to show his personal charisma. This point needs to impress the Qin people. Especially the support of the Qin people as voters.

But Zhao Guo does not have this. Although Zhao Guo learned the electoral system, he did not learn the essence, because Zhao Guo one-sidedly believed that the election was to show his own explanation, look at the concept of the rule of law, and so on. These are like opening a shop on the street and selling things. Loud shouting. But the reality has changed dramatically. That change is. People don't seem to have much interest in this kind of thing. Even those who are interested will not choose blindly. And everybody is eligible. And all the electors have to do is get these people to vote for themselves.

How to cast your own ballot. Qin's bankers supported Guo Kai's propaganda in the newspaper media. But this trick is still useful in the Qin State. Because no one dares to use money. But in Zhao State, it failed. In the case that the results were not very great, Zhao Ren thought of another shortcut. The shortcut is. Spend money to buy the votes in the hands of those people. And it works very well.

"Come on. Free one-day trip to Handan, not only play, but also send things. A house slave in Guo's mansion shouted loudly. In order for more people to hear their voices. They actually imported a microphone amplification device from the Qin State. It is specially pulled by a carriage. Half of it is a battery. There is also a horse-drawn carriage in the back dedicated to transporting batteries. In order to be able to attract votes, they hyped it up. And behind the carriage there was a team of carriages. There are empty carriages. There are also a large number of horse-drawn wagons loaded with goods.

"What are you going to give?" An old woman asked as loudly as she could.

"What to send? There are a lot of things to give. There's noodles, there's rice, there's oil. The house slave cried out loudly. This immediately attracted people from the villages near Handan. These things are necessities for them. These are the necessities that will allow them to live well for a while. I heard that there is something to give. The people of the village began to gather around.

"Is this a gift?" The people in the village asked uncertainly.

"Send. I send it for sure. The house slave said loudly.

"We not only send you, but also send you to Handan. As long as you vote for our family. This thing is yours. As he spoke, the slave pointed to the carriage behind him. The carriages were all van-type. And it's all leather sofas inside. This is equivalent to Zhao Guo's limousine. This kind of treatment frightened the people in these villages.

"What, I'm still going to Handan. Which to use? The village man asked uncertainly.

"Yes, just use that." The house slave said with certainty.

"We'll send you to Handan for free. Then you take a carriage to Handan to vote, and after casting your vote, we will let you turn around and pull you back. What do you think? The house slave said with a smile.

"You're not going to be a human trafficker, are you?" The people of the village think that there can be such a good thing in the world.

"Look at what you say. The reputation of our family is there. And there are many of you. You can go both. "Anyway, the more people who go, they feel safer, and the more votes they can get. Because these people are willing to exchange things. On top of that, they don't know how to read and have no interest in politics.

"Are you going?" One woman asked, the other.

"Let's go check it out. My child hasn't been to Handan yet. I heard that Handan is big. The woman said encouragingly.

"I've never been in such a good carriage either. Go, let's go see. So the two women encouraged each other. He got a bag of flour, a bag of rice, and a can of Qin sesame oil from the hands of a house slave. It's a great oil.

I saw that the two women with their children really got rice and flour oil, and they were able to take a good bus to Handan. All the people began to sign up desperately, and they reached out for noodles, rice, and oil.

In this way, the votes of Zhao Guo completed the so-called election. These people were dragged into Handan in batches. After voting, they circled around Handan City, and then pulled back to their original places, and these people didn't know what to do at all. Some of them don't even know about electing prime ministers. I just got to a place, asked for a name, pressed a handprint, and drew a hook on a blank piece of paper, and that's it. Then they saw the prosperity of Handan. How the people of the city lived, they had nothing but envy. But their children are starting to have new dreams. In their childhood memories. Life in the city is far better than life in their village, Guo Kai didn't know that under the unintentional act of bribing the election, the children of Zhao Guo began to have the idea of going to the city, and they had a dream of the city. In their opinion, the city is a place of drastic seduction.

However, Zhao's election vote was done under such circumstances. Nearby villages are being dragged into the city to complete the vote. For Handan City, they took another approach. That is to buy directly with money. One electoral ballot, one and a half taels. The price then rose to two and a half taels. But this money Guo Kai started because the bankers of the Qin State could lend money to Guo Kai and was elected prime minister of the Zhao State.

In order to intensify the ballot in the city of Handan. Guo Kai recruited a large number of unemployed homeless street gangsters, who obtained a large number of votes through a series of illegal methods such as deception, threats, spending money on hiring, and forging fake names.

Through such means, it is a little difficult for Guo Kai to think about it inappropriately. Moreover, the Zhao people in Handan City have a relatively weak sense of political participation. Their main mental power was to make money, and the other Zhao people, especially in the remote mining areas, had to walk for many days to come to Handan. According to the election voting time, they don't have much time at all, because the newspapers that spread the news were deliberately cut off by the newspapers of Qin and Zhao. Or sell Guo Kai directly. It is to use such a means. Guo Kai became the prime minister pre-selected by Zhao State.

Just when the election of Prime Minister Zhao became clearer and clearer. The situation in Yan is very bad. And very bad.

"The Qi army captured a large number of Yan soldiers, but they had no interest in capturing them at all. They're moving forward at a fast pace. It seems that their target is Yandu. and Liaodong in the Yan Kingdom. There is an iron ore area that the Qin State supports production. A report from the Qin State Military Observation Mission.

After receiving the report, the Qin military had long been mentally prepared for this. However, now was not the time to send troops, because the Yan army had not yet formed a defensive line capable of resisting the rapid attack of the Qi army. As we entered late autumn, frost had already appeared on some grounds. In this case, it is not suitable for digging a trench, but of course it can be dug, mainly with effort.

However, the Qin military believed that even with such fortifications, it would be difficult to make a difference, and if you think about it, this would not be possible at all, because there was no resistance force in the Yan State at all. It's the question that's the key.

"Even if there is a natural barrier like the Hangu Pass of the Qin State, I am afraid it is impossible to complete such a defense, and the defense does not rely on the natural barrier, but on people. It's people. Wang Jian said very meaningfully.

So the staff officer nodded approvingly. This is the biggest problem of the Yan State at the moment, they lack the necessary people to defend their country, especially they need a decent, combat-ready force, but this kind of force does not exist.

Yan was the only combat unit in the country that retained a division, and the equipment of this unit had become outdated. And there is a serious shortage of personnel. Qin's military observation group inspected the situation of their division.

"The soldiers are all local riffraff, these people are some empty payers. They are not the sons of a certain general's family, or they are the children of the nobles of the Yan Kingdom. All they see is a group of weak and powerless people, they have no blood at all, they don't deserve to fight, they only deserve to be killed, they don't want to desert, or they surrender. ”

"Their weapons are also very old and outdated. One thing can show the situation with their weapons. I found out that some of them were on bayonets again. It's not good. The bayonets were rusty on them, and I would love to ask them how often they sharpened their bayonets. The worst thing was their muskets. The old-fashioned flintlock pistols they used. These guns need to be constantly replaced, but many of them don't. The barrel was rusty, and the ash inside had not been wiped clean. If it was placed in the Qin army, such a soldier would be tied with a hundred sticks, and then punished for cleaning the toilet. In addition to weapons, it is personnel. This is a master-level army, and they are more than 30,000 people at full strength, but they are actually less than 5,000 people. They did not exceed the establishment of no more than two regiments. Oh, my God. The current national defense of the Yan State was handed over to such an army. A military observer wrote.