Chapter 176: Wanton Separation
Zhao Kong thought for a moment, and felt that the family still had some use value, so he nodded and said:
"It's not impossible to accept these people, but if you want to be an official in Hebei, you have to have real talent and real learning."
"After these people are all here, the four of you and Cai Yong will each come up with a question to use to test these children of the family."
"When the time comes, the answer sheet will be audited, and only those who have been approved by the three of you can stay as officials, and the top ten will be sent to me for review, and I will personally arrange official positions for them."
Even if Zhao Kong now unifies Hebei and has the potential to swallow mountains and rivers, he does not dare to sacrifice the family butcher's knife of the imperial examination system easily.
How strong the Sui Dynasty was, Yang Jian and Yang Guang's father and son were all eloquent and strategic, but one of the two of them established the imperial examination system and the other entered the scientific department, and in the end, they were counterattacked by the world's families.
Even if the imperial examination system of the Sui Dynasty was not complete, the family still could not tolerate it, which also became one of the fundamental reasons for Yang Guang's death and the death of the country.
No matter how confident Zhao Kong is in himself, he doesn't dare to say that today's Hebei is comparable to Qiang Sui in the early stage of the great cause, so he has to be cautious about testing.
Although the four people in the hall were all highly intelligent people, the imperial examination system had never appeared, so they didn't think too much, just thinking that Zhao Kong was going to embarrass these children of the family.
Moreover, this method can indeed eliminate the people who are indiscriminate, and it is quite beneficial to the entire Hebei government.
Seeing that a few people didn't notice the abnormality, Zhao Kong was also relieved, although there are talents in the family, there are really few people who can compare with these four people.
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"In addition, I don't take those things in vain, the Nanyang Fleet has found some big islands in the waters south of Taiwan Island, and some islands are even bigger than Taiwan Island."
"These islands have a temperate climate and fertile land, and rice can be grown three times a year, although it is still relatively wild, but once developed, it will definitely have greater potential than Taiwan Island."
"As long as these families contribute enough to Hebei, they can be exchanged for a county or even a county's fiefdom, and all affairs in the fiefdom are managed by the family itself!"
"At the same time, once these fiefs are developed, they will always belong to the family of development, as long as you don't think about rebellion, pay taxes according to the rules every year, you will be protected by my old failures and will never change!"
Compared with the previous promise of the gods, the current division proposed by Zhao Kong is even more tempting to the family.
A few years ago, the Xun clan got a fief of an island in Ryukyu, and the vast majority of families in the Han Dynasty were envious of it.
Many families paid a lot of money, and the Cypriots went to the island to which the Xun clan belonged, just to prevent the war in the Central Plains from severing the bloodline.
Because of this, the Xun family, who has always paid attention to fame, pinched his nose to show off Chen Defeat, so that his name quickly spread all over the world.
Even the reluctant Xun You was quietly sent to Taiwan Island to join Zhao Kong, who had not yet risen at that time.
Since the Zhou Dynasty, all rulers have understood the great drawbacks of the feudal system, and have followed the example of the First Emperor to centralize power.
Although there were still vassal kings in the Han Dynasty, all of them were children of the clan surnamed Liu, and since Emperor Wu, these vassal kings have become puppets who can only take money and have almost no real power.
So for the family, a fiefdom that can be autonomous is really of great significance.
As soon as Zhao Kong's voice fell, Tian Feng stood up and stopped:
"My lord, those giant islands are quite far away from the Central Plains, and once they are separated, it is extremely easy to form a separatist force, please consider carefully!"
Tian Feng, as the head of Hebei's civil officials, naturally looked at the world map drawn by Zhao Kong.
In the past, he didn't fully believe in that map, but since the navy discovered many giant islands in the South Seas, Tian Feng pragmatically changed his mind.
Therefore, he knew very well how far away those islands were, and once they were divided into those families, after a hundred or ten years, there was indeed a risk of splitting.
"Yuan Hao, your thinking still hasn't turned, you know how long I can live, as long as I am in one day, these families will not have the courage to rebel, even if it is the kings of Dafeng!" Zhao Kong said indifferently.
At the beginning, he was only a second-order immortal cultivator, and he was able to shock the world in the Condor World.
Although this realm is far superior to the Condor World, it has not yet stepped into the realm of the Middle Thousand World, and Zhao Kong really does not need to be afraid of these.
Jia Xu glanced at Er Xun, who was outside the world, and hesitated for a moment before whispering:
"I remember that the lord said that there are not a few natives on those islands, and once they are controlled by the family, even if they don't rebel, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble."
"Come on, those natives in the South Seas are just a bunch of brainless fools!"
"We can't kill all those natives, we might as well leave them to the family to capture and enslave."
"At least under their whips, the natives, who don't understand anything, who are lazy, stupid, and greedy, can give us some taxes."
"And compared to those Nanyang natives, the Han family is much easier to control. Before they get into trouble, they know to weigh the pros and cons, not to mess around without knowing the sky. ”
After Zhao Kong finished speaking, the four strategists were silent.
Indeed, compared with the natives who are not clear about the situation, the big families will be scrupulous about what they do, at least they will not cause them a lot of trouble for a little profit.
The local natives are different, that is, a group of fools who have no knowledge at all, and can take their lives for a piece of clothing.
If no one disciplines them severely, not only will they not be able to pay taxes, but they will also be in chaos in the local area.
"If we send officials over, we can indeed control it slowly, but it will take at least 30 years or more, and we will have to spend a lot of troops in Nanyang."
"It's not worth spending so much effort at all, it's better to let those families contribute money and efforts, and we just wait for the taxes to be collected." Zhao Kong said nonchalantly.
These big families of the Han Dynasty are best at enslaving the people, such as the top families such as the Yingchuan Xun clan and the Hongnong Yang clan, and no one believes that there are tens of thousands of slaves in private.
As long as they are willing to go to Nanyang to operate, Zhao Kong will dare to sell weapons and armor to them, and thousands of heavily armed domestic slaves will have no problem chasing tens of thousands of natives to cut down.
Coupled with their coercion and temptation methods, they can definitely run Nanyang quickly.
Besides, Nanyang is not the Central Plains, and there is no need to scruple in those places.
Moreover, all the seafaring ships are in his hands, and once those families jump into this big pit full of temptations, they can only honestly pay taxes to him in the future.
Tian Feng and the others were reminded by Zhao Kong like this, and quickly figured out his thoughts.
Zhao Kong threw out the fat of Nanyang and shared it with the world's families, and the families around the world would naturally be willing to contribute money and efforts.
And when they smashed a large amount of money and grain in the fiefdom and sent the servants of the clan and even the tenant farmers to Nanyang, it was also an indirect weakening of the princes everywhere.
And once these fiefs are initially stabilized, they will provide Zhao Kong with a steady stream of taxes, even if the tax rate cannot be set too high, but there are many slaves in the land, and the total amount will definitely not be too low.
The most important thing is that the fief is a clear conspiracy, except for Dong Zhuo, the butcher, the other princes have no way to stop the domestic families.
They are not Zhao Kong, they all have a very high degree of dependence on the family, if they offend all the families in the territory, it is estimated that it will not be long before they are finished.
Xun Zhan, Xun You, and even Tian Feng could imagine that when their clansmen knew the news, they would definitely go crazy and keep lobbying them, hoping to get more fiefs from Nanyang.
This kind of thing really can't be changed by one or two people with a clear mind, when nine out of ten people in a family are attracted by some kind of interest, and the rest of the people can't change the outcome even if they are the patriarchs.
Xun Zhan hesitated for a moment, but still stood up and asked, "I don't know what the contribution of the lord means?" ”
Now Xun Zhan is basically the representative of the family under Zhao Kong, and he is also the contact person between Zhao Kong and other families.
With his slippery personality, he actually didn't want to ask about many things, but he had to open his mouth.
Zhao Kong smiled and said: "I don't enforce death restrictions in this regard, the specific situation of different families is different, and it is obviously unfair to use a standard, just let them consider it themselves." ”
This ambiguous answer made Xun Zhan scratch his head quite a bit, but it was impossible for him to force Zhao Kong to make it clear, so he could only convey the original words to the families around the world, and let them guess Zhao Kong's mind by themselves.
As soon as Hebei's fiefdom order came out, the families of the world really stirred.
The strongest top families, except for the Yuan family, disdained this, even the Hongnong Yang family, who was in Guanzhong, quietly sent people to Jicheng to inquire about the specific situation.
When the representatives of those families saw the general map of Nanyang, almost none of them could still keep their composure.
This can't be blamed for their shallow city, because in order to pull these families into the water, Zhao Kong even took out Kalimantan, the second largest island in the world, comparable to a large state, to carve them up.
Under such a huge temptation, no one who is a little self-motivated can resist it.
Of course, Zhao Kong also knew that just talking in the air was not enough to make these family members lose their money and take risks.
So he didn't see these people immediately, let alone talk about the specific conditions, but asked the sea ships transporting supplies to take these children of the family to Nanyang for a turn.
Although this will delay a lot of time, hearing is believing, and when they see the real fiefdom, Zhao Kong believes that those families will come up with a price that satisfies him.
It may be that in order to target Zhao Kong's endless means, the Xiliang Army has also undergone great changes recently.
According to the information sent back by the spies, a large number of giant wolves suddenly appeared in the Xiliang army, and these giant wolves were actually tamed into mounts by them, forming a wolf cavalry of more than 5,000 people!
Five days ago, this wolf cavalry wandered around the border of Hanoi County in Sili and Shangdang County in Bingzhou for a few days, which was simply a clear warning to Zhao Kong.
"Hey, wolf cavalry, it's not just you Sauron who can form a special class!" Zhao Kong casually threw the information on the table and said indifferently.
During this time, Zhao Kong also prepared a lot of diluted candle dragon bloodline potions, increasing the number of "Dark Candle Dragon Riders" to three thousand five hundred.
It doesn't seem to be as much as Dong Zhuo's wolf cavalry, but once the all-armored heavy cavalry charges, the destructive power it causes on the battlefield is far better than that of the special light cavalry like the wolf cavalry.
In order to cheer up the Guanzhong family, Zhao Kong asked Zhao Yun to take the Candle Dragon to ride to Bingzhou Shang County.
At the junction of Shangjun and Hedong County, a big drill was carried out to fight back against those arrogant and domineering wolf cavalry.
However, this is not the time for Zhao Kong and Dong Zhuo to fight a decisive battle, so both sides are very restrained, deterrence is deterrence, and no one really provoked a war.
Dong Zhuo, who was in Luoyang, said to Li Ru with some unhappiness:
"Chen Luo, this kid is really not a loss, if it weren't for the fact that the magic tower was about to be built, the old man would have to be his heavy cavalry."
Li Ru didn't seem surprised by Dong Zhuo's words, smiled and said:
"The lord doesn't need to fight for a while, as long as the magic tower is built, our strength will be able to give full play, and then the defeat will not be at your disposal!"
Dong Zhuo rarely showed a hint of surprise, raised his thick eyebrows, and asked with some curiosity:
"Saruman, it seems that you have been deeply influenced by this mortal."
Li Ru sighed and said: "The rules of this world are indeed a little weird, obviously he is just a mortal, and his spiritual power is actually so strong. And when I was merging with him, there were some problems that were not big or small, and it took some time to solve. ”
The Li Ru in front of him had been replaced not long ago by the white-robed mage invited by Sauron, the industrial tycoon Saruman.
However, due to the special circumstances of this realm, Saruman made the same choice as Sauron, fusing Li Ru's soul and obtaining the identity of the indigenous people of this realm.
However, Li Ru is different from Dong Zhuo, he is not only more cautious, but as a top strategist, his mental power is also extremely strong.
Although he couldn't compare with Saruman who had an immortal soul, when the other party opened his soul defense and fused, Li Ru still used his geographical advantage to have a great impact on Saruman.
If the current Dong Zhuo is ninety percent of Sauron and one of Dong Zhuo, then Li Ru is seventy percent of Saruman and three percent of Li Ru.
In this case, it is not surprising that Saruman's style of speaking and doing things is closer to Li Ru.
Dong Zhuo nodded and said, "You can solve it yourself, by the way, how many half-orcs and strong orcs have been transformed?" ”
Li Ru shook his head and said, "Half-orcs are relatively easy to transform, and there are currently more than 10,000 of them. ”
"And the success rate of the transformation of strong orcs is quite low, and there are more than fifty cultivated so far, and people in this realm are not suitable for transforming strong orcs."
Dong Zhuo thought for a moment and said: "Then let's transform more half-orcs, although these guys are not useful during the day, but at night the combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of human soldiers." ”
Li Ru first nodded slightly, and then asked with a little hesitation:
"Lord, do you really want to fuse the Flame Demon with Lu Bu? These two are extremely uncertain guys, and no one knows what will happen once they merge, so according to the situation in this world, we don't need to take this risk, right? ”
Dong Zhuo said without hesitation: "Don't underestimate that kid Chen Wei, although he is not very old, the world behind him is definitely much stronger than ours, and the fusion of Yan Demon and Lu Bu is also to be prepared." ”
"Besides, Lu Bu has already transformed into a ring spirit first, even if he fuses the fire demon, there won't be much deviation."
"Don't worry, no one knows how to control humans better than I do!"
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