Cui Zhou drove to Jiangyao Village, thinking that Jiangyao Village is located in the mountains of Zhaoguo, surrounded by mountains and the road out of the mountain is extremely rugged, almost isolated from the outside world, and there is only a slender river in the village to feed the villagers, and there are less than 30 households in the village. Zhou Chang was deeply shocked when he saw them for the first time, the villagers' clothes were either blue cloth or gray cloth, their faces were tanned black and red, a pair of eyes saw Zhou Chang and the two but seemed to be full of fear and shyness to look at them dressed properly, everyone did not dare to step forward to speak to the strangers who entered the village, but they all muttered to each other and squinted at Zhou Chang and the two from time to time, Zhou Chang listened but did not know what they said. Cui Zhou told Zhou Chang that Zhang Ao had been here and told them to move to Handan City, but they said that the ancestral ancestral halls were all here and could not be moved without permission. Cui Zhou said that although there are mulberry trees here, the villagers suffer from the long and rugged road after weaving, and it takes half a day to go out of the mountain every time, and it takes half a day to come in, and even if they go out to sell on the market, it is not enough to eat and drink money on the road, so they slowly do not go out, and gradually they are trapped in the mountains and slowly forget them.

Zhou Chang sorted out the most kind and warm smile and stepped forward and bowed to the villagers, "Don't panic, servant Zhou Chang, deacon Zhao Xiang, this is here for the future development of Jiangyao Village." Zhou Chang's actions attracted even more precautionary onlookers from the villagers, but they didn't speak, just purred their eyes and probed Zhou Chang and Cui Zhou up and down. Cui Zhou saw that the villagers were wary, so he also stepped forward and waved his hand, "Servant Cui Zhou, deacon servant, do you remember Zhao Wangao a few years ago?" He had come here to ask everyone to move to Handan City, Zhou Gong is the prime minister of Zhao Wang, and he has no other intention to come here today, just for the future development of Jiangyao Village. Cui Zhou saw a slight commotion in the crowd, and it didn't take long for an old man with a sixtieth armor to be squeezed out of the crowd, and the thin old man stepped forward to look at Cui Zhou carefully, and suddenly his eyes flashed, "Is the prince the servant back then?" "Yes, yes." Cui Zhou replied happily. The old man nodded, and then lost his enthusiasm, "I will wait to defend the ancestral hall, and the public will not forcibly move us." The old man waved his hand and stood in the crowd again, but his words were resolute and resolute.

Zhou Chang and Cui Zhou glanced at each other, and said with a smile, "Your ancestral shrine is here, and we won't forcibly relocate." The servant wants to ask something, okay? Everyone acquiesced. Zhou Chang said, "What do you do for a living, can you have a field?" It was the old man who said, "We eat the mountains, what the mountains have, what we eat." Although the fields are only a few dozen acres, they are enough to eat. "Doesn't the Zhao court levy the endowment?" "They may be too far away, or they may have forgotten Jiangyao Village and did not enter the mountain." Zhou Changchang said 'oh-' and stopped continuing, and then said to Cui Zhou, "Let's go back." Cui Zhou and Zhou Chang looked at the villagers who regarded them as strangers and went out of the mountain.

Out of the mountain, it was already completely dark. An hour later, he returned to the city. Zhou Chang returned to the mansion and hurriedly had dinner, and then went to the East Hall to sort out what he had seen and heard for a day, except for Gong Gong, he didn't see Zhou Chang out of the house a few times, and he actually sorted out the information under the yellow light of the Qing case until midnight before falling asleep.

Two days later, the young and majestic King Zhao sat on the Zhao court, and the ministers of civil and military affairs stood in the audience, and the ministers were serious and unsmiling. As early as the first day of King Zhao's entry into Zhao, Zhou Chang ordered all the political affairs of the Zhao court to be sent to the prime minister's mansion, so some of the ministers wanted to get drunk with Zhou Chang that night. The ministers didn't touch Zhou Chang's character, but they only heard that this person was loyal and upright and not easy to deal with, so they all focused on Zhou Chang today.

"Prime Minister, today is the first court meeting, and the widow is not familiar with it, so the Prime Minister will give you a warning for the time being, okay?" The young Liu Ruyi sat on the king's couch but looked like him, and he really had a kingly demeanor, which even impressed the ministers in the audience. Zhou Chang nodded, and then took three steps out of the class and bowed his hand to King Zhao, but then took out a roll of bamboo slips from the deep sleeves of his wide robe and turned to hundreds of ministers and said loudly, "I have touched the original situation of finance, government, and army: the financial sparseness and the shallow army are scattered. Reward the minister for the use of the money; The government is not down to the grassroots level; The army is demobilized and not repaired. A few days ago, I carefully checked the original slip, and there were a lot of omissions in the above calculation villages, have you heard of Jiangyao Village? It's not that the original king of Zhao forgot them, but the village is too poor and it is not easy to walk in the deep mountains, even if you enter the mountain, you can't urge the calculation of the endowment, so the original king of Zhao ordered that their taxes should not be levied. Zhao State since ancient times is the land of four wars, the north is bordered by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu have always not kept their promises and from time to time to invade the border to plunder thousands of people, the reason for the rapid action is only thanks to better cavalry and archery technology. After the Hu Fu Cavalry of King Zhao Wuling, Zhao State is half agricultural and half pastoral operations, except for the three counties in the north of Zhao State have pastoral areas but do not see the south of Hengshan Mountain to set up a pastoral area to raise horses, and the small pigeon platform raises dozens of horses, isn't it a little too little? At the time of the handover of spring and summer, the people can practice riding and archery skills in their spare time, and they will not worry if the west side building is annoying. ”

All the ministers were surprised by Zhou Chang, they didn't expect him to know so many things in such a short period of time, as if he knew everything about Zhao Guo overnight, and even the dilapidated Jiangyao Village knew the situation there. After the ministers talked about Zhou Chang's ruling strength, an internal history picked up Zhou Chang's words and said, "The prime minister's strength has seen us, and the king of Zhao has not come to govern for several months. What the prime minister said we admired, the prime minister only said that Zhao Guo's future development plan, and we are all willing to contribute to Zhao Guo. ”

"Yes, yes, Prime Minister Zhou said it quickly, and the strength of Zhao State will depend on Qing." The young King Zhao on the king's couch was also excitedly involved in the political affairs of the ministers.

Zhou Chang nodded deeply to King Zhao, and then said to the ministers the plan in his heart for the past two days according to the few points written on the bamboo slips, "First, make it clear that all the villages in the deep mountains, if possible, dig mountains and cultivate roads, and connect them to the places where goods circulate, so that they can have income and ensure the balance of taxes; Second, the Zhaohan Central Committee encourages horse breeding and encourages the learning of riding and archery skills; 3. Pay attention to the rise and fall of commerce; Fourth, ministers need to be in their positions and seek their own policies, not to hide their own secrets, not to collude with businessmen and officials, and not to do things that go against the interests of the people; 5. Every three months, the ministers submit a report of the performance of the counties under their jurisdiction, detailing the increase in prison lawsuits, thieves, households, money, and male numbers in each county. For the time being, if you have ideas, you can add them. After that, Zhou Chang rolled up the bamboo slip in his hand and presented it to the eunuch on King Zhao's side, and then the eunuch presented it to King Zhao Ruyi, who couldn't recognize most of the words, and after listening to Zhou Chang's report, he swept the bamboo slips roughly, and immediately patted the case and said, "What the prime minister said is the idea in the heart of the widow, and I hope that all the ministers and workers will share Zhao Guo." If nothing else, disperse. With that, King Zhao got up and went back to the inner hall.