Chapter 252: Imperceptible
"Okay, let's stop denouncing Xunzi and get down to business." As soon as Zhao Kuo walked in from the outside, he saw everyone surrounding Xunzi, saying some words that were blocked when they were issued, and Rao was unable to resist such a person's abuse with Xunzi's skills, and he couldn't raise his head when he was sprayed.
It's also to blame Xunzi, he is usually a maverick, never forms a gang, he has no friends except Yu Xin, plus his mouth is poisonous, what do he say, he never hides it, the minister of Zhao was almost offended by him, and now he finally has a chance to scold back, how can he let it go.
"The ministers are just joking with Xunzi." Kong Bin arched his hand and said, and everyone nodded.
"Thank you, King, for breaking the siege." Xunzi tidied up his clothes and saluted.
"Sit down." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Everyone bowed and returned to their seats.
"First of all, as of half a month ago, the nation's land has been remeasured and distributed, and a new agricultural tax system will be implemented starting next year." Zhao Kuo said.
After half a year, in the face of the superficial support of the squires and nobles from all over the country, and the continuous obstruction behind the scenes, Zhao finally completed this arduous task.
"Congratulations to the King." Everyone said happily.
This is the first innovation since Zhao Kuo took the throne, and now it has finally been implemented.
In the new year, there will also be new beginnings.
"Thanks to your help." Zhao Kuo bowed down to everyone.
Everyone hurriedly said that they didn't dare, but the smile on their faces still couldn't be hidden, this is the result of everyone's joint efforts, if it weren't for everyone's efforts, this matter would not be able to be completed so quickly, even if you want to implement it.
"The second thing, as of three days ago, in addition to the Taihang Mountain section, the one-way road between the counties and Handan has been paved, and it is expected that the other half will be paved next year." Zhao Kuo continued.
In the past six months, Zhao Guo has not stopped paving roads, except for reducing part of the progress when the farm is busy, the speed is all at full at other times, and the whole country is working together.
If it weren't for the high temperature required to burn cement, Zhao Guo's technology was not perfect, and the output was not stable enough, and the speed could be increased.
Everyone had smiles on their faces, they all witnessed the transformation of Zhao Guo from the time when Zhao Guo was innocent, and there was a pride in their hearts to share honor and disgrace.
"In addition, from next year, we will contact Wei and South Korea to build two roads to Daliang and Xinzheng, and this matter will be handed over to Wei Qing, and when Wei and South Korea send people over, you will be responsible for entertaining and planning routes with them." Zhao Kuo looked at Wei Qi.
In the past, Wei Qi's personality had great shortcomings, he was afraid of arrogance and listened to bias, but since experiencing a great change in his life, Zhao Kuo found that he seemed to have become much more mature and stable, and decided to let him try it alone.
"Obey." Wei Qi arched his hand and said.
"The third thing is that the standard weights and measures have been made. From next year, it will be promoted to the whole country, and next year, it will be left for everyone to adapt, and after a year, all parts of the country will uniformly change to the new weights and measures, and prohibit the use of old weights and measures, or other countries and small weights and measures. Zhao Kuo continued.
"My lord, what about the merchants of other countries?" Zhao Mu asked.
"No matter which country's businessman is, as long as he enters the Zhao country, he must follow the standards of the Zhao country." Zhao Kuo said undoubtedly.
Although there may be some confusion at the beginning of the enforcement, and even affect the business tax, but after everyone gets used to it, they will inevitably feel the benefits.
All countries in the world, except for Qin, no country can achieve true unity of weights and measures, and it is inevitable that there will be errors in the exchange of goods. The Qin State restricted commerce and did not pose any threat to the Zhao State at all.
When Zhao completely unified weights and measures, commerce would be more prosperous.
And this kind of system can be through merchants to eat other countries, when Handan becomes the center of the world's commerce, when the merchants have to act according to the rules of Zhao, this rule will also imperceptibly penetrate into the nobles and the common people, so that the nobles and the common people can't help but accept the weights and measures of Zhao and accept the goods of Zhao.
When the time comes, Zhao Guo will print some simple, easy-to-understand and catchy Zhao characters on the goods, which is called cultural export.
In history, a large part of the reason why the second Qin State died was because of the overwhelm, although the weights and measures were unified, the writing was unified, etc., and then the wealthy families of the six countries were relocated to the customs, and the soldiers of the Qin State were placed on the spot, wanting to turn all the people of the six countries into the people of the Qin State.
But the ground that was beaten down was too big to digest at all.
In the end, not only did they not turn the people of the Six Kingdoms into the people of Qin, but they lost the old Qin people who followed Qin to the national disaster!
When the First Emperor was there, he could still rely on his prestige to suppress it, but when the First Emperor was not there, the Qin Dynasty directly ascended to heaven.
If the Qin State can convey the advantages of the Qin State to other places in a subtle way, so that the people of all countries can identify with the Qin State, the royal industry will be much less troublesome.
For example, an ordinary person, through step-by-step efforts, has to be sealed.
Or a nobleman grabbed the farmland of ordinary people, and under the justice of Qin Law, the weak did not have any loss, but the nobles were punished.
These things were written in Qin characters and engraved on the outside of the jars of salt and wine, and then made into songs for merchants to sing everywhere.
In the long run, everyone will not only yearn for the Qin State, but even simply recognize a few Qin characters, and when they dominate the world in the future, they will also have a sense of identity.
Just like the merchants of Zhao State came to Wei State, when they chatted, they would say that Zhao State and Wei State were brothers, and they had helped each other for so many years, Zhao Sheng's wife was the sister of King Wei, and King Wei's younger brother was now in Xiangguo of Zhao State, and was deeply trusted by King Zhao and so on.
Without mentioning the filth between the two countries, Handan, the capital of Zhao, was captured by Wei. Zhao united Qi and Qin, and brutally knocked Wei down from the position of overlord, and the two countries fought a war a few months ago, etc.
By the way, he told the people of Wei that Zhao had a good life, and he had money to work for the government, and no one dared to deduct the reward for meritorious service on the battlefield, and the children would have the opportunity to study in the future, etc.
The farm tools sold to them were built according to the dimensions of Zhao Guo, the coal was sold according to Zhao Guo's weight standards, and the farm tools were also engraved with Zhao Guo's characters, and the bags containing coal were also engraved with Zhao Guo's characters, all of which were simple and easy to understand.
In addition, the languages of the two places are almost the same, and in the long run, how can the people of Wei not have a good impression of Zhao!
If one day Zhao defeats Wei and implements Zhao's system, will the people of Wei rebel against Zhao as they rebelled against Qin?
Impossible.
Many things can't wait until the fight is down to solve them, and they should be laid out very early.
And Zhao Kuo dared to guarantee that absolutely no one in the world would find out about his plan.
Not to mention the Warring States, it is the later generations, under the rapid cultural export abroad, a few people can find out.