"By the way, do you recognize this?" Zhao Kuo pointed to the cotton not far away and said.

"There are a lot of such white stacks in the far west." Huai said.

"This king needs a lot of this, or seeds." Zhao Kuo said.

"King Shuyan may have the seeds left behind by the caravan." Huai said.

"As long as you can find cotton seeds, the king will reward each of you with a mother-in-law." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and said.

"Thank you, the king, the little ones will definitely find it." The three of them said excitedly.

The next day, the three of them brought a small half-bag of cotton seeds, which was said to have been given to the king by a horse merchant, who heard that it was very beautiful and that the color could change, so he stayed.

"Send the seeds to the farmer, tell the farmer, and grow them as quickly as possible." Zhao Kuo ordered.

"No." Dozens of horsemen escorted cotton seeds towards the loop.

"With your merit, the widow will bury you in a place with mountains and rivers." Zhao Kuo said to the corpse of King Quyan, and finally decided to bury him at the foot of Helan Mountain.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

Originally, Zhao Kuo planned to return to Hetao in a few days, because of the cotton matter, he stayed in Helan Mountain for more than half a month, and he didn't leave until he searched all the neighborhoods and made sure that there was only a small piece of cotton in total.

After he rushed back to the Loop, everyone finally formulated a sound immigration policy.

"Just follow this." After Zhao Kuo read it, he handed it to Liu Ping.

Soon, an immigration, involving most of the country, began with a bang.

In addition to Helan County, Zhao Kuo set up Shuofang and Jiuyuan two counties in Hetao, which were parallel with the original Yunzhong County, and north of Yinshan, the hometown of the original Xiongnu, set up Monan County.

Zhao Guo planned and established ten large pastures in Hetao and Monan County, and immigrated 100,000 households from the Central Plains to develop Hetao, and each household was granted 150 mu of land, exempted from agricultural taxes and oral taxes for five years. The government distributed a ploughing ox and a sheep free of charge. In the first year, the government provided seeds and farming tools.

And starting next year, Zhao Guoguo will give priority to establishing schools in the Hetao area, one school in each township, for everyone's children to study and study.

These people originally lived in the Central Plains, and they must not be willing to let them go to the frontier. As for the national righteousness, it is very pale and powerless for them, so Zhao Kuo chose to give them sufficient compensation for benefits.

For the people, nothing is more important than children, and the most important thing for children is education. Therefore, Zhao Kuo did not popularize education in the Central Plains first, but popularized it in Hetao.

In addition, bachelors go to the Hetao, and the government gives out their mother-in-law for free, not limited to Zhao State.

These initiatives led to a large number of slaves absconding into the Loop. Nobles from all over the country reported to the officials one after another, but the government didn't care at all, because this was Zhao Kuo's acquiescence.

As long as you arrive at the Hetao, the government will provide you with a household registration, and it doesn't matter where you come from, and it won't check your previous identity. Even if someone reports a crime, as long as it is not a major crime, the government will ignore it. As long as you don't continue to sin in the future.

The domestic nobles can't say their suffering, they made a lot of money behind Zhao Kuo before, and this wave was directly pitted.

But after that, you can make a lot of money by developing the loop, building pastures, and processing milk and goat's milk. If they openly oppose it, these good things will have nothing to do with them in the future. If you choose to acquiesce, those slaves will not come back at all.

In the end, seeing that the government really didn't plan to take care of them, everyone could only say that this incident had not happened. They don't have the qualifications to turn their faces with Zhao Kuo yet, and they don't actually want to turn their faces with Zhao Kuo in their hearts.

Because Zhao Kuo has given them a lot, the strength of each of their families has been improved, but this promotion is much smaller than that of Zhao Guo, resulting in their strength now being smaller than that of the country, but on the whole, their strength has indeed improved, and they are now living very entangled every day.

"What do you think of the land in Hetao?" Zhao Kuo asked suddenly.

"If it is developed, it will be no less than the Central Plains." Le Yi didn't know why, but he still spoke.

"I wonder if you are willing to change your fiefdom here?" Zhao Kuo asked.

Now Le Yi understood, and he wanted to take back my fiefdom and change it to a place where birds don't. Although everyone says that the Hetao is no less than the Central Plains, everyone knows that the gap between the two is still not small, not to mention that the Hetao is not developed at all.

Le Yi suddenly felt a chill, sure enough, in the end, this step was inevitable!

However, thinking of Zhao Kuo's kindness, Le Yi planned to do his last bit to help Zhao Kuo, and after that, it had nothing to do with him: "As long as the king needs it, the end will be available at any time." ”

"The general misunderstood, this king is not the one who crosses the river and demolishes the bridge. Didn't the general want to leave a piece of land for posterity? Zhao Kuo said.

"The king is saying......" Le Yi suddenly stopped talking.

"Yes, this king can promise the general, this fief can be hereditary." Zhao Kuo nodded.

The fiefs given to the courtiers by the Zhao State could theoretically be inherited, but ...... And that's just in theory. In fact, in order to avoid the situation that the more and more the land was feuded, and the domestic land was sealed, Zhao would always try to take back the fief from the hands of his courtiers.

Zuo Shi Touchlong once asked the Empress Dowager Zhao, "From now on, count three generations, and when the Zhao family establishes the Zhao State, if the descendants of the monarch of the Zhao State are made marquises, will their descendants still be able to inherit the title?" ”

The Queen Mother said, "No." ”

It can be seen that all these lands were recovered by Zhao State, and only Zhao Sheng was the only one who passed the clear fief and title of Zhao State to Zhao State in history.

If Zhao Kuo changed the fiefdom of his courtiers from the rich Central Plains to the Hetao, all the courtiers would have opinions, and it was even possible to unite to oppose them. But if you add a hereditary rule, then the vast majority of people, except for a very small number of people, will not have an opinion.

On the one hand, if the Hetao is developed, the degree of richness will not be much worse than that of the Central Plains.

On the other hand, there is too much difference between being able to pass it on to future generations and being taken back after one's own death, and it is an individual who will choose first.

To put it mildly, can't it be passed on to future generations, that is called a fief? That's what the lake does.

"Wherever the king is sealed, the last general will go." Le Yi clenched his fists excitedly and said, it turned out that he had misunderstood Zhao Kuo, he was not here to unload the mill and kill the donkey, but to send benefits.

"The last general, too." Lian Po said.

"It's good that the two generals agree, this matter is just a prototype of this matter now, and the specific decision will be made after returning to Handan and discussing it with everyone. By the way, the two generals can send someone to investigate first, and choose a place to tell the king. As long as the city has not been built, this king will agree. If the two of them are not afraid of the cold wind and want to seal it to Monan, this king can also agree. Zhao Kuo said.

This is something he had thought about a long time ago.

Fiefdom is a reward and an incentive for the monarch to his courtiers in this era. The social system is like this, no matter what, there is no way to avoid it, this thing has benefits, and can greatly stimulate the fighting spirit of the courtiers. But there is also a downside, that is, the land will be less and less...... And it's easy to have a big tail.

For example, the Zhou Dynasty, such as the Chu State.

Even Shang Ying's change of law couldn't solve this problem, Shang Ying also made a large fief for himself, and after being falsely accused of rebellion, he really went to the fief to rebel, and then was defeated by Qin.