"The widow has prepared some finished products, and when the envoy returns to China, he can bring them back to the Empress Dowager Qi and the King of Qi before making a decision." Zhao Kuo did not refuse.

The quality of Zhao's cement is average, and it is completely out of reach the level of later generations, but the car is not as heavy as that of later generations. If it is full, it will be two or three tons at most, and it is impossible to crush the cement pavement.

After Zhao Kuo realized this, he did not let people continue to improve the technology.

Of course, the main reason is that the bottleneck has been reached.

The temperature required to fire cement is very high, similar to that of ironmaking, which is the highest temperature that Zhao can reach at present, and the only way to go further is to build a blast furnace.

This thing has a prototype, it is the previous copper smelting furnace, and it only needs to break through one step in technology.

However, it is easy to say that it is very difficult, but the actual operation is much more difficult, and Zhao Guoka can't live or die here.

Zhao Kuo had no choice, he could only make sure that the direction was right, and then let the craftsmen continue to study.

At present, roads have been built in the main cities of Zhao State, and the roads from Handan to Daliang and Xinzheng have also been built, and the roads between Daliang and Xinzheng are still being built.

If it weren't for the fact that Chu State had no money, Zhao Kuo still wanted to build a road to Chen Ying, but it would be the same if he sold it to Qi State.

In addition to military strength, the stronger the Qi State in other aspects, the more benefits Zhao Guo can get, and the happier Zhao Kuo is.

The territory of Zhao is too small, and the population is only a few million, even if all the forces are mobilized, the speed of development is limited, but if you add the countries of the Central Plains, it is different.

Of course, there are risks associated with this. Whether it is war horses, ploughing cattle, or paper and cement, they are all enhancing the strength of Qi State, which is also the reason why Qi State cannot refuse.

And many times, it is only a Ming Jun who transforms these strengths into poor military strength.

If there is a Ming monarch in Qi State, the economy, food, etc. will be transformed into an army in a short period of time, and after the road is clear, it will not take more than five days for the army to arrive anywhere in Qi State from Linzi.

At that time, the State of Qi will inevitably become the great enemy of the State of Zhao.

However, the king of Qi did not have the ability to build other things, but there was only one that surpassed the vast majority of monarchs, that is, longevity, and lived until the destruction of the Qi State in history, and was finally starved to death.

If you don't starve to death, you don't know when you will die.

As long as Qi Wangjian is still there, it is impossible for a Ming monarch to appear in the Qi State.

As for the Empress Dowager Qi, she is virtuous enough and hard enough, but her ability is still too far behind.

In this era, the level of education of women is far inferior to that of men, even if there are some enlightened nobles, they do not refuse their daughters to study and study, but they will never focus on training, at most when teaching their sons, they will teach their daughters by the way, and they will not go to special teaching to solve doubts.

If there are a few famous ministers who can assist the left with their hearts, it is possible for the Empress Dowager Qi to lead the Qi country to prosperity.

But...... Not really.

"Thank you, King Zhao." Wang Sunjia bowed.

"I, Zhao and Qi have been friendly for generations, and the widow queen is the sister of the king of Qi, so the widow will naturally help the Qi country." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

"The foreign minister will definitely bring King Zhao's words to my king." Wang Sunjia arched his hand and slowly retreated.

"It's finally done." Zhao Kuo took out a document from the table and handed it to Liu Ping, "Give this document to Yu Qing, let them improve it, deal with it before the end of the year, and release it when the time comes." ”

"Did the king really decide to make so many changes?" The document was not sealed, and Liu Ping could see it when he lowered his head.

"This step must be taken, and only in this way can the potential of Zhao Guo be truly realized. What did those soldiers toil for? What are the civil and military officials working hard for? Including you and Ben, don't you want to leave a legacy for future generations? Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

The news of the fiefdom was released in front of everyone to give everyone a preventive shot, and then the reform was carried out later, and everyone was also prepared in their hearts.

Liu Ping was silent for a moment and did not refute.

Everyone has selfish intentions, and he never had the luxury of expecting himself to get a fief, but if he had the opportunity, he would never refuse.

Expand the territory, create a unique clan, and become the ancestor of a surname, no one can refuse this kind of thing.

In today's China, every surname has countless stories to sing and cry about, the blood of countless ancestors is impregnated, and the bones of countless ancestors are accumulated.

Each surname has contributed to China and expanded its territory.

The aristocracy of this era has not yet decayed, they still flow the hot blood of their ancestors, charging forward, and having the courage to kill the enemy, which is also the reason why their reputation has not been ruined.

"My son and I don't have a clan, but I want my grandson to have a clan." Ben scratched his head and buzzed.

"Work hard, sooner or later there will be a fief, and then the fief will be the clan." Zhao Kuo patted Ben's shoulder and walked outside, and Ben hurriedly followed.

Yu Xin took the document from Liu Ping's hand, just glanced at it, and couldn't help but sigh: "The king is really bold!" ”

"Wouldn't the span be too big?" Liu Ping said with some concern.

"The northern Rongdi has been cleaned up, the Qin State and the Wei State have been newly defeated, the Three Kingdoms of Han Yan and Qi have no threat to our Zhao State, and the Chu State is far away from my Zhao State. If we don't start a comprehensive reform at this time, will we have to wait for the strength of Qin and Wei to recover? At that time, Wei State may not really be on my Zhao State's side. Yu Xin said meaningfully.

Yu Xin was not surprised by the reform and change of the law, it was not the first time that Zhao Guo had reformed and changed the law, and every country in the world had changed the law.

The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were originally an era of stormy and turbulent encounters, and wars were constantly raging in various places, either being beaten or on the way to being beaten, and every country was trying its best to seek a breakthrough, and if it was one step behind, it would be beaten, and reform and change of laws had long become commonplace.

However, Yu Xin is still a little surprised by the content of the reform, if you add that although it was not explicitly stated before, it is actually a part of the reform, and this reform can be said to involve all aspects.

From agriculture to commerce to the military to roads to technology to education to animal husbandry to institutions and more.

The only old nobles who might have hindered Zhao's reform were also compensated, and the permanent fiefdom of Hetao was far more powerful than the food that they could now take back at any time by Zhao.

What's more, there are thousands of miles of grassland in Monan County, and in addition to the twenty large pastures planned by Zhao State, there are not enough people to govern other places, so they can only be thrown there.

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Domestic aristocrats continued to pour into Monan County, and the nobles who followed Zhao Kuo at the beginning made a lot of money.

As for the very few nobles who have no eyesight, they are destined to be crushed into the dust of history.

To put it mildly, even if Zhao Kuo doesn't compensate these people, those people have to be obedient.

After taking the Hetao, the land of Zhao was enough to support this change. At the same time, the strength of other countries has not recovered, and they cannot interfere with Zhao's reform.

The right time, place and people.