Qin Wangji watched Mao Sui leave like this, his scarlet gaze fell on Mao Sui's back, and his right hand hanging in the air never fell. The empty hall was silent, except for the sound of heavy breathing echoing in the air.

The last time he was so patient was when Empress Dowager Xuan was in power, and as the king of Qin, he had to listen to Empress Dowager Xuan's words.

"Zhao Guo......" Qin Wangji murmured angrily like an old lion whose territory had been violated.

The ministers lowered their heads and frowned, not daring to raise their heads.

After a long time, Qin Wangji's cold voice sounded in the hall: "Pass the decree, seal Qin Yue as the Marquis of Lun, and choose one of his sons to inherit the title." ”

Everyone's hearts sank, this can be regarded as completely giving up on saving Qin Yue, although they don't like Qin Yue, but the fox is dead and the rabbit is sad, they can't help but feel sad in their hearts when they see such a scene.

"Is there any progress in Shaofu?" Qin Wangji asked in a deep voice.

Obtaining alcohol from Zhao Guo has failed, and he can only rely on his own way. But fortunately, there is a hint in the name of alcohol, which is much easier to study than paper and cement.

In particular, the name cement is very confusing, so that the craftsmen of the Qin State initially focused all their energy on the study of mud, and wasted a lot of effort.

"King Yu, the craftsmen found that there is a substance in the wine that has the effect of disinfection and sterilization, and Zhao Guo should have extracted this substance by some means and named it alcohol. At present, we have successfully extracted alcohol from wine, but ...... It's very, very expensive...... Some of the gains outweigh the losses. Lu Buwei said with some embarrassment.

Wine is very food-intensive, and the Qin State has repeatedly issued alcohol restrictions in order to save food, and has increased the price of wine tenfold to reduce the consumption of alcohol.

In the case that the technology is not mature, the distillation of alcohol with low concentration can be imagined, and the food consumed can be imagined.

In the past, even if there was alcohol in all countries, it would not have been able to use it to treat soldiers.

Because soldiers are worthless, food is worthless.

But now the Qin State realizes the importance of people, all wealth is created by people, and only by keeping everyone can more wealth be created, so the Qin State no longer disregards life as before.

However, this kind of thing needs to change slowly, and it is impossible to suddenly become more cherished by the low-level civilians.

"Isn't there a way to reduce attrition?" Qin Wangji asked.

"The craftsmen are still figuring out how to do it, but there is no progress." Lu Buwei shook his head, technological breakthroughs do not happen overnight, sometimes with a flash of inspiration, you can take a step forward, and most of the time you are just standing still.

"Tell the craftsman, if anyone can reduce the loss to a bearable range, he will be promoted to the third level, and he will be rewarded with 500 acres of land and gold and 1,000 yuan." Qin Wangji waved his hand, he believed that there would be brave men under the heavy reward.

"The king is wise." Lu Buwei arched his hand and said.

"By the way, have the lists of selected talents from all over the country been sorted out?" Qin Wangji asked.

"Your Majesty, it's been sorted out." Fan Ju handed over a roll of bamboo slips.

Having said that up to now, paper has actually spread, after all, Zhao Guo wants to sell money, and then control the quantity, as long as the countries want to buy it, you can buy it, you can't sell it one by one, so the upper echelons of the countries basically use paper instead of bamboo slips to pass documents.

Only the Qin State still uses bamboo slips, not because they can't buy them, but to save money. The current situation of the Qin State is not good, and the successive defeats have seriously suppressed the enthusiasm of the people to go to the battlefield to obtain meritorious services.

The legions also suffered heavy losses and needed to be rebuilt, and the caravan heading west has not yet returned, and neither the Queen Mother nor the new trade route has been found. To be honest, Qin Wangji was a little skeptical about whether they were still alive.

Relations between the surrounding countries and the Qin state continued to deteriorate, because the Zhao state stirred up the peace in it, and the previous diplomatic methods also lost their effect.

The Qin State had played too many hooligans before, and he had beaten other countries too hard, and no one would believe him until he completely lost the threat.

If the state of Zhao now has money and no food, then the state of Qin has neither money nor food.

But the old Qin people's determination to overcome obstacles is still there, and for more than 600 years, the Qin State has been able to grow from a small border town where birds don't to the hegemon of the world step by step, relying on the belief of never giving up.

The current situation is much easier than the difficulties faced by our ancestors.

In order to save every penny, Qin Wangji ordered the concubines in the harem to also weave cloth, rewarded the courtiers with the paper purchased from the Zhao State, ordered to continue to use bamboo slips and wooden slips in the future, and sold the pure white war horses captured by the Yue clan to raise money to train the army.

The blood of classical militarism has never been cold, and the Qin State has come to this day step by step, and the nobles of the pre-Qin Dynasty have their own pride, and Qin Wangji disdains to pretend to rule the people under the lake, what he wants is to lead by example and drive the entire Qin State.

"Tomorrow the prince and the prince and grandson will meet them with the widows." Qin Wangji looked at Prince Zhu and Wang Sun Zi Chu.

"No." Prince Zhu and Zi Chu leaned over and said.

……

Wei Wuji came back and met Zhao Kuo for the first time.

In the afternoon, Zhao Kuo held a banquet in Mafu Jun's Mansion, and there were only two people, him and Wei Wuji.

Zhao Kuo didn't ask Wei Wuji about his affairs in the Wei State, but only told him about the plan for the future development of the Zhao State.

In terms of strategic planning, no one in the world is Zhao Kuo's opponent, after all, the vision of more than 2,000 years is not given in vain, and many things are difficult to solve now, but looking at more than 2,000 years, there have been countless solutions, and Zhao Kuo only needs to take them.

But no matter how good the plan is, it is only valuable if it is implemented, otherwise it is just a piece of waste paper. Zhao Kuo needs someone to blow him out little by little, and Wei Wuji is the one who can really implement the plan.

"Re-enactment of the law?" Wei Wuji was a little puzzled, the laws of Zhao State were already very perfect, and there was no need to reformulate them.

The first to publish written law in the world was not the Qin State, but the Zheng State, which opened a precedent for the promulgation of written law in ancient China.

But before that, Fan Xuanzi of the Jin State had already promulgated a more mature and perfect criminal law on the basis of the original criminal law of the Jin State.

More than 20 years after the production of the tripod, Zhao's ancestor Zhao Ying engraved Fan Xuanzi's criminal law on the tripod.

As the overlord of the world, the influence of the Jin State is far greater than that of the Zheng State, and it is powerful to tear a gap in the old Zhou ceremony, announcing that the era of the Jin State and even the world 'not punishing the doctor and not being able to pay the courtesy' has become history.

As one of the leading figures, although Zhao caused condemnation from the world and a group of Confucians such as Confucius, he also received great benefits.

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Especially after the Fan family and the Zhongxing clan, which united with the Zhao family to cast the tripod, but used the Zhao family as a shield, were destroyed, most of these ideas, inheritances, talents, etc. fell into the hands of the Zhao family.

After that, Zhao State continued to emerge such as Shen Dao, Le Yi, Ju Xin, Xunzi and other Legalist talents, as for the Qin State...... We don't produce talent, we're just porters of talent......

Even now, the laws of Zhao are the most complete except for Qin law.