Chapter 438: Only Blood Can Be Remembered
"Since the Zhou moved the capital to Luoyi, the world has been without war, and in the past hundred years, it has intensified, and my Zhao State is a place of four wars, how can I get rid of the war?" Yu Xin shook his head.
War is not something that any country can decide, if you don't attack others, others will attack you.
How powerful the Qin State is, in recent decades, the world has been staging the history of Qin invasion, and there is no country bordering the Qin State that has not been attacked by the Qin State.
But further back, the Shandong coalition army once broke through the Hangu Pass of the Qin State!
Zhao will not be an exception, once the countries perceive the threat posed by Zhao, they will inevitably form a coalition to attack Zhao.
Zhao Guoke did not have the Hangu Fortress.
The long line of defense is enough to drag down any country.
The only thing Zhao Guo could do was to develop Zhao Guo into a giant that the Six Nations could not face before everyone reacted, and then take the initiative to attack them.
If the battlefield is placed on the enemy's territory, even if it loses, it will only lose some soldiers and money and food, and if the battlefield is placed on its own territory, even if the final victory is won, the loss of population, property, and materials will be far more than that.
After more than two years of Changping War, the entire Shangdang was empty, and the population before the war has not been restored.
"It is unlikely that there will be a war in the past two years, and all countries need to recuperate." Zhou Zi said that now the countries of the Central Plains will see who recovers first, and who can start the road of expansion first.
"Two years is enough time to sort out the interior, and even if there is a war in the future, as long as it does not happen at home, the country will be able to develop steadily." Kong Bin looked at the document in his hand and frowned, "I also received something about usury here, there seem to be a lot of such things recently, don't those people know how to restrain a little?"
"Spring ploughing, it's normal, there is always a group of people who will do this at this time of year." Touching the dragon waved his hand, he was used to this kind of thing for a long time.
He dared to guarantee that everyone here, except for Wei Wuji, Tian Dan and a few others, the families behind the others were also lending, at most they had a little conscience, not usury, including the touch family behind him.
As for Wei Wuji, Tian Dan and others, it's not that they don't have this business, but they have either been in Zhao State for a few years, or they have been alone before, and they have only recently moved their family over, and their foundation is not stable, so how can they have the heart to do these things.
And the loan itself has advantages and disadvantages, although the aristocracy lent money, it did help many people tide over the difficulties, so Zhao only suppressed usury, and did not prohibit lending.
"In the face of sufficient interests, there must be people who are very risky, and without blood, it is impossible to stop everyone's ambition with a single notice." Tian Dan shook his head.
According to his idea, directly before this group of people started, he would single out those who had committed more crimes in the past and those who committed the most heinous crimes, and beheaded them in a wave to warn and warn the world.
But Xunzi said that everyone can make mistakes, and since it is a reform and a change, then everything will start anew. The past should not be blamed for the past, and everything should be determined by the future performance.
Zhao Sheng and Zhao Bao also thought that it should be so, and in the end they didn't care.
Tian Dan scoffed at this, Xunzi still didn't know, was that a soft-hearted person?
Obviously casting a long line to catch a big fish, and when everyone is hooked, it's time to copy the net.
Zhao Sheng and Zhao Bao didn't know that they were being used, and they really thought that Xunzi was on their side.
If you listen to him, you only need to kill a small number of people, and then the vast majority of people will stop.
If you listen to Xunzi, I don't know how many people came out in the end, even if you let go of some of the lighter plots, the number of people who died is far more than before.
Judging from the current situation, it really did not surprise him, a mere notice has no binding force on those nobles and gentry, only blood can make people remember.
Zhao Sheng and Zhao Bao's faces were a little not good-looking, seeing Xunzi's calm face, they just reacted slowly, and they understood Xunzi's trick.
"Xunzi's previous practices are not in line with Confucian benevolence and etiquette." Zhao Sheng said in a deep voice.
"Why did the Plains-kun say that? Is it wrong not to blame the past? That Plains-kun
Why didn't you object to it in the first place?" Xunzi said in surprise, as if he didn't know why Zhao Sheng asked this.
Zhao Sheng took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart, although he is also a handful of people at the top of the pyramid of the world, there is also a gap between the top and the top, he is only the existence at the bottom of the top, and Wei Wuji and Xunzi are at the forefront even in the group of people who are placed at the top.
The main reason is that his strength is too seriously affected by his reputation, the higher his reputation, the higher his intelligence, originally he was the only one in Zhao Guo who received a wide range of customers, his reputation was far and wide, and his intelligence was also raised to the limit.
Now his disciples have almost been expelled, leaving only a very small number of people with real talents.
Zhao has more Wei Wuji, Xunzi, Kong Bin and others, as well as Confucianism, Legalism, Mojia and other talents, who will care about a Zhao Sheng?
Zhao Sheng's reputation naturally fell to a low point, and similarly, his strength also declined.
If it is at his peak, even if he is not Xunzi's opponent, it is impossible for him to easily fall into the opponent's trap.
"What do you think Xunzi should do now?" Zhao Bao asked with a calm face.
Sitting in this group, he was under a lot of pressure because he was the only one of them who had no talent.
In the past, although his status was also high, he usually stayed in his own house, and rarely dealt with things with everyone, and when Zhao *** was summoned, he was usually summoned alone, unlike Zhao Kuo, who was summoned together, so Zhao Bao didn't feel anything.
But now I stay with a bunch of monsters every day, each of them stronger than myself.
There is no harm without contrast.
Zhao Bao also wants face, and he also wants to have talent, at least when the time comes, others will not say that he can get to this position because of his relationship.
In the past, Zhao Bao thought about how to be extravagant, but now he has begun to take the initiative to learn.
However, it is still far from the birth of talent, but it has developed the habit of not changing its face when encountering anything.
"Confucius has a cloud: repay virtue with virtue, and repay grievances with straightforwardness." Since Zhao Sheng used Confucian benevolence and etiquette to pressure Xunzi, Xunzi also used Confucianism to refute Zhao Sheng.
Zhao Sheng and Zhao Bao did not continue to argue with Xunzi, because they would only lose if they continued to argue, they were not on the side of those loan sharks, they were just angry with Xunzi, obviously there was a way to bleed less, why did they have to choose the one that bleed more.
"Only in this way can no one dare to ignore the notice from now on." Xunzi seemed to see what the two were thinking, and explained.
Zhao had already established enough prestige in the hearts of the people that the notices issued could be quickly implemented among the people, but it was not so much in the middle ranks, and there were many people who ignored the notices of the imperial court.
This hidden danger must be eliminated.