"When the Qin people attacked Shangdang, Feng Ting led us to defend against the Qin people, collected everyone's grain and managed it centrally, and let us women participate in the defense of the city, we have no complaints, as long as we can drive the Qin people out, these are worth it. If the Qin people continue to attack Shangdang next time, we will still take all the food to defend the city. Zhong's wife whispered while holding the child.

The war between the Three Jin and the Qin State lasted for hundreds of years, and the ancestors had been fighting against the Qin people for generations, and in recent years it has intensified, and almost every family has relatives who have died at the hands of the Qin people.

South Korea is weak and bullied by the Qin State, and the people's hatred for the Qin people cannot be dissolved.

They would rather stick to the Shangdang and give the Shangdang to the Zhao State under Feng Ting's organization than surrender to the Qin State.

Maybe in their hearts, Han Zhao Wei is a family, and the Qin State is just an enemy, or they are nostalgic for the hegemony and Jin period hundreds of years ago.

"A few years ago, Feng Ting came to Shangdang and told the villagers that Korea had ceded Shangdang to Qin. The villagers did not hesitate, if Korea did not send troops over, we would fight ourselves, even if we died, we could not surrender to Qin. Fortunately, with the help of the Great King and General Lian Po, he defeated the Qin State. ”

"If the Qin State invades again, not to mention anything else, I will definitely go to the battlefield with more than 100 catties, I dared to fight back then, and now even if I die in battle, my wife and children can get a pension, and raise my children to adulthood, what else is there to worry about." Zhong patted his chest and said.

"Is that what everybody thinks?" Zhao Kuo was silent for a long time, he didn't expect that the people in the Shangdang area had such a deep hatred for the Qin State, which he had never encountered when he was inspecting other places.

"I don't know anything else, anyway, as long as I give the order, all the adult men in our entire area will follow me to the battlefield." Zhong said proudly.

“……”

It's all full of militants!

"I heard that the imperial court promised not to raise taxes, any county has a tax increase or more apportionment of labor, you can report to the court through the township school, if there is someone you know who is a soldier in the army, you can also report it from the military, or go directly to Handan, beat the drum, and the king will personally inquire about the matter." Zhao Kuo said.

Taxes can only be reduced, not added.

Maybe if there is a little less, the people have no complaints, and even many people, like Zhong, have long expected in their hearts and are already waiting for the imperial court to raise taxes.

But Zhao Kuo knows that this opening must not be opened.

The terrible thing is not the little tax increase, but once some things are opened, they taste the sweetness, and they find that the people can bear the new taxes, and the complaints are not very big, they will begin to test the people's bottom line step by step.

At the same time, the officials below will also add fuel to the fire.

As long as the imperial court does not issue an order to raise taxes, the officials below will not dare to raise taxes privately no matter what, at most when collecting taxes, the big bucket will be collected, and the small bucket will be reported to the court, or they will deliberately kick the Hu at the tip of the grain pile with their feet, so that the grain will be spilled, and it will be called loss, but in fact, it will be swallowed privately.

The first situation is impossible for Zhao Guo to happen, after the unification of weights and measures, as long as it is found that there is not in accordance with the standard, it will be distributed to the side, and the serious ones will be allocated to Yingzhou.

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The latter kind of Zhao State is unable to achieve strong supervision, it is impossible for every township and county to collect taxes, the imperial court sends people to watch, and there is no way to guarantee whether the officials sent have collusion with it.

As for expecting the people to report it, it is unrealistic, since ancient times, the people did not fight with the officials, and the people would not choose to fight with the officials until they were forced to be helpless and cornered.

Usually when this kind of thing happens, the people have already put their personal life and death out of the way.

In fact, both of these situations are relatively good, and the money and food that can be embezzled are limited, so that the people will not be unable to live.

What really overwhelmed the people was the tax hikes of the imperial court again and again, maybe not much, but it was not the case after the following.

Every time the imperial court raises taxes, it is a gluttonous feast for officials at all levels.

The court did not raise taxes, and they did not dare to raise them. But as long as the imperial court raises taxes, they dare to raise them ruthlessly.

The people did not know that most of the money went into the pockets of the officials, they only knew how to scold the monarch and the court.

Of course, they were not wrong, and perhaps this was not the intention of the monarch and the imperial court. But as a monarch, he can't govern the country, he can't choose the virtuous and capable, and as a minister of the court, he can't go up to the monarch and pacify the people, which is wrong.

Zhao Guo's rule is quite good, Zhao Kuo secretly walked through some places, and did not find this kind of thing, and Liu Ping and Zhao Sheng did not report this kind of thing.

In fact, except for some drawbacks of the times, the governance of officials in various countries during this period was not bad.

During the Warring States Period, unlike those later great unified dynasties, there were several powerful enemies around each country, and everyone did not want to be slaves of the country, even if they were greedy, they would restrain one or two.

And there are still many real gentlemen in this era, and these can be truly not greedy at all, and even sacrifice themselves for others.

Zhao Kuo once saw a county order, never wore silk clothes, only wore his wife's woven kudzu clothes or linen clothes, as long as he could eat enough, he never cared about the quality of the food, and every month except for family expenses, all of them were used to help the poor people, and his life was extremely poor.

If you want to say that for profit, he will not get any profit.

You have to say that for the sake of fame, when people were promoted, they took their families with them and secretly left the county where they had been governed for nearly ten years in an ox cart, without telling any of the people.

You have to say that in order to buy people's hearts like Tian Chen's family, Mu Tu is the foundation of the country, and the family is small, and it is impossible to complete this kind of thing for several generations.

Zhao Kuo once asked him why, and the county magistrate only replied with six words: for a clear conscience.

After the reunification, there were no competitors, and everyone began to unscrupulously wave, testing the bottom line of the people at the bottom step by step.

When the temptation came out, the dynasty came to an end.

Even though Zhao Guo's officials were well governed, Zhao Kuo still set up three bottom-up supervision methods, namely the township school, the military, and the Dengwen drum, which complemented the imperial history.

As long as one of the township schools, the military, the prime minister or the monarch is not rotten, it can play a supervisory role.

If all four of them are rotten, then there is no need for Zhao Guo to exist, so let's finish it early, it's good for everyone.

"This kind of thing...... Who can say for sure, but even if the court does not raise taxes, when the Qin people come to attack, or when the king attacks the Qin people, I will carry a knife to the battlefield. Zhong said firmly.

"What if you attack other countries?" Liu Ping asked suddenly.

Zhong hesitated, then nodded, "As long as the king recruits soldiers, I will go." ”