What does a piece of land more fertile than the Central Plains mean, Lin Xiangru knows better than anyone that even if it can only be ripened once a year because of climate problems, it is enough to become the foundation of a dynasty.

The only problem is that with the current strength of Zhao State, it is not enough to develop such a large land.

Zhao has only a population of 10 million, scattered on such a large territory, the density is very low, and it is impossible to immigrate to the northeast, after all, Zhao also has to consider management costs.

If there were only a few thousand people in a county, it would be impossible for Zhao Guo to build roads, colleges, medical halls, and library pavilions there, all of which cost money, and a lot of money.

To put it mildly, such a small number of people can't even afford to support a full county government, and if the distance is farther away, or in the mountains, the taxes are not enough to consume on the road, how can other facilities and buildings be built.

In recent years, Zhao Guo has continued to train physicians, and built medical centers in various places, basically every county has a medical center, and some large towns are also equipped with medical centers, free delivery for pregnant women, and there will be rewards for giving birth to twins or triplets.

Zhao Guo also reduced taxes so that everyone could raise children.

In addition, Zhao insisted on keeping the enemy outside the country, and no matter how the war was fought outside, the country was never affected by the war.

All kinds of measures have indeed achieved great results, and the number of children born in Zhao has increased significantly in recent years.

But these children are too young, the eldest is only five or six years old, and they can just make soy sauce, and they are still early to grow up.

"It seems that we have to discuss with doctors to speed up the training of doctors, especially those who specialize in pediatrics, if we can assign a doctor to each township, we may be able to reduce the premature mortality rate to 10%, or even lower." Lin Xiangru whispered.

Children are most likely to die before the age of 10, and in some places the mortality rate can be as close as half, and only half of the ten children live beyond the age of 10.

There are many reasons for early death, such as illness, death from a predator, or even being abandoned by parents.

The last situation will basically not happen in Zhao Guo, the tiger poison does not eat children, unless they can't afford it, normal parents will not abandon their children.

Although the bottom of Zhao Guo is not very good, except for the areas where the traffic is blocked and there is no communication with the government, there is basically no problem in other places to be full.

In ancient times, although the grain output was low, but the per capita land was large, as long as the government distributed the land to the people who were willing to farm, the tax collection was a little less, in fact, it was easy to solve the problem of having enough to eat.

It's just that in all dynasties, the vast majority of officials are unwilling to do or dare not do this kind of thing for one reason or another.

The biggest factor that leads to the death of children is disease, in the past, the death rate of children in Zhao was about forty percent, even the death rate of the children of the princes and grandsons was very high, and when King Zhao Huiwen was thirteen years old, the princess died young.

After Zhao Kuo ascended the throne, he abducted a large number of doctors from various countries, and spent a lot of money to train and build medical centers in various places, which gradually reduced the premature death rate from 40% to less than 20%.

It is difficult to go any further, on the one hand, the number of physicians is limited, and it cannot be popularized everywhere.

On the other hand, doctors are limited in their skills, and you can't expect them to solve all problems, in fact, most of them can't.

Don't say that the times are limited here, even after more than 2,000 years, there are too many diseases that cannot be cured.

In the past, Lin Xiangru felt that Zhao Guo could have the current achievements are already very powerful, except for Zhao Guo, there is no country in the world that can let the people eat enough and raise children. On the basis of the largest population, the growth rate is also the largest.

But Lin Xiangru feels that it is too slow now, he can't wait that long, he is already in his prime, he doesn't know how long he can live, he hopes to be able to set foot on that land in his lifetime.

"It's too difficult to train doctors, and I, Zhao Guo, started the layout six years ago, and now I'm just seeing results, but the direction is always good." Zhao Kuo said.

"Time waits for no one, if only I could be born forty years later!" Lin Xiangru sighed.

"Why should Xiangguo sigh, it won't be long before you see that day." Zhao Kuo said with a smile

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"I hope so." Lin Xiangru said.

"By the way, this is the plan that the widow just made, Xiangguo take a look." Zhao Kuo handed a document to Lin Xiangru.

Lin Xiangru took it and was surprised that this plan not only included the Hebei, Taihang, and Hetao regions, but also included the Yandi, Guanzhong, and Hexi corridors.

But Zhao Guo had been on the front line for the past few months, and after returning to Handan, he was not idle, and he didn't have time to plan at all.

"When did the king do this?" Lin Xiangru asked in shock.

"I did it this morning." Zhao Kuo said.

"A morning?"

"yes, how much more time will it take? Haven't you done it all before in Zhao Kingdom? Wouldn't it be okay to copy it again, as for the previous plan, it would be nice to upgrade it again." Zhao Kuo said.

It's just a framework, what's so difficult. For him, the difficulty is the details, and how to implement them, is never the framework.

However, the latter two are Lin Xiangru and Wei Wuji's business.

For the monarch, this is good, open your mouth yourself, and someone will take care of things for you.

"It's better to be ashamed." Lin Xiangru said with admiration, although Zhao Kuo's plan was very simple, but it would take at least a month for him to do it, and in the end, there was no perfection of Zhao Kuo, and many places were beyond his imagination.

"Let's see if there's any problem, and if there's no problem, we'll assign it." Zhao Kuo said.

"The King...... Planning to develop Yandi, Guanzhong and Hexi corridors at the same time? I'm afraid this is a bit of a lot of pressure for me Zhao Guo." After reading it, Lin Xiangru said with a frown.

"As long as there are widows, it's not a problem. By the way, the Qin State promised to compensate the Qi State for the five million stone grain and the fifty thousand horses of Shu brocade, and the widow will discuss with the King of Qi and hand them over to my Zhao State to support the development of Guanzhong and the Hexi Corridor. I, the Zhao State, will give other compensation to the Qi State." Zhao Kuo said.

Although with the strength of Zhao State, even if it is directly occupied, Qi State has no way to take Zhao State.

But Zhao Kuo wouldn't do such a thing.

Reputation and diplomacy are still very important in these years, and it is not worth it to ruin your reputation for five million stone grain and annoy the Qi country.

Besides, the king of Qi is honest and duty-free, has no ambitions, and does not pose the slightest threat to the Zhao State, this kind of neighboring country can't be found with lanterns, so why bother pushing it to the opposite side.

"In this way, the pressure on my Zhao Kingdom can be a little less. From next year, the Loop will start paying taxes." Lin Xiangru said.

It has been several years since Zhao Guo brought down the Hetao, and until now he has not collected a penny or grain of tax, which is quite hard.

Of course, the results are huge.

If Zhao Guo did not give up the interests of the previous five years and threw money into it, it would never have been possible to complete the initial development of the Hetao in such a short period of time.

You must know that it took decades for Qin to develop Bashu.

But to be honest, although the tax money is not dispensable for Zhao Guo, it is no longer the main proportion. Whether it is commercial taxes, or state-owned salt, iron, coal, paper, spirits, etc., they are much more than oral taxes and agricultural taxes.

Moreover, every time the Zhao State caravan came back from the Western Regions, it would bring huge wealth.

"By the way, Sangkook just mentioned the population issue, and the widow plans to cancel the oral endowment, what does Sangkook think? Those twenty yuan, to be honest, are not valued by the widow, but for the low-level civilians, it may be the family's savings for a year, and it is life-saving money." Zhao Kuo said.

Zhao Guokou gave each person 20 yuan, and he began to collect it at the age of 14, and according to the calculation of 10 million people, it was only 200 million.

Of course, there are quite a few places in the past. It's enough to arm hundreds of thousands of troops, and each person only fires the head of a gun.

But now, it's nothing, even the Xuanjia Army can't afford to raise it, and Zhao Guo is not short of that money.

"The ministers have only heard of the continuous increase in taxes, and they have never heard that the imperial court has taken the initiative to cancel taxes. But I don't know if the king has ever thought that when you are alive, your mouth is dispensable, and what will happen to you a hundred years later? If the crown prince and grandson, or your other descendants, do not have a mouthful of endowments, will they be able to support the huge Zhao Kingdom? take

If the time comes, if the levy is re-levied, I am afraid it will be a huge blow to the whole country." Lin Xiangru said.

"Since ancient times, there have been no thousand-year-old dynasties. The widow never thought that the Zhao State would be able to continue until eternity, and the widow would be able to guarantee that there would be no problems in this dynasty, and even ensure that the next two or three dynasties would advance steadily. As for the future, it is not a matter for the widow to worry about. Future generations have their own things to do, and they can't do everything by the outnumbered. If the state of Zhao has decayed, then it is natural to be replaced by a new dynasty, and it is not something that can be influenced by a mere mouth." Zhao Kuo said calmly.

To establish an immortal dynasty, Zhao Kuo never thought that this matter was unreliable, whether in theory or in practice.

Theoretically, the linear growth of the level of science and technology and the material created by the productive forces will one day fail to meet the exponential growth of the population.

At that time, contradictions will erupt, and when the contradictions intensify to a certain extent, a change of dynasty will occur.

In fact, in fact, all dynasties could not wait for this day to be overthrown by the corruption of the bureaucracy.

The hard-working officials at the beginning of a dynasty are, the more corrupt and incompetent the officials in the later periods are.

This kind of thing never changes by the will of any one person.

Even the most powerful man can manage while he is alive.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo saw all this very openly.

He doesn't expect any immortality, any immortal dynasty.

Of course, the main reason is that it's useless to hope.

"......" Lin Xiangru didn't know what to say, it was the first time he had seen such an open-minded monarch. Which monarch doesn't want immortality, doesn't want the country to exist forever, why did Zhao come out with such a strange thing.

"There's a king here...... It is a blessing to the people of my Zhao country." In the end, Lin Xiangru can only say this.

"Since Sangkook has no opinion, let's notify it, by the way, put this matter on the slander and let everyone know." Zhao Kuo said.

There is no technical difficulty in denigrating this thing, Zhao Guo has already done it, once a month, mainly to let Zhao people understand the major events that happened in Zhao Guo and improve cohesion.

For example, Zhao Guo's victory over Qin, Zhao Kuo's personal sacrifice to the dead, and other things will be published in the slander newspaper.

Each township school and college will give out one copy for free per term, and if you want more, you have to spend money to buy it.

The price is not cheap, but more than ninety percent of the literate people in these years are aristocrats, and it is not bad for money, plus what is written on it is a national event, and there are quite a lot of people who buy it.

"By the way, put the news out to other countries so that the whole world will know about it." Zhao Kuo said that he never minded being disgusted and disgusting to the other five countries when he had something to do.

Although now the war is over and everyone is licking their wounds, the competition is not over.

"No, the minister will arrange it." Lin Xiangru said, silently mourning for the remaining five countries.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, all countries were based on 100 steps as an acre, and in order to attract population, Zhao took 240 steps as an acre, which was more than twice as large as others, to attract people from all over the world to Zhao.

Later, Shang Ying's reform method was Zhao Guo's learning in the reform of land and acres.

Other countries have no choice but to increase the number of acres of land to attract displaced people.

Commonly known as involution.

But even now, Zhao's acres of land are the largest among all countries.

Now that Zhao Kuo is doing this kind of thing again, he also specially notified other countries, Lin Xiangru can already imagine how other countries will scold Zhao Kuo after they know about it.

"By the way, let the caravan organize a batch of goods to go to the Western Regions, now that my Zhao State does not need to pay money to the Qin State when I go through the Hexi Corridor, it is a good time for trade. Incidentally...... Inquire about Zhao Mu...... Where is it?" Zhao Kuo sighed deeply.

Zhao Mu left Zhao State and went to the Western Regions for two years, and there was news back at the beginning, but since he left Zhangye, there has been no news back, and Zhao Kuo doesn't even know whether he is dead or alive.

But Zhao Kuo, as an elder brother, can't really care. To put it mildly, if you die outside, you have to

Go collect his body.

"Leave this matter to the minister, and the minister will go to the Zhuo family and the Guo family later." Yu Xin said.

"Great King, there is a messenger from the Kingdom of Qi." At that moment, a guard walked in from outside.

"Envoy of the Qi Kingdom? Come in, please." Zhao Kuo said.

Soon, a messenger walked in from outside the hall, and after walking to the center of the main hall, he bowed down and saluted: "Foreign minister Sun Chen pays a visit to King Zhao."

"Arise, messenger, and give him a seat." Zhao Kuo looked at Qi Envoy and didn't know what he was doing.

"King Zhao, this is a letter from the king to the king of Zhao, and the king asked the foreign ministers to tell the king that in five days, he will come to Handan from Linzi." Qi Envoy said solemnly.

Only then did Zhao Kuo understand that after Wang Sunjia went back, he told King Qi about inviting King Qi to come to Zhao to play, and King Qi agreed, and the envoy of Qi came to fight the front station.

After all, the king of a country cannot come alone in a carriage.

King Qi's letter is also about this matter, as well as some admiration for Zhao Kuo, commonly known as sycophancy.

"The widow especially welcomes the King of Qi, Taichang, prepare relevant matters to welcome the King of Qi." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.