He really didn't say it casually, the total registered population of Zhao State was more than 10 million, and many of them were underage children. Even if you give all the Zhao people a pound of dumplings per person, it will probably require about two or three thousand tons of pork, plus one or two thousand tons of celery, and Zhao Guo can fully afford it.

Zhao is located in the north, and it is below zero in winter, and the wrapped dumplings are frozen outside overnight, and they will definitely not be broken on the road.

It just so happens that everyone basically has nothing to do in winter, which can also make everyone earn some extra money and promote the economic development of Zhao State.

"The widow will order tomorrow that all the people in the country will be given two catties of dumplings, one catty of pork and celery, and one catty of eggs and leeks to all the people in the country during the Chinese New Year this year." Zhao Kuo added another catty.

Although stone grinding has long been popularized, and noodles are not rare for everyone, fine noodles with bran removed are still very rare for most people, let alone dumplings.

What he didn't know was that because of his order, the custom of eating dumplings for the New Year in northern China has since formed, and even the New Year's Eve party has asked everyone to make dumplings together.

"Can it really be done?" Mother Zhao looked at Zhao Kuo, she was not a woman in the deep palace who didn't know anything, and she knew the difficulty of this matter. In addition to the money and food spent, it is also about how to deliver the dumplings to everyone.

"Mother, don't worry, this matter is not difficult for me Zhao Guo." Zhao Kuo said with a smile, even in Guanzhong, which has not been occupied by Zhao for a long time, there are also the most complete households left by Qin State, not to mention other regions, and Zhao Guo has to pay only raw materials and travel expenses, as well as some wages.

Is this the thing?

For Zhao Kuo, what can be solved with money is not a thing.

Only if the people feel that they owe it to Zhao will they try to find a way to repay it, just like when the Qin army surrounded Handan, whether it was a high-ranking official or a peddler, they all rushed to donate.

In the past, Zhao collected agricultural taxes, and the government had to urge them for several days, with threats, before they could collect them. Now the little tax collector went to the field, and when he collected grain here, he sent it there, and he would definitely not pay less.

Both the clerk and the farmer were very happy.

Even some didn't have time to collect it, and they would take the initiative to send it to the grain station, which had happened to Zhao Guohe before.

However, we should not let the people owe too much, and once they owe too much, everyone will take it for granted.

Shengmien, fighting Mi Qiu, that's it.

……

"Good news, my lord!" The next day, as soon as Zhao Kuo came to the political hall, Lin Xiangru came over excitedly, and his two beards shook up and down, so that Zhao Kuo couldn't help but be happy.

"Did Xiangguo hug his grandson or did he hug his grandson again?" Zhao Kuo said with a smile.

"Neither, Wei Qi's letter, the bridge has been built." Lin Xiangru said.

"The bridge?" Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that when he was touring the country two years ago, he asked Wei Qi to prepare to build a bridge over the Yellow River, and there was no news since then, and even Wei Qi had not appeared in front of him for more than a year, so that he almost forgot about it, "Is it really built?"

"It's built, so that you can drive six carriages in parallel." Lin Xiangru nodded heavily. This is an epic progress for the bridge construction of Zhao and even the Central Plains.

"Okay, let Wei Qi go back to Handan. In addition, all those who participated in the construction of the bridge were given an additional three months' worth of money as a token of appreciation, and a monument was erected on both sides of the bridge to engrave the names of all the personnel on it for future generations to remember." Zhao Kuo said.

"King, do you want to build a bridge in the Central Plains?" Lin Xiangru said excitedly.

"Of course, but we will wait until after the beginning of spring next year, so that everyone can have a good rest during the New Year." Zhao Kuo said.

The population and wealth of the Hetao are far less than those of the Central Plains, and Zhao Guo chose to build a bridge in the Hetao, more because the technology is not up to par, so try it first in a place with a lower difficulty.

Now that the technology has reached the standard, it is natural to build a bridge in the Central Plains.

"The minister thinks that he can make a voice first and attract craftsmen from all over the world to come to my Zhao country, there are so many people from all over the world, and it must be more than my Zhao country to build on the Yellow River

The bridge is interested." Lin Xiangru said with a smile.

"If it's normal for this to come out of the king's mouth, how does it feel strange to say it from your mouth?" Yu Xin glanced at Lin Xiangru and said pretending to be puzzled.

"Maybe this is the one who is close to Zhu is red and the one who is close to ink is black, and after following the king for a long time, he will naturally learn badly." Lin Xiangru joked with a smile.

"Xiangguo's idea, don't come to wronged the widow." Zhao Kuo hurriedly said, walked to the seat and sat down, "Have the accounts of Qin Di and Yan Di been sorted out?"

"It's all sent over, but there is still some mess in Yandi, and Qindi's account is just sent over, and I haven't had time to verify it yet." Wei Wuji said.

"Are there any difficulties?" Zhao Kuo asked.

"It's mainly because some nobles are not easy to deal with." Lin Xiangru said, don't look at these people as the nobles of the Qin State and the Yan State, in fact, they are also inextricably linked with the nobles of the Zhao State, and they can find the high-level officials of the Zhao State by casually asking for someone.

The rivers and lakes are not fighting and killing, they are sophisticated, relatives and friends ask for themselves, do the high-level officials of Zhao State completely ignore it? Do they dare to promise that one day they will not ask for someone else?

"Is there anyone who clearly stands up against Zhao Guo?" Zhao Kuo asked.

"Nope." Lin Xiangru shook his head, the nobles knew that they were not Zhao Guo's opponents, and they would clearly stand up and confront Zhao Guo if they had a problem with their brains.

"First count the acres of land, recover all the acres that are not registered, and distribute the surplus acres to the landless displaced people and vassals. If there is anyone who dares to resist, he will directly send an army to suppress it, and move the entire family to Zhangye County, and the nobles of Yandi to Liaodong. After I moved away, I will give the land to the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom." Zhao Kuo said.

Hehe, I actually asked for the nobles of my Zhao Kingdom, am I really a good person when I am a nobleman of Zhao Kingdom?

The nobles of this era, which is not a man-eating demon, at most some people spit out bones, and some people don't spit out bones.

The nobles of the Zhao State helped the nobles of Qin and Yan to speak, just to get benefits from them. Now Zhao Kuo promised that as long as the nobles of the two places rebelled against Zhao, Zhao would send troops to suppress it, and the vacated land would be distributed to the nobles of Zhao.

Zhao Kuo didn't believe that those nobles would still help the nobles of Qin and Yan to speak, I am afraid that they were staring at the nobles of the two places like hungry wolves, and they were more active than the intelligence agencies of Zhao State.

What kind of people are sophisticated, how can there be benefits.

"No." Lin Xiangru silently mourned for the nobles of the two places in his heart, if they were obedient, at least it would not be a problem to keep the current family property, and Zhao Guo would not target them.

But if they felt that Zhao Guo would not dare to do anything to them, then what awaited them would be a catastrophe.

Even the top nobles, once they move out of their ancestral land, their power will plummet, most of them will gradually decline, and only a few will be able to rise again.

"There is also the official road of the Hexi Corridor that will also be repaired, from Longxi to the west, until ......" Zhao Kuo stopped here when he said, there was no Yumen Pass and no Yangguan in these years.

In fact, the control range of Zhangye County is not so far, the western part of the Hexi Corridor is more of a fetter area, and the Zhao State and the Qin State rely on their strong strength to subdue the nearby Rong Di, and they can really completely control only the east.

Lin Xiangru and the others looked at Zhao Kuo.

"Keep cultivating to the west, wherever you cultivate, where is the territory of my Zhao Kingdom." After a while, Zhao Kuo straightened his robe and said in a righteous and awe-inspiring voice.

Lin Xiangru and the others nodded, and no one felt that there was something wrong with Zhao Kuo's words.

Since ancient times, strength has been ritual.

Hundreds of years ago, the Jin State and the Chu State retreated, and even the enemy's chariot broke down, and they also helped to repair it, which fully demonstrated the etiquette between the nobles, and it is still talked about by people two thousand years later.

But the Jin State pretended to cut down the country, and the Chu State perished and followed the country, shouting; When I was a barbarian, I didn't think about what etiquette was and what was the Fa.

Etiquette is only useful when the strength of the two sides is at the same level, and once the strength of the two sides is not at the same level, this thing is not even as good as toilet paper.

With the strength of the Zhao State, no matter which small country is destroyed and which tribe is leveled, and then shouts: "Since ancient times

Come, this is the inherent territory of my Zhao country." Nor can small countries jump out of the ground to oppose it.

"I'm going to have a lot of things going on in Zhao Guo." Yu Xin said. The development of the Hetao, the governance of the Yan State, the development of the Liao River, the paving of the roads in the Hexi Corridor, the paving of the roads in the Yan Kingdom, and the governance of Guanzhong...... Either of them was a ten-year plan in the past, but Zhao had to do it at the same time, and even building a bridge over the Yellow River seemed a little insignificant in comparison.

"Since we can do it at the same time, there is no need to put it in the future. By the way, there is one more thing......" Zhao Kuo told everyone about sending dumplings to the people of the country during the New Year, "The widow calculated it, and it didn't cost much. It can be divided into four places: Handan, Jixian, Jinyang, and Jiuyuan, to save time on the road."

"Having a king is a blessing for the people of my Zhao country." Yu Xin sighed.

"I want to know how the kings of the other five kingdoms will feel when they find out about this." Lin Xiangru said with a smile, the news in this era is closed, and Chu and South Korea may not be significantly affected, but the Qin, Wei, and Qi countries bordering Zhao will inevitably have people on the border fleeing into Zhao because of this.

Just like when the Qi country was rich, the Zhao people and the Yan people fled to the Qi country.

In fact, Zhao has been fleeing from other countries in recent years, and after Zhao received it, he immediately sent people to send them away, and then distributed the fields and registered them.

This point was felt most deeply by Wei and Qi, where the two countries and Zhao meet, the population is almost exhausted.

But the two countries still have no way, let's fight, we can't fight.

Stop it, you can't stop it.

You can't build a Great Wall on the border between the two countries, and no one will be allowed to pass through it!

The two countries didn't even have a way to condemn Zhao in words, in all fairness, Zhao's help to the two countries, especially to Wei, was very great, including the bursting of the embankment in Yingze, and Zhao immediately sent people to the rescue, and did not ask Han and Wei for anything in return afterwards.

Back then, Duke Qi Huan rescued Yan Guo and crusaded against Shanrong, but that was it.

But...... Later, Zhao secretly stole ...... from Korea and Wei invited a few water conservancy masters, and the water conservancy masters also happened to agree with Zhao Guoqing, and decided to abandon the darkness and turn to the light.

"When Zheng Guo plans the Liaohe Plain, I have to let him go to Guanzhong to have a look and repair the Zheng Guo Canal." Zhao Kuo thought in his heart that with Zheng Guoqu's Guanzhong, it was the real country of abundance.

However, it is still important for the Liaohe Plain to be on the right track, and Zheng Guo can be transferred to Guanzhong only after the Liaohe Plain is on the right track.

While Zhao Kuo and others were planning the next development of Zhao Guo, Li Mu also officially started to do it.

"General, this is the list of all the nobles who secretly stirred up unrest." Qin Yuan handed a note to Li Mu.

"That's it?" Li Mu frowned.

"General, there are quite a few, the Yan country is remote, and there are not a few nobles." Qin Yuan smiled bitterly and said, this is already a third of the nobles of Yan Kingdom, and Li Mu is still too little.

"Then let's do it, whether it is a direct family or a side line, as long as you participate, all the families will be raided, and the whole family will move to Liaodong, and if the circumstances are serious, the three clans will be punished." Li Mu said murderously, "After this time, I was going to let Yan Land not have the slightest turmoil and completely turn it into the territory of my Zhao Kingdom."

"My subordinates will go." Qin Yuan clenched his fists and said, ready to leave.

"Wait." Li Mu stopped Qin Yuan.

Qin Yuan looked at Li Mu suspiciously.

"Take a Great Wall army." Li Mu looked into the distance, and there seemed to be thunder flashing in his eyes.

"The army?" Qin Yuan looked at Li Mu with a shocked expression.

"It's a war." Li Mu said in a deep voice.

"No." Qin Yuan's heart tightened, and he clenched his fists and said.

"Liaodong and Liaoxi will be handed over to Ben to deal with personally, and the rest of the regions will be handed over to you." Li Mu said.

"Subordinates obey." A chill appeared behind Qin Yuan, and he silently mourned for the nobles of Liaodong and Liaoxi.

Liaodong and Liaoxi are the farthest away from Jixian County, so they are the most fierce, they seem to think that Zhao Guo does not dare to attack them, or they think that the emperor is far away, and Zhao Guo will not value remote places, and in the end, it is

It is up to them to control it, just like the original Yan Kingdom.

But they forgot that Li Mu was a general who was killed on the battlefield, not a purely civilian official, and it was impossible to compromise with them, and they were not qualified to negotiate terms with Li Mu.

And now, they have completely angered Li Mu.

"I am a dignified Zhao State official, they even dared to send someone to assassinate them, they simply didn't take me Li Mu in their eyes." Li Mu put his right hand on the saber, and his voice was extremely cold.

Just two days ago, news came from Liaodong that the county commander appointed by Zhao Guo had died in the county office, and he was killed, and the murderer had not been caught so far.

This matter is simply a slap in the face of Li Mu, even the Qin army and the Huns have never made him so embarrassed, if he endures it, then he is not Li Mu.

"Sima Shang." Li Mu said in a deep voice and strode outside.

"The end will be." Sima Shang clenched his fists and said.

"Order 5,000 soldiers and horses, and follow me to Liaodong." Li Mu turned over and got on his horse.