Rao wanted to make a fortune in silence, but Zhao's thriving national strength was inevitably discovered by various countries.

It's just that the first to discover the abnormality was not the Qin State, which had been fighting against the Zhao State, but the Wei State, which was almost sandwiched by the Zhao State.

The reason is also very simple, the wind that fled to Zhao finally blew into the beam.

Xinlingjun, who got the news, did not dare to slack off, and after asking the King of Wei for advice, he quietly led people to several cities close to Dongjun to check the situation.

It doesn't matter if you don't check it, after checking it, Xin Lingjun's heart is half cold.

In less than two years, the population, especially the cultivated population, in several cities near Zhao Guodong County has dropped by nearly 30%.

What scared Xinlingjun even more was that these places, without exception, had already undergone serious land annexation, and a large amount of land had been hoarded into the hands of wealthy families.

Obviously, when these original farmers fled the Wei State, they disposed of all the land in their hands to the local wealthy families.

After mastering more and more land, the local wealthy families gradually discovered that they actually had the ability to manipulate the local food holidays.

Therefore, in order to get more land and completely strip the people from the land, the wealthy families immediately began to collude with the government, cutting off the way to pay taxes and donations with grain on the one hand, and on the other hand, they severely lowered the price of grain.

In this way, in order to repay the taxes and donations of the government, the people could only exchange more grain for brocade and knife coins approved by the government.

As a result, "grain cheapness hurting peasants" immediately occurred in these places.

The people who could not make ends meet could only pawn and sell the last acres of land, and then die and flee.

The simple thing is that Xinlingjun came relatively early, and the land annexation has not yet reached the final stage of cannibalism, and it has not yet caused the tragic situation of ten rooms and nine emptiness, if you wait until the end of this year's autumn harvest, I am afraid that the people of several cities will flee at least fifty percent.

Rao is like this, the loss of thirty percent of the people is enough to make Xinling Jun vigilant.

Without any hesitation, Xin Lingjun figured out the problem, and even though he forced the government to issue a decree on the resumption of the use of grain to offset taxes and donations, he did not hesitate to use his own financial resources to forcibly raise the price of grain in several cities.

Soon, food prices in several cities were calmed down, and public discontent was finally contained.

It's just that Xin Lingjun knows very well that this is just a symptom, and there is no cure at all.

And this one, not in the other, is in Zhao Guodong County next door. Almost most of the lost Sancheng people went to Zhao Guodong County, which was not far away.

From Xin Lingjun's point of view: If it weren't for Zhao Guodongjun's slogan of "If you come to Zhao Guoren", and even made a fortune in the fields, the people of Liang County would not have abandoned their homes and businesses to go to Dongjun.

If it weren't for the fact that their own people had given up too much land to control food prices, they would not have caused such a crisis.

Xinlingjun's logic is, of course, "Zhizi suspicious neighbor".

Obviously, from the perspective of later generations, the emergence of this crisis is obviously a manifestation of Wei's "harsh government more fierce than tiger", and Zhao's attraction to the displaced people is at most only a catalyst.

After all, if they can live, who wants to leave their home and business behind their already familiar homeland?

It can be said that even without the appearance of Zhao Guodongjun, under the harsh government of Wei, it is only a matter of time before the drastic land annexation is a matter of time, and the people of Wei will still live in water and fire sooner or later.

But it's a pity, whether it's because of historical limitations, or because the authorities are obsessed, or even because Xin Lingjun doesn't dare to touch the core of the harsh government, in short, Xin Lingjun attributed the root cause of this crisis to Zhao Guo's head.

Especially after Xinlingjun learned from many channels that the originally barren Dongjun had become even richer than his own Liang County in just two years.

Xin Lingjun was even more sure of what he had in mind.

Although Xin Lingjun didn't know how Zhao Guo did it, almost the moment he received the exact news, Xin Lingjun knew, no

I can go on like this.

A small Dongjun has been reborn in two years, what about the homeland of Yan Kingdom? And what about the land ceded by the Chu State?

Xin Lingjun almost didn't dare to continue to think about it, but fortunately, his body still made an honest choice, and the teams of scout spies still scattered towards the various cities of Zhao State.

In a short period of time, Xinlingjun got the answer.

The good news is that because of Zhao's liberal population policy of "those who come are Zhao people", Xinlingjun's spies were able to pass through Zhao's territory almost without hindrance, and they had first-hand information at the first time;

The bad news is that the answers they came up with were almost no different from what Shin Lingjun had imagined.

There are no accidents, and the land of Zhao where the secret agents have arrived exudes vitality everywhere. It was full of life that had never been seen in the land of Wei.

If it weren't for the fact that the scout agents sent out were all cronies of Xinling Jun, I'm afraid that there would really be people who stayed in Zhao and didn't want to return.

There is no way, whose people are not on seventy percent of the taxes and supplies, and it is already the grace of the official to leave three achievements in their own family;

But Zhao Guo is not, even if it is the old land (redistributed acres), the highest tax is only 50%, as for those newly opened fields, only 10% of the tax is needed in the first year, and only 30% in the second year.

With such a low tax, the people could even apply to the government for ploughing cattle and ploughing the newly cleared land with less than 10% of the tax paid every year.

On the faces of the people of Zhao State, what the scout spies saw was not yellow and thin, but a red light on their faces, and they were looking forward to the future days.

It can be said that these scout agents have tried their best to describe the beauty of Zhao State, but they still cannot fully express the prosperity of Zhao State.

How would they know that iron tools have been quietly popularized in farming;

They who have not integrated into the society do not know that the ditches are quietly dug through one winter after another, and in the hot summer, they moisten the barren soil of the north;

They don't really go to the ground, and they don't know how labor-saving the Quyuan plow will be compared to the two-person plow;

There are also waterwheels, agricultural fertilizers, and tuntian ......

But just what they saw and heard when they brought back to Xinlingjun was enough to make Xinlingjun make up his mind.

We have to fight against Zhao! Continue, there will be no country in this world that will be the opponent of Zhao State, and even, in a few years, even if all countries are tied together, they may not be Zhao Guo's opponents.

Immediately, there was no time to hesitate, and Xinling Jun returned to Daliang City with Zhao Guo's report.

After another long conversation that lasted all night, King Wei was not surprised to be persuaded by Xinling Jun again.

Since the First Battle of Changping, the number of times the King of Wei has been persuaded has obviously increased.

Only on the second day, the king of Wei issued a royal order and sent an array of envoys to secretly go to the three kingdoms of Qin, Chu, and Qi.

Yes, the King of Wei, or the King of Xinling, counted the State of Chu, the greatest ally of Zhao Guoming, among them.

Of course, Xinlingjun does not ask that Chu will really send troops against Zhao, as long as he is allowed to have scruples and not drag the Qin army back at a critical time, it can be regarded as Xinlingjun has achieved his goal.

As for Shinling-kun, he also went deep into the barracks on the second day, and he had to carefully begin to assemble his army.

Just when Xinlingjun finally discovered that the development of the Zhao State could not be contained, Wang Di, who had been fighting with the Zhao army on the front line, finally found one.

After two years of fighting, the Zhao army seemed to be tied, as if they only wanted to control the front on the original Hanchu border.

Such suspicions were especially obvious in one of the obvious mistakes of the Qin army.

Zhao Jun obviously had the opportunity to take advantage of the Qin army's support mistake to tear through the defense line in front of him, so as to develop in his own depth, but they didn't.

Not even an attempt to rush into the front line.

Is this still the Zhao army, which is known for taking the initiative to attack, mobilizing opponents, and eliminating opponents? Wang Ji is very good

Smell a rat.

Immediately, Wang Di, who had already become suspicious, began to further observe Zhao Jun on the opposite side.

Sure enough, soon, Wang Yi got the evidence that Zhao Jun was in the process of large-scale rotation.

A bad judgment also hit Wang Di's heart in an instant, will Zhao Jun have been rotating for two years, so how many troops does Zhao Jun have now?

300,000, 400,000 or more?

Three or four hundred thousand, veterans with rich combat experience, God knows what kind of strong army this is?

Thinking of this, even Wang Di's heart couldn't help but tighten.

Immediately, Wang Yi also ruled out the scout spies, wanting to find out how many troops Zhao Jun still had at this time.

It's a pity that the army is not civilian.

Especially under the leadership of Zhao Kuo, the control of various armies can be said to be strict to the extreme.

Soon, most of the scouts and agents returned to the barracks in disgrace.

Fortunately, the power in Wang Di's hands is not only the right to mobilize the army, since he was appointed as an auxiliary minister, Wang Di has already had the right to mobilize the Black Ice Platform.

And Hei Bingtai did not live up to Wang Di's trust.

Almost as the useless scouts returned to the camp, the Black Ice Platform also collected the information Wang Yu needed from various sources.

It's just that when Wang Di really opened the silk book with numbers written on it, Wang Di couldn't help but secretly take a breath of cool air.

There is no way, the speed of Zhao Guo's explosion is too fast.

Obviously, two years ago, the strength of the Qin army still had a certain advantage over the Zhao army. But with the passage of two years, the main army of the Zhao army is no less than the Qin army.

Obviously, if it continues, Zhao will overtake Qin in terms of military strength.

This is really not good news for Wang Yi and Qin State.

Wang Di, who has always been calm, was a little anxious for the first time, and he knew that he couldn't wait any longer......