Zhao Zheng, who was born in the war, is now two years old (the ancients were born at one year old, and one year is added to it.) According to the current algorithm, Zhao Zheng is actually only one year old). After Zichu left, Zhao Ji also fell into a state of severe anxiety and depression. Due to the lack of food, the nurses have all been dismissed, and the entourage takes turns to take care of Zhao Zheng. Without a nursing mother, Zhao Ji can't feed, Zhao Zheng can only live by drinking corn porridge, indigestion, frequent diarrhea, and emaciation.

Once Handan is relieved, the first thing that the entourage thinks of is to hurry up and find a nurse for Zhao Zheng, otherwise, this child is likely to not live long. This task naturally fell on Lü Buwei. Although Lü Buwei did not dare to refuse, he was well aware of the difficulty of this task. From last year to this year, for a whole year, Handan was plunged into war inside and outside, men were soldiers, and women were not idle, and they were shoulder-to-shoulder at home and outside. Over the course of a year, there aren't many families that have recently had children. If a woman doesn't have a baby, she won't have milk, there's no way around it! Even those who have given birth to children, due to war, malnutrition, and fear, there is not enough milk, and often not enough for the children to drink. Of course, there are also pampered ones, but will people come to be nurses, they still have to invite nurses!

Also, even if there is a suitable nurse, who will they choose first? Is it the noble relatives of Zhao Guo in the Gaomen Deep Courtyard, or the prince of Qin Guo who is not loved by his grandmother and uncle? What's more, everyone knows that the current miserable situation in Handan was brought about by the Qin people, and the hatred is too late, who will have the heart to be a nurse? If you can't keep it, you secretly strangled this child to death! How difficult it is to find a nurse who is poor, healthy, full of love, and loyal to Zhao Zheng!

Another problem is Zhao Ji. Since Zichu left, Zhao Ji washed her face with tears all day long, and didn't even eat or drink. Although the prime minister and the ten entourages were all civil and military talents, they were in military affairs. Coaxing a woman? Some of them have not yet touched women; Those who have wives and say to their women that they will leave without considering their feelings, who can coax this "housewife"? This burden naturally fell on Lu Buwei!

Lü Buwei went out during the day to run his business, and by the way, he completed the investigation of news, laid out the network, developed dark lines, and looked for nursing mothers...... work; When he returns in the evening, he shall share with the people what he has discovered, and consult with them about the present situation and the action of tomorrow. While doing these things, I also have to comfort Zhao Ji. I can't sleep for more than a few hours a day.

With the withdrawal of Wang Di's army, many people also wanted to leave. But Lü Buwei disagreed. He persuaded: "When the son goes, leave the wife, the young son and I equal to Handan, and I will not abandon it." It will be to the point of the future! There is no order to leave today, it is the north! Don't make a mistake! In the past, the princes and sons went to Handan together, and they all had the idea of dying. Now the prince is unharmed, and the princes still exist, which is a great achievement. Why abandon it? Although the Qin army is gone, King Zhao is harmless to my heart, and he must have a plan. Its plan is undecided, and when I am working hard, I can't lose it. ”

On behalf of his entourage, the prime minister said: "We are all Qin people, and Jun was born in Wei. If the loyalty of the king is like this, we dare to follow! May it be on its command! ”

However, the situation in Handan is getting worse day by day. Food prices are soaring, the Zhao people are hostile, and Lü Buwei's business is also difficult to do day by day. Helpless, Lü Buwei had to evacuate all the businesses that could be relieved, and try to keep his store closed. The customs were different then than they are now: now, when business is bad, the boss can lay off employees to increase efficiency; But at that time, there was a personal attachment relationship between the employee and the boss, and the boss could even kill the clerk, but he couldn't fire him! Lü Buwei could only send Handan's retainers, guarantors, and shopkeepers to other places. Lui's industry is very large and expensive to operate. Handan is not going well in one place, and it is not going well everywhere, and it affects the whole body.

However, Lü Buwei, who had a business acumen, soon found a new business opportunity: Didn't Handan need food? Where is there no shortage of food now? Naturally, it's Qindi! If you can properly transfer food from Qindi, you can not only solve the urgent need, but also make a lot of money! Of course, the amount of grain transferred out must be controlled and must not affect the trend of grain prices. The natural result was that the grain prices in Qindi rose and the grain prices in Handan were stabilized. This is unacceptable.

After consulting with the people, Lü Buwei immediately sent people to Luoyang with the Lü caravan, where he could transfer grain from Guanzhong, Nanyang, and even Hedong; If the price is right, it is not impossible to buy grain from Wei and Korea.

Moreover, Lü Buwei also found business opportunities in Handan: in the battle between the two armies, the loss of arrows and weapons was a huge number, although most of these losses would be recycled, but the number left on the battlefield was also quite large. If it can be acquired, as long as there are not many goods, you can exchange for a lot of broken weapons, and this is exactly what the craftsmen of the Qin State need!

So a perfect commercial cycle emerged: small daily commodities were exchanged for broken weapons in the hands of the people around Handan, including spears, halberds, ge, arrowheads, and squeezers, and these damaged weapons were transported to Qin in exchange for grain, and then these grains were transported to Handan to be sold at a high price. In this way, the business of Lu's shop can also be maintained.

Transporting grain from Qin was almost impossible for a normal businessman. But Lü Buwei was not. He was the patron of the Qin prince and the "official merchant" of the Qin state, and he could buy any goods in the Qin state at a normal price and ship them to other vassal states. However, Lü Buwei still sent an envoy to report his plan to Zichu and Zhang Lu.

In the first month of the first month, Handan was relieved, and in February, Lü Buwei's first batch of grain was transported into Handan. Except for what the Prince's Mansion needs, the others are sold at a high price. When many Zhao Gongzi heard that Lü Buwei had obtained grain, they did not hesitate to ask Lü Buwei for a loan. Lü Buwei took the opportunity to win over a group of people.

Naturally, there are still a group of people who are very difficult to get along with Lu Buwei. They reported to the government that Lü Buwei was so arrogant that he could allow such a person to exist when he had won a great victory in the struggle against Qin.

But Pingyang Jun reprimanded: "He entered the grain in Handan, Liye, yes? ”

When grain from many places began to be transported into Handan, Lü Buwei had already made a lot of money and attracted a considerable number of people. Zichu and Zhang Lu also wrote and expressed their appreciation to Lü Buwei. Those interested Zhao bureaucrats began to contact Lü Buwei openly and covertly, wanting to obtain benefits from him that other businessmen could not obtain.

Zhao Zheng's nurse was also found, from the outskirts of Yecheng. After resuming contact with Zichu, Zhao Ji's mood has also stabilized a lot, but she still needs Lu Buwei to comfort her for a long time every day......

After the spring ploughing began, Lü Buwei found another business opportunity to rent out farming cattle to farmers! Lui's firm has transportation operations everywhere, and the chariot is the basic configuration. But what Handan needs now is food. Although food prices have risen, fundamentally speaking, grain is a low value-added commodity and must be in sufficient quantity to make money, so grain is usually transported by water, and carts are usually not useful. The oxen pulling the carts, including the cart pullers, are idle, just in time to go down to the fields and plow!

As the wounded of the party gradually returned to their hometowns, the business volume of substitution farming expanded dramatically! Wounded on the battlefield are usually rewarded as severance pay when they are discharged; The wounded are generally short of labor, and the agricultural time waits for no one, once it is mistaken, it is a grain of no harvest! On the one hand, there is rigid demand, and on the other hand, there is the ability to pay, and Lü Buwei's business is on fire again. But this time, Lü Buwei did not have a monopoly advantage, and after seeing that he could make money by renting cattle, many businessmen also started cattle rental services, including those who were poorer car dealers.

The Shangdang war turned into a "siege" of the Qin army, and the Zhao army began to cultivate the acres left by the Qin people in Shangdang. A large amount of money and grain promised by South Korea was shipped to Handan, and at the same time, Han Gongzi also poured into Handan in large numbers, and they were all officials who went to the party to take up their posts. At present, Zhao Jun is actually in Tuntian, so where is there room for South Korean officials to take office? But if South Korean officials don't take over, how can they complete the task of "recovering the party"?

King Zhao came up with a way to send all these Korean officials to the party and let them hold positions at all levels, but since there were no Korean people in the area, these positions could only be idle. King Zhao let them show their magical powers, and contribute to the construction of the party from their own networks. All the benefits are owned by the officials themselves, as remuneration! This fatwa has thrown South Korea's bureaucracy into chaos in the party: those who have a good position are not necessarily high-ranking officials, so it often happens that lower-level officials are more wealthy than higher-level officials! Of course, this measure has achieved obvious results in the building of the party, and all the materials needed for the party, including manpower, have been solved as quickly as possible. During this period, there were naturally a lot of business opportunities, which made a group of well-intentioned people rich. A businessman like Lü Buwei, who was able to eat all of the Qin and Zhao families, could not even be measured in terms of money.

Under Lü Buwei's management, Qin's spy network in Handan expanded rapidly, and news of Handan could quickly spread to Xianyang through the fast and safe channel of Shangdang Li Bing. And because Lü Buwei's business is also beneficial and harmless to Zhao State, the highest authorities of Zhao State have not taken action against Zichu's family for the time being, but they no longer provide salaries and grain.

Chen Si Fengzi Chu returned to Xianyang, and it can be said that it was the right time. A few years after Prince Qin's participation in politics, his body completely collapsed. Although the prince has many sons, they are not in the eyes of the King of Qin, and they are not allowed to discuss politics except for sending them to do some specific affairs. After Zi Chu returned, he was immediately summoned into the palace by the King of Qin, and after a few days and nights, the King of Qin ordered that Zi Chu and his father and the crown prince listen to the government. When discussing politics, the crown prince sits in front of him, and Zichu stands behind the prince, and with the prince's permission, he can speak and point out his opinions on the current topic.