Chapter 129: Annexation of Small Nations
Wang Pu flickered, and let Yu Lili and others agree that Huai's attack on the state was both love and non-attack. As for Mozi, I'm looking through a lot of books in the storage room.
Huaiguo collected the opinions of the hundred schools of thought here, and there were too many propositions of various schools, which were enough for him to study for a long time. Wang Pu knew very well that his remarks would definitely not fool Mozi, but if he saw the result, Mozi would not object to anything.
Wang Pu is well aware that Mozi is both an idealist, but also a realist. This is not contradictory, idealism is his pursuit, but in the case of unattainable ideals, it is his reality to make the people live a better life.
Compared with the state, Huai is better for the people, at least so that the people have food, clothes to wear, and some freedom.
The speed of Huai's annexation of the state to the country was very fast, and it took almost only two months for the state to settle down, and it can be said that it is the desire of the people. If the system can give a value to the people from the state, it will definitely exceed 90 points.
After the annexation of the state to the country, the Huai country did not stop, and there were small countries such as Lu country, Tate, and Xiang country around the state of Zhoulai.
Most of these countries are small countries with a radius of about 100 miles, small and weak, and basically still in a semi-slave society.
The slavery system is backward, Huai State in the founding of Zijue, has advocated the abolition of slaves, now it is natural to drive out those nobles who oppress the people, love these people, and protect these people from oppression.
As a Huai Gong who wants to love the people of Zhuxia, how can he endure the oppression of his people? The army of Huai began to attack continuously.
In September, Huai attacked Lu, and in October, Huai attacked Tweed, all of which were ke.
The expansion of the Huai State has drawn a large number of scholars from the Xue Palace, and the Legalist scholars have been recruited by the Wei State a lot, but now they are not enough. Fortunately, there were no Legalist scholars, and Wang Pu also recruited some Confucian disciples.
Although Wang Pu did not agree with the Confucian view and did not use the Confucian royal way to govern the country, this did not prevent him from appointing Confucian scholars.
Confucian scholars are not useless, Confucian scholars in this era still know a lot of governance methods, after all, they study in the school palace all year round, even if they are stupid, they will learn something.
These Confucian disciples may have all kinds of problems if you let them govern the country, but they are still capable of governing the localities, pacifying the people, measuring the land, and allocating farmland, all of which are in line with the concept of Confucianism.
For a while, a large number of Confucian disciples began to sing praises for Wang Pu. It's a pity that these people are destined to be just tool people, and if they want to get a high position, it is basically impossible to get in and out of the phase.
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After being fooled by Wang Pu, the Mo family had reluctantly accepted Huai's attack on other surrounding small countries.
It's just that every time, the Mo family will send someone to check. Let's see if Wang Pu has fulfilled his promise to divide the land, grain, clothes, and salt among these people, and check the taxes collected from the people.
For this point, Wang Pu is strongly supportive, with these Mo family children patrolling, Huai State allocated land to the people, and those who handle it do not dare to do it at all under the supervision of the Mo family's children.
If there is corruption or favoritism, it will soon be discovered by the children of the Mo family. With these people here, Wang Pu was not at all worried that Huaiguo's policies would be undermined by grassroots officials.
The Huai State quickly annexed several small countries, and then moved the offices, nobles and nobles of these small countries to other places to open up wasteland.
Most of these offices, secretaries and nobles have a lot of money, and at the same time there are a lot of people, with force, although it is not the hands of Huaiguo, but it is still good to deal with some barbarians, so Wang Pu moved these office nobles to the border, with the help of the power of these office nobles to open up the wasteland little by little.
They have enjoyed the life of Zhong Ming Ding for so long, and it is still appropriate for them to develop some strength for Zhuxia. Of course, as long as he contributes, Wang Pu will not hesitate to reward.
After the news of the end of the Central Plains War came, Huai also temporarily stopped annexing small countries. It's not that Huai is worried about other countries interfering, but because the scholars available in the school palace have been almost transferred.
Seeing this situation, even if Siwang Pu wanted to continue to annex those small countries, they were annexed and restructured
There are not enough people. It's just that these small countries have basically been surrounded by Huai, and after Huai digests the small countries that have been annexed, they can just annex these countries.
As for the kings of these countries looking for other princes to help, Zhuxia has just ended the war, and no one will pay attention to them at all.
What's more, your entire country is surrounded by Huai and you want to send an envoy for help? Am I okay with that?
The Huai State annexed several small states and increased their population by hundreds of thousands, and for these newly acquired lands, Wang Pu also promoted iron ploughs and oxen ploughing. After dividing the fields, these people needed at least tens of thousands of iron plows.
It's just that although there are more iron ore than copper ore, and after the smelting technology is mature, the output has increased rapidly, but the sudden increase in demand has not been able to produce it for a while.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of talented people who are craftsmen and supervisors, and since the iron ore cannot meet the demand for a while, then the iron-clad plough will be produced first.
It is to wrap a layer of iron sheet on the surface of the wooden plow, and the durability of the iron-clad plough is naturally not as good as the iron plow, but it is also easy to use for farming, and even because it is lighter than the iron plow, it is more convenient to use.
The iron sheet of the iron-clad plough was invented by several skilled craftsmen of the Mo family. The advent of iron-clad ploughs has reduced the iron material used in iron ploughs by half, which has greatly saved iron materials.
Of course, this also caused another benefit, although the price of iron is lower than copper, but the price of iron plough is still not cheap, those people are not willing to buy, but the price of iron-clad plough is much cheaper.
The people of these newly annexed lands can also use the Seedlings Loan to make purchases. And in the Huai Kingdom, a large number of people who could not afford to buy iron plows also came to buy them.
As a result, the number of iron-clad ploughs, which had been used to save iron, increased rapidly, and finally the problem of insufficient iron supply once again appeared.
At the same time, Huaiguo also taught these people who had just obtained land according to local conditions. Because the land spans the north and south, Huaiguo grows a variety of crops, and the planting skills have been improved for hundreds of years. has far surpassed these small countries.
Wang Pu ordered a group of farmers who were proficient in farming from Huaiguo to tell these people about Huaiguo's advanced agricultural technology and help them increase their yields.
Huaiguo has always attached great importance to agricultural development, and agricultural technology is also the most advanced among the countries of Bangzhou. With the vigorous support of the Huai State, these people, who had just acquired land, were also developing rapidly in agriculture.
The popularization of iron ploughs, ox ploughing, and agricultural technology has made the people of these small countries quickly return to their hearts, and the strength of Huai is also steadily improving.