Zi Chu said: "Wei Wuji said that after he returns to Wei, he will continue to be suspicious, and if he is suspicious, it will definitely make people of insight in Wei have opinions about the king of Wei and split the Wei court." So he went to fight the Hu people in the north of Zhao State. Resisting the southward movement of the Hu people was also to protect the Wei State. Then said that this was said by Zhu Xiang. ”

Lin Zhen laughed: "Zhu Xiang said that Wei Wuji's heart is on the road. However, I didn't expect Wei Wuji, a rich and noble son, to really make up his mind to go to the north. ”

Cai Ze said: "King Zhao doesn't seem to have agreed. ”

Zichu said: "Of course. After all, Wei Wuji is the prince of Wei, let Wei Wuji take charge of the army, King Zhao's heart, I'm afraid he is still a little scared. ”

Cai Ze said: "Since it is Zhu Xiang's wish, should we help Wei Wuji?" ”

Zi Chu smiled: "I told you this, that's exactly what I mean!" If Wei Wuji goes to Yanmen County, I am afraid that he will never return to Wei, and Wei will not be afraid from now on. ”

This time, he worked in the army, and General Lian Po felt that he was too old to fight for a few years, so he asked King Qin to give him a chance to make some military achievements and attack Korea.

So if Zichu didn't go to the labor army in person, it really wouldn't have any impact on his own prestige.

Lian Po, of course, was naturally on his side.

But because of this, Zichu decided to go.

Lian Po is Zhu Xiang's elder, and he used to take care of him a lot in Zhao State. Lian Po said that he might be the last time he went on the expedition, how could Zichu not go to the labor army in person?

Lian Po attacked Korea and frightened Wei very much.

King Wei was a monarch, and he actually came to meet Zi Chu, the prince of Qin.

You must know that the princes of the Warring States period are mostly consumables and are often sent abroad as protons. Even if it wasn't a proton, the crown prince of the Warring States had almost no power, and the monarch could change it if he wanted to.

The dignified monarch actually came to meet the prince of Qin in person, and treated the prince Chu with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister, even if the king of Wei had the intention of provoking the relationship between the king of Qin and the prince, his move was too demeaning to himself.

This move is comparable to King Han personally crying for King Qin Zhaoxiang to wear linen and filial piety.

When Zichu received the King of Wei, he laughed in his heart.

The King of Wei would rather grovel to a Qin prince than treat a younger brother who has never shown ambition for the throne of Wei.

Foolish as King Zhao has woken up and entrusted state affairs to Pingyuan Jun. King Wei is not as good as King Zhao.

Compared with the kings of the six countries, today's King Zhao can be regarded as a Ming monarch.

King Wei visited Prince Qin, not only failed to provoke the relationship between Qin Wangzhu and Zichu, but also made Qin Wangzhu, who had some insomnia because he was too busy, happily eat an extra bowl of rice and slept all night without a good night's sleep.

Qin Wangzhu was not afraid of Zi Chu, but he was just envious of Zi Chu, how could he not have such a good thing when he was the prince of Qin.

Even when his monarch father was in power, if the monarch of another country treated him with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister, the monarch would happily eat an extra bowl of rice and would not be afraid.

King Wei thought too much.

Chapter 133: Old Altar Pickled Greens

Now the average temperature is generally high, and Wu County can plant another season of soybeans after harvesting late rice.

Zhu Xiang held the bean seed and sighed, soybeans were really life-saving food for the people in ancient times.

When the weather gets cooler, it will be easier to develop the Hangjiahu Plain, but it will not be much easier. Because there are too few people who can use it.

Zhu Xiang went to the Hangjiahu Plain to inspect for a few days, sitting on the boulder by the lake and sighing constantly.

Even if Li Mu captured people from the south to clear the wasteland, the number now is only one or two thousand.

Doesn't that sound surprising? It was as if Li Mu didn't have much to fight for.

Of course not.

According to the original record of Minyue in the history books, there were only a few thousand people when Minyue became king.

By the time of Qin Shi Huang's southern expedition, all the Baiyue added up, and only sixty or seventy thousand people had gathered. However, relying on the attributes of the terrain, they can suppress the Qin army, which is not accustomed to the environment and is not familiar with the water and soil, and fight with battle losses of nearly one to five.

By the time of the Western Han Dynasty, the Central Plains was recuperating and recuperating, and Baiyue had also developed to a certain extent, and the permanent population in the coastal cities had only reached tens of thousands.

At this time, the south of the Yangtze River is a wild place, sparsely populated, no joke.

Zhu Xiang thought about whether to ask for someone from the King of Qin. After calculating who Qin Guo could produce, he had no choice but to dispel this idea.

The population of this era was already small, and the seven countries fought hundreds of thousands of wars at every turn.

Therefore, in the Battle of Changping, Qin Guo killed the Zhao army, and Zhao Guo died a generation.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he wanted to make the oriental scholars return to his heart, and wanted to make the people's hearts return to Qin, so he ordered the common people to verify how many fields were reported and reported the results led to soaring prices, and finally came up with the old method of Qin's stable rule - sending troops and labor to exhaust the people.

According to historical statistics, Qin Shi Huang ruled only more than 20 million commoners at that time. Therefore, the number of people he recruited at that time was almost one-fifth of the total population, and the Qin State would collapse rapidly.

Zhu Xiang sighed again. In later generations, there were still people who seriously hoped that Qin Shi Huang would live forever and lead the Qin State to unify the world. With a population of more than 20 million, according to the usage of Qin Shi Huang, there is really no need to learn foreign languages, because there are no more people, and there are no descendants.

It may also be that Qin Shi Huang himself was first confiscated by the common people who had no way to live, and it was useless to eat the elixir.

The population of more than 20 million, although it does not include the hidden population, also means that this is a population that the Qin Dynasty can control.

After the unification of the world, there are only so many people, even if many people died in the unification war, the total population of the Qin State will not be more than this. Without any modern machinery, it is really difficult for Zhu Xiang to develop the Hangjiahu Plain.

The POWs dug ditches to drain the water and then filled it with mud.

Zhu Xiang looked at the field that could barely see the growth in a daze.

After a while, he slapped his face hard and straightened his mind again.

Didn't you already know the limits of this era? What's the hurry? The south has developed into a land of fish and rice, and the ancestors have continued to work hard for nearly a thousand years. Could it be that with a traverser, it can be done in a year or two?

Let's get off to a good start, and strive to make the places with better geographical locations in the south a livable place within a hundred years.

Without the pressure of King Qin Zhaoxiang, Zhu Xiang has been doing things almost smoothly recently, and his mentality is a lot more impetuous, and he always feels that he can do a lot of things.

The progress of reclamation in the Hangjiahu Plain made Zhu Xiang sober up from his fluttering, and he sank down again, slowed down his development progress in the south, and took a break by the way.

He always said that he would combine work and rest with Ying Xiaozheng, but he turned out to be the most tired person.

When Zhu Xiang was a little free, Xue Ji began to get busy.

The loom is ready. The last time Zhu Xiang went south, he had already planted some cotton in Wu County, and this year's cotton harvest had already been harvested. After the autumn harvest, the farming season begins, and Xue Ji just recruits people to the textile workshop.

With the experience in Xianyang, it is still very difficult for Xue Ji to move forward with her work.

The old Qin people in Xianyang began to be pressed with high intensity from the time of the Shang Dynasty change, and they did not resist high-intensity work. As long as there is money and food, the old Qin people can be involved to make the people of the Six Kingdoms doubt their lives.

The common people of Kure are completely different.

The land of Chuyue is rich in products, and it is difficult for the common people to starve to death, so they are relatively lazy. When Wu Qi changed the law, he forced the common people to roll up, and finally pulled the Chu people into action. But after Wu Qi's death, the king of Chu abolished the old law, and the people of Chu gradually became lazy again.

The women in the area couldn't understand why they were working so hard after working hard for a year.

Cloth or something, weave it at home, enough for your own use and pay taxes, why do you have to gather together to weave together, and even learn new things.

Xue Ji has never seen this situation where she doesn't make extra money, and she doesn't know what to do for a while.

Fortunately, Lü Buwei came back.

As a businessman, he knows best how to oppress people to work. The weaving workshop is finally up and running.

"What did Lü Buwei do?" Zhu Xiang asked curiously.

Yukihime shook her head. Lü Buwei issued too many decrees for her to understand.

Zhu Xiang found Lü Buwei and asked, hoping that Lü Buwei could teach Xue Ji.

Lu Buwei was surprised, he didn't expect Zhu Xiang to be willing to learn about business for Xue Ji.

Although there are women in the private sector who are engaged in business, most of them are widowed people seeking livelihood. Among aristocratic women, they are still proud of their ten fingers not touching the spring water.

Moreover, when it comes to doing business, the nobles mostly hand it over to their domestic servants and customers, and they themselves do business, which obviously feels a little humiliating.

"Xue Ji feels frustrated in this matter, so she naturally has to learn how to do this well, so that she can feel comfortable." Zhu Xiang said, "Whether she wants to do business in the future is not necessarily related to her learning more knowledge." ”

Although Lu Buwei still didn't understand, Zhu Xiang said so, and it was not a particularly difficult thing, so he taught Xue Ji how to do business and how to manage the workshop.

What Lü Buwei did was very simple, but it was just a combination of grace and power.

He first spread rumors in the village, saying that in the future, the Qin State would only collect cotton cloth for taxes, and not sackcloth and kudzu cloth; This loom was very efficient, so the Qin people thought that everyone could weave so much cloth that it might raise the tax amount; In the future, the Qin army will recruit women to join the army to assist in logistics, that is, to weave clothes for the Qin army, if the recruited women do not know how to use the new weaving machine, they may be killed......

In short, Lü Buwei first caused panic by taking advantage of the common people's fear of the Qin State and the Qin army.

Then, Lü Buwei asked people to refute the rumors, saying that there was no such thing.

"Of course, the Qin State will not only collect cotton cloth, nor will it raise the tax amount. It's just that cotton cloth is the same as linen and arrowroot, and those who have learned how to use a new loom can weave a month's tax in one day, which is equivalent to paying a lower tax than others. ”

"Furthermore, the textile workshop is in charge of food and shelter, and the cloth is returned. If you save your food, you won't starve to death next year even if there is a disaster. ”

The women of Wu County were first frightened, and then they heard the benefits, and after pondering carefully, they did not know whether what the officials of the Qin State said was true or false, and the worst case was that what scared them was true, then they had to enter the textile workshop; If the thing that scared them was false, they saved food and got cloth, and they did not lose anything.

So they immediately signed up, and the recruitment office of the textile workshop went from being crowded to overcrowded.

Zhu Xiang listened to Lü Buwei's teaching to Xue Ji, and saw that Lü Buwei was indeed not perfunctory, so he left with confidence.

Ying Xiaozheng is not at ease.

Although he knew that his aunt was completely different from his own mother, and he trusted his aunt very much, he didn't trust Lu Buwei.

So he sent Li Si out to study together, and asked Li Si to write Lu Buwei's daily words and deeds to him.

Li Si understood Ying Xiaozheng's dislike for Lu Buwei, and was about to do something, when he was beaten by Zhu Xiang.

"You are a virtuous minister, not a minister." Zhu Xiang said gently, "Your current starting point can make you soar without staining your body, I believe you are not the one who sticks mud on yourself." ”

Li Si was frightened by Zhu Xiang into a cold sweat.

He didn't understand why he had just had such an idea, and he was discovered by Zhu Xianggong. Can Zhu Xianggong read people's hearts?

After Li Si retreated, Ying Xiaozheng walked out slowly from behind the screen and emphasized: "I didn't let him frame Lu Buwei!" I just asked him to help my aunt! ”

"As a monarch, as long as you express your dissatisfaction with a person slightly, even if you don't plan to do anything, someone else will do it for you." Zhu Xiang said, "Even if you know that after framing someone you don't like, it will only bring you trouble." But those who want to please you don't have to be so smart. ”

Ying Xiaozheng asked, "So the monarch shouldn't show his preferences directly?" ”

Zhu Xiang shook his head: "How can this be done?" Even if you hide it, people who want to please you will be able to find out what you like when they keep watching you. ”

Ying Xiaozheng thought about it again, and said: "As a monarch, you should learn to judge how to treat your subordinates, if someone uses my preference as an excuse to hurt someone I am not allowed to hurt, I should abandon my relatives and distance, punish those I like, and reward those I dislike." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "It's difficult. ”

Ying Xiaozheng hugged his arms and said: "This is what Xun Weng and his uncle often say, those who are monarchs should have a public heart, not be selfish." ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "Zheng'er already knows a lot. ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "That's nature. But I didn't expect that Li Si actually wanted to frame Lu Buwei? Even if he doesn't please me, don't I value him enough? ”