Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

Zhao Dan turned his head and glanced at a certain lady not far behind, and said leisurely: "The queen should know that the widow is going to increase the number of Longtai courtiers again."

Han Wan nodded and said: "Xiao Tong has indeed heard about it, does the king mean that there are people in the palace involved in this matter?"

Zhao Dan smiled and said: "These days, there are more than one or two people who speak for Le Cheng and Ju Xin in front of the widowed people."

Han Wan was silent for a while, she knew her husband's character, although he looked very easy-going, Zhao Dan would never back down on certain issues of principle.

The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, this is precisely one of the principles.

"Xiaotong understands, and will deal with this matter as soon as possible."

When they said these words, the two of them had already entered the flower bushes. The autumn flowers are obviously much sparser than spring and summer. Countless flowers have already withered on the ground, as if to indicate that they are following Zhao at this moment. A few delicate and beautiful women not far from Dan and Han Wan will also wither.

Zhao Dan looked at the clumps of bare flower branches in front of him, couldn't help sighing, and said: "There is no need to kill people, after all, he is also the one who left the blood for the widow, so just reprimand it and kill a few servants." The country is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people with ideas. But sometimes there are more people with ideas, which is not a good thing, because they always want to do everything possible to influence the widow and let the widow follow along. Follow the path they have designed."

Han Wan's face changed slightly, and she said, "Who is so bold to try to control the king?"

"Who?" Zhao Dan shrugged his shoulders unprecedentedly, and said with a smile, "It's all the officials of the widow."

Han Wan was stunned, apparently not quite understanding what Zhao Dan's words meant.

Zhao Dan smiled and was about to say something when he suddenly stopped.

Han Wan also stopped following Zhao Dan's footsteps, followed Zhao Dan's gaze, and happened to see a flower bush in front of Zhao Dan.

A white flower is blooming in this flower bush.

Zhao Dan fixedly stared at this kind of flower, and suddenly stretched out his hand, and picked off one of the white flowers.

Squeeze gently with your hands, it is soft and soft, very comfortable.

Zhao Dan tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and said slowly: "When was this flower planted in the garden?"

Han Wan sensed Zhao Dan's anomaly, so she said a little unclearly: "My lord, these words were presented by General Li Mu when he was last year, and he said he got them when he conquered the Hu tribe in the grassland. Is there something wrong with this flower?"

The smile on Zhao Dan's face gradually became thicker, looking at the extremely pleasing growing bunch of white flowers in front of him, he suddenly couldn't help but burst out laughing.

This is cotton!

It's really hard to find a place to go through iron shoes, and it doesn't take much effort to get it!

This is an out-and-out winter tool.

With cotton, plus the wool textile industry that Zhao Guo is now vigorously promoting, once these two items are fully formed, the fear of winter will be greatly reduced.

This will have an immediate effect on both the reduction of the death rate of Zhao people and the improvement of Zhao's army's combat capabilities in winter.

"Mao Sui!"

"Chen is here!"

"Immediately order someone to protect the cotton, and then call some of the most outstanding farm officials and tell them that as long as they can find the fastest way to increase the production of this cotton, the widow will give them three ranks of nobles!"

Mao Sui immediately took the order and left, while Zhao Dan stood there, looking at the cotton in front of him with great joy.

I didn't expect that when I went out for an autumn tour, I would come across cotton, which was said to be introduced to the Central Plains hundreds of years later. Could it be that this is a gift from heaven to Zhao Guohe himself?

After dark, Zhao Dan returned to the main hall of Longtai after having dinner, apparently he did not plan to spend the night with the queen or any lady.

Mao Sui quietly appeared from the darkness, and whispered, "Go back to your majesty, just now the eunuch order has brought news that the queen has punished five wives including Mrs. Zheng and Mrs. Yu, and hanged herself." Hundreds of palace people died."

Zhao Dan rubbed his tired eyes, yawned a lot, and said, "The widow knows. The queen is the master of the harem, and what to do is her business."

Mao Sui responded, and was about to retreat, but was stopped by Zhao Dan.

"Mao Sui, this harem is reserved for myself by the widow. I really don't want this last bit of space to be coveted and peeped by others. So from now on, if there is any bastard who wants to stretch his hand in , then you have to cut off all the paws of their dogs, understand?"

Mao Sui's body shook slightly, then he lowered his head very respectfully, and said, "Here."

Looking at Mao Sui's leaving figure, Zhao Dan couldn't help but sighed softly.

"Power is such a thing, it really can make people crazy."

Chapter 796 Strange trick (second update)

The war finally ended, and the land of Huaxia regained its calm once again.

One month after the end of the war, the State of Zhao held a grand celebration ceremony in the North Camp outside Handan City. Zhao Dan led all the military officials of the State of Zhao to visit the victorious soldiers in person, and held a ceremony for all the meritorious soldiers. Awarded.

Wu Xinjun Lianpo, as the main general, led the army to defeat the Allied Forces of the Four Nations in the decisive battle outside Suiyang City, sweeping away the decline of the army's defeat outside Gaotang City last year, he can be called the greatest hero in this battle.

Zhao Dan increased Lian Po's food town to a full [-] households, and issued a lot of jaw-dropping rewards, as well as privileges such as riding a horse and sword straight into the palace, including Lian Po's wife , son and even two little grandsons have been rewarded by Zhao Dan, which can be said to be extremely honorable.

The second person to receive the reward was Li Mu. Although the enemy Qin State Li Mu was facing was relatively weak at the time, Li Mu's surprise attack broke through Xianyang City and captured Qin King Chu and a group of Qin State ministers. He boosted the prestige and morale of Zhao's army and civilians, and laid a solid foundation for the victory of the decisive battle in Suiyang City, thus becoming the second hero.

Zhao Dan's reward for Li Mu is to raise his title to Shangqing, which is only one step away from the title of emperor. At the same time, of course, there are a lot of money and treasures, as well as various titles and so on.

In addition, generals of the State of Zhao such as Le Cheng, Pang Nuan, and Ju Xin, as well as all the soldiers of the State of Zhao who participated in the war, have their own rewards.

The celebration lasted for three full days. During these three days, Handan City lifted the curfew. People carnivaled all night and all night. The smell of fine wine wafted in almost every corner of the city. soaked in wine.

The consequence of this is that the number of fights due to drunkenness in the city has increased by a hundred times than usual, and the Handan Prison was overcrowded for a while, and people who buy vegetables in the vegetable market will be able to watch it a few more times in the next period of time Beheading is a good show.

However, these things are just issues that ordinary people like to talk about. For the entire political circle of Zhao State, there is actually only one issue that is most concerned about.

Who will be the eighth minister of Zhao Guo to enter the Longtai discussion?

Judging from the previous voices, Le Cheng and Ju Xin are neck and neck, and Li Mu seems to have no hope.

However, after this battle, the situation has reversed. In the process of fighting the Yan people, Juxin, who did not perform well, was obviously behind, while Li Mu relied on the performance of breaking Xianyang to capture all the high-level officials of the Qin State. It soared into the sky and truly became a strong competitor.

Although Le Cheng is more mature and experienced, but Li Mu is undoubtedly more trusted by Zhao Dan, and at the same time he has a halo of victory, so Li Mu's momentum actually overwhelms Le Cheng.

It was also under such circumstances that the annual Zhao Guo Shangji work began.

As a routine monitoring and statistics work every year, counting up is also the most important job of the lieutenant's department that Li Si is in charge of in a year.

At this time, the lieutenant's department will send a large number of officials to the local area to collect data from various places, and then report it to Handan City, and then the lieutenant Li Si will make a report, and finally send it to the king Zhao Dan.

For 90.00% of Zhao's officials, this report is like a curse. Once a part is rated as middle or lower or even lower, then this department will definitely be severely reprimanded by Zhao Dan. For example, this was the case with Zheng Zhu's big bank department last year.

To be honest, such a job is quite offensive, but for Li Si, a legalist bureaucrat, he is able to do it like a duck to water.

What Legalists officials are least afraid of is using the power given to them by the king to legally punish others.

It was already late at night, but the lights were still brightly lit in Li Si's study in the lieutenant's mansion. Lieutenant Li Si of Zhao Guo was reading through the mountain of reports in front of him with his junior brother Han Fei, trying to understand Zhao's Whether officials from all over the country have done their own thing well in the past year.

Li Si stared intently at the bamboo slip in front of him, put it down after a long time, picked up a pen and quickly wrote a few words on the slip, then stood up, stretched vigorously, and walked out in one breath.