Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

People who are not of our race must have a different heart, either assimilate or enslave, and savages like the Qiang people are very suitable for enslaving.

After all, these guys are not descendants of China. To be honest, Zhao Dan has no psychological burden at all to use them.

Isn't the powerful Roman Empire also built on the blood and sweat of many barbarian slaves? The Romans can use it, but can't the few use it?

Zhao Dan happily put his thoughts back, and made a decision without much thought: "No problem, wait until the spring of next year, and you will lead the army south to destroy Yiqu."

The Hehuang area has always been a very high-quality horse ranch, and taking this place will definitely benefit Zhao Guo a lot.

From a strategic point of view, after taking the Hehuang area, Zhao Guo formed an encirclement circle around Qin Guoguanzhong from the east, north, and west directions, which would make Qin's defense more difficult.

Moreover, the Hehuang area itself is part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. As long as the Zhao cavalry can adapt to the climate here, there is hope that they will move further towards the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the future, and eventually the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will also be brought under Zhao's rule.

Of course, that plateau does not have much value for ruling, but the problem is that if the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau can really be taken down, then it can be used as a springboard to enter India.

In terms of distance, going south from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to India is undoubtedly much closer than going around the Western Regions and Central Asia and then going south to India.

Considering Ah San's scumbag combat effectiveness in history, once the iron hooves of Zhao Guo's cavalry entered the South Asian subcontinent, there was almost no suspense to conquer the entire Indian South Asian subcontinent.

What the Aryans can do, Zhao Dan thinks it is impossible for him not to be able to do it.

However, there is no need to worry about this. For Zhao Guo at present, it is enough to take down the land of Hehuang first.

As for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and India, Zhao Dan felt that it would have to be handed over to his descendants.

From a historical point of view, it is the most important thing to completely bring Monan and Northeast China under Zhao's rule, so as not to create a second Mongol or a second Nurhachi, and then develop the Yangtze River and the areas south of the Yangtze River, and then Next is the Southwest China and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

You always have to take one bite at a time.

After solving the problem of Yiqu Country, there are other problems that need to be solved.

Xiangbang Zhao Sheng said: "Your Majesty, in the past year, our country has wiped out Yan Guo and Jizi North Korea in one fell swoop, and gained a very vast territory, but the problem now is that there are not enough officials to govern these lands. What should I do?"

Zhao Guo itself is not a country famous for its population among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. Although Zhao Guo has introduced some policies to encourage births in recent years, it takes at least 18 years for a person to grow from birth to adulthood. , that is to say, it will take at least 20 years for Zhao Guo to see the effect of the birth-encouraging policy.

This is obviously far from being able to quench thirst.

Regarding this question, Zhao Dan was actually scratching his head.

To be honest, the original intention of Zhao Dan to establish the Huaxia Academy was to let these powerful scholars from various schools of thought teach a group of qualified scholars, and then let these scholars enter the official class of the State of Zhao and serve as the leader of the State of Zhao. Used.

But the problem is that Huaxia Academy has a limited number of students after all, and there are only a few hundred people who can be used by Zhao Guo each year, and these people still need a certain period of training to be able to work independently, which also cannot solve all problems.

Zhao Dan was silent for a while, and said: "Let's do this, wait until next spring when the widow issues another merit order, which should be able to solve some of the gaps. If the order continues, if the title is above the doctor, if there is an adult heir in the family, You can also be recommended as an official. As for the other gaps, let the officials who surrendered in Yan and North Korea temporarily fill them in. However, the officials who surrendered can only serve as deputies, and the principals must be selected by Handan. This is plain Jun Ru and Li Qing and Li Si must pay attention."

Lieutenant Li Si nodded yes, and then came up with another idea: "Your Majesty, I think that it is actually possible to serve in different places. For example, let the officials who surrendered from the State of Wei go to the State of Yan, and the officials who surrendered from the State of Yan to serve in the State of Wei. In this way, there is no need to worry about these officials colluding with local big families, and at the same time they can be effectively supervised."

Zhao Dan's eyes lit up, and he said: "This is indeed a method, let's implement it from next year. But at the beginning, you can't adjust too much, so let's tentatively set it at [-]% per year."

After a pause, Zhao Dan said again: "Looking at the current situation, a single Huaxia Academy is no longer able to solve the problem. The widow plans to establish several more branches of the Academy for the purpose of absorbing and cultivating scholars. Use. In a few days, the widow will meet with Xun Qing and ask them to come up with a charter."

Opening more colleges is actually what Zhao Dan has always wanted to do. Only after education is popularized can more talents be used by Zhao Dan and the Zhao royal family.

The Zhao Guo ministers present looked at each other, but there was no objection to this.

In this era, scholars are actually the bottom of the aristocratic class, and people like Yu Xinlianpo have climbed up from the scholars step by step, so of course they will not object.

In the past few years, with the continuous expansion of Zhao Guo, a large number of sons who were idle at home and had nothing to do have all been sent out to become officials. For example, the dozen or so sons of Zhao Sheng, except for the eldest son who is destined to take over in the future , Everything else has official positions.

So big nobles like Zhao Sheng and Zheng Zhu are also happy to see the success of this. Anyway, there are too many official positions now, so it's okay to train some scholars to help their descendants and relatives.

"Okay, since there are no problems, let's discuss the last question." Zhao Dan coughed, and then said to the ministers of Zhao Guo in front of him: "Which country do you think the next target should be?" Why?"

Chapter 8 Who will hit first (third update)

As soon as this topic was mentioned, the ministers of Zhao State immediately became energetic one by two.

I like the feeling of pointing the country the most.

The first person to speak was Zhao Guo's Xiangbang, Pingyuan Lord Zhao Sheng.

I saw Zhao Sheng said: "Your Majesty, I believe that South Korea should be destroyed first. As long as South Korea can be destroyed, the entire Central Plains will be in the hands of the King, and the world will be pacified without any worries. Moreover, the destruction of South Korea will also bring Qin Separate from Chu State, if this is the case, no matter attacking Qin State or Chu State, it will be difficult for these two countries to save each other, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone."

For Zhao Sheng's words, Zhao Dan thought about it, and felt that it was actually quite reasonable.

Today's South Korea has already occupied Nanyang County, so in fact it has separated the connection between Qin and Chu.

Although it is said that Qin State and Chu State also border each other now, the problem is that the bordering place is Wushan, and it is very difficult to mobilize the army through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

If Qin Guodong from the upper reaches came to aid Chu, it would be fine, but if Chu wanted to go upstream to rescue Qin, it would be almost impossible before.

It is precisely because of this consideration that Zhao Sheng thinks that attacking South Korea is the best choice.

In fact, Zhao Dan was a little surprised by Zhao Sheng's opinion.

You must know that Zhao Sheng has always been the most resolute anti-banner faction, so Zhao Dan subconsciously thinks that this time Zhao Sheng should also strongly demand that Qin should be destroyed first.

But I didn't expect that Zhao Sheng suddenly proposed to look for South Korea, which was a surprising move.

In fact, what Zhao Dan didn't know was that Zhao Sheng's proposal had learned from previous lessons.

At about this time last year, the high-spirited monarch and ministers of Zhao State who had just destroyed Wei State were also discussing the next goal in the same way.

In that meeting, no matter whether it was the Gongzu faction or the commoner faction, there was a situation where voting rights were dispersed and each was fighting independently, which led to the situation that no unified conclusion was reached in the end.

If Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Zhao hadn't happened suddenly, then I'm afraid Zhao's high-level officials would not get any results after arguing for ten days and a half months.

It is precisely because of this that this time, Zhao Sheng communicated with Pang Nuan and Ju Xin in advance and made sufficient preparations.

After careful discussion, the three decided that South Korea was the best target.

In fact, Qi State is also a good target, but for some obvious reason, Zhao Sheng is not willing to recommend Qi State as Zhao State's next target.

But the problem is that although Zhao Sheng himself does not want to recommend Qi, there are still people who like to fight Qi first.

General Lian Po of the Zhao State coughed, and said to Zhao Dan: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, it is the best policy to destroy the Qi State this time. As long as the Qi State is destroyed, the entire Central Plains will be completely for our Zhao State." All that, what your Majesty has to do next is to let our generals lead the rolling iron hooves to march southward, and completely flatten the other three countries."

Not to mention, after Lian Po said this, Zhao Dan felt that what Lian Po said was quite reasonable.

If they want to attack South Korea, then Zhao Guo may still worry about being copied by Qi Guo, but if he directly destroys Qi Guo as soon as he comes up, he doesn't have to worry about this at all.

As usual in the political arena of Zhao State, since the bosses of the two camps have already taken a clear-cut stand, it is time for the younger brothers to come out and wave their flags.

Pang Nuan coughed, and said: "The general's words do make sense at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, there are actually serious drawbacks."

When Lian Po heard this, he was unhappy, so he immediately opened his eyes and said, "What's wrong with my words, I ask Pang Qing to enlighten me."

To be honest, the more Lian Po looks at Pang Nuan, the angrier he gets.