Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Houses in Handan are very expensive. Many low-level and middle-level officials in Zhao State have worked hard for half their lives to buy a house in Handan. If they move to the Imperial Capital all at once, they can’t even have houses, right?

Therefore, Zhao Kuo directly set up a batch of "official houses" first, which can be regarded as a benefit to these officials, and can effectively reduce their resistance to moving the capital.

Guo Zong hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, if you do this, the funds for building the house will not be a problem, but I am afraid that there are not so many places in the imperial capital to build houses."

Guo Zong is Zhao Kuo's chief financial steward. Of course, he has been to a large commercial city like Taoyi in recent years, and he is very familiar with it.

A city like Taoyi is like the Beishangguang of later generations, and Taoyi has another limitation compared with Beishangguang, that is, Taoyi city has a city wall, and the area of ​​​​the city is fixed.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that every inch of land is expensive in Taoyi City. How can there be so many places to build so many official houses?

You must know that this time the capital was moved, the officials alone cost tens of thousands or even tens of thousands.

Hearing this, Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing: "You, you just don't have enough vision to look into the future.

There are no houses in the city, so we build them outside the city!Things like city walls should have been eliminated a long time ago! "

In history, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he decisively broke through his thinking and built Xianyang City into the first city without city walls in Chinese history.

Now, Zhao Kuo is going to make this No.1!Things like city walls are a product of the cold weapon era. At that time, city walls could effectively resist bows and swords.

But now, the explosives are all out, no matter how strong your city wall is, it is only a question of equivalent in front of the explosives.

Therefore, it is time to eliminate the city walls.

What's more, the commercial city of the future does not have a fixed boundary like a city wall.

Because commercial cities need continuous expansion, if there is a city wall, wouldn't it be necessary to keep tearing down and rebuilding the city wall?

Who has nothing to do when they are full?

Zhao Kuo issued a declaration: "From now on, except for the palace city of the widow, the imperial capital no longer needs a new city wall!"

Of course, Miyagi must have a city wall. After all, it is impossible to allow anyone to run in casually, right?

As for other places, there is really no need.

Zhao Kuo's words made the ministers of the Han Dynasty present stunned for a while, but they have long been accustomed to Zhao Kuo's way of thinking that is beyond the times, and they also agree with Zhao Kuo's discussion about explosives and city walls. Explanation of the relationship.

Prime Minister You and Lieutenant Li Mu expressed emotion: "Indeed, if there is a city wall, it will be more convenient for the attacker with explosives to encircle and annihilate the defender.

If there is no city wall, the defenders will still be able to escape when they cannot beat it. "

Although Li Mu's words are rough, the truth is not rough.

With Zhao Kuo and Li Mu's explanations, the ministers naturally had no objection to this matter.

In fact, during the years when Zhao Kuo was in power, the ministers could feel the progress of the times. All kinds of new things and new systems had emerged in endlessly as early as the previous Zhao Kingdom period, and most of them were in harmony with the times. Everything related to Zhao Kuo was brought by Zhao Kuo.

This also made the ministers feel in their hearts that if they want to be Zhao Kuo's ministers well, they must not only be capable and loyal enough, but also keep up with Zhao Kuo's footsteps, otherwise they will be swept away by the torrent of the times. disuse!At this point, this meeting is considered to be over.

After several important ministers left, they immediately forwarded Zhao Kuo's order to Handan and various parts of Zhao State.

Undoubtedly, the order to move the capital certainly caused quite a stir.

For Handan people, their mood is actually very complicated.

Once upon a time, this city, as the capital of Zhao State, witnessed countless victories and strengths of Zhao State.

This is a city that is extremely loyal to Zhao.

But it is precisely because of this that the loyalty brought by the city's heritage is an invisible threat to the new Han Dynasty.

Now, the Han Kingdom is about to leave this place, but Handan will not decline because of this, it will still be the most prosperous city in the Han Kingdom north of the Yellow River, bar none!This news also reached the ears of a very special person.

This person is Zhao Wang.

Today's King Zhao, after hearing the news that Zhao Kuo established himself as the King of Han, fell into a complete rage.

For so many days, Zhao Wang has been yelling and crazily smashing everything that can be smashed.

However, no one paid any attention to him at all.

Whenever King Zhao wakes up, he will find that the sleeping hall, which was clearly a mess yesterday, has not only been cleaned up, but also a batch of furnishings have been placed.

If it weren't for these utensils looking brand new, King Zhao even wondered if the same scene in front of him was a step back in time.

Then, Zhao Wang continued to smash.

And then, the next day everything was new.

This scene is repeated again and again.

Until this day, Zhao Kuo appeared.

Zhao Wang looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him and was stunned.

Although he cursed Zhao Kuo countless times in his heart and mouth, when Zhao Kuo really appeared, King Zhao suddenly found that he was still a little short of words.

Zhao Kuo sat down calmly in front of King Zhao, and said calmly, "The widow will leave tomorrow."

The two words "widow" clearly hurt Zhao Wang, and made Zhao Wang sneer extremely sharply: "What a widow, I never thought you would have today, my Wu Xinjun."

Of course King Zhao was unwilling to recognize Zhao Kuo as the King of Han.

Zhao Kuo didn't take it seriously, and said calmly: "The main reason I came today is to say goodbye to you. After all, we will never see each other again from now on."

King Zhao was taken aback, and subconsciously took two steps back: "You, you want to kill me?"

Zhao Kuo shook his head: "No, there is no need for that."

For Zhao Kuo, the current King Zhao is already a mascot-like existence, and keeping him will not pose any threat. On the contrary, killing him will cause some people who still miss Zhao to rebel, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Only then did King Zhao feel relieved, and said, "Then what do you mean?"

Zhao Kuo said: "The widow has decided to move the capital. From now on, the imperial capital will be the capital of the Han Dynasty. As for Handan, you can continue to live here, in this royal palace."

Zhao Wang sneered: "So, I have to thank you for being able to live in this palace?"

This was originally a sarcastic remark, but Zhao Kuo unexpectedly answered seriously: "You really should thank me."

King Zhao was speechless.

Indeed, if Zhao Kuo wanted to, he only needed one sentence, and King Zhao would have to move out of this palace and spend the rest of his life in a place that might be extremely desolate.

Take Qin Shihuang as an example, the other six kingdoms who were exiled by Qin Shihuang were all exiled to the wilderness, and then starved to death and died of illness under the watchful eyes of Qin's spies.

Therefore, Zhao Kuo is really very kind.

Zhao Kuo continued: "The queen doesn't want to see you. She wants to take the second prince away and return to her hometown to live. The widow has already approved it."

Zhao Wang's face changed, and it took a while before he snorted heavily: "After all, it's just a brothel biaozi, a ruthless thing!"

Zhao Kuo said slowly: "The Queen Mother also doesn't want to see you, she said that you mother and son will not need to see each other in the future."

King Zhao's body trembled again, but this time he had nothing to say.

Back then, King Zhao launched a coup and put the queen mother under house arrest, thereby seizing the ruling power of Zhao.

But in the end, King Zhao lost this ruling power again.

For this ruthless and useless son, Queen Mother Zhao is obviously completely desperate.

Zhao Kuo stood up and said to Zhao Wang, "That's all I have to say, goodbye.

I hope you can take good care of yourself in the future and offer sacrifices to the ancestors of Zhao Guo on time. "

After finishing speaking, Zhao Kuo turned and left directly.

Zhao Wang's face changed, but he didn't say anything after all, just watched Zhao Kuo leave.

After Zhao Kuo left, King Zhao suddenly overturned the table in front of him and burst into tears.

In the crying, there is an incomparable despair!He knew that Zhao Guo was also dead!From now on, in this world, there are only big men and nothing else!Zhao Kuo walked out of King Zhao's bedroom step by step.

Here, it is one of the highest points of King Zhao's Palace. Like the main hall, it can overlook almost all the buildings of the palace, as well as most of Handan City.

Zhao Kuo is undoubtedly very familiar with this palace city, and he often goes in and out.

Once upon a time, Zhao Kuo felt that he would become the master of this palace city.

But now, when Zhao Kuo only needs one sentence to realize this wish, he gave up.

Inherit something from someone else?

No need.

I, Zhao Kuo, as a time traveler, I want to create my own things, build my own imperial capital, establish my own new dynasty, and let the world witness the new era of China!Zhao Kuo let out a long breath, and said to Mao Sui and the eunuch beside him, "Let's go."

Zhao Kuo walked steadily and walked down the palace.

Suddenly, a call came from a distance.

"Wu Xinjun" has a very charming voice, with a hint of temptation.

The eunuch hesitated for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, this is Queen Li of Zhao State."

Zhao Kuo turned his head and followed the voice, and sure enough, he found a beauty in a palace costume calling from a distance.

It can be seen that Queen Li dressed up specially today, even though they are far away, there is still a sense of beauty.

Zhao Kuo was silent for a moment, then shook his head and laughed: "This woman, is she still determined?"

Zhao Kuo strode down the steps, boarded the carriage and left without looking back.

Queen Li watched this scene with great disappointment on her pretty face.

The next day, Zhao Kuo left Handan in a mighty way with the concubines, princes, princesses, and other royal families of the Han Dynasty under the escort of one hundred thousand Han troops, and headed for the capital of the Han Dynasty, the imperial capital.

History has since turned a new page!

Chapter 1097

On the eighth day of August, the imperial capital.

Frankly speaking, this day actually has no special significance in this era, it's just that Zhao Kuo himself prefers this day.

As the former capital of the Song Dynasty and now one of the top commercial cities in the Central Plains, Taoyi was originally a very lively city.

After learning the news that the Han Dynasty moved its capital here and changed Taoyi's name to Emperor Jing, the city had undergone tremendous changes before Zhao Kuo's arrival.

First of all, the most obvious thing is that a large number of Zhao Guo dignitaries and businessmen flocked to buy houses in the imperial capital.

Originally, the housing prices and shop prices in the Imperial Capital were already top-notch prices in the Central Plains, but after the news of the capital relocation broke out, the housing prices in the Imperial Capital doubled again in a short period of time.

Many merchants from all over the world gave up Handan decisively and came to the imperial capital to look for opportunities.

Unlike Handan City, Imperial Capital City has changed hands among the five countries of Song, Qi, Qin, Wei, and Zhao over the years. There are no local powerful nobles as local snakes, and it is full of opportunities for everyone.

So when Zhao Kuo led the ministers and royal families of the Han Dynasty to the imperial capital, many of them had already settled in the city.

In addition, on the plain just north of the imperial capital, a brand new palace city is also under intensive construction.

Zhao Kuo built the palace city in the north of the city, which was actually opposed by many people.

In the Warring States period, basically all the vassal states came from the descendants of nobles who were canonized by the emperor of Zhou, and some of them were directly the vassals who were canonized by the emperor of Zhou. Therefore, their capital system basically followed the system of the Zhou Dynasty, with the palace city facing Haojing, the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Haojing is on the southwest side of the imperial capital, so it stands to reason that the new palace this time should also be in the southwest.

In addition, since most of the dignitaries are close to the old palace city, their mansions are basically in the southwest of the imperial capital, and the civilian areas are located in the east and north. If Zhao Kuo's palace is in the north of the imperial capital, in this respect It is the ministers who feel unsafe, and on the one hand, they feel that it is inconvenient to come and go.

In this regard, Zhao Kuo disagreed: "Zhou Tianzi has been wiped out by Qin and Chu together, and Haojing has become ruins hundreds of years ago. The widowed Han Dynasty is a new country. Naturally, there should be a new atmosphere, so why follow the old system! As for the security issue, could it be that the few warriors of the Praetorian Guards can't stop a group of civilians?

Besides, if one day the civilians can't bear it anymore and want to attack Miyagi, then the widow thinks that they should not look for these civilians' problems, but should first look for the widow's own problems! "

Under Zhao Kuo's promise, this matter was passed.

Let’s not gossip, but said that Zhao Kuo led the people into the imperial capital this day, and still went in the southwest direction first, and entered the original palace city of the Song Dynasty, which is also the place where Zhao Kuo temporarily lives now.

Here, a brand new ancestral temple has been built.

Under Zhao Kuo's arrangement, after the opening of the new Miyagi in the future, the old Miyagi will not be abandoned, and will become a place for ancestral temples, sacrifices, training and education for the royal family's children.

In addition, the school has also been relocated here, and some very important secret workshops in the future, such as researching weapons, gunpowder, steam engines, and even generators, etc., will also be moved to this place. will be arranged here.

Zhao Kuo gave the school that has been known as "Zhao Guo Xuegong" a brand new name Huaxia Academy!In Zhao Kuo's view, everyone who has come out of this academy should contribute more to China's construction in the future!Xun Kuang, the former high priest of the academy, now has a brand new minister of education!In front of the ancestral temple, many courtiers of the Han Dynasty stood in plain sight.

In the ancestral temple, Zhao Kuo, with his three wives and concubines and many children, is respectfully offering incense to many ancestral tablets above.

In fact, Zhao Kuo himself didn't really believe in this, but he couldn't bear the fact that everyone else in this world believed it, so Zhao Kuo naturally didn't mind putting on a show to make everyone feel at ease.

Hello everyone is really good.

After a while, Zhao Kuo stood up with a solemn expression and walked outside.

Outside the temple gate, many ministers saluted Zhao Kuo respectfully: "Congratulations to the king for moving the ancestral temple. From now on, the incense of the great Han will last forever!"