Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Zhao Kuo smiled, and stretched out his hand to signal: "I understand the wishes of all the ministers, so let's all be at peace."

Everyone was flattened in unison.

Zhao Kuo glanced at Zhao Qian who was behind him, and said slowly: "Qian'er, you kneel in front of the widow."

Zhao Kuo's eldest son, Zhao Qian, heard the sound and knelt down respectfully in front of Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo glanced at the eunuch Ling beside him.

The eunuch order immediately stepped forward, took out a will, and said loudly: "The king of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuoling, is the first year of the Han Dynasty. The age is one eye. On the eighth day of August, Yuxi, the eldest son of the king, Zhao Qian, is the first heir of the clan. Twelfth, God's will belongs, hereby abide by the first law, carry out the ceremonies, and obey the public opinion, I sincerely tell the world, the ancestral temple, and the country, grant the book of treasures, and establish it as the crown prince, to honor the rule of ten thousand years, and to spread the heart of the world !"

This decree sounds awkward, but in the final analysis, Zhao Kuo's eldest son, Zhao Qian, was named the crown prince of the Han Dynasty in one sentence.

This is also a move Zhao Kuo made to stabilize people's hearts.

Having a prince means that the future of the Han Dynasty will have a legitimate successor.

In this way, many courtiers of the Han Dynasty have clear hopes for the future of the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Qian kowtowed respectfully to Zhao Kuo, and said in a deep voice: "My son, I thank my father, and I should follow my father's instruction carefully, so as not to disappoint my father and the subjects."

Zhao Kuo took over a brand new prince crown from the eunuch Ling, put it on Zhao Qian's head with his own hands, and patted Zhao Qian's shoulder with a smile: "The world and the country belong to the widow, and the future will naturally belong to you.

But I hope you don't forget that it belongs to all Chinese people after all! "

Zhao Qian nodded solemnly, then stood up and faced the ministers.

All the officials saluted Zhao Qian one after another: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Zhao Kuo's establishment of the crown prince really made many people breathe a sigh of relief.

From now on, the next generation of the Great Han Kingdom will also be stable. If something happens to Zhao Kuo, at least there is no need to worry about a civil war in the Great Han.

Afterwards, the eunuch's decree read out the decree again, and the Prince's East Palace will be officially opened from now on. Li was the prince Shaofu, Mao Sui was the prince Shaobao, and the other important officials of Zhao State each held official positions in the prince's mansion.

These official positions all belong to the Crown Prince's East Palace system, but they are all honorary official positions, with mostly symbolic meanings, but they are also enough to prove that Zhao Kuo values ​​​​the eldest son.

The ceremony for the first canonization of the heir by the great man is over!

Chapter 1098 Zhao Kuo’s New Deal Plan to Destroy Chu

Although they have already moved to the imperial capital, in fact, the entire work of moving the capital will not be completely over until the construction of the new palace is completed.

Someone is about to ask, why couldn't Zhao Kuo wait for two more years, and wait until everything is ready before moving?

In fact, the answer is very simple, because the time to unify the world is close at hand.

In Zhao Kuo's plan, this unification of the world is to destroy Chu next year, and then end.

If we wait another two years, the celebration of unifying the world can only be held in Handan City, which is obviously not very good for Zhao Kuo.

Now that Zhao Kuo has replaced Zhao Guo and established the Great Han, of course the celebration of unifying the world will be held in the new capital of the Great Han, Dijing City. This can also more effectively enhance the prestige of the newly built Han Kingdom and dilute people's memories of the Zhao Kingdom.

As a newcomer, there are still a lot of things to deal with. In addition to the affairs of Zhao Guo, Zhao Kuo is also very busy.

Although the current Han Dynasty has not been unified, the territory under its rule has reached a little over 500 million square kilometers. It is an unprecedented super empire in the history of the Chinese people.

Since the entire Mobei is now controlled by the Great Han Kingdom, if the territory of modern China can be conquered in the future, then the Great Han Kingdom can easily reach 100 million square kilometers.

But for Zhao Kuo, this is just the beginning!Entering autumn, the harvest season comes.

It was at this time that large-scale rebellions broke out at the same time in Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and Bashu, the three former Qin territories.

However, among these three rebellions, two had already been secretly controlled by Nightingale, and within a few days of the outbreak, Nightingale cooperated with the local garrison of the Han to wipe out them all.

The last rebellion in Hanzhong lasted less than half a month, and was also quelled by the Han garrison.

In this regard, Zhao Kuo was not angry, but relaxed a lot.

Generally speaking, things like rebellion are easy to break out when they are just conquered, and as time goes on, they will basically subside.

It seems that the land of Yan State that was conquered before has now become a major source of troops for the Han State. South Korea and the State of Wei are also accelerating their integration. There is basically no rebellion in the State of Qi. [-]% level.

This is undoubtedly attributable to Zhao Kuo's implementation of "cars and books on the same track" and the unified weights and measures, currency and other systems.

In order to eliminate the resistance of the people in the conquered land as much as possible, Zhao Kuo did not choose the Zhao dialect to be promoted throughout the country, but chose the official language of the Zhou Dynasty, which is what people call "elegant language".

Elegant language is the official language of the Zhou Dynasty. Basically all the nobles can speak Elegant language. Although most of the common people speak their own dialects before, they have more or less been exposed to some Elegant language. You need to pay the cost of learning, and it is not too difficult for civilians to learn.

The word aspect is a problem. These days, countries all have their own seal characters, and the difference between them is equivalent to English, French, and Italian in later generations. Everyone uses ABC letters, and some words have similar or even the same meaning, but overall That said, there are still many differences.

After much deliberation, Zhao Kuo decided to go straight to the point and use the simplified characters of later generations as the new typeface, which will be widely used throughout the country.

In words, due to the existence of printing, it is difficult to promote it, but it is not too difficult.

Moreover, Zhao Kuo also imposed a five-year buffer period. After five years, everyone must take a simplified Chinese character test, and those who fail will be directly dismissed!Starting from the first year of the Han Dynasty, all Schools of the Academy must join the teaching program of simplified characters, and the time required by the Academy is shorter. Those who fail the examination are not allowed to graduate and become officials.

Words, as long as the promotion is strong enough, then it is only a matter of time.

As for other issues such as weights and measures, wheel spacing, field size, etc., Zhao Kuo handed it over to the officials headed by Xu Li. They all used Zhao's previous weights and measures numbers and units, and promoted Arabic numerals.

Things like Arabic numerals are easy to use. Although they were not born in China, Zhao Kuo also promoted them nationwide with the attitude that they can be used if they are easy to use.

Not only that, Zhao Kuo also quietly issued a reward through the Ministry of Agriculture of the Han Kingdom. This reward is not aimed at any one person, but for several special crops.

Potato seeds, rice seeds, chili seeds, and so on and so forth.

Needless to say, the significance of potatoes is a new high-yielding grain that can be eaten as a staple food, which is of great significance.

The meaning of rice and potatoes is the same, rice is more suitable for planting in the south, but the temperature in the Han Dynasty is actually relatively hot in this era, and elephants can still move in the Huaihe River, so theoretically, rice can be grown in the Han Dynasty beyond the Yellow River. Nandu can be planted without any problem, which covers more than [-]% of the grain growing area of ​​Dahan today.

The most important thing is that the Northeast region of modern China is also an excellent rice planting area. The rice in the Northeast is well-known. It has come in handy.

Chili is also an essential thing, but the meaning of chili is mainly in Bashu, Southwest, and Nanling generation.

If a modern person pays attention, he will find that people in these places like to eat chili. Is this really just a matter of taste?

Actually not.

Because it is located in a basin or a mountain range, the miasma of moisture in these places is very heavy. It is actually difficult to live in such places for a long time based on normal human physique.

Eating chili can neutralize the moisture brought by the geographical environment, and can effectively make human beings less sick or even not sick in these places.

Therefore, in history, pepper was first spread to the coastal areas, but it did not become the mainstream in the coastal areas. Instead, it spread to the mountainous areas and basins in the interior and became very popular. This is the reason.

As long as there are peppers, large-scale immigration to the southwestern Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan becomes possible. This sounds rather bizarre, but it is completely in line with science and human evolution.

That is to say, now that Zhao Kuo has become the king himself, he basically puts forward a guideline and results for everything, and let the people below do the next thing, otherwise Zhao Kuo has to do everything by himself. If so, then there are really ten clones who are too busy.

Even so, after Zhao Kuo basically handled these things properly, winter will come.

According to the usual practice, winter is the time period for discussing the next offensive target, and this year is of course no exception.

This year, Zhao Kuo also changed the calendar, changing the original "New Year's Day" from the first day of November to the first day of the first month, and designated the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month as "Spring Festival".

Therefore, although the Great Han Kingdom has entered December, it is not considered a new year, but the end of the year.

Zhao Kuo sat on the top of the hall, with a chair under his buttocks.

Except for Zhao Kuo, everyone present had a chair under their buttocks.

Why sit on a chair and abandon the previous seat?

The main thing is that things like seats need to be "sit upright". Later generations of Dongying people learned how to sit upright from Huaxia, and Dongying people still do this until now.

This kind of upright sitting, who knows who sits, young people will feel their legs numb after sitting for a while, and it will be a kind of physical torture for the elderly to talk for a long time.

And there is a worse disadvantage of sitting upright, that is, because the body structure is different from that of men mainly because of the pelvis, sitting upright for a long time will cause girls' legs to deform, which is the so-called O-shaped legs, bandy legs.

Although not every girl will be like this after sitting upright, but sitting upright has a very high chance of causing bowed legs. This is also recognized by wives and concubines such as Tian Wan and Qiu'er. We all become bowlegged, isn't that nonsense.

Anyway, so many new policies have been implemented, and one more is harmless. A small problem brought by chairs is that people don’t have the habit of wearing underwear these days, which may cause air leakage. The solution is to invent underwear. Come out just fine.

As for the promotion, Zhao Kuo does not need to worry about it. The so-called "what is good at the top must be good at the bottom", since chairs are popular in the palace of the Han Dynasty, it will soon be popular in the homes of the big nobles, then the small nobles, and then there are chairs. It is a rule that the merchants who make money will eventually spread to the homes of all ordinary people.

Moreover, if there is a seat for a chair, this can be called a real "throne"!Unlike those great kings before, each "throne" is a seat. Zhao Kuo twisted slightly in the throne comfortably, and then said happily: "Everyone, I came to you today to discuss this matter." The problem of destroying Chu State."

Everyone obviously already knew that this matter was discussed today, so there was no surprise.

The other five countries have already been wiped out, so it is impossible to keep the Chu State forever, right?

The prime minister, Xu Li, raised the first question: "This time to destroy Chu, will the king still conquest himself?"

This answer is still very important. After all, if Zhao Kuo conquered Chu, the main general must be Zhao Kuo himself.

After all, in everyone's opinion, other countries are gone, and Chu State is the last remaining fat.

Of course, Zhao Kuo had already thought about this question, and said with a smile, "Yes, I still have to conscript myself."

This is not to say that Zhao Kuo likes to take the military merits of his subordinates. In fact, Zhao Kuo has already become a king, and the whole country belongs to him. Why should he take any credits?

Zhao Kuo just felt that the demise of the other five countries was all caused by Zhao Kuo leading the army, so if the last country did not lead the army, it would be a bit regrettable and not satisfactory.

So, you still have to fight this one.

After Zhao Kuo's voice fell, Xu Li nodded slightly and stopped talking.

Originally, if Zhao Kuo did not go out, then Xu Li could still fight for the position of the chief general, but if Zhao Kuo goes out, Xu Li, as the prime minister, will naturally sit in Handan, so there is no need to speak.

The Lieutenant Li Mu on the other side also understood this truth, so he immediately said: "I want to report to Your Majesty, I am willing to lead the horse for His Majesty, just to be able to participate in this battle!"

Xu Li was the prime minister who wanted to sit in Handan, but Li Mu, the prime minister on the right, had no such scruples. It was absolutely impossible for him to miss the opportunity to fight.

Zhao Kuo glanced at Li Mu and smiled: "Okay, you can be the lieutenant general for the widow."

Later, Zhao Kuo ordered Sima Shang, Xiang Yan, Pang Jian and others to accompany him, basically all familiar old faces.

As for the remaining Zhao Guo ministers, headed by Xu Li and Pang Nuan, they are responsible for assisting Prince Zhao Qian to supervise the country.

Of course, considering that Zhao Qian is only 13 years old after the new year, Zhao Qian's supervision of the country is only in name.

Usually, Xu Li, Pang Nuan and others discussed and dealt with ordinary affairs. In fact, the real major affairs had to be sent to the front line and sent back to Handan after Zhao Kuo made a decision.

However, considering that most of the world has been pacified now, and the only possible troublesome state of Chu was conquered by Zhao Kuo himself, normally nothing major will happen.

After Zhao Kuo appointed him as the deputy general, Li Mu was very happy and asked, "I wonder how the king plans to attack Chu this time?"

Facing Li Mu's question, Zhao Kuo smiled slightly.

"This time, our strategy is simple.

First, we gather 30 troops.

Secondly, we take Shouchun directly.

Finally, after conquering Shouchun, divide the troops to quell other parts of Chu. "

Yes, Zhao Kuo's entire plan to destroy Chu is so simple and unpretentious.

Why?

Because the current strength of Han State is far stronger than that of Chu State.

It's like playing some war chess and strategy computer games. If everyone's strength and technology level are similar, you may need to operate and operate it. , that is, select all units with the mouse frame, push them towards the opponent's main base, and you're done.

This is the case of Zhao Kuo now. The strength of the Han Kingdom is not to mention ten times that of the Chu Kingdom, but there are always five or six times.

What kind of surprise attack is that widow playing with you Chu State, what kind of interspersed assault?

I'm sorry, the widow pushed you directly!What's this?

This is the domineering power of the world's most powerful country!Zhao Kuo's words were so domineering that the officials present couldn't help being surprised at first, and then they couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in their hearts.

That's right, this is our Great Han Kingdom, it's just such an unreasonable flat push, it's just so strong!Zhao Kuo laughed loudly and waved his hand: "That's the decision. Tomorrow spring, send 30 troops to destroy Chu!"

Chapter 1099 Queen, This Is The World Made For You

As far as the current state of Zhao is concerned, due to its vast territory, a large part of it is in sparsely populated areas like the northern grasslands, south and north, so if you want to prepare for the war with the power of the whole country, you really need to advance two or three times. The order was issued within a month.

Among them, the Central Plains can basically be notified, but like Hanzhong and Bashu, which are connected by narrow passages, it is a bit difficult to notify. In the south and north, we can only wait until the ice and snow melt after the spring. Method.

Fortunately, since Hanzhong and Bashu are newly conquered lands, Zhao Kuo has no intention of conscripting the troops there right now. The southern and northern deserts are mainly cavalry, which are not very useful in the battle to destroy Chu.

This time, Zhao Kuo only planned to conscript 30 soldiers and horses from the original lands of Zhao, Han, Wei, Qi, and Yan.

When Li Xin destroyed Chu, he brought 20 people with him and was defeated.

But Zhao Kuo is not Li Xin, not to mention that Xiang Yan, who defeated Li Xin in history, is now obeying Zhao Kuo's tent.

Even with Xiang Yan, Chu State still suffered a disastrous defeat under Zhao Kuo's hands. Without Xiang Yan, Chu State was no different from a fish put on a knife to Zhao Kuo.

The 30 soldiers and horses seem to be less than when Qin was destroyed before, but don't forget that Zhao Kuo still left 15 soldiers and horses to guard Bashu and fight in rounds.

Therefore, the Han State actually mobilized 45 troops, but because Chu State was indeed inferior to Qin State, Zhao Kuo did not let the round-robin team participate in the battle.