"Something's going on!" Liu Qi shouted.
"Your Majesty, in the spring and summer of this year, the weather has been good in all parts of our Qin territory, and the crops have been abundant. Mu Yangjing's farming skills have made great contributions to our Qin people. I suggest that we give Mu Yangjing a reward and enjoy the royal salary. ..." A minister came out to start a memorial.
Zhao Huaizhong hummed, which was what Yunzou meant.
Later, Lu Buwei came out to report on the progress of building academic palaces in various places.
After the ministers finished playing, Zhao Huaizhong said in a deep voice:
"I want to announce two things. One is that General Lian Po has been officially conferred. He will join our Great Qin as a general. He will add a general, which will be equivalent to Zuo Geng. He can raise scholars..."
Then Liu Qi stood up and read the edict written by Zhao Huaizhong in advance, praising Lian Poduo.
The Huns have retreated, and Lian Po has been recalled from the northern front.
At this time, he walked out with a blushing face, staring at Meng Ao with a stern look, with a smile of success.
The Qin people had a strict military hierarchy, and general was a general term as well as an honorific title.
Qin has many famous generals, and many of them have been awarded the title of general. However, there are only two generals with the highest title of military commanders. One is the extremely senior Duke He, and the other has successively destroyed Han and annexed Zhao two countries. At the age of forty, he relied on meritorious service. Wang Jian was promoted to general.
In addition, including Meng Ao, none of them were awarded the title of general.
If Meng Ao can successfully defeat Wei, he will be qualified to be promoted to general. This shows that generals are rare and precious.
According to Zhao Huaizhong's conception, in the future Qin will have at least five generals in their prime of war before they can claim their military might be at its peak.
At this time, Zhao Huaizhong announced the reward for Lian Po and continued:
"One more thing. For hundreds of years, our countries in Central and Eastern Europe have always been disturbed by nomadic tribes.
In the past, there were Quan Rong to the north of our Qin territory, the Xiongnu to the north of the Zhao territory, and the Linhu to the north of the Yan people.
The Quanrong were weak and were defeated by our Great Qin the year before last. After taking over the territory of the Zhao people, they retreated to the Xiongnu this time. After thinking for a long time, we decided to move the entire territory of our Great Qin to the north by 300 miles (today's NX territory) and add a new town to the north. , Beige and two counties.
In addition, in the southwest direction of our Qin territory (today's Bashu in Sichuan), we also need to use the force of pioneering to clear out or recruit the people of the tribes where they once lived, and to add Bajun to extend the southern line of the country to the southern coast.
In order to cooperate with the establishment of three additional counties and other related matters, our Qin territory will further encourage farming, trade and childbirth, and those who have more children will pay less taxes."
China has inherited it for thousands of years. In ancient times, its territory has been limited by population, insufficient grain production, military defense and other factors.
In the past two years, Qin Dynasty has been vigorously promoting agricultural production. Starting from the trial planting in the following year after the completion of the Zhengguo Canal, grain production, fruit trees and other items have been fruitful.
After two consecutive years of statistics, the Qin Kingdom has completely solved the food shortage.
And after the annexation of Han and the destruction of Zhao, the territory and population increased significantly compared to before.
It was time to take action on matters such as expanding the territory of Qin.
There is a huge deviation here from history. Historically, the Qin territory has never extended to the north (today's NX). On the one hand, continuing to the north is not a wealthy land. Secondly, continuing to the north is infested by nomadic tribes, which is not conducive to defense deployment and consumes too much money.
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Zhao Huaizhong proposed the establishment of three additional counties this time, but he did not take too big a step and was relatively conservative.
If you want to get it right in one step, it will probably turn into empty talk.
There was actually a buffer zone between the Xiongnu and Qin, which was an unowned area. Zhao Huaizhong's operation was to swallow up this part of the area first.
As soon as he brought it up, the officials immediately exploded into discussions.
National borders and population are the foundation of a country.
If you want to establish a new county, it means increasing armaments and building new cities, which will cost money like water.
The two veterans in charge of money and food were trembling.
The little wealth started to be wasted, and this time there was no war, and new counties were added, and there was never a peaceful life.
Two old ministers stood up and were about to stop the establishment of a new county. Zhao Huaizhong made a move: "I have already made a decision on this matter, and there is no need to discuss it further.
All the ministers can make preparations according to the advice of the few." After saying this, he stood up and left without giving the two old ministers a chance to speak.
This is a naked arbitrary act that does not accept others' opinions. Many foolish kings in ancient times had this characteristic.
The two veterans suddenly became angry.
In fact, kings are also divided into levels. The lowest level is the ignorant king, who is ostracized by the slanderous ministers and deceived and manipulated. He lacks the talent and wisdom to be in charge of a country.
If such a foolish king is in power, the country's power will decline, the people will suffer miserably, and the rivers will overturn.
Slightly stronger than the fatuous king is the tyrant who, although not lacking in shrewdness, is cruel and tyrannical. He kills people at every turn and does whatever he wants. These are all inferior monarchs who have lost control over themselves.
The better ones pay attention to the imperial power and use checks and balances to control ministers to work for themselves.
The best ones are cheaters like Zhao Huaizhong.
He relied on his powerful dominance and intimidation to take advantage of his ministers.
All ministers are tool men, and there is no need for checks and balances at all. If a minister dares to play with power and deceive superiors and deceive subordinates, he will be discovered by Zhao Huaizhong as soon as he has an idea, and the end will be miserable.
As for the fact that he established Yiyantang and was arbitrary and tyrannical, it was because he knew that adding new counties would bring great benefits. This was the trajectory of historical development and had been confirmed by later generations.
All he needs to do is to make it more in line with the current era and act according to his ability.
The addition of Bajun will allow Qin to connect to the sea, which will make Qin more prosperous and powerful in terms of strategy, geographical advantages and other considerations.
You can also prepare in advance for the future annexation of Chu and the further defeat of the Xiongnu.
Gaining the benefits of its maritime territory, Qin will quickly become richer and distance itself from other countries.
The Qin Dynasty wanted to add new counties and open up new territories. It was a big deal to establish three counties at once.
Chapter completed!