On January 3, 258 B.C., Longtai, the palace city of Handan.

On this day, several important ministers of Zhao gathered together and held a military meeting.

Zhao Dan sat on the throne and said to Miao Xian, who was accompanying him: "Miao Qing, if you have the money to introduce the current situation." ”

Liao Xian nodded, and then spoke: "In Hedong County, the main force of the Three Jin Coalition Army led by General Lian Po has all entered Hedong County, and the vanguard has arrived under Quwo City and completely surrounded Quwo City. According to the intelligence, there are only 3,000 Qin troops guarding Quwo City, and the capture of Quwo City should be a recent matter. ”

As soon as Mi Xian said this, several important ministers of Zhao Guo present looked at me, and I looked at you, and they all felt a little inexplicable.

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but speak: "This doesn't seem to be in line with the original plan." ”

The people present were all the core executives of Zhao Guo, so they all knew the plan of Zhao Kuo and Le Cheng.

How did it turn into an attack on Quwo? That's not the right script, right?

Mi Xian opened his mouth to explain: "Due to the intervention of Hou's subordinates, Zhao Kuo's operation to control the Anyi camp has failed, and now the Anyi camp has fallen back into the control of the Qin people. ”

"Wait?" Zhao Sheng's face changed, and he stopped talking, obviously quite afraid of this name.

After Zhao Sheng, it was Neishi Yuxin who spoke: "Since Zhao Kuo has failed, then the previous plan must have to be changed, I wonder what plan General Lian Po can send back?" ”

Liao Xian replied: "According to General Lian Po's reply, the general is ready to attack Quwo first and then march west to take Anyi, and completely expel the Qin people from Hedong County. ”

Lian Po's plan is actually very simple, that is, to push all the way and beat all the people of Qin out with the most upright and upright posture.

A plan that is very much in line with Lian Po's habit of using soldiers.

The ministers of Zhao Guo present were basically Lian Po's old colleagues, so after hearing Lian Po's plan, no one expressed any objections.

However, Si Kou Zhao Bao said with some worry: "If you attack the Qin army head-on, I am afraid that our soldiers will suffer heavy casualties." ”

The population shortage of Zhao has always been a big problem, and it was not only the Qin State that was damaged in the First Battle of Changping, but the Zhao State also lost a large number of young and strong, and a considerable number of elite veterans who had been in battle for a long time.

If it weren't for the fact that after the victory, Zhao State obtained a certain amount of population replenishment from Shangdang County, and this Changping Battle of Zhao State was actually a thousand enemy wounds and eight hundred self-losses.

The number of soldiers itself is a kind of war potential, and the high-level leaders of Zhao State certainly attach great importance to this.

Zhao Dan smiled and said: "Pingyang Jun doesn't have to worry too much, from the widow's point of view, in the battle of Hedong County, General Lian Po should not let the widow down, as long as Hedong County is won, for the time being, the demand for the number of soldiers is not so great." ”

From Zhao Dan's point of view, after swallowing Shangdang County and Hedong County in a short period of time, Zhao State will temporarily stop its external expansion to digest the land of these two counties, and this digestion time is enough for Zhao State's new generation of soldiers to grow up.

I saw Zhao Bao shook his head and said, "The king doesn't know something, but the ministers are not worried. The king had promised the soldiers who went out on the expedition that if they captured Hedong County, they would take the land of Hedong County as a reward. If this is the case, then where should those Qin people in Hedong County go? ”

Zhao Bao obviously misunderstood what Zhao Dan meant, thinking that Zhao Dan wanted to recruit troops from among the aborigines of Qin in Hedong County.

"Qin people?" Zhao Dan smiled slightly, and said to Zhao Bao with great confidence: "Pingyang Jun doesn't know anything, and the widow wants to do what Qin Wangji did in Hedong County. ”

"Qin Wangji's matter?" The ministers of Zhao who were present were stunned for a moment, and then quickly came back to their senses.

It was once recorded in the "Historical Records of Qin Benji": "Wei offered Anyi, Qin sent out his people, recruited Hedong to give knights, forgave sinners and moved them." ”

At that time, the Wei State was really unable to withstand the continuous attacks of the Qin State, so it was forced to dedicate Anyi and the nearby hundreds of miles east of the River to the Qin State.

After acquiring this land, Qin Wangji drove away all the Wei people in this land, preventing them from continuing to live in Hedong County, and then sealed a large number of Qin soldiers from Guanzhong in Hedong County from Guanzhong, so that these Qin meritorious soldiers became the landlords of Hedong County.

In addition to this, Qin Wangji also migrated a large number of Qin criminals to enrich the population of Hedong County.

After Qin Wangji's actions and Qin's decades of painstaking management of Hedong County, today's Hedong County can be said to have become a veritable land of Qin, and it is not like the two counties in the southeast that are still dominated by Chu people.

This is why after the Chu army entered the two southeastern counties, the aborigines of the Chu State rebelled and supported the Chu army, but now the Sanjin coalition army has entered Hedong County, but none of the aborigines of Hedong County have raised troops to support the coalition army.

I have to say that Qin Wangji's policy seems to be quite successful.

Since this has been proven to be a successful policy, Zhao Dan certainly does not mind a "mirror of history".

After Zhao captured Hedong County, Zhao Dan would also move all the Qin residents in Hedong County from the original land, and then reward all these lands to the soldiers who had gained merit in this battle of Zhao State, and then move the sinners of Zhao State here to enrich the population.

In this way, as long as Zhao State can manage Hedong County for the last thirty or forty years like Qin State, Hedong County will change from the territory of the old Qin people to the base of Yan Zhao Nan'er, and thus completely assimilate into a part of Zhao State.

After hearing Zhao Dan's words, the ministers of Zhao State present couldn't help but admire Zhao Dan even more.

The king is really not a king, and when everyone didn't expect it, he had already planned everything!

Needless to say, what happened next was naturally a sycophant and flattery that made Zhao Dan very happy.

But when the sycophants were over, there were still people who quickly raised their own questions.

Zhao Bao opened his mouth and said: "If the king drives all the Qin people in Hedong County back to the Qin State, then the replenishment of troops is probably a very serious problem. ”

Obviously, Zhao Bao still did not give up his plan to use the Qin people of Hedong County to supplement the source of troops.

Zhao Dan smiled mysteriously: "Although the widow said that he would move the Qin people in Hedong County, he didn't say that he would move them back to the Qin State." ”

Zhao Bao looked obviously a little confused: "So the king means ......"

Not only Zhao Bao, but several other ministers of Zhao also looked quite puzzled.

Zhao Dan said unhurriedly: "Although this time the widow does intend to emulate Qin Wangji's actions back then, he is not completely copying what Qin Wangji did. ”

After all, taking history as a mirror is a mirror and history as a mirror, but it is impossible to copy it rigidly, and it is true to use it flexibly according to the actual situation.

There is a sentence in later generations that sums this up well, that is, "take the XXXX road with Chinese characteristics." ”

This statement is actually very reasonable.

Zhao Dan is now going to take the "road of integration of Hedong County with Zhao characteristics".

In Zhao Dan's view, Qin Wangji's behavior at that time was actually a limitation of the times.

From Qin Wangji's point of view, at that time, those Wei people in Hedong County of Wei State were not only loyal to Wei State, but also raised and wasted food, kept and wasted land, simply drove away and calculated, and could add a lot of burden to Wei State out of thin air, which can be said to be a good policy of killing a few birds with one stone.

But from Zhao Dan's point of view, if Hedong County is occupied, the population of Qin State living there will indeed move away, but they will not all be driven back to Qin State, and only those old people who are completely worthless will return to Qin State.

Why? Because Zhao Guo's blast furnace project has been quietly launched under the instruction of Zhao Dan.

The launch of the blast furnace project symbolizes the beginning of Zhao Guopan's scientific and technological journey.

As long as Zhao Guo's science and technology climb, the emergence of intensive industries is inevitable, and the demand for a large number of off-duty labor will follow.

Workers in intensive industries are actually being squeezed, especially when the industry is just emerging.

In Zhao Dan's memory, the workers of later generations were squeezed for hundreds of years before they barely had some power.

Since it is such a hard and oppressed thing, it is obviously not appropriate to let the people of Zhao State do it.

So this is where these people of Hedong County of Qin State come in handy.