It was already the height of summer, and the air outside Gaotang City was starting to get scorching.

Inside the city, many craftsmen are busy restoring houses that had been damaged by the war.

The Zhao army led by Lian Po followed the remnants of the Qi and Wei coalition led by Wei Wuji and Kuang Liang southward after that battle, and it is said that they are still attacking Dong'e City.

Now the security in this city is mainly the responsibility of the 10,000 Zhao troops left by Lian Po.

The whole city seems to have returned to normal, and although the streets are full of Qi accents, the soldiers of the Zhao army who walk by in a line from time to time have already invisibly explained to everyone the fact that the ownership of the city has changed hands.

It is worth mentioning that although it has only been less than half a month, a large number of officials of Zhao State have begun to settle in the city and begin to control all aspects of the city.

Perhaps because he had just returned to Qi State for a few years, the people in Gaotang City did not seem to have much attachment to Qi State, and quickly accepted the fact that they were now the people of Zhao State.

Of course, it's not without diehards who think about Qi country.

So one day, the Zhao garrison suddenly launched a thunderbolt operation, and hundreds of unstable elements were arrested and dragged to the gate of the vegetable market, and abandoned the city in public.

After tens of thousands of people witnessed the extremely miserable death of these unstable elements, with blood flowing from their intestines, Gaotang City became extremely peaceful and peaceful overnight.

Even if there is still a slight undercurrent surging underground, it does not affect the overall situation at all.

In the midst of this city-wide execution, an institution that had previously been completely unknown to the residents of Gaotang City began to appear in the limelight.

Inspector of Guards.

It was this organization that sounded a bit of surveillance that found out most of the situation in Gaotang City in just ten days, and then provided information and cooperated with the Zhao garrison to launch this sweeping sweep like a thunderbolt.

When the Gao Tang people had not completely come out of the shock brought by this thunder operation, another news came that shocked the whole city.

The four kings of Zhao, Qi, Wei, and Han, as well as the actual helmsman of Yan Guo, Bang Lejian, will meet in Gaotang City to agree on how this war should end.

This news immediately sparked a lot of discussion among nearly 200,000 people in Gaotang City.

Guide Fang belongs to the civilian area in Gaotang City, and on this day, some bored Qi residents gathered together and chatted.

"Tell me, after the Gaotang Alliance this time, is there any hope for us to return to the Qi Kingdom?"

"Ha, I'm afraid your eyelids are covered by the straw mat at home. Now that the Qi army has been defeated, Dong'e and Linzi have been surrounded, if it weren't for the Yan army withdrawing from the siege, the king of Qi couldn't even get out of Linzi, how could he talk about recovering Gaotang? ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the people around him naturally couldn't help but sigh.

Although he accepted the fact that he was occupied by the Zhao State for the second time, after all, many of the people present had been from the Qi State for many generations.

An old man said tremblingly: "When I think about the time of King Wei and King Xuan, how majestic was the country of Wuqi, now, now...... Alas. ”

When the surrounding Gao Tang people heard these words, they couldn't help but have mixed feelings in their hearts for a while.

Someone said: "There is no need to mention the past, what is the era of the overlord of the world and the Eastern Emperor, now it has long passed." Since the Five Kingdoms invaded Qi, when has the Qi Kingdom been strong? I heard that the king of Qi and Xiangbang sang songs night after night, and there were many beautiful women accompanying them, how could they have ever cared about our life and death? ”

Complaining about the state and the ruler is the easiest to find resonance with at any given time.

So after this complaint began, someone immediately answered: "Exactly, I was originally a peasant outside the city, but since the Gao Tang Dynasty returned to Qi a few years ago, the king of Qi sent people to move thousands of families within a radius of 100 miles into the city, and they were demoted from peasant to worker, and the original land was occupied by the nobles of the Qi Guotian clan." ”

Another humane: "And the Zhao State is ten taxes and one, but the Qi State is eight taxes and one tax, and the taxes are much heavier than the Zhao State." Moreover, Zhao Guo is far inferior to Qi Guo in terms of the wealth of cultivated land. This King of Qi collects taxes so heavily, but the benefits of soldiers and armor are far less than those of Zhao, and it is even more ...... to fight Hey! The words were full of dissatisfaction and mockery.

After some gossip and ridicule of Qi Guo, everyone's mood seemed to be much better, so the topic began to change again.

"If that's the case, in fact, there seems to be nothing wrong with being a citizen of Zhao State."

"That's natural, you don't want to think about it, Zhao has always been expanding externally in the past few years, how can he ever be beaten? Being a citizen of Zhao is naturally excellent. ”

"This is nonsense, don't forget that there was a battle of Handan last year."

"Hey, the battle of Handan? I'm afraid you don't know that in the Battle of Handan, in order to prevent the people in the city from starving to death, King Zhao also exchanged his title with the ministers and doctors for food. Thou shalt ask thee, if Gao Tang is besieged for several months like Handan, will the King of Qi follow the example of King Zhao? ”

“…… Naturally, this will not be. ”

"How can this King of Qi care about the life and death of our Qianshou?"

"I'm afraid that at that time, we will be ordered to donate food for the garrison."

So it was another denunciation of the ruling class of Qi country.

“…… In this way, it is better to be a Zhao person. ”

"That's nature, we Qianshou, we just need to live in peace, no matter what he is King Zhao and King Qi, he is a king anyway. Don't rebel, rebellion is a dead end. ”

"Exactly, you can't see those people who abandoned the city a few days ago, none of them secretly instigated rebellion, and now they are all dead and dead. Besides, Zhao is the most powerful country in the world, where is it not stronger than Qi? ”

"That's right. If we become the people of Zhao State, this military disaster will be less in the future. ”

As soon as it came to the benefits of Zhao Guo, the atmosphere suddenly became a little warm again.

"Don't forget, the Zhao State has the same military merit system as the Qin State. If we go to join the Zhao army and behead us on the battlefield, then we will be able to get a share of the land. ”

"Land? Zhao has so much land? "Some people expressed skepticism.

"Hey, that's what you don't know. Zhao State has now won Hedong from Qin State, destroyed Lin Hu and obtained Hetao, and now defeated Qi State to win Gaotang, and there is a lot of land! My eldest brother passed through Hedong County a year ago, and when he came back, he told me that there is still a lot of land that is uncultivated, many of which are Ueda and the most recent is Nakata! ”

"Hey, there is no one to cultivate the Ueda and Nakata?" Many of the people of Qi who were watching were stunned, and hurriedly asked, "Why is this, could it be that those are all the lands of the Zhao royal family and the minister's doctor?" ”

"Fei Ye, Fei Ye, it is really a sparse population in Zhao State, and there are still many leftovers after the land is allocated to meritorious servicers."

This finally ignited the passion of the people of Qi State.

"The king of Qi ordered us to join the army, and he has always only paid us and not given land, but this Zhao State actually made meritorious contributions to the field, and can also have Shangtian?"

The speaker swore an oath: "That is nature, we are the neighbors of decades, what have I done to deceive you?" If you don't believe it, go to the officials of Zhao in the city and ask for it! ”

As a result, the enthusiasm of the people of all Qi countries has become even higher.

"Zhao Guo is too good, I want to be a Zhao Guoren!"

"Exactly, I have two sons who are both adults, so let them ask tomorrow to see if they can join Zhao Jun!"

……

Similar dialogues are playing out in many places in the city.

Unconsciously, the hearts of the people in Gaotang City began to change greatly.

It is obviously not by chance that so many places at the same time suddenly appear discussing the same thing.

The initiators and guides of these dialogues are often natives of Gaotang City, but at the same time, they actually have a secret identity that no one knows, that is, the informant of the guard.

It was with these informants that the Inspector was able to find out the situation in Gaotang City in just a few days.

Guiding public opinion and public opinion is actually the second task of the Supervision and Guardian faction.

In view of the generous rewards for the first task, the informants were also very interested in the implementation of the second task.

With the efforts of these local informants, the public opinion in Gaotang City is quietly changing.

A change that was extremely gratifying for Zhao Guo.