This alone is enough for Gongzizhang to attach so much importance to it, not to mention the Mo family's own military strength, financial resources, loans, and military strength in the Gaoyanagi area.

His cousin Gongzi Chao is looking for a backer from the Wei State, which is now in full swing, and it is really an invincible opponent in the world, and Gongzi Zhang also needs more support to fight against possible threats.

This group of people came here not only to greet Suo Lushen, but also for the sake of Que and Jun, in Gongzizhang's view, this was an opportunity to clean up his cousin while his uncle was seriously ill.

After the death of the Liehou Zhao, the reform of the Gongzhonglian continued, and many of the country's ministers were promoted during the Liehou era to fight against the growing Gongclan.

This is a very strong force, and they support Gongzi Zhang's accession to the throne.

In this era of change, and because of the acceleration of the technological spread of the Mohists in recent years, the battle for inheritance is no longer just a simple struggle between nobles, but involves the dispute between the reformers and the old school.

For example, in any country today, as long as the law is changed, it will inevitably harm the interests of the old aristocracy.

To fight against the old aristocracy, it also led to the rise of the gentry class and the division of power, and at the same time, the gentry class needed to strengthen the royal power to fight against the old nobility.

When Zhao was still alive, he appointed Gongzhonglian to reform, and before his death, he also had a long secret talk with Gongzhonglian and others.

Zhou Tianzi had the position of a concubine official, which was used to educate the princes and doctors.

The Three Jin Dynasty has a middle concubine, a prince, a prince, a prince, a Xiangguo and even a prince, all have a concubine.

Now the person who came to greet Suo Lushen was the middle concubine of Gongzizhang, who was a Zhao person, and it was recommended by Xun Xin after the reform of Gongzhonglian. Xun Xin, as a lieutenant, has the obligation and power to recommend talents, which can always maintain a good team under Gongzizhang.

Gongzizhang's middle concubine's surname is Xu, not a line after Xu Yan Wang Boyi, who opposed Zhou Tianzi, but after the rebellion of the three eunuchs moved to the Lu State after the six descendants of Yin Shang, a single name and a benefit character.

When the nobles and scholars began to compete for power, paper and printing had also begun to spread everywhere from Sishang, so the way of "lieutenants recommending talents" like Zhao Guo was already a little backward when it first appeared.

Although if paper and printing could not appear, then this way of recommendation would still be stronger than the hereditary ruling of the nobles of the Shiqing after all, and at least there would be some upward paths.

In this way of recommendation, the characters who can be the middle concubines of Gongzizhang must be well-educated, but they must also be family figures who have some connection with officials, which is inevitable.

Unless it is a world-famous figure like Zhong Ni and Mo Zhai, how can a person who has his own talent be noticed by the lieutenant?

Xu Yi is a clansman of Xu Yue in the internal history, but he is not a deep-rooted clan of Zhao State. Xu Yue was also after the reform of the Gongzhong Lian, and used the identity of a scholar as an internal history to strengthen the royal power against the prince Shiqing.

After the report, Xu Yi and Suo Lu saluted and said: "The prince is seriously ill, and Yu Zhi and the prince are the middle uncles of the son; Yu Gong and the prince are the kings of the sons. Because the son can't come in person, send me to greet him. Gong traveled tens of thousands of miles to the west to the country of the Queen Mother of the West, and he had a lot of knowledge, and the Mo family was many talents, and the son was the most virtuous, so I couldn't come in person this time, so I must tell you. ”

Suo Lu returned the salute, smiling secretly in his heart, thinking that at this time, Zhao Hou was about to die, this Gongzi Zhang must be staying in Zhongmu, could it be that when his uncle died, his heir was not in the national capital?

Seeing through it or not, Suo Lushen smiled and said: "Childe's heart, we understand it." I'm on my way to Handan, and I still have some things to deal with. ”

"Although the prince is ill, it is said that some things should not be said at this time. But there is no trivial matter in the law of the country, and the Mo family captured some people in Gaoliu and privately transferred some goods that were strictly forbidden to trade with the Hu people under the order of Zhao Hou, which was ...... I have to say it. ”

That's what he's here for.

Since Gao Liu has decided to talk about this matter, it involves the relationship behind it, and the moment when Zhao Hou is seriously ill, this is actually a statement: the Mo family will support Gongzizhang's accession to the throne.

The sooner you make a statement, the sooner you can bring Wei, Han, and Qi in. Suo Lushen knew that the Tian clan had just obtained the official throne through the help of Marquis Wei last year, and it was impossible for the Qi State not to express this matter.

Xu Yi heard Suo Lushen say this, and praised: "In the past, Zhao Xianjun Jianzi cast a punishment tripod, and it has been nearly a hundred years. Not to mention that the Mohist law of killing people and killing and injuring people is the law of Zhao State, and such a big crime of reselling prohibited things without permission is also unforgivable. ”

Knowing this, after advocating with each other, Xu Yi invited Suo Lushen to board the car on the left to show respect and go to Handan together.

As early as when the Liehou was still alive, Handan had a large area of fiefdom belonging to the young Gongzi Zhang, and then a lot of land was sealed before his death, because the prince without a fief had no right to speak.

Xu Yi, as the middle concubine of Gongzizhang, has been operating in Handan all these years, and some of the Mo family's activities in Handan are also carried out through Xu Yi.

All the way to Handan, Suo Lushen learned that the relationship between the Mo family and Gongzizhang was not just as simple as cooperation.

The Mo family is also the largest creditor of Gongzizhang.

Because Gongzi Zhang was only a son at this time, not Zhao Hou, and he also had to face the persecution of his uncle and cousin, he wanted to train his own team, private soldiers, and run his own fiefdom Handan, which required a lot of money.

It costs money to build the city wall, it costs money to recruit scholars, it costs money to buy weapons, and in short, nothing can be done without money.

In troubled times, merchants lived very well, and the big merchants of the Warring States Period could not only lend money to the Son of Heaven, but also force debts.

This trend continued until the Han Dynasty, when the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu were in turmoil, the country was short of money to borrow, and some martyrs in Chang'an were also short of money and needed to borrow money to earn military merits and regain their fiefdoms, but many merchants thought that the war situation was uncertain, and even thought that the Seven Kingdoms might win, and refused to borrow.

The Wuyan clan decisively lent usury, and lent it to those martyrs who stood with the central government at an ultra-high interest rate of ten times the principal and interest, and after quelling the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, they recovered the principal and obtained enough political capital at the same time.

This kind of businessman interference in politics is most likely in times of strife among nations.

And now, if you talk about the world's great wealth, no one can compare with the well-organized Mo family, and this matter of borrowing money naturally falls on the Mo family.

Zhao Gongzizhang borrowed so much money from the Mo family that he couldn't afford to repay it unless he could obtain the position of Zhao Hou. This also involves the money of many big businessmen who are guaranteed and led by the Mohists, and these money need to be repaid with various policy preferences in the future.

It was with the help of the Mo family's loan that Gongzizhang was able to rebuild Handan City, strengthen Handan's defense, and hire Mo family technicians to help build the city wall and a systematic line wall.

Some cannons for defending the city were purchased, and the small-scale reform of Handan City was initially completed.

There are too many debts owed, and it is not the Mo family alone, but many businessmen from Zhao Di are organized to lend it together, so Zhao Gongzizhang does not dare to default. Once the default is made, these merchants and the Mo family alliance can push him up, and they can also pull him down, and the princes who are willing to admit this loan are.

Whoever admits this loan is Zhao Hou recognized by the Mo family and those businessmen, as for whether it is a side branch or something else, these people don't recognize it at all.

Under various factors, Xu Yi, as the concubine of Gongzi Zhang, was extremely polite to Suo Lushen.

Before Suo Lushen became a Mo, he was also a low-level nobleman, and he was full of books, knowing that although Handan was not the capital of Zhao at this time, it had always been a city that the Zhao family attached great importance to, and it was also one of the foundations of the Zhao family.

At the beginning of the establishment of Yin Shang, the city was built in Xingtai as the capital, and Handan was in Gyeonggi.

Later, in the era of Zhao Jianzi, because of the relocation of Handan to Jinyang, it led to the internal strife of the Zhao family and led to the chaos of the Three Jin Dynasty.

Zhao Liehou gave Handan to Gongzizhang before his death, because he was worried that his younger brother would not return his position at that time, so as to prepare some back roads for Gongzizhang in advance.

In the past, the Zhao clan was able to rely on the city of Jinyang to win the battle, and if Handan City could be completely controlled by Gongzizhang, it would also be able to burst out with great power. Coupled with the support of internal and external courtiers, it is more secure that this throne will be passed from uncle to nephew.

At this time, a lot of land was rewarded, and at this time, he had just become Wei Xiang's uncle, and he was rewarded with 1.4 million acres of land.

These rewarded lands, including those who cultivate the land, are bound to people and land, and it is impossible for the nobles to go to the fields to dig for food, so the feudal land serfdom system that binds the people is the bottom line that the nobles cannot give up.

Before the advent of iron oxen farming, there could have been no such simple money rent or complete rent in kind, for the efficiency of exploitation could not have been guaranteed by stone, wood, mussel shells, and bronze.

This inevitably led to this semi-serfdom, in which the nobility enjoyed the rent of servitude and the fruits of the labor of the serfs in these fiefdoms.

Since Zhao Ji gave Handan to his son, many lands and people in Handan also belonged to his son.

The Mo family's mining and iron smelting in Handan, the spread of oxen and horse farming techniques, the introduction of new crops, and the material basis of Zhao Guoduoma all made some changes made Gongzizhang's changes in his fiefdom a reality.

Coupled with the side of his own son-in-law, there are some hidden ink people, coupled with the private mu system that has already appeared in the Three Jin Dynasty, from Zhao Ji's death to the present thirteen years, Handan's reform has begun to bear fruit.

Even some of the scholars and subordinate officials around Gongzizhang did not divide the land again, but gave enough money.

The prosperity of the commodity economy and the increase in agricultural surplus products have given real significance to the use of money.