The working class of Zhao believed that it was necessary to elect a man of high moral standing to be their representative. And it is better for this representative to have some influence. Especially in terms of force. Able to show their loyalty to the country.

In the Zhao State, the martial spirit has always been the most admired by the Zhao people. So it also decided that they would choose a soldier to be their representative. They initially fixed this representation on a few military governors, but the election of prime ministers was at the central level, which was the central system of the country. Several local military governors apparently did not have such prestige. For this reason, they chose to target the most prestigious general of Zhao State, Li Mu.

So the working class began to look for opportunities to contact Li Mu. And Li Mu didn't care about the election of the prime minister, in his eyes, this was a new trick made by the Qin State. It's better not to contact this new trick too early.

Li Mu agrees with advanced technology, after all, his views on weapons have changed his original preliminary understanding of technology, and technology can raise the combat power to a new height, but if new things are rashly used, there is still a certain degree of inappropriateness. This is Li Mu's view.

Regarding politics, Li Mu is obviously a little insensitive. But for the interests of Zhao, he believes that the so-called democratic politics of Qin is very problematic. But what's the problem? He didn't know either. After all, there was no major upheaval in the Qin state, and South Korea, which was dependent on the Qin state, did not adopt this so-called democratic politics. In short, it is better not to touch this so-called democratic politics.

And the working class of Zhao State has regarded Li Mu as their only spokesperson. For this reason, they began to actively go to Handan to petition Li Mu to serve as the elector of the new prime minister. But Li Mu was in Xianyang, Qin State at this time. Not in Handan. He still didn't know about it.

However, Zhao's election as prime minister made the other six countries feel a little excited. Especially the Jixia School Palace of the Qi State. At the end of the Warring States period, people of various schools felt that they could take advantage of this opportunity to make a big difference. For the previous Qin State election, they all knew about it later, and when they knew the news, the Qin State had already completed the election, and it was a young man they had never heard of before.

However, they didn't care much about the development of the Qin State, they cared about their own prosperity and the reputation of their own school, and for a country, this kind of utilitarian heart still had a somewhat negative impact.

Since the election of the Qin State did not catch up, and now that the Zhao State is holding an election, they decided to go to the Zhao State to give it a try, maybe there will be a situation in which the Zhao State is prosperous, the Central Plains rises, and the Qin State is dominant, and this kind of merit can leave a strong mark in history.

For Zhao's election, other countries are not very concerned. Especially the state of Chu and the state of Yan, the state of Yan was busy with war, while the state of Chu was as chaotic as the state of Qin. The upper nobles are divided into several factions, and some are plotting to rebel, saying that they are plotting, but this is close to being public, but no one has publicly reported it, which is a bit incredible, which makes the conspiracy a little confusing, saying that the current king of Chu is not a royal bloodline, but the son of Chun Shenjun. This kind of rumor is very widespread among the people, but people just take him as a talking point and do not take it seriously, and the conspirators regard him as a reason to overthrow the throne of the king of Chu. And preparations have already begun.

While the other Chu nobles were busy stepping up their efforts to develop south of the Yangtze River. In particular, they have found another way to make a fortune. That is the evil slave trade.

The Qin state had a strong demand for slaves, especially in the Bazhong region, which had completed large-scale land annexation and the development of newly cultivated land. Due to the small population, there are particularly large land resources, especially arable land. Plus the large-scale promotion of new crops, especially rice, wheat. In the traditional strategy of the Qin state, Bazhong has always been the reserve granary of the Qin Empire. Therefore, the Bazhong region is another important grain producing area of the Qin State after Guanzhong and the Hetao in the north, and it is also the most important commercial grain area of the Qin State.

However, the region experienced a significant decline in food production following land annexation, especially the disproportionate sowing and harvesting of grain. This situation is mainly due to the lack of labor input. Due to the obstruction of the entire Qinling Mountains, some large agricultural machinery and equipment of the Qin State could not be transferred to the Bashu region in the south. In the Qin state, the mechanization of agriculture had already been realized, and there were a large number of slaves transported by rail in the northern Hetao region. And the Bashu region, because of the inconvenient transportation, especially the slaves from the north, is difficult to reach. In addition, the demand for the use of slaves in the Qin State was extremely strong.

Almost all the railways in the western part of the Qin State were built by people from the Western Regions. Without these prisoners of war, I am afraid that the Qin State would not have been able to complete such a huge amount of railway construction in just a few months.

In this way, the demand for railroad construction consumed most of the supply of slaves. However, the Bashu region in the south is facing the situation where there are no slaves available. However, the Qin people still have their own methods. That is, the use of force to obtain the nearest one.

The locals in the Bashu region are mainly Ba people, these Ba people are naturally short, but most of these Ba people are subject to the Qin state, and the Qin people cannot attack these areas. But the Qin State urgently needed a large number of slaves to meet the needs of agricultural production, for this reason, the Qin people developed to the south again, and in the south it was also a country that was ostensibly subject to the Qin State, this country was the Yelang State, but the jurisdiction of the Qin State over the Yelang State seemed to be very loose, in fact, it was also the case, when the Qin Dynasty was in turmoil, the Yelang State quickly got rid of the control of the Qin Dynasty, and it was not until the Han Dynasty that it returned to the jurisdiction of the central government.

It was such a country that the mercenaries of the Qin State, especially those who captured slaves, chose the Yelang Kingdom as an important source of slaves. However, the population in the south is relatively sparse, and the Yelang country is close to some mountainous areas, which makes the cost of capturing slaves higher, and the demand for slaves in the Bashu region is far greater than the supply, and this supply slowly spread to the Jiangbei port of the Qin State in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

More and more merchant ships from the Chu State berthed at the docks of the Qin State. Qinguo Wharf not only has fast loading and unloading speed, but also berthing services and commercial trade are very convenient. In particular, in terms of information exchange, it is faster than Shouyang, the capital of Chu State. What the Qin State lacks, the merchants of the Chu State will soon know. Because they had to do business with the Qin people in order to obtain commercial benefits.

Soon, the news of the lack of a large number of slaves in the Bashu region upstream reached the docks. In particular, the newspapers reported on the incident, but the Qin government paid extremely little attention to the matter. But the merchants of Chu State keenly saw the business opportunities.

There were many Yue people in the southern part of the Chu State. The number of Yue people is also relatively large. It's just that the special climate and geographical environment of the south are not very suitable for combat. This is something that the merchants of Chu do not want to see.

"The Qin people needed a large number of slaves in Bashu. At least at this number. As he spoke, a Chu merchant stretched out five fingers.

"Fifty thousand?" Another skinny Chu merchant shouted.

"Is 50,000 possible?" The merchant of Chu said disdainfully.

"Could it be ・・・・・," the thin merchant of Chu exclaimed in surprise.

"More than half a million." The merchant of Chu said.

"So much!" Other Chu merchants said in surprise.

"Yes, think about it, the Qin State has already developed in the south, and I heard that it is particularly difficult to arrest people over there. And how many Yue people were in the south of the Chu State. These Yue people and natives are so ignorant. We might as well be the same as the Qin people, we also have weapons in our hands anyway. The merchant of Chu said excitedly.

"This" merchant began to hesitate.

"Think about it. The Qin people can even defeat the Xiongnu in the north, why can't we Chu people. The Chu businessman said excitedly.

"Besides, I've thought it all through." This merchant of the Chu State obviously came prepared.

"This is a map of the Qin State," said the merchant as he took out a map of all of China drawn by the Qin State, which was drawn according to the huge sand table of the Qin State General Staff. Moreover, as long as this area is occupied by the Qin State, there are more detailed latitude and longitude coordinates. The areas that the Qin state did not control were only roughly poorly mapped, but this kind of mapping has broadened people's horizons, because people did not yet know that the southern regions could be reached through the sea, especially further south. And connecting these souths is the ocean.

"Give birth, this map clearly indicates that to the south of our Wuyue region, there are still large areas of land, and these lands, if you go by land, are all poor mountains and bad waters." After saying that, all the merchants nodded in agreement.

"But these areas, especially to the east, are all seas. What do we rely on for food, we rely on boats? Our boat can go on the Yangtze River, so why not go from the sea to those southern lands. The merchant of Chu said loudly. And so the businessman came to his senses at this time.

"That's right, we can bypass these mountains, land from the sea, and then we will arrest people nearby, and then transport people to the Bashu region through the Yangtze River, and then we will transport the rice and grain of Bashu back to Chu, or we will come to Jiangbei Port and bring back these industrial products of Qin. That's a lot of money. A businessman said excitedly.

"I said, that's not all, think about it."

"In addition to these, there are many things in the South. Listening to the newspapers of the Qin State, what spices are there in the south. This thing is in great demand among the ladies of the Chu State. Not only can you buy it for those women, but the women of the Qin Kingdom also like it very much, how high the price of those Qin perfumes is. A businessman stepped forward and said.

"It's not just spices, it's land, and these lands can grow tea and dry salt."