PS: I'm busy sorting out the oral history, so that's all for today

"Lao Tzu said that those who do nothing, although they do nothing, actually do everything."

When the canal plan called "Wei Qu" was nearly half implemented and everything was on the right track, Ji Ran also handed it over to other bureaucrats and came to Tongqi Palace to report to Zhao Wuxian about the situation in the past year and a half. Not long after he arrived, he met Ren Zhang's way of offering Lao Tzu to Zhao Wuxian.

As a person who has personally studied from Lao Tzu, Ji Ran naturally has his own opinions.

"The general can be lenient and natural in the places that have just ended the war, as well as the newly relocated immigrants, and if they are not managed, they can be managed regardless of it, which is also a kind of inaction, but on the general level, they must do everything!"

Compared with Ren Zhang's youthful and empty plan, Zhao Wuxian was obviously more interested in Ji Ran's strategy, and this economist who had seen through the Zhao family's unification of the Jin and Lu roads must be supported by an economic and cultural foundation was a plan to help him enrich the country and strengthen the army.

"Sir, please tell me more details."

Ji Ran said: "The natural cycle is a harvest every six years, a flat every six years, and a famine every twelve years. If you don't handle it well, the people will lose faith in the ruler's rule and leave you. Therefore, the ancient sages were able to predict the changes in the natural world in advance and prepare in advance. Therefore, at the time of the soup, the world was in a drought for seven years, but the people were not starved to death because of this; At the time of Xia Yu, the world suffered floods for nine consecutive years, and the people were not displaced. The reason for this was that the two monarchs were able to understand and learn about the nature and trends of things, and then appoint talented people to drive cars around the world to transport relief supplies. If you don't know this, even if there is a disaster within a radius of 100 miles, the government will not be able to save the people from the disaster. ”

"Predict, prepare, schedule, regulate, right?" Zhao Wuxian thought thoughtfully, just like the dispute between the market economy and the planned economy in later generations, the so-called inaction also has such self-contradictions.

But his goal is very clear, on the macro level, Zhao Wuxian's regime should try to extend its tentacles to places that the ministers of the Jin State Office could not touch in the past, and in the newly conquered lands, local grassroots organizations have been established one after another, and the data of the people have been put in the upper plan and handed over to him. How many hukou, how many acres, how many mines, how many rivers and ditches in the territory must be spread out on his case.

Then, according to the characteristics of different regions, the lack and surplus of the people, help and induce them to produce and accumulate wealth, and at the same time transfuse blood, sufficient food, and foot soldiers for the government treasury.

"But to achieve this, the general must first integrate the various territories of the Zhao clan!"

Now the Zhao clan controls the five major regions of Jinyang, Dongyang, Chaoge, Handan, and Changzi in the Jin Kingdom, as well as Wen County and the Guanshi in the south of Hejian, with a total of 500,000 households and a population of more than 2.5 million! Coupled with the Lu side, the Zhao clan already controlled nearly four million people, accounting for a quarter of the total population of China at that time......

These are just numbers on paper, and how to turn these populations into enterprising momentum is what Zhao will have to worry about in the next few years.

Therefore, the huge Zhao clan now needs a center that can take care of both the east and west of Taihang as the main city to coordinate and dispatch, which is also the problem to be solved by Zhao Wuxian's summoning of Ji Ran this time......

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"Wen County was originally the place where the ancestral spirit of the Zhao family temple was located, but the Zhao family's territory there was too small, and the communication between Wen County and the rest of the place was separated by the Han family's territories, and it was easy to be raided by the enemy from the upper reaches of the river and from Cheng Zhou and Zheng Guo, so it was not suitable, plus there was no advantage of the terrain, and it was not for nothing that the Su family died here."

"As for the general's current station, Chaoge, after the communication of Weiqu, it will be extremely convenient to travel to and from Caoyun, and you can communicate with Lu nearby, if the general's ambition lies in the three-point Jin Kingdom, the future development direction also lies in Hebei and Haidai, Chaoge does have the potential to be the main city. However, this city is comfortable and easy to breed extravagance, and the people of the Fan family do not have enough sense of identity with the Zhao family. It is too far west of Taihang to control the general and control the entire Jin Kingdom. ”

In the territory of the Zhao family, there are two other big cities in Jinyang and Handan, which are the capitals of the Zhao State in history.

They each have their own strengths, and each has its own weaknesses, Jinyang is the frontier of the annexation of the country, the two generations of Zhao family heads worked hard to build, if it were not for the heresy of Zhao Wuxian, Jinyang was destined to become the future of the Zhao family.

It's a pity that the Zhao clan is now expanding countless territories in the East, even far exceeding the period of King Huiwen, who cut the Qi State several times in history, and even occupied the land of Jixi, so that the position of Jinyang is a little awkward, and it is not suitable to become the center of the whole region.

As for Handan, it was the best location to expand into Xianyu Zhongshan and Northern Yan, but in Zhao Wuxian's view, it was at most a capital of hegemony rather than a royal road, and the historical state of Zhao also proved this well......

In addition, there is also Zhongmu in the place where the capital of Zhao State has been in history, and Zhao Wuxian's boundaries and vision at this time are not considered at all.

After picking a few places that were not suitable, Zhao Wuxian asked, "Where does that gentleman think is the best?" ”

Ji Ran also smiled: "The general already has a plan in his heart, why bother asking the servants again?" ”

Wuxian smiled: "I already have an alternative place in my heart, I don't know if it's okay, I hope Mr. will choose it for me." ”

Ji Ran said: "Coincidentally, the servants also have an alternative. ”

"What is the gentleman thinking?"

"General, don't say anything, write the name of the place in the palm of your hand with me, and then unfold it together, how about it?"

The two took pen and ink, looked at each other's eyes, picked up the cuffs and wrote quickly in the palm of their hands, and then moved closer to the desk, stretched out under the lamp and candle, and unfolded together! They looked at each other and laughed in unison.

It turns out that the word in Zhao Wuxian's palm is a "Ye" word, and Ji Ran's palm is also a "Ye" word!

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Since the Duke of Qi Huan built a city to defend the country and defend Rong Di here, the history of Ye is less than two hundred years, but Zhao Wuxian attaches great importance to this thousand-room town.

First of all, it is a strategic location, Yecheng is located at the key position of the eastern foot of Taihang, and it is a necessary place for north-south traffic. The mountains and rivers are dangerous, the original Xi is flat, according to the throat of Hebei, it is not an exaggeration to call it the waist of Jizhou! It lives in Handan and Chaoge, and it is very convenient to invade Zhongshan and Yan in the north, or to enter Qi in the east. Entering the mouth of the pot in the west, you can reach the Tong Ba where he controls the Marquis of Jin, and then go north from the Tong Ba, which is Jinyang.

Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a corner, and those who do not seek the general trend are not enough to seek a moment. Zhao Wuxian's perspective on the world is global, not biased. Different from those cities that can only make the Zhao clan hegemonic, Yecheng may allow the political and economic centers of the Zhao clan to slowly converge here, fully develop Hebei, train troops and accumulate corn, which can not only grow the Central Plains, but also slaughter Rong Di, without delay.

As for the economy, Ji Ran is also optimistic about the new city.

"As early as three years ago, the general asked Cheng Jian to serve as Ye Ling, and I felt that the general had a good eye for this place, so I also paid attention to it when I was singing. I found that although Yecheng looks barren and desolate, it is because it has not yet been developed, and there are surging rivers in the south of Yecheng to form a natural barrier, and the Huan River, Fu River, and Zhanghe River all flow through the vicinity of Yecheng, which is very convenient for irrigating farmland. ”

"In the past three years, the general first sent soldiers to build embankments to control the flood disaster, and then asked Cheng Jian to mobilize the people to dig 12 ditches in Yecheng, divert river water to irrigate the people's fields, and moved Handan, Chaoge, and the people of the country to each 1,000 households in the past, Yecheng suddenly took on a new look, and now it is a Dayi with 5,000 households. If 10,000 more households of the people of the old city are allowed to move over, the uncultivated wasteland outside Yecheng can become a thousand miles of fertile wilderness! “

Zhao Wuxian also sighed a little that under the regulation and control of the government, a barren place can also grow into a capital of ten thousand households.

During this period, there will naturally be the bitterness of leaving their homeland and the pain of clan separation, but Zhao Wuxian has gradually believed in the Legalist "people can be happy, not to worry about it." "Although the fathers and children who have been forcibly relocated, and the locals who have been recruited to dig ditches, will feel distressed and miserable, they only need to be given a few years of rest after their hard work, and they will be exempted from some taxes and labor. When the economy develops, the new residents of Yedi will naturally feel sorry for what they have done today, just like Zheng people miss their children......

"Don't hide it, sir, I'm just going to build Yecheng into the new lord of the Zhao family."

This is a land of hope and abundance, a city of immigrants, who come from all over the world, can break away from the identity restrictions of Fan, Zhongxing, Gongshi, and Rongdi, break away from this frontier and the other world, and gather here to get a new identity.

That's Zhao Ren!

In the eyes of the shirtless, it seems that he can see a few years, or more than ten years later, the scene of the Yecheng Plain for thousands of miles, and the Zhanghe River and the four links, the scene in Zuo Si's "Wei Dufu": "Erqi's territory is next to Qi, Qin, and Jidao; open-minded Yin and Wei, straddle Yan and Zhao; The mountains and forests are secluded, and the rivers and rivers are reminiscent...... "These gorgeous descriptions may appear on the banks of Zhangshui 800 years in advance!"

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The completion of Yecheng did not happen overnight, and Zhao Wuxian asked the cadre Cheng to develop it for three years, but it only gave Yecheng a foundation that could be set as the capital, and long-term immigration and development were needed to develop. In addition, Jinyang, Changzi, Handan, and Chaoge should continue to develop into regional centers, which are either more important than the economy or more important than military expansion.

After the end of this question, Ji Ran reminded Zhao Wuxian before leaving: "Shang with six hundred worships, and died in the hundred miles of Qi Zhou, for the Qin State that occupies the hometown of Zong Zhou, there are eight hundred miles of Wei Pingchuan, the general must not be guarded, given time, once Qin out of the Ming monarch and virtuous ministers, and then learn the general's art of governing the country nearby, it is enough to become the great enemy of the Zhao family......"

"I know." Zhao Wuxian nodded, in terms of the importance and vigilance of the Qin State, I am afraid that no one in the world can be more vigilant than him, after all, the memory that the Qin State brought to him in history is too profound, which makes the blood of future generations boil, and also makes the authorities afraid......

But on this historical line, the black empire that swept the world may still be surnamed Ying, a descendant of Xuanniao, but it is not necessarily Qin......

He smiled and said: "Sir, don't worry, one day, I will teach the people of Qin well, Zhao and Qin's two families, Zhao is the great sect that makes them get the clan, if there is disrespect, the family law will serve!" ”

(To be continued.) )