On the first day of November, the tenth year of King Zhao, New Year's Day.

In the main hall of Xingong, hundreds of ministers of Zhao were all wearing clothes that could best experience their identity. They were erected in two rows, full of people, and their heads were swaying.

Only a dozen people can have seats with the monarch on such occasions and sit closest to the monarch. They either have retired or have great power, but without exception, they are all titles above the lord, and are the true and great figures of the State of Zhao.

A polite official whispered: "Master, the king is here!"

After the words came, the inner side door of the hall was opened, and the master father and Zhao He and his son walked in.

Everyone stood up and saluted: "I have met the Lord Father, the King!"

The voice was warm and loud, echoing in the hall.

The master father and Zhao He bowed to the ministers, and then the seats each took their seats and the seats continued to stand.

The master father glanced at Zhao He and said, "Wang'er, read the list."

Although it was a great victory, many ministers close to the Lord's Father could detect that the Lord's Father seemed to have some lack of interest.

Zhao He nodded and looked at Miao Xian beside him.

Miao Xian understood and immediately stepped forward, picked up a piece of...yellow paper, and slowly unfolded it.

This piece of paper is about three feet square, and it attracted a lot of people's attention when it was taken out because they could see that it was not the silk paper commonly used.

As a time traveler, papermaking is almost a basic operation. Even if someone who knew nothing about it before, he would not be familiar with it after reading a few historical time travel novels at Qidian. It would be fine to understand it.

After Zhao He issued an order and provided a general formula and ideas, after several years of exploration, Zhao State has produced paper that is cheap enough and of high quality.

Today is a signature date when paper is about to be officially released and put into daily use.

Everyone in the hall calmed down, waiting for Miao Xian's next reading.

Rewarding merits and deeds is definitely the most anticipated moment for everyone.

Miao Xian cleared his throat vigorously and began to recite:

"On the protection of the ancestors of Zhao's clan, the Great Zhao has won the state of Qi and has expanded the land for thousands of miles. Now I am specially rewarded with meritorious soldiers as follows:

Feiyi, forty years, assisted Xian Suhou, the master of his father, and I. He was connected to the princes outside and governed the country internally. He also helped reform and made the Great Zhao prosperous today and should be the chief minister. Now Feiyi was named Gaotang Lord, with a fief of Gaotang City, and a fief of ten thousand households!"

Fei Yi's body shook, and his eyes, which were originally presbyopia, burst out with light in an instant. He was overwhelmed by huge joy. He stood up and saluted deeply to his master's father and Zhao He: "I thank you, thank you, thank you, the king!"

The master father smiled and said, "Your Majesty Gao Tang, you don't have to be too polite."

Zhao He also replied with a smile: "The fat teacher will need to worry more in the future."

Miao Xian continued: "Niu Jian, for many years, fought for the Great Zhao, expelled Lin, Hu Dingloufan, destroyed Zhongshan and defeated Qi, and made great contributions to the Great Zhao. Now Niu Jian was named Wu Chengjun and his fiefdom was Zhongrencheng."

Niu Jian was shocked, and his whole mind burst out and turned blank for a moment.

You should know that being a minister is never extremely difficult to obtain, and it can even be said to be more difficult than climbing to heaven.

Although the princes have been vigorously recruiting talents from various countries since the three families divided Jin, and even the promise of splitting the territory to reward them has come out, in fact, it is really too stingy to be a monarch.

In the history of the Warring States Period, most of the vassals were members of the country's public tribe (i.e. royal tribe), and members outside the public tribe were rare and very few.

Among the most famous "Four Princes of the Warring States Period", only Chunshen Jun Huang Xie did not belong to the Duke of Chu. The other three, such as Mengchang Jun Tian Wen, Pingyuan Jun Zhao Sheng, and Xinling Jun Wei Wuji, were either the cousins ​​of the king or just the brothers.

In addition to the princes, there was only one Shang Yang himself, since Shang Yang's reform. The reason why Marquis Rang was able to be a prince was that he was the first minister who supported the King of Qin in the civil war, and on the other hand, it was that Wei Ran and Empress Dowager Xuan had a mother, who belonged to the foreign relatives, and were also considered to be half a member of the princes.

Zou Ji, the founder of Qi, presided over the internal coup of Qi and helped King Wei of Qi defeat the Wei Kingdom and finally led King Wei of Qi to dominate.

Le Yi in history also helped Yan State swallow up most of the territory of Qi State.

It is not difficult to see that if you want to obtain such a status, you must make an outstanding contribution that will make the monarchs unquestionably.

Others, such as Sima Cuoganluo from Qin, Yu Xin from Zhao, Ju Xin from Yan, Sun Bin from Qi, etc., are all quite famous figures in history, but they still have no chance of this minister.

So when I learned that Fei Yi was awarded the title, Niu Jian was happy for his old friend on the one hand, and on the other hand, he quietly extinguished the thoughts in his heart.

A monarch with a different surname other than the public tribe often finds one difficult to produce in a hundred years. Now that we have all the feudal lords, what else can we think of?

However, what Niu Jian never expected was that the next moment, a huge joy fell from the sky and hit him directly on his head.

At this moment, the general of Zhao, who has always been known for his strength and courage, seemed a little helpless. He finally stood up at the reminder of others and worshiped the master's father, Zhao He, "I, thank you, thank you, thank you, the master's father, thank you!"

The master's father gave him a message and Zhao He nodded with a smile.

Zhuxian continued to recite: "Tian Jing, a native of Qi, led the people of Qi to abandon the secret and turn to the light and made a contribution. He was appointed as the Linzi Order and was appointed as the Supreme Minister. He was appointed as the Advisory Group of the Great Zhao, and can participate in the national affairs."

A gray-haired old man stood up and said in a tone with a distinctly singular accent: "Thank you, Lord, and Lord."

Zhao He's eyes stopped on Tian Jing's face for a moment, and he also smiled and greeted.

There is no shortage of surrender factions in any era. Tian Jing is the leader of the surrender factions in Qi State.

According to Zhao He's idea, Su Qin should have served this position.

What is interesting is that Tian Jing and Tian Jing, who rejected the Lord's father's persuasion and committed suicide in the Qi Hall that day, were brothers of a mother and a compatriot.

"Si Kou Zhou Qi helped the master's father, and I made contributions to governing the country and was granted the title of Supreme Minister."

"The great master Qiu Ye, who made contributions to diplomatic affairs, was granted the title of Zhongqing."

"Lieutenant Zhao Wen, conferred Zhongqing."

"Le Yi, he was successful in attacking Qi, and was granted the title of Xia Qing. He led the military affairs of Qi."

Next was a long list of names, and then two familiar names jumped out.

"Liang Po, who was successful in attacking Qi, was granted the title of Zhongda Doctor."

"Zhao She, who was successful in attacking Qi, was granted the title of doctor."

...

The list was very long. It took Zhuxian a half hour to finish reading it all.

Almost most of the people in the hall received rewards. Although their contributions vary greatly and with high or low rewards, this is a surprising day in any case.

In the hall, Lou Yan had a gloomy face and felt very uncomfortable all over his body.

He turned around and saw Xinqi standing not far behind him, who was also as dark as ink. The two of them looked at each other and didn't say anything.

At this moment, Zhao He stood up.

The whole hall quickly became quiet.

Zhao He cleared his throat and spoke slowly.

"Everyone, in the past year, Da Zhao has won an extremely grand victory.

We defeated Qi, the overlord who was the first in the world not long ago, and was still commanding the world.

Kuang Zhang, the so-called No. 1 general in the world, died.

The martial artsman, the so-called most powerful army in the world, was also defeated by our hands.

Nearly 70% of Qi's land and population fell into the hands of Da Zhao.

Looking at the world, Great Zhao is undoubtedly the most powerful country in the world. All of this... is not only the glory of the Lord Father, but also the glory of yours, the common glory of millions of soldiers and civilians in the entire Great Zhao!"

Zhao He paused and said, "But, I'm thinking, is such a victory enough?

No.

I think that such a victory is certainly an unprecedented victory for the founding of the Kingdom of Great Zhao in more than a hundred years, but it is far from enough for me, for you, and even for the entire Great Zhao!

What is the history of China like since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors? Our ancestors overcome difficulties and fought against countless enemies, and established tribes step by step. Then the tribes united to form alliances, and finally became a country in Xia Qi's hands.

The history of the Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Dynasty is extremely long, but the Xia and Shang Dynasty have long disappeared, and the Zhou Dynasty...everyone of us knows what the so-called Zhou emperor in Luoyi was like.

Establishing laws and dividing states and establishing countries, our ancestors have produced many and many wise men. They do their best to make the Chinese people live a better life.

Did they do it?

I think they did do part of it.

During the time of Yanhuang, China was just a small, new race. But now, we have defeated the Yi people, Hu people, Di people, Rong people, and the entire Central Plains have belonged to our Chinese princes. We drove them to the plateau, to the desert, to the Chongshan, and to the swamp.

This is the contribution of our ancestors.

We cannot, and should not lie on the credit book of our ancestors and do nothing. We should go further, follow the trend of history, make greater contributions to China and this era!

The contribution of Da Zhao!

Whether it is the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, or the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the people of our Huaxia tribe are not at peace in most of their lives.

Why? Because of the war!

Because we need to fight non-stop.

In the past, we fought against the barbarians, Rong and Di, so Duke Huan of Qi said that we should respect the king and expel the barbarians!

Now, the King of Zhou has declined, and the barbarian Rongdi have been driven away long ago. Shouldn’t our goal be achieved? Why are there still wars?

Because we still have to fight ourselves!

Zhao, Qin, Chu, Wei, Han, Yan, Qi, which one did not come from China? But after driving away our foreign enemies, our mutual killing was even more serious than when we fought against foreign enemies!

The Battle of Yique, the Battle of Taoyi, the Battle of Gaotang, and the Battle of Linzi are all victories that will be recorded in history. Many of them are the victory of our Da Zhao. When I think of these battles, I feel very happy, but I feel a little regretful from my heart.

Whether it is the Great Zhao or the enemies of the Great Zhao, they are all members of the Huaxia tribe, and they should not have died on this battlefield of killing each other.
To be continued...