Just when the two sides were fighting and Lian Po had not yet defeated his opponent, Zhao Ren was not panicked at all.

They were busy talking and laughing in their own farmland. When talking about the Qin people, they just said disdainfully: "Ma Fujun is here, and they dare not get close to them." Zhao Kuo's existence gave them great confidence, or a sense of security. During these days, Zhao people boasted about Ma Fujun. The remarks that Fan Ju said that Qin people were only afraid of Ma Fuzi were spread widely. This was what the Qin king said in person, so how could it be fake?

Zhao Kuo also knew that the battle situation was getting closer and closer to him, and during this period, the sorrow between his eyebrows was increasing. Fortunately, his arrival did bring some good reforms to these eras. At least, the Qin people no longer carried out large-scale massacres. I heard that they even let more than 100,000 prisoners in the State of Chu, and the King of Qin wrote a letter to tell Zhao Kuo this good news.

In the letter, the King of Qin said that I agree with your opinion very much, but no one around me can consult, and it is always easy to make mistakes. If you can be by my side, Qin will definitely become a benevolent country, treat all common people well, and establish a unified and prosperous era without war.

A Qin man called Zheng Anping attacked Zhao State. Lian Po asked for battle again. King Zhao asked Zhao Kuo about his opinion. King Zhao did not like General Lian Po, who was straightforward. This is what everyone knows. Now, the only generals in Zhao State are Lian Po, who is not a vassal state. Even General Lejian, after returning from Yan State to Zhao State, King Zhao wanted to give him a fief directly and make him a vassal state. Lian Po, the Supreme Lord, became a little embarrassed among these vassal states.

Zhao Kuo felt that as long as Lian Po spoke and told King Zhao about his contributions over the years, King Zhao would definitely treat him the same way. Although King Zhao did not like Lian Po, he would never want Lian Po to leave Zhao. In the past, there were ministers who were humiliated by Lian Po in person and found King Zhao and asked him to drive away the arrogant Lian Po. As a result, King Zhao was anxious and scolded the minister and drove him out of the palace.

However, Lian Po was not willing to do so. He had to rely on his contribution to get the rewards he deserved from King Zhao. Therefore, during these days, Lian Po was very active in the war. He came to be responsible for the training of the people of Handan County. He did very seriously and spent a year gathering the young people who had just grown up and the old soldiers who had returned from the battlefield. He often brought them together the army to practice.

He had been looking forward to the opportunity to make contributions. When he learned that Zheng Anping had arrived, General Lian Po was very happy and hurriedly asked for the battle. Zhao Kuo told King Zhao: A truly wise monarch not only needs to know how to recruit talents, but also needs to know how to give them the opportunity to display their talents. King Zhao then ordered General Lian Po to summon soldiers from all over Handan to fight against the Qin people, and he was also prepared. If Lian Po was defeated, let Ma Fujun go on the field.

At this moment, Zhao Kuo welcomed a guest from afar.

The guest came from Qin. This was an old man dressed simply and kind. There were many disciples standing beside him. The old man was Pang Gong's friend. He called Zhan and was the current leader of the farmer's family. After receiving the invitation from Pang Gong, he took his disciples in ordinary coarse cloth clothes, and made straw sandals and weaving mats to get money from the horse suits. He traveled thousands of miles to the horse suit.

Zhao Kuo warmly received the old man. The old man did not have the charm of Xunzi. Xunzi was still the most charming person Zhao Kuo had ever seen in this era. Even if he stood there without saying a word, it would be enough to make people who did not know him respect him and dare not be rude. The old man did not have the appearance of Xunzi. This is a very ordinary old man. If he stood with the old farmers in horse costumes, no one would have discovered their differences.

The old man always had a kind smile on his face, and most of his disciples were liked by honest and simple. Because of their kindness, Zhao Kuo's disciples also liked them very much. It was rare that even Ge didn't say anything about them. Di sat curiously and stared at them motionlessly. Zhao Kuo and the old man sat in the courtyard, and the disciples also sat down.

"Brother-in-law, if I knew you were coming to visit, I would definitely drive to pick you up in person. How could I bear to let an elder like you suffer from the fatigue of the journey?" Zhao Kuo said, Zhan shook his head and said seriously: "How dare you trouble you? I also want to thank you. Because of you, I can see the situation of the cultivated land along the way..." Zhan said, and then talked about what he saw and heard along the way.

What he said was not just the situation of arable land, but also the situation of local farmers. He smiled and said, "The common people from all over the State of Zhao said: Because of Ma Fujun, I have obtained the current situation. I have never encountered people like you who have a noble status but who can love the common people who suffer. I heard that you do not collect high tribute from the people in your fief, buy oxen with the tribute they paid, make farm tools, and distribute them to local officials..."

The old man suddenly stood up and bent over to worship Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo was shocked and hurriedly got up, leaned over and bowed, and said, "I dare not accept the old man's gift, please don't do this."

"I heard that you wrote a book to persuade the kings of all over the country to pay attention to the people, and do not delay the farming season, and also calculate taxes in various places, wanting to reduce taxes and reduce corvee labor..." The old man said, and suddenly shed tears. He just smiled and kept wiping the tears. He said, "I am so happy."

In this era, everyone was thinking about ways to save the world. After the class relations changed, schools that reflected the interests of different classes were born one after another. In terms of workers, the Mohist school represented the ideological representative of small handicraftsmen, the Yang Zhu school represented the interests of small land private owners, and the farmer represented by Xu Ying was the spokesperson for lower-class farmers.

Xu Xing was from Chu. He lived in the same era with Mencius. Perhaps he had seen the tragedy of the lower-class peasants. He took his disciples to walk to various countries. They wore simple clothes and slept in the open air. They rushed to other countries without rewards or official positions. They just hoped to get a piece of cultivated land and work. Of course, they were essentially scholars, and they were divided into two factions.

One school is studying agricultural technology, summarizing agricultural production technology experience, and wanting to improve agricultural productivity. The other school is meeting the king and hoping that the king can appoint his own political ideas. The farmer's ideas for governing the country include: implementing farming and war policies, rewarding the development of agricultural production, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, reducing taxes, labor service, and caring for the people. These two schools were more famous in the political science school in the era of Mencius.

Later, the Qin State reform adopted many political concepts proposed by the farmers, which made the farmers usher in their own glory. However, now, the research school, that is, those who study farming technology, are more valued. The old man slowly talked about the development of the farmers over the past few days. After the Qin State reform, the farmers who were struggling to find the future path seemed to see hope, and they hurried to the Qin State.

The Qin State adopted almost all their agricultural ideas, from farming to fighting to suppressing agriculture and commerce...Facts have proved that the knowledge of the farmers was indeed very good. The Qin State quickly became stronger, and the farming and war combined, the bigger the stronger the more they became. However, the farmers were not happy for too long because they found that under the premise of the completion of the vast number of political ideas, the tragedy of the farmers at the bottom did not end.

They are still the same hardship.

The current leader of the farmer, the elderly, lives in such an era that makes the farmer's family painful. When he was young, he saw the extremely desperate farmer find hope in Qin State. The desperate farmer's family burst out with great power in Qin State. When Shang Yang's reforms, he borrowed a lot of the farmer's ideas. The farmer's collective entry into Qin State and began his nameless dedication.

When Zhan grew up, the farmers could no longer laugh. The farmers at the bottom were still suffering from disasters and harsh policies. They had their own farmland and could cultivate themselves, but a year of farming could only make them fill their stomachs. If they encountered a disaster, it would be a catastrophe, high-pitched taxes and corvee, and endless wars... Zhan brought a group of desperate peasant disciples, still wearing the simplest clothes, and with hundreds of farmers struggling in the sea of ​​suffering, looking for an invisible path.

Zhan changed the thinking of the farmers, or in other words, he made a breakthrough. The thinking of the farmers gradually changed from how to make the country pay attention to agriculture to how to make the country pay attention to farmers. The farmers who were denounced by Mencius and could not get along with Mencius at this moment adopted Mencius's people-oriented thinking. The farmers no longer said to the king: Please pay attention to agricultural development. They said: Please lower your head and look at the suffering people. Please see how hard they work. Please mercy on them.

Zhan proposed: The rulers must restrain their own behavior, not to take advantage of their own plunder, not to exploit the people, reduce taxes, lighten labor and reduce labor, and pay attention to saving and not to be extravagant. The most important idea of ​​the farmer family, the equal labor of everyone, has been forgotten because they found that this is impossible.

However, their thoughts did not make anyone bow their heads and look at the common people. Therefore, the farmers once again proposed a new theory, that is, disaster relief. They found that disasters are usually the greatest force that crushed the farmers. Therefore, they proposed that rulers should prevent disasters and relieve disaster victims. They also came up with different methods for different disasters.

Zhao Kuo looked at the old man in front of him in surprise, dressed in a simple manner, dark-faced and cracked hands... Most of the young people standing behind him were the same. Even when Zhan talked about the predicament of the farmhouse, they only had smiles on their faces. Zhao Kuo was a little awe-inspiring, thinking of these people, those who didn't care about official positions, did not pay attention to enjoyment, but were just devoted to changing the predicament of the lower-class people... He was a little shocked.

He thought it was a bit simple. He thought that the farmers were just some scientific researchers who wanted to innovate farming technology, but he did not expect that they were also a group of sages who really wanted to save the world.

They are not the only ones. There is never a shortage of sages in this era, whether in the past, present, or future. There are many such people who leave everything behind and move forward in pain for the sake of the world in their hearts... It is an unknown farmer in later generations. After deep digging, they can get so many golden treasures, not to mention other theories. Each school has sages that are indescribable and treasures left by them.

A great civilization was created on the painful blood and sweat of these pioneers. They bent over and carried a great civilization, with blood and sweat falling on the ground. They carried the tower of civilization bit by bit, making this great famous finally stand at the highest peak of the world. Looking at the crying old man in front of him, Zhao Kuo really wanted to reach out and hug him, although this was inconsistent with etiquette.

"You have brought us hope... Some people care about the common people, and some people can go to the fields to farm themselves. Our knowledge is not useless..." The old man kept wiping his tears, and he sobbed. He was so happy. This joy, accompanied by the sadness of these days and the suspicion of the future path, made the old man lose his composure. The disciples comforted him one after another. The old man shook his head, covered his eyes, but his face was filled with smiles.

"My father... your theory is not wrong. Whether it is to be polite to the farmers at the bottom or not exploit the people, this is correct. However, it is impossible to implement it by persuasion. A few days ago, I drafted a book on tax with my disciples and calculated in detail the relationship between arable land and taxes... These are actually prepared for the law, and using the law to fix taxes is more reliable than lobbying..."

"What you said can be like this. The law stipulates that the ruler restrains his own behavior, and through the law, the ruler is frugal and cherishes the people's strength... What I have always said, the will of a country is not the will of the monarch, the state is the embodiment of the will of all rulers, and the free people in a country who do not violate the law belong to the rulers. The peasants are the most numerous groups in the country, and their vested interests should also be the most important will...."

Zhan raised his head in surprise and tossed and turned around. He wanted to find the pen and ink, but at some point, he found a cute young man in the distance to record the pen. Zhan had to listen carefully to Zhao Kuo's continued remarks. On this day, the two talked about the future trend from the root of the farmers, and from the land ownership system to the farming technology... The more the old man listened, the more excited he became. This old man, who was over 50 years old, was as helpless as a child, holding his disciples, his eyes were extremely bright.

The old man stood up, his face was serious, leaned over to Zhao Kuo and said, "Thank you."

Zhao Kuo smiled, grabbed his arm with both powerful hands and helped the old man up.

Zhao Kuo reached out and hugged the old man.

He whispered:

"Thanks."
Chapter completed!