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Chapter 260 Breathing and laughter

Zhao Kuo accompanied his family and spent some time in Changping.

The King of Qin did not send anyone to disturb him, and Zhao Kuo's disciples and guests were all arranged in the surrounding courtyards, and the daily meals were also very sumptuous. Seven or eight days passed, and the King of Qin brought people to visit again.

This time, the King of Qin did not bring many soldiers, but only brought a young man and two scholars. Zhao Kuo knew the young man, Zhao Zheng's biological father, Ying Yiren, and an elderly man among the two scholars was Lu Buwei. Zhao Yiren looked a little excited. As soon as he walked into the courtyard, he hurriedly leaned over to salute Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo helped him up helplessly.

"Thank you for helping me take care of my wife... I heard that you treated Zheng as your son. I am very grateful for your kindness." He said, and he was about to salute again. Zhao Kuo helped him up helplessly. At this time, Zhao Yiren saw the little guy running back and forth in the courtyard. The little guy was not afraid of strangers at all. He was riding his toy chariot, waving the wooden sword in his hand, and running around the courtyard.

"He is..." Zhao Yiren said excitedly, and Zhao Kuo nodded.

Zhao Yiren walked to the little guy. Zhao Zheng stopped, frowned, and looked at the stranger in front of him. Zhao Yiren looked at the familiar face, and couldn't speak for a moment, his eyes were red, he took a deep breath, and then asked with a smile: "What are you doing?" Zhao Zheng looked at the strange person in front of him, and was very confused. Since he left the horse costume? Come to this place? He has encountered more and more weird people.

He asked with some displeasure: "I'm playing, can't you tell me?"

Zhao Yiren laughed? He nodded? He said, "Okay, just play?"

"Ha? I am still your eldest father!"

Zhao Yiren was stunned? Just now, he looked at Zhao Kuo in the distance, hoping that Zhao Kuo could say something, but Zhao Kuo was also hesitant. He looked at Zhao Zheng? He was silent? The King of Qin laughed, took Zhao Kuo's hand, and said, "I forgot to tell you that this is Cai Ze, the prime minister of Qin..." He introduced the people around him? After Cai Ze met Zhao Kuo, he spoke, "I was in Zhao before? I wanted to visit you, but I heard that you were digging channels... I haven't seen you several times..."

Zhao Yiren looked at them chatting in a daze. He looked at his son again. He asked in surprise: "Don't you really know? Ma Fujun didn't tell you?" Zhao Zheng was very angry? He said seriously: "I am Ma Fuzi! My father is Ma Fujun! I respect you because you are my father's friend? This is not afraid of you. If you talk nonsense again, I will let Di Gong beat you up!"

"So he really didn't say it..." Zhao Yiren didn't know what to say for a moment. He pondered for a moment, then looked at the happy boy in front of him, and was relieved. He was still young, but he just didn't know the truth. So what if he didn't know the truth? When he got older, he would know. Anyway, he was very happy here, which was enough. Zhao Yiren didn't say anything more. He changed his way and asked, "Do you like chariots very much?"

"Yes, I like chariots very much, but I'm too young to reach the chariots. This is what Mr. Du did for me... But after he left the horse uniform, I don't know why he left. Di Gong said he would never see him again. I saw him crying, but he didn't let me tell others... Mr. Ge told me that when I grow up, I can avenge Du..."

"Oh?" Zhao Yiren seemed to understand something. He nodded and said, "When you grow up, you can indeed avenge him... Do you want a real chariot?"

"Think of it!"

"I can give you one."

"What do I need to do for you?"

“Nothing to do.”

"Then forget it, my father said: There is no free lunch in the world, and the gains obtained without paying are often a greater price."

Zhao Yiren looked at the little guy in front of him in surprise, and asked again, "Do you recognize words?" Zhao Zheng looked at him with some disdain and said proudly: "Of course, except for the characters of Chu, I can write my own name. The words and words of Chu are too difficult to learn. Every time I can't learn well, the teacher will hit me... I hate the words and words of Chu..."

"Hahaha, so do I, so do I."

"Who is your teacher? Is Ma Fujun?"

"My teachers are many... At first, Senior Brother Han was my teacher, teaching me to recognize words, and my father taught me mathematics, astronomy, geography... Oh, Duke Di taught me to stab my sword and tell me stories. Duke Ge didn't teach me, he liked to take me to play, and Duke Li taught me poetry, but I can't learn it... Recently, there was another Duke Xun who spoke very interestingly, Duke Gongsun, Duke Zou... Duke Zhan... Duke Wei... I can ask them if I don't know anything. But I don't like Duke Wei, he smells very bad."

"Hiss..." Zhao Yiren took another breath of air conditioning and widened his eyes.

"Don't you feel tired?"

"I'm not tired. The horse suit is very fun. There is a group of people named Mo. They can make a lot of fun things. I like to play with them very much. There is a university room in the horse suit, and there are many fun people there... Di Gong also taught me that I can beat the horse suit and win many children older than me in the horse suit, but they didn't give in to me!"

The father and son started chatting like this, without even notice that King Qin and Zhao Kuo had left the courtyard.

When the King of Qin took Zhao Kuo's hand and walked out of the mansion, he happened to see Xunzi, Gongsun Long, Zheng Guo and Han Fei chatting. Zhan had something to do, and only a few of them were left here. Zhao Kuo met with everyone, but Lu Buwei dared not speak at all. He stood at the end and lowered his head. Cai Ze was fine. Cai Ze was very enthusiastic about talking about Qin's affairs with these people. The King of Qin then expressed his purpose. Please come and see the national conditions of Qin.

Zhao Kuo originally thought that the King of Qin was going to take him to visit the Qin government or to see the administration of officials. But what he didn't expect was that the King of Qin just took him around the city. They didn't even ride in a carriage, but they just got two ox carriages, one was Han Fei driving, with the King of Qin, Xunzi, Zhao Kuo, Gongsun Long, and the other was Li Si coming to drive the carriage, with Gongsun Long, Zheng, Cai Ze, Lu Buwei and others.

Two ox carts were driving on the road one after another, slowly.

The King of Qin then talked about it, "This is the newly acquired land of Qin. Many years ago, it belonged to South Korea." He looked at Han Fei and found that Han Fei was not angry. Then he continued: "At that time, Shangdang had very little arable land. Feng Ting, the prefect of Shangdang, was a person worthy of respect, but his ability in governance was not very good..."

Zhao Kuo looked around carefully and discovered the difference between this place and Zhao State.

He has been to Changping and knows what Changping City looks like.

Nowadays, the roads are spacious and clean. This is a completely different place from other countries. The houses on both sides of the road are also very neat. You can often see the people busy passing by the streets. The King of Qin smiled and said, "The entire Shangdang Road has been renovated several times, connecting the surroundings. Wu Chengjun once said: Keeping it clean can avoid diseases. Therefore, I ordered that all places should keep the city clean."

"Don't drown anywhere, and don't dump garbage."

"I set up 沪己国 in various places to solve the problem of dirty and messy in the city, and ordered the ministers to build drainage facilities in the city to discharge sewage in the city..."

Zhao Kuo widened his eyes, but Gongsun Long said with a smile: "In order to achieve these, Qin State must have a lot of corvee service, right?"

"Hahaha, the corvee service in Qin will not force the people to death. All the criminals responsible for the construction and service..." The King of Qin said seriously, and he said again: "It's a pity that the former prefect Wang Ji was also an incompetent person. He even wanted to serve Zhao..." He shook his head and continued to explain. There were not many pedestrians on the road. When passing through some streets, officials came to stop them and interrogate their identities.

When they left the city, they also had to make records. Zhao Kuo saw the thick bamboo slips they had accumulated, and detailed the identity, purpose and other contents of the person who left the city. Outside the city, there was a lot of arable land, and the people could be seen working everywhere. With officials aside, these officials did not come to see these "noble people". The King of Qin told Zhao Kuo that if these officials could not achieve decent political achievements, they would be held accountable, so they did very seriously.

When the King of Qin called the officials here to ask him about the situation of the cultivated land, the officials first asked about his identity. After learning about the identity of the King of Qin, the officials were also very excited and paid homage to him. Then they took out the bamboo slips. The bamboo slips recorded in detail the quantity, production, annual harvest, from the distribution of plowing ox to the replacement of farm tools, nothing was missed.

Zhao Kuo found that they were even using Arabic numerals. He looked at the King of Qin in surprise. The King of Qin smiled and said, "Because your number is very convenient, I have promoted your number in Qin State... This is very helpful to Qin State, because there are so many things to record and verify... This is Wu Chengjun!" When the King of Qin pointed at Zhao Kuo and spoke to the officials, the officials widened their eyes.

That kind of excitement is no less than the excitement when I saw the King of Qin.

Zhao Kuo's understanding of Qin has deepened a little. Qin has another kind of rigor in its bones. This may be related to Shang Yang. Zhao Kuo thinks that Shang Yang may have obsessive-compulsive disorder. From the neat and symmetrical architectural style, most of the Qin people may have obsessive-compulsive disorder. They walk in an array, and the arable land is also neat, and the calculations are at the extreme. They are very cautious in doing things, without any slackness.

They have written detailed laws, criminal laws, litigation laws, civil laws... The official system is very clear. It can be said that the officials in various countries are so simple that it is outrageous, while the officials in Qin are so detailed that it is outrageous. The official system of a township alone has already looked like it later. It can be said that this system has been used for thousands of years, and it is even more important to say that the county system is in the county.

The people of Qin were not happy because the laws of Qin were harsh, and they had no entertainment and no time. Everything in Qin was farming and war, and everything else had to serve the war, from officials to craftsmen, without exception. However, the people of Qin lived very safely. On the basis that the Qin law was not seriously damaged, no one could take away the lives of the people at will.

Not to mention ordinary officials, even princes and princes, it is not possible. If a person like Chang'an Jun lived in Qin, he would have been sent to the Great Wall for murder. When the people were arrested by officials, they could even complain to express their injustice to the judgment. Such complaints could be reported to the King of Qin... This made Zhao Kuo very frightened. China has no spirit of rule of law?? Don't joke.

All Qin people were doing things according to the provisions of the law. No one could violate it. Officials could not raise taxes at will. Everyone was asked to do only their own duties and not do much, even if it was a good thing... Moreover, in Qin, it was illegal to not act bravely, but meddling in other people's business was also illegal. For example, if your neighbor suffered a disaster, you should help him and provide him with help. This is what the law does not allow.

If you encounter a thief killing on the road and you don’t go to help, it is illegal.

If a person suffers disasters, such as the farmland is destroyed by animals, he can appeal to the local government. The government will provide subsidies according to his disaster preservation, but others are not allowed to provide assistance.

Because of the existence of military merit system, war and farming have become the best way to upgrade titles. First of all, killing the enemy on the battlefield can change your title and improve the treatment you receive. In addition, farming and textiles. Through hard work, grain output will be increased and cloth output will be increased. The promotion of titles represents everything, land, retainers, honors, and status.

This made the Qin people unite and strive for their titles.

The craftsmen kept making better tools, the farmers worked hard, and the soldiers fought bravely.

Shang Yang set up a game server in Qin State and set up twenty levels. All players can fight monsters and upgrade through their own ways and live a better life... Zhao Kuo had to sigh: Shang Yang's talent is really unparalleled. Another more important point is that the military merit system provides a path to the upper class. In other countries, the people at the bottom will always be at the bottom and there is no chance to improve their status.

Unless it is suddenly valued by the king and soars into the sky.

In Qin, everyone has a path to climb up. This has given Qin a lot of outstanding talents.

The power of Qin State was not because of his generals and soldiers, but because of his system, which had long surpassed all countries.

Zhao Kuo followed the King of Qin and watched the situation in various places, from farming, water conservancy, road construction, economic system, and officials, those officials who were stern and conscientiously fulfilled the laws of Qin, could see the titles of these people from the crown. Zhao Kuo was dazzled and could not tell the specific titles of them. The crown worn by the King of Qin seemed to be of high level, because the officials all leaned over to pay their respects first and then asked about his identity.

Here, we cannot see those idle rangers, farmers singing with farm tools on their backs, and small merchants selling along the road with goods. No one stops to enjoy the scenery.

People here are living a fast-paced life, running back and forth, walking in a hurry, with a stern face and a head lowered, making people unable to see a happy face or hear any laughter.

"What do you think of Qin?"

"It's very powerful, I just can't hear laughter."

"It's rare to hear breathing nowadays, and laughter is even more hopeful...what do you think?"
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