It took Zhao Kuo a long time to cheer up. On weekdays, he has been teaching the children not to live in sorrow. Birth, old age, sickness and death are normal. However, when separation comes, Zhao Kuo cannot do what he said. The love left, but his life continues. Zhao Kuo knows that his mission is not over, and he still has a lot to do, and he cannot continue to stay in the shadow.

What you do is always more difficult than what you say.

Walking on the road of Zhao State, Zhao Kuo looked at the hardworking people in the distance and couldn't help but stop to watch. He saw young people pulling oxen and working on the land, while their wives were preparing food and drink under fruit trees not far away. Many times, farmers would eat on the farmland, and some even built simple houses outside the farmland and would stay here.

The current situation is somewhat different from the past.

Unlike what the Zhao people thought, the Qin people did not force them to speak Qin language, did not force them to wear Qin clothes, nor did they treat them as slaves... These are the future that the Zhao people believed in at the time. After the Qin people ruled here, they did not change their customs or their daily life habits. The ministers of Qin wanted to forcibly promote the culture of Qin, prohibit the people of Zhao from wandering, strictly prohibit going out, participate in large-scale training, and wanted to turn the place into an army.

But Lu Buwei did not agree. Lu Buwei wanted to change Qin and change Qin from an army to a country. Sooner or later, he would change, and there would be no need to bother Zhao. Secondly, he was also afraid that forced promotion would cause serious resistance in the newly occupied areas. Even if the people dare not object on the surface, as long as they choose to treat it negatively, many of Qin's policies would face great difficulties.

The Zhao people were still a little uncomfortable. They looked at the officials who were talking badly Zhao's words standing by the arable land and pointedly led them to farm. The officials of Zhao almost never showed up at the grassroots level, and they would not pay attention to the farming of the people, because all this had nothing to do with them. However, the Qin State was different. There would be a big comparison within Zhao. Those with high local material assets could be rewarded and promoted, while those with low levels would be punished or left.

The farming, textiles, and even their living conditions are directly linked to the officials' own future and lives, which has caused the biggest difference between the officials of Qin and other countries. The officials of Qin are very serious in their work, dare not make fraud, nor dare to take advantage of the situation, especially when Qin established a complete supervision agency, this is even more so. The county governor, county supervisor, and the countryside is in order.

They will always monitor the behavior of officials at all levels.

In addition, farming itself is also beneficial to the people. Under the competition model of Qin, not only officials, but also the people can benefit... It has to be said that Shang Yang is simply a genius. The more Zhao Kuo saw, the greater his admiration for Shang Yang, and he is worthy of being a man who has to read his works by officials from all over Qin. He has indeed changed the world, and now his system has also changed the Zhao State.

Zhao State suffered too many disasters, and the years of war almost destroyed his original internal affairs, and the monetary system was on the verge of collapse. Therefore, it was relatively easy for Qin State to unify the currency here. Zhao State had sufficient manpower, and Qin State could provide seeds and farm tools to complement each other. In the spring of the second year of the destruction of the country, all parts of Zhao State began to work hard. They had not cultivated so comfortably for many years.

At this time, Zhao Kuo left Mafu with his family and returned to Xianyang. He had a lot to deal with. Mafu was his eternal hometown, but now is not the time to retire and return home. The road is bumpy. Ying Zheng told Zhao Kuo several times that he must build roads across the country and connect the whole world. In history, the First Emperor also built roads in various places.

This so-called road is not a common road in later generations. It is a kind of carriage track... It is necessary to rammed earth first, then lay wooden tracks, and finally plant trees on both sides of the road. The great project is that it is not inferior to the construction projects of the Great Wall and the Qin King's Tomb. Transportation is of course very important, but this carriage track seems not that important to Zhao Kuo. It is just an ordinary road that allows the carriage to pass smoothly, which is probably enough.

As soon as he returned to Xianyang, Ying Zheng couldn't wait to call Li Si, wanting Zhao Kuo to talk to him about revising the new text. Li Si has become very busy recently. Ying Zheng directly handed over some of the power in Lu Buwei's hands to him, and he had to see the results in a short period of time, so he naturally did not dare to neglect him. Lu Buwei was not angry about this incident. He knew his physical condition, and Li Si was a qualified heir.

Ying Zheng was in the palace, with Zhao Kuo and Li Si sitting next to him.

Li Si gave Zhao Kuo two of the original horse scripts he wrote to him to watch. Zhao Kuo looked at the font modified by Li Si, and Li Si modified the large seal script of Qin, thus forming a small seal script. The small seal script already looked like a clerical script. As for clerical script, there was no big difference from the texts of later generations. Even later generations suddenly came to this world and looked at the clerical script, they could still identify a lot of texts, but they could basically recognize them in clerical script.

There is not much difference between official script and traditional Chinese characters that appeared in the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Kuo was watching Xiaozhuan seriously, while Ying Zheng, who was in power, couldn't help but praise him. He said, "I have seen many talents, but Li Si is different. Originally, Han Feizi recommended him to him and said that he had practical talents. I still don't understand the meaning of it. However, Li Si only took an hour to write such words, which is not something that ordinary people can do."

Listening to the praise of the King of Qin, Li Si lowered his head and showed a very humble appearance. In his heart, he was still a little proud.

Li Si was Xunzi's most outstanding disciple. At least, Li Si himself thought so. He saw the strength of Qin very early and believed that the world would fall into the hands of Qin, so he came to serve early. Over the years, it cannot be said that he had not been valued. At least Lu Buwei valued him very much and regarded him as his right and left hand. But what Li Si wanted was not just the right hand of the prime minister, but he wanted to assist the king and become the right hand of the king, that is, to get the position of Lu Buwei.

However, Ying Zheng almost did not give him any chance to show himself, and many of the achievements he had made were counted on Lu Buwei.

Li Si became more and more bored. Now, the King of Qin finally had a keen eye and discovered his talents. He looked at Zhao Kuo who nodded from time to time, and he felt even happier. If he could get Zhao Kuo's recognition, it would definitely be a great thing. Li Si has never looked down on these scholars very much. They just talked about some useless principles, but if they wanted to do things, they could not do anything.

Li Si waited patiently for Zhao Kuo's praise.

“Very good, good.”

Zhao Kuo nodded, indeed expressing his appreciation for Li Si. Then, he said, "Get me paper and pen." Ying Zheng quickly got up and quickly got him the pen and paper. Zhao Kuo picked up the paper and pen and started writing. Li Si was stunned. He didn't know what Zhao Kuo was writing. Due to his identity, he didn't dare to go up and look at it. Ying Zheng was different, so he stood behind Zhao Kuo and looked at it seriously.

Li Si became familiar with Zhao Kuo without stopping, and his speed was very fast. Ying Zheng behind him was stunned, widened his eyes and motionless. Li Si became more and more curious. What was he writing, which could surprise the King of Qin so much? Li Si was restless and stared at Zhao Kuo who was writing in front of him. Zhao Kuo quickly finished writing, very fast, just a moment.

He handed the two pieces of paper he wrote to Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng picked up the paper and looked at it for a long time. Then he looked at Li Si. Li Si saw that the King of Qin was full of confusion. The King of Qin handed the paper to Li Si. Li Si picked it up. He was confused. The words used by Zhao Kuo were not any words he knew. Seeing the simplicity of the words, he could probably guess that this was a simpler text revised according to the words he compiled.

Li Si couldn't help but tremble. How could this be possible?

He took a few glances at his new font, and then made another set based on it??

Is this really something that people can do?

It was him who had taken a long time to compile this set of words. In fact, he had been thinking about it for a long time in his mind. Did he have also conceived it for a long time? No, this new word was obviously modified on his own basis. Has the King of Qin shown him his font before? No, the king looked so surprised. Li Si suppressed the fear in his heart and looked at the second piece of paper.

He could hardly recognize the words on the second piece of paper, which seemed to be a little too simple. Li Si looked at them carefully for a moment and woke up. This was the abbreviation version of the version he had just seen. In other words, after seeing his words, he improved them once, and then improved them again on the basis of them. Li Si couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly stood up and looked at Zhao Kuo in front of him.

Zhao Kuo said seriously: "Are these two words more suitable for promotion?"

"Actually, I like the second piece of paper, but this is too different from the current text, so I'm afraid it will cause confusion in a short period of time... However, as a tool, it's better to be simpler. There are too many people in the world. If they want to use such a tool, too complex text cannot achieve this goal... Wasting paper and waste writing..." Zhao Kuo looked at Li Si and asked, "What do you think?"

"I...I..." Li Si hadn't reacted yet, his face was dull.

He felt that his face was swollen by Zhao Kuo... He was complacent for quickly creating a new text. As a result, Zhao Kuo was hit by the head and created two words in a very outrageous time. Realizing that Zhao Kuo was still waiting for his answer, Li Si couldn't help but nod and said, "Yes, you're right, it's true."

Not only Li Si, but also Ying Zheng, could not speak at this moment. He knew that his father was very talented, but he did not expect that it would be so exaggerated.

Zhao Kuo suddenly realized that he seemed to have hit Li Si. He hurriedly stood up and said seriously: "Actually, I had this idea a long time ago and had been thinking about it. I just took it out today. It is really not something that ordinary people can do at this age." Hearing Zhao Kuo's explanation, Li Si and Ying Zheng were both unbelievable at all. No matter how you look at it, they evolved from Li Si's set of words, and they had been conceiving for decades...

Li Si seemed to understand Wu Chenghou’s intention. He was telling me with practical actions that we should be humble and not be arrogant?

Li Si bowed to him and said, "Thank you for your teachings."

When Zhao Kuo saw Li Si's appearance, he felt that what he said seemed to be wrong, but he had no way to explain it. He could not say that this was the text that had been improved over the past few thousand years. I just copied it out for you to see. However, it seems that this is not bad. Li Si is indeed very talented and very talented. No one can compare to him in terms of execution. However, thinking of his later performance, this person has a lot of ambitions.

He is very eager for power and status. It is better to hit such a person.

Zhao Kuo stroked his beard and sighed: "It's good that you can understand. I know you are a talented person, but you must have the virtues that match it. Your teacher Xunzi is such a person, so after a thousand years, people will still remember his talents. You will definitely be a minister of Qin in the future, and you will have merits and the country, but if you don't have corresponding virtues, it will ruin your life's achievements."

Li Si bowed again, and he was completely convinced by Zhao Kuo.

Ying Zheng asked the two of them to sit down again, and then discussed the new text. Li Si and Zhao Kuo both felt that reform could be taken slowly, but Ying Zheng did not think so. Ying Zheng’s view was that since anything was to be done, it would be perfect and the best. Since the simplest text is easy to promote, why waste time? Promote it as soon as possible, let people from all over the world learn, and then use it to replace the current official text. Isn’t it a good thing?

In fact, Ying Zheng has always had this kind of personality. Since he wants to be a king, he still has the emperor, and he has to be the ultimate emperor. Since he wants to expand his territory, how can he defeat all the places he sees in the six kingdoms? Since he wants to build a road of heaven, how can he only build Xianyang to the outside of the pass? He might as well build a road of heaven across the country. Since he wants to build an imperial tomb, how can it be simple? Then be the best, unprecedented...
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