When Hou Sheng returned to Gan Luo with a smile, looking at the smile on his face, Gan Luo subconsciously felt that this person had done the matter. Unexpectedly, he didn't need to come forward at all, and this matter could be easily resolved. However, what Hou Sheng said immediately made Gan Luo jump up angrily. Hou Sheng said with a smile: "Qi State will send 400,000 troops to fight Qin State."

"Are you going to take the opportunity to raise the price?!" At that moment, Gan Luo was completely angry. He felt that he was being fooled. His mission was to peacefully resolve the problem of Qi and let Qi surrender without fighting. As a result, a meeting turned into a war. You must know that Qin had just ended the war with Chu. Even Qin could not start a war endlessly. He also needed a time to ease the relationship.

What's more, the broken place of Qi can convene more troops than Chu. Although the combat effectiveness may not be high, that is 400,000 people. How many troops will Qin State convene?

Just when Ganluo was furious, Hou Sheng became serious and said, "Please don't humiliate me like this. I have always said that it is the only one who is a good person. How could I take the opportunity to raise the price? As the king of Qi, if he trusts me again, how could he easily surrender to Qin?"

"Then what do you mean?" Gan Luo calmed down and asked again.

Hou Sheng said seriously: "The King of Qi asked me to be responsible for convening and fighting. I will arrange the army on the defense line near the border of Wei, so that they can't stand it. Please go back and tell the King of Qin that the soldiers of Qin will bypass the army of Qi and come from Chen Lu to outside the capital. By that time, I can be sure that the King of Qi will definitely surrender." Gan Luo was still a little suspicious. He looked at Hou Sheng in front of him, but did not reveal his suspicion. He agreed with a smile.

Then the two talked about specific matters. Ganluo was not qualified to decide the war. All he could do was return to Xianyang and tell the Qin King about Qi. Although the King of Qi was about to fight with Qin, he did not want to make things difficult for Qin envoys. He just ordered the Qin envoys to be attacked from Qi. The King of Qi was still quite kind. However, the generals who accepted Ganluo's bribe ignored the King of Qi's orders and escorted Ganluo away from Qi with a smile.

Ganluo was completely unaffected.

Gan Luo even felt a little relieved. He felt that Qi had a million troops, and under the leadership of such a general, it was not worth mentioning at all. If such a villain was on the battlefield, he would probably be the first to escape. Do they have the courage to start a war with Marquis Wu Cheng? Gan Luo was very suspicious of this.

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Zhao Kuo suddenly understood why Zhao Kang was going to Kuaiji... The young Zhao Xiu showed destructive power beyond his father. He had just learned to walk and ran around all day long, falling as he ran. If his eldest father was there, he would choose to cry. If he was not there, he would hold back and not cry. Sometimes Zhao Kuo could not keep up with him, but his small body was hiding amazing energy and tirelessly.

Zhao Kuo was tortured by this little guy, and his beard was almost pulled away. It was carved from the same mold as his father. It was extremely naughty, but Zhao Kuo was not angry. The little guy was probably the only person who could make Zhao Kuo laugh... Seeing him all kinds of funny things, Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing and stroked his beard. The little guy liked to learn from Zhao Kuo very much. Whenever Zhao Kuo bent over and walked in the courtyard to think about problems, the little guy followed him in a pretty good manner.

When the child grew up, he became less friendly to his elders. This is how Fusu was. As the eldest grandson, Fusu has become a handsome young man. He has read a lot of books and has more and more problems and has become more and more mature. According to the laws of Qin, he can already go to the battlefield. Of course, Ying Zheng would not let him go. Unlike his father, Ying Zheng learned amazingly. Except for mathematics, he learned everything else very quickly.

And after learning, he can learn from one example and learn from it. When he was very young, he showed extremely high wisdom. Fusu was a little worse. Han Fei and Zhao Kuo's teachings seemed a bit complicated to him. Although he was not learning fast, he was very patient and willing to work hard. Ying Zheng was not as good as that. Because Ying Zheng learned quickly, he was unwilling to spend too much time studying, but Fusu was willing to hold books all day long until he learned all of them.

Zhao Kuo and Han Fei both taught him some knowledge. In order to make Fusu more comprehensive, Zhao Kuo even asked his old friends to take Fusu in the area. These old friends of Zhao Kuo were scholars such as Lu Buwei, Zhan, Cui, and Wufu. Of course, this was not as good as Ying Zheng’s original teacher group, but these scholars could let Fusu see many different things. The exhibition told him the agricultural level of various parts of the Qin State and the daily farming of the people, while the scholars of the Mohist school told him the ideas and demands of the craftsmen.

They are all happy to teach Fusu, not only because of Zhao Kuo's face, but also because of their own school. As the eldest son, Fusu's position as the prince is stable. As the prince, he has a good impression of his school, so in the future...the benefits are self-evident.

In the same year, Ying Zheng and his concubine gave birth to another child, called Jiang Lu.

Although the young master Jianglu was not Ming's child, Ming did not hate this child. She was happy that she had another child. Of course, Zhao Kuo was also his grandson. Jianglu smiled foolishly in Zhao Kuo's arms. This was a kind of honest child. Zhao Kuo liked it very much. At some point, Zhao Kuo also became a family of children and grandchildren. Inadvertently, Ying Zheng and Han Fei became relatives.

Shortly after Han Fei arrived in Qin, he got married with a local girl. Han Fei did not expect love, and he had no family to host the wedding. When he went out to study, his last relative, his mother, had already passed away. At that time, Yi took the initiative to help Han Fei find a marriage, and the concubine Ying Zheng married happened to be Han Fei's wife's sister, and the two became kinship because of this.

Zhao Kuo’s biggest wish now is to let Cheng Qi get married soon. This was originally something Yi should worry about, but Yi was no longer there, so Zhao Kuo had to supervise himself, but Cheng Qi was not in a hurry at all. Every time Zhao Kuo told him about getting married, he always couldn’t wait to change the topic, which made Zhao Kuo a little worried. This child shouldn’t be the same as Long Yangjun? Why just don’t want to get married?

At this time, Zhao Kuo could already see that his ideal was about to be realized. What he was busy with now was how to destroy the military merit system. The military merit system would be destroyed. This system is of course very suitable for Qin. He provided a way for the lower class people to climb up. Although it also belongs to a feudal hierarchy, this hierarchy was not built on blood, and it was considered very advanced at this time.

This is even more true than a civilization in the same era who divided the levels by blood and had no way to climb up in his life.

However, this system is not suitable for continuing to exist in peaceful times. The main reason is that the basis of the military merit system is war and land. After unification, there will be no more frequent wars, and there will be no more land to be rewarded. Zhao Kuo wanted to destroy the military merit system but could not completely destroy it. He had to make a choice... Over the years, Lu Buwei has been trying to make a way to transition, but has not been reformed for a long time, mainly because he was worried that it would affect the combat effectiveness of the army.

Now that it is about to be unified, there is no need to worry so much, but in order to meet various challenges, the military merit system is still necessary.

Zhao Kuo has done a lot of things in these days. The first one is the school system. The first primary school established in Xianyang has achieved some results. At least, the first batch of children who came to study can now recognize a lot of words, but the disadvantages have been exposed. It is just a primary school that brings great economic pressure. Zhao Kuo feels that he has to find a way to solve such pressure.

By next year, the first batch of children will complete two years of academic studies, and then set up the first middle school. At that time, there will probably be even fewer children willing to continue studying. Zhao Kuo has already started to organize the most important university. Zhao Kuo had an idea in his mind that he would use higher education institutions to support local primary schools. If a university is established, the one who teaches in it is probably Zhao Kuo and Han Fei.

Those who come here to study are likely to be noble disciples, who ask them to pay enough tuition fees and use these tuition fees to support local primary schools. Zhao Kuo is afraid that such behavior will prevent children from poor families from entering university. It is still a problem of money. If the war is over and Qin can spend money on internal government affairs, these problems will probably not be so serious.

There is another more important issue. Starting this year, the first primary school in Xianyang has begun to recruit girls to enroll. The ministers expressed their confusion about this. Zhao Kuo could only say that education is to change the social atmosphere and let the people know the right and wrong. As mothers and children’s initial educators, it is nothing wrong to let them master some knowledge. Moreover, Qin is not a free study and has to charge fees. This cannot be considered a waste of national strength.

In addition to the school affairs, another one is the agricultural books. After the agricultural books written by Zhao Kuo and Zhan were sent to the King of Qin after they were written, the King of Qin immediately ordered the copying and then sent them to various places, requiring local officials to promote the content of agricultural books and to study them seriously. Local officials have long been accustomed to it. Whenever Zhao Kuo wrote something, they had to memorize it, then learn it, and finally practice it.

However, in the past, this agricultural book is a real thing. From changing soil quality, to selecting and breeding, to sowing and farming, to the use and maintenance of agricultural tools, to the pastorship of livestock, the protection of fruit forests, how to control pests, and how to cure livestock diseases... The rotation of cash crops and grain can be said to be full of everything. The agriculture defined by Zhao Kuo is no longer limited to farming, and everything is included in grazing, melons, orchards, etc.

In the eyes of some people, this book has lost Zhao Kuo's face. They are unwilling to admit that it was written by Zhao Kuo. Perhaps because there is no words to persuade the king, no philosophy, no essence of thought, and the words are not exquisite, and the answers are so boring, dry and nutritious... In the Jixia Academy in Qi State, this triggered a big debate.

The Jixia Academy is now in decline, but there are still a large number of scholars. Especially after the Qin State destroyed various countries, anti-Qin scholars gathered here. These people were talking and debating all day long. Even if they expressed their dissatisfaction with the Marquis of Wucheng of Qin, this did not hinder their respect for the world's horse-commissioned king.

There is a scholar in Confucianism who is unwilling to reveal his school of thought, "Ma Fujun is old! He can't tell the difference between tree trunks and branches. The reason why the people in the world suffer is because of institutional problems, not because they can't farm. Is he more knowledgeable about farming than those farmers who have been farming for life? As a talent in the world, he does not look for fundamental solutions, but is addicted to these trivial matters. This book is probably his most failed book."

A Confucian scholar who was also unwilling to reveal the name of the school said angrily: "The people are the most important, and then the country and the king. The people survive by food. The farming levels in different places are different. This book records all advanced agricultural technologies. How many people can be saved? The fundamental existence of the system is for the people. The book Ma Fujun was made for the people of the world. In my opinion, this book is comparable to the Analects of Confucius."

There are also Confucian scholars who are unwilling to reveal the school and sneered and said, "I am lazy and afraid of things, and I am keen on eating and drinking without shame. I always say, "A gentleman does not have to engage in physical labor." This is a lowly scholar of Ziyou's school... How can such a lowly scholar understand the importance of farming?"

The purpose of this book is not in the academic field. The most important thing is that this book can be used to develop various regions of the Qin State, especially Yan and Chu. In areas with very backward agricultural technology, this book can increase grain output. This is the most important thing. Similarly, this agricultural book has become a book that officials of the Qin Dynasty must read. If you serve as an official, you must know these things.

Many places have prepared next year's farming affairs according to the content of the book, including using silt to improve the fertility of the soil, setting up seed fields for selection and breeding, preventing pests in advance, maintaining the hygiene of the poultry's environment to avoid infection, etc. Zhao Kuo ignored the controversy caused by this book. As long as it can play a role and change the situation of some people, it is enough.

At this moment, Gan Luo returned to Qin and informed the King of Qin and Li Si of Housheng's crazy plan.

ps: In history, Qin State bypassed the main force of Qi and directly besieged the capital. The main force of Qi State did not move. Qin State reached the capital, and 400,000 troops did not even return to aid... Then the King of Qi was forced to surrender. I personally think that either someone revealed the news about Qi State's army or someone had an affair with Qin State.
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