Handan City.

Midsummer season.

Today, Handan is the largest and most lively city in the entire Central Plains, with a bustling crowd and a very prosperous scene.

Although it was already afternoon and it was only about an hour before closing the city gate, there were still people coming and going on the road to the south gate of Handan, and there was no sign of stopping.

If you look closely, you will find that except for those who are in a hurry, most of the men dressed in scholars wear Diao Chan crowns, short-sleeved slaughter clothes, tight trousers on the lower body, and leather boots on the lower body, all of them look quite energetic.

If you occasionally meet those people wearing wide robes and big sleeves, then these scholars in Hu clothing will deliberately walk past each other with their heads raised and their chests raised, and then hum gently to express their contempt in their hearts.

"Hmph, this person does not wear Hu clothes. He must not be a Zhao person, but a conquered lower-class country citizens!"

Although in Zhao Dan's mind, all the seven heroes of the Warring States Period were from the Huaxia people, it is obvious that except for Zhao Dan, most people in the world do not think so.

Since the proud Zhao people are already victories, they naturally have the confidence to despise the conquered people of other countries. Due to the existence of the military merit system, these people in Zhao's local country are much stronger in terms of land and wealth, both in terms of land and wealth, which gives Zhao's local people more confidence.

In fact, with the continuous conquest of Zhao State, many customs from Zhao State have begun to penetrate into other countries.

For example, among the territories of various countries that have been conquered by Zhao, many former officials of various countries rushed to wear Hu clothes in order to express their loyalty to the new king. As the saying goes, the leaders naturally put on Hu clothes when they wear them.

So much so that a Confucian scholar in Linzi expressed his extremely helpless feeling: "It took only one year for returning to Zhao, and the whole city was covered with Hu. It looked like Linzi, but it seemed like he was visiting Handan in person!"

Not only the clothing of Zhao, but also the writing and language of Zhao, including various systems and regulations of Zhao, etc., have also begun to be implemented in various countries.

Simply put, it is actually what Qin Shihuang said in the Records of the Grand Historian, "A single ruler is used to weigh stones, a carriage is the same track, and a book is the same text."

"Zhao Zheng, come here." Zhao Dan stood there with a smile, waving to a ten-year-old boy not far away.

Xiao Zhao Zheng was obviously a little scared, but he still plucked up the courage to walk towards Zhao Dan and bowed to Zhao Dan in a regular manner: "Zhao Zheng has met the king."

Zhao Dan looked at the child in front of him carefully and found that perhaps because he grew up in an orphan camp, Zhao Zheng's still very tender face already had some perseverance and precociousness that his peers did not have, but that's all.

Zhao Dan made a kind-hearted expression and answered Zhao Zheng, but he secretly turned his thoughts in his heart: "No matter how you look at it... you don't look like that kind of tyrant!"

Zhao Dan casually asked Zhao Zheng some questions and found that Zhao Zheng was indeed quick-witted and had extraordinary memory. He was more than enough to call him a child prodigy.

"Sure enough, such a talent, even if you change your identity, it still exists." Zhao Dan secretly praised in his heart, and couldn't help but pat Xiao Zhao Zheng on the shoulder, and smiled: "You are very good, work hard, I believe that you will definitely become an outstanding minister in the future."

When Zhao Dan heard this, Zhao Yan, the second son of Zhao State, who was standing beside Zhao Dan, was a little surprised.

Zhao Zheng is Zhao Yan's companion, and he is the kind of person who follows Zhao Yan and studies with Zhao Yan.

Speaking of which, Zhao Zheng is a few years younger than Zhao Yan, and he is the lowest among Zhao Yan's companions. He has always been taciturn. The reason why he brought Zhao Zheng with him this time was just Zhao Yan's whim, but he never thought that his father was so concerned about this inconspicuous companion.

Zhao Yan's eyes turned and he smiled and said, "My father doesn't know anything. Zhao Zheng's daily homework is quite outstanding, almost always ranked first among everyone."

Zhao Dan nodded, then glared at his second son: "I heard that you are very careless every time you go to class, and you are the last one every time, huh?"

Zhao Yan shivered and said dryly, "Father, I want to pay my respects to my mother..."

Zhao Dan stared at his second son for a few glances, and finally snorted heavily, waved his hand and said, "Go."

Looking at Zhao Yanru's figure who was amnesty and took Zhao Zheng to leave hurriedly, Zhao Dan suddenly felt a little headache.

Parents have headaches when facing their children who are not good at it.

Zhao Dan actually faced the same problem as other emperors, that is, due to the hard work of state affairs, he did not invest enough in the education of the young masters.

It can even be said that in addition to the prince Zhao Heng, although several other young men and princesses, big and small, come to pay their respects to Zhao Dan every day, they don’t have much time to spend together.

Without the discipline of his father and his status is quite noble, no one dares to object, so the young master and princess' temper will naturally come out.

Fortunately, there is Queen Han Wan in charge, so the situation is not that bad, but women are not as majestic as men after all, so there are still some minor problems.

For example, Zhao Dan heard that Zhao Yan had no interest in learning at all. However, after a Mohist scholar came to the palace to teach a course, he became obsessed with "Mohist learning" and shouted all day long to go to the Mohist workshop to see the production process of the Zhao State's advanced weapons such as the Eight Niu Crossbow.

Hell, should I let the future second prince of Zhao become a bomb scientist or an ordnian? Just thinking about it...it seems okay?

In fact, Zhao Dan has not thought about the future of the children. Needless to say, the princesses just marrying chickens and following the chickens and following the dogs, even if these princes arrange it, it will be a problem.

It is definitely not possible to raise the royal family from generation to generation like Zhu Yuanzhang. Now there are more than a dozen people. After hundreds of years, I am afraid that there will be more than tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. The treasury of Zhao State cannot support these guys in vain.

So if Zhao Yan can find his own interests and devote himself to it, it may be good news for Zhao State.

Anyway, as long as you don’t have a fight between brothers, you can do whatever you like.

Mao Sui appeared beside Zhao Dan and whispered to Zhao Dan: "King, Zhao Zheng has not made any changes recently."

Zhao Dan smiled and said, "You don't need to keep an eye on this child so much. My Zhao Kingdom will not change any changes because of the child's life experience. But I hope you can ensure one thing, that is, under any circumstances, you will definitely not be able to let the child understand his life experience. Do you understand?"

Mao Sui responded very respectfully, and then said to Zhao Dan: "King, the King of Qin has been escorted to Handan."
Chapter completed!