A meeting is being held in Longtai.

Zhao Dan listened to Xiangbang Zhao Sheng’s report in front of him with a smile.

"The king, now he has moved the prisoners and their families to Shuofang and Hetao counties, plus the original Linhu tribe, the people in the two counties should now have about 150,000 people."

The land of the two counties, with a population of 150,000. Zhao Dan thought for a while and asked, "There are no more prisoners?"

The person who answered Zhao Dan's question was Si Kou and Zhao Bao: "Return to the king, he had moved 100,000 prisoners to Hedong County last year..."

Zhao Dan nodded in a clear way and asked again: "How is the work of Qimin in the household registration work going?"

Among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, the countries that implemented the most thorough county system were undoubtedly Qin and Zhao.

If the county system is fully implemented, it is essential to register households and people.

Only by registering all the population can the government be able to understand how much tax they can collect in peacetime, how many people and young men can be levied during wartime, and can they realize the potential of the country's war.

Yu Xin said: "This matter is still under statistics, but since the two counties are currently large and sparsely populated, it is estimated that this statistics should be completed in three to five months."

Zhao Dan asked again: "How is the situation in building a city?"

The answer to Zhao Dan was Lian Po: "Li Mu and Xu Li both have led their troops to the city building, and they should have started building the city within these few days."

Building a city is something that Chinese people have liked to do since the Xia Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty even pointed this skill to its peak.

When the Zhou Dynasty was first established, many Shang dynasties refused to surrender, so in order to consolidate their rule, the Zhou emperor enfeoffed a large number of vassal states and asked them to go to the vast Central Plains in the east to colonize as colonists.

Yes, the so-called feudal princes is actually just a piece of land on the map. If you can defeat it, you will stay wherever you can't. This is the so-called "far-seal".

A feudal state is a colony.

Therefore, from the perspective of large-scale colonial development, the Zhou nobles led Western European countries by two thousand years.

Most of these colonists who were enfeoffed were nobles of the Ji surname of the Zhou Dynasty. Unfortunately, after hundreds of years of great waves, only Yan State still survived the vassal states that were enfeoffed.

Other countries have either long been destroyed in the rolling historical waves, or have been indicted by ministers and officials to usurp the throne and seize power.

When developing land to the east, since the Zhou Dynasty had a few colonists, the most common method they used was to build cities.

A tall city will make people feel very secure. The people of the Zhou Dynasty in the city are "national people", and all those who refuse to enter the city, do not follow the Zhou rituals and do not obey the kingly power are "savages".

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, building cities was given more military roles, not only used to expand territory, but also often used to prevent invasions of enemy countries.

But in the Warring States Period, in the early years of the Warring States Period, in order to curb Qin, the famous military strategist Wu Qi built three cities, Linjin, Yuanli and Wu, in Hexi after seizing the Hexi land of Qin.

In order to prevent the invasion of Shandong countries, Qin also built the famous Hangu Pass.

In order to prevent Qin, Zhao built Lin and Li Shi.

Now that Zhao State has captured the two counties of Hetao, building a city is an imperative thing. First of all, it is impossible to let the county magistrates and officials work in the immediate and tents, and they can also have some solid strongholds in the Hetao area.

So Zhao Dan immediately said: "If the order continues, all departments must cooperate with this matter. Recruiting the civil servants and materials must not be short of them, and they must be delivered in full!"

If you have captured the territory but cannot stick to it, then everything will be empty talk.

The ministers present had no objection to Zhao Dan's order.

So Zhao Dan quickly entered the next issue.

"My good friends, based on the information sent by the people on the Huyi Front recently, our old friend, King Ji of Qin, began to feel unwilling to be lonely again and was preparing to secretly contact other countries to attack Zhao!"

As soon as he heard these words, the important officials of Zhao State present restrained their smiles and began to become serious.

Zhao Dan glanced at Miao Xian beside him: "Miao Qing, let's introduce the situation."

Miao Xian said: "According to reliable information, Wei has now secretly allied with Qin, and Qi seems to have also stood on the side of Qin, and the trends of the other countries cannot be determined for the time being."

"What?" The important officials of Zhao State suddenly changed color.

Zhao Sheng was furious and said, "This Wei State is unreasonable. He obviously gained a lot in the battle of Hedong County, but now he has a strange intention to our Zhao State!"

Zhao Dan looked at Zhao Sheng with a smile, knowing that the reason why his uncle was so angry was that he was dissatisfied with the betrayal of Wei, but more of it was actually to clear Zhao Sheng himself of suspicion.

After all, everyone knows that the real power of Wei State, Wei Wuji and Zhao Sheng, have a very close relationship.

Zhao Sheng said to Zhao Dan: "The great king, Wei State is determined to be undying, and he actually tries to collude with Qin to attack Zhao State. I ask the king to send troops to attack Wei and punish Wei State!"

Although Zhao Sheng's words were passionate, they seemed to make sense, but they did not get many people's approval.

Almost as soon as Zhao Sheng finished speaking, Yu Xin shook his head and said, "Your behavior is inappropriate."

Zhao Sheng said angrily: "What's wrong?"

Yu Xin said: "Now everyone knows that Wei is an ally of our Zhao Kingdom. If we don't have real evidence, we can easily send troops to attack Wei Kingdom. Wouldn't it be a real person and make the allies disunited?"

Zhao Sheng was speechless.

Yu Xin's words are indeed reasonable. After all, Wei has not blatantly deviated from the alliance, nor has it directly attacked Zhao. Under such conditions, if Zhao sends troops to attack Wei, then Zhao will be the one who betrays the alliance.

Zhao Dan coughed and asked, "So what should Yu Qing think I should deal with this matter? Could it be that I just waited for the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei and Qi to attack Zhao?"

Yu Xin said, "When you come back to the king, although you cannot attack Wei, you can attack Qin first and attack Qin! Qin is the main initiator of Lianheng this time. If Qin is defeated, Lianheng will be defeated without attacking it."

When Zhao Dan heard this, he felt that Yu Xin's words seemed quite reasonable.

So Zhao Dan said, "You are the first to attack Qin State. I wonder what your family thinks?"

To be honest, Zhao Dan really doesn't want to fight. After all, the Hetao region has just been taken down. What Zhao needs is time to consolidate its rule and develop agriculture, so as to achieve the goal of making the country strong.

But in this situation, it is obvious that this battle will not be fought. After all, the other countries are not fools. Who would watch Zhao become stronger and then send troops to attack him?

Lian Po thought about it and spoke first, "In fact, it is indeed a feasible strategy to take the lead in attacking Qin State."

Pang Nuan on the other side looked a little worried and said, "If you attack Qin, will you be afraid of the other countries?"

When Zhao Dan heard this, he turned his eyes to Zheng Zhu, a big boss, who was standing aside, and asked, "What should I do in the opinion of a doctor?"

As a major agency in charge of diplomacy, Zheng Zhu is now one of the seven major officials of Zhao State, and he also has a diplomatic staff department under his command, specializing in international relations, so it is normal for Zhao Dan to solicit Zheng Zhu's opinions at this time.

Zheng Zhu thought for a while and said to Zhao Dan: "King, judging from the current situation, even if the king does not take the initiative to attack, he will send troops to attack Zhao after the Qin State is completed. Therefore, the king might as well take action first. In this way, while attacking Qin, the king can also send envoys to various countries, either to threaten or induce, which makes it easier to accomplish things."

Zhao Dan pondered for a while and said, "This sounds pretty good... If so, then what direction should you attack Qin?"
Chapter completed!