After executing Zhang Xiaodong and Lu Yu, Zhao Kuo immediately informed the Imperial Capital of the situation, and asked the Intelligence Department and Supervision Department of the Imperial Capital to carry out a "remediation of corruption" operation, with the goal of resolutely eliminating corrupt officials in the Han Dynasty.

It is undeniable that the territory expansion of the Han Dynasty has been very rapid over the years. In addition, when Zhao Kuo destroyed the Zhao State, he also cleaned up a group of officials who were loyal to Zhao State to the death. This also led to a phenomenon that many of the officials of the Han Dynasty were young and had not yet gone through too much training to take up high-level positions.

For example, more mature officials, they gradually started from the grassroots level and may understand the sufferings of the people. Then they will be more cautious when doing anything, and even won’t be too greedy.

However, young officials are very motivated in everything they do. If this kind of motivation is used in the governance of local areas, it will certainly be more effective than older officials, but if it is used for corruption, it will also be more harmful to the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of Zhang Xiaodong's new "role model" to be released and beat these officials to let them know that respect for the law and the people is necessary! After the news came back to the Imperial Capital, the Han government in the Imperial Capital naturally faithfully fulfilled the resolution and directly printed a lot of details about the Zhang Xiaodong and Lu Yu's case, and posted them all over the streets and alleys.

The focus is on how Zhang Xiaodong and Lu Yu colluded with officials and gentry to oppress the people, and at the same time, it further highlights how his Majesty Zhao Kuo was wise and powerful, how he spoke up for justice and eventually eliminated Zhang Xiaodong and Lu Yu.

In other words, there are no TV series in this era, otherwise, they would have to film a movie called "The Emperor's Secret Private Visit".

These actions naturally attracted the attention of the Restoration Congress and held another secret meeting.

At the meeting, the leader Lao Hu said with some displeasure: "I didn't expect that Zhao Kuo was so bold and dared to visit privately in a private place?

We have really wasted an opportunity to kill Zhao Kuo."

Others obviously agreed with the tiger, and they were more or less upset.

During a private visit, it must be the lowest defense force around Zhao Kuo. If an assassin can be organized at this time, there is definitely hope to kill Zhao Kuo.

After a while, the fox chuckled and broke the quiet: "Actually, I think this matter is not a bad thing."

When the fox said this, the others were puzzled.

The sheep couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean?"

The fox said lightly: "What I mean is actually very simple, that is, through this matter we can get something.

For example, Zhao Kuo killed a bad combination of officials and gentry like Zhang Xiaodong and Lu Yu in his first private visit, so he is likely to eat the taste of the martyr and conduct the next private visit.

In that case, as long as we can control Zhao Kuo's actions, the next private visit will be Zhao Kuo's death!"

After listening to the fox's words, the members of the Republic Congress present were in a much better mood and the atmosphere began to become active.

The sheep said, "So, how can we ensure that Zhao Kuo will fall into our trap?"

The fox said: "Actually, this is easy to predict. When Zhao Kuo goes to Kuaiji County this time, he will definitely stay in Suzhou.

As the largest city in Kuaiji County and even the entire south of the Yangtze River, Suzhou is mostly going to have to visit it in private.

We just need to send more people in Suzhou, and we must be able to find his traces."

At this point, no one expressed his objection, so the matter was settled.

After a while, the people of the Restoration Congress dispersed one after another, and only the leader Tiger and military advisor Fox were left in the secret room.

The tiger spoke lightly and said, "Lu Yu is our person."

The fox was obviously stunned for a moment, and after a while, he said, "Then why didn't you say it just now?"

The tiger said calmly: "If I say it out, wouldn't those brave things be scared out of their courage?"

The fox was silent for a moment and said, "How much does Lu Yu know about us?"

Tiger said: "Although he is a member of the Restoration Congress, he is just an outer member.

It was a coincidence that I asked him to join the club back then, and it should not have any impact on us."

The fox breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good.

Are you ready for Zhao Kuo's portrait?"

The tiger took out a portrait from his arms. The one on it was Zhao Kuo, and it was very realistic, and it was at least eight or ninety-nine times similar to a real person.

The fox looked at the portrait and said with satisfaction: "As long as we print a few more pictures of this portrait and send them to those responsible for the assassination, the problem will be solved."

The tiger nodded and said, "But judging from the situation of Juchao City, even when Zhao Kuo visited in a private manner, he had a guard with excellent martial arts skills around him. What are you going to do?"

When the fox heard this, he immediately laughed: "Don't worry, in this world today, it's not just about martial arts to kill people.

I can tell you with certainty that if Zhao Kuo was really discovered by our dead soldiers in Suzhou City, then he would definitely die this time!"

Zhao Kuo sat on the boat, heading south.

The incident of Juchaocheng is now a thing of the past for Zhao Kuo, but Zhao Kuo unexpectedly discovered that this matter was actually involved in another matter.

Zhao Kuo stared at the interrogation document in front of him. This document was confessed by a core member of the Lu family. It said something that looked inconspicuous but actually attracted Zhao Kuo's attention.

"The Lu family is actually a member of the Reconsideration Congress?"

Zhao Kuo frowned.

Zhao Kuo is not unfamiliar with the name Restoration Congress.

During the linen trade war, Zhao Kuo knew the name of the organization.

Mao Sui said: "I thought it had been eliminated before, or it had severely damaged the Restoration Congress, but judging from the current situation, perhaps the members of the Restoration Congress we have caught before are just some relatively low-level members, and there should be many real senior members.

And judging from Lu Yu's example, there may be many people who are hidden members of the Restoration Congress."

Zhao Kuo listened, his expression gradually became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "This matter cannot be taken lightly. It must be handled well and the restoration of the National Assembly will be eliminated."

The matter of restoring the Congress was actually quite difficult for Zhao Kuo.

The hidden enemies inside have always been more difficult to deal with than those obvious outside enemies. This is the truth from ancient times to the present.

For Zhao Kuo, things are even more complicated, because Zhao Kuo destroyed the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period in just over a decade. Now, except for a small number of officials under Zhao Kuo came from the Academy, most of them were officials from the original Seven Kingdoms.

This made it difficult for Zhao Kuo to distinguish which talents are possible candidates for the resumption of Congress.

But it is precisely because of this that Zhao Kuo could feel the harm of the Restoration Congress to the Han Dynasty. If it was not destroyed, it would be difficult to guarantee that no other troubles would happen in the future.

Zhao Kuo's thoughts changed and said to Mao Sui: "Next, the main task of the Intelligence Department in the Han Dynasty is to find this restoration Congress and eliminate it. Do you understand?"

When Mao Sui heard Zhao Kuo's words, his expression became serious and nodded very seriously: "Please rest assured, your Majesty, I will complete the task!"

Zhao Kuo looked at Mao Sui and smiled and said, "Of course I am very relieved about you. Do it well. I believe you should be fine."

From Zhao Kuo's personal perspective, he had never had the personal ability of Mao Sui, so after handing over this matter to Mao Sui, Zhao Kuo settled down and continued to tour every day.

In the next city, since the local officials also heard about what happened in Juchao City, they all tried to do their best, fearing that they would also spread Zhang Xiaodong's footsteps.

Of course, Zhao Kuo also discovered this and felt quite satisfied in his heart. In fact, this was indeed what Zhao Kuo hoped to do.

If an official does not have a sense of awe, then sooner or later this person will fall into depravity.

On this day, the fleet led by Zhao Kuo arrived at the Yangtze River in a mighty manner.

From the perspective of civilization, the mother river of the Chinese nation is undoubtedly the Yellow River. However, in a sense, the Yellow River is just a nurturing of Chinese civilization, while the Yangtze River represents the development of Chinese civilization.

When Chinese civilization was limited to the Yellow River, Chinese civilization was not actually a mature period. When Chinese civilization completely controlled the two rivers, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, its heyday really came.

In the history of Chinese civilization, China's focus also began from the Yellow River Basin, but later gradually moved southward to the Yangtze River Basin.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty should attach great importance to the Yangtze River.

Zhao Kuo stood on the big ship and said to the Minister of Agriculture beside him: "Although the Han Dynasty is indeed mainly based on commercial economy, we must always remember that agriculture is the foundation on which a country can survive.

What your Ministry of Agriculture needs to do next is to develop and strengthen the agriculture in the Yangtze River Basin and make it another fish and rice town. Do you understand?"

According to common sense, Lu Buwei was a big businessman before, and the official position he would be best held was obviously the Minister or Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Commerce.

However, Zhao Kuo arranged Lu Buwei as the Minister of Agriculture, which obviously had his own considerations.

People like Lu Buwei can become prime minister in the future. If they know nothing about the importance of agriculture, it will definitely not work.

Only by putting Lu Buwei in the position of Minister of Agriculture for a few years can we consider the situation in the future and whether Lu Buwei will take over.

Of course, Lu Buwei did not understand what Zhao Kuo was thinking at the moment, but Lu Buwei still agreed respectfully to Zhao Kuo's order.

Lu Buwei said to Zhao Kuo very attentively: "Your Majesty, with the recent immigration of our Han Kingdom from the Central Plains to this Jiangnan area, the area of ​​farmland on the Jiangnan side has been doubled, and it is expected that it can be expanded by at least 3 to 5 times within 10 years."

After hearing Lu Buwei's words, Zhao Kuo nodded slightly. For Jiangnan now, the arable land is absolutely sufficient, and what is not enough is actually the population.

This is mainly because the Yellow River has not yet flooded, and the Yellow River is not the river that will cause infinite suffering to the people of the Central Plains due to the dam breaking. Therefore, most of the population of the Central Plains is still concentrated in the Yellow River Plain, which is what people often call the Central Plains.

As for the Yangtze River generation, it is actually a very distant southern barbarian land for people today, and the areas south of the Yangtze River can be described directly as barren land.

However, with the unification of the Han Dynasty, publicity on major remote areas such as the Yangtze River was also carried out one after another. In this way, some people who could not be divided into fields in their hometowns, or who could only be divided into few fields were willing to go to Jiangnan or other areas under the mobilization of the government.

There are also many policies invested in mobilizing people to immigrate to the Han Dynasty. If a laborer can obtain 100 acres of fertile land in the Central Plains, then as long as he is willing to move to Jiangnan, he can directly obtain 1,000 acres of unreclaimed land.

In addition, the governments of the Han Dynasty will also provide subsidies to these immigrants to help them build houses and wells and other necessary living measures. At the same time, they will also ask the Ministry of Agriculture to send officials to guide them in their work locally, and all their agricultural tools will be distributed for free in the first year.

It can be foreseen that with the progress of such subsidies, more people will slowly migrate from the Central Plains in the future and slowly spread to every corner of the Han Dynasty.

This is exactly what Zhao Kuo likes most. After all, it is indeed very easy to defeat a country's territory, but if no one lives there, it will definitely not work.

Only by allowing more immigrants to come out of the Central Plains, to the border, to Jiangnan, Lingnan and other places can we truly let Chinese civilization emerge from the Central Plains and go to the entire world.

Zhao Kuo nodded and said to Lu Buwei: "You are also a person who does practical things. I hope you can maintain this tradition. What the officials of our Han Kingdom need the least is their exaggerated style. Do you understand?"

To a certain extent, this is also a warning to Lu Buwei.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Lu Buwei was immediately ordered with a stern look, his eyes flashing, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

A few days later, the fleet headed east along the Yangtze River and finally arrived at Suzhou, the capital of Kuaiji County.
Chapter completed!