The original name of this city was Wuxian, but it is obvious that Zhao Kuo believes that the name Wuxian is not satisfactory.

Therefore, the name Suzhou was born many years ahead of schedule.

"There is heaven above and Suhang below."

Zhao Kuo looked at the city in front of him and couldn't help but slowly say these eight words.

Tian Wan, who was standing beside Zhao Kuo, was she a little confused: "Your Majesty, is Suzhou and Hangzhou one city or two cities?"

Zhao Kuo was about to explain with great interest, but suddenly came to his senses. At this time, there was no Hangzhou yet.

Zhao Kuo coughed and said as if nothing had happened: "I am also inspired. Queen, don't care about these details.

By the way, there are many beautiful scenery in Suzhou, and you will probably be very interested in it at that time."

Tian Wan was a little confused and looked at Zhao Kuo with her big eyes. With the intuition of a woman, she always felt that Zhao Kuo seemed to be hiding something from her.

However, after getting off the boat, Tian Wan's eyes were indeed attracted.

It is already summer. The lush trees outside Suzhou City are blooming with all kinds of flowers that cannot be named. The air emits a faint fragrance of flowers, and the people coming and going all have pleasant smiles on their faces.

Looking into the distance, a city appeared and disappeared. Although it was not clear that it was full of its appearance, it had already had a faint momentum.

This place is indeed the largest city in the Han Dynasty in Jiangnan. Just a little observation, it seems so unique.

Zhao Kuo smiled and said to Tian Wan: "Let's go, let's go into the city and take a look."

Zhao Kuo's convoy was in a mighty manner, and surrounded by many military guards, he entered the city.

Many passers-by stopped and saluted Zhao Kuo on the side of the road. Zhao Kuo also waved with a smile, looking quite friendly.

If possible, Zhao Kuo even wanted to get out of the car and chat with passers-by, but so many ministers behind him would definitely stop him desperately, so let it go.

I entered Suzhou all the way, unlike other cities, which was once the capital of Wu and Yue, so there was a palace city in the city, which was Zhao Kuo's palace.

After entering the palace city, the Wu Yue architectural style that was completely different from the Central Plains immediately attracted Tian Wan, and she obviously liked it very much.

Zhao Kuo smiled and waved his hand: "The queen likes it, right? Come on, go find the architectural drawings of these palace cities.

If there is no drawing, please find someone to re-draw it, and then restore the palace city in the imperial capital!"

Tian Wan was shocked when she heard this and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, you must not. Doing this will be too exhausting and hurting money!"

"Doing people and losing money?"

When Zhao Kuo heard this, he laughed: "Queen, you don't understand now, right?

How could I need national money to build a palace for my women?

This time, all the money in the palace was paid by my young mansion, and it definitely has nothing to do with the waste of money and money!”

Shaofu, that is the emperor's private money. The emperor uses his private money to build a palace, and no one can find fault.

After hearing this, Tian Wan couldn't help but say in surprise: "Your Majesty, this requires a lot of money. Does the Young Mansion really have so much money?"

Zhao Kuo laughed out loud: "Queen, you know nothing about my wealth!"

Zhao Kuo is not ordinary rich now.

You should know that Zhao Kuo’s Shaofu is the largest shareholder and actual controller of at least ten companies, including Dahan Guo Textile Group, Dahan Guo Weapon Factory Group, Dahan Guo Navigation Group, etc. The annual profit of these companies is astronomical.

Relying solely on the profits that these listed companies are attributable to Zhao Kuo every year, it is a number that makes the great nobles and wealthy businessmen stunned. It is simply too simple to take out a part of it to build a palace.

Zhao Kuo was not like Qin Shihuang, who only knew how to scrap money from the people, and in the end the people could not bear it anymore. Qin Shihuang rebelled directly as soon as he died.

For Zhao Kuo, we don’t need to scrape even a penny from the people, and we can still build this palace beautifully.

How many millions?

That's all a little bit.

Billions of billions?

The problem is not big! This is the benefit of business. Qin's suppression of business actually wasted a very important opportunity to alleviate social conflicts.

As business develops, it can also attract a large number of employed people. As long as the people have a job and can have enough food, who will rebel?

Of course, the siphon effect on the population after the development of commerce is also very obvious, so the Han Dynasty still needs to continue to expand, so that a large number of prisoners can be obtained from other countries as laborers to join agricultural production.

Finally, when the Han Dynasty developed mechanized agriculture, the agricultural population would not need too much. At that time, no matter how siphoned the population in commercialization, it would not matter. This was the current state of the country of Midi in later generations.

In the final analysis, as long as the technology of the Han Dynasty continues to develop, all problems can actually be solved.

This is the advantage of time travelers. Can't solve the problems of this era?

It doesn’t matter, I will use the next era to carry out dimensionality reduction attacks.

The problems that agricultural society cannot solve, but modern society is simply too simple to solve! Zhao Kuo took back his thoughts and looked at Qiu'er and Yiquwei beside him.

These two concubines did come with Zhao Kuo, but when they visited privately on a private tour before, Zhao Kuo considered that it was too eye-catching to bring three women at once, and the princesses also needed someone to take care of them, so he did not bring them with him.

Thinking about it this way, I really need to express my feelings to these two little wives. As a man, the most important thing is to get the best of both rain and dew, so that everyone can be happy, right?

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "When the time comes, let's build three palaces. You three will save you two from saying that I am partial, hahaha!"

As Zhao Kuo said before, whether it is one palace or three palaces, it is not a problem for Zhao Kuo now.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Qiu'er and Yi Quwei couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Qiu'er said: "If possible, I hope to build a pink palace."

Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile: "This is absolutely fine!"

Yiqiuwei hurriedly said, "I want to build a green palace, which must have the color and feeling of the prairie!"

Zhao Kuo's body paused slightly, and his expression became somewhat subtle.

Green grassland... Forget it, Yiqiuwei is young and ignorant. She is not a modern person, how can she know this?

Let her go.

What Zhao Kuo did not notice was that just as his royal lord entered the city, several people were quietly watching all this in the distance.

A man whispered, "I actually had a chance just now, why don't you let me try it?"

Another person said calmly: "What we want is a chance to kill Zhao Kuo 100%. Now Zhao Kuo is surrounded by guards. If you act a little rashly, you will be discovered. It doesn't matter if you die, but you will destroy all the major affairs of the master. Do you understand?

Okay, let’s wait patiently. Since Zhao Kuo has arrived, it will be a matter of time before he can visit privately in a private place!"

While speaking, the man shook a portrait in his hand slightly. The Zhao Kuo on it was so realistic.

...The next day, Zhao Kuo summoned officials from Kuaiji County in the temporary palace.

Perhaps it was because of the fear of Zhao Kuo's emperor's majesty, or perhaps it was because Zhao Kuo's killings in Juchao City had indeed shocked the political arena of the Han Dynasty. In short, these officials were all respectful and no exaggeration to say that they did not dare to breathe a lot.

Zhao Kuo smiled indifferently and said, "You don't need to be so restrained, just chat casually."

After saying that, Zhao Kuo also began to ask about the local situation in Kuaiji County.

Why is Zhao Kuo so concerned about Kuaiji County?

This is because in history, during the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Xiang family represented by Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang started with Kuaiji County as the base.

That's right, the "Jiangdong" in the sentence "I still think of Xiang Yu, but I refuse to cross Jiangdong" refers to the Yangtze River Delta area in a broad sense, but in a narrow sense, it refers to Kuaiji County alone.

This is why Zhao Kuo attaches great importance to Kuaiji County and came here on his first tour. He doesn't want any rebellion against the Han Dynasty here, which is more annoying.

Faced with Zhao Kuo's inquiry, these local officials naturally had their whole hearts and answered them very carefully, striving to leave a good impression on His Majesty the Emperor.

In short, the situation in Kuaiji County is still very good. In just a few years, the arable land here has soared to more than five times that it was before, and it is still rising continuously.

This is mainly because of large-scale immigration. Everyone has psychological considerations. They are not used to grasslands to the north. When they go to Lingnan, they are all miasma and poisonous insects. When they go to Bashu, they are also high in mountains and dangerous roads. Therefore, Kuaiji County, a place located in Jiangnan and relatively close to the Central Plains and convenient transportation, has become the first choice for immigrants.

Zhao Kuo kept nodding when he heard this, and had another idea in his mind.

Judging from the current situation, Kuaiji County should soon become the most populous county in Jiangnan. In other words, various benefits and subsidies for immigrants in Kuaiji County should also be stopped.

After all, the population of Kuaiji County will naturally grow in the future. It is necessary to give the little kids who were born some land and hope.

In addition, Zhao Kuo took the opportunity to take the exam and compete with local officials in Kuaiji County. Some officials may not have enough abilities, but they wrote the various reports on the memorials, such as those who asked someone to write for their writing. However, they would be exposed when asked on the spot.

As for those who are truly capable and do things, all kinds of data are naturally familiar in their minds. When asked about the specific situation of the people, they can immediately give answers. This is not something that can be seen in daily memorials, and these people may not even be qualified to write memorials for Zhao Kuo.

Overall, mediocre officials still account for the majority, two or three more wasteful officials, and five or six more outstanding officials.

This was actually beyond Zhao Kuo's expectations. For Zhao Kuo, he originally thought it would be good to find two or three outstanding officials.

This also gave Zhao Kuo some comfort. From this perspective, the quality of the officials of the Han Dynasty was quite good. Finally, it did not allow corrupt officials like Zhang Xiaodong to spread across the Han Dynasty on a large scale.

After finishing the exam, Zhao Kuo specially left the officials to have a meal.

These officials were naturally flattered and were all so excited.

Being able to have a meal with His Majesty the Emperor is definitely a matter of recording the family tree and glorifying the ancestors! Looking at the group of extremely excited officials in front of him, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but smile.

Zhao Kuo suddenly realized that he was such a dazzling person.

These "high officials" who are considered to be superior to ordinary people are so excited that they can have a meal with Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo is sitting at the top, so they can only sit down with them, and they are so excited that they are almost incoherent.

Zhao Kuo smiled gently, chatted with these officials casually, and even joked with some officials from time to time.

He was sure that after today, many of these officials would be devoted to his emperor.

After summoning these local officials from Kuaiji County, Zhao Kuo did not set off immediately, but stayed in the palace for two days.

Although it was a parade, there were still many national affairs that Zhao Kuo had to make a decision. The previous journey was hard and the private visits were actually delayed a lot of matters, so I took advantage of the past two days to solve them all.

In addition, after a long trip, Zhao Kuo also needs to take a break to relieve fatigue.

After everything was handled, Zhao Kuo once again issued an order to the accompanying officials.

"I will go to the shipyard tomorrow to take a look. You can stay here, Lu Buwei, Mao Sui and you guys can come with you."

The next day, Zhao Kuo left Suzhou City with his three wives and a group of children, as well as Lu Buwei, Mao Sui and several other key officials, and set out towards the shipyard about dozens of miles away from the city.

Judging from Zhao Kuo's original intention, he felt that the shipyard was not far from Suzhou City, so there was no need for a large group of people to make trouble. However, in the eyes of the killers who had already prepared for the National People's Congress, it was naturally another guess.

"Zhao Kuo actually brought only this little person to set off. It seems that he should want to have a private visit on a private basis. Everyone should keep up!"

So, the assassin team, who had been waiting for Zhao Kuo for a long time, also quietly followed him.
Chapter completed!