Chapter 21 Handan
This alone is enough to make Gongzi Zhang pay so much attention, not to the Mo family's own military power, financial resources, loans and military power in the Gaoliu area.
The backer his cousin, Prince Chao, was looking for was Wei. At this time, Wei was at its peak, and he was really invincible in the world. Prince Zhang also needed more support to fight against possible threats.
The people who came here to welcome Solusan and also to the affairs of Que and Jun. In Gongzi Zhang's view, this was an opportunity to take advantage of his uncle's serious illness to deal with his cousin.
After the death of Liehou Zhao Ji, Gong Zhonglian's reform continued, and many ministers in the country were promoted to fight against the growing public clan during the Liehou era.
This is a very powerful force, and they support Gongzizhang ascend the throne.
In this era when the Mohist school of technology spread in recent years led to the acceleration of change, the dispute over inheritance rights is no longer just a simple battle between nobles, but involves a dispute between reformists and conservatives.
If any country today has reformed, it will inevitably harm the interests of the old nobles.
To fight against the old nobles, the scholar class will rise and decentralize power. At the same time, the scholar class needs to strengthen the royal power to fight against the old nobles.
When Zhao Ji was still alive, he appointed Gong Zhonglian to reform. Before his death, he had a secret conversation with Gong Zhonglian and others for a long time. At that time, when Gong Zizhang came forward and was young, he began to prepare for the future ruling team for Gong Zizhang.
The Emperor of Zhou had the position of a concubine's official, which was used to educate the princes and ministers.
In the Three Jin Dynasty, there were sons of the Central Concubine, princes, princes, prime ministers, and even monarchs, all of whom had sons of the Central Concubine.
Now the one who came to welcome Solusan was Gongzizhang's son, who was from Zhao, and was recommended by Xun Xin after Gong Zhonglian's reform. As a lieutenant, Xun Xin had the obligation and power to recommend talents, which could always maintain that Gongzizhang had a good team under him.
The son of Prince Zhang's central son, Xu, was not the descendant of Xu Yan, Wang Boyi, who opposed the Zhou emperor, but the six descendants of the Shang Dynasty who moved to Lu during the rebellion of the Three Prisons to Lu, and the name was Yi.
When the nobles and the scholars began to compete for power, paper and printing had already begun to spread from Si to various places. Therefore, the method of "litees recommended by lieutenants" like Zhao State was already a little behind as soon as it appeared.
Although if paper and printing cannot appear, this method of recommendation is ultimately stronger than that of the nobles in the past, and at least there will be some upward paths.
This way of recommendation is to be the son of Gongzi Zhang, a person who can be a scholar, but he must be a family figure with some connection with officials, which is inevitable.
Unless it is a famous person like Zhongni and Modi, how can a person be noticed by the lieutenant if he has his own talents?
Xu Yi was a member of the inner historian Xu Yue, but he was not a deeply rooted prince. Xu Yue was also the one who used his status as a scholar to strengthen the royal power against the nobles and nobles after the reform of Gong Zhonglian.
After the notice, Xu Yi and Suolu met with the rituals and said, "The Lord and the Marquis are seriously ill. They are the sons of the princes. The Lord and the Lord are the sons of the princes. Therefore, the sons cannot come in person, so I sent me to welcome him. The king traveled tens of thousands of miles westward and arrived at the country of Queen Mother. There are many knowledges and many talented people in the Mo family. The prince loves the virtuous the most. He cannot come in person this time, so I must tell you."
Solu Chan returned the gift and laughed in his heart, thinking that at this time, Mr. Zhao was about to die, and this young master Zhang must be staying in Zhongmu. Could it be that when his uncle dies, his heir is not in the capital?
Seeing through but not saying it out loud, Soluchan smiled and said, "We have understood the feelings of the young master. I am about to stay in Handan, and there are still some things to deal with."
"Although the king and the lord are sick, some things should not be said at this time. However, there is no trivial matter in the national law. The Mo family captured some people in Gaoliu and privately transported some goods that Zhao Hou ordered to be strictly prohibited from trading with the Hu people. This matter... has to be said."
This time he came here for this.
Since Gao Liu had decided to tell this matter out, it involved the relationship behind it and the critical moment when Zhao Hou was seriously ill, this is actually a statement: the Mohist school will support Gongzi Zhang ascend the throne.
The earlier you make a statement, the sooner you can pull Wei, Han and Qi in. Solusan knew that the Tian family had just obtained the official marquis' throne with the help of Wei Hou last year, and Qi could not have expressed any of this matter.
When Xu Yi heard So Lu Chan say this, he praised: "In the past, Zhao Xianjun, a son of a son, cast a punishment cauldron. It has been nearly a hundred years since his name was punished. Not to mention the Mohist law that killed people and injured people, even the law of Zhao State is the crime of replacing prohibited things privately, it is also unforgivable."
Knowing it, after advocating each other, Xu Yi invited Solu Sen to board the bus at the left to show respect and head to Handan together.
As early as when Liehou was still alive, there were large areas of fiefs in Handan belonging to the young Gongzi Zhang. Later, a lot of land was enfeoffed before his death because the young master without a fief had no right to speak.
As the son of Gongzi Zhang, Xu Yi has been running in Handan over the years, and some of the Mohist activities in Handan were also carried out through Xu Yi.
After heading to Handan all the way, Solusan learned that the relationship between the Mo family and Gongzi Zhang was not just about cooperation.
The Mo family is also the biggest creditor of Gongzi Zhang.
Because Prince Zhang was just a prince, not Zhao Hou at this time, and he had to face the pressure from his uncle and cousin, he wanted to cultivate his own team, private soldiers, and run his fiefdom Handan, which required a lot of money.
It takes money to build a city wall, it takes money to recruit scholars, and it takes money to buy weapons. In short, nothing can be done without money.
In the chaotic times, merchants lived a very prosperous life. The great merchants in the Warring States Period could not only lend to the emperor, but also forced debts.
This trend continued until the Han Dynasty. During the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the country was short of money to borrow money. Some lieutenant princes in Chang'an also lacked money to borrow money to earn military merits and regain their fiefdoms. However, many merchants believed that the situation of the war was unclear, and even believed that the seven kingdoms might win and refused to borrow money.
Wuyan decisively lent usury loans and lent the Liehou Fengjun who stood with the central government at a super high interest rate of ten times the principal and interest. After quelling the rebellion between the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu, he recovered the principal and obtained enough political capital.
This kind of behavior of merchants interfering in politics is the easiest time of disputes among the nations.
Nowadays, if there is no one who can compare with the Mohist school with a strict organization, the borrowing of money will naturally fall on the Mohist school.
The amount of money Zhao Gongzizhang borrowed from the Mo family could not be repaid unless he could obtain the position of Zhao Hou. This also involves the money of many big merchants who were insured by the Mo family, and this money would need to be repaid with various policy preferential treatment in the future.
It was precisely through the Mo family's loan that Gongzi Zhang was able to rebuilt Handan City, strengthening Handan's defense and hiring the Mo family's technicians to help build the city wall and city defense and a systematic wall.
I purchased some cannons for defending the city and initially completed the small-scale reform of Handan City.
He owed too much debt, and it was not paid by the Mo family alone, but organized many merchants from Zhao to lend it out together, so Mr. Zhao dared not breach the contract. Once the contract is breached, these merchants and the Mo family can push him up and pull him down. Some of the public clans who are willing to admit that the loan is.
Whoever recognizes this loan is Zhao Hou recognized by the Mo family and those merchants. As for whether it is a direct branch or something else, these people do not recognize it at all.
Under various factors, Xu Yi, as the concubine's son of Prince Zhang Zhong, was extremely polite to Solu Shen.
Before becoming a Mo, Solusan was also a low-ranking aristocrat. He read a lot and knew that although Handan was not the capital of Zhao at this time, it had always been a city that the Zhao family attached great importance to, and it was also one of the foundations of the Zhao family.
When the Shang Dynasty was established, the city was built in Xingtai as the capital, and Handan was located in the capital.
Later in the era of Zhao Jianzi, the incident of moving people from Handan to Jinyang led to internal strife among the Zhao family and triggered chaos in the Three Jins.
During his lifetime, Zhao Liehou granted Handan to Gongzi Zhang because he was worried that his younger brother would not return the seat at that time, so he prepared some way out for Gongzi Zhang in advance.
In the past, the Zhao family was able to win the battle with the city of Jinyang. If the city of Handan could be completely controlled by Prince Zhang, it would also burst out with powerful power. With the support of the ministers from the outside inside, it would be safer to pass the marquis position from the uncle to the nephew.
At this time, there was a lot of land rewarded. Gongshuzhu, who had just become Wei Xiang, was rewarded with 1.4 million mu of land.
These rewarded lands, including those who cultivate on the land, are bound to the land, and the aristocracy cannot go to the fields to dig food in person, so the feudal land serf system that binds humans is the bottom line that the aristocracy cannot give up.
Before the emergence of iron ox plowing and ridges, it is impossible to have simple currency rent or complete physical rent, because it is impossible to ensure the efficiency of exploitation by relying on stone, wood, clam shells and bronzes.
This inevitably leads to a semi-serfdom in which humans depend on the land. The nobles enjoyed the rent of labor and the fruits of the serfs on these fiefs.
Since Zhao Ji granted Handan to his son, many of the land and people in Handan belonged to his son.
The Mohist school started mining and smelting iron in Handan, spreading the technology of oxen plowing horses, the introduction of new crops, and the material foundation of the Zhao State made Gongzizhang's transformation into reality in his fiefdom.
In addition to the side of Gongzi Zhang, there are some hidden Mo people, and the private acre system that has already appeared in the Sanjin Dynasty. From the thirteen years since Zhao Ji's death to the present, the changes in Handan have begun to show results.
Even some scholars and officials around Gongzi Zhang did not impart the land, but were given enough money and salary.
Chapter completed!