When Solu Shen and others saw Handan City again after more than ten years, the appearance of Handan City was completely different from the time they were before.

The square rules of Zhou Li can no longer be seen, those prominent edges, walls, moats, and several small fortress acropolises nearby emit blue-black bronze cannons on the city walls...

All of this is completely different from more than ten years ago.

The first time I entered the Central Plains from Gaoliu in the northern border, I saw the horse milk from the real Central Plains city for the first time. I looked at the towering city walls and people coming and going at the city gates, and I was amazed.

With many people around him who had first entered the Central Plains and saw the Central Plains city, he exclaimed and exclaimed. Solusan told them with pride that the city must have been written by the Mo family.

The person from Gongzi Zhang who was accompanying him smiled and replied, "You are right. This is what the people from the Craftsman Association helped build. It costs a lot, but it is also worth it. At this time, the construction was completed. Gongzi once said that there were 20,000 soldiers guarding him, and a 100,000 troops could not be defeated."

Handan City is much taller than Gaoliu City in the north. After all, the Hu people cannot attack the city. Gaoliu City has no intensity base for the Central Plains siege, so there is no need to consume huge amounts. In addition, the population is far inferior to here, so it is really impossible to compare.

When Ma Mian heard these people say this, she exclaimed and asked, "This is built by our Mo family. Isn't the city on Si more grand than this? It's said that Pei County, I don't know how big the city in Pei County is?"

Soluchan thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not too big. If people really want to surround Pei County, I'm afraid that no matter how big the city is, it will be useless."

Ma Milk seemed to understand, but she didn't, and she felt a little disillusioned in her heart.

I always heard the Mohist family talk about the prosperity of Sishangpei County. I originally imagined it was a city larger than Gaoliu, but he could hardly imagine what it was, just as people who had never seen it could not imagine what it looked like.

Today, I was shocked when I saw Handan City, but Solusan said that Pei County was not so majestic, and Ma Milk felt a little sigh.

Walking under the real Central Plains city, the oppression of the giant city made Ma Mi a little nervous. Just like the rest of the people who saw the Central Plains city for the first time, looking at the tall city walls, I felt a little short and a little panicked.

Solusan saw many walls and many huge cities. He just roughly estimated the cost of building this city, and he had a little understanding of the statement that the land of comfort that everyone needs to produce is a lot of things that everyone can produce.

Such a big city was not impossible to build in the past, but it could be built within a few years. Moreover, the head of the princes was not the head of the princes, but the son of a minister of a county official, which was unimaginable in the past.

Xu Yi, who was traveling with Solusan, saw Solusan looking up and saying, "This city was just built two years ago, and it took a total of five years."

Xu Yi thought of the Mohist sayings about benevolence and righteousness, the three troubles of the people, and perhaps because he was worried that Solu Chan had any bad ideas, so he hurriedly added a few more words.

"Although the money spent is too much, the lives of the people have also improved. The young master is really a kind and righteous person."

"Handan was his fiefdom, so he gave his land to others, and more than 15,000 households were granted land. They paid it back in at most twenty years. After the clearance, all these lands were private property of farmers, and the people of Handan called forever."

"More than 15,000 households, the households have a hundred acres of land and are paid for iron and horses. Each household pays only one ten per year."

"In addition, the young master also gave his child slave as a hired worker and awarded the iron smelting workshop opened here by the Mo family, earning more than 100,000 yuan a year."

"In addition to the annual income of iron smelting, the commercial taxes for merchants in Handan, and some loans from the Mo family, the city was repaired in the desert. Not only did the people get food, but the city was built without harming the people's strength."

When Solusan heard this, he laughed in his heart, thinking that if there were no operations from the Mo family, there would be ghosts. Although the Mo family had valued ghosts and gods before, Solusan now disbelief of the sayings of ghosts and gods, so when he thought of impossible things, he would think of ghosts and ghosts.

In addition to secret laughter, there is also secret sarcasm in my heart.

This Handan City was originally the fief of Gongzizhang. Gongzizhang bought the people of Handan to be the Lord of Zhao. In addition, Handan City, as an important fief of the Zhao clan, has always had few nobles in other families, so it is natural that it is easy to carry out changes.

But if it is promoted nationwide, it is absolutely impossible.

If you dare to promote this, the nobles will overthrow Gongzi Zhang's rule and denounce it as tyranny.

Solu Chan thought to himself that in the end it would be a compromise and ambition. The important task of completely killing the nobles of the Shiqian family would have to be put on the Mo family, and it would not be possible to rely on wise kings and princes.

A person who can be a king will not care about that fiefdom at all, even a big city like Handan. The king wishes that there is no great noble in the world, and that they all become small peasants to facilitate centralization.

But those nobles who cannot be kings, the fiefdoms and the population on the fief are their lifebloods and the root of their power.

However, this kind of change is still beneficial to the world. Solusan thought of some of the statements he had said before: those who have been in the dark all know the beauty of light. The people who look forward to the light the most will always be at dawn, and the east will be dawn. Only when people see the light will they understand the terribleness of darkness and will they think of overthrowing those things.

The current situation in Handan City is, for the rest of Zhao, it is the dawn, a dawn that others can see.

The basis required by the Mohist inference about the paradise at this time is needed to provide this kind of change. Soluzan firmly believes that the theory of paradise that Shi said is the most suitable for the times after inference and reasoning. However, the arrival of this era still requires changes from various countries. Only when the change is finally discovered that the transformation is not thorough will the people expect a system that truly conforms to the production level at this time.

He thought a lot in his mind, but he didn't say much. Since the Mohist family opened an iron smelting workshop in Handan, it seems that the infiltration in Handan is already quite large, so he dare not say that it is like going home when he gets here, but at least it will have enough influence.

The Mohist school could not have completely made Gongzi Zhang win over the hearts of the people. They would inevitably act in secret, using political requirements as a condition for borrowing.

Although Xu Yi did not say these additional political conditions, Solusan felt that this must exist.

Solu Chan thought to himself that Xu Yi only said that Mr. Zhang in Handan is long live, but I am afraid that the Mohist family should be praised by the people in Handan.

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In Handan City, a tower covers the depths, a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old is wearing white filial piety.

The young man's name is Guo Zong.

The Guo family was a wealthy family in Handan before. They originally relied on iron smelting for living, but of course they were not blast furnace iron, but the kind of sponge iron forged from low temperature.

The technology of furnace iron is in the hands of the Mo family, and they don’t know how to do it.

If you have a name and a surname, you will naturally be a noble.

Guo Zong's ancestor was the uncle of King Wu of Zhou, who was granted Guo. Later, Guo was destroyed in Jin, and his descendants regarded Guo as their clan.

Jianzi of Later Zhao surrounded Jiang from Jin, and Guo moved to Jinyang, and another branch later moved to Handan.

Since the emergence of low-temperature forging sponge iron, several large families in Handan have begun to cooperate to monopolize the production of iron tools.

As a branch of the Guo family in Jinyang, the Guo family of Handan was able to vaguely get involved in the politics of Zhao before the Mohist school appeared.

Weapons require iron, and tools require iron. This must have a lot of connection with the nobles of Zhao State. This is another way for the clan to grow. The merchants became the king of "Sufeng" and then gradually gained power.

Before the Mohist family appeared, the Guo family accumulated a huge wealth, with a family of tens of thousands of dollars. By the time Guo Zong's father's generation, he was already the richest family in Handan City.

In addition to smelting iron, he also used usury and engaged in horse business. Guo Zong's father was a guest of honor in front of many nobles and had a unique status.

However, with the people of the Mohist family coming to Handan ten years ago, with some changes in Gongzizhang, with the emergence of the new iron smelting method of Si Shang and the technological monopoly of the Mohist family, the industry and status of the Guo family plummeted.

There were two price cuts in the fight, and there was a land change in Gongzizhang. The Mohist family took out credit to repay the ironware at low interest rates in the future, and a two-pronged approach was taken.

Guo Zong's father felt that with his years of accumulation, he wanted to continue fighting with the Mohist school with tens of thousands of gold as his foundation.

However, after less than half a year of fighting, the Guo clan could no longer hold on. It seemed that it would be impossible for the Mohist family to be affected by the ten thousand gold coins.

Shortly afterwards, the Mo family began to offer high prices in the iron smelting workshop here, recruiting the forging craftsmen in the Guo family's iron smelting workshop. Many of them fled, and some even sold themselves as slaves fled.

If it were in the past, the Guo family could naturally take these people back by relying on their relationship with the nobles.

However, now that the Mo family and Gongzi Zhang are very close, these fleeing slaves have just compensated the original ransom and have nothing to do.

Soon after, there were more and more strange goods on the city of Handan, and the Mohist industry was fully launched here. Any handicraftsmen who competed with the goods sold by the Mohist family went bankrupt one after another.

Cotton and woolen completely ruined the local linen production.

The furnace and iron farm tools led to the bone maker and stonemason who grind tools changed careers or became employees of Mohist workshops.

Those big merchants who hoarded food also lost all their money from the plummeting grain prices in recent years.

However, some people are worried, and some are happy. Those handicraftsmen who do not conflict with the Mohist industry have made money in recent years, while those related to the Mohist industry, such as charcoal burning, pottery burning, woodworking and other industries have developed rapidly.

Guo Zong's father sent a few confidants to Si Shang. After returning, he told him that Guo Zong's father had grown older several years overnight and could not afford to get sick.

This big man who was once in Handan, a wealthy businessman who could compete with many Zhao nobles, and a representative figure of Zhao's local handicraft industry, spoke to Guo Zong on the hospital bed.

"If you can't win, your family has tens of thousands of dollars. In the eyes of the Mo family, it's just a mere number. When the Mo family moves their fingers, our family's industry will not be able to hold on."

Shortly afterwards, the old man died.

The position of the sect leader of the Guo clan fell on the young Guo Zong, and the people were scattered and each was in a panic.

The son of his clan took over a family that had begun to decline.

Like his father, he knew that relying on technology and financial resources, he could not fight the Mo family.
Chapter completed!