After Zhao Kuo finished speaking, King Zhao slapped the table directly.

"This Zhou family's second son is really brave.

He actually snatched so many shops in Pingkangfang. If it weren't for what Wu Xinjun, you said, I would have been blinded by these bastards!"

King Zhao was very angry, really angry.

For him, Pingkangfang, a hen that can only lay golden eggs, must not be controlled by others.

But if the noble families led by the Zhou family continue to do this, the future result will inevitably be that all the shops in the entire Pingkangfang will be divided up by these nobles.

At that time, you don’t have to think about it. These nobles will definitely use some means to make the less tax they can pay, the better.

After all the trouble, these nobles took the big head, but the tax paid was actually a small head. Can King Zhao bear it?

King Zhao said to the eunuch who was standing beside him: "You should immediately pass the order to the Handan Order and ask him to investigate the matter strictly, otherwise I would never spare him lightly!"

Seeing that King Zhao was so angry, the eunuchs naturally did not dare to neglect and went straight to do it.

After seeing the eunuch's order leave, King Zhao's face slowed down slightly and said to Zhao Kuo: "Wu Xinjun, you can discover that the second son of the Zhou family is also making great contributions to me."

Helping King Zhao keep his money bag is indeed a great achievement.

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "King, in fact, the old minister thinks this matter is not that simple."

King Zhao frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

Zhao Kuo said: "Please think about it carefully. The second son of the Zhou family is just an illegitimate son, and his status in the Zhou family is very low.

With his identity like him, do you really have the courage to advocate for the old ministers and get the Pingkangfang Reform District passed by the king in court?”

King Zhao frowned and said, "What do you mean..." Zhao Kuo said, "My meaning is very simple. If no one instructs him behind him, he would probably give the Zhou family twenty courage, and he would not dare to attack ordinary people like Pingkangfang.

And what is the institution that the second son of the Zhou family uses to attack the people of Pingkangfang?

It’s the Zhou Chamber of Commerce! The Zhou Chamber of Commerce must represent the face of Zhou, which everyone knows.

If Zhou Shaofen and Zhou Shaoliang, as the real master of Zhou, knew nothing about what Zhou family did. It was just the second son of the Zhou family's self-decision. The king thought... is this reasonable?"

Zhao Kuo took the opportunity and directly attracted the fire to Zhou Shaofen and Zhou Shaoliang.

To be honest, Zhao Kuo is actually not very clear about what role the two brothers Zhou Shaofen and Zhou Shaoliang play in this matter.

But Zhao Kuo didn't need to worry about these things. After all, when Zhou Shaofen and Zhou Shaoliang were targeting Zhao Kuo, they also wanted to be punished.

Since you, Zhou brothers, can be the first day of the lunar calendar, of course, I, Zhao Kuo, can also be the fifteenth.

What's more, what Zhao Kuo said is actually very close to the facts, and it can be said that it is half right.

Zhou Shaoliang did know about this, but Zhou Shaofen, the head of Zhou family, didn't know about it.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, King Zhao frowned even more and more.

Because what Zhao Kuo said is indeed very reasonable.

If this matter was not the self-decision of Mr. Zhou, but the secret behavior of the Zhou clan, then the whole thing would be a big deal.

This means that the Zhou family secretly secretly disobeyed the reform order of King Zhao! Just think about it and you will know that if Pingkangfang ended in full control by the Zhou family and other nobles, then Pingkangfang's reform could be declared failure.

The reform of Pingkangfang itself was the will of King Zhao, so the failure of the reform will inevitably involve King Zhao, causing King Zhao to lose face.

Isn’t this mean that Zhou is trying to slap King Zhao in the face? Thinking of this, King Zhao’s face turned completely dark.

"What a Zhou Shaofen, what a Zhou family!"

King Zhao was furious.

As a king who considers himself a "young and promising", the thing that King Zhao hates the most is that someone embarrasses him! Now, Zhou is obviously doing this.

And the most critical problem is that Zhou had the motivation to do this, that is, because King Zhao deposed Queen Zhou not long ago.

Since King Zhao deposed the Queen of Zhou, the Zhou family used such obscure means to retaliate against King Zhao. It sounds completely reasonable and can be said to be without any problem.

Zhao Kuo looked at King Zhao's angry look and was secretly applauding in his heart.

Yes, that's it. The more angry you are, the better. It's better to just get angry and remove all the positions of the Zhou brothers.

However, in this matter, King Zhao still disappointed Zhao Kuo.

After a while, King Zhao seemed to have recovered some peace and said to Zhao Kuo: "Wu Xinjun, let's come here for this matter first. After the more detailed investigation is returned from Handan Order, I will naturally ask you to discuss this matter."

Zhao Kuo also knew that the Zhou brothers were the candidates who had been trained by King Zhao over the years to balance Zhao Kuo, so it was unlikely that he could directly defeat the Zhou brothers by relying on Zhao Kuo's one-sided words, so Zhao Kuo calmly surrendered.

After Zhao Kuo left, King Zhao sat alone in the palace, sometimes gritting his teeth and sometimes sneering, not knowing what he was thinking.

Suddenly, a pair of soft and boneless jade arms quietly hugged King Zhao from behind: "What are the king thinking?

I have been waiting for you for a long time.”

Of course, Queen Li arrived.

The arrival of Queen Li immediately reduced the anger of King Zhao. He hugged Queen Li in his arms with his backhand and sighed.

"These damn ministers are real, and they don't worry about it at all."

Queen Li was curious as soon as she heard this: "Did the king quarrel with Wu Xinjun?"

King Zhao couldn't help laughing: "Wu Xinjun is now knowing more and more how to be a minister. I really don't have the need to quarrel with him. This time the Zhou brothers were involved."

King Zhao didn't say nonsense, and told Queen Li everything he had happened.

When Queen Li heard this, her heart suddenly moved.

For Queen Li, she actually cared about the Zhou brothers, because the Zhou brothers were the family of Queen Zhou's mother, so it was destined that the two sides were definitely incompatible.

So now that Queen Li has discovered an opportunity to attack the Zhou brothers, she will naturally not miss it.

Queen Li immediately spoke, "King, the Zhou brothers have always had a lot of complaints about the king. This time, they might be taking the opportunity to make trouble behind the king. If the king continues to indulge them, there may be some unpredictable consequences."

After hearing Queen Li's words, King Zhao frowned again.

In fact, Zhao Kuo said the same thing just now, but if these same words are said in different people, the effect will certainly be different.

When Zhao Kuo said it, King Zhao would subconsciously think that this was a ignorant of the Zhou brothers, but if he said it from Queen Li, King Zhao would rather think that this was a fact.

This is why many ministers are very afraid of pillow wind, because this pillow wind can really change the will of the kings.

King Zhao thought about it and said to Queen Li: "I have sent someone to investigate this matter. I believe there will be a result soon. If Zhou really dares to do something behind me, then I will never spare them this time."

For King Zhao, his promise to Zhao Kuo may not necessarily work, but his promise to Queen Li must be fulfilled.

When Queen Li heard this, she was overjoyed and said directly to the kiss of King Zhao, "I know that the king must be the one who says it. With a monarch like the king in Zhao State, why worry about not being able to unify the world in the future?

I am also lucky enough to be able to obtain the qualification to serve the king."

Queen Li brought her high hat and immediately praised King Zhao and showed a silly smile.

"Queen, don't talk about it anymore. Let's go back and have a good talk about life and ideals!"

After saying that, King Zhao picked up Queen Li and couldn't wait to walk towards the bed behind the screen.

…………………Zhao Kuo returned to his mansion and summoned many political allies.

"All the memorials I asked you to send today have been delivered, right?"

Zhao Kuo asked questions to the people in front of him.

Everyone nodded, saying that the wrinkles that impeached the Zhou brothers have been sent to the house.

Zhao Kuo smiled slightly and said calmly: "This should be enough to make the Zhou brothers rush for a while. The king has just issued an order to ask the eunuchs to send someone to stare at the Handan Government Office. Even if the Zhou brothers want to use the other side to do anything, it should be impossible."

After hearing this, everyone present also showed relaxed expressions on their faces. Xu Li couldn't help but smile and said, "That's right, Zhou Shaoliang, if you can't control yourself, you can't even manage your son well. If you do something like this, you might even implicate him and lose your official position."

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "It's really hard to say whether he can lose his official position. However, the Zhou clan is definitely in a mess this time, and the king's evaluation of them must have continued to decline."

For the Zhou clan, their biggest reliance now is the trust of King Zhao in them, and King Zhao’s trust in them is not unconditional. If one day King Zhao feels that the Zhou brothers are indeed not good, then King Zhao will directly remove the Zhou brothers and select some officials who can play games with Zhao Kuo.

After all, there are not many people in this world, just because there are many people who want to be officials. If you line up, you can definitely go from Handan to Lingnan.

After laughing, Xu Li continued to ask: "I wonder how the Lord wants to solve the problem in Pingkangfang?"

Zhao Kuo had already been confident about this and said with a smile: "It would be too simple to solve the problem in Pingkangfang."

For Zhao Kuo, the matter in Pingkangfang can be solved by just talking.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Pingkangfang was strong by these nobles was that the houses in Pingkangfang were limited, so the shops were limited.

When something is limited, it has scarcity, but what if this thing is no longer limited?

So if you want to solve the situation in Pingkangfang, the answer is actually very simple, that is, to immediately open the Pingkangfang policy in the entire Handan, so that all people with houses in Handan City can open the door to do business at home, that's all.

When the resources of shops can be supplied and directly transformed from Pingkangfang into the entire Handan City, then the shops in Pingkangfang will of course be as popular as before.

Of course, the problem brought about by this is that Pingkangfang will not continue to be as prosperous as before. After all, there are people everywhere in Handan that can open doors to do business, which will greatly divert Pingkangfang.

However, this was originally the reform goal that Zhao Kuo hoped to achieve. After all, your reform cannot be said to be just to benefit the people in Pingkangfang in one place, but to benefit all the people in Handan City and even Zhao State.

So, it is the bottom line that everyone does business together and finds ways to get rich together. Moreover, as a pilot area for reform, Pingkangfang will have a halo effect for a long time, and the people here will become rich first because of reforms first.

It is not that they have not gained benefits, on the contrary, the benefits they gained are ahead of this era and other people in Zhao State.

Zhao Kuo withdrew his thoughts and spoke to the confidants and allies in front of him: "If I think it's right, the king will convene a court discussion to discuss this matter in at most two or three days.

Then everyone will follow me to attack the Zhou brothers. As for how much we can do, we should try our best."

Zhao Kuo actually didn't care much about the winner and lose this time. If he could defeat the Zhou brothers, of course, it would be better if he couldn't defeat them.

Because this time Zhao Kuo has severely damaged the reputation of the Zhou brothers, especially the fact that it put a big question mark on the trust of the Zhou brothers in King Zhao's heart, which is actually the most important thing.

Doubt about this kind of thing is like a seed. As long as it is given a certain amount of time, it will slowly take root and sprout in the heart of a person and grow vigorously.

When Zhao Kuo impeached the Zhou brothers in the past, King Zhao would think that the Zhou brothers were impeached because they had disagreements with Zhao Kuo, and they often chose to keep the Zhou brothers.

Um.

But from now on, when Zhao Kuo impeached the Zhou brothers again, King Zhao is likely to no longer doubt the motives of the account, but instead doubt the loyalty of the Zhou brothers.
Chapter completed!