Daqin: From abandoned baby to emperor of the ages

The stall economy is actually a very good economic model!

Especially in the process of transforming from a militarist economic model to free trade in Daqin, the stall economy can become a good transition node.

It can not only stimulate consumption and satisfy the purchase desire of ordinary people, but also will not appear uncontrolled economic predators.

Of course…… Business is taxable!

Zhao Che has not forgotten this!

Whether ancient or modern, if a business can be fully taxed, its tax profits can far exceed the agricultural tax.

It’s just that self-employed people will always face a big problem in their operations, that is, the bills cannot be reconciled, and the taxes cannot be collected in a real sense.

Even in modern times, the tax revenue of the self-employed is still the most difficult place to count, let alone the stall economy.

The real bulk of taxes are in bulk and luxury commercial trade, Zhao Che is not in a hurry, and the taxes that can be collected by the stall economy are only sporadic and half.

But there is always a rule and system to come out, and it is really impossible to count whether it is handed over to Daqin, but now that there is a charter, there will be no rules in the future.

The Daming Dynasty banned commerce while thinning taxes, which led to the fact that when the era of large-scale trade in the later Ming Dynasty began, taxes could not be collected at all.

Everything is predetermined, and if it is not predetermined, it is abolished!

Writing out the thoughts in his mind one by one, Zhao Che began to delete and modify again.

Of course, the stall economy is modeled on the modern stall economy, which essentially stimulates and satisfies the people’s desire to buy, so that coins can flow into the market again and let the economy flow.

After being busy for a whole day, Zhao Che’s eyes finally showed a satisfied look.

Looking at the sky, the sun was setting, but it was not too late, Zhao Che thought about simply going to the palace for a meal.

Just think of it, Zhao Che took the content written on the paper and directly entered the palace.

It is worth mentioning that two years have passed!

Zhao Che, who is nine years old and seven feet tall, looks more and more like a man, has not been revoked.

In other words, Zhao Che can still enter and exit the palace freely without any obstruction and inspection!

But this time there was more criticism!

No way, Zhao Che is developing too fast!

Seven feet tall, nine-year-old Zhao Che is already up to a mature man of average height.

As the saying goes, women avoid their fathers, and children avoid their mothers.

Although Zhao Che is not old, in addition to being slightly immature, he is already equivalent to an adult male, and the privilege of freely entering and leaving the palace without checking is really a bit eye-catching.

Not a courtroom problem.

The sect chamber was quite critical of this!

The sect family is the Qin royal family, and of course they are not willing to let an outsider enter and leave their house freely.

Well…… Although the clan family cannot freely enter and exit the palace, it is at least related to the First Emperor.

Zhao Che himself didn’t care, how to say how to say well, and the first emperor was unwilling to say it one day.

“It’s not a thing to always do this…” Zhao Che looked at the guard’s eyes and shook his head.

His height and size are very similar to that of an adult, and this matter has to be asked by the First Emperor.

After entering the palace, I saw that the First Emperor had finished a day’s work and was eating.

“Haven’t eaten yet?” Noticing Zhao Che’s longing eyes, the First Emperor motioned for Zhao Che to sit down and eat with him.

The food in the palace is definitely not inferior to Zhao Che’s mouth, and it won’t take long for a waiter to come up with new tableware.

I have to say that the meals in the palace are indeed a grade outside.

Zhao Che gobbled up the wind and swept the clouds, and by the time he finished eating, it had already passed half an hour.

“Aye, this is the specific charter of the stall economy, please Aye!” Zhao Che held the paper full of handwriting in his hand and handed it to the First Emperor.

The First Emperor was stunned for a moment, he didn’t notice the paper in Zhao Che’s hand at first.

Even if you notice it, you won’t know it’s paper, because this thing has not yet appeared in this era.

Zhao Che has always said that he should research something more convenient, easy to write, and cheap to replace bamboo than bamboo tubes.

The First Emperor had looked forward to it…

It’s just that after two years of fighting, I haven’t seen Zhao Che have a clue, and the First Emperor naturally didn’t take this thing seriously anymore.

As a result, the first emperor subconsciously opened the paper and saw that it was full of handwriting!

No smudging, light to pick up!

Soft and moderate… It will not be destroyed by light kneading.

Everything is in line with the functions that paper needs to have as Zhao Che once described to himself.

“Is this the paper you mean?” The First Emperor was also not in a hurry to see what Zhao Che wrote, but looked at Zhao Che.

“Hmm! The cost is less than half of the bamboo tube, the writing ability is six or seven times that of the bamboo tube, and it is much lighter than the bamboo tube. If you include the cost of manpower time, the cost is about one-fifth of the bamboo tube. Zhao Che nodded, with a slight smug look on his face.

“Did you really get it?” The First Emperor had a fox on his face.

This paper Zhao Che has been working for two years!

Of course, the first emperor also expected Zhao Che to come up with this kind of big killing weapon, and then publish the books of the Qin royal family and distribute them all over the world, giving the remnants of the Six Kingdoms a bottom salary.

Therefore, when Zhao Che went to tinker at the beginning, the First Emperor still paid attention to it for a while.

At first, Zhao Che planned to try to ban bamboo tubes with sackcloth.

It’s just that the gaps in the sackcloth are too big to write at all!

Later, I had the impression that Zhao Che and the craftsmen worked together, but they made the sackcloth more and more precise, and finally they could barely write words…

However, at this time, the cost of worsted linen has been far higher than that of bamboo tubes.

By this time, the First Emperor did not pay attention anymore…

I feel sorry in my heart, but I also feel that it is unlikely that something can replace bamboo tubes.

However, it did not stop Zhao Che’s research.

Zhao Che was only eight years old at that time, and he couldn’t make a joke about being a child.

It is also excellent to let Zhao Che properly get something that interests him, just to relax his body and mind.

In short, from the last failure to now, the first emperor has indeed not paid attention to the research and development of paper!

But I didn’t want to, two years later, Zhao Che really brought himself a surprise!

Things that are more convenient, cheaper, and faster to produce than bamboo tubes are really picked up by Zhao Che, a little guy.

The First Emperor silently calculated…

Printing the books of the Qin royal family is a big task, and the manpower and material resources required are immeasurable.

Even if the cost of paper is one-fifth of the cost of bamboo tubes, it is not enough.

You know, copying is also a very laborious project.

The key thing is to find literate people… Transcribing the varsity team after that…

If you want to print the books of the Qin royal family all over the world, I am afraid that you must first find tens of thousands of gentlemen to copy books day and night…

Even if the price of paper is immeasurably low, the cost of manual transcription is still unavoidable.

However, this does not hide the significant contribution of paper replacing bamboo tubes to social progress!

As a carrier for recording knowledge, there is no doubt that the content that paper can record will only be more, and it will be more portable, and the circulation will only be higher.

The most important thing is that for the first emperor, paper is too light compared to the heavy bamboo tube.

Hold a piece of paper lightly and hold it in your hand like nothing!

If the courtiers’ twists and turns were written on paper, it would probably be easier to review them themselves.

“Let the general do more in the Shaofu, and let the court use it first when you turn back!” The First Emperor smiled and wanted to order, but was interrupted by Zhao Che.

“Why is Aye so anxious? The cost of paper can still be pressed down…” Zhao Che pulled the sleeve of the First Emperor.

“When the cost is lower, can’t we print the books of the Qin royal family and draw salaries from the remnants of the Six Kingdoms?” Zhao Che said.

“Hahahaha…” the First Emperor laughed heartily when he heard Zhao Che’s words.

“Come, Aye settle the account with you, let’s ignore the cost of making paper for the time being, Xiao Zhinu, you have copied the article yourself, why don’t you have a collection of books in the Qin royal family?” Do you know what a big job it is to copy so many books? Do you know how many people you need to copy books without sleep? The First Emperor poked Zhao Che’s head with a smile.

“Aye told you this before, it’s good that you can get paper to replace the bamboo tube, but it is tantamount to a fantasy to transcribe enough books to spread all over the world!” Aye has long told you to worry about the big picture… Did the little slave forget? The First Emperor said sternly.

Zhao Che’s thoughts were clear to the First Emperor, and the First Emperor also knew that this was a good strategy.

Knowledge is the core resource of this era.

If the Qin royal family can open up the core resources, the upper and lower layers of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms basically do not need any action from the First Emperor, and they will automatically split and collapse.

Even if the remnants of the Six Kingdoms reacted, they also opened their home collections.

Without paper transmission, they couldn’t find so many people to transcribe, not to mention that the books in their homes and the collections of the Qin royal family were also very different in quantity.

But!

Still that sentence!

Although the strategy is good, the labor cost of copying is too huge!

Not to mention how much cheaper paper is than bamboo tubes, even if paper does not cost money, it is difficult for Daqin to afford the cost of copying tens of thousands of books all over the world.

What is Everywhere?

At least a book has to be copied into thousands, right?

The Qin royal family’s collection of books is counted as 10,000 books!

That’s the amount of tens of millions of copies!

This amount is already frighteningly large.

“But when did I say I was going to use someone to copy it?” Zhao Che pouted!

“I’m not done yet!” Zhao Che took the jade seal that the emperor had placed on the table.

“Aye, you see, you can cover the words with paint on this, why can’t I make a lot of such seals, directly according to the arrangement of the text of the book, a print is a page, as much as you want!”

“So where do you need someone to copy it?” Zhao Che rolled his eyes.

The First Emperor was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to think of something, picked up the jade seal and printed it on a blank piece of paper.

Flowers, birds, fish and beasts are clearly visible, and the eight big characters of being ordered by Tianji Shou Yongkang are extremely clear!

……

In the end, it was still the bamboo tube that used more, and the first emperor entered the misunderstanding of thinking!

It is worth mentioning that things like bamboo tubes are difficult to stamp.

Even if the seal is sealed, it will cause the seal to be unclear and easy to fade and so on.

Therefore, the slightly more formal documents of this era will not be promulgated with twists and turns.

There is no paper, but there are alternatives to paper.

Book!

That is, cloth …

Depending on the status level, different colors, different forms, and different grades of materials are used as official documents for promulgation.

Because the book is relatively soft, the seal is clearly visible and is not easily contaminated or faded.

Bamboo tubes are generally used to report timely news, such as twists and turns, urgent reports.

Because the handwriting of the bamboo tube is easy to smudge, it is also relatively easy to erase.

Therefore, all bamboo tube books or information that need to be preserved for a long time must either be re-copied with a handwriting, or re-engraved with a knife on the original handwriting, and then re-dyed with ink.

This is also the main reason why most of the bamboo tubes produced in this era are thicker and heavier.

When it needs to be preserved, it is carved with a knife to avoid penetration, and when it is not necessary to preserve, the ink can be scraped off with a knife and reused.

And generally formal, official documents that need to be stamped will basically not use bamboo tubes.

So after Zhao Che finished speaking, the First Emperor remembered to take the jade seal and cover the paper.

Like handwriting, the seal stained with paint will not fade after drying, resistant to preservation, and the form is clear without smudging!

Paper, except that it is not strong in the book, all the attributes are no different from the book!

Even the lightness is far more than the book!

So since his own jade seal can be stamped on the paper, what Zhao Che just said, to make a large number of seals like jade seals, the possibility that a print is a page of a book after typesetting is completely established.

Moreover, this principle was the first emperor who felt that it was funny when he heard it.

The principle of printing is indeed simple, this thing is basically normal IQ, whether ancient people or modern people can understand the principle.

Nothing magical, people with seals abound in this era.

I won’t hear the principle of printing the same as the natives who have never seen the world.

The First Emperor had only one thought in his mind!

It turned out to be so simple!

This is how the principle proposed by Zhao Che gave the first emperor feelings.

As a matter of fact…… This is the norm in science.

In fact, in addition to some advanced technologies that are not commonly used, basically the scientific principles that can be contacted in ancient daily life are outrageously simple.

It’s just that no one has ever summarized and innovated.

For example, the principle of leverage…

This principle is now used in Daqin, not only that, but it will be made a young mansion and a pulley set…

Yes, pulley sets in the true sense of the word.

Qin Mo’s group of people made it, I don’t know if it was handed down or researched by himself, in short, it was very dragged, and Zhao Che wasted his old nose to visit.

The application of these basic mechanics is not uncommon in Daqin, but they are always hidden and tucked, and no one summarizes them.

“I think it can be done!”

The principle of printing is this, even if you have not seen it, it makes people think that it can be done nine times out of ten.

There is no rule under heaven that printing must use jade seals.

Can’t you get some wood as a stamp of printing?

As long as this thing can be done, coupled with the low cost of paper, and the huge copying work is saved, Daqin can really take advantage of the situation to break the foundation of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms in one fell swoop.

After Zhao Che’s opening, the First Emperor immediately extinguished the idea of promoting the large-scale application of paper.

On this point, the grandfather and grandson are the same thought.

Anyway, the bamboo tube has been used for so long, since the paper is going to come out, it will give the remnants of the Six Kingdoms a king to blow up!