Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Gan Jing's method is very simple, he uses food to "communicate far and attack close"!

Countries that do not border Qin, such as Yan and Qi, sell grain to them; countries that border South Korea, Chu, and Wei, trade grain for their chassis!

Now that Qin has food, other countries have to bow their heads!

As I said earlier, the production capacity in this era is too low, and even the ruler of the country has to bow his head if there is no food!

Zhang Ping also gave an idea, saying that he wanted ironware from Yan State, weapons from Wei State, seafood from Chu State, etc. Anyway, he wanted whatever special products they had!

Everyone says what you say to me, but money and treasure are ignored.

Lu Buwei was secretly lucky that no one paid attention to it for a while, what Li Si thought at first was a thousand miles away from what he is now!

By the time of the Yizheng Hall, Yingzheng had asked people to count the amount of food, and had already begun to select candidates for envoys.

For those who went to Chu, Yingzheng elected Lord Changping.

After all, it is the mother country, so it is easy for him to talk when he goes there.

For those who went to Zhao, Ying Zheng chose Li Si.

I don't know why, but Li Si was sent to Zhao Guo anyway.

And the person who went to the Yan Kingdom was still the just-in-law Cai Ze!

After all the distribution is over, the political hall will also be dispersed.

No one asked Lu Buwei for his opinion from the beginning to the end!

This made him very dissatisfied, but no one cared about him anymore!

After returning home, he was furious, and someone came to report that Miss Lu Liu was ill, and Miss Lu Qi was also not feeling well.

"If you don't feel well, go to the doctor. What's the use of talking to Ben Hou? Ben Hou doesn't know how to see a doctor!" Lu Buwei yelled at the person who reported the letter and drove him away.

Mrs. Mu heard that her daughter was not feeling well, so of course she went to see her own daughter. Miss Lv Liu was only taken care of by her biological mother of the dancer, and the servants are also hiding away now, because Miss Lv Liu's temper seems to be getting worse. It's getting worse....

When it was snowing heavily, these people were going to be sent to other countries. Li Jiyang was worried about Cai Ze, so he equipped him with those men and chariots.

"If anything happens again this time, just kill them. Our Qin State is not afraid of anyone!" Li Jiyang told Xin Sheng and the others: "I will deal with anyone who dares to think ill of you!"

"No!" Xin Sheng clasped his fists together: "Don't worry, Your Majesty!"

Last time it was due to inexperience, but this time it may not be so.

Seeing that Li Jiyang sent them another coachman, each of them secretly decided that they must make those who don't have eyes look good!

All six big countries have sent envoys, but there are countless small countries!

Then don't send people there, let them know and let them send people to Qin.

This matter, Yingzheng announced in the hall: "Leave it to Lu Buwei Xiangguo!"

Lu Buwei's always ugly face finally revealed his astonishment. He thought that the country wanted him to withdraw from the center of power automatically!

Li Jiyang was also surprised, he thought that Ying Zheng would take the opportunity to get Lu Buwei out!

Who knew that in a turn of events, Ying Zheng gave Lu Buwei such an important event!

Others are going to one country, but he has to face at least a dozen small countries!

At this time, the big countries can't take care of themselves, and it's rare for Qin to support them with food. How happy they are to mention each one!

Even if you spend money to buy it, because now you can't buy food with money!

When Li Jiyang returned home, Xu Yi's cousin came over. His name was Xu Fei.

Xu Fei is different from his cousin Xu Yi. The reason why Xu Fei came out to manage the grain store is because Xu Fei is not in good health. He is similar to Li Qi from the Li family.

"Some grain stores have raised their prices recently." Xu Fei came to ask Li Jiyang: "The big harvest is still the original price, should the price be raised? This year's harvest is not good, although the store still uses full grains to exchange for deflated grains, but it should not be eaten. To be full or not to be full.”

"Then we won't raise the price, we'll keep the original price. If it really won't be solved..." Li Jiyang thought for a while: "You can owe it on credit!"

"On credit?" Xu Fei's eyes widened.

"Yes, on credit!" Li Jiyang said: "The kind that has no interest. Next year they plant the land and have a harvest, and they will return it. The warehouse clerk will count it, there will be a rank, the stingy man will sign it, and the pavilion manager will guarantee it. The grain owed on credit will be calculated on a per capita basis." Forget it, ten stones can be given to women, twenty stones to able-bodied men, and five stones to underage men and women. If there are too many, it will not work!"

Li Jiyang was also afraid that someone would make a false report, and now he sold it at a high price after changing hands on credit!

"That would require a lot of food..." Xu Fei made Li Jiyang dumbfounded!

"Don't be afraid, there is as much food as you want." Li Jiyang reassured him: "There are all kinds of grains, as well as dried vegetables and dried meat."

"Yanba, can I also pay on credit?"

"Yes, as long as there is something in the store, it can be done, but only this year!" Li Jiyang still has a bit of business sense: "When there is no disaster, credit is only limited to needy households!"

"Poor household?" Xu Fei couldn't understand the new word.

"Poor household!" Li Jiyang touched his chin: "Wait for me to tell the king!"

After leaving Xu Fei to stay here for one night, Li Jiyang went to tell Ying Zheng the next day, "To provide disaster relief, the household registration must be counted first."

"Hukou?" Ying Zheng thought for a while, "You mean household registration, right?"

"Yes, household registration!" In ancient times, household registration is called household registration.

"Household registration has always been counted!" Ying Zheng was puzzled: "And without household registration, how do you collect taxes?"

This is a major matter that concerns the country.

"The household registration I mentioned, oh, the household registration, is different from what you said!" Li Jiyang broke away and talked with Ying Zheng.

Their current household registration is too simple.

"Simple?"

"Yeah, it's too simple!"

Li Jiyang argued with him, at least on the household registration, in addition to the head of the household and the family, the date of birth was also required, whether they are married or not?

How is the family situation?

How is the production capacity?

"Then what are you doing in detail?" Ying Zheng was puzzled.

"If you don't go into details, it will be troublesome during the disaster relief!" Li Jiyang told him about Xu Fei's arrival and his coping methods: "If you know the detailed information, wouldn't it be better for disaster relief? It also prevents others from asking for cards. "

Don't think that the simplicity of the ancients meant that they couldn't play tricks.

Ying Zheng also obviously thought of this, but he thought more: "This problem can't be solved for a while, you first go to credit the food according to your idea, and I will discuss it with Mr. Gan."

"Okay!" Li Jiyang is not interested in politics, and this matter can be left to Ying Zheng and Gan Jing to solve. After he returned, he told Xu Fei to proceed according to the plan.

Xu Fei left on the third day, and in the next few days, the Dafeng Harvest Grain Store in the whole Qin State couldn't help but not increase their prices, and even launched the credit business!

Although the Qin State did not suffer a lot of losses, there were still people who were hungry.

Many ordinary people couldn't believe the credit activity launched by Dafeng Harvest Grain Store!

It wasn't until a commoner who really couldn't get rid of the pot, found someone in fear, took a bond, and went to the Dafeng Harvest Grain Store. According to the requirements of the grain store, the grain store really allocated him grain, and everyone believed that he could really "pay on credit" ah!

So they swarmed to grain stores all over the place.

However, there are also people who think of impostors, but because they need someone to guarantee and recommend, if there is no guarantee and recommendation, they will not be credited or owed at all!

In an instant, the pressure on Qin was even less!

Yingzheng's private property also has a grain store, but in order not to compete with Li Jiyang, he didn't let anyone do it, but the price of grain in his grain store did not rise either.

As a result, some grain stores that wanted to hoard their stocks had to lower their prices, because no one would buy them without lowering the prices!

After Li Jiyang's credit event was held, few people came to buy food!

On Yingzheng's birthday, Li Jiyang gave Yingzheng a "Nine-Nine Multiplication Table".

Multiplication formulas can be found in books such as "Xunzi", "Guanzi", "Huainanzi", "Warring States Policy" such as "three nine 27", "six eight 48", "four eight 32", "six six 36", etc. sentence.

It can be seen that as early as the "Spring and Autumn Period" and "Warring States Period", "Nine-Nine Multiplication Gejue" has become popular.

However, it is limited to some scholars, and few people will spread it to outsiders.

Because businessmen are not welcome at this time, in fact, business is most needed.

"Give it to me?" Ying Zheng pointed to himself.

Li Jiyang nodded.

"why?"

"Let your people learn to count." Li Jiyang said: "In order not to go out in the future, people will be deceived."

Ying Zheng nodded in understanding.

When Han Fei saw it, he was still surprised: "My teacher, Xunzi, wanted to make statistics, but he failed to make statistics. Who wrote this? It didn't start from the end, but from the beginning. .isn't it the same?"

"No, it's one by one." Ying Zheng touched a thin piece of paper, which was divided with a grid, and then wrote in Qin Zhuan.

This is what Xiaoyang's master gave him, right?

He gave it to himself as a birthday gift...On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, all the envoys to other countries returned with many things: money, treasures, and maps.

In ancient times, sending a geomancy map meant that the place belonged to the other party!

Lu Buwei also brought back a lot of money and treasures. Although the small countries are small, they have a lot of money!

Lu Buwei originally wanted to keep some, but after seeing that there were a lot of things reported by others, if he reported too much, there would be too little left!

So I had to hold my nose and admit it, and handed it all over without greed!

The same is true for Li Si, but fortunately for Li Si he has known Guo Kai, Li Si dare not covet what is given to Qin and the king, but Guo Kai dares to covet!

After he got greedy, he even gave Li Si a lot of money. Li Si didn't dare to take back the big items, but he could still bring back a few boxes of gold.

After they returned to the country, of course they also heard about the Dafeng Harvest Grain Store, especially the many grain stores owned by Lu Buwei.

Lu Buwei received this bad news as soon as he came back.

"Arrears on credit?" Lu Buwei felt that he heard it wrong: "This year's grain harvest is poor, and the price hasn't increased yet?"

"Yes, the Dafengshou Grain Store...began to pay on credit just after the price increase, and their grain prices have not increased!" The manager under him also wanted to cry, what a good opportunity to make money ah!

"Understood, step back!" Lu Buwei sat there thinking deeply.

Qin Anjun, you really have money!

The next day he asked to see the Queen Mother Huayang.

In the palace of the Empress Dowager Huayang, there was a wall of fire, a kang for heating, and an iron stove burning non-stop. The room was as warm as spring, but it was almost the same.

Li Jiyang also sent people to bring in a lot of fruits, especially Xiaomi oranges, which were the most popular.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" After seeing the ceremony, the Queen Mother Huayang ate the Xiaomi oranges, squinted at Lu Buwei, and signaled to the waiter to bring milk boiled with almonds.

After giving such a generous gift for so long, it's time to talk about it, right?

"I just hope that the Queen Mother can issue a decree and give her a marriage." Lu Buwei finally said the purpose of coming, and he should be fed after giving gifts for so long.

He gave the Queen Mother Huayang so many benefits in order to let the Queen Mother Huayang make a decree.

"To whom?" The Empress Dowager Huayang lowered her eyes, she knew that Lu Buwei would not come to see her if he had nothing to do.

"Give a marriage to Qin Anjun and his minister's daughter." Lu Buwei finally expressed his request.

At that time, the Empress Dowager Huayang was drinking hot milk boiled with almonds. She heard that drinking this product could whiten the skin. After hearing Lu Buwei's request, she sprayed milk instantly!

Lu Buwei: "...!" What does this mean?

"Lu Buwei, you really dare to think about it!" The Queen Mother Huayang directly refused: "You just give up!"