Emperor Qin

After the Zhengguo Canal was completed, the population of Xianyang grew rapidly.

Working women and children often carry a spindle to twist a ball of short cotton into cotton thread. The power of the people is boundless. Cotton has been used as a warm filler at the beginning and has developed into textiles.

The thickness of the cotton thread rubbed by hand is very difficult to control, and all the fabrics are made of coarse cloth, but this kind of soft and light-skinned cloth has captured ordinary people almost instantly - its output is too high, and compared with the need for retting, smashing The hemp fibers that are combed, combed, and pumped can be spun to make cloth as long as the cotton is carefully removed.

The only problem is that it consumes too much land. The land where cotton is planted must be planted with beans or alfalfa for at least two or three years before cotton can be planted again.

But it's not a big problem. For ordinary farmers, a commoner can wear it for a long time.

The problem is that due to the rise in the price of cotton cloth, more farmers grow cotton, which has attracted the attention of the upper echelons of Qin.

"Cotton occupies good land, benefiting merchants and degrading farmers." Wang Wan was very nervous about this matter, and wrote to the King of Qin, "All farmers should be ordered to return to grain, cotton should be banned, and the land should be rewarded. Don't repeat the matter of Qi Wan and Lu Jin."

When King Qin read the memorial, it was the rest time after the battle with A Jiang. The king who took work as a rest smiled slightly and threw the memorial to Yan Jiang.

"Qi Wan Lu Jin? What do you mean?" Yan Jiang is not too familiar with some allusions.

Qin Wang then explained the matter.

Only then did Yan Jiang know that Guan Zhong was responsible for most of the reason why the Warring States and later generations emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce!

This is the man who made a show that made Qi people only wear cloth from Lu, so the price of cloth rose, and orders from Qi came in like snowflakes, and then Lu saw, wow, there is money to be made!So the planting industry was abandoned and the textile industry was vigorously engaged.Seeing that the industrial chain has been established, Guan Zhong suddenly said, I'm sorry, I don't want your cloth anymore!In the future, Qi people can only buy Qi cloth, if you don’t buy it, you are not a Qi person!

The state of Lu was dumbfounded. When the price of cloth fell, there was a famine in the country. Not to mention that the cloth made by hard work was sold to the state of Qi cheaply, and a large number of unequal treaties were signed. It can be called the first case of economic war in history. Since then, Monarchs of various countries are wary of businessmen, fearing that it will happen again.

When Yan Jiang heard about this, he laughed: "At this time and at that time, if Qi State does this to Qin again, how will the king deal with it?"

If Qi State tried to control the Qin State market... Tsk, the picture must be beautiful.

The king of Qin also raised the corners of his lips: "If so, you should open up the territory for Great Qin."

"The way of a businessman is nothing more than distinguishing the noble from the humble, adjusting the surplus and deficiency, and measuring the distance." Yan Jiang flicked his finger, and accurately threw the memorandum on the case of the king of Qin. One bolt of cloth supplies the clothes needed by ten people, and these ten people spend all the time of weaving their own cloth on farming, so that the land will produce more grain and the country will also have more cloth.”

The most important role of a businessman is here. It allows a person to focus on a few things instead of being able to do everything, so that people can spend more time in the professional field.

This idea is very novel, King Qin listened intently, but asked another reason: "If the common people focus on business and cheap farmers, what's the explanation?"

Agriculture is the foundation of a country, and it must be safe from failure.

Yan Jiangdao: "Using the establishment of commercial laws, taxation is harsh, making things expensive, and the people do not make a lot of money, so naturally they are diligent in farming."

In the commodity society of the later generations, even if the country shouted the red line of arable land, it could not prevent the arable land from being abandoned, but in the current market of Qin State, it is undoubtedly too much to want to develop a commodity economy. Only then did he have a little intention of stepping into the commodity society, but before he had time to take the initiative, he immediately defeated Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

King Qin is such an intelligent man, he thought for a few breaths with the memorial, and suddenly said: "Back then, Guan Zhong used salt and iron to enrich the country, and he took it from the invisible, so that people would not be angry. Is this what A Jiang said in the past?"

Yan Jiang raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a sneer, "Your Majesty is still thinking about the heavy taxation of salt and iron?"

The monopoly of salt and iron, invisible tax increases, so that the common people do not feel that they have been plucked, they only feel: ah, I didn't buy anything, why did I run out of money?After a year of hard work, the plow is broken and needs to be repaired. It’s over, and the little money I saved this year has been used again...

The king of Qin smiled slightly: "I read "Guanzi" again recently, and I learned a lot. King Qi once asked Guanzi: If you first use salt and iron to get the invisible things for civilian use, and then pay heavy taxes, what should you do?"

"What did Guan Zi say?" Yan Jiang also became interested.

The King of Qin said leisurely: "Guanzi said: Jie Zhou's actions will surely destroy the country."

Yan Jiang couldn't help but praise the greatness of this sage, he was right.

Qin Wangzheng sighed slightly: "Since you don't want to be in politics, you can talk more about your knowledge. I am not a domineering person, so I must be able to listen."

There was a hint of depression in his words, and even a little grievance because he didn't want to believe him. Although he knew that he must be pretending, Yan Jiang felt that he couldn't bear it at all, so he couldn't help but sit beside him and comfort him: "I know There are not many, but you have great ambitions, so naturally you should be more cautious in your words and deeds."

"Do you believe me?" Qin Wang turned his head and stared at him, without saying a word, but his eyes were slightly lowered, looking very disappointed.

He was handsome and domineering, and when he came suddenly like this, Yan Jiang couldn't help approaching the road, pointing to Tianshiri's guarantee: "What do you want to know, I can tell you, I will tell you, and the evil will prove it, how could I do it?" Don't believe you?"

Bewildered by his beauty, he promised that he would never hide anything from Ah Zheng, that he knew everything he could say, and even agreed to some exorbitant demands in the later battle to prove his innocence.

Qin Wangzheng also promised to restrain his desire for hegemony, and in the future, he will take from the people and use it for the people, and will never search too much, just trust me.

Tiger Huahua was lying on the side, seeing Twolegs' deceitful performance, and turned his head in disdain.

As a mature big tiger, it already understood that those two people, like the bird, couldn't believe a single tone of voice.

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The next day, Yan Jiang and King Qin made a private visit on Weifu, and started doing the "research" that A Jiang said.

In fact, this matter can be done with birds, but Qin Wang felt that going out and going in with A Jiang would make him feel more happy, so he thought it was a spring outing, and he went to the mountains and countryside with A Jiang, did not do much research, but went fishing and barbecue together. Horse fishing and hunting, experiencing the breath of freedom.

Today, one mu of land in Guanzhong can produce two stones of wheat. The most important thing is that after the wheat is harvested in May, it can be replanted with bean. The dual use of the land has greatly increased the productivity of the land, and soybean oil is pressed to make sauce, which is a very useful supplement to the common people.

After planting alfalfa on the previously fallow land, more animals were raised in Guanzhong. Of course, these can be translated into one sentence: life is very good recently, very good, no need to go hungry, thank the country very much.

This is the same statement after many inquires. Of course, they are more discussing whether to raise a few less chickens, or whether to raise a pig (sow), which can both give birth and eat, pigs are expensive, pigs (boars) It's cheap, but raising one is enough to get a wife for your son. It's a good harvest, isn't it?

There were also people chatting at the entrance of the village, talking about the shortage of manpower in Shaofu recently, hiring part-time workers, you can go there during slack, and you can earn five dollars a day.

Then someone immediately retorted, saying that it is better to go to a private workshop than to go to Shaofu. Recently, some private workshops accept people to comb and take off cotton, and pay as much wages as they take off cotton. Some people earn [-] yuan a day.

Some people even say that cotton can also produce oil, and that opening a cotton harvesting workshop is the most profitable.

A group of people were arguing endlessly about where to go. When the King of Qin asked them all to go to work and whether the field could be abandoned, he was ridiculed for being ignorant. Every year, the land tax needs to be paid by wheat millet. If there is any delay, they will be fined as city officials. I'm afraid I don't think about it.

The king of Qin was not angry when he was told, but instead gained another kind of pleasure from the discussion among the common people, and he understood why A Jiang regarded these people so highly.

So after returning to the palace, the King of Qin recruited important officials and asked them to use the food and clothing of the common people as the basis for writing the "Law of Commerce", and allocated an open space at the Xianyang Wharf so that the market can be held here on the first day of each month. The transactions on this day are not limited to In the marketplace.

This can be regarded as a very significant improvement. Qin State requires that the commercial law must be traded in the market, and I don’t know how restrictive the market is.

There is still nearly a month until the first day of next month. When this request was issued to the townships around Xianyang, no one expected that it would cause such a big sensation.

Anyway, when Yan Jiang took the King of Qin to the market, the entire Weishui River seemed to be a ten-mile long street out of thin air. From eggs to cattle and sheep, from fruits to cloth, and even fertilizers were bought and sold from hundreds of miles away. Unprecedented, it really was "cars smashed, people shoulders rubbed together, curtains formed, curtains raised, sweat poured into rain", even King Qin himself was shocked.

He has never seen such a bustling market since he grew up.

The Qin officials who were transferred to maintain the market were like small boats in the vast ocean, being squeezed and drifting around, so Wei Wei had to urgently dispatch thousands of soldiers to patrol—although it turned out that after the market, all these thousands of soldiers His wallet was emptied, but he was still beaming.

Many rural products can’t be sold at high prices in rural villages, but they can get a good price when they go to the city. With a little food and clothing, and some salt, rice and iron needles, they can live a better life.

And the total amount of taxes that followed shocked the Shaofu even more. During that day, more than 3 people around Xianyang participated. The tax alone collected more than [-] yuan, which was enough for an army of [-] for half a month. .

Zhi Su Nei Shi even changed his previous objection, and quietly wrote a letter asking if such grand events can be held more times a month?He got a cold "no" reply from King Qin.

Yan Jiang wanted to laugh when he saw it, but was seen through by the King of Qin. The latter was displeased to get back the scene, and continued to work after making a fuss.

Then Yan Jiang mentioned the matter of entering Chu, Qin Wang naturally agreed - it was useless for him not to answer, but he was very curious: "Chu is about to be destroyed, if you go at this time, you may not see much of the scene."

It stands to reason that Ah Jiang would go ahead of time before the kingdoms were destroyed, not as it is now, and there is no urgency at all.

He couldn't help thinking happily, could it be that Ajiang is reluctant to part with me?

Yan Jiang smiled softly, and dragged his tone: "Chu is still here, so why worry, I'll stay, I'm reluctant to part with the majesty of the king~"

It is hard not to be flattered by his lover, and the corners of Qin Wang's lips raised uncontrollably: "A Jiang, you have also survived many battles, and you are well-versed and compatible. I am very happy."

Of course, Yan Jiang praised the award too much.

The two flattered each other, King Qin not only agreed with A Jiang to go out, but also gently expressed that he should be careful when going out, I will wait for you to come back and so on.

Of course Yan Jiang is fine—he will not tell King Qin that Wang Jian’s tortoise style requires 60 troops to confront Chu on the border, and the two countries’ million troops will fight for food for a whole year. He has plenty of time to visit Chu country slowly.