Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 161
In Zhangtai Palace, Fusu sat on the high throne, panting slightly.

Not angry, but simply tired.

The capital of the Qin State, and even the later Han Dynasty, was a city composed of palaces belonging to the emperor.

For example, in Xianyang at this time, it was Duke Xiao who ordered Shang Yang to build Weicheng on the Xianyang plateau in the north of Weibei and build a palace as the capital.

During the reign of King Huiwen, he took giant materials from Qi and Yong to make new palaces, making Xianyang city "close to Wei in the south and surpassing Jing in the north".

During the reign of King Zhaoxiang, the store crossed the Weihe River and expanded to the south bank. A cross bridge was also erected on the Weihe River, and Zhangtai Palace and other detached palaces were also built one after another.

After the first emperor ascended the throne, he dug out a scroll of bamboo slips from an unknown corner, which recorded that the state of Chu once built a palace, Zhanghuatai.

According to the description in the bamboo slips, Zhang Huatai is "10 feet high and 15 feet wide", which is extremely magnificent and known as the first platform in the world.

Things go bad because of the phrase "No. [-] in the world."

So the fat man started to rebuild the Zhangtai Palace based on the principle of 'the forehead is all the forehead' and everything should be big.

Today's Zhangtai Palace is twelve feet high and 20 feet wide, which is more than a circle larger than the legendary Zhanghua Terrace!
Zhanghuatai is known as the three-rest platform because ministers with poor physical strength need to rest three times when they climb Zhanghuatai.

Fusu felt that when Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, if Jing Ke and others were arranged to present pictures here, there would definitely be no such thing as the King of Qin circumambulating the pillar!

According to the legend, the reason why Jing Ke's deputy, Qin Wuyang, lost the chain was because he was frightened by the Qin army's battle, and more importantly, the Xianyang Palace was so high that he was exhausted before he could finish climbing the steps. Limp on the ground.

And the reason why Jing Ke couldn't catch up with that fat man was not only because he was a nimble fat man, but also because climbing stairs was too tiring!

While Fusu was panting on the throne, Zhang Tang and others in the audience were lying on the ground with their buttocks up, sorting a large pile of millet.

This is the millet retrieved from Yangtou Mountain in Shangdang County, except for the attribute of eating.

These millets are also tools for determining weights and measures!

Pick out the big ones and the small ones, and the remaining millets of uniform size are arranged end to end. One hundred grains are exactly one foot long, which is 23.2 centimeters.

This data, even if it is measured by later generations, is also not much different!

What Fusu had to do was to recalibrate the weights and measures.

A worker must first sharpen his tools if he wants to do well.

If you want to get into a big project in Malaysia, you can't just rely on the experience of the engineers.

However, Fusu does not intend to revise the weights and measures for the time being, such as subdividing a chi into 232 parts, determining millimeters, and then determining centimeters and meters.

Then, on this basis, using water, a substantially constant substance, to determine the equivalent weight unit of the kilogram.

The main difficulty lies in governing officials!

Fusu recalled that when he visited the Museum of Later Generations, he saw weighing and measuring tools drawn in the same era, but the units between them were not constant.

The reason is that the officials at the grassroots level of the country or the central court are playing tricks!

By making measuring tools that are much larger than the actual calibration, you can collect more people's fat and people's ointment when collecting grain and taxes.

As for the overcharging, Fusu felt that it would not reach the emperor's hands.

However, these small methods basically disappeared after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is not because their conscience discovered that they mourned the hardships of the people's livelihood.

Instead, a more efficient means of exploitation was invented.

Drenched tip kick Dendrobium!

Fire consumption is selfish!
Fusu felt that the new weights and measures were not in a hurry to promote to the whole country, and could wait.

After all, as the Taoist saying goes, governing a big country is like cooking a small fish.

The reason why the Daze Township uprising swept across the six kingdoms of Shandong is because after the unification of the Qin Kingdom, except for the local prefects and counties, other bureaucrats still used the old officials left over from the six kingdoms.

After Fusu looked through the archived Shangji documents, he found that the unified weights and measures often mentioned in later generations only stayed in the official edict.

Most of the six countries in Shandong still use the inherent weights and measures of the six countries!

The tax problem caused by this has turned the six kingdoms of Shandong into a huge powder keg!
For example, it is often said in the literature of later generations, "Twenty times the tax of salt and iron for land rent and mouth" and "more than half of the tax"...

All this is true in the hometown of the Six Kingdoms in Shandong!
The reason is still caused by the confusion of weights and measures.

For example, in the Shangji file that Fusu saw, there was a farmer in Yunyang County, north of Xianyang, who paid 97 shi and six buckets of corn in rent.

Because there are both middle and lower fields, on average, one and a half stones of corn were handed over to the court per mu of field.

However, Li Kui of the State of Wei conducted a survey back then. A family of five planted a hundred mu of land, and the yield per mu happened to be one and a half stones!

In other words, according to this calculation, the farmers in Yunyang County had nothing left last year!

So, Tyranny!
But the weights and measures of the Wei State originated from the Zhou royal family, and the length of one mu of land is one hundred steps.

After Shang Yang's reform in the Qin State, each household was granted one hundred mu of land, and the length of each mu of land was about 240 paces!

Coupled with the advancement of ironware and farming techniques over the years, the Qin people owned twice as many acres of land as the Wei people. Although the taxes were still heavy, they could barely make ends meet.

What if the Wei people's taxes were collected in the same way?

This is the imperial court forcing him to a dead end!
Because the Guanzhong area is the old land of the Qin State, there are enough officials to supervise the collection of taxes.

Weighing instruments are calibrated every year, and there are "supervisors" at the tax collection site to prevent fraud during rent collection. Afterwards, there are officials at the "engraving office" who are responsible for acceptance and assessment in terms of quality and quantity.

The last thing is to return the particles to the warehouse.

Sounds good, right?

But even in later generations, the specific situation of the grain collection at the grain station is a matter of opinion...

That's why Han Fei crazily emphasized that 'the emperor of the Ming Dynasty governs the officials but not the people'.

As an offshoot of the Korean clan in the past, Han Fei was probably used to seeing warmth and intrigue, especially those petty officials who had come into contact with him personally.

Fusu looked at Zhang Cang who was busy below, and suddenly felt that he seemed to be thicker than the last time he saw him.

Well, the official uniform on his body seems to be re-customized...

Fusu smiled and shook his head, beckoning Gong Shugui over.

"Have you finished building the one hundred Guanhong sabers I want?"

Standing under Majesty Dan, Gong Shugui cupped his hands and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, as of the day before yesterday, all [-] Guanhong Knives have been made. This time I came here, I specially brought one for His Majesty to examine!"

Fu Su nodded, and an internal servant rushed out, and then came in with a long knife in his hand.

This is an improvement on the basis of the existing ring head knife. The blade is narrow and straight, and the handle is about one foot long, which is convenient for holding with both hands.

In fact, Fusu originally wanted to name it Xiuchundao, but considering that the old Zhu family had a patent, he named it Guanhongdao, which means Changhong piercing the sun!

As for who will use it, there is no need to say much.

ps: The content about millet and weights and measures comes from "Shanxi Yangtoushan Millet Sample Measurement Weights and Measures Standard Test", author Zhao Xiaojun.

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