Daqin: The poorest prime minister, the first emperor begged me to corrupt

Chapter 41 The internal treasury has been emptied by them, and I am also poor!
"Qin Xiang is not the kind of person who pushes forward."

Fu Su embarrassingly defended the idol, saying: "You brothers and sisters are just greedy."

Ying Zheng's face turned pale, and he couldn't help swallowing when he thought of the delicacies that Qin Mo promoted in the army.

"I haven't seen him in the past few days, and I don't know how busy he is. Let's go and have a look."

Fu Su raised his hand: "Here."

The father and son changed into casual clothes, and under the secret protection of the guards, they left the Qin Palace together, and went straight to the adjacent Hou's Mansion...the small courtyard next to it.

It was late autumn, when the crops were being harvested.

When Yingzheng and Fusu arrived, the princes and princesses were helping Qin Mo break corn and dig potatoes in the courtyard.

All of them have no image, just like mud monkeys!

There are also a horse and an ox in the courtyard, driven by Qin Mo and Yu Ji, pulling the plow to renovate the harvested land.

It is indeed a luxury to farm with a horse and an ox in a place with a big fart!

"Ai Qing is very elegant."

Ying Zheng Shi ran into the courtyard and teased Qin Modao.

The dignified Prime Minister of Qin, it's fine if he doesn't go to court, and he doesn't deal with government affairs at home. He just hides and plays with a little vegetable field.

To put it bluntly, it's Yaxing, but to put it bluntly, it's negligence of state affairs!

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Qin Mo was not embarrassed, stopped to drive the cattle and horses, and went forward to salute with the princes and princesses.

Yu Ji went to the side to get two cups of iced milk tea and brought them to Ying Zheng and Fu Su: "Your Majesty, Your Highness, please use it."

Ying Zheng is a sweet person, and he has no resistance to the unique taste of milk tea. After taking two sips, he couldn't stop, and sighed: "Ai Qing is really like a living fairy, she looks like an important court official there."

These words have the meaning of complaining.

As a courtier, Qin Mo is so leisurely and content.

He, the emperor, has no leisure every day, reviewing and reviewing bamboo slips like mangosteen.

It's really sad to compare the two!

Qin Mo could probably understand Ying Zheng's thoughts, and pointed at the cow and the horse with a smile: "Your Majesty, can you see the difference?"

Ying Zheng first looked at the cows and horses, and then at the agricultural equipment behind him, his face gradually turned warm.

The cows and horses were all branded, and they were captured during the conquest outside the Great Wall.

As for the plows that were pulled later, they were all remodeled by Qin Mo in the early years, and now they are the favorites of countless small farmers in the head of Guizhou.

Yingzheng was grateful for his achievements, and naturally the resentment dissipated in his heart, and he said with a smile: "Is Aiqing trying to show merit?"

"Yeah, it's not."

Qin Mo nodded first, then shook his head, and said: "Your Majesty, do you know how the cattle and horses outside the Great Wall are different from those in the Great Wall?"

Ying Zheng is not a person who doesn't eat meat, so he said casually: "Oxen and horses outside the Great Wall are mostly used for carnivorous riding, and cattle and horses inside the Great Wall are mostly used for plowing and pulling carts... Huh~!"

When he said this, he seemed to have realized something, and suddenly stopped talking, and looked at the cows and horses in surprise.

Large livestock such as cattle and horses are not born able to ride or plow and pull carts.

Taking horses as an example, those used for riding and those used for pulling carts are completely different. The two were domesticated in different ways when they were young.

The horses used for riding are suddenly used to pull carts, and they must be violently pulled into the ditch.

On the contrary, if the cart horse is used for riding, it is necessary to be irritable and throw the knight off!

As for cattle, let alone.

Those who don't know it think it is docile, but in fact it is the most irritable and stubborn. The docile that the world thinks is the result of domestication since childhood.

However, the untamed prairie cattle are able to toughen wild wolves!

Make it obedient and plow the land?

I'm afraid it will be even more difficult!

The bad horses and prairie cattle seized outside the Great Wall this time, excluding those distributed to immigrants, there are still hundreds of thousands left.

The eunuch who is in charge of the horse administration has recently issued a memorial, intending to sell it to the people together with the remaining mutton sheep, and turn it into goods to enrich the national treasury!

"Aiqing, this... how did you do it?"

Ying Zheng walked around the docile cow and horse a few times, and asked happily.

Qin Mo pointed to the nose rings of an ox and a horse: "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals recorded an interesting story that Lishi pulled a steer that couldn't move its tail. After putting on the nose ring, children dragged it away."

"I have domesticated them again in the past few days, and the cattle and horses can barely be used for farming!"

When Ying Zheng heard the title of Lu's Spring and Autumn Book, a strange look flashed in his eyes.

He has some impressions of this book, it is a book of miscellaneous studies compiled under the leadership of Xiangfu Lu Buwei, there is such a method in it?

Why didn't it become popular?

Ying Zheng took a closer look with his probe and found that the iron ring pierced through the brittle bone between the nose of the cow and horse. He tried to pull it, and the cow and horse felt pain, and they bowed their heads.

"Qin Xiang is really curious!"

"With this piercing method, the hundreds of thousands of captured cattle and horses are no longer meat for mounts, but animal power for plowing land!"

"In the future, the cattle and horses of the feudal states outside the Great Wall will also enrich the Daqin with a steady stream of arable land and animal power. Blessed are the peasants in the head of Guizhou!"

Fusu drew inferences from one example and couldn't help but applaud in admiration.

The method of farming and warfare formulated by Shang Jun is not simply emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and bestowing nobles on those who are good at farming.

Daqin's support for farmers has reached the point of insanity, and it can be said that it has penetrated into every aspect.

As long as you are willing to farm, there will be special officials and elders who will guide you how to choose seeds, when to cultivate, when to manure, and when to water...

If you don’t have farm equipment and cattle, the government will also lend it to you, and you don’t have to pay for it if it’s worn out!

Now cattle and horses outside the Great Wall can be used for plowing land and animal power, and farmers have spare energy to cultivate more fertile land.

This is the improvement of the overall national strength!
"Fusu, hurry up and tell the eunuch this method, don't let him be quick and sell hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses."

"Now that it's busy farming, hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses have worn nose rings in this way, and they can be distributed to counties and counties all over the world, so that farmers can save labor and cultivate more fertile land!"

Ying Zheng tried for a while, then suddenly let go of the nose ring, turned around and told Fu Su to say.

Fusu raised his head and drank his own iced milk tea, then unloaded the plows from the horses in the yard, rode on the bareback horse and galloped away, but he didn't dare to delay for a moment.

Ying Zheng turned to look at Qin Mo, and said with a smile, "I was wrong to blame Ai Qing, and I'm ashamed."

"Your Majesty does not blame the minister for being lazy."

Qin Mo spoke awe-inspiring words, but he was secretly relieved that he had finally been fooled.

In fact, he was just being lazy, and he was exhausted from the wind and sun this time on his expedition beyond the Great Wall.

No matter how ambitious he is, he doesn't want to turn himself into a scalper.

State affairs are separated from him, and there are still Prime Minister Zuo Wang Wan, Li Si, Meng Yi, Feng Jie, Feng Quji, and a large number of famous officials who govern the world, and the Great Qin will continue to operate.

Moreover, rather than the so-called state affairs, he wants to do something far-reaching on this basis!

……

Yingzheng drank iced milk tea, half lying down and half sitting on the deck chair, watching his children playing in the vegetable field, it was rare to relax comfortably: "Aiqing, is your Hexi country starting to be built?"

"The recruited officials have already been dispatched, but I still need to borrow something from His Majesty." Qin Mo said with a hand.

When Ying Zheng heard this, he immediately thought of the huge wealth he had cheated his own children, and his hands trembled.

Ripped off to the forehead, right?

"Aiqing, my son is about to take over, and my internal treasury has already been emptied by them, so I'm poor!"

　Thanks Wanli x Showa for the 100-point reward!
　　Thanks to Zhang Zeyuan for the 100-point reward!
　　
　
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