Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 132 It's been like this since ancient times, isn't it right?

Zhao Si sat on the frame, looked back at Zou Feng's mansion and the servants standing at the door, turned around and prepared to leave.

"Zhao Shilang wait a moment..." Zhao Si just moved the carriage, and a figure ran out.

Zhao Si turned around and saw a young man following behind.

"Mister asked me to send a message."

Zhao Si stood still in front of the frame.

"Sir, Mr. Zhao Shilang is young, but he has great ambitions. Jane is in the heart of the emperor, and he serves in front of the king. Why is he so timid?
Was it a smooth journey to seize the ship and return it to Qin in the past? "

Hearing this, Zhao Si raised his eyes and saw Zou Feng's figure standing at the door, his heart moved slightly.

"Go back..."

……

The next day, Zhao Si got up early, washed and tidied up, and drove straight to the palace.

The First Emperor was still washing up, and Zhao Si waited for a while.

"Master Zhao, please!"

Zhao Gao bowed and led the way for Zhao Si.

After entering the inner room, the First Emperor sat down before Gao's case, and Zhao Si stood by his side.

After waiting for a while, Sangong Jiuqing, some officials and doctors entered the room one after another.

Li Si was slightly surprised to see Zhao Si accompanying the First Emperor, but he started to report the recent work report honestly and step by step.

All the departments of Sangong and Jiuqing have affairs. The right minister and the Taiwei have little power left, but they keep silent, and the main responsible for reporting is the left minister Li Si and Jiuqing.

Contrary to imagination, there were not too many disputes in the court meeting of the Great Qin Dynasty. Most of them were reported by the nine ministers. If there is a need to ask for instructions, the first emperor also directly approved it.

Concise speech and high efficiency.

The interior of the Great Qin Dynasty Hall is not harmonious, the young faction, the old-fashioned faction, the radical faction, the conservative faction, and even the cultural conflicts of various schools...

It's just that under the suppression of the first emperor, all the contradictions and struggles were suppressed, and no one would start a party dispute in front of the first emperor who was not open-eyed.

Especially the routine morning meeting, which is the time for handling official business.

After all the ministers had reported one by one, Shi Huangdi opened his mouth.

"Nowadays, Qidi uses sun-dried salt instead of boiled salt. The salt production has greatly increased, the cost has also dropped, and the salt has been plentiful. Should the price of salt be lowered? Do you have any ideas?" Emperor Shi Huang wrote the memorial before the case. Once folded, stacked on the side of the table, ask questions as if chatting at home.

The first one to speak was right minister Wang Wan...

Although the Right Prime Minister Wang Wan no longer has any real power, but when it comes to this kind of official inquiry, it is natural to sort according to the position.

Wang Wan is just a muddleheaded person, and after rambling for a while, she finally came to the conclusion that it was.

There are advantages to reducing prices, and there are advantages to not reducing prices.In the end, there was no actual statement.

"Your Majesty, I think that you shouldn't surrender, and you can't surrender!"

Li Si frowned and glanced at Wang Wan, stepped forward and spoke.

"Make the hungry people know the importance of farming, make the weak people know the importance of war, make the people rich together, and the country will be weak, and make the people poor, and the country will be strong." Li Si opened his mouth to explain.

In Daqin, this is a cliché for the Legalists.

The foundation of Legalism's five techniques of controlling the people is that, in Legalism's cognition, the wealth of a country is fixed and relative.

That is, the relative theory that the country is rich and the people are poor, and the people are rich and the country is poor.

When the country is poor to a certain extent, crises will arise, the world cannot be controlled, government orders are no longer accessible, foreign enemies will take the opportunity to bully, and ambitious people will take the opportunity to mess up the government.

The old-fashioned statement can be regarded as Daqin's current political correctness.

Li Si is the prime minister with real power, and Daqin is currently based on Legalism, so there are not many voices of opposition. Some people agree, and some choose to be neutral.

Until it was Meng Yi's turn...

"The Prime Minister's words are biased..." Meng Yi stood still and shook his head.

"The poor live in robbers, the rich live in peace, Su Qin can enshrine the seal of the six countries, and only make three hectares of fertile land." Meng Yi said with a frown.

After Meng Yi, each Langguan doctor explained their own ideas, among which most supported Li Si, and very few supported Meng Yi.

However, it did not lead to a heated debate. Everyone quietly expressed their views.

After all the ministers finished speaking, Shi Huang turned his head to look at Zhao Si.

Knowing that it was his turn, Zhao Si bowed out.

"Surrender, you have to surrender!" Zhao Si said seriously.

"I made salt when I was in Lantian...I remember it very clearly."

Zhao Si asked the soldiers to bring some inedible salt, but what they brought back were stones, salt stones that animals would lick.

Zhao Si said that what he wanted was bittern salt ore that was inedible, contained heavy metal toxins, and had many impurities.

Zhao Si remembered it clearly.

"The salt can be eaten, but the salt stone cannot be eaten!"

Yes, everyone took it for granted that Zhao Si was wrong.

What Zhao Si wanted was inedible salt, the black salt full of heavy metal toxins and impurities was edible, and it was widely eaten by the common people.

This has even become common sense in this era.

At that moment, the heaviness and sadness that hit his face was what Zhao Si had been avoiding all along, and what he wanted to do.

Salt making, painstaking efforts to bring back sweet potatoes and corn are essentially to change this fact.

Just like the local chronicles, it is taken for granted that people eat each other when there is a great hunger.

It's like they take it for granted that marinated salt can be eaten.

"Zhao Shilang is joking, it has been like this since ancient times." Li Si shook his head and smiled.

Zhao Si's speech seemed childish in front of Sangong Jiuqing, of course marinated salt can be eaten, this is common sense.

This has been the case since ancient times.

People cannot live without eating salt, but with so many people, how can everyone eat high-quality salt?
It's not that Li Si has never eaten stewed salt. He was not born to be the left minister of Daqin. Li Si also knows that ordinary Qianshou don't even have to eat stewed salt. Come out sour and bitter.

"It's been like this since ancient times, isn't it?"

Zhao Si raised her head... and looked at Li Si with burning eyes.

In fact, Zhao Si has been avoiding these questions all along.

Great Qin unified the six countries, creating a precedent for the unification of China.

The first emperor had great talent and great strategy, and his cars and books were the same.

No matter whether it is the Great Qin or the First Emperor, Zhao Si has a filter in his heart. Even if he encounters something that he, a modern person, cannot accept or even look at directly, Zhao Si will only deliberately avoid it.

He took it for granted that the first emperor and even the princes of the court understood these principles. He took it for granted that his own words could not be changed. He took it for granted that he was not qualified to speak when it involved state affairs and the world.

Since the Great Qin Dynasty, it has been a grand event of great unification!

There is no doubt about the life of the First Emperor.

They are brilliant enough, Zhao Si is not sure whether his thinking is a castle in the air.

But it is undeniable that Zhao Si will never be able to regard the head of Guizhou as a resource and a currency.

When playing the game, he was a war criminal in P agency, but this is reality.

"The corvée in Daqin now exceeds one million..." Zhao Si sighed.

"This is also since ancient times!"

Yes, even if nearly one-tenth of the population of Daqin is now doing hard labor and serving as official slaves, it is a matter of course for people in this era.

For Qin, this is an old art tradition.

This has been the case since the reform of the Shang monarch, otherwise, how could the Qin State fight for hegemony from the borderlands?
Qin of tigers and wolves, the country of Xirong, and barbarians from outside, do you really think these are the respectful titles of the Central Plains for Qin?Guanzhong has never been a fertile ground.

This is the result of several generations of Qin people opening canals, changing rivers, and cultivating. The real fertile land is the land of Liangluo, the hometown of Zhou Tianzi.

Li Si smiled, didn't speak, just looked at Zhao Si.

The First Emperor looked at Zhao Si with interest, but the meaning was unclear.

He didn't expect that Zhao Si was actually compassionate deep down.

"I don't think it's appropriate to make the small people do evil to the good people." Zhao Si said.

"The price of official salt is based on taxes, so private salt is rampant and difficult to control, especially in the old lands of the Six Kingdoms." Zhao Si opened his mouth and repeated what he said to Emperor Shihuang yesterday.

"What I want to say is not to crack down on private salt, but to ask, who is selling private salt, who is fighting for profit from Qin, and who can fight for profit from the people?"

In fact, except for a very few nobles who were mainly targeted, Qin State did not cleanse the nobles of the six countries, nor deprived them of their titles and wealth, but only imposed certain restrictions on weapons and equipment.

The law of Qin stipulates that the new Qianshou government officials and above should hold no more than three swords, and those who have to carry swords for public officials and official officials should hold two swords each. Those who have passed the order will be discussed in terms of the new Guizhou head's military order. (From "The Order of the New Guizhou Head of Arming Forces" in the Qin bamboo slips collected by Yuelu Academy)
What is New Guizhou Head?That is to conquer the new nobles of the six countries.

Public servants, public officials, and official officials are all high-ranking nobles!

After the first emperor unified the world, he did not take the "revolutionary measures" imagined by some people to "deprive" the "old aristocrats of the six countries", but instead recognized the aristocratic status of the "new head of Guizhou" in the new dynasty.

This also explains why the Xiang family was able to quickly pull out three thousand soldiers from Jiangdong at the beginning of the uprising, and why they still had extensive wealth, power and status in the local area.

Even Daqin needs to rely on them to govern the region...

That's what Zhao Si wanted to ask.

who!While obstructing Daqin's practice of the same language, the same track and the same writing, who is distorting the laws of Daqin and demonizing the laws of Daqin.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's so-called beheading for failure has been proved to be a false rumor according to the Qin bamboo slips of Sleeping Tiger.

So why did the servants who followed Chen Sheng and Wu Guang believe that who was destroying Daqin's image?
Who is selling private salt?Who is producing private salt?
In other words, who has the ability to do these things?

"Who is serving? Who is guarding the border, who is paying for food, who is distorting the laws of Qin, who is selling private salt? Who is slandering Daqin and slandering His Majesty?"

Since ancient times?

Is it right to compromise with the aristocracy since ancient times?
The First Emperor gave Zhao Si an interesting look, with a playful smile on his face.

Li Si just wanted to speak, but was stopped by Emperor Shihuang.

"Let's reduce the price... The price of the new salt will be re-determined by Meng Yi and Li Si."

Emperor Shi Huang terminated the conversation.

Hmm... Zhao Si can't let Zhao Si say the rest in public.

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