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

Chapter 303 Good News, Bad News
Xu Mo negative made a choice again.

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages!

On the other side, in the marketplace, Zhao Si was also amazed.

"Is there anyone doing face-to-face fortune-telling business in the market now?" Zhao Si looked at Li Si beside him in surprise.

At present, Jia Tuo has left Kuaiji, and continues to head south, and is about to approach the generation of Lingnan.

The further south you go, the more different the customs and customs are from the Central Plains, and the more incomplete the implementation of laws and regulations.

According to the laws of the Qin State, all commercial activities are strictly managed, and there are a large number of laws as supplements.

When I lived in Xianyang before, I had to go to a special street if I wanted to buy goods. Other than that, private vendors were not allowed in other places. There are also clear regulations on how often the market will be held in folk villages for the purchase of goods in the head of Guizhou. Moreover, when the folks hold the market, there are usually officials present to ensure the normal progress of the market, and the vendors participating in the market must back up their biography and identity.

Generally speaking, merchants are very uncomfortable.

As the saying goes, there is no evil without business.

However, the law of Qin stipulates that the price of any commodity must be clearly marked, and a contract must be issued after the commodity is sold.

The same is true for private markets, and the government will also send officials to manage them on the spot. Of course, it is not only for management, but also for tax collection.

The taxes of the markets held in the countryside are settled in one day, but in the cities, because the goods have to be reported every day, they can be collected once a month.

At the same time, the Qin law also expressly prohibits the barter of goods, and the transaction with Qin coins is naturally to promote the unification of currency, and the implementation of the Guanzhong area is very good.

But still the same sentence, the farther the place is, the more the law looks like a dead letter.

If this area is considered to be south of Chu, basically there must be vendors in places where people gather.

There are no clearly marked prices, no deeds, and taxes cannot be collected.

The reason why Zhao Si and Li Si went out alone was because there was a village fair nearby. Li Si planned to see for himself the effect of the implementation of the Qin government's decree in the remotest place, while Zhao Si had never seen a rural fair in this era at all. Join in the fun.

Rural fairs are held more often than in open areas, and there are many villagers who come to participate in the fair along the road.

Most people can't grab the market stalls, so some people set up stalls along the surrounding roads leading to the market.

Most of them sell lacquerware, pottery, bamboo baskets, farming tools and other daily necessities. There are not many food sellers, and the economic level is here. It is impossible for the Qin Dynasty to spread all kinds of food vendors like the Song Dynasty. .

Among them, there are also stalls for face-to-face, with a straw mat on the ground and a few turtle shells on it.

"Alchemists also have to eat and live. They have to cultivate and collect medicines. They don't do production and have no means to make ends meet. Those with high knowledge go to tell the fortunes of high-ranking officials and nobles, and those with low knowledge go to the market to meet people. " Li Si smiled.

"Xu Fu Lusheng is an alchemist, and this group of people is also an alchemist. In fact, there is no difference. In the past, your Majesty, in order to seek longevity, I have advised you many times...but your majesty has always refused." Li Si sighed.

The ability is outstanding, or the ability to deceive people is relatively strong, fooling the emperor, less capable fooling the nobles, and less capable fooling the common people, the same is true for all industries.

In fact, when the first emperor started chasing longevity, some things began to become uncontrollable.

Fortunately, Zhao Si's return changed everything, so that the matter did not intensify.

It's not that Li Si didn't persuade the first emperor, but the first emperor really didn't listen.

"Really? I think His Majesty is quite easy to persuade." Zhao Si smiled and looked curiously at the matchmaking booth.

……

Li Si, who was choked by Zhao Siping for nothing, took a long time to recover, looked at Zhao Si staring at the matchmaking booth and said: "When the driver drove back and passed through Hanoi County, Xu Wang, the county magistrate of Wencheng County, Hanoi County, had a Girls have supernatural powers and are good at matching people, if you want to meet people, you can go and have a look."

"Xu Negative?" Zhao Si laughed at the sound.

Of course he knew the name of Xu Negative. There are only so many women who can be famous in history, and there are very few women who can do one thing to the extreme and have a famous name in history. Xu Negative is undoubtedly one of them.

"Where did Xu Neg come from? It's Xu Mo negative!" Li Si glanced at Zhao Si.

"That's my misremembering..." Zhao Si remembered it after being reminded by Li Si. Now that Emperor Shi Huang hadn't died halfway, Xu Negative's official name should still be Xu Mo Negative. Of course, it doesn't matter if he secretly changed his name. That’s easy to say.

"Li Xiang still believes this?" Zhao Si looked at Li Si curiously.

"Believe, it's just that the truth and falsehood are mixed and difficult to distinguish. It's better to believe in yourself than to believe in fate." Li Si shook his head.

"Actually like Xu Fu and Lu Sheng, it's not appropriate to say they are liars, but in fact they are really miraculous, if they don't have any means, how can they win His Majesty's trust?

But the so-called longevity and destiny, I don't think they can interfere, including the so-called fortune-telling person, in my opinion, it is nothing more than a glimpse of a trace, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

People can guess from the low-flying birds that there may be showers, and they may not be able to guess the future good or bad through some means, but I don't think the development of things will be shifted by people's will. " Li Si shook his head.

"Maybe...but things don't necessarily stay the same when they happen." Zhao Si smiled.

This kind of thing is really hard to say, Fusang ancestor dragon Xu Fu is already completely cold now, Lu Sheng is nowhere to be seen now, Xu negative...Huang Shigong... Do you think these people can really guess the destiny?

According to various rumors and historical records of later generations, these strange people and strangers calculated the fate of the Great Qin Dynasty long ago and made a choice earlier than the people of the world.

Xu Fu ran away to Fusang ahead of time to avoid the war disaster and became king on his own.

Lu Sheng disappeared without a trace.

Xu Mo negative changed his name to Xu negative and persuaded his father to secretly rely on Liu Bang, and he became a nineteenth prince.

Huang Shigong passed on Taolue to Zhang Liang, and passed on the art of face-to-face in the Book of Changes to Xu Moshen.

According to folklore, it is even more comparable to the famous Guiguzi.

The story that a child can be taught has been passed down for thousands of years and has been talked about with great interest.

Zhao Si had no contact with this special group, but now the problem came.

How do these special groups who are said to be able to glimpse the destiny feel now?

"The will of the heavens is not transferred by people, but when a flood occurs, people can control the water. In order to deal with the beasts, the people will unite and use weapons to resist.

Since ancient times, people have gradually stabilized from fishing and hunting to farming. Only after Dayu controlled the floods did the world have a bumper harvest.

If we blindly seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, then there will be no such stories. If there are too many wild animals, they will run away, and when the flood comes, they will run away again. "Zhao Si said.

If you follow the logic of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, then you don't need to develop any technology, and you don't need to fight against nature, just run away.

"Li Xiang believes that things will not be changed by people's will, but I think people may not be unable to cope with the occurrence of things. Heaven has its reasons, and people have their destiny. Man will conquer the sky!" Recalling the history of thousands of years before and after, Zhao Si said emotion.

"How can man defeat God?" Li Si shook his head and laughed.

"What I'm talking about is not that man must be able to conquer the sky, but that when facing disasters, people must have the belief that man can conquer the sky." Zhao Si also shook his head.

Li Si looked at Zhao Si upon hearing the sound, remained silent for a long time, and finally did not criticize him anymore.

"If you put it that way, those people and you probably won't be able to pee in the same pot." Li Si shook his head.

The two walked side by side, heading towards the country market along the way.

As we get closer to the market, more and more passers-by come and go, and there are more vendors on both sides of the road.

From time to time, people stopped to ask about goods, and the road became more and more congested and blocked.

"How do you sell this pottery bowl?" Zhao Si randomly picked up a pottery bowl and asked.

"It's only a penny!" The vendor immediately set the price when he saw a customer speak.

Zhao Si nodded and took out a Qin coin and handed it to the vendor, but the vendor waved his hands repeatedly after seeing it.

"No money from Qin?" Zhao Si frowned.

"It's not that we don't charge. If it's Qin Qian, there are five pottery bowls for one penny, and one bowl for Chu Qian." The vendor kindly explained.

"Since that's the case, you just asked me for money, why don't you accept it?" Zhao Sifu asked again.

"Buying and buying are mostly exchanged for things. It's really hard to find." The vendor pointed to the side of the stall, where there were also food, and other lacquerware and linen.

Zhao Si thought it was other merchandise from the pottery bowl vendor, but now it seems that it was the money he collected for the purchase.

"Look, I only collected three Chu coins here, but I can't get you one and a half taels." The vendor spread his hands.

"I don't know if you don't tell me about this kind of thing, you're so nice." Zhao Si became interested when he heard the sound, squatted down and pressed Qin Banliang into the palm of the vendor.

"Let me buy you a bowl for a dollar, but I have to delay your business and ask you some things. As compensation, I will collect the other things in your shop at the market price. You see How?" Zhao Si asked.

The street vendor's eyes lit up when he heard the sound!

It is still very tempting for a vendor to pack and sell a piece, especially if the other party has not lowered the price and packs it at the market price!

"You can just ask if you have anything, it's just...just..." The vendor was half-sentenced, as if he didn't feel comfortable opening his mouth.

"What is it?" Zhao Si asked slightly curiously.

"Later, when the nobles buy the rest of the goods, can you use Qin Banliang to calculate the money? It is also right to treat one Qin Banliang as worth five Chu coins..." There was a flattering smile on the vendor's face.

Zhao Si looked at Li Si upon hearing the sound, and as expected, Li Si had a wry smile on his face.

Good news: The official currency of the Qin Dynasty is the purchasing power of the outermost regions of the empire.

Bad news: Official Qin currency is severely scarce in this remote location.

(Also... In addition, in order to eliminate ambiguity, the previous chapter was deleted. I didn’t think about it so much when I wrote it. I’m sorry. The original meaning is to use one person to refer to a group of people, and to draw out Huangshigong and other groups. That’s why I wrote this, I didn’t expect such a big ambiguity, I apologize.)
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