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

Chapter 345 Thanks to the First Emperor for the gift!
"Taxes have been reduced!"

Cui Guo danced and gestured.

"From now on, the land tax will only be [-]%, and the corvee has also been reduced. Now the corvee at the First Emperor's Mausoleum and Afang Palace has stopped. From now on, you will only have to serve the county corvee, and you don't have to travel so far. If you don't have the land to go out... ..." Cui Guo gestured.

Ya heard the sound and opened his mouth to smile, but couldn't.

He originally pawned the land because his old mother was seriously ill and it was too expensive to take medicine. In the end, the land pawn went out and the old mother did not survive.

Ya felt a little regretful, but regretting was of no use.

"Even if I don't go out... I still have a lot of debts." Ya Xian added.

Yes, debt.

They did not have farming tools or oxen, so they had to borrow them during the farming season.

All in all, I owe the Cui family a lot of debt.

Cui Guo scratched his head and thought for a while and found that this seemed to be the case.

The gentlemen are kind-hearted and don't press for repayment, but the money is still owed. They hope to pay off the debt by farming. Who knows how long it will take?
In fact, throughout Langya, common people can only wear the clothes of cattle and horses, eat the food of pigs and dogs, owe countless debts, and have no place to stand.

This is the current situation of self-employed people, and they are everywhere in Langya area.

And looking around the world, most people are like this.

Self-employed people not only have to perform labor and pay taxes, but also owe a lot of foreign debt.

There are only two fateful endings for them.

Bankrupt and become an official slave, or bankrupt and become a tenant farmer of the Cui family, farming and working for the Cui family for generations.

Yes, for generations!
There are many generations of tenant farmers of the Cui family who have carried countless debts since they were born. Of course, everything they have has become the Cui family's, and all the value they generate naturally also belongs to the Cui family.

"It's a dog's day... It's not enough to occupy so much fertile land. We also have to use clever means to rob and coax people to sell the land. They are obviously the government's farming tools and cattle. We should be asked to rent them during this season, but they have all become their property." Cui Guo spat and cursed bitterly.

Ya opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't curse with Cui Guo.

It's clear that corvees and taxes have been reduced, but life doesn't seem to be much better.

He was lucky. The Cui family was willing to take them in and could become their tenant farmers. However, if the Cui family was not willing, they would become official slaves.

That's even scarier...

The world is as black as crows... But now, the First Emperor seems to be a little whiter, and the Qin State is also a little whiter, but the haze that weighs on them has not diminished at all.

And the other side...

Langya, in the Cui family's mansion.

Cui Min, Cui Jing and his son sat opposite each other.

"This year's new grain has been planted, and Qin State's new Qu Yuan plow has made farming much faster this year, and the manpower has been reduced a lot, but there are no more tenant farmers to manage the fields." Cui Jing said with a smile on his face. He smiled and reported to his father.

Cui Min heard this and smiled on his face.

"If you want to say that this Quyuan plow is indeed a good thing, if you let the craftsmen at home take care of it, you have to put some on it." Cui Min said.

"With this new plow, we really don't have to use many people to manage the fields. We can free up some people to go to the salt factory..." Cui Min thought for a moment and said.

Previously, Zhao Si invented the method of drying salt to replace the more primitive method of boiling the sea to make salt.

While the production of salt has been further increased, the cost has been further reduced and the quality has been further improved.

With Zhao Si's unremitting efforts, the price reduction of official salt was finally achieved.

The price of official salt dropped to 63 yuan, which indeed had a huge impact on private salt producers in Qi State at that time.

As the local emperor of Langya and one of the largest producers of private salt, the Cui family naturally suffered a serious impact at that time.

Fortunately, Cuijiajia has a great business. While maintaining its market share through price reduction promotions, it immediately sent people to spy on it.Lang Zhongling was responsible for the salt fields of salt drying judges in various places. Meng Yi made great efforts, and the results were naturally achieved.

The Cui family really couldn't find any way to investigate at first.

But does it change over time?

After all, drying salt requires a lot of labor. As long as it involves the recruitment of a large number of manpower, it basically has nothing to do with confidentiality.

The Cui family spent more than half a year figuring out the root cause of the price reduction of official salt.

Oh, it turns out that the production method of salt has been updated and iterated.

Then there's nothing more to say, just steal and be done with it.

The Qin State's salt policy incorporated price into tax, that is, tax was included in the price of salt.

This is doomed, under the same cost, private salt must be cheaper than official salt.

Because there is no tax on private salt.

However, the positive significance is not without it. Compared with the traditional method of boiling the sea to make salt, the sun-salting method requires more hands to open the way for output and quality.

The update and iteration of salt production technology has led to the complete bankruptcy of a large number of middle and low-level private salt manufacturers.

But for top nobles like the Cui family, they also have large salt farms and a large number of workers.

They can achieve the same cost as Qin.

The price is naturally much lower than the price of salt in Qin.

Because of Cui Min's previous correct decision, the price reduction and promotion lost money to maintain the market share that was hit by the sharp drop in salt prices.

Therefore, after discovering the production method of Qin's official salt, the Cui family quickly turned a loss into a profit.

Fortunately, technology updates and iterations can be learned secretly. It’s not like Qin State discovered an inexhaustible salt mine...

Thanks to the high output and high quality of the sun salt method, as well as the bankruptcy of small and medium-sized private salt dealers, the Cui family's market share has increased a lot.

"One more thing, the tax has been reduced, from [-] to [-]. In addition, I heard that the First Emperor's Mausoleum and Afang Palace have also been suspended. Corvene should no longer occur in these two places." Cui Jing said with a smile on his face. He said with a smile.

"It's all thanks to the loyal ministers of the country!" Cui Min said with emotion.

"Yes, if Zhao Shangqing hadn't been afraid of life and death and was generous and outspoken, King Qin would definitely not have reduced corvees and taxes." Cui Jing said enthusiastically.

"Wrong!" Cui Min shook his head.

"If King Qin doesn't want to, no one can make him change his mind. In the end, it was Zhao Shangqing who convinced King Qin."

"If King Qin can continue like this, the world will naturally be at peace. How many people are willing to give up their wealth and lives regardless of returning the world to chaos?" Cui Min said.

"Yes..." Cui Jingding nodded.

"I only obey His Majesty's Holy Wisdom..."

Cui Min and Cui Jing and his son generously acknowledged the First Emperor's correctness and sincerely thanked the First Emperor for his gift.

Objectively speaking, they do not want to restore the country, nor do they want the world to return to an era of war and strife.

They are not careerists. Once troubled times come, the possibility of bankruptcy will greatly increase, which is something no one wants.

The father and son lamented the changes in the Qin Dynasty, but they forgot that just two years ago, the price of Qin's official salt dropped.

That sentence that came out of my mouth.

"Zhao Zheng was raised by my maid!"

(no more...)
(End of this chapter)