Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 105: I'm doomed to die! (seeking subscription)

October.

Daqin October [-]st is the beginning of the year.

That is the first day of the new year.

The city was much more lively than before, and when Lu Zuo met, most of them would smile and bow to each other, saying: "Zhengdan is well."

It is similar to the New Year greetings of later generations.

In the scattered and alternating Lilu, peach charms were exchanged in front of every household.

"Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" are written on the board.

The door of Ji Heng's house was closed tightly, and the bustle outside had nothing to do with him.

He was sitting alone in the small courtyard, watching the colorful fallen leaves, not affected by the atmosphere of "Chinese New Year", nor feeling lonely at all.

He is used to enjoying solitude.

He took out a pot of wine that had been sealed and placed in the well, and poured himself a full cup of copper jug. The wine was very cold, but after drinking it, he had a different taste. He rested his head with one hand and held the cup of copper jug ​​in the other, with a calm expression on his face Looking at the sky calmly, his mood also drifted away with the clouds above.

I don't know how long has passed.

In this quiet house, there was a sudden 'creak' sound of opening the door, awakening Ji Heng who was in a fugue.

He frowned and looked over.

Fusu walked in with a smile on his face, followed by an eunuch who was holding a small bamboo basket in his hand.

Fusu cupped his hands and said, "I've seen Mr. Ji."

"Zhengdan is well."

Ji Heng glanced indifferently, and returned the gift symbolically.

Fu Su said: "I know Mr. Ji is basically alone, so I specially brought some food from the palace."

Done.

Fusu waved his hand.

Wei Sheng quickly put the bamboo basket on the table.

Looking at the things in the bamboo basket, a strange look appeared in Ji Heng's eyes: "Liangpi?"

Fusu was startled, and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Ji knows this thing?"

There was a strange look in Ji Heng's eyes.

This thing is actually very common in later generations, but Liangpi was listed as a tribute in the Qin Dynasty.

Ji Heng said, "I've heard of it."

"Mr. Ji is really well-informed, and I only know about it in the past few years." Fu Su smiled wryly, then raised his hand, signaling Wei Sheng to step back.

Ji Heng did not refuse.

He has been in Qin Dynasty for so long, and he really didn't have a chance to eat it.

Just when Ji Heng was tasting the Liangpi, Fu Su said in a deep voice: "Mr. Ji, most of the salt and iron merchants in Guanzhong have handed over the salt ponds and mines. The imperial court has also sent people to take over these few days. Everything is going well so far. Too much has gone wrong."

"However, there are still a few who don't understand the current situation."

"In the end, the imperial court did not continue to appease, and brought the merchants to justice according to the law."

Fusu felt a little uneasy.

This is his order.

He also did not seek Ji Heng's opinion.

Ji Heng peeled a few pieces of garlic, patted them vigorously, then threw them into the pottery bowl, and said while stirring, "You don't need to tell me how the imperial court does it. Just decide for yourself."

Fu Su nodded slightly, and said, "Fu Su remembered."

"After the salt and iron were taken back, there were actually quite a lot of dissent in the local area, but it did not affect stability."

"So I didn't care."

"After the situation in Guanzhong stabilized, His Majesty also ordered this morning to spread this law to the whole country. With the transmission speed of Daqin documents, it can basically spread throughout the country within a month."

Speaking of which.

Fusu sighed softly, and said with emotion: "In the past thirty years, I seemed to be conceited in my career, but in fact I had no achievements. Now that I have participated in the matter of salt and iron, I have really done something useful to Daqin. At least It can also collect more commercial taxes for Daqin and buy more time."

"Not a completely useless person."

"Ha ha."

heard.

Ji Heng shook his head and said, "You are too optimistic."

"The matter of salt and iron has just begun."

"Kanto is different from Guanzhong. Guanzhong can control it to a very small area, but it may not be so in Kanto."

"Is there a follow-up for Yantie?" Fu Su was surprised, and he said in a concentrated voice: "But Mr. Ji, didn't you say before that you only need to manage Guanzhong? The interior of Guandong will be suppressed by itself. Why did you change your tone now?"

Fusu felt something bad in his heart.

Ji Heng sucked the last bit of Liangpi in the bowl into his mouth, and said: "Kandong is just a general name, and it's not really monolithic. There will indeed be some disturbances in Guandong, and then it will be the time to really test Daqin."

Fu Su made a bow and said, "Dare to ask Mr. Ji, what will happen in Guandong?"

Ji Heng glanced at Fusu indifferently, and said coldly: "There will be chaos."

"Chaos?" Fusu's expression froze.

Ji Heng said indifferently: "Kandong is roughly composed of six regions. Merchants are in the lower status in most of the regions, but they are different in one place."

heard.

"Qi Di!" Fu Su immediately understood.

Ji Heng nodded and said: "After Guan Zhong's political reform, Qi's commerce and trade were extremely developed, thus invisibly elevating the status of merchants. After the Great Qin destroyed Qi, it was true that most of the nobles and tycoons of Qi were moved to Guanzhong, but merchants were actually affected. There's very little involvement."

"Businessmen value profits."

"Equal land and many mountains and seas."

"Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the sea to eat the sea."

"The people of Qi have already formed quite a small interest group in the business of salt and iron. Now that the imperial court has resumed 'official mountains and seas', it is undoubtedly competing for profits with them. How can these people remain indifferent?"

"Therefore Qidi is destined to have an accident!"

"I know, in the past few days, seeing most of the merchants submitting obediently, many thoughts have arisen in your heart, and you even want the court to follow the gourd to control food, land, and the loans that were very popular among the nobles in the past. Money and so on."

"But I tell you."

"One can only do what one can do."

Fusu lowered his head, but he didn't dare to look at Ji Heng.

He did have the idea.

Even when I came here this time, I meant to ask, but now I heard Ji Heng's words, but I didn't dare to speak again, pretending to think for a while, I opened my mouth and asked: "If a rebellion broke out in Qi, how should the court deal with it? "

Ji Heng sneered and said: "The local rebellion, the imperial court will naturally go to quell the rebellion. Is there anything to think about?"

"If the imperial court is involved, wouldn't the plan be ruined?" Fusu's face was serious.

Ji Heng helped Fusu's forehead and rubbed his temples. He didn't know whether to say that Fusu was innocent or simple, and shook his head, "The imperial court is the imperial court, and you are you. Right now, you only need to keep an eye on Guanzhong. It was decided by Shihuang."

"Even if Kanto is in chaos, what can you do?"

"It's not your turn to counter the rebellion."

"You need to understand that everything is difficult at the beginning."

"The merchants are already the best breaking point for Daqin, if even the merchants can't be changed."

"That basically declares that Daqin is 'dead'!"

"It's just not buried yet!"

Ji Heng's tone became serious, even a little dignified.

Fusu saw Ji Heng so serious for the first time.

It's just that he still has some doubts in his heart. How bad is the influence of the merchant rebellion?

He asked: "Please tell me more, sir."

Ji Heng sat on his exclusive reclining chair, looked at Fusu coldly, and said in a deep voice: "The merchants are indeed not important, but the restoration forces behind the merchants are very important. It's the chaos of the Restoration forces of the Six Kingdoms."

"You need to understand the reason."

"The reason why we chose to use salt and iron as the breakthrough point this time."

"It's actually taking the opportunity to test."

"The franchise of salt and iron originated from Guan Zhong's 'Guan Shan Hai'. Many people in the world know about it. Therefore, Daqin's sudden promotion of 'Guan Shan Hai' will not cause too many objections. Most people will only think that the court is short of money and want to learn from Guan Zhong. The method is to make profits by monopolizing salt and iron."

"When the Guandong officials get the relevant documents, a little comparison will show that the imperial court's measures are similar to Guan Zhongzhi's law."

"And it's all intentional."

"The purpose is to let the Kanto nobles and officials relax their guard against the imperial court, and make them preconceived that the imperial court may face financial difficulties, and they urgently need to rely on this method of exhausting resources to collect money from the world."

"And it can only move salt and iron."

"There is a precedent."

"That's how Guan Zhong's reform was done. Daqin is only following the way forward."

"Secondly, after Guan Zhong's political reform, the state of Qi declined for a lifetime. This will undoubtedly make the remnants of the Six Kingdoms tempted to think whether Daqin will be like this. It also invisibly reduces the will of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms to rebel, making them subconsciously want to delay for a while. "

"Three."

"No other way to break the game will work."

"Land, food, loans, etc., involve too many rentiers, including the vast majority of nobles, powerful and officials in the world. They are not something that Daqin can move at the moment, and they can't even touch them. Suicide."

"Annoy the vast majority of rentiers in the world."

"This is self-isolation from the world."

"The situation in Daqin is already very dangerous. If you don't make changes, it will slowly wither like a tree trunk off the ground. Therefore, Daqin must make changes."

"In Guan Zhong's division of 'scholars, farmers, businessmen', Daqin is the only one who can move, and the only one who dares to move is Shang."

"Moving traffickers and pawns has no effect on the situation."

"Moving land, food, and loans that are deeply tied to nobles, tyrants, and officials is undoubtedly a fire."

"So Daqin can only choose to use salt and iron merchants!"

"Salt and iron are relatively in a position that can't go up or down among the world's commodities. The value is not as high as that of land, population, and loans, but it is more profitable than the bottom-level traffickers. It just takes a lot of time to go. businessmen, to operate, and to collect more than half of the tax, so they are not valued by noble officials.”

"However, salt and iron are necessary for the world."

"So it is most suitable as the current breakthrough point."

Fu Su secretly nodded.

Hearing Ji Heng's explanation, he suddenly realized why Ji Heng chose to move 'salt and iron' instead of moving fields and grains.

Everything is weighed against the pros and cons.

"Since salt and iron are among the world's commodities, why do you think that it might trigger the Kanto Rebellion?" Fusu asked.

He looked puzzled.

Ji Heng poured a cup of wine for himself.

Drank it down.

A refreshing coolness welled up in his heart, and Ji Heng said coldly: "That's actually just a speculation."

"The number of five or five."

"But Daqin can't lose, let alone afford to lose."

"So once you lose, it also means Daqin"

Ji Heng shook his head, and said with a deep voice, "I'm exhausted, I'm doomed to die!"

(End of this chapter)