Prime Minister of Great Qin

Ji Heng did not lie.

Currency itself is a continuation of the Great Unification War.

From the unified currency of the Qin Dynasty, to Liu Bang's enfeoffment of princes, princes, kings and wealthy merchants from all over the world minted money privately, to Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty decentralizing coinage rights, to Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty suppressing the princes and shrinking currency power, to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che solving the problem of princes and kings , and through a series of means, they destroyed the wealthy businessmen and powerful people, completely recovered the right to mint money, and finally established the "three officials and five baht money" system.

Since then, currency has truly completed its unification.

From closing to splitting and back again.

This ‘war’ over monetary unification lasted for more than a hundred years.

Da Qin is also following the path of history.

When Qin unified the world, it only achieved regional unification. Unification systems such as "books with the same text and cars with the same track" were not truly implemented. The real implementation of the unification of the world had to wait until the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

From Emperor Qin Shihuang to Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty for more than a hundred years, there was always a confrontation between the central government and local governments, and between the people and the court.

This war will last for a long time.

If Fusu did not face it and ignored the importance of currency, sooner or later, he would fall on it. Currency is related to the economy, and the economy is the lifeblood of a country. If the currency cannot be unified, the so-called unification is just an empty shelf. Showy and unrealistic, strong on the outside but capable on the inside.

Ji Heng said: "Don't take currency so simply."

"Qin's unification is far from relaxing, let alone ending."

“Even just getting started.”

"The books are on the same page, the cars are on the same track, and we have just made progress."

"If you want to truly unify the world, you still need three, five, or even more generations of monarchs to achieve it. Just like Qin unified the world, he was the remnant of the sixth generation of Fen. But if you want to complete the true unification, you also need to work hard." The effort of many lifetimes.”

“There’s no room for any slack.”

"There is no room for any slacking off or neglect."

"Currency is actually a very deep knowledge."

"If we don't pay attention to currency, Da Qin will suffer a big loss sooner or later."

"The attack on the First Emperor's Orchid Pond actually did not touch deeply, and many people were unaware of it, but in fact it has shown some signs, that is, in a situation where currency has become worthless, human life will be as cheap as grass."

Ji Heng looked solemn.

Fusu sat upright, serious in speech and smile.

He could naturally tell that Ji Heng was very serious about this topic and cared about it.

Ji Heng stood up, stood with his hands behind his back, and said coldly: "If you don't plan for the world, you can't plan for a moment; if you don't plan for the overall situation, you can't plan for a region."

"Many of the policies of the First Emperor were quite criticized."

"But the First Emperor's focus is not what these people can see. His pursuit is not just for a moment, but for eternity."

"Do you think that what the First Emperor said, that he is the First Emperor, and that his descendants can be counted, and that his second and third generations will be passed on to all generations, and that they will be passed on to all generations, is it really just talk?"

"The First Emperor really has such thoughts!"

"That's really what I did."

"Looking at the past, the world has always been a small-scale peasant economy, self-sufficient."

"Except for purchasing grain, ironware and paying taxes, ordinary people in Guizhou basically do not use money in their daily lives."

"Since the unification of the world, there has been a lot of waste waiting for improvement, but the economy of the world has actually been very poor and has not really developed. This is mainly due to many reasons. On the one hand, it is the Great Qin's 'Everything Renewal', which has levied too much Too many people went to serve in Guizhou, resulting in an underpopulation in the local area, and even an empty population of 20 to 30 million people, but the place where they fell was 'vast and sparsely populated'."

"On the other hand, Da Qin's focus is on restoring agricultural production."

"So in recent years, Da Qin has built various water conservancy projects, dredged rivers, and built roads. Most of the reasons are for better agricultural production. This is actually a kind of path dependence."

"After all, what Great Qin has always followed is 'farming war'!"

"But the world can't always be like this."

"In the past, commodity trading basically only existed in cities."

"However, as the world really stabilizes, the people at the bottom will gradually save some wealth. In the past, they could not use much currency. But with the development of the economy and the gradual prosperity of commodity transactions, various commercial taxes have also increased. is in full swing, and under such circumstances, the world’s demand for currency is extremely increased.”

"This is the reason for the resurgence of the currencies of the six countries."

"No matter how depressed the economy of Great Qin is, no matter how suppressed it is, it will still develop compared to the time of war. The world is so big, and once the economy circulates, the amount of currency required will also be huge. Moreover, the system of Great Qin is actually a big The money-spreading system is destined to have a very high currency circulation in Da Qin."

"And this is something Da Qin needs to consider in the future."

"The Qin Dynasty has truly completed its unification. How will it govern the world?"

"This crisis has not broken out now because Da Qin lacks coins, and Da Qin will not face this problem for a long time, at least for decades, because as Da Qin's control over the world strengthens, local demand will continue to expand. , even if a large amount of currency is minted, the large amount of commercial taxes levied by the court will absorb this part of the excess currency."

"As the quality of coins gets higher and higher, the profit from minting becomes lower and lower, which can also reduce supply to a certain extent."

"In addition, when the world is truly at peace and various systems are gradually improved, the national treasury will start to save money crazily, like a wild animal, only going in but not going out, which will also reduce the circulation of currency, but this situation is not In the long run, once a war starts or the court has any major projects to start, they will spend a lot of money on the world."

"If there is too much money circulating in the world, it will lead to inflation."

"This will indeed dilute the wealth of the holders, but in the end it is the people at the bottom who will suffer."

"It's a tough question."

"If you have too little money, it won't be enough. If you have too much money, it will hurt the world, but it's difficult to control that level."

"There is a law in the Qin Dynasty that you can obtain titles by donating coins. This will also lead to corrupt nobles and corrupt officials who used to amass huge wealth by minting money. In the future, they will pay money to escape the sanctions of the law. , even against the imperial court.”

"The law also needs to keep pace with the times."

"Governance, governance."

"In addition to 'governance', there must also be 'reason'."

"If 'reason' cannot keep up, the so-called 'governance' is just a headless fly running around with its head covered. Sooner or later there will be big problems. And 'governance' is what the government needs to solve, but 'reason' has not been It must fall on the officials."

"But it should fall on the 'school room'."

"However, I don't like the 'school', because the school is for training officials. Da Qin needs to propose and improve the 'principles'. If it is another place, I prefer to call it 'Tai Xue'."

"It's so great that it's too big to describe."

"Da Qin needs such a purely academic 'Taiwan University'."

"What these people seek is not an official position, but the truth of the world. This has nothing to do with politics, but is related to the operation of the world and the universe, to understand the laws of the universe and use them for the world."

"Government is practice, reason is theory."

"Only by combining theory and reality can Daqin go further, rather than the blindness of the blind, and do not know what he is touching at all." "In terms of currency."

"It's actually easy to govern."

"When the world is stable and the strength of the Qin army is strong enough to suppress Guandong, and then the right to mint money is forcibly taken back, who in the world will have any objections? If there are, they will be killed. If there are still local forces who are unwilling to do so and secretly mint, or It's because the imperial court is worried and thinks that these corrupt officials, wealthy businessmen and powerful people have accumulated too much wealth and can threaten the imperial court, so they can destroy them with a wave of their hands."

"Who in the world dares to have any objection?"

"That's it."

"But how to straighten out the world, how to get the world's economy on the right track, and how to make the world always move in a correct and appropriate direction? This cannot be determined with a slap on the forehead, nor can it be determined by an idea or a government order. It is impossible to make the world go according to your own expectations."

"The First Emperor can't do it."

"You can't do it, and other Qin emperors can't do it either."

"No one in the world can do it."

"So at this time, we must pool the strengths of the world and let some people come up with some 'reasons' for the court. Then the court will weigh the pros and cons based on these 'reasons', and finally implement the one that best meets the court's expectations."

“This way we can avoid going astray as much as possible.”

"Perhaps these people who weave 'reasons' may not really be in line with the reality, but with the improvement of generations, these 'reasons' will become more and more complete and substantial, and the more opportunities will be left for Daqin to improve. .”

“Don’t put too much faith in personal wisdom.”

"Working together is the cornerstone of a country's long-term peace and stability."

"To govern the world, it is enough to rely on officials, but the world will change, just like the weather. It is changing all the time. If one day the court cannot keep up with the changes, or cannot suppress the changes at all, the world will naturally become chaotic, and there will be chaos. The chaos is getting out of control, and officials alone cannot govern the world."

"Officials only know how to govern, most of them don't understand 'reason'."

"Principles are related to the development of the world."

"Development is the normal state of peace in the world."

"It's just that the Qin Dynasty didn't think about it in the past, and even the First Emperor didn't think about it. What the First Emperor thought was just to follow the old system, vigorously develop agriculture, and at the same time curb commercial handicrafts, so as to keep the world as it was in the past as much as possible. As long as the level remains unchanged, Da Qin can easily secure the world."

"Yet this is impossible."

"Just like when Duke Zhou divided the world, did he ever think that there would be heroes competing against each other in the future?"

Fusu was silent.

He pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said in a solemn voice: "Sir's suggestion, Da Qin should build another higher education room, much higher than the current one, and focus on the study of 'principles'?"

Ji Heng nodded, then shook his head again.

He looked at Fusu and asked, "Have you ever thought about what the world would be like if the Qin Dynasty did not suppress the world and allowed commerce and handicrafts to develop?"

One word fell.

Fusu was stunned for a moment.

"No suppression." He shook his head subconsciously, because this was impossible. If there was no suppression, the world would not be able to support so many people. But then he thought about it, what would happen to the world if this was really the case?

finally.

Fusu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Fusu can't think of it."

Ji Heng smiled and said: "What do you think the longest period of peace and stability in Great Qin will look like?"

Fusu thought for a moment and then said: "The old should be able to die, the strong should be useful, the young should be able to grow, the lonely, the weak and the sick should all be supported, the people should have enough food and clothing, and the world will be peaceful and stable."

"It's too empty." Ji Heng said, "It's too ideal."

"In your mind, what will the world look like in the end?" Fusu asked curiously.

Ji Heng said slowly: "With the rapid development of handicrafts and commerce, more and more people in the world are going to cities and living in cities. Through the accumulation of knowledge from schools in various places, generations of breakthroughs have been continuously promoted. Various technological advances and agricultural advances have led to high grain yields, etc., but these are only the foundation."

"The true shape of the world is actually a pyramid."

Speaking of the tower shape, Ji Heng's face darkened.

He seemed to have thought of something, and said solemnly: "Through the accumulation of knowledge in the school from generation to generation, eventually this knowledge is so much that it can no longer be easily mastered by one person, or even completely mastered by one person, but must be gradually divided into The barriers to knowledge for all kinds of specialized knowledge are getting higher and higher, and the amount of knowledge about people is getting bigger and bigger.”

"It's so big that it will directly stratify society!"

"Since then, the world has completely entered a stable state."

Fusu looked confused.

Ji Heng ignored it and continued: "Today, the handicraft industry and commerce are developing very slowly. When the handicraft industry and commerce develop completely in the future, this also means that the entry threshold will continue to rise. The final entry threshold will even be so high that only Entering the 'Tai Xue', or even the very top ones in the 'Tai Xue', can carry out the most cutting-edge handicraft and commercial activities."

"It also started from this time."

"Ordinary people in the world have formed a formal division."

"The most advanced and top things are simply beyond the reach of people at the bottom, and they don't even have basic knowledge. And the existence of these top people can easily harvest the money of people at the bottom through the barriers of knowledge."

"And all of this will be taken for granted."

"Most people at the bottom can only get involved in some common handicrafts and businesses to gain a foothold. However, it is difficult for these people to easily rise to high positions as in the past, and it is even impossible for them to do so directly. .”

"On the common man's side, a pyramid was formed from this."

"The top level holds the most advanced technology, and the bottom level is difficult to climb, and they can only look up to it, and they are willing to sacrifice their wealth just to enjoy those advanced technologies."

"And the middle and bottom layers are constantly involution."

"Trying to achieve a class jump and maintain one's own wealth."

"But under the intentional control and regulation of the court, the middle class will continue to return to poverty, and the bottom class will continue to rise, thus forming a continuous rotation between the middle class and the bottom class, and this rotation will be very fast, which can greatly ensure the mood of the bottom class and the middle class. It also prevents the world from getting completely out of control."

"Under such circumstances, the world will truly be settled."

"There is always room for improvement at the bottom, but most of the middle class cannot make it to the top, and they are always worried about falling back into poverty."

"The top executives have a lot of wealth, and they watch the bottom and the middle compete with each other."

"The world's classes are always in a dynamic flow. It's just that because the barriers to knowledge are getting higher and higher, the industries are becoming more and more high-end and harder to enter. More and more people will recognize the reality and realize that they are just 'part-time workers'." man's destiny."

“That was the era of paying for knowledge.”

"Class mobility in the world will only occur in the middle and lower classes."

"But the doors to the upper floors and the top floor are also open, even so nakedly open. But if you want to enter, you must have extremely strong abilities and master extremely terrifying knowledge. Otherwise, you can only watch and even step on The threshold is untouchable."

"This is the future when society develops to its extreme." (End of Chapter)