After being blind, I actually taught the first emperor to rebel against Qin?

"The essence of the economy is the flow of wealth!"

"To understand the economy, you must first understand what wealth is."

"Different classes, standing at different heights, have different perceptions of wealth."

"Speaking of wealth, people tend to think of shiny things."

"Like gold cakes."

"Like copper coins."

"Like pearls and jade."

"Farmers and artisans view wealth so much because these things can be exchanged for everything they want."

"You can pay taxes, you can buy land, you can marry a wife and have children."

"They are the producers of all food and materials, and they are also the obeyers of the rules. It is understandable to think of wealth in this way."

"At the level of merchants, things are a little different."

"The wealth recognized by hawkers includes not only wealth but also craftsmanship and word of mouth."

"The wealth realized by the big merchants is no longer limited by ordinary goods."

"In their eyes, wealth is an industry, a channel, and a future development trend."

"Whoever masters these masters wealth."

"Even, it can mobilize all forces to broaden the source of wealth."

"The wealth of scholars is knowledge."

"They use knowledge to create everything, and the wealth they seek is not only gold and jade, but also spiritual needs."

"For example, leaving a name in history."

"For example, unworldly meritorious service."

"Like a magnificent book."

"For a generation of emperors, what is the greatest wealth?"

It's serious business today.

Luo Yi didn't make jokes as usual on paper, and guided Zhao Zhen's way of thinking in a serious manner.

"It's human!"

Ying Zheng quickly stopped writing, and replied thoughtfully: "From the nobles to the common people, all the people in the world are the emperor's greatest wealth."

It's hard to come by.

Having personally witnessed the lives of the common people in the Great Qin Dynasty, he has become more and more sympathetic with the views of the State Teacher.

And don't think there is any problem.

Next, he is going to change into coarse clothes and go around Xianyang City and other counties.

Take a closer look at the lives of artisans.

Look at the daily life of officials.

Carefully, thoroughly understand his empire.

Then control his empire to conquer the six kingdoms.

"Your answer is right or wrong."

Luo Yi smiled gratifiedly and pointed out: "People are the foundation of the country, but they are not the wealth of the country."

"For an emperor, wealth is the labor of his subjects."

"No matter how many farmers there are, if they are not engaged in production, they are still waste snacks."

"No matter how many craftsmen there are, they can't serve the country even if they lie at home."

"No matter how many merchants there are, if you don't run around, you will have no money to pay taxes."

"No matter how many scholars there are, creating without intention will be the moth of the country."

"The king of a country must learn to drive people with profit, so that the people can persevere in their struggle and drive the state machine to run wildly."

"And money is just one of the motivations."

"The more important thing is to formulate a series of rules to facilitate the flow of money to promote farmers, craftsmen, and merchants to work for the country."

"Students, please do something."

"In addition to money, they want more. They need to carefully consider and come up with a military merit system similar to the [-]th rank to satisfy their pursuit of merit."

"Only by building pavilions to publicize their achievements can they be willing to go through fire and water for the emperor."

"Money and the right to formulate rules are the two whips that the emperor uses to drive the state machine and serve his own will."

"It can be used to instigate the empire to dominate the world."

To make rules is to make laws.

Yingzheng, who is familiar with Qin law, is best at driving people to work by making rules.

This is easy to understand.

However, the phrase "Eli drove people away" is a bit confusing.

Similar methods are things that merchants are good at, but he is not good at them.

What?

If you ask rashly, you may show your feet.

Don't ask, it's hard to understand the mystery for a while.

He was so anxious that his claws scratched his heart.

Luo Yi didn't care how many doubts he had in his heart, and continued to say to himself: "Let me give you an example."

"During Qi Jinggong's time, Qi suffered a famine that lasted for two years."

"Yanzi suggested building the platform for sleeping on the road."

"During the construction of the sleeping platform in charge, Yan Zi continued to widen the road and raise the sleeping platform, which delayed the construction period for two years."

"In the past two years, Yanzi recruited refugees to work on a large scale, and promised him a generous salary."

"When the refugees got the money, they went to the merchants to buy food, and the price of food increased accordingly."

"Businessmen saw that it was profitable, so they mobilized their forces to buy and transport food from various countries into Qi, so as to keep millions of refugees in Qi from starving to death."

"And Qi's treasury was also filled due to the huge tax payment, and it was not affected by the famine."

"National strength is still abundant."

"Because of this, Qi State pays more attention to collecting commercial taxes and encouraging trade than other countries."

"Become a famous and powerful country."

"Look at this process, it is the complete incident of Eli driving people away."

"That's what money does."

"This is also the disadvantage of Daqin."

"The policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is correct. This way, most farmers are bound to work on the land, and more food is produced to ensure front-line supply."

"For the empire you want to build, you can't learn from Qin."

"It's about learning from Qi."

"With the plowshare and the help of livestock, the farmers of the future will be able to produce enough food to meet the needs of the entire empire without maintaining a large number."

You won't be sleepy when you talk about winning the plowshare.

He experienced it himself.

For the sake of safety, at first, someone needs to pull the ox and two people plow the field.

After being really proficient, one person can drive two oxen to plow the field.

It takes 25 people from Daqin three days to complete the loosening of the land every day.

It was so easy.

According to this production efficiency, the number of farmers in Daqin can be reduced by 25 times to maintain the current output.

Of course, the extra manpower can be used to build palaces and straight roads.

It can also expand workshops such as iron smelting.

However, he was a little hesitant: "Sir, will the collection of business taxes hinder the development of business?"

The business tax in Daqin is not high.

It can even be said to be dispensable.

The main sources of taxation are poll tax and land rent tax.

He was a little uncertain whether the business tax was a benefit or a disadvantage.

The example of Qi State is before us.

——Big but not strong.

Most of the big families who are greedy for money abandoned farmland and changed it to smelting copper and iron or planting mulberry.

It became very dependent on Qin's food.

He didn't want his Daqin to become like this.

It's too easy to be manipulated.

"Hehe, I forgot, you are a merchant, and you are very sensitive to business taxes."

Luo Yi slapped the table with a smile: "This is the opinion of merchants."

"For an emperor, the purpose of taxation was never to fill the treasury."

"What is money?"

"Essentially two metals."

"There is a lack of gold and copper in the treasury, so send troops to attack the surrounding areas to find copper ore and iron ore."

"No matter when, the emperor will never lack money."

"Isn't the greatest value of raising an army just to seize land?"

"There are no gold and copper mines in Kyushu, so there are no mineral deposits in the Western Regions, Northern Borderlands, and Southern Man?"