Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

Li Yangdao: "I want to ask Your Highness if you have ever thought about it. If 200 million slaves are dismissed and 50 are dismissed, these 50 slaves will only cultivate their own fields and pay their own taxes. Unable to return home to farm, all the old and weak women in the family starved to death, and the taxes paid by the 150 people who returned home to farm, although they can still support our Daqin military and government, it is difficult to support 50 million laborers. In the end, there are only 150 families left in my Daqin? And those national projects have also died?"

"..." The audience was silent, and everyone was stunned by this question!

Fusu was also speechless when asked directly, and was completely stunned on the spot.

For a long time, Fusu felt that the policy of lightening the corvee that he said could be called the best policy to achieve the best of both worlds, but now that he was asked by Li Yang, he suddenly realized that what he said before to reduce the number of corvees The approach does seem to have huge flaws.

If 200 of the 50 corvettes are dismissed, it is obviously impossible for the 50 to feed the entire Great Qin Empire.

And the consequences of this...

Fusu pondered for a while, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He found that the consequences would indeed be as Li Yang said. In the end, the country was still in the quagmire, and the other 150 million laborers and their families, the old and weak, It is difficult to save one out of ten.

Thinking of this, Fusu suddenly felt like being slapped in the face.The previous self-confidence and previous beliefs collapsed instantly at this moment, and I felt extremely frustrated, and my heart suddenly became empty, as if my soul had been knocked out by this handful.

He never dreamed that the policies and strategies that were considered to be able to save Daqin in the past had such big loopholes and flaws, and these loopholes and flaws that had never been considered made the strategy of simply reducing the number of corvees seem worthless Value, useless!

At this moment, Fusu was really completely lost...

Of course, Feng Quji, as well as the civil and military ministers in the court, were also praised like him. They did not expect that the final result of reducing the number of corvees would still be so bad.

Surprised, surprised, confused...

Everyone felt like an idiot, who never thought that the result of light corvee would be like this.

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Feng Quji was so shocked that he was speechless.

The advice I have been giving to the emperor for the past few years is so unbearable, and what is even more ridiculous is that I didn't know it at all before, and complained that the emperor didn't listen to the advice, and felt deeply wronged and sad.

Looking at it now, it makes no difference whether His Majesty listens to his advice or not.

Originally thought that his policy of "light corvee" was better than Li Yang's policy of "light corvee", but now it seems that his policy of "light corvee" is better, at least Let all the people in the world be busy farming when the farming is busy. Although the country's construction will be affected, the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

Sighing in his heart, Feng Quji suddenly seemed bald and useless, feeling that he was so useless.

At this time, he had to admit that Li Yang looked at the problem in a far-reaching and comprehensive way, which was not comparable to his own, so he bowed his hands and said: "Li Zhongcheng's words made Feng feel extremely ashamed. I didn't expect the countermeasures I thought of in the past. , It is actually a policy that harms the country. The minister... the minister is guilty!"

After finishing speaking, Feng Quji bowed his hand to Ying Zheng with a heartbroken heart, begging himself for guilt.

Ying Zheng stretched out his hand to hold it up, and said: "Feng Xiang is dedicated to my Daqin, working hard, what is the crime, Feng Xiang and I should continue to listen to Li Zhongcheng's sustainable development strategy!"

"Chen... Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Feng Quji was moved, and then retreated to the ranks of hundreds of officials, waiting for Li Yang to lecture on sustainable development strategies.

Feng Quji could feel that Li Yang's sustainable development strategy was not just about letting the people live and work in peace, otherwise the emperor would not have agreed to dismiss all the servants.

To be honest, at this moment, Feng Quji couldn't wait to hear Li Yang's advice.

After completely rejecting the previous strategy with a rhetorical question, Li Yang was still quite contented, smiled, and continued: "My lords, after many discussions before, we can see it now, whether it is based on the status quo Neither the plan nor the plan to reduce the number of corvee workers is sustainable. However, what the truth wants to tell you is that what is sustainable, sustainable means that the people will not be exhausted, the food will not be exhausted, and the national strength will not be exhausted. It is not exhausted, it can be endless, convenient and sustainable.”

"The only way to keep these three things from being exhausted is to disband all the laborers and recruit young and strong laborers from all over the country to work on farming, so that people can live, food can be plentiful, taxes can be sufficient, and national power can be rich. Based on this , the Great Qin Empire can last for ten thousand years."

Everyone nodded and agreed with this statement.

Su Fu also's eyes lit up, as if he saw the infinite hope of Great Qin, but after thinking about it carefully, he was a little puzzled, and couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask Li Zhongcheng, such a peaceful country and people's peace, it is the blessing of all people, and it is also the blessing of my Great Qin." Fu, but during the busy farming season, there is no obligation of corvee, this...is it still difficult to solve the various construction projects of the country?"

Li Yang smiled indifferently, and said, "Project bidding!"

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PS: There must be many people who will say that bidding for the Great Wall, Qinling Mausoleum, and Afang Palace could not be realized in the Qin Dynasty, but YY novels, the next chapter will write about practical theories.In short, this book is the keynote of all kinds of subversion of history, new theories reforming Daqin, and even dominating the world.I also hope that everyone will take it easy, don't worry, there will be a set of corresponding theories to base all kinds of changes, don't worry.

Chapter 35 Project Bidding

"Project bidding?"

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As soon as this remark came out, Manchao Wenwu once again had question marks on his face.

All of them looked confused, wondering what the hell this project bidding was about.

Fusu had the illusion that everyone had become idiots in front of this Li Zhongcheng, who couldn't understand anything and had to ask him everything.

There is no way, unable to resist the curiosity in his heart, he decided to ask without shame: "Zhongcheng, what is the purpose of this project bidding? Can it really solve the problem of corvee?"

Everyone looked at Li Yang curiously.

Li Yang nodded and said: "The bidding of the project is to bid the price of the Lishan and the Great Wall projects, and contract them to some powerful businessmen, so that the businessmen can find people to construct the construction. In this way, the businessmen can make a profit from the price difference, and the common people It can earn money and food, solve livelihood problems, and my Daqin does not have any suspicion of violating the new law, and more importantly, the project can be carried out smoothly throughout the year."

"What? Contract... contract all these projects to the merchant!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.

This is not to say that these projects cannot be hired by businessmen, but that these projects are so difficult even for the whole country, so it is difficult for these businessmen...Can they do it?Could it be that a businessman is more powerful than my entire Great Qin Kingdom?

Obviously, this is not possible!

Immediately, everyone felt that Li Yang was a little drifting, too self-righteous.

If Li Yang hadn't said so many good ideas earlier, Feng Quji would have wanted to scold Li Yang for fooling around!

It is simply absurd and outrageous for such a huge national project to be contracted to a businessman!

Although Feng Quji refrained from reprimanding Li Yang for his foolishness in person, he still asked directly: "Does Li Zhongcheng think that a businessman can handle such a huge project? Moreover, even if a businessman can do it, a businessman still needs to find a civil servant. If it is expropriated by merchants, wouldn’t it mean that no one will cultivate it again?”

Li Yang had guessed that they would ask this question a long time ago, and said directly: "Xiang Feng didn't know something. The businessman hired workers, and the state conscription, the two are very different. The state conscripts, the people of the world have to obey, and the businessman When hiring workers, the people can go according to the situation. In this way, the people can go to the place where the workers are employed according to their own situation, earn money and food, and serve the country."

When everyone heard this, they were silent for a while, because what Li Yang said seemed to make sense.

Feng Quji also frowned, and began to worry about Li Yang's words.

Seeing that everyone didn't refute or question immediately, Li Yang knew that what he said was not wrong, so he continued: "I have a big land tax in Qin, you should know better than the truth. Three shi of chestnut rice requires tax and two shi, and I have only one shi. In Daqin, the per capita arable area is [-] mu, and the yield per mu is six shi. This only takes one year, and the country is rich enough to fully afford the money for labor. Moreover, the common people do it for profit. Labor, I dare to say, the efficiency must be several times more than before."

Li Yang calculated very clearly that in the Qin Dynasty, one stone was equal to 30 kilograms of later generations, and one mu of chestnut rice was only six stones, or 180 kilograms. Rice can reach up to 23 billion kilograms, and 25 billion kilograms of land taxes will be collected.

Just imagine, the total population of the Great Qin Dynasty is 2000 million, and the people keep 1500 billion kilograms of grain for themselves, which can solve the problem of temperature protection. The treasury of the Great Qin Dynasty has 3000 billion kilograms of grain a year, which is twice that of the people in the world. Need to feed, so much food is naturally enough to undertake the project.

In fact, there are also relevant records in history books, saying that "one man with five families can manage a hundred fields", which is the level of productivity at that time. A middle-aged man with a family of five can cultivate a hundred acres of land.And there is another record: "Going to the field, the husband feeds nine people, and the husband feeds five people when going down the field. It can be benefited, but not damaged. One person governs it, ten people eat it, and six animals are among them."

These all show that, in fact, at that time, one person farming could support ten people, but because of heavy taxes, two-thirds were handed over to the state, so in this way, the people only had enough to protect themselves, and all the surplus food was in the treasury.

This is why, Qin State has exhausted all the young and strong laborers, but it can still persist until today, raising more than 200 million servants every year to eat and drink, until today.

It is because the land tax is heavy, and the land grain collected in full a year is enough to support the military and government and 200 million laborers for several years.