Soon, the prime minister and General Kamui entered the imperial study.

"Your Majesty!" they saluted respectfully.

"It's all exempt!"

Ying Zheng directly ordered: "Zhongda listens to the order!"

"The minister is here!" Sima Yi arched his hand.

King Qin said majestically: "The widow ordered you to build an acropolis on the outskirts of Xianyang City, called 'Gongcheng', which is specially used for papermaking and printing. All the workers and their families moved into the city, and they were not allowed to leave the city. ”

"No!" Sima Yi arched his hand again and said, "Your Majesty Shengming!"

He knew that His Majesty did this to prevent the thieves from sneaking into the Daqin paper mill and printing workshop from happening again.

At present, the paper mill and printing workshop are built in Xianyang City, which has a large population and is mixed, which is difficult to prevent.

If a separate city is established, dedicated to papermaking and printing, with a single personnel, it will be much easier to manage, and the safety can be greatly improved.

Moreover, in the future, this industrial city can also play other roles.

For example, Daqin has a new secret technology industry, and it can also set up workshops in this city.

Ying Zheng's gaze fell on Xue Rengui, and he said majestically: "General Shenwei listens to the order!"

"The minister is here!" Xue Rengui arched his hand.

King Qin said: "The widow ordered you to lead a thousand iron eagle heavy cavalry and 10,000 heavy infantry to guard the industrial city and strictly prevent external forces from snooping on papermaking and printing." ”

He thought about it, there were powerful gods and demons and Shenwei generals, plus the Iron Eagle heavy cavalry and hoplites, and any Xiao Xiaoxiu wanted to peek into Daqin's trade secrets.

"No!" Xue Rengui ordered.

The prime minister, General Kamui, received the order and immediately left the imperial study.

Ying Zheng's move was to implement militarized management of paper mills and printing mills.

As Sima Yi thought, Ying Zheng was indeed ready to set up more workshops in the industrial city in the future to apply many of the techniques in "Heavenly Creation".

......

In the following time, the king of Qin put all the strategic centers within the Qin state to carry out various governance and reforms.

Ying Zheng planned to spend several years building Great Qin into the most powerful military and economically wealthy kingdom in the eastern corner of the Divine Wilderness.

At this time, the vassal states of Zhao, Wei, Han, Qi, Chu, Yan, and Yue went in the opposite direction with the Qin state and started a new round of expansion.

They wage annexation wars against the small kingdoms around them.

The above powerful vassal states annexed small states in their own ways and did not interfere with each other.

......

Time flies, and three years have passed in a flash.

Three years later, Daqin is not what it used to be.

The total number of regular main battle troops of the Qin army has increased to 600,000, including 100,000 heavy cavalry, 400,000 heavy infantry, 100,000 light infantry, and 200,000 second-line defenders.

With such a large-scale army, military spending alone has reached a terrifying 57.5 million a year.

Among them, the expenditure of 100,000 heavy cavalry reached 25 million taels per year.

This was still after the annexation of the Inurong by the Qin State, and the military expenditure on the basis of the Inurong County being able to provide a large number of high-quality war horses and horse feed at low prices.

Otherwise, the military expenditure of the heavy cavalry for a year will exceed 35 million taels of silver.

400,000 hoplites, 28 million taels per year, 100,000 light infantry 3 million taels per year, 200,000 second-line defenders 1.5 million taels per year.

In this way, the military expenditure alone is 57.5 million taels a year!

This was unimaginable in the Qin State a few years ago!

At that time, the total annual revenue of the Qin State was only about 16.5 million taels, how could it feed the 600,000-scale main battle army?

Today's Great Qin is not the same as a few years ago.

It's been a sea change, it's like nuclear fission!

In the past three years, a series of large and small water conservancy projects, led by the two super water conservancy projects of Dujiangyan and Zhengguoqu, which shocked the world, have been successfully built in Qin.

This makes most of the fertile land in Qin State irrigated, and the people can no longer eat by looking at God's face, and even in drought years, there can be a bumper harvest of grain.

In addition, sweet potatoes were popularized and planted in a large area in Qin, which made Qin's grain output hit a new peak.

In addition, due to the continuous conquest of other small countries by the Shandong states, a large number of war refugees and displaced people poured into the Qin state.

In just three years, the population of Qin soared from 7 million to 14 million, making Qin the most populous country in the eastern corner of the Divine Wilderness.

War refugees flowed into the Qin state, and Yingzheng not only gave them food to eat, but also divided land for them to cultivate.

After the capture of Bashu, Yucheng County, and the annexation of Inurong, the land of the Qin State increased a lot, coupled with the recovery of a large amount of fertile land of the 36 Hao clans, and the completion of water conservancy projects such as Dujiangyan and Zhengguo Canal, and reclaimed a lot of fertile land.

Who would have thought that the great powers of Shandong constantly waged wars of aggression against small countries, sending a large number of people to Qin.

As a result, most of the land in Qin was cultivated by the people.

In this way, a virtuous circle was formed, the land was planted, food was produced, and taxes were paid to the royal court.

Grain harvests have been bumper year after year, and the people have been able to eat and clothe themselves well, and their lives have become better and better, and their enthusiasm has also been continuously improved.

The land tax alone can tax the royal court 40 million taels of silver a year, which is more than twice as much as before the Qin prince's reign.

The new commercial tax can tax the royal court by 25 million taels of silver a year.

In this way, the Qin royal family collected 65 million taels in taxes alone, and it was more than enough to pay 57.5 million taels of military expenses.

In addition, the sale of salt, paper, printed books, Daqin Qianzhuang and other government monopoly businesses can also create 30 million taels of silver profit for the royal court a year.

In this way, the total annual income of the Great Qin treasury is 95 million taels of silver, close to 100 million taels of silver.

At the same time, the original richest and most powerful Wei State only had an income of 40 million taels a year, Qi and Chu were around 25 million taels, and other countries were even less.

The state of Qin became the richest power in the eastern corner of the Divine Wilderness.

Of course, the expenses of the Qin State were also very large.

Military spending reached 57.5 million taels a year.

A large number of schools have been opened across the country to open up people's wisdom and cultivate talents for Daqin.

The construction of official roads twice as wide as other countries and a large number of post stations in large quantities made transportation more convenient, reduced the cost of cargo transportation, and prospered commerce.

Construction of various water conservancy projects.

Supporting the poor.

maintenance of various facilities and so on.

It's all about burning a lot of money.

Even so, after a year, the treasury still had a balance of at least 15 million taels, and there was no deficit.

Today's Qin State is unprecedentedly strong, and it already has the strength to go east.

In the past three years, Yingzheng, the lord of Great Qin, who led the rise of Great Qin step by step, has also grown from a 16-year-old boy to a young man who is almost 20 years old.

It is eight feet tall, long, well-proportioned, vigorous, its cheeks are like a knife and an axe, its facial features are three-dimensional, its eyes are black and bright like stars, and the whole person looks majestic and extravagant.

When the others saw him, they couldn't help but feel a little ashamed of themselves.

This is the king of Great Qin, and he personally, like the Great Qin Kingdom, has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In addition, as Ying Zheng completed a series of tasks, the Qin State was also upgraded from a Level 2 country to a Level 3 country.

Ying Zheng refined many elixirs collected by his subordinates, and his cultivation had reached the third level of the Xuanwu Realm, and he had cultivated new supernatural powers.

The six gods and demons of Sima Yi, Xue Rengui, Dongfang Undefeated, Ji Gang, Bai Qi, and Pang Tong also reached the triple level of the Xuanwu Realm.

It is worth mentioning that in the past three years, Yingzheng has not obtained the god and demon summoning card again.

He asked about the system.

The system told Ying Zheng that now the Qin State was focused on internal affairs, did not launch a large-scale war with the outside world, and suspended the summoning of gods and demons.

When the King of Qin waged war against the Shandong Kingdoms, he would get the Gods and Demons Summoning Card again.

The systematic explanation made Ying Zheng feel very helpless, but he had to accept it.

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Outside the Qin State.

In the past three years, the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Han have annexed almost all of the small countries around them that can be annexed.

The strength has also increased a lot.

The Three Jin Dynasty has also recovered to its peak moment by annexing other countries and plundering materials.

They were ready to move again, and they looked westward and turned to their old rival - Qin State!