Xu Jie hurriedly handled the matter of the same text, because he knew that this matter would make him famous in history.

Leaving a name in history is the greatest pursuit of a scholar and literati. From now on, he will be respected as a son - Jiezi.

Zhao Xing yelled at him again: "By the way, I will also unify the weights and measures, save Qin (big) to fight, Qi (small} to fight, and let those profiteers pit me." ”

Xu Jie paused and stomped his feet violently: "Great goodness." Then he ran away.

"And the uniform coin – forget it, when it comes to money, I still like to do it myself."

Watching him go out in a hurry, busy for his future worries, Zhao Xing continued to be comfortable for his home, and discussed the problem of bricks with Lu Ban.

"Our kilns are brick-burning. The meaning of brick is to use this red brick, which is not afraid of water and does not deform, to make the material for building houses after the mud is hard. Then he pointed to the city wall that could be seen from the outside: "Extending out, we will use this kind of thing to make the inner and outer walls of the city wall in the future, and then make rammed earth inside to build the city wall." ”

Lu Ban's eyes immediately lit up, "In this way, we don't have to mine stones anymore, and the speed of building the city wall will be greatly accelerated, and the plain can also build a city where there is no stone, and we don't have to worry about the rammed earth city wall collapsing every year due to rain, so I don't know how much cost of repeated construction will be saved every year." ”

Zhao Xing was very satisfied with the inferences of the ancients, and then glanced at Zhou Tong, who wanted to repair his home and make himself more comfortable, and opened a kiln factory, upholding the principle that those who have always been in a higher position cannot be extravagant and have always opposed it: "So, is Dr. Zhou still opposed my practice of opening a kiln factory to burn bricks?" ”

Zhou Tong snorted angrily: "Although burning bricks is beneficial to the country, the firewood and grass required are very large, so the people will have no firewood to burn, waste people's power, and it is even more undesirable." ”

Opposition for the sake of opposition, can always pick out the bone in the egg, this is very the Donglin Party of later generations.

Zhao Xing smiled and asked Ren Tian, who rushed back from the dust, "Did you find the coal I asked you to find for me?" ”

Ren Tian carefully took out a small bag in his arms, and then opened it carefully. What appeared in front of everyone was a black stone: "According to the Lord's instructions, I found this thing in the place where you and your lord were martyred, and I found this thing. Then I dug a rake, and sure enough, in a place less than a rake underground, I found more, and it was simply a continuous piece of this thing. The subordinate tried to burn it according to your words, and sure enough, it caught fire, and the fire was very hard (powerful) and the subordinate sword dissolved. That's why I dare to bring it back. ”

This is a careful and cautious person, and he chose him to be the ministry envoy, and he was not wrong.

"If I choose him to burn the kiln, I don't have to use firewood anymore, and at the same time, I can also use him to cook and keep warm, Dr. Zhou thinks I can burn bricks."

Zhou Tong looked at it, but after Ren Tian confirmed it, he still retorted: "Although this thing is good, but it is buried deep underground, if you want to dig it, it will require a lot of labor and labor, delay farming, cool people, and it is not advisable." ”

It's not a bone in an egg, it's a bone in an eye.

"Now we still have idlers here, if I pay them to earn a living for their families while they dig coal for us, wouldn't it be okay?"

Zhou Tong thought for a moment and made a conditional concession: "If the lord uses your money instead of forced labor, it is feasible to hire displaced people to dig it." ”

Zhao Xing smiled: "Don't worry, old doctor, I know that people's livelihood is difficult, although I am a feudal lord and a lord of a land, but I will decide now." From me onwards, the people under my rule will only pay taxes, and no longer pay taxes, that is, forced labor. My Xingjun Mansion and ours, all the employment is in the situation of employment, one hand money, one hand, everyone trades fairly, is it feasible? "It's another game-changer.

Han Guang, the envoy of the Criminal Department, clapped his hands: "In this way, the officials will have no excuse to exploit the people, and there will be fewer corrupt officials and cool officials, and there will be great goodness." ”

Zhou Tong also said happily: "In this way, the officials will have no excuse for exploitation, and the rule of the officials will become clear and good." ”

Qi Fei asked: "Exemption from unpaid forced labor, this is a huge amount of money in the future, where will this money and food come from?" ”

Zhou Tong and Han Guang ignored it directly, the meaning is very clear, it's none of my business, your household envoy will find a way to go.

Zhao Xing comforted Qi Fei, who was in a hurry; "We can sell the burned bricks, who doesn't want to live in a brick house? If you sell it, you will have the money back, and then you will pay for the coal, and when you have the money for the coal, you can pay the wages of the hired people. ”

"Lord, I understand this, I mean, where should those hired people who can't charge costs pay for it, such as the construction of the barracks of the soldiers recruited by the second general now, that is a real expenditure, I went to the master's mother to withdraw money and food, and the master's mother asked me to write an IOU."

"You can collect taxes. For example, let's buy out the bricks, this is called a transaction, the transaction is taxed, and we earn a lump sum. Then the brick kiln factory buys the coal and pays the money, which is also called a transaction, so after the transaction, we pay another tax. Then, the coal mine pays the hired workers, which is also a transaction, so we pay another tax. Then these workers take their wages and go to the market to buy grain, and we trade again, and we pay another tax, and the grain merchants make money, of course, they have to go to the goods, so ah, we pay another tax, and so on, and so on, and we have income. ”

Everyone was stunned. How much tax does this small brick have to pay, this is really Xingjun, ten thousand taxes.

"So, in fact, there is no cost to the coal plant that digs coal, and there is no cost to the soil of the bricks, but why do the bricks have a price in the end? In fact, I tell you, in addition to the poor labor cost, the biggest cost is the tax, so ah. Looking at Han Guang: "You have to vigorously develop our workshop to manufacture goods," and then looked at Qi Fei: "So, you have to do everything possible to collect reasonable taxes." ”

"Yes, yes." But after a long time, in the end, although Qi Fei felt that something was wrong, he didn't know what was wrong.

"Our business is different from the Qi country you observed at the beginning, it is not that you have your hands on me, and the price is increased layer by layer, if you are taxed layer by layer, it is to compete with the people for profit, drive up prices, and eventually make the people poor. And we really create wealth out of nothing, which is equivalent to creating money for your household, so the tax does not have to be too high, as long as the tax source is wide, we will have money. ”

Qi Fei admired the five-body body and threw himself to the ground.

"Of course, to create the basis of materials and wealth, we need someone to consume and buy, so we must have a certain consumer group, we need a population base," so his eyes looked at the household envoy again, "This count, how many people do we have?" ”

Qi Fei unfolded a bundle of bamboo slips on the table in front of him again, and looked at it: "We have a total of fifteen counties, with a total of 101,000 households and 501,000 mouths. Among them, there are 215,000 Hu people and 300,000 farmers. ”

Nodding, Zhao Xing sighed: "In such a big place, there are only 500,000 people, and the farmers who directly create wealth for us are only 300,000, which is not good." ”

Everybody is distressed. In fact, in this era, it is already very remarkable that there are so many people in one county, and this is mainly filled by Hu people. In the mainland, an upper county, there are 30,000 or 50,000 people, which is good. Where is it like in later generations, a village and town, all of which are tens of thousands of dollars?

"Are slaves counted?" Zhao Xing asked suddenly.

Qi Fei replied as a matter of course: "No." ”

In this society where slaves are still remnants, slaves are private property, property, not people, and are not counted in the state's household registration. The wealth they create does not belong to the state, it does not belong to society, it belongs only to their masters. Often, the number of slaves was greater than the number of government registrations.

After changing his sitting position, Zhao Xing decided in his heart that he would take the lead in completely eradicating the slavery system in his own territory, otherwise, this would seriously hinder the development of social productive forces, that is, prevent me from making money. But how about the realization of the gentle wind and drizzle? This needs to be considered.

"Officials everywhere should be asked to strengthen their population growth strategies. Doctor Zhou, which of the fifteen counties has officials, and which counties have no officials? ”

Zhou Tong also unfolded the bamboo slip in front of him and looked at it, and then reported: "There are officials in the four counties of Sangqian, Daoren, Banshi, Gaoliu, and the four counties under our jurisdiction, but two of them are incompetent, and the rest of Macheng, Dangcheng, Yanling, and Ru, Pingyi, Yangyuan, Dong'anyang, Shenhe, Pingshu, Lingqiu, including our current Daiyi, have no officials. ”

These nodded: "Those who are competent will be retained, and they will be given a hundred stones, and the same as we have stipulated now, the gifts of incompetence will be given to them in arrears." If there are any vacancies, the officials will immediately start selecting the talents we have recruited, report them to Dr. Xu Jie, and then I will approve them, and I will take office immediately, without delay. Well, on behalf of the city, we don't want to appoint the position of the county guard, so let's ask the court to send a representative, otherwise someone will criticize us. ”

Zhou Tong nodded yes.

"Tell the new officials that the first task of the local government is to increase the population. The first way to increase the population is to dig up corners in other places, and the second policy is to have more children and plant fewer trees. ”

Everyone doesn't know what the relationship between having a child and planting a tree is, but they understand Zhao Xing's next policy: "I stipulate that if you give birth to a boy, you will be rewarded with a sheep; Give birth to a girl and reward a dog. give birth to two, regardless of gender, and reward one pig; Give birth to five, reward a cow, and reward a plaque of the hero's mother. Then with a wave of our hand, our slogan was: "Have more children and get rich early." I'm going to do it, and I'm going to do it. ”

There was a thud from behind the screen, and Zhao Xing shrank his neck.