Time flies, the days pass day by day, there is no war in Great Qin, and the entire empire falls into a long-lost peace, and every day passes, the national strength of the Great Qin Empire is rising slightly.

On July 1, the fifteenth year of the Holy Qin, the Great Qin Empire, Xianyang City, the Imperial Palace, and the Qilin Palace!

In the solemn and sacred Qilin Treasure Hall, the queue of military attaches was empty, the queue of civil officials was all full, and the expressions of each minister were extremely solemn, looking ahead without a smile, and on the dark carved dragon throne on the high platform, there was a staring emperor.

The Qilin Treasure Hall was extremely quiet, the atmosphere was solemn and solemn, and Zhang Feizi, the prime minister of the left who was standing in the first place of the civil officials, took a small step forward, and bent down with a solemn and respectful expression to make a report: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to play!" ”

"Quasi-play!" Ying Chang, who was sitting on the dragon chair, replied softly with an expressionless face.

Zhang Feizi first reached out and took out a piece of the fold from his big sleeve, then presented it to the high platform with both hands, and handed the fold to Ying Chang, who was not happy or slow to reach out and take the fold, and began to read, at the same time Zhang Feizi also stepped back from the high platform, stood back in his position, raised his hand and saluted and said:

"Your Majesty, this is a group of officials selected by the minister, ready to set up a team of the Academy, some of them serve in various places, and some serve in the six departments of the imperial court, please ask Your Majesty to grant permission, transfer all the people on the list to the Academy, and handle the official affairs of the Academy with the ministers!"

In nearly three months, Zhang Feizi finally perfected the system of the academy and the academy, and now everything is ready only to owe Dongfeng, which is the imperial court appropriation and the transfer of officials, after all, the academy can't let him do it alone.

The ministers did not say a word about this, they had long known about the establishment of the Middle Academy and the opening of the school, and they also supported the establishment of the Middle Academy by the imperial court.

Ying Chang glanced at the list on the fold, then closed the fold, grabbed it in his hand, and called softly to the hundred officials: "Where is the secretary of the ministry!" ”

Standing in the second row of the civil official queue, Shangshu Li Ke quickly stood out of the queue, and bowed down respectfully in response: "The minister is here!" ”

Ying Chang raised the fold slightly, motioned for Li Ke to come up and take it, Li Ke immediately understood, cautiously walked up to the high platform, took the fold in Ying Chang's hand, and then lowered his head and retreated, returning to where he had been standing.

"You will follow the list on the fold, transfer them to Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion first, and hand them over to Prime Minister Zuo!" Ying Chang's face was expressionless, and he ordered without being angry.

"Yes!" Li Ke respectfully replied, and then retreated into the queue.

After Li Ke returned to the queue, Ying Chang looked at Zhang Feizi again, and asked in a non-serious tone: "Can the total budget for the establishment of the academy and the opening of the academy be calculated?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it hasn't been calculated yet, this needs to be calculated by the whole academy together, so before the officials are transferred to the academy, the minister can't give a budget!" Zhang Feizi replied with a solemn and respectful expression.

Ying Chang nodded, signaled to understand, and was silent for a while, then looked at the right prime minister Chang Zifei, and asked directly: "Chang Aiqing, how is the sale of the Yi rat crossbow?" ”

When Chang Zifei heard Yingchang's question, he immediately stepped forward and took a small step, and replied with a respectful expression: "Your Majesty, the list under the envoys of various countries has a total of 20,000 B rat crossbows, worth 200,000 taels of silver, by the way, Your Majesty, the Jin Empire mission asked to buy B rat crossbows, but it has been rejected by the minister!" ”

"I know!" Ying Chang nodded, he was not disappointed that he had only gotten the list of 20,000 crossbows, because many empires had the idea of imitation, and when they found that they could not imitate, they would add a large amount.

As for Chang Zifei's request to refuse the purchase request of the Jin Empire's mission, Ying Chang said that he did a very good job, because the destruction of the Jin Dynasty has been in the past few years, and it will be fought either tomorrow or the year after.

"Where is the Ministry of Works!" Ying Chang immediately called softly!

Jiang Haiyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, immediately stood in the queue of civil officials, and bent down respectfully in response: "The minister is here!" ”

"At the beginning, Aiqing said that cultivating roads and repairing more canals, the former can make all parts of our Daqin form close ties, speed up trade, and facilitate the rapid mobilization of our army, and the latter can make my Daqin full of water and grass, not afraid of floods and droughts!"

"At the beginning, the Great Qin State was weak, with no labor and no money and food, so it could not be implemented all, so I could only take my time, but now my Great Qin treasury is full and the labor force is abundant, so I have decided to fully carry out the road and canal repair project, and the cost of the project will be transferred to the Ministry of Industry at one time!" Ying Chang looked solemn and said out loud without being angry.

Jiang Haiyou was stunned for a moment, and then smiled ecstatically: "Your Majesty, the ministers and colleagues in the Ministry of Industry must do this perfectly!" ”

Cultivating the road and repairing more counties has always been his biggest idea, but due to the limited national strength, only the water canal of Shangyang County has been repaired in the past few years, and the road has only been repaired for a hundred miles near Xianyang City.

The corners of his mouth twitched at the corner of the Hubu Shangshu Jia Luo, who was standing in the queue of civil officials, if he remembered correctly, when he returned to Xianyang from the Kama tribe, Yang Ze told him that Jiang Haiyou proposed the five powerful policies, including Guangxiu Dao and Duoxiu County.

Of course, this is not the point, the point is that Jiang Haiyou said that at least 160 million taels of silver are needed, and the common salary before was 30 yuan, but now it has risen to 50 yuan, and it is estimated that a little more will have to be added, 200 million, and the treasury will be a little more than 700 million, and nearly 30 percent of the treasury will be withdrawn at once, and the heart is dripping blood!

"Three years, I only give you three years for the Ministry of Industry!"

Before Jiang Haiyou was overjoyed, Ying Chang suddenly added, which made the smile on Jiang Haiyou's face turn into solemnity, without it, three years is too short, although the national strength of Great Qin is prosperous, but the labor can only squeeze out 500,000, even if you add the Xiongnu Qingzhuang in the Northwest Desert, it may be about 800,000.

In order to complete the water conservancy project plan in the seven counties of Kannai within three years, 1.5 million people are needed, and half of the labor force is missing!

"Obey the order!" Jiang Haiyou raised his hand solemnly and responded.

Although it is difficult, the more difficult it is, the more it must be overcome, otherwise what do officials have to do, and the labor shortage will go back and slowly think of a way, believing that the matter is man-made, and there will always be a way to solve it.

Ying Chang leaned back on the chair, leaned his back on the dragon chair, his hands were naturally on the armrests of the dragon chair, and he looked at Jiang Haiyou with a natural expression and said: "The Ministry of Industry not only has to build roads and canals, but also has to repair post stations and granaries!" ”

"Inns and granaries?"

The ministers' brows furrowed slightly, and their expressions were slightly puzzled.

(End of chapter)