Xiong Huai smiled when he heard this: "Xianqing is too worried, the stone mills sold in Taifu are all small stone mills, and it takes more than an hour for a small stone mill to grind a stone of flour, and it also needs manpower to grind it." The large-scale stone mill in Yingdu, it only takes less than a moment to grind a stone of flour, and there is also a livestock grinding provided by Taifu, so time-saving and labor-saving, the people will naturally have a choice.

At present, the stone mill has just appeared, and the people are crowded together to make flour, resulting in a long queue, so some people can't wait to enjoy the flour, so they have to spend time and effort to rent other people's small stone mills.

After this craze, the people will no longer concentrate on the use of stone mills, and the time in line will become shorter, at that time, the people will not let the government save time and effort in the big stone mills, but rent other people's small stone mills. ”

Dou You remembered the stone mills the size of vegetable plates that were sold, and immediately smiled with joy, and bowed to the king of Chu and said: "The king has the blessing of God, and he was originally just worried that the people were short of horses and could not promote the large stone mills, so he sold small stone mills to the people. I don't want to, this kind of benevolent act has another miraculous effect, which greatly prevents those people from taking shortcuts. ”

Speaking of this, Dou Youyou shook his head and sighed: "King, if the stone mills in various parts of the Chu State can be so popular every day, and the people are scrambling to make flour, then my Chu State will not be worse than the Qi State in the near future." ”

Xiong Huai smiled: "Xianqing, it's good now." There are 60,000 households in Yingdu, with a population of more than 300,000, and the people are relatively wealthy, and they feed on corn all year round, and each person needs one and a half stone of grain per month, which means that each person needs to pay a tax of one and a half dollars to the widow every month, and the population of 300,000 can collect 450,000 yuan per month for the widow.

Even if the people are unwilling to pay money, use small stone mills to make flour by themselves, and lend small stone mills to each other, but there are still a few who are willing to spend time and effort, and the widows still collect 300,000 yuan in taxes from Yingdu every month, which is 3.6 million yuan a year.

Today's grain price is only 33 yuan and one stone, and the flour tax in Yingdu alone can gather more than 100,000 stone of grain, plus the flour tax in other places, which is enough to support a big war. ”

Speaking of this, Xiong Huai looked at Dou You and said with a smile: "At the beginning, Xianqing returned the team to announce the stone mill so quickly, so that Taifu sold a lot of flour and lost a lot of income. I wonder what I think now? Compared with selling flour in Taifu, is it less or more profitable? ”

Dou You was stunned, and when he saw that the King of Chu was laughing at him, he was not dissatisfied at all, but said happily: "The wisdom of the king is like the deep sea, and the ministers are not as good as one." Although flour can make a hundred times more profit, there are too few people who buy flour.

Ordinary people can't afford it, and the nobles don't have to buy it all by themselves, just some rich merchants buy it, it's too little. And the stone mill is placed, and the grinding livestock is provided for the stone mill, so that the people can make the stone mill, so that all the people in the country can eat flour, just charge the maintenance cost of the stone mill livestock, and its profit is more than 100 times that of the former. ”

Saying that, Dou You sighed: "The minister is stupid, originally the minister was unwilling to take out livestock from Taifu for the use of the people, but now it seems that the minister has a narrow vision and lacks knowledge. A small stone mill and a livestock, as long as it is convenient for the people, let all the people come to the stone mill of the government to make flour, it is really a great profit.

Not only that, but not only did we collect a lot of taxes from the people, but the people did not feel it at all, not only did they not resent it, but they were also grateful to Dade. This is probably what Guan Zi said that the people can not be directly taxed, although the direct tax is small, but the people pay taxes for no reason, they always feel heartache, and only this kind of indirect tax can make the people pay taxes willingly, but also enjoy it, and it is very moving. ”

Speaking of this, Dou You shook his head again and said: "It's a pity that this kind of thing can't be hidden from other countries, and other countries will inevitably follow suit after learning about it. ”

Xiong Huai said with a smile: "It's okay, although the Qin State can also grow wheat and rice, but the Qin State is not as good as my Chu State, the rain in the country is insufficient, and it is enough to plant corn and millet rice, but it is still not enough to plant wheat and rice, and the yield of wheat and rice is low." Therefore, this time the production of flour, Qin Guo can still only be greedy.

As for the Qi country, although the Qi country is more suitable for growing wheat and rice, although Linzi is known as the largest city in the world, although the people of the Qi country are richer, but the Qi country is the richest country in the world, no matter how rich it is, it cannot open the gap with other countries. ”

When Dou You heard this, he immediately laughed.

After a few more days, after the flour turmoil in Yingdu had passed and Yingdu gradually stabilized, Xiong Huai recruited all the important ministers of the court.

In the Chu Palace.

Xiong Huai sat on the throne, held a silk cloth, and said to the ministers in the palace: "Zhuqing, this silk book in the hands of the widow is the list brought by the middle doctor Zhaogai from the land of Wu Yue. This list is jointly confirmed by Sima Tangwu, General Zhao Hua, and Doctor Zhao Gai, and the people on the list are all Wu Yue Xungui who has not been attached to our Chu State for a long time since the destruction of our Chu State, or has not yet moved closer to our Chu State.

Therefore, in order to stabilize Jiangdong, the widow decided to move all these people out of Jiangdong and move to the left of our Yingdu for surveillance. At this time, it was supposed to be carried out a few months ago, but because of the civil strife in Qin, it has only been delayed to this day.

For example, if all the countries have collected their troops today, and seeing that the spring ploughing is imminent, there is nothing to do in the world, it is time to start this matter. ”

After a pause, Xiong Huai looked at the ministers with a cautious face and said: "Because the people who moved this time are all nobles and heroes from Wu and Yue, and there are as many as 30,000 people, the widow is worried that the people of Wu and Yue will be instigated by these people." Therefore, the widow decided to lead 80,000 Chu troops to inspect Jiangdong to pacify the people of Wuyue. ”

When Jing Cui heard this, he hurriedly persuaded: "The king is a golden body, how can he easily leave the capital, besides, Jiangdong is newly attached, people's hearts are unstable, and this time it is the relocation of Wuyue nobles and heroes, it is inevitable that there will be a small and desperate risk." Therefore, the minister thought that the gentleman would not stand under the dangerous wall, and the matter of pacifying Jiangdong this time could be handed over to the minister.

For the king's worries, the minister is Ling Yin, and he has an unshirkable responsibility. ”

Xiong Huai shook his head when he heard this.

If it was just a trivial matter such as relocating the nobles and the powerful, it would naturally be possible to let Jing Cui do it for him.

However, the purpose of his trip is not only to relocate the Haoqiang, but also to take advantage of the new annexation of the land of Wuyue after these Haoqiang move out, take advantage of the fact that the law of Yuefa in Jiangdong has not been implemented, take advantage of the great reduction of the power of the nobles there, and take the opportunity to carry out new laws in the land of Wuyue, divide land, change taxes, compile household registration, limit the power of local nobles, and so on.

In the vacuum period, the Yue Kingdom started a war and changed the law, which was much easier than changing the law in the three counties of Huaibei.

How can Xiong Huai hand over these things to Jing Cui, who is unwilling to change the law and wants to maintain the status quo?

Jing Cui is definitely unwilling to do it in his heart, even if he is willing, with his just passing internal affairs ability, it is not enough to complete this matter...

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai smiled at Jingcui and said: "Ling Yin is too worried, the land of Wuyue is guarded by 80,000 elite soldiers of my Chu State, plus the widow has brought 80,000 elites, how dare Jiangdong move." Moreover, this time to appease the people of Wu Yue, so that the Yue people will return to their hearts, the widow will sacrifice Dayu in Huiji Mountain, and sacrifice the ancestors of the Yue Kingdom, as well as the sages of our Chu State Fan Li, this kind of thing, will not work on behalf of Yin. ”

Jing Cui was stunned, and there was no sound in an instant.

Others can say that he can do it for him.

However, the sacrifice has the merit of controlling water and has a very high status, and he, the commander of the Chu State, is not enough.

The major affairs of the country are sacrificed to the ancestors of the gods and spirits of heaven and earth, which is the duty of the king of Chu, and he will never dare to exceed it.

Thinking about it, Jing Cui replied regretfully: "Only." ”