At present, the status of the merchants of Great Qin is extremely low, and this situation has continued in Great Qin for more than a hundred years, and it is deeply rooted in the court and the people that the merchants are lowly people who are not worthy of respect and reuse.

And if Great Qin wants to be strong, it will never work without a strong business foundation.

Whether it is industrial agriculture or the future conquest of the world, the army alone is not enough, the end of the reckless military is only a dead end, no matter how powerful Qin Shi Huang is, he will never be able to use a group of peasants who are about to starve to death to support the continuous conquest, so it is not said to be the conquest of the earth, the conquest of Asia can not be done, because the Mauryan Dynasty and the Anxi Empire next door are not vegetarians, but two empires that are dozens of times stronger than the Xiongnu and are not inferior to Daqin, and now, Daqin is still not able to deal with the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu are still scattered now, and it is just the right time to deal with them, once Mao Dunshan Yu defeated the Donghu and Yueshi and unified the northwest to establish a huge Xiongnu empire, then Daqin will be the same as the Han Dynasty, and the internal and external difficulties will fall into a stalemate.

The so-called first strike is the strongest, so this is the reason why Chen Xu diligently tried to let Qin Shi Huang attack the Xiongnu first.

No matter how it is fought, Daqin needs to change the domestic discriminatory policy against merchants, change the cruel exploitation and oppression of farmers, reduce forced labor and taxes, let commerce and agriculture develop in harmony as soon as possible, and then establish a preliminary industrial system through the promotion of science and technology, with steel, coal, and cement as pillar industries, with cheap and durable agricultural tools, wide and smooth roads, and larger and stronger vehicles, the whole Daqin will develop rapidly, so as to support the huge army to fight everywhere, Robbing slaves to feed industry to speed up construction, robbing cattle, sheep and horses to expand agriculture and transportation, later Western countries all relied on robbery to make a fortune, and the Great Qin, which had not yet been polluted by distorted Confucian theories, was more accustomed to this barbaric way of advancement.

"Your Majesty, as long as the businessmen can be reused, in fact, everything in the world can be put into business!" Chen Xu was in a relaxed mood

"Everything in the world can be put into business?" Qin Shi Huang's face was quite solemn.

"Not bad! But what the minister wants to talk about today is still the question of the three chapters of the law, and about more commercial matters, I will talk about it in detail when His Majesty has time to minister. ”

"Well, what is the third treaty law?" Qin Shi Huang nodded and asked.

"The third article has just been said by the minister, that is, to compensate the merchants with the prisoners captured in the land of Henan and the captured cattle, sheep, horses, wool and leather goods!" Chen Xu said.

"It is not impossible to use slaves and seized goods to compensate the merchants, but it is extremely difficult to drive and transport them back from Henan, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, as well as woolen goods, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of people will have to be used!" A minister nodded.

"No, I have already said just now, everything in the world can be put into business, and these things are all solved by the merchants themselves, and we are only responsible for selling them to them!" Chen Xu shook his head.

"Would you like to ask Qinghe Hou to elaborate?" Even Zuo Xiang Li Si couldn't help it.

"When it comes to the expedition, let the merchants accompany them, every time they conquer a place, they will sell all the materials they have obtained to them on the spot, and the price is naturally much lower than that of the Central Plains, anyway, these things are robbed, such as the most expensive horses, a good horse in the Central Plains is worth thousands of gold, and the horses of the Huns are taller and stronger than the Central Plains horses, and the price of shipping back to the Central Plains is definitely more than 10,000 gold, but we will pay 3,000 yuan or even lower for each Xiongnu horse to compensate the merchants, do you say they will rush to ask for it? There are also cattle and sheep skins and furs, etc., which are also compensated at a price lower than those of the Central Plains, so they can arrange for them to transport them back by themselves! ”

"What if the merchant doesn't want to?" An official asked.

"No, businessmen are the most profit-seeking, in order to make money, even the Xiongnu and Qianghu can go, with such a big profit, they will definitely be as Qinghe Hou said, they will definitely rush to ask for it." Zhisu Nei Shi Gaoteng shook his head and said.

"Gao Neishi is right, if a merchant can't seize this opportunity, it is basically not qualified, and at the same time, there is one of the biggest advantages of the merchant following together, that is, you can see with your own eyes how my Great Qin Iron Cavalry swept the barbaric Huns, and after they come back, they will inevitably spread the news of the battlefield to the entire Great Qin, and the people will inevitably be more respectful of His Majesty's martial arts after learning about it, and at the same time, it can also deter those six kings and nobles with bad intentions, if they want to rebel, It will inevitably be crushed by His Majesty's iron cavalry, and trampled into powder. ”

After Chen Xu finished speaking, his eyes swept over the entire court and continued: "In fact, the war is not only to spend money, but also to make money, it seems that we spent three million stone money to build ten thousand sets of horse equipment, but the whole land of Henan Huns raised more than 10,000 good horses, even if a horse is 3,000 yuan, 10,000 horses are 30 million yuan, and the horses alone are converted into grain is 7.5 million stone ......."

"Wow~" The entire court suddenly made a noise again.

The so-called is not not not known, a calculation is frightened, the land of Henan is the most abundant water and grass in the Great River Basin, is the largest horse ranch of the Xiongnu, there are more than 10,000 good horses, it is estimated that there are 350,000 horses, in addition to good horses, there are a large number of cattle, sheep and leather goods and other materials, in Chen Xu's war is to make money under the stimulation of the sentence, many people can't help but estimate it in their hearts, and suddenly their hearts are shaken by the huge number of stimulants, and their excited cheeks are red, and many ministers can't wait to jump out and shout: "Your Majesty, What the Marquis of Qinghe said is reasonable, hurry up and negotiate with Shang Jia for three chapters, just wait for the army to start, it is the day when my Daqin makes money! ”

"Hahahaha~" Qin Shi Huang laughed heartily and stood up, the usually serious and calm imperial majesty could not be taken care of, and the jade crown of the smile was a little crooked, "The Marquis of Qinghe really deserves to be the first strange person in the world, if this strategy is successful, the day of the subduation of Henan, I will be named the Taishi!" ”

"Your Majesty......" a minister stepped forward.

"Don't persuade again, the position of the Taishi is prepared for the Marquis of Qinghe!" Qin Shi Huang's face changed.

"Your Majesty, the minister is not obstructing His Majesty's reward, the minister just wants to ask what the implementation of this policy will begin, and the minister is already a little impatient!" The minister was agitated and incoherent.

"You can sweep Henan without spending a stone, I can't wait, Qinghe Hou, I have all the things to do to build 10,000 sets of horse pawn equipment and the three chapters of the Shangjia Covenant Law, you discuss the detailed details with Li Xiang, Feng Xiang and Zhongqing and submit them to me, the sooner the better!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Chen Xu and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu bowed down together and agreed.

"Where is the Shaofu Order?" Qin Shi Huang sat down with his excited sleeves, and today the court meeting went from anger to joy, and the mood rose and fell like a roller coaster, during which he also stood up and sat down several times, and the mood changed greatly from the previous court meeting.

"The minister is here!" Shaofu Ling Changdu stood up.

"Have you completed the preparation of yesterday's reward for the Marquis of Qinghe?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the preparations have been approved, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, you can arrange for the confessor to be sent to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion." Changdu hurriedly said.

"Add another reward, give Qinghe Hou ten tilts of good land outside the city, 100 acres of houses, and quickly arrange craftsmen to supervise the construction!" Qin Shi Huang said loudly.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were silent in an instant, and their faces continued to twitch, when will Nima's reward like this come to an end, and the Marquis of Qinghe is only fifteen years old now.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Xu couldn't help but hurriedly speak, "Your Majesty's generous reward makes the ministers panic, as the saying goes, there is no merit, and now there are too many money, food and goods rewarded to the ministers, and the ministers are ......."

"Don't worry about the Marquis of Qinghe, the field house outside the city is just to house the hundred good horses and slaves rewarded yesterday, and now the Manchu Dynasty civil and military ministers have land outside the city to raise horses and domestic slaves, I naturally can't favor one over the other, only this time!" Qin Shi Huang waved his hand and said.

Chen Xu had no choice but to smile bitterly and arch his hand: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

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In the next few days, Chen Xu fell into extreme busyness, accepted the reward, performed his duties as a craftsman in the Shaofu, and at the same time summoned a large number of managers of the Academy of Sciences and officials of the Shaofu to prepare for the production of iron-making furnaces, coal stoves for blacksmith shops, weapons, stirrups, saddles, horseshoes, and the design of various tools, each of which had to work out strict specifications and standardsAlmost all the craftsmen who knew how to carve in Xianyang were recruited to the Academy of Sciences, and materials such as wood, ink, and paper were continuously pulled into the office of the Academy of Sciences in horse-drawn carts.

After the affairs of the Academy of Sciences were arranged, Chen Xu handed over all the things to Vice President Zhang Cang, and then he worked with Li Sifeng, Qujian and many other ministers to deal with the special issues of the three chapters of the law.

Because this is a completely different new model, the imperial court does not pay for food, only does the top-level design, and then moves the mouth to run errands to arrange the supervisors, and all the rest have to rely on the Shangjia themselves to coordinate and complete, and how smart the Shangjia is, after all, it is the original businessman two thousand years ago, so in the face of this new business model must be confused and do not know what to do, so it is necessary to formulate extremely detailed rules and regulations and instructions to do guidance and requirements, during which there are too many problems involved and too much trouble, and it is definitely not something that a department can handle. Moreover, even the two prime ministers who were in charge of the civil and military officials were confused and had nowhere to start with what Chen Xu called the method of borrowing chickens and laying eggs at the joint meeting, so most of them could only be put forward by Chen Xu one by one, and the recorder sorted out the charter, and then deepened and detailed discussions one by one, and discussed the most appropriate way to arrange the operation.

In order to make this strategy of borrowing chickens and eggs to be implemented smoothly and quickly, this Qin Shi Huang also specially asked people to vacate a side hall next to the main hall of the court as an office, a group of ministers are busy arguing in it every day, and the officials who go in and out of the various prefectures to spread the latest progress and process are endless, and almost the threshold of the main hall is about to collapse.

Qin Shi Huang has never seen such a lively co-working scene, and almost every day he will go to the meeting site with great interest to watch and listen, and he has a great interest in Chen Xu's new office model.