"If we do that, will all the farmers abandon their fields and do business instead of farming?" Qin Shi Huang asked suspiciously.

"No, although the law is relaxed, but the annual tax and grain are still the same, if you don't farm, you can't pay taxes, not to mention taking a step back, if the farmer doesn't farm, then he has to earn more money to pay taxes and buy grain to satisfy hunger, then growing grain has become a way to make money, naturally there will be farmers who are proficient in farming to cultivate more fields and grow more grain to meet this need, and the imperial court can also reward those who cultivate a lot of grain and subsidies for grain and livestock, encourage and guide farmers to farm, Instead of forcing farmers to farm, because many people who are physically weak are not suitable for farming at all, they can do some relatively easy planting industries, and the output of silk sesame oil tea and so on will be greatly supplemented, so that a good complementary relationship will be formed......"

"Your Majesty, at the moment my Daqin is not enough food to eat, but has been in the hoarding and waste, as far as the minister knows, Xianyang warehouse alone has hoarded millions of stone of grain, enough for the entire Xianyang to eat for several years, and there are Chenliu, boiling, Bashang, Liyang, Langya, Beihe, Huangchui, Nanyang Zhucang, the grain storage is more than one million stones, that is to say, the country's annual grain storage is close to 20 million stones, these grains in many places can not be eaten in a year or two, and the backlog of mildew can only be discarded every year, the waste is very serious, and once the monetary reform is implementedWhether it is the official rank of officials or the trade of the people, the grain will gradually withdraw from the means of trading, then the role of food will become smaller and smaller, and it can only be used to pay for the rations of the people, prisoners and soldiers, and the court's expenditure on food will be very small, and continuing to collect so much tax and grain will only cause greater waste, and the ordinary people are still starving, so the minister believes that in order for the people to prosper and live a prosperous life, tax cuts and relaxation of laws are necessary means......"

"If you don't collect so much tax and grain, how to build the highway network connecting the whole country that Aiqing said the day before yesterday, the people and servants need a lot of consumption every day, and tools and food are huge expenses!" Qin Shi Huang's brows were twisted together.

"The minister has said several times before that everything in the world can be attributed to business, and the minister thinks that the best way to solve this kind of matter is to use commercial means to solve it, and when the preparation of the road repair agency is completed, you can plan the road survey that connects the whole country, and then bid for the construction of the ...... to the merchants."

"What is a tender?" Qin Shi Huang questioned the new term.

"Well, the bidding is to convene many businessmen to submit a solution to the problem, in fact, it is similar to the newspaper submission, but only to solve a specific problem, such as the Academy of Sciences planned a cement road from Xianyang to Luoyang, requiring a width of two zhang, a thickness of one foot, planting a sapling at least five feet high every three zhang on the roadside, passing through several counties along the way and the specific completion time limit, etc., these are the requirements for road construction, and then gather a group of powerful businessmen to compete to build this road, Whoever spends the least money will get the right to build this road, after the repair of the three provinces, six ministries and the Academy of Sciences of the joint agency to test the road, the quality meets the design requirements, in accordance with the bidding agreement to pay the merchant money or other negotiated policies, such as the minister said before the charging model, allow the construction of the merchant to a certain number of years of charge, let it manage and maintain the operation of the road, but at the moment the feasibility of this method is relatively low, it is better to pay money or other policies directly. ”

"If you want to reduce taxes, paying money and grain will inevitably increase the pressure on the imperial court, and it would be best if you can have the policy of building horse pawn equipment last time, and the general three chapters of the law would be the best......" A certain emperor was already a little addicted to the matter of picking up tens of thousands of sets of horse pawn equipment without spending a stone of money and grain, sitting in the water and pinching his chin and muttering softly.

Chen Xu said with a smile: "After all, building roads is different from building horse equipment, there are not so many trophies used to offset the investment of merchants at one time, so it takes a long-term process to return to the cost, and the pressure on merchants is great, but it is not without other methods of the three chapters of the law, the charging model will increase the cost of business travel, and it will also hinder the development of commerce along the highway, so it is not very suitable at the moment, but we can subsidize merchants in another way, such as setting up a fixed service area along the road......"

"What is a service area?" Qin Shi Huang was puzzled by Chen Xu's new word.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the service area is a general name, it is a place to provide comprehensive business services for passing business travel, such as from Xianyang to Luoyang after the highway is repaired, the length is nearly 1,000 miles, it takes about three days from Xianyang to Luoyang, during which business travel needs to eat, rest and sleep, and also need to feed horses and repair vehicles, which need to be solved somewhere, so several relatively large comprehensive *** areas can be set up in the middle of these two places to solve these needs of business travel. These service areas are best built near the more prosperous county seats, and after planning, they are licensed to the merchants who build roads to operate, and they can open miscellaneous houses such as food houses, post houses, foot houses, business houses, and Quyuan, so as to provide horses and forage, vehicle repair, food and rest, and even cargo preservation and transit for business travelers. ”

"These services can be operated by the merchants themselves, or they can be allowed to call other merchants to join in the operation of some management fees, once there is such a comprehensive commercial service area, it is inevitable to recruit a large number of clerks and helpers to be responsible for the daily operation, which can also solve the employment problem of many idle homeless people and idlers, and can also make Daqin more stable in disguise."

"And the emergence of the service area will inevitably solve a lot of troubles on the way to the business road, eating, drinking, Lazar and sleeping can all be solved in the service area without worrying about one-stop solution, naturally will spend money in the service area, and the money will fall into the hands of the businessmen who repair the road, in disguise is to give them support for road construction, in order to ensure their investment interests, along the highway is not allowed to open other similar business places, so this exclusive operation must also be a very profitable method, such as a passenger in a service station to spend ten dollarsIf you set up three service areas, you will earn 90,000 yuan a day, and if you have 30,000 yuan a year, you will have more than 10,000 yuan a year if you have 30,000 yuan of income in addition to various costs......"

"Hiss~~" Qin Shi Huang took a breath of cool air, and at the same time splashed the water on his face with a shake of his hand.

In later generations, the highway not only has toll stations, but also service stations, not to mention toll stations, with the robbery halo of bandit mode, any resistance is ineffective, and service stations except for toilets and boiling water for free, others are charged, all those who have been to the service station know that more or less will cost some money, less to eat a bowl of instant noodles, more to add hundreds of dollars of gasoline.

However, at present, Daqin is a whole biological four-drive system, commonly known as livestock, although it does not need gasoline, but it also needs to eat forage, and it is driven by rich people...... Well, the BMW you ride also needs to supplement the salt with ** materials, which is another additional expense.

The rest of the people eat, drink, and sleep all the same.

In addition, it is possible to open a cargo storage and transshipment center on the server, and sell some local souvenirs by the way.

In general, the service area is an inevitable way to make money.

In fact, Chen Xu didn't plan to say the idea of the service area, but wanted to cooperate with Fan's to take down the project to operate, such as paying hundreds of thousands of yuan in contracting fees for each service area a year, etc., but the emperor didn't spend money to pick up equipment and became addicted, and in the case that it was not realistic to set up a toll station, offering a service station was the only way to make money on the highway.

The reason for the unrealistic toll station is that in addition to the above-mentioned increase in the burden of business travel and hinder the economic development along the way, the main reason is that the operation is not realistic, the Yellow River Basin is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the towns and counties are next to each other, there are forks everywhere, and the highway can go up anywhere in the case of not being able to close the operation, so the toll mode is actually difficult to achieve.

Of course, even if it is a bid to build a road, Chen Xu can still cooperate with Fan's to carry it out, but this investment is a bit big, more than 1,000 miles of cement road, even if it is an investment of 10,000 yuan for a mile of road, it will be at least more than 10 million yuan, and it will also solve the problem of eating, drinking, lazing and injury treatment for road repair workers, as well as various special situations that occur at any time, in short, it is very troublesome to repair roads, and what he dislikes the most is trouble.

Qin Shi Huang gave a high evaluation to Chen Xu's service station concept.

Because it's another great way to build roads without spending money.

The most important thing is that such services are indeed needed on the road to solve the problems of eating, drinking, lazing and sleeping for business travel.

"Your Majesty, you can't be in a hurry to promote the construction of cement roads throughout the country, you need to take your time, because of the limited cement production, in the past two years, we have tried to build the main road from Xianyang to Linzi, so as to connect the four places of Qin, Han, Wei and Qi, and slowly connect Yanzhao Chu and other places in the next few years, and strive to build cement roads in the counties north of the river within ten years, and during this period, a large amount of cement should be invested in the construction of water conservancy and ditches, and a large number of irrigation ditches and reservoirs should be renovated, so as to increase food income, Let the people of Li be fed and clothed......"

The two sat naked opposite each other in the water and chatted, and Chen Xu roughly talked about his plans for highways and farmland water conservancy.

Qin Shi Huang did not express an opinion after hearing this, and he did not have any attitude towards Chen Xu's proposal to reduce taxes and loosen the restrictions on farmers.

And Chen Xu didn't mention these things again.

Treating Qin Shi Huang as an eloquent emperor, many things do not need to be reminded over and over again, Chen Xu only needs to plant such a seed in his heart at the moment, this kind of major strategy related to the stability of Great Qin, Qin Shi Huang will not listen to Chen Xu's family, he needs to consider it as a whole, and he also needs to listen to the opinions of Li Si and Feng Quji, the most important thing is that it is not in line with Daqin's current national policy, and allowing farmers to operate other projects will inevitably cause huge controversy in the court.