Many ministers turned their heads to look at Chen Xu.

The Golden Cloth Law is one of the most important commercial laws, which stipulates in detail the laws and regulations that must be adhered to by merchants and official warehouses to sell goods, such as how much is a stone of grain, how much is a bucket of salt, how much is a horse of cloth, how much money is a bucket, and the quality of money, grain, cloth, and salt are required.

It can be said that the Golden Cloth Law is actually a unified synthesis of monetary law, quality law and price law, and is the most important law to maintain the price of goods and the quality of goods in the world.

Once the Jin Bu Law is abolished, according to the opportunistic nature of businessmen, these messy things will inevitably appear, so even if some people agree with Chen Xu's relaxation of the Shang Law, they will inevitably have to worry about the price and commodity quality problems of grain and cloth, which have the greatest impact on people's livelihood.

Chen Xu shook his head and said calmly: "Your Majesty, the minister requests to loosen the commercial law and abolish the laws that suppress merchants such as the Golden Cloth Law, not to completely abolish it, but to feel that the current commercial law is no longer suitable for the national conditions of the development of my Great Qin, and now the currency reform has begun, and the new coins are already being minted, and the monetary attributes of grain and cloth may be abolished on a large scale next year, and all the world's transactions will be made of coins, and the Golden Cloth Law will forcibly convert grain, coins and cloth at the same price, so that the advantages of monetary reform will not be highlighted. Abolish some of the laws that are not suitable for commercial development, reformulate the quality law, the price law, and the business law, and the court officials take the new law as a rope to strengthen supervision. ”

"What's more, once the goods are allowed to be freely traded, the items made by the craftsmen and the goods sold by the merchants will be freely chosen, although the price and quality fluctuate, but the buyers will inevitably have their own right to distinguish and choose, the good quality and low price have naturally become the first choice, the shoddy, the old and the new, the short and short of both will inevitably be discarded, only those goods with good quality and fair price can be recognized by the market......"

Chen Xu turned his head to look at Zhongshu Ling: "Lord Yao, if you go to the market to shop as a civilian, there are three merchants selling pottery right now, one is of good quality and expensive price, one is of medium quality and the price is appropriate, and the other is of poor quality and cheap, which one do you buy?" ”

"Naturally, the quality is medium and the price is right!" Zhongshu Ling said.

That's right, as long as the buyer is not a rich and noble, basically will choose the quality is OK and the price is right, and the poor quality of the item is cheap, but it is not people's first choice, and after buying a bad one, it will naturally not patronize the second time, the merchant will inevitably try to improve the quality of the goods he sells in order to make money, if he is unwilling to do so, then he will be slowly squeezed out of the market, not to mention the quality of the law, once the quality of the goods sold is too poor to cause the buyer to be dissatisfied, You can also go to the office to complain, then the merchant wants to return the money, if the goods sold cause the loss of other people's property, you can also increase the punishment to arrest and serve a prison sentence, these rules make me Daqin is not lacking, the biggest advantage of free business is market competition, businessmen will try to provide high-quality and cheap goods in order to make money, and the relaxation of commercial laws is not laissez-faire, the court and officials should pay more attention to the supervision of commodity quality and the control of market price fluctuations, and strengthen the management and guidance of merchants. Therefore, the relaxation of commercial laws will definitely not cause chaos in the market, but will only stimulate the continuous competition of merchants and improve the quality of the goods sold, and will also try to reduce the price to occupy a larger market......"

"For example, a piece of cloth, the current golden cloth law stipulates that a burlap cloth, eight feet long and two feet five inches wide, and three catties of linen, is not of good quality and cannot be circulated, but what is bad quality? This is a very real problem, all depends on the acceptance of the cloth of the officials to judge their own likes and dislikes, and the cloth is on the market, the buyer has no choice, may also spend ten dollars to buy the quality of the cloth is very different, but if the matter of collecting and selling the cloth is handed over to the businessman to buy and sell, then the good and bad beauty and evil have nothing to hide, the good quality of the cloth everyone rushes to buy, the poor quality of the cloth naturally can not be sold, the market will naturally slowly differentiate into several different grades of price, people with different family backgrounds can choose different grades of fabric, This is the advantage of free trade in commerce, which is far more flexible and convenient than the use of laws and officials to supervise everything in detail......"

"Therefore, what I said about the abolition of the commercial law, is not a complete abolition, but to a wide range of revisions, now the commercial law, from the beginning of the Shang Jun to the present, has passed a full hundred years, time has changed, many laws and regulations have long been not suitable for the needs of my Great Qin, and even has seriously hindered the development of my Great Qin, when my Great Qin was still a corner of the princes, but now it has taken the Zhou and the generation to uphold the Jiuding, Your Majesty's merits, your assistant's merits, will be passed on forever, but why can't you keep pace with the times, If Daqin wants to prosper, it is necessary to let all the people live and work in peace and contentment, the way of heaven is natural, everything is not changing at any time, why do you have to stick to the lack of the law and keep the same, if there was no Shang Jun a hundred years ago to promote my Daqin to change the law, my Daqin Yan can have the strength of today, but those who are for the law must also keep pace with the times, abolish the old law and promote the new law, and constantly improve the law to conform to the laws of heaven, this is the most correct choice......"

In order to promote the prosperity and development of commerce, the first thing must be to abolish the laws that suppressed merchants and craftsmen and peasants, and if you can't operate freely, you can't say that there is no free competition in commerce, so Chen Xu can be said to have thought about promoting commercial reform countless times in his heart, and he has also carefully studied the various laws of Daqin.

But the current unification of the country in Great Qin, with these civil and military officials standing above the court as the core, Great Qin has begun to form a fixed emerging aristocratic class, if it were not for the appearance of Chen Xu, the emperor's mind would not be on governing the country at all, but on the two wars between the north and the south and the search for the elixir of immortality.

In other words, the entire Great Qin is currently in a very conservative and confused state.

The disciples of the Legalists led by Qin Shi Huang and Li Si firmly believed that magic was the best strategy for governing the country, which was the experience that the ancestors of Great Qin had ended.

The Mohists, who have a wide range of public opinion, have fallen apart, and Confucianism has also had a huge conflict with Qin Shi Huang's concept of governing the country. As for where you can run...... It is estimated that Li Si's eyes are black, and the other civil and military officials are even darker, so they can only sit in the carriage with their eyes closed, and are pushed forward by a group of Legalist disciples led by Li Si.

And then I don't know if it rolls over one day!

Therefore, at the moment, there is only one person in Daqin who can see the direction clearly, and that is Chen Xu, but if Chen Xu wants to completely reverse the entire situation with his own strength, it must be difficult.

The current Great Qin Shi Huang is certainly the emperor, the Ninety-Five Emperor looks down on the world and is proud of the sky, even if he knows that Chen Xu's proposal is very good, but he can't abandon the idea of Li Si and Wenwu Gongqing, who assisted him in determining the country together, for Li Si and Feng Qujimengyi, even if he wants to reform, he must think twice before acting, and he can't make trouble until the monarch and the ministers are centrifuged, Qin Shi Huang knows how to make good use of people, and it is absolutely impossible to govern such a big country without the assistance of Li Si and the princes and princes.

He repeatedly summoned the main officials of the three provinces and six ministries and some princes and princes into the palace to discuss Chen Xu's proposal, but he never came up with an idea, not that he didn't want to, but there was a lot of resistance, this is not a unified text and weights and measures, nor is it a reform of the three provinces and six ministries.

The original reform of the three provinces and six ministries was actually not a reform, but the reform of the court system, and the distribution of rights was re-carried out, and the vague responsibilities of the previous government offices were clarified, and the biggest beneficiary was Feng Quji, Li Si also shared part of the imperial power, Meng Yi still remained independent, and the distribution of power allowed the three to have their own checks and balances on each other, and the emperor was therefore much easier, so the reform was very smooth, the emperor wanted to change, and the three secretaries did not weaken the power of the minister, but handled government affairs more handily, There are a lot less messy constraints, so at that time, Qin Shi Huang summoned the three Shangqing into the palace to discuss, Feng Quji immediately raised his hands in favor, and thanked Chen Xu in his heart, as for Meng Yi, it doesn't matter, the two Shangqing agreed, the emperor also wanted to change, Li Si was still very cooperative even if he was dissatisfied, not to mention that he was also a beneficiary.

But at present, this kind of reform that abolishes the commercial law and completely changes the national policy has essentially touched the bottom line of all nobles and moved their cooking cakes.

Moreover, the strict commercial laws had formed a deep-rooted habit of thinking in the minds of the officials of Great Qin.

It was too much resistance to change, and even Meng Yi did not express his opinion on the palace politics several times.

The porcelain factory he co-founded with Chen Xu is now making a lot of money, and once the merchants and craftsmen are allowed to operate and buy and sell freely, this kind of monopoly business will soon be impossible to do, as long as the merchants throw a lot of money in, the porcelain profits will soon plummet.

When there is no suppression and restraint by the law, these businessmen will no longer rely heavily on the protection of officials to do business, and these officials are the opponents of those shrewd businessmen.

Therefore, although Chen Xu's words sound indeed well-reasoned, there are few responders.

The emperor was silent, and the officials were silent in thought.

Chen Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Even if he is dressed in the aura of an immortal disciple, it is not easy to use it many times.

Of course, there is no turning back from the bow, since he has vowed to promote the reform of the commercial law, Chen Xu will not give up like this, so he gave up his hand again and said: "Your Majesty, the abolition of the Shang Law is imperative, you are just worried that after the relaxation of the law, the merchants will speculate and disrupt the market, and they are also worried that the farmers will abandon the farmland and lead to a reduction in grain production, and the minister does not dare to guarantee that these situations will not occur at the moment, Confucius said: If the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if the person is observed, there will be no fugitives." Even the officials standing above the court, there have been people with bad intentions, not to mention businessmen and civilians who are illiterate and do not understand etiquette, at present, the factory has developed cement, which is really a good thing for building roads and bridges, the Weihe Bridge outside the east gate of the city has begun to take shape, and it will be completed by the end of autumn, but this bridge will cost 500,000 stones, and His Majesty is also preparing to build the Oriental Road from Xianyang to Qi County, which costs nearly 10 million stones, and this cost may not be affordable by the whole country for a year or two, but the matter of building the road is imminent, the sooner the better......"

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to make a bet with your colleagues!" Chen Xu turned his head to look at the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.