It is true that the status of merchants in the Qin Dynasty was relatively low, but the Qin Dynasty was not too strict in managing the business behavior of merchants, but the taxes were relatively high.

Seeing that the businessman was profitable, Zhisu Neishi soon issued a notice that anyone who made and sold a threshing machine must pay a tax of ten yuan or thirty catties of tax grain, and specially arranged for tax collectors to squat in the workshop to count, a rack of ten dollars and a rack of thirty catties, a workshop was the busiest when it was able to sell thirty or fifty shelves a day, which was equivalent to more than ten stones, although it seemed that it was not much, but there were more than 100,000 farmers in the entire Xianyang Inner History Mansion, and the Weihe Plain was rolling in the wheat waves of Pingchuan, and the grain fields were millions of acres. If one thresher per household is counted, it is enough to collect tens of thousands of stone of grain, of course, this is the best prospect, but even if only half of the farmers have the need for threshers, this figure is very impressive.

After the news spread, the surrounding counties of Hanzhong, Sanchuan and Hedong also began to tax the thresher workshop, and these taxes were regarded as local revenues and were at the disposal of the local county government, so the officials of each county were very interested and worked harder to promote the threshing machine.

Therefore, the court has also made a lot of noise in the past two days, and the three biggest bosses of the craftsman Shaofu, Zhisu Neishi and Neishi Mansion are noisy in front of Qin Shi Huang every day, demanding that this part of the tax grain be allocated to his name.

The reason for the craftsman Shaofu is very simple, this threshing machine was invented and reported by the craftsmen of the following counties, and the technology belongs to the craftsman Shaofu, and the craftsmen of the workshop that make the thresher are also under the unified jurisdiction of the craftsman Shaofu, so they must be given to themselves.

The reason for governing the internal history of Su is sufficient, and he controls the allocation and budget of the country's money and grain taxes, which is a regular tax, and of course should be under his own control.

The Inner History Mansion is naturally also well-reasoned, the surrounding counties of Xianyang are all under the jurisdiction of the Inner History Mansion, the workshops opened by merchants must be under their own jurisdiction, and the taxes are naturally allocated by the Inner History Mansion, as for other counties that are too far away to manage, forget it.

The rise of the threshing machine workshop is a new industry, and the previous workshops are different, such as the previous pottery, hemp, copper, iron and salt and other workshops and industries have long been customized, there are clear laws and regulations to divide the jurisdiction, everyone can not fight, but this tax is a new variety, and there is no right to belong, you can fight for it, after all, there is money and food in your hands to do things.

Nowadays, Daqin encourages fertility, encourages agricultural production, encourages salt and iron production, and encourages craftsmen to innovate agricultural tools, but this process cannot be achieved overnight, in the past few years, there have been wars every year, to support a large number of soldiers, and now they have to supply a large number of people who build galloping straight roads and the Great Wall, and the food is not enough to eat, so the collection of grain taxes has been increased, but after all, food is related to the life and death of farmers in the country, and too many people who are levy too much will not be able to eat and starve to death will cause a reduction in grain production, but it will not be possible to collect it. So many people and pawns still have to provide two meals a day, which is almost an unsolvable vicious circle, so a huge Great Qin Empire, food is stretched everywhere, and all departments of the three princes and nine ministers above the court feel that they are short of food, and their eyes are green.

The project must be completed on time, the people and soldiers have to eat, and if they want to encourage craftsmen to invent and create, they have to issue rewards, and if there is no money and food, it is a fart to say that there is no evidence, and the soldiers have made war exploits, according to the lord, they will be exempted from many field taxes, this decree has been decades, but it has hardly been fulfilled until now, and the meritorious soldiers have no direct benefits, resulting in great resentment among the soldiers, and if it continues like this, it will lead to the instability of the army's morale, which is a great hidden danger.

Anyway, the crux of the quarrel is the lack of food.

And if this threshing machine is popularized throughout the country, poor farmers may not be able to afford it, but those slightly richer farmers can still afford it, a stone of grain in exchange for more than ten days of harvest time, it is a very cost-effective investment, otherwise in case of disaster weather, the harvest of a hard year will be lost, so in the harvest of grain, time is equivalent to life, if there is food, you will live, and if you don't have food, you will starve to death, because the tax grain to be collected by the imperial court is not a grain less, and if it is less, it will be arrested and served, and then basically it will never go back, The grain field is abandoned for a year, even if you come back alive, you still can't pay the tax for the second year, which is also a disgusting cycle, and it is really urgent, so you can only drag your family to the mountains and run to the mountains to live by robbery.

Therefore, in this case, after the three departments quarreled for a few days, even the chief officials of the three mansions of Lang Zhongling, Tingwei and Dianke couldn't help it, and jumped out to ask for a piece of the pie, because these three departments all belonged to the yamen that allocated money and grain according to the custom, but there were too many people who opened their mouths to eat below, and the official ranks of many subordinate officials were simply not enough, and many of them had been in arrears for many years, and their grievances were even greater.

For example, Lang Zhongling, subordinates have a large number of doctors of various levels and Lang officials, confessors, most of these subordinate officials are the descendants of the Great Qin Gongqing bureaucrats, and hang a Lang official title as an alternate official waiting to be released, although there is no formal position, but the grade is in, so the official rank must be issued as usual, one is a few hundred stones, and all of them are not small, the hair should not be less, and the hair is slow to make a fuss, and only eat and do not work, it is completely a level of gangster civil servants who make a cup of tea in the yamen for a day in later generations, For example, Zhao Zhe, who was castrated by Yu Wuya, was Hu Lang before, and he didn't even know where the yamen was, fighting cocks and walking dogs all day long, drinking, gambling and playing with women, and he was about to become a fairy.

Looking at the noisy and shouting above the court, Qin Shi Huang, who was kneeling on the dragon collapse, was majestic and his face was calm, and he was not half dissatisfied and angry.

Daqin dominates China in his hands, and now he wants to ambitiously build Daqin into an immortal copper and iron country, and then inherit it for thousands of generations, if he can find the elixir of immortality, under his own control, Daqin is bound to be strong, and at that time the soldiers are strong enough to sweep the barbarians around China to shock the world, and the prosperity can be expected!

As the first emperor of China through the ages, Qin Shi Huang can be regarded as a great talent.

But when it comes to governing the country, he doesn't have many good policies.

Li Si, the most highly valued disciple of the Legalists, was an official who commanded the whole country as the left minister, overseeing government affairs, implementing strict laws and regulations to restrict the business activities of peasants, and vigorously cultivating grain fields to grow grain, but in the past few years, the country's grain supply has not been fundamentally reversed, and the number of people who are encouraged to eat after giving birth has gradually increased, and with the overhaul of roads, water conservancy and the Great Wall, grain has even begun to be stretched.

As the saying goes, if you have food in your hand, you don't panic, and the imperial court needs to stock up on more food to carry out the plans smoothly, and collecting taxes is almost the only way.

However, to add a tax program to this critical margin, which is already close to the limit of peasant bearing, will directly lead to the bankruptcy of a large number of peasants.

Therefore, the imperial court urgently needed to increase new sources of tax revenue, and it was feasible to find a way to get it from the merchants, who did not grow grain and did not produce anyway.

Although the tax revenue of the thresher workshop is only tens of thousands of stones, this is also an excellent signal and a beginning, the threshing machine will exchange tax grain from the hands of those rich farmers, but it does not have much impact on the poor, this is a balance, a balance that the court, merchants and farmers naturally recognize, without any coercive measures, buy if you can afford it, and continue to harvest it with the ancient method if you can't afford it.