"Yes, the burden, the burden of my Great Qin's road to strength." Shang Wen said.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are constantly promoting the things on the capital left and right. The king may have heard of the minister's thoughts, but he did not know that the minister's actions would help the king achieve the achievements of the ages. Shang Wen said solemnly.

"Speaking of taxes, the taxes collected by my Great Qin are still forced labor, in kind. Belongings. Multiple collection methods. It is not uniformly levied in the form of monetary unity. Shang Wen put forward his opinion.

"According to you, if you collect it in currency, you can protect my Great Qin?" King Qin asked rhetorically.

"Not only can it be guaranteed, but it can also make Great Qin move towards the hegemony of this world, and it can also make my people live better." Shang Wen replied directly.

"Why?" King Qin asked.

The king saw only one side of it, but not the whole thing. This kind of goods, goods, and servitude. Plainly. In the end, it can be paid in a unified currency. That is to say, money is hidden in the face of the things that are taxed. Now my Great Qin has re-levied taxes, using currency as the basis point of collection. In this way, everything will be uniformly collected into the hands of my Great Qin. This currency becomes a chain. Firmly fasten the physical objects, servitudes, and goods to this chain. People use this as a standard. Only then can wealth be measured, and only then can the world be passed. ”

"And the king must firmly control this chain, and he will be able to control the world." Shang Wen tried to be as clear as possible.

"The widow still doesn't understand." King Qin said.

Shang Wen pondered for a moment. It was decided to find a simpler case to illustrate the problem. King Qin didn't understand, that means that King Qin has interest, as long as he has interest, everything is easy to do, and Shang Wen only needs to persuade King Qin to reform and pay taxes, which can greatly stimulate the next move. Shang Wen saw a glimmer of hope. The feudal dynasty was about to loosen.

"Your Majesty, put it this way. Take military exploits, for example. Shang Wen decided to use Qin's most important military merit system to pry open the door to Qin's capitalism. Military merit is the foundation of the Qin State, and it is very difficult. But as long as it is prying. You can open all the doors smoothly.

"My Great Qin's military merits are only more than twenty levels, and the king's reward is extremely limited. After these twenty levels are upgraded, there will be no more. And my Great Qin has been fighting for many years, and my military merits can be rewarded at more than 20 levels. Shang Wen said.

When the King of Qin heard this, he immediately became interested, and the King of Qin was particularly concerned about this matter, especially in the control of some important generals, such as Wang Qian, Yang Duanhe, and Meng Tian. King Qin can't be said to control it without effort, and for this reason, King Qin also specially lowered some rewards. so as to leave space. And Shang Wen now directly raised the question. This just hit the question that King Qin was most worried about. Shang Wen didn't know that the example he used as an analogy had already touched King Qin's heart.

"And capital. That is, the currency used for taxation, this currency is a symbol of wealth, and having more wealth means being richer. There is no limit to wealth. There are many ways to acquire wealth, and there is no single new one. With wealth, many things can be done. This is also the most fundamental reason why the minister tried his best to let the king reform the tax. "In fact, China's tax reform has taken longer than any other country in the world, especially taxes in kind, which occupy more than 1,500 years of China's history. After several dynastic reforms, it was finally officially implemented under the reform of a whip law vigorously promoted by Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty. From this time, it has been more than a thousand years since the Qin State. The process is so long. And Shang Wen wants to shake this most fundamental thing, and its difficulty can be imagined. It's inevitable to encounter setbacks. But Shang Wen repeatedly explained the problem with great patience. This is the only way to upgrade civilization.

"Your Majesty, you now order that the spoils of war obtained by those soldiers at the front be used for your own use. Those soldiers will take these spoils at the cost of their lives. The payment of military salaries only guaranteed that they had a basis for survival, and the acquisition of booty would greatly stimulate the accumulation of wealth. And what the King of Qin got was a large piece of land. There are also large swaths of wealth. These lands contain all kinds of wealth, including gold, silver, and iron ore. Sulphur mines, timber, oil, and much more. ”

"When the soldiers at the front have these spoils, they need to exchange them for currency, which is only available in the hands of merchants, and they will buy a large amount from them. And the king only had to levy taxes on these merchants, and so on. The treasury of the King of Qin will be filled with untold riches. These are just a few of them. ”

At this time, King Qin had already begun to sort out every word Shang Wen said.

"Your Majesty. After these soldiers obtained a large amount of money, they had to buy a large amount of land. But the king was given such a large piece of land in his hands. In this way, the king was able to expand his territory, and the soldiers were able to obtain a large amount of land. For those officers, not only did they have money, they had land, they wanted more money. The way out of this money is investment. Rise to commercial activity. Promote the development of all walks of life. Shang Wen gestured with his hand one by one.

"The king can order them to develop those iron mines and build iron factories, so that my Great Qin will have a rich foundation. By investing in the establishment of a food factory, the people of Daqin can eat delicious food without cooking. Establish a textile factory, a large number of cloths, ready-to-wear, without going through the hands of my Daqin women, you can wear them on your body. And as long as the king collects taxes from it, he can invest in factories faster than these officers. Your Majesty, you have to build another treasury to hold such money. Shang Wen said.

King Qin's expression suddenly brightened up a lot. King Qin's mind suddenly felt very clear, and suddenly felt confused.

"Your Majesty, you still have to build several treasury to accommodate more wealth, and this wealth comes from the six kingdoms. The king of Qin does not have to conquer the six countries, then the six countries will naturally be unified into the hands of my Great Qin, and the people's will will be subordinated to my Great Qin. Within the four seas. There is no dissent, those six royal families, only loyalty to my Great Qin, my Great Qin will not spend a single soldier and return to these six countries of the Kwantung region. ”

King Qin's mind suddenly became clear. The fog in King Qin's heart is the heart of unifying the world. This is the goal that generations of Qin kings have struggled and worked hard for. At this moment, Shang Wen dissolved the unification aspirations of the Qin king into the benefits of tax reform.

"I have a large iron factory, a large textile factory, and a large variety of factories in Daqin. These produced products can only be exchanged for a large amount of money if they are sold. These items are not only used by my Great Qin himself, but the surplus can also be sold to the Six Kingdoms. Shang Wen said.

"Wait." King Qin waved his hand and said.