Cash-for-work, commercial bidding.

This is the usual routine of later generations, in order to solve the employment problem, the state will often build some infrastructure, and then engage in it to make up the title of infrastructure madness.

Moreover, this cash-for-work method is much better than direct food relief.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish.

The imperial court built facilities, and the people received money and food.

Kill two birds with one stone, why not be beautiful?

The First Emperor and Li Si were puzzled one by one after hearing this, and they didn't know what Su Mo meant by this.

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Su Mo explained: "Your Majesty, although there is no food in the imperial court, those merchants have money and food, and we can ask the merchants to help us relieve the people." ”

"How can a businessman take out so much money to help us help the people for no reason?"

Li Si shook his head and spoke.

The six Shangshu and others next to him also nodded, in order to cultivate the Great Wall and Afang Palace, the first emperor has used merchants at every turn to open the knife, and now these merchants are shrewd, one by one they cover their money to death, and it is really difficult to get these people to take out the money.

Su Mo laughed, looked at everyone and explained: "Although it is good for businessmen to make heavy profits, if we can make them profitable, then they will willingly help us relieve the people." ”

"Zhao Gao, what do you mean by that?"

The First Emperor finally couldn't help it, and asked with curiosity on his face.

Although the people of this era are smart, their vision is still too low.

Su Mo looked at the First Emperor and replied: "Now Your Majesty is building the Great Wall and the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum, and we can completely outsource these projects, and let the merchants organize those disaster victims to build these things for us, anyway, if the imperial court wants to build the Great Wall, it will cost money and grain, and now it is just turning those merchants into middlemen, with the shrewdness of the merchants, they will use a lower price to do this." ”

"And in this process, the imperial court only needs to pay a small price to allow the victims to be treated, and the merchants can also get benefits, not only that, the tax system of my Qin Dynasty can also collect taxes like merchants, and the money will return to the hands of the imperial court as soon as it comes and goes."

Su Mo's explanation is very complicated, after all, it involves knowledge such as economics.

It was not clear for a while, but the First Emperor and they were all smart people, and they quickly understood the benefits of Su Mo's attention.

At this time, the right prime minister Feng Qujian still had a concern in his heart: "The Great Wall and the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum are the top priorities of my Daqin, how can the prime minister ensure that these businessmen do not cut corners for the sake of profit and make tofu slag projects, not only that, but I Daqin does not have much money now, how to give those businessmen money to build things?" ”

"That's what I'm going to talk about next."

Su Mo talked eloquently, trying his best to let everyone understand the truth: "When we cooperate with businessmen, we don't need to pay them all the money in one go, we can let the businessmen pay the funds out of their own pockets first, and we only need to use the future taxes as collateral."

As long as we wait for the autumn harvest and the tax revenue from all over the country comes up, then we can use the money and grain to pay the merchants, and we can also pay in installments, for example, the merchants have built a part of the project, we send people to inspect, if there is no problem, then we will pay this part of the payment, so that we can also avoid the merchants cutting corners and making tofu slag projects. ”

In fact, this routine is the most commonly used in later generations of real estate developers.

In these years, how can anyone settle the money in one go, and which one has not dragged on for three or five years, and Su Mo can completely use this method to divide the project into more than ten phases, and only after completing the project of each phase will people settle the account, and Daqin is so big, those businessmen don't have to worry about encountering unscrupulous bosses and running away with their sister-in-law, so this can be said to be a win-win situation.

The imperial court hired merchants to provide disaster relief.

The merchants got the benefits, but they needed to hire the victims and pay them with grain, and the merchants didn't have the food, but they had the money to buy food from the nobles.

In this way, the nobles benefited, and the merchants made money.

Daqin, on the other hand, built buildings such as the Great Wall and the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum, and also solved the affairs of the victims.

It's a multi-tasking thing.

All the people present were not smart people, and everyone was a nobleman, so they naturally knew that this choice was beneficial to them, so they did not object.

And the First Emperor also laughed, and said: "Since this is the case, then leave this matter to Zhao Gao, you can do it!" ”

"Whoa!"

Su Mo nodded, this kind of thing really can't be done by leaving it to others.

As long as he is familiar with the various routines of later generations, he can play.

After settling the matter of the victims, the court meeting in the Zhangtai Palace quickly dispersed.

Su Mo returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, since he accepted the errand sent by the First Emperor, it was naturally to be completed, and this matter was actually beneficial to himself, after all, he had to use businessmen, and he happened to open the Zhao Firm, so he could let Xiaoyue and them join in the bidding for this project.

Call Satsuki to him.

Su Mo looked at the other party and asked with a pleasant face: "Xiaoyue, you have taken over the Zhao family business house for so long, I don't know if you know anything about this huge rich merchant Jia in Xianyang City?" ”

"There are many merchants who have migrated from the Six Kingdoms in this Xianyang, but the most famous ones are Wu Shi Lu and Ba Widow Qing." Xiao Yue nodded first after hearing this, and then explained: "This Ba widow Qing is the head of the Ba County Ba family, over the years, the Ba family has been mainly engaged in grain and animal husbandry transactions, and there is a very large cinnabar mine at home, over the years, the first emperor has built the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum, and the Ba family has donated a lot of mercury, and this Ba Qing can do such a big business as a widow, it can be seen that she is a very skilled woman." ”

He exchanged his cattle and sheep for a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, and then sent them to the Huns for trading, and finally exchanged them for more than ten times the cattle and sheep. ”

Hearing this, Su Mo nodded.

These two people are now the most powerful people in business in Daqin, and even the first emperor was once alarmed by them, and later gave a chaste archway to the widow of Ba, and gave the title to Wu Shilu, and these two later left their names in history.

Su Mo muttered the names of these two people, and then looked at Xiao Yue and said, "Xiao Yue, can you do my brother a favor!" ”

"Brother said, Xiao Yue will not hesitate to go to the soup!"

"I want you to help me contact this Ba widow Qing and Wu Shilu, and then call out all the businessmen in this Xianyang City, and say that Prime Minister Zhao Gao has something to discuss with them."