Chapter 263 The first cement road in Daqin

"The commercial tax is changed as follows: those whose monthly income reaches 10,000 guan, those who reach 10,000 guan are 5, those who reach 8,000 guan are 4, those who reach 5,000 guan are 10 tax 3, those who are 1,000 to 5,000 guan are 10 tax 2, and 1,000 households are 10 tax.

This is a preliminary tax, and if there is any inconvenience, the imperial court will change it in time. A ruler pointed to a notice and read the contents to the people around him, word by word.

The tax on the notice is a little different from what Ying Zheng said, and this is the result of the cabinet's investigation.

This was followed by agricultural taxes, taxes on workers.

There is also the unification of the currency, the unification of the text, and so on.

After paper, books also appeared on the streets.

Among them, Li Si established the first bookstore in history in Xianyang City, which contains all kinds of books, but the characters of the books are all simplified.

To know the contents of the book, everyone needs to buy a comparison of the simplified Chinese characters and the Qin seal.

The price of books is not very high, the highest is 100 Wen, the lowest is only 30 Wen, mainly according to the content of the book, the number of paper in the book, etc.

For example, in the Analects, he is not a book, but a set of books, and the price is even higher.

From the day the library appeared, bamboo slips were completely reduced to something that no one cared about.

Gongzi Jiang Lu saw the business opportunity of the bookstore, and immediately found Li Si and asked for cooperation, but it didn't make much money to open a bookstore in Xianyang City, and the entire Great Qin should open a bookstore.

So, the two agreed to set up a papermaking workshop and a bookstore in the country's major cities.

Nowadays, although there is enough paper in Xianyang City, paper is needed all over the country, and it is simply not enough for them.

As a result, papermaking workshops appeared all over Daqin.

What Li Si never dreamed of was that because of the emergence of major workshops, the entire Great Qin completely abolished the bamboo slips.

Simplified Chinese characters also began to be promoted, which saved the imperial court a lot of things.

Not only simplified Chinese characters were promoted, but also Arabic numerals and some traditional characters.

This also enriches the Chinese language.

What's more, many Confucians fell in love with painting and writing.

Different fonts began to take shape.

Someone wrote wild grass on paper, which makes people have a kind of heroic height.

Someone wrote a delicate style, which made people think that this person was a bit girly.

Different styles can reflect the character of the writer.

In addition, there are many workshops in Chang'an City.

In particular, there is a kind of workshop that makes people scratch their heads, that is, the cement workshop, which is black and I don't know what it is for, but the scale is particularly large.

Many people have been asking about the role of cement, but they have never been able to get an answer, but the scale of the cement workshop is too large, with tens of thousands of workers.

Almost the entire idle labor force in Xianyang City is envied, resulting in many shops or workshops that need workers not being able to recruit people.

And the person who opened the workshop was Meng Yi.

Because Meng Yi and Jiang Lu both contacted Qin An as businessmen.

So Qin An gave Meng Yi a task to build a cement factory in Shili Baxiang, and then persuaded the imperial court in Shili Baxiang to build a cement road.

Originally, Meng Yi was dismissive of this, but when Meng Yi heard that the cement road could prevent a series of benefits such as water accumulation and potholes, he decided to build a cement plant.

Qin An also told Meng Yi that after the house built with cement was stronger, and the cement could also strengthen the city wall, Meng Yi directly decided to increase the scale.

After the cement was manufactured, a cement road was built between the cement workshop and Xianyang City as soon as possible.

At the beginning, the gray cement road was not favored by anyone, and when the road was built, Yingzheng and Baiguan were present.

But after seeing the wet cement road, after stepping on it was a footprint, except for some people who had been in contact with Qin An, everyone began to laugh at Meng Yi.

Some people even impeached Meng Yi, saying that Meng Yi opened this so-called workshop and wasted it, and the most important thing was that there was a shortage of workers in Xianyang City.

This shortage of workers will lead to an increase in the wages of the workers, and the imperial court has already demanded an increase in the wages of the workers, but now it has increased a lot of wages on this basis.

In order to alleviate this situation, there are only two situations, a new labor force enters Xianyang City, and the second is to stop Meng Yi's cement workshop.

It is impractical to let the new labor force enter Xianyang City, and it is impractical to wait, so it is most appropriate to stop the cement workshop.

Meng Yi was dissatisfied with the impeachment of officials, although he had never seen the cement road, but out of trust in Qin An, Meng Yi repeatedly emphasized that he could only see the magic of the cement road when the cement road was dry.

Ying Zheng agreed to Meng Yi's request and reprimanded the officials who impeached Meng Yi.

Three days later, not only the First Emperor and other officials came outside the city, but also hundreds of people heard the news.

In the past three days, Xianyang City has been talking about cement roads everywhere, boasting about how strong the cement roads are, invulnerable, invulnerable, and so on.

So hundreds of people came to see this concrete road.

"Your Majesty, the concrete road has completely dried. It's up to everyone to test. Meng Yi said.

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Okay, Aiqing, even if you test it, if the cement road does not have the advantages that Meng Yi said, I will deal with Meng Yi." ”

"No."

Immediately, the officials began to cautiously walk towards the concrete road.

At this time, the cement road has turned silver-gray unlike the dark gray at the beginning, and it looks much stronger to drive, and an official accidentally stepped on the cement road, and the foot was deeply buried in the cement road.

At that time, the official was also reprimanded by Meng Yi, because Meng Yi reminded everyone not to touch it.

The reprimanded officials dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so they impeached Meng Yi at that time, but Yingzheng ignored it.

The first thing he did when he started building today was to step heavily on the concrete road.

"Ahh

The official suddenly let out a miserable scream, because he was too hard and injured himself, and he was suddenly blinded by countless people, and the onlookers couldn't help laughing.

The official's face turned pale, but after stepping on his own feet, he found that the concrete road was indeed very hard.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the guards should cut the cement road with their swords, and use a carriage full of goods to pass here, so that they can know the quality of the cement road, and then bring a bucket of water to see if it will produce stagnant water."

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The official said excitedly.

Immediately, he personally slashed the cement road with the sword of the guard, and with all his strength, he only caused some slight damage to the cement road, which was nothing to a cement road.

Then came the carriage, which was even faster.

Not to mention the water, except for the water stains left on the cement road, there is not a single drop of water in sight, all of which is absorbed by the cement road.

Some people died, but not completely......