Emperor Qin completed the Zen sealing.

It was night, and the official who stayed at the top of Mount Tai.

It is said to be a palace, but in fact it is just a simple house temporarily built by the Jibei County Guard for the emperor. can only accommodate the emperor's father and son and several important ministers to live.

In terms of productivity and technology in this era. In half a year, it would be nice to be able to repair the two Taishan roads in the north and south, and in addition to building large houses on the top of Taishan, it is almost impossible to do.

Zhao Tuo has a high title and is qualified to live in it, but he gave it to an elderly minister.

Originally, he just heard the words of the first emperor of the day, and he had a heart attack, and wanted to watch the stars at night to dissipate his depression, but he didn't expect to receive the praise of "respecting the elderly".

Zhao Tuo found a flat mountain rock and sat down, took a small sip of the wine bag, and looked at the starry sky.

Not to mention, the day of Feng Zen is really a rare good weather, not only the day is clear, but at night it is also full of stars, blowing the mountain wind, raising your eyes to look at the stars, and your heart is gradually broadened.

It didn't take long for footsteps to be heard from behind. Zhao Tuo turned around and saw that it was Ziying.

This time, Zhao Tuo's subordinates or such as Fan Xu, Xiao He and others returned to their hometowns after being knighted, waiting for follow-up posts. Or like Chen Ping, he had a good heart and took the initiative to ask to follow Ren Huan to the south to conquer the southwest to make meritorious contributions. Or Li Shiqi, Shijian and others stayed behind in Xianyang and did not follow, so that there were few people who spoke to Zhao Tuo on the road.

In this way, he became closer to Ziying, and became friends after coming and going.

Zhao Tuo is twenty-three this year, Ziying is just over thirty, the gap between the two is less than ten years, and there are many common languages.

"Why does the prince have to drink here alone, why don't you let me accompany you?"

Ziying smiled, walked over and sat down next to Zhao Tuo, took the wine bag in Zhao Tuo's hand, and poured it into his mouth.

Zhao Tuo smiled, thinking that when Ziying was in Luoyang before, he had exclaimed, "Where is the person who represents Qin De", maybe he was not only lamenting the cycle of the Five Virtues at that time, but also may have perceived the hidden dangers of this empire.

Zhao Tuo looked at the starry sky and asked, "Does Gongzi know what the world of Great Qin looks like today?" ”

Ziying put down the wine bag, looked at the sky and said: "The emperor destroyed the six kingdoms and destroyed the four kingdoms in one day, and the merit crown is in ancient and modern times, and today's Great Qin is the largest state in the world and the master of the sea." ”

Zhao Tuo bowed his head and said softly: "Then what is the appearance of all the people today?" ”

Ziying was silent, he knew what Zhao Tuo meant. Zhao Tuo didn't say anything, only the mountain wind whistling in the ears of the two.

After a long time, Ziying sighed: "I heard that the Shaofu and Zhisu Neishi are already unable to make ends meet. ”

"After the emperor unified the world, he overhauled the palace pavilions, built the palace and the road, and expanded the original Lishan Tomb into the emperor's mausoleum, and wanted to cut the mountain and chisel the stone, under the three springs, and collect the world's mercury and pour it, thinking that hundreds of rivers and seas, such expenses are hundreds of millions, and most of the wealth of the Shaofu has been hollowed out."

In addition, the army fought non-stop, after the destruction of Qi, the emperor ordered General Li to collect Liaodong, General Feng and Baiyue, Shu County Weitong Southwest Yi, as for the prince and marquis, he led an army of 300,000 to the north to conquer Huyi, and the levy was very heavy, and the required grain was incalculable. There are also people from various counties who repair the Chi Road, the eldest son oversees the straight road, orders the general Wang Li to conquer the Yue Clan, and now the Feng Chan East Patrol ·····."

"Even if the prince and the prince introduced the method of manure and quyuan plough to help the farmers, it is also difficult to provide the needs of the current internal history of the curtain. The emperor has twice increased the money and calculated the tax, and the current tax has reached one and a half stones per mu. ”

Zhao Tuo was silent. It's only been a little over a year.

I remember that when he was serving in Shaofu, the Qin State had just annexed the world, and he collected the gold and jade of the Six Kingdoms and stored grain in various places, which was actually very rich. In addition, he sacrificed manure and quyuan ploughs to enhance the productivity of the Qin state, and expanded the variety of food with wheat food, making the Great Qin of this era more powerful than the same period in history.

Therefore, Zhao Tuo was able to carry out various invention reforms when he was a young man, and proposed infrastructure such as Chidao, precisely because the national strength of the Qin State could support it.

How do you know that the emperor is not in peace, in addition to Xiuchi Road, but also to a 500,000 army to conquer Baiyue, although Zhao Tuo was led to the north by the trouble, pulled to fight the Xiongnu and Yueshi, but also sent 300,000 troops, not only labor expeditions, consume countless grains, but also let these people delay the spring ploughing and autumn harvest that year.

At the same time, the Qin State was at war on all sides, and although Li Xin, Feng Wuxue, and Li You did not have many troops, they also had to levy Ding and consume grain.

There are palaces, imperial tombs, galloping roads, straight roads, and four-way wars outside.

Hundreds of thousands of people gave up farming and mulberry to transport back and forth to serve, which country can withstand such consumption.

The Qin State was not without money or food, and countless treasures were piled up in the emperor's innumerable palace, and millions of stones of grain and grass were also stored in important warehouses such as Aocang.

It's just that how can the emperor's treasures be taken out for national use, and the grain in Aocang is also a strategic material, and it is impossible to use it at will.

What should I do if the income of Shaofu and Zhisu Neishi is insufficient, then I can only keep adding money and calculating money to the head of the world to meet the increasing needs of the empire.

Therefore, the emperor would rather give the knighthood to all the people in the world than reduce or reduce taxes, even if Li Si and Zhao Tuo proposed, but in the end, the share of reduction and exemption was not too much.

Seriously speaking, the finances of the Qin State are already a little beyond their means, and although they are not bankrupt, they are also in frequent deficits.

Zhao Tuo estimated that the emperor knew very well that otherwise he would not raise taxes to maintain the country's expenses, but the emperor was not willing to stop, or it was difficult to stop the pace of progress.

The carriage of the Qin State, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, has driven onto a high-speed channel, surpassing the Six Kingdoms at a very fast speed and annexing the world. But again, the Imperial carriage, which has been traveling at high speed for hundreds of years, is not so easy to stop.

Ziying raised his head, looked at Zhao Tuo with some hope, and said: "The prince has always been wise, and he has to inherit the secret method, and he has repeatedly contributed the law of strengthening the country, maybe there is a way to make money from open source and alleviate the current situation." ”

"How to make money from open source?"

Zhao Tuo turned his head to look at the palace that was still lit in the distance.

He naturally has such a method.

Now that we are approaching the shore of Qidi, we can start with the salt administration and reform the salt boiling method, which now consumes a lot of fuelwood and manpower, into the salt drying method, reduce the cost and increase the production, and use this thing that the people need to increase the financial resources for the empire.

Is it just that useful? The more money, the more food you have.

The emperor's ambition and pace will only increase, and his pace of progress will not stop. After Zhao Tuo came back this time, he understood that it was useless to follow the first emperor to sew and mend after all.

He will come up with such livelihood and profit schemes as the salt drying method, but not now.

"Maybe we should find a way to let the emperor see what kind of life the people of Qianshou under his rule are living." Zhao Tuo looked up at the starry sky.

The words spoken by the First Emperor when the day was sealing meditation sounded in my ears again.

Zhao Tuo did not compliment and pat the horse at that time, but just borrowed the same metaphor to express his own opinion to the emperor.

"You want to be the sun that never sets, but in this world, can you withstand the sun for a few years?"

Tarzan was very calm all night, and there were no accidents.

Early in the morning of the second day, the First Emperor did not immediately go down the mountain, but took his ministers to the top of Mount Tai again to see the scene of the rising sun in the sea of clouds.

His expression was serious, and his eyes were fixed on the sun rising from the sea of clouds.

It wasn't until the sun rose high in the sky that he withdrew his gaze.

No one knows what the First Emperor was thinking at that moment.

After watching the sunrise, the first emperor led his ministers down the shady slope of Mount Tai.

Then the whole Zen sealing team went to Liangfu Mountain in the south of Mount Tai non-stop, where an altar was built to worship the earth, and finally completed the sealing of the heavens and the earth, and completed the whole ceremony of sealing Zen.

The ceremony of sealing the Zen was successfully completed, and the first task of this eastern tour was completed.

In the warm atmosphere of the "common people" of the Jibei County Guard Organization chanting "Your Majesty Ten Thousand Years", the First Emperor was very happy, and under the surge of passion, he no longer considered the problems of the imperial finances, and with a wave of his hand, decided to exempt the entire Jibei County from forced labor and taxes for one year.

Such generosity triggered a burst of enthusiastic cheers, and everyone shouted "Your Majesty is benevolent".

Zhao Tuo saw that when he heard the emperor announce the exemption of Jibei County's taxes, Wang Wu had turned into a bitter gourd face.

In addition to Wang Wu, there were also those Confucian scholars who were deposed.

The gift of sealing Zen is the gift of the holy king that they have always advocated in Confucianism, and it is also that they and the monks have been persuading and suggesting, which made the emperor have the heart of sealing Zen, and in the whole process, they don't know how much thought and energy they have spent.

But when it came to the end, the emperor kicked them away, and what was the matter?

Fortunately, there are examples of Chun Yuyue being deprived of his doctorate status and degrading him as a punishment, and there are left prime ministers Wang Juan and Zhou Qingchen to appease, so these Confucian students did not gather to ridicule and complain.

But resentment was essential, and they looked at the eyes of the ruler of the empire no longer at the eyes of a holy monarch.

"The emperor does not need to be loyal and virtuous, deposes us and other virtuous people, is self-serving, arbitrary, and arbitrary, and is really a prince of a single husband!

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