"No, shouldn't this kind of work be the responsibility of the pawn?" Zhao Si scratched his head suddenly.

One of the Nine Emperors, the pawn, was specifically responsible for foreign affairs, and was in charge of the dynasty's reception and exchanges with ethnic minorities. With the original pedestrian administration, the state administration was merged and expanded, and was in charge of state relations and border tribal affairs.

Therefore, strictly speaking, Ye Tiaoguo's envoy to Great Qin and the establishment of diplomatic relations with Qin should be the work of a pawn.

"It's too far......" Lees shook his head.

"In the past, the pedestrian bureau was mainly responsible for the affairs of Yiqu Bashu, which was nothing more than negotiating with Donghu Xirong...... Although Hu Rong is also quite far away from Guanzhong, it is not without interference in the country, and it is not unprofitable, but Ye Diao is too far away, the time to come and go is accumulated for years, the army is difficult to go out, and the grain and grass are difficult to dispatch. Li Si pondered for a moment and spoke.

Diplomatic relations and cross-sea diplomacy with the surrounding barbarians are not at all a concept.

At least in this era, Zhao Si has undoubtedly opened up a new world, but Ye Diao is too far away, and it is really difficult to see what interests are to be made from the current point of view, Ye Diao is not Fusang, but supported by a huge gold and silver mine.

Objectively speaking, aside from the gold and silver minerals of Fusang, Kaihai has been in a state of loss so far, relying on the continuous blood transfusion of two huge gold and silver mines in Fusang, and the court has also profited from this, otherwise the matter of opening the sea would have been turned upside down.

Even so, there are still people who write to cut the needs of the military government of aviation and trade, and focus on mining the gold and silver mines of Fuso.

It is precisely because of this that the guest officer is somewhat lacking in the envoy of Ye Diaoguo to the Qin State.

The most important thing is the lack of experience in establishing diplomatic relations from a long distance, and if you do something bad, you have to take responsibility, how to do it well has no experience, and the first emperor is not good at vain, so he can find a few foreigners to pay tribute to the first emperor and can't let the first emperor's spirit climax, so the responsibility of receiving the envoys of Ye Diaoguo to establish diplomatic relations finally fell on the shipping and trade military government.

"That's ......," Zhao Si thoughtfully said.

"It seems that the court still has opinions on the matter of opening the sea." Zhao Si muttered slightly.

"How can there be no opinion, what is needed to open the sea at the moment is all supported by the gold and silver mines transported back from Fusang, except for Fusang, all of them are in and out...... It's been more than two years now, and there's been no result......" Li Si spread his hands and expressed helplessness.

"How vast is the sea? Just going back and forth is measured in years, and the current situation is already making rapid progress, aren't the two gold and silver mines in Fuso the income from the opening of the sea? How can you put it aside and calculate? Zhao Si's eyes widened.

"As long as the military government can be self-sufficient, there is no need to worry about the interference of the court."

Because of the Cui family's affairs, the first emperor, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke.

Zhao Si's eyes lit up when he heard this, or the first emperor was reliable, self-sufficiency must be no problem, Fusang's gold and silver mines are too big, to put it mildly, the gold and silver mine output of Fusang is enough to support Daqin's decades of exploration of the sea.

There is no way, this is the case with the opening of the sea, this is the Qin Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty, unless you take the shit luck and discover a huge gold and silver mine, the initial investment will inevitably be beyond your means.

If you only look at it from the point of view of maritime trade, this is definitely an extremely bad era, because in this era, in addition to some areas of Daqin and Liaoliao, other places are still fighting each other by primitive people.

But if you look at it from the perspective of the country and even history, this is the time when Great Qin can take the opportunity to get the maximum harvest at the smallest cost.

Set foot in the sea thousands of years in advance, set foot in the whole world, lay out the far sea and near the sea, although there is a lot of investment, but the return is definitely rich enough.

"In this way, Ye Diaoguo, Indonesia, and even India are precious...... Zhao Si sighed a little in his heart.

These two places are one of the few places where there is a civilization and a country and a rich trade base.

The most important thing is that it is not particularly far from Daqin, and both sea and land can find ways to communicate and negotiate.

"In the early days, colonization didn't have to be thought about...... You can lease a few ports and export luxury goods, such as silk and porcelain, and by the way, tea......"

But the problem is that even Daqin has no habit of drinking tea, but the trace elements in the tea industry are very important, and history has proven that this thing will definitely be able to open up the world's sales.

Well...... Although the way of drinking tea in foreign countries and the Central Plains has been very different, one thing is certain that the world's tea originated in the Central Plains.

Tea is a world-class beverage that can be popular all over the world not because of its taste, but because it was indeed a rigid need in the feudal era.

Since ancient times, the Central Plains has had the practice of using tea to control the trade of nomads.

Tea is fundamental.

As for the method of drinking tea, you don't have to dig too deep.

At present, this kind of strategic-level material, which is still a special product of the Central Plains, has not yet been put into widespread use, and it is really a violent thing.

Zhao Si did not have the idea of drinking tea in Daqin in this era, but using tea as a foreign trade to influence the surrounding area and even the world is a necessary thing.

"Well, get this thing out in advance......"

First leased a few ports, opened up the market through hard currency luxury goods such as porcelain, silk, tea, etc., and continuously absorbed the gold and silver stores of Ye Diao and even India.

Fuso has to set up a granary, but in the future, when you can travel overseas, you can buy grain from Indonesia and India, so that you can use foreigners' money to buy foreigner's grain, and transfer the logistical pressure to foreign countries, and Fuso's granary is a guarantee to prevent the gringos from suddenly not selling grain.

Most of these two places were still under slavery, and in the early days, slaves were mainly purchased from abroad...... In addition, if you can, you can buy some mineral land, directly produce weapons locally, and slowly garrison troops on Lend-Lease to build a stronghold.

In the early stage, peace was the mainstay, highlighting the harmlessness of humans and animals.

When Great Qin accumulates enough strength over there, he can draw the land and rule and sign all kinds of treaties.

Thanks to the various operations in his previous life, Zhao Si still has something to learn from in his mind.

There must be drawbacks of colonialism, and the different times certainly can't be completely copied, but Zhao Si is still with a big brain at the moment, and the inspirations in his head are one after another.

It's all bad ideas, Zhao Si feels bad pus when he thinks about it, but the roles are reversed, and there is a little bit of excitement inexplicably.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a little idea in his chest, please let the minister retire and think about it carefully." Zhao Si had to calm down and draw up a general plan for overseas diplomatic relations.

"Go ahead!" The First Emperor nodded.

"The chief official who accepted Penglaiye's envoy is in the pawn, remember to transfer the documents." Liss reminded.

Zhao Si nodded, and Shi Shiran retired.

After Zhao Si left, the First Emperor looked at Li Si and said in a deep voice: "Count the matter of the confession, take out the statutes and decrees, and when the first batch of nobles move into Xianyang, they will be promulgated immediately." ”

Obviously, the Cui family's wealth is beyond the imagination of the First Emperor.

It is precisely because of this that the First Emperor was so eager for Li Si to prepare to promulgate the Reckoning and Confession.

Letting them move to Guanzhong is just the beginning, and letting them hand over the interests of the people who have been sucking the country for so many years is the ultimate goal.

The world is regarded as his own by the First Emperor, how can he tolerate the nobles of the family to sleep peacefully with the benefits from the Great Qin.

"Yui!" A smile appeared on Lees' face.

The wealth of the Cui family is not only beyond the imagination of the First Emperor, but also beyond the imagination of Li Si.

Li Si was born in Shang Cai Buyi, and in terms of power, he is above 10,000 people, but in terms of wealth, he really can't touch porcelain with a top nobleman like the Cui family.

The family is Shiqing Shilu, hundreds of years ago, the Cui family had someone who served as the prime minister of the Qi State, each generation of the Cui family had two thousand stone high-ranking officials, the accumulation of several generations, several generations of people eating the people's profits, it is really not Li Si Han's hard work to achieve power once can be compared.

And this part of the group is exactly what Li Si intends to eliminate.

Li Si has found a completely different path from Shang Jun, and even abandoned the five techniques of controlling the people for it, and the tax has been seriously reduced, but Li Si still has a lot to do, and he can't do without money and food to do things.

To relax the control of the people, you have to start from this group of people who are in the world.

Reclaiming the interests that they had encroached on for hundreds of years or even thousands of years and distributing them to their rightful positions was what Li Si had to do.

And the reckoning is one of the means.

Thanks to the wealth of the Cui family, the attitude of the First Emperor has undergone some subtle changes, among which Zhao Si and Li Si secretly arched the fire, but in this way, Li Si can also take advantage of the situation to put forward more ideas.

"Now the Qin law is too complicated, there are too many restrictions on the Shu people, and there are too few restrictions on this group of people who hold power and wealth, and the Shu people are in danger, and they will be reduced to hooligans in an instant, but the nobles can be punished with knights, this is a very unreasonable thing, the minister intends to make some deletions and changes in accordance with the current Qin law, I don't know how Your Majesty ......."

Li Si may not be sincere for the sake of the Shu people and empathize with the Shu people, objectively speaking, for people like Li Si, the Shu people are just a tool for him to realize his ideals and ambitions.

But because of this, Li Si was able to easily abandon the old road of Shang Yang to open up a new road of his own.

Li Si is really not a saint, and his starting point may not be noble, but it does not prevent him from doing what a saint should do.

And with Li Si's life and methods, he can do better.

He keenly caught the moment and prepared to make a big move.

If it's just an increase in the calculation and sue the reins, then it's nothing, Li Si's real purpose is to move the knife against Qin Rhythm!

When the First Emperor decided on the national policy, Li Si presided over the reform of Qin law as the person in charge, mainly to adapt to the different internal environment of the Qin State after the great unification.

It's just that Li Si is humble and used to it, coupled with Han Feizi's old things, Li Si's reform is too superficial, and he can't see the problem, but he doesn't dare to move.

Only those who can see it realize what it means to move the knife, there is no experience to learn from, and the slightest carelessness is the subversion of the country, which will be left behind for thousands of years, and there will be unexpected fierce resistance in the middle......

But now, with Zhao Si's deliberate efforts and the cooperation of the First Emperor, Li Si tried to take this step.

Li Si is really not a resolute person, but he also knows that after taking this step, there is no room for regret.

"Accurate!"

As Li Si expected, the First Emperor agreed at the speed of light.

"Delete and revise the law, there is no need to report everything, after revising it, I can see it!" The First Emperor glanced at Li Si and deliberately said a few more words.

When Li Si heard this, he bowed down in response, and a smile appeared on his face full of fine wrinkles.

Zhao Si, who left the palace, came to the Pawn Office to transfer the documents.

After a general look, now that Ye Tiaoguo's envoy has set off from Penglai to Xianyang, he will be able to come to Xianyang in about a month if he takes the official road.

However, before that, Zhao Si had to prepare to welcome Fusu back to Xianyang.

Fusu has entered the customs, and the first emperor asked Zhao Si to greet him personally, and according to the distance, Fusu will come to Xianyang in three days.

"Fusu, ah......" Zhao Si groaned slightly.

Fusu is far away in Shangjun, but Zhao Si has heard the name of Fusu countless times, but so far, he still can't see each other, and Zhao Si has a little expectation in his heart.

On the other side, the distant Penglai ......

The envoy of Ye Diaoguo also officially came to Daqin.

The envoy of Ye Diaoguo who was in charge of sending envoys to Daqin was called Maha. Brody. Smart, the great nobleman of the country of Ye Tiao, and the younger brother of the king of the country of Ye Tiao.

Maha is his name, Budi is his father's name, and Smart is the ancestral land where he was born, and together they are his full name.

Jing led the fleet to fight against Ye Tiaoguo for a particularly long time.

The time lasted for a long time, and because there was no landing operation, to be honest, the losses caused to Ye Tiaoguo were limited.

Although the fishing industry and island navigation are relatively prosperous, it is also an agricultural country with its own towns, and the land is the national capital of the country.

Because of the reason that it could not be defeated, Ye Tiaoguo could only implement the strategy of closing the country to the outside world at the initial stage.

However, Ye Diao's territory involves several islands, which are more dependent on ships to communicate, and have been pierced through the sea by Jing, even if Daqin's ships cannot land and fight, it will affect Ye Tiao's rule over the local territory in the long run.

Daqin's reckless logistical investment allowed Jing to make waves near the sea area of Ye Diaoguo, and Ye Tiaoguo himself couldn't sit still first.

Fighting across the sea and maintaining the logistics of such a large fleet is almost a year after a toss!

How terrifying is this Daqin logistics that has never been heard of?

How much longer can they toss around here?

It may be fine for an island group regime to close itself off for a year or two, but politics will really collapse over time.

No one dared to bet on how long this Great Qin could lock the sea area of Ye Diao Kingdom here.

So Maha was ordered to take over the important task of envoy to Daqin.

Before Maha came, he didn't have the idea of finding out the truth and the truth.

Thanks to Jing's stirring up in the waters of Ye Diao, Maha had thought before he came that Qin must be an extremely powerful and rich country.

But after coming, landing on the realm of Great Qin for the first time, Maha deeply felt that he still underestimated this great country that he had never heard of before!

(I'll take a leave of absence tomorrow, readers, things are a bit messy, deal with it.) ）

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