Outside the house, the birdsong of the willow forest came faintly, and the sinking courtyard was as quiet as a valley.

Fusu's face was already shocked.

He never thought that there would be such serious consequences for businessmen, and he really couldn't imagine that just businessmen, how could they cut off the Great Qin Qi?

Ji Heng ignored Fusu, took a sip of wine, and said calmly: "The affairs of the world have nothing to do with the size of the world, they all depend on the influence of the world. ”

"Guanshan Hai."

"It's not that complicated."

"It's just to take back the production rights of the salt merchants and iron merchants."

"If it is only related to businessmen, for the people of the world, it is just the size of a grain of rice, and they will not pay too much attention at all, but they will pay a little attention to how the price of salt and iron in the world will change after the government takes over, and when it really affects the price, it will take at least half a month."

"Therefore, it will have little impact on the world in the short term."

"But what if it's more than business?"

"More than business?" Fu Su frowned, and said in a condensed voice: "Isn't this time only for salt merchants and iron merchants?" Could it lead to something else? ”

Ji Heng was silent for a while, and said with a serious gaze: "This is the tricky part. ”

"Let's agree to make trouble."

"That's almost for sure."

"Qi merchants have profited from the salt and iron business for hundreds of years, how can they be willing to spit out the benefits they have received? When the imperial court decree goes down, the merchants in Qi will definitely instigate the low-level salt workers and subordinates to make trouble, and even Qi Di is likely to break out a lot of turmoil. ”

"However, only the salt workers and subordinates in Qi Di made trouble, and the imperial court can actually be easily pacified."

"Not even a lot of troops."

"If the means are sharp, you can also use this to loot wealth on a large scale to enrich the Shaofu, after all, Qi merchants have been operating in Qi for hundreds of years, and the wealth they have accumulated is only massive, as long as the imperial court is properly targeted, it can make a windfall."

"But I don't recommend it."

Fusu wondered, "Why is this?" ”

"Because if the imperial court snatches a lot of wealth from the hands of Qi Shang, it may touch the fragile and sensitive heartstrings of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms." Ji Heng pinched the bronze jue, with a hint of depth in his eyes, and said, "This is actually very dangerous to Great Qin. ”

"The remnants of the Six Kingdoms extremely don't want the situation in Daqin to improve."

"They just want Daqin to continue to erode."

"It's so rotten that it can't be restored."

"Daqin's implementation of an alternative 'Guanshan Hai', in fact, to a certain extent, has touched the sensitive heartstrings of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, but Guan Zhong's change of law has declined for a lifetime, coupled with Daqin's posture of wanting to fish with all his might, it will give birth to a touch of luck in their hearts, thinking that Daqin is on the verge of collapse."

"So it's very likely that they won't choose to act rashly."

"But"

"If Great Qin loots a large amount of wealth from Qidi, it will undoubtedly greatly alleviate the pressure on money."

"This is obviously unacceptable to the remnants of the Six Nations."

"There's a huge chance they'll make trouble."

"Although the remnants of the Six Kingdoms are making trouble, they can't set off too many storms at the moment, but it will increase the burden on the imperial court, and every time they quell the rebellion, they will consume a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, which will cause a great loss of national strength, and will eventually be transmitted to the bottom."

"It's going to get harder at the bottom."

"Da Qin can't afford the meritorious reward of the military merit system right now."

"A few more times to quell the rebellion, the court will only become more and more difficult to fulfill, and the more times it is, it will definitely shake the morale of the army."

"Once the army's morale is unstable, something will really happen to Daqin."

Hear the words.

Fusu's face changed drastically.

He had heard what was at stake.

Great Qin is already struggling to support the world at the moment, if it touches the heartstrings of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, it will only increase the burden of Great Qin, although the remnants of the Six Kingdoms can be wiped out, but the land of Kanto is vast, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms flee to the deep mountains, wild forests and rivers, and the imperial court has no good way.

In the end, it was only the Great Qin national strength that was consumed.

It is true that Great Qin can obtain a large amount of money and grain by looting Qi Shang, but the big hole of military merit is not something that Qi Shang's money and grain can fill at all.

300,000 in the north and 500,000 in the south.

Even if not everyone can be knighted or promoted, there are still hundreds of thousands.

If you add the fact that the founding of the country has not been fully fulfilled, the number will only be more terrifying, and the money and food of Qi Shang is simply a drop in the bucket.

Great Qin's military merit system is gradually collapsing.

What Daqin can do and do at the moment is to delay the collapse of the military merit as much as possible, and it is best to let the military merit collapse after the world is stable, and then the imperial court will have the spare strength to concentrate on solving it, if the military merit system collapses when the world is turbulent, the damage to Daqin will undoubtedly be devastating.

Fusu's face turned pale.

He is no longer as ignorant as he was at the beginning.

I also know the stakes.

Da Qin's stability is overwhelming at the moment.

Only stability can give Daqin time to delay enough improvement.

Great Qin must not be greedy for small profits.

He also completely understood Ji Heng's thoughts.

Daqin should use the smallest effort to achieve the stability of the world, even if it is only on the surface.

At the lowest cost, to calm the turmoil instigated by Qi Shang, as far as possible not to touch the heartstrings of the remnants of the six countries, so that the situation in the world is so deadlocked.

In order to slow down the early collapse of the military merit system.

Fusu pondered for a moment and said in a condensed voice: "Mr. Ji, how should the imperial court do it?" ”

Ji Heng shook his head and said: "This has nothing to do with the reaction of the imperial court, the Qi Chamber of Commerce instigates the chaos in Qi, the government will definitely take action, and it must take action, but the key is to control it within a certain range, and not to intensify and expand this matter." ”

"But even if the imperial court intends to control it, try to control it in a small area, and only target the Qi merchants who are in the forefront, it will not be able to determine the final direction of the situation."

"Because the decision on this matter is no longer in the imperial court."

"And in the remnants of the Six Kingdoms!"

"If the remnants of the Six Kingdoms react strongly, and at the same time there is chaos in Qi Land, there will also be trouble in the other five places, and the imperial court will be destined to fall into a tug-of-war, which is very unfavorable to Great Qin, and will gradually drag down Great Qin, Great Qin has no good way to do this, so he can only watch himself being dragged down and dragged to death."

"If the remnants of the Six Nations and the officials of the Six Nations are unwilling to wade into this troubled water."

"Then Daqin will have a chance to breathe."

"Five-five."

"Now it depends on the interests of salt and iron, coupled with the disgust of the alignment of the five places, will they 'see death and not be saved'."

Fusu's heart sank.

The interests of salt and iron, he can understand.

This was deliberately thrown by Ji Heng to the officials and nobles of the six regions.

But where does the disgust of the other five places start?

Fusu asked, "Is there a conflict between Qi and the other five places?" Didn't they all oppose Qin Zheng? Why do you feel that in Mr. Ji's mouth, there are still differences between them? ”

"The remnants of the Six Nations are not monolithic." Ji Heng said with certainty: "But whether you can suppress the hatred for Qin, it's actually hard to say." ”

"When Great Qin swept the world, it had conquests with the other five countries, but Qi, with almost no resistance, directly surrendered, so the Qi people were not very popular with the other five places in Kanto, but this is not the main reason, the most important thing is that the Qi country will not be saved when they see death."

"Qin annihilated Chu back then."

"There are 200,000 troops stationed on the border of Qi State."

"Once the State of Qi sends troops, it is almost impossible to win under the three-line battle of the Qin army, and even under the attack of Qi Chuyan on three sides, it may also suffer a big defeat, and then the situation in the world will be difficult to say, and the other three countries may not be able to take the opportunity to restore the country, but in the face of the Chu State several requests to send troops, the State of Qi chose to stand still, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and want to wait for Qin and Chu to lose both sides, to sit and reap the profits."

"In the end, I only waited for the news of the fall of the Chu State and the fall of the Yan State."

"Moreover, the other five countries have basically experienced war, and only the Qi State was taken by surprise by the Qin army and wiped out almost without much effort."

"The Qi country itself has not experienced any war."

"For a variety of reasons, Qi Di is actually not very well treated by the other five places."

"In addition, this time the target is mainly businessmen, and their status is low, so the other five places are not necessarily willing to make a move."

"Right now, it depends on whether the hatred of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms for Qin can be suppressed or overpowered."

"If it's overpowered."

"There is basically no hope for Daqin."

"This time it is aimed at businessmen, and it is still in the most unpopular place for all parties, and it can still unite the remnants of the six countries, which is enough to prove that the deep disgust of the remnants of the six kingdoms for Qin has long overridden the interests and resentment of 'seeing death and not saving' back then."

"Under this extreme hatred, it is impossible for Daqin to save the situation."

"Because it's dead."

"The reason why they can't bear it now is only because the prestige of the First Emperor is too high, and the deterrent power to the world is too strong, but the First Emperor is just one person, and the manpower is extremely poor.

"Even if Great Qin can put down that rebellion."

"But what about next time?"

"Next time?"

"The military merit system will also collapse."

"How many times can Da Qin hold on?"

"When the military merit system completely collapses, it will be time for Great Qin to fall."

There was a dead silence all around.

Fusu was holding his breath.

Ji Heng continued: "Great Qin is actually already hard to return. ”

"The only thing that can be done is to exchange time for space, it's just Daqin's time, and even it depends on fighting."

"Personally."

"Da Qin only has one chance for trial and error right now."

"It's business!"

"Through this 'Shang', test the internal situation of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, whether it is really monolithic, whether it really hates Great Qin to the core, whether this hatred really transcends other emotions, if it really exceeds, then it means that Great Qin is hopeless."

"Anything that blows, the remnants of the Six Nations will oppose it."

"Whatever Great Qin wants to do, they will oppose it, and whatever Great Qin wants to push, they will stop it."

"In this situation, Daqin is not saved."

"There is not much that Great Qin can do at the moment, it all depends on the reaction of the remnants of the six countries, if the remaining five places choose to 'see death and not save', then there is still room for maneuver, at least there is a chance to breathe."

"If you lose the bet."

"Maybe you can only watch the Great Qin Tower collapse."

"But when it really comes, Daqin won't be crazy."

"But who knows?"

Ji Heng shook his head and drank all the wine in the pot.

(End of chapter)