Qing Dynasty.

After Li Hongzhang received the book, he hurriedly looked at it, and Xiang was looking for a way to save the country inside.

It's just that after reading it, he was a little disappointed.

Most of the books in this book are from before the Qing Dynasty, and he only has two books from the Qing Dynasty, and these two books are still both.

As for the books on scientific and technological achievements, there is not a single one.

These books were simply useless to the Qing Dynasty.

Li Hongzhang sighed and put down all the books, he felt that he still needed to find the way to strengthen the country.

In the end, he looked to the West, trying to find a way to make the Qing Dynasty strong from among the Western powers.

Moreover, Li Hongzhang believes that it is the Japanese slaves who can slowly become stronger after learning the law of Western powers, so the Qing Dynasty will definitely be fine.

So the next day, he wrote to the imperial court and strongly supported the country's implementation of the Westernization Movement.

Li Hongzhang believed that with the implementation of the Westernization Movement, the country would certainly be able to gradually become rich and strong and catch up with the footsteps of the West.

After Lu Feng's live broadcast was completed, he decided to take a good rest for a while, after all, it was not his style to be so busy all the time.

However, when Lu Feng rested, the people of various dynasties did not rest.

They all do different things based on the books they have gotten.

Those who only bought "300 Tang Poems and Song Lyrics", they began to use this book to educate their children, hoping that they could enter the officialdom and get ahead.

Some people even copied the book and sold it at home.

After all, this is a recommended book on the canopy, which can let your children win at the starting line, how can it make those parents with children not excited?

And the people of all kinds of dynasties, some of them live a different life by virtue of their excellent eloquence and by constantly telling others books.

Some people even studied a little, compiled their own based on the books they bought, and became famous local cultural people.

And some people don't have such excellent eloquence, they can only train their children to learn literacy, and then copy the content of the book to sell.

Some people even start to learn literacy on their own, hoping that the books in their hands will bring them wealth.

However, what they didn't expect was that as they learned, their lives were gradually changing, and they slowly became a different life.

The people of all dynasties who bought "Mengxi Pen Talk" and "Heavenly Creations" also began to get busy, busy running various workshops.

They didn't know if it would change his life, but at least they had a hope and a direction.

And they heard that after opening a workshop, he made a lot of money soon and married the second girl from the next village.

The gossip was so appealing to them that they took action.

If they haven't run any workshops before, they are worried because they have been farmers for generations and have no skills.

However, after getting these two books, they are not too lacking in technology, only lacking guts?

Do they lack guts? They are not lacking!

After all, now they can't even afford to eat, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be?

And with the construction of their workshop, the imperial court also issued policies to support them, which made them more confident in their future life.

They believe that in the near future, they will be able to eat meat for three meals a day.

For this goal, they worked hard.

Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shi Huang came to the Hundred Academies, and when he saw the workshop being built next to it and the vendors selling food next to it, he had to admire the strength of the people.

Compared to his construction of the Great Wall, the people who built these workshops were much more active.

These workshops were built by merchants and ordinary people, and they produced all kinds of things based on the two books "Mengxi Bi Tan" and "Heavenly Works".

At that time, he Daqin will also collect taxes on these workshops to supplement the imperial court's finances.

According to the calculations of the court officials, after the establishment of these workshops, the tax revenue they can generate will reach 1/3 of the other taxes.

Qin Shi Huang was very satisfied with this result, after all, a country's tax revenue can ensure the normal operation of a country.

And why did the Shang Dynasty reform back then not because the country's tax revenue was not enough to support the country's expansion?

Moreover, in the construction of these workshops, Qin Shi Huang also felt the error of his previous policies.

Although it seems that the state has saved two taels of silver, it has also greatly dampened the enthusiasm of the people.

Moreover, in the midst of servitude, because there is no income from money, the laborers dare not spend any money.

This will not attract any vendors to come and do business, let alone collect taxes from them.

This is a vicious circle, and the result is that money is not circulating, leaving it lying in the treasury all the time.

So after Qin Shi Huang returned to the palace, he began to gather his ministers to discuss reforms.

Qin Shi Huang wanted the major projects of the country to be built by the state to pay those laborers.

However, in order to test the feasibility of this method, Qin Shi Huang took out a small section of the Great Wall and conducted such an experiment.

The results of the experiment surprised Qin Shi Huang very much.

Although the state has invested a lot of money, it has led to local tax revenues.

After all, the construction of the Great Wall requires not only labor, but also various tools, stones, and bricks.

Now that it is no longer managed by the state, there are a large number of businessmen who have to pay taxes to run the business.

The construction of the Great Wall required a lot of labor, which also attracted many traders to do business there, which also made it more prosperous.

It's just that the disadvantages of doing this are also highlighted.

Those merchants will be shoddy and will not act according to their standards.

There are also some officials, after receiving the benefits of the merchants, they want to use those shoddy materials to get by.

Qin Shi Huang was a little disappointed with such a result, but it was not unacceptable.

After all, he grew up with Lü Buwei since he was a child, but he deeply knew the habits of those businessmen.

All Qin Shi Huang needed to do was to restrain those merchants to act according to standards, and not to do shoddy things.

It is also necessary to restrain those officials from losing the country's big interests because of their own small interests.

As a result, Qin Shi Huang issued a decree to severely punish those who took bribes, to increase the punishment of those who were shoddy merchants, and to disqualify them from participating in the construction of the Great Wall.

Sure enough, after his punishment, his policy was completely new, and the whole north gradually prospered because of the construction of the Great Wall.

It is no longer obvious that this is a frontier that is often invaded by the northern Xiongnu.

(End of chapter)