"These words are not just said once, but they must be said often, constantly, and send special people to get along with them day and night to talk about them, until they subconsciously feel that it is really good to be annexed by Great Qin! And they will tell their descendants about the good of Great Qin. ”

"Coupled with Great Qin's policy towards them and treating the Qin people equally, bringing them better farming methods, salt, cloth, etc., there will be more than ten or twenty years, and when the new generation of Hu people grow up under the rule of Great Qin, are you afraid that they will have different intentions towards Great Qin?"

Several people were amazed and amazed.

I continued: "Therefore, it is strictly forbidden for the Qin people who enter Donghu to discriminate against the Hu people, and if there is often discrimination against the Hu people, the Qin law will be issued directly: anyone who attacks others based on race or region, such as where that person is, must be that kind of person, and those who make such remarks will be directly fined until they can't even afford to eat, so naturally they have no heart to talk about others." ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

This trick is good, and they are also annoyed by those who open their mouths to say that I am a certain county and a certain clan, and then they are superior to others, such as the Bai clan of Yixian County, which has disappeared......

Looking at Li Si, I smiled: "Is there still a problem with Li Xiang?" ”

Li Si looked at Feng Zheng and then at Yu He, as if to say: Don't let me say it alone, you two are both three princes, is it appropriate to pit me alone? ?

Feng Zheng and Yu He looked at their noses and noses, and looked like an old god was there: Who made you the right prime minister......

Li Si had no choice but to continue: "Your Majesty, the third is that the food loss in the treasury is a bit too much......

"What?" I was a little surprised, but I wasn't too worried, why didn't the treasury run out: "At the beginning of the year, it was said that the grain in the treasury was going to overflow, and now it's only been a few months, and it's a bit too much?" To what extent? ”

Li Si looked at my expression and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is relieved, there will be no problems for the time being!" ”

I was speechless, and I would have been relieved if I hadn't said that.

"What's going on? Where did all the food go? ”

Li Si looked like a bitter melon: "Your Majesty, one, this time the war with the Xiongnu, Donghu, and Beihu started at the same time, including the three generals, Qin Chang, and Wuwei, and Daqin dispatched nearly 300,000 Qin troops!" And it's all long-range combat. ”

"Although General Wu's cavalry has not asked for grain and grass since they entered the grassland, they have spent nearly 240,000 stone of grain and grass in just more than half a year in western Liaoning, and this is still part of the two counties of western Liaoning and eastern Liaodong."

"The nearly 250,000 troops of General Meng and General Wang began to prepare for war this spring, and the soldiers, horses, people, etc., spent nearly one million stones of grain and grass on a single expedition. Together, these two are close to 1.24 million stones. ”

"The grain and grass given to the Dada Department and the five counties of Hexi every month are all from the state treasury, and with the road transportation, it is 50,000 stone per month, and from last autumn to now, a total of 300,000 stone. Seven million stones have been spent on the construction of five cities in the five counties of Hexi."

"Of the three, Your Majesty ordered someone to send another 100,000 stone of grain to Beihu."

"In addition, the daily supply of the border army, the fat of horses, the officials are rich, the temple of the Son of Heaven is built, the roads are built in the south of the Yangtze River, and so on...... In addition, since His Majesty ascended the throne, the oral and field taxes have been reduced, and the conscription has been greatly reduced, and now the conscription not only provides one meal per day for the imperial court, such as iron smelting, Jiangzuofu, Jiangnan weaving, the old road salt mansion, etc., but also distributes wages, and His Majesty does not allow paper, farm tools, or anything to compete with the people for profit......"

"From the beginning of the first lunar month to the present, nearly 14 million stone has been consumed in the treasury, and the annual income of the imperial court since the tax reduction is about 12 million stone, plus three years of old grain, there is no need to worry too much for the time being......"

I looked at Li Si with a shocked face, don't you have to worry about this special mother?

In "The Book of Rites: The Royal System", it was once said: The country has no nine-year accumulation, no six-year accumulation, and no three-year accumulation.

From Li Si's words, Daqin now has three years of grain reserves, and he is about to become a country?

But what shocked me the most was that in just three months of war, nearly two million stone of grain was consumed?

An adult probably eats one stone of staple food a year, which is equivalent to the war with the Xiongnu directly consumed one-twentieth of the population of Great Qin for a year's rations?

Moreover, the construction of five new cities consumed nearly seven million stone of grain in just half a year?

Seeing my stunned appearance, Feng Zheng hurriedly relieved: "Your Majesty don't worry, it's much better than the first emperor thirty-seven years ago...... The minister lost his words......"

After Feng Zheng finished speaking, he realized that he was slapping Yingzheng in the face......

I muttered: "No wonder Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty exhausted all the accumulation of Wenjingzhi when he only fought the Xiongnu and repaired Fangcheng, leaving such a big hole for the emperors behind him to fill ......."

Yu He got close and said, "What did Your Majesty say?" "What Emperor Wu of Han? What is the rule of Wenjing?

I shook my head and came to my senses, "Nothing. ”

I suddenly remembered, "Isn't the treasury rich?" Take the money and buy it. ”

It will be a mansion, a salt mansion in the old road, a weaving in the south of the Yangtze River, and so many government-run industries and tax money, so there should be a lot of money.

Li Si arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty is wise, but if the imperial court uses money and grain to buy grain, it will cause the price of grain to skyrocket, and I am afraid that it will ...... then."

I nodded, "Makes sense." In this way, first, the government of the government and the government of business will no longer bear the expenses of the imperial court in the future, but all of them will be borne by the government itself, and the superintendent of the imperial history will be responsible for supervising whether there are problems with the expenditure; ”

"Second, from today onwards, the local government will relax the conditions for borrowing, and the government will lend money to those who are beneficial to agricultural workers after confirming the purchase of agricultural tools, work tools, ploughing cattle, grain seeds, and so on. And when repaying the loan, you can't still repay the money, but give the government the same amount of corn; ”

"Thirdly, when I was reading the recital of the Great Dynasty Meeting last year, I found that it would cost half of it to transport a stone of grain from Jiangnan on the road! Therefore, the roads in Jiangnan still need to be repaired, and they must be repaired quickly! Starting this year, the grain in the south of the Yangtze River will not go into the Xianyang treasury, and a granary will be built in the south of the Yangtze River, and the grain in the south of the Yangtze River will be stored in the county administration offices first, and there is a need to transfer it directly from the south of the Yangtze River in the vicinity. ”

"The road construction labor was recruited by the imperial court through the form of conscription and labor, and at the same time Zhao Tuo slowed down the speed of going south, and assigned a part of the people to open up the south of the Yangtze River. The conscripts who built the roads were no longer provided with food, and they were given money and silk as the workers, but not food, and let them buy food for themselves. In two years, I want to see that the road in the south of the Yangtze River can lead to every pavilion. ”

After hearing this, Li Si exclaimed in admiration: "Your Majesty is wise, so that the money and silk will be recirculated in the hands of the Qianshou, and the treasury will be full of corn." ”

Several others chimed in.

Then I arranged for Meng Tian to stabilize the west of Yinshan Mountain, and discussed with several county guards at the border pass to move people over as soon as possible, where water and grass are abundant, and there are arable fields, so it is not difficult to move people there.

He also asked Wu Jian to personally escort Tou Manshan Yu to the execution ground, so that Daqin knew that the Qin army had a general with great achievements, and while enhancing Wu Jian's prestige, he could encourage volunteers to join the army. After that, he led the army to Shangjun and stationed there.

Wang Li was sent to Hexi by me, and led his 40,000 men there to help complete the construction of the cities in the five counties of Hexi as soon as possible. There are plateau mountains to resist the Gaoqiang people, and now his section of the Great Wall is basically no longer defensible, and the city wall has a natural advantage for resisting the nomads.