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But today, the great nobles of Zhao State held these bamboo slips one by one as if they were holding treasures, and began to read them carefully.
Looking at it, the joyful smiles on the faces of these nobles of the Zhao Kingdom slowly disappeared.
After finishing reading, the nobles looked at each other in blank dismay, speechless for a while.
After a long while, someone finally couldn't help but said to Zhao Sheng: "Mr. Pingyuan, the amount of food needed to improve the title is too much."
As soon as this nobleman opened his mouth, other noblemen from the Zhao Kingdom joined in.
"Yes, yes, there are too many."
"I can't afford it at all, Mr. Pingyuan."
In fact, this is not really because the nobles want to bargain with the monarch, it is indeed that the number above is beyond the imagination of the nobles.
On this slip of paper, the exchange requirements from Gongshi to Shangqing are clearly marked.
But in fact, those who can come here today don't care about those low-level titles at all.
The title that can interest these people must at least be a doctor.
Xia Dafu is actually the lowest-priced title among the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom, and those who are lower than Xia Dafu are not considered nobles.
Then let's take a look at this doctor's title.
A title of doctor requires a whole [-] shi of grain.
Ten thousand shi of grain, this is not a small amount.
It is said in the Shihuo Zhi of the Han Dynasty: "Today, one husband and five people manage a hundred acres of land, and one and a half stones per mu is harvested every year, which is one hundred and fifty stones of millet."
That is to say, after one year of hard work, a family only has 150 shi of grain.
150 shi sounds like a lot. If there are [-] households, wouldn't it be [-] shi?
But that's not how the accounts are calculated.
There is also the following in the Shihuo Zhi of the Han Dynasty: "In addition to the tax of 35, there are 45 shi, and there are 350 shi. Food, a person's month is one and a half stones, and five people will spend ninety shi of millet at the end of their life, and there are [-] shi. Shi San Ten, thousand for money [-]"
That is to say, although there are 150 shi in the annual harvest, only 45 shi are left after excluding the food for the family, and only 45 shi of the [-] shi can be sold.
Therefore, 330 shi of grain is the surplus grain of the three families of [-] for a year.
Of course, for these nobles, ten thousand stones is actually not too much.
After all, didn't the families of the nobles have many servants and many children?Adding up the number of people is over a thousand, which is the minimum standard.
According to the above calculations, 1000 people will eat [-] shi of grain a year, not to mention those who easily spend two or three thousand, or even people like Zhao Sheng who have three thousand for their diners alone.
And since they are all nobles, it is impossible to only store food for one year, right?Everyone knows the principle of planning for a rainy day. It is not too much to store grain for two or three years. Anyway, old grain can be eaten by servants, and if not, it can be directly fed to livestock and horses.
So, these days, if any big nobleman doesn't store tens of thousands of shi of grain at home, I'm afraid you'd be ashamed to go out to meet people.
Tens of thousands of stones, not much.
But the problem is that noble families who can provide [-] shi of grain usually have a title above that of a lower doctor, and it is useless to exchange for the title of a lower doctor.
Let's look at the Chinese doctor who is one level higher than the lower doctor.
If you want to be promoted to the middle doctor, you need five times more grain than the next doctor, which is [-] shi of grain.
So the problem arises again.
Those who can produce [-] shi of grain are much less than those who can produce [-] shi of grain.And those who have the strength to exchange [-] shi of grain for the title of Zhongdoctor are at least Zhongdofu
A doctor of Chinese medicine gave Zhao Dan [-] shi, and then Zhao Dan "upgraded" the title of doctor of Chinese medicine to doctor of Chinese medicine
No matter how you look at it, it's not right!
It can be said that the food on this bamboo slip seems to have a thorough understanding of the details of all the great nobles of Zhao State present. Except for a few families who secretly have grain business, most of the great nobles There is no way to get the food that can make him a king!
What kind of joke is this?
Many nobles of the Zhao Kingdom present looked at Zhao Sheng aggressively, waiting for Zhao Sheng to give an explanation.
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In fact, at this time, most of the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom in the hall knew very well that this matter was basically inseparable from Zhao Dan.
But it doesn't make sense!
Everyone knows that this young King of the Zhao Kingdom is a generation of sages. He led the Zhao Kingdom to defeat the Qin Kingdom twice in a row within less than ten years of taking the throne, making the Zhao Kingdom the most powerful country in the world today.
Such a monarch, would he have nothing to do when he is full?And it was at the critical moment when Handan City was besieged for two months and needed to borrow food from all the Zhao nobles present?
There must be something hidden here.
If many people hadn't thought of this, then the people in this hall would have almost left by now.
But even so, the voice of complaints in the hall almost drowned Zhao Sheng.
For these accusations, Zhao Sheng smiled and did not refute.
In fact, the food listed on this list is not produced by Zhao Dan and Zhao Sheng with a slap on the head, but through the infiltration of the monitoring guards into the major noble families and the acquisition of the food from the noble families. It was formulated after our intelligence.
Otherwise, how could it be so accurate to block the path of most people's promotion?
Hmph, Jin Jue Jin Jue, is this title so easy to get promoted?
Is it so easy to take advantage of the country's cheap?
Zhao Sheng sneered in his heart, but raised his hand with a smile on his face, made a posture of pressing down, and said to these nobles: "Everyone, please be calm and don't be impatient!"
After the nobles calmed down, Zhao Sheng continued to speak: "Sheng feels that everyone's views are open to discussion. Here, Sheng would like to ask you a question, whether food is important or the promotion of title is more important?"
There was a little silence in the hall, but someone immediately retorted: "Mr. Pingyuan, although we also know that this title is definitely not so easy to obtain, it is not easy to spend most of the food to support the king and us." I have no opinion, but if the food for most of these people is not enough to be promoted, what is the significance of today's matter?"
This person obviously expressed the aspirations of many nobles of the Zhao Kingdom, so after he said this, many people loudly expressed their approval and vented their dissatisfaction at being played.
Seeing the disappointment and anger of the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom in front of them, Zhao Sheng who was being questioned not only showed no dissatisfaction on his face, but still maintained enough patience and a smile.
It was at this time that Zhao Sheng suddenly remembered the questions he had raised when the plan was formulated.
"Your Majesty, if this is the case, once the nobles are angry, what should they do?"
To this question, Zhao Dan returned a very bright smile.
"Mr. Pingyuan, this title is not a Chinese cabbage. How can it be promoted casually? Hmph, these guys don't want to contribute when the country is in crisis, but instead hold on to the food and want to bargain with the widow. Desperate! This title can be exchanged, of course, but absolutely not in the way they want!"