The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"Huh la la." After approaching the cavalry, the cavalry stopped quickly, and then spoke some Hun language loudly to the leader in a squeaking language.

The person in the leading cavalry team also chattered a bit.The rushing Huns let out wild cries at this time.The other cavalry shouted loudly at this time, looking very happy.

And this horse team is a caravan.And this caravan actually came from Qin.This horse team circled from the eastern part of the Qin State Grassland and entered the Mobei area.The reason for this is that the defense line on Qin's eastern border is relatively weak.Qin's garrison there has many areas that cannot be taken into account, and such areas are very suitable for large-scale entry of caravans such as cavalry, but if they enter from the central part of the north, it can reduce some distances, but they cannot carry more. A lot of supplies.Because the entire central defense line is related to the central nervous system of Qin State, and the Qin army first established the defense line here, the density of the defense line here is the strictest, and few smuggling caravans can pass here.

As the confrontation between the Qin army and the Huns began.The number of smuggled horse teams gradually increased.In order to completely attack the Huns tribe.Let the Huns weaken under the encirclement and suppression of the Qin army.On the one hand, the Qin army continued to organize forces to rob.On the other hand, it is to reduce commercial trade with the Xiongnu tribe and block supplies from entering the Xiongnu side.Qin Jun hoped to completely trap the Huns to death in this way.

However, with the cessation of the war between the two sides and the advent of peace, the demand for trade gradually increased.With the development of iron smelting technology, the Huns demanded more and more iron.They need iron to make arrows, armor, and of course, they also need Qin to make them.In addition to the demand for iron, there are salt, cloth, and various daily necessities, and for the Huns, in addition to cattle, sheep, leather, and horses.It seems that there is nothing left to offer.Because of these things, Qin's animal husbandry area will also provide them.Not only the above-mentioned areas controlled by Qin State, but also the Western Regions can provide, but the Xiongnu can always provide some things that Qin State particularly needs, such as population and special servants.There are also some precious furs and gems.These things can be bought at a very good price in Qin State.

Because of the unequal relationship in trade.The Huns needed large quantities of iron, salt, and other resources.Their demand is particularly strong.There are many such things in Qin State, and Qin State owns the things that the Huns are rich in. As a result, there is a huge trade gap.The existence of this trade gap led to the emergence of smuggling, despite the Qin army's blockade on the border.However, such a blockade has gradually evolved into a growing trend of smuggling in the increasingly fierce trade atmosphere of Qin State.

In the eastern part of the state of Qin, bordering the Huns, most of the smugglers from the state of Qin gather here. They collect the things made by the local handicraft workshops of the state of Qin, sell them to the Huns in the area of ​​the Huns, and exchange them for a large number of various goods. kind of property.And these products can be bought at an absolutely good price in Qin.

As the main wars came to a standstill, the wind of trade in Qin State rose, and the wind of smuggling in a few border areas in the north of Qin State rose rapidly, and such a wind of smuggling could also meet the needs of the Huns.

Because of the positional relationship of the Huns and their limited level of cognition.This prevents them from getting more resources.And many resources, even if they have them, need to achieve their goals through Qin's trade, but Qin's material blockade seems to be able to encircle the other party, but in fact, it is very unwise to besiege commercial materials.

The rapid rise of Qin's domestic trade has brought generous taxes to Qin. These generous taxes have allowed Qin to have enough financial resources to complete several feats of Qin.However, the northern states of Qin State are too far away from Qin State's main trade area, and the proportion of agriculture in commercial status has decreased.Although Qin has repeatedly lowered agricultural taxes, these still cannot conceal the embarrassing status of Qin's agriculture.

That is, there are more and more agricultural areas in Qin State, and various agricultural materials are produced, including of course the animal husbandry areas in Qin State.Qin can easily produce more agricultural products, meat products, and dairy products, but these things need to be consumed to make farmers and ranchers profitable.However, none of the countries in the Central Plains has such a large consumption demand, and the consumption demand is only in the country of Qin.One can imagine the consequences of the imbalance between supply and demand.

The agricultural products, meat products, and dairy products of farmers and ranchers cannot be consumed to generate profits.The inability to generate profits directly led to the continuous deterioration of the financial situation of the newly established states of Qin State.

Although the central government of Qin State has continuously reduced the tax burden, provided interest-free loans, and various preferential policies to encourage local people to continue to reclaim wasteland and expand pastures, none of these can cover up the current situation of the small agricultural market in Qin State.The sluggish market demand will cause the fiscal and taxation of these states to fail to expand.

And these prefectures established by the Qin State all adopted the method of self-government.And if the state wants to make a big difference, it needs the strength of the state itself to carry out the construction, but the fact is that their fiscal and tax revenue is very limited.Think about it, they have no commercial trade, but only a large number of livestock areas. Coupled with the sluggish price of agricultural products, the taxation of these states cannot be boosted at all.

If a state wants to increase its fiscal revenue, it must encourage trade, but its own trade is very weak. In addition to agricultural products, it is minerals. However, mining needs to attract investment, and it needs to build railways and roads, but these states have so much money to build railway road.In this way, public construction cannot keep up.If you can't keep up with nature, you can't make business flourish.It is also impossible to improve the local economy through mining.This is certainly a dead end, although they can get a lot of interest-free loans, but these loans are mainly used for agriculture that is becoming more and more impertinent.For agriculture, Qin can only subsidize agriculture to survive.

If things go on like this, the economies of these states will quickly decline. In desperation, these states can only aim at the needs of the so-called enemies of Qin. At the beginning, this kind of smuggling trade is unacceptable, at least most of the new immigrants The Qin people who came here could not accept it, but with the passage of time, and the prosperity of Qin's trade.But the local economy is incomparably depressed.Although they had no worries about food and drink, they could not develop the economy and prosper, which was unacceptable to them, so some of them boldly started the smuggling trade and actively traded with these Huns.

It turns out that the needs of the Huns were great.This market is enough to penetrate the economic structure of these border states of Qin. The Huns need a lot of weapons, especially iron weapons. In the eyes of Qin people, backward weapons such as bows, arrows and knives have been eliminated.And the military did not control these weapons.As a result, the border states quickly exported these things on a large scale, and these things required some handicraft workshops to make them, because the Huns lacked such talents to manufacture them, so the demand for making arrowheads was quickly driven by the border states of Qin. A large number of blacksmith shops were set up, and the number of handicraft workshops also increased rapidly, and the products exchanged by the Xiongnu were also traded along the border horse team to the core trade area of ​​Qin State, and then brought a large number of other products from the core trade area, so that A resource allocation has been completed, and in the process of resource allocation, the Qin border state can obtain rich sailors from it.

From the commercial tax of smuggling trade, to the transaction tax generated by processing workshops, and the trade tax from the core trade area of ​​Qin State to here.These have brought extremely generous taxes to the border states, and although the smuggling trade is an act of collaborating with the enemy, the border states also need to prosper.However, the material blockade that Qin Jun emphasized was impossible to achieve to some extent.In this situation.The smuggling trade intensified.It has reached an unstoppable state.Because the state government is clearly partial to this side.Because only trade can provide more taxes.From this point, the trade law of the rulers of the Qin State is already feasible.

War is gone, let peace come.The resource allocation effect of war is far less strong than that brought about by trade.The advantage of resource allocation formed by trade has risen to a core area.Although Qin's administration was aware of this, it did not change these situations on a large scale.

1526 trend trade is rampant

Smuggling activities in the Northern Autonomous Prefecture of Qin State were rampant, as were smuggling activities in the Western Regions of Qin State.

"Damn it, these people actually sold muskets to those people from the Western Regions." At this time, the King of Qin was very angry, and was very angry at this practice of capitalizing on the enemy.Although the king of Qin has approved the possibility of trading with people from the Western Regions, the trade is only experimental, and there are very few trading companies that can do business with the Western Regions, because this requires a special license issued by the central government of Qin.The Zemstvo has no such power.

However, the security forces in the local autonomous prefectures are very weak, and the frontier defense is stretched, so it is impossible to complete the task of sealing the border with strict control.Because this in itself is a difficult task.

The state of Qin did not adopt the system of prefectures and counties directly dispatched by the central government to the newly established states.Because local officials are not dispatched by the central government, but directly elected by the local government, in order to balance local power, a civilian parliament was set up.Executive power is in the hands of elected local governors, while parliament makes local laws.Local laws can be promulgated and implemented as long as they do not violate the overall will of Qin.In this way, the locality can have a certain degree of autonomy.

As for military power, it belongs to the central government, which can dispatch local militias to participate in major wars.The regular army dispatched by the central government is not restricted by the local government.The local government needs to actively cooperate with the regular army dispatched by the central government.In this way, military power is in the center.As for taxation, part of the tax is distributed by local governments, and part of the tax is paid to the central government.

The purpose of doing this is to stimulate and strengthen the control of these newly established states of Qin.Originally, the king of Qin believed that Qin's mature prefecture and county system should be used to manage these autonomous prefectures.But Shang Wen has put forward his own views.

These autonomous prefectures were not areas controlled by Qin State before, after Qin State expanded its territory on a large scale.These states were only established, and the state of Qin adopted the practice of driving out local residents or turning them into slaves, which is very radical.But Naofumi felt it was necessary to do so.On the one hand, these newly occupied lands were quickly swept away and became very clean, and the Qin army had no worries on the way forward.On the other hand, these areas have been vacant on a large scale, which is very detrimental to Qin.Without a stable rear, Qin Jun's advance became empty.Fortunately, Qin's immigration policy played a big role.As long as the number of these immigrants exceeds 20, Qin will immediately establish a state.Most of the people who came to these newly established states were immigrants from the six eastern countries.These immigrants mainly came to Qin to survive.Because the taxation of the six countries is too heavy.Coupled with the impact of the war, the people of the six countries are living in dire straits.At this time, Shang Wen actively threw out an immigration policy, and the preferential immigration policy, so the people of the six countries entered the Qin State in large numbers, and then moved westward, northward, and entered the border areas of the Qin State.

In order to stabilize the border.Qin cannot overly apply its mature system to these border states at once. Once the resistance of the people of these six countries is aroused, several border states of Qin will be very troublesome.Only when appeasement measures are in place can Qin State solve these future troubles.However, Shang Wen’s policy did not continue to keep up, because he himself was kidnapped and left the core position at the same time. This made Meng Yi, who took over, unable to know what Shang Wen, the prime minister, did. Even though Meng Yi inherited Shang Wen’s style and continued the policy Sex, but some things also require personal artistic understanding.Xinran Mengyi couldn't connect well.At present, no one in Qin State can do this accurately. Relatively speaking, Meng Yi has already done a very good job.

Based on his observations in the market, King Qin followed a group of mercenaries to near the actual border of Qin State.The trading hours are extended during the day, because during the day everyone can see each other clearly.There is no need to worry about the opponent's attack.And from the side, it also shows that Qin State still has many weaknesses in the actual control area of ​​the Western Regions, because King Qin did not see any law enforcement officers and patrols appearing at all.It also shows that the two parties are very skilled in completing the transaction.Transactions are often completed during the day.It looks like this deal has been around for a long time.

For such a transaction, King Qin was very annoyed.This is clearly breaking the law.Dereliction of duty, in the Guanzhong area, such behavior is a felony, but there is no law enforcement force in this place to curb it.If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, King Qin would have found it hard to believe that Qin's autonomous prefecture looked like this.Although Qin's laws are strict, it also needs to strengthen law enforcement.But in autonomous prefectures, there are laws but weak law enforcement.such a situation.King Qin really saw it in his eyes.

In fact, the administrative policy of the autonomous prefecture does this.When the autonomous prefecture was established, what kind of situation did they face, and the central government had to pay taxes.Although there are tax-free places, the taxes paid are not quite right.But for the newly established autonomous prefecture, there is nothing to pay taxes.And there is no economic pillar industry, so there is no way to have rich income.Although the local slave trade flourished.However, with the cessation of major wars in the Qin State, and the collective retreat of various countries and tribes, it has become very difficult to capture slaves.The development of local agriculture, but the prices of agricultural products and livestock products have been falling repeatedly.Although the central government has given a lot of financial subsidies and interest-free loans, it still cannot meet the balance of the autonomous prefecture's fiscal revenue.For example, Wangzhou in the nearby Western Regions.Li Zhou.The fiscal revenue of these two states was once negative.As a result, the state government was unable to spend a sum of money to form local police forces to strengthen the blockade, and without fiscal revenue, the government could not function normally.These situations are constantly reported upwards, but there is no response.Because the central government can't allocate a sum of money to stop the self-government from developing its economy.If the autonomous prefecture's economy cannot develop, it will not be able to continue to stabilize the expansion of Qin's territory.

The king of Qin was annoyed, but he ignored the fact that behind the business of smuggling and selling arms was the great lack of flexibility in Qin's governance, that is, Qin's high-level officials had not yet realized a defect of their own.King Qin only saw the lack of law enforcement in the autonomous prefecture, but he didn't know the flaws in his own governance.

The fiscal revenue of the state government of the autonomous prefecture is extremely meager.However, the income of some orders is extremely rich. The reason is that these orders actively encourage the local people to participate in the smuggling trade, and the town government of the orders provides protection for them.As a price for the exchange, they need to pay a certain amount of taxes to the Xu government, so that both parties will benefit from each other.The rampant smuggling trade on the border of Qin State is actually because Qin State did not release the great restrictions on border trade in time.You must know that it is extremely beneficial for Qin to expand its borders at this time.

The Western Regions, as well as the Huns in the north, have been frightened by the powerful combat power of the Qin army.However, if the Qin army itself continues to fight, the cost of the war will rise a lot. It can be said that the border countries and tribes have no intention of fighting against Qin, and Qin itself cannot continue to suppress the other side.

Qin itself also needed to consolidate these newly expanded territories.Coupled with the continuous shortage of Qin's fiscal revenue, it is obvious that relying solely on bond issuance can no longer meet the state of Qin's fiscal expenditure.Under such circumstances, Qin can only increase revenue, but cannot continue to reduce expenditure.But King Qin's governance inertia cannot realize this.

"Your Majesty, let's put this matter aside. We're just looking at it, and we can leave it to the Prime Minister to deal with the issue of summarization." Meng Tian whispered aside.After all, they didn't want to disturb the deal of these people, but the deal of these people was completed soon.It seems that the two parties are no longer a transaction.The Qin side handed over some weapons and industrial products to the other party, while the other party gave some beauties and other indescribable products.

"En. Go back and send a report to Meng Yi." Qin Wang looked at the other party's transaction after it was completed.Control your emotions and say this.Qin Wang accepted Meng Tian's suggestion.King Qin was actually very impulsive, but after calming down and thinking about it carefully, he thought that this matter was Meng Yi's matter, so he photographed and sent a telegram to Meng Yi about this matter.

Xianyang, Qin State.Inside Meng Yi's prime minister's office.

It is rare for Meng Yi not to be busy.

"Fiscal revenue continues to decrease." The Minister of Finance said to Meng Yi.

"The main reason is that some of our economic entities have been hit. The tax rate cannot be raised. Therefore, it is conceivable." The Minister of Finance said helplessly.Meng Yi just listened and said nothing.

"The reason. Tell me the reason." Meng Yi waved his hand and said.

The Minister of Finance looked at Meng Yi suspiciously.

"Oh. Tell me your opinion." Meng Yi realized at this time that what he just said was the reason, and Meng Yi felt that he didn't know what he was thinking just now.

"According to the current statistical data, our income from arms is very large. However, the income from various industrial products has dropped rapidly. This has led to a large part of fiscal and tax revenue from the arms industry. Other aspects continue to Reduced. Our trade, market share is rapidly reduced," the finance minister said.

"En. In other words, the market is too small. We need to expand to a larger market. Our products can be produced, but they just can't be sold." Meng Yi said at this time.

"This. I guess that's what it means. You need to ask the Minister of Economics about this. He should know about these situations." The Minister of Finance said.The Minister of Finance can only provide data analysis, but cannot provide accurate policy guidelines and specific economic conditions.

"En." Meng Yi nodded.

"Call the Minister of Economy." Meng Yi said.

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1527 fleeing

"Prime Minister, take a look at this." The Minister of Economics anxiously stepped forward and handed a telegram to Meng Yi.Meng Yi looked at the Minister of Economy, and then opened the telegram.

Meng Yi looked at the telegram and handed it to the Minister of Economy.

"What do you think?" Meng Yi asked.

"I think this matter has to be fully started. It can't be delayed any longer. Stop the experiment and let go of border trade immediately. The current market of the six eastern countries is too small. It can no longer meet our needs. We might as well cooperate with these border countries , Tribal trade, I think this is the only fundamental way to prevent such incidents from happening. There is no one." The Minister of Economy said seriously.

"En." Meng Yi just said grace.Then he quietly left and sat in his office chair.

"At present, Qin State needs to open up more markets. Qin State cannot always rely on a single export of arms to support the current situation. Qin State needs a huge market to consume so many industrial products we produce. From food to various weapons, equipment , if necessary, we can also export equipment. Help them build railways and so on. And the scope must be large.” The Minister of Economy said.

"Prime Minister, the current situation does not allow us to move forward step by step carefully. Although we can't predict what is ahead, even Shangwen estimates that we can't predict what will happen. But we have come to this step. Just There is no retreat," said the economy minister.The finance minister on the side looked at Meng Yi nervously.And Meng Yi didn't seem to have made a bigger determination.

"In this telegram, your majesty told us that smuggling at the border is rampant, but if this continues, your majesty will definitely take action. If that happens, the expanded territory of our state of Qin will inevitably be unstable. Although several border states have developed agriculture and animal husbandry Soon, but the actual economic capacity is far inferior to that of the mainland. The immigrants from the six countries have great expectations for our Qin country. If we cannot effectively appease them, it will cause immeasurable losses to our Qin country. It is possible.” Economy The minister looked at Meng Yi at this time.

"Go on." Meng Yi looked at the Minister of Economy.