The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"Quick. Throw away these things in our hands immediately. Only keep some ammunition. Throw away the rest." Ying Yu shouted loudly at this time.

"What?" A soldier with three muskets on his back looked at Ying Yu strangely at this time.

"Hurry up. Throw away all the food. Take these weapons. Get out of here from the mountain road over there. Quick." Ying Yu ordered immediately.

"This." The others were obviously a little bit reluctant.

"Throw them all away, everyone is dead now, what do you want these things for? Hurry up, throw all these things on the road, and then walk this way. Hurry up." Ying Yu ordered loudly.Then quickly throw away some supplies and some weapons at the same time.Then he waved his arms and quickly beckoned his subordinates to leave here from the side path.

The Chu army chasing up soon arrived here.

"Hmph. I know, they attacked our convoy just for some food. Chase them, don't let these food-stealing thieves go." The commander sitting on the chariot ordered loudly.

"Chasing." The Chu army quickly pursued along the main road.Because the supplies they robbed were by the roadside.

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1560 must not do this

"The food is here. The food is here." On the railway line outside the coal mine on the border of Zhao State, a train from Qin State came in quietly in the dark.

"Hoo hoo." The train stopped on the platform.Zhao Guoren, who was waiting on the platform early, was overjoyed.

"Hurry up, hurry up and unload all these grains." A mine worker in Zhao State shouted loudly, waving his powerful arms.

"Go." A large group of people quickly stepped forward to unload the grain from the train.They all burst into laughter.These grains were all shipped from Qin.And what they transported to Qin was a large amount of coal.

In order to solve the domestic coal shortage situation, Qin State adopted a tacit attitude in the border areas, exchanging a large amount of Qin State's grain and meat products for a large amount of coal.For this situation on the border, the Prime Minister's Office of Qin State is acquiescing, because it seems that there is no better way to solve Qin State's huge demand for coal.Qin's coal industry is undergoing centralized adjustment, and a large number of small coal mines have stopped production for mergers and reorganizations.

Zhao's domestic coal production has also come to a standstill, which has prevented Qin from getting enough coal from other countries.In order to maintain its domestic production.Some officials of the Qin State had to come up with such a method. They exported a large amount of grain from Qin State in exchange for more coal.In the state of Qin, one stone of wheat was exchanged for dog stones of coal.Or one stone of flour for 25 stone of coal.Zhao Guo mainly traded for flour, because it was inconvenient to process wheat.Although the stone milling technology was introduced to the Zhao country, there are really not many places where the Zhao country can open mills, so the imported wheat cannot be eaten.All Zhao Guo imported was wheat.

After the Qin State imported coal, it would also process some high-quality coal into coke on the spot, and then reload it to heavy industrial areas in Qin State.This led to the emergence of a large number of coal coking construction sites in Taiyuan County of Qin State.

"I said, can you deliver something else?" A Zhao countryman climbed onto the locomotive of Qin country and said.

"What to give? It doesn't matter what I say. But I can do a little business." The man from Qin who drove the train said at this time.

"En. Can you give me some of that." The Zhao Guoren said with a smile.

"What?" said the driver of the train.

"Oh. I see." The driver said at this time.

"This can't be done. Qin State is against the law. Once caught, it will be fatal." The driver said.

"I can't do this. Don't ask me either. I really can't do it." The driver said.

"Well, I haven't said it yet. Why do you say it's not possible?" Zhao Guoren said in embarrassment.

"Besides, if you don't try it, how will you know? It shouldn't be a big deal to transport that thing with such a big train." Zhao Guoren said.

"It's not a big deal." Qin Guo's driver looked at the other side and said at this moment.

"Tell you, in Qin State, arms are a big deal. There are only a few companies and trading firms that can trade arms. There are very few who have obtained qualification certificates. Moreover, where are they exported? What weapons are they selling?" , How much, it’s all quantified and registered in detail. Once this batch of weapons appears where it shouldn’t, it will be decapitated. This is a felony. Do you know?” the driver looked at the other party at this time and said.

"You don't even think about such a thing." The driver looked at the other party at this time and stopped agreeing.

"Oh." Zhao Guoren nodded. Zhao Guoren knew that the laws of Qin State had always been strict. Although it seems that they have relaxed a lot in recent years, such as abolishing many corporal punishments and changing several criminal laws, in terms of arms control, Qin State is basically There is no slack, on the contrary, under the strict control of King Qin, Qin's gun laws are extremely strict.

The number of guns and artillery exported must be numbered in detail.At the same time, arms that can be exported must have an arms trade license, and such licenses will not be issued many times a year.In this way, Qin State controlled the foreign trade of arms.

On the issue of Zhao Guo, Meng Yi has fully considered the situation of Zhao Guo. If Qin Guo exports weapons to the other party in different forms at this time, it may make the other party extremely agitated.Considering this, Qin State strictly controlled the export of guns from Qin State, especially in the direction of Zhao State, Qin State could not export weapons to the other party.If exported in large quantities, it will cause great diplomatic troubles.Qin State also has different views on Zhao State's situation.

"The situation in the country of Zhao is extremely complicated and chaotic." The foreign minister said to Meng Yi.

"At present, there are aristocratic powers in the country of Zhao, as well as the power of those officials, and the power of the royal family." The foreign minister said with a sad face, because there are too many powers in the country of Zhao. These are the conclusions drawn by Qin Guo's detailed analysis.Qin State had never studied Zhao State so deeply before, but after this in-depth study, Qin State did not know how to proceed.

"These are upper-class forces. They are groups that don't pay taxes," the foreign minister said.

"The main cause of this incident was the payment of taxes, and the taxes were surprisingly high this time. However, the purpose of Zhao Guo's use of this tax is still unknown, but according to outside speculation, the royal family used quite a lot of taxes." said the foreign minister.

"Oh. Then Zhao Guo is too chaotic." Meng Yi continued.

Hearing so many influences greatly exceeded Meng Yi's understanding of Zhao Guo.

"Then who are the groups that will be taxed this time?" Meng Yi then asked.

"Speaking of which, it's shocking," said the foreign minister.

"This time, the group Zhao Guo is taxing includes even the army." The foreign minister said.

"Oh." Meng Yi looked at the other party in surprise.The army was included in the tax collection group of Zhao State, which was beyond Meng Yi's surprise.

"The army is also an anal fin for taxation. This." Meng Yi said incredulously.

"This is also beyond my expectation. Originally, the army is the guarantee of Zhao's security. I didn't expect that Guo Kai even taxed the army this time." The foreign minister said.

"En. Keep talking." Meng Yi said.

"Besides the army, the main tax collectors are merchants, because the merchants of Zhao State are the richest. Their taxes are also the highest. However, the merchants of Zhao State are working hard with nobles and officials. Therefore, these merchants also avoid There are some taxes, but most merchants still pay high taxes. These are the coal mines of Zhao State. The merchants of Zhao State were the first to participate in it, and they developed many coal mines. These coal mines can bring great benefits to Zhao State Taxation. These businessmen mainly operate coal mines. Why can they get a lot of profits? However, taxation has cost them a lot. Two parts of them are seriously divided, and some directly rely on local nobles or officials. With these nobles and officials, their taxes will be much less. But some businessmen and mine owners did not take refuge, so they directly incited their miners to directly riot and resist taxes." The foreign minister said.

"En. It seems that Zhao's situation is more complicated than we thought." Meng Yi said swayingly.He didn't expect that the main body of Zhao's taxation would have such a big prejudice.These situations will not happen in Qin State. In Qin State, the main body of taxation is the commercial system.Agriculture has instead become a large subsidy group.The improvement of agricultural technology has led Qin to have a huge reserve dozens of times the total grain of other countries. Such reserves prevent the price of Qin from rising.In order to guarantee the interests of the farmers, the State of Qin had to give a large amount of subsidies every year, as well as various bank interest-free loans.Tax exemption and less taxation are used to support their own agricultural development and protect Qin's food security.

The main body of taxation is business, especially merchants and industrial and commercial enterprise groups. For them, Qin State cannot levy high taxes. On the contrary, it still adopts a supportive attitude towards some enterprises, such as electric power companies and power transmission companies. At present, these two kinds of enterprises are supported. Qin relies on the advantage of a large number of business groups. Although it collects very little tax, it has a huge amount to make up for the disadvantage of low tax.

In addition, Qin's army is a large tax-exempt entity.The soldiers of the Qin State are exempt from tax in all aspects, especially the purchase of military weapons by the army.There is no fee charged at all, so the biggest advantage of doing business with the military is that you can get tax exemption.This is one of Qin's greatest strengths.However, when Zhao Guo came, the army was taxed.In this case, Zhao Jun's burden will exceed Qin Jun's, which makes Zhao Jun's military reform an obstacle.This is not a good sign for Zhao Guo.

"How do we take measures against Zhao Guo?" Meng Yi then asked.

"Well, there is no good solution for the time being. Zhao's domestic situation has not taken any measures to deal with this chaos, and we have taken active measures, but we can't make up for it. I think we should wait and see. Wait for them to take the initiative to find Go to Qin State, or Qin State put pressure on them in other directions." The foreign minister said.

"Oh. Pressure? How to exert pressure." Meng Yi asked.

"I think that Qin State should provide some supplies to those rioting Zhao people, so as to make them more confused about Zhao's domestic situation." The foreign minister said.

"No. It's too dangerous to do so." Meng Yiye refused.

"If you do this, Qin State will fall into a passive situation, which is very unfavorable to Qin State. This matter cannot be done." Meng Yi said.

"We can give it quietly." The foreign minister suggested.

"No. You can't do this." Meng Yi refused again.

"Absolutely can't do this." Meng Yi said.

"En." The Minister of Foreign Affairs nodded.Accept.

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