The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"Why?" King Qin asked.

"Your majesty only sees one side of it, not the whole thing. The real thing, the property, the corvee. To put it bluntly, they can all be paid in currency in the end. That is to say, the currency is hidden behind the tax collection. Now My Daqin re-levies taxes, using currency as the basis for collection. In this way, all things will be uniformly collected in my Daqin's hands. This currency becomes a chain. Firmly fix the objects, corvees, and goods On this chain. People take this as the standard. Only then can wealth be measured, and only then can it pass through the world.”

"And the king must firmly control this chain, and he will be able to control the world." Shang Wen tried to speak clearly.

"The widow still doesn't understand." King Qin said.

Shang Wen thought for a moment.Decided to find a simpler case to illustrate the problem.The king of Qin didn't understand it, which means that the king of Qin is interested. As long as he is interested, everything will be easy to handle. As long as Shang Wen persuades the king of Qin to reform taxes, he can greatly stimulate the next move.Shangwen sees a glimmer of hope.The feudal dynasty is about to loosen.

"Your Majesty, let's put it this way. Let's take military merit as an example." Shang Wen decided to use Qin's most important military merit system to pry open Qin's capitalist gate.Military merit is the foundation of the Qin State, and it is very difficult.But just pry up.All the doors can be opened smoothly.

"My Great Qin's military merits are only over 20 levels, and the king's rewards are extremely limited. After the 20th level is completed, there will be no more. And my Great Qin has been fighting for years, and the military merits can be rewarded at just over [-] levels." Shang Wen said.

The king of Qin became very interested when he heard it. He was very concerned about this matter, especially in the control of some important generals, such as Wang Jian, Yang Duanhe, and Meng Tian.It can be said that the king of Qin did not take any effort to control it. For this reason, the king of Qin specially lowered some rewards.in order to leave room.But now Shang Wen directly raised the question.This just hit the question that King Qin was most worried about.Shang Wen didn't know that the example he used as a metaphor had already touched King Qin's heart.

"And capital. It is the currency used for taxation. This currency is a symbol of wealth. Having more wealth means getting richer. There is no limit to wealth. There are many ways to obtain wealth, and there is no unique new style. With Wealth can do many things. This is also the most fundamental reason why the minister tried his best to let the king come to you and reform the taxation. ? Torr osprey sheath dripping curium ride? Ji naphthalene crisp vent? Sulfur? Anxious sugar sprouts: mother and mother squatting together? 耪? Jiangnai Pu Xing Lu Chu [-] lures and rushes? Shaped sac? Pull? Yu Gang? Mirror mu? Sole? ?Dou Mou 赜 Shao? Two?

"Your Majesty, you now order that the spoils obtained by the frontline soldiers be used for their own use. Those soldiers will obtain these spoils at the cost of their lives. The payment of military salaries can only ensure that they have a basis for survival, and the acquisition of spoils will Greatly stimulated the accumulation of wealth. And what the king of Qin got was * land. And * wealth. These lands contain all kinds of wealth, including gold, silver, iron ore, sulfur ore, timber, Oil and more."

"The soldiers in the front have these trophies, and they need to exchange them for currency. This currency is only available in the hands of merchants. They will buy a large amount from the soldiers. And the king only needs to collect taxes from these merchants. In this way. King Qin The coffers will be filled with untold riches. These are but a few of them."

At this time, King Qin had already begun to sort out every word Shang Wen said.

"Your Majesty. After these soldiers get a lot of money, they must buy a lot of land. But the king got such a large amount of land. In this way, the king can expand the territory, and the soldiers can also get a lot of land. For those military officers, they not only have money, but also have land, and they hope to have more money. The way out of this money is investment. The rise of commercial activities and the promotion of the development of all walks of life.” Shang Wenyong The hands gestured one by one.

"Your Majesty can order them to develop those iron mines and build iron factories. In this way, Daqin will have a solid foundation. By investing in the establishment of a food factory, the people of Daqin can eat delicious food without cooking. Establish The textile factory, a large amount of cloth and ready-made clothes, can be worn on the body without passing through the hands of our Daqin women. As long as the king collects taxes from it, it can be faster than these military officers investing in factories. Your Majesty, you have to Build another treasury to accommodate such money." Shang Wen said.

King Qin's expression became brighter all of a sudden.Qin Wang's mind suddenly felt very clear, and suddenly felt confused.

"Your Majesty, you have to build several treasuries to accommodate more wealth, and this wealth comes from the six kingdoms. King Qin doesn't need to conquer the six kingdoms, and the six kingdoms will naturally be unified in the hands of my Great Qin, and the people will submit to you For my Great Qin. Within the four seas. There is no dissent. The six royal families only have loyalty to my Great Qin. My Great Qin will take over the six kingdoms of the Kanto without a single soldier."

King Qin's mind suddenly became clear.The mist in King Qin's heart is exactly the heart of unifying the world.This is the goal of several generations of Qin kings who have struggled and worked hard so far.All of a sudden, Shang Wen dissolved King Qin's unification ambition into the benefits of taxation reform.

"My Daqin has a *iron factory, a *textile factory, *all kinds of factories. These products can only be exchanged for a lot of money if they are sold. These items are not only for my own use, but also for my own use. The surplus can be sold to the Six Nations," Shang Wen said.

"Wait." Qin Wang waved his hand and said.

214 Dumping goods, destroying the economic fundamentals of the six countries

"Why are the products produced by the widow's factory sold to these six countries?" King Qin said dissatisfied.Shang Wen saw King Qin's expression.I was extremely happy in my heart, and King Qin was able to express his dissatisfaction with it, which showed that King Qin had fully integrated into it, which was a good thing, a great thing.Why is Shangwen unhappy, unhappy.There is finally a glimmer of light on the road to capitalism.

"Only by doing this, the king can regain the six kingdoms in one fell swoop. This product can only become a disaster in the Qin country, but in the six countries, it will become a pawn on the road to unification. These products will replace my Great Qin's tiger and wolf division. , regain the land of the six countries, the wealth of the six countries, and the unification of the six countries." Shang Wen said excitedly.

"Talk quickly, sir." King Qin said.

"Your Majesty, you must have started to profit from the arms trade." Shang Wen said.

"That is, the benefits of the arms trade. The harvest of several counties tops the widow's." King Qin said.

"As long as the six countries import this kind of arms, the flames of war will be inevitable. And the chain reaction caused by the flames of war is far more than that. The wives and children will be separated, and human tragedies will be repeated in the six countries. The people of the world will be full. Suffering from the flames of war, the males will be selected to fight, and the old and weak* will be engaged in field production. If one of the old, weak and sick is involved, women will be employed in field production. As for weaving, there will be no clothes to wear. The flames of war will greatly Increase the burden on the people, and the people all over the world will complain." Shang Wen said.

"The previous kings of my great Qin Dynasty came out of the six kingdoms to rule the world just to avoid the suffering of the common people in the world." King Qin said with a sigh.

"It is also because of this that the six countries need my Daqin's products. In order to win as soon as possible, they will continue to collect taxes, but when field production cannot keep up with the needs of the war, my Daqin's products can meet these needs. They Give me the wealth in your hand, Daqin."

"At the same time, my Great Qin can also adopt the barter trading model." Shang Wen mentioned a suggestion.

"Isn't this going against the currency?" King Qin asked immediately.It seems that King Qin's understanding of currency has begun to take root in the hearts of the people.

"This is not against the currency, but to destroy the economic lifeline of the six countries." Shangwen said.

"The objects of these commodity exchanges are silk, citrus, graphite, sulfur, iron ore. Coal and so on." Shang Wen said.

"Why do you do this?" King Qin asked.

"These items are important economic and industrial resources, some of which I don't have in Daqin. But it is because of this that I have to do this." Shang Wen said slowly.

"Your Majesty wants to carry out commodity trade at the beginning, and the currency is definitely not unified. Each of the six countries has its own currency. However, if Daqin wants to carry out commodity activities, it will be very difficult to enter through this road. Merchants have always been shrewd. People. They directly import commodities into the six countries. In this way, it will greatly facilitate the development of commodity activities, and at the same time avoid the cumbersome currencies of the six countries. Put the currencies of the six countries aside and become scrap copper and rotten iron. "Shang Wen said.

"Because of the six kingdoms' war. They are very short of things, such as ready-made cloth, leather, agricultural tools, salt, and a large number of wooden products. And I can produce these in Daqin." Shang Wen said.

"Since we have avoided the currencies of the six countries, in order to facilitate settlement, we naturally have to replace the currency with an item. Then these items can quickly become popular in my Great Qin. What are these, that is silk fabrics. Citrus, graphite, sulfur, Iron ore, wood, paint, etc." Shangwen said while snapping his fingers.

"These items are the industrial raw materials of our Daqin. Our Daqin has imported a large amount of commodities and exchanged them for a large amount of production raw materials from the six countries. In this way, the people of the six countries will get tangible benefits, and they will expand independently. They can obtain commodities. They will spin more, mine more, and grow a variety of things. The purpose is to exchange the only items from my Daqin." Shang Wen said.

"In this way, their economy will develop into a single model. We can also provide meat, food, and they will stop producing food and turn to producing a large number of cash crops that have nothing to do with food. After a period of time, their The economy will become a monoculture crop. And the goal of our Qin State will be achieved." Shang Wen said.

"Wonderful, wonderful. How come I didn't think of it before. In this way, the food of the six countries is gone. What's the war?" Qin Wang walked back and forth excitedly.

"Mr. Qin's move is better than a few million soldiers." King Qin said with a wave of his arms.

"The king has won the award, but the minister hasn't finished talking yet." Shang Wen said with his hands clasped.

"Tell me quickly, sir." Qin Wang calmed down and listened patiently to Shang Wen's explanation.

"It should be pointed out that these commodities have to be intentionally impacted on a large scale by the six countries at very low prices at the beginning. Only in this way can the original economic model of the six countries be completely destroyed quickly and effectively. And this method is dumping .Only in this way, in the future, we can increase the price of our Great Qin’s products. Only then can the six countries willingly attach themselves to our Great Qin.” Shang Wen said.

"Dumping?" King Qin asked in confusion.

"Your Majesty, for example, now my country of Qin can produce food, and so can the six countries. But the food produced by my Great Qin is very cheap. It can be produced in large quantities. It is a good thing to have more food, but it is not good for my Great Qin. But it is a very bad thing. The farmers in Daqin are unwilling to plant because there is too much food and the price is lower than the cost. In this way, our country will face a serious food crisis. At this time, we need to sell To the Six Nations. The price of grain in the Six Countries is higher than ours. They want to fight wars and have huge demand. We will sell them to them. In this way, the enthusiasm of farmers in growing grain can be kept. And the Six Countries can also get what they want needs."

"However, the most important thing is the price. Our price must be deliberately lower than their normal grain price. We can use machines to produce, have technology as a support, and we have a cost advantage. In this way, we can greatly overwhelm them. A low price is a good thing for demanders, but it is a great disaster for producers." Shang Wen clapped his hands and said.

"Okay. What a dump. In this way, the six countries want to produce food, but no one is going to grow it." King Qin was stunned by Shang Wen's rhetoric.King Qin was the first to hear of such an approach. This approach was more terrifying than mobilizing millions of troops. The army was naked and murderous.What Shangwen uses is that the economy is an invisible sharp sword. This sharp sword is soft, but it kills people invisible.

215 Why Open Up Frontiers and Expand Territories

King Qin heard Shang Wen's explanation.I was stunned all of a sudden.The King of Qin is also a man of great talent and boldness, but compared to Shang Wen's business and economic methods, he seems a bit rough and domineering.

King Qin began to gradually doubt the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business since the reform of Xiao Gong and Shang Yang.As for Shang Wenxin's rhetoric, he began to accept it.

"Once the economies of the six countries are united, they will start to depend on the development of my Great Qin's economy. To what extent my Great Qin's economy has developed, they will depend on it. The survival rights of the people of the six countries depend on my Great Qin. If I, Great Qin, do not unify the six kingdoms, the six kingdoms will naturally ask us, Great Qin, to unify them. This becomes the will of God, an irreversible will of God." Shang Wen said, pointing at the sky with his finger.

In fact, the reason is very simple.The economies of the six countries are weak, and there is nothing lacking.The era of commodity exchange will only appear when war breaks out.This is why, several major businessmen in China have appeared in the war era.But now Shangwen not only wants to make the merchants in the war era rich, but also to upgrade the commercial activities of the merchants.This is the impact of upgrading will far exceed any era in China.

First of all, the economies of the six countries will no longer exist, but will be completely destroyed to form a single group economy. The advantage of this economy is that it concentrates limited resources to form different advantageous resources. On the basis of these advantageous resources, a single group economy is formed. Economic model, so that unification becomes the model of joint economic development.Political unity is extremely unstable.But economic unification can greatly stabilize irreconcilable political contradictions.Economic unification will create a great empire with absolute internal stability.

It was impossible for Shang Wen to think so much at the beginning.When the war situation develops to this point, even King Qin himself cannot stand in front of it.

"In addition, for us, unification only develops internal needs, and we also have strong external needs. This is also caused by our economic needs, which are far greater than our political needs. That King Alexander , The motivation for expanding the territory is only to acquire land. If the * territory cannot be converted into the economic lifeline of the confidant in time, it will not be able to hold it sooner or later." Shang Wen said.

"And if it is a land of resources that our economy relies heavily on, then even if it is lost once, we will quickly snatch it. For example, the gasoline, diesel, and kerosene that I, Daqin, are now refining from fierce fire oil. These things are not very obvious for my Daqin to use now. However, if my Daqin loses these places, my Daqin’s heavenly army will not be able to fly. And the lubricating oil of all my Daqin’s vehicles will not stop because there is no lubricant. Before. This kind of thing will affect all aspects of my Daqin's life. It is for this. The people of my Daqin will also come to my king and start a war. Take back these places. Even if the war consumes the strength of my Daqin, my son of Daqin The people are also willing. This is the economic motivation for war." Shangwen didn't know what to say.These theories Shangwen never thought of.only know.Once the war enters resource mode.The country's war behavior will become very crazy.The whole country will do everything in its power, unless the country is completely destroyed.Otherwise no one will be able to stop a gigantic war machine.

"The economic motivation of the war." King Qin asked incomprehensibly.

"Yes, the economy is resources. The ability of our technology to develop and utilize resources represents our economic capacity. In the past, we used knife-cutting and burning, but now we are farming with oxen and iron tools. These are the results of our use of new technologies to develop land. Slash-and-burn, It is a division of labor between agriculture and hunting. Farming will be a division of handicraft industry and agriculture. On the basis of handicraft industry, it will be upgraded to industry. These are the roads of technological development. This is also the direction of my Daqin's economic development. Now it is heavy on agriculture The policy of suppressing business has seriously suppressed this development trend. And King Qin, you have to make a huge reform. Ease the great disadvantages brought about by this policy. Only in this way can we, Great Qin, develop further." Shang Wen said.

"Oh. Don't tell me you want to explain the disadvantages of this policy like the great Yu who controlled the water." King Qin said.