The Jagged Empire of Daqin

This year's finance is almost double that of last year, especially the business tax, which has more than doubled. This is not because there are more merchants in Daqin, but the Ministry of Ordnance. The money that goes to the Ministry of Ordnance, and then pays a huge commercial tax to the government.

Compared with the money that Daqin gave to the Ordnance Department, more than half of it was returned to the court, and the left hand was handed over to the right hand.

"So much, how do you spend it?" Ying Chang was suddenly distressed.

In the past, when Daqin was poor, he wished he could split one coin in half and spend it as two coins. Now the treasury is full of silver, and he doesn't know how to spend all the money.

If the emperors of the countries know that Ying often has this idea, they will definitely vomit blood in anger. I am worried about money every day, and you are worried about having a lot of money. All the officials couldn't stand it anymore.

Look, is this what people say?

"There is a saying in Datong, which calls for the old to rely on. Since I, Daqin, call for Datong in the world, I will take practical actions and pass on my will. From now on, nursing homes will be established in various counties and counties to accommodate 55-year-olds who have no children and no daughters. , please ask a special person to take care of it, and all expenses will be borne by the imperial court!"

"At the same time, all Daqin citizens, over 60 years old, regardless of gender, can go to the government to receive a pension of one tael of silver every year. Starting this year, the Ministry of Household Affairs will be in charge of these two matters. What do you love about this? Objection?" Ying Chang looked around the officials with sharp eyes, although he was asking all the officials if they had any objections, but his tone gave people an unquestionable feeling.

"The ministers are no different!" All the ministers shouted in unison with respectful expressions!

"Very good!" Ying Chang nodded in satisfaction.

At this time, Zhang Feizi took out a memorial from his pocket, bent over and presented it with both hands: "Your Majesty, this is the budget memorial for this year!"

Pei Ji immediately stepped down from the high platform, took the budget memorial from Zhang Feizi, and presented it to the imperial platform. Ying Chang took the budget memorial and unfolded it to read. The content of the budget memorial is as follows:

Shengqin's 27-year annual budget

兵部：军械部预算为一亿两白银；军队预算为两千400万两白银、800万石粮食；水师预算为480万两白银、100万石粮食；预备营预算为7000万两白银，一千550万石粮食，兵部日常开支预算50万两白银

Ministry of Rites; Daily expenses 20 taels of silver

The Household Department: The three prefectures outside the customs need 4000 million shi of grain to maintain the survival of more than 2000 million herdsmen. The budget for the annual expenditure of the local governments in Daqin and the salaries of local officials and court officials is 30 million taels of silver, and the daily expenditure budget of the Household Department is [-] taels. silver!

Ministry of Industry: Daily expenditure budget 30 taels of silver

The Ministry of Officials; the daily expenditure budget of the Ministry of Officials is 30 taels of silver

Middle school; the budget for daily expenses of schools around the world is 550 million taels of silver, and the budget for daily expenses of middle schools is 50 taels of silver

The total financial budget of the 27th year of the Great Qin Dynasty Shengqin is: 610 million taels of silver and 450 million taels of grain!

After reading the budget memorial, Ying Chang folded up the budget memorial and handed it to Pei Ji. Pei Jie took the budget memorial and walked down the stage again, handing it back to Zhang Feizi with both hands. After Zhang Feizi got the budget memorial, Ying Chang made a sound said:

"I have no problem with this year's budget, but as I said just now, the establishment of a pension system and nursing home system is a relatively expensive matter, especially in the early stage. Therefore, in the overall budget, I will give more to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Increase the budget by 4000 million taels of silver!"

Including Ying Chang's increased budget, this year's budget will reach 610 million taels of silver, leaving only 18 million taels of silver and 580 million shi of grain left in the treasury!

"I will increase this year's budget immediately according to His Majesty's request!" Zhang Feizi bowed down respectfully and responded.

Ying Chang looked around at the ministers, and seeing that no one continued to stand up to report the matter, he passed a look to Pei Ji, Pei Ji nodded slightly, and immediately shouted to all the officials: "If there is something to do, start to play, and if there is nothing to do, leave the court! "

No one stood out of the queue!

Seeing this, Ying slowly got up from the pitch-black carved dragon throne, passed the steps behind the high platform and walked down the high platform without looking back. Said: "I will send you off to Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

After Yingchang disappeared into the Kylin Hall, all the officials got up from the ground one after another, walked with their colleagues, and left the majestic and sacred Kylin Hall one after another. On the way, the ministers were also discussing today's court meeting:

"Your Majesty really thinks, how can crops be grown for two seasons and three seasons!"

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Chapter 843 Implementation of the Second Raising Policy!

"Your Majesty is able to say it. His Majesty has his own reasons. Don't you believe in Your Majesty?"

"Naturally, Your Majesty, but this is really inconceivable and impossible."

"Don't worry about it. Didn't your Majesty just say, just try it. After all, if you don't try it, how will you know if it will work? For example, the Ugly Bull Cannon. If you haven't seen its power with your own eyes, do you believe in its existence?"

"Master Yang is right!"

"I have to say that His Majesty's nursing home policy and pension policy are really good, and they can let the soldiers of the Great Qin let go of everything!"

"Well, this is great news for the 4000 million people of Great Qin!"

"The truth will be announced later to convey this good news to the people of the world!"

"Ha ha!"

The ministers walked together talking and laughing, some discussed Yingchang's seasonal crops, and some discussed pension policies for nursing homes. Most ministers did not believe in the existence of multi-seasonal crops, thinking that Yingchang was a fantasy and impossible thing.

No matter what they think, time will tell!

Oasis Palace!

After the dynasty was over, Ying Chang took Pei Ji, Cao Zhen and ten Xianyang Palace military guards to Ganquan Palace. In the front yard of Ganquan Palace, Empress Yang Xiao was sitting under a peach tree, holding a baby in her arms. This baby was Yang Xiao. A child born two months ago.

She is a princess, named Ying Yin by Ying Chang!

After Ying Chang stayed with Yang Xiao in Ganquan Palace for a while, he went to Guangxian Palace to visit the three children of Tang Hua Ying Bei Ying Mica, and then went to the major palaces one by one to review the memorials in each room of the harem.

It's time!

Xianyang City!

"Announcement, folks and elders, listen carefully. His Majesty has decided that from now on, all elderly people over 55 years old who have no children and no daughters can go to nursing homes to spend their days. You can go to the government to receive a pension of one tael of silver!"

"Master Bing, where is the nursing home?"

"The nursing home is a large courtyard built by the government. It is specially used to support the elderly who have no children and no daughters. There will be dedicated people to take care of them. There is no need to pay any fees, and everything is free!"

"And what do you mean by pension?"

"To put it bluntly, it is to send money to the elderly over 60 years old, so that the elderly do not have to worry about their livelihood!"

"This is great, Your Majesty really loves the people like a son!"

"This old man has lived most of his life. This is the first time I heard that old men still have money. What's even more unbelievable is that the imperial court specially built a large courtyard to take care of old men. It's a blessing in the world. Those who are afraid of old age can finally feel comfortable. One breath!"

"We should be really lucky, lucky to be born in Qin, and lucky to be a wise majesty!"

"Don't mention how much people from other countries envy me Qin people. They all sharpen their heads and want to become Qin people, haha!"

"Whether you admit it or not, from now on, His Majesty is the king of the world in my heart!"

Not long after the early dynasty ended, Prime Minister Zuo sent officers and soldiers to post notices, and also sent messengers to the states of Daqin to convey the pension and nursing home policies. The pension policy and nursing home policy are collectively referred to as the two-care policy!

When the common people heard the news of Er Yang Ce, they danced and danced excitedly. The streets, alleys, teahouses and restaurants were all discussing this matter. Everyone was praising Ying Chang for being a peerless sage. , and even called Ying Chang the emperor of the world!

Human Sovereign, a strange and majestic word, is also the title that countless emperors dream of, but so far, no one has been given the title of Human Sovereign. Even the current Ying Chang is only called Human Sovereign by a small group of old people. And it's just the emperor hidden in his heart.

If one day, when people in the world hear the word Yingchang and the word Saint Qin Emperor, and the first thing they think is the emperor, then Yingchang is the real emperor!

At the same time, the northern suburbs of Xianyang City!

A small courtyard with bricks and tiles is located in the outermost periphery of the northern suburban city. A circle of stone walls is built around the small courtyard with bricks and tiles, and a gate is left to surround the small courtyard. , the middle is the bedroom, the two huts behind are the woodshed and the kitchen, and the toilet is inside the woodshed.

The small courtyard only occupies an area of ​​one mu, but it has all internal organs and is very clean, without much cobweb dust. From this, it can be seen that the owner of this small courtyard is a person who loves cleanliness.

At this moment, the gate of the front yard opened from the outside, and an old man walked into the small courtyard with a bamboo basket full of wet clothes. The old man's hair was gradually graying, his face had rough wrinkles, and his skin was dark. Wearing a relatively expensive dark gray patterned brocade dress, wearing a copper crown on the head, which restrains the graying hair, and a copper hairpin is inserted into the copper crown as a fix.

Judging from the way the old man was dressed, he was a decent person.

The old man's name is Zhuang Yan, known as Zhuang Lao, and he is 55 years old. He is quite famous in the whole city of Xianyang.Mr. Zhuang is a native of Old Qin in Shangyang County. The old Qin people in Shangyang County are generally miserable. The reason for the misery is the Yangguan defense battle 20 years ago.

Before the Yangguan Defense War broke out, Mr. Zhuang was 35 years old. He had six brothers, three sons and two daughters. His parents were still alive. Because he was very poor at that time, the whole family had only one small yard, so the seven families including Mr. Zhuang were united. Live in a small courtyard, this small courtyard is now this small courtyard of bricks and tiles.

Although life was very poor at that time, the whole family huddled together happily, talking and laughing, and had no other worries. As long as they could drink a bowl of gruel every day, they were already satisfied, but the Yangguan defense war broke out. After that, all the happiness disappeared completely!

In that battle, Mr. Zhuang's father led his family of 36 people, old and young, to Yangguan with the large team rushing to rescue Yangguan. When the war was over, he was the only one of the 36 members of his family, who buried 35 dead relatives by himself.

From then on, Mr. Zhuang became disheartened and began to give up on himself. All the money from the court relief was used by him to sell wine and drink, and the fertile land rewarded by the court was also sold privately by him, so he spent three months in prison. If the government didn't think that his family died fighting for the country, otherwise he would not be able to get out of selling fertile land privately for three to five years.

In addition to being imprisoned for three months, the government also took back all the fertile land awarded to him by the court. Although Mr. Zhuang deserves sympathy, it is impossible for the country's laws to make an exception for one person. If you sympathize with him, you have to confiscate the fertile land according to law.

The money was squandered, and the good land was confiscated instead of being sold, which made Mr. Zhuang fall to the bottom of his life. In order to survive, Mr. Zhuang had to do chores for others to earn a meager amount of money, and then lived three days fishing and five days drying the net life.

Chapter 844 High-spirited old man Zhuang!

This kind of life has been going on for 15 years, until Mr. Zhuang was 50 years old, he suddenly remembered that he was alone, if he didn't make some money while he was able to move, and he couldn't move in the future, what should he do, there was no coffin.

For the sake of the elderly and the coffin, it happened that someone died in battle, and the leftover land was left uninherited. The government saw that although Mr. Zhuang was 50 years old, his body was still strong, and he was still the defender of Yangguan. One acre of land was allocated to Mr. Zhuang. After Mr. Zhuang got this acre of good land, he began to cultivate the field.

Mr. Zhuang's farming skills are very good, and the grain he grows is five or six times more than other people's acre of land. He has become a remarkable existence in the eyes of outsiders, and Mr. Zhuang has a little reputation because of this. satisfy.

Because others are old, they can only plant one mu of land at most, and they will be powerless if they grow too much. Even if the grain produced by one mu of land is a few buckets more than others, after handing over half to the government, the rest can only be used to fill their own stomachs , Can't earn the coffin money at all.

Mr. Zhuang began to think of a way, began to collect all kinds of rice ears and pondered carefully, and finally in the third year, that is, the 25th year of Shengqin, he successfully planted eight stones of grain on one mu of land, which was four times the output of ordinary fertile land. As soon as the news came out, Mr. Zhuang's reputation was greatly shaken!

All of a sudden, countless people came here, even officials from the middle school, and wanted to invite Mr. Zhuang to take a job in the middle school and teach the students in the farm hall to plant, but Mr. Zhuang refused. He has feelings for the court and government. A trace of hatred.

In the eyes of outsiders, Mr. Zhuang has always relied on his superb farming skills to become a man of the hour, but in fact, only Mr. Zhuang himself knows that eight shi of grain per mu has nothing to do with his farming skills, it all depends on himself Synthetic new rice species.

Mr. Zhuang kept this secret in his heart all the time, and he didn't tell anyone, because he was afraid that if the news got out, the imperial court would send people to grab the rice seeds, and he was also afraid that some money-seeking businessmen would use dirty tricks to rob them openly and secretly.

Mr. Zhuang walked to the bamboo pole where the clothes were dried step by step, put down the bamboo basket in his hand, took out the freshly washed clothes from it, and dried them neatly on the bamboo pole. After finishing these, Mr. Zhuang took out a chair from the bedroom On a coffee table, brew a pot of camellia water, and drink it quietly.

He is very satisfied with his life in old age. Apart from being busy in spring and autumn, he spends the other two seasons eating, drinking and having fun. In addition, he also has some money in hand, so he lives a very comfortable life.

tread... tread...

At this moment, there was a sound of light footsteps outside the courtyard. Mr. Zhuang, who was sitting on a chair drinking tea, turned his eyes and saw a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes and a gold ring walking in through the gate with a smile. In the small courtyard.

Seeing the guests coming, Mr. Zhuang didn't stand up to greet them, and still sipped tea on his own, completely ignoring the visitors.

The middle-aged man seemed to be accustomed to this, and he didn't take it for granted. He walked up to Mr. Zhuang with a smile and said, "Mr. Zhuang is in a good mood. Tea tasting started early in the morning, haha!"

Mr. Zhuang showed impatience, and said in a cold tone: "Boss Zhang, don't you look at the sky, is it still early in the morning? In an hour, the old man will start a fire and cook, that's all right, have a meal?" Put your farts away, I don't have time to listen to your nonsense!"

Boss Zhang, whose real name is Zhang Shou, is the largest grain merchant in Xianyang City, with a fortune of tens of millions. Putting him in the vassal state, he is an existence that is incomparably rich.

Seeing his hot face on Mr. Zhuang's cold buttocks, Zhang Shou was a little embarrassed, but quickly concealed his embarrassment, and continued to put on a smiling face and said: "Mr. I wonder if Mr. Zhuang sold the grain he collected last year?"

Because the grain grown by Zhuang Lao not only has a high yield, but also has full grains, twice the size of ordinary grains, and tastes very delicious, so Zhang Shou always came to collect the grains in person. He harvested once last year, which made him earn a lot of money. Millions of taels of silver.

Some people may ask, even if all the grain grown by Mr. Zhuang is sold, it is only eight shi grains. How did the eight shi grains sell for millions of taels of silver?10 taels per stone?Who is taking advantage of this!

Of course, no one is being taken advantage of, and Bashi Grain did not sell millions of taels of silver. The income of millions of taels of silver was entirely obtained by Zhang Shou. He relied on Mr. Zhuang’s grain to make a name for himself. No., first provided to the rich family in the city.

Many wealthy businessmen had eaten Zhuang Lao's grains once, and they were out of control, rushing to buy Zhuang Lao's grains one after another. Relying on the enthusiasm of the rich Jia in the city, Zhang Shou quickly made his grain shop popular all over the prefecture, attracting many people Go to his grain store to buy grain.

brand effect!

This is how the profit of millions of taels of silver came.

Originally, Zhang Shou was going to come to Zhuang’s hometown to buy grain at the end of last autumn, but his old mother died of illness. Since ancient times, filial piety has been the leader, Zhang Shou had no choice but to send his men to buy grain, and went to his hometown to attend the funeral by himself, but his staff told him , Mr. Zhuang does not sell.

Knowing that Mr. Zhuang would not sell it, Zhang Shou thought that Mr. Zhuang had to go there himself to save face. He had no choice but to wait for the vigil to end and return to Xianyang in a hurry. As soon as he returned to Xianyang, he went directly to Mr. Zhuang's home.

"Not for sale!" Mr. Zhuang replied calmly.

Hearing the word "not sold", Zhang Shouru breathed a sigh of relief when he was granted an amnesty. He was afraid that Mr. Zhuang would sell the grain, otherwise the name he just made would be gone soon.

In fact, before Zhang Shou came, many grain merchants came to Zhuang's hometown in person, but Mr. Zhuang didn't sell them. The reason for not selling them was simple. The price of these grains was too low, and he didn't like them at all.

Zhang Shou bent down slightly, respectfully, looked at Elder Zhuang expectantly and said, "Elder Zhuang, how about I charge you the price last year?"

Mr. Zhuang paused when he picked up the teacup, put the teacup back on the coffee table without taking a sip of tea, turned his head to look at the expectant Zhang Shou and sneered, "Boss Zhang is really shrewd, don't you think that old lady I am old, my ears can't hear, my eyes can't see!"

Zhang Shou frowned slightly, with a puzzled look on his face, he asked, "Why did Mr. Zhuang say that?"

"Huh!" Mr. Zhuang snorted coldly, with an extremely displeased expression on his face, "The last time I went to the city to store clothes, I saw with my own eyes that your grain shop offered a price of 100 taels of silver for a bucket of grain, and I went over to have a look in person. The grain you grow, Boss Zhang, you are so unkind, you charge me the price of one tael of silver and one stone of grain, and resell it for 100 taels a bucket, which is a thousand times worse!"

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Chapter 845 300 taels of silver!

"Boss Zhang has made a lot of money, and he still wants to accept the old man's good grain at last year's price. The old man thought, you have a good face and look good, thinking of you will be more kind, who would have imagined, you are darker than those people!"

After Zhang Shou heard this sentence, he immediately understood that when his subordinates came to purchase, Mr. Zhuang did not sell it. It was not because Mr. Zhuang wanted to save face, but because the price was not in place!

What a mature man!

"Mr. Zhuang, what you said is wrong. You also know that last year's purchase price of grain was fifty yuan a stone, but I will give you one tael of silver and one stone directly for the younger generation. The difference is more than double. You You only saw me selling 100 taels of silver for a bucket of grain, but you didn’t see how much I paid for it, junior!”

"Junior, in order to make a name for myself, I use all the contacts I can use, and I have to manage up and down, and publicize. This all requires money. If not, will your reputation spread throughout Xianyang City? Can you become the leader of Xianyang City? A man of the hour?"

"You can't see my success as a junior, so just be jealous, just cross the river and tear down the bridge, that's not how business is done!" Zhang Shou clacked and said his own difficulties. His words were not intended to deceive old editor Zhuang. Yes, it is true.

Mr. Zhuang also knew that he was immoral, but he still couldn't accept the price of one tael of silver and one stone of grain, so he didn't say anything at all.

Seeing that Mr. Zhuang didn't speak, Zhang Shou had a strong helpless look on his face, and after a moment of contemplation, he sighed and said, "Okay, I'll pay 20 taels, 20 taels a stone, it's all right! "

"100 taels!" Elder Zhuang said calmly.