Chapter 536: Glass used in commercial wars
"Let the Confucians follow the caravan to the Mauryan Dynasty to pass on Confucian ideas. In addition, the Chinese characters of China will also be introduced to the Mauryan Dynasty.
We need to open academies in our territory so that all children can study and learn our Chinese characters. Qin An said.
"You may be curious, it is normal for common people not to know how to read, but now the common people of the Mauryan Dynasty are asked to read and write."
Li Si said: "You must have your own ideas."
"Yes, everyone says that history is written by the victors. Since we want to be victors, we must let the people of the Maurya Dynasty recognize us from the beginning.
Since they want to recognize us, we must destroy everything they have before and let them recognize us literally and consciously.
And words are indeed the best bond.
Everyone in the world says that countries produce civilization, but China is the only country that produces civilization. Among the four ancient countries on the earth, only China has continued to this day, and the other three ancient countries have all disappeared.
This is thanks to the First Emperor. "
"Oh, why?" Ying Zheng became interested.
Qin An said: "Because of the First Emperor, he unified writing, and the emergence of writing recorded the two thousand years of Chinese history.
If there were no writing, or if the writing was different in each place, then it would not be long before China would fall apart.
It can be said that wherever the Chinese characters are, there is Chinese culture, which is a part of China.
As long as the Mauryan Dynasty uses Chinese characters, it won't take long for the Mauryan Dynasty to become a part of China. "
Ying Zheng and others nodded slightly.
In particular, Li Si and others looked at Ying Zheng with admiration. It can be said that without Ying Zheng, there would be no China.
And this is also true. If Yingzheng had not unified the six countries, the Warring States period would have been extended. Even if someone unified the six countries, what if he did not have a unified writing system?
Once divided in the future, the writing in each place will create a country one by one, and then they will fight until someone unifies the writing.
If the Qin Dynasty unified the Mauryan Dynasty, then abolished all the writing systems of the Mauryan Dynasty and used Chinese characters, then it would not be long before the Chinese writing system became prevalent in the Mauryan Dynasty.
Even if the Maurya Dynasty does not obey the Qin Dynasty now, they will obey it in a few decades or hundreds of years.
There are countless such examples in China.
"This is easy to say. There are people in China who can help. But what I just said was economic warfare."
Qin An thought for a while and said: "This is the eleventh step. If you want to use commercial war against other countries, you must first make sure that the other country is as powerful as we are.
If we rashly use commercial warfare when the other party doesn't know anything, I'm afraid that the merchants we send will eventually be detained or killed with both their people and their goods.
Only when we show our strong side can our businessmen feel safe.
Only if they dare not take action against our businessmen can we launch a business war. The way to start a business war is very simple: food.
We purchased a large amount of grain, then created a grain shortage, and worked with the government officials to buy and sell grain, increasing the price of the grain by ten to twenty times, or even a hundred times. "
"This may cause civil unrest." Li Si nodded.
Qin An said: "What are you afraid of? It's not that there is civil unrest in our territory. And we don't come forward personally. We can just ask the upper castes of the Mauryan Dynasty to come forward. As long as we promise to give them half of the benefits, I believe there are many People are willing to help us.”
"With just one grain of food, I'm afraid we won't be able to destroy each other through commercial war." Ying Zheng said.
"Of course not." Qin An said, "With colored glaze, two colored glaze beads can buy a dozen fine war horses.
According to what I said before, use glass to destroy the country.
Liuli is divided into five grades: super, high, medium, low and inferior, and they are sold to the royal family, courtiers, nobles, rich people, ordinary people and poor people respectively.
I am very sure that as long as Liuli appears, everyone will be willing to spend money to buy it.
As long as we slowly encroach on them, within a few years, the Mauryan Dynasty will be in dire straits.
Father-in-law, do you really want such a Maurya dynasty? "
"What do you want to say?" Ying Zheng asked.
Qin An said: "If I were in Great Qin and wanted to win the Maurya Dynasty, I would have to do it step by step and not act too hastily.
The real enemy of Da Qin was the Xiongnu, and there were internal conflicts.
Fortunately, the Xiongnu did not dare to take a step forward with Meng Tian in charge, but their internal conflicts were very serious and they needed to be resolved as soon as possible. "
"What's the internal conflict?" Ying Zheng asked knowingly.
Li Si and others were shocked. Everyone was well aware of the internal conflict, but there was no way to solve it for a while. Moreover, everyone had a tacit understanding and never mentioned it.
Now that Qin An has spoken out, he is putting the matter on the table, and it needs to be resolved when it is put on stage.
But currently, they can't solve it.
Qin An said: "First of all, there is the contradiction between the old and new nobles, that is, the contradiction between the old and new nobles. The new nobles are all a group of people who support Shang Yang's reforms, and the old nobles are a group of nobles whose ancestors have lived and died for the Qin Dynasty.
The second is the land conflict. This conflict actually exists in every dynasty. The reason is that after the privatization of land, the land of the common people will be bought by the nobles for various reasons.
And people without land cannot engage in business and can only starve to death. In this way, people without land can only rent land from the nobles and landlords who bought it.
From now on, part of the food they grow will be given to the court, part to the landlords or nobles, and finally it will be their own rations.
These rations are definitely enough for one person, but not enough to feed a family.
These two are major contradictions, and the most important thing is to resolve them. "
"Easier said than done. Do you have any good ideas?" Ying Zheng asked.
Qin An smiled and said, "It's hard to say this is difficult, but it's easy to say it's easy."
"What do you say?" Ying Zheng became curious.
Others also looked at Qin An, and they were also curious.
Qin An said: "It's simple because you just need to give the order directly, but it's not simple because everyone can be at odds with each other."
"It means you didn't say anything." Ying Zheng said.
"Father-in-law, don't be anxious." Qin An said, "There is a trick to issuing an imperial edict. First, you must tell the world that everyone is equal, and anyone who breaks the law will be punished by the law.
Then just kill a few nobles who do evil, especially those who bully the people.
In this way, the common people will understand the court's good intentions, and the nobles will unite.
Their unified purpose was to resist the imperial decree and hope that the imperial court would change the content of the imperial edict. "
