"These words are not just said once, but should be said frequently and continuously, and special personnel should be sent to spend time with them to talk to them day and night, until they subconsciously feel that it is really good to be annexed by the Qin Dynasty! And they will tell their descendants about the goodness of the Qin Dynasty. .”
"Coupled with the fact that Da Qin treated them equally with the Qin people and brought them better farming methods, salt, cloth, etc., it took more than ten or twenty years for a new generation of Hu people to grow up under Da Qin's rule. Get up, are you still afraid that they have different intentions towards Da Qin?"
Several people were amazed and amazed.
I continued: "So Qin people who enter Donghu must be strictly prohibited from discriminating against Hu people. If discrimination against Hu people often occurs, Qin Law will be issued directly: Anyone who attacks others based on race or region, such as where that person is from, They must be that kind of people. Those who make such remarks will be fined directly until they can't even afford to eat, so they naturally have no intention of talking about others."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
This is a good trick, and they are also annoyed by those who say that I belong to a certain tribe in a certain county, and then make remarks like being superior to others, such as the Bai family of Xi County that has disappeared...
Looking at Li Si, I smiled and said, "Does Mr. Li still have any questions?"
Li Si looked at Feng Jie and then at Yu He, as if to say: Don't let me speak alone. You two are both three men. Is it appropriate to trick me alone? ?
Feng Jie and Yu He looked at their noses and mouths, looking like old gods: Who made you the right prime minister...
Li Si had no choice but to continue: "Your Majesty, the third thing is that there is a bit too much food loss in the treasury..."
"What?" I was a little surprised, but not too worried. The treasury would not be in deficit anyway: "At the beginning of the year, it was said that the food in the treasury would overflow, but now it has only been a few months and the loss is a bit too much? To what extent? "
Li Si looked at my expression and said quickly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, there won't be any problems for the time being!"
I was speechless. If you hadn't said this, I might have been more relieved.
"What happened? Where did the food go?"
Li Si looked like a bitter gourd: "Your Majesty, first of all, this time the war started with the Xiongnu, Donghu, and Beihu at the same time, including three generals, Qin Chang, and Wuwei. Da Qin dispatched nearly 300,000 Qin troops! And they all fought at long distances. .”
"Although General Wu's cavalry has never asked for food and grass since they entered the grassland, they spent nearly 240,000 stones of food and grass during the more than half a year they were stationed in western Liaoning. Part of this was still contributed by the two counties of Liaoxi and Liaodong."
"General Meng and General Wang's nearly 250,000 troops have been preparing for war since this spring. Soldiers, horses, civilians, etc. have spent nearly 1 million stones, grain and grass in one expedition. The two together are close to 120 Forty thousand stones.”
"Both of them, the food and grass provided to Dada and the five counties in Hexi every month comes from the treasury. Including road transportation, it is 50,000 dan per month. From last autumn to now, the total is 300,000 dan. The five counties in Hexi The construction of the five cities has consumed seven million stones."
"Third, Your Majesty ordered people to send another hundred thousand shi of food to Beihu."
"In addition, the daily supplies for the border troops, the fattening of horses, the salaries of officials, the construction of the Emperor's Temple, the construction of roads in the south of the Yangtze River, etc. In addition, since His Majesty came to the throne, he has reduced oral and land taxes, and greatly reduced the corvee. Now the corvee is not only provided by the court every day For example, iron smelting, Jiangzuo Mansion, Jiangnan Weaving, Gudao Salt Mansion, etc. also pay wages, and His Majesty does not allow paper, farm tools, etc. to compete with the people for profit..."
"From the beginning of the first month to now, the grain reserves in the national treasury have been consumed by nearly 14 million dan. Since the tax reduction, the annual revenue of the imperial court has been around 12 million dan, plus three years of old grain. , don’t worry too much just yet…”
I looked at Li Si with a shocked look on his face. Doesn’t this special girl need to worry?
"Book of Rites: Kingship" once said: A country without nine years of savings is said to be insufficient; a country without six years of savings is said to be in a hurry; a country without three years of savings is said to be a wrong country.
According to Li Si's words, Da Qin only has three years of grain reserves and is about to lose its country?
But what shocked me the most was that in just three months of war, nearly two million stones of food were consumed?
An adult eats about one stone of staple food a year, which is equivalent to the fact that the war with the Xiongnu directly consumed one-twentieth of the population of the Qin Dynasty for a year?
And to build five new cities, nearly 7 million shi of food was consumed in just half a year?
Seeing my dumbfounded look, Feng Jie quickly comforted me and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Compared with the First Emperor thirty-seven years ago, things are much better... I made a mistake..."
After Feng Jie finished speaking, he realized that he was slapping Ying Zheng in the face...
I murmured: "No wonder Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only defeated the Xiongnu and built Shuofang City, and then exhausted all the accumulation of Wenjing's rule, leaving such a big hole for the subsequent emperors to fill..."
Yu He was close and said, "What did your Majesty say?" What Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? What is the rule of Wenjing?
I shook my head and calmed down: "It's nothing."
I suddenly remembered: "Don't the treasury have money and silk? Use the money and silk to buy it."
Jiangzuo Mansion, Gudao Yanfu, Jiangnan Weaving, and so many government-owned industries, tax money and silk, should make a lot of money.
Li Si cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is wise, but if the imperial court uses money and grain to purchase grain, it will cause the price of grain to skyrocket. Then I'm afraid..."
I nodded: "That makes sense. First, for government-run government offices that do business, the government will no longer bear all expenses. All expenses will be borne by the government offices themselves, and the censor will be responsible for monitoring whether there are any problems with the expenses."
"Second, starting from today, local governments will relax the conditions for lending. If the purchase of agricultural tools, tools, cattle, grain seeds, etc. is beneficial to agriculture and workers, the government will lend money and silk to them after confirmation. And when repaying the loan, If you can’t still pay back the money and silk, you have to give the government the equivalent amount of corn;”
"Thirdly, when I read the report of the Great Court Meeting last year, I found that transporting one stone of grain from Jiangnan actually cost half of it on the road! Therefore, the roads in Jiangnan still need to be repaired, and they must be repaired quickly! Starting from this year, the grain in Jiangnan will not be needed Enter the Xianyang treasury and build granaries in Jiangnan. From now on, the grain in Jiangnan will be stored in various county offices, and if necessary nearby, it will be allocated directly from Jiangnan."
"The imperial court recruited civilian laborers to build roads through corvee work and work. At the same time, Zhao Tuo was asked to slow down his march south and allocate some people to open up the south of the Yangtze River. The corvees who built roads were no longer provided with food. They were given money and silk just like those who worked. , don’t give them food, let them buy food by themselves. In two years, I will see that the road south of the Yangtze River can reach every pavilion."
After hearing this, Li Si admired and said: "Your Majesty is wise. In this way, money and silk can be circulated to the hands of the head of Guizhou again, and the national treasury is filled with corn."
Several other people agreed.
Then I made arrangements for Meng Tian to stabilize to the west of Yinshan Mountain, and discussed with several county guards at the border to move the people there as soon as possible. There is abundant water and grass there, and there are arable fields, so it is not difficult to move people there.
He also asked Wu Jian to personally escort Tou Man Shanyu to the execution ground for execution, letting Da Qin know that the Qin army had a general with great military exploits, which could not only enhance Wu Jian's prestige, but also encourage him to join the army voluntarily. After that, he led his army to station in Shangjun.
Wang Li was sent to Hexi by me and led his 40,000 people to help complete the construction of the cities in the five counties of Hexi as soon as possible. There are plateau mountains to resist the Gaoqiang people. Now there is basically no need to defend that section of the Great Wall. The city wall has a natural advantage in resisting the nomads.
