In the study, the fire is still burning.
The First Emperor was dressed in regular clothes, sitting on the imperial chair with a golden sword, drinking milk and eating eggs, and said to Zhao Hao in a leisurely manner: "Can eating these things really detoxify?"
"able!"
Zhao Hao nodded solemnly, and then explained to Ying Zheng seriously: "The protein in milk can combine with lead poison to form a compound that is not easily absorbed by the human body, which can reduce the damage of lead poison to the human body!"
“The phosphoric acid in eggs can combine with lead poisoning to form lead hydrogen phosphate, which promotes the discharge of lead poisoning. In addition, you need to eat some high-fiber foods every day, such as oatmeal, brown rice, vegetable juices, and various fruits, which are beneficial to lead poisoning. discharge."
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Ying Zheng stopped chewing and blinked. A small steam bag appeared behind his head, and inside it emerged a black and white silhouette that did not belong to this time and space.
[What, what, what are you talking about? 】
"Hao'er, please stop talking. Well, my father is a little tired."
Ying Zheng raised his hand to interrupt Zhao Hao. He couldn't appear ignorant in front of his son, so he simply refused to let Zhao Hao continue to explain.
"Father, you can eat later when you are tired. I will prepare food for my father every day from now on, and I will ensure that my father's illness will be cured!"
Zhao Hao was not angry when he was interrupted by Ying Zheng, he just narrowed his eyes and chuckled.
When Ying Zheng heard what he said, he was slightly startled, and then asked: "Can eating these things still cure diseases?"
"Detoxify first, then treat the disease, as long as the father and emperor can trust his son and minister"
"Hahaha, do you believe it or not? How could my father not know my son's abilities?"
Ying Zheng laughed and then handed his arm to Zhao Hao.
Zhao Hao twitched the corner of his mouth and secretly thought where is the trust he promised? Doesn't this have the nature of a test?
"Last time I checked my father's pulse, I was a little hasty. This time I want to take a closer look."
Zhao Hao laughed a few times and put two fingers on Ying Zheng's wrist.
At this moment, Ying Zheng suddenly felt that his son was really extraordinary. He could not only govern the country, but also treat patients and save people. If it was because of that dream, this would be amazing.
Could it be that God bless me, Da Qin?
Send someone to enlighten my son in his dream and help me establish unparalleled achievements?
If this is really the case, I will definitely be enshrined in Mount Tai to comfort God and thank Him for protecting our great Qin!
Soon, the smile on Ying Zheng's face gradually grew stronger, and the more he looked at Zhao Hao, the more pleasing he became.
Zhao Hao's heart was in his throat. He couldn't feel his pulse at all. Now that he was being watched by Ying Zheng, he would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous.
After about a while, he couldn't pretend anymore, so he frowned and uttered two words: "Weird."
"Um?"
Ying Zheng was stunned again, then smiled and consoled him: "Please worry about my son, my father's disease is a chronic disease, and it is not easy to cure."
"Father." Zhao Hao said seriously: "Can you tell me the first symptoms of your illness?"
"Father, this disease has existed since the Zhao Kingdom." Ying Zheng thought for a while and did not tell Zhao Hao about his experience as a hostage in the Zhao Kingdom. He just said: "At the beginning, it was a cough, and then he had hot flashes and sweated easily. , and then I started coughing up phlegm and bleeding, and lost physical strength."
"Um."
Zhao Hao nodded slowly, thought for a moment, then couldn't help but stand up and pace back and forth in the study.
Ying Zheng looked at him quietly from his seat, and began to feel uneasy. He hadn't felt this uneasy in how many years.
The charcoal fire in the stove crackled, and there was silence in the study.
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Hao came back from his thoughts and turned to look at Ying Zheng, with a bit of light in his eyes: "Father, I have diagnosed that you have tuberculosis at first, and I would like to work with the imperial doctor to help you. You treat illnesses, what do you think?"
"tuberculosis?"
Ying Zheng frowned, as if he had heard of this disease for the first time.
In fact, Zhao Hao concluded that Ying Zheng had tuberculosis, mainly because of his teacher Wei Liao's evaluation of Ying Zheng, which gave him a hint.
Wei Liao commented on Ying Zheng: "The King of Qin is a man who is accurate in bees, has long eyes, and is fond of birds and the sound of jackals." '
Let’s not talk about the quality of this evaluation, but let’s talk about this jackal sound. How can an average patient make such a sound?
Only people with lung problems can make such 'strange' sounds.
But if there is a problem with the lungs, it does not mean that it is tuberculosis. It may be pneumonia or bronchitis.
The different symptoms of pneumonia, bronchitis, and tuberculosis are coughing up blood and hot flashes.
The symptoms of the First Emperor were very consistent with those of tuberculosis, so Zhao Hao concluded that it was tuberculosis.
Of course, this can only be diagnosed after communicating with the imperial physician responsible for treating the First Emperor.
"Father, don't worry. I have heard someone in my dream mention this disease. It can be easily cured by them!"
"Does my son really mean what he said?"
Ying Zheng was overjoyed.
Zhao Hao's chest puffed up and he said boldly: "Of course, Father! Others don't understand Erchen, don't you understand Erchen? When did Erchen deceive you?"
Upon hearing this, Ying Zheng, who was originally looking happy, suddenly hesitated.
However, Zhao Hao rolled his eyes and continued, "Father, do you still remember the pillar industry that I mentioned to you? In fact, we can also ask the young master to open a national medical center to treat diseases and make money!"
"Aren't you treating diseases and saving people? How can you make money by treating diseases? You are a prince, you can't lose sight of money." Ying Zheng muttered.
When Zhao Hao heard this, he said with some humor: "Father, please stop pretending. I heard it outside Xianyang Palace. You used my method of raising food and pretended to be cool in front of the ministers. The corner of your mouth almost reached the back of your head." Got it!"
After saying that, he winked at Ying Zheng a few times.
Ying Zheng blushed with embarrassment and couldn't help but slap him on the head: "What pretense! You are talking nonsense again!"
"ah!"
Zhao Hao screamed, rubbed his forehead and said, "Why does your father take action even if he disagrees with you?"
"Um?"
"Well, in fact, opening a national medical clinic can not only make money, but also cure the disease of the emperor! As the saying goes, the masters are among the people, and the risks of imperial doctors are too great. Even capable doctors would not dare to serve as imperial doctors. However, if a national medical clinic is established, If the medical clinic recruits them with a high salary, they may come. After all, it is every doctor’s lifelong pursuit to help the world by hanging a pot!"
"High-paying recruitment?"
"It's just like a minister receiving a salary! They sit in the medical center, treat diseases and save people, and the medical center pays them a salary. At the same time, it also allows them to diagnose difficult and complicated diseases. For example, stubborn diseases like my father's can be diagnosed by them!" Zhao Hao explained.
Ying Zheng nodded suddenly, and then asked with some confusion: "Why are you so passionate about business?"
Zhao Hao pondered and said: "Scholars, farmers, industry, merchants, and commerce have always been low-level industries. Especially in our country, agriculture is the main industry, and the status of merchants is as low as dust. However, this is very unreasonable."
"Why is it unreasonable?"
Ying Zheng frowned, looking a little unhappy.
In his eyes, businessmen are cunning and greedy and should be beaten into dust.
Especially Lu Buwei, whom he hated the most, was a businessman and was extremely hateful.
As if he had guessed what Ying Zheng was thinking, Zhao Hao sighed secretly and said bravely: "Father, I know that you hate businessmen, but don't you still understand the food shortage?"
Ying Zheng: "."
"The taxation of our Daqin is too monotonous. We rely entirely on agricultural taxes to support the state treasury. It is almost like relying on the weather to make a living. Once a disaster or military emergency occurs, the country will be very passive. Moreover, the salary of our Daqin is mainly based on food distribution. This is also a problem. It’s a big expense.”
"Then have I ever thought that businessmen are not engaged in production, but move around, collect money, and exploit people?"
Zhao Hao nodded; "This son has naturally thought about it, but if our country wants to be rich, we must develop commerce."
"What is this nonsense?"
Ying Zheng's face was serious and he said coldly: "If everyone goes into business, who will clear up wasteland and who will grow food? If no one opens up wasteland and grows food, wouldn't the farmland be overgrown with weeds? How can it be prosperous?"
"this"
Zhao Hao was speechless and didn't know how to explain to Ying Zheng.
Later generations adopted a market economy, and business competition was very fierce, and not all people would go into business.
Why did we have so many concerns in ancient times?
Doing business also requires brains, right? It doesn't mean that anyone with a few and a half taels of money can purchase goods from Xianyang, sell them in Longxi, and still make money.
Doing business does require capital, sales, and purchase channels.
Of course, taxes also need to be paid.
But shopping malls are like battlefields.
A fierce battle in the shopping mall is not necessarily weaker than the battlefield.
"Developing business can increase taxes and improve the country's finances. In the future, Great Qin will need a lot of money to support my father's ambition to dominate the Nine Continents!"
Now that he has emerged, Zhao Hao no longer hides his clumsiness. He wants to help the First Emperor build a prosperous Qin Empire.
But if ambition is constrained by finances, it will never be realized.
No matter what era, wars are fought for money and food.
Zhao Hao doesn't have to worry about food, because he has an 'artifact'.
But what about money?
The most common way for ancient dynasties to make money was to increase taxes.
To put it bluntly, it is reaching out to the people to ask for money.
Isn’t it easy to just open your mouth and add a tax item?
Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have emerged one after another in history. Not to mention later dynasties, the drinking water tax of Zhou Li and Wang Jihu can be called the weirdest among the weird.
In addition to bragging about not paying taxes, the single tax, shoe tax, barefoot tax, and sun tax in later generations will simply write shamelessness into history.
That is to say, the base of the common people in ancient times was quite large. If each person squeezed one or two money, an empire could make tens of millions in revenue every year and eat and drink for one or two years.
How many so-called wise kings, sage kings, and lords of resurgence can be produced in one dynasty?
Most of them are stupid and mediocre kings.
To expect them to care about the life and death of the people is better than burning incense sticks, praying to gods and worshiping Buddha.
In history, although the First Emperor was praised as the only emperor of the ages, he also had personal preferences. For example, the First Emperor did not like merchants, so the Qin Dynasty's business could not develop effectively, so the commercial tax was minimal or even negligible.
In Zhao Hao's opinion, this was actually a big failure.
"You think opening a business can increase the revenue of the treasury. Then my father asks you, how much can it increase?"
Seeing that Zhao Hao was silent, Ying Zheng asked again in a deep voice.
"Father, look at this."
Zhao Hao walked to the food box, picked it up and handed it to Ying Zheng: "How much does your father think it is worth?"
“How much is a food box worth?”
Ying Zheng muttered disapprovingly, then took the food box and looked at it carefully.
Suddenly, he suddenly realized that this food box was somewhat different from the food box he was familiar with.
I saw that the outside was woven with fine bamboo, and the workmanship was exquisite. The inside was wrapped with a layer of brocade cloth. It seemed that there was filling inside the brocade cloth for thermal insulation.
"This food box should be worth fifty and a half taels!" Ying Zheng said uncertainly.
Zhao Hao smiled slightly, nodded and said: "Okay, let's price the food box at fifty. Then how much tax should we charge for selling a food box?"
"According to our Daqin's business tax rate, which is one for every twelve taxes, of the fifty and a half taels, we will charge the remaining four and a half taels!"
"Fifty and a half taels, we only get the remaining four and a half taels, and they take the bulk. If this business is opened, it will not be of any benefit to us, but what if the business tax is raised to five to one, three to one? "
"Three taxes and one tax?"
Ying Zheng stood up in surprise and said: "How can this be achieved? Not to mention whether commercial tax can increase the revenue of the treasury, so squeezing businessmen is not like drinking a dove to quench thirst?"
"Father, compared to the agricultural tax of one for five and one for ten, are we, Da Qin, squeezing merchants or farmers?"
Zhao Hao asked seriously.
According to the statistics of Li Kui of Wei State in the early years of the Warring States Period.
At that time, one acre of land could produce 1.5 shi of grain.
However, in Li Kui's calculation, there are 100 steps per mu.
But after Shang Yang's reform, the Qin Dynasty expanded to 240 steps per mu.
Coupled with the use of iron plows and oxen, the output will inevitably increase greatly.
From this point of view, the agricultural tax of the Qin Dynasty was roughly between five taxes and one to ten taxes and one.
Even though agriculture in the Qin Dynasty was relatively developed, it was definitely heavily taxed at that time.
Moreover, the Qin Dynasty not only had taxes, but also had servitude.
The Qin Dynasty implemented a "universal compulsory military service system".
That is to say, adult men will be "Fu Ji".
Whenever the country has any major projects, they will be dragged to serve in corvee according to the list on the "Fu Ji".
This is called "practice update".
According to records in the "Book of Han·Shihuo Zhi", a man in the Qin Dynasty served in the military for one year, in reserve service or farming for one year, and then on duty for one month each year.
Calculated in this way, assuming a fifty-year-old man, the length of his current corvee service should be four and a half years.
This is already quite a lot of hard work.
What's more, the Qin Dynasty often carried out large-scale construction projects, and various major projects were carried out at the same time, and there might be temporary requisitions at any time.
Moreover, the place of work may be hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home.
It can be seen that the burden on the people of the Qin Dynasty was really heavy.
Being scolded as a "violent Qin" is not groundless.
"Even if you are right, this business cannot be opened to the public. My father will reduce taxes appropriately and prevent the people from doing so."
"Father, it's useless."
Zhao Hao interrupted Ying Zheng's words and said with a wry smile: "Our Daqin is already poor now. If we reduce taxes, how will the country operate? This is simply unrealistic."
The wise kings of ancient times often did this by easing taxes and reducing taxes, but they also had to be divided into time periods.
After all, not every wise man has read Das Kapital.
The development of society is dynamic, not solid. There are many principles that even a wise king does not understand.
What they thought was the correct method for thousands of years was actually a joke in the face of the laws of history.
"Okay, let father think about the business tax matter again. You can go back first!"
After being interrupted by Zhao Hao, Ying Zheng no longer wanted to discuss business taxes with him.
After all, in his heart, Zhao Hao is still a child. No matter how smart a child is, it is impossible for him to know everything.
However, he was somewhat moved by the treatment method proposed by Zhao Hao, so before Zhao Hao left, he added: "My father will inform the imperial doctor to give you full authority to assist you."
"That medical clinic"
"Just do what you want and let Zhang Cang assist you!"
"Okay, Father!"
Zhao Hao felt happy and quickly saluted Ying Zheng respectfully.
Although he could not persuade Ying Zheng to open a business for the time being, with the precedent of the medical clinic, he would definitely find another way to persuade Ying Zheng.
After all, if there is one, there are two, and if there are two, there are three.
The three give birth to all things.
There is one more chapter, probably later.
(End of chapter)
