Chapter 75: People Waiting for War
At night, Li Si couldn't feel sleepy when he lay on the soft pile of wheat straw.
He thought a lot, mostly random thoughts.
He knew that most of his guesses were wrong.
Regarding the King of Qin whom he had never met, he admitted that his previous guess might be too simple.
Not only did he underestimate the King of Qin, but he also underestimated the current Qin State.
Today's Qin State... in the peasant association, people should be said to be rich.
This kind of wealth is different from any kind of wealth that Li Si knew in the past.
They are simply farming, simple textiles, simple iron smelting, and simple captive livestock.
Simple can't be simpler.
According to Li Si's past experience, it is impossible to become rich if you do not participate in political activities and the interests given by the state, and do not plunder other people's accumulation.
Because land output is limited, because the growth and reproduction of livestock take time, because textiles, from raw materials to finished products, is a long process.
All human activities require energy consumption.
Where are so many people in a family-style workshop?
Even if you have 200 or 300 acres of land at home, you can only cultivate forty or fifty acres of land at most.
If you have more, you need to hire three people to help you with farming.
It will naturally be faster to use iron plows and oxen plows, but can ordinary people afford it?
A bite of cattle is sold in Chu State for three thousand yuan, and there will not be too many deviations in Qin State.
Wait until someone takes out a hundred dollars and has done his best, right?
The Qin State's taxes are very heavy. Can the common people save a bite of cattle?
Iron tools are also expensive.
Even if the Qin people are cheaper, are you really willing to use such consumables?
But now, they are so rich.
It simply goes against common sense and is simply unreasonable!
All these changes, from Li Si's perspective, could be seen.
All changes start with the so-called "farmers' association".
This "farmers' association" gathers the common people without capital, concentrates their manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and reasonably plans the uses of different types of populations, so that the stronger husbands can match oxen and iron tools to improve the efficiency of farming and maximize the use of the physical strength of these populations, so that they can cultivate more land in a limited time, so that they can cultivate more land without worrying about what to eat, what to drink, and other trivial matters.
But here's the problem!
This model is not a very complex thing, but it requires a lot of financial investment at the beginning.
Moreover, this kind of investment will have almost no profit in the short term.
Only by extending the time to five years, ten years, fifteen years, or even longer can this investment be seen and the capital can be repaid.
And this time I can't get the money directly.
This kind of investment is something that normal people would not do at all.
In addition, this kind of investment process will inevitably be shared by local forces.
Moreover, Li Si has absolutely reason to believe that the one who gets the most profit will definitely not be the common people like pigs and sheep at the bottom, but these local forces and local snakes.
In reality, this kind of "farmer association" is impossible to establish and operate normally.
However, what we can see now is that although there are bumps and bumps, there are big problems in management everywhere, and there are problems that are difficult to ignore in the coordination of interests in all areas.
But the Farmers Association was established and it existed.
Moreover, these common people have definitely gained the absolute majority of the benefits brought by development.
Otherwise, their lives would not be so good.
But then, the problem arises.
Why can these people take the big head of profit?
The big head of interests should be divided up by local tyrants and the court.
This is even more unreasonable.
——The matter involves actual interests, which is something that cannot be done in a false way than in the name of the name.
Li Si did not believe that Qin Wangzheng could suppress others' instinct to seize profits.
As long as a person does not die, the profits cannot be stopped!
Li Si felt that Qin Wangzheng should have paid more benefits to attract the local tyrants' thoughts, so they are no longer interested in this interest.
But what would it be?
But what is the purpose of Qin Wangzheng doing this?
If it is to fight for dominance in the world, then we should not give these common people a very good life.
Instead, it should be to slightly improve its situation, and then enclose the big part of the interests with military merits, titles, official positions, etc., like a flesh and bone hanging in front of the common people.
Half-hungry and half-full belly will prompt them to rush forward spontaneously and work hard for the Qin King's government.
But now, they have enough food and even have the heart to sing and dance.
After such a good life goes on, who would be willing to go to war and work hard?
If it is said to unify the world, it is even more impossible.
This is not what you need to do to unify the world.
Instead, try to be united with the court officials in the court and the powerful people from all over the country.
Only in this way can one gain supreme power and start a war.
Benefits and money are spread out and flow into the mouths of the common people. So what should we use to drive those with a bigger appetite?
Li Si thought for a long time, but couldn't think of something.
He probably knew the general purpose of the Qin King's rule.
The Qin King Zheng wanted to let these common people have a good life.
Therefore, these measures that are different from other countries have been implemented one by one.
But what about the overall purpose of giving them a good life?
Li Si was completely unable to understand and completely unimaginable.
He went to sleep with questions.
When I woke up, it was bright.
The soldiers accompanying him cooked meat porridge, drinking porridge and talking.
"Your Majesty has no intention of using force to the outside world for the time being." Li Si heard Chen Ju's voice.
His eyelids moved and did not open.
"Really?" Ju asked curiously: "Brother, why doesn't Your Majesty use force to the outside world?"
"Your Majesty means to hoard food first, open up land as much as possible, and accumulate supplies." Chen Ju was in Xianyang for a long time. Although he was not clear about Ying Zheng's policy, he had also heard a lot of discussions among people in Xianyang.
According to the consistent tradition of Qin State, the Qin people lived a little better life, or had a little natural disaster, and the Qin kings would issue conscription orders to bring people out to fight.
But the Qin King's politics are not very similar.
He gave most of the Qin people a much better life than before.
According to the view of the people of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin king's government was going to fight a bigger battle than before.
Since the second year of the king, after living a little good life, the Qin people counted the days and waited for the Qin King to issue a conscription order.
But I haven't waited yet.
After waiting for three years, when he reached the current fifth year of King Zheng of Qin, he had two military service.
But it's just asking people to train.
No war.
So the Qin people didn't understand at all.
They don't know why this is the case.
Another past life experience cannot guide reality.
Everyone was talking about it.
Everyone was wondering when His Majesty the King of Qin would issue a conscription order and start a foreign war.
Everyone is not looking forward to war.
But everyone is mentally prepared to participate in the war at any time.
But the problem now is.
King Qin was unwilling to start a war!
In everyone's eyes, Qin State today has enough capital to launch a war.
Food, supplies, livestock, roads, population.
Have everything.
But why didn't the King of Qin start a war?
No one knows what His Majesty the King of Qin plans.
Chapter completed!