There was a noise and restlessness in the court. Countless people stared at Chen Xu with wide eyes, especially Meng Yi, whispering in a low voice, wondering if they were cursing themselves as their cheap son-in-law.

Tributes have existed since ancient times, but the word tribute now differs greatly from the tributes in later generations. Starting from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, subordinate tribes and ordinary people presented their goods to the leaders or kings, which meant tribute. However, this tribute did not mean any compulsory, but it meant to express a kind of love. Emperor Yu traveled around the world, and the people contributed food and meat, which expressed respect and love for Emperor Yu's benevolence and love for the people.

From the Warring States Period to the Qin Dynasty, the tribute still remained the same. There was never any law that forced the people to pay a certain item to the emperor or the royal family for special purposes. Even precious items such as silk were obtained from the people through the tax and purchase of mulberry silkworms. The law did not allow the people to sell silk privately. The excess silk could only be sold to the Shaofu. Although it was compulsory, the Shaofu had to spend money. The second most silk yarn cost more than 100 yuan, and a good silk was even more than 1,000 yuan. As for brocade, the folk could not textile it. They were all made by those textile households with family skills. The status was equivalent to craftsmanship. They were considered professional technicians recognized by the court. There was a fixed amount of production every year, and the production capacity was low. It was a luxury to think of one foot. Therefore, silk has always been monopolized by the royal family and was more successful. Then these silks were distributed to the royal family by the emperor or rewarded to nobles such as princes and princes and nobles.

Today, in order to open up the silk industry market, Chen Xu actually proposed an incredible tribute bill, designing a set of special royal tributes to meet and distinguish between folk silk products.

This is an unprecedented proposal.

It also perfectly solved Yang Zhu's worries from the Ministry of Rites and perfectly maintained the royal face.

As a result, many officials also quickly thought of more royal products, such as food, drink, defecation, defecation, clothing, housing and transportation, and could formulate a special set of bills to produce royal items to maintain the majesty and etiquette of the royal family.

Looking at the feeling of Emperor Qin Shi nodding with satisfaction and the whispering of the civil and military officials in the court, especially the excited expressions of a group of officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Shaofu officials, Chen Xu knew that his proposal must have been perfectly passed.

The opening of the silk market is not only to meet the growing social needs, but more importantly, to stimulate the development of the Southeast silk industry and improve the treatment of local farmers and silk weavers.

Those who have no stones on their fingers, live in buildings with scales and silk all over their bodies are not silkworms.

Chen Xu has been to the Southeast twice and witnessed the hardships and hardships of local silkworm farmers. Although silk is worth as valuable as gold, the people do not get any benefits at all. A large amount of silk is forcibly levied as a tax on mulberry silkworms. Even if the excess silk sold to Shaofu is enough to buy food and clothing to satisfy the survival of the family, it is basically a situation where the family is barely left. Silkworm farmers live more miserable than grain farmers.

This is also Chen Xu's determination to vigorously promote the liberalization of the silk industry and market.

Only when any product is market-oriented and commercialized can all participants get enough fair labor distribution, reduce the tax on mulberry silkworms, and break the framework of forced acquisition by the imperial court, and the silk industry can truly prosper.

Moreover, once the Western route is opened, silk and glass porcelain, unique exquisite items in the Qin Dynasty, will become important export commodities, which will increase the purchase price of silk, and people in the mulberry silkworm breeding and textile industry will benefit more, so this matter must be completed as soon as possible.

It was originally a five-year plan for business, but now it has become a discussion meeting to discuss tributes. In a clamor, the First Emperor picked up the jade ruler and tapped the imperial case a few times, and the court hall became quiet in an instant.

"Please continue!"

"Yes, your Majesty!"

Chen Xu opened the five-year business plan in his hand and continued to read it.

"Third, standardize industries such as cement and steel mines that are related to the lifeline of basic industries, encourage merchants to merge factories and mines, and improve the output and quality of steel and cement through improvement of excavation and smelting technologies, and do not cause a large amount of environmental damage and pollution..."

"fourth……"

"In view of the fact that the military system reform has been progressing in an orderly manner and the two-year reform buffer time is enough to complete the military system reform, I propose to carry out a reform of military enterprises, re-form new weapons standards and military uniforms, formulate weapons and clothing for county soldiers, police soldiers, horsemen, infantry and sea division fleets to adapt to different combat conditions, and formulate military ranks, epaulettes and nameplates to distinguish identity levels..."

"Continue to increase investment in the expansion and renovation of roads across the country, and strive to achieve the ability of most counties and counties across the country to access cement roads within ten years, with a mileage of more than 100,000 miles..."

"In order to adapt to rapid population growth and more reasonable jurisdiction, I propose to increase the number and scale of county governing nationwide on the basis of continuing to promote county governing reform, from the current 1,200 counties to more than 1,800 counties, adjust the number of county governing areas according to the population size and jurisdiction. According to my prediction, in ten years, the population of our Daqin will exceed 100 million, and it may exceed 300 million in twenty years. The explosive growth of the population will greatly increase the governance capacity of officials in various places. At the same time, it will also put great pressure on the living environment and urgently needed living materials such as money, grain, salt and cloth. Therefore, I suggest that the construction of county universities and middle schools will continue to promote the construction of county universities and middle schools, and cultivate more qualified local officials to adapt to the long-term development of the country. In order for the future of the Qin Dynasty to avoid excessive population and shortages of cultivated land and food, I propose to abolish the Population Reward Act..."

"Five years ago, I proposed to implement the first five-year plan, which has ended after the beginning of spring. According to the implementation, the results are remarkable. The iron pot plan to improve people's lives, the grain production implementation plan and new farming methods have achieved very good results. The construction of health centers in various places has reached more than 800, the construction of middle schools has reached more than 200, and the construction of more than 20,000 middle schools have been planned, and more than ten universities have been prepared. The taxes of rural and commercial industries have been reduced to the scope of the plan. The tax revenue of the imperial court has also increased significantly for five consecutive years. The renovation and construction of cement roads across the country has exceeded 20,000 miles. In view of the great achievements of the five-year plan, I proposed to carry out the second five-year plan, which is as follows..."

Since the last Tantu Plan submitted more than ten memorials at one time, Chen Xu suddenly felt like this perverted working method. After a full half year of inspection and experience of the grassroots changes in Daqin, he spent most of his time thinking about more in-depth reform measures on the journey, and mainly targeting deeper detailed modifications of past bills and legal systems that adapt to the new era.

If you are poor, you will change; if you change, you will be smooth; if you are smooth, you will be long.

The current development of Daqin is changing with each passing day, with new and old problems intertwined. Only by constantly discovering and reforming can we develop faster and better.

Many bigwigs in the Qin Dynasty did not have much awareness of reform, and they lived in Xianyang for a long time and hardly went out to experience people's livelihood. Most of the time, they just handled government affairs step by step. Therefore, Chen Xu had to use his status and power to strongly implement the government orders he recognized, and strive to make the Qin Dynasty move forward quickly along the goals he expected.

Another advantage of this large-scale memorial proposal is that no matter how many of them can be recognized by the emperor and supported by civil and military officials, many people will always be passed and implemented. Moreover, after many reform measures are proposed, even if they cannot be implemented now, as long as they are transmitted to the people, there will naturally be people who will support them, forming a force among the people, which will eventually push back the changes in the court.

Without burning books and burying scholars, there is no single Legal family. Under Chen Xu's inclusive governance philosophy, disciples of the Hundred Schools and famous scholars and wise men who are determined to serve the kings have gained great freedom. They can promote their own ideas through newspapers, through Hundred Schools forums, or even directly write to the court to the court, put forward their own unique insights and governance concepts, so that their thoughts can eventually be spread and carried forward.

Chen Xu was almost the only one giving speeches during the whole morning court.

And the later, the content of the memorial is more broad and in-depth.

From the most basic agriculture to the later commerce, industry, military, education, medical care, population, environment, and even the upcoming completion of the Beijing University and library, new suggestions and reform measures have been put forward. In the last memorial, a plan to establish the Southern Business Daily in Gusu was proposed. At the same time, the School of Literature and the Daqin Metropolis Daily and the Publishing House jointly planned to launch a batch of professional journals of different types including food, clothing, military, commerce, geography, science, medicine, art, music, novels and stories, to promote the vigorous development of the Daqin cultural undertaking and provide more cultural entertainment and spiritual food for the people across the country.

When the morning court was over, all civil and military officials were blushing and dizzy, discussing back to their respective government offices. At the same time, the news of Qinghe Hou put forward more than 20 memorials in one breath quickly swept across Xianyang. Faced with so many reform measures and policies and regulations, from the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation to the people's food, drink, defecation and urination, they were almost all packaged. Even if they were familiar with Qinghe Hou's usual style of memorials, they were all unbelievable.

"Mr. Marquis, are you planning to arrange for the next ten years to retire?"

At the Zihuan Palace Secretariat, Chen Ping, the general secretary of the newspaper office who came hurriedly after hearing the news, sat in front of Chen Xu's desk, wiping the sweat on his forehead, obviously feeling a little uneasy.

As a third-rank yamen, the newspaper office does not need to deal with government affairs in special circumstances. Therefore, the emperor allowed the officials of the newspaper office to have no priorities and do not have to go to court. Therefore, although Chen Ping and others have high positions and power, they hardly go to court to discuss politics on weekdays. They are occasionally called by the emperor. The purpose of their trip is to have important court decrees that need to be disclosed and reported.
Chapter completed!