"Your Majesty, the steering problem of four-wheeled carriages has just been solved, and the problems including load load are still in the testing stage. After the Academy of Sciences collects all the data, it can prepare a manual for the Ministry of Works to start a large-scale promotion. This will inevitably greatly improve the efficiency of cargo transportation."

"My dear brother is indeed a natural talent. Although this four-wheeled carriage has existed since ancient times, the turning problem has always been a huge problem. Countless craftsmen have never solved it. Now that my dear brother solves this problem, the four-wheeled carriage will definitely become a big deal in the future, and I will be the first to be the best!" Qin Shihuang was very happy.

"Thank you, the praise of your Majesty, it is not my only contribution to the development of a four-wheeled carriage. There are the car manufacturing orders of Shaofu and four craftsmen, the managers and craftsmen of the iron smelting workshops and the iron smelting workshops in the Academy of Sciences factories. In addition, the bus company can operate these carriages to provide convenience for the people of Xianyang, and several merchants who jointly invested. Last time, I said that the investment of millions of money by this bus company will greatly boost the development of supporting various businesses, and will bring a large amount of tax revenue to the Neishifu and provide thousands of people with a job to make a living. Only when the court provides loose policies can merchants be assured and bold.

Take out the coins in your hands to invest in more businesses, promote steel smelting, agricultural tools manufacturing, and goods circulation, and our Qin Dynasty's industries are prosperous. In the past, Qi was richest in the world. It is precisely because of the active merchants. Today, the Qin Dynasty covers all the world's deserts. It is like continuing to suppress merchants with harsh laws and regulations. Therefore, I asked Your Majesty to relax the law of suppressing merchants, abolish the law-ending law such as discrimination against business in the "Jinbu Law", and promise the right of ordinary people to do business freely, and reduce taxation to stimulate business development, so as to drive more industrial development. In this way, our Qin Dynasty will gain a wider tax source..."

Chen Xu mentioned the harsh laws of reducing and exempting business taxes and relieving the suppression of merchants several times, but they were not formal occasions such as court discussions, and the emperor had never discussed this topic in the court.

And Chen Xu must use all his strength to promote this matter.

With the emergence and popularization of steel and cement, large amounts of infrastructure construction, such as road construction and bridge construction, canals and reservoirs, it requires huge financial and material resources. It is never enough to rely solely on plundering the people. The short-lived court income must be able to support it. A large amount of civilian power must be introduced. Liberating merchants and developing business is the best and fastest way to achieve results. None of them, only a large amount of investment can be used to build cement factories and steel plants, etc. can be built in large quantities. Although the chaos of stripping ordinary people in the process of development will surely happen, and a large number of collusion between officials and businessmen will also happen.

But if the great good is false and the most good is evil, the strength of the country will inevitably be accompanied by various unsatisfactory aspects, but at least Chen Xu asked himself without any selfishness.

Just like China's reform and opening up in later generations, messy things will inevitably emerge one after another, and will inevitably have a huge impact on society's old ideas on people, and even the political system is almost shaky. However, the benefits of this kind of reform are obvious. If it is not reformed, it will only be a dead end, and reform will achieve a new life like a marrow-breaking life.

At least in this era, there is no blindness to cross the river.

Moreover, under the highly centralized imperial power, all chaos will be suppressed quickly.

What's more, the Qin scholars, farmers, industry and commerce now need more enlightened and relaxed laws. The cruel Qin law and the people of the six countries are not used to it, so they naturally have huge resistance from their hearts. Once there is any slight disturbance, someone will take the opportunity to cause chaos. If all industries are prosperous, farmers, merchants, and craftsmen will live and work freely and peacefully, who can't rebel?

After more than ten years of unification, the Qin Dynasty was no longer a guarantee of the Qin Dynasty's strength, but instead became a huge burden of self-destruction. Developing people's livelihood is the best way to make the Qin Dynasty stable and powerful.

However, these rules summarized by various dynasties in later generations were actually realized because of the collapse of the Qin Dynasty.

For example, the Han Dynasty knew that the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by harsh laws, and those involved in the rebellion also knew the powerful disadvantages of the Qin law. Therefore, the Han Dynasty inherited various systems of the Qin Dynasty, but greatly weakened the strategy of governing the country by magic, and adopted the Huang-Lao technique of governing inaction, which made the Han Dynasty prosper and become more powerful quickly.

Chen Xu knew about these things, but neither the emperor nor the civil and military ministers of the court knew about them.

Therefore, Chen Xu needed to constantly let the civil and military officials and emperors of the court see the effects of these things through his own actions.

Moreover, time waits for no one. A few years passed in a flash. It has been more than three years since Chen Xu came to Daqin, but the changes to the law are minimal. He is always tickling around him and never touched any fundamental core and interests of magic to govern the country.

Today, Chen Xu proposed for the first time in the court to abolish the terms of suppressing business in the commercial law, and liberate the business that was regarded as the last by the disciples of the Legal family.

Only when business is prosperous will all industries flourish, and a country that cannot do business will only become poorer and poorer.

Chen Xu's words were still echoing in the court, and all the civil and military officials in the court were silent. Some frowned and some were angry, and some were excited and some were calm.

The emperor sat high on the dragon throne, his face calm and he could not tell any emotion.

"Your Majesty, business is the last thing. Merchants will come to speculate and profit. If it weren't for the confinement of business rules, our Qin Dynasty may be full of unscrupulous merchants and the people and even the court, so how could all industries prosper?" A middle-aged minister stood up, his face looked quite angry, but he was a little nervous.

Anger is because Chen Xu abolished the law to suppress merchants, and nervous is because of Chen Xu's identity.

What a fucking disciple of the immortal family, I wonder if he will use Taiyi Divine Thunder to kill him at night.

But he could not remain indifferent to the look that Li Si gave him. As a disciple of the Legal family, he must still stand with the boss Li Si and wear a pair of pants, otherwise his status will not be guaranteed in the future.

Chen Xu was too lazy to watch Li Si's little moves.

Once it touches on the core interests of the Law, the Law, it is impossible for Lis not to fight back.

"Your Majesty, I have been familiar with the theory of domestic demand and believe that what the Qinghe Hou said is reasonable. If merchants invest money in business that is stored in the warehouse, the court will gain a lot of joint commercial taxes, and this money will not come out of thin air. If the laws to suppress merchants are lifted and taxes are reduced, it will inevitably lead more merchants to use their money alive, so that all industries can flourish!" A fourth-rank official from the Ministry of Works stood up and posted it to his immediate boss Chen Xu.

"Your Majesty, do you know the geometry of the Wei River Bridge being built outside the East Gate?"

Chen Xu was too lazy to continue waiting for Li Si's people to jump out of the arena, because if the emperor did not express his opinion in this kind of thing, the two sides could fight against each other for a few months. In fact, there was no meaning at all in the end, and instead it would only reduce his identity and status.

Qin Shihuang is the biggest boss in the Qin Dynasty. As long as he is done, everything is OK, but Qin Dada will do nothing. Chen Xu has already told Qin Shihuang many times openly and secretly that if Qin Shihuang is unwilling, then there is no hope. However, Qin Shihuang has never rejected Chen Xu's proposal directly, and his current attitude is not bad. This attitude shows that Qin Shihuang is still hesitating and needs to give him a more solid reason.

"Who is my dear to tell me how much the Weihe Bridge is invested?" Qin Shihuang obviously didn't know the answer to Chen Xu's question, and his eyes fell on Ling Gaoteng, the Ministry of Revenue.

"Your Majesty, I will answer the question of Qinghe Hou!" A black-bearded Ministry of Revenue official in his forties stood up behind Gao Teng.

"speak!"

"The Dongmen Weihe Bridge planned and built by the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry is 60 meters long, and it consumes a total of 500,000 kilograms of steel, one million kilograms of cement, and more than one thousand kilograms of wood. There are countless bamboo, stone and hemp ropes. It burns cement, digs river sand, screens pebbles, cuts bamboo and wood, and builds the bridge. A total of more than 1,000 soldiers and craftsmen, and nearly 1,000 prisoners and slaves..."

"I just want to know how much it costs to repair the bridge?" Qin Shihuang interrupted the official of the Ministry of Revenue with a majestic expression.

The official of the Ministry of Revenue wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said quickly: "By your Majesty, according to the calculations of the engineering command center and the current daily consumption, it will cost at least 500,000 stones of money and grain to be repaired..."

“Wow~”

There was a burst of exclamation and commotion in the court. Many ministers saw the horror on their colleagues' faces. Even Li Si, who had always been calm, couldn't help but twitch his face.

The emperor, who was sitting on the dragon chaise, had a slightly fat body trembled as he cramped. His mouth opened slightly for a few seconds before frowned and said, "Five hundred thousand stones, my Xianyang Cang only stored three million stones of grain. Is this bridge so expensive?"

"Yes, Your Majesty ordered that the bridge be repaired no matter how much the price, so I did not report it separately!" The Ministry of Revenue Order Gao Teng stood up with a wry smile and said.

"Your Majesty, according to the calculation, it does cost so much. The calculation details of the Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Revenue have been read!" Right Prime Minister Feng Quji quickly stood up and resisted his subordinates. "Most of the consumption is in cement and steel. Cement factory opened mountains and drilled stones, transported coal stones, mined clay and grinded raw materials, and a large number of iron ingots from the steel factory were transported from Hedong and Nanyang, and the carriages and horses were consumed hugely..."

"Your Majesty, although steel and cement are a powerful tool for building roads and bridges, the expenses are also huge. If a cement road is built from Xianyang to the coast of the East China Sea in Qijun, there will be more than ten bridges of all sizes. If the entire road is to be completed, no less than tens of millions of stones of money and grain will be invested. This expense will definitely not be supported by the imperial court. Unless commercial investment is introduced, a large number of merchants invest huge amounts of money and materials, the road alone will drag down our Daqin, not to mention that the dry grain production will be reduced this autumn. This autumn, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and this road alone will reduce the output of dry grains.
Chapter completed!