Time flies, two months pass by in a flash.

Autumn goes and winter comes, and after a few heavy snowfalls, Xianyang has entered a cold winter.

Chen Xu went out early and came back late almost every day. In addition to returning home to accompany Ying Shiman, who was pregnant, he spent most of his time staying in newspaper offices to review the law. He even worked until late and closed, so he simply stayed in the Qinghe Hou Mansion. While enjoying the joy of fish and water with Fan Caiying, he also discussed some details of the business rules with each other.

The new business bill gradually emerged during the heated discussion and review, and many contents began to spread, but overall it still maintained a mysterious state.

Therefore, from the emperor to the merchants, all the civil and military officials in the court, they all hoped to have a glimpse of the entire content of this new law.

At the end of October, after countless people enthusiastically participated and discussed and edited, the new Shanglu finally completed the draft. After two days of rest, Chen Xu entered the palace to meet the emperor with several thick books of Shangluo, and handed the Shangluo draft to the emperor for review.

Looking at the many large commercial laws that Chen Xu brought in, the emperor roughly looked through them and was one big. However, given Chen Xu's enthusiasm and seriousness, he still left the draft and read it for several days.

In early November, the emperor sent the reviewed new commercial law draft to the Secretariat for Li Si to organize a second review.

When Li Si got this new set of business rules and looked at the entire set of legal regulations that cover almost all commercial areas and were clearly listed one by one, the old face suddenly showed a more gray look.

This new business law is not only to loosen the constraints of merchants, but also to be more extensive and standardized. It completely standardizes many commercial behaviors that were previously framed with just one sentence or even a few words, almost in detail, not only involves the production and operation activities of merchants, craftsmen and civilians, but also expands to regulate the management restrictions and requirements of the court and county officials in various places.

The Industrial and Commercial Registration Administration Law stipulates that any merchant or craftsman who legally obtains business qualifications shall have no right to arbitrarily interfere with and deprive merchants and craftsmen of business behavior at will, and shall not forcibly increase taxes and confiscate business income. It shall not block or destroy the situation of civilians planting, breeding, producing and producing various small amounts of agricultural and sideline products for trading and selling.

These two points are almost the core of Chen Xu's commercial law reform.

As a representative of the current Legalist figures, when Li Si saw these two, he felt dizzy and powerless.

Once these two laws are promoted, merchants and civilians in the world will no longer be able to continue to suppress them harshly as before.

In addition to the Industrial and Commercial Registration Management Law, the Tax Registration Management Law also proposes different tax and management methods for different industries and business behaviors.

All business operations must be registered in the official office where the business is located, instead of doing business everywhere with a businessman's waist card like now. Just like the later industry and business ascended the throne, merchants must first register their company name in the county government office, and register their business scope and registered capital at the same time. According to the amount of registered capital, the Ministry of Revenue will arrange for tax officials of different levels to review the account books and collect taxes. Once the account books are found to have cost or other fraud, they will be imposed with extremely heavy fines. If the circumstances are particularly serious, they will be arrested and imprisoned or even severely sentenced.

For different business scopes, such as agricultural tools manufacturing, salt, grain, cloth, pottery, bamboo, and medicinal materials, which are closely related to the lives of ordinary people, the tax rate will be reduced from the current five taxes, one four taxes, one to one fifteen taxes.

The business taxes for diet, clothing, livestock breeding, fur and wool products have also been reduced to 10 taxes. As for the production and operation of family workshops that ordinary civilians make a living, such as household weaving and collecting medicinal materials, they are directly exempt from taxes.

For industries such as luxury consumption levels such as standard weapons, wine making, porcelain, glass, etc. that are allowed to be sold, the tax regulations are seven taxes and one tax.

Industry industries such as steel, cement, smelting, coal, mining that are allowed to operate in special operations will be more standardized, and there will be a series of strict management measures from application for qualifications to environmental protection to production supervision to taxation.

Moreover, the new "Industrial and Commercial Registration Administration Law" and "Special Commercial Management Law" have made stricter regulations and guidance specifically for money shops. Although the taxes are extremely low, the management is so strict that it is almost harsh, from registration to daily management that Li Si is puzzled.

These two laws that are carefully explained separately are almost targeted at Huaxia Money House, which is Chen Xu's own property. However, if this Huaxia Money House is strictly enforced according to these laws, it will be almost under the strict control of Shaofu and the Ministry of Revenue Coin Administration, and a slight fraud cannot be achieved.

Li Si sat in front of the desk and carefully looked through each draft one by one.

As the leader of the legal field, there is nothing he can't understand about these rules.

Even the formulation and interpretation of many of the regulations made him suddenly realize that the laws could be formulated in this way.

In these laws, it is not just to relieve the business behavior of merchants, craftsmen and civilians, but also to strictly regulate and punish business behaviors and product quality. For example, fraudulent behaviors such as short pounds and shortages and inferiors are used as good ones will be directly punished, causing personal injury and huge property losses, and will also endure prison disasters or even severe punishments.

Loose management, easy taxation, strict management, heavy punishment.

This is the core of this set of business rules.

Li Si read this new draft of commercial law for five days, and then he did not organize the Legal disciples to review it. He submitted it to the emperor again without changing a word.

After being forced into a dead end by Chen Xu using Dongfangdao's 400 million investment, Li Si had to agree to this huge bet.

Now that I have admitted my failure, I have to swallow this bitter fruit.

Since Chen Xu spent two months to revise this set of commercial law review and editing, and he also invited famous scholars from all over the world to participate, the various regulations must have been carefully considered and even repeatedly considered and revised countless times.

It is impossible to change it, and Li Si himself felt that he had no idea how to start changing it, because this new legal review and editing method has exceeded his understanding of the law, and it is a completely eye-opening process and result.

And even if it can be changed, Li Si will not touch a word.

This is the price that failure must be borne.

As a bureaucrat who has been immersed in the officialdom for nearly 30 years, step by step, from a minor official to a position above ten thousand people now, Li Si deeply understands the rules of the officialdom.

Once he once again puts forward different views on Chen Xu's new business laws and insists on revising them, he will inevitably be despised by civil and military officials in the court and even the people of the world, and will inevitably be despised and despised by countless people.

In this era when fame is more important than life, once reputation is damaged, fame will soon plummet.

Li Si has felt this clear sign recently.

He came back to life after a serious illness, and the direction of the court had changed tremendously. Chen Xu had a greater reputation. He already knew that some officials were asking the emperor to replace him with Chen Xu as the left minister, and there were many heavyweight marquis and ministers, including Zhao Wei, the Shaofu Order.

As for his almost deadly serious illness, Li Si had already developed deep fear and even hated Chen Xu, but at the same time he felt a chill of fear in his soul.

Although he still cannot know the true origin of the mysterious and domineering potion, and whether Chen Xu has noticed Li Gui's identity, this matter was the punishment and result he received after all, for his own greed for joy. If he continues to obstruct this matter, it may bring Chen Xu's even more crazy revenge.

Because from this period of time, Chen Xu's changes were also very big, especially when he formulated a new business law, he spent almost two months in the newspaper office, and even the pregnant princess didn't take much care of him.

He spent so much money and energy to promote the reform of the commercial law, which had reached the point where no one could be allowed to destroy it again. With the support of the emperor, the reform and implementation of the commercial law had reached a point where it could no longer be stopped.

In mid-November, Yang Kun, head of the Preparatory Administration of Oriental Road, reported to the emperor that the construction of New Oriental Road was completely completed, and all the cement roads of more than 2,000 miles were paved. The rest was to plant trees along the way and further improve the construction of service stations and logistics markets.

This also marks the early completion of the Oriental Road project promoted by Chen Xu, and it did not delay because Li Si admitted the failure in advance.

In fact, the construction of the Oriental Road has not yet been completed, and there are snow-filled memorials everywhere in counties across the country. I hope that the emperor will allow the roads leading to the counties to be built into cement roads to strengthen the transportation and contacts of goods across the country.

Although the emperor did not make any statement about these memorials, the emperor could no longer hold back his thoughts through some court discussions. He proposed to let officials from three provinces and six ministries plan and discuss, and also asked to form a highway bureau in charge of the construction of cement roads across the country to handle this matter specifically.

But obviously the emperor was very cautious about this matter, and the officials of the three provinces and six ministries were the same.

It is impossible to build a cement road connecting the whole country in accordance with the Dongfang Road model. Merchants will not accept it because the investment has exceeded the capacity of the entire Daqin. All taxes invested every year are just a small wave, and it is simply a drop in the bucket.

It is impossible to ask Chen Xu to come forward in advance. Before the new business law was officially implemented, Chen Xu would definitely not accept it.

Regarding the new commercial law draft reviewed by Chen Xu, the emperor did not rashly issue an order to implement it. Instead, he convened kings, princes, ministers and many ministers to enter the palace to discuss, and it was delayed until mid-December, waiting for the joint acceptance team composed of the Ministry of Works, Shaofu and the Supervision Province to survey and accept the entire Dongfang Road project before the new commercial law draft was announced in the court.

Chen Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s a huge step, but it’s finally the end.
Chapter completed!