Business in ancient times was actually very developed.

Especially during the Qin and Han dynasties, it can even be said to be the world.

Not to mention anything else, Zhang Qian's most important role in opening the Western Regions was to open the Silk Road in addition to connecting with the Great Yuezhi.

During the Warring States Period, major merchants traveled around the world and were very strong.

Confucianism has always said that it suppresses business. In addition to focusing on agriculture and restricting restrictions, prohibiting arbitrary movements is more convenient for management, and making the people completely ignorant. The merchants during the Qin and Han dynasties were too strong, and Lu Buwei even made a rare product to come out. This is one reason.

Wang Xiao asked Daqin merchants to help record the mountains, rivers, towns, fields and other things they saw along the way. No one dared to refuse.

If you really want to make a bad thing, you can also compare it with multiple companies.

Even if you call it in the future, you will directly measure it on the spot. At that time, someone will be in trouble.

Wang Xiao looked at the empty hall that was being cleaned up and the sand table in the Guanzhong of Daqin that only occupied a corner.

He pointed to the east, "There are Kanto countries, and further east is the sea."

The hand fell to the south, "It is the land of Baiyue, we have to go to the end of Baiyue. If we meet the island, we will occupy it, and if we meet the sea, we will keep going."

Turning around to the north, "There are grasslands outside the Great Wall. It is said that terrain restrictions cannot eliminate hidden dangers forever, so I don't believe in this evil! The thousands of miles of grassland must be completely cleared."

At the end, Wang Xiao's eyes fell to the west.

"The Western Regions are the inherent territory of China, so you must go. Also, you must cross the Palacio, clean up Alexander's heritage, and fight to the end of the western sea."

Wang Xiao took a deep breath and whispered, "Zulong, can you be satisfied with this?"

This mission is not difficult, and it is not difficult to live a life of one hundred years.

But Wang Xiao is not like this, and Zulong doesn't want this kind of result.

As an emperor with a strong enterprising spirit, Zulong's journey will always be the sea of ​​stars.

What I said before is the maximum that Wang Xiao can achieve within a hundred years.

After all, the productivity of this era is really not high. What Wang Xiao can do is to achieve the greatest benefits under limited conditions.

"Li Si." Wang Xiao instructed Li Si, "This palace will be expanded because the land of Daqin will be very large in the future."

Li Si bowed with admiration, "The King Yingming."

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the emphasis was on dominance. A great country showed off its military power and became the overlord, and took advantage of various exploitation and exchanges from younger brothers.

In the Warring States Period, no one was foolish in fighting for hegemony. They were the most direct way to destroy the country, destroy the sacrifices, seize the people, and occupy the land.

Land has become the most important resource.

In Wang Xiao's view, population is as important as land. Without enough population, no matter how much land it is occupied, it cannot be kept.

If you want to increase the population, the first thing is to improve medical care. Wang Xiao is already doing this.

The second is tax cuts. Only after the burden is reduced can the people support more children.

Wang Xiao is also promoting this, and his efforts will become stronger and stronger in the future.

The third is appropriate publicity and rewards.

Wang Xiao is already doing the publicity in the newspaper.

If you reward, it will be temporarily focused on material rewards.

After that, we will definitely promote the tax that will never be added, plus the one that can be divided into acres.

Fu that never adds taxes basically refer to the count tax.

If you have one more child in your family, you have to pay an extra count tax.

For the poor Chinese people, this is naturally unwilling.

So a family appeared. The bearded man named Wang Xiaoer, and the man who was still peeing and mud was also called Wang Xiaoer. There were several Wang Xiaoer in the family.

If you never add taxes, you will never receive a poll tax for the population born outside the rated amount.

In this way, in this era when labor is more important than anything else, having children will naturally receive positive responses.

When it comes to damage, it is mainly because the chances of officials being able to attack will be greatly reduced.

Even if it is the Daqin ruled by the Legalists, such things cannot be completely avoided.

Greedy is simply unstoppable.

For example, when Huaiyou Buyi was in power, he killed many tens of thousands of people. He was able to make up all the tortures of filling grass, but he still couldn't stop it.

When he died, the entire Ming Dynasty quickly fell into the abyss.

At the end of the day, a huge empire was unable to collect even the tax of several million taels by those officials who had worked hard.

Wang Xiao had no good idea about these things.

It was like a story he had heard. A middle-aged man scolded those who were insatiable every day, but after his son passed the exam, he immediately changed his attitude and said, "Oh, they have their own difficulties."

In this case, Wang Xiao had no choice.

Unless artificial intelligence can be created, everything is left to artificial intelligence.

Another one is to spread the dime into the acres.

To put it bluntly, if you spread the stakes into the acres, you will deal with land annexation.

In the agricultural era, land is the most precious resource, so land annexation has become an inevitable thing.

The advantage of this system is that it greatly reduces the economic burden of farmers without land and with little land and promotes population growth.

Workers have greater freedom in life, which is conducive to the development of social and economics. The simplification of tax rules reduces the possibility of governments sloppy taxes.

And it also fundamentally abolished the suppression of the poll tax.

Whoever has land pays the money, which makes the landlords who are keen on land annexation no longer continue to secretly exploit ordinary people.

In essence, it is a policy that is beneficial to poor families.

As for why such a policy is considered good for most people, it can only appear in the Qing Dynasty.

It is not because no smart people could imagine it in the past so many years. It is because the Qing Dynasty was not used to those Confucian scholars.

Confucian scholars are the backbone forces that annexed land and oppress the people. They will oppose anything good to the people.

In other dynasties, Confucian scholars drowned all policies that benefit the people by pouring black water, tampering with history, coercing and tempting, and even directly medicine to death and drowning the king.

Such are the reforms of Wang Anshi, Zhang Juzheng, etc.

But in the Qing Dynasty, if you don’t obey, you will just take a knife.

Confucian scholars who are cruel to their own people and kneel down to outsiders will immediately become honest and have to shout that this is a benevolent government.

Now, it is very difficult for Wang Xiao to implement these things. Because Confucianism and local tyrants have not yet achieved momentum.

However, Wang Xiao’s plan was to release these only after the six kingdoms were officially unified.

Because at that time, the high military expenditure can drop significantly, and his prestige will also reach its peak.

At that time, Wang Xiao would have been very successful in implementing any political strategy.

Next, Wang Xiao devoted all his main energy to unifying the world.

The ultimate military mobilization force of Qin State was at about 700,000 at this time.

All regions need garrisons, and important locations need defensive forces. Therefore, the truly able to mobilize field battles is about 600,000.

Among them, the soldiers are about one-third.

In history, Li Xin lost 200,000 troops when he destroyed Chu, but in a blink of an eye, Wang Jian was able to kill him with his 600,000 troops.

This was not because the Qin Dynasty would revive the dead, but because the Three Jin Dynasty had been destroyed at that time and was replenished with millions of people.

The first thing Wang Xiao had to do was to improve logistics support as much as possible to improve the combat capabilities of the Qin army.

The second thing is diplomacy.

Although Qin State is strong, it is not easy to fight with the six countries in one breath.

Therefore, joining the mountain and connecting the mountain is still a necessary means.

There is no need to think too much about this, just follow Zulong's steps.

‘Catch Yan Qi, stabilize Wei Chu, eliminate Han Zhao, and fight far and near, and defeat one by one.’

The First Emperor used this strategy and only took ten years to successfully unify the world. Wang Xiao had no reason not to use it.

If you do logistics, food is no longer the focus, because Zheng Guo Canal is about to be put into use, and the food problem has been fundamentally solved.

As for the reduction in income brought about by Wang Xiao's tax rate, it can be hedged even by using fertilizer more rationally.

If there is any, it is weapons and equipment.

The soldiers of the Qin Dynasty were generally only one-third of the entire army, but now there are a lot more because Wang Xiao tried to increase the metal production.

It’s not that others don’t want to wear armor, but that they really don’t.

Moreover, even if it is worn with armor, it is actually mainly leather armor. Some Qin troops even use stone armor and scale armor.

What kind of armor made of stone is like?
To be continued...