Daqin: The poorest prime minister, the first emperor begged me for corruption

Chapter 8 It’s better to tighten your belt and donate more!

The empire under the control of Qin Fa has an outstanding ability to mobilize at the grassroots level.

There are county roads under the county, and townships in the county. There are pavilions in the townships, and the pavilions have their own li, and there are as many as five households in each li.

The emperor's power extended almost to every household.

So when the edicts of "The First Emperor personally conquered the Huns", "Save the people of Zhao from danger", and "Protect the people of China" were issued from the Qin Palace, the land of Kyushu quickly spread and boiled with Xianyang as the center!

After all, it is the Chinese consensus to fight against the foreigners. No matter how much the survivors of the Six Kingdoms resist the Qin court, facing the edict of the First Emperor, they have to give a thumbs up: This coward has a lot of guts!

After learning the content of the edict, countless knights, swordsmen, and veterans prepared their own provisions and weapons. Under the leadership of the village elders, pavilion chiefs, and Li Jia, they rushed from all over Kyushu to Zhao to kill the invading Xiongnu.

This is due to the high-yielding grains promoted by Qin Mo. Even if there is no stimulation of military merit, self-reliant warriors dare to waste the mountains of grain at home to compete with the Huns to see who is stronger!

At the same time, two veteran generals, Wang Jian and Wang Ben, also under the instruction of the First Emperor, began to collect and recruit mares, and recruited elite horsemen and archers from the old Qin people.

According to the Qin law, registered adult men were classified as soldiers and served for one month every year. In fact, they were doing corvee service and had to do everything, but they also received military training.

After the regular soldiers were trained, the outstanding ones were selected and converted into regular soldiers. These regular soldiers were the main force in the Qin army's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms. They served for one month every year when there was no war.

The brave warriors who are dying will be selected as garrison soldiers, usually sharp soldiers, who will serve for at least one year at a time, and then they will not have to serve for ten years.

Wang Jian and Wang Ben recruited those who were good at riding and shooting from among these old soldiers and warriors, which can be said to be the best among the best!

The supervisor of the Shaofu of Great Qin is also working hard to make saddles, stirrups, thunder bullets, and vests in accordance with Qin Mo's requirements...

What little wealth there is in the national treasury is being consumed visibly!

Fortunately, countless people donated money, food and grass to support his heroic expedition, which made Ying Zheng feel better.

In addition, the people have donated generously, so naturally the officials and lords of Da Qin must set an example.

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"Everyone, I have conveyed your Majesty's wishes."

"Let's all discuss how much to donate, and just send it to Prime Minister Qin, and he will allocate it!"

Zhao Gao smiled and put it down, then drifted away, leaving behind a group of Da Qin civil and military officials with wry smiles on their faces.

"I just donated it to Prime Minister Qin a few days ago, and now I have to donate it again. My wife, children, and children in my family may have to live on the northwest wind."

Li Si couldn't help but complain.

He is the highest legal officer in the Qin Dynasty, and he must set an example. He does not dare to amass wealth on weekdays, and his family relies entirely on their annual salary.

However, the last time we assisted Qin Mo in poverty alleviation, he suffered the most bleeding, and his family could no longer make ends meet.

If he keeps donating more, his whole family will really have to live on the northwest wind!

"This is His Majesty's personal expedition, which requires money, food and supplies. As ministers, we must not be too stingy."

"It's better to tighten your belt and donate more."

Meng Yi comforted him, then stood up and said, "I'm going home to prepare my belongings. You can do your own thing."

Seeing him like this, all the ministers had no choice but to go home one after another to prepare.

Li Si was helpless. He returned home dejectedly, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets as if he were ransacking his home, and collected another 10,000 and a half taels.

Let the servants pull it in an ox cart, and personally lead the way to the hut next to the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion!

“The fragrance is fragrant and refreshing, it’s really a fairy tea.”

"This utensil looks like jade but not jade, it is really gorgeous."

Li Si walked halfway, but was blocked by a group of people, and exclamations could be heard from time to time among the crowd.

The servants came forward to drive him away, but no one gave way.

Li Si vaguely smelled a strange fragrance of wood, and became curious. He stopped the servant who was about to get angry and squeezed into the crowd to check.

The first thing that caught my eye was a beautiful woman, very attractive.

However, Li Si's eyes were attracted by something else.

There is a table in front of the beautiful woman, and a set of utensils are placed on it. They are as white as jade, but not as jade as jade, and are inlaid with gold lacquer and colorful paintings. They are extremely gorgeous.

"Beautiful utensils!"

Li Si smacked his lips in approval.

At this time, the beautiful woman was playing with the small red clay stove next to her. Pine cones were burning in the stove, and a delicate kettle with handles was burning on the stove. The water in the pot was already boiling.

The beautiful woman, covered with plain linen cloth, picked up the teapot and rinsed the utensils in front of her.

A beautiful person looks good in everything he does. In addition, his mind is not distracted, and his actions give people a sense of calmness and smoothness.

Even Li Si was fascinated by it!

It wasn't until the strange aroma of sweet wood appeared again that Li Si suddenly came back to his senses and hurriedly took a closer look at what was being brewed in the utensil.

Tea leaves, yellow tea leaves!

"This is roasted tea. Gentleman, would you like to taste it?"

The beautiful woman was very discerning. Seeing Li Si's luxurious clothes, she picked up a glass and invited him to taste it.

Li Si was not polite and took it carefully. He first admired the Tuhao Feng porcelain cup, then smelled the aroma of the tea, and finally sipped it.

"Well!"

Li Si snorted and frowned.

But after a while, he relaxed his brows and closed his eyes to reflect on the taste: "It really is fairy tea!"

The beautiful woman smiled sweetly, refilling the jade hand-held teapot for him, and then distributed the remaining tea to the onlookers to taste.

"Beautiful lady, you set up a tea stall here, you must not be showing off for fun, right?"

"Just tell me a price and I'll buy you home!"

Someone in the crowd who was disturbing the scenery shouted.

Li Si's elegant enjoyment of tea was interrupted and he couldn't help but glare at the man.

But the beautiful woman was not surprised. She just joked with a sweet smile: "I am the singer of the prince's palace. Do you really want to buy it?"

The man paused for a moment, then grinned and said, "Well, it's just a joke, a joke, haha."

Although the other onlookers were not as embarrassed as him, they immediately looked solemn, and even their glances that were wandering around were restrained, and they all looked like Liu Xiahui's squinting eyes.

"I won't sell myself, but this fairy tea and porcelain are for sale. Gentlemen, are you willing to buy them?"

The beautiful woman asked with a smile.

The crowd fell silent and then exploded.

“Of course I’ll buy it!”

"What's the price?"

"I want all the money I have."

The crowd was huge, and no one wanted to miss such a treasure of fairy tea.

Li Si slowly held the porcelain cup in his hand, retracted it into his sleeve, and took advantage of the chaos to withdraw from the crowd.

Then, he stopped sending donations to Qin Mo and just stood outside the crowd watching the fun.

About half a quarter of an hour later, the precious fairy tea was snapped up by Xianyang's wealthy people. There was already a mountain of half a tael in front of the beautiful woman, and there were many gold cakes among them.

The beautiful woman waved her hand to the roadside, and two swordsmen emerged from nowhere, helped the beautiful woman lift the gold cake coins, and walked into the Zhenguo Hou Mansion in the distance.

"Qin Mo, Qin Mo, thanks to His Majesty for praising you for being honest and self-sufficient, it turns out that all your wealth is hidden in the Marquis' Mansion."

Li Si sneered: "Let's see how you quibble this time?!"

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(End of chapter)