Daqin: Zulong Overheard My Rebellion Plan

Disregarding etiquette, Ying Zheng held the bowl in his left hand and chopsticks in his right, and directly picked up a chopsticks of vermicelli and put them into his mouth.

While chewing carefully, Ying Zheng showed surprise.

"The texture of this vermicelli is completely different from that of sweet potatoes."

"Strong and springy, slightly sweet in the mouth, and supplemented with vinegar aroma, it is really a delicacy!"

Ying Zheng suddenly looked at Wang Ying: "Can this vermicelli be eaten every day?"

Wang Ying nodded without hesitation: "Vermicelli is different from sweet potatoes, there is no harm in eating it every day.

In the previous life, alum was added to the vermicelli, and eating it every day could easily lead to aluminum poisoning.

But these days, the alum mines are all state-owned, and it is even more difficult to get some alum.

In addition, the heads of Guizhou these days don't care too much about whether the vermicelli stick together, but just pay attention to eating them.

Therefore, Wang Ying did not add alum to the vermicelli at all, so it can be used as a staple food and eaten every day!

Ying Zheng laughed in surprise: "Good!"

"Very good!"

Yingzheng never expected that this vermicelli not only has a high yield per mu of raw materials and is durable in storage, but also tastes so good.

Except that growing sweet potatoes and making vermicelli are much more troublesome than dealing with common grains, there are almost no disadvantages!

Ying Zheng had an unstoppable smile on his face, completely ignoring the majesty of the emperor, and gestured back and forth with his chopsticks.

"My dear friends, come and taste the vermicelli made by the Marquis of Chang'an!"

Ying Zheng doesn't care about etiquette anymore, who else dares to pay attention to etiquette?

Yan Zhengchu and others stepped forward one after another and took the pottery bowl from Sun Gong.

Soon, there was a 'hissing, hissing' sound in the workshop.

"Is this for food? Why is it so beautiful? The beauty of this thing is simply unbearable!"

"Hmm~ this taste is delicious!"

"Crystal and translucent, like topaz, the outside and the inside are the same, this is the food of a gentleman!"

Holding the bowl, a group of important officials of the Qin Dynasty gulped down the sweet potato flour in the bowl like rascals on the street, and couldn't help but compliment each other.

【Does this feel delicious?】

【After my peppers are harvested on a large scale and I make decent hot and sour powder, you guys still have to eat and swallow your tongues?】

[When I get through the trade route from Chang'an to Langya, and get snails on a large scale, and get a bowl of snail noodles, it will be a fragrance! 】

Hot and sour powder?

Snail powder?

The eagles praised it so much, it is absolutely delicious in the world!

It's a pity that as soon as you hear the ingredients, you can tell that those meals are not something that Common Qin people can enjoy.

In terms of its significance to Daqin, this sweet potato flour is the most fragrant!

Yingzheng happily ate the sour soup and sweet potato noodles in the bowl, and while eating the bowl, he thought about the one in the pot.

After a while, Ying Zheng ate up all the sweet potato flour in the bowl.

Taking the silk cloth from the eunuch and wiping his mouth, Ying Zheng showed promise.

"This sweet potato powder in sour soup is very good."

"I don't know how long it will take before every household in Daqin and Qianshou can eat this sweet potato flour?"

Wang Ying said with a smile: "I have already made all the stone mills and a set of tools in Lingzhi Su Yamen, and they can start sending them to the whole territory within five days."

"In this winter, every household in the Qin Dynasty will be able to eat sweet potato noodles in sour soup."

"Within three years, all the heads of Guizhou in Daqin, and every household will be able to store a cellar of sweet potato flour!"

Ying Zheng laughed loudly: "Very kind!"

"With this sweet potato powder in sour soup, there is no need to worry about this year's grain at all."

Li Si, who was on the side, looked serious, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and spoke in a serious voice.

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because of this that I thought that our Daqin's grain tax might need to be adjusted.

Ying Zheng nodded slowly when he heard the words.

"It is precisely because of this that I summoned all the courtiers to come to the court today."

Hearing this, Wang Ying hurriedly drew with her right hand.

"Your Majesty, please enter the main hall."

Soon, a group of courtiers took their seats in the main hall.

Ying Zheng, who was seated at the top, said slowly: "The bumper harvest of sweet potatoes is the blessing of our Great Qin, and it is also the blessing of the head of Guizhou.

"However, the bumper harvest of sweet potatoes also forced me to change the tax in time, and to examine my Daqin's attitude towards the head of Guizhou."

While speaking, Yuan Zheng looked at Li Si.

Noticing Ying Zheng's gaze, Li Si immediately got up and looked at the courtiers.

"Now my Daqin agricultural tax is one of twelve taxes."

"For those below Zuo Shuzhang, each household needs to pay one stone and fifteen catties of livestock fodder in October every year, and sixteen qian or one and a half bolts of cloth in May every year to maintain the operation of the local government."

"Other than that, there is no tax for farmers."

"In the past, the surplus grain left by each farmer after paying the tax could sustain the whole family's food for a year and a half.

"This margin is enough to deal with certain natural and man-made disasters, but it does not allow farmers to sit back and relax."

Wang Ying was a little surprised when he heard this.

[The commercial tax that Yingyang Company has to pay is almost 50% after all! I thought Daqin’s agricultural tax would also be quite high. 】

【The result is only 8%?】

【That's it, heavy tax?】

【Dong Zhongshu missed me!】

Ying Zheng cast Wang Ying a speechless glance.

You are now the ruler of the Great Qin Dynasty!

You don't even know how much Daqin's agricultural tax is?

Are you worthy of your current position?

Is it true that all the time is spent on crafting?

Li Si continued to speak with a helpless face.

"But if this kind of tax is implemented again this year, farmers may be able to stock up enough food for the whole family for three to five years after paying the tax."

"This matter is a huge blow to the meritorious system of our Great Qin Army!"

0………seeking flowers…………

Yan Zhengchu frowned: "What does Prime Minister Li mean by that?"

"Isn't it good that every family in Qianshou has surplus food?"

Li Si said in a deep voice: "It is indeed a blessing that every family in Qianshou has surplus food."

"It is also a blessing for Qianshou to have a large amount of food surplus, but it is not necessarily a blessing for the imperial court."

Yan Zhengchu looked at Li Si in confusion: "Why is this not a blessing?"

Li Si's face was serious: "If the head of Guizhou can live comfortably by relying on labor alone, who would be willing to go to the battlefield to fight?"

"If the life of Qianshou is almost the same as that of the nobles, why should the soldiers go all out to kill the enemy and be awarded the title of military merit?"

Yan Zhengchu couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words: "This...

Yan Zhengchu was speechless for a while.

Because Shang Yang's reform did allow Daqin's military power to take off.

One of the cores of Shang Yang's reform is to increase taxes and confer military merits to force and lure Guishou to join the army!

0

Yang Duanhe hurriedly said: "The most important thing in the Qin Dynasty is plowing and fighting. We shouldn't give up fighting because of plowing!"

Yan Zhengchu immediately retorted: "The high yield of sweet potatoes is a blessing for the head of Guizhou. Is it because of the high yield of sweet potatoes that our Daqin wants to raise taxes instead to collect more taxes from the head of Guizhou?"

Shall we let Qianshou continue to live a hard life?"

Yang Duanhe asked rhetorically: "Only the soldiers at the front can protect the land. If my Great Qin army is no longer good at fighting, what's the use of harvesting more agricultural products?"

Li Si also nodded and said: "The reason why my Great Qin was able to sweep the six countries with fewer soldiers and less food production and dominate the world is because of military merits, and it is because those who kill the enemy with military merits can live a better life!"

"My official advises to increase the agricultural tax!"

Yan Zhengchu said angrily: "You must let Qianshou not have a good life, are you willing to do so!"

【Can this be noisy?】

【Isn’t it just that the food production has increased a bit, so there is a quarrel?】

【Then if I get out the corn and even the tractor, you won’t be able to break your head?】

PS: Source of agricultural tax: Liye Qin Bamboo Slips, Qin Bamboo Slips collected by Peking University Museum.

The source of household Fu: "Tian Lv" in Yuelu Qin Bamboo Slips.

Although Dong Zhongshu, Ban Gu and others all claimed that the Qin Dynasty had extremely heavy taxes.

However, all unearthed records of Qin Shihuang's bamboo slips during the reign of Qin Shihuang are not like this.

There were some differences in the agricultural tax in the Qin Dynasty, but they all hovered around 8%, with a maximum of 9%, which was only about 2% higher than the average in the Han Dynasty.

However, in all the Qin bamboo slips, there is no trace of the Han Dynasty’s proposal to charge 120 yuan per person as a tax. There is only a household tax collected by household, so the conversion is not very different.

The younger brother believes that the taxation mentioned by Dong Zhongshu and Ban Gu should refer to the taxation system of the Qin Dynasty during the period of Qin Xiaogong, not the taxation system of the Qin Shihuang period. .