The Weapon Tycoon Who Traveled to Great Qin

"The grain is here. The grain is here." A train from Qin State drove in quietly on the outside railway line connected by a coal mine on the border of Zhao State.

"Huhuhuhu." The train stopped on the platform. Zhao Guoren, who was waiting on the early platform, was overjoyed.

"Quickly, hurry up and unload all these grains." A Zhao Guo miner shouted loudly with a head-on task, waving his powerful arms.

"Come on." A large group of people quickly stepped forward and unloaded the grain from the train skins. All of them laughed. These grains were all transported from Qin State. What they transported to Qin State was a large amount of coal.

In order to solve the domestic coal shortage, Qin adopted a tacit attitude in the border areas and exchanged Qin's large amounts of grain and meat products for large amounts of coal. Regarding this situation at the border, the Prime Minister of Qin’s Mansion was acquiesced, because there seemed to be no better way to solve Qin’s huge coal demand. Qin's coal industry is undergoing centralized adjustment, and a large number of small coal mines have ceased production for mergers and reorganizations.

Zhao's domestic coal production has also entered a state of stagnation, and this state has prevented Qin from getting enough coal from other countries. In order to maintain its domestic production. Some officials of the State of Qin had to come up with such a method. They exported a large amount of grain from the State of Qin in exchange for more coal. Qin State had one stone of wheat in exchange for ten stones of coal. Or one stone of flour in exchange for twenty-five stones of coal. Zhao Guo mainly exchanged for flour, because processing wheat is very inconvenient. Although stone milling technology was introduced to Zhao, there are really not many places where Zhao can open mills. Therefore, the imported wheat cannot be eaten. All Zhao Guo imports are wheat.

After Qin State imports coal, it will also process part of it locally, processing some high-quality coal into coke, and then reloading it into trucks and transporting it to various heavy industrial areas in Qin State. This led to the emergence of a large number of coal and coke construction sites in Taiyuan County of the Qin State.

"I said, can you deliver something else." A Zhao Guoren said when he climbed onto Qin's locomotive.

"Give me what? I said it doesn't count. But I can do some small business." The Qin countryman who was driving the train said at this time.

"En. Can you give me some of that." The Zhao Guoren said with a grin.

"What?" said the driver of the train.

"Oh. I understand." The driver said at this time.

"This can't work. Qin State is breaking the law. Once caught, it will be fatal." The driver shook his head and said.

"I can't do this. You don't want me either. I really can't." The driver shook his head and said.

"I haven't said this yet. Why can't you say no." Zhao Guoren said embarrassedly.

"And if you don't give it a try, you won't know how to know. It shouldn't be a big deal for such a big train to transport something." Zhao Guoren said.

"It's not a big deal." The driver of Qin Guo said while looking at each other.

"Tell you, in Qin, this arms is a major event. There are only a few companies and trading houses that can do arms trading. There are very few qualification certificates, and where are they exported? What weapons are sold? , How much, this is all in quantity and detailed registration. Once this batch of weapons appears where they shouldn't appear, this is to be decapitated. This is a felony. You know?" The driver looked at the other side and said at this time.

"Such a thing, don't even think about it." After looking at the other person at this time, the driver no longer agreed.

"Oh." Zhao Guoren nodded. Zhao Guoren knows that Qin's laws have always been harsh, although in recent years it seems to have relaxed a lot, such as abolishing many corporal punishments and changing to several criminal laws, but in terms of arms control, Qin is fundamentally There is no slack. On the contrary, under the strict control of King Qin, Qin's gun laws are extremely strict.

The number of exported guns and artillery must have a detailed number. At the same time, arms that can be exported must have an arms trade license, and such a license will not be issued much in a year. In this way, the State of Qin controlled the foreign trade of arms.

Regarding the issue of Zhao State, Meng Yi fully considered Zhao State's situation. If Qin State exports at this time and sells weapons to the opponent in different forms, the opponent may be extremely agitated. With this in mind, the State of Qin strictly controlled the export of guns from the State of Qin, especially in the direction of State Zhao. Qin State could not export weapons to the other side. If it is exported in large quantities, it will cause great diplomatic troubles. Qin also had different views on Zhao's situation.

"The situation in Zhao State is extremely complicated and chaotic." The Foreign Minister said to Meng Yi.

"There are noble powers in Zhao State, as well as those official powers, and royal powers." The Foreign Minister said sadly, because there are too many powers in Zhao State. These are the conclusions of Qin State's detailed analysis. Qin has never studied Zhao in this in-depth before, but after this in-depth study, Qin did not know how to proceed.

"These are the upper-level forces. They are all groups that don't have to pay taxes," the Foreign Minister said.

"The main cause of this incident is to pay taxes, and this time the taxes are surprisingly high. However, the purpose of Zhao Guo's use of this tax is currently unknown, but according to outside speculation, the royal family used quite a lot of taxes." Said the foreign minister.

"Oh. Then Zhao Guo is too messy." Meng Yi continued.

Hearing so many forces, this greatly exceeded Meng Yi's understanding of Zhao Guo.

"So who are the taxing groups this time?" Meng Yi then asked.

"Speaking of it, I was shocked," the Foreign Minister said.

"This time the group of Zhao State taxation includes the army," said the foreign minister.

"Oh." Meng Yi looked at each other in surprise. The group that Zhao Guo taxed included the army, which was a big surprise to Meng Yi.

"The army is also an **** fin for taxation. This." Meng Yi said incredulously.

"This is also beyond my expectation. Originally, the army was the guarantee of Zhao's security, but he did not expect that Guo Kai even taxed the army this time," said the foreign minister.

"En. Keep talking." Meng Yi said.

"Except for the army, the main tax collectors are merchants, because the merchants of Zhao State are the richest. Their taxes are also the highest. However, the merchants of Zhao State are struggling with nobles and officials. Therefore, these merchants have also avoided. Some taxes, but most businessmen still pay very high taxes. These are the coal mines of Zhao State. Zhao State’s merchants first participated in it. They developed a lot of coal mines. These coal mines can bring a lot to Zhao Taxation. Do these businessmen mainly run coal mines? They can get huge profits, but the taxation requires them a lot. Two of them are severely divided, and the other is directly dependent on local nobles or officials. This part of the coal mines With a share of these nobles and officials, their taxes will be much less. But some merchants, the mine owners did not take refuge, they directly instigated their miners to directly riot and resist taxes." The Minister of Foreign Affairs said.

"En. It seems that Zhao Guo's situation is more complicated than we thought." Meng Yi shook his head and said. He did not expect that the subject of Zhao's tax collection should have such a big prejudice. These situations would not happen in the Qin State. In the Qin State, the main body of taxation is the commercial system. Instead, agriculture has become a large subsidy group. The improvement of agricultural technology has resulted in Qin's huge reserves of dozens of times the total amount of grain in various countries. Such reserves have prevented Qin's grain prices from rising. In order to ensure the interests of the farmers, Qin had to give a large amount of subsidies every year, as well as various bank interest-free loans. Tax exemption and less taxation support their own agricultural development and protect Qin's food security.

The main body of taxation is business, especially businessmen and industrial and commercial enterprises. For them, Qin State cannot impose high taxes. On the contrary, it still adopts a supportive attitude towards some enterprises, such as electric power enterprises and electric power transmission enterprises. These two types of enterprises are currently supported. The State of Qin relies on the advantages of a large number of commercial groups. Although the tax levied is very small, there is a huge amount to make up for the disadvantage of low taxes.

In addition, Qin's army is a large tax-free entity. Qin's soldiers are tax-free in all aspects, especially the procurement of military weapons by the army. No fees are levied at all, so the biggest advantage of doing business with the military is that you can get tax exemption. This is one of Qin's greatest advantages. But Zhao Guo actually came to the army and taxed it. In this case, Zhao Jun's burden will exceed Qin Jun, which makes Zhao Jun's military reform a hindrance. This is not a good phenomenon for Zhao Guo.

"How do we take measures against Zhao Guo?" Meng Yi then asked.

"En. There is no good solution for the time being. The situation in the country of Zhao has not taken any measures to deal with such chaos. We have taken active measures and cannot make up for it. I think we should wait and see the changes. Wait for them to take the initiative to find out. Go to Qin State, or Qin State put pressure on them in another direction." The Foreign Minister said.

"Oh. Put pressure? How to put pressure." Meng Yi asked.

"I think that Qin should provide some supplies to the Zhao people who are in riots, so that they will be more confused about Zhao's domestic situation." The Foreign Minister said.

"No. It's too dangerous to do this." Meng Yi shook his head and refused.

"In doing so, Qin will fall into a passive situation, which is very unfavorable for Qin. This thing cannot be done." Meng Yi said.

"We can give quietly." The Foreign Minister proposed.

"No. You can't do this." Meng Yi shook his head again and refused.

"Absolutely can't do this." Meng Yi said.

"En." The Foreign Minister nodded. Express acceptance.