Qin Shi Huang signaled with his eyes. Meng Yi stood up, holding a tray with both hands.
The exquisite tray was inlaid with agate, and there was a piece of paper on the tray.
Paper was no stranger to Great Qin.
Brother Zheng built the Great Wall in the north. The straight road of the former Qin Dynasty spanned more than a thousand miles, and the Lingqu Canal went straight to Baiyue.
He could be said to be China's first infrastructure maniac!
The emergence of the art of making paper was something that could not wait for paper to spread throughout the country!
Brother Zheng's court was Ying Zheng's one-word court!
The operation of the central power system was extremely efficient!
The fact that Han inherited Qin's system proved that Great Qin's system was unprecedented!
"Left Prime Minister Feng Qujie, the method of refining refined salt is in this paper. I order you to immediately urge the salt officials in the world to refine refined salt for me and sell it at one-tenth of the price of crude salt.”Qin Shihuang said in a deep voice.
One-tenth!
Hearing this, Feng Qujie was shocked!
The price of coarse salt in Great Qin was extremely high!
There was even an ancient saying that salt made the country rich!
Sometimes, a pound of gold could only be exchanged for a pound of salt!
The price of salt in Great Qin had reached 500 copper coins per bucket!
If the price was reduced to one-tenth, it would be fifty copper coins for a bucket of salt!
In this way, all the salt merchants and nobles in the world would go bankrupt!
It had reached the point where the Great Qin government had a monopoly!
Feng Qujie opened the paper. After taking a closer look, his pupils constricted!
The method of refining refined salt was described in great detail and the steps were simple.
Refining refined salt according to the method on this book would be inexhaustible!
Taking a deep breath, Feng Qujie carefully put away the paper.
The importance of this piece of paper was self-evident.
Feng Qujie immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to Qin Shihuang. He said in a deep voice,"On behalf of the people of Great Qin, I thank Your Majesty!”
Qin Shihuang smiled and said in a deep voice,""No one is allowed to divulge the method of refining refined salt. From now on, this method will become part of Great Qin's laws, and only Great Qin's officials can refine and sell refined salt.”
The quality and price of the refined salt were extremely close to the people. Qin Shi Huang believed that it would not be long before the people of the world would be grateful to him!
Moreover, there was an endless stream of money that flowed into Great Qin's treasury!
Below the stage, Feng Qujie immediately replied,"We will obey Your Majesty's orders!"
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After the court retreated, Feng Qujie immediately ran out of Xianyang Palace under the gazes of all the officials.
Soon, Feng Qujie followed Qin Shihuang's request and had all the salt officials gather their men.
According to the method on the paper, refine refined salt.
In just a few days, the Great Qin Empire had produced millions of kilograms of refined salt!
With the influx of refined salt into the world, Qin Shihuang issued an edict to personally promote refined salt!
Brother Zheng's charisma was there, and it was disguised as an advertisement for the refined salt.
The commoners rushed over to buy refined salt.
All over Great Qin, there were official salt shops opened by salt officials.
The sun had just risen, and the sun was blazing. A gentle breeze swept across, and the noise of the streets was endless!
Xianyang City Official Shop.
As soon as the shop opened, countless people lined up outside the shop for thousands of meters!
Some of them were nearby merchants, some were taverns 'shopkeepers, and most of them were Great Qin's commoners.
In order to maintain order, Feng Qujie even sent Qin soldiers to maintain order at the scene!
The refining method of refined salt was very simple, and the output was extremely high.
Even though it was sold for one-tenth of the price of coarse salt, it was still unable to withstand such massive sales, and Great Qin's officials made a lot of money.
Looking at this scene, Feng Qujie thought about how he could make a fortune with just this shop in Xianyang City.
The thousands of shops in Great Qin contributed to Great Qin's treasury every day.
"Your Majesty is truly a god!" Feng Qujie sighed sincerely.
The State of Qin's treasury, which had already been emptied, was now unprecedentedly prosperous under the godlike operation of His Majesty!
Moreover, this exclusive business of selling refined salt had continuously replenished Great Qin's treasury!
Moreover, looking at the people's grateful gazes, Feng Qujie knew that they would feel even more grateful towards Great Qin!
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The salt merchants in Xianyang City gathered together and stood at the side, frowning.
Ever since Great Qin's officials had introduced refined salt, they could no longer sell their coarse salt!
They had tasted refined salt before, and the quality was dozens of times higher than the coarse salt they sold!
However, the price was only one-tenth of the refined salt they sold!
For a moment, these salt merchants had mixed feelings and could not help but sigh.
"Where did Your Majesty get so much refined salt? The quality is excellent, dozens of times better than our coarse salt! And the price is only one-tenth of our coarse salt. Isn't Your Majesty afraid of losing money?”
"A loss? Impossible! How wise was His Majesty? Qiangu Wushuang! Presumably, His Majesty has received instructions from the heavens and obtained the method of refining refined salt. From now on, the salt officials will sell it, and we salt merchants will have nothing to do with it!”
"Your Majesty is really a god! If this wasn't His Majesty's property, we would have used our relationship with the ministers of Xianyang to get the recipe for refining refined salt. But now that it's His Majesty's property, we'd better give up this idea as soon as possible and do what we should do.”
"Let's change careers. But what could he do now? My family has been a salt merchant for generations. Other than having salt and money at home, I don't know anything else. Sigh, I'm a little sad.”
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Compared to the sighs of the salt merchants, the people of Xianyang who were queuing up to buy refined salt were in high spirits.
"Your Majesty is truly a saint! This is much more benevolent than those so-called profiteers. We couldn't even eat this kind of refined salt in the past. Not only was His Majesty willing to sell it to us, but he also granted all our requests. He could buy as much as he wanted. What was even rarer was that the price was only one-tenth of that of coarse salt!”
"This is equivalent to His Majesty giving it to us commoners for free! The cost of His Majesty sending people to refine refined salt must not be low, and he's still willing to sell it to us at such a low price. He's really an emperor of benevolence and righteousness. If anyone dares to slander His Majesty's tyrant name in front of me again, I'll beat them to death!”
"When we return later, this old man will personally burn incense and worship Your Majesty's Ancestral Dragon statue. Your Majesty is handsome and vigorous. This old man wishes Your Majesty to live as long as the heavens and the earth! If I hear any news of the remnants of the Six Nations again, I'll report it to the Imperial Court immediately! What the f * ck! His Majesty is so good to us commoners. Why should we put our heads on our belts and die with the rats of the six dynasties?”
"Not only did His Majesty give us refined salt, but he also popularized paper. A few hundred pieces of paper can record the contents of a book, and the price is only a few coins. This gives ordinary people like us the opportunity to buy books and even read. It's not like the bamboo slips of the past, which were extremely expensive and cumbersome. Other than those cynical Confucian scholars, how could we farmers have the time to decorate those things upside down?”
“……”
Similar voices rose one after another. The commoners were sincerely grateful to Qin Shihuang and rejoiced that they were born in the golden age of Great Qin!
In front of Great Qin's tens of millions of Ancestral Dragon statues, incense burned continuously and offerings were endless!
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