When Brother Zheng heard Xia Qi's explanation, his expression eased a little, and the originally solemn atmosphere instantly relaxed.
"It's like this!" Xia Qi scratched his head!
"When I was doing business, the world had yet to be unified, so I could deal with the six countries! Selling salt and iron!" Xia Qi organized his thoughts.
"But at that time, the world was in a war. It wasn't just me, there were countless salt and iron sellers in the world! Now that Great Qin had unified the world, they could not continue like this! Salt and iron are the lifeline of the country, and should be monopolized by the government. How dare I control it privately?”Xia Qi said in a low voice.
The salt and iron monopoly system was actually proposed by the Han Dynasty.
However, if one looked at Great Qin's history, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Great Qin had already started to take back the rights to sell salt and iron and was preparing to monopolize it.
Salt and iron were the lifeline of the country!
This was an unquestionable problem in the feudal era!
It was just that the world had just been unified, and Brother Zheng had too many things to deal with, so he hadn't thought about it yet.
If he continued to ignore the salt and iron business in his hands, it would be the true meaning of self-destruction!
In a feudal society, touching salt and iron was no different from courting death!
This was especially true for Great Qin, where authority was highly concentrated.
If this was a chaotic world, selling salt and iron would be fine, but now that the chaotic world was over, the act of taking chestnuts from the fire was no longer desirable.
Taking a step back, Xia Qi's current identity was Brother Zheng's son.
Moreover, Brother Zheng's attitude towards him was indeed unusual. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was more indulgent.
If Xia Qi was really the so-called child of Brother Zheng and the mistress, it would be fine. When Brother Zheng really implemented the monopoly of salt and iron, he would generously hand over the salt and iron without any worries about his life.
But he, Xia Qi, was not!
The heavens had mercy on him, he was a transmigrator!
Furthermore, it was the clothing that had shrunk to a one-year-old or two-year-old without even experiencing pregnancy!
Now, no matter how kind a father was and how filial a son was, it was based on the premise that he was Brother Zheng's son.
But what if his identity was exposed?
At that time, the significance of salt and iron in his hands could be imagined!
To be precise, even if Xia Qi handed over the salt and iron, the situation would not be optimistic.
Because he was not Brother Zheng's son after all. Although Brother Zheng had not made Xia Qi's identity public at Xia Qi's request, everyone in the palace knew that there was an additional prince!
When his real identity was revealed and he was a fake, who knew if Brother Zheng would fly into a rage out of humiliation?
Now, the better Brother Zheng treated Xia Qi, the more worried Xia Qi was!
This was because he was Brother Zheng's son, the flesh and blood of Brother Zheng's heart.
Of course, Xia Qi couldn't tell Brother Zheng about these things.
He had already insisted that he was not Brother Zheng's son. From the beginning, it was Brother Zheng's wishful thinking. Other than the fact that he was a transmigrator, he had already said everything he could?
The only thing he could do in this situation was to try his best to eliminate his negative influence.
Hand over the salt and iron to increase Brother Zheng's favorability.
When his identity was revealed, Brother Zheng might even think that he was not bad and that there was no need to kill him.
Moreover, even without the farce of the illegitimate child, even without Wang Jian stirring up trouble in the imperial court, Xia Qi would most likely find an opportunity to hand over the salt and iron business.
Otherwise, how could Great Qin sit back and watch as salt and iron fell into the hands of a merchant? Unless Brother Zheng is a pig
Now that Great Qin's finances were tight, he could be considered to be sending charcoal in the snow. Why not?
As the ruler, Brother Zheng naturally understood what Xia Qi meant.
Brother Zheng had been hostile to the merchants because of Lu Buwei.
Lu Buwei was a typical combination of power and business, so much so that it formed a huge umbrella of interests.
This umbrella was so huge that it could support Lu Buwei and the Great Qin Imperial Clan for more than ten years!
This was also the reason why Brother Zheng was hostile to merchants!
This group of people seemed to have very little power, but once they were combined with power, the power they could unleash was unbelievable!
To fight against the entire Imperial Clan of the Qin Country in Guanzhong with his own strength!
Therefore, after Brother Zheng took charge of the government, Brother Zheng made it a rule that officials were not allowed to do business!
After Great Qin unified the world, Xia Qi, who had become the wealthiest merchant in the world, once again caught Big Brother Zheng's attention.
With Xia Qi's power, he could even determine the survival of a country to a certain extent!
Even though they were borrowing the might of Great Qin's army, it also showed the power of commerce!
Among Xia Qi's businesses, salt and iron were the most important!
Ever since Brother Zheng unified the country, he began to consider how to solve the business problem.
It would not last long to resist commerce blindly. The goods and materials from all over the world needed to be exchanged and circulated. It was necessary for merchants to exist.
However, he had been busy with the rules after unifying the country and had not had time to think about it, so he decided to temporarily continue Great Qin's old trade system.
But now that he heard Xia Qi say it, he was somewhat enlightened!
Salt and iron monopoly!
That's right! That was it!
Brother Zheng looked at Xia Qi with a smile on his face.
It seems that this child has me in his heart!
Otherwise, why would Xia Qi be willing to give up the biggest profit in his hands and propose salt and iron monopoly?
In the end, he still had some feelings for his father!
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