Chapter 168

"Of course it can. The utensils we use for eating and drinking now are all bronze, and using this item for eating all year round will cause copper residue, etc., to enter the body, which is naturally bad for the body!"

"If they don't believe it, you can let them put the bronze ware in water and rub it constantly with their hands to see if copper rust, residue, etc., will be produced!"

"And if you eat with this kind of thing, it will definitely affect people's health!"

While speaking, he took out a bronze bowl and rubbed it constantly in the water; after a while, his hand actually turned black!

This scene shocked Li Si.

"Doing this all year round will affect people's lifespan?"

Ying Su nodded: "It's an inevitable event. In the future, it's best not to use bronze for eating, and try to use iron pots for cooking and porcelain bowls for eating!"

"This is beneficial to the body!"

"As for pricing!"

"I plan to use it to slowly replace paper!"

"You arrange it as you see fit!"

"Once the range of acceptance for this item becomes widespread, then paper can be significantly reduced in price!"

"Ten sheets of paper for one coin, this is the final low price!"

Ying Su said, while Li Si was sweating profusely!

Ten sheets of paper for one coin!

What a terrifying price this is!

Of course, all of this still needs to be done slowly!

Everything cannot be rushed!

Once rushed, a lot of money will be lost!

He kept thinking and calculating in his heart!

And next, Ying Su inspected artillery, steel refining, papermaking, printing, and everything else.

With these, it is no exaggeration to say that he is not short of money now.

Even while supporting the country's army and various court expenses, after calculation, the court can still save more than sixty million coins every year!

Plus the grain and other things looted from the nobles, he is now fat and oily!

And at this very moment, he also needs to enter the second stage!

Give back to the people!

Through various national construction and institutional plans, give these things back to the people of Great Qin!

If the people have money, they will pay taxes!

The country then uses these taxes to train the army, build projects, etc., for national development!

In this way, a virtuous cycle is formed, which will make the country more prosperous! It will also make the people more affluent!

This is the so-called national wealth and people's strength!

At this very moment, Ying Su has already begun to plan and think about these things in his heart!

And Princess Princess Yushu, who was on the side, looked at everything before her and was shocked.

Incomparably shocked!

She was shocked by the production of paper, and also shocked by the printing of books!

And the manufacture of steel knives, as well as artillery, etc.

Although she still doesn't understand what kind of impact these things will have on the future Great Qin!

But... just seeing these things, she felt incomparably shocked!

Especially those porcelains!

Those porcelains were truly too exquisite!

So exquisite that she couldn't help but want to touch them!

Now she really wants to stay here a little longer and see more of these things.

On the main street of Xianyang City, today's Xianyang City is simply bustling!

Everyone is surrounding the prison carts, running around and looking!

As early as a few days ago, Zhang Liang's notice had already reached Xianyang City!

Immediately after, Ying Su issued another notice!

Informing everyone of the evil deeds of the Handan Commandery nobles!

In order to resist paying taxes, they actually organized private armies to openly confront the imperial court!

Even inciting the commoners to act as their weapons!

A series of crimes, simply outrageous.

Now, watching so many nobles being escorted into Xianyang City with their own eyes, all the commoners were cheering!

"Escorting the nobles onto prison carts, so from now on, all nobles will have to pay taxes like us!"

"If the nobles pay taxes, then we don't have to pay taxes!"

"Because... all the land is in the hands of the nobles, we don't have any land at all!"

"If the nobles want not to pay taxes, they can only distribute the land to us, and from now on, we will also have our own fields!"

"Great!"

"It's really great!"

At that moment, all the commoners were cheering.

Everyone was incomparably excited!

But there were also nobles sneering: "Do you think this is a good thing? Don't you still have to pay fifty percent tax to the imperial court?"

The commoners laughed: "Before, when we rented land, we had to pay nearly seventy percent tax to the nobles and the imperial court!"

"Now, we only need to pay fifty percent. Long live the new Emperor, the new Emperor is far superior to the First Emperor!"

At that moment, some commoners were shouting!

The nobles were so angry that they cursed them for being pedantic.

Having to give fifty percent of their own grain to others, and still shouting that the new Emperor is far superior to the First Emperor?

But likewise, there were nobles discussing in private that they would never rent land to commoners in the future!

And they would never distribute land to the commoners!

"Yes! I'd rather let it go to waste and let the fields grow full of weeds than ever hand over the land to the commoners!"

"If that group of people wants to farm and eat, they can only sign a slave contract and become my slaves!"

Many nobles shouted fiercely.

But likewise, there were nobles shaking their heads: "This is just a minor path. The rebellious son Ying Su making the nobles pay taxes is just the first step of testing; the second step might be to distribute land! Let the world return to before the Xia and Qi dynasties!"

"Distribute land?"

"Return to before the Xia and Qi dynasties?"

"Let everyone have their own land?"

"Does that rebellious son dare?"

"Does he dare to touch our land?"

"Does he dare to do so?"

Another noble was furious!

And other nobles shook their heads:

"He can even think of such a muddled move as making nobles pay taxes, and he is not even afraid of nobles rebelling and weapons rising everywhere; what is there that he doesn't dare to do?"

"The most direct means is to overthrow him and support a new emperor!"

"Prince Fusu is more obedient than him, and Ying Zheng can also do it, but he just cannot sit in this position!"

"In his eyes, there are only commoners, and no nobles at all!"

"Therefore, he must not be allowed to continue messing around!"

"If he continues to mess around, let alone the nobles of the Six States hating Great Qin, even my descendants of Shang Yang will hate Great Qin!"

"Touching the interests of the nobles is like killing the parents of the nobles!"

"Those who kill my parents are irreconcilable enemies!"

"Must overthrow Ying Su!"

At this very moment, many nobles were saying this fiercely!

Likewise, there were nobles sighing: