Chapter 560

Old Li was so shocked he almost jumped up.

You know, the entire Great Tang now only has ten million people.

Great Qin opened its mouth and wanted one million!

One-tenth!

This number far exceeded the expectations of Old Li and Fang Fang Xuanling.

Fang Fang Xuanling's face turned black.

If Great Tang gave away so many people at once, large areas of farmland would be left empty.

These farmlands would be seized by the families.

It was equivalent to disguisedly subsidizing the families.

"Your Majesty, this condition is unacceptable to Great Tang.

Giving away a million people will cause the entire Great Tang empire to shake!

This is shaking the foundation of the country, drinking poison to quench thirst!"

Qin Mu didn't think the conditions he set were outrageous.

He started calculating with Old Li and Fang Fang Xuanling.

"This is really not expensive!

You calculate, a good breed of warhorse only costs ten taels of silver.

Great Tang's people are not worth more than warhorses, right?

In your Great Tang, buying a lively little maid costs at most six taels.

Among the people, there are men, women, old, young, weak, and sick.

Averaging four taels of silver each is not too much, right?

One million Great Tang people are only worth four million taels of silver!"

Old Li was speechless.

This calculation, step by step, had no flaws.

But it always felt Wu Li Ke something was strange?

Fang Fang Xuanling protested in a deep voice.

"How can our Great Tang people be calculated Wu Li Ke this?

They will continue to multiply and produce new items." Qin Mu raised a finger and shook it.

"Minister Fang, you are wrong to say that.

In your Great Tang, maids and servants can all be bought and sold.

They are all people, why can't the people be priced Wu Li Ke this?"

This left Fang Fang Xuanling choked.

They seemed to have never considered this problem before.

Qin Mu's words had no problem.

The problem was Great Tang's system!

Fang Fang Xuanling now understood a little why Great Qin wanted to abolish all humble statuses.

Classifying brothel singers, maids, and servants all as ordinary people.

This is the answer!

This is the fatal flaw of the humble status system!

Old Li didn't have these realizations.

Instead, he felt that what Qin Mu said made a lot of sense.

According to this, Great Tang people can also be calculated at a discounted price.

Regardless of gender or age, four taels of silver each, the price is quite fair.

Speaking of which, one million people equals four million taels of silver.

This price is a bit expensive, but not unacceptable.

This time, they can use Great Qin's power to strike at the families.

And they also kept the pirate army that Great Tang and the Arab Empire were operating together.

For the Great Tang court, everything was developing in a good direction!

"Great Qin Majesty, Great Tang agrees to this condition.

After we go back, we will prepare one million people as soon as possible and send them to Great Qin!"

Fang Fang Xuanling was still thinking.

Old Li had already agreed to Qin Mu's conditions.

Fang Fang Xuanling looked blankly at Old Li, countless thoughts flashing through his mind.

But he said nothing.

Old Li gave him a look full of confidence.

I don't know if he suddenly had some idea?

The matter was discussed.

Qin Mu achieved his goal.

There was nothing else to discuss, so he dismissed the court.

Fang Fang Xuanling followed Old Li out of Great Ming Palace.

With no one around, Fang Fang Xuanling asked the doubts in his heart.

"Old Li, why did you agree to Great Qin's conditions?

Great Tang losing one million people will shake the foundation of the country and suffer a great loss of vitality!" Old Li patted him gently and comforted him.

"It won't!

The people of Jiangnan are mixed.

I have thought about it, this one million people will be selected from the Baiyue people in Lingnan.

It is equivalent to shaking the foundation of the families, with no loss to the court!"

So that was the idea?

Fang Fang Xuanling was speechless again.

Old Li was not wrong.

Great Tang's current situation is indeed a bit complicated.

Since the families had mutual suspicion with the Great Tang court, they had always wanted to manage Lingnan as their foundation.

Old Li's move to draw the firewood from under the cauldron could indeed weaken the foundation of the families.

No problem!

"Old Li, since you have thought it through, then let's do it."

Fang Fang Xuanling said powerlessly and stopped talking.

Assisting Great Tang until now, he felt more and more tired.

Old Li's idea, on the surface, had no problems.

But it had huge hidden dangers.

The Baiyue people are also Great Tang citizens.

Now withdrawing one million seems to weaken the families.

But after eradicating the families, Great Tang will have one million fewer citizens.

It still shakes the foundation of the country.

In a word, Old Li's vision is not enough, far inferior to Qin Mu's foresight!

But Fang Fang Xuanling also knew he couldn't say this.

The current situation is Wu Li Ke this, the families are aggressive.

If they don't use such a strategy to weaken the families,

if the court falls, it will be a total loss.

Of two evils, choose the lesser!

In this situation, Fang Fang Xuanling couldn't give better advice.

Let it be!

Changancheng is prosperous.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, for more than a thousand years, it has always been prosperous.

When Changancheng was still the capital of Great Tang, Old Li once thought that was the most prosperous era in Changancheng's history.

But now!

Every time he comes to Changancheng, he can't help but marvel.

"How could Qin Mu develop Changancheng so fast?"

On the main street, the 110 wards of Changancheng were divided into blocks.

Each block was transformed one by one.

During the Great Tang, each ward was Wu Li Ke a small city with ward gates.

During the curfew, at night, the ward gates had to be locked, and entry and exit were not allowed.

But now, all the wards have been opened.

There is no curfew.

You can enter and exit at will at any time.

The periphery of each ward has also been built into shops.

Changancheng seems to be ten times more prosperous than it was during the Great Tang!

This made Old Li feel a bit uncomfortable.

"Fang Xuanling, do you think Changancheng, built Wu Li Ke this, is safe?" Old Li deliberately wanted to pick some faults so he could feel better.

However, Fang Fang Xuanling didn't seem to understand Old Li's meaning.

He scanned the surroundings on the street.

"I think this is very good; the people are shopping everywhere, and it looks Wu Li Ke it has a very rich atmosphere of life."

Unlike before, the outside of the wards was bare, with no shops and no people.

Seeing that Fang Fang Xuanling didn't follow his meaning, Old Li was a bit angry.

"You only see the prosperity, have you thought about safety?

If there is another foreign invasion, don't we need to use the wards as cities and resist step by step?"

This was the reason for building wards in the city at the beginning.

Fang Fang Xuanling sighed and said.

"Old Li, look at Great Qin now, is there anyone who can fight into Changancheng?

Besides, Changancheng was impregnable before, but couldn't it still not prevent the change of dynasties?

We should also accept new ideas more."

This made Old Li so angry that he couldn't vent his anger.

Anger is anger, Old Li is just a bit willful.

But he took Fang Fang Xuanling's words to heart.

He just wanted to walk around Changancheng more and write down all the secrets of Great Qin's development.

He didn't believe Great Tang couldn't develop.

Old Li and Fang Fang Xuanling walked aimlessly on the street.

The street was prosperous, with people and carriages coming and going.

With more people and carriages, it was easy for some bumps and scrapes to occur.

Ahead, an accident occurred where a carriage brushed against a pedestrian.

Old Li immediately pulled Fang Fang Xuanling over to watch the excitement.

It is easiest to see the style of a country's people from such street accidents.

Old Li wanted to see what the Great Qin people had been educated into.

He went over to look.

A carriage from out of town, loaded with goods, was moving forward, and because it couldn't stop in time, it knocked down a pedestrian.

The owner of the carriage pointed at the person who was knocked down and started shouting.

"Are you blind? I have such a big carriage coming, and you didn't see it?

You didn't know how to dodge, you deserve to be hit!"

Such a scene often happened in Great Tang too.

Generally speaking, as long as the person hit didn't have a big backer, they would choose to walk away in a dejected manner.

But this person was hit a bit heavily and couldn't stand up for a while.

He just hugged his leg, sat on the ground, tears flowing from the pain, but didn't dare to make a sound.

Old Li watched with great interest and said to Fang Fang Xuanling.

"See, the Great Qin people are about the same as the Great Tang people."

At this time, someone among the onlookers stood up to speak.

"You hit someone Wu Li Ke that and still say sarcastic things?

I clearly signaled with the flag just now, but your carriage didn't stop; you should take full responsibility for this accident!"

The carriage owner patted his ears, seemingly unable to believe it.

He resigned himself to bad luck.

"What? I'm fully responsible?

People who don't open their eyes Wu Li Ke this, hitting them to death is not too much.

Why should I take responsibility?"

The person who spoke just now went over to check the injuries of the person on the ground and looked up.

"You don't understand Great Qin's traffic rules at all?

You are not a Great Qin person?

Which country are you from?"

Asked about his nationality, the carriage owner dodged, seemingly unwilling to mention it in public.

At this time, the Forbidden Army also arrived.

The Forbidden Army was not so polite, directly surrounding the accident scene.

"You, what kind of person, what are you here for?"

Seeing the Forbidden Army, the carriage owner suddenly became a bit humble.

"Sir, I am a legitimate merchant from Great Tang, just transported some goods and preparing to leave."

So it was a Great Tang merchant!

Old Li was squeezed in the crowd, hearing this, feeling a bit disappointed.

Among the Forbidden Army, there was also a military doctor, who had just finished checking the person on the ground, indicating that the bones were not broken...

Someone else came over to ask the person who was hit.

"What kind of person are you? Why didn't you look at the carriage when walking?"

"I am also a Great Tang person. I saw someone waving a flag at the intersection, but I didn't know what it meant, and I was hit without knowing why." Well, the one who was hit was also a Great Tang person.

Old Li was disappointed.

Running thousands of miles to Great Qin, and finally seeing a carriage hit someone, both sides were Great Tang people.

No wonder it felt about the same as Great Tang?

Fang Fang Xuanling pointed to the person waving the small flag in the crowd.

"Old Li, that person is specifically standing at the intersection to direct traffic.

Great Qin really has many ideas; how did they come up with this?"

Putting someone specifically at the intersection to direct.

Old Li was also seeing it for the first time.

However, this is only necessary when it is as prosperous as Great Qin.

In Great Tang's Jin Ling, there isn't a carriage on the street for half a day.

If you put someone there, what are they directing? Directing people how to walk?

The more Old Li looked, the more uncomfortable he felt.