Time flies, and two months pass in a flash.

Autumn goes to winter, and after a few heavy snowfalls, Xianyang has entered a cold winter.

Chen Xu goes out early and returns late almost every day, except for going home to accompany the pregnant Ying Shiyan, most of the time he spends most of his time in the newspaper to review the law, and even works until the city gate is closed very late, so he simply stays in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, and Fan Caiying enjoys the joy of fish and water while discussing some details of business law with each other.

The new business bill gradually surfaced amid heated discussions and revisions, and much of the content began to spread, but the overall situation remained a mystery.

Therefore, everyone from the emperor to the merchants, including the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, were very eager to see the full content of this new decree.

At the end of October, after the enthusiastic participation and discussion of countless people, the new commercial law was finally completely completed, and after two days of rest, Chen Xu entered the palace with several thick copies of the commercial law to meet the emperor and handed over the draft of the commercial law to the emperor for review.

Looking at the large number of commercial laws that Chen Xu brought in, the emperor roughly flipped through them and looked at them one by one, but in view of Chen Xu's enthusiasm and seriousness, he still left the draft and read it for several days.

At the beginning of November, the emperor sent the reviewed draft of the new commercial law to the Zhongshu Province for Li Si to organize a second review.

And when Li Si got this new set of commercial laws, looking at this complete set of laws and regulations that covered almost all business scopes and were clearly listed, the old man's face suddenly showed an even more gray color.

This new commercial law is not only to loosen the restrictions on merchants, but also to be more extensive and standardized, completely standardizing many commercial behaviors that were previously framed by just one sentence or even a few words, and almost everything is very detailed, not only involving the production and business activities of merchants, craftsmen and commoners, but also extending to regulate the restrictions and requirements of the imperial court and local county officials in terms of management.

The Law on the Administration of Industry and Commerce stipulates that on the premise of law-abiding business operations, the imperial court and local governments have no right to arbitrarily interfere with and deprive businessmen and craftsmen of their business activities, and they shall not forcibly increase taxes and confiscate business income, and shall not obstruct or destroy the trading and sale of various small quantities of agricultural and sideline products planted and brought, collected, manufactured, and produced by civilians.

These two articles are almost the core of Chen Xu's commercial law reform.

As a representative of the current Legalist figures, Li Si felt dizzy and powerless when he saw these two items.

Once these two laws are promoted, there will be no way for the merchants and commoners in the world to continue to suppress them as harshly as before.

In addition to the Industrial and Commercial Registration Administration Law, the Tax Registration Administration Law also proposes different tax and management measures for different industries and business practices.

After all business operations must be registered in the official office of the place where the business belongs, instead of doing business everywhere with a businessman's waist card as it is now, and the future generations of industry and commerce ascended the throne, businessmen must first register their company name in the county and county officials, and at the same time register the business scope and registered capital, according to the number of registered capital, the Ministry will arrange different levels of tax officials to regularly audit the account books to collect taxes, and once it is found that there is a cost of account books or other fraudulent acts, will be given extremely heavy fines, If the circumstances are particularly heinous, they will be arrested and imprisoned, and even sentenced to heavy sentences.

Different business scopes, such as agricultural tool manufacturing, salt grain cloth, pottery, bamboo and wood, medicinal materials and other industries that are closely related to the lives of ordinary people, the tax rate will be reduced from the current five taxes, one four taxes and one to 15 taxes.

The tax on food, clothing, livestock breeding, leather goods and wool products has also been reduced to 10 taxes, and the tax exemption is directly exempt from the income of ordinary people in the form of family workshops, such as household weaving and the collection of medicinal herbs.

For the luxury consumption level industries that are allowed to be sold, such as standard weapons, wine, porcelain, glass, etc., the tax is stipulated to be seven taxes and one tax

Industries such as steel, cement, smelting, coal, and mining that belong to the field of national resources that are allowed to operate on a special basis will be more standardized in their production and operation, and a series of strict management measures will be implemented from applying for qualifications to environmental protection to production supervision to taxation.

Moreover, the new "Law on the Administration of Industrial and Commercial Registration" and the "Law on the Management of Special Commercial Operations" have made stricter regulations and guidance for money banks, and although the taxes are set very low, the management is so strict that it is almost harsh, from registration to daily management, to the point that Li Si is puzzled.

These two separate laws are almost aimed at Huaxia Bank, and Huaxia Bank is Chen Xu's own industry, but if this Huaxia Bank is strictly enforced according to these laws, it will be almost under the strict control of the Shaofu and the Ministry of Household Coin Bureau, and it will be almost impossible to do the slightest fraud.

Li Si sat at the desk, carefully flipping through each draft one by one.

As a leader in the legal profession, there is nothing he can't understand about these regulations.

Even the formulation and interpretation of many of these ordinances made him suddenly realize that the original decrees could be made in this way.

Among these decrees, they are not only intended to loosen the business practices of merchants, craftsmen and civilians, but also carry out stricter regulations and punishment measures for business practices and product quality, such as fraud such as shoddy and shoddy, which will directly be punished with huge sums of money, and those who cause personal injury and huge property losses will also suffer from prison and even heavy punishment.

Lenient operation, easy taxation, strict management, heavy punishment.

This is the core of this set of business laws.

Li Si read this draft of the new commercial law for five days, and then did not organize the disciples of the Legalists to review it, and submitted it to the emperor again without changing a word.

was forced to a dead end by Chen Xu with an investment of 400 million yuan in Dongfang Dao, and Li Si had to agree to this huge gamble.

Now that he has admitted defeat, he has to swallow this bitter fruit.

Since Chen Xu spent two months to complete the review and revision of this set of commercial laws, and invited celebrities from all over the world to participate in it with great fanfare, the various paragraphs and regulations in it must have been carefully considered and even repeatedly revised countless times.

It is impossible to change it, and Li Si himself feels that he has no way to start changing it, because this new way of reviewing and editing laws has gone beyond the scope of his cognition of the law, and it is completely an eye-opening process and result.

And even if he could change it, Li Si wouldn't move a word.

This is the price that must be borne for failure.

As a bureaucrat who has been immersed in officialdom for nearly 30 years, step by step from a small official to a position above 10,000 people under one person, Li Si deeply understands the rules of officialdom.

Once he once again puts forward a different view on Chen Xu's new commercial law and insists on revising it, he will inevitably be looked down upon by the Manchu Dynasty and even the people of the world, and will inevitably be despised and spurned by countless people.

In this era where reputation is more important than life, once reputation is damaged, it will soon plummet.

Lees has been feeling the signs of clarity lately.

He came back to life after a serious illness, the direction of the court has changed dramatically, Chen Xu's reputation is even greater, and he already knows that there are some officials who are asking the emperor to replace Chen Xu with his position as the left minister to take charge of Zhongshu Province, including many heavyweight marquis ministers, and even Zhao Wei, the commander of the Shaofu.

As for his almost fatal serious illness, Li Si already had a deep fear and even hatred for Chen Xu, but at the same time, he felt a cold fear in his soul.

Although he couldn't know the true origin of that mysterious and domineering potion at the moment, and he didn't know if Chen Xu was aware of Li Gui's identity, but after all, this matter was a punishment and result that he got for his own greed for pleasure, and if he continued to obstruct this matter, maybe it would be exchanged for Chen Xu's even more crazy revenge.

Because from this period of time, Chen Xu has also changed very much, especially the formulation of new business laws, and he has been in the newspaper for almost two months, even the pregnant princess has not taken care of it.

He spent so much cost and energy to promote the reform of the commercial law, it has reached the point where no one is allowed to destroy it again, and with the support of the emperor, the reform and implementation of the commercial law has reached the point where it can no longer be stopped.

In mid-November, Yang Kun, the director of the General Administration of Preparation for the Oriental Road, played the emperor, and the construction of the new Oriental Road was completely completed, and the cement roads of more than 2,000 miles were all paved, and all that remained was to plant trees along the way and further improve the construction of service stations and logistics markets.

And this also marks the early completion of the Dongfang Road project promoted by Chen Xu, and it was not delayed because Li Si admitted failure in advance.

In fact, before the construction of the Dongfang Road was completed, snowflakes were everywhere in the counties and counties of the country, hoping that the emperor would allow the roads leading to the counties to be built into concrete roads, so as to strengthen the transportation of goods and the connection between the whole country.

Although the emperor did not express any position on these recitals, it seems that the emperor could not hold back this idea through some court discussions, and proposed to let the officials of the three provinces and six ministries plan and discuss, and also asked for the formation of a highway administration in charge of cement road construction throughout the country to deal with this matter.

But apparently the emperor was also very cautious about this matter, and the same was true of the officials of the three provinces and six ministries.

It is impossible to build a cement highway connecting the whole country according to the model of Dongfang Road, and the businessmen will not accept it, because this investment is already so large that it is beyond the capacity of the entire Daqin, and the annual investment of all tax revenues is just a small wave, which is simply a drop in the bucket.

And if it is impossible to let Chen Xu come forward in advance, Chen Xu will definitely not accept the invitation before the new commercial law is officially implemented.

The emperor did not rashly issue an edict to implement the draft of the new commercial law compiled by Chen Xu, but successively convened the princes and ministers and many ministers into the palace to discuss, and delayed until mid-December, waiting for the joint acceptance team composed of the Ministry of Industry, the Shaofu and the Ministry of Supervision to complete the survey and acceptance of the entire Dongfang Road project before the draft of the new commercial law was announced in the court.

Chen Xu finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

It was difficult to take a step, but finally came to the end.

The cost was enormous, but he felt an unparalleled ease.