Health care costs money, a lot of money is spent, and there may not be a return on investment, and many officials are not very in favor of construction that only has no return on investment, thinking that even if the state funds are abundant, they should not be consumed unscrupulously, and what if there is a shortage of money for a certain period of time?

According to the relevant national policy formulated by Lu Zhe, everything is to use money to open the way, such as stabilizing the local government and gathering young people to concentrate on construction, and like the continuous construction of roads and water conservancy facilities in various places, at least 1.5 billion yuan has been spent in just four years, and these do not count the cost of government operations and military expenditure.

1.5 billion guan, now is not the Han Dynasty, nor the Sui and Tang dynasties, it is the era when the ancient pre-Qin has just ended, at the beginning of Qin's domination of the world, there are thousands of half taels in the family even if they are rich, and a few gold (copper) cakes are considered to be hugely rich, but the result is good, with the reduction of the denomination of the currency reform, the five baht money is listed after the development of a thousand Wen for a consistent monetary system, money does not seem to be so valuable?

When Qin's half-tael coin was in circulation, one and a half taels could probably buy a few stones of grain or half a foot of cloth or something, and one and a half taels was about six five-baht coins, but now it costs more than ten yuan to buy a stone of grain or half a foot of cloth.

"In the past, the family could count a few and a half dollars a year without worry, but now the family must have consistency to ensure that it is not embarrassed." Fanxian was smiling when he said this, and sure enough, he said again: "But it was not easy to make money before, and there were not many ways to get money by selling grain or weaving cloth at home, or raising some domestic animals." Now there are many ways to make money, you can accept workshop employment, and you can participate in local construction. Take accepting employment in a workshop as an example, an ordinary position is about 100 yuan a month, and a better position can cost hundreds of yuan......"

The basic salary of laborers hired in various parts of the empire to participate in local construction was 80 yuan, and the more physically strong the laborers, the higher the salary, but they depended on the government for food, drink, and sleep. The situation of eating, drinking, and sleeping in private workshops and factories is not fixed.

The rise in prices in the midst of economic growth is a normal phenomenon, and it is generally caused by the need for everyone to buy because everyone has money. An appropriate rise in prices without exaggeration is a benign expansion in economic development. If prices rise while incomes fall, it will inevitably lead to undesirable phenomena, which are known as currency depreciation.

"The current state of the economy is because there is more purchasing power than productivity, and the rise in prices is inevitable." Zhang Liang said: "Only by increasing productivity and balancing demand with output can we control prices. ”

The patrol team had arrived in Xianyang a day earlier, and Lu Zhe and a group of people were staying directly in Xianyang Palace, planning to wait for the snow to lower before resuming their journey.

This is not the first time that Lü Zhe has entered the Xianyang Palace, the last time he came was as a team leader, and he was summoned here by the First Emperor, and was rewarded for his new method of building the city. Become a marquis in the Great Qin Army.

It wasn't a good experience to come to Xianyang Palace that time, you can't look around and naturally you can't see too much scenery, and kneeling on the floor for hours is never a good thing.

When he came to Xianyang Palace again, Lu Zhe came with a different attitude, no one could stop him from going wherever he wanted to go, so he naturally wanted to go wherever he wanted.

The Xianyang Palace, which has been expanded by several generations of Qin kings to the first emperor, occupies a large area, but the palace group and the forest garden are new and old, and the Xingle Palace and the North Palace are relatively new, and the rest of the palace groups have the old phenomenon.

Lu Zhe and the rest of the harem naturally chose Xingle Palace to live. The North Palace arranged part of the forbidden army and arranged the civil and military officials in the houses near the Zhangcheng Gate.

The color of the palace of the King of Qin is relatively monotonous, the tiles are green tiles, and the walls are gray and white. There are very few places where you can see bright red, and when you stand on a high place and look down, there are three-story and two-story buildings everywhere, but it may be because of the monotonous relationship of the colors, and you can't see any magnificence. It's a kind of grandeur. Although they are all grandiose, one is the show-off of the nouveau riche, and the other is deep seriousness. It can be seen that the centuries-old heritage of the Zhao family name is also presented in architecture.

Xingle Palace is located in the east of Xianyang City, and the first emperor once ruled the Zhangtai Palace a little distance, Zhangtai Palace is located in the south of Weishui, the two places are about 20 miles apart.

According to historical records, Qin Shi Huang once "bowed to the literature and ink, broke the prison during the day, and read books at night" in Zhangtai Palace. The central ministers' offices and the counties and counties of the country gathered here in a steady stream. The chapter was sent to the chapter platform, and the guard on duty had to present it to Qin Shi Huang for personal inspection, and the mud seal was intact, and it was not secretly opened by the traitor, so he knocked off the mud seal and the imperial view.

Lu Zhe chose Xingle Palace instead of Zhangtai Palace, that is because Xingle Palace is relatively new, and there is a Hongtai in Xingle Palace. This kind of Hongtai is not the kind of high platform built by the King of Zhou in order to avoid debts, it is the first emperor who once shot a Hong (that is, a wild goose) here in order to climb high and look far, so it is named Hongtai.

Hongtai is 40 zhang high, was built in the 27th year of the first emperor, and the length unit is converted to about 90 meters high, which is equivalent to nearly 30 floors of modern floors. Not a natural mountain, Hongtai is the tallest building in Xianyang, and at the top of Hongtai, you can overlook Xianyang and take in most of Xianyang.

At this moment, Lu Zhe and a group of ministers stood at the top of Hongtai, and they talked while looking at Xianyang, looking at the houses in one place, looking at the small black dots walking around, and looking at the smoke that gradually increased. If your eyesight is good enough, you can even see the frozen Weishui from Hongtai.

When you come to Xianyang, you don't need to deliberately investigate, when you walk on the road, you can find that there are not many pedestrians in the city, and even if there are, most of them are old and weak, which seems to be extremely depressed.

Guanzhong is probably a depressed status quo, which is of course related to the lack of labor, and this phenomenon is the responsibility of Lü Zhe, after all, many Qin troops have gone south, or are stationed to defend Lü Zhe. However, it was not Lü Zhe who ordered the conscription of young and strong rulers, and he even released a large number of prisoners of war with household registration in Guanzhong.

The only thing that gives Lu Zhe some comfort is that the Qin people in Guanzhong have a welcoming and warm attitude towards Lu Zhe, which is related to the fact that Lu Zhe was born in Longxi County and is a Qin person, and more because of the national policy formulated by Lu Zhe.

In fact, after patrolling all the way, Lu Zhe was loved everywhere he went, and no matter whether the love was sincere or not, it was always a good phenomenon.

To resume production, Lu Zhe has always attached great importance to this, but he is more inclined to build the south and invest more manpower and material resources in the construction of grain-producing areas in southern Xinjiang, but it cannot be said that he ignores other regions.

Zhang Liang has been persuading Lu Zhe to pay attention to the civil productivity in various parts of the Central Plains, even if he knows the intention of formulating the national policy. It is still persuading to increase investment in various parts of the Central Plains.

"If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and things have a sequence." Rubbing his hands that were a little frozen, he said with a smile: "The most important thing for all places is to heal the wounds of war. To be able to capture enough slaves from the jungle to the south, prioritizing the construction of the granaries that the empire desperately needed was a top priority. ”

Lu Zhe was nodding, and many of the people present were nodding.

"The construction of southern Xinjiang is also to attract immigrants." Gongwei swept the snow on his shoulders, took a breath of heat into the palms of his hands, and said: "The climate in the south is suitable for two crops of rice, and the territory further south can even be harvested three times a year, which is not possible in the geographical location of the Central Plains, Guanzhong, Liaodong and other places. ”

Zhang Liang opened his mouth. In the end, I can only be speechless.

The climate of southern Xinjiang is indeed unique in terms of yield, especially under the guidance of Lu Zhe, the success of the trial planting of two crops of rice has made the regional climate more prominent, which is incomparable to the Central Plains, Guanzhong, Liaodong and other places.

It cannot be ruled out that the two crops of rice can be successfully cultivated in the Central Plains and other places in the future, but the reality is that the south is more suitable as a grain producing area, and this trend will become more obvious with the cultivation of rice varieties that crop three times a year.

In fact, the land of China is basically growing wheat, and rice is still popular in the south, because of the dietary habits of various places, rice is not something that everyone can get used to. In times of war, it's good to have a stutter, but taste or something becomes secondary. Because of the abundant grain production in the south, the empire used water transportation to continuously transport rice from the south to various places, and as a result, rice, which was originally only popular in the south, was gradually accepted by various places.

Everywhere Lu Zhe went, he would send people to understand the local situation, and Xianyang was no exception.

The people who went out came back to report. The information is a bit cumbersome, mostly random to find out how some families are doing, how they are doing, etc.

As the county guard, Fan Xian immediately said, "The situation is basically good. ”

In the case of Xianyang, the randomly selected families can eat. For more detailed information, as long as there is a family member serving in the army, and the soldiers who serve are paid back. Families can basically rely on the military pay sent back to have two meals.

"The situation of individual families is better, and these families basically have family members fighting in the grasslands." The lieutenant joked: "The military has continued to win victories in the grasslands, and the army has captured a lot, so life is better." ”

Knowing the basic living situation, which is neither too good nor too bad, this is already the trauma caused by the Empire's vigorous recovery from the war. Without a policy, without the empire constantly transporting grain from the south, famine was inevitable. In addition, the large-scale construction of the private sector is also to allow the private sector to have money to buy grain, of course, not to leave this part.

"The money spent is basically recycled. ”

Grain is transported by the government to various places, and the construction of various places is paid by the government, back and forth, and the local construction is carried out, and the money also flows back to the government, in fact, there is no better cycle than this.

"The number of people operating on the transportation line, together with the surrounding areas, is no less than 2 million, which is a huge project." Lu Zhe basically knew the situation, and said with a smile: "There is always something to make people busy, and there is work that will not make people idle, and what kind of movement will be made as a result." ”

The emperor said it humorously, and the ministers naturally laughed and agreed. However, the fact is that having a job can make people's hearts feel at ease, and the creation of jobs by the country is equivalent to building a stable society, such a theory has not been put forward until modern times, but it is not a new thing for Lu Zhe.

Throughout history, the reduction of state posts has been the cause of unrest, and several people who took the lead in rebellion because of the loss of their jobs were all from the status of state officials, and the more famous one is the Li family. Since ancient times, there have been countless people who have rebelled because they were "laid off", and there are countless people with relatively low reputations, and they are basically the backbone of each rebel team.

The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the crowd went down to Hongtai, and when they returned to the palace, there were already attendants who had prepared their meals and warmed the water and wine.

There are still many people left behind in the period of the first emperor in Xingle Palace, such as eunuchs, palace maids, dancing girls, etc., these people were not dismissed by Fusu, Lu Zhe took people back to the palace, and Zhao Gao, who had just sat down and sat down with his father-in-law, appeared.

Historically, the evaluation of Zhao Gao is mostly negative, but there is no shortage of fair comments in some orthodox history.

Historical Records? The Biography of Li Silie records that Zhao Gao was a "eunuch" and had a "eunuch status". This is a piece of material that Zhao Gao was misunderstood as a eunuch. However, according to the newly unearthed "Zhangjiashan Han Tomb Bamboo Slips", "eunuch" means to serve in the inner court of the palace. A eunuch is a person who serves in the palace, which is equivalent to the close guard of the king or emperor. The eunuch register is used to register the people who enter and leave the palace gate. In the Qin and Han dynasties, whether it was "eunuch", "eunuch", or "eunuch", it did not refer to the castrated man who was released from the official position in the palace, which is the semantics of the so-called "eunuch" of later generations. At that time, men who had been castrated were called "eunuchs", and eunuchs who served in the palace were called "eunuchs", and the definition was very clear. According to this latest material, Zhao Gao was a eunuch who served in the palace, that is, a close minister of the emperor, not a castrated eunuch.

Historical Records? The Biography of Meng Tian Lie said that "the Zhao Gao brothers were all born in the Hidden Palace". This is another piece of material that Zhao Gao was misinterpreted as a eunuch. The meaning of the word "hidden palace" is unclear. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, a person surnamed Liu who annotated the "Historical Records" took advantage of the topic, and he interpreted the "palace" of the "hidden palace" as the palace punishment of castration, and then said that Zhao Gao's father was castrated by the palace, and his mother gave birth to Zhao Gao's brother with others. Zhao Gao's brother assumed the surname Zhao, and was also tortured by the palace and castrated to become eunuchs. The lies became bigger and bigger, and the more they were made, the more painful they became, so they spread falsehoods, and after the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Gao's family was eunuchs without rumors, and they were gradually fixed. Mr. Ma Feibai, an expert in Qin history, has long pointed out that the word "hidden palace" in "Zhao Gao's brothers are all born in the hidden palace" is a misspelling of "hidden official". After the unearthing of "Zhangjiashan Han Tomb Bamboo Slips", the meaning of the hidden official became clearer and clearer. Hidden officials, which are used to refer to both the place where the prisoner works and the identity of the prisoner, have nothing to do with palace punishment and castration.

The reality is that Zhao Gao that Lu Zhe knows is really not a eunuch, Zhao Gao is tall and strong, superb riding skills, extraordinary martial arts, and has superb calligraphy, and also has a high level of literacy for some literature, and what is even more surprising is that he is proficient in Qin Law and even Li Si is ashamed of himself.

In the original history, Zhao Gao became a well-deserved "traitor" because of many deeds, and anyone who obtained the country would not tolerate a person who had plotted to usurp the throne, but at that time no one denied that Zhao Gao was a rare talent in the court of Qin.

Zhao Gao just went to see his daughter, that is, the imperial queen Zhao Wan, and he seemed to be chatting happily, and his face was about to smile a flower. (To be continued.) )