The prosperity and prosperity of the Qin Dynasty cannot be reflected only in the development of industry and advanced weapons, but also in the meantime, more attention is paid to the development of people's livelihood.

The simplest and most basic need for those who plough have their own land, and the poor have their own homes.

The second stage of need is to raise the elderly and have a dependence on food and clothing.

After having no worries about food and clothing, we must start to pay attention to improving our quality of life, and we have higher-level needs for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

At present, Daqin is moving towards the second or third stage. Although the gap between the rich and the poor is still widening, the poor at the bottom actually improves their lives more obviously than those of the wealthy.

The poor class gradually got rid of the previous situation of being hungry and cold, which brought more gratitude and recognition to the Qin Dynasty by the lower class.

There are not many people who rebel with enough food and drink, and the lower the people are, the more they are.

And the more people who have experienced suffering, the more they cherish and satisfy this increasingly peaceful and happy life.

As for the gap between the rich and the poor, it is not the aspect that Chen Xu needs to consider now, or Chen Xu will not deliberately promote the laws and policies of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

In this world, after the collapse of the original clan system, the gap between private ownership and the rich and poor began to emerge. For a long time, the private ownership system will be the theme of human development. It is the rise of the private ownership system that has given mankind a strong driving force for development.

The prosperity of the Qin Dynasty was to abolish the nobles and slavery system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, make farmland private, and inspire the enthusiasm of all the people.

What Chen Xu needs to do is to further use the law to stabilize the achievements of this private ownership so that the people can protect their property from being easily deprived and robbed.

It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish.

Some people are poor, just like Adou, and they can't help them.

Why should lazy people live the same happy life as hard-working people?

Therefore, in Chen Xu's view, material and economic poverty alleviation is a strategy that encourages laziness. The best way to help poverty alleviation is policies. The government provides some basic help so that these people can support themselves and make a living within their own abilities.

If you are still poor and can’t get rid of the blame, then you might as well die of poverty.

You should know that merchants were actually not as good as those of ordinary people in the past, but they were able to endure humiliation and work hard to sell goods, and accumulate their own wealth bit by bit. Most of the so-called landlords and wealthy businessmen were accumulated through hard work by generations, but many people only saw the brightest side of their eating meat and drinking soup, and did not know that behind these brightness, they were also called by countless hardships.

I saw the thief eating meat, but I didn’t see the thief being beaten.

This is the biggest common point among jealous people. They always only focus on their own poverty and never think about why others are rich.

What's more, being rich and poor is a complete false proposition.

Just as hardworking and lazy people always exist.

The so-called fairness is actually not equalizing the rich and the poor, but making the hardworking people rich and the lazy people poor. This is the real fairness.

The role of the country is to ensure that everyone has a relatively equal growth environment. The simplest thing is, for example, military merits are awarded, everyone can join the army, and everyone can kill enemies. Regardless of their status, there will be rewards for making meritorious deeds, from royal families to slaves.

As a disciple of the Legalists, Shang Yang had long seen through the bad nature of human beings.

Although Chen Xu did not agree with the cruel and harsh laws, he admired Shang Yang's vision and courage on this point.

Several times of human development, this is simply a miraculous decree. Although it is not necessarily just, it is absolutely fair.

Therefore, Chen Xu's future reform will focus more on the construction of basic security, reduce taxes for the poor, support for the extremely poor, and provide basic living security for the widowed, widowed, orphans. Try to ensure that the elderly have a place to support the children and have a support. As for those with good hands and feet, those with normal intelligence, they can only go to fuck if they don't have enough food or wear warmth.

There is a reason why you can't be poor for three generations, because if you are poor for too long, you will not be able to marry a wife, so you will naturally become extinct.

It is also right for the Qin Dynasty to not allow beggars with sound hands and feet.

The appearance of such a person is the greatest disrespect for hardworking and kind people.

A refreshing sweet smell floated in the air of the sugar factory. The First Emperor led a group of people to patrol the sugar factory with relish, while Chen Xu absent-mindedly licked a lollipop, thinking about the future laws of the Qin Dynasty, and preparing to attack those lazy and poor people.

Sugar making factories are an emerging industry, but they are a sunrise industry that can be comparable to salt, grain and cloth in the future. Therefore, not only the First Emperor is interested, but also the princes and princes and princes who accompanied them are interested.

Eating candy every day is the best portrayal of a happy life.

Now in Xianyang, if you have a few cans of brown sugar at home, it must be a sign of identity and face.

It is an elegant expression to invite a visitor to drink tea. When a visitor wants to drink sugar water, it is definitely a passion for home. It is not a close relative or friend, and generally it will not take out the candy.

But sugar only started to appear last year, and the output was very low. The sugar factory in Wuzhong only produced tens of thousands of kilograms of brown sugar throughout the winter, and basically sent it to Xianyang. However, this amount of sugar is a drop in the bucket for the capital with a population of millions. Moreover, most of them were collected by the Shaofu, and most of the remaining ones were divided by kings, princes, ministers, relatives and rich merchants. The rest were only more than a thousand kilograms that could be scattered among the people.

At present, there are more than 2,000 kilograms left in the sugar factory, mainly used to improve the production of more advanced products and more types of desserts, and prepare for the large-scale production and market of sucrose in the future.

The refining of white sugar has not been completely successful yet. The main reason is that Chen Xu doesn’t know how to turn brown sugar into white sugar, but there must be some steps for removing residues and decolorizing and purification. As for the raw materials used for decolorizing and purification, Chen Xu is even more irritating. At the beginning, he only proposed this idea, allowing Shang Qi and a group of agricultural craftsmen from the sugar factory to continue experimenting. Now, more than half a year has passed, although it has not been completely successful, he has already made a yellow sugar with coarse crystal particles, with a golden color and a higher grade than black brown sugar. According to this idea, it is believed that the process can be improved soon.

Because the crystallization of rock sugar is higher and more complicated, there is no clue yet.

As for other sugar products, the sugar factory has developed a lot of research. It has added some fruit candies made from juice, as well as ginger candies, peppermint candies, and fudges made from lotus root powder. There are seven or eight types of lollipops alone. So after a round of inspections at the sugar factory, the inspection team went from the emperor to the officials who followed each other. Each of them had a lollipop on their hands, and many of them had bulging cuffs, and they were still falling out while walking.

"Well, the sun is too strong..."

The First Emperor looked at the bright sun outside the factory, sucked the lollipop and took out a pair of brown sunglasses from his pocket and put them on.

A group of young men and Chen Xu and Meng Tian and other groups of Qinghou also took out their sunglasses and put them on. In an instant, a group of people turned into a gang. Under the leadership of Qin Dada, they swayed to patrol the nearby sugarcane fields under the scorching sun.

This year, because sugar production has been listed as an important task by the court as a southern county, the decrees of the three provinces and six ministries have long been spread to the southern county, especially Kuaiji, Jiangxi, Changsha, and Zhongmin, which require farmers to reclaim wasteland and cultivate sugarcane.

Therefore, this year, the county government alone has calculated the sugar fields of more than 20,000 mu. If there is no major disaster, the sugar cane will be produced after all of these sugar canes are harvested. According to the yield and sugar yield rate, Kuaiji County alone can produce more than 2 million kilograms of sugar this winter, which is a full 200 times higher than last year's output. In addition, the nearby Jiangxi Changsha, Minzhong, even arranged to promote it in Guangxi and other counties last year. The total output of sugar this year may exceed 5 million kilograms, equivalent to more than 30,000 stones.

If there are more than 30,000 stones of grain, all officials will sneer at it. A township produces more than this amount in a year.

But this is sugar, an extremely scarce seasoning and high-end nutritional supplement. Although its nutritional value is not as good as honey and its taste is not as good as honey, it has now reached the point where it can be measured by stone. Then, in the future, you can eat sugar every day, eat it if you want, and drink a bowl of sugar water, and you will no longer have to pay a lot of honey to be a treasure in your collector.

However, in Chen Xu's opinion, the country's sugar production of only a thousand tons is not as good as a small sugar factory in a township in later generations, and it is not worth smiling and bragging.

However, when inspecting the sugarcane fields near Wuzhong, looking at the green sugarcane seedlings like green gauze tents, all the officials praised the strong flattery of the First Emperor, believing that the decision of the First Emperor to promote the sugarcane fields was extremely wise and powerful, and the sweet life of the people of the Qin Dynasty was coming soon.

After inspecting the sugarcane fields, Wuzhong had another tour project that Emperor Shin-Emperor and his entourage rushed to the most eagerly-received tour, which was to dig shells and pick pearls in Taihu Lake.

Since Chen Xu and others took out a huge auspicious lake clam here and opened a peerless and rare black pearl, the reputation of the Five Lakes has been very popular in the Qin Dynasty. Jewelry merchants from all over the country have even people who want to make a fortune come here to catch shellfish all year round. Although the results are miserable, this enthusiasm has not subsided.

Last year, after Chen Xu brought a group of wives and concubines to engage in a clam gambling activity, he once again increased the reputation of Wuhu Lake. Now not only people from all over the Qin Dynasty came to try their luck, but also some Hu people from the Western Regions of Liang in the Liao Dynasty.

Now is the midsummer season, and it is also the best season for lake clams to catch. Therefore, when the sun is strong, there are fishing boats everywhere on the entire lake. In addition to fishing, shrimps, and lotus roots, most of the time they spend fishing, clay in the lake water. As long as it is more than one foot, you can buy three or five cents when you get ashore, and even twenty or thirty cents if you have more than two feet.
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