Liu Xinyu's words directed countless eyes to focus on Zhang Hao.
Zhang Hao said calmly: "Your Majesty, Zhang Hao knows about industry and commerce, but not about building a capital. Zhang Hao cannot give correct advice at his own expense, so he can only hide his clumsiness.
I never thought I would be able to escape His Majesty’s eyes.”
"Oh...really?" Liu Xinyu looked at Zhang Hao with a half-smile, "However, I still want to hear your suggestions. Our Minister of Industry and Commerce!"
Zhang Hao touched his nose, thought for a moment and said, "I do have a suggestion, but... it might be quite absurd."
"Tell me about it." Her Majesty Liu Xinyu was very happy. She finally became the Queen today, and she felt very happy. And for some reason, Her Majesty the Queen wanted to 'tease' Zhang Hao.
Zhang Hao looked at Liu Xinyu's eyes, which looked a little bit excited like a little devil, and his heart suddenly became wary - there was evil spirit! It seemed that Liu Xinyu was a little excited to become a queen.
Zhang Hao thought for a while and then said slowly: "Your Highness, let me tell you a short story. The story is very simple. There is a besieged city. Inside the city, there are rich people and dignitaries gathered. Outside the city is a wilderness where thousands of people live.
There is wealth in the city, but blood transfusions are needed outside the city, but the powerful are worried that the people outside will cause chaos. They are worried and trap themselves in the city. But deep down, they long for the outside of the city. The outside of the city is vast, free, and peaceful.
But people outside the city don't think so. They yearn for the city and want to become masters. However, the city has closed the passages and is wary of the outside.
If people outside the city want to enter the city and become masters, there is only one way...attack the city! Seize it.
From then on, the story of the siege started over and over again."
After Zhang Hao finished speaking, he stopped talking and waited quietly. The story is very simple, but also very thought-provoking.
Liu Xinyu frowned slightly, and she asked tentatively: "You mean, the city... doesn't need city walls?"
"Your Majesty is indeed wise. In fact, I think it is unnecessary to build a city. It is not ruled out that city walls are very good for defense, but if the enemy attacks the imperial capital, what use will the city walls be?
On the contrary, building a city wall is actually a typical practice of drawing a wall to fortify oneself, being self-contained, and isolating oneself from the people. As long as there is a city wall, society will be divided into two parts: inside the city and outside the city! And this will inevitably lead to conflicts between inside and outside.
I believe that the imperial capital should not build city walls, but should face the whole country with the most enlightened attitude.
The real city wall of an imperial capital should be the people of the country. The country's hopes should not be pinned on the cold city walls."
Wu Fanghai immediately expressed his opposition: "If there is no city wall, once we lose the war, what will we use for defense? Victory and defeat in war are commonplace for military officers, and no one can guarantee that he will always win."
"General Wu, although I don't know much about military affairs, I understand that you can't win by defending! Only by attacking and attacking again can you win the war.
Maybe this statement is a bit extreme, but I have enough evidence.
Take this Great Patriotic War as an example. In any war, did we rely on defense to gain the initiative? No, not even once!
The first great victory came when artillery appeared. We took the initiative to attack after the artillery, killing and capturing more than 70,000 enemy troops.
This second great victory was when we turned hundreds of miles to capture Huaishan Pass, and then captured Yunguan Pass in the Kingdom of Jinyang.
The third great victory was when Dugu Junjie from the north lured the enemy deep and killed 128 Nascent Soul stage enemies in one breath. If not for the appearance of the final God Transformation stage, we were expected to annihilate the entire northern army of the Kingdom of Jinyang.
As for General Wu, you retreated all the way, using retreat as an advance. You also adopted an active offensive approach rather than passive defense.
Until the end when we killed two of the gods, and even when we finally won the war, we were still attacking.
Only by attacking can we win.
Even the common people know that you can only commit a thief for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against a thief for a thousand days!"
Wu Fanghai frowned slightly. He knew that what Zhang Hao said was extreme and contained many fallacies, but he could not find a suitable reason to refute it for a while.
And Zhang Hao's reasons are really suitable, at least for now.
Wu Fanghai was still thinking, and Zhang Hao added, "I think it is enough to only retain the border defenses and the city walls near the border defenses.
In addition, there is a very obvious change in this war to protect the country, and that is... technological progress!
The changes brought about by technological progress are the most obvious. This time, whether it is artillery, black iron, or steel, they are all crucial. So next, we should change in the direction of technology. And the core of industry and commerce is also technology.
If all the cities in the country built city walls, it would be an astronomical sum; but what if these expenses were invested in technological research?
The city wall will age, and it needs constant reinforcement and maintenance. But technology is constantly improving; as long as the technology matures, it will be a money tree.
For example, the Zhang family’s black iron technology!
Many people suspect that the cost of Dayang Group's black iron should be very low, but the black iron from the Zhang family will still be robbed."
"Oh... Then how much does Dayang Group's Xuantie cost?" Liu Xinyu flexibly inserted a sentence. She didn't seem to care about Zhang Hao's other words, she only cared about this.
Zhang Hao glanced at Liu Jingming next to him and said with a faint smile: "Traditional...one-fifth!"
In fact, it is lower, but Zhang Hao and Liu Jingming mentioned this cost price when they helped Liu Jingming cast black iron coins and stabilize the market currency value.
Liu Xinyu nodded, and then asked, "Zhang Hao, how to study technology...?"
"Market!" Zhang Hao said with a smile, "Market demand will naturally promote technological progress. What I want to talk about here is a free market economic model.
For example, we need spiritual rice the most. The market needs a lot of spiritual rice every moment. Good spiritual rice is as big as a thumb and crystal clear like gems, but it is expensive; poor spiritual rice is like soybeans and can only be fed to horses.
,Nobody cares.
The market's expectation is that the quality will get better and better, and the price will get lower and lower.
As long as His Highness liberalizes the market and allows free competition, and ensures legal free competition, businesses and even farmers with spiritual rice output will try to improve planting techniques and increase yields per mu.
In the past, aristocratic families have always imposed additional burdens on farmers, which discouraged farmers from producing. But it is different now. Your Majesty only needs to set up special exchanges in various counties and counties to allow farmers to freely buy and sell their own goods, and to ensure that there will be no bullying of the people in the local area.
things happen.
I believe that within three years at most, people will be able to significantly improve the yield and quality of Lingmi, and the price will be greatly reduced.
There is also the textile industry. As far as I know, many companies have made progress in textile machines. However, the market was not revitalized in the past, and the restrictions on cotton, linen, and silk made it impossible to implement the technology.
If His Majesty sets up a special textile trading market, I believe we will see changes within two years."
"That makes sense. But whether it's three years or two years, I feel... it's a bit long!" Liu Xinyu finally started to call herself "I". It seemed a little awkward to call herself "I" for the first time.
Zhang Hao immediately replied: "Then promote the patent system. Let some people survive by licensing technology, then they can concentrate on researching technology.
For example, Huang Mingshan and others from the Zhang family have been responsible for technology research; they only research technology and hand over mature technologies to other production departments.
Another example is the Zhang family. The Zhang family promotes the mutual growth of both parties within the Dayang Group and the Weapon Refining Guild through technology licensing.
The Artifact Refining Guild and various representatives of Dayang Group have obtained technology and can put it into production as quickly as possible; while the Zhang family has obtained the support of wealth and can continue more technical research."
Liu Xinyu was thoughtful, and she gradually understood the future development direction of the country. But it was still a little hazy for a while. In the next few days, Liu Xinyu discussed this with everyone.
A brand new country has so many things to consider.
In the past few days, various strategies have been introduced one after another.
Expand the city, reorganize the management system of the city, put everything in the hands of the state, build special farmers' markets, textile markets, etc., allow free trade, and be alert to all possible illegal activities.
In order to ensure the good functioning of the market, the penalties for breaking the law are very severe, and serious cases may even lead to the death penalty. In troubled times, heavy laws are used, and now everything is waiting to be done, and Xiaoxiao will never be allowed to stand out.
There are also taxes. The tax on agricultural products is very low, only one percent; but when it comes to spiritual items, the tax is as high as one-tenth.
One-tenth is basically the tax rate stipulated by the country in the past. The difference is that although there was a tax rate in the past, state orders could not reach the local areas, and the local areas were controlled by aristocratic families. The tax revenue that the country can really receive is only
That's like 2%.
In addition, under Zhang Hao's promotion, additional roads were built across the country for commercial circulation.
If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. But the cost of building roads is not low. It is said that the cost of building roads is very expensive. If you want to repair the country's roads in one go, the current Qixia Country simply cannot afford it.
So much money.
Zhang Hao's method is very good: contract it to individuals.
The state re-demarcates the roads in various regions and divides them into different grades according to quality, importance, etc., and various industrial and commercial groups bid for repairs.
After the road construction is completed, the cost can be recovered and profit can be made by collecting tolls. The state stipulates the highest standard of tolls to prevent certain groups from getting headaches.
Severe penalties will be imposed on some businesses that do not work seriously after bidding. The maximum penalty can be to withdraw the right to charge highways and make the investment wasted. Of course, the state must also specify certain indicators and cannot do whatever it wants.
In order to trial the bidding rules, this time the newly built imperial capital in Jianwu County adopted a bidding method. Every urban construction project was open to bidding, and permanent liability signs were left. If something went wrong, the parties involved would be found immediately and compensation would be paid.
All losses, severe ones, may even result in a prison sentence.
Another evening, something happened that interrupted this unprecedented discussion. Yan Qing and Zheng You, who went to the Kingdom of Yanyun for negotiations, came back. As expected, the Kingdom of Yanyun refused - we both occupied more than half of the Kingdom of Zhoushan.
territory, you actually asked us to withdraw, how is that possible!
And the current situation seems to be enough to destroy the entire country of Zhoushan if it is pushed harder, so only a fool would let it go.
Not only that, the Kingdom of Yanyun also insulted Yan Qing and Zheng You, as well as the Kingdom of Qixia - two little guys who barely reached the golden elixir stage can represent the Kingdom of Qixia. The Kingdom of Qixia is really a softie, and women are in power.
Really petty.
Finally, Zheng You said with an ugly face, "Your Majesty, the prince of the Yanyun Kingdom also threatened that after the Zhoushan Kingdom is penetrated, he will go to the Qixia Kingdom to find the Queen...'for fun'."
After listening to the report, Liu Xinyu showed a cold smile, "Okay, you want to play with me? Okay, he doesn't need to come over, I will go over on my own initiative! General Wu Fanghai!"
"exist."
"Lead the legion to go on an expedition immediately! In addition, if you encounter soldiers from the Kingdom of Yanyun, take no prisoners! Tell them that the reason for this is because their prince has a right way to die! We must publicize it widely!"
"Understood!" Wu Fanghai did not refuse.
This time, the Kingdom of Yanyun is on the edge of Liu Xinyu's sword - Her Majesty the Queen, who has just ascended the throne, needs to establish a reputation to the outside world. Since the Kingdom of Yanyun dares to speak rudely, then be prepared to be retaliated.
Liu Xinyu has never been a person who will not retaliate when he is hit or scolded. Don’t forget that the second article of the constitution just established by Qixia Country is: repay kindness with kindness and repay grievance with straightness. Because the aristocratic family lagging behind in the war
Legs, Liu Xinyu did not adopt a gentle strategy, but took advantage of the victory... massacre!
When the prince wanted to marry Liu Xinyu, Liu Xinyu went straight to the assassination without any hesitation.
Now that Liu Xinyu has ascended the throne and taken power, a prince from the Kingdom of Yanyun has appeared to insult him. This really doesn't know how to write the word "death".
Wu Fanghai left immediately and arrived in the north in less than half a day, leading an army of 100,000 that had been prepared to cross the border of Zhoushan.
These 100,000 troops are truly elite. The 100,000 troops are equipped with up to 300 artillery pieces and more than 3,000 mortars. It can be said that among the 100,000 troops, there are almost 10,000 artillery pieces. This is already a completely transformed army.
army.
The day after Wu Fanghai set off, it was the day for post-war negotiations between the Kingdom of Qixia and the Kingdom of Jinyang.
In this negotiation, the Kingdom of Qixia sent Zhao Duo and Zhang Hao as the main negotiators; Feng Zhiling also followed and was regarded as the representative of Xuanzhen Sect.
When Zhang Hao and his party arrived at Huaishan Pass, someone from the Kingdom of Jinyang also came to greet them.
There was no nonsense, and the greeting was quite formal. When he arrived at the general hall of Huaishan Pass, Zhang Hao saw the other party's negotiators. There were quite a few, but Zhang Hao only knew three of them, He Dongjie, the prince Zhao Huaiyun, and the prince's young master.
Wei Zirong.
Among them, I know He Dongjun because I met him when he led more than 500 infants to attack Xinglin Hall.
Needless to say, the prince and Wei Zirong, Wei Zirong came to Zhang Hao many times, and the prince once tried to assassinate Zhang Hao, but Feng Zhiling captured the ray of soul and stuffed it into the puppet.
Seeing the prince, Zhang Hao took out a small wooden figurine from the storage ring and played with it. The prince's eyes immediately shifted and he even forgot his words of welcome.
(I finished two updates in the morning. I haven’t had breakfast since I typed at six o’clock. Please vote. I’ll eat first.)