Chapter 543 Xu Fu

At the end of August in the seventh year of Huaxia, Qin Zheng was sitting on the throne in the main hall of the Afang Palace in Qin State, listening to the reports of the officials below, with no expression on his face. Compared with last year, Qin Zheng obviously had a lot more white hair on his head, which made Qin State spread the words Hua Kai said privately-Qin Zheng only had twenty years at most.

The more years Qin Zheng had, the less time he had. Qin State had strictly prohibited everyone from talking about this matter, but how could it stop the mouths of the people in the world? In the past two years, there have been more and more Huaxia merchants in Qin State. Even ordinary Qin people know that Huaxia is an emerging country that is stronger than Chu State. Qin State was defeated by Huaxia State, interrupting the rhythm of Qin State's unification of the world.

Compared with the Qin people's admiration for Qin Zheng, Xue Chen, the Dean of Huaxia State Affairs, Hua Mo, the Lord of Xiacheng, Hua Zichen, the Dean of the Military Affairs Council, the Qinglong Legion, the world's first legion, etc. have all been known to the Qin people. Everyone has a hunch that Qin State actually relies on Qin Zheng to become the world's number one country. If there is no Qin Zheng, Huaxia will surely become the world's hegemon!

"Has there been any news from Xu Fu?" Qin Zheng sat in the upper seat, looking at the civil and military officials below and said in a deep voice.

As the strongest man in the world, even if Qin Zheng took the elixir, the effect would be very weak. If he wanted to recover from his injuries, he must have the corresponding elixir to be cured.

In recent years, the Qin State has been looking for elixir and even traces of immortals, but there has been no news for so many years. Qin Zheng had no choice but to send Taoist alchemy masters to search for immortal traces overseas, hoping to find ancient immortals who may have survived to the present on a certain immortal island.

"Xu Fu has been looking for and visiting various immortal islands in the East China Sea and the North Sea in recent years, but most of the immortal islands he found only had spirit beasts or monsters, and no traces of immortals were found. He found a few ancient ruins, but only some damaged spiritual treasures and elixir, and no traces of immortal elixir have been found so far!" Li Si stood at the head of the officials and said to Qin Zheng.

"Has there been an alchemy master in Xianyang City recently? I heard that the alchemy academy is very lively recently!" Qin Zheng said suddenly.

"Your Majesty, there is a master of refining islands who has visited us, but he can only refine ordinary precious pills at most, and the success rate is very low.

However, there are many people who come to the Afang Palace to cheat. The Alchemy Institute now has more than 3,000 cheaters who came to claim the reward and are still imprisoned. I wonder how to deal with these people?" The person in charge of the Alchemy Institute came to Qin Zheng and bowed his head and asked.

"Come to the Afang Palace to cheat? Why keep them? Drag them all to the lunch hour and behead them for public display.

And those scholars who spread rumors in Qin, if they do not listen to the warning, all will be driven out of Qin by me, and if they do not want to leave, they will be buried alive on the spot!" Qin Zheng said.

No one spoke in the hall, everyone listened to all this quietly. Qin destroyed all the books of the Hundred Schools that opposed Qin's policies, and strictly prohibited scholars from discussing some words against Qin's rule. This has greatly reduced the number of scholars in Qin in recent years. Colleges and schools in many cities have all been closed. Only children of aristocratic families can learn knowledge in the schools run by Qin.

"Your Majesty, the number of wild beasts outside the cities of each county has increased greatly this year. The pressure on the cities of Qin will inevitably increase this winter. Although Your Majesty has personally killed more than 30 monsters this year, many cities in Qin have been abandoned, and the number of wild beasts will only increase.

Because the military service time of each city has increased this year, many farmlands have been abandoned, and even many farmlands in the Guanzhong area have been abandoned. This year, the food pressure of Qin is greater than last year. If it were not for the people to purchase grain from Huaxia on their own, Qin would suffer from famine!" Li Si waited for Qin Zheng to finish asking, and then started talking about the food shortage in Qin.

Even though Qin Zheng has been killing monsters and wild beasts in various parts of Qin this year, it is difficult to slow down the fact that there are more and more wild beasts. Now the roads between many cities in Qin are no longer safe. Everyone can foresee that the pressure on Qin will increase in the future.

"The Guanzhong area is the richest area in the world. It is no problem for the Guanzhong area alone to feed 5 million people.

Let the people in the central part of the Central Plains and Handan City of Zhao migrate! All migrate to Guanzhong. Our main target for a long time in the future is still the wild beasts.

Another thing, I heard that the number of military service in many cities is far from enough. Qin requires men over 15 and under 45 to serve in the military. As a result, there are less than 40,000 people serving in a city of 200,000 people. It seems that there are many old people!

Qin is short of food. There are so many old people who will starve to death. I think it is most important to prevent young people from starving to death. Order that those who are not royal family members of Qin, who have a cultivation level below Kaiyuan Realm and are not dead at the age of 60, will be buried alive by the government!"

Qin Zheng said such a policy, and there was an uproar in the hall. This was Qin Zheng's counterattack against the officials below the stage for not executing his orders. In the major cities of Qin State outside the Guanzhong area, many young people in their early twenties were recorded as 46 years old when recording their household registration age. They did this to avoid heavy military service and labor. The heads of various government offices and local noble families received benefits, and as a result, more and more people avoided corvée and military service, so that their cities would not be left without people to farm and food prices would soar.

In this way, those who falsely reported their age, whose household registration age reached 60 years old and had not yet broken through to the Qidong realm, would only end up being buried alive.

No one in the hall dared to speak out against Qin Zheng's order. After a few minutes, seeing that no one spoke again, Qin Zheng opened his mouth and prepared to leave the court.

"It is almost September now. Before the winter comes in mid-November, all the people in the eastern and southern parts of the Central Plains and the Handan city area must migrate to the Guanzhong area. The cities in Guanzhong must make every effort to eliminate the wild beasts in the area. If the elimination is not in place, the city lords will be held accountable.

Do you have anything else to say? If not, leave the court!" Qin Zheng said and was about to get up.

Li Si seemed to be struggling. He came to Qin Zheng when he saw this.

"Prime Minister, do you have anything else to say?" Qin Zheng looked at Li Si and asked.

"Your Majesty, this year there are more and more merchants coming from Huaxia. They send Qin goods to Qin, making the Qin market very prosperous, but the treasury tax revenue has not increased at all. Huaxia uses paper money to exchange for a large amount of Qin materials. Now all major cities in Qin are using Huaxia paper money. This will be very disadvantageous to Qin." Li Si said to Qin Zheng.

Everyone in the hall understands that Huaxia paper money has slowly affected the prosperity of Qin, but if the circulation of Hua currency in Qin is stopped, Qin will still suffer great losses, so everyone turns a blind eye.

"Others, please leave the court! Prime Minister, general, imperial censor, guard, lieutenant, you all stay!" After Qin Zheng finished speaking, the others left one after another. They all knew that dealing with the relationship with Huaxia has become more and more complicated, and Qin is now more and more passive in its relationship with Huaxia. This paper money is just the tip of the iceberg!

Qin Zheng came to his study, Li Si and more than ten ministers of Qin came to the study. Qin Zheng asked the Blood Dragon Guard to guard the door and not let anyone approach. He sat on the desk and looked at the important ministers of Qin in front of him.

"Your Majesty, Huaxia should have already sent spies to various places in Qin. Now the people are all praising Huaxia. In recent years, the emerging merchant groups in Qin have been engaged in human trafficking. A large number of Qin people followed those merchant groups to Huaxia and never returned. From the beginning of March to now, the number of noble families and people who left Qin has exceeded 200,000. Among them, Handan City and Zhengcheng have suffered the most population losses." Li Si looked at Qin Zheng and bowed his head and said.

"There must be a role for Huaxia in this, because many of the people who left are poor people, and they can't afford to leave Qin. Your Majesty, if this matter is not controlled, the entire Qin will be in chaos." The Imperial Censor said.

"Is it possible for us to also make Hua currency?" Qin Zheng looked at Li Si and said. "Your Majesty, this paper currency looks simple, but research requires countless attempts. Now we can only make rough paper, and it is difficult to even write books. It is impossible to make exquisite paper currency like Huaxia." Li Si said.

"If the connection with Huaxia is cut off, Qin will become more and more difficult. Nowadays, more and more people in Qin raise sheep, and most of our food comes from the Huaxia merchant group..." Wei Wei looked at Qin Zheng. As an important minister of Qin, how could they not know the changes in the country in recent years? Other noble families and officials can pretend not to know for the sake of their families, but as important ministers of Qin, they cannot avoid these things.

"Can you find out which spies are in Huaxia? We will catch them in one fell swoop!" Qin Zheng looked at the lieutenant and asked.

"This minister has been paying attention since last year. Huaxia spies are all over Qin. It is very likely that there are people from Huaxia in our court.

Many noble families have obviously leaned towards Huaxia. If they are arrested, the whole Qin will be in turmoil!" The lieutenant looked at Qin Zheng and returned.

Qin Zheng sat in the royal chair in silence. He had to make a choice now. He could choose to get along with Huaxia in a friendly way, so that Huaxia would end its actions that were unfavorable to Qin, and Huaxia would also pay a large sum of money. While solving Qin's current food crisis, he could also get some technology from Huaxia.

If so, Qin would basically recognize Huaxia's status, and the two countries would have more forms of confrontation in the future. If Qin wanted to unify the world, there would only be one way left, which was to kill Hua Kai or make him submit, because relying on culture, economy and other means, Qin was obviously not Huaxia's opponent.

Seeing that Qin Zheng didn't speak, Qin's important officials knew that Qin Zheng was making a decision. If Qin Zheng chose to deal with all the aristocratic families who defected to Huaxia and the pawns of Huaxia that surfaced, it would mean refusing Huaxia to cut off relations with him. In this way, Qin would also have to bear great losses and hardships.

"Your Majesty, China has become a fully established country. Chu, Lu, Yan, Xiongnu, Yuezhi and other Eastern Divine Land countries, including those non-sovereign vassal states, have established relations with China. If we want to interrupt China's pace of using money and culture to unify the world, we must make a decision as soon as possible!" Li Si said at this time.