Great Qin Shi Empress

Lin Mo was not worried about the Kucha Kingdom during his conversation, but he was particularly concerned about Lou Lan.

The reason is simple——

The state of Qin has opened factories in various countries in the Western Regions in recent years, which not only improved the lives of the local people, but also allowed the local royal family and nobles to obtain considerable wealth. Among them, they were the first to establish a cooperative relationship with the State of Qin, and got the most and the largest share Kucha is the most rewarding country.

As a result, the royal family and nobles of the Kucha Kingdom felt that their country was strong enough to disobey Qin's orders.

But for Lin Qian, the Kucha Kingdom, which has the closest cooperative relationship with the Qin Kingdom and seems to be the most powerful among the countries in the Western Regions, is actually nothing to fear.

Because the wealth and strength of the Kucha Kingdom are all based on the factories opened by the Qin Kingdom.

Because these factories allow the vast majority of people in Kucha to work in them and earn enough money for a family to live on.

Because the taxes paid by these factories and the products produced have attracted a very large flow of people to the Kucha Kingdom, which has benefited the entire upper class of the Kucha Kingdom and possessed more wealth and enjoyment.

because……

But how strong is the strength based on the benefits offered by other countries?

Such a powerful, isn't it a castle in the sky?

Lin Mo was not just playing around with Lin Qian back then, she had heard Lin Qian talk about things like economic war more than once.

Even if Lin Qian hadn't heard it mentioned, the food war launched by Guan Zhong of Qi State against Lu State during the Spring and Autumn Period was enough to give Lin Mo enough inspiration on how to check and balance the Kucha State.

Zhang Liang is well-educated, and now he often deals with words. Almost when Lin Mo mentioned Guan Zhong of Qi State, he already had an idea of ​​the means she was planning to use against Kucha State: "Are you going to follow Guan Zhong?"

Lin Mo laughed: "Guan Zhong of the State of Qi bought cloth at a high price, so that all the people of the State of Lu gave up growing food and ran to weave cloth. In the end, the food supply of the State of Lu was directly cut off, which directly contributed to the demise of the State of Lu. Kind of thing..."

"The Kucha country has also heard about it. Although it has been encouraging the people to enter the factory to produce more novelty goods these years, it has never forgotten to purchase grain from other countries. Today's grain reserves can last for several years, even two years. .”

After all, Kucha Elementary School.

Zhang Liang looked at Lin Mo, but he didn't believe it: "If it has nothing to do with Guan Zhong, why did you mention it?"

Lin Mo laughed: "Of course it doesn't have nothing to do with it, but the specifics... Zhang Tingwei will find out in a few days."

Lin Mo said she would know in a few days, but Zhang Liang actually found out about her plan the next day.

Because the relationship with the country of Kucha is the best, Lin Mo lived in the country of Kucha most of the time when he was stationed in the Western Regions. Only when there was a problem with the factories in other countries would he leave for other countries.

So when Zhang Liang came to the Western Regions, he naturally lived in Kucha directly.

Naturally, all the changes in Kucha Kingdom could not escape his eyes——

After talking with Lin Mo, Zhang Liang deliberately took the soldiers to wander around the streets of the capital of Kucha, and then found that many people came out of the factory during non-working hours, and then saw someone come out , Posted a closing notice directly at the factory.

Not just one factory, but all projects in the entire capital.

Zhang Liang even suspected that Lin Mo had directly shut down all the factories in the entire Kucha country.

The people of Kucha Kingdom walked on the street, their faces were full of panic, as if they didn't know what happened.

But because the incident happened so suddenly, the local people just returned to their homes full of doubts and panic, and had no real sense of what happened to them, so naturally it was impossible to react too violently.

So Zhang Liang's first day in Kucha was peaceful.

But, lying on the bed at night, listening to the sharp roars from the homes of the people on the street, he keenly smelled the coming wind and rain from the air.

In fact it is.

Because the very next day there were plenty of people wandering around trying to find a new job: no one wanted to lower their standard of living after having had enough to eat and drink.

But only then did they realize that not only the factories where they and their relatives worked were closed, but all the factories in the entire capital city of Kucha seemed to be closed.

There is simply no way for them to find a suitable job.

At this moment, a huge panic gripped their hearts like a giant palm.

What exactly is going on?

Everyone hurried to find all the high-ranking and powerful people they knew who had access to more news, and wanted to find out what happened.

Some people even found the government of Kucha Kingdom. ,

However, no one cares about their problems.

It wasn't until someone managed to find the officials of the Qin State that they learned the truth of the matter from their mouths——

"As you know, the cooperation between Kucha and Qin has always been the closest, because your country is the first major country in the Western Regions to surrender to Qin. In order to reward you, not only many factories are the first in Guizi Kucha Kingdom opened, if there is insufficient production of something, our first choice is also Kucha Kingdom.”

"Only when the Kucha country is short of manpower, or it is really not suitable for opening factories, we will choose to open factories in other countries."

"But now, other countries have voluntarily chosen to become a part of Qin State. Their relationship with us is no longer separated from each other. It is far closer than the relationship between Qiucha State and Qin State. Therefore, some preferential treatment for Qiucha State , naturally give it to others.”

"Otherwise, they will all become Qin people, and the benefits they get will not be as good as those of the people of the Kucha country. It is very easy to chill them, isn't it? So all the factories that were originally established in the Kucha country will be relocated one after another in the next period of time. to other countries."

"After all, the population of other countries has never been smaller than that of Kucha."

Similar words quickly spread throughout the capital through the mouth of a certain citizen of the Kucha Kingdom, and because the Kucha Kingdom was really small, it quickly spread throughout the entire country.

So soon, all the people knew that Qin State was about to move all factories to other countries.

And the reason is simply because other countries are closer to Qin than they are!

No, because other countries are already Qin people!

After Qin has the land and population of other countries, it doesn't need the land and population of Kucha at all, so it doesn't plan to take advantage of the people of Kucha!

The people of Kucha Kingdom were furious when they heard about this. They have always been the most favored among the countries in the Western Regions. How can they accept that they have been abandoned by Qin? There is nowhere to sell the cotton and melons grown at home?

They found the official office almost subconsciously.

But the government office has already received the order from King Kucha, and doesn't take the commotion of the people to heart.

The King of Qiuci has said that the population of other countries is not as large as theirs, the land is not as fertile as them, and the melons and fruits grown and the livestock raised are not as fat as theirs. Sooner or later, those factories in Qin State will return to the embrace of Qiucha State.

He even said that it would be a good thing for Kucha if Qin’s factory really left, because they would be able to open their own factories and earn more money—

Anyway, the people working in the factory have always been the people of Kucha. When they want to open any factory, they can just recruit the people who used to work in the factory. Are they afraid that they won’t be able to produce those seemingly simple products?

Even after they confirmed that Lin Qian and the others would really "move out", they immediately sent people to find those workers and offered to provide them with jobs as long as they could work as before.

After Zhang Liang learned about this, he found Lin Mo: "Aren't you worried?"

Lin Mo laughed: "Zhang Tingwei has never been to the factory, so he doesn't know what's going on inside. I believe that even if the king of Kucha recruits the original team into the factory, he will not be able to produce the same products. "

"Even if it is produced, the efficiency and cost cannot satisfy them."

"Furthermore, if you want to make money in business, you don't just simply produce goods. You just produce goods. Maybe you will lose money instead."

Hearing what Lin Mo said, Zhang Liang became a little curious about the factory.

But it's a pity that the factory is now completely shut down, and he can't enter it to watch even if he is curious.

When the king of the Kucha Kingdom posted a notice telling the people that the court would open another factory and was willing to recruit everyone, the situation that was originally filled with public dissatisfaction was brought under control.

After all, it is enough for the common people to survive, and they don't care who they work for.

Lin Mo didn't care about it——

She had expected this situation long ago, so she didn't take it seriously at all. Instead, she still took all the Qin people, including Zhang Liang and the people he brought, to the neighbor's house in the Kucha country according to the original plan.

Lin Mo even kept his word and opened several factories in that neighbor's house.

And just as they left, the king of Kucha couldn't wait to open the factory, and then recruited all the workers in the factory.

Until this time, the king of Kucha, who was blinded by greed, always thought that Qin's departure would only benefit him and not cause any harm, and he was even excited because he lost a person who could dictate his actions.

In order to earn more money, the King of Kucha even united all the nobles, not only opened all the factories previously opened by Lin Mo and others, but also directly doubled the number.

All are dreaming of making more money soon.

But within half a month, the dream turned into a nightmare——

Because half a month later, the person in charge of the factory came to them to report the situation and told them the very unfortunate news that even if most of the factories recruited all the workers, they couldn't produce the same products at all.

Take soap for example. After the invention of the steam engine, the initial stirring and adding of raw materials were all replaced by machines. The workers in the factory did not know what the raw materials were. They could only know from the list purchased by the factory, which should have Animal fat and offal.

But apart from animal fat and offal, they didn't know what else to add.

They even directly smashed and mixed the two together.

In addition to soap, there is also a considerable problem with dried fruit——

In the production of dried and preserved fruits and other products, in addition to the initial pitting that requires manual labor, there are special machines for slicing, dicing and evaporating water.

They do know how to make these things, but if the original craft is adopted, whether it is cutting and slicing in the early stage that requires additional manpower, or cutting down trees to speed up the evaporation of water in the later stage, or the time required for direct drying, the products will be affected. itself will increase the cost.

And as long as the cost of goods increases, either they can only maintain the original price and endure the reduction of profits, or they can only increase the price and lose their price advantage.

The least affected is the sweater factory——

Textile factories can't do it, because they still don't have all kinds of novel and efficient machines.

However, the sweater factory is the business with the lowest profit.

The most frightening thing was that after the person in charge asked a question, the king of Kucha suddenly realized that the wool and sweaters produced by this sweater factory might not be sold at all.

because……

"My lord, the products produced in these factories used to be sent to Qin for sale, where are we going to send them now?"

Yes, Qin will definitely not buy products from their country again, right?Where are these things going to be sold?Big food?Tianzhu?

The king of Kucha Kingdom was stunned at once.

He realized that all the things he was doing now could not accumulate wealth for him except spending money, and even if he continued like this, he would lose more money.

For this reason, the king of the Kucha Kingdom engaged in a show operation, while selling other factories to ministers and nobles, while reducing the salaries and treatment of the common people. In short, he tried his best to pass on his losses to others.

But others are not fools.

Except for the ministers and aristocrats who bought the factory without defense at the beginning, the others saw that he was so anxious to sell the factory in his hand, so they naturally knew that there was a ghost in it, and they were not fooled at all.

People can't refuse his salary cut, but...

They can resign directly!

It's not like signing a contract of sale, as long as you are willing to pay the wages, you can naturally leave if you want.

So soon, nearly half of the workers in those factories chose to resign, and among the remaining half, most of them went straight to work because of the closure of the factories. In the end, there were less than [-] workers still working in the factories.

The two thousand is from a poor family who are unwilling to give up any income because of their family's real difficulties.

But even so, most of these people chose to leave the factory as they not only continued to reduce workers’ wages in order to control costs, but also directly increased their working hours——

After all, you have worked for a few years before, and everyone has saved a sum of savings, maybe not much, but it is enough to make you feel sorry for their family members who brought people out of the factory, instead of just gritting their teeth and earning money with their own blood and sweat. Income from the value of one's labor.

So soon, most of the last few factories in the hands of the King of Kucha Kingdom and others closed down, and most of the people once again lost their jobs enough to maintain their family's income.

The ruling class of Kucha has nothing to do about it.

In other words, they don't intend to solve this problem——

Because before the state of Qin came to the state of Kucha, all the people lived like this. It makes no sense that after the state of Qin left, they would not be able to survive, right?

But, after experiencing a better life, who can endure the kind of life that can't even be fed and clothed?

But still the same sentence, as long as the people can survive, they can bear any encounter.

As long as the King of Kucha Kingdom continues to pretend to be dead, this matter may not be impossible.

But don't forget that the countries around the Kucha Kingdom live a completely different life from the people of the Kucha Kingdom, and because the countries in the Western Regions are small in size, the people of each other can visit each other, and marriages at the bottom are also normal.

So, after the common people know the living standard of their relatives, will they feel...

Is it better to live directly in other countries?

of course!

But in just two months, Kucha lost almost a quarter of its population.

This is not finished.

Before Lin Mo left, he left a few confidantes in the country of Kucha to closely observe the situation in Kucha, so that he would not miss the slightest change.

She originally only wanted to use it as a camera, so that she could notify herself in time if any accident happened, so that she would not miss the best time to react.

But Lin Mo's confidant is a very rebellious person, and he is not willing to be just a camera-like figure.

So when he discovered that the top of the Kucha Kingdom didn't care about the population loss and the people's grievances, he tried to get in touch with many famous local people who were also very dissatisfied with the behavior of the King of Kucha Kingdom and noble ministers, and gained Gained 100% trust in the other party.

Then, while talking to the other party about the benefits of the Qin people, he talked about the benefits of other countries in the Western Regions becoming Qin people. By the way, he did not forget to criticize the absurd practices of the ruling class of the Kucha Kingdom.

At the same time, he is constantly connecting with more people.

When he thought the time was almost ripe, he found the highest and most famous person among them, and said a word to him directly——

"Do princes and generals care about each other? Since the king doesn't care about the lives of the people at all, why should you continue to serve him?"

An economic war might turn into a peasant uprising, so Lin Mo couldn't hide it anymore.

But after her letter was delivered to Lin Qian: [Does the prince and general Xiang Ning have a kind?This is not what Chen Sheng said...]

【kindness?Chen Sheng had no choice but to start a peasant uprising in Qin, so he went to the Western Regions to persuade people from other countries to start a peasant uprising? 】

Ying Zheng looked at her suspiciously: "This sounds interesting. But who is Chen Sheng? What is the peasant uprising? It wasn't Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who overthrew Qin?"