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Chapter 1070: East becomes West (63)

"Of course you have to go, but it's not now!" For Li Ru, there were too many things in the Han Dynasty that he could not understand. For example, in academic disputes, in his opinion, academic disputes were better than those between countries, and there were also many blood sheds during this period. For example, in Qin, King Wulie of Qin, in order to unify the domestic academic schools, he killed many academic masters who were opposed to Li Ru until no one in the country competed with Li Ru.

But on the contrary, in the Han Dynasty, although Gao Yuan used Jiang Jiaquan's academics as the governance technique, he did not prohibit the development of other schools. He even came to Jicheng Comprehensive University to teach lectures, and also held debates between schools at Jicheng Comprehensive University from time to time. Jiang Jiaquan, as the chief political debater of the Han Dynasty, has also attended this debate many times and debated with his opponents. In the words of Gao Yuan, the king of the Han Dynasty, that is, there is strengths, weaknesses in the inch, and progress can only be achieved with competition.

A single flower blooms is not spring, but a hundred flowers bloom in the garden. This is Gao Yuan’s summary of this situation where various schools are competing with each other.

Li Ru once thought that the Han Congress caused some internal instability due to these, but the reality was exactly the opposite.

"Okay, when Daqin is gone, I believe everyone will be very interested in going there to see it." Gao Yuan smiled.

"I'm afraid I won't live that time!" Li Ru laughed. "Your Highness, King of Han, you have already obtained enough. Han land has returned to you, and the State of Wei has been taken down by you. Your Highness, you have taken too much, and you may not be able to eat it and you will be able to hold on."

"You gave Han land to Chu, so we snatched it from the Chu people, and Wei State was ours, Li, are you going to give us our own things as compensation? This is too unkind! I have no doubt that when I tell you about your conditions to the Grand Parliament, they will make a decision to start a war without hesitation."

"Then what do you want?" Li Ru said angrily.

Looking at Li Ru, Gao Yuan thought that this academic master was indeed not a candidate suitable for negotiation.

"For us, land is not a problem. My great man is big enough." Gao Yuan's face also became serious, "But this time, Qin took the initiative to provoke and used force against our great man, causing huge losses to our great man Kingdom. When Lu Chao was about to leave, he implemented two strategies for burning everything in Yuyang and robbing everything. I think everyone has heard of it. Hundreds of thousands of people in Yuyang are now homeless and have no food to eat. Doesn't this require compensation?"

"This is the price of war and an appendix of war. From ancient times to the present, there has been no compensation for this." Li Rudao.

"There is not in the past, which does not mean that there is no one in the present. There was no Han Kingdom in the past, but now there is." Gao Yuan leaned forward and maintained the pressure on Li Ru, "Our demand is a war reparation of 10 million taels of silver."

"Ten million taels, are you crazy about poverty?" Li Ru was shocked when he heard this amount.

"I'm very poor, but I'm not crazy!" Gao Yuan sat back, "I think there is only a large sum of silver now, which can calm our parliament's anger, because they are now restless for the money. In Jishi County, we suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and a large number of fertile fields that are about to be harvested were destroyed. In Yuyang, we not only have no grains to collect, but also need a large amount of silver to rebuild our homes. The Wei Kingdom, Han Land, Li, these places were also ruined by you Qin people.

It's not going well. I'm sorry to say something unpleasant. You Qin people seem to be more suitable for destruction, and you never know about construction. The number I proposed was carefully calculated by us, and we can barely restore these places to the level before the war. Do you want to take a look at the budget plan made by our Ministry of Revenue? The silver pieces on it are all real." Gao Yuan waved, and He Weiyuan stepped forward and placed a thick stack of booklets in front of Li Ru.

"But the number of casualties in Jishi County far exceeds yours, and there are no more than 150,000 troops." Li Rudao.

"Because you have initiated the war, you must bear such pain!" Gao Yuan said coldly: "I have no obligation to consider the casualties of your Qin State. As the winner, I will only consider the problems of my country. As for how you should deal with domestic affairs, that is your business."

"We can't take it out!" Li Ru suppressed his anger, "No country can take it out. You are trying to force us to fight to the death with you. Wouldn't it be better to break up than to be a complete tile?"

Gao Yuan laughed, "You can't even get this amount of money for hundreds of years of Qin? Li, everyone, it seems that your strategy for governing the country is very problematic!"

"We, the Qin Dynasty, can't afford so much money, but we don't owe money!" Li Ru said coldly: "How much does your great man owe? Is there any surplus silver in the treasury?"

Gao Yuan spread his hands, "Sometimes, it's a skill to borrow money! If it weren't for the war you started, I believe that my great man could easily take out ten million taels of silver in a few years, all because of the hateful war. Li, since you dare to provoke a war, you must bear all the consequences. Would you rather break the jade than the tiles? Haha, now, I'm afraid that your jade will really break, but my tiles will be fine."

"We can't take it out!" Li Ru was speechless by Gao Yuan's threat. The current Qin Dynasty really cannot withstand war. King Wulie of Qin can't stand it for a few days, and the new king took office, and it is difficult for him to sort out domestic affairs in a few years.

"Can the number be smaller?"

"Okay, then it's five million taels, a bargain!" Gao Yuan was more refreshing than Li Ru imagined, and the price cut was even faster, which made Li Ru even more dumbfounded.

"Of course, if the money is less, there will be other compensation. Do you think so?" Gao Yuan said.

"What kind of compensation do you need?" Li Ru asked.

"First of all, Qin State allows our Han State merchants to trade in Qin State without any restrictions. The Qin people are not allowed to collect taxes from them, and they must provide security guarantees." Gao Yuandao.

"This is no problem!" Li Ru agreed immediately.

Gao Yuan laughed in his heart. Li Ru's negotiation object was indeed pleasant. He didn't understand the hidden things here at all. Because the Han Dynasty strongly suppressed land annexation and adopted policies such as state redemption, bought the land from the landlords and sold it to the landless people at a low price. This made the original landlord class have a lot of cash in hand. In order to turn these dead money into living money, the landlords could only invest money in business. The influx of a large amount of money made the business develop rapidly and the competition was strong.

This made business owners try their best to reduce the cost of goods. What made Gao Yuan happy was that these business owners began to re-develop new technologies and in terms of production, they also used strange tricks to reduce costs. Although there were many bad tricks using exploitation of workers, many emerging concepts also appeared. For example, the cost control theory, such as the emergence of assembly lines, and in Jicheng Comprehensive University, there were even merchants paying money to let students and teachers there specialize in studying how to control costs and make profits.

It was just a cover to allow merchants from Han Dynasty to enter Qin State with tax exemption. The real purpose was to allow a large number of low-cost goods from Han Dynasty to pour into Qin State, thus causing a devastating blow to the local industries of Qin State. As a person who traveled through time from a later generation with extremely developed commodities, Gao Yuan knew the harm of doing so even if he only knew a little bit of the fur.

This will bankrupt a large number of small businessmen in Qin's family workshops, thus causing a devastating blow to Qin's economy. It will put Qin in a bigger dilemma step by step on the economy.

Of course, it is impossible for people like Li Ru to understand the traps hidden here and the great malice here.

"Second, Shannan County will definitely not return it to us, but we must get Dai County back." Gao Yuan said seriously.

"As far as I know, Dai County has now returned it to Zhao State." Li Ru shook his head and said, "We cannot return it to you."

"What you gave is not Zhao State, but Zhao Qi. We will take it back by ourselves, but Qin State shall not intervene."

"If we want us to agree to this request, we must also ask His Highness the King of Han to agree to our request, that is, Zhao's internal affairs, neither of you nor I shall intervene." Li Rudao.

"There is no problem at all! Let them deal with their own affairs!" Gao Yuan laughed, "I think the existence of Zhao State will make both of us feel more secure, right?"

"Does Your Highness the King of Han have other conditions?"

"Of course there is!" Gao Yuan said: "In addition to signing a peace agreement, I think it is necessary to sign another alliance agreement, that is, the Han and Qin alliance. The reason for our alliance is that we have a common enemy, that is, Chu. We require Qin to launch an attack on Chu in the shortest time."

"Now we have no strength to launch another war against any country. His Highness the King of Han should be very clear about this." Li Ru said angrily.

"Or you just need to make a gesture, but I think Zhou Yu will not think so!" Gao Yuan smiled and said, "Of course, if you really attack like the Chu people, you will get the most, that's yours. What we get is ours, how about it? I think you will definitely be interested in this, and the Chu people are not able to deal with the attacks on him by both sides."

Li Ru pondered for a while, "Okay, we agreed, but His Highness the King of Han also understood our current situation and when we would send troops, it would be impossible to say."

"This is your own way!" Gao Yuan laughed, "This is all our conditions. Li, if there is no problem, I think we have reached an agreement." (To be continued.)
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