Qin Yu's drastic reforms and powerful killings of aristocratic families allowed him to become prime minister for a period of time.

He has truly become a hero and idol in the minds of many people.

What he did was something that his predecessors had wanted to do but had never accomplished.

Such an achievement is amazing.

Moreover, Qin Yu's methods were not just about publishing books, but also targeting powerful families.

At the same time, he also made considerable changes in another aspect.

That is to improve the social status of businessmen.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.

Originally, businessmen were considered to be people who were not involved in production. They could not create production value, but they could make a lot of money because of it, so they were highly regarded.

Now that Qin Yu became the prime minister, he directly sent people to summon all the heads of the four major merchant families.

On the premise of promising them some benefits, such as ensuring the safety of their lives and property to a certain extent in terms of policies.

They are forced to collect a certain amount of transaction tax from them based on their own income and the tax officials' understanding of the actual taxes.

For those merchant families, they simply did not dare to refuse this kind of thing.

Now Qin Yu has already gained a reputation for being evil.

But when a big family with some foundation calls Qin Yu, they don't call him Prime Minister at all.

Instead, he asked Qin to behead him.

When the patriarchs of the four major families learned that they were summoned by Qin Yu, it was impossible for them not to be nervous.

Qin Yu had already wiped out countless of the entangled old aristocratic families.

Isn't it easy to destroy families like them, which rely on merchants to make their fortunes?

Moreover, there is something about them that attracts Qin Yu's attention the most.

In terms of wealth, many established families may not be able to match their wealth.

Qin Yu only needs to kill one of them casually.

You can even eat from their corpses and your mouth will be full of oil.

I was mentally prepared for the worst before I came here.

Unexpectedly, Qin Yu gave them such a big gift when he came up.

After everyone heard that Qin Yu wanted to improve the businessman's social status, they were all extremely shocked.

As for things like transaction taxes later on.

Compared to the improvement of social status, this thing does not matter to them at all.

the most important is.

What Qin Yu promised was not only a verbal social status, but also a promise to allow their descendants to pursue an official career through studying.

This is what really makes those rich people tempted.

Although Qin Yu was already preparing to start the imperial examination system.

There were rumors circulating before.

Most of these rich people have heard similar rumors.

But rumors are just rumors.

They don't know whether this kind of thing is true or false.

Now that Qin Yu said it himself, it gave them the greatest reassurance.

I thought the matter was almost over at this point.

Unexpectedly, Qin Yu gave them another huge surprise.

Qin Yu talked about the trade between India and the Western Regions.

These patriarchs themselves are people with extremely deep understanding of business activities.

Now when Qin Yu said it, they immediately realized what terrible business opportunities Qin Yu said would have in the future.

It's just that if they want to obtain such business opportunities, they will need huge initial investment.

This was the choice Qin Yu left to them.

Want to grab benefits from India and Southeast Asia.

You can’t just come here to pick fruits, right?

Qin Yu was not a philanthropist, and the Han Dynasty could not really be philanthropic.

Infrastructure construction is certainly important.

But in today's social governance environment.

It is unrealistic to rely solely on the imperial court's financial expenditure to cover such a large amount of expenses.

If these wealthy people are not allowed to spend their money to work with Qin Yu on construction, Qin Yu himself will not have much confidence in his heart.

Look at the heads of the four major families thinking hard now.

Qin Yu was just holding the tea cup, he was not in a hurry.

Because from the beginning, when he sat here, he never gave these people the option to refuse.

Is it possible that they really feel that Qin's beheading knife is disadvantageous, or do they think that their importance in the Han Dynasty is even greater than that of those powerful and powerful old families?

They are said to be the four major families just because they have seized the market and formed monopoly businesses in different regions.

If they were really brought down, countless merchant families would step forward in minutes to carve up the channels they left behind.

After all, these businessmen are still quick-thinking and can see things clearly.

After questioning Qin Yu, he confirmed that the places he mentioned in India and Southeast Asia, which now seem to be just barbarians, really have so many benefits.

The four of them made the decision without hesitation.

After finalizing some general matters of cooperation.

Qin Yu extended his intelligence tentacles into these four major families.

When it comes to information networks, who can compare to these businessmen?

Their respective families have their own intelligence systems.

Now that Qin Yu opened his mouth, they naturally had the guts to follow him.

So, half a year later.

The publication of the Xiping Stone Scripture has gradually been distributed throughout the country.

Different schools were opened in each county according to Qin Yu's requirements.

These school buildings are small libraries.

As long as people with certain reading abilities are allowed to read books in this library for free.

As for the popularization of science among illiterate people, there is indeed a long way to go and it cannot be completed in a day or two.

The emergence of the current school building is just a hope for those poor students.

They do not have the funds to become apprentices, or are unable to visit celebrities due to various other reasons.

Then they gathered in the nearby school building.

Everyone discussed what they had learned in the school building. Under exchanges and discussions, the sparks of collision of ideas became brighter and brighter.

In just half a year, a group of knowledgeable talents with insight into grassroots work have emerged from various places.

Qin Yu naturally gave priority to these talents after passing the assessment.

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Regarding his establishment of a school, many people in counties and counties were disobeying him.

Some people just build a school building without storing books in it.

Some store books but do not update them.

Some books are plentiful, but if you want to enter the school, you have to pay a fee, or you need to meet various strict requirements.

All kinds of things.

To name a few.

At this time, the intelligence network that Qin Yu had spread out from the beginning was successful.

Whenever we find officials in counties who dare to do this kind of thing.

Qin Yu always sent people directly to investigate the situation on the spot.

After verifying the authenticity.
To be continued...