"It's far more than that!" Ying Zheng shook his head.
"Unification is in my hands. According to convention, all the systems we establish will become the laws followed by future generations."
Ying Zheng looked at Li Si and said solemnly. He saw far more than just the present, but also the future.
Although he was not the founding emperor of Qin, he was the founding emperor and first emperor of the unified empire.
Then all the rules he set in one day will become the rules for the future operation of the empire, and will also be called the ancestral system.
Just like the system where someone died when Duke Mu was in power, when Duke Mu died, all the ministers in the court also had to be buried with him, the most famous of which were the Three Heroes of Ziche.
This also led to the prosperity and decline of the Qin State, which originally dominated the west. Because of this ancestral system, scholars did not dare to join Qin as officials again. This also made the Qin State become weaker and weaker, and it was common for the Qin State to change its orders at night.
It was not until Duke Xiang of Qin that he had the courage to abolish the system of human sacrifice, and then he wiped Qin's butt during Duke Xiang's reign and tried every means to recruit Shandong scholars to join Qin.
Therefore, the Qin State has the most say in the harm caused by the ancestral system. It is also true that the Qin State has been avoiding this risk.
To put it simply, many people know that the "Phantom Project" will be difficult to succeed and achieve a breakthrough within 30 to 50 years, and it is even unlikely that there will be a breakthrough in the Yingzheng Dynasty.
But if Ying Zheng doesn't do it, or even stops it halfway through, then his successors will subconsciously refuse to start the "Phantom Project" when they see how expensive it is.
All the courtiers would also write a letter saying, "How can we do what the First Emperor could not do in one dynasty?"
The First Emperor's plan to terminate it in one dynasty proves that this plan cannot be completed, and we must abide by the ancestral system.
From now on, the "Phantom Project" will also be suspended indefinitely.
If Jin Yao was here, he would have thought of the consequences of this, because the foreshadowing of China's transition from prosperity to decline in history originated from this ancestral system.
In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a sea ban to prevent Japanese pirates, and eliminated almost all shipping companies, and "no one entered the sea."
The result was that the Ming Dynasty's shipping industry, which was originally the strongest in the world, declined instantly. Even though Emperor Yongle restarted the ship market, he also started the longest voyage in the world. However, after Yongle, for some reason, the ancestral system was restarted.
The sea ban was reinstated.
Zheng He's treasure ship, which became famous all over the world, became history and will never be seen again.
This is exactly what Ying Zheng did at this time. If he terminated the "Phantom Project", it would be equivalent to giving up the development of the coast. In the end, it formed a habit, causing future generations to lose their yearning and exploration of the sea, and eventually closed the country.
Under Ying Zheng's explanation, Li Si quickly reacted.
The so-called legal system will eventually become a human system, because the law serves people and is executed by people.
If they ban too many things at one time, a system will be formed, which will cause endless troubles due to the habits and misinterpretations of future generations.
Especially as courtiers, there are very few people who dare to innovate and overthrow the old system. Most of them think that doing more will be wrong and not doing anything will be good.
Under this mentality, everyone will follow the ancestral system and dare not innovate or overturn it. Even if they know that the ancestral system is wrong, they will still selectively turn a blind eye or turn a deaf ear.
Just like the current Qin law is an extension of the Shang king's law, many of them are no longer applicable to the current Qin state, but even Li Si would not dare to abolish or change it.
More often than not, they only make adaptive corrections and supplementary explanations to Shang Jun's laws, but do not dare to truly abolish them.
For example, in the law of Shang Jun, in the year of great disaster, the government is not allowed to open warehouses for relief, and the people must rely on themselves to overcome the disaster.
This is because the Qin state treasury during the Shang Dynasty did not have any spare capacity to provide relief, and the local nobles controlled the government. If a warehouse was opened for relief, the people would not be able to get a trace of relief grain from the government, and the relief would only flow into the hands of the nobles.
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However, the current Qin Dynasty obviously has enough resources to provide relief, but no one dares to change this law. At most, in the year of great disaster, the king orders relief, rather than local relief based on the actual situation.
It is tantamount to saying that without the king's order, the local government cannot open warehouses to provide relief and help the people survive the disaster years.
Even though Li Si was re-enacting the Qin Law, he did not dare to change this law. He only added supplements after the law, and the local government reported it to Xianyang, who then decided to dispatch grain and grass relief.
The time wasted in this back and forth is unimaginable, because it takes time for the news to reach Xianyang, and it takes time for Xianyang to respond. It also takes another time to select the town governor, and it takes another time for the town governor to bring people and food from Xianyang.
It takes another time to rush to the disaster area.
Major disasters may be locust plagues, floods, or droughts. In this case, time is of the essence. Waiting for orders and relief from Xianyang will take ten days at the minimum.
For sudden disasters such as floods and earth dragons, it is impossible for local people to wait for Xianyang's relief and treatment.
By the time the governor arrived, the disasters that needed to be treated were no longer floods and earth dragons, but the ensuing plague.
However, even if he knew that there was a problem with this law, Li Si did not dare to abolish it, because after the abolition, the power of the local government would increase, and there would even be false reports. Once problems arise, Li Si, as the maker of the law, will become the target of public criticism.
"Moreover, this group of people are not good people. Before coming to Xianyang, they wandered around the Yan region, bewitching local nobles, spreading the doctrine of immortality, the theory of gods and ghosts, and bewildering the local people."
"The most important thing is that these people are mobile and will not always stay in one place. They are also proficient in evasion methods and can avoid the trap and the pursuit of local officials. It is difficult to catch them all, but they can be eliminated quickly."
"So, I gathered them in Xianyang, gathered them in the Qin Palace, and asked them all to come to Xianyang!"
Ying Zheng continued.
For people like Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, it is impossible to kill them all, and it is also difficult to catch them. Shooting to change the ground is what this group of people do most often.
However, the Qin State is now in a state of ruins and does not have much energy and manpower to take care of them.
Therefore, what Ying Zheng thought of was to use waste and let them endorse the "Phantom Plan". At the same time, for these people, how could it be more beneficial to confuse the people and local nobles than to confuse the king?
Therefore, the leaders of this group of people will also flock to Xianyang, and Qin will not have to bother to track them down, they will come to their doorstep by themselves.
When the time is right, or when they are no longer needed, you can send them on their way.
This is the fundamental reason why Ying Zheng raised them.