"If they really leave, sir, are you sure it won't cause turmoil and impact on local management?"
In fact, Ying Zheng has always been in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, so such a big matter cannot be decided by Jin Yao alone.
Ying Zheng came, Li Si also came, including Wang Jian from the Taiwei Mansion, just because they were worried about something happening.
After all, this decision involves too many people, and they are all local nobles, the kind of super nobles and big families that Qin would not dare to touch even if the country is destroyed.
If you pick any one at random, the family history can almost catch up with the history of the Qin State, and many of them are even longer than the history of the Qin State.
"It is the county magistrates, county magistrates, and Taoist priests who help us stabilize the place, not these big nobles and big families. On the contrary, their existence is what we have been wary of." Jin Yao said calmly.
This time, the people summoned were the most influential aristocratic families in the area, and their influence was as large as one and a half counties.
But these people have never been the force that helped stabilize Da Qin. Those who really helped Da Qin stabilize the place were the small local clans under the control of these big nobles and big families.
If Great Qin had moved these great nobles and families away, for those local small tribes, it would have given them an opportunity to move forward and move away the mountains that towered over their heads.
For the small local tribes, this was a matter of applause. As for following these big nobles and families to resist, they are not really stupid. They want to follow these people all the way to the dark side and die.
"This plan is called pulling firewood from the bottom of the cauldron!" Jin Yao said with a smile.
The confidence that these great aristocrats and families were able to challenge Great Qin and make Great Qin fearful came from the local small clans with hereditary wealth in those places.
Before the chaju system, there were only two ways to select officials in the Qin State, one was the guest minister system, and the other was the hereditary salary system that had been followed since the Huangdi period.
The guest minister system is a system where the king specially discovers talents, hires them as guest ministers, and then parachute to an important position as an officer. For example, Shang Yang, Zhang Yi, Fan Ju, Bai Qi, etc. are all talents discovered by the guest minister system, and most of them come from abroad.
Talent.
Therefore, the guest minister system actually only affects the position changes at the top level, and has little impact on lower-level officials.
What really determines the stability of the court is the hereditary salary system.
The hereditary salary system is the most fundamental method of selecting officials in the Qin State. The hereditary salary system means that official positions are hereditary, such as Li Chong, the governor of Longxi, Li Xin's grandfather.
Li Chong's father was an official of the Wei State, but he entered the Qin Dynasty as a guest minister during the reign of King Huiwen and was granted the title of Yushi. Later, Li Chong also inherited his father's position and received the position of Longxi Prefect and was granted the title of Duke of Nanzheng.
Later, Li Chong's son Li Yao also became the governor of Nanjun after Qin attacked Chu and established Nanjun because of the hereditary official position. However, he inherited the title from his father and was named Didaohou.
Then there is Li Xin. Li Xin was not from a humble background, otherwise he would not have been able to join Ying Zheng. He would have become a general as soon as he came out.
Because of his family background, and the old Qin rule of Qin State's reputation of sending generals to the west and ministers to the east, Li Xin naturally became Ying Zheng's most trusted young general.
Historically, Li Xin obviously lost troops and generals in the battle to destroy Chu. Why was he still able to serve as a deputy general to destroy Yan? In addition to various unexpected factors in the first battle to destroy Chu, the most important thing was that the power behind Li Xin was too powerful.
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Under the hereditary salary system, after an official serves as an official for three years, the official position can be passed on to one of his descendants.
If he serves as the county magistrate in a place for more than three years, after his death, his son will also be the next county magistrate and the first heir to the county magistrate.
Xianyang will almost default that his heir is the first candidate for succession. After the successor is selected, stamping the seal of Xianyang officially confirms his identity.
Therefore, the nobility was formed and controlled the place.
But this is unavoidable. There are more than 3,000 counties in the Qin Dynasty. Although the county magistrates and magistrates need to be appointed by Xianyang, it is impossible for every magistrate and magistrate in Xianyang to be specially transferred from Xianyang to take office.
What's more, there are too few scholars in this era, and there are even fewer people who have the ability to control a place, so these children who have heard about it since childhood can only take over their father's position and continue to manage the place.
Unless there is really no way to hold the wall up, and if they get poor ratings in Xianyang's end-of-year exams for three consecutive years, officials will be transferred from other places to replace them.
But it is not easy for these people to move up. Those big nobles will get stuck in the assessment and cannot get the promotion rating for three consecutive years. It is simply impossible to take another step forward.
Therefore, the local nobles used this method to control these local official clans.
Not every king is as fond of traveling as the First Emperor. Therefore, it is even more difficult for these local county magistrates to go to heaven to listen.
Therefore, Jin Yao's action this time was equivalent to moving the mountain that was lying above the heads of the small tribes in these places, allowing them to see the way up.
Under such circumstances, if the local nobles wanted to threaten Xianyang with local unrest, they would no longer be able to do so.
The small tribes in these places will never miss this opportunity for advancement, and they are even less likely to follow the big nobles to destabilize the place and carry out rebellion.
If it succeeds, they won't get any benefit; if it fails, their entire family will be destroyed!
In this case, as long as there is no problem in the brain, everyone knows how to choose.
Ying Zheng, Li Si, and Wang Jian also figured out the key. This really sucked the fuel out of the cauldron and took away the foundation of this group of great nobles and the great family.
Xianyang cannot recruit more than 3,000 lowest-level officials who can control the local area, but it can still do it by selecting a few county guards who can take charge of a county.
This means that Xianyang can find people to replace these big nobles and big families, leaving these big nobles and big families with no choice.
"You still have to be careful that some of these people jump over the wall in a hurry!" Wang Jian said seriously.
Not everyone can figure this out. It is inevitable that some people will jump over the wall in a hurry, so they have to guard against it.
"So we still need to ask the general to be prepared to counter the rebellion!" Jin Yao smiled and nodded.
He also didn't believe that there were no fools among this group of nobles. If someone really jumped over the wall in a hurry, Xianyang had to be prepared.
"Someone has to be the chicken to scare the monkeys. If I don't kill one or two people, I really think I'm afraid of them!" Ying Zheng also said with a smile.
He had been insulted by these noble families more than once or twice, but he had to endure it. Now that he finally had the opportunity to return the favor, he naturally would not let this opportunity pass him by.
Therefore, Ying Zheng personally ordered Wang Jian to assemble heavy troops to deal with possible rebellions at any time.
"Rebellion?" The nobles were actually not stupid, and they were well-informed. Especially after knowing that Wang Jian had assembled an army of 50,000 and was ready to rush to the battlefield at any time, they all became quiet.
As a large noble and aristocratic family, they may have one or two clan leaders who make mistakes, but that doesn't mean that all members of the clan will follow suit.
It's not like they haven't done this before to replace the clan leader.
Therefore, the preparations made by Ying Zheng and others were of no use.