Chapter 346: I advise you to scold Qin Shihuang and discuss the burning incident!
Ying Zhengdao: "Governing the world has never been easy, let alone the Qin that unified the whole country. When the world was unified, I convened the ministers to discuss the governance of the world. At the beginning, I also thought about reforming the world in one fell swoop, but in the end
, gave up in a lot of ways.”
"even......"
"Choose a more conservative path."
"You envisioned broadening people's wisdom, but that was actually something you considered at the beginning."
"It's just that in the end, I and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty chose to 'control the people.' Maybe you will think that the ministers have selfish motives, or that the court is ignorant of the affairs, but I can tell you clearly."
"No!"
"It's not that the court is short-sighted, nor that the court officials have selfish motives, but that this matter will do harm to the Qin Dynasty rather than benefit it at all. I once asked Yu Shiyi to tell me about your performance at the gathering of scholars. What you said
It’s really eye-catching.”
“But in the end it’s just words!”
"Right now, you do have some ideas and some actions to realize what you said at the grand event, but you know nothing about the way to govern the world, and you are even just imagining it out of thin air."
"Extend the wisdom of the people?" Ying Zheng shook his head and said coldly: "You once studied in the academy, and you should have heard the imperial historian tell the reason why the Qin Dynasty banned "Poems" and "Books"."
"There are thousands of people in the agricultural war, but there is only one person who can interpret the "Poems" and "Books" wisely, and there are thousands of people who are idle in the agricultural war."
"This is the content of "Shang Jun Shu", that is, among a thousand people who only know how to fight and farm, as long as one person is proficient in poetry and calligraphy, it can cause these thousand people to not farm and fight well, just because of this sentence
In other words, the Qin State and even the Great Qin Dynasty have been criticized by scholars all over the world."
"Is this wrong?"
"That's right!"
"It's just that many people in the world understand that the Qin Dynasty does not accept "Poems" and "Books". In fact, this understanding is wrong in my opinion. What the imperial court prohibits are those who are not diligent in the four bodies and the grains, who think they are superior to others and do nothing.
Production, people who indulge in pleasure."
"But most of these people just read Poems and Books!"
"There are not many such people in the world."
"If the people's wisdom is broadened, the number of such people will increase rapidly. Today, the status of corporals is not low. By then, people will subconsciously think that they can easily get ahead after reading and literacy. But how can there be such a situation in the world?
More opportunities to get ahead?”
"If everyone followed suit, wouldn't the world be in chaos?"
"The reason why the age of great strife has been turbulent for hundreds of years is because the scholars did not understand silence and wanted to use their fists and kicks to realize their ambitions. But how many scholars were there at that time? When the people's wisdom spreads in the world, the number of scholars will be
How many more?"
"One hundred thousand? Millions? Millions?"
“It’s difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.”
"They are used to reading books, so how can they be willing to continue to cultivate the fields and pick up weapons and go to the battlefield? By then, these scholars will become the biggest source of turmoil in the world."
"Besides."
"Da Qin is indeed short of officials right now."
"But what Da Qin lacks the most are low-level officials."
"Most of the scholars in the world are people with high aspirations and low expectations. What they want is a high position in the court, not to work at the bottom. This is one of the main reasons why Confucianism and other schools of thought strongly recommend the vassal system. The world is divided into feudal states.
, each feudal state needs a large number of officials, and they can use this to ascend to high positions."
"Even so."
"How many scholars can Da Qin use?"
"After the people's wisdom was broadened, the vast majority of scholars would wander the streets doing nothing, either becoming so-called knights-errants, or becoming idle libertines. However, these people have never been restless, and they have been severely punished by the Qin Dynasty."
"Now just the nobles of the Six Kingdoms and hundreds of schools of thought have given Great Qin a lot of headaches. If the local people are also involved, do you think Great Qin can still be stable? How can Great Qin be stable?"
"You have never thought about these consequences."
"You think that after the people's wisdom is broadened, Da Qin will be completely different from the previous dynasties, and even embark on a prosperous road, but this is just your imagination and is not realistic at all. As you know, Da Qin currently has insufficient food and clothing. If
If a large number of people are not engaged in production, I don’t know how many more people will starve to death in the world.”
"Your idea is very good."
"But it ignores the actual situation."
"The Qin Dynasty cannot open up the people's wisdom, it cannot open up, and it does not dare to open up."
"Not only will the imperial court not reopen, but it will also crack down on private education more severely in the future, and even more seriously ban the 'six lice' such as etiquette, music, and the Book of Songs. Anything that causes confusion among the people of Qin and induces people to not do their jobs will be banned by Qin."
.”
"Perhaps I will be scolded as a tyrant by the scholars and written as a tiger and wolf, but I actually don't care, because I did use the 'Five Skills of Controlling the People' and I did 'reverse the ways'. However, I don't feel that I have done anything wrong.
Already."
"Because after 'controlling the people', we can at least allow the people to stay on the fields, so that they can more or less harvest, instead of being aimless and idle all day long, thus causing the world to fall into war again."
"I consider myself worthy of the people!!!"
Qin Luoheng's face turned pale.
He also realized the problem.
He envisioned the future too well. His benchmark was a modern country, and the main symbol of a modern country is the popularization of education and the popularization of knowledge. He originally wanted to promote productivity by broadening people's wisdom, but he ignored it.
A very important question arises: Does Daqin need such a large productivity? Can Daqin use such a large productivity?
and......
Can Da Qin digest so many scholars?
Qin Luoheng shook his head.
He actually already knew the answer.
Da Qin couldn't do it, nor was he capable of doing it.
The "caigong" of the Qin Dynasty were officials. Apart from the government, there was no place in the Qin Dynasty that could accept a large number of scholars. The number of officials needed was limited, but the number of scholars was endless.
In the words of later generations, the imperial court needed to ensure the employment rate.
But Daqin cannot provide so many positions.
In order to avoid this crisis, all dynasties in the past chose to fool the people, that is, to trap the people in the fields and let them concentrate on farming. If the people have something to do, they will naturally not cause trouble, which is conducive to the stability of the world and the rule of the world.
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For a while.
Qin Luoheng thought of a lot.
He remembered the practices of later generations, who also faced the same situation after the people's wisdom was broadened. The measure taken at that time was to implement "going to the mountains and to the countryside", which was to solve the employment problem in the city and send intellectuals in the city to the countryside.
, let the place support these intellectuals.
Naturally, this move resulted in a lot of infamy.
The success of later generations does not mean that the Qin Dynasty can succeed.
In later generations, due to the Industrial Revolution, commerce could accommodate a large number of people, but Da Qin was unable to do so at the moment. Moreover, after the domestic "movement to the mountains and countryside" at that time, many people went back and eventually found a way out. Even so,
If you are still full of resentment, how much more so in this world?
If the Qin Dynasty were to reincarnate, I am afraid that if the situation in the world were slightly wrong, the scholars would directly revolt.
Think of this.
Qin Luoheng was also frightened for a while.
His consideration was too one-sided and too idealistic.
He ignored the progress of history.
The current Great Qin does not support it at all, and the so-called solution in later generations is actually to use industrialization to carry out dumping and plundering. However, Great Qin has not launched a big voyage now. Even if it really liberates productivity, the things produced will eventually be
There is no place to sell it, so rashly opening up people's wisdom is undoubtedly playing with fire and burning yourself.
Qin Luoheng was sweating coldly.
Wei Wei said:
"I haven't thought about it."
"I take it for granted and completely ignore the reality. If the world really broadens the wisdom of the people, not only will it not allow Great Qin to get on the right track, but it will intensify the turmoil in the world."
"I am so ashamed!"
Ying Zheng withdrew his gaze and said quietly: "It seems that you have figured it out. There are things in the world. Ideas and reality are actually two different things. You can think that it is not easy to broaden the people's wisdom, but you still have to take a longer view."
"Actually, there is a solution to this matter."
"It's 'merchant'!"
"Use traffickers and lackeys to digest excess people."
"But the 'merchant' Da Qin never gave any consideration."
"Do you know the reason?"
"I don't know." Qin Luoheng shook his head.
Qin Luoheng said lightly:
"Because of the Shang Dynasty."
"Most of the historical materials you see are unclear about the Shang Dynasty, because the history of the Shang Dynasty is very dark and miserable, and the ancestors of my Ying family once served as officials in the Shang Dynasty, so we know more about the Shang Dynasty than the outside world."
"The outside world only knows that the Shang Dynasty launched a large-scale military campaign and constant wars, but as everyone knows, real merchants are not engaged in production. What they do is hoard, do business with other tribes, and plunder other people.
to maintain their own prosperity.”
"But you can't imagine how disgusting businessmen are."
"Businessmen would do anything to make profits. They used their strong financial resources to form a powerful army, and then used force to continuously exploit other tribes. Eventually, all the tribes in the world rebelled. When the Shang Dynasty sent troops to conquer the Dongyi
, was annihilated by Ji Fa’s troops of the Zhou Dynasty.”
"So there was actually an era when businessmen dominated the world."
"It's just that that period was too dark for everyone in the world, so that few people were willing to admit that they were nobles of the Shang Dynasty. That was Confucius. He was actually the queen of the nobles of the Shang Dynasty, but he was highly praised.
Duke Zhou, this is the main reason."
"The nobles of the Shang Dynasty were actually not glorious!"
"It is precisely because the world has experienced that dark era that since the Zhou Dynasty, both the Emperor Zhou and other princes have extremely excluded and suppressed merchants. In order not to repeat the same mistakes, the Qin Dynasty has never considered mercantile."
"besides."
"There is another reason for suppressing business."
"When governing the world, the first consideration is not the people or soldiers, but wealth and silk."
"It is too easy for merchants to make money, and they may even make huge profits without capital. If they focus on business, many people will flock to it. Money is attractive, so merchants corrode the people very seriously. In order to maintain the stability of the world, it is also necessary to prevent merchants from using money.
Silk stealing power can only be suppressed."
"Merchants can be used as a group, but they cannot be used to a large extent, let alone reused. They even have to be humiliated and suppressed in all aspects. Only in this way can merchants be in awe and restrain their thoughts of stealing power."
“It’s too easy for businessmen to gain power and steal it!”
Qin Luoheng nodded.
He was convinced of this.
Merchants were already very wealthy. Although the imperial court had been suppressing them, their status was low and their financial resources had not been reduced. Once the imperial court no longer suppressed them, they could easily exchange money for power or even rent power.
And this is what the rulers are most afraid of.
Ying Zheng slightly raised his forehead.
The reason why he mentioned this was to completely dispel Qin Luoheng's thoughts.
The idea of broadening people's wisdom was not feasible in Da Qin, and there was no way to implement it.
The only possible way is to use merchants, but this will improve the status of merchants. Merchants already have money, and they have the help of scholars. By then, merchants will inevitably have no desire for power, and this is the court.
Absolutely cannot be tolerated.
Qin Luoheng naturally understood.
He actually thought about re-business, but he didn't think so far. What he thought was that merchants were bringing in money too fast. If other people saw that merchants were making money so fast, would they abandon farming and do business? Wouldn't it be wasteful by then?
The fields.
And that will also cause turmoil in the world.
But the First Emperor's focus was different. The First Emperor was more concerned about power.
Qin Luoheng said:
"I know the dangers of merchants, and I will never use them rashly."
"However, I still recommend compiling the "Book of Characters", but it will no longer be leaked to the outside world, but will be used as a teaching model in the school. The "Chinese Dadian" I mentioned earlier should also be compiled."
"The Lord of Shang Dynasty Zhang'yi Jiao'."
"In my opinion, the best way to achieve unified education is to set a big benchmark, and the direction of this benchmark should be controlled by the imperial court. From now on, all books that the outside world is allowed to view should be in the "Chinese Dadian"
within the scope of.”
"Only in this way can unified education be truly realized!"
"Your Majesty, please take a closer look!"
Ying Zheng's eyes closed slightly, he looked at Qin Luoheng deeply for a few times, and finally nodded and said: "What you said is not unreasonable. There is no place without rules. It is impossible for Great Qin to ban all books in the world, but
It can give scholars a viewing range."
"This scope is limited by the imperial court."
"The content inside will naturally be decided by the imperial court."
"Under the subtle influence, the people have deepened their impression of Da Qin, and they also know what kind of country Da Qin is, and they have gradually completed the ideological education of the people."
"I agree!"
Qin Luoheng looked happy.
He quickly said:
"Thank you for your permission, Your Majesty."
Immediately, Qin Luoheng showed hesitation and said: "Wang Cizhong had a lot of criticisms against Qin's government before, and he was unwilling to serve in Qin, so I would like to suggest that the imperial court recruit him as a guest minister of the Zhanzi Office, or let your majesty grant him permission to serve in white.
Participate in the compilation of "Book of Characters"."
Ying Zheng said calmly:
"What does it matter if you scold Qin Zheng a few times?"
"The world is criticizing Qin Zheng, but are there fewer people who are criticizing me?"
"As long as he is sincerely working for the Qin Dynasty, what if he is allowed to be a guest minister of the Calligraphy and Calligraphy Office? I still have a certain tolerance for people."
Qin Luoheng smiled awkwardly.
Zuo Yi said:
"I can't hide my words for a moment."
"Your Majesty, please forgive me."
Ying Zheng shook his head, picked up a blank imperial edict, and settled the matter on the spot.