Chapter 0413 The monarch and his ministers discuss the law
Zhao Yun smiled slightly and said: "What's the difficulty in this matter? This heavy rain has put heavy pressure on the Xijiang River dams. The Qing family has organized disaster victims to strengthen the dams and clean up the river channels. All willing participants will become victims of the disaster, and relief will be distributed normally.
If you are unwilling to participate, you are an impostor and will be driven away. Anyone who refuses to leave will be beaten with twenty sticks. In this way, won’t the problem be solved? "
After Luo Xing heard this, he suddenly became enlightened. In this way, he not only saved the victims, but also strengthened the dam without wasting money and food. It was really a strategy that killed three birds with one stone.
Luo Xing praised: "Your Majesty's plan is very good. I am incompetent. I can't think of it. Your Majesty still has to worry about it. I will die."
"It's okay. We'll just draw inferences from one example in the future. Since you think it's feasible, then go ahead and make arrangements."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After Luo Xing left, Jiang Wanli came to submit documents. These documents were all sent from Lin'an and required Zhao Yun's signature and approval one by one.
"If nothing happens in the Qing family, how about you chat with me for a while?"
Jiang Wanli was about to leave, but was stopped by Zhao Yun. Jiang Wanli did not dare to refuse, so he respectfully handed over his hand.
After sitting down, Zhao Yun said to Jiang Wanli: "The ancestors of the Qing family have been officials for several generations and are quite powerful in the local area. Today, you and I will open our hearts and talk about the new law. You don't have to worry too much."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Qing family, how do you feel about the new law?"
Jiang Wanli was silent and didn't speak for a while.
Zhao Yun smiled and said: "You don't need to think too much. You, I, Jiang Wanzai, Meng Gong, Cao Youwen and others are all of the same age. To you, I regard you as both a minister and a friend, so I often see you.
I hope to have a heart-to-heart talk with you.”
Jiang Wanli is the current number one scholar. Needless to say, he is talented and knowledgeable. When he heard what Zhao Yun said, he was moved and no longer had any worries.
Jiang Wanli said: "Although your majesty's implementation of the new law touches the interests of the officials and gentry, as long as there are people with a little bit of ambition and ideals for their family and country, I think they will support it, because they can understand your majesty's original intention and know that this new law is
Benefiting the country and the people.”
Zhao Yun smiled slightly, feeling quite relieved.
However, at this time Jiang Wanli changed the topic again and said: "Your Majesty, if your new law is viewed in the longer term, it may not be a good thing for the country."
Zhao Yun was quite surprised. A reform that was beneficial to the country and the people, and the interests of the people were clear, how could it be bad?
"What do you think of Qing's words?"
Jiang Wanli did not dare to hide anything and said sincerely: "May I ask Your Majesty, what do you think of Shang Yang's reforms?"
Zhao Yun thought for a while and then said: "Before Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State's national power was far inferior to that of Zhao, Chu, Qi and Wei, and was passively beaten everywhere. After the implementation of the reform, the Qin State became rich and powerful, laying a solid foundation for Qin to unify the world. There is no doubt about this.
Such a comparison shows that Shang Yang's reform was naturally of great benefit to the country and the people, and it was a successful and effective reform."
Jiang Wanli shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you are only half right. Shang Yang's reform was a good reform for the country, but it was not so for the people. To be more specific, Shang Yang's reform was only beneficial to the King of Qin and not to the people.
But it is a bad law."
Zhao Yun was surprised and looked surprised, but soon Zhao Yun understood the meaning of Jiang Wanli's words.
Before Zhao Yun implemented the reforms, he had read many ancient books and classics. He studied the famous reforms in history every day and was very familiar with them. Naturally, he paid the most attention to Shang Yang's reforms.
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The core idea of Shang Yang's reform was farming war, but the specific content was ultimately centralization of power.
Shang Yang believed that the monarch and his ministers only have so much power. The greater the power the monarch holds, the stronger the monarch will be, and the ministers will naturally be weaker. The greater the power held by the ministers, the stronger the ministers will be, and the weaker the monarch will naturally be.
He believes that the country and the people are the same. They only have so much power. The more power the people have, the stronger the people will be. However, the less power the country has, the weaker the country will be.
The more power the country controls, the stronger the country will be and the weaker the people will be.
Under this idea, in order to squeeze the people's strength as much as possible to supplement the country, Shang Yang's reform issued a series of laws to achieve the goals of dumbing down the people, poor people, weak people, and impoverished people.
Reading, what kind of books do ordinary people read? If we have time to plant two acres of land, wouldn't it be better to plant a little more food?
No reading allowed!
Are you full enough to fight in a fight? If you have such spirit, why don't you go to the battlefield and kill more enemies?
No private fighting allowed!
What kind of business do ordinary people do? Those who do business are profiteers, black-hearted and opportunistic. Isn’t this moral corruption?
No business allowed!
Visiting relatives, ordinary people have nothing to do to visit relatives? Do you want to gather a crowd to rebel?
No wandering around!
You caught a tiger and leopard, why don't you quickly hand it over to the court? These are rare birds, are they worthy of you, a common man?
No hiding anything!
Your two sons have grown up, why don't you separate the family? Are you trying to evade taxes?
Not allowed to stay at home!
Why are you wandering around on the street? Do you want to steal something if you haven't gone home yet? Do you have bad intentions for the widow of the Wang family?
No loitering allowed!
Shang Yang's reform formulated various regulations for the common people, and each regulation was extremely strict. Those who dared to violate the regulations would be fined at the least, and have their hands and feet stamped on, or beheaded at the worst, or even three, five, and nine tribes, and be chopped into meat paste.
To put it bluntly, Shang Yang's idea of reform is that people should not be idle. Shang Yang believed that people would get into trouble when they were idle. They would either steal or wander around and cause trouble. If the people were kept busy, they would not have so many things to do.
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He also believed that the people should not be too full. If they are too full, men will want to find women, and women will want to find wild men. If they can't find them, they will steal. If they can't steal, they will rob. In the end,
A big case of love murder is coming.
If they don't have enough to eat, then the common people will only think about eating and have no other thoughts.
We cannot let the common people have money. Once they have money, they will want to be officials, and they will want to build relationships and corrupt the public morals.
Let's not let the people's families have too many people. Once there are too many people, it is easy to form a hill. If there is an opportunity, they will want to rebel and become the king.
In order to put an end to all this, Shang Yang clearly arranged the lives of the people. From beginning to end of the year, except for setting aside part of the time for the people to farm, the rest of the time was used to allocate corvee labor.
Either transporting rations to the army, or building palaces, dams, the Great Wall, and roads. Anyway, it keeps the people busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year without stopping. Some strong people are better off exhausting themselves to death.
The common people are exhausted, have no extra money or food at home, and have no family outside to rely on. The only thing they can count on is the court. In this way, the common people can only listen to the king.