The debate in the court has lasted as long as a stick of incense.
Ying Chengyu had listened before, but soon his mind was no longer in the court.
He fell into deep thought.
The first step was to trigger a debate among the ministers, which he has already done.
The second step is how to get the ministers to support the system of prefectures and counties?
On the surface, it seems possible to copy the original script at this moment. Give all the fiefdom to yourself first, and then divide it out in a few years when your nephews grow up. Let the ministers choose the lesser of two powers, and actively choose the county system.
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After all, except that Li Si and himself changed the order of appearance, everything seemed to be the same.
It's doable, but not completely doable.
Although this can make the officials hold their noses and recognize the county system, it will not achieve the desired effect - harmony between the monarch and his ministers.
Because of their preconceived ideas, a large number of officials would believe that Li Si was the trump card of Ying Zheng.
In the West, this is called the primacy effect, which means that the words heard first or the impression obtained first will occupy a dominant position in people's minds, making it difficult to accept different opinions in the future.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Pang Tong, a counselor as famous as Zhuge Liang, met with Sun Quan.
Sun Quan felt unhappy when he saw Pang Tong's thick eyebrows and raised nose, dark face and short beard, and a strange appearance.
Therefore, Lu Su turned him away on the grounds that "he came to invite me when he was useful", even if Lu Su tried to persuade him, it was of no avail.
Pang Tong went to Liu Bei again. Uncle Liu was dissatisfied when he saw Pang Tong's appearance, so he sent him to Leiyang County, 130 miles northeast, to serve as county magistrate.
Pang Tong failed to recommend himself twice.
The main reason is that he failed to leave a good first impression on Sun Quan and Liu Bei, so he was not reused and his talents could not be used.
But at this moment, when Li Si jumped out first and was already recognized by the officials as Ying Zheng's trumpet, whether he jumped or not would not dispel the doubts of the officials.
Because Li Si proposed that the county system is obviously not in his own interests.
There are only two types of people who do things that are not in their own interests, one is a fool, and the other is a saint.
The ministers did not think that Li Si, who could write the "Book of Remonstrance and Expulsion of Guests" and promoted the construction of the Zheng Guo Canal, was a fool when he came up with the system of counties and counties.
I also don’t think that Li Si, who traveled through the Three Kingdoms and was rumored to go to jail at night to kill his senior brother Han Fei, would be a saint.
In this case, unless Yingzheng does not choose the county system.
As long as Ying Zheng elects counties and abolishes enfeoffment, the ministers will think that Li Si is Ying Zheng's trumpet. There is no way around this.
This is the human heart and human nature.
Is it possible to influence Yingzheng not to choose the county system for the sake of the officials?
Putting aside the fact that my irascible old brother Ying Zhengtong disagrees, if he really does this, he will be committing a crime not only for the present but also for the future.
Closer view.
Only by implementing the system of prefectures and counties can the complete and complete unification of the Qin State be realized, giving the court absolute control over the local areas.
Look from a distance.
The system of prefectures and counties has effectively ensured the integrity of China's territory, suppressed national divisions, and enabled all Chinese people to have a view of a great country and a unified view. China has been reincarnated in the cycle of "if it divides for a long time, it must unite, and if it unites for a long time, it must divide".
Rather than being like the Frankish Kingdom conquered by Charlemagne in Europe, it was never able to unite after it split into the three kingdoms of France, Italy, and Germany.
In this land of ours, there have been the turmoils of separatist regimes such as "Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and eighty-three emperors marching together in battle". We have also experienced the blood and tears of shame of "Five Husbands disrupting China, the shame of Jingkang, and the invasion of China by the Allied Forces."
But this will only be for a while, not for a lifetime.
After the turmoil of the separatist regime, we will usher in the prosperous Tang Dynasty when "nine heavens open the palaces and all nations worship their crowns and crowns."
After the blood and tears and humiliation, we will usher in the "Kill Hu Order" issued by Ran Min, the King of Wu, usher in the Ming Dynasty in which "the emperor guards the country, and the king guards the country", and we will usher in the earth-shattering mushroom egg in Lop Nur.
There are many reasons why China can become the only country among the four ancient civilizations that has survived to modern times, and the Chinese nation has been able to prosper for a long time.
The county system is undoubtedly an extremely important reason.
I understand this very well after traveling through time two thousand years later.
The harmony between the monarch and his ministers is the icing on the cake based on the system of prefectures and counties.
This point is still clear, and we will not put the cart before the horse between the system of prefectures and counties and the relationship between monarch and ministers.
But this is difficult to do, because the two are in opposition to each other, and they cannot have their cake and eat it too.
Ying Chengyu secretly sighed several times and thought about killing Li Si with one knife.
While Ying Chengyu was thinking hard, Li Si had already defeated seven Qin officials.
When he was in Jixia Academy, Li Si once argued with one person for the whole academy, which won a lot of praise from the front and back.
Now that he has arrived in Qin, his opponents have changed from academy students to world-class elites.
Li Si, who had a rigid face, remained as charming as before, winning seven out of seven debates.
But today, standing on the opposite side of the ministers, he is destined to not receive a lot of praise.
Seeing the people on his side retreat one by one, Wang Wan's legs and feet felt sore and he couldn't sit still.
The First Emperor has been hearing this and has not yet come to a conclusion. Wang Wan is now convinced that Li Si was not arranged by the First Emperor.
"Without the enfeoffment of the Zhou Dynasty, there would be no clan members to guard the frontiers. If the Tian family were to replace the Qi Dynasty, and the three families were divided into the Jin Dynasty, who would come to our Qin State to rescue them? Li Si! You are a small official of the Chu State and a student of the Jixia Academy. Come to Qin to guard the border.
In just a few years, he took over the position of Tingwei. Your Majesty treats you very well. I really don’t know why you want to lay such trouble for our great Qin!"
Although Wang Wan had been observing the First Emperor just now, he did not miss every word Li Si said.
He noticed that the county system described by Li Si did not seem to have any countermeasures for when the royal power was threatened by ministers.
So he aimed at this, and his words were extremely sharp and offensive.
This image does not look like an internal affairs prime minister who defended the First Emperor's fundamentals, but rather like a general attacking a city.
Qin Chen, who stood up in front, argued fiercely with Li Si, but he was probably talking about the advantages of the feudal system and the shortcomings of the prefecture and county system. It was a normal argument.
But Wang Wan was not like that. Not only did he talk about the shortcomings of the county system, he also labeled Li Si as having bad intentions.
The Tian clan usurped Qi, also called Tian Chen usurping Qi. It refers to the incident in the early Warring States period when the descendants of the Gui family of Chen State, whose surname was Tian, replaced the Jiang family of Qi State, whose surname was Lu family, as the Marquis of Qi.
The division of Jin by the three families refers to the incident in the late Spring and Autumn Period when the Kingdom of Jin was carved up by ministers from the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei. These two examples are typical examples of ministers usurping the throne.
Under the feudal system, if someone rebels, the feudal princes are obliged to help the emperor put down the rebellion.
The county system seems to be relatively weak in this regard.
Wang Wan accused Li Si of knowing this but deliberately omitting this link because he didn't want Qin to suffer for a long time.
This was not over yet. Before Li Si could reply, Prime Minister Zuo Wei Zhuang also stood up.
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