"The government of Qi is inevitable. The ancients said that there are no two days in the sky and no two masters for the people. The Chu State, which was restored by the Xiang family and a few great nobles of Chu State, Zhao, Jing, and Qu, must perish! There can only be one central government in this world.
!The court governed by Xia Gong! One country, one weights and measures, one set of laws!"
This rhetoric was strange coming from the mouth of a Confucian scholar, but Heifu already understood that when dealing with rural sages, one had to send a "big Confucian" like Shu Suntong to deceive him.
"We still need to reuse Qin Shihuang's laws and regulations..."
The representatives of Chen Di's elders looked at each other. In the past ten years or so, they had had enough of the strict and harsh Qin laws.
"otherwise."
Shusun Tong shook his head and said: "It is not that Qin Shihuang did not want to rule, but he failed because he resorted to mob violence and torture. Xia Gong also disliked Qin Shihuang, and the laws of Hu Hai were too strict and strict, so he ordered Qin, the official of the Qin Dynasty, to
Laws, those that are too harsh and difficult to implement, and those that are suitable for the time, are made into nine chapters. Now the Yushi Mansion is still making profits and losses, and in the second year of the regency, it will be implemented!"
He describes the exciting part of the new Nine Chapters:
"Abolition of the five punishments, car splitting, clan three clans, etc., only retaining beheading, beheading, and abandoning the market."
"In addition, most corporal punishments will be abolished!"
"Is this true!?"
Chen Difu, old men and other scholars all straightened up all of a sudden, with faces showing joy.
There are many types of corporal punishment in Qin's laws, such as tattooing (stabbing the face), cutting off the nose (cutting off the nose), mutilation (cutting off the feet), palace (you know), etc., which are both physical harm and insulting, and the person who is being tortured
, usually as slaves employed by the government: those who tattoo are used to guard the gates, those who are tattooed are used to guard the gates, those who are in the palace are used to guard the interior, and those who are beheaded are used to guard the confines.
However, Qin's laws are easy to violate and rarely merciful. At that time, more and more people were subjected to physical torture. There were so many palaces and gardens that needed to be guarded, so slaves with physical disabilities spread among the people.
Now Heifu has decided to abolish some corporal punishments.
Total abolition of torture, tattooing as a mark only for those with a suspended death penalty, and punishments such as head shaving and beard shaving, raising the standard of punishment, mutilation to beheading of the left and right toes, which can also prevent escape, and castration only for rapists
, especially those pedophiles with “personal hobbies” should be kept!
Shusun Tong couldn't help but sigh at this moment: "In ancient times, there was no corporal punishment and the world was peaceful. However, during the reign of Emperor Qin Shihuang, there were nine corporal punishments but the turmoil continued, so Xia Gong reduced it."
After saying this, he glanced at Chen Difu and the old scholars. As expected, they were full of praise and said: "Xia Gong is benevolent!"
The reduction of penalties made many people feel relieved. It seemed that Xia Gong did not intend to pursue them for the crime of "being a thief". It stands to reason that everyone in Chen was rebelling. There was no way he could hold them accountable for the hundreds of thousands of people in Chen.
There are still more than three months left before the "Second Year of the Regency", and Chen people are already looking forward to the early implementation of this new law.
The rent reduction is also quite exciting. You must know that in order to maintain the war, the Chu army levied and extorted money from the people, no less than Qin. On the contrary, they were looking forward to the "Qi government". Once the government was unified,
The days will be peaceful.
Shusuntong continued:
"The same is true for education. Since the track, measurement, and currency are all the same, the same script must be implemented. The whole world must use a unified script and abolish their different characters. In the future, Duke Xia will build a county school and recruit local scholars and common people.
When children enter school, they use official script and take exams in the county! They not only test laws and regulations, elegant language, but also history, etiquette, mathematics, etc. to select talents. They can be appointed as minor officials in counties, counties, towns, and high officials in the imperial court.
!"
Although local gentry who have received Chu-style education are more accustomed to Chu writing, and their daily communication is definitely based on Chu dialect, after more than ten years of domestication, there are not a few who can calligraphy and speak the elegant dialect of Guanzhong.
Therefore, their opposition to this point is far less than when Shu Tongwen was first implemented, and they are also very happy that their children have the opportunity to advance to the rank.
Heifu also had his own considerations. He believed that although the Qin Shi Emperor's writings in the same text were an epoch-making good thing, the promotion of writing and Mandarin must rely on profit and education, rather than an administrative order and hope that everyone will be there overnight.
As long as the Plenary Session talks about future generations until the 21st century, there are still a lot of people in remote areas who cannot speak Mandarin. Can they all be arrested and beheaded?
Therefore, language can be discussed. After all, dialects have too much inertia and cannot be changed within hundreds of years, but writing must be unified. This is the biggest factor that has enabled China to maintain its unification for more than two thousand years.
Moreover, it is easier to unify the script than to unify the language, because only one percent of the population needs to be forced to be scholars. In order to meet the needs of the people and to enter the upward ladder, the scholars will study hard. A generation later, the different characters of the six countries will be
Few people will recognize it, and then use them to influence 99% of the illiterate people.
Then, Shu Suntong came to the point that Chen was most concerned about:
"Government according to customs." Chu people can still wear Chu clothes, speak Chu dialects, use Chu rituals, eat Chu food, and worship their own gods. They will not be destroyed as obscene temples, and they can even learn to
Poems and books are not banned by the government."
"Regardless of whether you are a noble or a commoner, except for following the laws and regulations, your daily life and customs will not change." The county chiefs and officials are appointed by the court, but in the villages, they all use elders. The three elders will still be the three elders, and the village chief will still be the elders.
For the length of the mile."
As they talked, the seals and ribbons from the village were brought up. There were some old people and some stingy men. Scholars from Chen who were willing to come here were all appointed as officials, although most of them had been officials in Qin in the past.
"I also hope that you can publicize Duke Xia's politics more, so that the people of Chu can put down their hostility, and let Chen land regain peace as soon as possible!"
…
"Bo Qin was granted the title of Lu, and it took three years before he came to report to the government. Zhou Gong said, why is it too late? Bo Qin said: 'Change the customs, change the rituals, and mourn for three years and then get rid of them, so it is too late.'"
"Tai Gong was granted the title of Qi, and in the fifth month he reported to Zhou Gong. Zhou Gong said, what's wrong? Tai Gong said: 'I simplified the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers, and followed the customs.'"
"When the Duke of Zhou and his successors heard that Bo Qian was late in repaying the government, he sighed and said: 'Wow, in the later generations of Lu, the affairs in the north are all in order! The government is not simple and easy, and the people are not close; if the people are accessible to the people, the people will return.'"
After hearing Shusuntong's report, Heifu smiled and said: "The First Emperor of Qin chose Lu back then, but now, I have to choose Qi."
Although, their original intention is the same: to truly unify the world, not only administratively, but also culturally, to truly achieve the goal of "the nine states have the same consistency and the world has the same style"!
However, Qin Shihuang adopted administrative orders and wanted to implement and establish a set of behavioral norms through strict laws and bans on local culture...
It looks great, but wake up, this is China.
There is an intricate network of relationships in the local area. If you try to change the norms and customs that have been maintained for hundreds of years simply by relying on laws and regulations, it will inevitably become superficial.
Therefore, compared to Qin Shihuang, Heifu was more inclined to only use administrative orders and legal decrees as backing and intimidation, and use cultural means to find solutions to problems: obey human nature, pass examinations and education, and give the scholars of the Six Nations a ideological foundation.
To guide people towards the imperial court.
These are the so-called two different policies: "what is forbidden" and "what the people follow".
Although in this process, Heifu had to delegate some powers to local governments.
The game between the central and local governments will last forever, but during the reign of Emperor Qin Shihuang, was the imperial power in the lower counties of Guandong?
Unfortunately not.
The First Emperor initially tried to relocate the royal families of the six kings, but local nobles immediately took over the place.
The First Emperor continued his migration and moved 120,000 households into Guanxi, hoping to break the local network of relationships, but soon there were light warriors in the local area who took over.
Qin Shihuang began to tighten the law and massacre light knights, but there were small local nobles and scholars who had mixed into the system to take over. In the original history, Qin officials such as Xiao He, Cao Shen, and Liu Ji all relied on the local power they controlled.
Rebelled against Qin.
There is no way to go now.
Otherwise, kill all the local scholars as well!
How about sending out troops to kill people door to door according to the list of local officials in the government?
But even if the entire Kanto region was not forced into rebellion, and the entire scholar class was successfully killed, the central government was faced with a new problem: Who should govern the place?
Relying on airborne officials who can’t speak the local dialect and have dark eyes?
Relying on a group of illiterate farmers?
Or activate the slaves to stand up and take charge?
It is obviously unreliable. Therefore, Qin's government, which was originally good in Kansai, basically suffered a lot in various places in Kanto. What Qin officials encountered was not an enemy regime that could be eliminated, but a soft as water.
, a local force that is firmly rooted and cannot be wiped out.
It cannot be eliminated, it can only be cooperated.
There was no convenient way to transmit information, all of which hindered the exchanges between the central government and the grassroots. Even if Emperor Qin Shihuang frantically built Chidao, the phenomenon of "imperial power not extending to counties" was still formed in Guandong.
A series of functions such as household registration management, military service recruitment, customs education, tax collection, and rural security are all carried out by others. Without them, the place would be nothing more than:
"paralysis."
The imperial court wanted to completely control the area, but Guandong was too vast and had a large population. Even if the disciples from the Xianyang School were spared to become officials, it would be a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, once the local "Qin officials" also rebelled against Qin, Guandong would collapse instantly. How could a few county magistrates who were parachuted over be able to withstand it?
Heifu saw the difficulties that Qin Zheng faced in Guandong for more than ten years and tried to find a solution.
He finally discovered that there was no way to solve the problem overnight, and he could only boil the frog in warm water.
"Qi Zheng first."
Relying on the centripetal force of at least one generation, people all over the world can identify with this country.
"Practice again."
By establishing a ladder for advancement, using official positions as bait to induce scholars to learn Qin characters, elegant dialects, as well as history, etiquette and other books published by the court, the purpose of brainwashing is achieved. Do you think the imperial examination is only for selecting talents?
A steady stream of local scholars who joined the system were given a unified education, so that they could become "Qin officials" and then assigned to serve as officials in other places. Little by little, they helped the central government gain the upper hand in the game with the local governments.
Only in this way can we realize the imperial power in the county bit by bit in the vast Guandong!
"I am only thirty-seven this year."
"I am willing to spend twenty years, one generation, to accomplish this!"
But first, he wants to end the war!
Heifu still wants to list Xiang Ji as the chief culprit for causing trouble in the world, making the Koreans and Wei people hate him. He will also completely annihilate those Chu soldiers who insist on resisting Xiang Ji to the end in the disaster war, leaving no future troubles.
!
But for those Chu people who have illusions about the new regime, Heifu has to change his strategy.
"Xiang Ji abandoned his family and country, brutalized the people, took pleasure in slaughtering cities, and committed evil deeds in the world. He devastated the Central Plains and ruined the innocent people. The rest of them will be punished by heaven!"
Just as King Wu of Zhou had preached, they were there to punish the tyrannical King Zhou on behalf of heaven, not to massacre the Yin people.
Heifu also promised that this war is not a war to annihilate the Chu people, but a war to annihilate the thugs.