In the stone room of the Censor's Mansion, Zhang Cang's fat face lifted up from the pile of books and looked at the uninvited guest Heifu impatiently.
Heifu smiled bitterly: "Does Zihu dislike me?"
"How dare you."
Zhang Cang stood up while holding the case, and muttered: "It's just that when Hei Fu was the councilman, it was just an idle job. Now, as the household order of the lieutenant, I am in the guard's confinement. Except for Xiu Mu, I will never leave the king's presence."
, but still have time to go to the hiding room, so it’s strange.”
Heifu said helplessly: "Today, I was ordered by His Majesty to look for books."
"Your Majesty asked you to come and get the book?"
Zhang Cang was a little surprised: "Isn't this a matter for the visitor?"
"It's not taken and sent to the inner court, but let me see it myself." This is what makes Heifu uneasy.
He said: "I don't know where the book is, so I can only come to Zihu for help."
Zhang Cang became interested: "What book did your Majesty want you to read?"
"The Book of Shuhou in "Qin Ji"."
Qin Ji is the name of the history book of the Qin State. This book was hidden in the "Mingtang Room" next door. With Zhang Cang's help, Heifu quickly found the old bamboo slips.
He sat down on the desk with good lighting, unfolded the book, skipped the records about Shu Cancong Yufu and Du Yu's Kaiming family, and skipped directly to the battle of Qin's destruction of Shu.
"In the ninth year of King Huiwen, Zhang Yi, Sima Cuo, Duwei Mo and others attacked Shu from the Shiniu Road. The king of Shu, Jiameng, refused, and was defeated, and Bashu returned to Qin..."
"In the tenth year, King Huiwen granted Tong, the son of King Shu, the title of Lord of Shu, and made Chen Zhuang the Prime Minister of Shu. In the next six years, Lord Tong of Shu rebelled against Chen Zhuang, and King Huiwen ordered his concubines Gan Mao, Zhang Yi, and Sima Cuo to attack Shu again, and Chen Zhuang
Zhuang was afraid and killed the Shu lords who came to surrender. Then he killed Chen Zhuang and wiped out the Kaiming clan..."
Heifu had only heard about this period of history roughly and didn't know the details, but the emperor specially ordered him to read it, which must have profound meaning.
"In the seventeenth year, King Huiwen made Qin Gongzi Yun the prince of Shu. Because the Rong Bo in Shu was still strong, he moved thousands of Qin people to it. In the twenty-seventh year, Zhang Ruocheng became the capital."
"So this is where Chengdu comes from..." Although Heifu likes sweets, he also likes spicy food. He likes Chengdu and Chongqing very much.
He continued to read: "In the fourteenth year of King Zhaoxiang, the Marquis of Shu offered sacrifices to the mountains and rivers and presented them to the king. The king and his ministers were immediately killed. The king suspected that the Marquis of Shu wanted to rebel, so he was so angry that he ordered Yun to commit suicide and executed him.
His twenty-seven ministers..."
After reading this, Heifu was shocked and understood Qin Shihuang's intention of letting him read this period of history.
Sure enough, if you read further, you will find another rebellion.
"In the fifteenth year of King Zhaoxiang, the king restored the title of Prince Wan to the title of Marquis of Shu. In the thirtieth year, he also heard that the Marquis of Shu wanted to rebel, so the king punished him again. Then he abolished the Shu Kingdom, established Shu County, and made Zhang Ruo the County.
After that, King Xiaowen appointed Li Bing as the governor of Shu County..."
After reading it, he was speechless for a long time. He just sighed and covered his face.
Good guy, you were slapped in the face by the emperor!
Of course Zhang Cang knew what was on the bamboo slips. Seeing that Hei Fu was behaving differently, he whispered: "What exactly did you say to His Majesty?"
"Without him."
Heifu smiled again. This matter was a little lesson given to him by the emperor. He had to keep silent. But thinking about it carefully, it was quite an honor to be taught by Qin Shihuang.
What Qin Shihuang wanted to express was obvious. The policy of "one country, two systems" proposed by Heifu was not new. As for the suggestion of "using border marquis to control the barbarian land of Rongbo", King Huiwen and King Zhaoxiang had already practiced it in Shu. As a result,
But not very good.
Neither the Shu Marquis of the Kaiming clan nor the two young masters of the Qin State had a good end. On the contrary, the Bajun next door did not enfeoff the sons to guard it, but directly established the county because the ethnic policy implemented towards the Ba people was reasonable and never came out.
What a big mess.
"There are traitors to marquis but no rebels to counties..."
Heifu's smile was a little bitter. He understood what the emperor meant: young people, if you want to contribute to the country's plans, you should learn more!
He finally understood why the emperor and the Legalists would insist on comprehensive prefectures and counties and would never temporarily enfeoff them...
This matter is a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed with just a few words from him.
…
Sure enough, the next day, when Hei Fu was still on duty at the Four Seas Guiyi Palace, the emperor summoned his ministers and announced the decision on feudalism, prefectures and counties at the court meeting.
"In the Three Dynasties, the emperor founded the country, the princes established their families, the ministers set up side chambers, the officials had two sects, and they were relatives and respected them. Although thousands of people praised them, this was still private in the world!"
"The Qin Dynasty is different. It takes the law as its teachings and officials as its teachers. Rewards are not given to relatives. The clan members are not allowed to belong to the family without merit. The princes and princes are common people. The first and foremost soldiers in Guizhou can be listed in the court for their achievements in farming and war. This is
The world is public!"
Standing in the hall, Heifu's throat twitched, and he always felt that something was not right about what he said, but thinking about his own experience, there was nothing wrong with him.
Although he developed by hugging Li You's thigh, in the final analysis, what allowed him to rise was Qin's relatively fair military merit system.
After these two powerful declarations, the emperor ordered the audience to read out the final verdict:
"Today, the people of the world are fighting endlessly, so there are princes and kings. Lai Zongmiao, the world has been settled for the first time, and the country has been restored. This is to build soldiers. It is not difficult to seek peace and tranquility! Feudalism, the discussion of prefectures and counties, and the discussion of court officials
yes!"
"Therefore, I will not seal my children, but divide the world into thirty-six counties, and the counties will have guards, lieutenants, and prison guards!"
With the victory or defeat decided, the doctors at the end of the palace fell into silence. They were extremely disappointed with the new dynasty.
The Prime Minister of the Left, Wang Wan, sighed softly and took the lead to bow down and praise him, expressing his obedience to the emperor's decision!
Li Si also bowed down together with the ministers, but when he lowered his head, there was a smile on his lips that no one noticed.
This was not only a battle between him and Wang Wan for the future position of Prime Minister, but also a battle between feudal counties and counties, but also a battle between Legalism and Confucianism.
In the past few months, the Confucian doctors were jumping up and down, but they were finally woken up by a stick. The emperor still trusted the Legalist government the most.
And he, Li Si, will always be in the heart of the Emperor!
…
The world returned to the palace, and the princes and ministers knelt down and praised the emperor's decision. However, in Qin Shihuang's ears, the words that had been lingering in his ears for the past twenty years suddenly rang out.
"Qin Wangzheng, do you still remember... the ambition of the ancestors of the past generations to unify the world?"
"I remember that I have achieved this ambition."
He held the jade seal carved from He's jade in both hands and placed it heavily on the edict!
"More ambitious aspirations and unparalleled great achievements will be realized in my hands!"
If the world is like a carriage, then the emperor is the charioteer, making great efforts to control the inner world!
He waved his whip to lead the world away from this path of "enfeoffment and division" that had lasted for thousands of years, and to bring the creatures of Kyushu to a brand new path!
The poem goes: "The road of Zhou is as sharp as a whetstone, and as straight as an arrow. The steps of a gentleman are seen by a villain."
Confucian scholars praised Zhou Zheng, but in Qin Shihuang's view, it was just an outdated and conservative way.
And the Qin Dao is the way of the Queen of France, the way of bringing forth the new from the old, the way by which all gentlemen and villains can make full use of their talents!
It is also the way of one line for all ages!
Even though Heifu's advice that day gave him a little hesitation, Emperor Qin's heart was as strong as iron, and he would not allow it to be repeated, nor would he ever go back!
His gaze was always forward, looking past the heads wearing high crowns and military crowns, looking outside the palace door and into the distance.
Qin Shihuang seemed to see the shackled captives from the Six Kingdoms wading through the turbid waves of the Wei River to build a new majestic palace on the loess of Xianyang Beiban.
He saw Hangu Pass opened to the east, with 120,000 households from the six kingdoms, and the people were bringing their families and families to the west.
He saw that the soldiers of the world were captured one by one, the beggar-thy-neighbor Guanliang river defenses were defeated one by one, the river was no longer a problem, and the former dangerous road became a smooth road.
He also saw the vast land under his rule.
The land extends to Haiji Korea in the east, to Lintao and Qiangzhong in the west, to Wuling in the south, with the river as a barrier to the north, and the Yinshan Mountains to Liaodong. And in the south of Limen and Jiuyi, there is an unknown lush forest seaside waiting for the Qin people
Go explore.
He also saw on both sides of Zhangtai Street, officials from various government offices were sealing copies of his edict and handing them over to mail carriers. They were then sent by boat and vehicle to various places and delivered to thirty-six counties and thousands of counties.
The county magistrate's order was handed over to the prime minister, and then it was passed down, and the village clerk, Lidian, read it loudly to the illiterate people.
What follows will be thirty million Guizhou people shouting in unison.
"Your Majesty, ten thousand years!"
"Qin Wannian!"
…
After Qin Shihuang's chariot left the palace and went away, Hei Fu, who did not have to take turns tonight, still stood there for a long time.
"The emperor thought that he could cut off the feudal-separatist knot and lead the world onto a new path. Little did he know that China's two-thousand-year cycle of chaos and chaos has just begun!"
Can I be harshly criticized? I'm afraid not.
Heifu fell into deep thought: "Each of us, whether we are ancients or time travellers, can only find answers from the known history."
"When future generations see the benefits of Qin's rapid destruction and Han's parallel implementation of prefectures and states, they will think about whether Qin's enfeoffment can take a different path. But Qin Shihuang and Li Si saw the great consequences caused by Zhou's enfeoffment.
Troubled times, and the three rebellions in Shu caused by Qin’s canonization of Shu princes!”
But having said that, the decision made by the emperor today is not wrong in the general direction.
Although it is easy to bend too fast, and although his stubbornness will intensify the sharpness of conflicts. But the wheel of history is rolling forward, and the trend of the times is mighty. The choice made by this determined person, forge ahead, and fighter at this moment,
Even if it's not perfect, isn't it worthy of respect?
Heifu found that he couldn't help but worry about the future of the empire...
Although the honor and disgrace of an individual's life is the most important, within the system, it is impossible to be indifferent and let things go.
At this time, he also walked down the stairs, followed the central axis of the palace, and arrived at the gate of Zhangtai Palace. Lang Wei also had a holiday. Heifu had been in the palace for ten days, and finally had a rare moment.
Hugh.
Unexpectedly, a person stopped him outside the palace gate, cupped his hands and said:
"Zhonglang Hu Ling! I haven't seen you for three years, and you didn't even recognize me when we were in the palace just now?"
Seeing the young man in front of him who was dressed as a public transport and about the same age as himself, Heifu was stunned for a moment and then became happy.
"It turns out to be Brother Ba!"
It was Ba Zhong, the son of Ba Widow Qing, who worked with him to put down the rebellion when the Yidaoba people in Nanjun rebelled!
But why did the son of the mine owner come to Xianyang?