"I wonder if the First Emperor also realized this."
Heifu hadn't shown his heart to anyone in this way for a long time. He murmured:
"The First Emperor hated Xianyang Palace all his life. At first, he built palaces in Guanzhong and went to handle government affairs elsewhere. Later he became addicted to traveling. I guess that in addition to showing the power of the emperor, he also wanted to escape from this place, leave the isolated center, and get out.
Look, look at the huge world, look at the real joys and sorrows of people's livelihood, he wants real, everything..."
"But the experience of the First Emperor, his great desire, outweighed his concern for all living beings. In addition, countless people concealed and deceived him for various purposes. He was destined not to see the truth. Even if he saw a little bit, he was probably more concerned about it at that time.
How can he live forever, how can he fight hundreds of battles with his ministers in one day?"
"In short, starting from the First Emperor, the Qin Dynasty had a big problem from top to bottom. Everything was based on the emperor's desire. Tens of thousands of Qin officials and 30 million people in the whole world were running east and west to realize the desire of the First Emperor.
During the expedition to the north, we forgot the simplest relationship between the king and the people..."
Zhang Cang was indeed someone who understood Heifu. He explained to Heifu the simple and clear truth that was deliberately ignored by the First Emperor.
"The king is a boat, and the common people are water. The water carries the boat, and the water overturns the boat."
Zhang Cang sighed and said: "This is what my master Xun Qing Dundun taught. It's just that Prime Minister Li didn't know whether he forgot it on purpose, or he just followed the king's will and added fuel to the flames, which eventually led to the ruin of the world..."
"That's right, water can carry a boat and it can also race... well, it capsized the boat!"
Heifu nodded: "Without the support of the people, the weak south can defeat the strong north. This is also why the Guandong group rose up and rebelled against the Qin. In addition to the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, those who were in the hometown of the Six Kingdoms were also inspired by it."
The Qin Dynasty has been suffering for a long time, and I have had enough of the hard work..."
When Tian Wei sought democracy, he made great sacrifices and died in Chengtang. He who is the lord of the people is the Son of Heaven.
Servants of democracy must obey the law. Those who make decisions for the people are officials.
Since the emperor and officials of the Qin Dynasty cannot make decisions for the people, the people of the world can only cut down trees to serve as soldiers, raise poles and banners, and make decisions for themselves...
This is the true connotation of "democracy" in ancient China, and it is also the rule of the game. The greater the violation of these rules, the faster the dynasty will be destroyed. There will be no good end for the militancy. Proper rest with the people can only last long.
Hei Fu thought to himself: "When I conquer the world again, there will be no war for at least twenty years!"
That is a matter for the future. What needs to be outlined now is the policy measures of his "regent government":
"The old Qin has collapsed with the fall of Hu Hai, and the new Qin must not make the same mistake again!"
"Xin Qin..." Zhang Cang chewed on what this title meant: "But how to avoid it?"
"Although the Qin Dynasty has made great military achievements, the civilian titles are not as good as public ones. In recent years, those who were born in the army of Guizhou and were able to sit in the court..."
Heifu pointed at himself: "It's not that Heifu is bragging, it's just me!"
Moreover, it can only be done by cheating hard.
"Therefore, when the princes were destroyed at the beginning of Qin, the world's heart was still undecided, and the injured were not yet injured. It was supposed to arouse the people's anxiety, provide for the elderly and orphans, and maintain harmony among the common people. However, the generals and ministers still obeyed the wishes of the First Emperor and made great achievements...
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When Zhang Cang said this, he glanced at Hei Fu and thought to himself, weren't you the one who took the lead in these things...
Heifu explained for himself: "It was necessary to drive out the Xiongnu, and that was all. But after the Eastern Expedition, the Southern Expedition, and because of a word from the Daxia people, the First Emperor ordered Li Xin to kill tens of thousands of people and destroy ten mules and horses.
There is really no need to march westward, let alone repairing palaces and other things internally."
"I also once advised to attack South Vietnam, at least to plan it slowly, but the First Emperor didn't listen, and he even had a big quarrel with me in Jieshi Palace. None of the ministers at that time could speak for me..."
"But it's different now."
Heifu was quite confident: "Unlike the time of the First Emperor, when Wang, Meng, Yang and other distinguished military ministers served as generals and ministers, although their talents were unparalleled in the world, they still despised the head of Guizhou. As the regent, I have many civil and military subordinates, most of whom are
Originating from commoners."
Needless to say, the old troops in Nanjun were either local officials or paupers. There were also many white men like Hei Fu who didn’t even have a surname. The rest of the people, Lu Jia, Suihe, Chen Ping was a poor scholar, and Han Xin was unemployed.
The wanderers, Xiao He and Cao Shen were local officials.
In the process of winning, some people did forget the class they were born in and fell rapidly, but most people were at least still based on the class they rose from, and the mud on their feet had not yet been wiped off.
"Among them, there are not a few who are talented as ministers."
Heifu is not bragging. In history, several prime ministers of the Han Dynasty, Xiao He, Cao Shen, and Chen Ping were all in his pocket, not counting the Zhang Cang in front of him.
"That generation will occupy the core of the court, or serve as a feudal official to govern a country, creating an unprecedented situation..."
Heifu spread his hand and pointed at the main hall of Xianyang Palace that he had used force, murder, coercion and inducement to clear away:
"The situation of commoner generals and prime ministers!"
Moreover, the origins of this group of people are widely distributed, not only from Nanjun, but also from Liangdi, Huainan, Fengfeng, Qilu, and almost all over the world.
"When that generation governs a country, they will at least be more aware of the diseases of the grassroots and the urgent needs of the world than the princes of wealthy families who grew up in the city."
Heifu said: "Local officials gather together the common people's concerns and report them to the court. The central government makes corresponding improvements, and then distributes them to local governments. They continue to receive feedback and test whether these policies are correct. This cycle is to ensure that the communication is passed down to the next level.
A good way to make decisions for the people.”
"Is this what you said, from the people and to the people?"
Zhang Cang was a little moved. Although he did not come from a poor background, he was just a wealthy man from Yangwu County. If he was thrown into a place like Xianyang, he would still be a mere commoner.
"Commoner Prime Minister...this is the dream of many scholars."
Scholars in the Warring States Period were very enterprising and traveled to various countries to become officials. They either wrote to the monarch directly or lobbied to explain their political opinions and strategies. After gaining the trust of the monarch, they were re-employed and transformed from a scholar to a senior scholar.
bureaucracy.
But as Heifu said, among the princes and countries, there has never been a grassroots leader like Heifu and his group...
In this situation of civilian generals and prime ministers, Zhang Cang also has a place!
Although this is only Heifu's ideal, and there will be various difficulties and unexpected changes in putting it into reality, this ideal alone is enough to make people extremely excited.
Zhou, Qin, and even all previous dynasties, when the political power first emerged, the blueprint of the building was not full of idealistic outlines?
Ideals are not hypocrisy.
It is the expectation of the founders for those who come after.
It is also a "lie" that a political system must maintain at all times.
Some people find it disgusting, some disapprove of it, some sneer at it, and some people sneer at it.
But there are still some people who believe: I believe that the hard work of our predecessors will not be in vain, and we believe that generations of people have worked hard for it. What if, one day, this ideal comes true?
The regime emphasizes ideals, just like people must remember their dreams. If one day we forget this, we will already be stuck in the quagmire of reality, muddle along, and have no future.
"But this situation cannot last forever."
But immediately, Zhang Cang, who was well aware of the evil of human nature, was convinced: "The reason why people follow you is for the title of prince, but they may not necessarily follow the ideals you expect. Now that they have ascended to high positions, they are no longer the common people they used to be."
, at most one generation, they will be no different from the former ministers of the world!"
"Yeah..." Heifu understood that if no changes were made and the routine since the Spring and Autumn Period was not changed, this situation of common people would last for twenty or thirty years at most, and then it would disappear in a blink of an eye as the people who conquered the world died.
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"So there is a need for a channel to rise from the bottom up, so that talented scholars among the people, especially scholars from the Six Kingdoms, can step by step first become minor officials, then county officials, and finally slowly rise to the court.
A system for participating in world decision-making.”
Ask where the canal can be so clear, so that there is a source of living water. A political system without fresh blood is destined to be a pool of stagnant water. Only by providing a stable upward channel can the political power maintain its vitality to the maximum extent.
"The Qin Dynasty is much better than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Six Kingdoms in this regard. The head of Guizhou and even his subordinates can be appointed as officials through military merit. Moreover, all prime ministers are sent to the state departments. Strong generals must rise in the army. Princes, princes and grandsons cannot belong to the nationality without merit.
, it can be regarded as containing Shiqing Shilu..."
But there are two big problems with Qin's military meritorious service. First, it is difficult to come down after it rises. In the end, it becomes less and less valuable and gradually deteriorates. On the other hand, those who enjoy this system only account for a quarter of the world.
The population of the new and old Qin people, and the six kingdoms that were quickly annexed within ten years, have no chance of rising through this channel.
"When the First Emperor was not unified, he did not reject anyone who came, and gathered all the scholars in Qin. But after the unification, except for the more than seventy doctors, have you ever seen a single scholar from Guandong occupy a high position?"
After much deliberation, the only ones I can find out are Chen Ping, Cao Shen, and Xiao He, who have been promoted through the ranks under the guidance of Heifu...
The rest of the officials above Qianshi are all from Qin, and almost none are from the Six Kingdoms!
Lu Jia, Sui He, and countless advisers and strategists in the anti-king camp of the Six Kingdoms are all talented people, but they have not been able to enter the promotion channel under the system. What is even more outrageous is that because Qin officials support retainers
With limited resources, local nobles were hit again, and with no way out, the Kanto scholars naturally had no choice but to actively join the ranks of "rebels".
To put it bluntly, in the past ten years or so in Guandong, the Qin Dynasty was like the Qing Dynasty that canceled the imperial examinations, cutting off the promotion channels for scholars from the Six Kingdoms, and undoubtedly pushing them to the opposite side of the political power.
Coupled with the fact that the aristocrats of the Six Kingdoms were already intertwined, and the common people of Guizhou Province were rebellious and dissatisfied, and scholars made suggestions from them, it is surprising that the rebellion was not violent.
Zhang Cangshen thought so: "My teacher Xun Qing once said that although they are descendants of princes, officials, and officials, if they cannot belong to the rituals and righteousness, they should be treated as common people."
"Therefore, those who are above must come down, and those who are below must come up."
Heifu has already made a calculation: "Those who are above should be simple, those who are downgraded will be demoted every generation, and those who are unworthy of future generations will not be able to maintain wealth."
Zhang Cang looked at Hei Fu: "If you do this, you will offend a large number of heroes and soldiers who created this 'New Qin'."
"So we need to plan it slowly, at least in a short period of time, and not make it suddenly."
Hei Fu looked at Fatty Zhang's mouth and said, "The reason why I told Mr. Zhang is because I know you have a tight mouth."
"Cangdang is tight-lipped." Zhang Cang nodded, but immediately felt that something was wrong. He always felt that this conversation was weird...
Heifu didn't think much about it. Outlining the system requires the wisdom of a thinker. As a disciple of Xunzi and a die-hard member of his party, Zhang Cang was the first person he thought of as an assistant: "As for how to let the subordinates go to the state headquarters and the court,
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Zhang Cang could not help but continue to promote Xunzi's idea: "My teacher Xunqing also said that even if he is a descendant of a common people, he has accumulated literature and upright conduct, and if he can belong to the etiquette and righteousness, he will be a minister and a scholar."
Heifu, however, disagreed. Xunzi only proposed this idea, which could be used as a program, but did not further propose specific implementation methods.
And the reference factors are literature, moral character, and etiquette? Although it is the subject of later generations' examination and imperial examination system, it shows the profound influence of Xun Xue, but this is not in line with the basic national conditions of Qin and Heifu's higher expectations for the future...
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"How to do it? I have to think about it."
If you are not in your position, you will not seek government. Even if you are as smart as Zhang Cang, as a low-level official in the Qin Dynasty, you can only tidy up books, calculate money, grains, and important affairs in the court? System reform, no one is qualified to comment, let alone
Don't mention him, so I haven't thought about this issue in depth yet.
"Does this need to be said?"
The black man held up his palm and showed an evil smile to the hundreds of millions of students in future generations.
From ancient times to the present, from childhood to adulthood, from students to civil servants, what are the Chinese people best at and most passionate about?