The Qin State won after killing, on the one hand, it was to calm the hearts of the people of Qi State. The people of Qi State hated this corrupt official deeply. On the day he died, the people of Qi State cheered and were extremely happy. The people of Qi State were extremely happy.
His happiness was probably not because of the death of a traitor, but because of the death of a great evil man. The order to kill Hou Sheng was given by Li Si, and the purpose was naturally Hou Sheng's family property.
The crime attributed to Hou Sheng was, of course, that he kept samurai at home, hid swords, and had evil intentions. After Meng Tian led people to kill Hou Sheng, he also confiscated Hou Sheng's family property. Hou Sheng's family property was somewhat astonishing.
In these years, with the support of the King of Qi, he was amassing money crazily without any bottom line. The huge wealth he accumulated was enough for the Qi State to equip another 200,000 troops! After Hou Sheng's property was investigated and dealt with, it was registered and was
Inform the temple.
Li Si didn't care about Hou Sheng. All he cared about was Hou Sheng's wealth. The Qin State was indeed very wealthy, probably because the emperor didn't start construction everywhere or carry out large-scale construction, or maybe it was because of Zhao Kuo's
The arrival of Qin State made Qin State richer and very wealthy than the original Qin State in history. However, Qin State had many things to do, and these things required more money and food.
The first thing Li Si had to do was to distribute Hou Sheng's family property and land in Qi to the meritorious soldiers and people. With Hou Sheng's financial resources, Qin would not have to worry about rewards for the people of Qi even in a short period of time.
Li Si was very busy at first. He was working with Zhang Cang to compile a unified weights and measures. The so-called weights and measures actually refer to various units, length units, weight units, etc.
Zhang Cang told Zhao Kuo his thoughts very early. In fact, Li Si didn't really need Zhang Cang's help. These things were not difficult for Li Si, but because Zhang Cang was placed by his side personally by the emperor.
, Li Si happily handed over the weights and measures matter to Zhang Cang. Li Si did not think that Zhang Cang could threaten his position. Zhang Cang was not Han Fei. He was still a step behind him and Han Fei.
Woolen cloth!
Li Si focused on the new writing. The new writing written by Zhao Kuo was also called Wu Chengwen. This writing was very simple, too simple, but Zhao Kuo seriously believed that such simplicity would be the future.
If you want more people to receive education and popularize writing quickly, simple writing is indispensable. Too difficult and cumbersome writing is not conducive to writing, wastes paper, and increases the size of the text.
Difficulty of character recognition.
Now that Zhao Kuo has spoken, of course the other ministers can only implement it. Li Si distributed the enlightenment teaching materials of the new script to various places and asked local officials to study. If they want to continue to be an official, they must master the new script as quickly as possible.
.The new writing is relatively simple, and some of it can be distinguished from the shape. This is not too difficult for the officials. The orders issued from Xianyang were quickly conveyed to all counties and counties in the world.
Officials all over the world began to learn this new writing and practice it diligently.
Zhao Kuo even copied many famous classics of later generations in the name of writing new texts. When everyone studied, most of them recited these to learn.
Finally, of course, there is the issue of roads. The Qin State has always built it wherever it hits... This so-called road is not Chidao. Many people think that Chidao is the national road of Qin State. They think that Qin State built Chidao like this.
The purpose of Tao is to allow people from all over the world to communicate. In fact, this is nonsense. The function of Chidao is the road used by the emperor to travel... Yes, the Chidao of Qin is exclusive to the emperor, and the rest are
Not qualified to go on the road.
It cost the country huge financial resources to build a VIP passage. The width of this passage is fifty steps, and it is also a track. When archaeologists excavated the track thousands of years ago, they almost began to doubt life. Of course, at this time
The carriage track is still different from the train track. The Chidao project is huge and expensive. Zhao Kuo completely disagrees with the construction of the Chidao.
He actually felt that instead of building such luxurious and high-end emperor-only passages, it would be better to build ordinary roads in various places that were not so luxurious but could allow carriages to pass smoothly. In the past hundred years, Qin State's goal was to
After entering the Bashu region, they built a lot of roads between Guanzhong and Bashu to deepen the connection between the two places. Facts have proved that this is very useful. The Qin State now does not allow people to travel, so most of the roads built are for the purpose of
strategic intent.
The State of Qin will not build roads for the common people. The State of Qin will not allow you to go out at all. The State of Qin builds roads to allow the soldiers to reach their destination quickly. The sizes of carriages and chariots in different parts of the world are different, so Chi must be eliminated.
In addition to the emperor's exclusive track such as the Road, a unified carriage system must be established to stipulate the distance between the two wheels so that other tracks can also play a role. This is the so-called carriage on the same track.
These matters have nothing to do with Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo can safely leave these matters to Li Si, but he himself is busy doing institutional matters, that is, the reform of the military merit system. Zhao Kuo
He wanted to divide the military system into several parts. This was something he had been preparing for a long time ago. First, he separated the titles of the soldiers. He believed that the Qin State in the future would set up a standing army, and the era of all people as soldiers was over.
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Of course, what Zhao Kuo was thinking about was the military service system, and he followed suit later. He divided the 20th-level knighthood. Soldiers who had just joined the army were called public servants. As long as they became private soldiers, they could get it. On the basis of public servants, they also arranged
Zao, Shao Geng, Wu Dafu, Gongcheng, Shu Zhang, Zhong Geng, Shang Zao, Guannei Marquis, Che Marquis. The twenty-level titles will be simplified into tenth-level military ranks. In other words, not everyone will be able to do so in the future.
Only soldiers can possess these titles.
The rewards of the title have also changed, from direct rewards of land and money to increased benefits, because it is a standing army and requires a salary. Originally, Zhao Kuo wanted to directly use the rank of second lieutenant, major, etc., but in the end he decided
Choose what this era can easily accept. After simplifying the military merit system, there is a big problem. What should today's military merit aristocrats do?
Zhao Kuo will not go crazy and want to deprive the current military nobles of their titles. That will cause a terrible chaos. The best way is to let them continue to have them until they have made meritorious service, and then be promoted to the next level according to their original level.
On the new title of the rank. After the military service of general is taken away from the common people, the next step is to give titles to ordinary people. Should we also establish titles for the common people who work in the fields?
The largest number of people in Qin are farmers. Will it have any impact if we rashly kick them out of the ranks of soldiers? Will it discourage them from farming? Will there be a large number of farmers who are no longer willing to engage in farming? Yes.
They still set a goal, even if it has a temporary appeasement effect. With this idea, Zhao Kuo personally set up three-level titles for farmers, including hairpin, farmer doctor, doctor, and less.
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Those who work hard and produce a lot of grain, improve agricultural technology, or make outstanding contributions in the agricultural field can be awarded a title. The advantage of the title is that it provides some compensation, such as exemption from corvee and other preferential treatment. This is enough to play a role
The role of motivation. In addition to farmers, there are of course craftsmen and medical officers... Zhao Kuo feels that if he continues like this, Qin will become an online game-like society.
Different professions have different levels, and then the people work hard to defeat monsters and upgrade. But Zhao Kuo has no other way. For the people of Qin who are used to such upgrades, if he directly abolishes all levels and makes everyone equal
There would be no more levels, which would cause big trouble. Moreover, this is how human society is originally... Zhao Kuo just gave a clear concept.
On the premise of inheriting the military merit system, Zhao Kuo also destroyed Qin's military merit system. Of course he did not dare to implement it directly, but still wanted to discuss with Lu Buwei and ask him if there was anything that could be improved.
After the Qin State completed the feat of becoming one king, the first thing it did was to establish more counties and counties in various places. Because there were no Confucian scholars in Qi and Lu clamoring for the enfeoffment system, the county and county system was quickly implemented. Han Dynasty
It was poor at first, so it set up many small countries and let them manage themselves. The Qin State was not poor at all. It had mountains of food and even built a Great Wall, Chidao, and an imperial mausoleum. By the way, it conquered the Xiongnu and Nanyue with great success.
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He does not need vassal states to hinder him, nor does he need to let people in various places manage himself. However, the area controlled by Qin State is too large, which makes the transmission of government orders somewhat difficult. It is not very simple to solve this problem.
.Zhao Kuo once proposed that carrier pigeons could be used to deliver letters, but Zhao Kuo did not know how to breed carrier pigeons. All he did was say that he had heard that ancient people could use carrier pigeons to deliver letters.
No matter what Zhao Kuo says, there are always people who want to try it.
The officials of the State of Qin set out from Xianyang and rushed to the State of Qin... no, rushed to various places in the Qin Dynasty. They promoted the laws of the State of Qin and popularized the knowledge of the State of Qin everywhere. These things of the State of Qin were very important to the people of all countries.
, were all strangers. When the people no longer had to fight, of course they needed a more relaxed atmosphere. Zhao Kuo went over to find Li Si and expressed many of his thoughts.
"Allow people to travel freely, reduce the impact of laws on people's daily lives, and don't get caught sitting together chatting all day long..." Zhao Kuo wanted to create a relatively relaxed atmosphere, Qin's
The common people live too much like soldiers, as if they are fulfilling orders. Everything in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation must be carried out according to strict systems. This is probably a huge oppression on people and is not conducive to the development of society.
They are not gears in a machine, they are all human beings. Human beings have infinite potential, but gears do not.
Zhao Kuo suddenly had more things to do. He seemed to be busier than before. However, Zhao Kuo still had to find something to do for himself. He couldn't stand too much leisure time.
I have been busy all my life. In this year, Zhao Kuo established the first middle school in Xianyang, which was prepared for students who were about to graduate from primary school. Zhao Kuo personally set up graduation examinations and further education
's exam.
Primary schools are only for enlightenment education, and the teachers they recruit only need to make students read. But middle schools are different. In Zhao Kuo's heart, middle schools will become an important talent base for the Qin State in the future. Officials will be trained as machines, which will replace students in the future.
Therefore, Zhao Kuo was very concerned about the promotion of middle school teachers. He found some old officials in Xianyang and even disciples of some schools to be responsible for the teaching of middle schools.
The first primary school in Xianyang gathered more than 10,000 children, but in the end, less than 600 people completed Zhao Kuo's test paper and came to the middle school.
Zhao Kuo was busy with this matter before and after, and Zhang Cang was also going back and forth between Zhao Kuo and Li Si... And the children who graduated from elementary school also returned to their homes, as the first batch of enlightened children
, they know words and know a lot of truths, which are very different from other children... However, the role of enlightenment education does not suddenly become apparent, it still takes some time.
Zhao Kuo smiled and personally put crowns on these graduating students. Although they were not yet old enough to be crowned, this behavior was defined by Zhao Kuo as a symbol of graduation.
After sending away a group of people, there will naturally be a group of people coming in. At this time, Zhao Kuo has also seen the shortcomings and advantages of the elementary school system. If the elementary school system wants to continue, the most difficult problem is the problem of teachers.
, Qin’s literacy rate is too low, and it is not easy to popularize it all over the world. In addition, there is the situation of students, because students are too widely distributed, many need accommodation, which will cause a lot of expenses, and they cannot be given away every day
They went to farm...
Fortunately, Zhao Kuo can still find a way to solve these problems. Now Qin's agricultural level has been rising rapidly, because of the promotion of agricultural books, the improvement of technology, and these new agricultural tools developed by the Mohists, Qin's
The level of agriculture was in a period of rapid growth. This new empire began to rush forward with all its strength. The birth of the columbine and the curved shaft plow led to rapid development of agricultural technology. The grain production of the people increased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Go up.
The Qin State has the most advanced assembly line operations, and the manufacturing industry of agricultural tools is also very developed. In order to ensure that the people have enough agricultural tools, the Qin State will even provide the people with agricultural tools. Of course, in the end, it will be obtained from the grain they produce.
After deducting the cost of farm tools, Qin's advanced agricultural system spread to all parts of the country, driving up the level of agricultural production in all parts of the world. With food, Qin had more power to do other things.
For example, Zhao Kuo was obsessed with education. The emperor ordered that primary schools be opened in eight counties at the same time and children were called to enroll.
In the agricultural era, food was the decisive factor in everything, and the emperor had some interest in the river. He wanted to build water conservancy projects on both sides of the river to improve the agricultural productivity of many counties on both sides. This was what Zheng Guo never forgot.
At that time, the old man, after hearing the emperor's summons, hurriedly sat in the carriage and came to Xianyang regardless of the matter.
