Zheng Guo had many crazy plans in his mind, including the big river project. The river is the mother river of China and the origin of Chinese farming civilization. The Chinese people farmed, lived and multiplied along this river.
This place has the most fertile soil in the world, but the river often overflows. The struggle between humans and the river has lasted for many years. From the time of Shun and Yu to the present, the river has never calmed down.
Just last year, the river flooded, and Hanoi County was severely affected. However, even though local officials carried out relief operations, it did not cause much trouble. The river has always been a huge trouble for the Central Plains dynasty in history.
, until the Qing Dynasty, there were even large-scale river flooding, and all dynasties were trying to find ways to solve this problem. Now Ying Zheng is also thinking about managing the river water.
There are usually three ways to control river water: artificial diversion, diversion, and embankment building. Jia Rang, who proposed the river control strategy, was not born yet, but his theory has already appeared today, and the Chinese are very We have long known that blocking is worse than sparing. This time when the emperor met with Zheng Guo, he also wanted to adopt these three methods to control the river water and benefit the surrounding areas at the same time.
Zhao Kuo knew that the cause of the river flooding was silt accumulation. Without sufficient technology to control the river bed, any strategy could only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. However, at present, the only option is to treat the symptoms. If you want to treat the root cause, then
He had to wait two thousand years. Zheng Guo came to Xianyang happily. He was so old that he could no longer walk and was as skinny as a stick. But even so, when he heard the words "water control", his eyes were still shining.
"I think that your Majesty is right to want to control the river water. The river has a large flow and covers a wide area... If the river can be diverted artificially, a lot of fertile farmland can be opened up around it, and the irrigation area will be astonishing.
In addition, diversion can also play a role..." Zheng Guo faced the emperor without any restraint. He took out his pen and paper and began to introduce his inner thoughts in front of the first emperor.
big project.
Ying Zheng has always been like this. In his heart, he is somewhat similar to the King of Wei. He is very happy with his achievements and is very anxious to do things. But the difference is that Ying Zheng will never give up until he sees the results. He will not give up at all. What does he want to do?
He would do whatever it took until it was completed. Zheng Guo proposed another huge project, a large project from Qilu all the way to Guanzhong. Let’s put it this way, the amount of the project was so large that it reached such a point: Zhao Kuo only needed
One look at it and you can jump up and hit someone.
This project would involve at least one million people, and would consume countless amounts of money and food. It would very likely directly result in the situation of ten houses and nine empty houses on both sides of the river. This made the emperor hesitate. If it were the original him, he probably wouldn't
There would be a slight hesitation, and with a wave of his hand, he mobilized the people to dig. But now, he was worried that Zhao Kuo would blame him, and he was also worried that doing so would affect people's livelihood... This will definitely affect people's livelihood.
Seeing Ying Zheng's hesitation, Zheng Guo became anxious. He was old and couldn't care whether he was disrespectful to the emperor. He directly took the emperor's hand and said eagerly: "This matter requires one million people to dig out, but
It can benefit ten million people! Your Majesty, when Ma Fujun destroyed all the countries, some villains mocked him, saying that he thought he was a benevolent and righteous gentleman, but he wanted to help Qin to kill people. Ma Fujun once said: Hundreds of thousands of people died in the war.
, but it can save the people of the entire world."
"Now the river is overflowing and the people are poor. If you launch corvee labor, it will not tire people to death. At most, it will make the people run around and be busy. But in the end, it will be able to feed the people of the world. Do you still need to hesitate?" Ying Zheng was surprised.
Looking at the excited Zheng Guo in front of him, he squinted his eyes, pondered for a long time, and said: "Three years later, the groundbreaking will begin." Zheng Guo was stunned and asked in confusion: "Since you agree? Why does it take another three years?
And after that?"
"The war has just ended, and the people of the world need time to recuperate... let them rest for three years, and then start again."
Zheng Guo laughed bitterly, with tears in his eyes, and murmured: "I'm afraid... I won't be able to wait for that day."
Lu Buwei very much agreed with Zhao Kuo's reform plan. In Lu Buwei's opinion, the changes Zhao Kuo made to the military merit system were reasonable and reasonable.
To make it look like a normal country, the two of them subsequently made some deletions. In the spring of the second year of the First Emperor's reign, the two jointly submitted a letter to the emperor requesting reform of the military merit system.
This immediately caused an uproar within the Qin State. The military merit system has always been the foundation of the Qin State. In these years, the military merit system of the Qin State has not changed at all. The only one who wanted to change it was Lu Buwei, but Lu Buwei's
The changes are not that big. They just changed the proportions and rewards. Generally speaking, it is still the same. Until now, Zhao Kuo wants to abolish the military merit system and must summon a standing army. All of this is unacceptable to the Qin State.
event!
If the person who proposed it was not Zhao Kuo, but someone else, I am afraid that he would have been attacked by the Qin people at this moment. Just because of the identity of the person who proposed it, everyone dared not speak out. Zhao Kuo's prestige in Qin was too high.
After he said it, everyone actually started to reflect on whether there is really any problem with the military merit system? Of course there is, and it is a big problem. If it continues to be implemented, Qin will only continue to engage in foreign wars, and then continue to engage in foreign wars.
Use land to continuously reward soldiers.
Can the Qin State endure repeated foreign conquests? Does it have so much land to reward its soldiers?
If you forget to fight, you will perish, but being warlike is not a good thing either!
Zhao Kuo did not hide it and directly spoke out about the shortcomings of the general system. Now that the world is peaceful and there are no big wars, if the past system continues to be implemented, Qin will have no choice but to conquer further areas because there are no wars.
, there is no way to ascend. Well, attack those remote places, and then use the land there to reward the soldiers. Is this a reward or a punishment?
Zhao Kuo even said that if anyone can solve these problems, then the original system can be maintained without any changes.
The ministers immediately stopped talking. They really couldn't think of anything to do, but they were not so desperate for the military merit system. Of course, this was also the reason of the times. The emperor believed in Zhao Kuo. Over the years, Zhao Kuo
I didn’t say I missed it. On the sixth day after Zhao Kuo proposed the new system, the emperor ordered the reforms to be carried out in a hurry and did not allow anyone to slow down. This was the emperor’s character, and everyone knew it.
The new system divided the military merit system into several parts. The previous military merits remained unchanged. At the same time, a standing army was established. The common people still had to participate in drills, but they no longer had to serve as soldiers in combat. The common people were a little confused, did not understand, and did not understand at all.
, this was a moment that changed their destiny. The Qin State summoned 50,000 people and stationed themselves in Xianyang as its largest standing army. This army was called the Northern Army because it was located in the camp north of Xianyang.
They need to participate in training full-time and be completely separated from farming.
At the local level, county soldiers are established. County soldiers are also standing armies. They are responsible for garrison tasks, not security tasks, but garrison tasks. The main purpose is to resist rebellions and foreign wars, and the soldiers who participate are
It is to give new titles. Of course, people like Zhao Kuo and Meng Yi still retain their original titles and hold new titles concurrently to facilitate the leadership of the army.
With the establishment of the Northern Army, the Qin State completed its transformation from a war machine with all the people as soldiers to a feudal country with standing military strength, and Zhao Kuo, because of his "military rank" of Chehou, became the supreme commander of the Northern Army...
.This is something Zhao Kuo never thought of. Zhao Kuo separated war, politics, and farming. In the future, officials will no longer serve as military officers, and officials will no longer have to go to war to get to the top.
At the same time, when facing those officials, Zhao Kuo also came up with a set of titles, which were not much different from the military ranks. They were also used as a reward for them, and their highest title was also the title of king or marquis. In order to avoid
When there was a possibility of rebellion among these high-ranking nobles, he proposed that people with marquises should no longer entrust land, but directly increase the rewards, so that these people would not have any power in the fiefs.
At the same time, Zhao Kuo was the first to hand over his land and power, followed by Lu Buwei. Seeing that these two people had given up, others such as Wang Jian, Zhao Kang and others naturally did not take it into consideration.
Zhao Kuo always said that Ying Zheng was very eager to do things, but he seemed to be the same. In the short period of time after the unification of the world, Zhao Kuo carried out a series of drastic reforms in Qin. Starting from the standing army, every time
The reforms were all huge reforms, and they were all reforms that directly and fundamentally changed the Qin State. Zhao Kuo was not tired at all from doing so many things at the same time, because he was only the proposer, and the specific implementer was Li Si...
Li Si was almost exhausted!
During this period, he was busy day and night dealing with the situation in various places, appeasing the old military nobles, summoning the first batch of standing troops, asking the localities to summon the first batch of local standing troops, changing the current titles, and giving new titles.
...Li Si's eyes were red. He was busy from morning to night, with almost no time to rest. Zhao Kuo did not treat him as a human being and kept putting forward various ideas of his own, asking Li Si to help implement them.
Poor Li Si couldn't hold on. In desperation, he asked Han Fei and Zhang Cang to help him. Unexpectedly, after Han Fei arrived, he kept commenting on Zhao Kuo's policies, telling his feasibility and shortcomings.
He was just talking about his current situation and how to change it in the future, and what he did in one day was not as much as what Li Si did in half an hour.
As for Zhang Cang, he started to get scared when he looked at these complicated things. He had read a lot of books, but when faced with such a big thing for the first time, he was still in a hurry and always made mistakes. This made Li Si furious.
These two "trash" people who were not doing anything serious were almost kicked out. Seeing that the prime minister Li Si was working so hard, the emperor personally summoned him and expressed his guilt and uneasiness towards him.
Although Li Si repeatedly stated that he had no problem and could continue to be busy, the emperor who cared about him very much still added the positions of left and right prime ministers, with Li Si as left prime minister and Han Fei as right prime minister. The emperor said that in this way, Han Fei could help
You, you won't be so busy anymore. This is what I compensate you for. Li Si could only grit his teeth and thank the emperor for his kindness, and said nothing more.
The changes were in full swing. Long-term training for ordinary people was stopped in various places, and some vacancies were opened, allowing them to make friends, play games, and have entertainment activities. The people of Qin State found it difficult to accept all this, but other
The people of the Six Kingdoms accepted it easily, after all, they had lived like that in the past. Zhao Kuo had long said that if there is one king in the world, there are seven countries that need to be destroyed.
This seventh country, the Qin Kingdom, wants to establish a unified and prosperous world, and cannot allow Qin to impose its own way of life on the people of the seven countries. After Zhao Kuo destroyed the other six countries, he now began to destroy Qin.
, first destroy his system, abolish the military merit system, then destroy his writing, adopt a unified new writing, and then destroy his way of life, so that the people of Qin can become like the people of the world and live less repressed.
What was needed to destroy the Six Kingdoms was war, but what was needed to destroy the Qin State was Zhao Kuo's prestige, so that the officials could not oppose him. Zhao Kuo said everything he had been thinking about over the years... These changes involved various aspects.
In various fields, from war to politics to culture, Zhao Kuo wanted to revise history and revise a set of Chinese history to explain the theory that the people of the seven countries belong to one family. In addition, Zhao Kuo also prepared to initially establish national consciousness and national consciousness.
Zhao Kuo was a little surprised when he saw Da Qin in front of him transforming into a big man step by step.
Many of Zhao Kuo's policies came from the Han Dynasty, and because they did not experience the destructive corvee, the Qin State, which is now richer and more powerful, can often implement these policies of the Han Dynasty with very amazing results.
Just when Zhao Kuo was busy changing the state of Qin, news came from Liaodong that a large-scale civil strife occurred in Donghu. A young leader of the Donghu tribe killed the newly enthroned King Donghu. He defeated the coalition forces of other tribes.
Integrated all the Donghu tribes and established himself as king. When this news first reached Xianyang, there was no movement. After all, when Donghu was at its strongest, Wang Jian easily defeated them, let alone them now.
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Only Li Xin, thoughtful, seemed to have remembered something.
ps: Don’t always say that the pace of reform is too big. Many of the reforms proposed by Zhao Kuo were from the Western Han Dynasty... Just a hundred years later, even the school was based on the Guoxue University of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty...
..Of course, if you have different ideas, you are welcome to put them forward, and I can adopt them later.