Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

【Xu Zi silently repeated what Prince Fusu said:"Live, eat well, and don't be bullied." He suddenly felt that any ideas and propositions of the farmers could not compare to these simple ten words.】

【In other words, behind the various ideological propositions of the farmers, what they actually hope to achieve is nothing more than the following ten words: to enable the people of Qianshou to"survive, have enough food, and not be bullied".】

【Xu Zi, who had some insights in his heart, decided to use these ten words as the core to revise and summarize the new ideas of the farmers.】

【At the same time, Xu Zi also looked up at Crown Prince Fusu and exclaimed:"You are a good crown prince and a good crown prince!"】

【"As long as you remember what I said today, you will definitely be a good monarch in the future!"】.

【"I am now full of confidence in the future of the people of Qin!"】

【"At least in the future, the common people of Qin will be able to live well and have enough food under the rule of the King of Qin."】

【After some praise, Xu Zi looked at Prince Fusu and asked,"But you said that 'cultivating hunger and rescuing disasters' is the one thing you completely agree with among the farmers."】

【"In other words, you are loyal to the people.’；‘Do you have different opinions on these two points: 'Agriculture is the basis and commerce is the end'?"】

【Prince Fusu nodded and said,"Well, if we stand on the side of the people, then advocating 'following the will of the people and loving the people' is correct and should be done."】

【"However, if we stand on the standpoint of the country and the monarch, we should not be too"following the will of the people and being loyal to the people".’！"】

【"Otherwise, the country will be held hostage by the people, and the monarch will be forced by the people's will."】

【"The final result is that the country will no longer be a country, the monarch will no longer be a monarch, and the country, the monarch, and the people will all be in chaos."】

【Xu Zi disagreed immediately and said,"How can following the will of the people and being loyal to the people be considered as coercing the country and forcing the monarch?"】

【"As the saying goes,"A government's success depends on following the will of the people; its failure depends on going against the will of the people." If a country's monarch implements policies that are unpopular and go against the needs of the people,"】

【"So how can this policy be implemented when everyone is resisting it?"】

【"That is why the state and the monarch are required to follow the will of the people and be loyal to the people when formulating policies. Only in this way can the policies formulated not go against the will of the people and the needs of the people."】

【"In this way, the people will be happy to accept and implement such a policy, and this policy can be truly implemented."】

【Prince Fusu nodded, but then shook his head and said,"If we talk about the essence, then what Master Xu said is indeed correct."】

【"But in reality, if you really follow what Master Xu said, many big problems will arise."】

【"For example, the first question is: What should we do if the people’s will and opinions are maliciously manipulated?"】

【Xu Zi frowned and said,"The people's will and opinions are invisible and even more intangible. They are the feedback of the people to the country, the monarch, and the policies. How can they be manipulated?"】

【Prince Fusu sighed and said,"It is precisely because it cannot be seen or touched that it is easier to be manipulated."】

【"For example, there is a story about three people making a tiger. I wonder if Master Xu has heard of it?"】

【Xu Zi shook his head. He had never heard of such a story.】

【Prince Fusu was not surprised, after all, this was a story recorded in Han Feizi Neichushuo Shang.】

【Xu Zi and Han Fei Zi had no previous contact, and Han Fei Zi's works were not widely circulated.】

【So it is normal that Xu Zi did not know the story of"Three people make a tiger" because he had not read"Han Feizi" before.】

【But his father was different. He loved Han Feizi very much, so the Qin State collected all of Han Feizi's works, and his father often read them.】

【Sometimes, if his father happened to be reading Han Feizi, he would also tell him some of the stories and principles in it.】

【The phrase"three people make a tiger" was summarized and concluded from one of the stories.】

【So Prince Fusu simply told Xu Zi the story of"Three people make a tiger"】

【Then Prince Fusu continued:"From this story, we can know that even the king's opinions and judgments can be influenced by rumors spread by others."】

【"If even the king is like this, how many common people can remain unaffected by rumors?"】

【"What if all the people were affected by the rumors?"】

【"For example, suppose South Korea said that as long as the people of Qin were willing to settle in South Korea, South Korea would give them 100 acres of land and enough food to feed their family for ten years."】

【"Then the first Qin people who went to Korea to settle down were actually given 100 acres of land and enough food to feed their family for ten years."】

【"Then the people of Qin State returned to Qin State with this news and spread it to more people of Qin State."】

【"Then the second Qin people who went to settle in Korea were also given 100 acres of land and enough food to feed their family for ten years."】

【"Then the first and second Qin people returned to Qin with this news, and also spread it to more Qin people."】

【"Then the third, fourth, and fifth......"】

【"Similar news continued to spread back to Qin and to the ears of the people of other Qin states."】

【"So Master Xu, how many of the people of Qin can remain unshakable under the impact of this news?"】

【Xu Zi was speechless for a moment. If this were true, I'm afraid that by then, most of the people in Qin would be eager to move to Korea to settle down.】

【After all, although the Qin State gave the common people a promotion channel to be awarded titles based on military merit, this promotion channel was not accessible to everyone.】

【Most of the common people in Qin still did not have any titles.】

【Without the title, the welfare benefits of ordinary people would certainly not be as generous as the"100 acres of land and ten years of food and supplies" promised by South Korea.】

【"If South Korea said so at that time, because of Qin's obstruction, they could no longer accept Qin's people, and could no longer give the Qin people who moved to South Korea to settle down 100 acres of land and provide them with food and supplies for ten years."】

【"How would the people of Qin feel? Would they resent Qin for this?"】

【"If at that time, South Korea said that if Qin was willing to annex South Korea, then South Korea would give all the people of Qin a hundred acres of land per person and ten years of food and supplies."】

【"Not to mention whether South Korea can do it, when such news reaches the ears of most of the people of Qin, what will the people of Qin think?"】

【"If South Korea can really do this, then my Qin State will not be able to govern the people as well as South Korea, and if the people of Qin want to leave Qin, that's fine."】

【"But if South Korea is deliberately giving small favors to a small number of Qin's people,"】

【"Then they used this to shake the majority of the Qin people and alienate the Qin monarch and people."】

【"Finally, most of the people of Qin State, because of the 100 acres of land and food supplies that could meet their needs for ten years, asked Qin State and the King of Qin to annex Han State."】

【"So does the State of Qin and the King of Qin have to obey such public opinion?"】

【Prince Fusu looked at Xu Zi opposite him and asked in a serious tone:】

【Facing the question from Prince Fusu, Xu Zi was speechless.】

【If this is true, then such public opinion should not be followed.】

【At the same time, Xu Zi also realized that if it was really as Prince Fusu said, then the people's hearts and minds could indeed be manipulated maliciously.】

【"In addition to the possibility that people's hearts and minds may be manipulated maliciously, most ordinary people tend to indulge in the comfort of the moment, and are unable to think about danger in times of peace, nor are they able to look ahead to a longer-term future."】

【"For example, ten years ago, my father decided to follow the advice of Zheng Guo and build the Guanzhong Canal with the whole country's strength."】

【"There were many opponents at the time, especially ordinary people, who were full of complaints about this project."】

【"Because the construction of the Guanzhong Canal required them to do corvee labor day and night, digging ditches, carrying soil, etc."】

【"It can be said that because of the Guanzhong Canal, many people in Guizhou have endured a lot of suffering and fatigue."】

【"If the people of Guizhou were allowed to choose 197, then I am afraid that nine out of ten people would choose not to build the Guanzhong Canal."】

【"However, now, ten years later, from the civil and military officials in the court to the ordinary people, who would still have complaints about the construction of the Guanzhong Canal?"】

【"No!"】

【"After the construction of the Guanzhong Canal, the originally dry plains in Guanzhong were transformed into fertile fields, which directly increased the grain production of Qin."】

【"Everyone would only complain why the Guanzhong Canal was not built earlier. If it had been built earlier, they would have been able to have a better harvest a year earlier."】

【"Therefore, if we look at the public opinion ten years ago, the construction of the Guanzhong Canal can be said to be contrary to the public opinion."】

【"However, could the Qin State and the King of Qin give up the construction of the Guanzhong Canal, a water conservancy project that would benefit the present and be remembered for generations to come, just because of a temporary conflict of public opinion?"】

【"I don’t think so. What do you think, Master Xu?"】

【Xu Zi also sighed softly and nodded, agreeing with what Prince Fusu said.】

【He naturally knew about the Guanzhong Canal, and he also knew the changes in the Guanzhong Plain of Qin after the construction of the Guanzhong Canal.】

【That really turned the Guanzhong Plain of Qin into thousands of miles of fertile fields!】

【If he was the King of Qin at that time, he would have played an important role after knowing that the Guanzhong Canal was successfully built.】

【Even if there were ten thousand people who opposed it, even if it went against the will of the people at the time, even if no one in the common people could understand it, he would insist on carrying it out.】

【Prince Fusu concluded:"So I think that as a monarch, you should 'value the people's hearts and respect the people', instead of just 'following the people's hearts and being loyal to the people'.’"】

【"In this way, we can both comply with the will of the people and not be coerced or kidnapped by their will."】

【"He can not only sympathize with the sufferings of the common people, but also make decisive and truly beneficial choices between the temporary sufferings of the common people and the benefits to future generations!"】

【"Teacher Xu, what do you think?"】

【Xu Zi was silent for a long time, and then he sighed and said:"What you said makes sense, as a monarch, you are right!"】.

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