Qin Official

"Why are you here again?"

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 desk, and muttered: "It's just that when Hei Fu was the Councilor, it was just an idle job. Now, as the household order of the Zhonglang, he is under the guard's confinement. Except for Xiu Mu, he should never leave the king's presence. , but there is still time to go to the hiding room, so it is strange."

Heifu said helplessly: "Today, I was ordered by His Majesty to look for books."

"His 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 between Qin and Shu.

"In the ninth year of King Huiwen, Zhang Yi, Sima Cuo, Du Weimo and others attacked Shu from the Shiniu Road. The king of Shu refused to fight with Jiameng and was defeated, and Bashu returned to Qin..."

"In the tenth year, King Huiwen granted Tong, the son of the King of Shu, the title of Marquis of Shu, and made Chen Zhuang the Prime Minister of Shu. In the next six years, Tong, the Marquis of Shu, rebelled against Chen Zhuang. King Huiwen ordered his concubines Gan Mao, Zhang Yi, and Sima Cuo to attack Shu again, and Chen Zhuang Zhuang was frightened 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, reading further, it is 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 heard that the Marquis of Shu wanted to rebel, and 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, I was slapped in the face by the emperor's nonsense!

Of course Zhang Cang knew the contents on the bamboo slips. Seeing that Hei Fu was behaving differently, he whispered: "What exactly did you say to His Majesty?"

"Nothing else."

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 "one country, two systems" policy proposed by Heifu was not new. King Huiwen and King Zhaoxiang had already put into practice the idea of ​​"using border marquis to control the barbarian land of Rongbo" in Shu, but the results were not very good.

No matter it was the Duke of Shu of the Kaiming clan or the two young masters of the Qin State, they all had a bad end. On the contrary, it was the Bajun next door. Instead of being guarded by Feng Zizi, a county was established directly. Because the ethnic policy implemented towards the Ba people was reasonable, no major troubles ever occurred.

"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 by his few words.

…

Sure enough, the next day, when Heifu was still on duty at the Four Seas Guiyi Hall, the emperor summoned his ministers and announced the decision on feudalism, prefectures and counties at the court meeting.

"In the third generation, the emperor founded the country, the princes established their families, the ministers set up side chambers, the officials had two sects, and they were dear to each other and honored them. Although thousands of people praised them, this was private to the whole 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 wrong with what he said, but thinking about his own experience, there was nothing wrong with it.

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, we are fighting endlessly, so that we can have princes and kings. Laizong Temple, the world was initially settled, and the country was reestablished. This is to build soldiers. It is not difficult to seek peace and tranquility! The discussion of feudalism, prefectures and counties, the court officials discuss 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 is not only a battle between him and Wang Wan for the future position of right prime minister, it is not only 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. 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 realized 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 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 the Nine Provinces onto 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. He would not allow repetition, and he would never 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 opening to the east, and 120,000 households of wealthy people from the six countries were arriving from the west with their families in tow.

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.

It extends to the sea and Korea in the east, to Lintao and Qiangzhong in the west, to Wuling in the south, and to the north by the river, and from the Yinshan Mountains to Liaodong. And south of Limen and Jiuyi, there is an unknown lush forest seaside waiting for the Qin people to explore.

He also saw that on both sides of Zhangtai Street, officials from various government offices were sealing copies of his edict and handing them over to the mail carriers. They were then sent by boat and vehicle to various places and delivered to thirty-six counties and thousands of counties. It was handed down to the county magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates, and then continued to be passed down, and the village clerk and 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 lords!”

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, although his stubbornness will aggravate the sharpness of the conflict. But the wheel of history is rolling forward, and the trend of the times is mighty. If the decision made by this determined, forge ahead, and fighter at this moment is 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 came to the gate of Zhangtai Palace. Lang Wei also had a holiday. Hei Fu had been staying 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! We haven't seen each other 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 mine owner's son come to Xianyang?