My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 853 Times have changed, sir

Fusu had only been away from Xianyang Palace for a few days when inexplicable murderous incidents occurred in the palace.

Even if Fusu pretended to be absent, all kinds of mess would happen. I dare not imagine what kind of chaos the Qin Empire would be in if there was no Fusu.

I am afraid that the law will become a mere decoration, and officials will be busy making money for themselves instead of thinking about how to do their job well.

In a sense, power is a good thing. It forces those bastards who can't control themselves to operate within a limited scope, restricts their actions, and minimizes the harm.

In the Xianyang Palace, after a long period of peace, something like this suddenly happened, which naturally made people feel eerie and terrifying.

Since the birth of the universe, there has been confrontation between good and evil, and between good and evil.

When good prevails over evil, people feel happy and joyful in life.

When evil overwhelms good, people live in hell.

A gentleman represents righteousness, and a villain represents evil.

Therefore, history is not a repetition, but is just the natural law of the universe.

When good and evil clash, good prevails over evil, gentlemen come to power and wise rulers control the government. Then the people can live freely, their power will be protected, and the proceeds of their labor will fall into their own hands.

When good loses power and evil takes over, incredible things will happen. Resources are not allocated properly, leading to wars, which in turn lead to many secondary disasters, such as rape, murder, violence, and even worse, cannibalism.

Obviously, the battle between good and evil has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women can represent good and evil.

When the heaven and earth are full of righteousness, the weather will be good and the harvest will be favorable. Good weather and harvest nourish people's hearts, and people's righteousness will be sufficient. When people's righteousness is sufficient, the heaven and earth will be full of righteousness, which will also lead to good weather and harvest.

The world is a force field, it will always be a boomerang. This is not only true for the interactions between people, but also for the interactions between people and the environment.

On the contrary, if the positive energy between heaven and earth is insufficient, people's spirit will be weak. When people's spirit is weak, evil energy will grow, and bad auras such as lust, greed, malice, and jealousy will be released.

The evil energy between heaven and earth is more prevalent, and the environment is naturally deteriorating more seriously. People in a harsh environment have less positive energy of their own and are more easily invaded by evil energy, which causes their health to decline and their lives to go wrong, which leads to further aggravation of evil energy and suppression of positive energy.

There is plenty of righteousness between heaven and earth, gentlemen are in power, officials are fair, good people live well, and bad people have a hard time.

There is a lack of righteousness in the world, villains are in power, officials are profit-driven, it is difficult for good people to survive, but it is easy for bad people to live.

Everyone is a part of Tao. If one can understand the truth, redefine one's position between heaven and earth, help the Tao clean up the garbage, and respond to Tao with one's own righteousness, Tao will give back to oneself.

What happened in the palace is nothing compared to the big things. There are too many crimes that are covered up in the world, and too many justices that are falsely exaggerated.

The bright future of the Qin Empire was indeed unpredictable because the lower limit was too low.

Almost everyone lives in a stinking ditch, and people’s hearts are blackened by it.

This was the era at the end of the war and the beginning of the Qin Dynasty.

After the Qin Dynasty gained control of the country, the crime rate became increasingly higher, and some people always regarded this as a bad thing.

The people said that the Qin people were too controlling and too harsh.

Is it possible that there are just so many criminals and they have been committing crimes all the time?

Many people are victims, and in the past these bad guys have never been caught and brought to justice.

The Qin Dynasty government took the initiative to change the situation, restore order, and punish those bastards who had done bad things but had never been brought to justice. This forced the crime rate up.

In other words, the number of criminals has always been the same, but the more investigations are carried out and the tighter the governance is, the more talents are exposed.

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners show how lawless people lived in the past. As long as no one could control them, they would just do whatever they wanted.

If the common people of Daqin can hold on, catch the bad guys and punish them severely, and persist for ten years or so, what awaits them in the future is a politically clear, peaceful and harmonious society.

But if they can't hold on, the honest people won't have food to eat, the bad guys won't be caught and brought to justice, and instead the good people will be framed and forced to do hard labor, then the empire will be doomed.

The administration of officials depends entirely on the teaching of the respected teachers in the Imperial Academy. The nobles relearning the classics is also a good way to learn, inherit and carry forward the true Chinese civilization.

However, this method is for the empire's hundred-year plan.

The effect is very slow.

The most important thing for the Qin Empire at the moment is to curb unhealthy tendencies and crack down on villains and bad guys. This is related to the future of the Qin Empire in the most critical twenty years. Once the Qin State can maintain its rule for twenty years and a generation accepts the rule of the Qin Empire, then Fusu will have completed the most basic stage task.

However, to accomplish this task, he had to rely on Xiao He and the honest officials behind him.

Appointing Xiao He as the Grand Marshal can be said to be the wisest decision made by Qin Shihuang during his reign.

For a long time, the legal trial, which was a case that demonstrated social fairness and justice, was assigned to Li Si, which led to many absurd things.

Li Si was partial to the powerful and was biased towards the wealthy, which caused the grassroots officials to be afraid of the powerful and not dare to make fair and impartial judgments.

At that time, the legal environment of Qin State was such that major matters were decided based on the situation, while minor matters were decided based on the pros and cons. There were 18 kinds of Qin laws, but they were only used by the scholars when they took exams.

After Xiao He came to power, the number of criminal cases in Qin continued to rise, but in the past year, a stable trend has begun to emerge.

Because the law's function of punishing evil and promoting good was truly brought into play in the hands of people like Xiao He.

The cases in the court of justice were still piling up, but this time it was the common people who felt justified. The powerful people no longer dared to show off their power, thinking that they could rest easy with their power.

In the very short period of time after Qin II ascended the throne, the empire's economic and people's livelihood conditions did not improve immediately.

Although we no longer have to fight, there is one less money-earning person in the family.

Soldiers and even all those who served in the war effort began to lose their jobs.

Only a very small number of people can judge the situation and protect themselves in this turbulent situation.

At this time, the importance of land is highlighted. People who own land in their families will have confidence wherever they go.

If you lose your job, you can go home and farm, but if you don't have land, no matter what industry you go into, you are just "living under someone else's roof", doing all the work, but the harvest is reaped by others.

It's just so realistic.

Ever since the Qin State stopped fighting wars, all social problems have surfaced.

There are more and more idle people, and a lot of criminal cases have occurred in society.

Since the Qin State stopped fighting, the men returned home. In the past, they had no one to vent their emotions to because of poverty, but now their wives have someone to vent their emotions to. This is all because the men did not work hard.

As a result, family conflicts escalated and the family became chaotic.

All the real micro-contradictions in society are due to unfair distribution of resources, which is the so-called externalization of class contradictions.

Today's empire is extremely fragile. Newborn babies are the most tender. Slightly boiling water may not be a problem for adults, but it is enough to burn a baby's skin.

What the Qin State of the Warring States Period could withstand, the Qin State of the Qin Dynasty might not be able to withstand. Once the war stops, countless people will lose their jobs.

In this era when this country is unwilling to make its people rich and everyone is selfish, without the support of the soldier profession, without wars for the lower class to vent their anger, and without the profits from wars to satisfy the lower class's financial needs, if new jobs cannot be found in time to fill the people's living needs, then what awaits the Qin Empire is an uprising of the people of the world.

The so-called collapse of the law is only a matter of time.

People are starving to death, it would be strange if your laws didn't collapse.

However, due to the reality, the industry and commerce of Qin State have never prospered and are only in a tiny embryonic stage.

In other words, the industry and commerce of the Qin Empire will be vigorously developed in the future, especially the industry. Otherwise, the people will not be able to survive.

However, there has been no significant progress in these two areas, which means that the basic survival issues of the vast majority of people have not been resolved.

It’s just that at the moment, most people are unemployed for a relatively short period of time, so the problem is not serious.

Once the soldiers retreating from the battlefield in South Vietnam begin to face unemployment problems, and the soldiers recruited by the empire also face unemployment problems when they return home, then the darkest moment of the Qin Empire will come.

Of course, agriculture is the foundation, but this issue is easier to solve than industry and commerce.

Moreover, Fusu has already put it into practice. Once the taxes are reduced, the people will have the motivation to work hard.

Human nature is greedy and selfish. Once they have the opportunity to store more food at home and gain more benefits, they will spare no effort to do it.

The grain output of the Qin Empire had already increased last year. If the arrangements were better and there were no problems with the execution this year, then doubling the grain output was inevitable.

Especially in the current Qin State, what it lacks the least is able-bodied men for farming, and what it lacks the least is agricultural tools.

The Qin State was able to collect enough food and fodder to enrich the national treasury without raising taxes.

But even so, the sudden stabilization of Qin was beyond expectations.

After all, the vast majority of people are unemployed vagrants, or hooligans.

The basic issue of living and working in peace and contentment has not been resolved.

The Qin State never completely resolved the major issue of the empire's industrial transformation. The vast majority of people still had no jobs, and they could never make any money relying on those few acres of land.

Although the most basic problem was not solved, the people's reputation towards Qin changed because the Qin's administration had improved.

People are still too comprehensive. Material problems cannot be coordinated and solved. If only spiritual problems can be coordinated and solved, people will live comfortably.

Fairness and justice are so important to people.

Once the principle that princes who break the law are punished the same as common people is implemented, the law will become the highest standard in the minds of the people, and the people will worship the rulers as gods.

Almost overnight, Qin's laws suddenly changed direction and gained the support of the people.

This is all thanks to Xiao He.

Relying on the accumulation day after day, and the sorting and re-sentencing of cases one by one, Xiao He released many people who were falsely accused, and at the same time brought all the local tyrants and bullies to justice.

Of course, the person who carried out these tasks was Meng Tian’s younger brother, Meng Yi.

Xiao He's courage to write the verdict was truly extraordinary. Since Xiao He had written it, Meng Yi had the document and could take it with him to lead the army to enforce the law.

With the cooperation of Xiao He and Meng Yi, the rule of law in Qin ushered in a new era.

Everything is starting to get better.

This change came suddenly, but it was within everyone's expectations.

When quantitative change reaches a certain level, it will naturally lead to qualitative change.

Xiao He had worked in the Supreme Court for no less than five years, but before that, there were very few people who supported him.

After Fusu came to power, the previous situation of being unable to support the country alone was completely changed.

The villains were already worried, and after Qin II directly appointed Meng Yi as Shangqing and asked him to be responsible for cooperating with Tingwei Xiao He to enforce Qin laws, the laws of Qin were no longer just empty words.

All the nobles began to fear Qin law.

This is also the reason why Xiong Rou started to feel scared because of some rumors.

Seriously, times have changed.

The days when the nobles were lawless and thought they could do whatever they wanted with power are gone.

The nobles began to become afraid and dared not act recklessly anymore.

A brand new era is slowly coming, stepping on the haze of the old era.

Everyone in the country, from top to bottom, has to go through some torture.

All evil and mean things, whether they are people or things, will be eliminated.

Just and fair things will slowly surface one by one, slowly making people feel that fairness and justice are the norm.

In short, the empire's turnaround was not so spectacular.

The remnants of the old era still linger, but the chapter of the new era has already turned to the third page.

All aspects of Qin's politics, economy, culture, administration, and laws began to improve.

The situation in Qin is gradually improving, which is what Fusu dreams of happening.

However, politics, laws, economy and culture are all things that historians will slowly discuss and evaluate and make final conclusions about later.

For Emperor Fusu, only technology, territory, and the respect of his subjects, these visible and tangible things, are the most favorable proof of the success of his reforms.

Fusu was shocked and amazed when he first visited the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang.

He was determined not to let these inventions and technologies be buried in the underground palace, but to allow the people to use them.

The rail cars gave Fusu great hope. He predicted that if his policies could be implemented, the Qin State would be able to build railway tracks in one or two hundred years.

For this reason, he planned to open a state-owned factory and carry out large-scale smelting.

The laws of Qin were very developed, which was an institutional prerequisite for the development of industrial civilization. However, the industrial material foundation of Qin was very weak.

Even if we talk about it to the fullest, the Qin State did not have the basic mathematics, basic physics, and basic chemistry foundation accumulated over thousands of years by people like Socrates, Protagoras, Galileo, and Newton.

It is very difficult to make up for congenital deficiencies later in life.

(End of this chapter)