The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1170 Meng Xin [Please subscribe*Please vote]

"There are tens of thousands of Ande Guangsha, sheltering the world's poor people with joy."

In the Bingzhou Palace, Yan Yan listened to Chen Jian's progress report on the project with an aunt-like smile on her face.

For others, sheltering all the poor people in the world and making them happy is a long-cherished wish and a dream, but as an emperor, he actually did it.

This may be what Confucianism said: If you are poor, you should take care of yourself; if you are rich, you should help the world.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Now Yan Yan has done his best to change the lives of the people of this era. They have cashmere textiles for clothing, and countless cattle and sheep on the vast grassland for food. Now he has solved the housing problem.

The only thing left is the way to travel!
But all this is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The Qin State and Bingzhou were both working hard to build straight roads and highways. The standardization of the wheel gauge was also carried out under the leadership of Li Si, and Bingzhou followed suit under the leadership of An Qisheng.

That’s right, it’s not just Qin that is copying Bingzhou, Bingzhou is also copying Qin.

"Your Majesty, have you really never thought of running away with the money?" Chen Jian's eyes were filled with dangerous light.

In the past six months, the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce has entered nearly half of the county cities of the Qin Dynasty and collected the wealth of nearly half of the nobles and aristocrats of the Qin Dynasty. If they really run away with the money, the Qin State will be helpless.

After all, most of Qin’s military forces are now outside, marching south.

Although the southern expedition was victorious under the leadership of famous Qin generals such as Wang Jian, it also meant that the army was getting further and further away from the Qin State.

They collected wealth and ran away at this time. Even if the Qin nobles were angry and wanted to settle accounts with Bingzhou, they had to endure it.

"Young man, your thoughts are very dangerous!" Yan Yan looked at Chen Jian with amusement.

"Hehe, I just think that since it is not the wealth of my Bingzhou, it doesn't matter if we take it away. At worst, we can share it equally with the Great Qin Shihuang and let the First Emperor cooperate with us in a show. That will be nearly 100 million in income." Chen Jian said excitedly.

Even the former King of Qi, the richest man in the world, had never seen so much money.

How much is the annual tax? At most tens of millions. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, some princes might not have paid more than two or three million in taxes a year, but now they hold nearly a hundred times more wealth.

"How much does it cost to hire a Mohist master?" Yan Yan asked with a smile.

"Probably more than 100,000 a year!" Chen Jian answered straightforwardly.

He reacted immediately.

It would only cost a little over 100,000 yuan to hire a Mohist master for personal protection for a year, so hiring a master-level assassin to kill one person should be even less.

They now form a community of interests with the Qin nobles. Not only will these nobles not kill them, they are even worried about their death, and they have to send people to greet them and give them gifts during festivals.

However, if they really dare to run away with the money, the aristocratic families who are forced into a corner will really dare to send out their death squads and ask the master killers to watch them for twelve hours and kill them.

It is difficult to overthrow Bingzhou, and it is also difficult to kill Yan Yan.

But Chen Jian is not a jerk like Yan Yan, who has extremely high fighting power. If they really want to kill him, they don’t even need a master-level killer. They can just hire a first-rate or sword master-level expert to assassinate him successfully.

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the people who created the problem.

"Hehe, I was just talking!" Chen Jian tried to hide his cowardice awkwardly.

During the reign of King Min of Qi, even the nobles dared to commit such a heinous political act as Tian Jia robbing the king, let alone the fact that he was no longer the King of Qi.

"Gentlemen love fortune, in a proper way."

"It's better not to be tempted by this kind of ill-gotten gains."

“Besides, even if I want to do this, the Prime Minister, the Censor and the Mohist School will not agree!” Yan Yan spread his hands.

I really thought he had never thought of doing this.

After all, there is a pile of golden copper coins and gold in front of you.

As long as he snapped his fingers, all the money would belong to him. But the consequences were not difficult to bear.

Once he did that, the Qin nobles would certainly encourage the army to stop the southern expedition and turn north.

In the eight thousand years of Chinese history, although every Northern Expedition seemed to end in failure, they all successfully eliminated the northern forces.

Yan Yan doesn't want to be the unlucky one.

Besides, this was not his original intention.

"I am not interested in money, it's just a bunch of numbers. With my current status and position, if I want something, as long as I ask, countless people will do everything they can to give it to me!"

Yan Yan said calmly.

This is not showing off, but I really have this ability.

Not only him, even Chen Jian, as long as he wanted something, as long as it did not violate the taboos of those people, there would be people who would give it to him.

Having money does not necessarily mean power, but for those who have power, money is their virginity that they can ask for and get at will.

"How is Meng Xin?" Yan Yan asked.

Meng Xin is Meng Tian's younger brother, and also an outstanding son sent by the Meng family to assist Meng Tian. However, his brilliance was overshadowed by the overbearing brilliance of Meng Tian and Meng Yi.

However, when Bingzhou was divided, Meng Wu, Meng Tian and Meng Yi jointly recommended Meng Xin, who was granted the title of Meng Bo of Bingzhou, with his fiefdom just north of Kongque.

"He was quite ruthless. Your Majesty and General Meng Tian sent him 500 Red Flame Cavalry. Then, in just a year and a half, Meng Xin conquered more than 20 cities in Peacock Kingdom, and his fiefdom expanded to 4,000 miles. He became the largest force in the north of Peacock Kingdom and confronted the Peacock King."

"It even forced the Maurya Kingdom to move its capital southward."

Mo Ya was also shocked, because he also knew Meng Xin.

Who would have thought that Meng Xin, who was mediocre in China and seemed to have no achievements, would be so ruthless once he got out.

"A big tree attracts the wind!" Yan Yan frowned.

Being so strong is not a good thing.

After all, the Maurya Empire is now in the era of Ashoka, and Ashoka is not one of the rookie kings of the Maurya Empire, but a truly talented and ruthless man, although he is old and is about to die.

"Lord of the Peacock Kingdom, Ashoka is dead!" Mo Ya continued to tell the shocking news, "The Peacock Kingdom is now divided internally, so Earl Meng Xin dared to do this."

“???” Yan Yan was stunned. Although Ashoka did die during this period, wasn’t it too much of a coincidence?

"Did our people do it?" Yan Yan had no doubt that King Ashoka's death was related to this group of unscrupulous guys that he had appointed as fiefdoms.

"According to the investigation of the Military Control Commission and the Embroidered Uniform Guard, it is very likely that it was done by our people, but no one has admitted it!" Mo Ya said helplessly.

After all, regicide is not a good thing.

Even if the person killed was the king of another country, no one dared to admit it.

There was only one person in the world who dared to admit to regicide, and that was Jing Ke, who assassinated King Dayuezi.

Others have the guts to do it, but no one has the guts to admit it.

You dare to kill the king of another country, but what about your own king?
So, you can do it but you can't admit it.

Unless you are Jing Ke!

The most important thing is that Jing Ke assassinated King Dayuezi on the orders of Yan Yan, and he was just following orders.

Therefore, the historian used the word "kill" instead of "kill" when recording Jing Ke's assassination of the King of Dayuezhi.

(End of this chapter)