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

Chapter 1210: The Law of the Public Office [Subscription*Monthly Ticket Request]

"How about considering the Zen school's idea of ​​abdication?" Yan Yan asked tentatively.

"Absolutely not!" An Qisheng and others were horrified.

Abdication will result in the death of many people!

The consequences of Yan State's abdication are known to the world.

It's not that there is anything wrong with abdication, but the whole world has tacitly accepted the existence of the royal family, and abdication would be going against the whole world.

Centripetal force is an important thing for an empire.

If the public office exists and has a good reputation, the people will respect it and serve the empire.

If the royal family does not exist, the people will worry about their future, and the court officials will also worry about the future, and they may even do whatever it takes to fight for that position. In that case, it will be the people who will suffer.

Unless the public office is rotten to the core, the people will not be willing to change it.

Even if there are termites in the office, the public will only think that it is an isolated case and the office will deal with it internally, and the entire office will still plan for their future.

Yan Yan sighed. Talking about democracy in this era?

Are you afraid that the empire won’t die fast enough?

The premise of democracy is that the people can have enough food and clothing and have time to think about political affairs, rather than having to deal with such messy things when they are hungry and cold.

People today don’t have open minds and don’t have time to think about these things.

All they need is for the upper class to tell them what to do and how to do it, to give them guidance and make their lives truly enriched, rather than letting them come into contact with things that their ancestors have never been exposed to.

It's like asking them to consider the future of the empire when they still need special people to explain the policies of their own county. This is too much to ask.

The reason why Yao, Shun and Yu were able to use abdication was that there were only a few people in China at that time. In a tribal election, with people from several villages, who wouldn’t know each other?

But now Bingzhou spans tens of thousands of miles from east to west.

What's the difference between abdication and letting Bingzhou return to the nomadic era?

If they dare to abdicate, people from all parts of Bingzhou will rise up and declare independence the next day, and no one will submit to anyone else.

To put it another way, if the governor of Donghu is elected, will the governors of Hetao and Juyanze obey?
By then, I will beat your brains out. Why can you be elected but I can't? Do it!
"Forget it, I'll go back to the harem and work hard!" Yan Yan held his waist and left.

Only children say they want everything, but adults know that they can’t afford it.

Watching Yan Yan leave with his hands on his waist, An Qisheng could only feel deep sympathy.

He was very puzzled. They were all masters, but he had a bunch of rebellious sons. It seemed that the saying that masters had difficulty in having children was a fallacy, which harmed him a lot.

He was also worried that he would have no descendants, and his family was even more worried, so he had two wives, but many concubines, which resulted in him having so many descendants that they could form a cavalry unit.

But he didn't dare tell Yan Yan, as that would be like rubbing salt into the wound.

"What is going on?" An Qisheng shook his head.

As the prime minister of a country, you have to keep an eye on the daily records and watch the emperor's sexual life all day long. Is this what a prime minister should do?
"Damn Taiyi Mountain, and a bunch of old medical experts, they can't even solve such a trivial problem!" An Qisheng cursed.

Ever since he became the prime minister of Bingzhou, Heguanzi also became the patron saint of Bingzhou, and the interactions between Taiyi Mountain and Bingzhou increased. As a result, he only came when there was something to ask for, but when something happened, he couldn't even handle such a small matter.

Taiyi Mountain is also helpless. We have been staying at home to cultivate ourselves and explore the secret of longevity, but the first task we received is how to have children!
Isn't it enough to just have that?

We are a group of great immortal cultivators. Instead of asking us about immortality, you ask us how to have children!
Is this right?

"Actually, there is another way!" An Qisheng murmured in a low voice. It's not that there are no royal family members in Bingzhou, Yan Yan at least still has a family.

The Yan family of Yushan Academy does not count, but the lineage of Xinling Jun does count.

A foster father is also a father.

In this era, adoptive fathers and adopted sons have inheritance rights.

If it were any other family, it might not be possible, but it is possible for the lineage of Lord Xinling.

Even if we don't count Xinling Jun's personal prestige, Wei Ju and Wei Bao are both very famous now. If Xinling Jun's lineage were allowed to rule Bingzhou, it would not be impossible for the people of Bingzhou to accept it.

It is also legal and compliant to let Wei Ju or Wei Bao adopt an outstanding offspring under the name of Yan Yan.

But no one mentioned it, and no one dared to say it. After all, Yan Yan, Shao Siming, and Yan Lingji were all in their prime, so who would dare to say this?
It could only be Yan Yan and Wei Ju who brought it up themselves.

But Wei Ju and Wei Bao had never thought about this.

Since the death of Xinling Jun, although Yan Yan inherited most of Xinling Jun's inheritance, what Yan Yan gave later far exceeded what he had originally taken.

Therefore, Wei Ju and Wei Bao never thought about this matter.

Of course, if Yan Yan brought it up on his own initiative, they would not refuse and would allow their best sons to be adopted.

But if Yan Yan didn't mention it, they wouldn't bring it up.

It is not something these two brothers could do to repay a favor.

Someone mentioned this to Wei Ju, and the next day Wei Ju hung the body on the mast.

"I and my brother have never participated in the rise of Bingzhou, so how can we dare to hope for it?" These were Wei Ju's original words.

The two brothers have always been beneficiaries rather than contributors. They have never participated in the construction of Bingzhou. To use the example of the dispute over the crown prince, if you have never made any contribution or achievement to the empire, how can you be qualified to become a king?
They don’t want to be insecure in their old age.

They don't want the reputation they have worked so hard to gain in their lifetime to be labeled as a successor to the Wei family because of this incident.

The Emperor is a monarch, and the Water Lord is also a monarch. There is no need to sacrifice most of your life's reputation for the sake of the word Emperor.

"This won't work, and that won't work either. Where should Bingzhou go?" Standing in front of the school administration hall, An Qisheng fell into deep despair about the future of Bingzhou as a whole.

Although he could chat and laugh with Yan Yan and told him not to worry, as Yan Yan would survive anyway, fate was fixed and no one was immortal.

That day will eventually come.

What should Bingzhou do then?
After returning to the office, An Qisheng was thankful for his busy official duties. Only by keeping himself busy would he have no time to think about these things.

The pressure was immediately put on the other three dukes and nine ministers.

"The Peacock is finished. Meng Xin and Wang Mu had a fight in Peacock King City, and each won and lost."

In the National Commandery, Li Ren and other senior officers gathered together.

Originally, the wars between these vassal states would not have been on their agenda.

But this time it was different. The contradiction between Qin and Bingzhou was becoming increasingly serious. Although they did not fight openly, they were preparing for war secretly.

Meng Xin was a vassal state of Bingzhou, and Wang Mu was a vassal state of Qin. They both established their own kingdoms in Kongque and are now the two largest princes in Kongque territory.

(End of this chapter)