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Chapter 1029: Reforming the Country - Shang Yang (summoning chapter, can be skipped!)

After the last balance, he had used the top-level force summoning card to summon Li Cunxiao, the top 110 ceiling war god, and used the unlimited internal force summoning card to summon the Minghe Laozu, the leader of the Blood Sea Demon Cult, and used the top-level summoning card to summon Kong Xuan, the number one person under the saint.

Next he summoned once more and it was time for the fourth balance.

Moreover, based on the extraordinary qualities of Li Cunxiao, the Old Ancestor of the Styx and Kong Xuan, the three people he summoned some time ago.

It can be expected that the intensity of the fourth balance will definitely not be low!
Therefore, Su Ye specially endured this fourth summoning until now when the overall situation in Qianzhou has been settled.

Otherwise, he and Meng Zhang had already discussed the script for Qianzhou, and Su Ye suddenly sent some powerful men to Qianzhou, which would only cause more trouble!
"Ding! The Saint-level political summoning card is being used. The system will give a list of five characters. Please remove two and randomly summon one of the remaining three."

"Summoning, host, please wait a moment"

"Ding! The first Saint-level political summoner, the reformer who strengthened Qin - the Legalist representative Shang Yang, command 90, force 76, intelligence 99, politics 103."

The country is governed by law and there is no hierarchy in punishment. This is the pioneer of Legalism, Shang Yang!

Shang Yang's reforms strengthened the foundation of Qin and his contribution will last for thousands of years. He was a pioneer of reform and moved a tree to establish his credibility. A promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Shang Yang's credibility is an example for the world!
Shang Yang initially went to the State of Wei, but was not valued. Later, when he heard that King Xiaogong of Qin was eager for talents, he went to the State of Qin.

Through the introduction of Jing Jian, a favorite minister of Qin Xiaogong, Shang Yang was able to meet Qin Xiaogong.

He successively lobbied Qin Xiaogong with the three philosophies of governing the country, namely "Imperial Way", "Kingly Way" and "Hegemonic Way". Finally, he moved Qin Xiaogong with "Hegemonic Way" and was appointed as the Left Minister to preside over the reform.

Subsequently, Shang Yang implemented a series of profound reform measures in the Qin State, which are known in history as the "Shang Yang Reforms."

In order to establish the prestige of his reform, Shang Yang set up a piece of wood at the south gate of the capital city of Liyang (near present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi) and announced that anyone who could move the wood to the north gate would be rewarded with ten gold coins. The people did not believe him and no one took action.

Shang Yang raised the reward to fifty gold coins, and finally someone moved the wood to the north gate, and Shang Yang immediately fulfilled his promise. This move established the prestige of the reform, and was known in history as "moving the wood to establish credibility."

In the early stages of the reform, Qin nobles such as Gan Long and Du Zhi opposed the reform, believing that "there is nothing wrong in following the ancient ways, and there is nothing wrong in abiding by the rites."

Shang Yang retorted: "There is no one way to govern the world, and governing a country should not follow the old ways." He emphasized that governing a country should be based on actual conditions and should not be bound by old ways.

In the end, Duke Xiao of Qin supported Shang Yang and the reform was implemented.

However, Shang Yang's reforms violated the interests of the Qin nobles, especially Prince Ying Si (later King Huiwen of Qin), whose teachers Gongzi Qian and Gongsun Jia were punished for breaking the law.

The prince held a grudge against Shang Yang, which sowed the seeds of tragedy for Shang Yang.

Later generations have polarized opinions on Shang Yang, with both positive and negative comments.

Sang Hongyang, the Imperial Censor of the Western Han Dynasty, commented on Shang Yang:
When Shang Yang was the Prime Minister of Qin, he established laws and regulations, imposed strict punishments, and strictly enforced politics and education, so that there was no room for treachery and deceit. He also set up a hundredfold profit and collected taxes from mountains and lakes, which made the country rich and the people strong, with complete weapons and ample reserves. Therefore, he conquered the enemy and conquered other countries, seized land and expanded borders, and did not impose taxes on the people, but provided them with support. Therefore, the resources were inexhaustible and the people did not know it, and the land ended up as far as the west river, but the people did not suffer.

Shang Yang was the prime minister of Qin. He established a legal system in the country, strictly enforced it, rectified politics and education, and made it impossible for treacherous and hypocritical people to stay. He set up measures to obtain a hundredfold profit from the outside world, levied taxes on mountains, rivers, lakes and marshes, and made the country rich and the people strong. With sophisticated weapons and abundant supplies, he conquered enemy countries and expanded the territory without levying taxes on the people, and the army had sufficient supplies. Therefore, the financial resources were not exhausted and the people did not notice it. The territory was expanded to Xihe and the people did not feel hardship. This is a positive evaluation of Shang Yang. Sang Hongyang was good at economic and financial work, so he had a profound impact on the economy in Shang Yang's reform.

Relatively speaking, Sima Qian's evaluation of Shang Yang was negative.

Sima Qian's negative evaluation of Shang Yang is mainly that he thinks Shang Yang is a mean and ungrateful person, that is, a cruel official. This statement is biased. Shang Yang was a legalist and what he implemented was reform. The law does not take into account human relationships and worldly affairs. Those who break the law must be punished. If Shang Yang still cares about gratitude, then those who have done him a favor and broke the law will not be punished?
However, Sima Qian's evaluation of Shang Yang was mostly based on the dispute between Confucianism and Legalism.

But unfortunately, Shang Yang's reform was a double-edged sword. On the positive side, it made the Qin people very law-abiding, passers-by picked up lost items, and public security was very good. On the negative side, the criminal law was harsh, and people were killed at any time. In life, it is inevitable to make mistakes, and once you make a mistake, you may lose your life.

Therefore, in the minds of the people, Shang Yang was regarded as a cruel official and people certainly did not feel pity for him.

"Records of the Grand Historian" records that Shang Yang served as prime minister of Qin for ten years, and many princes and nobles resented him.

This is easier to understand. Shang Yang abolished the hereditary system of nobility. Nobles were no longer born nobles. They had to exchange military merits for titles like the common people. Not only did the nobles hate him, they even wanted to kill him.

So as soon as Duke Xiao of Qin died, these old nobles all united to frame Shang Yang for treason. As a close monarch, King Huiwen of Qin wanted to establish his authority and also wanted to take back the military and political power.

You must know that Shang Yang was a huge threat to the new monarch. He had been carrying out reforms in Qin for many years and held military and political power. It was Qin Xiaogong who protected Shang Yang behind the scenes. Once Qin Xiaogong died, Shang Yang's backing collapsed and he was naturally liquidated.

But King Huiwen of Qin was also a wise ruler. Although he killed Shang Yang, he did not abolish Shang Yang's reforms. The Qin State continued to maintain the reforms, which made it become increasingly powerful.

But in the final analysis, it was Shang Yang's reforms in Qin that laid the foundation for Qin to become rich and powerful, which led to the later unification of the world by Qin Shihuang.

However, Shang Yang offended the people, nobles, and monarch of Qin because of his reforms, and the negative comments from Confucian scholars later led to his bad reputation.

In fact, Shang Yang's reputation has always been controversial. Some people think that Shang Yang is positive, while others think that Shang Yang is negative.

"Ding! The second Saint-level political summoner, who governs the country by law - Legalist master Han Feizi, command 80, force 71, intelligence 94, politics 102."

Han Fei, respectfully called "Han Feizi" or "Han Zi" by later generations, was the main representative and integrator of the Legalist school.

Han Fei studied under Xunzi, the representative figure of the Confucian school, but his ideas were different from Xunzi and he did not inherit Confucian thoughts.

He "liked the study of criminal law and magic" and "returned to the roots of Huang-Lao", inherited and developed the Legalist thought, and became the culmination of the Legalist thought in the late Warring States period.

Han Fei Zi integrated Shang Yang's "law", Shen Buhai's "technique" and Shen Tao's "power", skillfully combining dialectics, naive materialism and jurisprudence, and left behind many classic speeches and works for later generations.

His articles such as "Gu Fen", "Wu Wu", "Nei Chu Shuo", "Wai Chu Shuo", "Shuo Lin" and "Shuo Nan" were collected, sorted and compiled by later generations, and finally compiled into the book "Han Feizi", which has been passed down to this day.

(End of this chapter)