The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 519: Ying Zheng's Daily Life

However, the system of collective responsibility has both advantages and disadvantages. For officials, it is not suitable to impose collective responsibility on a large scale, otherwise it will instead protect each other and form a party-mass relationship where officials are dependent on themselves. In addition, many new officials in recent years have also been admitted through their own examinations, and officials who entered the officialdom through the recommendation system have accounted for a small proportion.

In recent years, Ying Zheng has also appropriately relaxed the system of collective responsibility to give officials a break. After all, they have to give people a way out. A violent rule that makes everyone feel insecure is not a long-term solution and greatly reduces work efficiency. Of course, if they relax a little, these officials who have experienced strict management will be more grateful, more motivated, and more proactive in a short period of time.

After all, if you were careless, you would break the law and either lose your job or your whole family would die. Everyone would be very careful and cautious. It would be better not to do it than to make a mistake. It would be better to be rigid than to be bold. How could you manage the place well if you did this?

There are hundreds of people of all kinds, and with so many people in a county, anything can happen. We should give them some space. If we keep things lifeless and suppress them blindly, problems will arise sooner or later. Of course, we are not saying that we should let go completely, as that would be even worse. The key is to have a certain degree, and we should grasp this scale and make specific adjustments based on the development situation.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. Everything has a limit.

Although Ying Zheng liked women, he had no other channels to vent his feelings.

He had too much to do. He had to attend court for at least half an hour, and then convene the cabinet ministers to discuss state affairs for at least another half an hour. He also had to review memorials to the emperor for at least two hours every day.

I regularly meet with important local officials to understand the actual conditions in various places. Sometimes, half an hour would pass by in just a few in-depth conversations.

Each county had county governors, county lieutenants, superintendents of censors, and county chancellors. Some also had chief secretaries. In addition, there were many generals, eminent men of various schools of thought, the main managers of the Xianyang Academy, talented people who came to seek refuge, foreign envoys, etc., all of whom had to be received regularly.

We need to understand the situation, the problems, and the difficulties, listen to their views on national policies and court situations, and find ways to solve the problems.

He also has to personally handle the appointment, removal and assessment of high-ranking officials.

There are also military decisions and strategic deployments, and he must often inspect the Xianyang Weiwei Army and the Lieutenant Army. This is the top priority. He must do this at least twice a month, and the military commanders must be familiar with this face. A monarch who does not often visit the army often finds it difficult to truly control the army.

We must also supervise the judiciary. Daqin governs the country by law, and we must ensure the fair enforcement of the law, review major cases, and make final decisions on some controversial cases to avoid unjust, false and wrong cases that cause adverse effects.

Especially the power to approve the death penalty, this power had long been in the hands of Ying Zheng. Unless it was an emergency, all judicial death penalty and above punishments had to be approved by Ying Zheng himself. The power of the ruler was to decide life and death, and killing could only be decided by the ruler.

Another thing is to review and revise the new laws that are being formulated, including the "Daqin Law", which is the fundamental law that stipulates the fundamental system of Daqin, such as Daqin's political system, land economic system, official system, basic rights and obligations of the people, and many other fundamental issues.

Then there is the Criminal Law, which mainly deals with criminal acts and systematically stipulates various criminal acts and their corresponding penalties. The Civil Law mainly guides the people in their daily lives. The Commercial Law mainly manages all kinds of businesses and the payment of commercial taxes.

There is also the extremely important "Qin Zheng Law", which was originally to be changed to "Qin Li Law" in order to avoid the taboo of "Zheng" in Ying Zheng, but Ying Zheng specifically requested to use the name "Qin Zheng Law", wanting that all officials in the world should abide by "Zheng".

The Qin Political Law is a specific system for managing nobles and officials, clarifying their powers and responsibilities, welfare and punishments, etc.

Working in the law is not an easy job. The most important thing for a ruler is to formulate rules, establish systems, and divide the pie among different classes. This is the core and fundamental matter, and it took all of Ying Zheng's efforts.

We also need to formulate and guide the future cultural development, moral system, belief system, etc. of the Qin Dynasty. These are also top priorities. This is the most fundamental thing to maintain social order and reduce the cost of governance. We cannot be careless at all and must do it ourselves.

Only when law, morality and faith are used together can the rule be truly consolidated.

There are also economic people's livelihood, agricultural development, which are also what Ying Zheng pays great attention to. Food is the most important thing for people, so we must pay attention to it. The fact that Tian Guang has the right to directly enter the palace to meet the emperor is enough to show how much Ying Zheng values ​​farming.

As for the economy, it is even more important. Everything in the world comes down to money. Although we are still living in a material society, how to allocate and distribute resources is also of paramount importance.

After all, the world is material and people need to eat. This era is not so hypocritical. People work for you because you provide conditions that are worth working for.

A gentleman is not ashamed to talk about profit, he just gets it in a proper way. That's the truth.

When Ying Zheng was still the crown prince, he had already come up with a new way of accounting in order to try his best to limit corruption. This was mainly in the era of physical objects, which made it easier to play tricks.

Ying Zheng was most concerned about this. Apart from anything else, now in addition to the elite Sihui (huiji) under the command of the Nei Shi, there was also a group of people in the Shaofu and the inner court. Every year, when they checked the accounts, they would check them cross-wise.

As long as there are no problems with the accounts and the numbers are true, there is nothing to worry about. No matter how the local governance is or how the many resources of the Qin Dynasty are deployed, the numbers will not lie.

To put it bluntly, being a monarch is like doing business. In any decision, you must consider the explicit and implicit advantages and disadvantages. All the people and things in your hands are capital. How to use and spend them can exchange for more capital. This is what the monarch does. However, the affairs of the world are interconnected, and there are too many aspects to consider.

People are variables, but physical objects are quantitative. Use quantitative factors to influence variables, and then use variables to increase quantitative factors.

Therefore, the specific control of quantitative accounts is of utmost importance. If you can't control the quantitative accounts, don't be a monarch, you will definitely not be able to do it well. You must also pay attention to the training of your children, test their academic performance frequently, and keep an eye on the teachers who teach them so that they don't teach the children in the wrong direction.

These are all things he must do. As a ruler, if he wants to keep a tight grip on power, there are some powers that cannot be delegated to others and must be done by himself.

Although the system and efficiency of the court's operation had been improved long ago, and there were cabinet ministers and many attendants, all of whom were top talents, it was still extremely busy. If Ying Zheng had not been so highly skilled, naturally energetic, and extremely happy with it, he would not have been able to bear it.

After all, he is the founder of the great unification. There are countless things he needs to consider and do, and he will never be able to finish his work.

What's more, they had to learn from the lessons of their past lives and were determined to build a long-lasting empire, so naturally they would fight to the death.

Although he controls thousands of miles of territory and dominates the world, there is not a single bit of real ease at all.

It is true that if you want to inherit the crown, you must bear its weight.

It is no exaggeration to say that I am extremely busy.

You have to restrain your other desires, get rid of the idea of ​​laziness, and relax your heart appropriately, and you can only relax with a woman.

If you want to be in control, you can do whatever you want when you want, but in normal times, you need to be more restrained, more resilient, and work harder.

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Is it so easy to control supreme power? If someone listens to you when you say something, you must have put in a lot of hard work behind the scenes.

If you don't take good care of this little bitch of power, she will immediately run into someone else's arms. If you are careless, others will take advantage of you or even rob you. At that time, the whole clan will turn into dust.

I am tense every day because everyone around me is watching me and I cannot afford to slack off even for a moment.

Physically, they are also extremely busy and the pressure is so great that it is hard for ordinary people to imagine.

As the territory of rule grew, power also grew, but there were also more and more things to do.

Unless you are born with strong energy and a strong mind, you will not be able to enjoy the pleasure of holding power.

Ying Zheng was a restrained person. He didn't drink, didn't like gourmet food, didn't build large projects, and didn't kill people cruelly. His mind and body needed relaxation. Until today, he only played with women. He was already a rare sage king, a true sage king.

The most difficult thing is to keep restraining yourself. It is not difficult to restrain yourself for one or two days, or three or five years, but the difficult thing is to keep restraining yourself.

Even Ying Zheng occasionally had the urge to indulge himself. After all, every day was so busy and stressful. He had to be rational all the time, and his heart and body were tense. It was really torturous.

If it weren't for the only harbor, Zhao Ji, who ate and chatted with him every day to relax his heart, Ying Zheng's methods would surely be much more cruel than they are now.

Killing people and things that you don't like can make you feel better and save a lot of effort. Of course, there is a price to pay for doing things, and the simpler the method, the greater the price. Killing people directly is always the worst option.

The more power a person has, the more he should have a valve control.

Ying Zheng was no exception. No matter how much he was moved, patient, and tenacious, he had no confidence that one day, after unifying the world and accomplishing unprecedented great deeds, after he could control the entire world and take whatever he wanted, he would not indulge himself.

too difficult.

With absolute power and the fulfillment of all pursuits, how can one not indulge himself if he does not have an anchor to control it?
Anyway, no matter what he did, it was just a little bit of willfulness on the part of the great Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

The most difficult thing in the world is to integrate knowledge and action. It is not difficult to know the truth, but the difficult part is whether you can do it.

Ying Zheng naturally understood these principles, but he always suppressed his strong desire to be a little willful.

Even he himself didn't know how long he could suppress it. Fortunately, Zhao Ji and his elder sister were watching over him. After all, there was still a soft spot in his heart, and his heart was not completely as hard as steel.

(End of this chapter)