Diqin Designer

Chapter 403: Departure within a certain period of time
Many ministers thought to themselves: "Your Majesty has changed a lot in the past year!"

The words of the First Emperor clearly told everyone his choice: What I want is a strong Qin. Even if its reign may not last too long, I do not need a weak but long-lasting country.

This is the true meaning of "I will not take it" by the First Emperor: What I want is a strong Qin. Even if a weak Qin may last longer, I will not take it!
The strong Qin might have a shorter lifespan than the weak Qin, but even if it reached its demise, the strong Qin would still perish because of its strength, leaving the evaluation to future generations that "countries are often destroyed because of their weakness, but Qin alone was destroyed because of its strength."

It is obvious that after listening to the history of Han and Tang Dynasties, the First Emperor wanted his Great Qin to become a dynasty like the Han and Tang Dynasties. No, in the mind of the First Emperor, he probably wanted to surpass the Han and Tang Dynasties!
After hearing what the First Emperor said, the minister, whom the First Emperor called "Tao Qing", bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, I already know what you mean. I take back what I just said. Please punish me, Your Majesty!"

Not every emperor has the courage to make such a choice, which also makes all the ministers admire the First Emperor from the bottom of their hearts. Their Majesty is truly an extraordinary person.

In response to the minister's request for punishment, the First Emperor said, "Mr. Tao is speaking to me faithfully. What is wrong with that? Mr. Tao, please take a seat!"

After this, all the ministers have fully understood the real intention of today's court meeting: Your Majesty intends to express your attitude to them today. I support this matter. You should no longer oppose it in the future. You should develop in the direction that I support.

In short, it is to unify the hearts of all ministers, that is, to unify the thoughts of the top leaders of the Qin Empire and work together to achieve the goal of making the Qin Empire great and powerful.

After knowing the First Emperor's clear attitude, no minister raised any objection anymore. Your Majesty knew everything clearly, so what else was there to object to?

Your Majesty has made clear your attitude to develop a strong Qin. Even if the powerful Qin may no longer be ruled by the Ying and Zhao families, it will still make me strong!
Since His Majesty himself does not care so much, there is no need for them, as his subjects, to care so much. If the Emperor is not anxious, why should they be anxious?
The hall soon became lively again, and the ministers discussed the contents of the document, either putting forward their own opinions or asking questions about what they did not understand.

On this day, several decrees were passed that would affect the development of Daqin: the establishment of the Daqin Academy of Sciences, the Daqin Academy of Engineering, and the Daqin Ministry of Commerce. Foreign affairs, which were originally under the Ministry of Rites, were also separated and the Daqin Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established...

If Qin wants to develop from a local power to an international one, interact with more countries and deal with people from more countries, then diplomatic affairs will become very important, and it will no longer be appropriate to place them under the Ministry of Rites.

Before leaving the court, Li Nian reminded: "If the Great Qin wants to become strong, it must indeed expand outward, but you must remember: domestic development should be the first priority. 'The iron must be hard to forge'. If you are not strong enough, everything will be like the moon in the water and the flowers in the mirror."

Wang Wan echoed, "Master Li Nian is right. The countries are willing to obey the orders of the Qin Empire because it is stronger than them. If the Qin Empire is not strong enough, they will not obey the orders. Domestic governance is the first priority. Only when domestic development is excellent can we develop abroad. In the past year, domestic development has been very good!"

The country was unified just last year, and many places were in a state of disrepair. The court also promised to reduce corvée and taxes. Many ministers thought that the court's income last year might not be too high, but the result was far beyond expectations.

Judging from the overall income distribution, the proportion of taxes collected from the people has decreased, but other aspects have increased, compensating for the impact of light taxes and levies, such as the income from trade with the Xiongnu and Baiyue tribes, and the income from selling snow salt and honeycomb coal.

This also changed the original ideas of many ministers about the country's fiscal and taxation: Originally, in their view, the taxes collected from the people were the most important, and as long as this was guaranteed, everything else was not critical, and even if they were collected, not much money would be collected.

Therefore, when Li Nian and the First Emperor were carrying out reforms on the Qin Dynasty last year, many ministers were actually somewhat pessimistic. Some even waited for Li Nian and the First Emperor to fail so that they could write to the First Emperor and persuade him to return to the "right path" and stop listening to the words of the evil man who was bringing disaster to the country.

If you do well, you are a genius; if you do not do well, you are a demon who brings disaster to the country!

This is also the reason why, although Li Nian and the First Emperor made some changes to the Qin Dynasty last year, they did not carry out drastic reforms on the Qin Dynasty, and they would only start after the great victory this year.

Without results, no matter how good the reasoning is, it will not convince people. When the financial report of Daqin came out last year, these ministers were surprised to find that:
The income from trade with other countries and merchants could actually make the imperial court so much profit. Although it was still not as much as the taxes collected from the people, it should not be underestimated.

Moreover, there is basically no more room for excavating the taxes collected from the people. If they want to excavate them by force, they can do so, but the people's resentment will increase. If this bar rises to a critical point, the people will pick up farm tools and beat people.

However, the income from trade with other countries and merchants is different. There is still a lot of room for development. So much can be earned from trading with the Xiongnu and the Baiyue tribes. If we trade with more countries and the types of trade are more diverse and more frequent, won't we be able to earn more?

This is also one of the reasons why all the ministers are willing to agree to this document today. The results achieved last year have proved that this path is feasible.

In the past year, the old noble forces of the six countries were eliminated, solving a major problem for Daqin. Although they were not able to keep all of them and some of the nobles of the six countries fled overseas, their reputation in the world has been ruined, and even if they return to Daqin in the future, it will be difficult for them to accomplish anything.

Moreover, overseas is not a good place. It is mostly inhabited by ignorant natives and full of malaria. It is hard to say whether the former nobles of the six countries can adapt to the local environment after fleeing overseas.

Although it has only been a year, as long as the prosperous atmosphere of last year can continue, Daqin will surely become better and better year by year. Today's Daqin has a bright and beautiful future, and sooner or later a prosperous Daqin will emerge.

Wang Wan continued, "But we should not be complacent because of last year's success. We should make this year better than last year. Last year was the first year of unifying the world, and we were able to achieve such results. This year should be even better!"

All the ministers nodded in agreement. Although it was not a choice between domestic and foreign policy, it would not be easy to develop abroad if the country was not well governed.

Some ministers could not help but think back to more than a year ago, when they were still focusing on the six countries, and occasionally looking outward, but just taking a casual look. It was nothing like now when they were planning among the countries and discussing how the Qin Dynasty should build order among the countries and gain benefits.

The times have really changed, and are very different from what they were used to. Many ministers can't help but feel a sense of urgency. The world is about to change, and if they can't keep up, sooner or later they will be left behind even if they are still in high positions now.

It seems that in order not to be left behind, they can only work harder to learn new things, learn the new Qin characters, learn to study things, do arithmetic, and understand the countries of the world.

If a country wants to change, its people should change first, because a country exists only with people. If people do not change, how can the country change? Now that the ministers of the Qin Dynasty have the idea of ​​change in their hearts, it means that the Qin Dynasty will truly usher in a great era of change.

While Li Nian and others were attending court to discuss state affairs, the ambassador of the Peacock Kingdom was meditating in the room. Suddenly, a voice was heard outside. It turned out to be a Qin official who was in charge of managing them in the Sihai Pavilion.

Although the Qin Dynasty imposed strict restrictions on them in many aspects, such as not being allowed to go out at will, not being allowed to communicate with others at will, and restricting their access to the advanced skills and knowledge of the Qin Dynasty, it was quite open to them in some aspects.

For example, the Qin Empire opened up to them the learning of various schools of thought, allowing them to read and study the classics of various schools, and even allowed them to go to the Hundred Schools Academy to debate with the scholars of the Qin Empire. The Peacock Nation's ambassador had been in the Qin Empire for several months, and although he could not say that he had mastered the profound Qin language, it was enough for daily communication, but he had a problem with his accent, which was very spicy.

At this moment, he heard the Qin official calling them to gather together. The Peacock Nation ambassador sighed inwardly, fearing that what they had thought of was about to happen, "The Qin people want to let them go back to their country!" However, he did not expect that the Qin people would be so impatient to let them go back.

As soon as the Maurya Ambassador walked out of the room, he saw many members of the delegation gathered outside. One of them whispered, "Ambassador (according to deepseek, his name is "Danuta"), the Qin people must want us to return home!"

The envoy of the Maurya Kingdom nodded silently and led the members of the delegation to the gathering place. He saw Master Maye and the monks of Tamolidi also arrived. The two men made eye contact, but did not speak, just nodded to each other.

Looking forward again, I saw a Qin official standing there with a team of Qin soldiers who were guarding the Sihai Pavilion. It was this Qin official who had just called them to assemble.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, the Qin official said, "I have called you all together today to inform you of an important matter: Please pack your bags and prepare your belongings in the next few days. In five days, I will escort you to leave Daqin and return to your country!"

As they thought, the Qin people wanted them to return home. Fortunately, the Qin people still had some conscience and did not inform them today. They asked them to leave today and gave them five days to prepare.

"When you leave, you must abide by the laws of the Great Qin. All your belongings must be inspected by us, and you are not allowed to take any prohibited items out of the country. I have been with you for such a long time. Although we cannot be considered friends, we can be considered acquaintances. Please don't make things difficult for us."

After saying this unfriendly thing, the Qin official said the friendly grain note: "Also, you are returning home this time, the journey is long, I am afraid it will be difficult to come to Daqin again in the future. To show our friendship with you, if you have any items you want to bring back to the country, as long as they are not prohibited items, Daqin can prepare them for you."

"Daqin will also prepare some utensils and food for you to use on your return journey, so that you can return home easily!"

This not only demonstrates the friendship of the Qin Dynasty towards envoys from other countries, but also means that the Qin Dynasty does not want these people to die on the road. For the Qin Dynasty, they can play a greater role only after returning to the Peacock Kingdom.

After hearing what the Qin official said, the Maurya envoy and Master Moye knew that the Qin people really wanted them to return to their country. Even if they were unwilling to go back, they would be forcibly repatriated by the Qin people.

The Maurya envoy looked at the Qin official and said in a not very standard but spice-scented accent, "Your Excellency Mahodaya, may I see the great Qin Emperor once more before I leave?"

He also wanted to make a final attempt to meet with the First Emperor and reduce the threat posed by the Qin Dynasty to their Peacock Kingdom. Although the Qin Dynasty did not openly show that it posed a threat to their Peacock Kingdom, they could feel it.

The Qin Empire is too strong and they are so weak. If the Qin Empire can send a large army to them, it will surely send a large army to attack them, and they will never be able to stop it.

If they don't try to eliminate this threat now, do they have to wait until the Qin army arrives in their Peacock Kingdom and starts attacking cities and strongholds before they find a way to resolve it?

By then, it's too late!

The Qin official also knew what the Peacock Kingdom was up to, and replied calmly: "Your Majesty said that although Great Qin and your country are separated by thousands of mountains, the friendship between the two countries has been established, and thousands of mountains and rivers cannot stand in the way. You can all return to your country with peace of mind, and there is no need to see him again."

These words seemed to be saying that Great Qin and the Peacock Kingdom already had a friendship, but the Peacock Kingdom's envoy could tell that these were just polite words from the Qin Emperor!

If they really took the Maurya Kingdom seriously and there was friendship between the two countries, why would they be imprisoned here? And forced to give them a deadline to leave? And not allowed to see the emperor?
The Peacock Kingdom was looking depressed. The Qin people were unwilling to give them even a chance and they were powerless. But this also proved that the Qin people really had ideas about their Peacock Kingdom.

After the Maurya envoy, Master Maya said, "Venerable Mahadaya, may we have some scriptures to take back?"

Since there is no way to eliminate the Qin people's ill will towards their Peacock Kingdom, then they should try to bring some things back from Qin to let those people in the country better understand the strength of Qin and the power of the Qin people, so that they can unite and jointly deal with possible invasions from Qin in the future.

It would be best if you could bring books that record the Qin people's most advanced knowledge and skills. It would be even better if you could bring books on how to make that kind of artillery. But you can imagine that the Qin people would not allow it!

Qin Li looked at Master Moye and asked, "What book do you want to take?"

Master Maya had obviously thought about it in his mind: "Venerable Mahadaya, we would like to bring back your dictionary, your children's enlightenment books, your hundred classics, your law books, your history books, your world map...Is it possible?"

After saying this, Master Moye was very nervous, not knowing how many of the things he proposed would be allowed to be taken back by the Qin people. Very wisely, he did not ask for the Qin people's technical books, but only mentioned the books that he judged would be agreed to by the Qin people.

According to the little information about the Qin Dynasty that he knew, the Qin people established a Qin International College, which was specifically for accepting foreign students who had established diplomatic relations with the Qin Dynasty, so they could study these.

Since the Qin people allowed students from other countries to know about it, it should not be difficult for him to ask the Qin people for it and bring it back to his country.

Qin Li smiled and said, "I cannot give you any confirmation on this matter for the time being. I will report the things you requested to His Majesty. If His Majesty approves, you can take them with you."

After Master Yumoye finished speaking, the Qin official looked at the other Maurya people and said, "The same goes for the items from the Great Qin that you want to bring back to the country. Just bring them to me and I will report to His Majesty, who will make the final decision."

In fact, the Qin official did not know that the First Emperor was not the one who made the decision. The one who made the decision was Li Nian, who was responsible for reviewing what these Peacock people could take back and what they could not bring back.

Li Nian couldn't help but smile when he saw the things that Master Moye proposed to take away in Liuying Palace. It was obvious that Master Moye wanted the people of Maurya to better understand Daqin. With a stroke of his pen, he removed a few items and agreed to the application.

As long as you do not want to bring back the advanced technology of the Qin Dynasty, but only want to bring back the classics of various schools of thought, dictionaries of the Qin Dynasty and other things, you are all good comrades and you are welcome to accept the ideological and cultural impact from the Qin Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)