Great Qin Emperor

Chapter 338 Innovation

Heroes will not only be produced in one period, but will exist in every period, because someone who wants someone to do something will make a contribution, and rewarding them is inevitable, but the reward of King Wu of Zhou is extremely harmful Envelope.With regard to the enfeoffment system, the King of Qin has already understood the dangers in it with his unique insight, and he doesn't want to implement it at all. The reason why he can't make up his mind is because he can't find a way to reward heroes. As long as he finds this way, the problem will be solved. It's all solved.Zhou Chong has a solution, of course he is very eager.

Zhou Chong analyzed: "Since ancient times, the way to reward meritorious officials has been to entrust them with a piece of land. Although this method has won a lot of applause, "Poems" and "Books" are full of praise, and scholars praise it, it is actually very harmful. Pointing at scholars, Confucius and Mencius didn’t see it, let alone let them criticize it.”

The words reached the heart of the king of Qin. He clapped his hands and said: "Scholars can only talk empty talk. They have no ability to do things, but they think they are great. In fact, they are nothing special. Confucius said heresy, Mencius traveled around the world, fought against princes and princes, and lobbied everywhere. As a result of his fallacies, none of the monarchs use him. Although these monarchs are stupid, they are not blind, but they can still understand his fallacies, and the harm is endless.

"King Wu of Zhou put his swords and guns into storage, and put his horses on Nanshan Mountain. This is just a ceremony to show the people of the world that the world will be peaceful from now on. It doesn't mean that there will be no more wars or maintenance of armaments in the future. It is ridiculous that these nerds say things like this , thinking that the world will be peaceful from now on, there will be no need to fight or maintain armaments. The widow will give them four words: Be prepared for danger in times of peace! Usually, the army is not organized, and if an emergency occurs, what will be used to deal with it?"

These words are dismissive of Confucianism, which is a bit biased, but they uttered profound insights and truths that scholars have not said before, which makes people have to admire. Zhou Chong said sincerely: "Your Majesty is a wise man, after hearing what your Majesty said , Zhou Chong had the feeling of seeing the blue sky through the clouds and mist, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

"Some people think that at the beginning of the system of enfeoffment, the feudal lords were friendly and obeyed the orders of the emperor. Later, the reason why they did not obey the orders of the emperor was that the blood relationship became weaker, and the relationship between relatives and estrangements became distant. In fact, this is not the case. This is a misunderstanding.

"The enfeoffment system is a system that has existed for a long time. It is inevitable that blood relatives will become estranged due to hereditary succession. Besides, can blood relatives be friendly to each other? Not necessarily! The brother killing staged in the three generations Brother, sons kill their fathers, they happen endlessly, and the reason is that they have to do it because of the current great interests. It is precisely because of this that Wu Ding of the Shang Dynasty established the eldest son inheritance system."

The King of Qin interrupted Zhou Chong and sighed: "Mr. Zhou's words are the words of gold and stone. Don't think that if you are blood relatives, you will live in peace. It is too naive to think so. The peace between blood relatives, in a very short time, for example A few years, more than ten years is okay, but it would be hard to say if it takes longer. If nothing else, let’s talk about the friendship between Qin and Chu. The women of Chu State are extremely favored in the harem of Da Qin, but between Qin and Chu It’s because of constant wars that blood relatives may not work.”

The best example is Cheng Qiao's rebellion. This happened to the King of Qin. It was a bit of a taboo. Of course Zhou Chong would not mention it. Then he analyzed: "The harm of the enfeoffment system mainly lies in four aspects."

"Four?" King Qin was very surprised, and said, "That's quite a lot. Mr. Zhou, tell me quickly."

Zhou Chong responded and said: "The princes have a piece of land. With the land, they can support many people, and there will be common people. If there are common people, there will be taxes and soldiers."

"It hits the nail on the head!" King Qin admired: "With land, the princes are like the oranges in the story Mr. Zhou told the widow. It is themselves who are sweet, not the emperor."

Zhou Chong nodded in agreement and said, "Without the land, the princes would be trifoliate oranges, he would be the bitter one, and the emperor would be the sweet one. With the people, the princes will be in control, and all affairs in the country will be in their hands. If you realize your own ideas, you can practice benevolent government and achieve the goal of buying people's hearts. Therefore, many feudal states only know the princes and don't know the emperor. Of course, there are also those who are sincerely the emperor. After all, there are not many such people, and even if there are, they will not It's too long, after he dies, it's hard to guarantee that his descendants will not have the heart of disobedience."

"It's hard for a man to keep his wife virtuous and his son filial, that's the reason!" King Qin agreed very much, saying: "In some families, the ancestors are loyal ministers, but the descendants are treacherous ministers. It's very reasonable."

Zhou Chong continued to analyze and said: "If you have people, you will have taxes, and if you have money, you can do illegal things."

The King of Qin praised: "It is precisely because of this that Mr. Zhou suggested that the widow implement the separation of finance and government affairs, isn't it?"

"The king is holy!" Zhou Chong said: "With the common people, the princes can form an army, and if they have money, they can do whatever they want, and the emperor can't control them. These four reasons are all because of the land. If there is no land, The feudal lords can't mess up as much as they want."

The King of Qin didn't express his opinion right away, but paced back and forth, thought for a while, then clenched his fist suddenly, and said: "Mr. Zhou's words are too brilliant, and the analysis makes sense. To be clear. The widow has made up her mind, abolish the enfeoffment, establish counties and counties, and I, Daqin, will never be enfeoffed!"

The abolition of enfeoffment and establishment of prefectures and counties was the core part of Qin Shihuang's reform measures. The greatest effect of this measure was to completely weaken local power and strengthen centralization, so that government orders and military orders could be carried out unimpeded.

Of course, this move has been cursed by future generations, especially Confucianism, who scolded Qin Shihuang for lawlessness and not learning from the past in everything, but they did not expect that they themselves were living in the pattern created by Qin Shihuang, a laughing stock of history!

With the emergence of the word democracy, those who used the guise of democracy called Qin Shihuang a dictator and a tyrant, but they did not study this period of history in depth.It was only after Qin Shihuang unified the country that each region still formed its own system. It is impossible to completely integrate in a short period of time and eliminate these obstacles. If the centralization of power is not strengthened and the unity of government and military orders is not achieved, China may not be as strong and prosperous as it has been for more than 2000 years. It is very likely It is another version of Germany and India: Confederation, you hit me, I hit you, the country was torn apart, and it took more than 1000 years of fighting to unify with difficulty.

In any case, weakening local power, strengthening centralization, and unifying government and military orders are the greatest achievements in Qin Shihuang's life, which will last forever. Unifying war is an indispensable step to achieve this political goal.At that time, local power was quite strong, and it was difficult to achieve this political goal without abolishing enfeoffment and establishing the system of prefectures and counties.

The benevolent government of this Ze and later generations was finally established because of his own words, and history was finally going in the direction he promoted. Zhou Chong was so excited that his eyes filled with tears.

(End of this chapter)