Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 38 Although Chu has three households, Chu must die if Qin dies! (for collection)

After Ji Henghao took a sip of wine, he said:
"Among the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, Wei State was the first to reform."

"The land in the east of the Wei Kingdom is easy, rich in salt and iron, its customs are strong, and many heroes plunder it, and it is generous with kindness and goodness."

"Wei State's reform came about when the well field system collapsed and private land ownership was formed. Only after the well field system collapsed can the "salt and iron people" have "invasion" and "dividing", while "many heroes rob" and " "Good division of life" means that private ownership of land has long been a common practice in Wei State at that time."

"'Grace' is the code of ethics for nobles in the Zhou Dynasty."

"'Bo Enli' means the collapse of the patriarchal clan system in the Zhou Dynasty."

"Zhou rituals are gradually abandoned by the world."

"It was against this background that Wei Wenhou began to reform."

"And the reason Wei State was able to 'strengthen the world and rule its neighbors' is precisely because of this reform."

"This reform mainly focuses on two points."

"Do your best."

"Write the laws of various countries and the scriptures of various laws."

"To do our best is to redefine the land and recognize private ownership of the land."

"Since then, the world has competed in the Warring States Period. Deceitful power is valued over benevolence and righteousness. Get rich first and then give way."

"Thus, the rich of the common people may be tens of thousands, while the poor may never tire of the chaff; the strong of the country may unite with the small and vassal princes, and the weak of the country may be sacrificed and destroyed."

"'Benevolence and righteousness' and 'resignation' are the moral concepts of the patriarchal system of the Zhou Dynasty, and Li Kui's reform first attacked the moral concepts of the patriarchal clan. Continue the 'cronyism' system of ministers, but start using the 'meritocracy' bureaucracy."

"Li Kui also advocated 'taking away the rewards of the obscene people, and since then people from all over the world' have implemented the practice of 'food is rewarding and rewards are meritorious'."

"The so-called prostitutes are actually the fallen princes and princes."

"It was also from the state of Wei that the world gradually abolished the old Shiqing Shilu system, and changed to the form of conferring titles and positions according to the merits."

"at the same time."

"The state of Wei also set a precedent for strengthening the dictatorship."

"As for the "Fajing", you should be more familiar with it than I am, so I won't say much."

Hu Hai nodded slightly.

He is very familiar with the "Fajing".

When Zhao Gao was teaching laws and regulations in the past, he explained them more than once.

There are six chapters in the "Fajing", which are "The Law of Stealing", "The Law of Thieves", "The Law of Prisoners", "The Law of Capture", "Miscellaneous Laws", and "The Law of Judgments".

Most of the content in the "Fa Jing" was borrowed by Shang Yang.

Ji Heng said: "Li Kui's reform is mainly about the land and the old system of Shiqing Shilu."

"There's not much to say about the land."

"And the new 'meritocracy' has led to the prevalence of Wei Guo's private schools."

"Recruiting talent and supporting scholars has become a common practice."

"Wei State was the land of the Four Wars, the environment was turbulent, and there was a trend of recruiting talents and nurturing scholars. Therefore, at the beginning of the Warring States Period, Wei State produced many celebrities, and Qin benefited a lot from this."

"Great Qin ruled the world, and Wei Guo also contributed a lot. Wei Liao, who formulated the strategy for the Great Qin to rule the world, and Li Si, who planned the "centralization of power" for the Great Qin, they all came from the Wei Kingdom."

"Even if Lord Xinling hadn't died, these two might not have come to Qin."

"It can only be said that time is fate."

"The Great Qin ruled the world because of the help of heaven."

Ji Heng couldn't help feeling a few words.

Hu Hai nodded slightly, with a smug look on his face.

He had heard of it.

Lord Xinling is very talented and has many supporters. He once suppressed Qin, and the suppressed Qin army did not dare to go out of Hangu. , was deprived of military power by King Anli of Wei, but the Wei State had soldiers all over the world at that time, and its prestige was in the crown of the country, and it was not affected much.

It's just that no one expected that Lord Xinling and King Wei Anli, the leader of Zhongxing, would die suddenly in the same year.

Then a large number of scholars from Wei State left.

Wei State was completely devastated, and was finally swallowed up by Da Qin.

If Qin Wei had won Wei Liao, it might not be so easy if he wanted to rule the world.

A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.

What's more, Wei Liao was called a master of military affairs by the first emperor.

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Fusu lowered his eyebrows and pondered for a while, trying to understand something.

Since the beginning of the Warring States period, Wei State has been popular in recruiting talents and raising scholars, local private schools are popular, but Daqin has no private schools, and last year it even burned books wantonly. How can this be tolerated by Wei?
Scholars in the Wei region rely on becoming an official to get ahead, but now Daqin has cut this path.

How can the Weidi scholars and the lower class not complain?
Ji Heng breathed out a turbid breath, and continued: "Wei State has been weakened for hundreds of years since Li Kui's reform, but there is a trend of revival with Lord Xinling, which shows that Wei State has many talents, and all these from private studies."

"This is the most direct conflict between Qin and Wei."

heard.

Hu Hai thought deeply, and kept it in his heart.

Ji Heng continued: "Next is the state of Chu, which is far away from the Central Plains, so it has little influence from the patriarchal clan, and even despises itself as a 'barbarian'. Underdeveloped, so 'the family of thousands of gold is also dead'."

"The land is big but the country is poor."

"In the middle of the Warring States period, the state of Chu was 'too heavy on the ministers, too many emperors', 'forced the lord' and 'tortured the people', so that the 'poor country and weak soldiers' were defeated by Zhao Weihan one after another."

"In this situation of internal and external difficulties, Chu State began to reform."

"That is Wu Qi's reform."

"Wu Qi's reform is mainly to 'abolish the alienation of the public'."

"Wu Qi advocated that the descendants of the king should be 'acquired by the third generation', reduce the salary order of officials, streamline and eliminate 'incompetent', 'useless' and 'officials who are not in a hurry', and also ordered 'nobles to go to places where the real, the wide and the empty', Drive the old nobles to places where there are few people, and let them develop the wasteland."

"Wu Qi's reform has achieved remarkable results."

"From then on, Chu Nan flattened Baiyue, joined Chen, Cai, and Que (que) Jin in the north, and conquered Qin in the west. His troops shocked the world and conquered the princes."

"Wu Qi's reform only restricts the old nobles."

"This is also what Han Feizi said: 'The law of the state of Chu is that the nobles are reborn and the land is taken over'. The aristocratic system of nobles and nobles was indeed broken, but most of the people affected were the princes of the Chu state. As for the local nobles, they were affected. After the death of King Chu Mourning, Wu Qi was killed, and this reform was declared a failure."

"Although the state of Chu prospered, it could not escape its fate in the end."

"Continuing to fall into 'the ministers are too heavy' and 'the emperor is too numerous', and the power is controlled by the nobles of Chu."

"Wu Qi's reforms did not dare to directly abolish the system of aristocrats, nobles, nobles, and nobles. They could only start with 'abolishing those who are alienated from the public' and gradually weaken the power of the nobility. However, after Qin ruled the world, even the nobility did not recognize it. , This will naturally cause the dissatisfaction of the Chu nobles."

"When Wu Qi was killed, there were more than 70 ethnic groups in Chu State who took action."

"Now there are more than seventy people who blame Qin?"

"The aristocrats in Chu have long been unable to get rid of their tails. We will not remove these entrenched aristocrats."

"It's hard to be peaceful in the land of Chu!"

"If I remember correctly, when Qin destroyed Chu, Chu Nangong said a word."

"Although Chu has three households, if Qin dies, Chu must die!!!"

(End of this chapter)