Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 55 People! (for collection)

The next day.

Ji Heng was awakened again by the jailer.

He simply rubbed his face, straightened his disheveled clothes, and went to the secluded hut.

There are two people sitting in the room.

Seeing Ji Heng arrived, a man in black clothes hurriedly stood up to greet him, he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Mr. Ji, for teaching the younger brother during this time. I am his elder brother, Bo Qin."

Ji Heng glanced lightly, glanced at the wall not far away, and nodded briefly.

Facing Ji Heng's indifference, Fu Su had no choice but to laugh dryly, and then sat back in his seat.

He naturally understood Ji Heng's cold personality.

Not annoyed.

Ji Heng went to the big case he was familiar with, looked at the red meat on the copper plate, and the four jugs of fine wine, with a strange look in his eyes.

He recognized the beef on the copper plate.

In Daqin it is forbidden to kill cattle.

Ordinary people are not qualified to eat beef at all.

Even the nobles of the imperial court, most of them can only eat mutton.

Under normal circumstances, dignitaries would only get the chance to eat beef during banquets in the palace or during grand sacrifices.

Ordinary Guishou, only after the government sacrificed cattle, sheep and pigs, could they spend money to buy some sacrifices, and the officials ate the leftover meat.

And the three animals sacrificed to heaven and earth are not something ordinary Qianshou can eat.

This is a sacrifice chosen for heaven and earth.

He looked at the two people not far away, seemed to remember something, and sat down on the spot.

He took out the smooth 'chopsticks' from his sleeves, and picked up a piece of beef from the copper plate. He didn't pay attention to the taste, chewed a few mouthfuls in a hurry, and then swallowed it.

After eating a few pieces of scorching beef, Ji Heng felt a warm feeling in his stomach, then he looked at the other two people in the room and asked, "Did you come up with the answer to the question I left you last time?" ?”

Hu Hai seemed to be worried about being rushed to answer by Fusu, so he quickly took over the conversation and said, "Of course I've thought about it."

"You made it so clear."

"The land where the chaos first occurred is the land of Chu, and the leaders of the thieves are naturally the nobles of Chu."

When talking about Chudi, Hu Hai glanced at Fusu intentionally or unintentionally, with a bit of ridicule and excitement in his eyes.

Fusu realized it, and could only shake his head with a wry smile.

He was indeed close to Chu Di in the past.

Fu Su said solemnly: "I have the same answer as my younger brother."

Ji Heng nodded and said, "The reason."

Hu Hai smiled, and said quite complacently: "Didn't you say before that although Chu has three households, if Qin dies, Chu will be king, and if Chu becomes king, Chu is powerful. There will be some dissatisfaction in my heart, so if there is chaos in the world, Chu will definitely be the first to rebel."

"Besides, the nobles of the Chu state are entrenched. If they really want to rebel, it can only be those nobles."

Ji Heng raised his forehead slightly, looked at Fusu, and asked, "What about you?"

Fusu arched his hands and said: "I have consulted several officials from the Prime Minister's Mansion these days, and learned about the situation in Chu. In the past few years, the Great Qin recruited and promoted officials, and most of them came from Chu. Officials have access to many secrets, some of which even the court does not understand, so their actions can actually be regarded as a sign."

"Local officials have a premonition that Daqin is not stable."

"Among them, Chu is the worst."

"The reason why local officials are so uneasy is probably due to the situation in Chu."

"Chu land was divided and ruled for a long time in the past, and the nobles did not adapt to the unified management of the imperial court, so the thieves were regarded as nobles."

Ji Heng laughed lightly and said, "You are only half right."

"That is, the place where the first chaos is Chu."

"But the thief chief probably didn't come from the nobility."

Fu Su and Hu Hai looked at each other with suspicion in their eyes.

Not an aristocrat?

Then who else could rebel?

And the nobles are the most powerful in Chu.

Fusu asked tentatively: "Isn't it a nobleman, is it an official? A rich merchant? Or a Baiyue person?"

Ji Heng smiled and shook his head.

He put down the slender stick in his hand, picked up the jug on the copper plate, took a sip, and said expressionlessly, "It's the people!"

"This 'min' is different from the 'min' of Confucianism, but the lowest level of Guizhou heads, dead people, servants, slaves, etc. They are the most insignificant existence in the world. In the eyes of the court, they are just a number. With a single stroke, they can be driven by the imperial court one after another."

"Their names will not appear in the history books."

"I can only scribble words such as 'severe drought, great hunger for the people', 'the household registration in the world, almost half of it', 'the price of human flesh, lower than that of dogs and hogs' and so on."

"However, these 'cattle' who work hard and are almost as good as cattle and horses will make their own cry for the first time in this world, and their voice this time is also an official announcement."

"The world has changed!"

"Perhaps their initial utterances are not valued by the world, but if it doesn't work once, then two, three, four, or ten times, until these high-ranking nobles, tyrants, and officials have no choice but to face them, respect them, and even Please them."

"The sky street is full of the bones of the princes, and the heads of the powerful and powerful are hung all over the gate!"

"I have said more than once before that among the changes, there is one item of changing the people."

"The public means that under this great change, 'people' will be redefined, and will no longer be limited to the status of 'scholars', 'nobles', 'landlords', 'powerful' and 'artisans'."

"It's everyone in the world!"

"This is also the power that the Great Qin court bestows upon the people of the world."

"At the beginning of the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, the first emperor ordered the world to rectify the names of the people: the people had many names, and they were all renamed Qianshou."

"The people at the bottom are just fighting for their legitimate rights and interests."

"And it's 'order'!"

"Three generations of regulations and orders have no literature, but the first emperor has it."

"Among them, the Daqin decrees clearly stipulate that orders are 'systems' and imperial edicts are 'orders'."

"Restriction: Relatively moderate and flexible, its essence means 'it can be done'."

"Edict: It is a clear and clear order, and its real meaning is 'this must be done.'"

"An edict is a decree that must be implemented."

"As the saying goes, 'Wang's speech is like silk, and its output is like fiber'."

"This is the power granted to the people of the world by the first emperor. Since Da Qin himself failed to abide by it, it is no wonder that the world fought for it."

"After all, rebellion is justified!"

"What's more, this legal principle was bestowed by Daqin himself."

The secluded hut is as quiet as a valley.

Fu Su and Hu Hai had cold hands and feet, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.

They were overwhelmed.

Ji Heng looked indifferent, and drank one sip after another.

He knew very well in his heart that the world has indeed changed, but there is historical inertia. Renters still don’t care about the bottom. Even if the bottom rises to rebel, they won’t care too much. Such as worthless.

They even go out of their way to guide them to become officials in order to make a fortune and secure their wives and sons. Once the bottom rises up, they will immediately let them join the rentiers, so that they can continue to suck the blood and sweat of the bottom with peace of mind.

The head of Guizhou defined by Daqin was not realized until more than 2000 years later.

It's just replaced by the word "people".

(End of this chapter)