System: I let you have children, not fight for hegemony

A white-faced, beardless, indistinguishable young man, dressed as a eunuch, walked over quickly with his waist hunched over.

His attitude is humble but not flattering, with a hint of bookishness. If they didn't know his identity, people who saw him might think he was a delicate young man.

"Zhao Gao, I'll leave this matter to you." Qin Wangzheng's posture was very relaxed, and he was obviously very relieved about Zhao Gao.

The eyes of many fishes flashed slightly. Azheng had never ordered which ministers to give them to. Was it a common practice, or was Zhao Gao well versed in the emperor's heart?

"Is this Zhao Gao? How is Cai Langjun's son?" Many fish stopped Zhao Gao with smiles.

Zhao Gao smiled softly and said: "Cai Xiaolang is lively, cute, and smart. He is now studying with Li Si from Jixia Academy."

The little tail fingers of many fish are slightly curled up, Li Si? Zhao Gao and Li Si started to interact so early? Do you want……

"Cai Ze is Duoyu's right-hand man. You must take good care of his only son. As for Li Si, I will not treat him badly." King Qin had just ascended the throne and needed to cultivate his own power. Li Si, who had a close friendship with him, was a good candidate.

"Here!" Zhao Gao replied respectfully.

"How familiar are Zhao Gao and Li Si?" Duoyu asked casually while eating rice cakes.

Zhao Gao's expression did not change: "We both work for the king, and we have met several times."

Many fish looked Zhao Gao up and down, and suddenly said: "In the year of the Battle of Hexi, you took me to the other courtyard?"

Zhao Gao's heart trembled, and his breathing was slightly suffocated: "I'm reporting back to you, sir. I'm a villain."

Many fish stopped talking and slowly stamped the rice cakes, with the characters carved by Azheng and the sun, moon and stars drawn by themselves.

Seeing Zhao Gao retreat, Ying Zheng tapped the tips of many fish's noses with his index finger and said fondly: "Naughty."

Seeing how frightened she was, Zhao Gao probably won't be able to sleep tonight.

Many fish were smiling, but they were in a dilemma.

Historically, Zhao Gao and Li Si were the catalysts for the death of Qin II and villains, but that only happened after the death of Qin Shihuang.

At this stage, Zhao Gao is Qin Wangzheng's personal secretary, and Li Si is Ying Zheng's right-hand man.

If he had to deal with them, not only would he hurt his relationship with A Zheng, but he would also be afraid of affecting A Zheng's ability to seize power. After all, there was Lu Buwei and the Queen Mother Zhao watching from the side.

"It happens to be early, let's go to Jixia Academy together. Maybe you haven't seen Xunzi for a long time. Let's take a look at Li Si." King Qin ordered people to travel in simple clothes.

Many fish secretly sighed, Ah Zheng was speaking for Li Si, and he hoped to see Li Si himself.

That’s all, let’s go take a look first.

The King of Qin had not yet officially ascended the throne, and the special carriage for traveling had not yet been made, so he randomly picked the most low-key one.

Some time ago, too many people were exterminated, and it was inevitable that one or two fish would slip through the net.

When the low-key carriage stopped at the entrance of Jixia Academy, the first person to come up to greet him was Li Si, who faced him with a smile.

Li Si: "Greetings to the king, and to Lieutenant Xu."

Qin Wangzheng nodded slightly and walked directly into the academy.

Many fish also greeted Li Si gently: "Long time no see."

Li Si was well aware of the status of many fish in Qin Wangzheng's heart, so naturally he did not dare to neglect him, with a flattered look on his face: "Thank you for your concern, sir."

The three of them sat in the reception area of ​​Jixia Academy, waiting for Xunzi to return from visiting friends.

Li Si diligently made tea for the two of them. He actually remembered that many fish only liked drinking tea.

"How is Han Fei doing now?" As soon as he entered the academy, Qin Wangzheng remembered Han Fei, his good friend with Li Si.

Many Fish: "Busy all day long, dedicated to the Qin Dynasty."

Li Si laughed out loud and joked: "He doesn't care about South Korea anymore?"

"I'm thinking about it. He plans to say a few good words for the Korean royal family after Qin destroys Korea."

Qin Wangzheng laughed happily: "Seeing that he understands current affairs so well, I will allow him to say a few more words when the time comes."

Li Si pretended to be distressed: "What if he proposes to allow South Korea to be autonomous?"

Many fish glanced at Li Si calmly. He knew Han Fei. Before Han Fei arrived in Bashu, Han Fei might indeed have made this suggestion.

But after Han Fei arrived in Bashu, his attitude naturally changed as his status and title improved.

Duoyu said: "Han Fei is not stupid. South Korea is located on a traffic artery and was once prosperous. How can it compare with the border areas?"

Qin Wangzheng pretended not to hear anything and drank tea with all his concentration.

Li Si didn't argue anymore. Since his goal had been achieved, why bother to make many fish unhappy?

There are many mosquitoes in summer, so Li Si took out a few moxa sticks from a small secret compartment on the desk.

After the moxa sticks are lit, puffs of green smoke rise slowly, and the unique aroma of mugwort fills the air. Those annoying mosquitoes are gone.

Seeing the eyes of many fish scanning the small dark grid and the moxa sticks, Li Si quickly explained: "This case was almost made specially for Xunzi by Xiang Lizhong, and it was quite ingenious. The moxa sticks were made by the palace doctors and were made by the late king. Gift."

Qin Wangzheng paused slightly as he picked up the bamboo slips. In terms of caring for his ministers and winning people's hearts, he was indeed not as thoughtful as the late king.

Soon, Qin Wangzheng was completely attracted by the bamboo slips.

Many fish came over to take a look. The first impression left by the bamboo slips was the large seal script. It was really beautiful.

Secondly, the content in the bamboo slips is meaningful and well-founded.

"Who wrote this?" Many fish became interested in the owner of the bamboo slips. The bamboo slips placed on Xunzi's desk are most likely from students in the academy.

Tsk tsk, the sources of students are different, the teachers are different, and the gap between the students they teach is a bit big.

If the academy in Bashu County could teach such a student, he would definitely be entrusted with an important task.

Qin Wangzheng put down the bamboo slips with satisfaction and said, "It's Li Si."

Many fish regretted that it was him.

Every emperor has his own way of employing people. Some like to employ nepotism, some like to reuse loyal people, and some like to employ talented people.

Qin Wangzheng belongs to the last category. He would rather use talented careerists than loyal mediocre people.

Li Si is such an unscrupulous and immoral person who pursues interests! Qin Wangzheng likes this kind of person the most. As long as he can give him glory and wealth, he will be the most loyal and capable minister of Honggu!

"You are good enough to be a guest." Qin Wangzheng said softly.

Li Si was very excited. King Qin Zhengneng said this in public, which was a disguised promise to give him an official position! Isn't this his lifelong pursuit of going to Qin? !

Li Si stood up, bowed to Qin Wangzheng, and said loudly: "I am willing to serve the king!"

Many fish feel that they are in the long river of history, changing history, and witnessing history.

Li Si is worthy of being the right-hand man of the Qin Dynasty. His entire bamboo slip is based on the unification of the six countries by the Qin Dynasty!

He proposed a strategy recorded in history books: books with the same text, cars with the same track, unified currency, weights and measures.

Li Si was just an ordinary scholar who once served as the lowest official in Chu State. He has made such great progress, which shows that he has put in a lot of hard work in the academy!

"The books have the same text, I will leave this matter to you." Qin Wangzheng felt that Li Si's calligraphy was very good, so he asked him to unify it on the basis of the big seal script.

From now on, every time Qin conquers a country, it will implement the standards locally!

"Thank you, Your Majesty! I will do my best!" Li Si was so excited that he was trembling all over. He was finally entering the political center of Xianyang!

At this moment, a person's voice was like a basin of cold water, pouring it down on me.

Many Fish suggested: "It is troublesome to write seal characters among the people. I heard that there is a man named Cheng Miao in Xiadu. He has been collecting folk calligraphy, trying to simplify the complex and turn the circle into a square. Azheng, why don't you call him over? , concentrate on this matter. If it succeeds, its words can be used among the people."①

Many fish raised this matter because they didn't want Li Si to take the lead, and more because they wanted Shu Tongwen to avoid detours.

Qin Wangzheng nodded in agreement: "Duoyu has thought it through. Li Si, the book must be written in the same text, and the glyphs must be correct, the words must be used correctly, and the language must be used correctly. This is not a day's work, nor can one person do it. It may take you many years. Are you willing to do this?"

Li Si forced a smile, Qin Wangzheng was trying to impress himself. Since one person can't do it all, having one more Cheng Miao is nothing, and it will not dilute his own achievements.

"The villain is willing!" Li Si said happily, but his heart was not as happy as he was at first.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that many fish have opinions about themselves, but why?

Obviously the two of them have very little interaction, and Duoyu is not the kind of person who makes trouble without reason. Could it be that Han Fei said something in front of many fish?

King Zhengneng of Qin was willing to mention Li Si because he was very useful in proposing a unified writing system, carriage tracks, weights and measures, and currency.

Historically, it took Qin Shi Huang a full ten years to accomplish all this after he unified the six kingdoms.

Now every time a piece of land is conquered, a unified strategy will be slowly implemented, and the people should be more receptive to it.

As for the unification of weights and measures, this is a great initiative.

The work of unifying weights and measures in Europe started very late. It was not until 1875 that France invited more than countries including the United States, Russia, and Germany to sign the "Metric Convention", which stipulated that the meter is one-twenty millionth of the meridian from Antarctica to the North Pole through Paris!

Qin Shihuang unified weights and measures 2000 years earlier than the West!

Some people in later generations believed that China's science development lagged behind the West. In fact, this was a prejudice.

It is recorded in "Divination" that people in the Shang Dynasty have learned to use one, two, three, four, five, six, six, period, eight, nine, ten, one hundred, one thousand and ten thousand to record any number within one hundred thousand. In addition, there are concepts of odd, even, and multiples.

China had four arithmetic operations in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, the "Jiujiu Song" of positive integers appeared, and a strict decimal system for calculating Shu appeared, with an empty space representing 0.

As a liberal arts student, many fish didn't have any better optimization suggestions for this, so they started from their actual experience in managing Bashu: "When promoting weights and measures, you can first give a transition period. That is to specify the conversion ratio."

This is a rule of thumb for many fish!

As Bashu gathered merchants from all over the world, there were always some merchants from six countries who came to Bashu for the first time and did not know the weights, measures and monetary system implemented by Bashu.

In order to facilitate the transactions of these foreign merchants, many fish have stipulated conversion ratios.

After they go back and forth a few more times, they will take the initiative to use Bashu's weights and measures, which is more convenient and convenient.

Li Si raised his head in surprise. It turned out that the unification of weights and measures had already been implemented in Bashu? !

Qin Wangzheng couldn't hide the joy in his eyes: "Duoyu, tell me quickly, how do you govern Bashu?"

Of course, many fish would not hide it from Azheng. In addition to briefly mentioning the Chamber of Commerce, the rest talked in detail about their original intentions, difficulties encountered in actual operations, how to solve them, and what the results were...

These words not only made Qin Wangzheng gain a lot, but also made Li Si fascinated.

It turns out that merchants are so useful!

It turns out that the law can be used in this way!

It turns out that the economy can be played like this!

Qin Wangzheng: "So you are using methods to stimulate consumption and promote the circulation of coins."

Many fish have lingering fears: "This is a later operation. When the money shortage started to appear, I used the Chamber of Commerce to go to the other six countries to exchange items for coins. Buying goods with coins is 10% cheaper than bartering. Naturally, they are willing."

Qin Wangzheng nodded thoughtfully: "It is equivalent to you passing the risk to the six countries."

Many fish said seductively: "Yes! Ah Zheng, you should take this as a warning. I am just a Bashu county. If something goes wrong, I can suck blood from the six countries. In the future, if you swallow Yu Nei, all the six countries will be your territory." If something goes wrong, we can only continue to expand."

Li Si's expression also became serious: "The Huns have cattle, sheep, and horses, but they also lack coins."

"Yes! So, we have to take precautions!" Many fish were both proud and worried.

I am proud of the advancement of Chinese civilization, but I am also worried that if I want to suck blood, other places have not yet produced blood.

I regret that I didn’t memorize the world mineral distribution map when I was in school.

Many Fish's words opened the door to a new world for Qin Wangzheng.

Qian Huang is a threat to the Qin Dynasty, isn't it the same to the other six countries?

Conquest by force is conquest. Wouldn't it be better to first use economic strategies to weaken the enemy?

Just like the Battle of Changping, Qin used a stratagem to alienate Zhao, asking King Zhao to replace Lian Po and appoint Zhao Kuo as general. In the end, Zhao was defeated miserably.

"Duoyu, you are really unique." King Qin couldn't help but hold Duoyu's hand.

Li Si was convinced: "Your Excellency is excellent in both arts and martial arts! I am lucky enough to be able to listen to your teachings. Listening to you is worth ten years of reading!"

Many fish said modestly: "That's great. I learned all these lessons from failures."

"It's easy to talk about war on paper, but hard to put it into practice. If you have plenty of fish, you don't have to belittle yourself." Qin Wangzheng has a confident temperament.

He believes that those who have meritorious service should be praised by the world and do not need to be humble.

This secret conversation between the three people directly talked about the sunset on the west mountain. Qin Wangzheng had to return to the palace, but Xunzi had not returned yet.

"Which friend did Xunzi go to?" Many fish asked curiously.

Since Xunzi's policy of observing filial piety was rejected by the late king, he did not like to run out and always stayed in the palace.

Li Si stood at the door, stood on tiptoe and looked out, worried: "Master didn't tell me where I was going. I haven't come back so late. Could it be that there was an accident?"

As soon as this was said, many fish couldn't help but become worried.

① Historically, Cheng Miao was imprisoned in Yunyang because he offended Qin Shihuang. He saw that it was troublesome for prison officials to write in small seal script on wooden signs, so he improved the small seal script.

Because he was a disciple, the improved characters were specially used by officials in the early days, so they were called official scripts, also called ancient official scripts.