Baili City grabbed the ground with its head and kowtowed heavily.
"What I want to say is, Your Majesty is wise!"
The veteran Meng Ao was filled with energy in his Dantian, clasping his fists and speaking vigorously.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Nei Shi Mengyi immediately followed his father's steps. The scholar spoke with a clear heart and sonorous words.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
The old Prime Minister Wang Wan lowered his head slightly, his voice was old.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Zuo Prime Minister Li Si, who was taken away from the post of Tingwei, looked at the noble family behind him with his rigid face like Qin Lu, then turned his head, put away the cold light in his eyes, and lowered his head.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Sima Yi sighed, feeling dissatisfied with the result, but he had no choice but to do whatever he wanted.
"Your Majesty is holy."
Wei Fa thought the same way. The dignified nobles were cheated by Qin Lu, no matter how much they thought, they felt aggrieved.
But under the unfriendly gaze of the First Emperor, and with the First Emperor already taking a step back, Wei Fa did not dare to refute.
"Your Majesty is holy."
Aizhi, who had the worst attitude toward Li Si just now, was the most satisfied. His ancestor, Chuiliji, was originally called Yingji. He was the concubine of Qin Xiaogong, and he was also considered a member of the Ying family.
The Qili family has this kind of relationship with the Ying family, and the two families are very close. They are the only family that has a good relationship with the Ying family and the aristocratic family.
That's why he stood up, held his head high, and shouted loudly.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
The guards of Jiuqing said that His Majesty is Shengming, the officials of Jiuqing said that His Majesty is Shengming, the Shaofu of Jiuqing said that His Majesty is Shengming, and everyone present in Xianyang Palace said that His Majesty is Shengming.
The roar of the mountains and the tsunami of worship and praise almost overturned the roof of the Xianyang Palace.
The First Emperor turned a deaf ear to this scene, something he had long expected.
Over the years, he has sat on this throne, and what he has heard most is praise.
That Zhuzi should have left Xianyang City. Will he go to Handi, which I left for him, or to Shangjun, where Fusu is?
I don’t know what Han Di has become without officials for so long. I don’t know if Fusu has realized his vision in Shangjun.
Wang Jian is gone, Wang Ben is gone, Meng Tian is gone, Wei Liao is gone, and now even this Shuzi is gone...
There are fewer and fewer people I know well...
The First Emperor was distracted.
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In Korea, everything is in ruins.
This piece of land, which was not sealed off by the First Emperor because it was too close to Guanzhong, had advantages and disadvantages as Qin's private land.
The advantage is that this land is under the control of the First Emperor himself, so he doesn't have to worry about soldiers and horses suddenly rising next to his bed and approaching Xianyang with sharp swords.
The disadvantage is that there is no group of important ministers of the Qin State with high merits and prestige, and a group of important ministers and families come here to guard it. The development of Han Dynasty is much slower than that of other regions.
Especially after the local aristocrats experienced a wave of great purges, the people's livelihood in South Korea became even more dilapidated. Moreover, hundreds of books from hundreds of schools of thought that should have been burned were opened here, and hundreds of schools of thought could not help but learn from them.
After the news spread, people from hundreds of families and literate Hansheng rushed to Korea, just like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea. Half of the educated and knowledgeable people in the world are gathered in Han, which makes Han even more chaotic.
Qin Chen, who should have been sent abroad long ago, has never been in place. The businessmen of the Lu Chamber of Commerce are good at doing business, and it is a piece of cake to stabilize the situation, but they are still a little unable to manage the place.
Although the Lu Chamber of Commerce has a high prestige, they are not very familiar with local laws and do not know how to resolve various matters, especially when people report to the government.
In the past, Han had its own local laws and regulations and was not bound by Qin laws. This is also the reality in various places in the world today. The effective jurisdiction of the Qin Law is the Guanzhong area, and it is basically invalidated beyond Hangu Pass.
Most of the elites of the Chamber of Commerce did not live in Korea before. Knowing this, they wanted to implement Qin laws to restrain the people of Korea.
They failed and almost caused a popular uprising. Qin's laws were too strict, and they became acclimatized after leaving Guanzhong.
Princes, generals and prime ministers, they would rather be kind. These eight words originated from Korea and were widely spread in Korea.
Although at the time of the civil uprising, these eight words were far less important than the two words "alive".
But when basic life safety is guaranteed, many speculators who are not satisfied with the status quo have gathered a group of forces relying on these eight words.
If it weren't for Qin's garrison in Han, these speculators would have changed the king's flag on the city wall and established their own king.
Instead of inciting the people, preaching the harsh laws of Qin, and confronting the Lu Chamber of Commerce to test Qin's bottom line. Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are entanglements of interests.
Laws and orders are a cage in the eyes of some people, but they are order in the eyes of most people.
In the absence of a set of practical laws and regulations, people's hearts are allowed to grow wildly. The final result is to return to primitive society, where the weak eat the strong, which is unreasonable.
The governor of Xinzheng stands on the Xinzheng City Wall. This central city in Korea is the only well-preserved city that experienced the first peasant uprising in history.
Xinzheng was originally the capital of South Korea. After South Korea was destroyed, it secretly became the leader of the Zhang family of the Five Dynasties Prime Minister Han.
The governor of Xinzheng County looked at the horizon on the west city wall. That was where Guanzhong of the Qin State was located, and where the young master who appointed him here was.
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Shangjun.
No, to be precise, it’s the seven northwest counties.
A new look.
Prince Ying Fusu's personal visit here is nothing less than a sweet rain in the northwest, a land full of suffering, and a shot in the arm for the people in the northwest.
Because of the need to guard against nomads, the land in the northwest has always been vast and sparsely populated.
Although under the powerful military power of the Qin State today, all nomads are paper tigers, and they will sacrifice their heads under the sharp Qin sword when a formal war begins.
However, apart from raids on Yanmen and Jiuyuan counties, the nomadic tribes in the northwest, dominated by the Xiongnu, have never had a large-scale offensive led by Maodun Shanyu in so many years.
They did not go to large-scale war with the Qin State. Instead, they launched raids and harassments led by small tribes.
Usually it is an attack involving dozens of people, dozens of people, or even several people.
The Xiongnu is different from the Qin State. The Xiongnu is divided into many tribes, and each tribe has great autonomy. Some particularly large tribes could even disobey Modun Shanyu's orders.
It's okay for the people in the northwest to live within the cities and counties, but the Qin people who settled in the villages without the protection of tall city walls had to worry about the sword falling on their necks outside the wall all day long.
This phenomenon has been going on for more than ten years, and Qin's response is very un-Qin. Not blood for blood, tooth for tooth, but something close to letting things go.
It would be best if the invading barbarians could stay, but if they couldn't, there was nothing we could do. The Qin State, which was committed to unifying the world, was targeting the six countries at that time.
Compared with the six countries where the land is fertile and suitable for farming, the barbarian areas covered with weeds are obviously not very tasty.
Qin Law stipulates that residents of a place are not allowed to move without authorization, depriving people in the northwest villages of their right to move to cities and counties.
They struggled to survive in such dire straits. This phenomenon worsened to its peak when Qin conquered Zhao State, because Qin took over the border counties of Zhao State.
Li Mu was able to frighten the main force of the Xiongnu for ten years, and the former Prime Minister Wei Zhuang of the Left was able to make the border counties of Qin withdraw the main force and the Xiongnu did not dare to attack, but they could not stop the small group of Xiongnu from plundering.
The king of hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with.
Even Maodun Chanyu could not control all the Xiongnu tribes, let alone Li Mu and Wei Zhuang.
The border that was supposed to be guarded by the Zhao people also belonged to the Qin State, and the number of entrances that the Xiongnu could enter changed from one to two.
The people in the northwest villages were under greater pressure of life and death, and their children stopped crying when they heard the sound of horse hooves.
The Qin bamboo slips of Shangjun contain:
At sunrise on Bingwu, more than twenty cavalrymen came out of the sand and found some traces of Zhao Gaizhong.
When the fleas were eating, they went to the north of the fifth tunnel and saw horse tracks entering the river. There were more than 20 horses riding on them.
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There were countless robberies by the Huns' cavalry like this. The Qin people living in the northwest villages were so desperate that they thought Qin had forgotten them.
Until Prince Ying Fusu came to Shangjun in person, from the day Fusu arrived, Huns' plundering was greatly reduced and almost eliminated.
With Meng Tian's chariots showing off their ferocious power and conquering Yanmen and Jiuyuan two counties, the Huns have been very honest recently.
Meng Tian was a die-hard loyalist to Ying Fusu, and the propaganda said that he came with the prince.
Meng Tian's original intention was to let Ying Fusu win the hearts and minds of the northwest frontier army, but unexpectedly, the people in the northwest villages wanted to kneel down and kowtow to express their gratitude to the prince of Qin.
Who can keep them alive.
To whom they are loyal.
Ying Fusu, who had lost the morale of the military but won the hearts of the people first, began drastic reforms.
He originally wanted to abolish the Qin law prohibiting private migration and ask all the Qin people in the northwest villages to move to cities and counties with tall walls, but Han Fei stopped him.
The reason is simple, it is inappropriate.
Ignoring other areas for the time being, let’s just talk about the northwest. The function of this Qin law is not to send Qin people to be killed by the Xiongnu. Its real meaning is to farm.
The fields within the city and county have been cultivated long ago, and these lands are simply not enough to feed the northwest frontier army. The northwest frontier army needed more food, which could only be collected from the people.
If all the people are concentrated in cities and counties, it will only lead to one result: there will not be enough food in the northwest, and both people and land will be lost.
The implementation of every policy has its own internal logic. It is harmful to all but beneficial to no one, and no one who implements it benefits. Policies do exist, but they are rare.
Ying Fusu was very shocked.
Only when he truly took charge of life and death in a place did he understand what level his father and uncle had reached.
The implementation of every policy of the superior has many implications. A slight inadvertence can lead to disaster. Decisions made in a hot head are more likely to harm others and yourself.
After Han Fei pointed out the shortcomings of Ying Fusu's decree, he did not criticize Ying Fusu. Han Fei had great patience for the Qin prince who often played in Chang'an's palace.
This is not only because of the entrustment of his master.
Especially because he saw the dictatorial side of the First Emperor Qian Gang, Han Fei felt that the Prince of Qin was really easy to change, at least he was obedient.
Han Fei made improvements based on the laws and orders proposed by Ying Fusu and proposed military-civilian replacement.
To put it simply, the northwest half enters the city, and the same number of soldiers are sent to the villages, changing every six months. This not only improves the safety factor of the village, but also makes the people in the village safer, and can also improve the communication between the army and the people.
Ying Fusu was overjoyed and issued it immediately. This policy increased Ying Fusu's reputation by at least three orders of magnitude.
After Ying Fusu implemented the New Deal, he scolded the officials in the northwest and wanted to abolish them.
In Ying Fusu's view, if Han Fei's policy could have been implemented early, the northwest would never be what it is now.
Although Han Fei's plan was very good, Ying Fusu really didn't believe that no official in the entire northwest could come up with it. Why didn't anyone come up with it? This is the inaction of Northwest officials.
It was Han Fei again, urging him to stop Ying Fusu and tell him that this matter was not that simple.
First of all, officials in the northwest call themselves a faction. This has been a neglected area of the empire all year round, and a single move can affect the whole body.
Most of the officials have been laid off, so Prince, who do you plan to replace them with? What about the group of Confucian disciples who came with you?
Secondly, this strategy can only be implemented at this time because the border counties were previously short of troops.
Shangjun's frontier troops have been in extreme shortage. If this policy had been implemented earlier, the Xiongnu's previous raid might have defeated Shangjun as well.
Your Majesty, because of the defeat of Jiuyuan and Yanmen, increased the garrison strength, so that this strategy can be implemented.
Ying Fusu suddenly realized it, and even had the idea in his heart that it would be better if the teacher my father found for me was Han Feizi.
The great master of Legalism, Han Feizi, gave an in-depth and simple explanation, which enlightened the prince of Qin Dynasty. With the help of Han Fei, the Prince of Qin is growing rapidly.
Han Fei did not leave the Confucian disciples who followed Ying Fusu to the northwest idle. With a wave of his hand, he asked them to teach in the border county middle school.
Chun Yuyue, a great Confucian who was committed to restoring the status of Confucianism, was actually not satisfied with this. He wanted to be a high-ranking official in the northwest so that he could better promote Confucianism.
But unfortunately Ying Fusu is no longer the same Ying Fusu who was brainwashed by him.
Having seen the true face of Confucianism and experienced the careful training of the First Emperor and Ying Chengyu, the Prince of Qin may be immature or naive, but he is definitely no longer pedantic.
He firmly opposed Confucians as officials and only wanted Confucians to be teachers.
He even consulted Han Fei privately and worriedly, whether it was feasible to use Confucianism as a teacher, and would it not deceive the border troops?
Han Fei shook his head.
The Qin army is always in a state of war preparedness, and the people in the northwest are always struggling on the line of life and death. It would be good if Confucianism could help these people understand the most useless writing on the frontier.
Han Fei showed off his skills, busy with his feet and hitting the back of his head every day, announcing new policies one after another, and from time to time he would give the prince some insightful reasoning and tell him why he did what he did.
Li Mu, who came to Shangjun with Han Fei, was completely opposite to Han Fei.
The former Zhao Wu'anjun who no longer drank was extremely leisurely. His working hours added up to less than two hours a day. He used some bizarre methods to train the Qin army, and then left it alone after assigning tasks.
From time to time, he liked to stand on the city wall and look northwest and sigh. He often muttered, why did Meng Tian agree to fight the Huns? Didn’t the young master say that Meng Tian was interested in winning Fusu? Alas.
The former Zhao Wuanjun, who had beaten the Huns and fled, did not want to train troops in the rear, provide logistical support, and assist the Prince of Qin.
He wanted to ride a horse and lead his flying soldiers to roam the Xiongnu land again, letting the Xiongnu people who were beaten to shit ten years ago know that their great father Li Mu was back.
"If it happens again, it won't be ten years."
Li Mu said.
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