Li Si was about to open his mouth and criticize Wang Wan and Dr. Zhu severely.
However, when the words came to his mouth, he was blocked by the sudden clear voice, and he couldn't help but let out a "quacking" dry laugh, which was very uncomfortable.
who is it!
Li Si looked over angrily and found that the speaker was none other than Zhao Tuo, who was standing in the ranks of military generals.
Great concubine!
At this time, all the officials in the palace also looked shocked when they saw the appearance of the speaker.
Wang Wan's face was livid, and a look of disbelief flashed in his eyes.
The theory of enfeoffment is to reform the current administrative system of Da Qin.
Once successful, the emperor's sons and military heroes will all benefit from it, and Wang Wan and his Confucian disciples will be able to realize their ideals and have the right to control national affairs.
But there are always two sides to things. Since some people benefit, then others will also lose benefits, such as the Legalist disciples who have always advocated the centralization of monarchy and wish to control everyone in the world.
Therefore, Wang Wan and all the doctors thought that someone would definitely stand up to oppose, but the enemy they expected was Tingwei Li Si.
Why is it that now that Li Si has made a duck call, he has not expressed his position yet, but you, Zhao Tuo, are the first to jump out and object?
Wang Wan was very angry.
You, Zhao Tuo, are the beneficiary of the feudal system!
We stand up and offer suggestions. Once successful, you will be able to reap the benefits of building a country. It can be said to be beneficial but not harmful. It’s fine if you don’t support it, but you won’t be the first to oppose it, right?
At this moment, not only Li Si was screaming strangely, Wang Wan was livid, but the other ministers were also behaving in different ways.
Right Prime Minister Wei Xiang opened his eyes and gave Zhao Tuo a strange look, thoughtfully. The Confucian doctors stared at Zhao Tuo with hostility, and Chunyu Yue gritted his teeth.
The minister, who was originally a neutral faction, looked around and then kept silent, preparing to observe the situation. Among the generals, Wang Ben and Meng Wu glanced at Zhao Tuo in surprise and said nothing, while the other generals frowned.
One of the Qiang people, who was reckless and impatient, couldn't bear it anymore.
"Zhao... Chief Concubine! What do you mean by this? The system of enfeoffment is a way to strengthen a country and secure its borders. How come you have turned it into a theory that a weak country will subjugate its king? Please speak clearly!"
Qiangxu said angrily, his voice was loud, which showed that he was a little anxious.
"What Qiang Yougeng said is true. Dividing the land to build a country to defend the central government was the good governance of the three generations. Xia, Shang and Zhou all practiced enfeoffment. How come it has become short-sighted and superficial in the mouths of the common people? We have never heard of such words. Yes. If we want to learn from the ancients, how can we be wrong?"
Among the group of doctors, Chunyu Yue couldn't help but echo Qiang Xu's words.
Zhao Tuo first looked at the emperor on the emperor's couch and saw that his expression was still calm, showing no emotion or anger.
At the court meeting, the ministers argued and discussed, and the emperor finally made the decision.
Before that, he would not be involved as a referee.
Zhao Tuo thought about the outcome of this debate in later generations. He felt at ease and had a sure chance of victory. How could he lose?
He laughed and said: "What a beautiful government for three generations, in my eyes, it is just the old words of you. It reminds me of the old Shang Dynasty reform, there were people like Qianlong and Du Zhi who said, 'There is no fault in the ancient law, and there is no fault in following the etiquette. 'Evil', isn't that what you call it in this temple today, because you want to imitate the words of the three generations of enfeoffment."
"I am here today to tell you what Lord Shang said back then: In the past, the ancient emperors all made laws according to the times and made rituals according to the circumstances. Rituals and laws were determined by the times; regulations and orders were all in accordance with their suitability. There is no way to govern the world. Together, the country will no longer need to follow the ancient times!"
"You all say that enfeoffment was a beautiful policy of the Three Generations, but the situation in the past three generations was very different from today's situation. At that time, the world had not gone through five hundred years of war. People in the world only heard about the feudal system, but how did they know about the county system?"
"Since you don't know the system of prefectures and counties, you can only follow the feudal way. Therefore, you claim that the three generations of ancients practiced feudalism as a royal way and good governance. In fact, there was only one choice at that time! How can this be used as an eternal basis? How can we imitate everything?”
"Gentlemen, times have changed! We have better choices, why should we take the road of retrospection!"
Zhao Tuo's voice was passionate, and he first attacked the basis of the "three generations of American politics" insisted on by the opponent.
The third generation practiced feudalism because they had only one choice, and today Daqin still has prefectures and counties to choose from, so why should they learn from the third generation?
Hearing this, Qi Diao Bi, one of the doctors, couldn't help it anymore and shouted: "Zhou Xing divided the world and the world lasted for 800 years. How can it be false? If we follow the example of the past, the country will be able to survive for a long time!"
Zhao Tuo responded loudly: "Eight hundred years? The eight hundred years you mentioned are actually only Zong Zhou's hundred years. After the disaster of Dog Rong, does Zhou still have the ability to rule the world?"
"The so-called Emperor Zhou is not only a puppet with an empty reputation, but also a deadbeat who was forced into debt and was unable to repay his creditors."
Hearing this, the minister in the palace who knew the allusion burst out laughing.
That was during the era of King Zhaoxiang. At that time, the Qin State was powerful and threatened Guandong.
The emperor, King Nan of Zhou, wanted to restart the alliance and contact the countries in Shandong to attack Qin, so as to revive the emperor's majesty.
But at that time, King Nan of Zhou was too poor and could only raise an army of a few thousand men, and he could not afford the military expenses of these thousands of soldiers.
King Nan of Zhou borrowed money from the rich and powerful families in the country, promising that after he contacted the princes and defeated Qin, he would return the loot to the people of the country with interest. The emperor personally borrowed money, and he really borrowed a lot.
King Nan of Zhou was ambitious and immediately led his troops to march westward, and at the same time called on all countries to send troops.
In the face of King Zhou Nan's call, some of the Kwantung kingdoms took care of his face and sent some symbolic personnel, but most of them simply ignored it, which made it impossible to implement King Zhou Nan's plan to attack Qin.
A few months later, King Nan of Zhou's plan to attack Qin went bankrupt. Although he didn't fight a single battle, all his military expenses were spent. He could only lead his troops back home in despair, and then he was besieged by creditors who came to demand debts.
King Nan of Zhou had no money to repay, so he had the palace door closed to keep out the creditor. The creditor was yelling and yelling outside to pay back the money. King Zhou Nan was upset when he heard this, so he hid on a high platform in the palace, and later he really let the debt go.
This is the origin of "high debts", and King Nan of Zhou also became the highest-status old man in history.
There was a chuckle in the hall.
Yes, Zhou had a world for 800 years, but later on, the Emperor Zhou couldn't even repay the money he borrowed from his countrymen, and was besieged by creditors. Can such a world be counted?
On the imperial couch, Qin Shihuang had a faint smile on his lips, and seemed to be laughing at this interesting incident.
But there was a cold light flashing in his eyes.
In his eyes, the entire world belongs to the emperor.
Whatever the emperor wants, everyone in the world should ask for it.
How dare you ask the king of the world for money?
Go against them!
The fate of Emperor Zhou should indeed serve as a warning.
Qi Diaobi blushed when Zhao Tuo used this example. It was really hard to say that Zhou had been eight hundred years.
The Emperor Zhou in the back was really aggrieved.
Seeing Chunyu Yue and Qi Diao Bi being blocked by Zhao Tuo one after another, Doctor Servant Zhou Qingchen frowned.
He said loudly: "Female vassals and build defenses to protect the center. In the past, it was the system of enfeoffment in Zhou Dynasty. Only then could the princes come to the rescue during the disaster of Dog Rong. Only then could King Ping of Zhou be able to move east to Luoyi and continue the kingdom. Zuo! If there was no enfeoffment in the Zhou Dynasty in the past, who could save us from such chaos?"
Zhou Qingchen is worthy of being a doctor, and he pointed out one of the benefits of the enfeoffment system in one sentence.
That is, when the central court encounters a crisis, the princes can work hard to save the country and serve as external assistants.
The important ministers in the palace nodded repeatedly after hearing this. This is indeed a great benefit.
Zhao Tuo narrowed his eyes slightly, remembering the knowledge he got from Li Shiqi last night, and said sharply: "Does Zhou Pushe want to take it out of context and bully me?"
"You keep talking about the disaster caused by the Dog Rong in the past, and the princes saved it to save Zhou Zuo. Then why don't you tell us how the disaster caused by the Dog Rong in Zongzhou was caused? It was not all the so-called external actions in your mouth. The princes of Fu Bi!"
"King You of Zhou changed the throne to a crown prince, which is a matter for the emperor's family. But as a prince, Shenhou united with the country of Zuo and colluded with Quanrong to fight against the emperor. Only then did the disaster of Zong Zhou happen!"
"After King You of Zhou Dynasty was killed, the princes and princes of the state appointed the prince Yu Chen as the emperor, which was to carry the king. The Marquis of Shen, the Marquis of Jin, etc. appointed Prince Ping, who had colluded with the dogs and Rong, as the emperor! The two kings stood side by side, and they fought for two weeks. Jin Wen The marquis attacked and killed King Zhou Xie again, and helped King Ping move eastward to Luoyi!"
"King Ping colluded with the dogs and Rong to kill his father, and he was established as the emperor by the princes. At this point, the power of the emperor was completely lost. There are those who cut the king's wheat, there are those who shoot the king's shoulder, and there are those who ask the importance of the nine tripods. All the princes in the world Who really regards Emperor Zhou as the common master of the world!"
"So what Zhou Pushe said about assisting the princes, is he someone who kills the emperor? He establishes the emperor? Or is he someone who bullies the emperor wantonly?"
There was silence in the hall.
All the doctors turned pale.
On the emperor's couch, Qin Shihuang's eyes were cold.
As Zhao Tuo said, the disaster caused by the Quanrong was caused by the collusion of the princes with the barbarians.
The feudal princes of the Zhou Dynasty killed the Emperor of Zhou!
"The so-called noble man's fortune can only be cut down after five generations. The system of enfeoffment may have been fine in the first few generations due to blood relations, but hundreds of years later, the princes were alienated from each other, hated each other, and even rebelled and killed the emperor. How could it be Isn’t it even more of a disaster!”
Zhao Tuo's words did not end here. His voice became louder and he angrily said to the doctors who supported the enfeoffment: "No, the rebellion of the princes will not last until the fifth generation. The princes are talking loudly in the palace today about the benefits of enfeoffing the princes. Then our Qin State has never divided the princes into feudal states before?"
"My lords, do you still remember the three rebellions of the Shu princes of our Qin Kingdom!"
"Xinian" from the Bamboo Slips of the Warring States Period: The king of the country and Zhu Zhengnai appointed Yu Chen, the younger brother of King You, to Guo to accompany King Hui. In the 20th and 1st year of his reign, Marquis Wen of Jin, Chou Nai, killed King Hui in Guo. In the ninth year of the Zhou Dynasty's death, the kings and princes of the state did not serve the Zhou Dynasty for the first time. The Marquis Wen of Jin rebelled against King Ping in Shao'e and established him in the capital. Three years later, he moved eastward and stopped at Chengzhou.
"Annals of the Ancient Bamboo Book": Shenhou, Luhou, Xu Nan, and Zheng Zi established Yijiu in Shen, and Guo Gonghan established Prince Yu Chen in Xie. This was the king of Xie, and the two kings stood side by side.
"Chronicles of Jizhong": After the death of King You, Duke Xu Wen, Marquis of Shen and Lu, pacified King Yu Shen, and Duke Han of Guo established Prince Yu, and the two kings stood side by side. Yu was killed by Marquis Wen of Jin for the sake of King Xie.
(End of chapter)
