The next day.
Ji Heng was woken up again by the jailer.
He simply rubbed his face, straightened his untidy clothes, and went to the secluded cabin.
There were two people sitting in the room.
Seeing Ji Heng arriving, a man in black clothes quickly stood up to greet him. He cupped his hands and said, "Thank you Master Ji for teaching your young brother during this time. I am his elder brother, Bo Qin."
Ji Heng glanced briefly, glanced at the wall not far away, and simply nodded.
In response to Ji Heng's indifference, Fusu could only laugh dryly and then sat back down.
He certainly understood Ji Heng's cold personality.
Not angry.
Ji Heng went to the big case he was familiar with and looked at the red meat and four bottles of wine placed on the copper plate, with a strange look in his eyes.
He certainly recognized the beef on the copper plate.
In Da Qin, it was forbidden to kill cattle.
Ordinary people have no right to eat beef.
Even the most powerful people in the imperial court can only eat mutton.
Under normal circumstances, dignitaries would only get the chance to eat beef during palace banquets or during big sacrifices.
Usually in Guizhou, only after the government has sacrificed cattle, sheep and pigs, can they spend money to buy some meat. After the sacrifice, the officials eat the little leftover meat.
The three animals sacrificed to heaven and earth are not something ordinary Guizhou people can eat.
This is the 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 polished 'chopsticks' from his sleeves and picked up a piece of beef from the copper plate. He didn't pay attention to the taste, chewed it for a few hurriedly, and then swallowed it.
After eating a few pieces of hot beef, Ji Heng felt a warmth rising in his stomach. Then he looked at the other two people in the room and asked, "Have you figured out the answer to the question I left you last time?" ?”
Hu Hai seemed to be worried about being overtaken by Fusu, so he quickly took over and said: "Of course I have thought about it."
"You made it so clear."
"The first place of chaos is Chu, and the leader of thieves is naturally the nobles of Chu."
When talking about Chu Di, Hu Hai glanced at Fusu intentionally or unintentionally, with a bit of ridicule and excitement in his eyes.
Fusu noticed it and could only shake his head with a wry smile.
He was indeed close to Chu Di in the past.
Fusu said seriously: "Young brother and I have the same answer."
Ji Heng nodded and said: "The reason."
Hu Hai smiled and said with a rather contented look: "Didn't you say before that even though Chu has three households, if Qin is destroyed, Chu will definitely die, and what about Chu Zong becoming the king? The Chu country is powerful. Although it was defeated by Da Qin, but There will be some dissatisfaction in my heart, so if there is chaos in the world, Chu Diding will be the first to rebel."
"Moreover, the nobles of Chu State are entrenched. If they really want to rebel, it will only be those nobles."
Ji Heng raised his forehead slightly, looked at Fusu, and asked, "What about you?"
Fusu cupped his hands and said: "I have consulted several officials from the Prime Minister's Office in the past few days and learned some about the situation in Chu. In the past few years, when the Qin Dynasty recruited and promoted officials, most of them came from Chu, and the local Officials have access to many secrets, some of which are not even known to the court, so their actions can actually be taken as a sign."
"Local officials have had a premonition that the Qin Dynasty is unstable."
"Among them, Chu is the worst."
"To make local officials so uneasy, it's probably because of something going on in the Chu region."
"The Chu region has been divided and governed for a long time, and the nobles did not adapt to the unified management of the imperial court, so the chief thieves should be nobles."
Ji Heng chuckled and said, "You are only half right."
"The first place of chaos is Chu."
"But I'm afraid the leader of the thieves is not from the nobility."
Fusu and Hu Hai looked at each other with a hint of suspicion in their eyes.
Not a noble?
Who else could rebel?
Moreover, the nobles were the most powerful in the Chu region.
Fusu asked tentatively: "If you're not a noble, are you an official? A wealthy businessman? Or a Baiyue person?"
Ji Heng smiled and shook his head.
He put down the slender short stick in his hand, picked up the wine bottle on the copper plate, took a sip, and said expressionlessly: "It's the people!"
"This 'min' is different from the 'min' in Confucianism, but the lowest level of beings such as heads of Guizhou, dead people, farm servants, slaves, etc. They are the most insignificant existences in the world. In the eyes of the imperial court, they are just a number. They only need With a single stroke, they can be driven forward by the imperial court."
"Their names will not appear in history books."
"I can only scribble words such as 'Severe drought and severe hunger', 'Nearly half of all households in the world will be wiped out', 'The price of human flesh is lower than that of dogs and pigs'."
"However, these hard-working 'animals' who are as big as cattle and horses will make their own cry for the first time in this world, and their voice this time also officially declares..."
"The world has changed!"
"Perhaps their initial voice was not taken seriously by the world, but if it doesn't work once, then two, three, four... ten times, until these nobles, powerful men, and officials have to face them. Respect them and even please them.”
"The streets of heaven have trampled all the bones of noble officials, and the heads of powerful men and women have been hung all over the camp!"
"I have said more than once before that among changes, there is a need to change the people."
"This people means that under this great change, the 'people' will be redefined and will no longer be limited to the status of 'scholars', 'nobles', 'landlords', 'powerful', 'craftsmen', etc."
"But everyone in the world!"
"This is also the power granted by the Qin Dynasty to the people of the world."
"At the beginning of the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor issued an order to the world to correct the name of the people: the people had many names, and all of them were renamed Qianshou."
"The people at the bottom are just fighting for their legitimate rights and interests."
"And the word 'ling' is used!"
"The three generations of Zhi and Ling had no writing, but the First Emperor had it."
"Among them, the Da Qin canon clearly stipulates that the order is 'system' and the imperial edict is 'order'."
"Zhi: Relatively gentle and flexible, its essential meaning is 'this can be done'."
"Edict: It is a clear and clear order, and its actual meaning is 'this must be done.'"
"An edict is a decree that must be implemented."
"As the saying goes, 'The king's words are like silk, and his words are like fiber'."
"This is the power granted by the First Emperor to the people of the world. Since the Qin Dynasty itself failed to abide by it, it is no wonder that the people of the world fought for it themselves."
"After all, rebellion is justified!"
"What's more, this legal principle was given by Da Qin himself."
The secluded cabin is as quiet as a valley.
Fusu and Hu Hai's hands and feet were cold, and their foreheads were covered in cold sweat.
They were shocked.
Ji Heng looked calm and drank one sip after another.
He knows very well in his heart that the world has indeed changed, but there is historical inertia. The rentiers still don't care about the bottom. Even if the bottom rises in rebellion, they won't care too much. They will still continue to be aloof and look down on the people as in the past. Like grass and mustard.
They even go out of their way to teach that the purpose of being an official is to make a fortune and to have a wife and children. Once someone from the bottom climbs up, they will immediately let them join the rentiers so that they can continue to suck the sweat and grease of the bottom with peace of mind.
The Qian Shou defined by the Qin Dynasty was not realized until more than two thousand years later.
Just replaced it with the word "people".
