Above the main hall of the Qin Palace, all the officials were silent, and the First Emperor's face was covered with frost.
Meng Cheng realized his biggest mistake. He should not think about the problem from a practical point of view, but from the perspective of the emperor.
but.
He doesn't want to!
He is not only a descendant of Confucianism, but also a descendant of the Meng family.
His ancestor Mencius was a Confucian sage who ranked after the two sages Luo Kong and even married the legitimate daughter of the Luo family.
Because Mencius's teachings were too ungrateful, after absorbing the knowledge about righteousness, even within Confucianism, many people gradually rejected Mencius's teachings.
But Luo Guoguo's office always supported him.
When Qin attacked Luo, he wanted to die with Luo.
However, Marquis Luo persuaded him to leave, saying that he was knowledgeable and of great use in the world, so he should not die in vain in Zhaocheng.
He is a man whose country has been subjugated. He should have spent the rest of his life writing books and preaching in the mountains.
But for the sake of the world and Confucianism, he still came to Xianyang to meet the First Emperor.
Facing the furious First Emperor, Meng Cheng showed no fear and said loudly: "Your Majesty.
The grassroots have a question.
Do you want to be the emperor of the Qin people?
Or do you want to be the emperor of the world? "
The First Emperor was stunned and said in a deep voice: "Of course he is the emperor of the world.
More than ten years ago, I said, 'I am now the king of Qin, and from now on I will be the king of the world'! "
Upon hearing this, Meng Cheng immediately said: "You have been the king of Qin for more than 20 years, so you must know the Qin country very well.
But you have just become the emperor of the people of the world, and you do not know the thoughts of the people of the world, so you directly rule the world by the method of ruling the people of Qin.
Is this correct? "
What the First Emperor had to do was to replace the will of the world with his own will.
This is the emperor!
So they broke up unhappy, and the anger in the heart of the First Emperor had actually subsided.
But he fully realized what Han Fei said was a terrible thing about using Confucianism and literature to corrupt the law.
Li Si came to the apse as a close minister of the First Emperor.
The First Emperor said softly: "With thousands of miles of territory and tens of millions of subjects, if there is so much noise and endless noise, can the decree still be passed?
The reason why I don't argue with Meng Cheng is not because he is right, but because I find that he misses Luo Guo too much and wants me to kill him.
How many such people are there in the world?
These people of the Six Kingdoms miss their homeland in their hearts and cannot integrate into Da Qin. How can the world of Da Qin be stable?
The world has never existed before. If I want to accomplish this great thing, the first thing I need to do is to establish an official school and take my heart as my heart. The rest are all heresy.
I didn't want to do this originally, but now it seems I have to.
Especially the Luo Kingdom, it must be erased from the annals of history!
All the history books of the Six Kingdoms were burned. Without history books, there would be no sources. Only then could they live peacefully as Qin people.
No one in the world is allowed to talk about anything related to the Luo Kingdom, and all words about the Luo family in all the books of hundreds of schools of thought are deleted.
Not only the Confucians, but also those scholars who make irresponsible opinions on the government are harmful to the Qin Dynasty forever, and they must all be killed.
All their books were received in Xianyang, and they were absolutely not allowed to be circulated among the people. Anyone who dared to discuss them would also be killed. "
These words were full of murderous intent, but when the First Emperor said it, it was like killing a chicken and an ox.
Li Si was completely stunned. He was radical enough, but he didn't expect that the First Emperor would actually do this. He said: "Your Majesty, this..."
The First Emperor suddenly sat down, and then said with a smile: "My dear, sit down."
It was rare for Li Si to see the First Emperor look so amiable, so he knelt down and sat down.
The First Emperor seemed to be recalling something and said softly: "There were two kings in Zhou Dynasty, King Wu and King Su.
King Wu's contribution to the rule of the world was extremely great.
But what kind of person is King Su?
Don't be afraid to speak out as much as you can about the image in your mind. "
Li Si hesitated and said: "King Su is naturally a saint. There is no one who can be compared with him in the past and present. Whether it is culture, martial arts, virtue and knowledge, he is completely a heavenly being."
The First Emperor laughed loudly after hearing this, and Li Si was a little confused, and then he heard the First Emperor say: "Ai Qing, what you said is not wrong, everyone in the world probably thinks so.
But you have all ignored what King Su once did. Bai Qi was known as the massacrer and killed millions of people in various countries, but compared to King Su, he was simply a child.
During King Su's Eastern Expedition in the past, the old Yin and Shang clans were wiped out nine times out of ten, especially Jian Yan. Has there ever been such a cruel liquidation since ancient times?
Bang Zhou enfeoffed hundreds of vassal states in Shandong. Isn't it strange to you why there are so many vacancies of land suitable for farming?
Because King Su killed everyone, from top to bottom in the entire tribe, old, young, women and children, no one survived.
Do you really think that King Su relied on Zhou rites to preach?
He holds the sword to pacify the world, and anyone who does not obey his laws will die.
The most ridiculous thing is that the Song Dynasty used the old customs of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The real old customs of the Yin and Shang Dynasties had long been destroyed by King Su.
But the survivors of the Yin Shang do not know. If you ask the Yin Shang, who else in the world can tell you?
This was how King Su used Zhou Rites to unify his thoughts. Now I want to use Legalist thoughts to unify them again. "
The First Emperor's words were so shocking that Li Si was completely speechless.
No one has ever looked at King Su's behavior this way, but these words make so much sense.
However, Li Si hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, King Su is like heaven!"
Li Si also came from the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, and he still believed to some extent that King Su was really in the sky looking at the world.
The First Emperor smiled and said: "My beloved, you should read more history.
Regardless of whether King Su's spirit is really in heaven as the Luo people said, King Su has never interfered in the human world.
So far, Luo Shi has been pretending to do the things of King Su based on the theory of destiny.
Su Wang and Luo Shi are very different, because Su Wang is called a minister, but he is actually a king, while Luo Shi is a complete minister.
Looking at Su Wang's actions, there are no taboos, but there are no restrictions like Luo's.
If King Su were in my position, he would definitely do the same thing as me, so what I did was definitely not wrong. "
Ji Zhao will not pay attention to the human world all the time now, but if he hears these words of the First Emperor, he will probably still agree.
Because what the First Emperor is doing to the nobles of the Six Kingdoms is far less cruel than the cruelty he used to trample on the nobles of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
The First Emperor was right about one thing, Ji Zhao and Luo were really different.
Compared with Luo Shi, Ji Zhao is more selfish and cares more about the continuation of the family, but the education he gave Luo Shi's descendants is the world's responsibility.
He hoped to cultivate a family of philosophers from generation to generation.
What he cannot do himself, he hopes his descendants can do it, and Luo has not let him down over the years.
For thousands of years, Ji Zhao has hardly interfered with anything in the Luo family except for the continuation of the family.
And because the system blocked words, he did not reveal any future to Luo Shi, and he had to rely entirely on Luo Shi to work hard on his own.
…
What happened in the main hall was kept secret by the entire Qin State hierarchy.
The new Qin Dynasty was full of contradictions, and now it relied entirely on the prestige of the First Emperor to suppress them.
Just a few days later, an edict that shocked the world came from Xianyang.
Countless officials walked out of the official offices and began to arrest those who made arrogant comments about the government. Not only Confucian scholars, but also Mohist disciples who violated the law, and sorcerers who deceived the First Emperor.
Meng Cheng did not expect the First Emperor to be so straightforward. He tried his best to ask someone to send his disciples out of Xianyang. He knew that he could not escape, so he sat in Xianyang and waited to die.
As a result, hundreds of people were killed in Xianyang City. Now no one dared to criticize the government, and the implementation of various decrees immediately became much smoother.
Then the First Emperor ordered all the prefectures and magistrates in the world to burn all the history books of the Six Kingdoms without leaving a single volume.
At the same time, everyone in the world was asked to keep no books except medical, divination and agricultural science, and all of them were gathered in Xianyang.
After killing a group of people and burning many books, the First Emperor issued an edict.
Anyone who makes irresponsible remarks about the government shall be killed!
Anyone who privately possesses books on Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and Dharma will be killed!
The Great Qin Academy was set up in Xianyang, and the most virtuous people in the world were in charge of it. Others were not allowed to give lectures, write books, or impart knowledge.
In the head of Guizhou during the Qin Dynasty, if you want to study, you must first perform meritorious service, and then go to Xianyang City and obtain the emperor's approval before you can enter school, and you can only study law and work as an official.
However, the First Emperor still retained the right to collect books in the homes of Qin nobles. After all, he was only relatively exclusive and not a true single husband.
If the nobles of the Qin State were to hand over their collection of books, the whole world would immediately rebel.
At the same time, the First Emperor began to toss the nobles of the six countries who had moved to Xianyang. Of course, all the promised fiefdoms were cancelled.
After all, even the heroes of the clan were not granted a title, so how could the descendants of the previous dynasty be granted a title?
The First Emperor believed that in order to cut off the desire of the nobles of the six countries, it was necessary to completely abolish the royal families of the six countries, so he demoted them all to the head of Guizhou and asked these people to build his tomb.
How could these nobles withstand such heavy corvee work? Some of them died of illness on the road. When the tomb is completed, there may not be anyone alive.
Suddenly, the city of Xianyang was filled with mourners. Other countries at least came to Xianyang after they were defeated.
The nobles of Qi surrendered on their own initiative. Now thinking of what King Qi said before, he only feels regretful.
The First Emperor also asked officials from various places to collect weapons that were scattered among the people, and all of them must be transported to Xianyang City for destruction. Especially in places where nobles once gathered among the Six Kingdoms, they must not be allowed to obtain weapons again.
…
Luoling never expected that such shocking news would come from Xianyang City again. Of course he understood what the First Emperor was doing, but he never dreamed that the First Emperor would have such great courage.
The reason why King Su dared to do this was because King Su had killed all the opponents in the entire land of Zhuxia, and the rest were either barbarians or living together with barbarians. For example, Xu State, which was ostensibly in the Bangzhou system, In fact, there is a distant existence.
Luo Ling was shocked and angry: "If it weren't for the inheritance ring, how much of the cultural essence of these thousands of years would have been lost?"
Let’s not mention the history books of the Six Kingdoms that the First Emperor clearly wanted to burn.
Those books from hundreds of schools of thought and countless magnificent thoughts are the true essence.
Although the First Emperor said that he would collect books to Xianyang, they would be damaged and lost during the collection process. Many officials would even try to save trouble and burn them directly during the process. This is extremely normal.
Luo Ling didn't believe that the First Emperor had not thought of it, but he did it anyway.
Qiao Yun said bitterly: "What a lonely man! One person's will is to replace the will of the world. This is not what a king should do."
Luo Ling sighed: "Every king in this world has the possibility of becoming a single husband, and this is the king!
But like the Qin State, everyone is a single husband. Is it an accident?
This is because of the fault of Legalist thinking!
Every king has infinite selfish desires, so the principle of teaching kings is to let them restrain their selfish desires and not become a monomaniac. If there is still a trace of compassion for all people in his heart, he will be an excellent king. "
Qiao Yun was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then asked: "Master, what should we do now?"
Luo Ling touched the inheritance ring on his hand, not panicking at all, burn it, I will have a backup here after burning.
But for the children of hundreds of families in Xianyang City, Luo Ling frowned and said, "You should send someone to Xianyang City, especially the Meng family. It would be bad if they suffered heavy losses.
But be careful not to expose the traces of your family, otherwise the First Emperor will definitely come to hunt you down again. "
Qiao Yun responded, and then said: "Master, the First Emperor has recently recruited corvees and military service on a large scale in the old areas of the Chu Kingdom. It seems that he is going to start another war. The recruitment of troops from the Chu Kingdom is probably to fight against South Vietnam and conquer those who are still outside the Han Dynasty. The barbarians of the land.
Another possibility is that the First Emperor wanted to conquer the gathering place of the Luo people. After all, these were people who were unwilling to be his subjects, and the First Emperor should have hated them deeply. "
Hearing this, Luo Ling muttered: "If the First Emperor wants to conquer South Vietnam, then give way to him and conquer the barbarians. The Luo family must not hold back.
But if they want to attack the gathering place of Luo people, I am afraid that the Qin army will suffer a big loss.
The mountains here are high and the forests are dense. It is not like Zhaocheng, a city built on a plain with no danger to defend.
But we still need to contact you as soon as possible. If the Qin army dares to come, let them die without a burial place. "
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After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang was keenly aware that there were huge ideological divisions within the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty was a new unified regime, and the existence of these heretical ideas could tear the entire dynasty apart at any time. So Qin Shihuang passed a series of This move quickly unified the thoughts within the entire Qin Dynasty under the central dynasty.
Judging from the results of later generations, this was a great progress, and a unified nation gradually formed.
But in the process, a large number of books were destroyed, the history books of the Six Kingdoms were burned, and precious ancient books were lost. This cannot be ignored.
Fortunately, the Luo State Office preserved these books and did not throw them away when they fled. We were able to see that magnificent pre-Qin era.
What has to be said is that if the Luo Kingdom had not preserved these books, Qin Shihuang, the emperor, would be far from the current historical evaluation. ——"The Biography of Qin Shihuang"
I actually still have some energy today
(End of chapter)
