In fact, the First Emperor was not a fool, and Li Si was not a fool either. He just lacked a certain amount of experience.
The political orders issued by the First Emperor were essentially to strengthen the weak branches and strengthen the centralization of power.
Zhao Si, on the other hand, opened a new window by learning from the experiences of successful people from a historical perspective.
"Tell me carefully." The First Emperor asked with great interest.
The enemy of Da Qin is not the Six Kingdoms, but the old nobles. This is a good starting point.
"At present, the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms have not lost their fields, their titles, their family education, and their reputations. There are no other laws against the old nobles of the Six Nations except the new Guizhou Army Order that restricts the old nobles of the Six Nations. .
At present, the nobles of the Qin Dynasty are the nobles of the seven countries, but the world has been unified. How can one country support the nobles of the seven countries? "
"The Qin Dynasty is the stem, and the Six Kingdoms are the branches. What we should do now is to prune the branches and leaves." Zhao Si said in a heavy tone.
"The branches and leaves take away the nutrients from the trunk, so the trunk cannot be strong. To prune the branches and leaves, you need to use a knife!" Zhao Si's eyes were sharp.
"The current Qin Dynasty has a vast territory, but there are not enough officials, and the laws are not as good as the local areas. The reputation and wealth of the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms are still there, like the nobles handed down from the Six Kingdoms, like the Xiang family of Chu State, they can still influence the local area. In my humble opinion, everyone The old nobles with more than one thousand dan should issue a decree and move their families into the pass and gather in the pass.
In this way, the relocation of the nobles of the six countries can no longer affect the local area; secondly, under the rule of the royal city, they cannot make peace with the nobles and influence government orders; thirdly, they can collect the wealth of the world and gather it in the pass. This is a strong branch but a weak branch! "
When the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms are relocated, not everyone will be relocated.
Those who want to be relocated are the great nobles with great reputation, wealth and vast land, which have seriously affected local governance, land distribution, and wealth proportion. Those who want to be relocated are the top nobles of the six countries, not the small and medium-sized nobles.
Only the nobles with extensive wealth, fame, and land have the ability to control the local ecology and influence the rule of Qin.
Taking one thousand dan as the standard is a good method. Above one thousand dan, those are all great nobles.
The First Emperor nodded and said, "Yes, but where should the old nobles from the six countries be relocated? How should the fields be distributed, and how should they be appeased?"
Zhao Si smiled and shook his head when he heard this.
"Your Majesty, when pruning branches and leaves, you must use a knife!"
"They are obstacles and enemies to the places ruled by Great Qin, rather than objects of comfort for Great Qin."
"Dividing the land? Why should the land be divided? The division is also based on the laws of the Qin Dynasty, and the land is divided into one hundred acres per family. Doesn't it mean that how much land they have in Guanzhong must be compensated by Da Qin?
The six kingdoms were destroyed, but the title was not lost, the land was not lost, the wealth was not collected, and one could not be loyal to the king and could save most of the wealth by bending the knee. How could such a good thing be possible? "
"When Lord Shang carried out the reform, he executed the old clans and divided them into small families. During the reform, the Bai San clan of Mengxi executed more than a thousand people. Prince Qian even got a tattoo because of it. The princes in the pass have shed their blood. There are not even a few people who even die in their entire families.
Their titles were earned through military exploits and bloodshed.
Which of the high-ranking nobles in the Guan Dynasty today was not awarded a title based on merit? Even the children of the royal family, without military merit, cannot enter the ancestral temple and receive a salary.
The old nobles of the six countries had no merit in welcoming the emperor. Secondly, they could not serve the king to death. Thirdly, they disrupted the issuance of local governance policies.
Why appease? Why should the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms not shed the blood that has been shed by the old clans and clans? "
"His Majesty Bolangsha was assassinated, and the whole world was invaded. So far, the murderer has not been caught. Could it be that the assassin can turn into a bird in the sky and a fish swimming in the sea? Lord Shang is not immune to the inheritance system and official post system he established. , then why can the assassin escape?
The political orders implemented by the Qin Dynasty moved out of Guanzhong, but progress was slow and difficult to implement. On the one hand, there were not enough officials, the land was too vast, and the transmission of information was too slow.
But even those who assassinated His Majesty were able to escape.
There are bad people among the crowd, Your Majesty! "
"How did the assassin learn about His Majesty's route, how did he avoid inspection by the accompanying soldiers, and how did he escape after the assassination failed?"
"When Lord Shang carried out his reform, how much blood was shed by the old clan and the public clan?"
"The current group of old nobles from the six countries will not be wronged even if they draw ten and kill five!"
"Qin's laws are strict, but as long as the people can survive, I have never heard of people who become bandits for the sake of their future and deliberately violate Qin's laws. What they want is nothing more than a three-foot shelter and a few acres of thin farmland to feed themselves."
"But what the nobles want is not just a full belly, but also more than just survival." Zhao Si raised his head and looked at the First Emperor.
"As far as the south, Baiyue had an army of 600,000, and Hetao had an army of 300,000. When the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, the leader of Guizhou was the one who died.
No matter how much taxes are collected from the people, as long as the food left is enough to feed the people, the people will not complain. No matter how much labor is imposed, the people will not resist as long as they do not die.
But what about the nobility? They kept customers, annexed fields, and evaded taxes.
If you treat the common people and make them live on the edge of life and death, if you treat the old nobles of the six countries and just ask them to move their families, they will rebel.
In this way, who is going along and who is going against? "
“There is nothing wrong with the five skills of controlling the people.
But when they collect taxes, they are the people, and when they don't collect taxes, they are the nobles. How can there be such a good thing in the world? "
"Confucianism says that the people are the most important thing, and Legalism says that the people are tired and the people are weak. Who is the people?"
"I compare Daqin and the place to a trunk and branches and leaves. Who are the branches and leaves? Who is competing for nutrients with the trunk?
Not Qian Shou, Qian Shou could not bear to live as a thief at most, but he did not have the ability to rebel under the Qin Law of Cholera.
Prince Chengqiao rebelled, Lord Changping rebelled, but I have never heard of any Guizhou leader gathering a group of people to rebel.
The branches in Guizhou are not branches and leaves, they are just drops of water and bits of mud.
The leaders of Guizhou never competed with the tree trunks for nutrients. On the contrary, they provided nutrients for the tree trunks. One family taxed one thousand catties, and ten families contributed ten thousand catties. One family served one person, and ten families contributed ten thousand soldiers.
The heads of thousands of families in Guizhou provided tens of thousands of catties of grain, and the heads of thousands of families in Guizhou sent out 100,000 soldiers.
Together they are what makes a tree grow. "
"There are only so many Guizhou heads in the world, and the food wealth they can support is limited. Besides Da Qin, who else are Guizhou heads supporting? Besides giving their wealth and food to Da Qin, who else will take it away from them?"
"That's why I say that the foundation of Great Qin is not the old clan, but the people of Old Qin. In the same way, the foundation of Great Qin in the world is by no means the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms, but the tens of millions of common people in the world." Zhao Si said in a deep voice. road.
"Therefore, Great Qin does not need to show any mercy to the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms, nor does it need to care about any opinions."
"Your Majesty, this is war! When two countries are at war, they want to seize each other's cities, land and wealth by any means necessary. Since ancient times, we have only heard of distant relations and close attacks, but we have never heard of attacking and appeasing at the same time."
The First Emperor took time to adjust his sitting posture, looked at Zhao Si with a smile and said, "Do you have any opinions on the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms?"
During the court meeting, Zhao Si proposed to be generous to the common people and refuted the tired and weak people. The first emperor only thought that Zhao Si had kindness and goodwill in his heart.
But now it seems that is not the case!
When the First Emperor deliberately interrupted Zhao Si to terminate Zhao Si's speech, the First Emperor realized what Zhao Si wanted to say.
He just didn't expect that Zhao Si would dare to say so absolutely.
Zhao Si is not weak or kind. His weakness and kindness are aimed at Li Shu, which is a bit Confucian.
However, Zhao Si was not just weak and kind. He was also very ruthless. He directly regarded the old nobles of the six countries as his enemies, treated them with hostility, and even said that he would kill ten of them and five of them would be punished. This has a bit of a Legalist meaning.
Zhao Si also put forward the idea of strong trunks and weak branches, comparing the people to everything that grows in a tree.
But Zhao Si asked again, who are the people? Who is Zhi?
It's very interesting. These words are considered disrespectful in the world.
If Zhao Si openly put forward these suggestions and even promoted them, Zhao Si might end up with the same end as Shang Yang.
It is not impossible to kill Zhao Si Qingjun.
"I don't have much objection to the nobility. It's just that it's difficult for the public clan alone to rule the place and carry out government orders." Zhao Si said seriously.
"I just think that there is no reason why the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms should not shed the blood that the old clan and the old clan have shed."
"Relocate the old nobles from the six countries..."
The First Emperor looked at Zhao Si and fell into deep thought.
This is indeed a good proposal, if the old nobles of the Six Nations are treated as enemies.
According to the standard of one thousand dan, nobles with more than 1,000 dan have extremely high reputation and wealth, and can directly affect the local ecology. If they are moved, Great Qin's decrees and rule will be smoother.
Secondly, when nobles move their families, they will definitely not be able to retain a large amount of their own properties and fields, and they will have to sell them out at low prices.
But who dares to buy their fields and industries and slaves?
There is no doubt that it is Da Qin.
Da Qin can take advantage of this opportunity to get a big advantage.
After the nobles of the Six Nations sold their land and property to the customs, they did not consider distributing fields to each other, but only gave them homesteads to settle down. In fact, the land required was not very much.
Correspondingly, they brought a large amount of property that had been realized, and the wealth was gathered into the land of Guanzhong in disguise.
We only brought people and money, and we were in an unfamiliar place. We must spend money, or at least build a house, right?
The money will flow into Guanzhong instead of being digested by the nobles.
Not much land is needed just for homesteads. There is a lot of official land in Daqin, so the homesteads for these old nobles can still be used.
If it were more ruthless, it would not even divide the homestead, but sell it... and it would draw another blood.
Zhao Si said it right...
It's not just to let them move, it's not to let them die. Da Qin actually left them a glimmer of hope.
Nor were they prohibited from consuming, nor from purchasing slaves and merchandise.
Of course, it is foreseeable that the nobles will definitely not accept Da Qin's kindness like charity.
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