Chapter 132 Da Qin’s “Seed” Plan
Seeing Chunyu Yue and Li Si quarreling with each other, the other ministers tacitly followed each other’s eyes to their noses, their noses to their mouths, and their mouths to their hearts. They neither helped Chunyu Yue nor Li Si. Lis.
It is already obvious that the king wants to modify Qin Law, and Legalism is the closest to Qin Law. Changing Qin Law means that the king will not only respect Legalism.
Now jump out to support Li Si. What if the king misunderstands that he is on the side of the Legalists?
What's more, their court captain may not be able to firmly believe in Legalism. If he rushes to speak for him, he may not be taken seriously at all.
As for Chun Yuyue, the king seems to have used many Confucian scholars like Chun Yuyue in recent times, but many people can see that the king uses people and does not want to use Confucianism to govern the country.
It is impossible to rule the law, so who is Confucianism?
It’s just that the ministers are a little confused in their minds. They neither use Fa nor Confucianism. What kind of ideas does the king want to use to govern the country?
Could it be related to that Li Nian again?
Li Si did not argue with Chunyu Yue, but reported to Ying Zheng: "Your Majesty, 'Confucianism disrupts the law with literature, and chivalry violates the ban with force.' Paper is better than bamboo slips. It would be a pity if the ban is not used. , but it cannot be spread throughout the world, especially the method of making paper, which must not be known to outsiders.”
"I believe that paper is like salt. It is only made and sold by Da Qin. Anyone who needs paper can only buy it from Da Qin."
The king took out this paper today. It is obviously If you want to promote paper to the world, this is the general trend and cannot be violated!
But Li Si really didn’t want paper to spread around the world casually, so he neutralized the words of the minister and Chun Yuyue: Paper was not allowed to spread to the world, but the method of papermaking was strictly prohibited from leaking out, and others could make paper.
As long as Da Qin firmly masters the art of papermaking and prevents it from spreading, it can control the amount of paper in the world. Even if someone uses paper to cause harm, it will be under Da Qin's control.
And doing this has two major benefits: first, not only can paper be used to attract hundreds of schools of thought to Da Qin, but also paper can be used to restrict hundreds of schools of thought;
As long as people from hundreds of schools of thought are not stupid, and want to make their own school’s doctrine known to more people and learn from more people, they will definitely be attracted to Xianyang to seek help from Ying Zheng after learning about the superiority of paper compared to bamboo slips. Paper.
Moreover, there are many schools of thought that do not like each other, and even the same school of thought also has ideas that do not like each other.
This will have a wonderful effect: if you don’t ask for paper, if you get it from the enemy school or the heresy within the school, and let their fallacies and heresies spread widely, then you are right and justified. What to do with your thoughts?
We must not let our enemies and heretics grow bigger and poison the world. We must let the people of the world see what is correct thinking.
Due to this consideration, many people from hundreds of schools of thought will be attracted to it: You can live without yourself, but you must not have enemies and heretics. If there are enemies and heretics, you must also have yourself.
After arriving in Xianyang, the paper was in the hands of Ying Zheng. It all depends on which school of thought he wants to submit. Ying Zheng can use this to control hundreds of schools.
2. Paper, like salt, can open up a new source of finance and taxation for Daqin.
Even if ordinary people cannot afford paper, scholars and those who want to read and write will pay for it.
After listening to what Li Si said, Ying Zheng thought carefully. What Li Si said was very reasonable. From the perspective of a king, he should act like this because it is conducive to his rule.
But at the same time, thinking about some of the things Li Nian said, I felt that maybe paper should be promoted to the world so that people all over the world can use it.
After all, paper can be used not only for writing, but also for toileting.
He tried it himself yesterday and it was indeed better than toilet chips and cloth.
‘The worst thing is to make more paper and sell it cheaply all over the world. '
In the end, the idea of being more conducive to rule prevailed. Ying Zheng said: "What Tingwei said is very reasonable. What do you think?" Chunyu Yue still had something to say, but he also knew that Ying Zheng He wasn't really asking what they meant, but he had already agreed with Li Si's words. Now he was just going through the process and said nothing more.
According to Chun Yuyue's idea, it would be best to spread the paper-making method. Although this would cause other schools to make paper and spread their doctrines on paper, Confucianism would also benefit and would not be restricted by others.
But if we follow Li Si’s words, in the future all schools of thought will be controlled by the king using paper. If any school of thought is dissatisfied, then ban the sale of its paper and sell it to the opposing schools of thought. .
If Li Nian saw this scene in the Great Qin court, he would definitely think that it was just paper. How could you have caused so many things?
The matter was settled, and the ministers officially entered today's meeting to discuss politics.
Just listen to Wei Liao's report: "Your Majesty, the Qin soldiers with meritorious service in each army have been sorted out, and there are 7,342 people who are qualified to serve as officials based on military merit."
Seven thousand three hundred and forty-two people may seem like a small number, but compared to the entire world that will be governed, there is still a gap.
However, if these more than 7,000 people are put in place, it can also give Great Qin a sigh of relief.
But Ying Zheng was obviously dissatisfied with such a small number of people and said: "Re-calculate and include the soldiers who were qualified as military officials in the past. Now these Qin soldiers have been determined..."
Ying Zheng said: "According to what was previously discussed, , ordered them to immediately disarm and return home, and watch the government in the county where they live. "
Guanzheng was a solution that Ying Zheng and his ministers came up with to let the Qin soldiers govern the place, but the Qin soldiers were inexperienced. Law, let them return to their hometowns to study with local officials.
It is difficult to make Qin soldiers learn to read and write immediately, but it is feasible to let them learn to handle some local affairs.
There is not much time left for the Qin soldiers to learn. After Ying Zheng becomes emperor, the policy of using Qin soldiers as officials will soon be officially implemented.
The best thing is to let Qin soldiers study government for a while, and the revised Qin laws will be officially promulgated to the world. The original handling of certain affairs also needs to be changed, and Qin should be allowed to Soldiers learn more.
But now many places in the Six Kingdoms only belong to Da Qin in name, and are actually not controlled at all.
The longer this situation drags on, the more problems there will be, which will only allow the Qin soldiers to take office quickly. It is better to learn a little bit than to understand nothing and take office directly.
Wei Liao said "Yes!" and retreated.
Ying Zheng remembered something again and said: "Order the officials from all over Guanzhong to bring the smart and childish people among the selected people into Xianyang. If any smart and childish people are found, they will be rewarded, and the children's parents can also follow them into Xianyang."
As Now that modern paper has been created, what Li Nian said about "enlightenment of people's wisdom and education" can begin. However, given the current situation in the Qin Dynasty, if everyone wants to be able to read like the later generations from which Li Nian came, Everyone can know history, but it is impossible to do so.
Even if everyone has food to eat, how about everyone studying?
We can only settle for the second best, let some people read and read first, and learn the knowledge and technology of later generations from Li Nian, so that they can become the seeds of the Qin Dynasty and become what Li Nian said is industrialization and science. foundation.
But who should be chosen as seeds?
Smart people of course!
Li Nian cannot teach too many people, he can only carefully select a group of geniuses and prodigies.
(End of this chapter)