Chapter 152: Dividing the Princes
Li Nian became the minister of the Ministry of Education, and the ministers were not very surprised. This move was obviously to let Li Nian enter the court and pave the way for him to become the prince in advance.
After talking about the reform of the official system and awarding rewards to hundreds of officials and generals, Ying Zheng announced another decree: dividing the world into nearly forty counties.
This decree means that all the original six kingdoms are now included in the county system of Da Qin.
This was something that had been agreed upon earlier, and the ministers were not surprised. But then, Ying Zheng dropped a bombshell, just listen to him say:
"Confucianism has a saying, 'If a jade is not polished, it will not become a tool; if a man does not learn, he will not know.' Therefore, when heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a man, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and deplete his body before walking." What he did was messy, so he was tempted to endure what he couldn't do. I deeply believe that. "
"Although my disciples are noble sons of the Qin Dynasty, they have grown up in the deep palace. , How can you take on a big responsibility if you have no experience in the world and don’t know the sufferings of the people?”
“For the sake of the Qin Dynasty and the plan of the people, I decided to assign the disciples to local areas for experience, to understand the civil affairs, and to observe the people’s sentiments...”
Except for Fusu, who already knew Ying Zheng’s decision, the other young masters of Qin were all surprised, followed by excitement, confusion, anxiety, and worry.
The good news is that the father wants to enfeoff them. They can leave the palace and govern the place personally. The bad news is that they have little experience and don't know whether they can manage it well.
And why did Emperor Father want to enfeoff them? Didn’t Emperor Father always hate enfeoffment the most?
Now that we finally destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, we immediately enfeoffed them into local regions?
Seeing Li Nian playing with the strange object, all the young masters except Fusu had two thoughts:
First, is the father trying to pave the way for this cheap brother to let him go? He successfully became the crown prince, and then successfully ascended the throne, so he drove them all away?
The second is that my father has not yet decided on a candidate for the crown prince, so he entrusts them to local places. Is he trying to let them compete with each other to see who can govern the local area well and choose the crown prince?
Needless to say, the former is just going to eat somewhere and wait to die. That big position does not belong to them, so there is no need to think about it anymore, but if it is the latter...
All the young masters who are interested in the throne are excited. , if it's the latter, then they still have a chance to get into that position.
It’s just that the cheap brother behaved very strangely. When he heard that his father wanted to divide them, he wasn’t even a little surprised. Either he was worried about it, or he was so stupid that he didn’t know what was going on, or he had already I know...
But this young master of Da Qin, who was obviously not stupid, and had just been a little excited, felt his heart sink again, and thought sourly: Maybe the father's decree was made after consultation with the other party.
The ministers were also surprised. In this matter, Ying Zheng did not greet them in advance. It was a surprise attack. Although Prime Minister Wang Wan had already mentioned that Da Qin could not control the entire world now, it would be best to The strategy is to seize the core areas first and entrust remote areas to the young masters to guard them.
However, Ying Zheng never confirmed it personally, so the ministers thought that Ying Zheng was not satisfied with this strategy and did not want to adopt it. Unexpectedly, Ying Zheng suddenly threw this big thunder today: It turns out that His Majesty is not unwilling to adopt it, but has already made up his mind. I just don't want them to know.
A look of sudden enlightenment flashed in Li Si's eyes, and he felt that he had figured it out. The reason why he did not overthrow Wang Wan and become prime minister in this reform was because His Majesty wanted to adopt Wang Wan's strategy, and he advocated it. But he couldn't be enfeoffed, so he deliberately suppressed him. 'Your Majesty, I can change it. As long as I am allowed to ascend to the position of prime minister, I can also support the enfeoffment! ’
Li Si sighed in his heart. After all, he was missing a beat, but he couldn’t stand up to oppose the enfeoffment implemented by Ying Zheng.
Today is the ceremony for Ying Zheng to proclaim himself emperor. Wouldn’t it spoil Ying Zheng’s mood by jumping out to oppose it?
If you really jump out and speak out to remonstrate, you will definitely be hated by Ying Zheng. From now on, not only will you miss the chance to be the prime minister, but your life will be in danger.
I didn’t see that the ministers who are usually known for their courage to give direct advice in the court were calm and quiet today, and they didn’t say much.
Chun Yuyue and other Confucian scholars had happy expressions on their faces. He originally wanted to write a letter to persuade Ying Zheng to enfeoff all the princes after today, but he did not expect that Ying Zheng would take the initiative to enfeoff all the princes.
Although Ying Zheng definitely has ulterior motives, this is always a good thing. With this good start, will it still be far away from the enfeoffment and restoration of Zhou rites they thought of?
Even at this time, Chun Yuyue and other Confucian scholars still held the ideas of governing the country by enfeoffing, benevolent government, and restoring Zhou rites.
Because although the Zhou Dynasty was divided into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and although it led to hundreds of years of war among various countries, the country of Zuo was really long and was the longest dynasty in history that they could see. If the Qin Dynasty did not learn from the Zhou Dynasty, who could it learn from?
As for the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty, it was not a problem of enfeoffment, Zhou rituals and benevolent governance, but a human problem. People did not abide by Zhou rituals, the king did not implement benevolent governance, and the rituals collapsed and music collapsed.
Hearing that Ying Zheng actually wanted to enfeoff all the princes, they had been watching the ceremony calmly and calmly. The Great Qin clan only reacted a little when Ying Zheng said that he would set up a clan mansion and appoint the prince Ying as Zong Zheng. Shi couldn't help but feel a little hopeful:
Ying Zheng is famous for hating enfeoffment, but now his sons who are able to enfeoff will also revise the restrictions on the clan?
This Great Qin is not only the Great Qin of Ying Zheng and his sons, but also their Great Qin. They have a common ancestor. Compared with those ministers, they are a family.
Since we can allocate all the young masters out and let them govern the place, it is not necessarily impossible. Not to mention anything else, as a member of the Great Qin clan, governing the place can always guarantee your loyalty better than others!
Qi Wangjian and other six princes who were forcibly invited to watch the ceremony didn't have much idea. Their country was destroyed, and everyone was captured in Xianyang and became prisoners. What could they do if they had any idea?
The most I can do is curse Emperor Qin in my heart for a good death. Now that the princes are being enfeoffed, Qin will follow the same path as last week, and sooner or later those princes will end up like them.
It is not difficult for smart people such as Liu Ji and Xiao He to see that Ying Zheng was forced to adopt a transitional policy to solve the problem that Da Qin could not fully control the world. Sooner or later, when Da Qin accumulated enough strength, it would Enfeoffment will be abolished.
Ying Zheng did not care about what the people below thought, and continued: "Female Young Master Gao as the King of Langya, and lead Langya County, Qi County, and Julu County, and the Young Master General Lu as the King of Changsha, and lead the Changsha County, Gan County..."
Gan County was a county that did not exist in the history of the Qin Dynasty. It was divided from Jiujiang County. The purpose was to entrust the princes to the local areas, and Ying Zheng did not want the area controlled by them to be too large.
Listening to the places that Ying Zheng enfeoffed, people who didn’t understand it gradually came to their senses. His Majesty really wants all the young masters to go to the places to experience. What kind of places are these enfeoffed places?
They are all far away from Xianyang, located on the corner of what is now Daqin.
This is to let you gentlemen guard the remote areas of Da Qin!
(End of this chapter)