Chapter 134 Your Majesty, this is war!

Author: March

Chapter 134 Your Majesty, this is war!

In fact, the First Emperor was not a fool, and neither was Li Si, but 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 more 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.

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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 passed down from generation to generation in 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 Guanzhong.

In this way, when the nobles of the six countries move, firstly, they can no longer influence 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 great 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. If one thousand dan is higher, then you are a big noble.

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 the Qin Dynasty, rather than objects of appeasement by the Qin Dynasty."

"Dividing the land? Why do we need to divide the land? The division is also based on the laws of the Qin Dynasty, one hundred acres of land per family. Doesn't it mean that how much land they have in Guanzhong will be compensated by the Qin Dynasty?

The six kingdoms are destroyed, but the title is not lost, the land is not lost, the wealth is not collected, and the king cannot be loyal to his life, but he can save most of the wealth by bending the knee, how can such a good thing be possible?"

"When Shang Jun first reformed the law, 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 family.

Their titles were earned through military exploits and bloodshed.

Among the high nobles in Guan today, which one 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 should we 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 could turn into a bird in the sky and a fish swimming in the sea? Shang Jun was not immune to the inheritance system and the official post system he established.

, then why was the assassin able to escape?

The political decrees implemented by Da Qin were made in 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 your Majesty's assassins 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 detection 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!"

"The laws of Qin 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 the laws of Qin. 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 only 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 remaining food 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 nobles? They kept their customers, annexed their lands, 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 let them 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 taxes are collected, they are the people, and when taxes are not collected, they are nobles. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"

"Confucianism says that the people are the most important, and Legalism says that the people are tired and the people are weak. Who is the people?"

"I compare Daqin and the local area to a trunk and branches and leaves. Who are the branches and leaves? Who is competing for nutrients with the trunk?

It's not the head of Guizhou. The head of Guizhou can't bear to live as a thief at most, but he doesn't have the ability to rebel under the laws of Qin due to 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.

When they come together, they are everything the tree grows."

"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.

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"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 some time to adjust his sitting posture, looked at Zhao Si with a smile, and said, "Do you have a problem with 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 something so incredible.

Zhao Si is not weak or kind. His weakness and kindness are directed at Li Shu, which is a bit like Confucianism.

However, Zhao Si was not just weak and kind. He was also very ruthless. He directly regarded the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms as enemies and treated them with hostility. He even said that he would kill ten or five of them, which would be enough. This was a bit like Legalism.

Zhao Si also put forward the saying that strong trunks and weak branches compare the people to everything that grows in a tree.

But Zhao Si asked again, who is the people? Who is the branch?

It's very interesting. These words are considered extremely disrespectful in the world.

If Zhao Si openly put forward these suggestions and even promoted them, Zhao Si might end up with the same fate as Shang Yang.

It is not impossible for someone 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 implement 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 has been shed by the old clan and the old clan."

"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 off 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 Kingdoms 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.

They only brought people and money, and they were in an unfamiliar place. They had to 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.

They were not prohibited from consuming, nor were they prohibited 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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