The King of Qin did not want to launch troops against Qi in the short term. The unification of Qin was a foregone conclusion. Qi was definitely not a rival to Qin. Instead, Ying Zheng cared more about it than the urgent annexation of Qi, and what Ying Zheng cared more about was to govern the occupied areas, turn them into land of Qin, and establish an unprecedented prosperity in his father's words. In recent years, Qin had been using troops to various countries continuously, and the drawbacks of military merit system had begun to be exposed.

The Qin State captured Yan and Chu State in the southern part of the State of China, resulting in many military aristocrats. These people needed to use land to reward them. When they attacked Yan State, the army came from all over the place, most of them came from newly conquered land. On the newly conquered land, Qin State could redistribute land and realize its reward promise. However, when attacking Chu State, the land within the six countries was allocated, and they could only be rewarded with Chu State.

As mentioned earlier, the southeastern region of Chu State is very terrible, there is a wild land and a barren land... Is the land here rewarded to the soldiers who fought and settled here? Is this reward or punishment? This operation is the problem encountered by Yan State at the time. There is no land to be rewarded. It took up as much as 500,000 soldiers to attack Chu State. These people have to reward them, and the land is simply not enough.

Fortunately, Lu Buwei had previously carried out transitional reforms, reducing the rewards for lower-level titles. Otherwise, the Qin army would likely collapse in this battle, because unfulfilled promises are often more infuriating than not giving promises. In order to collect the rewards to the 500,000 troops, Li Si could almost die of exhaustion. In other words, Li Si, if Lu Buwei was still, the old man might have died on the document before he finished it.

Li Si's performance made Ying Zheng even more convinced that his choice was correct. Qin State had a lot of things to do at present. At this time, compared to strategists and theorists, a practical faction like Li Si could play the best role. Qin State needs to cultivate for a period of time, and years of wars have a huge impact on the country. Agricultural and serenity are the foundation of Qin State and cannot be delayed because of war.

After all, the Qin State today is not farming for war, but for farming. These are two different concepts, and it is also the new future of Qin proposed by Zhao Kuo. After hearing Gan Luo's words, the King of Qin laughed. He looked at Li Si not far away, shook his head and said, "The State of Qi has actually started mobilizing? If Qin State does not send troops, what should they do? Will they keep guarding?"

"This is King Qi, let's discuss this matter slowly." The King of Qin said, and let Gan Luo leave. Gan Luo was a little unwilling to accept it. He went to Qi this time and really did nothing. It was not that he didn't want to do it, but Hou Sheng didn't let him intervene at all... After Gan Luo left, Li Si said just now: "In fact, you can send troops to Qi." Ying Zheng narrowed his eyes and said: "It's okay to send troops, but now is the best time?"

"Attack Qi, there will be only one king in the world... At that time, we can make changes and implement various systems with peace of mind. In addition, Qi is rich... Marquis Wu Cheng wants to do a lot of things, but he has no money and food... After taking Qi, Qi's grain reserves and later wins' property are enough for Marquis Wu Cheng to do things." Li Si's idea was to quickly solve Qi, and then govern all regions with peace of mind, and solve all problems at once.

Ying Zheng suddenly felt that what Li Si said was also reasonable.

According to what his father said, the current measures are like to prevent the disease from worsening, but not to cure it. If you want to cure the disease, you still have to be the king of the world. Ying Zheng pondered for a moment and asked, "Would Housheng be cheating Qin, right? If he marched according to the route he gave and encountered an ambush from Qi, what should he do?" Li Si couldn't help laughing, he shook his head and said, "If Housheng really had such insight and courage, then Qi would not have watched the destruction of various countries."

Under Li Si's persuasion, Ying Zheng chose to believe in Housheng. He wanted to find a general to destroy Qi. After thinking for a long time, Ying Zheng focused on the three young generals. The first one was Meng Tian. Meng Tian showed extremely high talent in the previous war. Zhao Kuo said that he was the future Great Wall of Qin. You must know that it is the greatest honor to be able to get such an evaluation from Zhao Kuo.

He was also a descendant of Qi, and his eldest father Meng Ao fled from Qi State. Therefore, the family still retained the customs of Qi, and they would speak Qi language, and the culture of Qi was clearer. Another young general was Wang Ben, the son of General Wang Jian. Although he did not show the talent like Meng Tian, ​​he was really stable. He fought slowly and was extremely steady like his father, and did not give any breakthroughs.

Zhao Kuo commented that he had the style of his father. He was a long-standing battle. Among the second generation of generals in Qin, he was the second highest-ranking one and the one who could already serve as the chief general. When he came to serve as the chief surrender, Ying Zheng could certainly be at ease. In the end, it was Li Xin. Li Xin was brave and fierce in combat, and was known as the Little Knight... Zhao Kuo commented that he was a general who was good at attacking... Ying Zheng also liked this young general very much. He wanted to train him to replace Wang Jian and could become Zhao Kang's best helper in the future.

Ying Zheng thought about it over and over again and decided to use Wang Ben as the general, and asked Meng Tian and Li Xin to assist him. He used soldiers from Wei and Chu to form an army of 150,000 to directly attack the royal city of Qi. Zhao Kuo did not know about these major events. Zhao Kuo is busy revising the military merit system, which can be said to be very busy. At the same time, Zhao Kang welcomed a vacation and came back to pay homage to his old father.

Due to distance, Zhao Kang has a holiday every year to go home to visit his parents. Not only Zhao Kang, but also the officials of Qin. They come to rest according to the month. If the distance is too far, then take a rest according to the year. The Qin system is more humane. Zhao Kang hurried back to Xianyang, holding his son excitedly, while Xiu kept twisting his body and grabbing his beard. Zhao Kang couldn't help laughing.

Zhao Kuo was unwilling to disturb their family's reunion, so he conceived the post-war system alone.

Zhao Kuo felt that after peace in the world, the military merit system would be divided into at least several levels. First of all, the military merit system can be regarded as a hierarchy, and the hierarchy can be obtained through combat and change the destiny. This system would have to make reasonable changes in peacetime. First, it is to separate the combatants and local officials. Because in war, the whole people are soldiers, so officials and officers are both part-time. However, in the future, the Qin State will definitely develop permanent troops, and officials are not the same as officers.

What's more, it would be inappropriate for officers who only know how to fight to serve as officials in peace in the future.

Therefore, the classification of ranks must be clear. The military merit level of an officer can be like a military rank. Different soldiers have different titles and are treated differently according to the different military ranks. This can not only ensure combat effectiveness, but also clarify superiors and subordinates... As for local officials, Zhao Kuo first thought of the ninth rank system, which increased from ninth rank to first rank, which is the rank of an official.

In addition to soldiers and officials, there are also students today. There will be more and more students in the Qin State. So what should be the grade of students? Later, there were levels such as Tong Sheng, Scholar, Jinshi, and of course, there were also bachelors, masters, and craftsmen, including those farmers. Will all have to set levels? Zhao Kuo needs to think about a lot and do more.

If the title is banned among the people and the title is turned into military ranks, and ordinary people can only get the title by participating in the army, it means that the way for the people to climb up will change. Such changes can only be changed through education. Why did Zhao Kuo rush to do education? This is the reason. If there is no education as a way and the military merit system becomes unique to the regular soldiers, what should the common people who cannot participate in the war?

They need to climb up through education, through their excellent grades, and go all the way to university... to obtain a bachelor's title, and then participate in politics or do other things. Many of Zhao Kuo's previous actions were not on a whim, but were prepared for post-war unification. On the original historical line, the Western Han Dynasty wanted to make some changes in the face of military merit system.

First, the Western Han Dynasty established a system of filial piety and brotherly love through the system of the Three Olds, and established an official selection system such as filial piety and integrity on the basis of it to get rid of the war. Then, the Imperial Academy and Chinese Studies were established to allow the people to have other ways to climb up besides the war. Aware of the impact of the military merit system, the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty simplified the 20th level titles to make him fewer. At the same time, they constantly rewarded the people with various reasons.

Many people believe that the foolish kings of the Western Han Dynasty rewarded titles randomly, which destroyed the military merit system. Well, the emperor who rewarded titles randomly was Emperor Wen. The foolish Emperor Wen kept rewarding the grassroots titles to newborn children in the country, making the streets full of titles, making the lower-level titles completely useless and destroying the foundation of the military merit system. At the same time, he increased the way to obtain high-level titles, so that the generals went all over the world to fight the Huns in order to obtain high-level titles.

Of course, this does not prevent those smart people from pointing at the behavior of these foolish kings.

Zhao Kuo now wants to do more in advance, expand the scope of education, make the road to the upper level wider, dig out the war from Qin State, and let the Qin State, a war machine, get rid of its dependence on war. What Zhao Kuo is doing is a major event that will affect the future of Qin State for hundreds of years, and even affect the future thousands of years of China, but Zhao Kuo does not seem to have discovered this.

What he thought was very simple, to give peace to the world.

Zhao Kuo was busy in the study. Suddenly, someone knocked on the gate of the courtyard. A young master came to report that a distinguished guest was visiting. The young retainer called Zhongshu Ge. He was Di's son, and Di Yipi. He said that he named the child this name to commemorate his friend. Zhao Kuo felt that he enjoyed the feeling of calling him father more. Zhao Kuo has always been very disgusted with slavery.

After he came to Qin, he also proposed to abolish the slave system many times. Under his prestige, Qin could only make some changes, including the abolition of the punishment regulations for convicting criminals as slaves, stipulating that retainers are not equivalent to slaves, and that retainers and heads have employment relationships, and in terms of rewards for military merit, they also exempted the slaves as a reward. Because of Zhao Kuo's influence, many great nobles also voluntarily released slaves and allowed them to farm freely.

Ying Zheng was worried about his father's safety, so he set up some official positions, called the Chehou Family Prison, etc. Simply put, they were the private officials and private nannies in the Chehou Family... Zhao Kuo felt that this was unnecessary, but Ying Zheng's attitude was too firm, and he had no choice. In the end, it was Zhongshu Ge who passed the assessment and successfully served as the Chehou Family Prison Order, and in Zhao Kuo's mansion, he served as Zhao Kuo's helper.

Zhao Kuo put down what he had and asked Ge to invite the guests in. There were many guests, including seven or eight, most of them women. Zhao Kuo was even more surprised. Until he saw Meng Wu among the guests, he seemed to understand something and his heart sank. Meng Wu brought his family to pay homage to Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo gently invited them to sit down and asked Ge to bring them food and drinks.

Everyone sat down to greet Zhao Kuo, and Meng Wu introduced his family to Zhao Kuo one by one.

Soon, Zhao Kang and Yun also arrived. Yun helped entertain the female guests. Zhao Kang squinted his eyes and looked vigilantly at the boy in the distance. Meng Yi. Meng Yi sat in the last position, his forehead was covered in sweat, trembling, and he was extremely nervous. He didn't dare to look up at Zhao Kuo and Zhao Kang. Zhao Kuo talked to them for a moment. Meng Wu said his purpose. Meng Wu said seriously: "I heard that you have a daughter in your family, who is very virtuous... I also have a child, although it is not a good person..."

Zhao Kuo looked at him in surprise. Shan was so young, why did he come to propose marriage?

Shan, who was helping to serve tea and water, blushed at this moment, and he lowered his head and ran away. Zhao Kuo looked at his daughter in a daze. Shan seemed to be only five or six years old in his eyes, and his body was chubby. It was also at that moment that Shan suddenly grew up and she turned into a young girl... It turns out that my daughter is so old?

Zhao Kuo was a little surprised. He looked at Meng Wu in front of him, and Meng Wu said a lot, but Zhao Kuo couldn't hear it clearly. Zhao Kuo never likes to interfere with the choices made by his children. He would try his best to meet the requirements of his children, and he was not willing to delay the happiness of the children... As long as she was kind to her own willingness, Zhao Kuo would not say much. Zhao Kuo stood up, looked at Meng Wu in front of him, and said tremblingly: "Please wait for me for a while."

Zhao Kuo left the inner room and walked into another room. Looking at Shan who was waiting for the news, Shan was even more shy in front of his father and didn't dare to look at him anymore.

"Child...you're grown up. I'll listen to your own opinion on this matter. If you want, I agree...If you don't want, no one can force you..."

"I agree!" Shan said, as if he realized something was wrong again, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Zhao Kuo smiled, he nodded and said, "Okay, just agree..."

"This matter is done as you said." Zhao Kuo looked at Meng Wu in front of him and agreed to his request. Meng Wu was very happy. He himself did not expect that in this way, he became a relative of Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kang stared at Meng Yi in the distance indifferently. While everyone was smiling and celebrating, he walked up and grabbed his collar, "Go out with me, I have something to say to you..."

Although Meng Yi was afraid, he still plucked up his courage and followed Zhao Kang out.

As soon as he walked out of the inner room, Zhao Kang tied his arm around his neck, gritted his teeth, and said seriously: "If you dare to make Shan sad...even if it's just once... I'll kill you, no one can stop me... Do you understand?"
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