Chapter 117: Royal Charter: Behead first and report later
Helping the First Emperor to walk back slowly, Zhao Wen's voice sounded in the palace unhurriedly: "From today on, Great Qin will establish the Dongchang and Jinyiwei!"
"The Jin Yiwei patrols the world, and Dongchang monitors the capital of Qin and the Jin Yiwei. Anyone who breaks the law can be killed first and reported later!"
The sound slowly dissipated in the hall. Many ministers in the hall turned pale in an instant, and cold sweat continued to break out from their heads!
"Find out the descendants of Lord Shang and General Bai and return their titles to them. We, the Qin Dynasty, will not treat any of our meritorious officials badly. Lord Shang and General Bai have made great contributions to the country, and they should die together with the country!"
"Farewell to Your Majesty, Farewell to Your Highness!" As soon as Zhao Wen finished his second sentence, Wang Jian, who had an ugly face, was immediately overjoyed and bowed respectfully in the direction where Zhao Wen and the First Emperor left.
Shang Jun and Bai Qi's contribution is great, but Wang Jian's contribution to the Qin Dynasty is not small. Shang Jun and Bai Qi can retire with the country, and Wang Jian also has this qualification.
"As an emperor, you must be able to trust your ministers, otherwise you will become a loner!" Seeing Zhao Wen intimidating his ministers in the most arrogant and domineering way, the First Emperor couldn't help but persuade him.
"Father, you may not have noticed that since the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the ministers in the court have become more and more rude. With the integration of a large number of old ministers from the Six Kingdoms, the good and the bad have become even worse!"
"My sons have too many things to do and don't have time to chat with them, so I plan to use a whip to whip them to finish what they should do in the shortest possible time!"
Zhao Wenke remembered that in history, as soon as the First Emperor died, the Qin Dynasty collapsed immediately. Although this was due to Hu Hai's improper access to the throne, it also collapsed too quickly.
Some emperors in the Ming Dynasty did not come to court for decades, and the country also developed steadily. As for Zhao Gao's great power, when were there no powerful eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty? Zhao Gao did not have military power, but some eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty did.
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For this reason alone, he has no good impression of the current group of ministers.
In Zhao Wen's view, there is only one reason why such a thing happened, and that is that these ministers did not fully recognize the Qin Empire from the bottom of their hearts.
This group of ministers have been using it with whips for several years, and the group of scholars I trained in Jiujiang County should be able to use it.
The total number of scholars in Da Qin today is probably less than 100,000, but there are now 100,000 young people studying in Jiujiang. This is the strength that I can rely on in the future.
Looking at the confident Zhao Wen, the First Emperor secretly sighed in his heart. If he was healthy, even if Zhao Wen controlled powerful power, he would still have the confidence to use the power of imperial power to suppress his son, and let the power controlled by Zhao Wen be
For your own use.
But now, even if it is an ordinary advice, the son who is about to become the emperor will not listen. In the future, this son will rule the empire, so why should he bother.
But even if Zhao Wen doesn't listen, he still has to remind him of some things: "My health is getting worse and worse these days, and I have accumulated a lot of government affairs. Now you will handle these government affairs!"
Speaking of this, the First Emperor said in a low tone: "While I am still alive, I can teach you on these matters!"
Holding back his weak body, he stood up straight and said, "Let's go to the study, I'll watch you handle it!"
In the study, looking at the bamboo slips piled up in front of him, Zhao Wen said directly: "Chu One, Chu Two!"
"My servants Chu Yi and Chu Er pay homage to Your Majesty, and pay homage to Your Highness!"
"Dispose of these memorials!"
"yes!"
Chu Yi and Chu Er took out paper and pen from their arms, opened a roll of bamboo slips and looked at it, then began to write. Their hands were very fast, and they had recorded several bamboo slips in a short time.
Chu Yi and Chu Er were trained in the inner study room of the Ming Dynasty. They learned how to process memorials. With thousands of years of experience, they could process them extremely quickly.
The First Emperor recalled carefully with a look of surprise in his eyes, still unable to figure out how the two eunuchs appeared just now.
Then he saw two eunuchs kneeling at the place where he usually handled the memorials and began to read the memorials. Their anger immediately rose to the sky, pointing at Zhao Wen and angrily saying: "Treason, this is how you handle government affairs!"
The First Emperor felt that no matter how powerful the power controlled by his son was, no matter what the price had to be paid, this heir must be replaced.
An emperor could even push the processing of memorials into the hands of eunuchs, and this was the first time that he had to deal with memorials. How could he believe that his son would be willing to devote his efforts to the Qin Dynasty in the future.
"Father, look!"
Taking what Chu Yi had written and handing it to the First Emperor, Zhao Wen explained: "There is too much nonsense in these memorials, and many of them are repetitive. After people copy out the key points, it will be clear and easy to deal with."
We can handle them all!”
"Eunuchs are disabled people, how can you guarantee that they will not deceive you!" Filled with anger, the First Emperor only felt black light flashing in front of his eyes, and his body began to shake.
"In the future, the imperial court will increase the number of prime ministers, and the prime ministers will form a cabinet. Any memorial will be written by the cabinet and written in the study. After it is processed in the study, it will be returned to the cabinet. If there are any problems, you can see at a glance!"
"What if the cabinet colludes with your inner study?" The First Emperor looked at Zhao Wen with a cold face. He could see now that this prince was not yet the emperor, but he was thinking of ways to be lazy.
"Father, do you think there are people in the world who will follow the eunuchs in rebellion?"
Zhao Wenke remembered that there were many eunuchs accused of rebellion in history, but there was only one in the whole history who actually led troops to attack the palace, and it was not successful.
The First Emperor was silent, he heard what Zhao Wen meant, his son obviously trusted the eunuchs more than the foreign ministers.
He raised his hand and took the statement written by Chu Yi. Each volume of memorials was summarized into one sentence, and even several identical memorials only had one sentence. It was clear at a glance, and it was indeed much easier to deal with.
If he handled the memorials in this way, he could handle all the memorials for one day in half an hour.
But now the First Emperor's mind was no longer on the memorial, but on carefully looking at the paper Chu Yi was writing on.
The last time Zhao Wen used this item to write a memorial for himself, now even the eunuchs around him also use this item. Obviously, this item should be very easy for the twenty princes to obtain.
"Where did this come from!"
"This is paper, which can be made from the bark of tree branches. Now there are many craftsmen in Jiujiang County making it. It won't be long before the imperial court can replace the bamboo slips!"
"Bring all these craftsmen to the young master's office as quickly as possible and protect them carefully. These are sacred objects, and craftsmen who can make them must not let them go wrong!"
The First Emperor could even imagine that after a large number of these things appeared, the number of scholars would inevitably increase dramatically, and the right to speak in the world would even shift accordingly.
For Da Qin, this is definitely a divine object, and no matter how much it is valued, it cannot be overestimated!