Chapter 4 Those who have permanent property have perseverance
"Instead of flogging and hard labor!"
As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, the hall immediately started talking. Everyone could see the possibility of this change. Even Li Si's expression changed. He had no idea that Zhao Wen at his age could actually be able to deal with it.
The law changes.
"What the 20th Prince mentioned, I completely agree with. The purpose of the law is to educate the people not to break the law, not to make the people disabled. I would like to ask your Majesty to gather together famous Legalists, and change the laws and regulations accordingly if they involve the people!"
When Prime Minister Wang Wan saw the possibility of suppressing Li Si, he immediately stepped forward and said loudly.
"I second the proposal!"
A group of ministers who supported enfeoffment took a step forward at the same time.
Everyone can see that His Majesty and Li Si have already discussed and want to implement the county system, so today Li Si will be the first to report it at the court meeting.
But now, the appearance of the twenty princes is definitely an opportunity for them. The change of a law cannot be completed in a short time.
Now there are twenty princes standing up to play against Li Si. They can drag Li Si down. As long as he misses today, he can think of a way.
Looking at Zhao Wen below, Ying Zheng had an extremely complicated look on his face.
He absolutely agreed with what Zhao Wen said about corporal punishment, but he shouldn't bring it up today.
Today is the first dynasty of the founding of the Great Qin Empire, which is to determine the policies that Great Qin will implement in the future. If this matter is delayed because of a decree, it will inevitably delay the implementation of other policies. For the Great Qin Empire, the gains will definitely outweigh the losses.
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However, among the dozens of sons, the eldest son is obsessed with Confucianism and is at best a sect leader. Now that there is suddenly a seemingly capable son, he still wants to see what other truths this son can tell.
"I have another suggestion. Nowadays, most of the officials in various parts of the Qin Dynasty came from the original six countries. Many of them have even served as officials in one place for several generations. I believe that in order to avoid favoritism and the loss of justice and mutual protection, officials should be prohibited from serving as officials in the local area.
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Having said this, Zhao Wen looked up at Ying Zheng, whose expression remained unchanged, and said in a deep voice: "Transfer officials from various places to unfamiliar places and let Heibingtai secretly monitor their official duties and select a group of them.
Those who are capable and willing to serve our Great Qin are what our Great Qin needs to do most right now!"
"Whether it is to count the population of various places, to write the same text, to drive the same track, to travel the same route, or even to implement Qin's laws in the world, we must have a group of capable people. The first thing to do now is to select these people!"
Just for this last one, everyone in the hall looked at Zhao Wen with eyes full of approval, which was already looking at the world.
Even Li Si's face regained his composure. The 20th Prince agreed with his proposal of counting the population of various places, writing in the same text, driving on the same track, and walking in the same direction. However, he brought up corporal punishment separately. Obviously, he just disagreed with corporal punishment.
As long as you are not against yourself or even against Legalism, and you put forward opinions based on the facts, I can definitely accept it.
"Any other comments?"
His son proposed something that he had not thought of. Although he knew that his son wanted to show his ability in front of all the ministers, Yingzheng was also happy to see it happen and asked in a very gentle tone.
"We can also move all the rich households in the world to Guanzhong to strengthen the foundation of our Qin Dynasty. At the same time, we can allow the people of the world to open up wasteland. All newly reclaimed land will belong to the people who reclaim it, and no taxes will be levied for five years!"
Relocating the world's rich households was originally proposed by Li Si later, but Li Si also made many achievements in this regard. Instead, he needed it now, so Zhao Wen naturally had to propose it first.
As for the latter one, it was proposed by Zhu Yuanzhang when the Ming Dynasty was founded. Since it was proposed, the land of the Ming Dynasty has continued to increase. In the 20 years since the founding of the country, the population has doubled several times.
"Those who have perseverance have perseverance. As long as all these provisions are implemented, in at least twenty years, the population of our country in Qin will definitely increase several times, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms will not be able to cause any trouble!"
Ying Zheng stood up abruptly, stared at Zhao Wen for a while, and then sat down again, but his heart was already filled with turmoil. What Zhao Wen said just now, especially the last one, was beyond this in terms of knowledge.
Everyone in the palace.
And he can be sure that the twenty princes have been staying in his mansion these days and have not seen any ministers.
With just this insight, Ying Zheng knew that the successor he had been waiting for had appeared.
But he wasn't going to speak yet. He also wanted to see what other thoughts and suggestions he, the newly adult prince, had.
"I wonder if the Twenty Princes think that the Great Qin Dynasty today implements a feudal system or a prefecture/county system?"
Ying Zheng looked at Prime Minister Wang Wan with murderous intent in his eyes, and there was a hint of madness in Prime Minister Wang Wan's eyes.
As the Prime Minister, I disagree with His Majesty. However, among the princes, the 20th Prince is obviously the most capable. If the 20th Prince is willing to support me, even Your Majesty may have to consider it.
"The system of prefectures and counties in the mature land is governed by floating officials. In remote and wild places, a news often does not reach the court for months. We, the Qin Dynasty, are beyond our reach, so we can entrust the princes and nobles to govern on their behalf!"
In Zhao Wen's opinion, there is no difference at all between the enfeoffment system and the system of prefectures and counties. After the enfeoffment system, the order of grace can still be implemented. Otherwise, within a few decades, the number of royal families and nobles in the entire Great Qin will definitely be greatly reduced.
Moreover, after the royal family and nobles leave, the court will avoid countless troubles. In Zhao Wen's view, keeping these princes and nobles away from home is definitely the best choice.
Especially Chu in the south was too far away from Guanzhong and the anti-Qin forces were extremely strong. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang all raised their troops from Chu.
If we can seize dozens of princes and nobles, and only with the power of these people and their marriages with local forces, we will see how Liu Bang and Xiang Yu will fight back in the future.
"Only sealing off remote and wild areas?" Prime Minister Wang Wan immediately asked urgently.
In his opinion, Zhao Wen's method can be said to be a combination of the enfeoffment system and the county system, except that the places to be enfeoffed were slightly different. However, when the Zhou Dynasty was established, nobles and princes were also enfeoffed in remote places.
Now that it is implemented again, it may not be a good choice for capable nobles.
"That's right, we only seal the remote and wild areas. These places are now ruled by foreigners. Our Great Qin cannot collect a cent of taxes, so we might as well hand them over to the hands of capable princes and nobles!"
"coax!"
The hall suddenly became noisy. Some people looked excited, while others had worried looks on their faces.
Ying Zheng, who was sitting at the top, stood up and said: "Twenty princes come in with me, the others will withdraw and discuss tomorrow!"
After saying that, he strode towards the back hall. Yingzheng had decided that he must educate the newly grown prince and let him know the dangers of the enfeoffment system.
Zhao Wen smiled softly in his heart, ignored the anger in Fusu's eyes when he looked at him, and walked towards the back hall as well!
