Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2304 The Constitution of the Great Qin Empire, Disarmament and the Imperial Examination System

Chapter 2300: The Constitution of the Great Qin Empire, Disarmament and the Imperial Examination System

"Your Majesty goes to the palace, and all the officials kneel down to welcome you."

Cao Zhengchun, the head of the palace, announced the emperor's arrival loudly in the hall with the eunuch's unique high-pitched voice, and then all the officials knelt down in tacit understanding and saluted: "See my emperor, Your Majesty Wannian."

Ying Hao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, stretched out his hand and raised it falsely, and said indifferently: "You are all flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Ying Hao was a little displeased with kneeling and worshiping, and felt that it was a loss of generality and dignity, so he also proposed to abolish it, but it was opposed by five of the six ministers headed by Prime Minister Wang Meng, especially the Minister of Rites and Xi Zhicai. .

Xi Zhicai's view of opposing the abolition of kneeling worship is very strange. He is not pedantic to stick to the old etiquette, but to maintain imperial power.

The first establishment of the Great Qin Dynasty was the time to demonstrate the authority of the emperor, and kneeling and worshiping is also a way to reflect the authority of the emperor. The newborn Great Qin is not suitable for abolition.

Moreover, even if kneeling worship is to be abolished, it should be done step by step instead of being abolished directly in law.

Xi Zhicai convinced Ying Hao, and his words made Ying Hao further understand the true meaning of governing a big country like cooking a small fish, so he gave up the idea of ​​directly abolishing the kneeling ceremony.

Although Ying Hao did not directly abolish kneeling and worshiping, he did not explicitly write in the first code of the Great Qin Empire, the "Ritual Law" in the "Great Qin Constitution", that the common people and ministers must kneel and worship.

Kneeling or not kneeling depends entirely on the voluntary of the people.

As for the "Great Qin Constitution", it was also the first legal code of the Great Qin Empire revised after Ying Hao proclaimed himself emperor, based on the "Qin Law" and "Han Law" and combined with his own new reforms.

Of course, Ying Hao attaches great importance to this set of legal codes, so he personally supervises the process of specifying the laws, and also cooperates with Wang Meng, Han Fei, Wei Yang, and Wu Qi (who have successfully defected to Daqin, and because of their status as Legalist disciples, were Ying Hao was specially approved to participate in the further study of the law.) There were disputes among the ministers who revised the law.

As a memory traveler with posterity, Ying Hao can naturally put forward many novel and advanced viewpoints, which makes Han Fei Shang Yang and other legal patriarchs can't help but shine.

It's just that most of Ying Hao's opinions were still opposed by Han Fei and others, and he was willing to say "too advanced".

Ying Hao's idea is naturally good. He wants the country to be stronger, the law to be more perfect, and the people to be happier, but he has made the same policy mistake as Wang Mang's new policy, that is, he wants to take off directly before it is stable. However, in this era when ideology, culture and economy are very backward, it is obviously unable to bear and bear the burden of Ying Hao's forward thinking, and forcing the law will only lead to the same end as Wang Mang back then.

A person who is one step ahead of the times is a genius, and a man who is ten steps ahead of the times is a madman.

Ying Hao was also aware of this, so he gave up many unrealistic ideas, and only adopted the essence suitable for this era, and it was repaired by legalists such as Wang Meng, Han Fei, and Shang Yang.

When Wang Mang implemented the new coup law, if Han Fei, Shang Yang and others had assisted him, he would not have been defeated so thoroughly.

This set of "Great Qin Constitution" under the leadership of Ying Hao basically covers all aspects of society.

Ying Hao preliminarily estimated that even the first version of the "Great Qin Constitution" would take at least a year to be completely revised, and then it needs to be continuously improved according to the actual situation of the country.

But it doesn't matter, as much as you change, you can implement as much as you want.

Newspapers have been fully promoted in Daqin, and the Daqin court has fully grasped the dominance of public opinion. The revision process of the constitution can be updated in real time on newspapers.

The process of amending the law is difficult and slow, but Ying Hao believes that once this constitution is born, it will be the most advanced set of laws in the world, and it will not become obsolete even if it is used by future generations for thousands of years. The greatest treasure for future generations.

"Your Majesty, Princess Su Xinyue of Wei State has arrived in Luoyang, and Princess Zhao Linger of Song State will also arrive within a week. The envoys of both countries hope to get married as soon as possible." Zhang Yi reported from the station.

Regarding the matter of marriage, the most urgent one is Wei Guo.

Although the state of Qin did not publicly oppose Cao Cao's claiming the king, five great masters of the state of Qin entered Shouchun quietly, which also showed what the state of Qin's true attitude was.

Therefore, Wei Guo naturally didn't dare to cross the red line, but honestly lowered his stance, obediently continuing to be Daqin's number one younger brother.

After thinking for a while, Ying Hao said, "There is no rush to get married. First, we will send officials from the Ministry of Rituals to the embassy to teach the royal etiquette to the princesses of the two countries. After the princesses have learned it, we will get married."

Regarding royal etiquette, the princesses of the Wei and Song Dynasties must have learned it before coming to Daqin, but what other countries teach is one thing, and the advantages of Daqin's own religion are another matter. It is necessary to go.

At present, Zhen Mi and Xiao Meiniang are also studying the etiquette of reproduction, making the final preparations for entering the palace as concubines.

After Zhang Yi retreated, Prime Minister Wang Meng stood up again and said, "Your Majesty, in the next few years, our Daqin's national policy will focus on recuperation and restoration of national strength, so the prime minister proposes to hold a big military contest to disarm.

Only retain the size of the 80 army, thus freeing up more funds for the development and restoration of national strength. "

The land area of ​​Daqin involves the land of eight states, the territory is too large, the population is too large, and the enemies are too many, so even the size of an army of 80 is only enough, and it is far from achieving the goal of unifying the world.

The prime minister of the Civil Service Group, Wang Meng, proposed disarmament, which would naturally affect the interests of the Generals Group, but it was rare that no one from the Generals Group was right, because disarmament was basically a consensus.

Since the Battle of Hebei, the Qin army has been flooded with a large number of surrendered troops.

Although these surrendered troops have been reorganized, there are still many people who do not conform to the Great Qin soldier training regulations, and their combat power is naturally much worse than that of the regular army, which naturally lowers the overall combat power of the Qin army.

Only because the war was not over yet, and Daqin's military strength was stretched, this lowered the standard and accepted the surrendered army, and temporarily recruited [-] new soldiers.

In the ensuing Jingbei War and the Guanzhong War, the casualties of surrendered troops and recruits were also the highest. Eight out of ten of the Qin troops who died in battle were surrendered troops and recruits.

The surrendered troops in the Daqin establishment enjoy the same pension as the regular army, but the casualty rate is much higher than that of the regular army.

Daqin's pension system is to allow the army to fight without any worries, so as to ensure the greatest guarantee of the army's strong combat power, and it is impossible to abolish it no matter what.

But once the number of casualties of soldiers is too high, the huge amount of pensions will overwhelm Daqin's finances, making Daqin breathless.

The Qin army suffered 12 casualties in the largest Battle of Hebei, 14 casualties in the most troublesome Battle of Youzhou, [-] casualties in the most tragic Battle of Jingbei, and [-] casualties in the smoothest Battle of Yongliang.

Not counting other small-scale wars, the total number of casualties of the Qin army was 45 after these four battles alone. Although it brought huge benefits to Qin, the casualties were less than half of the total strength of Qin before the war. And more.

Among them, surrendered troops and recruits accounted for 32%, about 13, while the regular army accounted for [-]%, about [-].

Ying Hao was stunned when he saw this report, and from this data, it can be seen that Da Qin's strategy of elite soldiers is correct, and must continue to be implemented.

Because only when the overall quality of soldiers is improved, the survival rate on the battlefield will increase, and the casualty rate will be lower if the survival rate is improved, so naturally there is no need to bear a huge amount of pensions.

That is to say, Daqin's national power is strong, coupled with the fact that it has a good way of making money, is good at making money, and destroyed countries and families in Youzhou, Hebei, and also captured a lot of wealth, so that it can barely afford this pension.

But even so, Daqin's financial pressure is still very high, especially the military expenditure, which accounts for the largest proportion of national expenditure, which is extremely unfavorable for Daqin's post-war recovery. It has come to the time when the military must be disarmed to overcome this financial crisis up.

After listening to Wang Meng's words, Ying Hao nodded in agreement. Now the disarmament has indeed benefited Daqin a lot. Of course, the navy is not within the scope of the disarmament.
With Daqin's dominant position, no country dares to provoke it.

Even if all countries come together to attack, an army of 80 is enough to defend. There is no need to maintain the current huge army of more than 110 million. It is just a waste of military expenditure, not to mention that the combat power is not high.

After the implementation of disarmament and the elimination of redundant and unqualified soldiers, the overall quality of the entire army will also be improved, and the overall combat power will not be inferior to that of a million-strong army.

As for the laid-off army, Ying Hao will not give up directly, but will turn into county guards, or fast arresters, so that they can continue to shine.

In this case, the military expenditure will be several times less, and in the event of a major war, they can be recruited as soldiers urgently, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

It will not be too late to expand the army until Daqin has fully digested the results of the battle and survived the financial crisis, and can afford the military expenditure of its million-dollar army.

After all, based on the population base of Daqin, the number of reserve troops, and the people's enthusiasm for joining the army, it is not difficult to expand the army.

"What Prime Minister Wang said is true, I am sure. Where is Bai Qi?"

Bai Qi stood up quickly.

"The minister is here."

"Bai Qi, you are a general. The whole army will compete in martial arts, and you will be fully responsible for the disarmament."

Hearing this, Bai Qi was startled at first, then overjoyed, flushed on his pale face, clasped his fists and said in a deep voice: "I obey the order."

Disarmament will damage the real power of the generals of all parties. It is not a good job, but it is a good job for Bai Qi.

Ever since Jia Xu's reminder, Bai Qi has been extremely sensitive to the word "Great Master", although Ying Hao is not too worried about this, but Bai Qi himself is afraid to death, for fear that His Majesty will not use him to lead the army that day , or just leave him idle, so he always thinks of using various methods to eliminate his prestige, such as deliberately massacring the Liaodong family.

Although Bai Qi's various actions have brought him various infamy, and his prestige in the army has also decreased, they are still very high. If Ying Hao doesn't help him find a way, he may not have the opportunity to continue to lead the army in the future up.

Therefore, in order to be able to continue to use Bai Qi, Ying Hao deliberately asked Bai Qi to be responsible for this matter. This will definitely increase the conflict between Bai Qi and the major governors, and thus take the opportunity to eliminate Bai Qi's prestige in the army.

Since he became the emperor, Ying Hao's imperial mind has also grown day by day, and he has become so proficient in this method of checking and balancing his courtiers.

It is said that the emperor is a lonely family. This is not a false statement. Ying Hao only felt more about this sentence after he became the emperor.

If the civil servants and generals are all of one mind, then the emperor will not be able to sleep, so how to grasp a scale, balance the power and relationship between the civil and military officials, and try to prevent the courtiers from reporting to the union or forming a party for personal gain, so as to prevent threats to the imperial power. This is the most basic requirement of being a good emperor.

As for the specific aspects of disarmament, it must not be discussed in the morning, because there are too many things involved.

Bai Qi also needs to go back to the General's Mansion to hold a meeting, and first draw up a rough draft, submit it to Ying Hao, and get permission before proceeding.

After finalizing the matter of disarmament, Ying Hao dealt with some tedious and important matters, and then the most important event of the early court was brought up by the Minister of Rites, Xi Zhi.

"Weichen's play annals has the original inscription. The system of selecting talents in the Great Qin Dynasty is still the continuation of the former Han Dynasty's inspection system. Weichen believes that this system is no longer up to date. It should be abolished and a more complete and advanced system should be used to select talents. "

The Department of Education, one of the six departments of the Ministry of Rites, is in charge of all the schools in the Great Qin Dynasty. As for whether the talent selection system should be abolished, it is natural that Xi Zhicai, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, should propose the most appropriate proposal.

As soon as Xi Zhicai said this, officials from poor families, such as Wang Meng, Guo Jia, Bao Zheng, Di Renjie and others all showed joy.

On the contrary, officials from aristocratic families, such as Xun Yu, Liu Ye, Qu Yuan, Wang Xizhi, etc. could not help but change their expressions. They had already guessed what Xi Zhi wanted to say.

Xi Zhicai wants to abolish the examination system and use the imperial examination system to select officials!

Liu Ye, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, stood up without saying a word, and subconsciously retorted: "The words of the opera minister are wrong. The inspection and judging system started from Emperor Wen of the former Han Dynasty and was perfected by Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty. It has been implemented for nearly 370 years. The imperial court was only 400 years old, and the inspection and judging system selected a large number of talents for the former Han Dynasty.

Xi Zhicai obviously didn't expect Liu Ye to refute him. After all, he and Liu Ye had a good personal relationship, and he didn't expect Liu Ye's rebuttal to be so sharp, so he was ready to answer after a little thought.

But before Xi Zhicai had time to say it, Guo Jia took the first step and retorted: "I do not deny the merits of the chaju system, but everyone, don't forget that even if the chaju system has been perfected for more than 370 years, the former Han Dynasty There are still a large number of incompetent officials, and corruption is rampant, the people are unbearable, and the people are destitute, so they can only be forced to rebel..."

(End of this chapter)