Fu Qin starts with a plan

Chapter 634 Virtuous Cycle

Kong Yu, who is no longer in the imperial court but rooted in the academy, has given full play to his talents and written articles with sharp edge, which is in line with his post-Kongqiu characteristics.

He took the Chinese kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods as an example, and believed that the Chinese monarchs at that time formed marriages and alliances with each other, and in the end they fought endlessly.

A full 200 years of uninterrupted conquests, thus sharply commenting on the begging words of the king of Pontus.

No matter how nice it sounds, it's actually useless.

Everyone signed the covenant at the beginning, but even these fellows in uniform couldn't stick to the covenant, let alone a foreign race like the Bendu Kingdom.

Looking at the previous words and deeds of the king of Bendu, his words are like farting.

His verbal promises are worthless.

Therefore, Kong Yu's final point of view is to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots without leaving any future troubles.

But Bao Bering has a different view.

Starting from the point of view that "the sage is not exhausted by the crowd", he believed that the king of Pontus really deserved to die.

However, because of his own mistakes, he cannot blame other people for this.

After all, the King of Pontus is only the king of the Pontus Kingdom.

Under his rule, there are millions of people.

Such a country is much larger than the previous six countries.

Even though Great Qin might have wiped out the armies of other countries in the process of unifying China, it never attacked ordinary people.

If you cut the weeds and eradicate the roots, and eliminate the evil.

Are these people going to be killed?

This senseless massacre is completely unnecessary.

On the contrary, killing these people will waste a lot of labor for nothing, which is a great waste of resources.

Therefore, Bao Bering's point of view is to only punish the culprit.

In the following pages, other schools of thought appeared one after another, expressing their own views.

If you look closely, everyone has a different point of view.

For example, Shang Hao of the Famous Academy believed that killing people would not solve the problem.

Before dealing with this matter, the court should first formulate a method for managing the Bendu Kingdom in the future.

Otherwise, everything now is empty talk.

Mohism's point of view is even more easy-going than Confucianism. It believes that the people are innocent and should not be blamed for the mistakes of the king of the capital.

Among them, the article by Wu Cheng of the Academy of Sciences is the most eye-catching.

Wu Cheng's article is very straightforward, but the evil spirit is so powerful that it can be seen on the back of the paper.

He despised Kong Yu's hypocrisy of wanting to be and establish, and bluntly said that Bao Bering wanted to implement slavery in the Bendu Kingdom.

After spraying all the people in front, Wu Cheng expressed his point of view, that is, everyone in Bendu Kingdom should be killed.

The civilians in that country are not even qualified to be slaves to Daqin.

Of course, everyone can understand Wu Cheng's extreme remarks.

After all, if it weren't for the Bendu Kingdom, his only son would not have died.

However, everyone can ignore Wu Cheng's words, but others' words are worth paying attention to.

You know, those who express their opinions in the newspapers are all bigwigs of today's Baijia.

These people may not have a prominent status now, but most of the officials in the court come from their sects.

If the factor of the Great Qin Academy is put aside, the influence of these people can be said to be extremely terrifying.

On the night when the newspaper was published, it was said that a debate was held in the Daqin Academy.

Kong Yu convened the students of the Academy to offer sacrifices to the wine, and expressed their opinions freely on this matter.

Confucius has something to say, and students who have something to say can organize their thoughts into articles and post them in newspapers.

Stimulated by this regulation, which cannot be called a reward, the eyes of the students turned red.

It is said that the lights of the Daqin Academy Palace were kept on all night last night, and the students from various colleges fought fiercely with each other.

Their remarks will be published in tomorrow's Daqin Review.

However, it was not because of the debate itself that the members of the resolution committee took this matter up and put it on the table for discussion.

Now there are nine members of the resolution committee, none of whom are veterans.

They grew up with Zhao Kun and trained in court for a long time.

Perhaps in terms of the means of doing things, these people are a little immature.

But as the most powerful people in Daqin except for the emperor, their political wisdom is not low at all.

Everyone knows that controversy is not really a big deal.

What they care about is the attitude shown by the Daqin Academy through this incident, an attitude of eager to make their voice heard on the huge stage of Daqin.

For this reason, the masters of the hundred schools did not hesitate to use their own prestige to endorse the academy.

They are willing to use their personal influence to promote the status of Daqin Academy in the court.

As a courtier, you are always extremely sensitive in such matters.

When Zhao Kun ascended the throne, although the organization was re-divided, a framework of three provinces and thirteen departments was established.

But outside this framework, the Daqin Academy and the Academy of Sciences are also listed separately as two unique institutions.

No one understood Zhao Kun's original intention of making such an arrangement.

At the beginning, they also believed that the Daqin Academy could be ranked alongside the extremely important Academy of Sciences. Obviously, Zhao Kun had very high expectations for the Academy.

But after this year, Zhao Kun almost never entered the palace, and rarely asked about the Daqin Academy.

People's speculation was gradually subdued.

Unexpectedly, in the face of Zhao Kun's obvious cold treatment, the Daqin Academy was unwilling to be lonely and took the initiative to make trouble.

As more and more newspapers were issued in Daqin, the newspaper industry developed extremely fast.

People are increasingly aware that public opinion is also an extremely important means and even a weapon.

The Daqin Academy gathered all the cultures from all over the world. If they wanted to control the public opinion, they would be too much ahead of other institutions by nature.

The nine members present here are basically from a hundred schools of thought.

Therefore, as soon as this incident happened, they were made very uncomfortable.

In the court, the nine of them are all important ministers with one person under one person and over ten thousand people, and they are known as Yicheng.

The power has reached their level, and it has basically come to an end.

At this time, it is especially necessary to straighten out the relationship behind oneself, and not have any behavior that arouses suspicion.

Unexpectedly, their teachers gave them a problem.

For example, Uncle Sun Tong.

In the Daqin Academy, Bao Bailing was his teacher who had performed the great ceremony of apprenticeship, and Chunyuyue also had a teacher-student relationship with him.

As for Kong Yu, he has a good relationship with Shusun Tong, and it feels like he has forgotten his friendship.

Now Chunyu Yue doesn't show his mountains and water, but Bao Bailing and Kong Yu are very active.

The two had already withdrawn from the court, and their status was detached, but for the sake of the Daqin Academy, they did not hesitate to publicly stage a tearful drama in the newspaper.

This is no longer showing off, this is completely taking off his old face that has been respected for so many years and throwing it on the ground to stomp on him desperately.

The purpose of doing this scene is to let the Daqin Academy make its own voice and gain influence other than Wenhua's prestige.

Everyone knows that the final result of this debate started by the Great Qin Academy can only be a chance for nothing.

After all, the final decision on what they said still depends on Zhao Kun's intentions.

However, those old guys are chicken thieves in this place.

The bigwigs spoke up and announced almost all the decisions that Zhao Kun might have made.

In the end, no matter what Zhao Kun did, they would always be right.

Although Bao Bailing, Kong Yu and Shusuntong have a close relationship, Shusuntong thinks that their methods of playing with public opinion are actually very immature.

No need to ask, Shu Suntong can guess it.

After Zhao Kun makes a final decision, there will definitely be another article published on the Daqin Times Review, declaring that His Majesty agrees with Mr. XX of the Daqin Academy.

The common people don't care about the detours behind them, they will simply think that the Daqin News Review is very reliable, and even His Majesty will listen to the ideas of the bosses.

This kind of thing, come several times.

Needless to say, Daqin Shiping will quickly gather great influence among the people.

When the time comes, the Great Qin Academy puts forward a certain point of view, and at some point, His Majesty may have to hold his nose to admit it.

This matter itself is not a big problem.

After all, as the hematopoietic institution that Zhao Kun conceived to deliver fresh blood to the court, the Daqin Academy deserved such a status.

But such a status, in the eyes of the councilors, can only be given by Zhao Kun, and they definitely cannot ask for it by themselves.

Although the first emperor had abdicated for more than a year, counting forward, during the years when he supported Su and supervised the country, the first emperor did not pay much attention to government affairs.

But the will of the first emperor has carved a deep imprint on the huge empire of Great Qin.

Arbitrary, the code of conduct chartered by the imperial power, has become a customary rule for everyone.

Even these new courtiers think the same way.

What His Majesty gave you, you must carry on.

You cannot ask for what is not given to you.

Although these congressmen don't think that the bigwigs will be convicted for their words.

However, no matter how good Zhao Kun's personality is, he might not give up lightly in the face of this kind of behavior that challenges his authority.

Shu Suntong hesitated to speak, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to speak.

Everyone was watching Zhao Kun's expression carefully, for fear that he would lose his temper when he put down the newspaper.

But what puzzled them was that Zhao Kun always had a smile on his face when he was reading Daqin News Review.

After reading all the pages of the newspaper, Zhao Kun put down the newspaper.

Then, he reached out and tapped the newspaper with his fingertips.

"His Majesty."

Shu Suntong opened his mouth.

"Mr. Kong Yu and Bao Bailing, you have really presented me with a problem!"

Zhao Kun smiled and waved his hand when he saw the complex expressions of the other people.

"When I was in the academy last time, I had something to say to all the students. I will never engage in the practice of being punished for my words. What I want is to open up the way of speech and let people of insight speak freely. To be honest, Daqin Academy can I am very pleased to have achieved this step!"

The MPs looked at each other.

Shu Suntong asked in a low voice: "But this way, it is easy to cause future troubles. The people are simple and simple, and it is common for them to follow the crowd. If someone with a heart takes advantage of this loophole, I'm afraid."

"Then let's wait and see!"

Zhao Kun waved his hand, and the smile on his face seemed a bit unfathomable to others.

Zhao Kun's idea is actually very simple.

He is very clear that if a country wants to progress, it must have strong leadership.

Relying on the leadership of the ruler, the country may usher in a wave of great development during his reign.

But people are impermanent, who can really live a long life?
Once the emperor leaves, if there is no successor, the decline is also a normal thing.

Relying on mechanism guidance seems to be effective.

However, the mechanism is always time-sensitive, and there is no system that is applicable for ten thousand years.

The best way is to rely on the trend of thought to lead.

The first thing to do is to open up people's wisdom and speak out.

Zhao Kun has been laying out for many years, and now he has initially established a relatively complete education system in Daqin.

Zhao Kun has laid a solid foundation for Daqin to open up the wisdom of the people.

But speaking up is not so easy.

The first emperor's remaining prestige is still there, although after Zhao Kun's reforms, for ordinary people in Daqin, they no longer have the scruples to talk about state affairs.

But for the real people of insight, they are still not easy to let go.

Burning books and burying Confucianism before really frightened them.

Personal remarks are still cautious, let alone such a big debate like this time in the academy.

This kind of practice of destroying the old and establishing the new is just like what Zhao Kun said, he can be said to be extremely happy.

Zhao Kun has always had a particularly clear understanding of himself.

He knows very well that what he relies on most in this era is not his own courage, nor is it the knowledge that he only half-knows.

His greatest method is the knowledge far beyond the two thousand years of this era.

In the past, he still felt that it was unrealistic for the first emperor to strive for a great Qin for ten thousand years.

After all, children and grandchildren have their own blessings.

Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. Even if Daqin finally disappears in the long river of history, that is a normal historical law.

Anyway, in the history he knows well, although the Huaxia ethnic group has experienced hardships and occasional ups and downs, it has continued until after 2000.

The nation established by the people of Huaxia has always been one of the most powerful countries in the world.

As long as the Huaxia bloodline continues, the honor and disgrace of the Ying clan is actually not that important.

However, after ascending the throne, Zhao Kun's thoughts gradually changed.

Since he was sitting in that position, what he considered, naturally, was how to continue the Great Qin Dynasty.

If it turns out that things cannot be done in the end, it will be after his hard work.

Imperial power is always a double-edged sword. When power is highly concentrated, the direction of a country can only depend on the individual ability of the monarch.

No matter how conceited Zhao Kun is, he will never think that his offspring will be successful.

That's why he set up a resolution meeting.

That's why he allowed the Daqin Academy to start a debate, which was regarded as rebellious and outrageous in the eyes of people in the past.

The wind of controversy is rising, and perhaps nothing can be seen for the time being.

But as long as it continues to develop, it will surely form waves of thoughts, correct the thinking of the people, and lead Daqin to continue to develop.

As for the concerns of Shu Suntong and others, it was completely out of Zhao Kun's consideration.

He believes that as long as Daqin continues to develop normally, everyone will think in one direction and work hard in one direction.

In such a virtuous circle, how could the ideological trend spawned be detrimental to the country?

After an hour, it was decided to end this topic.

The gate of the palace is open. According to the usual practice, the resolution will post the results of this issue on the square in front of the palace for public announcement.

Today's topic is mainly to discuss how to deal with the Kingdom of Pontus.

The resolution meeting decided that the Kingdom of Pontus colluded with the Carthaginians and conspired against the Great Qin, which is an unforgivable crime.

The ruler of the Kingdom of Bendu destroyed the whole family of the king of Bendu, and the nobles in Bendu were assigned as slaves and escorted to various mines currently mined in Daqin to work as coolies.

At the same time, the common people in this capital must hand over all their property.

Thereafter, they can engage in production activities within the territory of Pontus.

(End of this chapter)