Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 498 After all, this is my Great Qin!

"The eight handles are the system of the Zhou Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty did not say this..." Teng was stunned for a moment and reminded.

Internal History was an official position that appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. It had great authority, almost second only to the Three Dukes.

Due to the centralization of power in the Qin Dynasty, the authority of officials was generally weakened, and the eight handles of internal history were naturally gone.

"Yes..." Zhao Si smiled.

Is there such a great power? Isn’t it just a matter of words? Power has been vested in the hands of the emperor, and now the First Emperor is busy coaxing his great-grandson to almost completely delegate power, which is nothing more than giving a report to the First Emperor.

Besides, Zhao Si is not a fool. The eight internal histories of the Zhou Dynasty involve the entire world, but Zhao Si only gives the eight handles that are limited to the pass. The area has been designated. To put it bluntly, Teng is allowed to rely on his own qualifications and reputation. The upper eight handles protect the new officials from wind and rain, and at the same time they serve as a spur to Prime Minister Li.

"Can I have one?" Teng opened his mouth. He knew very well that he was the emperor. These were eight handles, even if they were only limited to the pass...

Will Shi Huang be willing to delegate power? Besides, he was not a close associate of the First Emperor, so His Highness Taisun, whom he met for the first time, was a little too sure.

"Don't worry..." Zhao Si waved his hand.

Teng has been away from the political center for many years. Even if he pays attention to the big situation, he still cannot know the whole story. There are some things that cannot be said. This can only be realized after Teng returns to the court.

Zhao Si's other disciples would never ask such a question.

If Zhang Cangruo were here, he would probably only wonder if he could get something else from the First Emperor, instead of worrying about not being able to get it.

With the little child slaves, the future of Da Qin is also there.

He is his father, so he deserves at least half of the credit, right?

Along the way, Zhao Si caught Teng and asked him a lot of questions, both for advice and to take a test.

Although Teng's ability has been proven, Zhao Si's examination and testing are somewhat redundant, but the necessary procedures are essential.

Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of what happens.

After all, Teng has been away from the court for many years, and the position Zhao Si prepared for Teng is quite important. Taking a high position without great ability will have very vicious consequences.

From outside Xianyang City, we ran all the way to Zhao Si's mansion in Xianyang City.

Teng currently has no official position, so he naturally does not have an official residence to live in Xianyang. On the one hand, he came here to settle Teng down, and on the other hand, he also wanted to meet this talented person.

"Min Xi, I have met His Highness!" Xi looked at Zhao Si and Di Teng behind Zhao Si with surprise and joy on his face.

He opened his mouth, muttered several times and spoke again.

"I've seen Mr...."

Teng smiled and walked forward, looking at Xi's gray hair with some emotion on his face.

In fact, Teng and Xi don't have much personal relationship, after all, there is a huge difference in status between them.

The relationship between him and Xi still remained at the level of a superior's appreciation for a subordinate who performed brilliantly.

If Teng does not lose power and continues to be promoted, the friendship between the two will naturally gradually deepen.

It is a pity that before Teng could promote such a bright talent as Xi, Teng had already lost his power and became an official, and under the general circumstances, Xi also lost his official position.

"Hi... you are old! I remember when I first met you, you didn't have so many gray hairs on your head." Teng laughed.

However, times have changed now, and everyone I see is an old friend. They feel sympathy for each other because of the same illness, so I feel a little closer to Xi Duo.

"My time has been wasted... I have accomplished nothing so far and my hair is gray. I am ashamed..." Xi smiled bitterly.

He rushed to Xianyang to accept the assessment of the Talent Recruitment Order after getting Teng's letter. However, Teng was not the only one who wrote letters to Xi. He also wrote to some talents he thought were acceptable, and most of them passed the assessment. After being re-employed as officials, a few with more outstanding abilities were arranged to become minor officials, but only Xi was not made any arrangements after passing the assessment, but was left in the mansion, waiting for Zhao Si's arrival.

Most of the supporters of new officials used to be young people...

After all, under the social conditions at that time, the new officials were a group of people with relatively strong adaptability and strong thinking ability who had active thoughts in the face of social changes.

Just like the dispute between the young and the mature faction, most of the new officials are young, while most of the old officials are old, conservative and rigid.

However, times have changed, and because of Li Si's key attacks, the ideas of new officials are regarded as prohibitions. Li Si is personally responsible for leading the internal thinking of Qin officials. As time flies, old officials generally exist among Qin officials, whether young or old. Old man, the once new official has become old.

In essence, there were many things in the Qin Dynasty that went against the trend of the times...

Of course, unification is definitely in line with the trend of the times.

"If you have ambitions, you will not grow old. If you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years in vain. Why is this?"

It is a blessing for old friends to meet each other. Don't mention these things, just hold a banquet in the house alone, and go inside to talk in detail..."

Zhao Si waved his hand to interrupt the two people's sorrow, ordered the officials in the palace to prepare a banquet, and personally took the two to the main room to wait.

After a while, wine, fruits, and simple snacks of buttermilk were served.

Zhao Si Teng and Xi have already started a discussion about today's world.

Zhao Si lamented that he issued a recruitment order but did not get many talented people who could take charge of their own affairs, and Xi immediately issued a rebuttal.

"If you don't accumulate small steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't become a river. In the eyes of the people, a county must have the talent of a prime minister, but before that, it must have certain experience. If nothing is clear, , even if you have such talent, if you are in a high position from the beginning, you may not know the blessings or disasters.

Moreover, although you cannot be an official, you can be an official.

Qin has laws and regulations. The prime minister must be from the state department, and the strong generals must be from the soldiers. Only by using officials as officials can they know the affairs of the people. Only in this way can the state be more prosperous. The Qin Dynasty does not lack officials, but it lacks officials. "Xi said seriously.

"Oh?" Zhao Si's eyes lit up.

Xi actually thought of this with Zhao Si, who also believed that what Da Qin lacked was not officials.

After all, Da Qin currently occupies the land of the Seven Kingdoms.

In the past, each country in the Seven Kingdoms had a court team. The total number of court officials in the Seven Kingdoms must be much greater than the total number of officials in the Great Qin Dynasty now. After all, in terms of officials, the Great Qin Dynasty has actually been streamlined. .

It makes no sense that during the Warring States Period, there was no shortage of officials in all countries, but in the Qin Dynasty, there was a shortage of officials.

The main thing is officials...

The official administration of the Qin State involves all aspects. The so-called complexity of Qin's laws does not depend on a piece of government decree, nor does the First Emperor issue an imperial edict and everyone in the world will abide by it.

To put it into practice, we still need to rely on grassroots officials to deal with the leaders of Guizhou all over the world.

Qin's administration was broad, so it naturally needed more officials.

From the perspective of officials, the total number of officials in the Qin State was smaller than that in the Warring States Period.

From the perspective of officials, the number of officials during the unification period of the Qin State was larger than the total number of officials in the world during the Warring States Period.

The fate of an empire cannot be controlled by an official. The collapse of officialdom is the beginning of the end of the empire.

"Tell me in detail!" Zhao Si looked at Xiang Xi and said.

Xi Wensheng said: "People think that in order to govern the world, we need to govern the officials first.

In today's world, Qin has two disadvantages. One disadvantage is that there are few officials, and the other disadvantage is that there are many officials! "After that, Xi paused.

Zhao Si acted as a qualified supporter and asked: "How to solve these two disadvantages?"

"There are many ways to solve the problem. There are few officials and many officials are complicated. The more things there are, the more officials are needed and the higher the level of officials needed. A Qin code has a total of eighteen types, involving There are countless regulations, ranging from large to small, top to bottom, and even all aspects of daily life.

Generally speaking, an official can only barely remember eighteen kinds of Qin laws. If it is extended to the specific analysis and reference of a certain day's laws, it may be a bit difficult. If this is the case for officials, let alone the head of Guizhou?

Therefore, if you want the head of Guizhou to live according to Qin laws, you can only rely on officials to urge them and remind them.

In this way, the number of officials needed will naturally be larger and wider.

The solution is very simple. Simplify the Qin Law by half, and the problems of Da Qin will be greatly alleviated. "Xi said.

If you can’t solve the problem, then don’t raise it…

Well, it’s also a way to solve the problem.

The so-called way of doing nothing is similar to this principle. If you don't care so much, there will naturally be less political pressure...

This thing actually exists in modern times, such as the famous shock therapy...

"The Qin Code really needs to be streamlined and deleted. There are many provisions that are irrelevant and inconsistent with this era." Zhao Si nodded.

Almost every dynasty of the Qin Dynasty was deleting, modifying, altering, and smearing, but after all, it could not be changed and it was used as a dojo in the circle of Shang Junfa. Therefore, many outdated things were left behind, some of which were unnecessary, and some even had side effects. , the so-called reform must change the laws of Qin, for which Zhao Si has long been mentally prepared.

Well...Li Si has already done it.

"What about other than that?" Zhao Si continued to ask.

"Running a school..." Xi started to say something but stopped mid-sentence.

Zhao Si keenly caught Xi's hesitation and continued to ask.

"anything else?"

Xi pondered for a long time, and finally seemed to have strengthened some confidence and said seriously: "The legal officials will separate the families!"

"Legal officials are divided into families?" Zhao Si was surprised at first, and then repeated it sadly, his eyes shining brightly.

"The law officials separate their families! What a law officials separate their families!" Zhao Si clapped his hands.

Officials are officials of the Qin State, but Legalists are not necessarily Legalists of the country.

In fact, every school of thought tries to confuse this concept.

Legalism continues to confuse this concept, so the officials of Qin must come from Legalism.

Later Confucians also confused this concept.

Needless to say, the final result is needless to say...

Destroy hundreds of families... Exalt only one family... Then involution, bad money drives out good money...

"Your Highness, don't you think that your ministers are dishonest?" Xi was stunned for a moment and said.

"Actually, this is what I have to do...but it will be more difficult..." Zhao Si pondered for a moment.

The so-called recruiting scholars for the country, in Zhao Si's opinion, should not be treated differently as long as they can pass the regulations and assessments of Da Qin and be qualified for the position, regardless of the various schools of thought.

Of course, this is also the case in the current Da Qin Dynasty. Among the hundreds of officials, there are many people who govern hundreds of families, and not all of them are from Legalism.

However, in the grass-roots unit of officials, in fact, legal officials are no longer separated into families.

Legalist ideas were implemented in all aspects of Qin's laws. If you want to understand and implement these laws, you must inevitably learn Legalist ideas.

An official has never read even one Legalist book, but as long as he takes officials as his teachers and becomes an official through regular assessment channels, then you can use Legalist books to test him and get the result. It's pretty much the same.

The tail cannot be lost... Although the Hundred Schools of Thought have not been deposed yet, Legalism has actually become the traditional Chinese culture of the Qin Dynasty.

If the second generation did not die, it is foreseeable that Da Qin will be completely bound to death by Legalist ideas.

The same is true for Confucianism... In fact, after Confucianism was bound to the Han Dynasty, its academic destiny has far exceeded the national destiny.

The Han Dynasty was only a few hundred years old? Confucianism flourished until modern times...

It's not that Falun Gong is not good, Confucianism is not... In fact, as a school of governance, every one has merit. Even if it cannot be used to govern the country, there are still some true insights.

However, in the past, the reference line for governing the country was one hundred. After deposing the hundred schools of thought, the reference line was just the same version. As a dojo inside a snail and lion shell, thoughts were naturally fixed in a circle...

"If I remember correctly, where did you go to school?" Zhao Si asked.

"How come you have such an idea?" Zhao Si asked.

"There is too much tendency to follow the example of others. There are golden rules for everything, but they cannot think of new ideas. I don't know whether it is His Majesty or the Legalists who are following the rules..." Xi shook his head and said.

"But in this case, I'm afraid the fundamental idea of ​​governing the country will have to be redefined." Zhao Si sighed.

"It's not impossible. It's better to have a final conclusion. Instead of adopting the opinions of any school, let hundreds of schools consciously rely on this aspect, and use whoever is good at cultivation." Xi said.

To put it bluntly, it is to define the core thoughts and concepts of Da Qin.

Then the various schools of thought can develop themselves according to this core idea and concept.

You can use whatever explanation method you like, and interpret it however you like. In the future, you will also select officials based on this core idea and concept.

Zhao Si was so anxious that he could only throw out a sixteen-character mantra.

Give me an outline and let Baijia write the content himself.

But if you think about it carefully, from this aspect, Prime Minister Li is quite flexible in his political stance...

He has already leaked the topic...

In this regard, Li Si has an absolute advantage.

But it doesn't matter, at least it gives Baijia a living space.

The highest authority has also stated what type of knowledge is needed. At least the Baijia can get a clear direction and work hard for it, instead of running around with their heads down...

"If you think about it this way, it would be easier to depose Baijia..."

Zhao Si sighed. For those in power, this obviously complicated simple things.

But as a modern person, I always have some persistence in the brilliance of the contention of various schools of thought.

"Please be more troublesome..."

After all, this is my Da Qin.

(I slept until six in the afternoon...I slept for eighteen hours, which was a bit sudden...)

(End of this chapter)