Prime Minister of Great Qin

Chapter 325 The change of Qin’s situation lies in the officials! (twenty three)

Ten days.

Zhang Liang had already left alone.

He Yao did not return directly to Yingchuan after the incident.

He didn't want to go back either.

Korea is no longer the Korea of ​​Koreans, but a group of speculators with both ends of the spectrum. He does not speculate with these people. Now that Zhang Liang is leaving alone again, he will not feel disgusted with himself.

So he continued to stay in Chudi.

During these ten days, he got in touch with the old Chu nobles.

It was still the old Chu clan that caught up with them.

Song.

The Song family suffered heavy losses in the previous purge. Among the more than 6000 nobles arrested by the Qin people, the Song family accounted for nearly a thousand people. However, the Song family had a great business and knew how to be cunning. Although their vitality was severely damaged, they still had some foundation.

But now I don’t dare to go back to Zhu Fang.

Instead, he stayed in the nearby mountains and forests, preparing to wait for the storm to completely pass.

It was noon.

The sun was shining brightly, and He Yao was ready to take a nap.

At this moment, he suddenly heard three words vaguely coming from outside the wooden house.

Call for merit!
After hearing these three words, He Yao instantly became energetic.

No sleep at all.

He pushed open the wooden door and strode outside the house.

Seeing He Yao coming over in such a hurry, Song Yi was stunned for a moment and asked curiously: "Brother He, why are you so panicked, but you are not used to living in the mountains and forests?"

He Yao shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Just now in the house, I seemed to hear Brother Song mentioning the 'order to seek talents'. I wonder if this is the case?"

Song Yi chuckled and nodded with a smile.

"Did Qin Ting really issue an order seeking talents?" He Yao looked extremely serious.

Song Yidao: "Of course this is true, but is there any problem with this order to seek talents?"

Song Yi was a little curious.

The matter of seeking talents has been popular since the rise of hundreds of schools. All the princes have promulgated it, and Qin is no exception. Why did Qin issue an order to seek talents this time? How big a reaction would He Yao have?
He Yao had a gloomy face, but did not speak.

Zhang Liang was right again.

In the past few days, he thought Zhang Liang had guessed wrong, but now that he actually heard it, he couldn't help but feel dizzy. He was not only amazed at Zhang Liang's insight, but also marveled at Qin Ting's insidiousness and cunning, which actually killed them. Fooled.

a time.

He Yao's face was dark.

see.

Song Yi thought that He Yao was shocked and angry at Qin Ting's actions. After all, He Yao was wholeheartedly anti-Qin. He was a little excited when he heard Qin issued the order to seek talents, which is understandable. However, this order to seek talents was different from the previous orders to seek talents. Order is different.

Song Yi said slowly: "Brother He, please don't get excited."

"The Qin court's order for seeking talents this time is different from the orders for seeking talents in the past."

"What's the difference?" He Yao still had a gloomy face.

"This order for seeking talents came from Fusu, which means it was issued in his capacity as the crown prince." Song Yi said with an indifferent expression. He was very scornful and disdainful of this so-called order for seeking talents.

"Not Qin Ting?" He Yao was stunned.

Song Yi shook his head.

He sneered: "Of course not. If Qin Ting promulgated it, how could I be so calm?"

Speaking of which.

Song Yi couldn't help but sneered: "The Qin court is really ridiculous. Even the order to seek talents is so perfunctory. Although Fusu is the crown prince, what official positions can he provide to the world's scholars? Just some low-level official positions, or some prefectures and counties. It’s just a ‘official’ position.”

"How can this make people tempted?"

"Qin Ting is so arrogant and despises the scholars, how can he win the hearts of the scholars?"

"Ha ha."

Song Yi laughed repeatedly.

But compared to Song Yi's sarcasm, He Yao was completely stunned.

Officer.?

If he remembers correctly.

Before Zhang Liang left, he mentioned with a solemn expression that Qin Ting's main focus was on 'officials', and even the various measures taken in the past two years were paving the way for 'selecting officials'.

And the order seeking talents issued by Fusu was exactly the "official" he sought.

This is completely in line with what Zhang Liang said.

aside.

Song Yi has been paying attention to He Yao.

Seeing that He Yao's face changed again and again, and became more and more ugly, he became more curious in his heart, and couldn't help but ask: "Brother He, what are you thinking of? Why do you have such a look? Is there something unspeakable in it? Or maybe Is it something I didn’t expect?”

He Yao took a deep breath and suppressed his uneasiness.

He looked at Song Yi, with an ugly smile on his face, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Song, have you ever heard of Zhang Liang?"

"Zhang Liang?" Song Yi looked surprised and puzzled: "Of course I have heard about it. The whole world knew about the assassination of Ying Zheng by my dear friend Bolangsha. I have been fascinated by it for a long time, so how could I not know about it? If I remember correctly, he is also Korean, but what does this have to do with the current order to seek talents?"

"Why did Brother He suddenly mention this person?"

Song Yi looked confused.

He Yao smiled bitterly and said: "Zhang Liang came to Chudi with me before, but later he seemed to notice something was wrong, so he left alone. Before leaving, he said something to me alone, and one of them mentioned Arrived at ‘official’.”

"Zhang Liang said, we are all plotting for Qin Ting."

"Qin Ting's main goal this time is not to target local officials, nor is it to target the nobles of the six countries."

"But start with the officials!"

"And 'officials' are the foundation of Qin's system."

"It is also the key point chosen by Qin Ting to solve the current dilemma."

"I heard Zhang Liang mention this at the time, but I didn't take it to heart, because it was actually a bit ridiculous. After all, the nobles of the Six Kingdoms had suffered such great losses, and local officials had been purged several times. How could they not be the emperor of Qin Ting? Key goal?”

"But I just heard the order to seek talents, and I heard that it was 'officials' who were targeted."

"I just suddenly woke up."

"What Zhang Liang said has been fulfilled one by one."

Song Yi was stunned.

He glanced at He Yao suspiciously and said with some uncertainty: "Did Zhang Liang really say that?"

"Zhang Liang and I have a very close personal relationship, and we usually eat and live together. How can it be false?" He Yao said excitedly.

"Did Zhang Liang have anything else to say?" Song Yi said calmly.

He also changed slightly.

Be serious and cautious about this matter.

He still admired Zhang Liang very much.

After all, he dared to plot to assassinate the First Emperor. His courage and courage were beyond his comparison, and Zhang Liang's intelligence was well-known among the nobles of the Six Kingdoms.

How dare he ignore it?

He Yao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Zhang Liang didn't say it clearly. He only said that the changes in Qin's situation depended on the officials." "The people of Qin also discovered this."

"So in the past two years, I have been trying to break the situation from 'officials'."

"From the initial 'non-commissioned officer transfer' to the 'lowering of admission standards', and now the 'talent seeking order', it seems that it was planned long ago, and the staff base is slowly being consolidated step by step."

"What's even more terrifying is that."

"These policies did not come from the Qin court, but from the hands of Fusu."

"Fusu is indeed the crown prince of the Qin Dynasty, but how do we, the nobles, ever care about Fusu? Therefore, we rarely take Fusu's affairs to heart. Qin Ting knows that we don't value Fusu too much, so he takes this opportunity to We have concealed the truth and implemented these strategies step by step, and we have not been targeted at all."

"Qin Ting's work is based on scheming, which is horrifying."

Song Yi's face darkened slightly.

It's just that he is very curious. Is it really so important to fight for food with a small official?
Since ancient times, has there ever been a country governed by officials?
Those who have real influence on the world are never nobles, but officials?

When is it the official's turn?

Officials are just people who do what they are told.

Song Yi frowned and said: "Could this be because Zhang Liang is overly concerned? Is he just a small official worthy of being so concerned? I have only heard that sharing the world with scholar-bureaucrats and sharing the world with nobles have never heard of sharing the world with officials. ?”

"How can these petty officials be so important?"

"I think Zhang Liang is worrying too much."

"Furthermore."

"How attractive can Fusu's order to seek talents be to the world's scholars? Who is willing to start from a humble official?"

"Since ancient times, scholars have been pursuing fame and achievements. I don't know how long it will take to climb up from a minor official. Do these scholars really have such patience? And can anyone really become a court official of the Qin Dynasty from a minor official?"

"I don't think so."

"If it were in the past, it might still be possible."

"But now it is absolutely impossible under Qin Ting's military merit system."

Song Yi looked disdainful.

The position of a minor official is too humble.

It simply cannot enter the eyes of nobles and scholars.

And from a humble official to the imperial court, it took too long to realize his lifelong ambition, and it was even impossible. If Wu Qi, Shang Yang, Li Si and others had continued to work in the Wei State, As a small official, can he really become the prime minister of a country in the future?
He doesn't agree.

What about Wu Qi and Shang Yang, let alone other scholars?
At that time, the First Emperor established a doctorate academy and recruited celebrities from all over the world. However, he only gave doctors the official position and could only participate in politics and discuss politics, but had no decision-making power. This eventually led to the break between Confucianism and the imperial court.

Even if a doctor can't satisfy the appetite of scholars, how can a mere petty official win the hearts of scholars?

It's just ridiculous.

He Yao knew Song Yi's thoughts clearly and said in a deep voice: "One moment is not the other. Of course, petty officials do not have much appeal to nobles and celebrities like us, but they do attract local powerful people and some poor families with declining family fortunes." Scholars are not unattractive."

"A trickle of water can become a river."

"If more and more people from poor families join the Qin court, wouldn't this weaken us?"

"Furthermore."

"I heard that too."

"The Qin court is ready to promote the officials selected by the Fusu Affairs Office."

"Most of these people are from Kanto."

"And this may not be something that Qin Ting deliberately promoted in order to attract more scholars to serve Qin."

"At the same time, this also tells these scholars that even low-level officials can get promotion opportunities as long as they serve Qin. Moreover, Fusu is the crown prince of Qin after all, so he is still attractive to scholars."

"How can we be careless?"

"The reason why the Song family suffered this time is because of the betrayal of local officials. If the Qin court bribes more and more low-level scholars, I'm afraid our situation will become more and more difficult."

"I'm afraid more low-level officials will turn their backs on us."

"Have to guard against."

heard.

Song Yi looked gloomy.

Song Yi was holding back his anger for this misfortune.

The Song family was not the largest clan in Chu State, nor was it the most prominent noble. However, under the deliberate suppression of the Qin court, the original Jing family, Zhao family, and Qu family were completely dismembered and completely left alone. The Song family has since been Rise up and become the largest nobleman in Chu land.

There is no two in the limelight.

But this time under the Qin Dynasty's purge, the Song family suffered heavy losses.

Right now, he was faintly overwhelmed by the Xiang family.

And he attributed all these experiences to that 'rumor'. At this time, he remembered the Song family's tragic experience and the way he fled in embarrassment some time ago, and cursed angrily: "Those damn local officials, Don't let me find the opportunity, otherwise I will kill them, and don't let me know who spread the rumors, or I, Song Yiding, will chop him down with my own hands."

"For causing so many casualties to my Song family, these people really deserve to die."

heard.

He Yao fell silent for a moment.

His face looked slightly embarrassed.

But Song Yi didn't notice it.

At the same time, he was also very lucky. The rumor was indeed sent out by him, but he was just spreading the word and did not say it was his idea. Moreover, Han Di was quite far away from Chu Di. Even if Song Yi was angry, he did not have the energy to verify it at the moment. .

It's even less likely that he would admit it to himself.

After Song Yi vented for a while, He Yao spoke again: "Brother Song, Qin Ting has changed the way things are done. We must be more vigilant, otherwise we may be cannibalized by Qin Ting step by step. Today we are wooing the lower class scholars. , it may not be possible to win over the lower-level officials in the future. If we fail to find a way to solve this problem step by step, it will be difficult to restore the old country."

Song Yi said nonchalantly: "Brother He, why should he let other people's ambitions destroy his own prestige?"

"This is Chudi."

"Although I, the Song family, have suffered a disaster, my influence in the local area is still the same. Even if the Qin court really wins over the lower-level officials, do these lower-level officials really dare not to look at my Song family's face? If it weren't for the First Emperor's army to be in charge this time, it would be impossible. We need Yin Tong and other officials to walk around without food."

Song Yi's eyes were filled with indifference.

He couldn't deal with the First Emperor, and he couldn't deal with Yin Tong and other officials, so what could he do to these petty officials?

Now he really wants to see if there are any minor officials who dare to take refuge in Qin Ting. If he really knows about it, he must vent his anger to relieve his depression.

see.

He Yao opened his mouth but said no more.

It's just the worry between the eyebrows, but it won't go away.

Before leaving, he also asked Song Yi for a copy of the "Order for Seeking Talents" and planned to go down and take a closer look. Song Yi would not refuse and asked his ministers to copy it directly.

After reading this order seeking talents, He Yao let out a long sigh.

He stood up, looked at the sky, and whispered: "Brother Zifang, after all, it is just as you thought. Qin Ting has begun to attack cities and territories step by step. Today, we are the lower class scholars. What about in the future?"

"And the other nobles didn't pay attention at all."

"How can such arrogance really succeed?"

"I just hope you can get useful information in Xianyang and curb Qin Ting's arrogance. Otherwise, these nobles in Chu may not be reliable at all. These people are too obsessed with immediate benefits."

He Yao put down the order to seek talents.

But he didn't feel sleepy at all. He just sat alone in the courtyard, feeling the cool mountain breeze.

The "Order to Seek Talent" announced in the name of the Crown Prince has quickly spread throughout the world in ten days, and has been heard by many scholars. It has also attracted the attention of many lower-level scholars.

These lower-class scholars had different attitudes towards this alternative order to seek talents.

(End of this chapter)