Great Qin had a prosperous age

Chapter 214: The undercurrent is surging, and the generals are compromising (please give me a monthly recommendation vote!)
Ying Zheng laughed heartily after hearing this.

Wang Jian is indeed an old fox.

However, I like this old fox.Because he knows how to advance and retreat.

"Who does Wu Chenghou want to plead for?"

"An Donghou Mengwu."

This answer was beyond Ying Zheng's expectations.

Ying Zheng thought that Wang Jian wanted to plead for Fusu.

Nowadays, only Fusu is punished in the court.

"I have never punished Meng Wu, why did Wu Chenghou intercede for him?"

"Because His Majesty has not yet punished Meng Wu, Wang Jian interceded for him in advance."

Ying Zheng pretended not to understand.

"What crime did Meng Wu commit? Why should I punish Meng Wu?"

"I heard that the general contradicted Dong Gong in the court."

"It's just a court meeting, why should we contradict it? Wang Jian thinks that the prince chosen by the few is a narrow-minded person?"

Wang Jian naturally shook his head.

"The prince is naturally not a narrow-minded person. On the contrary, the prince is far-sighted and Wang Jian admires him."

Halfway through, Wang Jian looked down at the ground again, not daring to say more.

"Then why did you plead for Meng Wu?"

"Wang Jian boldly asked Your Majesty how your Majesty will arrange the generals once the military merit system is loosened due to the Qin State's reform."

Ying Zheng confessed.

"Pending."

Wang Jian lowered his head.

Ying Zheng asked immediately.

"Wang Jian, you have made great military exploits for me, have I ever treated you badly?"

"Your Majesty treats his ministers with utmost honor and favor, so why should he treat me badly?"

"Then you think that I am a ungrateful and ungrateful person?"

"Your Majesty has always been clear about grudges and grievances, and is definitely not a ungrateful person."

"Since that's the case, why worry about Meng Wu?"

"Wang Jian is just worried that if the reforms are implemented, the generals will be resentful. Qin is known as the country of tigers and wolves because it has many tiger and wolf generals."

Ying Zheng heard this and understood what Wang Jian meant.

Wang Jian was reminding Ying Zheng to properly arrange these generals.

"I already know what Marquis Wu Cheng means. Naturally, I will not treat the generals lightly."

"With His Majesty's words, Wang Jian will feel relieved."

"I still have something to do, so Wu Chenghou should step aside first."

"only."

Ying Zheng watched Wang Jian sway away with a serious expression on his face.

Wang Jian is an old fox, and he is close to the Meng family at such a critical moment.

Meng Wu, on the other hand, was extremely loyal, but was being used by Wang Jian without knowing it.

Are the Wang and Meng families now tied together?

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South of Xianyang, Ji Temple.

Meng Tian stayed with Fusu in Ji Temple all night.

In the early morning, the morning dew has not faded, the birds are chirping and the cicadas are chirping, making a lot of noise.

Inside the temple, it was extremely peaceful.

After resting all night, Fusu knelt in front of the memorial tablet again.

I wonder how Xiao He is doing?He won't be killed by Ying Zheng, right?
"Your Highness—"

"Meng Tian has a question to ask."

"What's the matter?"

Last night, Fusu was able to sleep, but Meng Tian couldn't sleep at all.

Meng Tian tossed and turned all night long, feeling very confused about the prince's punishment.

The prince just mentioned the matter of the reform, although he was resisted by the generals in the court, why did His Majesty lock the prince in the temple.

It should be noted that the prince said that he wanted to change the law, but from the beginning to the end, he never mentioned how to change the law?
Meng Tian thought for a long time before he figured it out.

Your Majesty is trying to test the hearts of the generals by punishing the prince.

The prince is the crown prince of the country, how can he be kept in the temple all the time?

Locking the prince in the temple is actually giving the generals a chance.

Now, it depends on who can see through this level first and beg your Majesty to release the prince.

Meng Tian also knew that this move was actually done by His Majesty for the generals in the court to see.

Your Majesty wanted to use this matter to see the reactions of the generals in the DPRK.

Thinking of this, Meng Tian couldn't help but feel the crisis, his father, Meng Wu, was the person who opposed this matter the most.

"I wonder how Your Highness wants to reform?"

Fusu smiled.

"It seems that General Meng has figured it out."

"When the prince came to court for the first time as the governor of Su Neishi, he put forward the idea of ​​reforming Qin's laws in the court. The ministers were accustomed to sticking to the old ways and it was difficult to think about the reason for a while. That's why I offended the prince yesterday in the court. I also hope His Highness the Prince will forgive me."

"The generals are not guilty to begin with, so how can they be forgiven?"

Fusu knelt in the temple, Meng Tian stood behind Fusu, bowing all the time.

After hearing this, Meng Tian felt a little more at ease.

As soon as Fusu finished speaking, someone came from outside to announce that Ying Zheng's edict had arrived, and it was Meng Yi who came to look after Fusu.

Fusu was also puzzled after hearing this.

Can you still play like this?

Meng Tian was already anxious and worried that his father would not be able to figure it out. Now that the edict came, he naturally rushed back to Meng Mansion without stopping.

Meng Yi walked briskly, taking three steps and two steps at a time, and entered the temple.

Meng Yi first paid homage to the prince, and then offered three sticks of incense to the former kings of Qin.

Then, Meng Yi lifted up the hem of his clothes and knelt behind Fusu.

This was originally unnecessary.

"This is Doctor Meng?"

"Since I'm here, I can't let the prince kneel alone. Speaking of which, the prince was imprisoned in the temple because of my father."

One thing to say, it really has nothing to do with your father.

This was just a way for Ying Zheng to test the minds of the ministers in the court. He wanted to see the situation before making a judgment.

Punishing him to come to Ji Temple was only to stop the people in Chaozhong first.

Reforms are bound to be blocked, especially those generals.Didn't the mobilization of the military merit system touch the interests of those generals?

So the two of them knelt down together.

This kneeling lasted for three days.

Fusu was extremely bored during this period, so he started talking and consulted Ying Zheng's newly trained legal advisor.

Meng Yi was an out-and-out Qin official and was very familiar with Qin's laws.

After listening to Meng Yi dictate the Qin Law to him, Fusu realized that, if nothing else, guarding the border was a big problem.

The first thing to solve is the problem of corvee service and border guarding.

The problem of corvee service is relatively minor compared to guarding the border.

This border defense will cause irregular population flow, and it will gather all living beings to create chaos...

For example, it doesn't sound unreasonable to ask the people of Sishui County to go to the Great Wall to guard the border.

However, you have to know that in the laws of the Qin State, there is a time limit for the people to guard the border. Every man has to guard the border for three days.

This is undoubtedly a good idea for the Qin State, which used to have a territory of only a thousand miles. But now the Qin State has a territory of thousands of miles. If you ask people from the southeast to go to the northwest to guard the border, or walk back and forth, it can take half a year.

Historically, the State of Qin also changed this method of guarding the border.

Therefore, it is replaced once a year. Except for the three days of one's own service in one year, the rest are served on behalf of others. Tax, which is called "more tax".

Time passed very quickly, and three days passed quickly.

Fusu remembered that today was the day of the Xiaochao meeting.

It should have been decided whether this is a reform or an unchanged method.

Just as Fusu was thinking about it, someone came to the palace.

Shangshu Ling personally came to deliver Ying Zheng's edict and released Fu Su out of the temple.

Fusu walked out of the gate of Ji Temple. In front of the gate were two rows of tall mulberry trees.

The scorching sunlight shines through the green mulberry trees, deflecting the sunlight, but it is still so dazzling that people can't open their eyes.

Fusu stood in front of the Ji Temple and looked at the magnificent Xianyang Palace in the distance from south to north.

A few light clouds were floating above Xianyang Palace.

Fusu's mood at this moment was naturally complicated.

Qin is going to reform, and what it will look like is actually unknown at all.

Fusu stepped forward, each step down the steps was heavy, and the expression on his face was even more complicated.

Just as he was going down the steps, Fusu suddenly saw a man in simple clothes among the people waiting below.

When Fusu saw the man, the hazy melancholy in his heart suddenly dissipated.

(End of this chapter)