Thirteen Swords of Qin Shizhi's Desperate Beginning

After the emperor Li Changqing spoke, Li Si spoke, reciting the imperial edict according to the script.

The first point is that today's king sweeps Liuhe, dominates China, and surpasses the three emperors and the five emperors of Degao, so he is called "emperor supreme".

The title of Qin Wangzheng was changed to Shihuang, and the emperor called himself "Zhen".

The second point is to use the centralization system to strengthen the central kingship and weaken the local military, political and economic independence;

The third point is that the characters, currencies, weights and measures, and chi roads of the six eastern countries are all banned, and the Daqin currency, Qin State Xiaozhuan, Qin State weights and measures, Qin coins and Qin Banliang are uniformly adopted, and five-foot roads are uniformly built.

fourth point……

Li Si recited them for a long time, and then ordered that the first emperor's edict be posted to the capital of Xianyang and posted to the world, and sent literate people to read it to the people all over the world.

The day of the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty was also the day of the coup d'état.

The ritual goes on for a long time, starting before dawn and ending after sunset.

Xianyang, the capital of the country, is the residence of Emperor Li Changqing, the first chief rudder of Skynet in the past.

Li Changqing, Ying Zheng, and Han Fei walked hand in hand, and the three of them were almost shoulder to shoulder. They were all beautiful men in the world, each with its own merits.

Yingzheng, with the majesty of the emperor, is dressed in white and long gown, like a god from the sky descending from the mortal world.

Li Changqing, elegant and handsome, with noble sleeves, green shirt and jade robe, shows the demeanor of a sword fairy with every gesture.

Han Fei, the great sage of the ages, the great success of the Legalists, the invisible power of quicksand, the purple brocade clothes, the long hair crown, and the demeanor of a wise man.

The three of them walked into the hall and sat cross-legged. Today, there are no rulers and ministers, only bosom friends.

The three girls, Zi Nu, Shocking Salamander, and Chao Banshee walked out together, ordered the maids to prepare the food and drink, and then left.

The purple girl is noble and elegant, with no doubt about her grandeur, she bowed her body and said: "My husband is entertaining distinguished guests today, so it is inconvenient for me to disturb you, both of you, please take it easy."

Ying Zheng and Han Fei nodded slightly.

The three of Zi Nu retreated into the inner house and went about their own business.

Han Fei raised his glass and said, "Brother Li is so beautiful!"

"Zi Nu, Shocking Salamander, Chao Banshee, Yan Ling Ji, Dong Jun Yan Concubine, Concubine Xuege Xue Ji, Nong Yu...all of them are peerless beauties, envious of others."

Ying Zheng smiled lightly and said, "Mr. Han Fei may have forgotten that your younger sister, Hong Lian, is also one of the most beautiful beauties around the emperor's teacher."

Han Fei said with a chuckle: "Young Master Shang is ridiculous."

Li Changqing touched his nose and joked: "In terms of the number of beauties and the beauty of beauties, no one in the world can match Mr. Shang."

Han Fei echoed: "It's the extreme, it's the extreme."

"Hahaha…"

The three looked at each other and then laughed.

Li Changqing raised his glass and said, "Young Master Shang, Brother Han, I offer a toast to both of you."

"Please!" The two toasted, covering up with long sleeves.

The three of them covered their cups with long sleeves and drank with their heads up. They drank all the fine wine in the bronze wine bottle in one gulp.

Li Changqing poured a glass of wine, and said with a straight face: "Come back to business, Mr. Shang, Changqing personally thinks that there is a huge hidden danger in the new law."

"Oh!" Ying Zheng raised his brows and asked, "Please speak frankly, Master Emperor."

"Today's friends gathered for a banquet. The three of you and I can talk freely, talk about the past and the present, and find an unprecedented way out for Great Qin, which has ended hundreds of years of war."

Li Changqing nodded and said: "Okay, since that's the case, I'll make it clear."

"I think the military merit granting system in Shang Yang's reform is out of date, and there are strong hidden dangers."

"In the past, the system of granting land for military merit combined with the system of military merit of the Great Qin State made the soldiers of Qin State dare to fight and surpass the six eastern countries in bravery. Large tracts of state land were awarded to soldiers and became private ownership of land."

"Land is privately owned, and the state's control is reduced. Once the officials buy land from the common people, the accumulated land will be privatized on a large scale, and the tax and food collected by the treasury will be drastically reduced."

Li Changqing is not alarmist. History has proved that after the unification of Qin State, Shang Yang's land grant system facilitated and played a catalytic role in land privatization and land merger.

Hearing this, Han Fei said, "The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the chaos of the world is for profit. This sentence was originally said by Brother Li. People are greedy and seek benefits and avoid harm. The land grant system is indeed inappropriate."

Ying Zheng is also a great talent of the Legalists, and he is also a smart person of the first class in the world. After being instructed by Li Changqing, he immediately understood the key point.

He asked: "Then, does the Emperor Master have a solution?"

Li Changqing pursed his lips and said, "There is indeed a way."

"It's called the land equalization system."

In fact, Li Changqing’s mind quickly flashed—the land equalization system, the one-whip method (Ming), and the method of sharing land into mu (Qing)... various land laws.

One whip method is not enough, it is the compromise of the agricultural society caused by the rapid economic development in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and all taxes are exchanged for silver collection.

However, it is a land system inherited and improved by the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, and it is also a product of economic development.

Today is the end of the Warring States period, the Great Qin was unified, the aristocracy was powerful, slavery had just come to an end, and economic development was lagging behind. The first centralized monarchy empire in Chinese history was only established today.

Therefore, the land equalization system is extremely suitable.

Ying Zheng and Han Fei were taken aback: "Equal land system?"

Li Changqing said: "The so-called land equalization system implements a system of distributing land according to population. Some land will be owned by the people after a certain number of years of cultivation, and some land will return to the government after the people die."

When Han Fei heard it, his eyes lit up, and he quickly understood the core of it, and said: "In this way, the land equalization system affirms the ownership and possession of land, greatly reduces land disputes, is conducive to the reclamation of unowned wasteland, and the recovery of agriculture. and development play a positive role.”

Li Changqing nodded and said: "Yes, Kyushu has been in war for hundreds of years, and the people's houses are empty. I walked all the way, and what I saw - bones exposed in the wild, no chicken crowing for thousands of miles, devastated, and ruins. Rest and restore agriculture. , The development of commerce and trade is the top priority of the empire."

"When the people in the world are full and their hearts are stable, the foundation of Daqin will be stable. When external forces want to break this stability, they will first encounter the opposition of the people in the world."

Ying Zheng nodded, deeply convinced, and said, "The words of the emperor's teacher are deafening."

As the first emperor of Qin, as the first emperor through the ages, after Yingzheng listened to the order to equalize the land, his whole body was enlightened, and he suddenly became transparent, his eyes brightened and he said:
"Once the land equalization system is implemented, it will help the dependent peasants to get rid of the control of the powerful clan, so that the people of the six eastern countries will change from the registered households of the powerful nobles to the registered households of the empire. The number of farmers that the empire can control will increase sharply. to strengthen centralization."

Ying Zheng and Han Fei said in unison: "It's a land equalization system."

Yingzheng was so excited that he stood up and bowed, "Once the land equalization system comes out, the foundation of the empire will be stable forever!"

"I thank the emperor's teacher for Great Qin."

Ying Zheng bowed ninety degrees and got up slowly.

Li Changqing said with a smile: "It's just a land equalization system that will worship me, and then Mr. Shang will worship more times in the future."

Ying Zheng was puzzled: "What does the emperor mean by this?"

Li Changqing took out two booklets and said with a smile, "I have two methods."

"The first method can divide the power of the prime minister, strengthen the power of the monarch, and at the same time greatly improve the effectiveness of Shang Gongzi's review of memorials, improve the effectiveness of state decrees, and save Shang Gongzi two-thirds of his working time."

Ying Zheng looked surprised: "Really?"

Li Changqing continued: "This second method can make all the talents in the world be used by the empire, and make all the schools and sects become the courtiers of the empire."

Ying Zheng looked shocked: "Really?"

Ying Zheng and Han Fei asked, "What is the magic method?"

Li Changqing flicked his fingers, and the two booklets landed in front of Ying Zheng. He smiled lightly and said, "These two laws are called the Three Provinces and Six Departments System, and the Imperial Examination System."

"Why, how, and the influence of the implementation, I will list them one by one in the book, and Mr. Shang and Brother Han will know at a glance."

Upon hearing this, Ying Zheng and Han Fei each picked up a book and read it; two quarters of an hour later, they exchanged the booklets and continued to read, their expressions becoming more and more shocked.