All the people answer the question: an exam, the emperors all cried

Chapter 38 See for yourself!

Qin Shihuang listened carefully, and also watched the clips broadcast in the short video.

Ye Chen looked up at Qin Shihuang, and then said again.

"Your answers are all about your great achievements, but you haven't seriously reflected on your own problems."

"What's the problem, please tell the examiner in detail, just like the examiner said, all I do are good deeds, so what should I reflect on?"

Ye Chen looked at Qin Shihuang fixedly, and spoke for a long time.

"Although the Great Qin Dynasty really prospered under your reforms, you have been living in your own self. You have forgotten that the foundation of the country comes from the people, but you burned books and robbed scholars and committed atrocities. It's miserable."

"You build the Great Wall to prevent foreign invasion. Who are you protecting? It's the common people. You forget the basics. So much so that your descendants will learn from you, and your Great Qin Dynasty will eventually perish."

Ye Chen's sonorous and powerful voice echoed in the examination room, and the scene of the demise of the Qin Dynasty was recorded and broadcast in the video along with Ye Chen's voice.

Qin Shihuang stared blankly at the picture in the video, and stood still, his heart churning, only shocked.

Actually perished, was he really wrong? Qin Shihuang began to ask himself this question in his heart.

Candidates who saw this scene in the examination room began to whisper to each other.

The ministers of the Great Qin Dynasty who watched the live broadcast were also shocked when they saw the demise of the Qin Dynasty on the screen.

"Am I wrong? Our Great Qin Dynasty will eventually perish."

"You are not mistaken, it will perish."

The elder minister who spoke first was silent for a while, then turned and said to the other ministers.

"Everyone, since this is the case, our Great Qin Dynasty will perish anyway, so why not kill that Zhao Gao, so that we can do justice for the heavens."

"My lord Wang said, I agree, he's going to die anyway, let's kill Zhao Gao first."

A minister chimed in.

At this time, the court scene was very chaotic, and the ministers were also very emotional, which was normal. If they were stimulated, they would perish anyway, so it was better to kill them now.

"Wait a minute, my lords calm down and calm down. Even if the Qin Dynasty will perish, we still have to follow its own laws. If we know it will perish now, we will do something that goes against history. I'm afraid..."

At this time, a minister who had been silent all this time persuaded.

"What are you afraid of? If you have something to say, don't hesitate."

"I'm afraid it will affect the whole country, so we still wait for the emperor to come back. I believe he will think differently when he returns from the exam. Give him a chance."

After finishing speaking, there was silence in the hall.

The ministers looked at each other and began to hesitate.

a long time.

"Okay, let's give the emperor one more chance, but Zhao Gao is absolutely not allowed to stay. When the emperor comes back, he must let him execute Zhao Gao to avoid future troubles."

In the examination room, Qin Shihuang recovered from the shock and asked with a frown.

"There is still one thing that Ying Zheng doesn't know."

Ye Chen nodded to signal him to continue.

"Why was it wrong for me to choose to remove the commercial tax?"

After hearing this, Ye Chen waved his hand.

"look by youself."

In the video, merchants in the Qin Dynasty bribed local officials and even high-level officials in order to avoid taxes.

As soon as the screen changed, a picture of peasants being exempted from taxes appeared in the video.

As soon as the picture came out, all the emperors in the examination room were in shock.

Officials are corrupt, and such things happen in places they can't see. This shows that if you want to be a good emperor, you must see clearly, conduct on-the-spot investigations, and understand the people's conditions, instead of doing things without understanding things.

Qin Shihuang was furious after watching it. It turned out that he only wanted to reduce the burden on the merchants in this way, and he had no idea that there was such a corrupt side.

"May I ask the examiner, how many points did I score for the last essay question?"

"Five points."

"I wrote a lot, but why only five points."

Qin Shihuang was very puzzled by this score. He felt that he had answered very well, why he only got half of the score, could it be that Ye Chen was targeting him.

Ye Chen waved his paper.

"The question is about your country's great achievements and national attractiveness. Although you wrote a lot, you only answered half of the answer. You only wrote about achievements, but you didn't write about attractiveness."

After hearing this, Qin Shihuang looked embarrassed. He really didn't finish reading the questions, so he started to answer the questions confidently.

Glancing resentfully at Ye Chen above the examination room, he didn't speak anymore, he was already convinced by the question.

Seeing this, Ye Chen stopped announcing the results.

"Before we announce the results of other candidates, please watch the short video below to understand the mentality of the people in each dynasty."

After speaking, interviews with people and celebrities from different dynasties began to appear in the video, asking them about the dynasty they yearn for.

The first person to appear on the screen is Zhang Yanghao, a famous poet in the Yuan Dynasty.

"I have always felt that when a country prospers, the people suffer, and when it perishes, the people suffer."

"Almost many emperors don't value the people. No matter how prosperous the country is, if the emperor doesn't understand that the foundation of a country lies in the people, it will always be the ordinary people who suffer."

"If I had to choose, I'd like to go to the Ming Dynasty, the dynasty that Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang existed, because the Ming Taizu has gone from the most ordinary people to the highest point step by step, so he is a person who can understand the psychological state of the people. .”

"Such a person who can understand the feelings of our people is worthy of our yearning."

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw his name mentioned in the video, a smile appeared on his face, and he felt very happy.

And the emperors of Zhu's group all had expressions of pride.

The screen of the video changed again, and a thin, yellow-faced man wearing patches appeared.

"My name is Wang Fugui. I lived in the Northern Song Dynasty. We are already very hungry here. We can't eat a full meal. I'm hungry all day long. I only have one wish. I want to have a good meal and be full."

"I heard that in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the people lived well and could afford food. I don't have any special requirements. I just want to have enough food every day and don't have to go hungry and cold every day."

Seeing this scene, the emperors in the examination room were touched in their hearts, and felt pity for those emperors who put the people first.

And some emperors who didn't think about it felt the suffering of the people for the first time when they saw this scene.

Kangxi watched the man in the picture choose his dynasty, and felt a little heavy in his heart. He was a good emperor himself. Seeing such a picture, he really wished that all the people would be fed and clothed.

At this time, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin sighed again and again. Although under his governance, the country was changing and the people were slowly getting better, but in that era, wars and disputes continued, and it was the people who suffered.

(End of this chapter)