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Yan Heng did not comment during the visit.

After looking at it, Yan Heng only asked people to take away the blanket and sweater and wool trousers, and then dismissed the accompanying people, and took Wu Ming back to the yard by himself.

It was almost noon now, and Yan Heng, who was already familiar with Wu Ming's habits, had lunch delivered to him after returning to the hospital, and then talked with Wu Ming about wool spinning while eating.

Although Wu Ming was allowed to intervene, Yan Heng had no intention of entrusting this matter to him.

Whether it's selfishness or precaution, Yan Heng doesn't want Wu Ming to be too busy after all, if he can lie on the bed every day and wait for his luck, that would be the best.But Yan Heng also knew that this was a delusion. Wu Ming was too casual. When he was lazy, eight horses couldn't move him, but if he felt bored, he could find something to do.

Therefore, Yan Heng directly asked how Wu Ming trained those maids, and whether the rules he implemented in the yard could be extended to He Qianqian.

Wu Ming didn't bother to reply one by one, so he directly asked Huobi to take over the rules and standards he had summed up.

With paper, Wu Ming would no longer use bamboo slips and silk cloth. Paper was used to make records for Huobi and others. The regulations and standards adopted by the yard were also written on paper. One page of regulations and three standards The pages are light and light in the hand, and the weight is completely invisible.

But after reading it, Yan Heng couldn't help feeling a little palpitating.

That page of regulations is nothing, but some schedules, rewards and punishments.The key is that the three-page standard is too standard and detailed. It not only stipulates the thickness of each type of wool, but also indicates how much wool needs to be put into each type of wool and how to operate it; What kind of wool should be used at the time; how many wools should be used when weaving a blanket, and in what order should each wool be arranged...

This is the standard!

With such a standard, even men may not be unable to learn to weave.

Yan Heng pinched the three thin pages, and couldn't help thinking of the army and farming.

When he was studying history, he once heard from his master that the first emperor and several Qin kings before the first emperor governed the country in this way. Not only the weapons used in the army had to be made according to the exact same specifications, but even the farmers had to follow the time stipulated by the state. The crops prescribed by the state are planted in the way stipulated by the state, and even the size and depth of the soil pit dug when burying the seeds are regulated.

When Yan Heng learned of this, he just found it incredible, but both Master and the first emperor claimed that Qin State became stronger by relying on this method, but after the Master finished speaking, he warned him that although Qin State used this Strong and prosperous, but it was also because it was too harsh and lost its humanity, which caused the chaos of the second generation. Fortunately, the first emperor turned the tide, practiced the kingly way, and practiced benevolent government, which finally stabilized the hearts of the people in the world.

However, the first emperor himself, who was praised by his master, had an ambiguous attitude towards this matter. Under his repeated questioning, he just patted his head and said something irrelevant-"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." .

Yan Heng was young at the time, so he was naturally at a loss for such an answer, but even today, he still vaguely understands it, but he has become more and more aware of the reliance of the regime on military power—if there is not enough force to do it Support, no matter how great the power is, it is nothing but duckweed on the water, a castle in the air.

Seeing these three pages of standards today, Yan Heng recalled the past, and blurted out: "Madam, do you agree with Shi Huangdi's way of governing the country?"

"Eh?" Wu Ming was taken aback, raised his eyebrows and looked at Yan Heng, and found that he didn't seem to be joking, so he said seriously, "It depends on where I am and who I am."

"Ma'am, what do you mean?" Yan Heng didn't expect to get such an answer.

"If you were a survivor of the Six Kingdoms, the first emperor destroyed your country and ransacked your home, and then you had to abide by Qin's harsh laws like a slave, would you praise him and praise him?" Wu Ming asked, "Qin You should know better than me how strict the law is. When you walk, you will be punished for spitting on the ground. A husband will also be punished if he beats his wife. Even officials who do wrong things will be punished like ordinary people— — Not to mention the survivors of the Six Kingdoms who have never been subject to such constraints, but if you are the current you, can you accept the law that the prince breaks the law and the common people are the same crime? Can you allow others to whip yourself when you do something wrong! "

Yan Heng frowned, "Such laws are indeed harsh."

"Harsh?" Wu Ming sneered, "Is it right to spit on clean roads? Is it reasonable for a husband to beat his wife? Is it possible for an official to know how to break the law? Is it possible for nobles to oppress the common people?"

Yan Heng couldn't refute. Even though he felt that there were some things in Wu Ming's words that he couldn't accept, he couldn't find any reason to refute him for a while.

And Wu Ming continued: "Also, you only see how harsh the laws of the Qin State are, but never thought about why such harsh laws can make the Qin people unite and make the country rich and strong?"

This is also what he has always been strange about.

Yan Heng immediately stood up and saluted Wu Mingshen, "Madam please teach me."

The corners of Wu Ming's mouth twitched at his serious appearance, and he paused before continuing: "Actually, to put it bluntly, there are only two words - equality."

"Equality?" Yan Heng became more and more confused.

"That's right, it's equality." Wu Ming sighed unconsciously.

In the West, the concept of equality before the law was not proposed until the bourgeois revolution, but in the East, the ancient Qin State had already put this concept into practice.

"Qin law is harsh, but this harshness can spread to every corner of Qin, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, without exception." Wu Ming said with emotion, "In this kind of society where everyone is equal, everyone is equal." Under the law, the common people would not feel that dignitaries are nobler than themselves, and naturally they would not envy their lives. What's more, rewards and punishments, before harsh punishments, Qin Fa had already given more generous rewards. Even if Ordinary people who know nothing, as long as they bravely kill the enemy on the battlefield, they can also make great achievements through meritorious deeds, and be blessed by their descendants. This is something that the laws of the Six Kingdoms absolutely cannot give, and it is also the most criticized by the survivors of the Six Kingdoms .”

"Then why is this kind of law supported by the Qin people resisted by the people in the Six Kingdoms?" Yan Heng asked immediately.

"Because the people of the Six Kingdoms don't know what benefits the Qin law can bring to them, but the elite of the gentry are very clear about the evil consequences this law can bring to them. Once it is implemented, the status of the gentry will collapse. In order to For their own interests, they will naturally try their best to publicize how bad the Qin Law is, but they will not mention its benefits." Wu Ming said indifferently, "You know, the so-called popular support is because the common people have little knowledge. It is easy to be deceived and then used by others."

"...Minxinke can't be explained that way." Yan Heng frowned.

"There should be too many explanations like this." Wu Ming sneered, "Don't you think that people should not be equal? ​​There should be a gap between the common people and the gentry, which cannot be crossed forever?"

"It's okay for the son to inherit his father's business and keep his own job, right?" Yan Heng said with a guilty conscience.

Wu Ming laughed mockingly, "Princes and generals, would you rather be kind?"

——Princes and generals, would you rather be kind? !

As soon as Wu Ming's words came out, Yan Heng's face changed drastically, he grabbed Wu Ming's shoulders, and asked, "Where did you hear this sentence?!"

"Uh...Of course I heard it from someone." Wu Ming blinked, puzzled by Yan Heng's reaction.

If the time-traveling man didn't take this sentence as his own, and the Daze Township Uprising never happened in history, then this sentence is a joke in this day and age, Yan Heng should just laugh it off after hearing it.

Yan Heng took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and then said slowly: "The late emperor once said that if someone yelled the words 'Will princes and generals have kindness', Qin will surely perish."

"Hehe." Wu Ming laughed dryly and asked, "Do you believe it?"

The reason why Qin died was not necessarily related to this sentence.Chu, who destroyed Qin, had kindness, and Liu, who replaced Ying to rule the world, also had kindness. Although the person who really yelled this sentence had no kindness, he neither became a prince nor a general in the end.

The time-traveling man is just using "Historical Records" as a prophet to fool these natives of the Qin Dynasty who can't see the future.

"I didn't believe it at first." Yan Heng grabbed Wu Ming's shoulders and stared at his face intently, "But you said exactly the same thing."

"What's going on?" Wu Ming pretended to be curious and asked, "Then... how did the first emperor know this sentence?"

Yan Heng hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Actually, the first emperor never told me this sentence, it was just a coincidence, when he was talking about it with others, I heard it..."

When the first emperor uttered these words, he was arguing with his empress, who is now the empress dowager.Yan Heng didn't know how the two quarreled, he could only guess which family offended the late emperor from the few words he heard, and asked the queen mother, the queen mother interceded for him, but the result made the late emperor even more angry, and angrily yelled Come out, "If you keep on pampering, someone should shout out 'The princes and generals have a kindness', and I will die in Daqin! At that time, will they be buried with Daqin?!"

The quarrel came to an abrupt end here, but it wasn't because either of the emperor and empress gave in and gave in, it was because the first emperor found Yan Heng standing outside the door after saying this.

After listening to Yan Heng's words, Wu Ming guessed more. It was nothing more than the nobles oppressing the people, and the time-traveling man was worried that the officials would force the people to rebel.

"By the way, who did you listen to?" Yan Heng asked suddenly, "Isn't the surname Lu?"

"Lu what?" The first name Wu Ming thought of was Lu Buwei, but then he remembered that Gao Yang had said that in his last life, the original owner Ruan Cheng rebelled against a man named Lu Liang, and it seemed that he had defeated What a big piece of land.

"Lu Liang." Yan Heng's expression was obviously a little nervous, "Do you remember him?"

"Remember." Wu Ming nodded.

Yan Heng's hands on Wu Ming's shoulders became stiff immediately.

But then, Wu Ming added: "Gao Yang mentioned that he was involved with Ruan Cheng from the previous life."

"That's the memory?" Yan Heng couldn't laugh or cry, and his body relaxed a lot unconsciously.

"I told you earlier, I don't remember anything about the last life." Wu Ming rolled his eyes, "Speaking of which, who exactly is Lu Liang?"

"A pawn." Yan Heng said, "He was originally just an orphan whose parents were unknown. He stayed in the Meng family army for five full years before he was promoted to captain. General, from then on, it was out of control. In just a few years, he took the Meng family army as his own, changed the flag to red, and established himself as the general, and raised the rebellious flag in Longxi. After that, Lu Liang led a group of men Conquered the world, and finally captured Xianyang, and there is only one step away from being the co-lord of the world."

Uh, why does it sound like a time-traveling man again?

Wu Ming blinked, secretly suspicious.