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Chapter 37: The First Emperor's Strategy
After walking out of the palace, Li Nian felt a chill on his back, which was the sweat from answering those fatal questions just now.

Sighing again in his heart, "To serve the emperor is like to serve a tiger," Li Nian returned to Liuying Palace.

Inside the palace, after Li Nian left, Ying Zheng did not ask Meng Yi what he thought like he did yesterday, but as a subject, even if his lord did not say anything, he should share his lord's worries.

Meng Yi was such a good minister. He took the initiative to ask, "Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to investigate the Xiang family, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and the Duke of Pei?"

They got a lot of useful information from what Li Nian said tonight.

The first "rebellion" of the Qin Dynasty was caused by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. The founder of the Han Dynasty was called "Pei Gong". After the fall of the Chu State, the Xiang family still had evil intentions...

After thinking for a while, Ying Zheng shook his head and said, "There is no need to investigate Chen Sheng and Wu Guang for now. They just happened to be there at the right time. Even if there were no Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, there would be Zhang Sheng and Wang Guang."

The First Emperor saw it clearly. Even if he found Chen Sheng and Wu Guang now and eliminated them in advance, as long as the problems of the Qin Dynasty were not solved, the history would still develop according to what Li Nian said, and people like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang would still appear.

"As for the nobles of the six nations, please keep a close watch on me and report any situation to me in a timely manner. As for the Lord of Pei..."

As the founder of the Han Dynasty after his Qin Dynasty, Ying Zheng was very curious about "Pei Gong" and wanted to know what kind of person he was.

Only then could he build the "Han" that was respected by later generations and leave a record in history books that "I only fear that Pei Gong would not become the King of Qin".

What is his background, appearance, temperament, education, and age?

These are all the points that Ying Zheng is curious about.

Ying Zheng even had a more exciting idea in his mind. He decided that even if he found the Emperor Gaozu of Han, Pei Gong, he would not kill him, but instead subdue him and make him work for the Qin Dynasty.

It is interesting to think about letting the future founder of the Han Dynasty serve his Great Qin. Not only that, when Pei Gong passes away, he will send someone to tell Pei Gong: You, in the history that should have been, will establish a dynasty that will replace my Great Qin, and you are the founding monarch of that dynasty!
Is there anything more satisfying than having a founding monarch serve as your subject?

What’s more, this founding monarch was the founder of the Han Dynasty that replaced his Qin Dynasty!
Of course, the premise of all this is to make sure that Pei Gong is under his control and will not threaten the safety of the Qin Dynasty.

"Investigate as well, but don't disturb them. I have other plans! Also, send people to investigate in various places..."

What to investigate?
Ying Zheng paused for a moment and did not speak immediately. He looked outside the palace and seemed to see the entire Qin world shrouded in the night outside the palace.

After taking a deep breath, Ying Zheng continued: "Find out what the people of the six countries and our Qin people think of the Qin State, and understand what they really think."

Hearing Ying Zheng's order, Meng Yi thought to himself: "Li Nian's words have a great influence on the king!"

Can it be smaller?

Even the old Qin people did not support the Qin Dynasty, and their own base was lost. One can imagine how shocked the First Emperor was.

At this time, Ying Zheng came up with another idea. The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible, so he ordered: "Bring the maps, the maps of the Qin Dynasty and the maps of other countries!"

While the eunuchs were fetching the maps, Ying Zheng thought of Li Nian and thought, "Li Nian is from the future, he must have better maps, I will ask him to make them when the time comes." Soon, the maps of Qin and other countries were brought in, and Ying Zheng had them spread out in the hall, looking at them carefully one by one, which made Meng Yi wonder what the king was going to do at such a late hour.
After reading the map, Ying Zheng returned to the throne, took the pen, and began to write quickly on the bamboo slips. It was a sudden inspiration that came to him, and he thought of a way to prove the truth of what Li Nian said.

After writing, Ying Zheng checked it several times. After confirming that it was correct, he looked at Meng Yi and pointed at the bamboo slips on the table: "Meng Yi, come and have a look!"

Meng Yi looked over and saw that what was written on the bamboo slips was a political strategy. Ying Zheng selected several counties in the Three Qins and the Six Kingdoms, and then instructed local officials to govern with two different Qin laws, one of which was the current Qin law, and the other was the revised Qin law.

Judging from the contents of the bamboo slips, the revised Qin law was much more relaxed than the current Qin law. For example, cruel corporal punishment was abolished and replaced by other forms of punishment, and the requirements for the people under the rule were also relaxed a lot.

If Li Nian saw this Qin bamboo slip, he would definitely exclaim, isn’t this a pilot project for a reform experiment?
By selecting these experimental counties, we can verify the problems of Qin law and also verify the truth of what he said.

We should never underestimate the wisdom of the ancients; they just had little experience, but they were not stupid!

Meng Yi also understood the intention of the policy on the bamboo slips and said, "I think your Majesty's method is useful, but it must be carried out in secret and the right people must be assigned to do it. If it is known to some people, it may destroy this method."

Meng Yi did not specify who would sabotage it, but Ying Zheng knew very well that some members of the Legalist school would definitely stand up and oppose it.

Because the Legalists advocated severe laws and punishments, and even wanted to put shackles on the hair of the people, Qin Shi Huang relaxed the rules in his revised Qin law.

If the county governed by the modified Qin law performs better in this law, what will happen? Doesn't it mean that there is something wrong with the Legalist system?
Even if this is just a possibility and not certain to happen, it cannot be allowed. In the terminology of the world of immortal cultivation, this involves a dispute over the orthodoxy, and some elements who are staunch believers in Legalism will definitely interfere and sabotage it.

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Meng Qing is right. Therefore, this matter cannot be done by important officials in the court. We can only use people who are not well-known but loyal and hardworking. Li Nian is the same. He only says that my Great Qin has flaws and deficiencies. Those who say that they are all traitors and traitors, but he doesn't say a few loyal officials for me."

After blaming Li Nian, Ying Zheng said, "I have already thought of someone who can execute this law, but I don't know if this person is loyal to the Qin Dynasty."

Meng Yi said: "If Your Majesty wants to know, why not summon Li Nian to ask him tomorrow?"

Ying Zheng shook his head and said, "No, I have made a five-day appointment with him. You are not kidding. How can you change it at will? And since I learned that Li Nian came from the future, I have too many things I want to know, such as what the dynasties after the Qin Dynasty were like, how Emperor Gaozu of Han founded the Han Dynasty, how the future generations will comment on me, what the world looks like, and how other countries are..."

"I wish I could know everything right away, but I also know that haste makes waste. From your ancestors to me, it took hundreds of years for our Great Qin to achieve its current hegemony. And is what Li Nian said true? It's not that he has the guts to deceive me, but the information he got from the future must be accurate? The Great Qin and the future are separated by more than 2,000 years!"

"We all listen to Li Nian's words. Is he the ruler of the Qin Empire, or am I the ruler of the Qin Empire?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Meng Yi and the guards in the palace knelt on one knee.

Meng Yi said: "Of course, Your Majesty is the ruler of the Qin Empire. Your Majesty has far-sightedness and deep thoughts, which I, your servants, cannot compare to!"

"Get up, I don't mean to blame you!"

Meng Yi had just stood up when he heard Ying Zheng say, "Huang An, send someone to get some chickens and mice tomorrow, and feed them the elixirs made by the alchemists according to Li Nian's instructions. This matter must be kept secret. If others know about it, you know the consequences."

Huang An was an eunuch who accompanied Ying Zheng. After hearing what Ying Zheng had said, he hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will do my best to handle this matter!"

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