Diqin Designer

Chapter 50 This country should be regarded as a beast

Ying Zheng said: "Get up, I will grant your request!"

Without asking what the request was, he agreed to it right away.

This touched Li Nian quite a bit. There were many negative comments about Qin Shi Huang in history, but he had nothing to say about his trusted ministers.

He trusted Meng Yi and made him his attendant; he trusted Zhao Gao and often kept him by his side; he trusted Li Si, and all the sons of Li Si married Qin princesses, and all the daughters married Qin princes.

But Li Nian did not stand up, but knelt on the ground and said: "Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty! What I want is that if there is a chance, I ask Your Majesty to destroy this country, exterminate their race, and wipe out their descendants!"

This era's foot basin has not done anything, and it is quite unreasonable to punish it with the sins of the afterlife.

But does Li Nian need to be reasonable? Does the First Emperor need to be reasonable? Did the foot basin invade China and talk about reason?

As expected, what kind of disaster did that country cause to the Chinese people in later generations? That made the Chinese people in later generations want to destroy that country at this time and make it never recover.

Ying Zheng promised again: "I have granted your request. If I have the chance, I will destroy this country, cut off its bloodline, and exterminate its race, so that it will no longer be a threat to China!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Nian kowtowed to Ying Zheng several times before he stood up and sat down again, not forgetting to say one more sentence: "Your Majesty, the people of this country are not worthy of being human beings, but beasts. The crimes they have committed against China are too numerous to list. What they have done is even worse than Prince Hu Hai's execution of ten princesses by crucifixion."

Why do you have to use Hu Hai as an example? Are you afraid that I don't know that after Hu Hai ascended the throne, he would kill my other children?
Ying Zheng glanced at Li Nian and said nothing. He admired Li Nian even more for kneeling and kowtow just now.

This is what a passionate man looks like!

After explaining the specific reasons for the demise of the Qin Dynasty, Li Nian began to talk about the solution. He first put on a layer of armor for himself.

"The solution I mentioned is what I learned from later generations and my own thoughts. It may not be suitable for Daqin. It is only for your reference."

"The Qin laws were too harsh, and we should modify them according to the actual needs and the wishes of the people, so that they would be suitable for the country and the people."

"Your Majesty, you can send people to various parts of the country to investigate and understand the people's opinions on Qin's laws, but you should not listen too much to the people's opinions. Sometimes people cannot tell whether something is good or bad. If you change it completely according to their wishes, it will be harmful."

"The revised Qin Law may not be completely good. Your Majesty can choose to not implement it nationwide first, but only select a few counties to try out the new law and see its advantages and disadvantages. In this way, even if the new law has major flaws, it will not have a big impact, and it can be revised again. Once it is implemented nationwide, it will not be easy to revise it."

This is a direct description of the specific operational methods. What Li Nian didn't know was that Ying Zheng was already conducting a pilot reform of Qin law.

"Even if the new law has no major flaws after the trial and is implemented throughout the country, it does not mean that the new law does not need to be revised. I have told you before that everything in the world is changing, and as everything changes, the law must also change accordingly. Today's new law will be old tomorrow, and old again the day after tomorrow."

"Day after day, new laws become old laws, how can they not change? But it is not appropriate to change too frequently, changing the law from morning to night. It is necessary to set a time to summarize the gains and losses in the implementation of the law, such as revising it every three or five years, so that the law can adapt to the times."

"I think it is advisable to set up officials to supervise and inspect the implementation of the law. During the implementation period of the law, they can collect suggestions and doubts about the law from all over the world."

Li Nian did not say that if a prince breaks the law, he will be punished just like the common people, and everyone is equal before the law. The First Emperor might listen to him, but he certainly would not do it.

Shang Yang was unable to punish Ying Si (King Huiwen of Qin) who broke the law, and only punished Ying Si's teacher. Li Nian didn't think he could do it.

This is the way the times are. It has always been an empty statement that a prince who breaks the law is subject to the same punishment as the common people, but for most of the time in history, it is indeed true!
Li Nian continued, "With the six kings gone and the world united, there are no more wars to provide military merit, so the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty is naturally invalid. I have also told the king about the reason and function of the military merit system, which is to provide a path for the old Qin people to be promoted, giving them the opportunity to become marquises and prime ministers."

"The military merit system is ineffective. There are two ways to deal with it. One is to restore its effectiveness, that is, to launch more wars to gain military merit. If the king is willing, there is no shortage of wars in the world. The Xiongnu in the north, the Dayuezhi in the west, the Jiaoben in the east, and the Baiyue in the south can all be targets of attack."

"The second method is to open up other ways of promotion besides the military merit system. This can be combined with the fact that the Qin Dynasty is currently short of officials. In the future, there will be the imperial examination and college entrance examination to provide people with promotion."

"During the Song Dynasty, there was a saying that 'only those whose names are called out outside the Donghua Gate are good men', which shows how popular the imperial examination was. The imperial examination was a method of selecting talents. Through education, many people were made literate, and then the best were selected from these scholars through examinations."

"Examination is a performance check. Questions are asked and people are asked to answer them. Those who answer correctly are considered excellent. The content of the imperial examinations in later generations all came from Confucian classics."

Ying Zheng said: "No wonder Confucianism flourished so much in later generations!"

How can it not be prosperous?

If you want to be an official and a superior person, you have to learn Confucianism. If you don’t want to learn but still want to be a superior person, it depends on your background. Most people don’t have a good background, so they can only join Confucianism and read Confucius and Mencius.

"I think that the imperial examination system can also be implemented in the Qin Dynasty. Not only will it provide a path for the world's heroes to advance, it can also select useful talents for the Qin Dynasty and make the Qin Dynasty more peaceful. If all the heroes in the world are under the command of the king, it will reduce their intention to have disloyalty and cause chaos in the world."

Ying Zheng understood Li Nian's meaning. He wanted all the smart people in the world to focus on the imperial examination, so that they would not have random thoughts and plot rebellion all day long.

"The Qin Dynasty can implement the imperial examination system, but it does not need to follow the example of later dynasties, which required Confucian classics to be studied and tested, because I can provide the king with something better."

Li Nian said this with great confidence. He had to tell the First Emperor decisively that he had something better than Confucianism and that there was no need to use Confucianism.

Confucianism is one of the Chinese cultures and although it has had its share of effects on China, its contributions are indelible. If it weren't for Li Nian, it would have been fine for Daqin to use Confucianism. But now that Li Nian has traveled to Daqin and has an engine in his mind that can search for information about future generations, why should he still use Confucianism?

Ying Zheng also understood what Li Nian meant and said, "I believe you!"

Li Nian said: "The imperial examination is inseparable from education. If you want the imperial examination to be implemented, you must allow more people to receive education, and education cannot be without restrictions."

"The Analects of Confucius says, 'If one studies without thinking, he will be lost; if one thinks without studying, he will be in danger.' I think we should add, 'If one studies without guidance, he will be misled.' If students are not properly guided, they will go astray. The more knowledge they learn, the greater the harm they will do to the country and society."

Just like some public intellectuals in later generations, don’t they have any knowledge?
No, many of them are more knowledgeable than ordinary people, but what they say is poisonous.

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