Chapter 112: The Great Plan to Destroy the Country (1)
After the order to expel guests was cancelled, Xianyang once again returned to peace.
After reading Li Si's book "The Book of Exiling Guests", the ministers of the Qin State could no longer provide strong reasons for opposition. It has to be said that the Qin people were quite pragmatic. Li Si's works ruined their good things, but Li Si's literary talent was really nothing to say.
Soon, the ministers of the royal family reacted and began to copy this work that could be passed down through the ages.
In ancient times, when he was an official, he wrote good articles, his reputation was easily spread. Li Si became famous and became a celebrity in Xianyang. Many people say that Li Si might become the prime minister.
After Lu Buwei was dismissed from prime minister, Changping Jun was promoted to the right prime minister, but the position of left prime minister was vacant. From a commoner to prime minister, there was no precedent in Qin State. Fan Ju and Lu Buwei had no titles before becoming prime minister.
However, the final result was beyond people's expectations.
Li Si only served as the Tingwei and was responsible for judicial work, and the original Tingwei Wei Lin unexpectedly became the left prime minister. Along with the appointment, Wei Liao, an unknown Wei Liao, was appointed as the National Guard.
Tingwei, already a central official of the Qin Central Committee, entered the core power circle, equivalent to a member of the Politburo Standing Committee in later generations.
Li Si was a little depressed when he received news of the appointment of the King of Qin in a mansion in the south of Xianyang City. People were most afraid of the high expectations, and Li Si had thought about the position of prime minister.
"Sir, I have been promoted from a guest to a court lieutenant. I have real power in my hands. You should be happy?" Li Si's chief disciple You Yu couldn't help but ask when he saw that Li Si was not in a high mood.
"The king appointed me as the court lieutenant, but the matter of bribing the tyrants of the six countries was handed over to Wei Liao for responsibility, which shows that the king thinks that my ability is not enough!"
Li Si didn't care about the power in his hands. He asked himself, intelligence work was too dark and he was not good at it. At this time, he just passed it to Wei Liao and just threw away the mess in his hands. What Li Si really cared about was Ying Zheng's attitude, and he hoped to be the number one minister under Ying Zheng.
Unlike Li Si's melancholy, Wei Lin's mansion is a different situation.
"Congratulations to Lord for being promoted to Prime Minister!"
After receiving the news that Wei Lin became the prime minister, some people had come to congratulate him. Qin Lu did not allow officials to form cliques and give gifts to each other, but after work, he came to visit him openly, and Qin Lu did not prohibit it.
Wei Lin's face was filled with smiles. The prime minister was the leader of civil officials, almost one person below ten thousand people. The end of his efforts in Qin officials was to ascend to the position of prime minister and record it in history.
Without expectations, Wei Lin felt particularly surprised.
As a native of the old Qin people in Guanzhong, Wei Lin ascended the position of prime minister. The last dissatisfaction in the hearts of the Qin royal ministers disappeared. It seemed that the king still had the position of the old Qin people in his heart.
Ying Zheng is really wise in the way of being a king, and he can learn it without a teacher.
After learning about Ying Zheng's arrangement, Meng Tian had to admit that some people were born politicians and could not be learned by others. The great monarchs in history were not something that could be educated by education.
Ying Zheng had just taken power and defeated Lao Ai and Lu Buwei, the two powerful ministers, were unstable and urgently needed the support of the old Qin people. Ying Zheng promoted Wei Lin to become prime minister, not Wang Wan, and considered that Wei Lin had no experience in joining the army and had nothing to do with the military.
After Li Si went to Tingwei Mansion to perform his duties, he released Zheng State and asked him to continue to build Zheng State Canal.
For a moment, the panicked people quickly settled down, and the lives of the Qin people returned to normal.
To describe the political situation after Ying Zheng took power in one sentence, it is that there is no war in Qin.
Almost all the manpower in Guanzhong was invested in the great Zhengguo Canal project. After Ying Zheng personally interrogated Zhengguo, he understood the importance of Zhengguo Canal and was determined to recruit more manpower to accelerate the construction of Zhengguo Canal.
When Meng Tian inspected Zheng Guoqu, the busy situation suddenly made him feel that he had reached the era of the great leap forward for the whole nation.
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Xianyang Palace, court hall.
"Meng Aiqing, Wang Aiqing, this is my newly appointed national lieutenant Wei Liao." Ying Zheng sat in the middle of the monarch and pointed to Wei Liao on the left and introduced, "The war to conquer and destroy the six kings in the future will be planned by the National lieutenant and the two ministers."
Meng Wu and Wang Jian were promoted to the military position one level and became the only two highest generals in Qin State. Meng Wu served as the left general and Wang Jian served as the right general. This was the first time the two were summoned by Ying Zheng after returning to Xianyang.
Meng Tian and Wang Ben knelt behind the two generals and attended. It was obvious that Ying Zheng had the idea of cultivating reserve generals.
"What are the great ideas of the National Guard?" Wang Jian was very self-aware and made strategic planning based on the overall situation. In addition, he was cautious in his character, so he did not make things difficult for Wei Liao.
If someone else is gone, I am afraid that there will be a hundred dissatisfaction on my face.
Meng Wu also did not question Wei Liao. The Meng family was known as loyalty and righteousness. After the Qin King made the decision, he would not object.
"Two generals, Wei Liao, who was the king of the king, took up the position of the National Guard. Liao should make every effort to assist the king in destroying the six kingdoms as soon as possible." Wei Liao said, while someone spread a large map and pointed to the territory of Qin and said, "During this period, Liao was in the National Guard's Mansion, carefully studied past information and generally had a strategic concept, but in terms of details, the two generals still need to improve it."
"I hope to hear it carefully!"
Meng Wu and Wang Jian looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes. Wei Liao really has the strategy to wipe out the six kingdoms?!
"I would like to ask the two generals, after the Shangjun reform, Qin State became stronger and stronger. During the reign of King Zhaoxiang, the army was strong and brave. Why did they fail to achieve the destruction of the country?"
Seeing Meng Wu and Wang Jian’s doubts in his eyes, Wei Liao raised a question that was difficult to answer.
Bai Qi, a famous Yum General, who is known as the slaughter of the people, was active in the era of King Zhaoxiang, but the final outcome was not very good. The two still remembered the events more than 20 years ago, but the Chinese have the tradition of being a promiscuous person. As descendants, they cannot tell the fault of their ancestors.
"At that time, the national strength of the six countries was still strong, and there were also many generals who were good at fighting. Only then could Qin not establish extraordinary achievements..."
Wang Jian was once a general under Bai Qi and was appreciated by Bai Qi, but Bai Qi cannot be said that it was because of the conflict between the monarch and minister of Qin that failed and could only put the blame on the enemy.
"During King Zhaoxiang, the only Zhao State that could cause trouble to Qin State, King Wuling of Zhao, King Huiwen of Zhao, and other famous generals such as Zhao She and Lian Po, were assisted by Qin State for many years and dragged Qin State tightly."
Wei Liao pointed to Zhao's position and continued to explain, "But in my opinion, the main reason why Qin failed to achieve the destruction of the country was a strategic mistake and did not find a direction for breakthrough."
Chapter completed!