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059 The Debate in the Court

The debate in the court has lasted for a stick of incense.

Ying Chengqiu still listened to it in front of him, but not long after, his thoughts were no longer in the court.

He fell into deep thought.

The first step was to spark controversy among the ministers, and he had already done it.

Then the second step is, how can we get the ministers to support the county system?

On the surface, you can copy the original script at this moment and say that you will give all the fiefs to yourself first, and then you will be enfeoffed after a few years when your nephews grow up. Let the ministers take the minority of their powers and choose the county system.

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After all, except for the order of Li Si and his appearance, everything seems to be no different.

It works, but not completely.

Although this will allow the ministers to recognize the county system with their noses, they will not achieve the effect they want - the harmony between the king and minister.

Because of preconceived ideas, a large number of ministers would consider Li Si to be Ying Zheng's small trumpet.

In the West, this is called the primacy effect, which means that the impression you listen to first or gain first will dominate the person's mind and will not be easily accepted when you encounter different opinions later.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Pang Tong, a strategist who was as famous as Zhuge Liang, met Sun Quan.

Sun Quan felt unhappy when he saw Pang Tong's thick eyebrows and a black and short beard, and he described it as strange.

So he turned him out on the grounds that "when you wait for the time of public service, you come to invite him." Even if Lu Su tried hard to persuade him, it would be useless.

Pang Tong went to join Liu Bei again. When Liu Huangshu saw Tong's ugly appearance, he was also unhappy, so he sent him to Leiyang County, 130 miles northeast to serve as the county magistrate.

Pang Tong's two self-recommendations were not successful.

The main reason is that it failed to leave a good first impression on Sun Quan and Liu Bei, so it was not reused and the talents were not able to be used.

At this moment, when Li Si jumped out first and was already considered by the ministers as Ying Zheng's trumpet, whether he jumped or not would let the ministers explain their doubts.

Because Li Si proposed that the county system was obviously not in his own interests.

There are only two types of people who do not serve their own interests, one is a fool and the other is a saint.

The ministers did not think that they could be submitted to the "Letter of Admonition to Exile Guests". They tried their best to promote the construction of Zheng Guo Canal. Li Si, who came up with the county system, was a fool.

He also doesn't think that Li Si, who traveled to the Three Kingdoms, was rumored to be imprisoned at night and killed his senior brother Han Fei, would be a saint.

In this case, unless Ying Zheng does not choose the county system.

As long as Ying Zheng chooses counties and abolishes the feudals, the ministers will think that Li Si is Ying Zheng’s small trumpet. There is nothing we can do about it.

This is human heart and human nature.

So can we not choose the county system for the sake of the ministers?

Not to mention whether my irritable brother Ying Zheng agrees or not, if he really does this, he will be in the present and his achievements will last forever.

Close view.

Only by implementing the county system can the complete and thorough unification of the Qin State be achieved, so that the court has absolute control over the local area.

Look from afar.

The county system effectively ensures the national integrity of China, curbs ethnic division, and enables all the people of China to have a view of great power and unification. Let China continue to reincarnate in the "long-term division, long-term unity, long-term unity, and long-term unity will lead to separation."

Instead, it was like the Frankish Kingdoms conquered by Charlemagne of Europe, after being split into France, Italy and Germany, it never joined forces again.

On our land, there was the separatist turmoil of "Three Kingdoms, Two Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the 83 Emperors joined forces", and there was also the bloody and tears of "Five Barbarians invading China, the shame of Jingkang, and the coalition forces invading China".

But this will only be a temporary, not a lifetime.

After the turmoil of separatism, we will usher in the prosperous Tang Dynasty where "the palace is opened in the nine heavens, and the clothes and crowns of all nations are worshipped."

After the shame of blood and tears, we will welcome the "Killing Hu Order" issued by Wudao Heavenly King Ran Min, the Ming Dynasty, where "the emperor guards the country's gates, the king guards the country", and the earth-shaking mushroom egg, Lop Nur.

There are many reasons why China can become the only country in the four ancient civilizations that can live to modern times.

The county system is undoubtedly an extremely important reason.

I understand this truth very well after traveling through two thousand years later.

The harmony between the king and the minister is the icing on the cake based on the county system.

This is still clear, and the county system will not be put in the cart before the horse with the ruler and ministers.

But this is difficult to deal with, because these two are in opposition and cannot be both a fish and a bear's paw.

Ying Chengqi sighed several times inwardly, and wanted to kill Li Si and defeat him.

Just as Ying Chengqiu was thinking hard, Li Si had already argued that seven Qin ministers had been defeated.

When he was in Jixia Academy, Li Si once argued with the whole school with one person, which won the sound of colorful sounds in front and behind the hall.

Now that he has arrived in Qin, his opponent has been replaced by academy students and a top elite in the world.

Li Si, who had a rigid face, still remained unabashed in his former style, and he won seven times in seven debates.

But today, standing opposite to his ministers, he is destined to not get a full house.

Seeing the people on his side retreat one by one, Wang Wan's legs and feet were sore and she couldn't sit still.

The First Emperor has not yet reached a conclusion. Wang Wan is now convinced that Li Si was not arranged by the First Emperor.

"If the Zhou Dynasty is not divided into feudal matters, there will be no descendants of the royal family to guard the border. If the Tian family replaces Qi, the three families will divide Jin into Qin. Who will save the emperor? Li Si! You are a minor official in Chu, a student in Jixia Academy, come to Qin for a short time.

He took over the position of Tingwei in a few years. Your Majesty treats you very well. Wan really doesn’t know why you are, and he insists on laying such a disaster for me, Daqin!”

Although Wang Wan had been observing the First Emperor just now, she did not miss every word Li Si said.

He noticed that in the county system described by Li Si, there seemed to be no countermeasures against the threat of the royal power to the ministers.

So he aimed at this point and said that he was extremely sharp and offensive.

This image does not look like the Prime Minister of the Interior who guards the basic situation for Emperor First Emperor, but like a general who attacks the city and sieges.

Although Qin Chen, who stood up in front, argued fiercely with Li Si, he was probably still talking about the strengths of the feudal system and the weaknesses of the county system, which was a normal debate.

But Wang Wan was not the case. Not only did he talk about the disadvantages of the county system, he also labeled Li Si with bad intentions.

The Tian family used Qi, also known as Tian Chen usurping Qi, refers to the incident in which the descendants of the Tian family surnamed Gui of Chen State replaced the Jiang surnamed Lu of Qi and became the Duke of Qi in the early years of the Warring States Period.

The division of Jin by the three families refers to the incident in which the state of Jin was divided by the Han, Zhao and Wei families in the late Spring and Autumn Period. These two examples are typical examples of ministers usurping the throne and monarchs.

Under the feudal system, someone rebels, and the feudal princes have the obligation to help the emperor quell the rebellion.

The county system seems to be relatively weak in this regard.

Wang Wan accused Li Si of knowing this, but deliberately missing this link, just not wanting Qin Changjiu.
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