Diqin Designer

Chapter 98: Damn the Executive Vice Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, whoever wants to be the emperor can be the emperor!

When reading the bamboo slips, Li Nian also saw the First Emperor stating to his ministers that the new plow and tofu were both made by him, refuting Li Si's remarks.

When the First Emperor made this statement, Li Nian knew that it was a demonstration of his trust in him.

Li Nian was wondering what the purpose of the First Emperor saying his name was at this time?

Did the First Emperor intend to have him step out from behind the scenes so that he could get acquainted with the other officials of the Qin State and lay the foundation for his future participation in government?

It's okay to get to know the gentlemen of the Qin Dynasty, but Li Nian is also very curious about these historical figures.

By the way, after traveling to the Qin Dynasty, he saw two historical celebrities with his own eyes, one was the First Emperor and the other was Meng Yi. People like Guo Dian and the guards and palace maids who protected and served him did not even appear in history.

The Twenty-Four Histories are vast, but it is difficult to mention the common people. What happened in the Six Dynasties? It only became a private plan of a certain party.

Not to mention the common people, so many officials in all dynasties did not leave their names behind. Those whose names were recorded in history books were either evil people, treacherous ministers and villains, or very famous heroes and loyal ministers. The ordinary honest and capable officials did not leave their names behind.

After all, the Twenty-Four Histories are too thin.

However, if he enters the court to participate in politics, he will definitely be involved in intrigues with others.

Li Nian doesn't like to engage in intrigue with others, nor does he think he can outsmart the other gentlemen of the Qin Dynasty.

Instead of engaging in intrigue with others, it is better to do more other things to improve life in Daqin. His paper has not been produced yet.

Li Nian didn't pay much attention to what Li Si said. It was obvious that the First Emperor sent it to him on purpose.

Li Si's behavior before and after reminded Li Nian of a saying: "The court judge was arrogant at first and respectful later, which makes people laugh when thinking about it!"

As I continued to flip through the bamboo slips, I saw that the First Emperor proposed the method of ruling the world with Qin soldiers, and the fatigue I had originally felt was immediately swept away.

Although this method still cannot perfectly solve the problem of the shortage of officials in the Qin Dynasty, it is a compromise similar to Wang Wan's enfeoffment of remote areas.

The Qin soldiers would certainly regard it as an honor to be granted official positions by the First Emperor, and would be even more loyal to the Qin Dynasty.

Qin soldiers went to various places in the six kingdoms to serve as officials, which not only stabilized the local areas, but also brought the cultural customs of the Qin Dynasty and promoted the integration of the people of the six kingdoms with the Qin Dynasty.

But there are also problems and hidden dangers.

If the Qin soldiers were illiterate, they might not be able to govern the local area well, but this shortcoming could be changed.

These Qin soldiers were able to survive the battlefield and gain military merit. They are definitely not stupid. If we give them the opportunity, they will surely learn quickly.

For example, can the Qin soldiers get along well with the locals, or will they rely on their official positions to bully the locals?

The relationship between Qin and the six kingdoms was that of conqueror and conquered. When the Qin soldiers faced the people of the six kingdoms, they might have had a condescending mentality of "you are all defeated by us."

This mentality may cause them to look down on or even bully the local people, which will in turn intensify the conflicts between the Qin people and the people of the six states and will be detrimental to maintaining local stability.

The Qin officials and the First Emperor also took this into consideration.

The solution proposed by the officials of the Great Qin was to conduct irregular inspections, strictly prohibit laws, and establish a system of punishment and punishment.

Irregular inspections mean secretly sending people to various places to check on the governance situation, and reporting any problems found to Xianyang in a timely manner.

Of course, the Qin Dynasty was short of officials, so it was impossible to have many people patrolling, and naturally it was impossible to patrol all places.

The law strictly prohibited that if any Qin soldier was found to be a local official causing harm, he would be punished with severe punishment. The severe punishment was used to deter others, which was equivalent to a beating.

"Governance merit rewarded with rank" is like giving a sweet treat. The Qin soldiers can use their merits in local governance as a ladder for advancement. That is, if the Qin soldiers govern the local areas well, they will have the opportunity to be promoted to a higher official, or even enter the imperial court and become important officials of the Qin Dynasty.

Li Nian believed that this set of operations would be enough to reduce the harm caused to the local area by Qin soldiers as officials, unless they were not afraid of death and did not want to climb up.

The First Emperor also revealed a method in the bamboo slips that he had not told the princes of the Qin Dynasty: he would enfeoff the princes in local areas, and by evaluating their governance of the fiefs, he would force them to govern the local areas well. 'This is a combination of Wang Wan's method of enfeoffment and Qin's method of making soldiers officials! '

Li Nian thought to himself that it was not difficult for him to see the purpose: this was to train the princes' ability to govern the country and pave the way for future overseas fiefdoms; to use the princes to suppress the Qin soldiers who were appointed as officials in various places, so that they would not dare to be too rampant.

"The First Emperor has listened to my words and wants to start training the princes."

"I wonder where Fusu will be thrown? Will it be Sanghai in Qi or Xiaoshengxianzhuang? Will Hu Hai be released as well?"

'Is there a possibility that Fusu would be thrown out as a Qin soldier and allowed to go to the local area to implement his benevolent rule?'

The more Li Nian thought about it, the more he felt that Fusu would be different from other Qin princes. He would not be granted a fiefdom by the First Emperor as a prince, but would be renamed and thrown out as an unknown Qin soldier.

Li Nian changed his mind and was not sure whether the methods of the Qin officials and the First Emperor were really effective.

Because this has never happened in history, but it is better than simply giving up control of these places.

Another disadvantage of making Qin soldiers serve as officials is that it may cause dissatisfaction among some "talented people", who may think that Qin soldiers are of humble origins and shallow knowledge, so how can they be qualified to serve as officials to govern the world?
As soon as Li Nian thought of this shortcoming, he dismissed it. How could this be called a shortcoming? It should be called an advantage!
Who would be the "virtuous person" who would have such thoughts? He would either be an aristocrat who thinks highly of himself, or a hypocrite who has read so much that he thinks he is superior to others.

These people rely on their background and the opportunity to read and write to look down on the lower classes of people.

This situation also exists in modern times, such as some college students using lyrics to mock migrant workers asking for wages.

This idea arises because they believe that their class is superior to others and that the world should be governed by people like them.

The First Emperor used Qin soldiers to govern the local areas, which clearly slapped these people in the face and told the world one thing:

You don't have to be a noble or a learned person to be an official. You also have a chance!
Was it a disguised improvement of the class blockade during the Qin Dynasty?

Li Nian had a strange look on his face. That was true. A feudal emperor would indeed prioritize himself in order to maintain his own rule, but that didn't mean he would necessarily stand on the side of the nobles.

Sometimes, out of consideration for their own interests, the emperor would even restrict the nobles and benefit the common people.

Apart from these, Li Nian couldn't think of many problems with this plan of using Qin soldiers to govern the local area.

Did the First Emperor send this method to him for review in order to show off to him, or to remind him that pinyin and dictionaries should be put on the agenda?

After all, he once said that after paper was invented, it could help people learn to read quickly when combined with simplified Chinese characters, pinyin and dictionaries.

As for the method of making Qin soldiers serve as officials, Li Nian thought about it and added one more point: the Zhiyutai could publicize that the people of Qin and the six countries are all of Chinese blood and are all brothers.

Although this certainly cannot completely prevent the problem from happening, it can help reduce it a little bit.

After reading through all the bamboo slips, it was already late at night. Li Nian walked outside the hall to take a breath and glanced at the Qin Palace shrouded in the night.

"I am only helping the First Emperor to check for omissions and make up for deficiencies, and to evaluate the gains and losses. I don't have to discuss matters with the ministers myself, but I have to work so late. If I were to participate in politics directly, how long would I have to work?"

'Those emperors who can handle government affairs diligently every day for decades are really amazing. It is not easy for a monarch to become an emperor and do something.'

Just thinking about what happened tonight, Li Nian felt his scalp tingling.

The bamboo slips that Qin Shihuang sent to Liuying Palace were definitely not all the government affairs he handled that day, but only part of them.

But this part is what has kept him busy until now. If all of it were sent over...

Whoever wants to be the executive vice emperor of the Qin Dynasty can be the emperor. He has never been so blessed even if he worked as a cow or a horse in later life.

　The speed of typing on a claw machine is extremely slow. I will try using a computer tomorrow. If it doesn't hurt, I will still use the computer. Thanks to some great suggestions, some of which were adopted in this chapter.

　
(End of this chapter)