Zhao Kuo himself didn't expect that Lu Buwei would really convince himself.

He persuaded Zhao Kuo through his three systems, the first one is a volunteer soldier, the second is benevolent, and the third is a virtuous... The first and second items are very easy to understand, and the third item, in fact, is not difficult, after Lü Buwei saw the imperial examination system from the Ma Fu book, combined with the school system implemented in the Qin State today, the new system was made. The school room of the Qin State is still not quite the same as the imperial examination system.

The Qin State set up schools in various counties, and the soldiers with military merits, their descendants, if they wanted to become officials, had to enter the school to study, and then after passing a simple legal examination, they could come to serve as officials after graduation. Because to be an official, you not only need military merit, but also need to be educated and understand the law, otherwise you can't become an official just by fighting to get a knighthood. Titles and officials are separated, and although there are no detailed regulations, the corresponding official titles also require a certain title.

Lü Buwei wanted to expand the influence of the school, no longer restrain and follow the law, but to cultivate the talents of officials in other aspects, expand the scope of examinations, and cultivate more talents.

The local school system of the Qin State plus the imperial examination and the civil service examination of later generations formed such a set of things.

Zhao Kuo is still very interested in this.

And the deal proposed by Lü Buwei is that Zhao Kuo supports Lü Buwei to stabilize his position, and Lü Buwei will implement the policies he proposed, which will avoid massacres and give favors to the people, in this regard, Zhao Kuo can be said to have studied for a long time, in these days, Zhao Kuo is thinking about how to improve the system of Qin, how to avoid another civil strife after the great unification, and in the second civil strife, there are not a few people who died.

In troubled times like this, many heroes are pursuing, only in such an era, can they establish fame and achieve great things, but Zhao Kuo doesn't see it that way, what he sees is just a group of people who have just come out of the war and breathed their breath, and they are thrown into the furnace of war again and suffer again. He's not a hero, and he's probably not a hero.

He just hopes that the good people who live in this land can live and be able to live as a human being.

Zhao Kuo talked a lot about Lu Buwei, they started talking about the military merit system, the military merit system is the foundation of Qin's strength, and it is also a way for the people to climb up, but this system is a double-edged sword, it shapes Qin's strong army, so that Qin has a large number of talents who crawl out from the bottom, so that Qin can defeat its opponents, but such a system, because of the excessive pursuit of killing, makes all countries extremely hateful to Qin.

After losing the goal of the war, the Qin State had no way to continue to maintain such a system, and probably could only seek expansion again, but the expansion again could only be towards those barren lands, and the Qin State could not take out the land to reward these soldiers, so it could only use the conquered barren lands as a reward, and at that time... The state of Qin is about to end. If you want to change the shortcomings of this empire and avoid civil strife, you must improve the system of the Qin state.

At the beginning of Shang Ying's reform, Qin was not a strong country, and the goal was to survive and defeat the enemy, so his system was national service and war, no matter what profession, he had to serve and war, which made Qin look like an army disguised as a state, but at the moment, Qin's goal was unification, and the goal was no longer the same, so Qin could not continue to use the previous system.

Zhao Kuo, Xunzi, Gongsun Long and other scholars once came up with four ways to change.

Xunzi thinks that the system of the Qin State is very good, and the only thing lacking is benevolent government, as long as it can carry out benevolent governance on the basis of today, that is, treat the people well, increase the relief system, and lightly punish the meager endowment, etc., it will be fine. Gongsun Long, on the other hand, believed that the Qin system needed to be completely changed, and it was best to abolish the beheading system, reduce the difference in titles, and change the way to promote titles from focusing on the first level to focusing on production activities such as agriculture and textiles.

Han Fei came up with two methods, the first way is to completely retain the current military merit system, and change the land to be rewarded in the future into other forms of honor, such as exempting taxes, you can get more money and the like, so as not to cause a situation where you can't be rewarded, and the second way is to completely abolish the military merit system, so that the people can have enough land through reclamation, and then use the imperial examination system mentioned by the teacher instead of promotion.

Zhao Kuo thought for a long time, but he didn't speak easily. Didn't say what he thought, in his opinion, this is a major matter related to the survival of the country, no matter how it is changed, we must be very cautious, and we can't give the future unification to the end....

And no matter what they say, it is just a concept, and I don't know if it can be applied to the theory in practice, but Lü Buwei is now going to start practicing directly, Lü Buwei can't be regarded as a scholar, but you can't say that he is not, he is like a combination of a businessman and a scholar, a simple egoist, as long as it is useful to himself, he can absorb it and become a part of his own system.

Zhao Kuo told Lü Buwei about everyone's thoughts at the beginning, Lü Buwei was very happy, he hurriedly picked up the paper and pen, and began to record what Zhao Kuo expounded, Lü Buwei thought that these things could help him. The two talked until the evening, and when it came to curfew, as the prime minister, of course Lü Buwei could not violate the law, and he could only spend one night in Zhao Kuo's mansion.

In the early morning of the next day, Lü Buwei said goodbye to Zhao Kuo and left here.

After walking out of Zhao Kuo's mansion, Lu Buwei suddenly felt a sense of relief, with Zhao Kuo's support, his position in the Qin State was no one to shake, for him, Zhao Kuo was not a threat, if Zhao Kuo was interested in the phase, then this position would not fall on his head at all, you know, when King Zhaoxiang rewarded him, the reason was that he managed to bring Zhao Kuo back to the Qin State.

Lü Buwei was worried about his position, it was true, he wanted to do something beneficial to the Qin State, and it was also true.

After Lü Buwei returned to the mansion, he began to re-conceive, after talking with Wu Chengjun, he realized that there were many flaws in his policy, and the ideas of Xunzi and others mentioned by Zhao Kuo also became the material that Lü Buwei could learn from, so after more than two months, Lü Buwei came to the palace and told the King of Qin that he had improved his ideas once.

Ying Yiren really didn't expect that Lu Buwei would be able to come up with such a set of things.

When he heard Lü Buwei say that he wanted to correct the current shortcomings of the Qin State, he didn't care, he just thought that Lü Buwei wanted to increase his prestige through some simple measures, and most of the ministers would be like this, and he was also ready to accept Lü Buwei's proposal, but when Lü Buwei proposed to directly brake the military merits, King Qin was still scared into a cold sweat.

King Qin's eyes widened, and he said: "Before the Qin State changed the law, it was an insignificant country, the army was not strong, there was not enough food, and it was always deceived and bullied.... And after the change, because of the role of the military merit system, the Qin State has become the most powerful country, but now you want to change this, won't this behavior make the Qin State go back to the past? ”

"Please gather the ministers, I want to explain my thoughts in front of them."

King Qin had no choice but to let Meng Fu, Wang Di, Han Fei, Li Si, Zhang Tang, Hu Yang and others come to discuss major matters. These people came to the palace one after another, sat around the King of Qin, and waited until everyone arrived, Lü Buwei stood up and said his four major innovations, the first point is what he said to Zhao Kuo, the soldiers of benevolence and righteousness. Of course, after the "Book of Horse Clothing" became popular, the original beheading system of the Qin State changed.

King Zhaoxiang had already begun to prohibit the slaughter of innocent cities and the beheading of prisoners.

And Lü Buwei's army of benevolence and righteousness seems to be more thorough, Lü Buwei said that the war must be issued, in fact, it is to emphasize that the Qin State is fighting for benevolence and righteousness, not a war of aggression, so the soldiers of the Qin State cannot slaughter the people, cannot kill prisoners, cannot rob materials, and cannot burn buildings... Every time Lu Buwei said a word, the faces of the soldiers present became more and more solemn.

"You're murdering the soldiers of the Qin State." , Wang Yi shook his head and said: "According to what you said, let go of the captives and forgive the people, after these people return to their own countries, they will come to rebel against the Qin State again, which will make more Qin people die in the war, Ying Hou said: If you want to conquer the world, you must not only occupy the land, but also kill the young people on the land, so that they will really lose the power to resist." ”

"You're not right, when Yan attacked Zhao, my teacher released all the captives after defeating the enemy, and after these captives returned, they began to preach my teacher's benevolence and righteousness, when Yan attacked Zhao again, Yan's army was about to collapse, this is because Yan soldiers knew that they would not be killed if they surrendered, they were disgusted with those generals who recruited themselves, not Zhao people."

"At the beginning, Wu Anjun of the Qin State attacked the Chu State, fought for several months, slaughtered a lot of cities, and failed to capture too many places, but later, he implemented the strategy of attacking the heart, no longer slaughtering the people, pacifying the Chu people in various places, distributing arable land, and releasing prisoners, which directly broke the fighting spirit of the Chu people, and hit the capital of the Chu State in less than a month... This is what Xunzi said: a benevolent and righteous army has no enemies! ”

Han Fei stood up, but he was on Lu Buwei's side.

Lu Buwei nodded and said, "That's right, this is the theory proposed by Wu Chengjun, and I am just preparing to implement his theory." ”

As soon as this sentence came out, Wang Yi was speechless.

King Zhaoxiang once had an order, and to oppose Zhao Kuo was to oppose King Qin... And against the king of Qin, he will be killed by the clan.

Meng Fu laughed, he said: "I agree with the prime minister's strategy, I have gone to the state of Chu many times, but none of them have been as smooth as before... Because we didn't slaughter the city, release the prisoners, and open warehouses along the road to release grain, there were many areas where the Chu people killed their own generals and opened the city gates to welcome the Qin army, which I have never seen before, and I agree with you. ”

Lü Buwei smiled, and hurriedly said his second policy, benevolent government, and the benevolent government that Lü Buwei said was mixed with a lot of content, such as paying attention to the production of the people, so that the promotion of the title can be more biased towards this mode of production, rather than by cutting off the head, and the other is to reduce taxes and not indiscriminately launch conscription, he is mixed with a lot of Confucianism and Mohist remarks, and even some are Han Fei... Han Fei frowned and hesitated for a long time, but he still nodded in support.

The generals were a little dissatisfied when they heard that Lü Buwei seemed to want to stop the military merits, the Qin people were used to changing the law, but the military merit system was the foundation of the Qin State and could not be changed at will, and Lü Buwei's volunteers had the content of reducing killings and awarding knighthoods through the occupied land, and in his benevolent administration, there was also the content of attaching importance to production and more promoting the production of meritorious people, which was already shaking the military merit system.

Subsequently, Lü Buwei talked about his reclamation system...

The more Han Fei listened, the more dazed he became, why did these sound so familiar?

King Qin looked at the ministers who supported Lü Buwei and opposed him, and he already understood in his heart that Lü Buwei was not messing around, he really wanted to change, and his approach seemed to have been agreed by Wu Chengjun, which made King Qin become serious. Lü Buwei successively proposed his own new school system, a system of official evaluations, and a series of policies that favored agriculture and reduced the harshness of laws.

Among the ministers, there were many who opposed the change.

Lü Buwei sneered, and he said: "Shang Jun said: The etiquette system and the law should be formulated according to the actual situation, the legal system and orders should conform to the social affairs of the time, and the manufacture of weapons, armor, utensils, and equipment should be convenient to use. It is not necessary to govern the country in one way, and as long as it is beneficial to the country, it is not necessary to follow the example of antiquity. Shang Tang and King Wu of Zhou were kings of the world, not because they prospered because they followed the ancient laws, nor because they fell because they changed the old ritual system. ”

"Those who transgress the old law are not necessarily to be rebuked; People who follow the old etiquette system are not necessarily worthy of recognition. ”

"And now, Shang Jun's system can no longer adapt to the Qin State, so why can't his system be changed?"

"All the kings have also read Shang Jun's book, Shang Jun reprimanded those who abide by the existing system but refuse to change, so what is the difference between these people who abide by his system but refuse to change it now, and the people he reprimanded at the beginning? ?"

"Do you want to be a minister like Gan Long and Du Zhi?"

Hearing Lü Buwei's question, everyone did not refute it again.

King Qin thought for a moment before he said, "Just do what the prime minister said, and ask the monarchs not to object." ”

ps: The third chapter is going to be sent later, there are guests at home, and it's a little busy, but it will definitely be sent.