Chapter 785: The Emperor's Anxiety

Chen Xu attached great importance to the summer grain harvest of fiefs and farms, and it was the emperor who paid more attention to this matter.

As early as a month ago, the edicts on this year's summer grain harvest and the collection of summer grain taxes had long been issued to counties and counties throughout the country through Zhongshu Province, and these edicts were also published in each issue of the newspaper and circulated throughout the world, and after entering June, the whole country entered the harvest period one after another, and the household department sent a large number of officials and supervisors to all parts of the country to inspect the harvest of summer grain and to check and sort out and count the granaries in various places, so that the new tax grain could be put into the warehouse on time.

And the inspection and supervision of various places are also sent to Xianyang every day by post guards and horses to report to the household department, and then reported in the court.

According to the situation that has been transmitted from various places, this year's summer grain harvest will increase the output by a lot compared with last year, Nanyang County, which was the first to popularize the new farming method, has once again taken the first place, and the increase in output has been steadily doubled, and the Sanchuan, Hedong, Hexi, Shangdang, Dongjun, Qijun, Dangjun, and other densely populated rich areas in the Central Plains have also reaped a bumper harvest, and the increase in output is at least more than 50 percent. Expectations for increased food production are also very high.

The most interesting is Qi and Dong County, after experiencing the flood of the big river last summer, because under Chen Xu's suggestion, the emperor opened a warehouse to release grain and vigorously relieved the disaster, although the loss of population and livestock and farm tools was huge, but the local people who experienced the suffering were more grateful for the help of the imperial court, so they were very active in cultivating grain, just one year, from last year's hunger and cold to the state of abject poverty in the red land of thousands of miles into a golden summer grain harvest situation everywhere, according to the news that came back, the summer grain production of the two counties of Qi and Dong increased almost doubled, It's an extremely eye-catching statistic.

Therefore, when the news was reported in the court, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were shocked.

The most important thing is that according to the feedback from the supervision, the local people are very active in paying the summer grain tax, unlike in previous years, they need to pay the money from the towns and towns and the collection and even arrest threats of the pavilion chiefs, and they are very consciously sent to the granaries of the towns and villages with cows and horses wheelbarrows to pay.

"People's Heart...... The people's hearts are available! ”

Qin Shi Huang looked at this special report, and was silent for a long time in the Zichen Hall with great emotion, and began to slowly recall the controversy about disaster relief and what Chen Xu did later.

That disaster relief can be said to have made the imperial court gain a very great favor from the people in Qilu and other places, and there are countless letters of thanks written by the local gentry and celebrities, many of which have been published in the Daqin Metropolis Daily and spread all over the world, so that the people of the world can see the emperor's care and love for the people.

The follow-up spontaneous donation of a large amount of money, grain, and clothing also greatly alleviated the living difficulties of the people in the disaster area, coupled with a large number of livestock and agricultural tools and grain distributed by the imperial court, so that hundreds of thousands of victims survived the famine, and then they were able to devote themselves to production and self-help and farming.

"The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death......"

"Tax grain should be taken from the people and used for the people......"

"People take food as their ......"

"If you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world......"

"It is a shame for the subjects not to provide for the king, but it is also a shame for the king to not let his subjects live and work in peace and contentment......

For a while, many of the words that Chen Xu had said passed through the emperor's mind like a tide.

"The gentleman, the boat, the people, the water, the water carries the boat, and the water overturns the boat!"

The emperor casually flipped through a neat pile of Xunzi theories stacked on the desk, and the first volume was the chapter on Wang Zhi, and there were heavy lines drawn under this sentence.

This set of Xunzi theories is a series of 100 books recently published by the Academy of Letters Press, and it is also the most concerned series of 100 theories.

Not long after Xunzi's death, the leaders of the hundred schools of the same era are still alive, and several apprentices Han Fei, Li Si, Zhang Cang, An Yuliang, and Feng Zi'an are all contemporary celebrities and wise men, so the compilation and publication of this set of books caused a huge sensation, and the first printing of 1,000 copies was almost sold out.

Although Han Fei died, many of the famous articles he left behind were widely spread, and it was after reading Han Fei's "Lonely Anger" and "Five Worms" that he praised it and issued a "Wow! The widow can see this person swim with him, and he will not hate it! Then in order to get Han Fei, he even did not hesitate to launch a large army to fight with South Korea, but after getting Han Fei, under the slander and obstruction of Li Si and Shangqing Yao Jia, Han Fei could not be reused, and was even arrested and imprisoned after being framed by Li Si, and when Qin Shi Huang regretted and was ready to release him, Han Fei had been poisoned to death by Li Si in prison.

Li Si and Han Fei are in the same vein as Xunzi, and the concept of governing the country is also very similar, so after Han Fei's death, the emperor continued to promote Li Si, adopted many Li Si's governing strategies, and finally unified China, and Chen Xu advocated the use of an eclectic statecraft, and in the first issue of the Daqin Metropolis Daily published several theories of Xunzi, so that Xunzi's theory is now widely spread among the people, and has slowly been affirmed and recognized by many schools, so the emperor also attaches great importance to Xunzi's theory, and often has to look at Xunzi's theory, This is also the only set of 100 books he has placed on the bookcase.

And because of the matter of the prince, the emperor also required each son to recite Xunzi's theory, so as to comprehend and learn this inclusive concept of etiquette and rule of law.

The Confucian set of aristocratic etiquette that reinstated the ancient rites of the Shang and Zhou dynasties was no longer suitable for the development of Great Qin, especially the stubborn Confucian concept of the feudal system and the centralized county system of Great Qin, which was also the reason why the emperor had been reluctant to appoint Fusu as the crown prince.

Not long ago, Chen Xu gave the emperor another way not to destroy the county system of Daqin County, but to perfectly solve the identity and status of many descendants.

That is the canonization system, which canonizes all children and grandchildren to foreign territories outside of Great Qin, so as to strengthen the relationship between the conquered foreign territories and Great Qin.

And this is also the reason why the emperor can't wait to crusade against Qiangrong in the Western Regions.

The Western countries are still thousands of miles away, Daqin can't go for the time being, and the emperor believes that the people in those places can't come to Daqin for the time being, not only separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, but also separated by the bitter cold of the Western Regions, even if there are powerful countries in the West with hundreds of thousands of troops to invade the Western Regions and look at Daqin, the emperor also believes that he can beat these invaders to pieces with ease.

At present, there are nearly 70,000 strong soldiers in the northwest of Great Qin, most of them are elite horsemen who participated in the sweep of Huhu, these 70,000 troops are enough to deal with all foreign enemies and thieves, not to mention that Great Qin also has an immortal disciple in charge, as long as Chen Xu is there, the emperor believes that everything is under his control.

Especially after seeing the globe and the world map, Chen Xu's identity no longer had any suspicion in the emperor's heart.

The only thing that worried the emperor was that Chen Xu's actions made him feel as if he was constantly marginalized, and the rapid changes in Great Qin made him feel helpless, and he would even wake up in the middle of the night.

It seems that if Da Qin continues like this, he will no longer be his Da Qin, but will become a Da Qin that he will never be able to see through and know the ending and future.

Therefore, while relying on Chen Xu, the emperor was full of anxiety about Chen Xu's reforms.

In the midst of the confrontation between these two emotions, the emperor felt lost and hesitant.

Therefore, in the constant struggle between Chen Xu and Li Si, the emperor always behaved impartially.

The reuse of Li Si and the use of strict spells to govern the country were the strong foundation on which Great Qin depended.

However, Chen Xu's various reforms have also been effective, and many of the results are evident while constantly undermining the current decree.

The only difference is that Li Si and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military affairs know the roots, and they are in a state where they can be completely controlled, even if they are giant thieves like Chang Yu Lu Buwei, he can also properly arrange to deal with them properly, so the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are all pinched in the palm of his hand, no one dares to have bad intentions, and some are pinched to death by him.

But Chen Xu is different.

Chen Xu's identity seems to be innocent, he is an ordinary mountain boy in Xiaohe Village, Qinghe Town, Pheasant County, his birth history has long been inquired about by him clearly, and even the three generations of his ancestors and relatives have inquired clearly, it is a family among millions of ordinary farmers in Daqin, there is nothing surprising, he has not read, he is illiterate, and he has not studied or had contact with any Fang Dao warlock, the only thing that can be traced is the origin of the surname Chen, which can be associated with the original Chen nobles, But Chen Guo is just a small country in Nanyang County, even the name of the descendants of the Chen royal family has long disappeared for hundreds of years, and the people have long been no longer recognized.

Therefore, judging from Chen Xu's state of sudden birth and the way he acted, it can only be explained by using the immortal to ignite the dream of immortal teaching.

Therefore, for Chen Xu, the emperor is completely unable to control and grasp, and he is a figure who is completely out of his control.

It can be said that even if there is a barbarism all over the world, Qin Shi Huang thinks that he can clean it up, but for Chen Xu, he doesn't dare to think anything wrong, and he can't even do ordinary anger and hatred.

When the news of the immortal disciples came out from Nanyang through the purple cloud fairy tea, the emperor was looking for the elixir immortal grass in the hope of immortality, and the words of the immortal disciples hit the deepest desire and excitement in his heart, and he couldn't wait to go to Nanyang to find Chen Xu.

But the first time he really saw him, Chen Xu revealed that he was indeed the Taiyi Immortal Venerable who dreamed of teaching the Book of Heaven, but his words completely shattered the expectations in his heart.

The inability of mortals to live forever made him fall into anger and despair that he had never felt before, but a blow from the Taiyi Divine Thunder that fell from the sky completely woke him up.

Chen Xu, a young man, he can't move!

After returning to Xianyang, he did not leave the palace for three months, and every day he thought about the things he encountered during his tour of the southeast, the several warnings Chen Xu gave him, and the words he had talked to Chen Xu.

For Chen Xu, a disciple of the immortal family who was born out of nowhere, he must not let him go to the people, so he arranged for his son Fusu to go to Nanyang to greet him in person, and Chen Xu did not shirk and came happily.

Since then, both the court and the development of the people have slowly escaped his control.