Chapter 398: The Hypocritical Courtier (First Update)

Not to mention, just in this Xianyang City, or even not far from Xianyang Palace, the number of doormen is definitely not a few, the Cao family is just the tip of the iceberg, the doorman has been a natural thing in the eyes of many nobles since the Spring and Autumn Period, and if it continues to this time, they naturally will not think that there will be a day when it will be canceled.

This time, none of the people directly stood up to put forward any opinions, but their faces made Yinggao see that if this matter wants to be implemented, it may not be as easy as before.

Because Yinggao found that many people's eyes were not looking at Xiao He who was talking about him or saying this, but staring at the two people who were currently standing at the forefront of the Great Qin Dynasty, Meng Yi and Feng Quji.

Xiao He and Han Xin, who are outsiders from Xianyang City who have no background and no foundation, naturally there is no doorman in the mansion, but Meng Yi and Feng Quji are different, their family has long taken root in Xianyang City, and their family has experienced the most chaotic period in Xianyang City, so everyone knows that the group of doormen will definitely exist in Meng Yi and Feng Quji's mansion.

Xiao He naturally also saw everyone's performance, and suddenly, a spiritual light flashed in his mind, and he suddenly understood Yinggao's intentions, and also understood why Yinggao didn't disclose the modification of Qin Law to Feng Quji and Meng Yi in advance.

Obviously, only in this case, Yinggao can see whether Meng Yi and Feng Quji really have the determination to support themselves, if Yinggao leaked this matter to the two of them in advance, it is difficult to guarantee that the two will not carry out any hidden or whitewashing activities on some prominent disciples who have served their families for many years, once the news is revealed in advance, it will bring more trouble to Yinggao.

At this time, either refuse, or question, or gladly agree, in short, this matter has reached the time when Meng Yi and Feng Quji must express their position, if they don't say anything, then in the end it will be an ending where you have neither objected, but also did not make the emperor happy, that means that there is still anger in the heart, and in the end, it can only end up with a two-sided result that is not a person.

Silence began to shroud over the court of this Great Qin, Yinggao, like everyone else, did not hide his gaze, he looked at Meng Yi and Feng Quji, waiting for their news.

Yinggao has never fought unprepared battles, and for the officials in Xianyang City, especially the number of guests in the Sangong Jiuqing Mansion, Yinggao has already asked the Zhu family and Han Xin to inquire secretly, and it has been about half a year.

Because Yinggao had not released the news of banning the doorman before, many officials were not wary of the doorman, and even many of the doormen in the house would go to Xianyang City to go shopping and wandering around when they were bored in the house, although they did not have a proper identity, but they did not enter and exit the city gate, and naturally no one cared about them.

According to the Zhu family's return, in the entire Xianyang City, the most doormen are precisely the Meng clan with Meng Yi as the patriarch, and the number of doormen in the mansions of the various branches of the Mengyang clan adds up to more than three hundred, and most of them are used as caretakers, although with Meng Yi's status and the security in Xianyang City, there may be no need for any caretakers at all, but these doormen are still in his home.

In fact, Yinggao's rectification of the doorman is naturally not all because of the anti-Qin people in the doorman of the Cao family, but the occurrence of this incident made Yinggao put the matter of the doorman in a more important position.

Yinggao knows that in Daqin, the success or failure of every new policy, whether it can be supported or not, is traceable, and the thousands of people punished by Yinggao because of the conversion of business registration before Yinggao are not unrelated to the existence of this guest.

The reason why the doormen are called doormen is because they either claim to be talents, or the people who hire them think they are talents, they are either civil or martial, they must have more or less a skill, of course, there are many people who have a skill that is bragging.

But you don't care if these people are bragging or real, if they can give up their identity and their families to stay in the mansions of the nobles who hired them, rich revenge is essential.

Yinggao knows that in the expenses of many aristocratic families, more than half of them are even spent on hiring doormen, because why, because doormen represent the face of your family.

In case you only have three or five doormen in the family of a Jiuqing family, but there are dozens of imperial histories, where do you put your face?

So when Yinggao opened up its business membership last time, many nobles tried to take advantage of this matter and began to accumulate money, not because they just liked money, but because some nobles completely relied on the little money of the people in the court, which was really not enough.

Ying Gao asked Xiao He more than once, if all these disciples became the people of Great Qin, and all of them would be durable enough to help Great Qin rise, how many more talents would Great Qin be able to, and Xiao He did not say anything else in the face of such a problem except emotion.

And Feng Quji, the number of guests in the house is also second to none, after all, now Feng Quji himself is the right minister, and his son Feng Zai almost controls two or three counties outside Hangu Pass, and his granddaughter Feng Qing is the only lady of Yinggao, so it seems that sooner or later the Feng family will be the first family in the Great Qin realm. Therefore, although the old man is very strict with himself, he naturally has more and more for the guests in the family.

At this time, Meng Yi and Feng Qujian suddenly felt the pressure on themselves.

For the two of them, this incident was obviously a real surprise attack, which was different from Ying Gao's interrogation alone in his main hall, but an investigation that was mixed with almost all the officials of Great Qin.

Once the two of them raised the slightest objection, the people behind them would follow them like wolves to oppose the revision of the Qin law, and if they gritted their teeth and agreed to this matter, most of them would be scolded and isolated by the officials below.

The two glanced at each other, and both saw the difficulty in each other's eyes.

It stands to reason that one of these two people is the head of the three princes, and the other is the maiden family of Mrs. Yinggao, Yinggao should not get along with the two of them, but Yinggao also knows that there are some things, if you can't put a little fierce medicine from the root, you will never be able to change this matter in your life, and the matter of the doorman is such a thing.

What was the Emperor's intention?

This question was the biggest question that Feng Quji and Meng Yi were pondering in their hearts, and after this period of silence, Meng Yi's face gradually relaxed, because he found that no matter what he thought, Yinggao's matter should definitely not be aimed at him and Feng Quji.

After thinking about this matter, the biggest question in Meng Yi's heart became whether he should directly give up his disciples, and finally, he made his own choice.

In the end, under the gaze of Yinggao and nearly 100 people in the court, Meng Yi took the lead in front of Yinggao.

Seeing Meng Yi who finally stood up, many officials below showed a hint of a smile, they had already been ready, once Meng Yi said something questioning, they all stood up and seconded it, for the revision of Qin Law is a big deal, no matter how much Yinggao said in the court on weekdays, but if most of the officials oppose this matter, he should never do it.

"Your Majesty, I have something to say about this matter."

"Your Majesty, so-and-so has something to say!"

"Your Majesty, so-and-so has something to say!"

……

As soon as Meng Yi exited, twenty or thirty people from behind him followed directly, and there were more and more postures.

"Captain, let's talk first!" Ying Gao didn't have any panic when he saw this situation, but motioned to Meng Yi to say first, Meng Yi looked back at the officials who followed behind him, a slight smile appeared on his face, and then finally spoke.

"There are a lot of disciples in Yi's mansion, since it has become a foregone conclusion that the king will revise the Qin law today, Yi is willing to make a list of the disciples in my mansion above this court at this time, and then the king can send soldiers to my mansion to count and resettle these people!"

What? Shouldn't this be the captain's rhetoric?

As soon as Meng Yi said this, the dozens of people who followed him were a little confused, they were all ready to oppose this matter, and they were waiting for Meng Yi to carry the banner of opposition first, but they didn't expect that as soon as Meng Yi said it, not only did he not oppose this matter, but poured a lot of oil on the fire.

"Good! It's rare for the Taiwei to support this matter, and he is really a model for my Great Qin! But what did the princes behind the captain say, why don't you say it quickly? ”

After briefly praising Meng Yi, when Yinggao put his eyes on the back, his expression had changed from smiling to fierce like a wolf.

Originally, he thought that after some rectification in the court before, the quality of this official had improved a lot, but just such a matter of a doorman, it made many people appear in front of Yinggao.

In fact, although Yinggao had prepared for this before, deep down he still didn't understand what it was for.

If you were born in troubled times, it would be forgivable to raise some disciples to guard your mansion and home, but now Daqin, under Yinggao's governance, the safety factor has been rising, especially in Xianyang City, as long as you are not like Lu Jia before, you don't know how many people who jumped off the wall in a hurry, your safety can definitely be preserved in Xianyang City.

Therefore, the doorman is basically useless for these people except for showing off, and in such a situation, they still completely ignore Yinggao's determination to change Qin's law and the benefits that this can bring to Daqin for the sake of the slightest possibility of being able to protect their doorman, which really makes Yinggao feel a little chilly.

And these people have always felt quite good about themselves, they saw that Meng Yi said so, then even if this banner is down, the banner has arrived, they naturally will not regard themselves as the new banner, so I don't know who said in the back: "Your Majesty, everything we think in our hearts is the same as the Taiwei!" ”

Although these words are good words, but after this person said it, Yinggao always felt like he was about to cry, but then, there was an echo behind it, and everyone expressed that they were willing to sacrifice their own doormen and fully support Daqin's Qin law reform.

At this time, this matter must be considered a success, but such a success made Ying Gao unable to laugh, this time a new deal was issued, and Qin Law was revised, although the setbacks encountered in the court were not very big, but Ying Gao knew that the biggest setback was not in the court.

But such an incident made Yinggao discover a more huge problem, that is, the court of Great Qin, in other words, the power center of Great Qin, almost all the big and small decisions of Great Qin were sent out from here first, but there are a large number of people standing here, except for a few key positions above the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries and a few generals who can really fight, dozens of people on it are all mercenary and inclined to be powerful. This made Ying Gao think about it, and felt that he was quite a failure as an emperor.

Alas! This is simply a wave of unsettled waves!

Ying Gao sighed like this in his heart, but he also knew that after the new policy and Qin law that might shake the entire Great Qin just now, it was impossible to make any major changes to Great Qin, at least in the short term.

Otherwise, it is very likely that he, the emperor, will become the commander of the light pole, and he does have his own bottom line, but he knows that these officials in the court, and even the people of Daqin, they all have their bottom line, no matter who they are, once the bottom line is broken, then what he does will definitely be unimaginable to anyone.

But Yinggao's face was still full of red light, at least on this day, he was still successful, so Yinggao asked the Zhu family to take a team of guards, while registering the information provided by these people, and directly took Qin Lu to these people's mansions to collect the guests.

In fact, for the doormen who can enter the eyes of these officials, Yinggao still has a little curiosity, so that Yinggao really has some abilities and innocent backgrounds, Yinggao may not be able to use it directly.