Chapter One hundred and four rode a donkey into Xianyang, and all households panicked

and whosoever hath little, even what he has, shall be taken from him. And to him that is in abundance, that he may be as much as he is good.

This is a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, which has since been used in many fields such as psychology and sociology, and is also known as the Matthew effect.

The philosophical concept of the Matthew effect is similar to the "Tao Te Ching" in the Tao Te Ching, "The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency by losing more than is lost." The way of man is not, the loss is not enough to give more than enough. "It's the same thing.

But Lao Tzu put it forward more than 500 years before Jesus.

This is the wisdom of the Chinese ancestors, and it also symbolizes the development process and social maturity of the Chinese civilization at that time, which was much more advanced than that of the West.

This kind of philosophical thinking is applied to the real society, and in layman's language, it is 'social polarization'.

Let the rich get richer, and let the poor get poorer.

A more intuitive explanation is the so-called elimination theory, which slowly eliminates the populations that are not suitable for this state of existence, so as to promote the progress of society or civilization.

But the drawbacks of polarization are also obvious.

The direct manifestation of polarization is to tilt the scales.

A balance that is originally balanced, suddenly tilting, will cause a chain reaction.

Wang Xu made the nobles of the Bai Di tribe richer, and also helped them solve the problem of the excess value of slaves, which was equivalent to directly overthrowing the balance of the Bai Di tribe.

When the aristocratic ambitions of the Bai Di tribe swelled to a point, or when they found out about the direct impact on them after the disappearance of the slaves, they would definitely find a way to solve this problem, and when the time came, crusading and plundering the Lin Hu tribe was the only way.

This is Wang Xu's leading the snake out of the hole, there is no need to let Qiu He incite infighting, simply and rudely use a macro ideology to reduce the dimensionality of Bai Dibu's short-sighted ideology.

And Yingzheng in Xianyang Palace has also been doing this.

Maybe Ying Zheng didn't know what the Matthew effect was, but the experience accumulated by Qin VI and the rise and fall of various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were Ying Zheng's best teachers, so that he resolutely wanted to solve these problems when he had not succeeded to the throne.

That is kingship, it must be above all else!

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the concept of the state was still a continuation of the city-state structure civilization, which was because of the cultural influence of the princes of the Zhou Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty had tried many times to solve the poison caused by the division of princes, but it was never successful.

Because the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty depended on the help of these princes.

If it weren't for the princes who responded to the "Pastoral Oath" at that time, King Wu's war would have been a joke.

And there must be advantages and disadvantages, these vassal states that can achieve the Zhou Dynasty can naturally overthrow the Zhou Dynasty.

The state of Chu, which followed the footsteps of the Zhou Dynasty for thousands of miles, was looked down upon by the Zhou Dynasty because of its remoteness, and did not accept the Chu State as a descendant of Chinese Miao.

The father who drove for King Mu of Zhou was suspicious of the Zhou royal family, even if he had the merit of pacifying the rebellion of King Xu Yan, he was still assigned to a remote place, and his descendant Qin Feizi was also sent to a wild place, loyally for the Zhou Dynasty, guarding the border passes, and drinking blood without complaint.

When all the princes were indifferent to the dog Rong Po Haojing, Qin Xianggong still tried his best to protect King Qin, but he got a blank check from the Zhou royal family.

So the father of Qin Yingzheng personally ended this old master who was ashamed of their Qin State for the ancestors.

It was also in this long allegiance that the Qin State summed up its experience.

Only reunification is the only way to end war and turmoil.

It is not only necessary to unify the world, but also to unify the country, and integrate the country with the world, so as to create supreme royal power.

For the Zhou Dynasty, the vassal states were a hidden danger that hindered the unification of the world.

For the Qin State, the ancient clans and the thousand-year-old families are hidden dangers that hinder the unification of the country.

Therefore, with the help of virtuous talents such as Shang Ying and Fan Ju, the Qin State began to uproot one clan family after another, and forged royal power step by step.

By the time Ying Zheng's generation arrived, there were very few real big clans of more than 300 years old in the Qin State, so Ying Zheng set his sights on the royal family, and used vigorous and resolute means to incite the royal family to fight with each other, and finally purge the Qin royal family.

Yan Junying's lineage of the lineage clan was reliant after Bai Qiping Zhao and was liquidated for the crime of collaborating with the enemy.

Lü Buwei, a relative of the clan, and Changping Jun, a member of the Chu clan, were liquidated one after another due to the internal strife caused by the rebellion of Chang Yu.

The remaining clans were also terrified, and they no longer dared to point fingers at the government and the opposition.

As a result, the entire regime of the Qin State fell into the hands of Ying Zheng in a real sense.

It can be said that since the birth of China, he is the first person to truly achieve the emperor who has made a promise.

But even so, Ying Zheng is still not satisfied, and his perception of the nature of power and greed make his desire for control more and more inflated, especially when he sees that under the sword of his Son of Heaven, a new one will soon be opened, the world will be one, the four seas will be leveled, there is no ancient, and there is no one after him.

In his eyes, no one who has the ability or even the heart to disobey him is not allowed.

Ying Zheng has never denied that he is a person who must be revenged.

Anyone who ever humiliated him is dead.

No one dares to humiliate him now.

But there was always a thorn in his heart that made him uncomfortable like a fish in his throat.

That is Wang Qian.

The thorn not only made him uncomfortable, but it also made him painful.

When he heard that Wang Jian came out of Zhongnan Mountain, Ying Zheng seemed to hear a heavy moan from the bones all over his body.

It was also from that day on, he no longer paid attention to any military reports from Liaodong, even Qingluan's spy report.

Compared with Wang Jian's return to Xianyang, the war in Liaodong is nothing.

The news of Wang Jian leaving the mountain not only made Qin Wang Yingzheng irritable, but also made the nobles of the entire Xianyang uneasy, especially the Feng family.

The Feng family is a prominent family that suddenly appeared in Qin twenty years ago, although the Feng family has no women to enter the palace as concubines, but there is no doubt that the most powerful relatives of the King of Qin help him.

Because of the appearance of the Feng family, he quickly filled the vacant position of Wenxin Hou Lü Buwei and Changping Jun, and Chang Wenjun's relatives and clans, not only took over the property of Wenxin Hou, but Feng also entered the hometown of Chu State.

And just this year, after Wang Ben went to the Yan Kingdom, Wang Xuan, the imperial historian, was promoted to the prime minister of Zuo, Feng Zheng was appointed as the imperial historian, picketing hundreds of officials, and Feng Feng Qujian was appointed as Zongzheng Mansion, ranking Jiuqing.

In addition, Feng Shi Feng did not choose to be the Marquis of Lun and the Marquis of Wenxin.

The Feng family became the top clan in the Qin State for a while.

The King of Qin even rewarded the mansion of Lü Buwei, Marquis of Wenxin, to Feng Zai, which shows the kindness of the King of Qin to the Feng family.

Feng's in Xianyang can be said to be endless, every day at the door is like a market, there are countless nobles who come and go, and the people jokingly say that the Feng family has a small banquet in three days and a big banquet in five days.

But today's Feng's luxurious courtyard specially paved with broken jade is extremely rare.

In the past, this road was full of cars, but today it seems that everyone avoids it.

It's just because, this morning, there was an old man driving a donkey cart who entered the city from the east gate and leisurely entered the vermilion gate of the east city, which was tall but unusually low-key.

After the old man entered the city, the entire Xianyang City seemed to be a little quieter.

Countless pairs of eyes wandered through this vermilion door, waiting for it to open with various moods, expecting or apprehensively.

But until sunset, the vermilion gate of the Wang family was never opened, and even a small servant of the Wang family never came out.

It was destined to be a long night that would keep many people awake from sleeping.

Different from the strange atmosphere outside, the Wang family's mansion looks like a New Year's atmosphere.

Since the head of the family went out on the expedition and the young master disappeared, the entire Wang family has been filled with a gloomy atmosphere, and the housemother Xu has washed her face with tears every day, becoming more and more haggard, and the food consumption of the entire palace has decreased by more than half.

The Wang family, who had a sad face in the past, from slave to master, finally showed a smile today.

Because their backbone is finally back!

Although the head of the family is Wang Ben, for all the Wang family, Wang Qian's ancestor is the real Dinghai Divine Needle, as long as the ancestor is still there, then even if the sky falls, the Wang family is not afraid.

Wang Qian, who is less than 90 years old, is respected as a hundred-year-old by everyone in the Qin State because of his identity and the four dynasties.

The tall figure already looks withered against the backdrop of the gray cloth linen shirt.

His skin had dried up like the bark of a tree due to the loss of moisture, but as long as he stood there, it was still a place for the Wang family to feel at ease.

After Wang Jian went home, he stayed in the study and never came out.

Because there are only three people in the Wang family who can enter the study, but one is out on the expedition, the other is missing, and the last one has only returned today, and the messy study that has been made by Wang Li seems more and more old.

But in Wang Qian's eyes, there was a hint of softness.

Wang Jian spent an afternoon cleaning up his grandson's messy study, admiring the sketches and words that the kid had scribbled casually, and then looking at the books he hadn't finished, and even the patterns carved on the desk because he was naughty.

The longer a person lives, the more attached he is to the world.

What is attached to is not fame and fortune, nor wealth, but the family affection that has never been cherished.

Wang Jian has been loyal to the Qin State all his life, and he doesn't dare to say that he will sacrifice his life and forget death, but he can definitely be regarded as conscientious, so that in his life, he has taken the initiative to have no time to enjoy family affection.

Not for anything else, just because he is Wang Qian.

As long as he is here, the Wang family will not live in peace.

Therefore, he could only choose to go to the barren mountains to cultivate his self-cultivation.

Or rather, to avoid suspicion and righteousness.

This avoidance is seventeen years.

The day he left Xianyang happened to be the day his grandson was born.

One of the things Wang Jian regretted the most in his life was that on that day, he didn't dare to enter the house and hurried to Zhongnan Mountain.

The bamboo slips carved by Wang Li for the first time in the year of the drooping bun were crooked and distorted like earthworm-like traces, which made Wang Qian's warm and wet eyes gradually a little trance.

It was as if I saw a little fat man wearing open crotch pants and combing his pigtails, salivaing while laboriously using a carving knife to spoil the bamboo slips.

Although it was written incorrectly, Wang Jian knew.

That's the word 'big father'.

"Ancestor, it's getting dark, it's time to give you the lamp." Outside the door, there was Xu's nasal prompt.

Wang Jian came back to his senses, slowly put down the bamboo slip in his hand, and said softly, "Order someone to prepare the car, and go to the king tomorrow to say goodbye." ”

The old and weak voice was like a falling stone in Xu's ears.

Xu hid his face and wept, knelt outside the door and sobbed, "I still hope that the old ancestor can seek justice for Li'er." ”

Wang Jian's old eyes gradually brightened, and he coughed lightly twice.

"The justice that the Wang family wants, even if it is the king of Qin, can't afford it."