Ying Yi was worried about the newly caught gnats by the eunuchs in the palace for him, and he was already itching, and he was full of joy thinking that he could end this boring court meeting. When he heard Gongsun Hong say this, he was immediately disappointed, and said in a long voice with a sad face; "Why do you talk so much?"

Gongsun Hong was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't speak for a while. The King of Qin is still young, and it is normal for him to be more playful, but the Qin people are precocious, and many of them have to farm and manage the housework like adults after the age of ten, not to mention that the children of the royal family have to be strictly disciplined since they were young, and they are more precocious than the children of commoners of the same age. It's unbelievable that I'm eleven years old, but my mind is still like a child.

Gongsun Hong couldn't imagine that in fact, Yingyi was so playful and willful that it was more caused by Yingke's doting.

Yingyi was originally a well-behaved child, and his father Gao Yangjun was an extremely harsh person, such a family environment also made Yingyi behave in everything, and when he was first accepted into the palace, he looked like a young man. But it is this long-suppressed temperament that becomes unscrupulous once it is completely free.

In the Xianyang Palace, although he was young, he was also the King of Qin after all, and no one dared to discipline him except Ying Ke and Han Xin. Han Xin basically doesn't have much time to get along with him all year round, and Ying Yi has always been very afraid of Han Xin without knowing what he has heard, every time Han Xin is in order, he doesn't even dare to make a sound, which makes Han Xin a little baffled.

Win but because he pities him, he always deliberately dotes on him and lets him be naughty. Almost everyone knew that the fate of Yingyi, the king of Qin, was already predestined when he ascended the throne. He is just a transitional product, the result of a compromise between Han Xin and the local forces, this King of Qin has always been just a signboard, and when others don't need him, naturally there is no meaning in existing. The best ending is that the Zen position is sealed, and from then on he becomes a free marquis, and the worst ending is naturally needless to say.

Yingyi is still young now, so he doesn't know much about these things, but he feels that he is very happy to be the king of Qin, and no one will discipline him anymore. Once he is older, understands his embarrassing situation, and is unwilling to be the king of this fallen country, it must be very painful.

This is also the reason why Ying Ke dotes on him doubly, because he feels guilty about him, pities the fate he can't choose at all, and is also sad for their Ying family's unchangeable fate.

Seeing that Ying Yi was so nonsense, Ying Ke couldn't help but raise his face and coughed heavily. Yingyi suddenly came to his senses, hurriedly straightened his face, shook his head and pretended to say; "What does the prime minister have to do with the widow?"

Han Xin on the side couldn't help but laugh secretly when he saw Yingyi's pretentious appearance, thinking that this kid was really taken by Ke'er. Win Ke was a little proud at this time, gently stroked his slightly bulging belly, and couldn't help but brow. Suddenly, I felt something, looked at Han Xin, and saw that he was looking at him with a smile, his eyes glanced at Yingyi, and his eyes were full of teasing. Ying Ke saw what he meant, and was immediately ashamed, glared at him, and secretly gritted his teeth, thinking about how to clean him up when he went back.

Han Xin and Ying Ke's small actions Gongsun Hong naturally didn't pay attention, he just bowed down and said: "The ministers are intellectually shallow, thanks to Your Majesty's wrong love, entrusted to the country, naturally they should do their best, and dare not have any slackness." ”

"Wechen has been the prime minister for a long time, looking at the system of our dynasty inherited from the change of the Shang monarch, it has been 164 years ago, things have changed, many systems have long been not suitable for today's situation, has become a harsh malpractice. Just as the original intention of filial piety and businessmen, if you want to be stronger in the world, you must change the law to reform the old and accept the new, thinking that my Great Qin was rich all over the world, with more than 40 counties, and millions of tigers, but he almost lost the country, why not? ”

"The fundamental reason is that the law of the Shang monarch is mostly used for conquest, but it is somewhat insufficient for governing the world, so the ministers listed a total of 22 items of all sizes to appease the people of the world and restore the prosperity of our Great Qin."

Gongsun Hong was actually very tactful, what he said was just to repair the law of the Shang monarch, not to propose a change in the law. But his words were still like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, and the originally sleepy Manchu ministers were in an uproar in an instant. The court was like a vegetable market, and even many white-bearded old ministers angrily scolded Gongsun Hong for acting recklessly, and even looked at the cornerstone of changing the Qin state.

These old ministers are all the remnants of the First Emperor's period, and they have witnessed the prosperity and strength of the Qin State back then, and they are even more highly respected for the strong @ legal system of the Qin State, and of course they are not allowed to change Gongsun Hong, a hairy boy, at will.

And more people in the court are looking thoughtful, they are all savoring the meaning of Gongsun Hong's words, guessing the future direction of the Qin State. For example, today's chaos and the loss of the Kanto region are said to be caused by Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, but the discerning people can see that the system implemented after the unification of the Qin State does have a lot of problems. When the initial emperor relied on his domineering strength to suppress it, once the upper foundation of the Qin State was shaken after his death, the Kwantung was all against him, and the world was in chaos.

What does this mean, it shows that the old set of Qin is indeed a bit out of place, and it is indeed time to change. Of course, everyone just thought about it, and only Gongsun Hong dared to put it forward so boldly.

In the face of the responsibilities of the Manchu Dynasty, Gongsun Hong was proud and self-reliant, and worked hard to straighten his body. Ignoring the angry scolding duties around him, he looked directly at Yingyi and said loudly; "Your Majesty, back then, when Shang Jun tried to change the law, the whole dynasty was opposed. Taishi Gan Long said, 'The benefit is not a hundred and the law is not changed, and the merit is not ten is not easy', 'The law is ancient, and the etiquette is not evil', and the Shang Jun at that time only used one sentence to make them completely speechless. ”

"Shang Jun said, 'If you don't rule the world together, the country will be lawless.'" The king of soup and martial arts is also prosperous without following the ancients; The destruction of Yin Xia is also not easy to die politely. However, those who oppose the ancients may not be wrong, and those who follow the rites are not enough, so it can be seen that if Shang Jun is still alive, he will definitely be extremely determined to change the law again. This is what he advocated, 'legislating at the time and making rituals according to events', there are always only things in the world that are constantly updated, and those that remain unchanged will only be eliminated. ”

Gongsun Hong's eloquent speech won many supporters, and he also stood up in support of the revision of the law of the Shang monarch, confronted the conservatives, and debated loudly in the hall.

Ying Yi, who was on the throne, suddenly panicked, and was overwhelmed by these excited ministers, and hurriedly turned his eyes to Ying Ke beside him as if asking for help. Seeing that Ying Ke smiled slightly, he looked confident, and reached out and patted his hand gently to show comfort. Only then did Ying Yi feel at ease, and turned to look with interest at these usually sanctimonious ministers who were arguing one by one, blushing and having thick noses.

All this was expected by Han Xin, so he just smiled and did not express his opinion. Gradually, the ministers who were arguing between the DPRK and China remembered Han Xin, who really had the power to decide, and they all consciously stopped the quarrel and turned their eyes to him.

Han Xin smiled slightly, knowing that it was time for him to express his position, so he stepped forward, cleared his throat and said loudly: "What the prime minister said is very true, and the minister seconded it." ”

As soon as Han Xin's words fell, most of the courtiers in the court closed their mouths and stopped arguing.

These people knew very well that Gongsun Hong, the prime minister, must have obtained Han Xin's consent in advance, so they would put it forward in front of all the Qin kings and all the ministers.

Han Xin's statement made almost half of the generals and ministers of the DPRK and China stand in the camp of supporting the reform, and most of the others remained silent and noncommittal. The remaining few old ministers were alone, and it was useless.

This is the winner who has been ventilated in advance, and also stood up and expressed his support for revising the current part of the system, but demanded that the foundation of the Qin legal system must be adhered to, and some details can only be repaired on the basis of it.

Most of the changes in history have been accompanied by never-ending government affairs, party struggles, and even bloodshed and killings, as well as regime changes. When the new system tries to change the old system, it will inevitably be violently counterattacked by the vested interests of the old system. Therefore, most of the changes are accompanied by a large number of heads falling to the ground, and the great cause of changing the law is completed by thunderbolt means.

And this time, Qin's change was much milder, and people couldn't even feel the traces of the change. On the one hand, Han Xin firmly grasped the military power and had a large army as a guarantee, so all opposition forces did not dare to oppose it; On the one hand, not long ago, the Kwantung rebels and the princes opposed Qin, destroying the old forces of Qin; The most important aspect is that the changes advocated by this change are indeed much more modest.

Compared with the "surgical" forced changes of Shang Ying and Li Kui, which completely pushed the old system to a reshuffle, this reform led by Gongsun Hong was mainly to repair the original system of the Qin State, just like a healthy person with poisonous sores, but only to remove the poisonous sores, rather than moving his muscles and bones. This has also made there much less resistance from the people.

The main changes are in the legal system and in the evaluation and selection of officials. According to Gongsun Hong's proposal, Qin Law abolished a total of 24 types of death penalty and corporal punishment, and replaced 13 types of death penalty with hard labor. At the same time, it reaffirmed the legal concept of "not avoiding ministers for punishment, and rewarding the good without sparing the husband", stipulating that if the nobles committed a crime, they should be dealt with in accordance with the Qin law, and if there was favoritism, the law officials would be beheaded.

In the selection of officials, the Qin State was restricted from blindly relying on the military merit title system to select officials, stipulating that the military merit title system could only be applied to the selection of generals and lieutenants in the army, while the civilian official system was evaluated and selected by the Prime Minister's Office. The counties are ordered to recommend capable people to go to the counties for assessment, and the winners will enter Xianyang to be inspected by the Son of Heaven or the Prime Minister in person, so as to confer official positions. Each county is stationed in the supervision of the imperial history, which is directly under the control of the imperial historian, and is only responsible to the Son of Heaven, independent of the civil official system headed by the prime minister, and exercises the power of procuratorial evaluation.

At the same time, it adopted the Confucian principle of "education without class", and set up a wide range of schools in various counties, with the imperial court paying for the hiring of scribes to teach young children free of charge. Advocate the ethics of the program, and teach children with the idea of loyalty and filial piety. At the same time, the status of craftsmen and medical servants was greatly improved, and medical craftsmen were set up under the servants, and a large medical hall was set up to train medical personnel.

Many clans in the Qin State were originally worried that the content of Gongsun Hong's reform would violate their core interests, but now it seems that there is nothing more than the deletion and reduction of some harsh laws and regulations, and the reform of the official system and its selection. Other than that, there was no big move they feared, so they put their minds at ease.

It was supposed to be a vigorous and huge change, but it was completed in a calm. There was no bloodshed, no political conflicts, the streamlined Qin government burst out of efficient workload, and the new evaluation system also allowed officials to work hard to be promoted through political achievements, gradually changing the situation of the Qin State for hundreds of years, emphasizing military force over literature and serving the country for war.

As for the people, they don't seem to have much feeling about this change, and the Qin people's farming and production as usual have not changed. It was only the officials who propagandized the government outside the city gates that told them that many of the harsh decrees of the past had been deposed, and that large-scale labor had been forbidden by the legislature, much to the delight of ordinary Qin people.

This small-scale change lasted nearly three months, and the Qin state was completely renewed, and a new batch of taxes was also collected into the treasury, and the summer grain industry was harvested into the granary.

In September, the autumn mood is getting stronger, and it is the season of high autumn horse fat on the grassland. This year is different from the past, this year's Qin State is no longer worried about the threat of the Xiongnu invasion south, the Xiongnu who have been greatly weakened and the newly rising Lou Fu are fighting for their lives in Monan, and the 40,000 iron cavalry led by Wang Jing is undoubtedly a powerful army that can control the pattern of the grassland.

In order to win the support of the Qin army, both Kun Mo and Ji Congee successively sent envoys into Xianyang to worship the Qin king and be willing to bow down. Both of them were trying to curry favor with Wang Jing, and Kun Mo loaded three carts of gold and silver treasures plundered from the Xiongnu into a cart and sent them to Jiuyuan; And Ji porridge is even more exquisite, he didn't know where he heard that Wang Jing likes beautiful young women, so he gave his aunt, Mao Dunshan Yu, who was once the most favored, to Wang Jing.

Wang Jing did not refuse to come, he unceremoniously accepted all the things sent by Kunmo and Ji Congee, and the gold, silver and jewelry were sent to Xianyang to Han Xin, and the beauties unceremoniously accepted them for their own enjoyment. But whenever Kun Mo and Ji Congee impatiently asked when he would send troops to help him fight each other, Wang Jing shirked everywhere, just giving them promises one by one, but he always stood still and watched the two countries fight.

At this time in Xianyang, another major event has become the most attention-grabbing thing in the entire Xianyang City.

That is, Win Ke is about to give birth, and General Han Xin finally has a queen.

The production of Yingke is not only a problem for her and Han Xin, but also an important critical point for the Qin State.

If it is a boy, the child is born with the most noble status. On the one hand, he is the grandson of the first emperor, with purebred Ying blood flowing in his body, and he is the queen of the first king; On the other hand, he is also the eldest son of Han Xin, the general of the Qin State, and has the right to inherit everything from him.

Han Xin's current power is not weaker than that of King Qin, and even surpasses it, because the entire Qin army is in his hands. Although he has always been routinely low-key, he has not appeared in front of the world with a high-flying and domineering side. But people with a little bit of brains can see that he has no reward now, and if he wants to go further, he will only have the position of the vain King of Qin.

Once he pacified the Kwantung region, reunified the whole country, and restored the territory of the first emperor, then his ascension to the throne became almost an immutable fact. Even if he didn't have this desire, his subordinates who were keen on utilitarianism would force him on the throne.

And at this time, the question of whether he has an heir becomes a top priority. Imagine if there is no successor to a monarch, but there is no one to inherit the cause he founded, once he dies, the forces that have been united under his command will inevitably disperse in a hurry. And if there is an heir, there must be a change, and his subordinates can also have a lord to be loyal to, instead of becoming a plate of loose sand.

What's more, he and Ying Ke's heirs also have the blood of the Ying family, if he is appointed as the prince, he will be the king of Qin in the future, whether it is in blood or emotionally, it is easy for the Ying family and many old Qin families to accept.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, many small countries also had no heirs, and some countries were inherited by sons-in-law as stepsons, and the sons born to him and the princesses of the previous dynasty were passed on to the throne in disguise. If there is a precedent, it is not difficult for him to do it one day.

Excluding these considerations, Han Xin himself was also very excited about being a father, he pushed off all the government and military affairs, and ordered that unless Xiang Yu hit Xianyang City, everything else should not be looked for him. He stayed by Yingke's side every day, walking and chatting with her when she was about to give birth, trying to make her happy, so as to relieve her nervousness as a new mother.

The palace has prepared the best midwives in the Qin Kingdom, and several imperial doctors are waiting outside the Huayang Palace day and night. In order to ensure the safety of the mother and child, Han Xin even invited several sacrificial witch servants who were said to be prodigies with the idea of "rather believing what they have than believing what they don't", and asked them to also coax and pray for the blessing of Win.

In fact, there is another layer of excitement in Han Xinxin, whether this child is male or female, he is his only relative in this world, the kind of relatives who are connected by blood. This feeling is not something that others can experience, but it is what Han Shin wants the most.

In order to prevent Yingyi, the mischievous King of Qin, from interfering with Yingke's fetus, Han Xin unceremoniously isolated Yingyi from Huayang Palace. Yingyi shouted several times that he wanted to play with his mother, but he was glared back by Han Xin, and he was suddenly silent, and he didn't dare to say anything more.

Until one day after dinner, Han Xin was walking in the garden with Ying Ke, but Ying Ke suddenly shouted in pain. The beads of sweat that hurt the size of a bean on the forehead are lowered. Fortunately, he was prepared, and soon the midwife had arrived, and he helped Ying Ke into the room in an orderly manner, while the imperial doctor waited carefully outside the door.

The next day, when the drum was beating, the little eunuchs who were full of excitement announced the edict from the palace.

The son of Wuxin Hou was born, and both mother and son were safe.