Chapter 822: Ancestral System [Asking for Subscription*Asking for a Monthly Pass]

"And so much more than that!" Ying Zheng shook his head.

"Unification is in my hands, and according to convention, all the systems we have formulated will become the laws to be followed by future generations."

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si and said solemnly, he saw far more than the present, but also the future.

Although he was not the founding monarch of Great Qin, he was the founding emperor of the unified empire, the First Emperor.

Then all the rules set by him in one day will become the rules of the future operation of the empire, and will also be called the ancestral system.

Just like when Mu Gong was in power, there was a martyrdom system, as soon as Mu Gong died, all the ministers of the court and the central government would also be martyred, and the most famous was Ziche Sanjie.

This also led to the prosperity and decline of the Qin State, which originally dominated the West, and because of this ancestral system, the scholars did not dare to enter the Qin Dynasty again, which also made the later Qin State weaker and weaker, and it was even more common for the order to change every day.

It wasn't until the time of Qin Xiangong that he made great efforts to abolish the martyrdom system, and then wiped the ass of Qin State when he was filial piety, and tried every means to recruit Shandong scholars into Qin.

Therefore, the Qin State has the most say in the harm of the ancestral system, and it is precisely because of this that the Qin State has been avoiding this risk.

To put it simply, many people know that the "Mirage Project" is difficult to make a breakthrough without thirty or fifty years, and it is unlikely that there will be a breakthrough even in the Yingzheng Dynasty.

But if Yingzheng doesn't do it, or even terminates it halfway through, then the successors will subconsciously refuse to start the plan again when they see that the cost of the "mirage plan" is so high.

All the courtiers will also write and say, "How can we do what the First Emperor could not do?"

The plan to terminate the first emperor's dynasty proves that this plan cannot be completed, and we must follow the ancestral system.

From then on, the "Mirage Project" will also be suspended endlessly.

If Jin Yao was there, he would definitely be able to think of the consequences of doing this, because the foreshadowing of China's transformation from prosperity to decline in history originated from this ancestral system.

In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a ban on the sea because of the prevention of Japanese invaders, and eliminated almost all the ships in the city, and "the board did not enter the sea".

As a result, the original Ming shipping as the world's strongest fell instantly, even if Emperor Yongle restarted the ship market, but also opened the world's farthest voyage, but after Yongle, for some reason, but restarted the ancestral system, restarted the sea ban.

The treasure ship of Zheng He, which moved the world, has become history and can never be reproduced.

If the "mirage plan" is terminated, it is equivalent to directly giving up the development of the coast, and finally forming a habit, so that future generations lose their yearning and exploration of the sea, and finally close the country.

Under Ying Zheng's explanation, Li Si also reacted quickly.

The so-called legal system will eventually be reduced to human system, because the law serves and is also enforced by people.

If they ban too many things at once, then a system will be formed, and under the habits and misinterpretations of future generations, endless troubles will arise.

Especially as a courtier, there are very few people who dare to innovate and overthrow the old system, and more people will think that they will do more and make more mistakes, and not do well.

Under this kind of psychology, everyone will follow the ancestral system and dare not innovate and overthrow, even if they know that the ancestral system is wrong, but they will still selectively turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear.

It's like the current Qin law is the law of the Shang monarch, and many of these things are no longer applicable to the current Qin State, but if you really dare to abolish and change it, even Li Si doesn't dare.

More often than not, it is just to make adaptive corrections and supplementary explanations on the law of Shang Jun, but do not dare to really abolish it.

For example, in the Shang Jun Law, in the year of the disaster, the government is not allowed to open a warehouse for relief, and the people are self-reliant to overcome the disaster year.

This is because the treasury of the Qin State at the time of the Shang monarch did not have any spare power to give relief, and the local nobles controlled the government, if the warehouse was opened for relief, then the people could not get a trace of relief food from the government at all, and these relief would only flow into the hands of the nobles.

However, the current Great Qin obviously has the spare power to give relief, but no one dares to change this law, at most, in the year of the catastrophe, the king ordered relief, rather than the local government according to the actual situation to give relief.

It is equivalent to saying that without the king's order, the local government will not be able to open a warehouse to give alms and help the people through the calamity.

Even if Li Si is now reformulating the Qin law, he does not dare to change this law, but only adds a supplement after the law, and the local government reports to Xianyang, and then Xianyang decides to dispatch grain and grass relief.

It is unimaginable that this time wasted back and forth, because it takes time for the news to reach Xianyang, and it also takes time for Xianyang to respond, and then it will take another time to select and dispatch the pacification envoys, and it will take another time from the pacification envoys to bring people and grain and grass from Xianyang to the disaster area.

And the catastrophe may be locust plague, flood, drought or more likely to be the earth dragon turned over, in this case, time is life, waiting for Xianyang's order and relief, the shortest time will take ten days.

For the sudden catastrophe of floods and the turning of the earth dragon, it is impossible for the local people to wait for Xianyang's relief and treatment.

By the time the pacification envoy arrived, it was no longer the flood and the disaster of the earth dragon turning over that had to be treated, but the plague that followed.

However, even if he knew that there was a problem with this law, Li Si did not dare to abolish it, because after the abolition, the local power would become greater, and there would even be false reports, and once there was a problem, Li Si, as the law-maker, would become the target of public criticism.

"Moreover, this group of people is not a good person, before coming to Xianyang, they wandered in Yandi, bewitching local nobles, spreading the doctrine of immortality, the theory of gods and ghosts, and bewitching the local people."

"The most important thing is that these people are mobile, they won't always be in one place, and they are proficient in the method of evasion, they can evade the pursuit of the net and the local government, it is difficult to catch them all, and it is fast to get rid of them."

"Therefore, I gathered them in Xianyang, gathered in the Qin Palace, and asked them all to come to Xianyang!"

Ying Zheng continued.

For Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, killing is inexhaustible, and it is difficult to catch them.

However, the Qin State is now in ruins, and does not have too much energy and manpower to take care of them.

Therefore, Ying Zheng thought of waste utilization, let them endorse the "mirage plan", and at the same time, for their group of people, where is the benefit of demagoguery and local nobility greater than that of demagogic kings?

Therefore, the leaders of this group of people will also flock to Xianyang, and they will not need Qin State's efforts to pursue them at all, they will send them to the door by themselves.

When the time is right, or when they are not needed, you can send them on their way.

This is also the fundamental reason why Yingzheng raises them.