Chapter 340: The Aftermath Remains
Hear the words.
Feng Qujian didn't know what to say in his heart.
It's okay for the Second Emperor to call the shots in this kind of thing, but the Second Emperor still has to ask for his opinion, and even, let him make decisions.
It really made it difficult for him.
But in the face of the second emperor's inquiry, he didn't dare not answer, so he could only say: "Back to Your Majesty, the ten strategies for dealing with rumors proposed by Uncle Sun Sizheng are indeed feasible strategies."
Yingcheng did not hesitate at all, and immediately said: "In this case, this matter will be handed over to the Propaganda Department to supervise, and the rest of the departments will cooperate, so as to guide the folk rumors well, so that the people do not believe the rumors and do not spread rumors."
"The old minister (Wei Chen) obeys the order." Feng went to illness, and his uncle and grandson immediately received the order.
It's just that.
The atmosphere of the entire court hall is indeed to a very strange degree, which makes many courtiers puzzled.
In the past, the first emperor monopolized the power of the court and government, and everything had to be decided, even when the second emperor was in charge of the country, it was necessary to ask for decisions in everything, but now, the second emperor is so delegated power that they even make them uncomfortable.
However.
Is this true decentralization?
Yingcheng sat in the deepest part of the Xianyang Palace, ignoring the many courtiers with different thoughts.
Ever since he came back from Liyi City, he had been thinking about it for a long time.
Once a son of heaven and a courtier!
It seems that this is an iron law, and any emperor who wants to make a difference, after ascending the throne, needs a whole new group of loyal followers.
The new emperor succeeds to the throne, and the people's hearts are unstable, this is the ultimate problem.
And for a long time to come.
He's going to be dealing with that one issue.
And it will take a long, long time to complete such a transition.
If you take it first, you must give it first.
He can't let a powerful minister like Li Si continue to stay in the court just because Li Si supports him.
It is not because Wang Ben is fully supporting him that he can let Wang Ben continue to stay in a position that no one can match.
But if you want to replace these people, it will take a long time.
Ten or even twenty years, this requires him to endure like a wise man.
However.
He wants to speed up such a process, and after thinking about it, he can only delegate power and decentralize power step by step, so that the power of Li Si and Feng Quji can expand rapidly.
Then.
Waiting for them to make mistakes.
Seriously.
In his view, it is not important to govern the world, and it is not important what kind of policies are exercised to strengthen the rule like changing the law.
From the beginning to the end, there is a need for effective authorities to complete the basic rule.
The Great Dynasty will pass quickly.
In today's Great Court Meeting, except for the courtiers who took the initiative to raise questions, and then he directly handed them over to the seven people to solve, other things, even if he found a problem, did not mention half of it.
According to custom, Yingcheng came to the Dalu Mansion to visit the First Emperor.
The current state of the First Emperor is very magical, and he is obviously in danger, but he is just hanging on his breath, not dead or alive, and he may hang up if he can't swallow it.
After reading it, Yingcheng went to the harem step by step to greet the Empress Dowager Li Xian.
Li Xian is now in power in the harem, and has carried out a major change of blood in the entire harem, Li Xian himself is a person with a strong atmosphere of the Kokang Legalist, and he has quite a means to rectify the harem, and in a short period of time, the harem has changed greatly.
Compared with Zhao Ji at the time of the beginning of the emperor, Li Xian's methods are full of the taste of iron and blood.
Leaving the palace, Yingcheng came to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Although the Prime Minister's Mansion is a mansion, it is divided into two halls, and the left and right prime ministers are separated, and Yingcheng first came to the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion.
The furnishings of the Prime Minister's Mansion are tight and neat, all the documents, bamboo slips, silk books are placed neatly and neatly, and all the officials in the palace are also sitting and standing in a regular manner to deal with official documents.
There are only two words, rules!
And in the deepest part there is a very spacious apse with a hanging door in front of it
It is said that Li Si used to find someone to engrave a plaque in order to warn himself, and then the first emperor appreciated Li Si's strictness and wrote the current plaque, so Li Si hung the plaque engraved in his own study.
However.
Today's Li Si, if you look closely, I'm afraid you have to be sorry for this deck of cards.
Li Si's authority has not changed, but the Son of Heaven has been added in front of Prime Minister Zuo, but since the news of his accession to the throne and the second emperor has spread all over the world, the disciples of the Legalists have gone up to Li Si's personal disciples, the county lieutenants, and down to the scattered people who have wandered all over the world, and did not congratulate the new emperor on his accession to the throne, but instead searched for treasures and sent them to Li Si to celebrate Li Si becoming the Son of Heaven.
I heard that the paper of celebration piled up in a house.
For Li Si, it was a difficult scripture to read, and if it was not handled well, it would even cause division within the Legalist family.
After greeting Li Si every day, Yingcheng came to the right prime minister's mansion.
Compared with the left Prime Minister's Mansion, the Right Prime Minister's Mansion is much more chaotic, and all you can see is a mountain of documents, and every one of them is very busy.
What these officials do every day is to select, and the documents gathered from all over the world are selected according to the downward, parallel, and upward levels into seven levels, five categories, and six systems.
This is a great test of the government affairs level of the officials, and after the selection of the officials, they will be sent to Shi Ling's hands to be processed, and important documents will be sent to Feng Quji's hands for reading and processing as soon as possible.
At the same time, there will be a long history order with the inspector to check the clerk's classification of documents, if there are mistakes or omissions, the punishment will be light, the severity will be dismissed, and the clerk will not be allowed to half a point difference.
It can be said that even Feng Quji himself needs to deal with a lot of paperwork every day.
But in today's Right Prime Minister's Mansion, the real trouble is not government affairs, but Feng Quji himself.
Since the last time Feng Quji collapsed on the first emperor's bed, although he has improved, his health is not as good as day by day, and he is tired of dealing with paperwork for two hours a day, or in other words, Feng Qujian can no longer support the duties of the right prime minister.
However, looking at the court, there is no one to replace Feng Quji.
And what gave Feng Quji a headache was that because his cultivation of disciples was to cast a wide net, collect more fish, and choose the best from them, many people were staring at the position of the right prime minister, wanting to get Feng Quji's recommendation.
If this is not a good handover, it will even bring a disastrous split for the entire Qin State officials.
Greeting Feng Qujian every day, Yingcheng left the Prime Minister's Mansion and continued to the next location, the Taiwei Mansion.
The Qin State had three protectors, forty-six generals, one hundred and forty-two commanders, more than 1,200 captains, and two captains for every 3,000 soldiers, all of whom belonged to high-ranking generals and were also generals directly under the Taiwei Mansion.
According to Wang Ben's suggestion, including the soldiers and horses belonging to these generals, they must be rotated back to Xianyang in turn to report on their work and change their defense.
But this is an extremely complicated process, including the areas under the responsibility of the current commanders of the five major defense capitals, there will be very big turmoil, and the slightest carelessness will give birth to great chaos.
But this is not the most serious problem facing the Taiwei Mansion, but the dispute between Wang and Yang of the soldiers.
According to the meaning of the previous military leader Wang Jian Guowei, the next military leader is Yang Duanhe, the commander of the Acheng army, Yang Duanhe has always focused on maintaining the overall situation of stability, and is quite appreciated by the Guowei Wang, but to Wang Ben, Guowei Wang's advice to the first emperor is that he can be a strong general, not the head of a family, Wang Ben's handling is too radical.
This was originally a well-known secret in the army, but now with the improvement of Wang Ben's status and his outstanding military achievements, his status in the military family is much higher than that of Yang Duanhe.
If this matter is not handled well, the generals who support Yang Duanhe and the generals who support Wang Ben will also move towards a split situation.
What is difficult to deal with is that Wang Ben contributed a lot to the assassination of the first emperor and his support for his succession.
Power always has a strong voice in a group, and how to make decisions in such a dispute is also a difficult question.
On the contrary, the question of rebellion has become the most secondary issue.
Because in addition to the battle between the leaders of the soldiers, there is currently a problem in the Taiwei Mansion in front of the entire court.
Reward!
This is a problem left over by the First Emperor, and it was not a problem when the First Emperor was there, but now that he has succeeded to the throne, it has become the biggest problem between Heng Chen and Qin's team.
According to the accurate statistics of the Taiwei Mansion, as the emperor and the first responsible person of the imperial court, he also needs to reward 500 million acres of land, 1.2 million mansions, and 220 million households, of which more than 60,000 soldiers are enough to reward 1,000 households for military merits, and more than 400,000 soldiers for 100 households.
This problem has always been a sword hanging on the head, bothering everyone, including the first emperor's reward, and even he seriously suspected that the fundamental reason why the first emperor abolished the division of feudal counties was because there was no reward to seal.
Since the first emperor began to conquer the six countries, he raised millions of troops and fought for more than ten years, and the accumulated military exploits were so vast that they could not be counted.
According to the system of ploughing and warfare, where there is an enemy, there is good land to seal, and where there are ten enemies, there is food to be rewarded.
Such a system of military merits can be digested and resolved in hundreds of years, but in just ten years, frequent wars and invincibility have made the drawbacks of the problematic farming system burst out quickly and become extremely acute.
That's right.
The number of households needed to reward the war exploits has seriously exceeded twice the total population of the world.
The number of fields is also about to account for half of the country.
And the fields in the world are idle and no one asks, each has its own owner when it is used, and all the fields in the world have long been occupied by the nobles of the Qin State and the surviving wealthy families.
Yingcheng left the Taiwei Mansion with a head full of troubles and went to the Dalu Mansion.
New policies, new laws, and new Qin laws, these policies that once became the main theme of the Qin State.
Now it has become something that makes him extremely difficult and hesitant.
The Taiwei Mansion poured too much effort into him, even his life's wish.
But.
When he faced the supreme stone wall declaration in front of the Taiwei Mansion again, it was so dazzling.
According to his plan, more than 300 people such as Li Zhan, Shusun Tong, Gongyiqiu, Zhang Rang, Zuo Guang, Hu Xiu, Zhuo Cheng and others who participated in the legislation at the beginning, he did not let these people directly deal with the affairs of the new policy, but after determining the new Qin law, he asked these people to go to various places in Guanzhong to investigate, learn from experience, observe and learn and sum up experience.
Once Guanzhong completes the reform, these people will be entrusted by him with important tasks to go to the counties of the world to supervise the reform.
But.
Whether or not to continue to change the law is something that really needs to be carefully weighed.
The arrow was off the string, but the First Emperor dragged it fiercely behind.
I don't know if the First Emperor knew that the Qin State would face the problem of the collapse of the heavens and the earth after his death, and he was hanging for a sigh of relief, but now, he is really unwilling.
Seeing Li Zhan's side, Li Zhan now looks ambitious, the Taiwei Mansion was set up for him by the first emperor, and he is the place where he presided over the current status, and it is the place where he used to preside over the state affairs, Li Zhan thinks that now he is the emperor of the Qin State, and the power and status of the Taiwei Mansion even surpass the Prime Minister's Mansion.
As for the matter of changing the law and rectifying the new policy, he must have supported it with all his might.
But.
Yingcheng left the Dalu Mansion without any promises.
It is not for nothing that people die in politics.
The reform of the law was not the policy he promoted, but the policy pursued by the first emperor.
In the blink of an eye, the time of the day passed in the circle of Yingcheng.
And time also passed in this irritable anguish.
End of April!
A wail finally sounded from the apse of the Great Law Mansion.
The First Emperor, after all, still died in the immortals!
Yingcheng did not have any concealment, the death knell sounded, the world mourned, and the whole country cried.
Xianyang City is as white as winter.
There were wails in all the counties of the world, and political affairs were even suspended for a time.
Although Yingcheng is the emperor, he also wears linen and filial piety, and mourns for the first emperor.
The princes carried the coffin for the first emperor for the funeral.
However.
Even if the Qin State had abolished the funeral system a long time ago, at the moment when the coffin of the First Emperor entered the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, there was still a scene that should not have happened.
Shi Teng in the Zhisu Neishi Mansion together with the servant Ling Wen Fang, the captain of the guard, Zhang Tian, the leader of the Black Dragon Guard, and the general Li Xin, at the time of the burial of the First Emperor, brought more than 300 palace maids, more than 200 chamberlains, more than 500 soldiers, and seven concubines of the First Emperor suddenly appeared in front of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, forcing Yingcheng with death to be buried in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.
Faced with this sudden scene, Yingcheng was furious.
"Your Majesty, Weichen was originally a subordinate, and he was reused by His Majesty, and there was no way to repay him, and now, he can't return His Majesty's grace in life, only after death, and he will be a cow and a horse for His Majesty."
"Your Majesty, Weichen, is here!"
Nei Shi Teng screamed sadly, regretfully hanging himself at the entrance of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.
Yingcheng was furious.
But Li Xin's movements were faster, and he saw more than 500 soldiers suddenly raising their swords and killing all the palace maids and chamberlains in front of the imperial tomb.
"I'm sorry, Concubine Rong, Concubine Xian, Concubine Le, all the ladies were His Majesty's favorites during his lifetime, Li Xin believes that you are also very willing to do it despite Your Majesty!"
Li Xin resolutely got up, holding the sword in his indifferent hand.
"Your Majesty, save ......," the concubines exclaimed.
But Li Xin did not hesitate to kill the seven concubines of the First Emperor who were forcibly captured on the spot in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces and Yingcheng.
"Li Xin, I have entrusted you with a heavy responsibility, you, why not stop here, if the emperor is here, how can you be allowed to die here?"
Yingcheng roared angrily.
Li Xin returned to the capital, but he really didn't receive any news.
Li Xin shook his head, looked at Yingcheng very apologetically, and said with a smile: "For the time being, call the Second Emperor His Royal Highness, please forgive Your Highness, and Li Xin thanks His Highness for his trust."
"It's just that Li Xin was already guilty of His Majesty's trust, and from the time His Majesty ordered me to reorganize the Southern Expeditionary Army, Li Xin swore that in this life, I, Li Xinsheng, would be Your Majesty's minister, and I would die as Your Majesty's ghost."
"Your Majesty, in the world, the last general will fight with you in the world, and in the underground, the last general is also willing to follow Your Majesty to the death and be driven by Your Majesty."
As he spoke, Li Xin turned his sword, and in front of everyone, blood splattered three feet, and hanged himself in front of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.
Yingcheng was silent, his heart was dripping blood, and his eyes were split.
Can be followed.
The rest of the soldiers, who were not afraid of death, once again cut themselves off here.
When the First Emperor was buried, no one expected this scene.
And this scene.
It also made Yingcheng unable to calm down for a long time.
Long!
Yingcheng sighed: "Prepare the coffin and bury these people in the underground palace!"