Wentong Hou Li Sixu changed the power structure of the Qin court.

Li Si is old, prestigious, and the father-in-law of the current emperor, who has always represented the legal group of the Qin State, and is an important force in the court that can compete with the Marquis of Zhenguo.

Now that he is dead, the spokesperson of the Legalist Group in the court is only Tingwei Ganqian.

Whether it is a position, a title or a skill, Gan Qian cannot be compared with Zhao Tuo, and he is in an absolute weakness.

In addition to Li Si, another person in the court who can compete with Zhao Tuo is probably Taiwei Wang Ben.

This is also a famous general of the Qin State, a marquis, and one of the three princes, and also served as Zhao Tuo's boss, it can be said that to some extent, Wang Ben even has to suppress Zhao Tuo.

But Wang Ben's health is not very good, and he has always remembered Wang Qian's teachings, and rarely participates in court battles. If the Second Emperor hadn't forbade him to resign and return, Wang Ben would have gone back to retire a long time ago.

His son Wang Li is now a general of the Western Expedition, and there is no need for him to be greedy for power.

In this case, Wang Ben also could not play the role of resisting the marquis of Zhenguo.

As for Wang Ben and below, generals such as Li Xin, Qiang Qi, and Meng Tian are either inferior to Zhao Tuo in terms of title merits, or they have been in Zhao Tuo's old department, and they belong to the same party, and it is impossible to contain Zhao Tuo.

In the court, Zhao Tuo's family is dominant.

This made his former subordinates of the old department look at them one by one in their eyes and be happy in their hearts.

I feel that the Marquis of Zhenguo has really come out, now that he is in a high position, he has no political enemies, and he has the support of the emperor, he can do whatever he wants in the future, whether it is changing the law or reforming, all will be unimpeded.

Only Zhao Tuo was uneasy.

It didn't take long for the Second Emperor to promote Fengchang Wang Juan to the position of Prime Minister Zuo.

At this time, the faces of Zhao Tuo's subordinates changed slightly.

Li Shiqi said even more boldly: "Prince, in the past, Wang Juan was degraded by the first emperor because of the prince, and there will definitely be complaints in his heart. You should be careful about this, and I am afraid that there is a deep meaning in this arrangement. ”

Zhao Tuo laughed instead.

Li Shiqi's words naturally make sense, Wang Juan was the right prime minister back then, but he was demoted because of Zhao Tuo, and he must be unhappy with him in his heart, and now he has been promoted to the left prime minister, and the two sides naturally don't deal with each other.

Wang Juan and the forces behind him may become Zhao Tuo's opponents.

But this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Fusu ordered Wang Juan to be the prime minister of Zuo, isn't it just to contain himself?

Although the eldest brother was a little wary of himself, Zhao Tuo felt a little sad, but on the other hand, it also proved that Fusu was growing into a mature king.

Playing checks and balances above the court to prevent one party from dominating and threatening the monarchy, this is the basis of the emperor's power technique.

In some ways, it's good for the monarch and good for the courtiers.

Zhao Tuo didn't care about this, and continued to focus on changing the law and the school room in the next time.

In particular, the reform and expansion of the school room is Zhao Tuo's next focus.

In the pre-Qin era, the princes contended and hundreds of schools competed, which became the most splendid period of culture and thought in Chinese history, with countless sages appearing and countless classic works.

However, with the unification of the Qin State, the First Emperor collected all the classics in the world, burned books and banned speech, which dealt a major blow to the originally open ideology and culture.

Later, the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, which pushed this ideological imprisonment to a climax.

In Zhao Tuo's view, this is conducive to the rule of the country and the stability of society to a certain extent, but it has caused great harm to the ideology and culture of China, especially to the point where Confucianism has become dominant in the later period.

Only with competition can there be progress.

Monopoly will only lead to destruction.

"History has long changed, since I have reached this era, I should not let a hundred schools of thought be cut off, so that one family is dominant."

Under the implementation of several years of implementation, the departments of agriculture, engineering, and medicine proposed by Zhao Tuo have achieved remarkable results and cultivated a large number of professionals for the Qin State.

Many of the agricultural officials, engineers, and even doctors in various counties and counties in the world have graduated from the school, which has become an upward channel for ordinary people to move towards official careers, and the response at the social level is very good.

Now Zhao Tuo wants to increase the types of classrooms.

In addition to agriculture, industry, and medicine, the study of Zhuzi was added.

Compared with the Faculty of Lawyers, which cultivates political talents, and the three specialized departments of agriculture, industry, and medicine, these studies are somewhat special.

They mainly disseminate the Zhuzi culture that has been officially reviewed and revised, and unlike the Lawyer's School, there is no title restriction on entering the Zhuzi School, and ordinary Qianshou only need to pay a certain amount of tuition to enroll.

However, because of the low threshold, after graduation, it is not included in the assignment of official positions and jobs, but has the opportunity to be recommended and recruited by local officials.

This is a supporting measure for Zhao Tuo to implement the probation system.

The probation system is a bottom-up talent selection system officially created after the collapse of the military merit system in the Han Dynasty, and it is the predecessor of the imperial examination system.

Zhao Tuo wanted to replace the hidden danger of the military merit system, but the implementation conditions of the imperial examination system were obviously insufficient, so he chose the probationary system as a transition, which was in line with the interests of the family and reduced the resistance to implementation, and also opened an upward channel for the lower-class people.

If the lower-level Qiantou is unwilling to learn agriculture, engineering, medicine and other professional skills, then he can enter the Zhuzi Academy, study, increase knowledge and culture, and show the corresponding ability, and then he can have the qualifications to be recruited and recommended.

To a certain extent, the establishment of the Zhuzi School is conducive to the popularization of education and the cultivation of talents, and lays the foundation for the implementation of the imperial examination system in the future.

This is a transitional phase.

The establishment of the Zhuzi School was supported by Wang Juan, the prime minister of Zuo.

Not for anything else, it is precisely because Wang Juan is close to Confucianism, and there is a place for Confucianism in the Zhuzi Academy, so they will naturally support it with both hands.

Even the teachers of the Zhuzi Academy, Zhao Tuo didn't worry about it, those declining Zhuzi descendants were naturally ecstatic when they saw that the official was willing to promote their classic inheritance, and they sharpened their heads one by one and drilled into it.

Zhao Tuo expressed satisfaction with this.

With the development of education, more talents will emerge.

As long as the probation system can be implemented smoothly, and then slowly reformed and transformed into the imperial examination system, then the root cause of the military merit system, which constantly pushed the empire to wage war, will be slowly solved.

Just when Zhao Tuo was trying his best to solve the shortcomings of Qin Guo, a lot of things happened.

One is that there was a rebellion among the Hu tribes under the jurisdiction of Liaodong County.

It is said that the rebel was the former Xiongnu prince Mao Dun, who helped the Qin state deal with the remnants of the Eastern Hu, but secretly developed his power.

After this matter was noticed by the Liaodong County Guard, he intended to trap him, but the matter was leaked, and Mao Dun simply did not do anything, united with the Donghu remnants, invaded Senei, and plundered Liaodong County.

When the news reached Xianyang, the Second Emperor was furious.

The Qin general Li Xin pleaded guilty to the emperor on the grounds that Mao Dun's rebellion was a hidden danger left by him, and asked to go on an expedition to completely exterminate Mao Dun and other Hu people.

The second emperor agreed, and ordered Li Xin to rush to Liaodong, conquer 50,000 soldiers and horses in the land of Yan and Zhao, and pacify the Hu people in Liaodong.

Compared to the opening of the war in Liaodong.

The war in the west was much smoother.

In the spring of the seventh year of Emperor II, news of the great victory in the west also arrived in Xianyang.

The Qin generals Han Xin and Zhao Che led light cavalry across hundreds of miles to raid Wusun Kunmo, captured him alive, and captured 100 Wusun nobles.

Wang Li took advantage of the situation to attack with his troops, breaking the Wusun tribes, killing and capturing tens of thousands of people, which can be called a great victory.

The second emperor was very happy, and excitedly patted the case in the court: "In the past, Wusun robbed my Qin and humiliated it, and today it will be restored!" ”

Especially when Zhao Che first entered the battlefield, he followed Han Xin to make a meritorious feat of capturing the enemy chieftain, which made Fusu very satisfied, and he praised: "It is worthy of being my nephew, and when Che'er comes back, I should reward him well!" ”

Capturing Wusun Kunmo and hanging his head in Xianyang is the wish and regret of the first emperor.

Now that it had been achieved, the Second Emperor was overjoyed, and on the night he received the news, he held a grand banquet to celebrate the victory.

He drank heartily at the banquet.

In the evening, he suddenly coughed incessantly, seemingly stimulated by a large amount of alcohol, triggering an old illness he had left in the Northlands.