Chapter Thirty-Eight: Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu! (Ask for collection)
After Ji Heng took a sip of wine, he said:
"Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, the first to change the law was the Wei State."
"The land in the east of the Hedong of Wei is easy, there is salt and iron, its customs are strong, many heroes invade, Bo Enli, and it is good to give birth."
"The reform of the Wei State was produced under the circumstances of the collapse of the Jingtian system and the formation of private ownership of land, and only after the collapse of the Jingtian system could the 'salt and iron rao' have 'encroachment' and 'division', and the 'Duohaojie encroachment' and 'good distribution' meant that the private ownership of land in Wei had already become a common practice at that time."
"'Grace' is the ethical norm of the nobles of the Zhou Dynasty."
"'Bo Enli' means the collapse of the patriarchal system of the Zhou Dynasty."
"Zhou Li is gradually abandoned by the world."
"It was against this background that Wei Wenhou began to base himself on reform."
"And the reason why Wei was able to 'strengthen the world and dominate its neighbors' was precisely because of this reform."
"There are two main points in this reform."
"Do your best."
"Write the laws of the land, the scriptures of the law."
"To make the best use of land resources is to redivide the land and recognize the private ownership of the land."
"Since then, the world has fought for the Warring States, expensive and deceitful, cheap and benevolent, first rich and then pushed."
"Therefore the rich may be rich and multi-thousand, and the poor may not be tired of chaff; There are strong countries or small groups of princes, and weak countries or the destruction of the world. ”
"'Benevolence' and 'pushing' are the moral concepts of the patriarchal system of the Zhou Dynasty, and Li Kui's change of law, the first blow is the moral concept of the patriarchy, it is from the Wei Dynasty that the world officially regarded the Zhou rites as dross, and no longer continued the 'cronyism' Shiqing system, but began to use the 'meritocracy' bureaucratic system."
"Li Kui also advocated 'taking away the prostitution of the people, and the people from all over the world' practiced 'food and hard work'."
"The so-called prostitutes, in fact, are the declining princes."
"It was also from the beginning of the Wei State that the world gradually abolished the old Shiqing Shilu system, and changed it to the form of awarding titles and positions according to the size of merit."
"At the same time."
"Wei also set a precedent for strengthening the legal code of dictatorship."
"As for the Book of Law, you should be more familiar with it than I am, and I won't say much."
Hu Hai bowed slightly.
He is very familiar with the "Book of Law".
When Zhao Gao taught the law in the past, he explained it more than once.
There are six articles in the "Book of Law", namely "Theft Law", "Thief Law", "Prison Law", "Arrest Law", "Miscellaneous Law", and "Possession Law".
Most of the content in the "Book of Law" was borrowed by Shang Ying.
Ji Heng said: "Li Kui changed the law, mainly moving the land and the old Shiqing Shilu system. ”
"There's nothing to say about the land."
"And the new 'meritocracy' has led to the prevalence of private learning in the Wei State."
"Recruiting talented people has become a trend."
"Wei is the land of four wars, the environment is turbulent, and there is a style of recruiting talents and raising soldiers, so at the beginning of the Warring States, Wei produced many famous people, and Qin benefited a lot."
"Great Qin dominates the world, and Wei has also made a lot of efforts, Wei Yu, who formulated a strategy for Great Qin to unify the world, and Li Si, who planned 'centralization of power and governance' for Great Qin, they are all from Wei."
"Even if it weren't for the death of Xinling Jun, these two people might not have come to Qin."
"I can only say that time is also fate."
"Great Qin rules the world, and it really has the help of God."
Ji Heng couldn't help but sigh a few words.
Hu Hai bowed slightly, showing a touch of pride on his face.
He'd heard about it.
Xinlingjun is a very talented person, there are many soldiers, once the Qin State was pressed and beaten, and the suppressed Qin army did not dare to go east out of Hangu, but it was also because Xinlingjun was too sharp, and finally adopted a divisive strategy for Qin, and was deprived of military power by King Wei Anjiao, but Wei was scattered all over the world at that time, and it was powerful in the country of the crown belt, and it was not affected too much.
It's just that no one expected that Xinlingjun and King Wei Anjiao, the lord of Zhongxing, died violently in the same year.
After that, a large number of scholars from the Wei State fled.
The state of Wei was completely devastated, and was finally swallowed up by Great Qin.
If Qin Weiwei is the commander, if he wants to dominate the world, it may not be so easy.
Thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one general is hard to find.
What's more, Wei Yu was called a soldier by the first emperor.
Partition wall.
Fusu lowered his eyebrows and thought for a while, and figured out something.
Since the beginning of the Warring States Period, Wei has been prespoious in recruiting virtuous and virtuous scholars, and local private learning is prevalent, but Daqin is a private school, and last year it was a large-scale book burning, how can this be tolerated by Wei?
Wei Dishi people rely on their superiors to get ahead, but now Daqin has cut off this road.
How can Wei Dishi people and the bottom not complain?
Ji Heng exhaled a breath of turbid air and continued: "The Wei State has been weakened for hundreds of years since Li Kui's reform, but with a letter to Lingjun, there is a trend of revival, which shows that there are many talents in the Wei State, and all of this stems from private learning. ”
"This is the most direct conflict between Qin and Wei."
Hear the words.
Hu Hai was thoughtful and secretly remembered it in his heart.
Ji Heng continued: "Next is the state of Chu, which is far away from the Central Plains, so it is very little influenced by the patriarchal law, and even despises itself as a 'barbarian', but the vast land of Chu has 'the rao of the mountains and forests of Sichuanze', but because of the underdevelopment of commerce, it is 'also the home of a thousand daughters'. ”
"The land is big and the country is poor."
"In the middle of the Warring States Period, the state of Chu was "too heavy in ministers, too many in the feudal monarchy", "forced the lord" and "abused the people", so that the 'poor country and weak soldiers' were defeated by Zhao Wei Han one after another."
"In this situation of internal and external difficulties, the state of Chu began to change the law."
"That is, Wu Qi changed the law."
"Wu Qi's change is mainly 'the estranged person of the abolished clan'."
"Wu Qi advocated the 'third generation and the collection of knights' for the descendants of the feudal monarchs, reducing the order of officials, reducing and eliminating 'incompetent', 'useless' and 'unurgent officials', and also ordered 'nobles to go to the real and vast places', and drove the old nobles to places with few people, so that they could develop wasteland."
"Wu Qi's reform method has achieved remarkable results."
"Since then, Chu Nanping Baiyue, north and Chen, Cai, and Qu (que) three Jin, west expedition to Qin, the army shook the world, and subdued the princes."
"And Wu Qi's change is only to restrict the old aristocracy."
"This is also what Han Feizi said: 'The law of Chu State, Luchen reincarnates and collects the land', the nobles' Shiqing Shilu system has indeed been broken, but most of the affected are the princes of Chu, as for the local nobles, they have been affected very little, and after the death of King Chu Mourning, Wu Qi was killed, and this change was declared a failure."
"Although the state of Chu has prospered, it will not escape its fate in the end."
"Continue to fall into 'the minister is too heavy' and 'the feudal monarch is too many', and the power is controlled by the nobles of the Chu State."
"Wu Qi changed the law back then, and did not dare to directly abolish the aristocratic Shiqing Shilu system, so he could only start from the 'abolish the alienation of the princes', and weaken the power of the nobles step by step, but after Qin unified the world, he didn't even recognize the nobles, which would cause the nobles of Chu to be dissatisfied."
"When Wu Qi was killed, more than 70 tribes in Chu took action."
"And now there are more than seventy people who complain about Qin?"
"The nobles of Chu have long been unable to get rid of them, and they will not be uprooted."
"It's hard to be peaceful in Chudi!"
"If I remember correctly, when Qin destroyed Chu, Chu Nangong said a word."
"Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu !!"