"Trapped?"

"I don't feel that way."

"I only see the people's livelihood withering, and all the people are suffering."

"And what kind of prosperity are you talking about? Where did the prosperity come from? ”

Zhang Liang spoke calmly.

Ji Heng glanced at Zhang Liang lightly, but he understood that Zhang Liang was deliberately tricking his words, but he didn't care, and said directly: "The prosperous era I am talking about has not yet arrived, but the world will indeed usher in a prosperous era, but the prosperous era I understand is different from your understanding." ”

"With the strengthening of Qin's control over the world and the weakening of the privileges of nobles and scholars, the world will enter another situation, no longer valued by nobles and scholars, but everyone has the opportunity to be like a dragon."

"Isn't this a prosperous era compared to the past?"

"Everyone is like a dragon, that's too big." Zhang Liang said coldly.

Ji Heng nodded.

He knew it couldn't be done.

He looked at the sky with his hands in his hands, and said with a deep gaze: "Everyone is like a dragon, it is true that it can't be done, but in the past world, even if the dynasty is changed, the rich and noble are still rich, and the prominent are still prominent. ”

"Even it can still curry favor with the people at the bottom."

"How unjust this world is!"

Ji Heng shook his head sarcastically, his eyes full of indifference.

Zhang Liang was silent.

After a while, Zhang Liang hummed and said, "This is the order of the world, how can it be considered unfair?" ”

"Self-order?" Ji Heng sneered and said disdainfully: "This is really ridiculous, you really said this to the people at the bottom?" Those who are unsatisfactory in the world, instigated and instigated by you, think that if the world is changed, they will be prosperous, and they will be able to change the existing old state of affairs, so as to get ahead. ”

"But that's just a fantasy for most people."

"That's exactly what I said."

"Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer. ”

"The turmoil in the world, for those who have the knowledge of resources and connections, and those who have the ability, is just a redistribution of interests, even if the world changes, the dynasty changes, you can still calmly get a piece of the pie in the world, and you can still maintain your noble identity, at most it will become shabby, embarrassed, but for the people at the bottom, if there is no big opportunity, you will only get endless tribulations."

"Anping squeezes its strength, and uses it to die in wartime."

"This is the life you have arranged for the people at the bottom."

"Spring comes and falls, consistently."

"I used to enjoy this situation too, after all, I can always be a good person, so why not? After all, it is not me who suffers, it is all those lowly slaves and untouchables, but after seeing too many human tragedies, I am dissatisfied with this status quo. ”

"It's not like that."

"And it's not supposed to be like this."

"So."

"I want to make a difference in the world."

"Let the people on the bottom have the opportunity to go to the space above and see the scenery on the upper floor."

"And compared with the prosperity of the troubled times, I prefer another sentence, that is, 'rather be a dog in the prosperous world, not a person in the troubled world'!"

"Troubled times are too bitter and difficult after all."

"The so-called recuperation, to a certain extent, is not a helpless move after the world withers, but also just the bottom people are tired of war, tired of the compromise of death, their situation has not changed much, they are still for the powerful to 'squeeze their strength', but after years of war, they are more eager to have a peaceful and stable life."

"I've become more patient."

Ji Heng sighed faintly in his heart.

He originally believed that after the troubled times, the world would enter recuperation and recuperation, and the lives of the people at the bottom would improve, but in fact, he found out in several reincarnations that this was not at all, it was completely wishful thinking.

After the reshuffling of the world's forces, the impact on the bottom is actually very small.

Only by waiting until the national strength of the central court goes up and the control over the local government is constantly strengthened, can these local heroes dare not act so recklessly, and at other times, the life of the bottom is always difficult, and there will be no change, the so-called improvement is just the numbness after endless deaths and injuries.

The great changes that Zhou Qin began, after more than 2,000 years, really calculated, the prosperity is only one or two hundred years, most of the rest of the time, the people's lives are very difficult, but with the increase of productivity, the material is relatively abundant, it seems that the generation is better than the generation, but the upper echelons of the firm 'squeeze their strength' measures, has never stopped.

And it's only getting tougher.

Pity the blood of tens of millions of heroes, in exchange for today's old things.

This is the sorrow of the world.

He has experienced too many troubled times, and he has long disbelieved in the so-called recuperation, which is just that the central court turns a blind eye to the darkness of the place, and is helpless, Zhu Yuanzhang, who hates corrupt officials and corrupt officials, has been established for more than ten years, and all kinds of corruption cases have emerged in endlessly, which is enough to see the greed of people's hearts, and will not change because of the chaos.

It will only make them even crazier.

Of course.

It is not necessarily true that the underlying environment has not improved at all after the troubled times, but within more than ten years, those underworld forces will make a comeback, and they will double the deprivation and squeeze back what was lost in the past.

So he doesn't crave troubled times.

He prefers that after a period of pain, the world can come to the prosperous era as soon as possible.

It is not in vain that so many people have died in vain.

Zhang Liang was silent.

For the first time, he was moved.

Because it wasn't what he expected.

And he could see that this was Ji Heng's true thoughts.

He sighed: "This is the real reason why you helped Qin?" You don't believe that the world will get better soon after the troubled times, you only think that the world should be transformed from chaos to order as soon as possible, so that the world can become better. ”

Ji Heng chuckled and nodded.

He said indifferently: "Throughout the ages, the world has changed a lot. ”

"But very little has really changed."

"Only with the changes that began in the Zhou Dynasty, the world has gradually changed from the past."

"The reason why Qin is regarded as a tiger and wolf by the Six Kingdoms is really because Qin is a barbarian? If it is true about barbarianism, Jing Chu is probably even more barbarian than Qin, after all, the title of King of Chu was imposed by himself, how arrogant, but the Chu State of the Six Kingdoms also did not want to see Qin, what is the reason? ”

"Actually, you and I know the reason."

"It originated from the Shang Dynasty Law."

"The Shang Dynasty Law broke a lot of the old order."

"However, the subordinates, the dead, and the ordinary people at the bottom have the opportunity to step into places that only nobles can reach, so the Six Kingdoms are so afraid of being taken away from them."

"So in the past hundred years since Shang Ying's reform, the Six Kingdoms have continued to smear and curse the Qin State."

"At the same time, he continued to spread rumors and intimidation in his own territory, so that the people at the bottom believed it was true and really regarded Qin as a brutal tiger wolf."

"Under more than 100 years of smearing, Qin's brutality has become more and more recognized by the world."

"It also resists resistance for the people of the world."

"But that's really the case?"

Ji Heng sneered.

He said indifferently: "You don't dare to tell the bottom the truth, and you are even more afraid that the bottom will know the truth, because you are afraid of losing, afraid that everything you have will one day be taken away by others, and it is not the nobles of Qin who take it away, but the slaves and pariahs in your eyes, and you are even more afraid that one day, you will also become a low-level person." ”

"You know very well how you treated the people at the bottom in the past, so you are extremely worried that after you become a person at the bottom, you will also be treated so darkly."

"That's why you're so jealous of Qin."

"Qin said that all people are equal under the law."

"You preach that you can't be courteous to a courtesy, and you can't punish a doctor."

"Qin talks about the rule of law, and you talk about etiquette."

"As Qin and your ideas become more and more contrary, you can't tolerate Qin's existence, and you can't tolerate it for a moment, but after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, Qin's national strength is getting stronger and stronger, and you can only tend to protect yourself.

"It's just that with the unification of the world, what the nobles were most worried about has not happened."

"Because the Shang Dynasty Law has collapsed."

"And under the toss of the first emperor, the Qin law is becoming more and more broken, and the world is becoming more and more restless, so you are rampant again, because you know very well in your hearts that Qin is not the same person as you after all, and you are always worried that Qin will one day return to the old path of Shang Ying, so you must oppose Qin and destroy Qin."

"After the destruction of Qin, history will be written by the victors."

"A lot of things in Qin will be intentionally erased and intentionally hidden."

"Because you don't want these things to be known to the outside world."

"I don't want the world to miss Qin."

"But Qin is really as brutal and unkind as you described?"

"Huh."

"I'm afraid not."

"It's just that you won't tell the world what the Qin system looks like, nor will you tell the world how much effort and effort Qin has put in to ensure the justice of the bottom, and you won't talk about the so-called 'first three days of exposure', just for the first level to be identified without controversy, and you won't talk about Qin Faxia, everyone who has been sentenced, their crimes will be truthfully posted, just to let the outside world know everything clearly."

"Because it's not the law of the nobility."

"The law that the aristocracy wants has always been 'unknowable punishment, then unpredictable'."

"In fact, there is no Legalist in the world."

"Only the Changer."

"It's just that many people didn't expect that when it comes to legalism, most people have the impression of Shang Ying, Han Fei, Li Kui and others, Li Kui wrote the "Book of Law", led the Wei State to change the law, opened the curtain of the world's change of law and strength, and the Shang Yang change of law made the Qin State, which was despised by the princes, become a powerful country and eventually dominate the world."

"And Han Fei is the culmination of the concept of Legalism."

"Just."

"They are indeed representatives of Legalism."

"But who is the originator of the Legalist family, there are very few people in the world who know."

"The originator of the Legalists."

"It's not Shang Ying, it's not Han Fei, it's not Li Kui, it's not Guan Zhong and Gaotao."

"It's the son of Confucianism."

"Confucianism doesn't even want to admit that Xunzi is so talented, how can it promote childbirth? Therefore, there are many people in the world who do not know. ”

"As far as the outside world knows, most of the deeds related to Zichuan are the sons who govern Zheng Guo and try to change the law within Zheng Guo, but what really makes Confucianism taboo is not that Zichan dominates Zheng Guo's reforms."

"It's another thing."

"That is, the son casts the torture book."

Hear the words.

Zhang Liang raised his eyebrows.

He didn't know much about the offspring.

It is only known that Zi Chuan seems to be the secretary of state when Zheng Jiangong was in power, and he officially ruled Zheng Guo in the twenty-third year of Zheng Jiangong.

Before Zichuan came to power, the two powers of Jin and Chu competed for hegemony, Zheng Guo was between the two powers, and there were many contradictions among the internal aristocracy, and Zheng Guo was poor and weak.

After Zisan came to power, on the one hand, he used his political wisdom to shuttle diplomacy between the great powers. On the other hand, he began to change the law within Zheng Guo to try to become stronger, and vigorously reformed Zheng Guo's land and tax system, and finally let Zheng Guo achieve great governance, and the country's strength changed from weak to strong.

It's just that Ji Heng regards Zichuan as the originator of the Legalists, which is really a bit unexpected by Zhang Liang.

He didn't know much about the Son Casting Punishment Book.

Looked at.

Ji Heng also knew that Zhang Liang knew very little about the situation of the child, and this was actually normal, Zheng Guo fell very early, and there are not many historical materials of Zheng Guo in the world, plus Confucianism is powerful, and the relevant classics are privately collected, so if you don't take the initiative to find it, it is normal not to know.

Ji Heng sat back in his recliner.

He said lightly: "If you don't take the initiative to understand the criminal book, in fact, there are not many people who know, and the world has long been accustomed to promulgating the code, so the criminal book is even more insignificant." ”

"But that's not the case."

"Before there was a legal code in the world, most of them experienced a period of secret law."

"At that time, the upper-class nobles thought that the more hidden the criminal law, the better, and they must not let the people know, so that the nobles could dispose of the low-level people at will and increase the status and majesty of the nobles."

"But the child is unusual, and decides to break this old ignorance."

"That's why there is a book of execution."

"That is, the sub-production casts the big tripod, casts the national legal provisions on the top, and puts the tripod in the prosperous place in the city to announce it to the world."

"This is a precedent for the openness of government affairs in China."

"It is also the first public code in the world."

"Since then, the world has officially entered the era of open legal code."

"It's not that there were no laws before the child, it's just that these laws are hidden by the government, and they are secret laws that are not known to the people."

"This is also the so-called unknowable punishment, and it is unpredictable."

"And the son of the casting of the sentence book broke the world's long-standing secret political tradition of 'the punishment is unknowable, but the power is unpredictable', so it has been fiercely attacked by many nobles."

"Among them was the celebrity uncle Xiang at that time."

"Zichan was praised by Confucius as 'the love of the ancients', and Shuxiang was praised by Confucius as the 'relics of the ancients'."

"The two had a fierce battle over this matter."

"In the end, Confucius also came to an end."

"And left a widely circulated sentence for the world."

"This sentence is still regarded by many nobles as a guideline until now."

"What?" Zhang Haoqi said.

"The noble and the lowly are disorderly, how can it be a country?" Ji Heng said quietly.

(End of chapter)