Chapter 2: I Believe in Them
Xianyang, inside the palace, above a small court meeting.
There are only thirteen people in the palace, including Yingzheng, Dongjun, and Fusu, and if you remove them, the rest of the ministers are only ten.
That's it, the data shows that today's simple road to conquest is no longer possible. β
As for where the data came from, of course, it was carefully collected and calculated by Yun Ye.
Of course, ordinary people can't directly deduce the future development trend of the empire based on some data, but the big mathematicians are different, they are not ordinary people.
Therefore, after Yun Ye accepted LΓΌ Buwei's suggestion, he mobilized his relatives and friends, and mobilized other great mathematicians to form such a project.
In the end, through a large amount of data, through the establishment of models, and through new formulas, LΓΌ Buwei's conjecture about the future development of the empire was proved.
As for Yun Ye, in the process, he accidentally invented a new branch of mathematics, and the students' learning content was a little thing like a mathematics textbook, so there was no need to say it here.
Han Feizi pretended to check it and nodded seriously, he had known about this for a long time, and Yun Ye had never hidden it from him. Not even Han Feizi, everyone else here already knew about it.
"As early as two thousand years ago, the empire was already a mid-earth-level world, and now it will take about three thousand years to reach the late earth-level world, and it can be said that it is far away from the heaven-level world. Even as the empire grows, the similarity between the empire and the heavenly court will become higher and higher, and this is the influence of the road. β
The weak face the strong, if they have similar paths to each other, then they will definitely be influenced by the strong unconsciously, and even take the initiative to get closer to the strong many times, which is almost nature and difficult to change.
"In fact, to the current level of the empire, the effect of simple conquest is getting worse and worse, and the old man can understand more and more why Heavenly Court doesn't care about the Xuan-level and yellow-level worlds again. β
"For today's empires, civilization itself is the most important thing. However, when the empire conquers a different world, it often transforms the world according to the empire's own territory, and as a result, we harvest a world, harvest a lot of materials, and harvest a lot of world power, but there are very few civilizations and ideas that we want most. β
When Great Qin conquered a certain world, after undergoing some transformation, the other party also lost its original civilization characteristics and became another Great Qin.
This kind of behavior is not very good for the empire itself.
"What true immortals need is civilization, and what they need is a different civilization. The same is true of the world, and even more so of empires. If it is conquered by force, all the empire can gain is one new Great Qin after another, and the efficiency is too low. β
"For the conquered worlds, the empire itself is too powerful, and even if the empire does not deliberately influence them, they will slowly move closer to the empire, which seems to be an unsolvable problem. β
Directly send troops to intervene and conquer, then other worlds will become the second Great Qin. The diversity of civilizations, completely ineffective, is nothing more than chicken ribs for the empire.
Directly send troops to intervene, even if you don't conquer, everything left behind by the empire will be frantically studied and studied by the locals, and maybe with the development of time, it will become the second Great Qin. There is still a great possibility that the diversity of civilizations will die directly.
But when a civilization can't even maintain its own identity, it won't do the empire any good.
As for the resources themselves, it is enough to study the Void Qi!
"So in the old man's opinion, the empire should make a change. If it can be Qin on the basis of maintaining the characteristics of other civilizations themselves, it will be the freshest and most delicious delicacy. In this way, the empire can continue to reap the fruits of their civilization. β
"What is the diversity of civilizations? If we refer to the history books of the material world, then the rule of law and cultivation and warfare of Qin, the good family and family of Han, the soldiers of Tang Dynasty, the envoys of Jiedu, and the imperial examinations and scribes of Song...... These can be said to be the essence and characteristics of a certain dynasty. β
"When empires know how they are developing, they can choose what is good and follow them, and change what is not good. This is the diversity of civilizations, but what the Empire is doing today is destroying the characteristics of one civilization after another. β
Some of LΓΌ Buwei's words were just sophistry, but Yingzheng had no intention of demolishing him, and others did not have this idea.
Because what Lu Buwei said is true, for the empire, the yellow-level world is indeed a burden, and even the Xuan-level world, the empire doesn't care as much as before.
The empire has now gone to other worlds, and it is no longer about plundering, but about sending warmth and civilization. In the original yellow-level world, productivity will increase rapidly, and the same is true for the Xuan-level world, but the return rate of the empire is getting lower and lower.
"Then what is the key to Qinhua?" Han Feizi suddenly asked.
What is Qinhua?
How to ensure that the characteristics of other civilizations remain unchanged?
How can this degree be maintained?
If there is too much interference, other civilizations will be over-Qinized, or even become a second Great Qin, which is not what the empire wants.
There is less interference, no use for fart, or even direct failure, no impact at all, which is still not what the empire wants.
If there are two completely different forms of spiritual civilization, then there will be very little content that can be used for reference and something that can be learned.
There are similarities and differences between them, and such civilizations are the best objects to learn from.
"This involves a fundamental question, what is the core idea of the empire, what is the most important link of the empire, and what does the empire care about the most?"
"Is it the Qin Law? Is it under the Qin Law, under Your Majesty, everyone is equal?" Speaking of this, LΓΌ Buwei looked at Shang Ying.
Shang Ying is the founder of the Qin Law, and he is also the person who presided over the reform of the law back then, and it is not too exaggerated to say that the father of the Great Qin Dynasty was the last sentence.
Hearing this question, Shang Ying directly shook his head: "Qin Law is the core of the empire, and it is also the foundation of the empire. However, the core of the empire is far from being summed up by the word Qin Law. β
Yun Ye agreed.
Xiao Yao agreed.
The three brothers, Black Tiger and Qingyang, agreed.
"So is it a win-win situation?" Speaking of this, Lu Buwei looked at Han Feizi.
Although Han Feizi is not from the authentic Great Qin, the empire doesn't care about this, LΓΌ Buwei is not from the Qin, Shang Ying is not from the Qin, Fan Ju is not from the Qin, and Zhang Yi is not from the Qin, but they have not all achieved the position of the prime minister of the Great Qin.
"Win-win is also a part of the core of the empire, and the empire is willing to share the benefits, so it has always attracted many immortals from the heavenly court, who have descended into incarnations, reincarnated, joined the empire's libraries and laboratories, and made many contributions. β
"There are also a lot of geniuses, and a large part of the reason why they go on to do research is because they can get enough benefits. Once the research is successful, no one will be greedy for their credit, and there will be no plagiarism in papers, tutors and a series of dirty things. These are inseparable from win-win, they gain fame and fortune, and the empire is making great strides. β
In today's era, a real genius can play a role in hundreds of thousands, millions of ordinary people, although this will make ordinary people sad, but this is really the truth that can no longer be true!
What else can ordinary people do?
Even if the technology of the empire's various artificial intelligence and Yellow Turban Lux is not the peak, it is still possible to replace nine out of nine ordinary people.
So the question is, what else can ordinary people do?
There was even an extreme scholar who proposed a population cleansing plan through a series of measures to make ordinary people unable to afford to buy a house and marry a wife...... In the end, ordinary people will be extinct, so that only geniuses will be left in the world.
However, this plan was rejected by others before it was sent to Ying Zheng.
"Is it fair?" At this moment, Lu Buwei looked at Wei Yuzi.
Although this year is the third thousand years of the first emperor, Wei Yuzi still sits in the position of prime minister, although there are several deputy prime ministers of the empire, but the prime minister has always been himself. Ying Zheng's trust in him has not diminished in the slightest.
Even an old man like Lu Buwei, an old man like Shang Ying, Zhang Yi, and Fan Ju who crawled out of the long river of history, did not have the slightest impact on him.
"Yes! The old man can say with certainty that fairness must be the core of the empire, at least one of the cores. The Qin law of the predecessors of Shang Ying was fair, and before the Qin law, ordinary people had no way to advance. After the reform of the Qin law, the military merit system appeared, and the soldiers had the first fair way to advance. β
"It's the same war, in Daqin, the soldiers are happy when they hear about the war, and the soldiers in the Six Kingdoms can't get too much benefit if they win the battle, and they are easy to be greedy for military merits. Over time, the gap appeared. β
Later, the old man became the prime minister of the empire, and under the guidance of His Majesty, he began to reform, and one of the cores of reform is still fairness. Even today, the word fairness affects the entire Daqin. β
"For students, scores and exams are fair, even interviews and actual battles will be recorded one by one, and if there is any doubt, they can be queried again and again. The empire has targeted fraud several times, and all it wants is fairness. β
"For officials, fairness means having a clear distinction between rewards and punishments. Within the empire, it has been emphasized that the accuracy of orders is to prevent the negative situation that all the merits are the bosses, and the mistakes are all subordinates. β
"For the people of the Empire, fairness means access to the most advanced education and the benefits of the Empire's progress. β
"Is it self-improvement?"
"Yes......"
One question after another, slowly an outline was produced in the minds of everyone, a vague but accurate outline.
"The void is vast and boundless. Nowadays, in the hearts of many people, the word Heavenly Court is equivalent to immortals, and when they think of immortals and immortals, they will automatically think of Heavenly Court. When the word Taishang comes to mind, the monks automatically think of the word Tao, and in the hearts of many monks, they equate Taishang with Tao. β
And in the hearts of ordinary people, immortals are equivalent to immortality, equivalent to omnipotence. The same Taiyi is equal to the sky, the earth is equal to the earth, Nuwa Niangniang is equal to the old mother of the human race, and the Holy Emperor of Fuxi is the ancestor of humanity......"
"What about the empire? What is the empire? What is the Great Qin?"
Equal to Qin Law?
Equal to ploughing war?
Equal to the ancestral dragon?
Equal to the First Emperor?
Is it equal to my Great Qin being invincible in the world?
"The core of the empire is Qin law, win-win, fairness and justice, and unremitting self-improvement...... But if you could sum it up in one sentence or one word, what would it be?"
"Heaven is equivalent to immortals, Taishang is equivalent to Tao, Taiyi is the sky, Houtu is the earth, Niangniang is the mother, Fuxi is the ancestor, what about the empire?"
LΓΌ Buwei repeated his question again, this time even Yingzheng began to think seriously, this is a fundamental issue, involving the positioning of the empire, and even the future development of the empire.
After thinking for a while, Ying Zheng knocked on the table.
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"This issue should not be decided by me and you high-level people in a small meeting! This question should be decided by every person in the Great Qin Kingdom!"
"Your Majesty, the people are ignorant, and not all the people have their own ideas. They can be manipulated, they can be influenced, there are too many ways to influence them, public opinion, flipping, bribery, betrayal, their will is not firm enough, this kind of big event, how can the people openly participate in the discussion, the old minister thinks that this is inappropriate. Shang Yan shook his head directly.
Do the people matter?
Significant!
However, the common people themselves are problematic, they are like grass on the wall, short-sighted, undetermined, swaying from side to side, listening to the wind and rain, which are the characteristics of this group.
They may support something for a short time, but it is difficult for them to stick to a point of view for a long time. This is the view of Shang Ying, and it is also the view of many middle and high-level empires.
"I once said that there are three kinds of people in the world. β
"The first type is the philistine, and it is also the state of the vast majority of ordinary people in the first year of the first emperor, who are indeed as Mr. said, ignorant, undetermined, easily manipulated, deceived, and influenced. β
"The second type of people are heroes, who have relatively perfect three views. With a set of personal philosophies of their own, they can stick to their own philosophies for the rest of their lives. β
"If they are workers, they will naturally grow into engineers, and if they are teachers, they will become the best in the industry and be praised. These heroes are the real backbone needed when the past generations have become great things. Outstanding people can even grasp the general trend of the times, take advantage of the situation, and become the trendsetters of the times. β
"The third type of person is the real genius who can create the general trend, create a new trend, and create the environment that is most beneficial to them. Creating something out of nothing, there is no ancient, and using his own three views to influence others, infecting ordinary people into strong-willed heroes. β
"It's about to be the first emperor for three thousand years, sir, you have to be confident, you have to believe that the people of the empire, three thousand years of continuous education, three thousand years of continuous development, is enough to make the quality of the people high enough, generally to the level of heroes. β
"I believe that these people will make choices from their hearts!"
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