Chapter 39 The Earth is a Ball
"What does this mean?" The First Emperor looked at Li Chen and asked. Obviously, even a natural emperor like the First Emperor could not understand what Li Chen said.
The reform of Shangjun made the cowardly Qin among the seven countries stand up, and the strict reward and punishment measures in the military merit system also made the Qin people more brave and good at fighting than the six countries. It abolished the well-field system of aristocrats and took back the land and unified the state-owned distribution, organized the households and moved the capital to Xianyang, etc., which really helped the Qin Dynasty unify the six countries to a great extent.
However, the method of continuation and contempt of education and the method of continuation and emphasis on agriculture and commerce have begun to seriously restrict the development of the Qin Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, you can see that the conflicts within the Qin Dynasty have reached an unresolvable level. The Qin Dynasty, which advocates military merit system, now has no war to fight. Even if the two battlefields of Hetao and Baiyue have been forcibly opened up, there are still many nobles who have nothing to do. These slutty people who have made military merits will vent their anger on the people when they are suppressed. The longer the time, the more intensified the conflict between the nobles and the civilians will intensify." Li Chen said.
"Your dear, what should I do when I understand it?" asked the First Emperor.
"I think that if we want to resolve the conflict between the nobles and the people, we must only fight and build. We will open up more small battlefields to let the nobles vent their anger on the foreign races. The people will participate in infrastructure, in military, people's livelihood, and in the country's infrastructure construction," Li Chen said.
Infrastructure is the foundation of war and people's livelihood, especially in the Qin Dynasty, an era where agriculture was dominated by the Qin Dynasty. Sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn solved the dilemma of insufficient food in the Qin Dynasty.
At this time, the Qin Dynasty's laws stipulated that every adult farmer was granted "five hundred" of land by the state, and the 500 small acres of the Qin Dynasty were equivalent to more than one hundred and forty acres in the previous life. The productivity level of the Qin Dynasty was that even the best farmer could not cultivate so much land.
At this time, the Qin Dynasty had experienced many years of wars and had captured a huge territory, although the years of wars could not be said to be empty in nine out of ten households, but these ten households were also empty in four or five. At this time, the Qin Dynasty was in a time when the land was vast and sparsely populated. Normally, a family of five often had thousands of acres of land, and the rotating system also made the Qin Dynasty more fertile. It was such a great agricultural country that allowed the Qin Dynasty to expand projects such as the Great Wall, the Afang Palace, and the Mount Li tomb.
"Talk about it in detail." said the First Emperor.
"I think the stubborn problem of the Qin Dynasty is that the law at that time was no longer practical for now, and another reform is imminent." Li Chen said.
Then he said: "The Qin law is more powerful than the tiger. This should be what the people under the world think. All the world is the king's land. The shores of the earth are the king's ministers. Although this is true, the people should not be pigs and dogs raised by the emperor, but people. Water can carry boats and can also overturn the boats."
"I asked Li Xiangliu on that day, and today I also asked His Majesty a few questions."
"When Shangjun reformed, Qin was the weakest in the seven countries. At that time, the seven countries were in a melee, and no one was willing to join Qin. Shangjun practiced wartime laws, but now it is a peaceful and prosperous era. It is not enough to be discussed."
"I think that the Qin law that cuts hands, feet, noses, and ears torture good people into disabled people is torture, and should be abolished."
"The most evil person is killed, and this kind of person is also a waste of air when he lives. But the crime will not end in the dead. I think it is better to be sent to the frontier to work. Instead of recruiting a large number of people and strong people every year, it is better to use waste."
"What I said is reasonable, it is better to do this. You will be in charge of the Qin law reform." said the First Emperor.
"It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate, my subordinates are slight. Your Majesty is putting me on the fire, not to mention the rebound of the people. Just talking about the court is an uproar."
"I think that the main one should be the master of Fusu and Princess Yue as the assistant, and the subordinates should put some effort into doing the things that amend Qin's laws at this time to do the best." Li Chen said.
"Ke." The First Emperor said.
The two were drinking the fine wine produced in Lijiazhuang, and there was a plate of beef sauce on the table.
"You and I will talk about Daqin without any restraint. You can say whatever you think," said the First Emperor.
"Your Majesty, look, just like the plate of beef sauce on the table, you and I can eat it swagger. Merchants and wealthy families can eat it secretly, while ordinary people regard a cow as the capital for the whole family and even the whole village to survive. This is privilege. Privileges should be there, and only with privileges will make people have a goal to strive for. But privileges should be controlled by the law to a certain extent, just as what is on our table can be beef, but it must not be human flesh." Li Chen said.
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"I thought I would fight Goguryeo first, and I was fighting Yingzhou." The First Emperor was already drunk and his face turned red, and he slapped the table and shouted.
"No, I give you food to feed the people, not to fight. We can get war horses when fighting the Huns, and we can get a little fertile land when fighting the Baiyue, and we can get a three-season a year or even a little bit of fertile land when driving the driver."
"Terror Goguryeo, Yingzhou. What are you doing with a group of primitive people? What are you trying to catch fleas for them?" Li Chen also slapped the table and said.
The two people who drink too much look like brothers, no distinction between high and low, nobility and lowliness.
"We should fight for resources, and to plunder the resources of the empire by fighting to make the lives of the people in our country better. In this regard, we should demonstrate the majesty of the Great Qin, and we don't have to fight. We can let Xu Fu take his fleet to sea with us." Li Chen said.
"Xu Fu, how do you know Xu Fu? That old man stayed in the palace to practice pills all day long and never came out. I didn't know that he would go out to sea to make the skill." said the First Emperor.
"Send a fleet to sea, and there are many continents in the sea. Many Rakshasa people survived on these continents. They should be far from being the opponent of Daqin at this time. By conducting trade with them to collect substances, we can know whether local goods are useful to Daqin. The fleet creates sea charts and prepares sufficient preparations for future invasions."
"We want the Black Dragon Flag of Daqin to penetrate every corner of the earth." Li Chen said.
"What is the earth?" asked the First Emperor.
"The land under our feet is the earth. The earth is a sphere, the ocean accounts for 70% and the land accounts for only 30%. The Qin Dynasty should only be one thousandth of this 30%." Li Chen said.
"Fuck, how can we stand if it's a ball?" Qin Shihuang sweared in a rare manner, obviously he did not agree with the statement that he was standing on a ball.
"Your Majesty, look, this is South America. The climate is moist and rainy all year round. The grain is ripe three to four years a year, and it produces something called rubber."
"This is Africa, rich in gold and silver mines."
"This is Siberia, we won't go there for the time being in the snow."
"This is Australia, with a lot of big lobsters."
Li Chen swallowed, holding a spherical object in his hand, pointing it to the First Emperor one by one.
Chapter completed!