General Qin

Chaos!

The first emperor is digging the foundation of Qin himself!

This was the first thought in Zhao Tuo's mind.

And I'm sure he's not alone in thinking this way.

Didn't you see the faces of Taiwei Wang Ben, General Meng Wu and others, have they all changed?

Even in the court hall of Qin State, the generals belonging to the military merit group all had pale faces.

As for the ranks of civil servants, there are also many people who have a bad face, and they can naturally see the harm of this edict.

However, frightened by the increasingly strengthened authority of the emperor after the reunification, no one spoke for the time being, and all eyes fell on the Martial Arts Marquis Zhao Tuo and Taiwei Wang Ben who were in the forefront of military officers.

After Wang Jianyin retired, the military generals of the Qin State relied on Martial Arts Marquis Zhao Tuo as the pillar, and the Taiwei Wang Ben was the face.

Zhao Tuo felt those expectant gazes. He naturally had objections to the emperor's decision to confer a title, but fortunately, he still had reason, and Zhao Tuo was wise enough not to be the first to stand up to object.

As the saying goes, it is not a good thing to be the first to stand up and contradict the first bird.

He has to look at the specific situation.

Ever since Zhao Tuo failed to remonstrate with Li Xin outside Pingyu City, he has become more cautious about remonstrating.

Zhao Tuo's eyes fell on Wang Ben's resolute face.

It's a pity that Wang Ben's personality is a bit like Wang Jian's, his lips moved, but he didn't speak.

The father and son of the Wang family talked about stability and never took the initiative to show off.

Marquis Marquis and Taiwei did not speak.

The generals are not good at saying anything.

On the other side, the prime minister of the right, Kui Xing, in the rank of civil servants, still looked at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, and pretended nothing about it.

He is getting old, one thing more is worse than one thing less, he occupies the position of the right prime minister, as long as he can get along safely until he retires, he will be satisfied.

Prime Minister Zuo Wang Wan is young and vigorous, aggressive in everything, but he squinted his eyes and didn't speak.

Although he had some conflicts with those Confucian scholars because of the matter of enfeoffment and papermaking before, he was close to Confucianism after all, and he had always disliked Qin's wolf-like military merit system. He felt that this was not the government of the king. Fucking himself, he has no reason to come forward.

The censor Feng Jie's eyelids twitched, seeing that the left and right prime ministers hadn't moved, he steadied his steps.

As for Ting Wei Li Si, the frown was the deepest. He is the head of the Legalist School of Qin.

The combination of military merit and the legalist system is the magic weapon for Qin to become bigger and stronger. If this aspect is changed, it will cause great damage, and he should stand up against it regardless of the situation or reason.

But because of his son's punishment just now, he almost became a joke, and it would be inappropriate to stand up at this time. Moreover, he had served the emperor for many years and knew the emperor's character very well, so Li Si also held back.

He believed that someone would speak up.

Li Si glanced to the side.

Above the court, there is always no shortage of admonishing ministers.

Sure enough, facing the emperor's words, a tall and burly man among the ministers stood up on the spot.

"My minister, Zhao Hai, died in honor of His Majesty. Today, Your Majesty is united in one universe, and he has conquered the barbarians. This is a great achievement from ancient times, and it is worthy of congratulations. However, His Majesty is in the world, and you can celebrate by giving the people cattle and wine. Why give it to you as a noble! Your Majesty! Such an approach is contrary to the old system of meritorious service established by duke Xiao!"

Lord Lieutenant Zhao Hai is over sixty years old, with white hair, tall and strong, and he speaks with confidence. At this moment, he stood up and spoke loudly, questioning the emperor unceremoniously.

Zhao Tuo followed the crowd to look at Zhao Hai and nodded slightly.

Sure enough, the matter of remonstrance still depends on our old ministers of the state of Qin.

Zhao Hai was a courtier in the era of King Zhaoxiang. After King Zhaoxiang, King Xiaowen, King Zhuangxiang, and the current Emperor Shihuang, he was a dignified veteran of the four dynasties. He served Qin Jun for nearly fifty years. He is so old that no one in the court can surpass him.

In addition, Zhao Hai's character is upright and upright, and he has a very good reputation. He has been serving as Lord Lieutenant for so many years, and no one has ever said that he is unfair. As long as Zhao Hai doesn't engage in rebellion or anything, even if he blows his nose at the emperor and stares at him, the emperor will usually pass it off with a smile and won't blame him too much.

Not to mention that Zhao Hai is still a lord and lieutenant, and he is in charge of the award of the title. The emperor's decree is his responsibility.

So he is indeed the most qualified person in the court to say "no".

This early bird, he is the most suitable.

At this moment, facing Zhao Hai's questioning.

The First Emperor sat high on the emperor's couch with a calm expression.

For the remonstrance of his subordinates, he had long been prepared, and he also had his own logic and corresponding considerations for his actions.

The emperor spoke lightly.

"In the past, King Zhaoxiang, there was a precedent for conferring nobility for non-military merit."

As soon as the words came out, everyone's expressions changed slightly.

After Zhao Tuo thought for a while, he knew what the emperor was talking about.

Since the reform of the Shang monarch, Qin has always been based on military merits. Even if a civil servant is awarded a title, he must make meritorious service or come up with a useful plan for governing the country.

There has never been a large-scale non-military award for ordinary Guizhou heads.

Until the era of King Zhaoxiang, there were two large-scale non-military awards.

The first time was in the 21st year of King Zhaoxiang (286 BC), Qin general Sima attacked Hanoi by mistake.

Wei Guo was afraid, so he offered Anyi to Qin State. Qin State expelled the residents in the city, leaving only an empty city. Then the state of Qin recruited people in the mainland and pardoned criminals to move to Anyi. Among the conditions given by the government, in addition to criminals being exonerated, the head of Guizhou who was willing to move to Anyi could also be awarded a rank of nobility.

The second large-scale conferment of nobles was in the forty-seventh year of King Zhaoxiang (260 BC), when Qin general Baiqi attacked Changping.

At that time, the entire battle of Changping reached its most intense period. In order to boost morale, King Qin Zhaoxiang came to Hanoi in person, bestowed the first-level titles on the heads of Guizhou in Hanoi, and recruited young and middle-aged men over the age of fifteen to the Changping battlefield. .

These are the two large-scale non-military meritorious titles granted to the people in the era of King Qin Zhaoxiang.

There are reasons for these two large-scale awards.

The first time was to recruit people to the newly occupied Anyi and strengthen Qin's control over there. In order to let the head of Guizhou willingly leave his hometown and settle in a different place, the Qin government naturally had to pay some price.

The second time was to boost morale at the most critical time of the Battle of Changping and recruit young and strong to support the battlefield.

King Qin Zhaoxiang bestowed titles on a large scale twice. Although they were not granted for military merit, they were also related to the situation of the war, so there would not be much side effects.

But after all, this violated the principle that meritorious deeds can only be awarded titles, and it was a large-scale award of titles to the people, which set a very bad precedent, and now it has become an example cited by the first emperor.

If King Zhaoxiang hadn't started this way, Emperor Shihuang wouldn't be so confident.

Zhao Hai was an old minister in the time of King Zhaoxiang. He had personally experienced it during the second large-scale conferment of nobles. Now that Emperor Shi Huang brought up this example, he immediately blew his beard and stared.

He held his head up and said: "Your Majesty said that King Zhaoxiang gave the title to the people. This is for the sake of the war situation, and it is beneficial to the country. Moreover, the grant of the title to the people was limited to the head of Guizhou who moved to Anyi and the people of Hanoi. The number of nobles is actually limited. There is no such thing as His Majesty granting the world a rank of nobles today! I think this matter is still inappropriate, please reconsider it!"

The First Emperor smiled coldly.

consider?

His eyes swept across the hall, he didn't believe that no one in the entire court flattered the holy will.

Sure enough, under the eyes of the emperor.

Someone stood up.

"Historical Records Qin Benji": In the 21st year, Wei Hanoi was attacked by mistake. Weixian Anyi, Qin out of his people, recruited and migrated to Hedong to grant nobles, and forgive sinners to move.

"Historical Records Biography of Bai Qi and Wang Jian": Forty-seven years... Wang Zizhi Hanoi, bestowed a rank on each of the people and nobles, and learned about Changping when he was over fifteen years old.