Zhangtai Palace. Zhao Ling played with the imperial seal in his hand. The jade seal is four inches in a radius, with five dragons on it. The jade seal is engraved with eight characters inscriptions in the seal "After being ordered by heaven, one will live forever." The imperial seal has been intact until now, but Zhao Ling frowned. As far as he knows, after the First Emperor unified the six kingdoms, he ordered craftsmen to make six sets of seals, engraved with the emperor's seal, the emperor's seal, the emperor's seal, the emperor's seal, the emperor's trust seal, and the emperor's trust. Seal. These six seals are mainly used for the symbols of the emperor's regime and the certification and transmission of orders of official documents. The six seals are not large in size and are stamped by the First Emperor on the clay sealing clay knots used by the First Emperor. The imperial seal is just a symbol of power. These six seals were not found in Zhangtai Palace or Ying Zheng. In the past two days, Zhao Ling had written the government orders directly on paper, and then uploaded the national jade seal with cinnabar. The Six Seals disappeared, and the Secret Guard, who had obeyed the First Emperor before, did not show up to be loyal to him, and there was also a famous general named Zhang Han who was missing. Zhao Ling always feels something is wrong.
He ordered people to go to prison to interrogate Hu Hai, and also raided Li Si and Zhao Gao's mansions, but they were all fruitless in searching. But this is not very important to Zhao Ling. The imperial seal was a little bigger. In the past, he used to use bundles of bamboo slips to convey government orders. Now he has made all the paper and stamped it directly on the paper, which has a better effect. It is more shocking for today's people. . If the troops are strong and the horse is strong, as long as they win the hearts of the people, it doesn’t matter whether they have the six seals or not. Zhang Liang stood below and reported, "Your Majesty, all work in the Afang Palace has been suspended. The 50,000 civilians originally recruited from all over the country have returned to their hometowns with the army, and have distributed food, clothing and money according to the length of their work." "All 680,000 prisoners were sent to each county to open land and build houses for three years, and they would take care of two meals a day. After three years, all crimes were exempted from being held accountable and re-entered their household registration." "More than 10,000 skilled craftsmen were sent to Sanchuan County, and Mr. Gongshu took them to make farm tools." Zhao Ling nodded after hearing this, "Prime Minister Zhang Liang is indeed decisive. Do you think it is inappropriate for me to do this?" Zhang Liang bowed and said, "Your Majesty is kind. Once this order is issued, 700,000 people who built the Afang Palace shouted that Your Majesty will be like a tsunami and a dragon roar. Your Majesty has won the hearts of the people of the world." Zhao Ling shook his head and said, "What Your Majesty has passed through the ages? Most of the prisoners were defeated soldiers of the Six Kingdoms. The father ordered them to build the Afang Palace to prevent them from turmoiling the world." "So many prisoners have the will to oppose Qin, and it is indeed difficult to deal with properly." Zhao Ling did not think that Emperor Shiniu asked so many prisoners to build the Afang Palace was a great honor. Sixty-eighty thousand people! These people were defeated soldiers. Should the Qin Dynasty put them in prison and keep them? Ying Zheng doesn’t have so much food. It is even more impossible to just let it go. It is impossible to kill them all directly. If they were asked to build a palace, they would be exhausted and starved for years, which would not cause too much turmoil. Even though Zhao Ling was rich and worked hard to manage Sanchuan County for five years, he bought a lot of grain from the nobles of the six countries and major clans, and also opened up various land and introduced high-yield crops, he could not withstand the tossing. Two meals a day are already a great gift for those people. Three years have slowly quenched their hatred for Daqin.
To put it bluntly, before Ying Zheng annexed the six countries, the civilians did not have a strong sense of belonging to the six countries. The rich family smells of wine and meat, and there are bones that are frozen to death on the road. It is said that the criminal laws of Qin are harsh, and the criminal laws of the other six countries are not much better. The rich are always nobles and the people live in dire straits. Many of the former nobles of the six countries served as officials in the Qin Dynasty. As long as Zhao Ling can keep the people at the bottom of the country full and well-dressed, who is willing to fight? Perhaps the former nobles of the six countries would still want to restore the throne, but these were nothing to Zhao Ling's opinion. Zhang Liang was originally a child of a Korean aristocratic family. Of course, the aristocrats had a strong sense of belonging to the country, because their lives were very rich before, and the demise of the country made their quality of life leap. How could they not hate it? Zhang Liang was briefly silent when he heard Zhao Ling say this, and then said, "Your Majesty is the destiny of heaven. Once those seeds are found overseas, once they take root in the land of the Qin Dynasty, three years later, the people in the world will definitely be able to have a meal." "Zhang Liang is willing to devote his wholehearted wish to His Majesty and to serve the people of the world." Zhang Liang said in a deep voice, "The prisoners of the six countries only work four hours a day for the next three years, and there are two full meals. They will definitely treat His Majesty. Thank you very much." Zhao Ling was very confident that when those prisoners built the Afang Palace, they could eat at most one meal of porridge a day. When they were sick, they basically dig a big hole to bury it or burn it. No one will let them have enough food because hungry people are notThere will be strength to rebel. Their lives are not even as good as dogs, and they are destined to die in the process of building the Afang Palace. Zhao Ling asked them to have a full meal, and only needed to work for three years to become a naturalized person again. This was equivalent to letting them see the hope of life and the future. After working for four hours a day, Zhao Ling seemed too kind to the local bosses in later generations. "Prime Minister Zhang Liang, the funeral of the First Emperor is fully handed over to you. The tomb of the First Emperor needs to be continued, but the rewards of the craftsmen must be improved, and everyone must be voluntarily." Zhao Ling had no intention of stopping the construction of the First Emperor's Mausoleum. It doesn’t matter whether the Afang Palace is cultivated or not. The First Emperor unified China and built a worldly contribution. What’s wrong with building an imperial tomb? The pharaohs in Egypt also built pyramids. "Here!" Zhang Liang had no objection. Not to mention that in the eyes of others, in Zhang Liang's eyes, Zhao Ling was already a kind king. It was getting late, and Zhao Ling stood up: "I'm going to accompany my father." Zhang Liang bowed slightly and followed Zhao Ling out of Zhangtai Palace. "Fusu should be here tomorrow?" Zhao Ling walked in the palace, looked up at Mingyue, and smiled, "When Chunyu Yue and the others saw Fusu, it was time to go to Lu to raise food. I heard that they were in Changfeng Mansion. Have you read a day and a night of books?” Zhang Liang smiled a little strangely and replied, "If this is true, they are all trying to figure out His Majesty's holy intention." "Hahahaha!" Zhao Ling also laughed. Zhang Liang had read Zhao Ling's commentary on "Lunyu" before, and he really couldn't imagine that if he gave Zhao Ling's "Lunyu" to Chunyu Yue, would he be so angry that he would curse his mother directly. . Zhang Liang felt that he could not figure out Zhao Ling's thoughts. He did not believe that Chunyu Yue and the others could figure out his thoughts just by reading Zhao Ling's annotations on Confucian classics. Zhang Liang is not even sure whether Zhao Ling really intends to spread Confucianism or just to deceive Confucians into donating allegiance to the Confucians.
It is logical that those who can write "Lunyu" should not have much respect for Confucian sages, but Zhao Ling is familiar with Confucian classics and can also annotate orthodox thoughts. Perhaps the "Analects of Confucius" is just Zhao Ling's own alternative. After all, the comments in it seem to make some sense at first glance. (Danzu Yifei and others, "Lunyu" is handed over to you.)