Da Qin: Confucianism, Dharma and Taoism

In the first year of the reign of Qin II, Xianyang Palace——

A tall altar, under the coercion of three generations of craftsmen, was built in Xianyang Palace in just a few days.

Under normal circumstances, as a member of the Qin royal family, Ying Wei should have gone to Yongcheng when he succeeded to the throne, just like Ying Zheng's coming-of-age ceremony.

However, the world is not stable now, and Ying Wei does not want to waste time going to Yongcheng, so he decided to ascend the throne directly in Xianyang Palace~.

Although Li Si had not yet been canonized as the right prime minister by Ying Wei in the name of the emperor, he actually exercised the responsibilities of the right prime minister.

Li Si stood under the altar, holding a scroll in his hand, and the civil and military officials were lined up on both sides, all kneeling on the ground.

"I order Feng Chang to choose the auspicious day today, so that he can ascend the altar to receive the order. Please summon the three ministers and ministers to play the rituals and rituals!"

Li Si shouted loudly, holding the scroll.

Wearing a black imperial robe and a twelve-glazed crown, Ying Wei stood at the bottom of the altar steps.

He held the handle of the Tianwen sword at his waist with one hand and nodded to Li Si and the civil and military officials, saying, "Yes!"

After saying that, Ying Wei turned around, stepped up the steps step by step, and walked to the top of the altar under the gaze of tens of thousands of people.

Ying Wei picked up jade pendants, brocade and other items and threw them into the burning firewood in front of him to pay tribute to the heaven and earth, the Five Mountains and the Four Rivers.

Then Ying Wei slowly opened the black dragon edict in front of him, and said loudly to the heavens, the earth, and all the officials: "The Emperor of Heaven and the Earth have favored and bestowed upon me the mandate to be the parents of the people. I dare not accept it!"

"All the officials, without planning, said the same thing: The Great Qin Dynasty fought for the remaining power of the six generations, swallowed up the two Zhou dynasties and destroyed the princes. When the First Emperor succeeded to the throne, the world was peaceful, the writing system was unified, the wheels were unified, the Xiongnu were defeated in the north, and the Baiyue were conquered in the south. No one in the world dared not follow."

"After the First Emperor passed away, he abdicated to Wei, but Wei still refused. As for the second and third times, all the officials said: The great mandate of the Emperor cannot be delayed. How dare I not respectfully accept it!"

Inheriting the throne is always a matter of humility.

Therefore, in this abdication edict, Ying Wei also acted as if it was not me who wanted to be the emperor, but everyone wanted me to be the emperor, and I had no choice but to be the emperor trembling with fear.

I declined the First Emperor three times, but the First Emperor said that I had to be the second emperor. I still hesitated, but all the officials said that this was a major decree from the First Emperor and the heavens, and it could not be delayed, so you should be the emperor.

There was no other way, I, Ying Wei, had to be the emperor!

As Ying Wei threw the edict into the fire and offered sacrifices to the heavens, all the civil and military officials shouted: "Long live the emperor!"

It is said that the title of "Long live" was only used to address the emperor during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and it was not until the reign of Empress Wu that this long list of honorifics came into being.

Ying Wei liked this title very much, so under his order, all the civil and military officials now had to shout "Long live" to show Ying Wei's supreme status!

All the officials and all the guards present knelt on the ground, shouting "Long live", and the deafening call was transmitted to the Xianyang Palace., and transmitted to the outside of Xianyang Palace.

Today, Xianyang City has long been under martial law. After hearing the solemn address, many people in the city also subconsciously knelt on the ground and shouted long live.

For a time, the whole Xianyang City was filled with the sound of long live.

Ying Wei stood on the altar, he was in high spirits, his tiger eyes swept around, as if he was looking at the land of China.

From today on, he can finally say the sentence that all under heaven is the king's land, and all the people are the king's subjects.

Now he is Qin II, the land of Qin and the land of China must respect him as the Son of Heaven and the supreme emperor!

"My dear ministers, please stand up."

With Ying Wei's majestic words, the civil and military officials in Xianyang Palace stood up. Everyone looked at him in awe, waiting for Ying Wei's next announcement.

Sure enough, Ying Wei again signaled Li Si to come forward, take out the edict, and start reading it.

In fact, before Ying Wei ascended the throne, everyone already knew about their job transfers, and this time it was just to make it clear.

Some officials looked pale, stepped forward with a wry smile, and pulled off their official hats to resign from Ying Wei, while others smiled and accepted their new positions.

The biggest change was the Nine Ministers.

Nearly half of the Nine Ministers were dismissed by Ying Wei and replaced by his own people.

At this time, Ying Wei was in power and most of the army was in his hands. In addition, this was just the second generation of the dynasty, and various aristocratic families had not yet formed. The ministers had no ability to resist Ying Wei. (To read the violent novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Therefore, even if they were dismissed, they could only obey and could not argue with Ying Wei.

Ying Wei still followed the old tradition of Qin and did not set up the position of Taiwei, but just left it vacant.

After the new transfer was announced, Li Si paused for a moment and said, "Your Majesty wants to open the imperial examination. I hope you will cooperate with us."

"Imperial examination?"

Hearing this new term, all the officials looked at each other, not knowing what this was going to do. []

Li Si glanced at all the officials, and at Ying Wei's suggestion, he explained to them what the imperial examination meant.

When the nobles heard that Ying Wei was going to allow poor students and common people to take the exam to become officials, their faces changed drastically and they were shocked.

Ying Wei was going to dig up the roots of all the nobles!

You should know that the greatest right of the nobles is to be able to recommend officials.

The emperor was in the palace all day long, and the Qin State, with such a large territory, must have needed a large number of low-level, middle-level and high-level officials.

In addition to coming from the families of these nobles, these officials were also those knowledgeable poor students who came to them and were then recommended by the nobles.

This was the system of retainers, which later developed into the system of nine-rank officials.

But no matter what, this system limited the imperial power and allowed the nobles to compete with the emperor.

BecauseAll officials were recommended by the nobles, and the emperor could only choose officials from these people.

These recommended officials were loyal to the emperor on the surface, but they were naturally grateful to their recommenders and would have some contact with them.

Under the protection of officials, it was easy to form aristocratic families, and from then on completely monopolized all official paths, leaving the emperor helpless in the face of them.

Hundred-year dynasty, thousand-year aristocratic family, this is no joke.

But Ying Wei came up with this set of imperial examinations right after the unification, which immediately prevented the formation of aristocratic families, and all officials became disciples of the emperor.

Officials were selected by me, the emperor, and had nothing to do with you nobles.

And this move can be said to have touched the cake of all the nobles, so naturally the nobles present all looked unhappy.

The only calm ones were those like Li Si, who were foreigners themselves, came to Qin to serve as officials with their abilities, and they were still the first generation.

They had not yet formed their own power and family in Qin, so they did not have much resistance to this system.

On the contrary, they thought that they had gone through a lot of hardships to get to their current status, and they were quite in favor of this system.

In complete silence, the nobles of Qin would never have thought that Ying Wei would dig up their ancestral graves just after he ascended the throne! .