The Great Wei Empire in the Warring States Period

Ying

Quliang looked at Wei Ying and said, "Mr. Wei Ying, are you willing to go out of my Qin Kingdom? As long as you go out of my Qin Kingdom, any position can be given to you to sit!"

Wei Ying just looked at Ying Qu Liang and didn't

say anything, Ying Qu Liang didn't react when he saw Wei Ying, and said: "Mr. Wei Ying, I don't know what you want, if it is within the scope that my Qin State can agree, my Qin State can try my best to meet the needs of Mr.!"

Wei Ying glanced at Ying Quliang and said, " The land of Qin is barren, the people are poor, the combat effectiveness of the army is the lowest among the countries in the world, the people have no fighting spirit and self-motivation, such a country will be annexed sooner or later, as far as I know, since Qin Huigong, Qin has never won the eastern countries, especially the two disgraces of Qin, the battle of Yin and Jin, Wu Qi led 50,000 Wei soldiers to defeat the 500,000 army of Qin, and in the battle of Shaoliang, Pang Juan led 100,000 Wei soldiers to annihilate the Qin army of 300,000, and even the national capital Liyang was occupied, which can be described as a shame in shame! There is no future for such a country, and I think it would be better to surrender earlier. Wei is forgotten, after all, Wei is strong, the people are rich, and Wei is still the first power in the world, it is better to surrender earlier, and you can keep the temple for sacrifice, otherwise, you won't be able to surrender if you want to surrender in the future!".

After hearing this, all the ministers of the Qin State were

very angry, and they all pointed at Wei Ying and scolded: "Wei Ying, do you want to die! This is the court of the Qin State, not the Wei State!"

After listening to Wei Ying's words, Ying Quliang did not get angry, but felt lost, because the current Qin State is indeed very barren, and has been defeated by the Wei State many times, and has been humiliated twice, which can be said to be a scar that the Qin State cannot erase!

A nobleman stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister requests that Wei Ying be beheaded for public display

!" Many ministers below shouted: "Your Majesty, the minister requests that Wei Ying be beheaded for public display!"

Ying

Quliang's eyes were closed, then he opened his eyes and looked at the ministers, then at Wei Ying, swallowed his saliva, and said, "Okay, Mr. Wei Ying, you can stay in the post house for the time being!

In the evening, Wei Ying was eating, with a pot of wine in his left hand and a leg of mutton in his right hand, and he ate and drank like this. Bang bang bang ~ As soon as Wei Ying heard that there was someone outside the door, he asked, "Who is outside?"

The person outside said: "Brother Wei Ying, I am full." "

Wei Ying got up and opened the door, and let the man in. After coming in, he complained to Wei Ying: "Brother Wei Ying, I know that you have great talents, but you can't say this directly in the court of the Qin State!

Wei Ying laughed: "Why do I say this? Just to test whether the monarch of the Qin State is a person with great ambitions! I have observed that the monarch of the Qin State has been able to endure until now under the circumstance that I slander the Qin State so much, which shows that he must be a person of great talent and strategy!"

After listening to it, he also understood: "You are testing the king, I thought you were still loyal to the Wei State!" Wei Ying glanced at the man and said dissatisfiedly: "Brother Man, where did you put my book?"

Zhiman hurriedly smiled: "Don't worry, we also brought all the books in your study by the way when we took you away!" Then, two guards carried a large box of bamboo slips in.

Wei Ying

stepped forward, looked through it a few times and said, "Well, none of them have been lost, if you lose it, I can't spare you!" After hearing this, he smiled and said: "Then Brother Wei Ying, do you want to go to see Qin Gong tomorrow?"

Early the next morning, the palace of the state of Qin.

In the study, Ying Quliang looked at Wei Ying and said, "Mr. Wei Ying, please teach me how to govern the country!"

Wei Ying said: "Do you know that King Wen of Zhou and King Wu Chengtang, at that time, King Wen of Zhou and King Wu Chengtang used benevolence to make the country strong, and then dominate the world, so if a country wants to be strong, it should implement benevolent government, and to implement benevolent government, it must follow the way of the

royal industry, if the king of a country wants to make the people obey him, he must implement benevolent government, when King Wen of Zhou replaced the world of Shang with only 70 miles of land, and King Chengtang of Shang replaced the world of Xia with only 50 miles of land! This is the power of benevolence! "

Ying

Quliang was almost drowsy when he heard Wei Ying's words, and after hearing Wei Ying's words, he was dissatisfied in his heart: "Mr. Wei Ying, Lone is not here to listen to you talk about the past, Lone wants to ask you, how strong my Qin State should be, how to dominate the world!".

I

saw Wei Ying suddenly get up and salute: "Just now I told the story of the ancient holy king, to see if the king wants to manage the country with benevolence, through observation, I found that the king is not the kind of hypocritical person, and I also learned that the king is a person with great talent and strategy, since the king wants to dominate the world, then no, the Qin State will definitely become strong, there are nine theories below, I don't know if the king wants to hear it?"

After Ying Quliang heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Mr. Wei Ying, what are the nine theories?"

I saw Wei Ying explain: " Your Majesty, although the Qin State is barren, as long as the land of the Qin State is seriously developed, it will definitely become a fertile land, and the brave and good battle of the Qin people is one of the best among the countries in the whole world, which is the point that the army of the Wei State cannot match the Qin army, and the Qin people are bold and brave, a sentence to the old Qin, go to the national disaster together, this sentence is deeply rooted in the hearts of the old Qin people, although the Qin State is now barren, but every Qin person has a belief in their hearts, that is, to make the Qin State strong, and every Qin State person wants to wash away the previous shame in their hearts, which is a point that the Wei people do not haveThe people of Wei seem to be rich on the surface, but they are not very united, but the people of Qin are very united, and they believe that as long as Qin governs the country according to the law, it will be able to make the country strong! At that time, the Wei State became strong through the reform of the law, so if our Qin State wants to be strong, it must also rely on the change of the law!"

Ying Quliang approached and asked, "Then sir, how should I, Qin Guo, change the law?"

Wei Ying said: "This is my nine treatises on how the Qin State should become stronger, 1. The "Treatise on Fields" abolished the well-field system and re-divided the fields, so that the fields could be bought and sold, and the efficiency of agricultural reclamation was improved.

2. The "Treatise on Taxation" abandons the old tax system in which there is no fixed amount of tribute, and makes the new law that farmers pay taxes according to the acres of land, workers according to the workshop, and merchants according to transactions. In this way, the people are rich and the country is rich.

3. Those who become rich through farming and pay more grain taxes in the "Treatise on the Farmer" can obtain the title of national knighthood. This move will truly inspire farmers to work diligently and become the fundamental way to gather grain.

4. "

On Military Merit" Those who are beheaded in battle arrays will be knighted with the number of heads they have beheaded. So that the people of the country are proud of serving in the army to kill the enemy, the whole country is a soldier, the soldiers are brave, the disabled are worry-free, why is there no victory?

5. The "Treatise on Counties and Counties" banned all the autonomous fiefs of the old clans of the Qin State, and set up two-level government offices at the county and county levels, which were directly under the national government, so that the governance of the whole country was unified.

6. The county of "Theory of Continuous Sitting" has two levels of officials. The people regard ten households as one family, one person commits a crime, and ten households sit together, so that the people share honor and disgrace, are cowardly in private fights and crimes, and have the courage to make meritorious contributions in public wars.

7. The "Theory of Weights and Measures" unified the length, weight, and volume of the Qin State, and corrected them by the government's production standards, so as to put an end to the exploitation of the common people by merchants and treacherous officials.

8. The "Theory of the Official System" limits the number of officials at all levels and their powers, and puts an end to government affairs from going out of their private homes.

9. The "Treatise on Qi Customs" forcibly banned the foolish and barbaric customs of the people in the mountains and wilderness, such as cold food, sleeping with the family, and the martyrdom of wives and concubines. And if you want the people to obey the orders of the king, you must use harsh criminal laws to make the people obey the king, if you want to make the country stronger, the people must not be too rich, the poorer the people, the stronger the country will be, if the people are too rich, they will not want to forge ahead, they will not want to help the king fight, and most of the wealth is hidden among the people, the country will be poor. Therefore, it is not only necessary to make these nine theories stronger, but also to impoverish the people through the cruel laws of punishment, the art of exhausting the people, and the extremely high taxes, so that the country will be strong!"

Later, Wei Ying said: "Eloquence and wisdom are accomplices in chaos, etiquette and rules are the cause of debauchery and lasciviousness, love and righteousness are the root of sin, and fame and fame are the accomplices of treacherous villains." Only when there are accomplices who violate the law can they run rampant, only when there is guidance for indulgence and indulgence can they arise, only when there is a root cause for mistakes can they arise, and when there is a protection for evil spirits, the same party cannot stop it. If these eight things are grouped together, the law will be small and the people will be great; if the country does not have these eight things, it will be big and the people will be small. If the power of the people is stronger than the decree, the state is weakened, and if the decree is stronger than the people, the military is stronger. Therefore, if the state has these eight things, it will be difficult for the king to send the people to defend and fight, and the country will definitely weaken until it perishes. If the state does not have these eight things, the king will be able to make the people defend and fight, and the country will inevitably prosper and even dominate the world. When people fear the law, the country is strong, and when the country is strong, people naturally fear the law. Therefore, a well-governed state must strive to make the people fear the law. If the people are simple, they will fear the law, and if they are indulgent, they will dare to violate the law. The people obey the law when they fear it, and the listeners obey it, and if they act arbitrarily, they will not be controlled. Therefore, if the policy of strengthening the people is adopted to get rid of the people who do not abide by the law, the strength of the state will be weak, and if the policy of strengthening the people is adopted to get rid of the people who do not abide by the law, the strength of the state will be strong.

If we treat the people well, the people will be

close to the country, and if the state rationally enslaves the people, the people will be of the same heart as the country. When the country uses the people, the people go all out. If the people and the country are of the same mind, the country will not be lacking, and if the people go all out to work, the country's political performance will be good. If the king ignores the law and allows the people to do as they please, then there will be many evils. If people are poor, they will strive to get rich, and if they strive to get rich, they will indulge, and if they are indulgent, they will produce the same disadvantages as lice. Therefore, when the people are rich, it is not easy to serve, so let them go out to serve with food, so that each of them must contribute, so that the peasants will not be lazy. If the peasants are not lazy, the six kinds of lice infestation will not be produced. Therefore, when the country is rich and strong, the people's law-abiding will be strengthened.

It is easy for the country's military strength to weaken, but it is difficult to become strong, and people cherish their lives and covet comfort. It is difficult to achieve this expectation of desperately going to the country. If we can change the characteristic of the people desperately going to the national disaster, the combat power will be strong. When the people are ashamed of the war, the evil will increase, and there is no mistake in the way that the state rewards and punishes the peasants and wars alone. Evil ceases. If the enemy makes a mistake in this regard, it will be beneficial to us. When the army is strong, it will produce prestige, and if we are not ashamed of agricultural warfare, we can give full play to the maximum role of soldiers. If the army is in a favorable situation for a long time, the monarch will definitely be able to claim the throne. Therefore, if you use troops to do what the enemy does not dare to do, your troops will be strong, and if you do what the enemy is ashamed of, the country will be beneficial. Only when the law is permanent can the people do their own thing, and the monarch can adapt to the situation, and things can be successful. If the country is stable, it will be advantageous for the monarch to manipulate power. Therefore, the monarch is precious to opportunity, and the country is precious to stability. If Lelu comes out of one channel, the goods of the state will be more, and out of ten channels, the goods of the country will be less. If it is kept through one channel, the state will be strictly governed, and if it is kept through ten channels, the country will be chaotic. When the country is stable, it will be strong, and if it is chaotic, it will be weak. If you are strong, you will gather materials, and if you are weak, you will disperse. Therefore, if the country can gather materials, it will be strong, and if it loses materials, it will be weak.

If the people are low, they will respect the title, if they are weak, they will

respect the official position, and if they are poor, they will value the reward. If the people are ruled by the penal law, the people will be happy to be served, and if the people are encouraged to fight by rewards, the fighters will despise death. Therefore, when the battle is strict and the soldiers go all out, they will be strong. When the people have a measure of self-pride, they will despise the officials and despise them, and if the people are rich, they will despise the rewards. Govern the people, use the criminal law to let them know the shame of transgression, and they will go to war when they are at war. If the populace fears death and deploys chaotically, and fights against other nations, the soldiers and peasants will be lazy and the state will weaken. Peasants, merchants, and officials are the permanent occupations of the state. The peasants pleaded with the land, the merchants traded goods, and the officials governed the people. These three occupations will produce six kinds of lice infestations: called "year", "food", "beauty", "good", "will" and "action". When these six types of lice take root, the country will surely weaken. When the peasant has surplus food, he will grow up to be comfortable and enjoy himself. Merchants receive good profits and gorgeous items that are subject to the ill effects of substances. Although the officials were set up, the officials refused to contribute to the country, and their hearts and behaviors became low. The six kinds of lice infestation form an atmosphere, and the army will surely be defeated when it goes out ......

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I saw that Ying Quliang listened to it with relish, until in the middle of the night, Ying Quliang hurriedly got up and said: "Listen to Mr. 's words, Gu already knows which direction my Qin State should go, if my Qin State wants to be strong,

it must govern the country according to law, and Gu is willing to appoint Mr. as the prime minister of my Qin State and change the law!" Wei Ying also hurriedly got up and said: "The minister will meet the king, and the minister will seriously change the law for the Qin State, make the Qin State strong, and dominate the world!"

In the early morning of the next day, the court of the Qin State was in the court

Qin

Gong Yingqu Liang said to the ministers: "Everyone, I am the Qin State. If you want to be strong, you must follow the example of Wei to implement the law change, and Gu decided to appoint Wei Ying as the prime minister of our Qin State to change the law! Gu once again ordered Mr. Wei Ying's words, that is, Lone's words, Mr. Wei Ying's order is Lone's order, no one may disobey it, and those who violate it will be killed!" None of the ministers below spoke, and the senior doctor Gan Long got up and said, "Respect the order of the king, the king is Shengming!" Then, the ministers also shouted: "The king is Shengming!"

Afterwards, Wei Ying got up and took the sword and Xiangyin from Ying Quliang's hand, and said to the ministers: "I hereby announce that from today onwards, the Qin State will begin to change the law! From the princes and ministers to the common people, no one is allowed to violate the new law! The crime of the prince is the same as that of the common people!".