197 A brief discussion on what you saw and heard in the Eastern Tour, the battle between Confucianism and Law. (, read and read, dukanka

In order to prepare for the Fengshan period of Mount Tai, the convoy of Emperor Ying Zheng's eastern tour stationed in Jibei City in Jibei Kingdom. Lu Bu, who was taking a break in his busy schedule, led Lu Ze, Lu Shizhi, Xiao He, Zhang Ting and others to visit Jibei City with Meng Yi.

"The people who are unifying the world no longer have to worry about the mutual attacks and continuous wars between the various vassal states. This is the real peaceful and prosperous era." Meng Yi had been staying in Xianyang before. This time, he finally came to Guandong with the convoy of Emperor Ying Zheng. What he saw was not the rumor that Guandong was poor and chaotic, but he put all the credit on the Qin Dynasty's unifying the world. Meng Yi's words were not loud, so except for Lu Bu who was following him, Lu Ze, Lu Shizhi and others behind him did not hear clearly what Meng Yi was saying.

When Lu Bu heard Meng Yi's words, he asked, "With Brother Meng Yi's opinion, what have you seen along the way during this Eastern Tour?"

Meng Yi couldn't help but smile and said, "In my opinion, officials from all over the country are clear and the people are healthy."

"Brother Meng Yi was deceived by the actions taken by officials from all over the country to welcome the Eastern Tour of Emperor Qin Shihuang. In fact, in my opinion, although the lives of the people in the world are missing the continuous wars, they are far from reaching the scenes of food and clothing we see today, especially the people in Kanto!" Lu Bu lowered his voice and said his thoughts.

Meng Yi was shocked when he heard this and said to Lu Bu in an unbelievable tone: "How is this possible? According to Fengxian's brother, officials from all over the country who have been doing fraud in the inspection of the First Emperor? But if it is one thing, it may be easy to fake it, but how can people's lives be faked to others? It should be noted that they are not one or two people, but hundreds of thousands or even millions! What's more, they are not in harmony with each other. Who can let officials from all over the country make such fakes together?"

Lu Bu smiled bitterly in his heart. Although Meng Yi was quite extraordinary in both civil and military affairs because of the training of the Meng family, his understanding of the officialdom was naturally far less clear than that of Lu Bu from the later era of information explosion.

"This kind of fake is naturally not something that can be created casually, because in order to create this fake for the First Emperor, officials from all over the country need not only to spend money in the official treasury and temporarily reduce the future taxes, money and grain in various places, but also to have someone who is familiar with the urban areas that the First Emperor will go through along the way to be their behind-the-scenes planners." Lu Bu pointed his finger, indicating that the status of the behind-the-scenes planners he mentioned is naturally not something that ordinary people can do.

After all, Meng Yi was born in a general and had been living in Xianyang for several years. He also had a little understanding of the obscure and dirty things in the officialdom. After Lu Bu's instructions, he immediately thought of something: "What Fengxian brother means..."

Lu Bu smiled and nodded, "According to the route of Emperor Qin Shihuang on the Eastern Tour, officials along the way and those above worked together to play a good show of officials and the people in front of Emperor Qin Shihuang. If Emperor Qin Shihuang changed many routes temporarily, we may be able to see some interesting scenes now.

In fact, Brother Meng Yi can think carefully about it. The laws of the Qin Dynasty are the most severe among the laws of all countries. When these laws were piloted in Guanzhong, the people fluctuated greatly. Now that the six countries in Guandong have just been flattened, the originally loose laws will be replaced by the laws of the Qin Dynasty. This will inevitably greatly affect the people and merchants at the bottom. In addition, the country will build straight roads and storm roads, build water conservancy, build fortresses, build temples, and build Yinling of His Majesty the First Emperor. None of these projects requires recruitment of a large number of civilians. Although these are mostly actions that benefit the country and the people, and there are prisoners from all over the world specially recruited by His Majesty the First Emperor, the people in the world will inevitably complain about it.

Especially the suppression of merchants in the Qin Dynasty and the control of various military supplies by His Majesty the First Emperor of the First Emperor had caused unprecedented crisis among merchants who were originally sold in the six countries of Guandong. Just the last time I went to Peicheng, Sishui County, and along the way, I heard that many merchants in various places had to abandon business and farming for these reasons. Some merchants even directly dispersed their wealth and died. The tax revenue in various places was more than 30% less than when the world was not unified before?"

"Didn't Fengxian just say that many merchants in various places have abandoned business and farming? Why did taxes in various places have dropped by more than 30%? Is there no war-torn farming environment now, but not as much as those paid by merchants in the past?" Meng Yi was a native of Qin who grew up from Guanzhong of the Great Qin Dynasty, and also inherited the "colorless" views of most of the old Qin people on the profession of merchants.

"Since merchants will appear in this world, there is a certain reason. If the whole world is now a giant, then we soldiers are the bones of this giant, His Majesty the First Emperor is the giant's thoughts and mouths, The literati and officials are the eyes and ears of giants, The farming people are the strong flesh of giants, and Merchants are the blood in the giant's body. No matter which one of them is missing, the whole giant will inevitably collapse!" Lu Bu tried to explain the importance of merchants to Meng Yi in a concise and unexpected way. Of course, Lu Bu did not intend to let Meng Yi pass on this statement to His Majesty the First Emperor. After all, emphasizing agriculture and neglecting commerce is the national policy of the entire Qin Dynasty today, and it is not something that Lu Bu and Meng Yi can change.

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Fengshan Mountain is not a trivial matter. Whether it is the etiquette procedures during Fengshan or the scale of sacrifices that need to be prepared, they only need to be decided after careful decisions.

The First Emperor Ying Zheng had only a few requirements for this. First, the offerings he offered to the heaven during Fengshan (and some say it was God, of course this God is not the other God) must be those kings who have passed away, because only this can meet his identity as the emperor of the ages. The second point is that this time he went to Mount Tai, he wanted his ministers to study a suitable mountain climbing method, and even considered directly on the frame of Mount Tai instead of climbing up step by step.

Regarding the second request of the First Emperor Ying Zheng, his ministers were discussing but could not give any clear opinions. The Confucian students from Qilu who heard that the First Emperor Ying Zheng was going to Mount Tai to Fengshan and rushed from all over Qilu even quarreled in front of the First Emperor Ying Zheng over the idea of ​​the First Emperor Ying Zheng.

Some of these Confucian students were young and energetic and spoke straightforward, but some of the words they said were easily refuted by the opposing ministers under the First Emperor Ying Zheng.

Although some Confucian scholars have premature heads, their faces are rosy, which can be called a childish face. When they speak, they are full of energy and their voices are like a bell. The words and words are extremely sharp and compelling to those young Confucian scholars.

One of the old Confucian scholars first gave a respectful salute to the First Emperor Ying Zheng. After receiving the permission of the First Emperor Ying Zheng, he cleaned his clothes and said without rushing: "According to the ancient system, the emperor had to walk up to the top of the mountain to perform the ceremony of Fengshan. Therefore, after so many emperors came to perform the ceremony of Fengshan, there was still no lane in Mount Tai.

Since His Majesty the First Emperor wants to be a more wise emperor than those before, he must show a more sincere heart to the heavens. This item cannot be achieved only by more sacrifices, but by His Majesty the First Emperor during this Fengshan period to make a judgment for future generations.”

The old Confucian scholar's meaning is very clear. If the First Emperor wants to be an eternal emperor who has passed the previous Fengshan emperors, then you have to make some "achievements" in the Fengshan actions, instead of just relying on more sacrifices to compare the previous Fengshan emperors.

The six doctors brought by the First Emperor this time were the old doctor Feng Yue. Although he was over seven years old, he still had a long and elegant body and was graceful. From a distance, he looked like a person in his fifties, but his face was very wrinkled, and he felt even more white. He was reluctant to tie his bun. He slowly argued and said, "I read through the Zhou Li, the Yue Li and other ancient books, but I didn't see the provision that the emperor had to walk on the Fengshan Road, and I didn't say that the emperor who walked on foot meant that he had the greatest sincerity for the heavens.

Let’s take a step back, it’s a total of more than 148 miles from the foot of Mount Tai to the top of the mountain. If the emperor really walked on foot, how many people like us could walk up the top of the mountain? Could it be that during Fengshan, the emperor would have to be responsible for the entire Fengshan etiquette with the soldiers outside who knew nothing? Haven’t you Confucian scholars thought about this?”

In fact, the land dispute between these two factions is not entirely a ritual issue, but also a question of who will preside over the ceremony. Since the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, the Legalists have risen and Confucianism has declined. Confucian scholars who presided over funerals and marriages for others and worshiped the ancestors of heaven and earth have greatly reduced their income and social status has plummeted. They have to rely on farming, fishermen and woodcutters as side jobs to maintain food and clothing, so they have to train themselves to be strong and go to Mount Tai as a flat ground.

On the other hand, these doctors who came with the First Emperor were over 60 years old and had been in Xianyang for several years. In addition to Bai Qiongjing and answering some allusions and ritual questions for the emperor, Confucian Six Art Poems, rituals, music, shooting, the imperial carriages and archery movements. I have never touched them! Of course, how can I walk to the top of Mount Tai, one hundred and forty-eight miles and three hundred steps? If they can't get up, of course, these Confucian scholars from Qilu will be the master of ceremonies.

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