Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

Because, what if a general with a heavy army guarding the border counties rebels, or enters Beijing to force the palace?

If the general who is in charge of the security of the capital also takes orders from other generals with heavy troops, wouldn't the emperor be in danger?

So, in other words, the candidate for the post of lieutenant of the capital's garrison must not be a member of the Meng family.

Among the generals of Da Qin, Han Xin is the one who reassures Ying Zheng the most.

This is also the reason why Yingzheng has not decided on a candidate for the post of lieutenant of the capital guard for a long time, because there is no suitable candidate at all.

"Your Majesty, this time the minister put down the chaos in the south, and found out that Daqin has a very serious problem!"

After the emperor rewarded Han Xin, Li Yang went out to play.

"Oh?" Ying Zheng frowned, it was the first time he heard Li Yang use the word "very serious", he couldn't help but get serious, and said anxiously: "What's the problem, tell me quickly!"

Everyone also looked at Li Yang in surprise, because it could be heard that what Li Yang seemed to say was not simple.

Sure enough, Li Yang said: "I put down the rebellion this time. The leader of the thieves is Xiang, the remnant of Chu. Xiang has a nephew named Xiang Yu. He is brave and invincible. I cherish his talent. I wanted to persuade him to surrender, but he would rather die than surrender. It's all because of the hatred of Chu's subjugation, which is still hard to get rid of."

Ying Zheng's face darkened. Although he didn't speak, everyone could tell that the emperor was angry.

Everyone has already felt the seriousness of the problem, so they dare not make a sound.

Li Yang continued: "Qin's unification of the six countries is following the way of heaven and responding to the hearts of the people, in order to end the chaos of the Warring States period and create a peaceful and prosperous world. However, I feel that the people of the six countries all miss the old country. Along the way, I found an interesting phenomenon. The people in Chu are called Chu people, and the people in Qi are called Qi people. In Xianyang, the ministers also listen to the old Qin people and call themselves Qin people. The old Qin people call themselves Chu people. The people of the land are called Chu people, and the people of Qi are called Qi people..."

Speaking of this, Li Yang chuckled lightly: "Your Majesty, do you think it's strange? They are all the people of our Qin Kingdom. Why do we have to distinguish whether they are Chu people, Qi people, or Qin people according to the old country's region? Now our Great Qin has unified the six countries. , Aren’t they all from the Qin Kingdom? If things go on like this and we don’t change this phenomenon, I’m afraid that after a hundred years, the people of the previous six kingdoms still won’t call themselves Qin people.”

At this moment, Ying Zheng couldn't help becoming serious. The problem Li Yang mentioned was indeed very serious and fatal.

"Li Yang, is there a way to change the problem you mentioned?" Ying Zheng asked quickly.

Li Yang nodded: "Of course there is a way, that is to unify thinking and unify national consciousness!"

Chapter 134 Compulsory Education

"Unify thought, unify national consciousness?"

After hearing this, Ying Zheng couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly, as if he didn't take it seriously.

Not only Ying Zheng shook his head and smiled wryly, but even the civil and military officials present sighed and shook their heads.

Li Yang was surprised. Is there something wrong with the idea he said?

"Your Majesty, do you think it's wrong?" Li Yang asked doubtfully.

Ying Zheng shook his head and sighed, "It's not that it's wrong, it's that we can unify our thinking and consciousness, which is simply impossible."

At this time, everyone also nodded: "Yes, how can people's thoughts be so easily unified? As the saying goes, it is difficult to regulate one's mind if one can regulate one's behavior."

In fact, with regard to the problem of "the people of the six countries do not return their hearts" mentioned by Li Yang, Ying Zheng had long been aware of it when he unified the six countries, and he had made great efforts for it at the beginning.

In order to unify the thoughts of the people of the six countries and change their consciousness, Yingzheng specially built a doctor's hall in Xianyang Palace, where hundreds of Confucian celebrities were appointed as doctors, given the highest status and honor, and even Fusu What is the purpose of doing all this by worshiping Chunyu Yue, a famous Confucian scholar, as his teacher?

In fact, it is to hope that these disciples of Confucius can help Daqin to educate the people of the six countries and the people of the world, so that they love Daqin and regard Daqin as their own state.

But what about the final result?

These Confucian scholars, while enjoying the benefits given by Daqin, talked bad things about him behind their backs.

Not only are they discussing that Yingzheng is obsessed with fairy arts, but they even say that Yingzheng is a tyrant...

And in order to use these Confucian disciples to educate the people of the world, under the influence of these Confucian scholars, it had the opposite effect, making the people of the six countries hate the Great Qin even more.

Not only that, but later, these Confucian scholars actually began to oppose the prefecture and county system, and united outside the Qilin Hall to force Yingzheng to restore the enfeoffment system.

This made Ying Zheng couldn't bear it anymore, so he killed more than 400 Confucian scholars headed by Chun Yuyue, and burned their poems and books...

And the people in the world regard the first emperor as evil, scolding him for burning books and burying Confucianism. (In the previous chapters, many people said that cheating Confucianism is the killing of warlocks. In fact, these are two different things. Professor Wang Liqun of the Hundred Schools Forum said that the first time he killed warlocks, and the second time he killed more than 400 Confucian scholars headed by Chun Yuyue. )

In short, in order to unify the minds of the people of the six countries, Yingzheng paid too much, but in the end, what he reaped was bitter water.

Now, when I heard Li Yang mention unification of thought and consciousness again, do you think Ying Zheng can shake his head and smile wryly?

And the ministers of civil and military affairs in the DPRK, precisely because of the previous example, knew that unifying their thinking should not be done.

At this time, Li Si reminded Li Yang: "Prime Minister Zhong, His Majesty once relied heavily on the disciples of the Confucius family in order to unify the thoughts of the people of the six countries, but..."

Having said that, Li Si shook his head with a wry smile, and it was not easy to bring up the matter of burning books and burying scholars.

Hearing this, Li Yang suddenly realized, and finally understood why they were so pessimistic about this matter.

Knowing the crux of the problem, this matter is easy to handle, Li Yang immediately said: "Your Majesty, although the old saying is true, you can regulate your actions, but it is difficult to regulate your mind, but it is not impossible to shape people's thoughts. You only need to find the correct method. We, the people of Great Qin, will be able to unify our thoughts!"

"You have a solution?" Hearing Li Yang's firm tone, Ying Zheng was taken aback.

Everyone also looked at him curiously, wondering if this guy has any other wonderful plans?

Sure enough, Li Yang nodded confidently and said: "I do have a way to shape the thoughts and national consciousness of the people of our Great Qin."

Ying Zheng was speechless.

"What is the method, let's talk about it!"

Although Yingzheng could not understand Li Yang's pedantic style, the problem of unifying the people's ideology had always been a difficult problem in Yingzheng's heart. He wanted to solve this problem too much, but he was helpless.

Now, hearing Li Yang confidently say that there is a solution, hope is naturally rekindled again.

Li Yang said: "Returning to Your Majesty, the minister's method is actually very simple, that is, to implement compulsory education!"

"compulsory education?"

Everyone was dumbfounded!

Compulsory education... what the hell is it?

Li Yang saw that everyone did not understand, so he had to explain: "To put it simply, it is compulsory for school-age children to accept learning, and let them regard reading as an obligation that every school-age child must do. Therefore, I call it compulsory education!"

"What? Children should be forced to read!"

Hearing this, the entire hall was in an uproar.

I thought Li Yang had a good idea, but it turns out...it is still the same as before, letting the disciples of the Confucian family educate the children...

This... isn't this the old way?

All of a sudden, everyone shook their heads and chuckled.

If the disciples of the Confucian family were willing to educate the children well, the emperor would not be helpless until now.