At the beginning of April of the 34th year of Qin Shi Huang, Gongzi Fusu established a city in a foreign land, ate and dressed at night, and pursued the enemy, but in the Xianyang Palace, it was a leisurely and happy situation.

On top of a luxurious royal banquet, a young man dressed in Zhu Xuan's deep clothes and wearing a distant travel crown was standing in the middle of the banquet, talking with his hands in his hands, as if he was reciting something......

"If you make a hole, the country will have many things; Out of ten holes, the country is less. Those who keep one rule and those who guard ten are chaotic. ”

His eyes are clear, he is full of confidence, and what he recited in his mouth was the article "Weak People" in the "Book of Shang Jun", not only could he recite, but also said his own opinions.

"For example, in the country of Chu, the land of Chu is not large, the people are not numerous, and the money of the soldiers is not much; If you can't win the war, you can't defend it, and this inability is born ......"

After that, the prince Hu Hai happily bowed his hand to Qin Shi Huang, who was a little older than a year ago: "Father, what did you say?" ”

When Qin Shi Huang faced Fusu, he always kept a straight face, but when he treated his young son Hu Hai, he stroked his beard and smiled with satisfaction:

"Well memorized, well said. Ming is the master of the law, the people in the territory have no heart to resist prostitution, the wandering people are forced to fight, and the people are sick in the cultivation and war, this is what a strong country does! It is also the foundation of Qin Neng's unification! ”

After speaking, he pointed to the two older sons at the end of the ceremony, Gongzi Gao and Gongzi Jiang, and said: "At least, it is much stronger than the stumbling of the two of you." ”

Gongzi Gao and Gongzi General Lu Fangcai also memorized the laws they had learned, but they were far less smooth than Hu Hai, and they were criticized by Qin Shihuang at this moment, so they quickly got up and said:

"What my father blames is that his sons and ministers are not as smart as Hu Hai......"

The two sons trembled, they were both a little afraid of Qin Shi Huang, in the royal family, the most difficult relationship was also father and son...... The emperor has more than ten sons, and there are only two who are not afraid of the emperor, the eldest son Fusu and the youngest son Hu Hai.

Compared with Fusu, who dared to speak out, there were often disputes between the father and son of the monarch and minister, and Hu Hai was another type, when he was young and ignorant, he dared to pull the emperor's beard! The emperor was not angry, and even lowered his head to let him pull it, and gradually grew up, and Hu Hai was also favored.

The identities of other sons, in addition to their sons, also have ministers. Only Hu Hai only has the family affection for his son, but not for the life of the minister, which may be what the emperor likes him the most.

At present, Qin Shi Huang did not hesitate to praise Hu Hailai:

"Whether Hu Hai is the smartest or not, I don't know ......"

"But it's the most serious, he likes to have fun since he was a child, but on my order, when he learned the law with the order of the CRRC government, he was also honest, I went to see it, when Zhao Gao was explaining, Hu Hai scratched his ears and cheeks in front of the case, looked around, and couldn't wait to go outside to have a good time in the spring, but in the end he was able to endure it and learn the law quietly......"

In his words, there was relief, Qin Shi Huang looked at Zhao Gao behind Hu Hai: "CRRC Mansion Order, you taught well!" ”

Zhao Gao hurriedly came out: "The minister is just acting on orders, the son is very talented, and he learns everything quickly." ”

In the Junan assassination that shook the world, Zhao Gao was injured by a frightened horse in order to protect Qin Shi Huang, and lost one of his arms, and since then, he can no longer drive for Qin Shi Huang in person.

But the position of the CRRC government order has been retained, and he can enter and leave the palace at any time, and at the same time, he also got a new errand: to be Hu Hai's teacher!

Calligraphy, law, and prison break are the basic qualities that a Qin official must have.

But in the Qin Dynasty, Gongzi also had to learn these skills and understand the importance of "law" to the empire!

Qin can produce six generations of virtuous monarchs, it is excellent luck, but it is also inevitable! No matter which prince becomes the new monarch, even if it is King Qin Huiwen, who hates Shang Ying himself, he can kill him, but he can keep his law.

It's a pity that there is still such an outlier as Fusu, Qin Shi Huang learned a lesson, and strengthened the education of the princes.

And these three are exactly what Zhao Gao is good at, and he also has a set of methods to let Hu Hai, who likes to have fun, learn it obediently.

A compliment made Hu Hai the protagonist of the feast, and the emperor also agreed that Hu Hai could drink a few more drinks today.

Hu Hai was naturally happy, got up and toasted to Qin Shi Huang on his birthday, and after drinking, he asked a question like a studious baby.

"Father, although I am familiar with the law, there is still one thing I don't understand."

Qin Shi Huang no longer drank as before, just took a sip gently, held back the cough, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Hu Hai said: "Shang Jun's book says that if you make a hole, the country will have many things; Out of ten holes, the country is less. That's why Daqin wants to suppress merchants and advocate their own business, but recently I heard that Jiaodong has set up a 'Haidong Trading Company' to encourage thirteen big merchants in Qidi to do business, which is allowed by his father, but it is different from the words of Shang Jun, why is this? ”

Qin Shi Huang smiled, pointed to the ornament on Hu Hai's waist and said, "What is that?" ”

Hu Hai picked up the gorgeous pendant on his waist: "This is the wall of luminous light." ”

Qin Shi Huang pointed to the hairpin on the top of his head again: "What is the hairpin on his head made of?" ”

Hu Hai smiled: "Father, this is an ivory hairpin." ”

Qin Shi Huang continued to ask: "What about the cup in your hand?" ”

Hu Hai looked down: "The cup of rhino horn." ”

Qin Shi Huang nodded: "Do you know, where do these objects come from?" ”

Hu Hai couldn't answer this time, so Qin Shi Huang asked Zhao Gao to answer on his behalf.

Zhao Gao was erudite and said: "The luminous wall comes from Jianghan Sui County, the ivory hairpin is produced in Yuzhang, and the rhino horn cup is a tribute from Changsha County." ”

Qin Shi Huang bowed: "Not only these objects, just let you and others pick the Junliang Sho of the outer stable, from Saibei, look at the surrounding palace maids, their clothes are from Xue County, Jibei, Wanzhu hairpin, from Nanyang, the splendid ornament, is produced in Shu. ”

"In addition, there are Jiangnan Jinxi, Bajun Danqing, all of the above, all of which are transported from all over the world, but Hu Hai, do you know that except for some of the tributes, most of the rest are transported by whom?"

Hu Hai thought for a while: "Could it be ...... Merchants? ”

Qin Shi Huang said: "That's right, it is the merchants, the above things are all extravagant things that the nobles like, and most of them are transported to Xianyang by the merchants." In addition, there are grains, mulberry and hemp, livestock, and furs, which are necessary for the people to wear and eat and maintain their health. How did it come about? Wait for the farmer to eat, Yu and come out, work to make it, and finally, business and communication! ”

"If the business is not out, the three treasures are absolute, I deeply think so, so the business can be suppressed, but it cannot be extinguished! Therefore, outside the Saiwai, in the southwest of Bashu, there are also merchants of the Wushi and Baqing families, who transfer goods for the government. ”

Shang Ying lowered the status of merchants in terms of laws and imposed heavy taxes on them, so as to suppress this kind of people, as if telling people: Merchants are cheap, treacherous and not doing business, not a good thing, don't be a Jia!

But Qin Shi Huang had a different understanding, he felt that the key point was whether the merchants could be controlled by the government, and whether they were of any use to the state......

As a monarch who personally supported and respected the two giants, Qin Shi Huang knew very well in his heart that businessmen were harmful to the country? It is harmful and easy to weaken the industry. But are businessmen good for the country? There are also benefits. Not only is there a transaction, from the early years when he used Wushi and Baqing, Qin Shi Huang discovered that the matter of goods and colonization was done by merchants, which not only made more profits, but also made it more convenient to act.

Especially for the barbarian Rongdi land, Qin Shi Huang handed over the northwest trade to the Wu clan, the southwest to the Ba clan, and near the Great Wall in the north, a merchant named Ban Yi has recently arisen to trade with Donghu for Meng Tian, and the remaining east, the land of Haidong, seems to have a head ......

Qin Shi Huang did not move out of the law and categorically rejected Heifu's proposal, but agreed to let him try it in the "special zone" of Jiaodong, after all, Heifu promised that he could earn more money than he calculated.

And those thirteen merchants are just objects used by the government, and they can be abandoned at any time, or killed chickens and eggs!

"What's more, Qidi Shangjia is indeed a little different from Guanzhong, didn't Shang Jun also say that if the world is not governed together, the country does not need to be ancient, if you stick to the old law, won't it become Gan Long and Du Zhi?"

"Your Majesty is very true!"

Qin Shi Huang finished explaining, and the ministers all smacked their tongues, is this still the emperor they know? If other sons ask questions, the emperor will probably glance at them coldly and let them go back and understand for themselves, only to his youngest son Hu Hai will say such a big deal with a pleasant face......

"Your Majesty is indeed very different from your son Hu Hai."

The minister, who saw this scene in his eyes, inevitably had such an idea.

Hu Hai also made a sudden realization, and slapped his palms and said: "I see, in this way, General Wei is really a capable official according to local conditions!" ”

This is the end of the discussion about Heifu, Qin Shi Huang stroked his beard and talked about today's main topic.

"The ancients had twenty crowns, Qin systems, and twenty-one crowns of the sons, with swords. However, I think and the seventeenth master of Qian, so the crown ceremony of the prince is also the same as that of the head of Qian, to show that under the law, the prince and the common people must be respected! ”

The ministers all know that there are three people who will crown the crown in advance this time, Gongzi Gao, Gongzi Jianglu, and Gongzi Huhai, they are 20, 19, and 18 respectively, it seems that the purpose is to let Gongzi Jiang Lu crown in advance, so that he can marry the Korean princess according to the covenant, but in fact, the protagonist of this crown banquet has completely become Hu Hai.

Gongzi Gao and Gongzi will be Lu and crown in advance, not very happy, adulthood is not necessarily a good thing, once adulthood, will completely leave the palace and go to live in his own mansion.

And what to do after the crown has become a big problem for the sons.

After all, Qin Shi Huang had made up his mind not to reverse the feudal situation and let his sons be princes, so Confucianism criticized him, "Your Majesty has the sea today, and the children are puppets."

According to the law of Qin, the clan is not allowed to be a subordinate unless there is a theory of military merit, although as the emperor's direct clan, it still has a high status and enjoyment, but once the mountain collapses, these old sons often lose their wealth quickly.

Why? Dignity but no merit, dedication but no hard work, will not die well.

Legally, as long as the sons have no merit, they are still "commoners", and they cannot get knighthoods or hold corresponding official positions, such as being in charge of the army. The eldest son, Fusu, was also qualified to command the army because he accompanied Heifu to the north to conquer the Xiongnu as a supervising army, mixed with a wave of adult heads, and was specially taken care of as the "left chief".

Therefore, the princes and queens will always find ways to find something to do, at least there must be a reason to be promoted to the title by the emperor, so as to avoid the rapid disappearance of wealth and wealth.

Gongzi Gao requested, saying that he hoped to go to the Imperial History Mansion, recently Zhang Cang was ordered by Qin Shi Huang to compile the "History of the Country", Gongzi Gao liked to read history books since he was a child, and wanted to go and see.

Gongzi Jiang Lu had his own mission, marrying the Korean princess and becoming the link that maintained this suzerain-vassal relationship.

Qin Shi Huang was most concerned about Hu Hai, and asked him alone:

"Hu Hai, what about you? What do you want to do? ”

When he asked this, it seemed that whatever Hu Hai said, Qin Shi Huang would gladly agree.

The eyes of the ministers secretly glanced at Gongzi Hu Hai, a young man with a full face, but he smiled as a matter of course:

"Father, Hu Hai didn't want to do anything, but he just felt that life in the world was like riding a six-horse express car through a gap, fleeting. I don't ask for anything, I just hope that when I am alive, I can exhaust the preferences of my ears and eyes, enjoy the place of my heart**, and wait until the day when my life is exhausted, but what? ”

Everyone at the banquet was shocked, and Hu Hai's words were undoubtedly announced in public: "My dream is to be a waste who eats and waits for death!" ”