Zhao Xin's words made all the ministers in the court feel helpless.

One hundred severe beatings may not sound that scary, but this kind of executioner will beat you to death.

As for civil officials, if their will is not strong enough, they can be killed in five battles.

Yes, that's right. Severe beating is a very useful and terrifying punishment. It sounds insignificant, but when it is carried out, if an ordinary citizen is hit by that stick, he may lose consciousness.

A hundred heavy battles is like the emperor preparing to commit suicide. Even if Li Cunxiao comes, he dare not say that he can withstand a hundred heavy battles.

Therefore, all the ministers in the court were silent. If there were a hundred heavy weapons, any minister could be picked out and beaten to death with thirty sticks.

Nan Cang could be killed with just fifty sticks, but now Zhao Xin said he would punish himself with a hundred heavy blows. None of the ministers dared to speak. What exactly did Zhao Xin want to do?

Nan Cang came to the center of the court at this time, "Your Majesty, I have a memorial to make."

Zhao Xin nodded, "Please speak, my dear."

"Your Majesty simply understands Zhuge Liang's talent for governing the country and has absolute confidence in him, so he directly appointed Zhuge Liang to the position of Prime Minister and to carry out the Prime Minister's duties."

"I haven't seen such a rapid promotion in decades."

"But Your Majesty, I have to ask myself, fifty battles would probably cost me my life."

"Your Majesty said that I should punish myself with a hundred blows, but that is absolutely impossible."

"Since Your Majesty has such confidence in Zhuge Liang's ability to govern the country, why not let Zhuge Liang serve as Prime Minister, but without appointing him to any official position?"

"If within six months, Zhuge Liang turns out to be a truly exceptional talent, then Your Majesty can simply appoint him Prime Minister. There would be no need for the position of Prime Minister's Assistant."

Zhao Xin listened and said, "Okay, let's do as the commander says."

"Zhuge Liang will serve as Prime Minister, but he will not appoint any officials. In half a year, there will be a conclusion and decision on this matter."

"In addition, I will reward Zhuge Liang with ten catties of gold and silver, and fifty thousand strings of cash."

"Give me a house."

The eunuch next to him immediately trotted down to do his job.

Zhao Xin said, "Lord Zhuge, please join the ranks of civil officials and listen to today's morning court session."

The purpose of this morning court session was to let Zhuge Liang perform the duties of prime minister. The ministers did not know who Zhuge Liang was, but he knew him.

Since this person is under his command, he cannot waste even a single day. If he is late in employing him, he will get benefits later.

However, the speed of promotion was indeed a bit exaggerated, but Zhao Xin really needed Zhuge Liang urgently, and using this method to shut up the ministers was the best solution Zhao Xin could think of.

If he had not mentioned punishing himself with a hundred heavy battles, it would have resulted in lip service and double-crossing. This sentence of punishing himself with a hundred heavy battles made it so that these ministers, whose loyalty level was more than fifty, would not dare to be rude or disobedient to Zhuge Liang.

In this way, Zhuge Liang's talents can be maximized.

After this big problem was dealt with, the morning court finally proceeded as usual, and Zhao Xin felt relieved.

After the morning court session ended, Zhao Xin returned to the Qinzheng Hall to study the Daqin territory, especially the 70,000 square kilometers of territory left to them, which made Zhao Xin feel itchy.

Under the management of the seven kings, those lands became fertile and the people were rich.

"Summon Liu Muzhi." Zhao Xin said to the eunuch beside him.

While Yu Qian was dealing with taxation, Liu Muzhi was still arranging the refugees. He had previously checked the background of Wang Jin and Cui Cen's factions and had taken a lot of money.

As long as the refugees do not form an army, the finances can still support them.

In addition, taxes around the capital have always been strictly paid. Although Cui Cen cannot control the territory of the Qin Dynasty, if he cannot even collect taxes from several large cities around the capital, where will Cui Cen get his followers?

My main focus now is to reach a conclusion on the issues concerning Equal Qian, the Imperial Censor, and Zhuge Liang.

The local government office will conduct inspections, and how to conduct the inspections and how long it will take will be determined. Once the local tax revenue is back on track, the role of the 500,000 refugees will be revealed.

Raising a private army and winning over the Nan family through marriage is not a solution to the fundamental problem.

Military power must be in his own hands, in the hands of his own Hanlin Academy.

How could it be possible that all the frontiers were controlled by the Nan Cang family? This military power was safe for the time being, but if it continued to develop, the Nan family might even dare to make moves on the world.

It is still too early to move against the Nan family now. The entire Nan family can be said to be one of our own now, and the first priority is to pacify the Seventy Thousand.

Zhao Xin couldn't bear to give so much land to these seven rebels.

After Yu Qian and Zhuge Liang had settled the supervisory system and taxation issues, they began to let the Hanlin Academy fully prepare to support 500,000 refugees as an army.

The future significance of the Hanlin Academy will be similar to that of the Wang Jin Group before.

It’s just that the Wang Jin Group is a castrated jackals, tigers and leopards. They have no ability to do things, but they are good at killing people.

The original intentions of the Hanlin Academy and Wang Jin's eunuch system are similar. They are the emperor's think tank and office group, and their power will gradually take the form of the emperor's token.

Although they do not hold official positions, what they say and what they do are all decided by themselves.

Of course, this time Wang Jin’s system was truly explained. Later on, he said that he was the one who had to do everything.

The original intention of the eunuch system was to fight against the civil officials group and implement the emperor's will. Later, the emperor's will became an excuse, and he dared to do anything in his own name.

The concept of the Hanlin Academy is the same as that of Wang Jin's group. They work for themselves and implement their own will. Although there are no official positions in the Hanlin Academy, their words are their own words.

With Zhuge Liang in the court, he is enough to intimidate all the ministers. Moreover, with Zhuge Liang in the court, he has nothing to worry about.

Zhuge Liang cooperated with the group of ministers to complete the instructions issued by the Hanlin Academy, and in this way, he established his own power system.

Nan Cang's rights will be reduced to the maximum extent. In terms of politics, he has already centralized all power in his own hands.

It is really difficult to seize the military power. The entire Nan family now controls almost all the military systems of the Qin Dynasty.

In other words, the army in the capital is not part of the Nan family system, otherwise, Nan Cang could order someone to kill him at any time.

If Nancang is willing to rebel, the army in the capital will have a hard time fighting.

It is probably an army of 30,000 against the army of more than 100,000 that Nan Cang can muster, and the border defenses on all four sides are all made up of people from the Nan family.

The Nan family’s problem will be dealt with last. My first stage is to become the real leader of Daqin.

To achieve this goal, the Nan family must delegate power and hand over military power to the Hanlin Academy, to their confidants and the working team.

The second stage is to destroy Chu Zhan. As long as this man is not dead, I will not be able to sleep peacefully.

In history, Liu Xiu was nicknamed the Son of the Plane because he pushed Wang Mang, whose political actions were very advanced, off the throne.