Two in one! Shen Zhiwei: Those who imitate me will die! ! …

Because the emperor sent troops to Taisheng, the vassal states have been discussing this matter recently, and the emperor has become the veritable center of public opinion. When one thing attracts the attention of most people, the presence of other things will be reduced.

Shen Zhiwei felt that he hadn't heard of any news of the destruction of a vassal state for a while.

Could it be that those great vassal states finally came to their senses, understood the reason why they were so anxious to fight each other, and decided to change their ways and stop being invaders?

Shen Zhiwei almost laughed out loud when he thought of this. Should he believe that she was Qin Shi Huang, or that the princes had a change of heart?

I can't believe it! There's no Qin Shi Huang in this world. She was the king of a fallen nation, so she definitely couldn't be Qin Shi Huang. And the princes never had conscience.

Shen Zhiwei always felt that the princes were silent now because they wanted to give her a big one.

Sure enough, news came a few days later - there was unrest in the north.

A battle between father and son, an entanglement between brother and sister, and love coming from Xuanwu Gate.

No, love comes from Fengbao City.

Shen Zhiwei got the news from the merchant Zheng, who often traveled between Fengbao and Taisheng in the northern country. His speed in collecting intelligence was beyond imagination.

The details of the information were so incredible that Shen Zhiwei found it unbelievable. If someone didn't know, they would think that he was standing by and watching the whole thing.

"Now that the Northern Kingdom has been in trouble, the Tai Sheng incident is completely over. We can also spread the news of the heavenly punishment on Marquis Tai Sheng's tomb and prevent the practice of slaves being buried alive."

Wen Tao gave Shen Zhiwei advice. As she spoke, she couldn't help but reveal a bit of fatigue between her eyebrows, as if she hadn't slept well for several days.

She really hadn't slept well. Ever since Shen Zhiwei handed over Bianxiao to Wen Tao, Wen Tao had no idea how many difficult cases and thorny matters she had dealt with in order to prevent her energetic senior sister from bothering her all the time.

In addition, the follow-up of Beiguo and Taisheng still needs to be dealt with. Wen Tao, although young, has already experienced the hardships of working overtime as a corporate slave.

Shen Zhiwei felt a little bit reluctant when watching this, but she would rather die than let her fellow Taoist die. If he didn't let his subordinates do it, she would have to do it, and she definitely wouldn't do it.

Ultimately, it’s because of the lack of manpower.

"Taishen should have stabilized. Is A-Tao going to serve as an official in Taisheng?"

Most of the official positions in Jingchang are already occupied. No matter whether those people do any work or not, there are people in the positions.

It is actually quite difficult for Wen Tao to get a promotion in Jingchang, as there is only one position for each official.

She couldn't let her father abdicate and let her become the Grand Tutor.

So Shen Zhiwei wanted Wen Tao to go out and work. After a year or so, she would have experience and reputation. Regardless of whether she, the Emperor of Zhou, still existed in the future, Wen Tao would be able to move to a higher level with her experience.

In order to give his devoted ministers a good future, Shen Zhiwei racked his brains to come up with a solution.

Wen Tao also knew that she had no future in Jingchang, so she just asked her to go to Taisheng. She was worried that if she let Bianxiao stay in Jingchang, there would be trouble.

Moreover, in Wen Tao's opinion, being away from the emperor is a very dangerous thing.

Who knows if the emperor will still remember her after she leaves?

There are so many geniuses, and the king is becoming more and more like a king day by day. Bianxiao will not be the first genius to come here because of his reputation, and there will be many more in the future.

Wen Tao believes that she has excellent abilities, but she does not have the determination to defeat the world's talents. Facing Bian Xiao, she cannot guarantee that she will win.

"Your Majesty, I wish to go to Taisheng. Please allow me to go to Taisheng with my senior sister."

Wen Tao finally nodded. She was young and needed tangible political achievements to prove herself.

Her only worry was that Bian Xiao would not do his job properly and would wander around all day. Since she was worried, she might as well keep him by her side.

When Shen Zhiwei thought of Wen Tao's eccentric senior sister, he felt the urge to nod.

Since Bian Xiao was not around, she didn't have to worry about being surrounded by a group of people kneeling down to worship her the next time she went out.

"Do you really want to bring your senior sister with you?"

Shen Zhiwei's remaining conscience made her not nod directly, but asked again.

Wen Tao nodded seriously, indicating that he would never regret it.

For some reason, Shen Zhiwei saw a kind of determination to sacrifice his life for justice on Wen Tao's face. Perhaps in Wen Tao's eyes, Bian Xiao was also a very difficult person to deal with.

"Okay, I'll leave everything in Taisheng to A Tao. Taisheng will be a county, and you will be the prefect of Taisheng County in the future, and Bianxiao will be the magistrate of Taisheng County."

The county system did not appear at this time. Some vassal states used it, but they were all basic models with incomplete features and did not have a detailed system like the centralized dynasties of later generations.

Shen Zhiwei is a person who takes what she needs and uses it directly if it is useful.

Therefore, she brought over the most complete county system of later generations.

Wen Tao didn't quite understand what the county governor and county magistrate were at first, but after Shen Zhiwei explained the county system, she understood.

Taisheng County is the combination of all the villages near Taisheng and Taisheng City, which is equivalent to the position of the previous Taisheng Marquis. The Taisheng County Magistrate is the county magistrate in Taisheng City. He is an official under her, the county governor, similar to the literati who were granted land in the vassal states.

At present, she only has one county magistrate under her command, the Taisheng County Magistrate. When the population of Taisheng County increases in the future, she can set up another county town, write to the emperor, and appoint a county magistrate.

The county system was completely different from the current feudal system. Officials under the county system had limited terms of office, and their positions were not hereditary. They had no land under their names and only managed the local area on behalf of the emperor.

After hearing about this system, Wen Tao was greatly shocked. She was just worried that she would not be able to hold an official position in the future, and the Wen family might have to compete with some noble family to seize a high-ranking official position.

Now, the solution was right in front of her.

"If all the world were a county or a prefecture of the king..." then I'm afraid the few noble families we have now would not be enough.

Official positions must be opened to more people. At that time, common people like the merchant Zheng who can read and write and are talented may be able to become aristocrats.

This will surely be a world-changing feat!

Wen Tao seemed to have seen the earth-shaking scene, her breathing suddenly became heavier, and she looked up at the king with eyes that were as hot as a burning fire.

"It's true that enfeoffment is inferior to that of counties, but change isn't that quick. How could the nobles easily give up the land they hold? If you were to hand over your fiefdom to the state, would you be willing to do so?"

Shen Zhiwei didn't see Wen Tao's burning gaze full of expectation, and just followed Wen Tao's words.

The county system is better than the feudal system, but that doesn’t mean it will necessarily be useful.

Policies must be adapted to local conditions. If we ignore the actual situation and insist on implementing advanced systems and policies, there will be a strong "rejection reaction". At that time, society will be in turmoil and enter a chaotic era with everyone fighting for their lives. No matter how good the policy is, it will not be able to operate.

Shen Zhiwei just wanted to be a king who would destroy her country, so she would come up with whatever policies she wanted, without caring whether they would be incompatible with the local climate or not. At worst, she would just embark on the road to national destruction ahead of time.

Now that two special events have passed, her side income has completely covered her main income, causing her to become even more self-indulgent. She even developed the idea that it doesn't matter if the main line fails and she dies early.

Of course, it would be best if you could complete the main storyline and get the money smoothly.

It is more painful not to get the free money than to lose it.

So Shen Zhiwei reminded: "Don't think about promoting counties and prefectures everywhere, just like private plots cannot be promoted everywhere, it will cause a big mess."

Shen Zhiwei knew that Wen Tao and Bian Xiao both secretly wanted to promote the private plot system.

This is what idealists do. They think that something is beneficial to the country and the people, and is the right thing to do, so they want to do it on impulse.

They also don't think about whether all common people and slaves can cultivate the land for the nobles and princes while having their own private plots.

If there is a bumper harvest in the private plots and the nobles' grain production decreases, the common people's private plots may not have any grain left.

It may also bring about fatal disasters. What's worse is that in the future, nobles will use the standard of a bumper harvest in their private plots to measure the output of the land. Farming requires God to give you a good harvest, so how can the conditions be the same every year?

By then, I wonder how many tragedies there will be of people selling their children and families being broken up.

Wen Tao was not discouraged by Shen Zhiwei's words, because she knew the difficulty involved. She secretly vowed in her heart that she would devote her entire life to it and live up to her promise.

Along with the more firm belief came the reverence for the king. Wen Tao originally thought that the king was extremely precocious to be able to come up with such an unprecedented policy, and that he was one of the few natural-born kings in the world. However, he did not expect that the king not only thought of the first step, but also every step thereafter.

His thoughts were so profound that they were rarely seen in the world. This made Wen Tao sigh that her decision to leave Jingchang was the right one. Only by seeing the wider world outside could she keep up with the king's pace.

"Tao will obey the king's orders. As long as the king is alive, the royal family will never decline completely!"

Wen Tao couldn't contain her excitement and knelt down to salute, which scared Shen Zhiwei.

Shen Zhiwei didn't react until Wen Tao left.

No, isn't it a tradition for your sect to occasionally go crazy? Why are you so excited? She doesn't seem to have done anything!

Fortunately, no other officials were present when Wen Tao suddenly fell ill, otherwise Shen Zhiwei would have to relive the embarrassing scene of his previous social death.

In the end, Shen Zhiwei could only comfort herself by saying that both of them were leaving. She wouldn't be embarrassed because they wouldn't see each other again in the short term.

Shen Zhiwei kept warning Wen Tao not to promote the system she got from her, but no one in the vassal states cared.

The Northern Kingdom experienced a civil war, the old monarch died, and the old monarch's favorite son, Prince Yue, ascended to the throne.

As for the original Prince Rong of the Northern Kingdom, his whereabouts were unknown. Beiyue told the outside world that Prince Rong had died from a hail of arrows, but it could not produce Prince Rong's body. Therefore, both the princes and nobles as well as the people had different opinions, and many strange stories were fabricated by gossipers, affecting Beiyue's rule over the Northern Kingdom.

Bei Yue was eager to stabilize the government, so he turned to his prime minister Su Vang for help.

Su Wang was originally from Bian. After he injured someone in Bian, he fled to the North. In the North, he met Prince Yue, who was favored by the monarch but had no real power. After Prince Yue gave him a meal, Su Wang stayed to give Prince Yue advice.

Beiyue is sixteen years old this year, the same age as Prince Zhuo of Anguo, but the two have little friendship. On the contrary, the former Prince Rong and Anzhuo have a very good relationship.

Therefore, when Prince Rong's whereabouts were unknown, both Yue and Su Wang's first thought was that An Guo intervened in the affairs of the Northern Kingdom and rescued Prince Rong.

Will Anguo take the risk to help? The answer is yes!

Because Bian State had once defeated An State and Bei State, the king of Bei State could not bear to see Rong suffer so he sent Rong to Bian State. At that time, An State had only one prince, Zhuo. Zhuo and Rong were both hostages in Bian State. Rong's mother was Zhuo's aunt, so the relationship between them was naturally different from that of others.

After being certain that it was An Guo who saved the person, North Vietnam's first thought was to go and get the person back.

Although he had ascended to the position of King of the North, he still could not feel at ease, because there were still many people in the country who were loyal to the Crown Prince and had complaints about his coup.

As long as Gongzi Rong is alive in this world, he will not be at peace.

After Su Wang learned of Bei Yue's intention, he immediately advised, "But Your Majesty, you sent so many people to search, but couldn't find Prince Rong's whereabouts. An Guo has never sent anyone to present the treasure. How can you directly ask An Guo for the person?"

After all, it was Anguo, not a small vassal state that could be bullied by a big country.

Assuming that An Guo really rescued the person, without solid evidence, An Guo would not let him go, and might even use this as an excuse to start a war with the Northern Kingdom. The Northern Kingdom has just experienced the transition between the old and new monarchs, and the government is unstable. We must not give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage.

"Prime Minister, I don't care whether Rong is dead or alive. I only care whether Rong will appear again."

Bei Yue's young face was full of gloom. He had no intention of killing his brother, but as long as his brother was alive, his position would be unstable.

Su Wang pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, you are aware that the tomb of Marquis Taisheng was recently punished by heaven. A thunderbolt fell from the sky, smashing the tomb into pieces, leaving no trace of his body."

"Of course I know. I don't know what kind of evil deeds Tai Shenghou did to incur the wrath of heaven. However, I have never heard of him doing anything immoral before. I don't know if he hid it well or if it was all just a coincidence."

When Bei Yue talked about this matter, there was a bit of youthful eccentricity between his brows. This kind of things about gods and ghosts have always been popular among young people.

Su Wang laughed and said, "Why doesn't your Majesty think that it was Marquis Taisheng who angered the Emperor and thus brought down the divine punishment?"

"Angering the Emperor? Ha! Just him? If you really mean angering the Emperor, the first person to be struck should be Duke Bian!"

In its early years, the Bian Kingdom was quite disrespectful to the Zhou Emperor. Relying on the prosperous culture and morality in Yongming City of Bian Kingdom, where all the powerful people in the world gathered together, it looked down on every prince equally, including the Emperor. At that time, they had never seen divine punishment. The idea of ​​the Emperor was just to deceive the ignorant common people. As a member of the royal family and nobles, didn’t Beiyue know whether the Emperor was a child of God?

Su Wang listened to the young monarch's arrogant speech with his eyes full of satisfaction. The monarch he followed should be like this, with the momentum to swallow the world, not afraid of anyone, and not controlled by the so-called destiny.

"There may be a hidden story behind the matter of Marquis Taisheng. However, the truth of this matter is not important. What is important is that Marquis Taisheng was punished by heaven before. We can use this incident to grant the young master Rong's death."

Bei Yue's eyes lit up immediately, and he urged: "Prime Minister, tell me quickly, how can we let him die?"

"We only need to explain to the world that Prince Rong disrespected his father's orders, was unfilial and immoral, and could not inherit the throne of the Northern Kingdom. The gods were enraged and sent down divine thunder to punish Prince Rong."

Su Wang's words were not absolute. He did not say that Gongzi Rong was killed by lightning. He only said that the divine thunder sent down from heaven punished the other party.

This sentence can be divided into two parts. The heaven did send down divine thunder, but it struck the tomb of Marquis Taisheng.

How could Prince Rong's loss of his position as Crown Prince not be considered a punishment from God?

"Good! Good! The Prime Minister is quite quick-witted! I am truly fortunate to have the Prime Minister's help. The Prime Minister is truly a god."

Bei Yue spoke in an exaggerated manner, and seeing Su Wang's laughter, one could tell that this compliment, which was almost flattery, was very much to Su Wang's liking.

After copying Shen Zhiwei's trick of pretending to be a god, Bei Yue and Su Wang began to discuss how to learn from the emperor's system of conferring titles based on military merit.

The success of the system of conferring titles based on military merit was fully demonstrated in the emperor's attack on Taisheng. When the number of defenders and attackers was almost the same, the defenders were at a disadvantage in defending the city, and the attackers won an overwhelming victory.

How could the emperor have any capable and brave generals under his command? Hu Youan had never been heard of before. The princes made inquiries and learned that Hu Youan was just a slave in the palace. Somehow he had been appreciated by the emperor and became a palace doctor, and was even allowed to lead troops to war.

Even though they knew that Hu Youan was from a well-educated family, the princes did not take her abilities seriously. The nobles looked down on even the common people, so how could they look down on a slave?

Even if Hu Youan now has a status equal to theirs, he will never be respected by them. Even if Hu Youan leads his troops to kill them one day, they will not take Hu Youan seriously.

This is what the nobles call integrity, and this is the distortion of three views in Shen Zhiwei's eyes.

Nobles, commoners and slaves are all human beings, but in this era, they are like humans, pigs and ants.

Even if a person is gored to death by a pig or bitten to death by an ant, he will never regard pigs and ants as the same kind. He will only lament that he is unlucky and does not have a powerful enough weapon in his hand.

He said that he could not bear to see him die because he saw him alive.

But no matter how unbearable you are, pork still tastes delicious when you eat it, and you won't cry for the death of an ant when you step on it to death.

Shen Zhiwei knew this, so he said that many policies that benefit the people cannot be promoted on a large scale.

The system of conferring titles based on military merit can certainly strengthen the army, but titles themselves are a monopolized resource. As the Son of Heaven, Shen Zhiwei can freely use this resource because she is the only descendant of the Zhou royal family.

When other princes successively introduced similar reforms of military merit and nobility, before they could see their own armies fighting bravely on the battlefield, they first saw wave after wave of assassinations, voices of opposition everywhere, and ministers in the court tried their best to stop the reforms.

The soldiers in the army did not, as they had imagined, abandon everything and kill the enemy without hesitation. Instead, many of them deserted, or falsely claimed military merit, or remained passive, completely ignoring the promise of knighthood for military merit.

All the princes wanted to strengthen themselves and learn any good policies. In this era, failure to reform meant falling behind, and weakness would lead to the destruction of the country.

However, the princes would think about their own fiefdoms, but their ministers would not. Most ministers with good backgrounds would never lack places to go. They were like Bianxiao, whose fellow disciples were spread all over the place. They were stronger than Bianxiao because they had relatives everywhere.

Shen Zhiwei listened to the excitement for several more months. Every time she heard that a country had learned her system of conferring titles based on military merit and thus suffered civil unrest, she would close the door and burst into laughter.

Do you know what it means that those who imitate me will die?

"Although I understand their ambition to unify the world, I ask them to put aside their hopes and first look at their own strengths. Future generations have learned countless bloody lessons before summarizing a feasible plan, but they are blindly copying it. Copying the system is fine, but they even copy the lightning rod. I also draw lightning to strike people's graves to save them, okay?"

Shen Zhiwei's main target of all her complaints was Beiguo. God knows how frightened she was when she heard from Hu Youan that the same kind of divine punishment was suspected to have appeared in Beiguo!

She thought a fellow villager had arrived, and wondered if he was here to steal her job, or if she was the ruler of a fallen nation and the other was a wise ruler? Was he her old enemy?

Fortunately, Zheng later told her that it was just a rumor spread by the North Country. Thunder rarely occurs in the North Country in summer. In any case, there has been no lightning for nearly a month. How could there be a thunderbolt from heaven that could bring punishment?

After Shen Zhiwei understood the whole story, he could only sigh that the ancients were just not knowledgeable enough, but their brains were really flexible.

Once she used her tricks, people learned from her. The new king of the Northern Kingdom didn't even have a lightning rod, or even lightning, but he dared to say that people were killed by lightning.

This is the highest level of lying with open eyes.

"Forget it, just study. Learn whatever you want. It won't bother me anyway. Gui Yang is coming back, and the pigs he raised haven't even been released yet. How about not giving him a promotion for now?"

Shen Zhiwei poked the system panel, and an automatic reply popped up. She poked it again, and another one popped up.

It's quite fun, just poke and jump.

Shen Zhiwei was originally worried about whether she should promote Gui Yang after she came back, but now she was amused by the system's reply and her worries were thrown out of her mind.

She is the king, she can promote anyone if she wants. If there is no promotion available, then she can create one for Gui Yang.

You want to play the game of one carrot, one hole, right? Look, I'm holding a shovel and turning into a mole, digging holes all over the yard!

See how many carrots you have taking up my space.

Shen Zhiwei is always shocked by her own talent. It is a huge loss for Peking University and Tsinghua University that they did not admit her!

Gui Yang also thinks she is a genius. Isn't this a tacit understanding between the monarch and his subjects?

He believed that he was extremely talented in spreading rumors to mess with North Vietnam. It was a pity that it did not cause chaos in the North, but only caused a temporary unrest.

It was just a riot, and it was quickly suppressed by North Vietnam. The result was not good, so I won’t tell the king about it.

Next time, he will definitely spread the news further and try to destroy the next vassal state.

When leaving Jingchang for the Donghai Salt Field, Gui Yang was worried, but on the way back, she was in high spirits.

Not only Gui Yang was happy, but the soldiers who followed Gui Yang to the Donghai Salt Field were also very happy. Except for the soldiers who died in the battle, the rest of them had military merits, which could be exchanged after returning to Jingchang.

They can see with their own eyes the fertile fields and houses that belong to them, and even injured soldiers will have someone to serve them in the future.

They are no longer lowly soldiers, they are the king's soldiers and the emperor's teachers!