After Qin Xiaogong and Shang Martin reached an agreement, Shang Martin's first change of law officially began. However, variation is only a means, not an end. The real purpose of the Qin state is to enrich the country and strengthen the army.
Presumably, the other princely states, the State of Qi Zou Ji, the State of Wei, and the state of Qin had come too late. It was indeed not easy to catch up with other princely states in the shortest possible time.
Therefore, the core content of the first change of the martingale is to mobilize all the resources that the state can call upon and invest in farming and armaments. Simple and crude, but effective.
The highly concentrated qin state of production is like an emotionless production machine, and the people of the qin state are just parts of the machine.
Overwork and lack of quality of life is bound to cause dissatisfaction among the people, and Shang Martin took this into account and formulated a harsh reward and punishment system, that is, the law of sitting together.
As we mentioned earlier, the household registration system of the Qin State is a management method of five households as one, and Shang Martin has set ten households as one "Shi" on this basis. If one family commits a crime, the other nine must fulfill the obligation to report, and if they do not report it, ten families will sit together. And the reward, of course, is also the same as the ten awards.
When there are spies and whistleblowers lurking around, conspiracies are hard to hide. During the period of the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, it was truly achieved that the people's road was not left behind, and there were no thieves in the mountains. This thing that the Confucians have always wanted to do was easily done by The Shang Martin, but the methods are really far apart.
As for the military reform, it is the most important thing in the martingale transformation method. All those who have made meritorious contributions in combat will be promoted to knighthood according to the size of their merits. Without military merit, even the royal clan could not be included in the ranks of the nobility.
Militarily, Shangmartin gave the people of the whole country a relatively fair opportunity to compete, in order to promote the people's desire and fighting spirit to fight. In the Warring States era, when there was no imperial examination system, this was the only opportunity for the people to change their faces.
The martingale transformation method is subversive, so the resistance faced by the new regulations is also extremely great. Especially the princes and nobles who suffered greatly.
But reform requires the courage to confront the problem. The first person to open the knife was the prince of the dynasty. The prince was young, seduced by the people around him, and violated the new law.
Shang Martin took the initiative to plead with Qin Xiaogong, saying: "The reason why the new law cannot be implemented smoothly is because the people above have violated it." The prince has violated the law and must be seriously investigated. Although the crown prince, as the crown prince of the state, could not be punished, the prince and the prince, as the prince's teachers, must be punished. ”
During the Warring States period, the punishment was not as good as the doctor, which was the subtle rule of that era. The pressure on shang martingale to challenge this unspoken rule is also very huge. Fortunately, Qin Xiaogong's support for him was also unreserved.
Taifu GongziQian and Gongsun Jia were punished according to law, and Gongsun Jia was sentenced to be appeased. For a time, the whole country was shaken, and under the strong means of ShangMartin, all the opponents were silent, and no one dared to complain about the new law.
Over time, the benefits brought by the change of law have also given the people a taste of sweetness. Food is abundant, families are rich, and social security is needless to say.
The first stage of the change was successful, and the Qin state also felt the benefits of the change. In addition to his political achievements, Shang Martin was also a good hand at leading troops to fight, and twice led troops into the State of Wei. Although it did not have any impact on the foundation of the State of Wei, it also brought about a long-lost peace.
The martingale soon underwent a second transformation:
First, move the capital to Xianyang
Second, refine administrative districts
Third, waste wells, open the strange
Fourth, unified weights and measures
Fifth, get rid of the old habits of RongDi
After the change, the Qin state was renewed, and the basic prototype of the future Great Qin Empire was formed.