After winning the battle against Gan Long, Du Zhi, and others, Gongsun Martin was appointed by Duke Xiaogong of Qin as Zuo Shuchang, and began to implement the first change of law in the whole country, the main object of which was the people. Gongsun Martingale changed the household registration system of the people of the Qin State into the Shiwu system, and set up officials to use the joint sitting method to manage it. Those among the people who do not take the initiative to report the adulterer are punished, the bad guy who takes the initiative to report the bad guy and the soldier who receives the head rank of the enemy army can be rewarded, and the hiding of the bad guy is punished the same as the surrender of the enemy country. In this way, the population can be prevented from invisibility because of the fear of torture.
In addition to the sitting method, Gongsun Martingale also made changes in taxation. Gongsun Martingale stipulated that if a Qin commoner had more than two sons, he could get a preferential tax reduction of two or more. Sons can be knighted if they have made meritorious deeds, and if there is a private fight, they are punished. Strive to cultivate the land and spin cloth, so that the people of the country who have enough grain and cloth will be rewarded, and those who are lazy will be punished. If there is still an impersonal aspect to the law of sitting, then the reform of the military merit system carried out by Shangmartin, the reform of taxation, and the reform of encouraging the development of agricultural production have given the people a huge motivation for production.
In the process of the first change of law, Gongsun Martingale, in addition to reforming the laws governing the people in the Qin state, also moved his hands to the nobles. Gongsun Martin stipulated that those who did not have military merit in the Qin State could not be knighted, and each nobleman should be knighted by military merit, and the number of land houses, concubines, and clothing that he could get was calculated by knighthood. Strive to make the Qin state eminent and honorable for those who have military merits at an early date, and those who do not have military merit can only eat the old roots of their ancestors.
Because of the impersonal side of the Lianjing Method, the people of the Qin Kingdom suffered a lot at first, but after three years, the people gradually felt the benefits brought to them by changing the Law. Seeing that the change had an effect, Qin Xiaogong was very happy, and he made Gongsun Martingale the head of Zuo Shu and began to talk with him about administrative matters.
After the first change of law, the national strength of the Qin state began to grow stronger. In 358 BC, the State of Qin defeated Korea at Xishan, and after learning of this news, King Xuan of Chu of the State of Chu was sensitively aware of the imperceptible murderous spirit of this Duke xiaogong of Qin, and in order to establish good relations with the State of Qin, he married a noble daughter in the State of Qin in time and married the State of Qin.
In 355 BC, Duke Xiao of Qin and King Hui of Wei met with Duping to end the situation in which the Qin state had not been allied with the central plains states for many years. Of course, the alliance with the State of Wei was obviously a superficial friendship, because Qin Xiaogong wanted the State of Qin to dominate the world, and King Hui of Wei did not want the State of Wei to fall out of the top three of the Warring States rankings, and there would inevitably be a fierce war between the two countries.
Sure enough, in the eighth year of Qin Xiaogong's reign, a land dispute broke out between the State of Zhao and the Wei state's ally Wei Guo, and the Zhao State relied on its strong strength to try to bully the weak Wei State, intending to forcibly seize two pieces of land such as Wei Guo's Fuqiu. Hou Zhao's actions caused resentment among King Hui of Wei, who immediately sent troops to Weiguo and besieged Handan to warn Marquis Zhao.
Duke Xiao of Qin took advantage of this opportunity and sent an army to sneak attack the State of Wei, and Gongsun Martin made a battle merit in the Battle of Yuanli and captured the Shaoliang of the State of Wei. With the cooperation of Gongsun Martingale, Qin Xiaogong took this opportunity to send troops to attack Korea, only besieging Jiaocheng in Korea, but not occupying the land of the city, but only building a small city between Wei and Han, simply blocking the border between Wei and Korea. Later, this method was changed by Qin Zhaowang and Qin Zhuangxiang and other descendants of Qin Wang, and the Qin army established counties and counties every time another country received a place, which completely hindered the establishment of diplomatic relations between the six kingdoms of Shandong geographically.
In the ninth year of Qin Xiaogong, the State of Qi and the State of Chu successively began to attack the State of Wei, and taking advantage of the siege of the State of Wei, Duke Xiao of Qin sent Gongsun Martingale of Daliang to march into the Wei state of Anyi, and two years later, Gongsun Martin broke through the counterattack of King Hui of Wei and occupied the State of Wei. Just when the State of Wei seemed to be about to suffer a big loss, Qin Xiaogong suddenly announced that he had made peace with the State of Wei and quickly returned to China. It turned out that at this time, Qin Xiaogong learned that Prince Yingsi's teachers, Yingqian and Gongsun Jia, had joined the Qin conservative faction in an attempt to sabotage the second change. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the second change of law, Qin Xiaogong was determined to crack down on the forces of the conservative faction by punishing the prince in the name of breaking the law.
Gongsun Martin believed that the reason why the Qin Law was not working well was because there were such a subordinate offenders as the prince, and he planned to punish the prince. However, other ministers believed that the prince was the crown prince of the state and could not be executed, but could torture the two teachers of the prince. Interestingly, after the punishment of Yingqian and Gongsun Jia, the qin people really respected qin law. In just a few years, the people of the Qin Kingdom have felt the superiority of the Qin Law, it is said that in the Qin State at that time, no one dared to pick up the owner's belongings that fell to the ground, and there were no thieves in the mountains. Men bravely participate in the country's foreign wars, but are ashamed of private fights. The sitting-in law no longer dares to conceal the whereabouts of relatives and friends who have violated the law, which has enabled local administrative organs such as townships and counties to be well governed. The people who talked about the government without authorization were regarded as chaotic people, and were exiled to the border of the Qin state by Gongsun Martingale, and no one dared to criticize the government after that.
Soon after, the State of Qin moved its capital from Yongcheng to Xianyang, and the State of Qin began a second change of law. In this change of law, Gongsun Martin ordered that the homes of the people of the Qin state should not exist in the homes of the people of the Qin state, and that the whole family should live in one house and flourish, and that small townships and yi should be gathered into a new administrative unit county, and each county government should set up county orders and county counties, and through such a change, the qin state was divided into 31 counties.
In addition to the separation of the people and the establishment of the county government, Gongsun Martin also designated the land system as the Quemo system, in order to ensure that the state's annual taxes are fair to the people, Gongsun Martin also ordered that the measurement units of the vessels weighed for grain in the Qin State should be consistent, and the scale scale for measuring the land should be consistent. After the implementation of such a system for many years, the peasants' enthusiasm for production has been greatly enhanced. However, the old nobles who had lost the protection of the public land system were very angry, and they once again instigated Win Qian to violate the criminal law, and Win Qian lost his nose, and henceforth hated Gongsun Martin even more.
In 344 BC, Duke Xiao of Qin sent Gongsun Martingale to persuade King Hui of Wei to be crowned king, and King Hui of Wei did agree to this suggestion, however, King Hui of Wei's act of claiming the title of king caused dissatisfaction among King Wei of Qi, who was worried about his own status, and although King Wei, who was worried about his own status, had personally come to congratulate King Wei Hui, he secretly contacted the State of Chu and other countries, intending to give King Wei Hui a little color. Of course, King Hui of Wei was not a vegetarian either, and he knew that his claim to the throne would definitely cause dissatisfaction with the original veteran state of Qi, so he returned Handan to the State of Zhao, and successively allied with the State of Zhao and the State of Qin, and also used the King of Zhongshan as Wei Xiang.
Soon after, however, the State of Wei began to conquer the State of Zhao again, and Marquis Zhao hurried to unite with the King of Qiwei, who sent an army of the State of Qi to capture Crown Prince Shen at Maling, and the Wei general Pang Juan died in this battle. Later, Duke Xiao of Qin sent Gongsun Martin to deceive the Duke of Wei and join forces with the State of Qi and the State of Zhao to attack the Wei army. After that, the State of Wei moved its capital to Daliang and made Gongzi He crown prince. In order to negotiate peace, King Hui of Wei was forced to return the land of Hexi that had originally captured the State of Qin, and Gongsun Martingale obtained fifteen cities and pools of Shangdi as fiefs because of this military feat, and has since been honored as Shang jun.
In 338 BC, the State of Qin again conquered the State of Wei, attacked Wei again, and captured the General of the State of Wei at The Gate of the Shore Gate. After that, he cooperated with Da Li Rong to surround Guoyang in the Wei state, and truly achieved a shame before the snow. Seeing that the Qin state was rich and strong, Zhou Tianzi sent meat to Qin Xiaogong, and the monarchs of other countries also came to show friendship. However, at this time, the body of the filial prince had already returned to the light, and when his life was about to come to an end, Qin Xiaogong sent the crown prince To return the favor to all countries, and established the prestige before becoming a new king for the prince.
Five months later, Duke Xiao of Qin died, and was succeeded by crown prince Huan Si (嬴驷) with the title of Hui Wenjun (惠文君). Win Qian's apprentice took the opportunity to falsely accuse Shang Jun of wanting to rebel, because the forged evidence was too realistic, the young Qin Huiwenjun blamed Gongsun Martingale for wanting to punish himself for Qin Fa Liwei, and on the other hand, he really thought that Gongsun Martin had rebelled, so he sent officials to hunt down Shang Jun. Shangjun fled to the inn and wanted to stay, but was told by the owner, "Shangjun has set a rule, and if the resident does not have a wooden jane who verifies his identity, the owner will be taken in by the shopkeeper." ”
According to the research work of Chinese archaeologists on Liye Qinjian, we can find that in the Qin Kingdom, people already have Wooden Jane with the role of id card. For example, this piece of wood mentioned in "If the National Treasure Could Speak" "So Handan Han trial man Wu Sao was a man with a yellow and yellow sui face seven feet three inches long." ", we can use it as the identity card of this man named Wu Sao."
Since shangjun had been hunted down by the government, once the wooden Jian, prayer post, and seal that could prove the identity of the shangjun were shown to the shopkeeper, the official government could catch shangjun at any time. However, without showing these things, Shang Jun could not stay in the hotel, and in desperation, Shang Jun had to flee to the State of Wei. However, because shangjun deceived the state of Wei that year, causing the state of Wei to lose the land of Hexi, the defending generals of the state of Wei did not let Shangjun return. They shouted loudly, "Shang Jun, yes, Master Wei, Fu Fu." The Shang king wants other countries. Wei Renren said: "Shang Jun is a thief from the Qin State, the Qin State is strong, this thief actually returned to the Wei State, certainly not to come back, we don't want him to come in." ”
There was no way, Shangjun had to return to the Qin state, fled back to Shangyi, and set out north with his disciples and subordinate soldiers sent by Shangyi to conquer Zhengdi, and Qin Huiwenjun sent troops to attack Shangjun and kill him at Dingchi. After Hui Wenjun obtained Shang Jun's body, he split Shang Jun's body and buried it as Qin Xiaogong, and warned the courtiers, "Any of you who wants to rebel like Shang Martin, this is the end!" After that, he destroyed Shang Jun's entire family.
Since there are only two paragraphs of the record of Gongsun Martingale in the Warring States Policy, I had to expand the writing of Gongsun Martingale's legendary life through other materials such as the Book of Shangjun, the Chronicle of History, and the Bamboo Book Chronicle. However, this does not mean that the commentary on the life of Shang Jun in the Warring States Policy has no historical value.
According to the Warring States Policy, Gongsun Martin fled from the State of Wei to the State of Qin, and Duke Xiao of Qin made him the Xiang State of the State of Qin, and sealed him to Shangdi, giving him the title of Shangjun. In the Great Qin under the rule of the Shang Emperor, as soon as the decrees were issued, the people were conscientiously respected and implemented, and they were able to judge fairly and selflessly, punish the wicked without fearing that the wicked were strong, and reward the minister without being selfish because the minister had a good relationship with himself. The prince has broken the law, and the shangjun can weigh the pros and cons and punish the prince's master. A few years later, with the assistance of the Shang Jun, the Qin state did not pick up the leftovers, the people did not take it in vain, the military strength was strong, and the princes were very afraid. However, Shang Jun is a person with a mean and unkind personality, and likes to use violence to convince people. Eight years later, Qin Xiaogong fell seriously ill and could not even get up from bed, and wanted to make Shang Jun the prince's master, but Shang Jun resigned and did not accept it.
After the death of Duke Xiao of Qin, King Huiwen of Qin succeeded to the throne, and after King Huiwen of Qin was the Prince of Qin for a period of time, Shangjun returned to his hometown. However, at this time, someone entered into the rumor to King Huiwen of Qin, "Since ancient times, the status of ministers is too respectful of the country and will fall into crisis, and if the monarch's close subjects are too favored, they will put themselves into crisis." Now in our Qin kingdom, even women and children say that qin law is the law of the Shang king, but not that the qin law is the law of the great king. This is to take the Shang Jun as the master and the king as your subordinate. Moreover, this Shang Jun originally had a vendetta against the Great King, and I was willing to murder the Shang King for the Great King. In this way, after Shangjun's body was returned from Shangdi, King Huiwen of Qin ripped Shangjun's body apart, and the people thought that Shangjun really had a rebellious move, and no one sympathized with Shangjun.
Through the supplementary narrative of the Warring States Policy, we can vaguely find that Qin Xiaogong had already sensed the prince's dissatisfaction with Shangjun before his death, so he wanted to remedy the relationship between the two by making Shangjun the prince's master and avoid the tragic fate of Shangjun after that. Later, after the death of Duke Xiao, Shang Jun himself proposed to leave the Qin State on his own initiative in order to protect himself. Unfortunately, the old aristocratic party of the Qin State was eager to put Shang Jun to death and then quickly.
Originally, Huiwen Jun and Ying Si also thought about this awkward monarch-vassal relationship, but unfortunately, these old nobles took advantage of the fact that at the beginning of The succession of Hui Si wanted to win the hearts of the people, make meritorious contributions, and quickly reach the mentality of dictatorship, and seduced the young man in front of him to participate in the murder plan against Shang Jun. The State of Wei was worried that Shang Jun was deceitful, and coupled with the fact that the King of Wei did not want to offend the State of Qin, Shang Jun had to sneak back to the fiefdom. Due to the bloodiness of the man, ShangJun had to attack ZhengDi to fight back against Hui Wenjun in a helpless situation, making Hui Wenjun really think that Shangjun wanted to rebel, and eventually killed and split Shangjun. It can be said that it is the dark side of human nature and various coincidences that have created the tragedy of Shang Jun's life.
After Shang Jun's death, Qin Huiwenjun sadly discovered that these relatives who threw themselves at the hands of others were the culprits who hindered their own dictatorship and hindered the power of the Qin state. However, he was not his father, Qin Xiaogong, and the more selfish side of Hui Wenjun's personality became, in some cases, a powerful secret weapon for him to lead the Qin state. Qin Huiwenjun, who grew up, believed that the Qin law, whether it was the law of the Shang King or the law of the King of Qin, should be vigorously implemented as long as it was beneficial to the Qin state. And these old nobles, whether or not they are using themselves, should be punished. Conspiracies can unjustly kill such a great talent as Shang Jun, and can also be used to deal with enemy countries and villains.
So, in what way will Hui Wenjun and Empress Dowager Hui remove the obstacles for the Qin State? How will he use the word conspiracy on the right path against the opponents of the Qin State?