Chapter 17 The grand tour has not ended, and the First Emperor is thinking of returning home!

Author: March

Chapter 17 The grand tour has not ended, and the First Emperor is thinking of returning home!

Now, the Great Survey is coming to an end...

Except for the occasional assassination, the entire Qin Dynasty seemed to be calm.

But the First Emperor knew clearly that all peace was only based on his own life.

He could clearly feel the undercurrents between the world.

From the court, the conflict between the old military aristocrats and the new military aristocrats, to the seemingly conquered six countries, the people still do not know Qin laws. The old nobles of the six countries seemed to have been taken away from their titles, but in fact they still control local economic and political affairs.

This is inevitable.

With the unification of the world, the political and economic resources that can be divided through war have been exhausted.

The plate is so big, and those who have mastered the top resources must not want the situation to change.

The newly promoted military aristocrats, those who have never received high-level tickets, and those who have obtained tickets but cannot go further will inevitably be eager to continue to expand outward, but in fact, this group of people is the majority.

This group of aristocrats, who were generally concentrated in the middle and lower levels, had great political conflicts with veteran military aristocrats.

In the past, the national policy of the Great Qin was still there and the six countries were not destroyed. The Great Qin, which had a farming and war system, would definitely not stop the pace of conquest, so the small nobles were dominant and the great nobles sought change.

Now, the four directions of heaven and earth have been cut off from obstacles, and under the limitations of natural conditions, the top aristocrats have gradually gained an advantage.

Even if you want to fight, what can you do if you want to get credit?

The Qin Dynasty is doing this now.

Then what? The richest land known has been completely conquered.

And there are also storms and turmoils in the world.

The regression of the Qin Dynasty's administration is inevitable. Emperor Qin Shi will encounter assassination almost every time he travels. The assassination that passed through Bolangsha seven years ago has not been found so far.

The First Emperor knew that there must be problems at the grassroots level and in the six countries.

Officials, nobles...the range is too large to be investigated.

Many of the appointments of officials and officials in the six countries were directly derived from the old aristocratic groups of the six countries.

To defeat the sky means not being allowed to take office in the hometown or change the place to take office, but it still treats the symptoms but not the root cause.

Of course, the First Emperor wanted to use the Old Qin people, but there was no way. There was not so many officials, and there was not so much reserve of officials. Moreover, it was also a question whether the Old Qin people would be corrupt when they arrived at the six countries with a relaxed political environment.

The Qin Dynasty's official system needs a large number of officials to maintain. The reduction of officials will inevitably lead to the situation of returning to the local government. In order to maintain a huge scale of officials and allow the administration to be implemented locally, the old nobles of the six countries must be activated.

It seems to be in a vicious circle...

And as for the people, there are also many contradictions.

The car is the same track, the book is the same text, the weights and measures are unified, and the currency is unified.

I won’t mention the car and the same text for the time being, and it may not have much impact on the people. After all, the real people of this era are illiterate and have no cars.

However, the mandatory unity of weights and measures and currency has left the people with little time to respond, and there are too many hands and feet that can be used to move.

Weights and measures and monetary reforms, coupled with the fact that the six countries were not so loyal officials and officials and the old nobles who controlled the local economy, can be imagined.

The evil politics triggered by officials and officials are traditional skills that are pushed to the monarch.

In order to further destroy the imprints left by the six kingdoms, the First Emperor prohibited lewd sacrifices within the world.

What is a lewd sacrifice?

To put it bluntly, it is a festival and sacrifice of gods that the Qin State does not recognize.

Although Li Si and Emperor Shi took into account the local inadequacy, they did not simply impose the festivals and customs of the Qin Dynasty on the six kingdoms.

It is a festival of sacrifices and faith after discussion, based on the current situation, with the Qin Dynasty as the main and the six countries as the auxiliary.

For example, the sacrifices of Qu Yuan were not prohibited by Emperor Qin Shihuang.

In fact, for local celebrities and ministers, as long as they were not vowed to resist the Qin faction to the death, the First Emperor basically did not prohibit sacrifices.

But even so, it still dealt a huge blow to local customs and beliefs.

For example, the customs and customs of some areas are explicitly prohibited because of the reform of the First Emperor.

The people were ignorant and all the unsuitable corvee and policies were attributed to Qin.

Therefore, the people's hearts are boiling!

In addition, it is the most critical point.

Corvey service!

There was too much corvee during the Qin Dynasty!

The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the Great Wall, the Afang Palace, the roads everywhere, the expansion of Nanyue, and the advancement of Longxi...

The corvee service every year is an astronomical number.

Each of these is an extremely huge project, and each one cannot be completed in a short time, and even in the original history, it has not been completed until the death of the First Emperor.

For the people of the six countries, it is a bit painful to get a knife in the reform of weights and measures, but it can be tolerated.

Forced changes in customs can be forced to adapt.

Severe corvee and high taxes have already made them feel overwhelmed.

The First Emperor knew and could see it.

But, he could hold it back.

He knew very well that the Qin Dynasty now has many conflicts from top to bottom, and it was all up to him.

He also sought change, which led to the struggle between Chunyu Yue and Li Si.

In the end, he chose Li Si!

If you choose Chunyu Yue, he can let go now.

Like the Zhou emperor, he enjoyed eight hundred years of national destiny.

Learning from history, no matter how bad the Qin Dynasty is, it is very likely that it will be imitated by the Zhou emperor for five hundred years to last the royal family.

The First Emperor wants more!

The shame of the Zhou royal family's shirtless jade is vivid in my mind, because the First Emperor is the witness and the initiator.

The Qin Dynasty reached the peak in his hands. He lived up to expectations and fulfilled the long-cherished wishes of the old Qin people of all generations.

From the east to unification!

He has enough qualifications to be proud!

His Great Qin should not be measured by five or eight hundred years.

So, he chose Li Si!

Compared to following the lessons of the Zhou royal family, he is more willing to take an unprecedented path!

Unification is unprecedented!

And every step afterwards, there was nothing imitated!

Even wrong lessons cannot be learned from history.

Every step is right or wrong, full of unknowns.

The great policies made by Emperor Shihuang, the Great Wall, the Huns, the Nanyue, the Taoist, the unified weights and measures, the unified currency, the unified writing, the unified customs, and the time have been proved.

The Terracotta Warriors and Horses, built for their own private life, have become a treasure of history in later generations.

There is no doubt about the county system...

Perhaps, since Zhou and after the unification, no dynasty has lasted for eight hundred years like Zhou.

However, since the Qin Dynasty, all dynasties have taken unification as their wish, and the land of China has been spared from being divided, and there will be no small land of countries.

But, where should we go?

The First Emperor didn't know much about the world. He looked at the world map and tapped his fingers gently.

Where is the future of Daqin? Who is it? He doesn’t even know who to choose to be his heir.

Pride and confusion do not conflict.

Everything about the Qin Dynasty seemed confusing. Emperor Qin was thinking about it and even felt stuffy in his chest.

The heavy government affairs and the confusing future, his pride and conceit, combined with it, constantly squeezed his body and became a burden to him.

He peeled off a corner of the fog, but saw more fog.

The body became increasingly tired, and Emperor First Emperor frowned. He skillfully opened the small bottle next to the desk and poured out a colorful elixir and put it into his mouth.

The blue veins between the forehead jumped up, the lips slowly turned white, the closed eyelids kept trembling, and sweat slashed across the face. After a long time, Emperor Shin-Emperor seemed to feel relieved and leaned down with a breath.

The First Emperor was deeply tired and knew that the car was exhausted. Due to his physical condition in recent times, he was afraid that this tour of the world would not be completed.

However... the trip has passed a lot now, and there is no big problem with turning back now.

If you don't have any places to go, you can make up for it next year...

He needs to show up from time to time and tell the world that he is still alive!

He knew that everyone was afraid of themselves!

But he also knew that everyone was not afraid of himself enough!

"Okay, considering the time of return, the three new grains are almost time to harvest." Emperor Shi whispered softly.
Chapter completed!