Ying Zheng sat down on the table with a heavy body.
He said loudly: "Come here, call me the internal historian... Zongzheng."
It didn't take long.
Ying Teng rushed to the palace.
Seeing Ying Teng, Ying Zheng said with a cold face: "I only want to ask you two things now. How many old Qin people are there in Guanzhong? How many old Qin people have been recruited since the founding of the Qin Dynasty?"
Hear the words.
Ying Teng's face changed slightly.
Immediately, he shook his head, sighed, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I don't know the specific number, but based on the number of corvees collected by the imperial court in recent years, I speculate that the old Qin people in Guanzhong may only account for about 20%, which is unworthy.
There are over a million people, and most of them are old, weak, women and children. As for the other people in Guanzhong, they are all people from Shandong who have immigrated in the past ten years, nearly four million."
"As for how many old Qin people have been recruited, this is not my responsibility. I really don't know."
"But as far as I know, your majesty's Lishan Mausoleum, as well as the prisoners conscripted and built by the nearby counties and counties to build palaces, straight roads, and Chidao, as well as the soldiers in Nanhai and Northern Xinjiang, are almost all old Qin people who were conscripted. If you add in the southern Xinjiang border guards,
, as well as the border garrison in Northern Xinjiang that will start soon, I am afraid that the number has reached as high as two to three million."
Ying Zheng's eyes were extremely gloomy and he said in a cold voice: "The number of people from Shandong who moved to Guanzhong is as high as four million. Hasn't the imperial court ever recruited these people?"
Ying Teng looked solemn and said:
"Return to Your Majesty."
"There have been conscriptions, but they are not frequent."
"In order to quickly stabilize the people's hearts, the imperial court advocated that the Central Plains and the old Chu land should have fewer corvee levies. Therefore, the main levies in the future were still the old Qin people in Guanzhong. As for the aristocrats and civilians from the six Shandong countries who moved into Guanzhong, they also received certain recognition.
exemption.”
"also......"
Ying Teng trembled slightly and continued: "Back then, the imperial court actually recruited the nobles and civilians from the six Shandong countries who moved to Guanzhong. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six countries, the Lishan Mausoleum began to be overhauled. Within just ten years, the Lishan Mausoleum was built.
As a result, more than 100,000 criminals from the six countries were gathered together, and more than 100,000 to 200,000 Shandong's elite population were also expropriated."
"It's just that the tattoo rebellion broke out later."
"At that time, there were hundreds of thousands of prisoners in the Lishan Mausoleum. In addition to the young nobles of the Six Kingdoms, Lishan had gathered hundreds of thousands of Shandong's elite people. In order to avoid another chaos and prevent Lishan from becoming a place of turmoil near Xianyang,
Because of this, the imperial court stopped recruiting the elite people from Shandong, and instead recruited all people from the old Qin Dynasty."
"Besides."
"When the world was first established, the imperial court decided on the national policy of building Chi Road. Xianyang was the center of the world, so it was a top priority, so the project was relatively tight. At that time, the nobles and commoners of the six countries had not yet completely migrated, so they could only recruit people from Guanzhong.
People of the old Qin Dynasty established three national highways at that time."
"The first one is the exit route from Xianyang to Hangu Pass."
"The second article is the road connecting Hangu Pass to Yanqi."
"The third article is the Chi Road connecting Hangu Pass to Wu and Yue."
"These three Chi Roads have been basically completed in the past six or seven years, but the old Qin people have not yet had a breather. Due to the failure of the previous expedition to Baiyue, the imperial court, in order to ensure the supply of grain and grass, not only built the Ling Canal, but also planned a fourth road.
The Chi Road is the Chi Road connecting Hangu Pass to the counties in the South China Sea."
"There is also a straight road to conquer the Huns from the north to Shangjun, Yunzhong, and Jiuyuan."
"And there are twelve official roads leading from Neishi County to foreign countries."
"at the moment......"
Ying Teng was dripping with cold sweat and dared not say more.
"Say!" Ying Zheng said coldly.
Ying Teng said in a trembling voice: "Right now, the Lishan Mausoleum, except for the prisoners, is being built by the old Qin people, and the Chi Road, Straight Road, Official Road and other roads starting from Guanzhong are basically built by the old Qin people from Guanzhong who were recruited from Guanzhong.
The people in the old Chu region have stopped collecting corvee service long ago."
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"The reason for this is that the state affairs are urgent and cannot tolerate any delay. However, the people in the Central Plains and the old Chu region do not understand the laws and cause commotions from time to time. In order to avoid affecting the major affairs and to complete the progress of various projects as soon as possible, the imperial court decided to
We can only recruit the old Qin people again and again."
"The imperial court is so busy that it has no time to pay attention to details."
Hear the words.
The anger in Ying Zheng's eyes could no longer be suppressed. He smacked his gums angrily and shouted: "No time to care about the details? Just because they are worried that the nobles of the six countries will take the opportunity to cause chaos and cause trouble. Just because the people of the old Qin are simple and honest, they can
Can you recruit people again and again? Can you sway the people of Lao Qin again and again? "
"If I hadn't woken up this time, I would have been kept in the dark!"
"You are so brave!
"
"Just because the people from the six regions will cause chaos from time to time, only the old Qin people are recruited into the army? Only the old Qin people are sent to the South China Sea, and sent to Beihe, Huainan, Huaibei, Liaodong, and all the places that should be pacified?"
"Just because the old Qin people are loyal to Qin and stand on the side of Qin without any hesitation, can their no regrets be squandered?"
"The people of Old Qin have followed the Ying Qin tribe in south and north wars for hundreds of years. They followed the Ying Qin tribe from weak to strong, throwing their heads and blood. Following my order, they walked out of Hangu Pass without hesitation and embarked on the journey without hesitation.
A strange land, and even gave up his rich and fertile homeland to his former enemies!"
"And this is how you treat them?"
"If the world were peaceful and the Qin government was in peace, the innovations of the old Qin people would be enough to leave a majestic mark in the history of Qing Dynasty. However, now, the undercurrents of restoration are emerging one after another and are rampant. All signs indicate that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms are plotting to restore the state.
The mountains, rivers and lands they lost."
"If it really faces a life-and-death battle with the restoration forces, how will Da Qin respond to the enemy?"
"Now if there are three million old Qin people in Guanzhong, why should Qin be afraid of restoration turmoil in the world? How about today? I, the emperor, can't even pull out a hundred thousand old Qin people in Guanzhong. What a great danger!
"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "With the inertia of the powerful struggle in the Warring States Period, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms are bound to fight to the death. No matter how the imperial court avoids or circumvents it, the tide of restoration will eventually come. By then,
How can Da Qin respond to the war? If it cannot win again, Da Qin's new policy cannot be truly consolidated."
"How can Da Qin bring peace to the world?!"
Ying Zheng glared angrily.
Ying Teng was already kneeling on the ground, trembling all over and not daring to breathe.
Ying Zheng's words were naturally not meant for Ying Teng to hear, he meant them for himself.
Over the years, he has been busy planning for the big battlefield, busy planning for creation, busy planning for the consolidation of China, thinking about pacifying the outside world and then attacking the inside, and building a huge and perfect empire. But now he suddenly realized that he had exhausted all his energy in order to consolidate China and resist foreign invasion.
The reserve force even single-handedly dismantled the foundation of the Qin Dynasty.
How short-sighted this is!
Ying Teng said that the imperial court moved quickly and had no time to worry about details.
How could he not hear the tone of Ying Teng's words? How could the imperial court have no time to care about the details? It was clearly accusing him that Ying Zheng was busy making achievements and did not care about the life and death of the old Qin people.
Ying Zheng's eyes were red and his chest was heaving violently.
He looks back on these years.
I just feel that my behavior over the years is exactly the same as that of Le Yi, whom Wang Jian had ridiculed. At that time, Le Yi was only thinking about "converting Qi" and ending the war of Qi State. What was the result? Not only did he fail to convert Qi State, but he lost no one in six years.
The isolated city eventually led to the resurgence of Qi State.
Why is he not the same now?
After the world was unified, he couldn't bear the world to fall into turmoil again, so he thought of "being gentle" and appeased the nobles of the six countries, hoping to influence the other countries, so that the world would cause less killing and the world could truly return to peace, but this
What a pedantic idea.
War is war.
In war, blood is shed, people die, and the enemy must be annihilated.
The nobles in the world are afraid of power but not moral!
He has conquered a country that destroys people, seizes people's land, and destroys people. Yet he plans to teach them to truly obey his new government and become your docile subjects. Is this really true?
If Qin was destroyed, they asked themselves, how could they willingly submit to others?
It's impossible!
But for such a simple truth, he didn't see it as thoroughly as Qin Luoheng. When Qin Luoheng was in Lishan, they had a conversation. Qin Luoheng said at that time that since ancient times, there has been no reform without bloodshed and sacrifice.
Bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable. If the world rebels, we will kill until no one in the world dares to rebel.
If Da Qin can destroy the six kingdoms once, it can destroy them a second time!
If he had seen through this truth earlier, how could he have gone the other way?
Now if there are three million old Qin people in Guanzhong, I am afraid that the remnants of the Six Kingdoms will not dare to cause trouble at all.
He used to keep an eye on the situation in the world. When the Huns were powerful, they annihilated them. When Baiyue harassed the border, he sent troops to suppress Baiyue. However, there were still endless prophecies and rumors in the world, claiming that Qin Zheng would perish and Ying Zheng should die. He had always
The worry is that the restoration forces will rise up in the future, but now it seems.
He was wrong.
It was wrong from the start.
And it was incredibly wrong.
When the Qin Dynasty fell into the current situation, how many of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms could occupy it?
An Zhi was not caused by a deviation in his strategy?
He has experienced countless storms and waves in his life, and has never been afraid. However, he feels a heartbreaking pain for the dangerous places that Da Qin has stepped into step by step because of his own mistakes.
Ying Zheng was silent for a long time, his face was terrifyingly gloomy.
Ying Teng has followed the First Emperor for so many years, and this is the first time he has seen the First Emperor look so scary.
a long time.
Only then did Ying Zheng raise his head.
He said coldly:
"Ying Sinian is right."
“It’s time for Da Qin’s new policies to be reorganized in recent years.”
"Old Qin went through fire and water for the sake of the Qin Dynasty. How can I break my trust with them again and again?"
"Ying Teng, go inform the internal historian Ma Xing and tell him to suspend the migration of the entire army to northern Xinjiang."
"From now on, the people in the Central Plains and the old Chu region should be recruited for corvee service, especially the people from Lishan Mountain. Tell Zhang Han that if the people from the six regions dare to cause trouble in Lishan Mountain, they will be killed without mercy!"
"Since they are not willing to serve the people of Qin, why should I show mercy to them?"
"If anyone creates trouble, kill someone."
"If ten people make trouble, ten people will be killed."
"A hundred people will cause chaos, and a hundred people will be killed."
"If millions of people are in chaos, then kill tens of millions of people!"
Listening to Ying Zheng's murderous words, Ying Teng's heart trembled, and he quickly leaned over and said: "I obey the order, I will go and deliver the order now."