All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 394: Unifying the World and Destroying Zhao
"Big, big, big king."

Han Fei saluted Ying Zheng with a serious look, "People hate toil and love leisure. Your Majesty is overdoing it. This is not right."

Ying Zheng subconsciously looked at Chen Ran, and when he saw that he didn't react, he responded, "So what do you mean?"

"Great king." Han Fei, who suffered from stuttering, gradually became more fluent in his speech. "The people should be restrained by law and punished so that they will be afraid. Only then can we 'stop women from having sex before it happens'."

Chen Ran finally spoke up, "In other words, you are advocating intimidation of the people?"

"It's not a threat." Han Fei shook his head. "It's to make them afraid so that they don't dare to do anything sexual. It's a move to love the people."

These are Han Feizi's theories and viewpoints, which use harsh laws and severe punishments to control the people so that they dare not rebel (Han Feizi, Xindu).

This was not arranged by Chen Ran.

Chen Ran shook his head seriously and said, "I don't agree with your point of view."

Han Fei bowed to him and said, "Please debate."

In the era of a hundred schools of thought, it was common for different schools to debate with each other.

More intense than debates were those represented by Confucius, who directly drew his sword to resolve disputes.

A true Confucian never relies on words to solve problems.

"Severe punishments and severe laws can indeed frighten the people." Chen Ran responded simply, "But have you ever thought about what to do if the people are no longer afraid of severe punishments and severe laws?"

"That's impossible." Han Fei shook his head again and again. "Who wouldn't be afraid?"

“The poor have no fear!”

Chen Ran said solemnly, "Among the countless diseases in the world, poverty is the most terrible. When people are so poor that they can't survive, who would care about harsh laws and punishments?"

"By that time, the repression brought about by the harsh laws and punishments you advocate will form a strong backlash."

Han Fei was able to leave his name in history books, so he was certainly talented.

He immediately said, "Corvée and taxes can be reduced."

"No matter how you reduce corvée and taxes, they will still exist in essence." Chen Ran shook his head. "When you have 100 yuan, and you are charged 10 yuan for corvée and taxes, you may just curse. But when you don't have a dollar, and you are still charged corvée and taxes, then you won't curse."

"This" Han Fei finally became embarrassed. "Is there anyone who doesn't even have a dollar?"

As Qin coins became popular throughout the world, people gradually got used to the Qin coin's measurement unit and started to say "kuai" when talking about money.

More importantly, decimals and numbers were also spread subtly.

Chen Ran smiled. People who have never experienced poverty would never understand these things.

He simply changed the subject, "What do you think of the hereditary nobility, sir?"

"I am a vassal of a vassal, not a vassal of the king." Han Fei immediately stated, "Things are in all directions, but the key lies in the center. If a sage holds the key, all directions will follow him."

He further explained that "the monarch should use all means to eliminate the hereditary slave-owning aristocracy, disperse their factions, deprive them of their supporters and destroy their power. Select a group of feudal officials who have been tempered by practice to replace them, and replace the feudal hereditary system with county officials."

Finally, Han Feizi concluded with one sentence.

"A prime minister must come from the prefectures and counties, and a brave general must come from the ranks of soldiers (Han Feizi·Xianxue)"

This is a means to completely disintegrate feudal hereditary system from the perspective of formal system.

This strategy can only be implemented when the world is unified and the six kingdoms are divided.

After such a long time, he still hadn't seen any subtitles floating before his eyes. Chen Ran shook his head helplessly and turned to look at the young Ying Zheng. "Your Majesty, this man's talent is no less than Li Si's. You should make use of him."

"What the Immortal Master said is absolutely true."

Han Fei's ideas were very much in line with Ying Zheng's thinking, especially the destruction of the hereditary feudal system and the replacement of it with a county-level system of officials.

It was precisely because he wanted to do so that Ying Zheng arranged for the up-and-coming Wang Jian to destroy Han, instead of letting the veteran generals in the army lead the troops.

Because each of those veteran generals was a feudal lord with his own fiefdom.

Under Chen Ran's influence, Ying Zheng knew that Qin was extremely powerful and it was not a problem to destroy the countries in Guandong.

In this case, he would certainly not give those feudal lords the opportunity to continue to make achievements and then oppose him.

It is only natural for newcomers to come to the fore.

Ying Zheng was also very satisfied with Han Fei. Although Han Fei was Korean, according to Chen Ran, all countries in the world were one family, so he was naturally Ying Zheng's man and could be used.

"Master, what do you think should be done with this person?"

Chen Ran smiled and said, "Didn't he say that a prime minister must come from a prefecture? Then let's arrange for him to be the prefect of Yingchuan County."

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "Come on."

It is definitely a good idea to use Koreans to govern Korean land.

If it is done well, it will be reused in the future.

If he fails to do well, the position of prefect of Yingchuan County will be the limit of Han Fei's life.

As for the possibility that Li Si killed Han Fei out of jealousy, that was not possible for Chen Ran.

Because of Han Fei's ideas, the Qin State had already implemented them.

Qin's conquest of Han obviously aroused strong vigilance among other countries.

Especially after the destruction of Korea, the method of sending all Korean nobles to work in mines aroused dissatisfaction among various countries. They were all worried that they would be the next one.

For a time, envoys from various countries were constantly traveling back and forth, discussing the issue of alliance.

Of course, Qi was as cowardly as ever and did not participate at all. Meanwhile, Zhao and Yan were still at war, each wanting to annex the other to strengthen their power against Qin.

The strength of Wei State was greatly weakened, and Chu State was unable to stand alone.

The so-called alliance could not actually be formed at all.

The Qin State didn't care about this at all.

Because they know very well how strong they are.

Apart from anything else, agricultural grain output has increased year by year. Now there is so much grain in Qin that the warehouses can’t store it, and warehouses are being built on a large scale in various places.

Chen Ran's view on this is, "What's the use of saving it? It will become stale grain next year. Take it out as military rations to fight in the war, and then use the grain to appease the people in the new land."

The young and energetic Ying Zheng strongly agreed with this.

His target was immediately set on the State of Zhao.

Although Ying Zheng was born in Handan and his mother was from Zhao, all Zhao left him was humiliation, anger, and hatred.

Now that I finally have a chance for revenge, of course I will beat him to death.

Wang Jian was still in charge of the expedition, but the number of troops was not as large as imagined, with only more than 200,000 men.

Logically speaking, considering the national strength of Qin at that time, it would not be difficult to mobilize more than twice the number of troops.

But the people of Qin believed that more than 200,000 troops were enough.

The reason is very simple. On the one hand, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army has been greatly improved.

Their armor coverage rate has reached a terrifying high of nearly 90%, and almost all of them are steel armor!

Coupled with tens of thousands of elite cavalry, their terrifying combat power was difficult for the Zhao State to resist.

Another reason is that Qin’s railway had already reached Shangdang.

There is no need to mobilize all manpower and material resources and spend huge amounts of money to transport supplies to the front line like in the Battle of Changping.

Sixteen Shire horses were enough to pull more than ten freight cars, carrying tens of thousands of pounds of supplies, and galloping forward on the rails.

Its transportation efficiency is dozens of times higher than that of using civilian laborers!
It can not only transport supplies, but also transport troops.

A large number of Qin troops rushed to the front line in trucks.

Facing the Qin's offensive, King Zhao fought desperately and even recalled the Great Wall Corps that was guarding against nomadic tribes.

The cavalry led by Li Mu felt the difficulty as soon as they engaged the Qin army.

Although Zhao State also bought a lot of armor and other equipment by borrowing money from Qin State.

But it is obviously inferior to the steel armor on the opposite side.

Especially the cavalry on the opposite side, who were able to free their hands and control their horses purely with their feet. Their combat effectiveness on horseback was even better than those cavalry under Li Mu who had been fighting against nomadic tribes for years.

There was no way, the Qin cavalry had saddles and stirrups.

The cavalry on both sides fought against each other. The Qin army's tall horses were wearing horse armor and carrying Qin cavalry covered with iron lumps. Their power was so strong that the enemy was unable to resist at all.

Seeing that he couldn't win in a head-on battle, Li Mu simply used harassment tactics.

However, the Qin army's light cavalry used excellent war horses, superb tactics, and unprecedented breastplates to give the Zhao cavalry a severe blow.

Can't beat it, can't beat it at all!
Li Mu was very distressed about this.

What he is best at using is cavalry, but at this time the cavalry is being strongly suppressed by the opponent. What should he do?

As the saying goes, when it rains, it pours; a hemp rope always breaks at the thinnest part.

This is even worse news.

"What? No more food?" Li Mu couldn't believe it. "How could there be no more food?"

The grain officer said with tears in his eyes, "It's the Qin people. They bought all the grain, grass, herbs and other supplies from Zhao!"

The economic infiltration that has been planned for many years has shown its power at this moment.

Numerous Qin merchant caravans purchased food, fodder and military supplies from all over Zhao State at extremely favorable prices.

For the Qin State, all they had to pay was paper money.

Although the price is high, it can be regarded as a benefit given by the King of Qin to his future people.

The Zhao army was caught in a food crisis. In order to supply the front line, they even had to forcibly seize the people's surplus food and forcibly cut the ungrown seedlings in the fields to feed the horses.

The result of doing so was naturally to arouse fierce resistance from the people of Zhao State everywhere, and the entire Zhao State fell into turmoil.

Wang Jian took the opportunity to send troops, defeated the Zhao army in succession, and advanced all the way to the city of Handan.

At this time, the city was short of food and grass, and morale was low, so the fall of Handan was inevitable.

Wang Jian surrounded Handan City by encircling it on three sides and leaving one behind. Then he used coffins filled with explosives to blow down several sections of the city wall. The Qin army, wearing steel armor, poured into the city in a mighty force.

Guo Kai instigated King Zhao to surrender, and the King Zhao, who had already been frightened, finally chose to surrender.

However, Prince Jia of Zhao refused to surrender and tried to break out of the city under the protection of Li Mu. However, he was ambushed by Qin cavalry lying in ambush in the north of the city.

Prince Jia escaped and fled to Dai, while Li Mu, who stayed behind to cover their retreat, died heroically in battle.

Under the supervision of Ying Zheng who arrived in person, Handan City was captured in one battle.

The Zhao State, which was once qualified to compete with the Qin State for hegemony over the world, was destroyed and disappeared from then on~~~
(End of this chapter)