Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 230 The First Emperor

Qin State,

In Xianyang Palace,

The First Emperor, who had been given a new title for his contribution to unifying the country, issued a new order:
"Order an army of 500,000 to attack Baiyue!"

"Order the palaces to be built to store the beauties and treasures of the princes!"

"Order the Lingqu Canal to be repaired to open up a southern route to support the army's southern expedition!"

After the fall of Qi, King Zheng of Qin finally achieved his goal of unifying the world.

The ambitions of our ancestors,
It was finally implemented in his generation.

The new destiny is rising like the morning star in the sky.

The new honorific title bestowed upon the King of Qin, becoming "Emperor," also indicated changes in the world.

A world completely different from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties appeared before everyone.

Qin State...

wrong!

The Qin Dynasty's rulers and ministers were quite frightened when faced with the situation after unification. They didn't know how to rule this unprecedentedly vast land.

But to rule the world,

There is no such thing as rushing.

They can explore slowly.

For the First Emperor, the most urgent issue at the moment was to give land and wealth to the soldiers who had experienced the war of unification.

Encourage farming and warfare, reward military merits,
This is the "road to a strong country" that China embarked on after Shang Yang's reforms.
Now that the six kingdoms have been destroyed,

Finally it came to an end.

But the new system had not yet emerged and the First Emperor did not discover it.

Or,

He was so eager for unity.
After gaining full power,
His eyes remained on this target and never shifted.

Anxious to achieve success,
This is a distinctive characteristic that Ying Zheng inherited from his father, King Zhuangxiang.

Only after he achieved his existing goals did the First Emperor have the energy to look back and take stock of the new empire he had created.

He found out in silence:
The alternation of old and new,

The emerging forces that once rose through farming and warfare have now become an old and outdated group in the court.

A hundred years have passed.

Those who benefited from it filled the entire Qin State.

The First Emperor was still unable to shake this force.

Because the reason why he was able to become the "emperor" was because of them.

These people opened their mouths wide and stared, looking forward to the reward from the First Emperor.

The King of Qin went a step further.
They should also make progress!
But for the great achievement of unifying the country, the First Emperor had to give away too many things.

Even if he cuts off his flesh,
It may not be possible to feed these people.

And the First Emperor didn't want to hurt himself.

So he ordered:
Keep fighting!

Keep exploring!
The war never stops!
Since I can't find a suitable path,

Then let’s fight to support the war first!

therefore,

What the Qin State did after the war to unify the world,
It can only be said that it is war for the sake of "war".

Only after the First Emperor discovered a new path, gained more benefits, and formulated a new way of distributing profits that could stabilize most people, could he stop.

For this,

Shang Yang remained silent in the underworld for a long time.

Then he covered his face and wept.

He said to Qin Xiaogong, "Too hasty, too hasty. Qin cannot stop. It is doomed to perish soon!"

Although Shang Jun always believed that
A country that fails to change its laws with the times deserves to be destroyed.

But how profound is the connection between him and the Qin State?

It was a country he had shaped himself.

A country full of his ideals,
Just like a child he raised with his own hands.

The stubborn father kept saying, "When you grow up, go and make a living on your own. Your future life and death has nothing to do with you."

But when the child really grows up and encounters a crisis, how can he not worry about it?
Qin Xiaogong did not expect that
Qin Guo had just reached the original target location, and was about to get hit and bleed because of losing his way. He could only comfort himself, "It's okay, there is Fusu."

"Fusu is a very good child, and he is the hope of the new destiny of Qin."

"As long as he becomes the new monarch, he will be able to stop the frenzy of Qin!"

Shang Yang said sadly, "I hope so!"

……

"The treasures obtained from destroying the six nations are extremely huge."

"Why is the King of Qin unwilling to take them out, reward the soldiers, and stabilize them?"

In the palace of ghosts and gods,

The ghost officials also became suspicious of Qin Shi Huang's actions.

Because ghosts and gods like to read and observe the changes in the human world,

Therefore, following the example of their superiors, the ghost officials also like to discuss human affairs, put forward their own opinions, and raise corresponding questions.

He Bo was grilling seriously in the main hall and didn't want to think about this problem deeply.

He said casually, "It's because I can't bear to part with it!"

Ji Wu immediately agreed, and said loudly with his hands on his waist, "I have said it before, those princes and nobles are all looking to eat the flesh and blood of the common people!"

"Their desires have no bottom line, and the means they use to obtain what they want are beyond imagination!"

"Having changed from King of Qin to Emperor, does that mean that Ying Zheng is no longer a ruler and no longer has to be a monster that eats human flesh and blood?"

"But now it seems that the First Emperor's life was not luxurious?" someone raised his hand.

These dead ghosts, relying on the fact that living people cannot see them, often snoop into the details of other people's lives in an attempt to better understand their hearts.

Who made the connection between the underworld and the "human heart" so close?

Even ghosts need to understand people’s hearts in order to live a better life!

Therefore,
The ghost officials knew that Emperor Qin Shi Huang was not actually a pleasure-seeking person.

He often dealt with memorials until late at night, and set a rule for himself that he would not go to bed until he completed the assigned tasks.

His harem was filled with beauties.
But most of those people came from the backyards of the six kingdoms.

After the six kingdoms were destroyed, they were piled up in the Xianyang Palace as trophies.

The First Emperor would occasionally visit them, but more often he chose to stay with the ministers who submitted memorials to him.

He wanted to feel and exercise power every moment.

This would make Ying Zheng feel safe and make him feel that he was needed.

As for the more than twenty offspring?
Even though she only entered and left the harem so often, she was able to produce so many bloodlines.
All I can say is that Ying Zheng’s abilities were indeed good.

In general,

In his daily life, the First Emperor did not focus on pleasure.

"But he spent so much manpower and resources building the imperial mausoleum in Mount Li. Isn't that enough?" someone objected.

"That's where he lived after he died. Who would go to the imperial mausoleum when they are alive?"

The young ghost officials were even more puzzled. "Since he doesn't use jewels to decorate his palace, nor does he indulge in beauty or build a wine pond or a meat garden, why would he be reluctant to give up so many things?"

He Bo said, "That means he has something on his mind!"

Put this aside,

The ghosts distributed their freshly roasted skewers of meat to the dead ghosts close to them.

"But he is already the emperor, what would he have to worry about?" someone else asked.

He Bo clapped his hands, picked up a few new ones, put them on the stove, and said, "The way a person thinks and acts has a lot to do with his experience."

He Bo thought of Zhao Ji's reckless life and the psychological trauma it brought to her children, and he suddenly sighed.

His blood relatives abandoned him one after another.
Who would believe this stuff?

Therefore, the emptiness in my heart can only be filled by external things.

The smarter you are,

The more stubborn you become.

Then, he pointed at Mrs. Simon and said to her, "It's not easy to raise a normal and happy child, right?"

"That's too difficult!" Madam Simon covered her mouth and laughed, "If you care too much, you will either oppress the child or spoil the child."

"This is a profound truth about being a parent."

He Bo laughed, recalled his experience with Ying Zheng when he was a child, and how they parted unpleasantly in the end, and then nodded.

(End of this chapter)