Simultaneous travel: City, infinite evolution

Chapter 264 Yi Xiaochuan's Dark Side and His Actions After Getting Married
While Chen Hong was celebrating his wedding night, someone in Xianyang Palace was suffering.

"water!"

"Give me water."

"thirsty."

"So thirsty!"

Yi Xiaochuan covered his throat, muttering in a hoarse voice, as he pounded on the door of the room where he was imprisoned.

squeak - ah -

The door opened, and several eunuchs walked in.

"Oh, it seems that after eating egg yolks for so many days, it's finally ready."

A leading eunuch, speaking in a hoarse voice and with his fingers curled into a delicate gesture, said...

"Come on, take him down!"

Several eunuchs immediately stepped forward and pinned Yi Xiaochuan down.

"What are you doing? What are you doing?"

Yi Xiaochuan struggled, but to no avail.

"What am I doing? Of course, I'm doing something good."

The eunuch waved his hand, "Let's go!"

The group arrived at a palace, went inside, pressed Yi Xiaochuan down on a bed, and tied his limbs.

"Let me go, let me go!"

"What are you trying to do? What exactly are you trying to do?"

At this moment, a medical officer walked over, carrying a leather bag.

He chuckled and looked at Yi Xiaochuan, saying:
"You're out of luck. I'm a young physician who has only been training with my master for two and a half years."

To be honest, I've only used this skill three times, so I'm not very familiar with it yet.

"Bear with it, it might hurt a little."

The young medical officer unfolded the leather bag.

Good heavens, all kinds of knives, each one gleaming with a cold light, and none of them are the same.

Yi Xiaochuan felt a chill run down his spine.

"What are you going to do?"

"Don't mess around!"

"I'm warning you, don't do anything reckless."

The young medical officer didn't care about Yi Xiaochuan's bluster.

Every little cutie who comes to him does this, and Yi Xiaochuan is just one of them.

"Hold him down and take off his trousers."

The medical officer remained calm. "Oh, undo his diaper too."

Soon, the eunuchs quickly stripped Yi Xiaochuan naked.

Feeling a chill run down his spine, Yi Xiaochuan panicked, as if he had realized something.

"no!"

"You can't do this! You can't do this!"

"I am a nobleman! I am a young master!"

"I am a nobleman! I am a young master!"

Do you know who my older brother is?

"You are courting death, do you know that?"

The eunuch sneered, "Who's your elder brother?"

"My elder brother is Liu Bang, my elder brother is Xiang Yu, did you know that? Did you know that?"

Sensing the danger, Yi Xiaochuan disregarded everything else and revealed his powerful backer in an attempt to intimidate the thugs and give himself a chance to survive.

Unfortunately, this is not possible.

The eunuchs burst into laughter.

Who was Liu Bang?

"And who is Xiang Yu?"

"Can you protect me?"

"Xiang Yu was a nobleman of the Chu state, a descendant of the great general Xiang Yan!"

"Liu Bang was... the head of the Sishui Pavilion."

Yi Xiaochuan blurted everything out.

To everyone's surprise, the eunuchs burst into laughter, their stomachs aching from the laughter.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"

"This kid is really funny."

"Sishui Pavilion...the pavilion chief?"

"How could someone who's not even a high-ranking official be your backer?"

"There's also some Chu nobleman. The Chu state has been destroyed, so where did this nobleman come from?"
Let me tell you, no matter what kind of nobles from Chu come to Xianyang of my Great Qin, they all have to lower their heads and behave themselves.

Moreover, what about within the Xianyang Palace?

"I thought this kid actually had some powerful backing, but it turns out he's just a paper tiger."

"Since you amused someone, I'll give you a quick death."

"Come, come, physician, hurry up and do it, give him a quick death."

"Yes Yes!"

The physician took out a knife.
"what!……"

The crows in the tree cried out in distress, frantically flapping their wings.

Because of the violent struggle, the physician's knife malfunctioned and cut off-target.

I had no choice but to have it cut again.

The crows cawed even more mournfully.

Yi Xiaochuan was drenched in sweat, fainted from the pain, and then woke up from the pain.

I fainted from the pain, and then woke up from the pain again.

The physician sprinkled medicinal powder on the cut on the branch and bandaged it up simply.

Whether we live or die depends on fate.

"Boy, this is your pouch. Like everyone else, hang it in a room, write your name on it, and mark it."

The eunuchs finished their business and left.

Yi Xiaochuan was left with lifeless eyes, feeling that life had completely lost its light and meaning.

I stared blankly at the ceiling, letting the excruciating pain ripple through my brain. Waves of emptiness washed over me, as if it were all a dream.

It was as if everything was fake.

But the waves of excruciating pain seemed to remind him that it was all real.

He, Yi Xiaochuan, became a eunuch.

So this is what suffering feels like.

Suffering, it turns out, is so unbearable.

Suffering, it turns out, is really just suffering.

There are no noble qualities, no benevolent power, and no sense of righteousness.

All the praise of suffering is merely a means to immerse others in suffering while indulging in pleasure for oneself.

Make most people willing to suffer, and let a few people enjoy the sweetness after suffering.

Was I wrong?

Do not!
You are right!

The world is the one at fault!

I, Yi Xiaochuan, am a saint of utmost benevolence and kindness.

It is this twisted, corrupt, evil, and dark world that has hurt me!
The world is guilty!

The world is damned!

I, Yi Xiaochuan, will launch a magnificent trial against this damned world!
At this moment, Yi Xiaochuan's eyes were filled with anger, hatred, and revenge.

"I want you all to experience the pain I have suffered ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times."

"I want the world to feel the pain!"

While Yi Xiaochuan was suffering and turning to the dark side, Chen Hong was experiencing extraordinary pleasure on his wedding night.

A night of deep sorrow in the palace, a wedding night in the bridal chamber.

What a painful realization!

"Hahaha!"

Chen Hong laughed heartily, “As the saying goes: the wedding night is a beautiful time.”

Time is money, don't waste it!

Within the Chen residence, under the moonlight, the pure, holy light illuminates all of history.

The stars Shen and Shang fell into the lotus tent, and where the jade mountain collapsed, the rouge melted into the morning glow.

Blue smoke curled and rose from the bottom of the Boshan furnace, while the ice shard held by the gilded beast head melted away.

The statue of the goddess, resembling a piece of white marble, captivated Wu Yazi.

Under the moonlight, young A-Tu went out to catch a badger and saw a double-budded laurel tree hanging from a branch, its petals blooming and its fragrance spreading for miles.

Two chameleons were seen in the watermelon patch, their long, sticky tongues darting out to catch flying insects.

A frog sits in the pond gazing at the moon, croaking as if to say that the blue sky has already appeared.

The bustling and vibrant scene of the night, where everything thrives and flourishes, remains vivid in my mind's eye.

Day passed, and night fell.

Night passed, and day broke.

Daylight passed, and night fell.

After the day has passed and the night has passed.

When I woke up in the morning, the scene of everything thriving and full of life finally came to an end.

Young Atu finished his busy life and looked at the hundreds of badgers he had caught with a pitchfork in the bamboo basket, feeling content.

On the laurel tree, pollen is spreading and the buds are swelling, so it should bear a lot of fruit this year, another good harvest!

After washing up, Chen Hong went to the imperial court to perform his duties.

As he had previously told Fusu and the First Emperor, he summoned Legalist officials and scholars to begin compiling the "Great Qin Law".

All the overly harsh and cruel laws in the Qin legal system were revised.

Furthermore, it filled in the loopholes, making it difficult for corrupt officials to find loopholes to commit wrongdoing, and it also made the Qin laws more concise.

The system of collective punishment for minor offenses should be abolished, and collective punishment should only be applied to major offenses.

Furthermore, taxes and levies were reduced, the duration of corvée labor was shortened, and the "cumulative corvée labor days method" and the "corvée labor rotation system" were implemented.

Laborers performing corvée labor were provided with food and lodging and paid wages.

They also suspended the construction of the First Emperor's Mausoleum at Mount Li and the Epang Palace.

To the astonishment of the entire court, the First Emperor cooperated completely without showing the slightest dissatisfaction.

With these two major projects halted, at least 70 laborers were freed up, giving the people of the land a much-needed respite.

Countless people were moved to tears of gratitude upon learning this.

Even some Confucian scholars praised Chen Hong.

They had long been disgusted by the Legalist school's oppressive policies, and upon seeing that Chen Hong was such a great sage who had actually changed the Qin Dynasty's political landscape, they were astonished.

They immediately began praising Chen Hong, wishing they could elevate him to the heavens.

This would allow the imperial court to loosen restrictions and employ Confucian scholars.

Chen Hong also abolished many forms of torture and included nobles within the scope of criminal law, thus achieving a system of punishment without class distinctions and enhancing the authority of the law.

This move undoubtedly offended the nobility.

But Chen Hong didn't care; he could just let Li Si, a Legalist, carry it out and divert the hatred.

Chen Hong also reduced the tax rate to a flexible rate of "one-thirtieth" (less) to "one-fifteenth" (more).

Appropriate tax rates should be set according to the land output of each region, and an investigation and adjustment should be conducted every three years, with tax reductions or exemptions in years of disaster.

The construction of the First Emperor's Mausoleum at Mount Li and the Epang Palace was halted, along with the 40 laborers working on the Great Wall and the 80 laborers working on the construction of the imperial highways/straight roads.

50 soldiers who marched south to conquer the Baiyue tribes.

To defend against the large army of the Xiongnu in the north, Meng Tian led an army of 30.

In order to alleviate the pressure on the people and the financial burden on the imperial court.

Chen Hong used the Divine Machine Refinement technique to modify the Flower Puppet, enabling it to absorb sunlight as an energy source and also writing certain intelligent programs for it.

Chen Hong went to Anshan in Northeast China and secretly established a production base.

It is still a desolate and bitterly cold place.

Chen Hong developed a brand-new, fully automated production line for the Ruhua puppet there.

They produced batch after batch of beautiful puppets.

They also crafted various machines for mining iron ore, and had the Flower Puppet operate the machines to mine open-pit iron ore.

It also radiates outwards to the surrounding area, mining more industrial materials.

These materials are fed into an automated production line to produce more Ruhua puppets.

In this way, batches of beautiful puppets left the factory and went to major projects such as the Great Wall and imperial highways, replacing a large number of laborers in construction projects.

(End of this chapter)