151 Consuming manpower to build a road, Lv Bu offers advice to end the chaos
Lu Bu looked at the worry on the faces of some civil and military officials in the hall and couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "Although this major revision of the Tao will greatly damage the people's strength in the world, it will eventually greatly facilitate the travel convenience of many people in the world, and it is also a good policy to benefit all the people in the world. However, after this, the major revision of the Afang Palace, the construction of the Great Wall, the construction of the Qin Emperor Mausoleum, and other projects were basically only projects that benefited a small part or even a very small number of people. This was the fuse that led to the people of the world's future rebellion and even overthrow of the Qin Dynasty's rule! And now, this series of "big projects" have just begun.
The imperial edict of Emperor Ying Zheng of the First Emperor, the state machine that had just been integrated started immediately. Nearly one million civilians from all over the country were summoned from the fields by Qin soldiers. They sweated but could only harvest two half-full meals a day. However, although the road construction move of Emperor Ying Zheng was hated and complained by countless civilians, the spacious and flat roads quickly replaced the muddy and narrow country roads in several months, connecting dozens of county governments in the world with the Qin capital of Xianyang. [..com]
Among these newly built roads, the best quality is: Shangjun Road, Linjin Road, Dongfang Road, Wuguan Road, Qin Plank Road, Western Road and Qin Straight Road. All of these roads are close to Guanzhong and even directly through Guanzhong. The officials of all sizes who supervised the construction of the roads at the foot of the emperor dare not be careless. They all do the best or even exceed the best standards. When Ying Zheng personally toured these roads, he also gave corresponding rewards to the officials of all sizes responsible for building these roads, which could be considered as clear rewards.
During this road construction period, a major event also happened. During the reign of King Wei of Qi and King Xuan, Zou Yan, the Yin-Yang family, advocated the theory of the five virtues of the beginning and the beginning. He thought that wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, water produces wood, wood produces fire, and this recursive rebellion, cycles and ends, and used to explain the evolution of the rule of the three emperors and five emperors to the Yin and Zhou dynasties. In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (221 BC), the theory of the Qin people, Zou Yan, was believed that the former Qin Wengong went to hunt and seize the black dragon, which was a sign of water auspiciousness; he also calculated the order of the five virtues of the beginning and the beginning, thinking that Zhou obtained the fire virtue. The fire extinguisher water
, In the Qin Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, the water virtue was obtained. Water virtue belonged to the north, with a black color, and the end was six. The First Emperor adopted his theory and believed that it was the beginning of the water virtue, so he changed the year, with the month of Jianhai as the beginning of the year, and the court congratulations were set on the first day of the October. The clothes, flags, and flags were all black; the numbers were six as illusions; the talisman and the law were set to be six inches, the carriage track was six feet wide, and the horse was six feet wide. It was also renamed the Yellow River as "Deshui", and the people were called "Guizhou". Water controls Yin, Yin controls punishment and killing, and administration is based on resoluteness and strictness. Everything is determined by laws and regulations, abandons benevolence and kindness, and is in harmony with water virtue.
These five elements and five virtues were also very popular among the ambitious princes in the Three Kingdoms era in Lu Bu’s memory. However, in the eyes of Lu Bu, a soul who traveled through time from the next 21st century, the five elements and five virtues were too vague and could not be too obsessed with this aspect. However, who made Qin Emperor Ying Zheng hold the whole world now, and was at a time of wealth. Not to mention that the five elements and five virtues "just" require some money and disturb the "some" people, in the view of Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, as long as he could help him continue the lifeline of the Qin Empire for thousands of years, he would be willing to give it.
During the Warring States Period, the system of acres in various countries was different. In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (221 BC), the First Emperor Ying Zheng issued the edict of "One Law to Squire Stone and Fight" in Xianyang. It stipulated that six feet were one step and two hundred and forty directions were one acre. This ended the situation of different acres of fields and different acres, and facilitated the chaos of taxes uploaded in cities and counties in various places in the future.
In the 26th year of Qin Shihuang (221 BC), the First Emperor Ying Zheng set the currency as a second grade: gold is the upper coin, with a unit of t and weighs twenty taels (one saying it weighs twenty-four taels). The copper coins are the lower coin, weighing half a liang. It is also stipulated that pearls, jade, ghosts, shells, silver, tin and other items are only used as treasures and cannot be used as currency. In this way, gold and copper coins have become legal coins that are open to the whole country. (This is why people rarely see silver trading during the Chu and Han dynasties, because silver was not allowed to be used as currency in the Qin Dynasty)
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"Report to Your Majesty, a large number of civil servants and some of our soldiers stationed there have been fighting each other in Qi. Our soldiers have killed thousands of civil servants, but more than a hundred people were killed or injured by the sneak attacks of these rioters." An official who rushed back to Xianyang from Qi to Xianyang reported the latest information from Qi to the First Emperor Ying Zheng. He heard that there were more than 100 casualties in the Qin army. The face of the First Emperor Ying Zheng couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.
Naturally, Emperor Ying Zheng was not worried about the lives of more than a hundred Qin soldiers. What he was worried about was that although the world was pacified, a large number of deserters, defeated soldiers from the six countries, and some rural farmers who had to be armed in troubled times remained in various counties. These people made some noise in Qi today, killed more than a hundred Qin soldiers and were suppressed after they were suppressed. Tomorrow, some people came to Jiujiang County, causing some casualties to the Qin soldiers stationed there and then were suppressed again.
After repeated tossing and turning, the Qin army stationed in various places were eaten up bit by bit. After a year, the Qin army across the country (the Qin army here refers to the old Qin soldiers in Guanzhong rather than the Qin army recruited outside the pass) would have at least thousands of casualties. This was only one year, but what about ten years later? What about a hundred years later? Thinking of this, the face of the Qin Emperor Ying Zheng became even more gloomy.
"All my dear friends have also heard that there have been riots in Qi, causing more than a hundred people to be killed or injured in the Qin soldiers! After the world has been pacified over the years, there is indeed no major war except for some wars in Nanyue. However, the combined Qin soldiers who died in the hands of the riots every year are almost overwhelming the number of deaths in Tu Sui (the general who commanded the Qin army to fight against Nanyue)! What are the ways for all my dear friends to relieve my sorrows?" The First Emperor Ying Zheng patted the imperial case in front of him and sought solutions from the civil and military officials in the hall.
Wang Wan, the minister who was replaced by the former court guard Li Si, spoke to the Prime Minister. Although he had not thought about it carefully in order to get the opportunity, he was the first to stand out of the train and salute him respectfully, and began to prepare the next remarks in his heart.
When Emperor Ying Zheng saw that the first person to stand out was Wang Wan, he felt displeased. It turned out that after Wang Wan, who had served as the Prime Minister of Qin before, was pacified by the then Prime Minister Wang Wan advised Emperor Ying Zheng that "Yan, Qi, Jing is far away, and you should not set up a king, so don't suppress him, please establish a son", which means that Qin Shihuang was granted the title of princes of various lords.
This suggestion is contrary to the idea of the centralized empire that the First Emperor Ying Zheng was determined to establish. However, most officials at that time supported Wang Wan's proposal, which made the First Emperor Ying Zheng, who had just pacified the world, feel a little passive. Fortunately, Li Si, who was the chief lieutenant at that time, and several military generals led by Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Lu Bu and others stood up to oppose the proposal. Li Si suggested that the enfeoffment of his sons, Yasun, would lead to the disadvantage that the emperor could not ban it. The First Emperor Ying Zheng took this opportunity to dispel the opinions and accepted the suggestions of Li Si, Meng Tian and others, and then removed Wang Wan's position as prime minister and placed Li Si in the position of left prime minister.
"Is there any good way for the Wang Qing family?" Although he had no good feelings for Wang Wan, when the First Emperor Ying Zheng saw that Wang Wan was the first to stand up, he had to let him talk first.
"Report to Your Majesty, according to my opinion, we should conduct detailed tasks in various places and closely monitor the rioters in various places. Once these rioters dare to make any moves, immediately contact the local garrison soldiers to kill all the rioters while they are unprepared! In this way, the world will be safe and worry-free." Wang Wan said as if all the rioters and thieves were killed by the swords of the Qin soldiers as he spoke.
Unfortunately, Wang Wan himself was very proud of the method he came up with. However, after he finished speaking, not only did the civil and military ministers around him look at him with contempt, but even the right prime minister Feng Quji, who had always had good personal relationships with him, shook his head.
The First Emperor Ying Zheng was so angry that he laughed: "According to what Wang Qing's family said, no matter how much food it costs to send the detailed works to all parts of the world, just say, the chaotic people lurking everywhere, can they be engraved with words on their faces? How do those chaotic people who sent the detailed works know who are the chaotic people?"
Wang Wan was stunned for a moment, blinking her eyes for a long time and couldn't speak.
First Emperor Ying Zheng waved his hand and signaled Wang Wan to retreat to the queue. If it weren't for Wang Wan's old Qin people in Guanzhong, First Emperor Ying Zheng would have ordered him to get out of the hall.
After Wang Wan, several ministers stood up and offered their own strategies. Some suggested that Shi Huang Ying Zheng strengthen the troops garrisons in various places, some advised Shi Huang Ying Zheng to reduce taxes from various places to nourish the hearts of the people, and some right Prime Minister Feng Quji submitted a report to Shi Huang Ying Zheng to stop the construction of the road that is being carried out in various places to calm the public's anger. These suggestions were either rejected by Shi Huang without hesitation, or caused a scolding from Shi Huang Ying Zheng. In short, Shi Huang Ying Zheng could not get a satisfactory answer from the ministers at all.
Seeing the ministers arguing in the hall, Lu Bu, who was standing in the queue of military generals, suddenly remembered that in history, did the First Emperor Ying Zheng confiscate the world's weapons and cast twelve gold (metal) people? Is this measure to prevent riots in the world?
Thinking of this, Lu Bu couldn't help but stand out from the queue and shout: "Report to Your Majesty, I have a plan to eliminate all the chaos in the world!"
If you want to know what happens next, let’s see if you don’t cry and then break it down again~~
Chapter completed!