Yi Xiaochuan was like this, his hands and feet were tied up, and he was escorted by officers and soldiers all the way toward the Great Wall.

Along the way, Yi Xiaochuan was sleeping in the open, but fortunately, his physical fitness was excellent and he gradually adapted.

After all, they are just civil servants, not criminals. After treating civil servants honestly, they no longer beat and scold them. As long as they do not escape, they will let these people move forward together.

They are all miserable people, so there is no such thing as any noble or low. These guards have to accompany these civilians to stay in the deserted ditch walls inside and outside the Great Wall for several years.

Along the way, Yi Xiaochuan's martial arts and unique enthusiasm soon won many recommendations from civilians and became the leader of these civilians.

With the support and encouragement of Yi Xiaochuan, their group of civilians who went to build the Great Wall miraculously survived.

Yi Xiaochuan's actions also attracted the attention of the guard general. After the opponent and Yi Xiaochuan competed, they lost to Yi Xiaochuan.

The general not only does not anger, but also cherishes the heroes and treats them with special preferential treatment.

He is worthy of being the chosen son of God, and he will be smooth everywhere.

Yi Xiaochuan is doing well, but Gao Yao is already struggling on the verge of life and death.

The official slave has a low status and works in various physical work and eats porridge pancakes every day under the organization of the government yamen. Such physical work is still two meals a day.

The most important point is that modern people like Gao Yao do not have the physical strength to do heavy work. They injured their waist on the first day. The police officer in charge took a wooden stick and shook his legs red and swollen.

At night, the quilt he assigned was snatched away by the official slaves in the same dormitory. Gao Yao had to lie under the cold eaves to spend the first night.

In the middle of the night, he was awakened by the cold rain, which was slapped on his face. His tears were sandwiched with the rain, and salty tears flowed down his eyes into his clenched lips.

At this moment, his mind was extremely clear, and hatred and regret filled his heart.

He suddenly remembered what the uncle said to him.

"Be careful of Liu Bang, you will hide away in the end when you meet Liu Bang!"

But it was too late for him to wake up, and he had been cheated by Liu Bang.

Although Gao Yao studied less, he was not stupid. Today, he had already understood that he had been betrayed by Liu Bang.

Official slaves will die in the ten lives. Even if they are lucky and survive, they will never have freedom in their entire lives.

It's over myself, and it's over my life!

As for how to change his future destiny, Gao Yao doesn’t know now. All he has left now is hatred and regret!

It’s not that Han Chunming didn’t want to change Gao Yao’s fate, but he has already made a reminder that if Gao Yao really follows the old path, he can only let him do it.

What's more, Gao Yao is not someone who must be saved for him. For him, the other party is just a character in a movie and TV series in his memory.

As he set out towards the Qin Dynasty border, his mood became heavier and he had long forgotten the high-minded Xianyang.

Because what he saw along the way finally knew why the Qin Dynasty had only a fifteen-year life span.

Although famine occurred in the Qin Dynasty in few places, there were many things that were more serious than famine.

The tax rate in the Qin Dynasty was not too high, but there were many types, and even sacrifices were paid. Various miscellaneous taxes combined accounted for almost half of a family's total income.

If the tax rate is higher, it would be fine. As long as you can support the family, you will get through it.

The most important point is that every family in the Qin Dynasty had to have an adult man to perform labor service, and this period was for a lifetime, from the age of seventeen to fifty-seven.

If there are more than five family members, one person will be drawn and you will have to be in labor service for one month every year.

The father and eldest son at home both have to help the country work. In the house, women and two children work. In this case, what good harvest can the family have?

But in this era, the average age is only thirty or forty years old, and fewer adult men who can live to be fifty-seven are than eighty-year-olds in later generations.

In this era, most of the crops planted in the northern region were very low-yield crops, such as millet, which only harvested dozens of kilograms per acre of land a year.

A man rushed to sow the seeds into the field in a year, and then went to labor service for a few months. After the crops were mature, he went home to harvest them. The amount of harvest was purely based on God's mood.

The only advantage is that in this era, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and each household basically had dozens of acres of land.

But in fact, most ordinary people work all year round, and if they work less for a day, they will have to be hungry for a day.

Over time, the emotions and dissatisfaction in the hearts of the people are squeezed until the day there will be an outbreak.

The thousands of miles of official roads in the Qin Dynasty and the military fortresses spread all over the country were paved by these civilians.

Three hundred thousand people went to build the Great Wall, and seven hundred thousand people went to Mount Li to build the imperial tomb and Afang Palace. Most of these people died in a foreign land.

In addition to corvee service, the Qin Dynasty also had an army of millions. Although the Qin Dynasty had unified the six kingdoms, Qin Shihuang had no enemies at all.

Five hundred thousand troops fought against Baiyue, and 300 thousand troops stationed on the border to prevent the Huns from invading. There are hundreds of thousands of troops left in the country to guard corvee and participate in various military defenses.

In the Qin Dynasty, with a population of only more than 20 million, almost adult men in this country have been serving the country all their lives.

Most of a country's population is serving this country, and such a country is a bit sick in itself.

A few years later, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, relying on three hundred people, were like a wildfire, igniting the beginning of the troubled times and completely destroying the country.

Of course, after Qin Ershi came to power, he formulated a more cruel Qin law, which was the last straw that broke the Qin Dynasty.

Along the way, Han Chunming encountered at least a dozen waves of bandits and robbers, most of whom were civil servants and fleeing corvee labor, and even some criminal soldiers.

Han Chunming killed several groups at the beginning, but later, seeing that there were too many, he was completely unwilling to kill them. After killing only a few people, he left alone.

Moreover, as the border gets closer and the population becomes less and less, the people here are living a harder life.

Most ordinary people have dark faces. The whole family has been working in the fields with their heads down and often encountering government and bandits looting each other, which is extremely miserable.

Han Chunming rode alone for three days before finally seeing a small border town surrounded by deserted stones and deserted mountains, and there were yellow sand and Gobi in the distance. Apart from some mountain hunting outdoors, there were basically no one in sight.

Han Chunming had eaten roasted wild game for three days, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the city where humans gathered.

Before entering the city, Han Chunming saw a group of soldiers escorting hundreds of prisoners in strange costumes and walking towards the city gate from a distance.

These prisoners were men, women, young and old, with iron chains on their feet and tied hands, and were driven forward by hundreds of soldiers.

Originally, Han Chunming would not be curious about this situation, but he soon realized that these people seemed not from Qin, but from alien races.

Because these people are different from the Qin people, whether they look or dress up, they are different from the Qin people. Are they the Huns?

But the Huns were not that tall. These people were much taller than the people around them. No matter men, women, old and young, they were all huge, which was particularly strange.

More than a dozen of these people were particularly tall, almost over two meters tall, each with a strong figure, like a gorilla.

Moreover, everyone's body was covered in blood, and some of their arms were obviously drooping and had been broken, and they were obviously injured.

Han Chunming rode his horse and entered the city with the group of people.

Han Chunming got an identity token from this era in Xianyang as early as the realm of Xianyang. It was not too difficult to forge an identity token in this era. Moreover, Han Chunming traveled around and rarely stayed in one place, and was not afraid of the government's investigation.

Even if he was investigated, he was not afraid. He could easily kill him even with a horse or a Qin sword.

For him, this era seemed to be a travelogue of life, feeling all things in this world and various life.

He wasn't sure where he would go in the end, so he just wanted to walk north and take a look far away.

When Han Chunming entered the city, he found that it was very lively and the business was very developed. Caravans wearing various strange clothes were endless.

He soon settled in an inn, and he was about to rest for two days in the small town, replenish some food and water, and set off.

After walking north for more than 60 miles, he arrived at the border of Qin. Han Chunming chatted with the old man in the city and learned that after leaving the border, there were seven or eight small countries around a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

These small countries have few populations, most of which are tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. They usually live by nomadic life, grazing sheep and cattle, and when they are in difficult times, they will plunder everywhere.

There are also some small countries that rely on relying on the Great Qin to obtain living space. Every few years, they provide some wealth and specialties to the Qin State. These small countries are sandwiched between the Huns and the Great Qin State, and occasionally destroying the country is also common.

In addition to these small countries, there are countless nomadic tribes of all sizes, all over the land outside the pass.

There are more than 60 miles from the border area, which is not close or too far. It is basically considered safe. There are only this city around dozens of miles.

Therefore, there are endless caravans who have to leave the customs every year. With these caravans to stimulate the economy, this small town called Fanxing is still quite comfortable.

This city has not been harassed or attacked by foreigners for three or four years. The stable life has made the Star City more prosperous.

The main contribution of the prosperity here is to the Qin State, a powerful government. Qin State has stationed hundreds of thousands of troops in the border area since a few years ago to shock the foreign races around it.

However, intimidation is the shock, in order to survive, those alien races will still come to the Qin Dynasty border from time to time to fight for the autumn wind, such as looting some caravans and ordinary people.

Moreover, there is not a lot of peace between those small countries. They often start wars for women and cattle and sheep. It is common for some desperate foreign races to attack the Qin army outposts on the border.

In addition to these small countries, the biggest enemy of Qin was the Huns!

The Huns had millions of people, and their area was larger than that of the current Qin Dynasty. The Huns were born fierce and were the biggest foreign enemy of the Qin Dynasty.

In addition to the Huns, there are also foreign tribes of the Donghu tribes, all spread across thousands of miles of border areas.

However, for Han Chunming, these seemed to be an unopened treasure. After the chat with the old man, Han Chunming had already made plans in his heart.

If you want to leave the border, you can experience the style of the foreign land, set a small goal, and conquer a small tribe first?

Han Chunming returned to the inn and sat on the table in the hall and asked the waiter to serve a pot of wine and two kilograms of beef sauce.

The Qin Dynasty prohibited killing of cattle, but it was not prohibited here, because cattle and sheep were everywhere outside the pass.

Because there are mountains and city walls inside and outside, and Qin prohibits foreigners from entering the pass, only a small number of foreigners are allowed to enter the pass through transactions.

Therefore, many domestic merchants can only use camels and horses to transport goods to foreign exchange transactions.

Many merchants wholesale some food and living utensils from the mainland, and even wine and transport them outside the customs to trade with those aliens.

The merchants exchanged some leather, horses, and even living cattle and sheep from outside the pass, which also made the beef and mutton in Fanxing City particularly cheap.

Han Chunming ate the original beef sauce and drank the local fruit wine, and felt this different feeling.
To be continued...