This first emperor is awesome

Wipe out the six countries is just the beginning, not the end.

Although Feng Quji's words were well-founded, how could he not understand?

But it's just a one-sided statement. Before the world is unified, will there be less corvee for the people of the Seven Kingdoms?

In the chaotic war among the countries, the people of all countries not only have to submit to more complicated and complicated corvee than now, but also have to have males from every household go to the battlefield, and the number of deaths in the battle is more than a million?

Whether it is digging mountains and digging canals, or laying bridges and roads, it is a strategy that benefits the country and the people.

What's more, the war has just subsided, if there is no court corvee, how many families can have enough to eat?

How many people will starve to death?

Those who serve in corvee are mostly young and strong. The imperial court provides food to reduce the burden on the people of the world and benefit all places. This is a good policy, not a tyrannical government.

If these people are starved, they will die anyway, wouldn't it add chaos to the empire?

The armored soldiers of the Six Kingdoms returned to the fields, and if they were not fed and given something to do, wouldn't it be possible for them to rebel?

pedantic!

Now that the world has been unified for several years, most of the barren fields have been restored, and the order of the world is thriving.

Various projects have also been suspended. I was planning to open up the corridors of the Western Regions, capture Luoyue, and after I found Champa rice, I would raise people in the fields.

"Prime Minister Li means that Feng Quji's words are reasonable, that I am a senseless tyrant, a fatuous lord who extorts money and extorts money?"

Ying Zheng put aside distracting thoughts, looked at Li Si with deep eyes, and spoke in a tepid tone.

Li Si immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, I will never show any disrespect even if I die."

"Oh? Then I don't understand, what did Prime Minister Li mean?"

Ying Zheng looked at Li Si, who was kneeling and trembling on the top of the hall, and asked coldly.

Although it was already winter, Li Si felt that his back and clothes were soaked in sweat. He knew that His Majesty was forcing him to express his opinion.

His Majesty doesn't like this ambiguous answer, he is too smart.

"Your Majesty, the Yellow River has all kinds of harm, but the rich one. The land in the Hetao area is fertile and vast. Entering our Great Qin, it is no less than the land of Bashu Tianfu. It will definitely become another granary of the Great Qin Empire."

"The Xihai prairie occupied by the Yuezhi people and the Qilian Mountain prairie are both lands with fertile water and grass. If they can be brought back to the empire, together with the Hetao prairie, it will be enough for the empire to support hundreds of thousands of Qin cavalry."

Li Si prostrated on the ground, not daring to play tricks anymore, and said quickly.

"Your Majesty, my great Qin Dynasty has a vast territory and a prosperous population. Your Majesty has a great talent and strategy. General Meng Tian and General Wang Ben are brave and good at fighting. How can a mere Hu Di resist the military might of the Great Qin? I think what Prime Minister Li said is reasonable."

"Your Majesty, Luoyue is located in the south of the Great Qin. If the south is uncertain, a large number of troops will be deployed for defense. If the southern border can be settled in one fell swoop, there will be no border troubles in the southern part of the Great Qin. It will be a great achievement for thousands of years."

"Your Majesty, I agree."

Li Siquan was in favor of the court and the public.

As soon as he opened his mouth, half of the officials who had been watching the changes uttered words to refute Feng Quji, the imperial historian, and supported the empire's westward expedition.

"what do y'all think?"

Yingzheng turned his attention to those ministers who were still watching the changes and wanted to avoid offending, and asked.

The remaining half of the ministers immediately lowered their heads when they saw His Majesty cast their gazes over.

"Your Majesty is wise, and I agree with the Western Expedition. I will complete my meritorious service in one battle, so that future generations will never suffer from future troubles."

They are all full of scriptures and have been in the officialdom for decades. If they still can't see that His Majesty is determined to conquer the Yuezhi, then they are in vain.

"Feng Aiqing, what do you think? We are united, you make me very difficult."

Yingzheng didn't mention the Western Expedition from the beginning to the end, but with just a few words, he instantly reversed the situation and isolated those ministers who opposed the Western Expedition.

Feng Quji smiled bitterly, and heaved a deep sigh in his heart.

His majesty is talented and general, with the majesty of a unparalleled holy master, he is arbitrary in the court.

I am just fulfilling my duty as a courtier, as for how His Majesty accepts it, that is beyond my control.

"Your Majesty Shengming."

He alone cannot change the general trend. If he insists on doing it his own way, it will only displease His Majesty and disgrace his colleagues.

In the court situation, if he couldn't recognize the general trend, then he, the imperial doctor, would have abdicated a long time ago.

It can't be changed, what is needed now is the unity of the top and bottom, the civil and military unity of the Manchu Dynasty, and an early end to the war is the best policy.

"Feng Aiqing, during this expedition to the west, Lord Huguo gave away all his family property and gave him great support for money and food."

"Logistics and transportation, I plan to recruit 50 prisoners to Longxi and Bashu."

Ying Zheng glanced at Feng Quji, who was somewhat lonely and melancholy, and said meaningfully.

Feng Quji was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at Yingzheng and said, "Your Majesty, the protector of the country is so righteous that I am ashamed, and I am willing to donate half of my family's wealth to support the empire's Western Expedition of the Yuezhi."

Ying Zheng saw that Feng Quji's attitude had changed drastically. He first opposed his Western Expedition, seeing things as things he couldn't do, and then began to worry about the Western Expedition.

Such a humble minister is exactly what Daqin needs!

If this was the case for both the civil and military dynasties of the Great Qin and Manchu Dynasties, why not conquer the world?Shake up the Yidi?

Chapter 1 Close the world to enjoy the prosperity and reject the barbarians to indulge in sensuality

In Ganquan Palace, the royal palace was surrounded by black soldiers.

As night fell, everything was quiet, but the Ganquan Palace was brightly lit.

In the huge Oasis Palace, only Zhao Gao and Ying Zheng, who was sitting on the couch and dressed in black Chinese clothes, were the only ones.

Zhao Gao knelt in front of the couch with a look of nostalgia on his face.

"Your Majesty, you are back."

"For so many years, Zhao Gao has been trembling like walking on thin ice, serving His Majesty on both sides."

"I am loyal to Your Majesty, but in His Majesty's eyes, I, Zhao Gao, are just a dog."

"Since Mount Tai was enshrined in Zen, His Majesty has changed as if he is a different person. He dare not even look at Zhao Gao. His Majesty forced Zhao Gao to do all of this!"

"Your Majesty is high above you. You can decide the ups and downs of the world with a single word. Zhao Gao's loyalty is not worth mentioning in His Majesty's eyes."

"It's a pity that heaven fails to fulfill people's wishes. Your Majesty is superior in skill after all."

"Seeing that His Majesty returned to Xianyang safely, I was surprised and happy, scared and angry. Why did you come back alive? It would be great if you died on the East Tour Road!"

"It was Your Majesty who was unjust to Zhao Gao first, not Zhao Gao."

"Your Majesty, you are talented and unparalleled, and you must be able to understand Zhao Gao's difficulties, right?"

"Although Zhao Gao knows that the chance of winning is slim, he still wants to fight for it."

"After all, who doesn't want rights!"

"As long as you have outstanding courage, even a humble ant can dare to shake the sky to show your ambition."

Zhao Gao knelt in front of Ying Zheng with a delirious and composed expression, as if he was not surprised by today's ending.

"You know you can't do anything, why take the risk?"

Ying Zheng looked indifferent, looked at the crazy Zhao Gao, did not get angry, but asked plainly.

bang...

"Your Majesty speaks from the bottom of his heart, the person I admire most in my life is Your Majesty."

Zhao Gao's eyes showed a hint of admiration, and his voice trembled slightly.

"tell me the story."

Ying Zheng looked at Zhao Gaodao with flickering eyes.

"Your Majesty, your life is full of legends, maybe you don't know it yourself."

"Actually, you are a role model for all men in the world. A man who is a man can stand in the world and be like His Majesty."

"Swipe your armor and sweep the army to control the mountains and rivers and respect the world."

Zhao Gao looked at Ying Zheng with admiration and yearning.

"Do you know why I dismissed you?"

Ying Zheng walked to the window, opened it, and stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the silver moon in the night sky.

Zhao Gaogang wanted to say why...

"Because on the day Taishan Fengzen was enshrined, I saw the future and saw your ambition and incompetence."

"It's not terrible for a person to have ambitions. What's terrible is that his ambitions far exceed his abilities."

"It's like you can only eat one bowl of rice, but you are greedy and insist on eating one pot of rice."

"Such an absurd result can only end up with no food, and you will be overwhelmed by the food."

"Without the talent of the prime minister and the wrist of the emperor, if you squeeze your head and try to climb up, you can only bring disaster on the country and the people, and bring on your own disaster."

Before Zhao Gao could speak, he heard Ying Zheng's sarcasm.

He instantly understood that his majesty had already seen through his little thoughts.

"If you don't try it, how will you know it won't work?"

"Your Majesty's ancestors were not born kings or emperors."

"No one in this world is inherently noble, it is because you, those with vested interests, have blocked the way for all latecomers."

"There is no fairness in this world by distinguishing between the superior and the humble, and distinguishing the noble from the humble."

Zhao Gao shouted hysterically, he is really unwilling!

"What is fair?"

"If the strong do not make the rules, the weak will only suffer more."

"What I can do is to let capable people live well."

"Let ordinary people live a life of peace and contentment without being bullied and trampled at will."

"If there is no strong person to make laws to restrain bullies and nobles, this world will only be full of bloody tyranny, and mediocre people will be eaten alive by hungry wolves, and they have no right to live."

"Your so-called fairness, in my opinion, is purely childish fantasy."

"Mountain beasts have no rules, because they believe in the law of the jungle."

"If I am willing to be mediocre, I can completely close the world to enjoy the glory, and reject the barbarians to indulge in sensuality."

"But I don't want to be extravagant and want to live in a corner."

"I don't want thousands of years later, the world will scold me for being an incompetent and stupid king, greedy for comfort, and addicted to pleasure."

"Sitting on the land of Kyushu, I can be a happy emperor."

"Lighten the corvee, reduce taxes, and win the reputation of the world."

"But I didn't do this, because I know that even if a country is great and warlike, it will perish, and the world will be in danger if it forgets war for a long time."

"For thousands of years, the barbarians have repeatedly violated China, which is a persistent disease of China."

"Every year, tens of thousands of people in the frontier die tragically at the hands of the barbarians."

"Yi and Di will never be destroyed for a day, and China will never have a peaceful day."

"Nanping Baiyue, attacking the Xiongnu in the north, chasing the Yuezhi in the west, and conquering the Hu people in the east, there must be someone to do it."

"So what if you bear the infamy of the world?"

"Qin can be destroyed, but China cannot be humiliated."

Ying Zheng looked at the bright moon in the sky, his eyes were like torches, and he talked endlessly.

"Your Majesty has lofty aspirations and grand ambitions, and Zhao Gao will never be able to match them in his life!"

Zhao Gao sighed, staring at Ying Zheng's back, with a strange light shining.

"It's a matter of monarch and minister, I will leave you a whole body, kill yourself!"

Ying Zheng stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the starry sky, and said in a complicated voice.

"Zhao Gao's death is not a pity. I hope that His Majesty will think that Zhao Gao has served the holy family for many years. If there is no credit but hard work, the whole family of Zhao Gao will be spared the death penalty."

Zhao Gao took out a broken dagger and bowed to Ying Zheng.