General Qin

Since King Qin Huiwen ordered the Qin army to go east, seize the land of Weihan, and set up Hangu Pass.

The land in Guanzhong has always been the land of Qin people, and it is the real foundation of Qin State, which is far from being comparable to the old places of the six countries seized from outside the pass.

It is solid and dangerous, the situation is convenient, the mountains, forests, rivers and valleys are beautiful, and the natural resources are many.

When entering the country, observe its customs, its people are simple, its vocal music is not dirty, and its clothes are not picky.

This is Xunzi's impression of Qin land and Qin people when he entered Qin several decades ago.

Now that Zhao Tuo has entered the homeland of Qin State, the feeling is not much different.

Hangu is naturally dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack, it can indeed be called "simple situation".

As for the Qin people.

The envoy's caravan went west along the road, and Zhao Tuo saw that the common people in the fields beside the road were all working hard to cultivate the fields.

Zhao Tuo was not very familiar with agriculture, so he didn't know what they were doing, but at this time of year, he guessed that they might be planting winter wheat.

Sensing the envoy's convoy passing by, these people looked up at most, then quickly lowered their heads and continued to do their own farm work. It seemed that they were not interested in the envoy, nor were they curious about who was passing by.

Their clothes are simple, without the beauty of silk and gorgeous clothes, and there is no sound of loud singing.

Zhao Tuo knew that this was the characteristic of Qin's governance of the people.

"Shang Junshu" has a saying: If the voice and service are not available in hundreds of counties, the people will ignore their actions and stop living and not listening. If you stop and don't listen, your anger will not be lustful; if you don't care about your actions, your mind will be one. If the mind is one and the qi is not obscene, then the grass must be prudent.

To put it simply, all kinds of lewd voices and different clothes are not allowed to be popular at the bottom.

Without extravagant music and exotic costumes, farmers would not spend their energy on these boring entertainments.

Their spirits are not wasted indiscriminately, and they will concentrate on plowing the fields. In this way, the farmland can be greatly reclaimed.

If the farmland is reclaimed and the grain output increases, won't the national strength be enhanced?

For the common people in the head of the state of Qin, they don't need entertainment, and there are only two things that are most important in their life.

In the country, fighting and fighting are not allowed, and wandering around is not allowed. All you need to do is to farm obediently, pay taxes and bear corvee.

When on the battlefield, he fought hard to kill the enemy, beheaded and made military achievements, and worked hard to create a better future for his family.

Plow and fight.

This is the fundamental reason why Qin was able to swallow the world and become a country of tigers and wolves.

After the mission entered the customs, there was no need to hurry, and the speed slowed down, and it was not until the third day that they arrived in the suburbs of Xianyang.

"This is Xianyang!"

Zhao Tuo stood on the cart, looking at the magnificent city in the distance, and couldn't help sighing.

Since Qin Xiaogong moved his capital to Xianyang, after hundreds of years of development, Xianyang has become one of the most magnificent cities in the world today.

Xianyang City has no walls!

It's not that there has never been a city wall, but that the former city wall has long been included in the city, demolished and abandoned, and is useless.

As for the new city wall, because of the continuous growth of the territory of the Qin State, the scale of Xianyang City is also getting larger and larger, spanning the north and south of the Weihe River, and it is still expanding outward. Under such circumstances, the new city wall has been uncertain. Next, naturally there will be no city walls.

Moreover, there is no need to build a city wall in Xianyang.

The whole world will become the territory of King Qin.

Xianyang, what do you need the city wall for?

Traveling to the outskirts of Qindu, the speed of the convoy slowed down, and Heng, who was sitting on the driver's seat, also relaxed.

"Tuo, look at those people."

Zhao Tuo raised his eyes and saw on a road not far away, there were hundreds of people walking towards the north of Xianyang under the guidance of several Qin officials.

Now that winter is coming, the weather is very cold, but those people are dressed in rags, their hands and feet are red from the cold, and they walk staggeringly, looking like they may fall down at any time.

The most striking thing is that the clothes they wear are all the same color.

ocher brown.

Ocher clothes blocked the road!

They are criminals, prisoners who were punished for hard labor for violating the laws of Qin.

Zhao Tuo saw that in the prisoner's line, a thin young man fell to the ground because his legs and feet were stiff and he couldn't walk steadily.

Seeing this scene, the prisoners behind him all ran away to both sides.

Soon, a Qin official came over, he could not help but beat him violently with a whip, and kept yelling.

The young man seemed to have turned into a zombie. He couldn't feel the pain, and he only realized it after being whipped several times, and got up from the ground tremblingly.

He seemed a little dazed, and turned his head to look around.

Zhao Tuo could clearly see that the young man had dark tattoos on his face and no nose.

After being whipped several more times, he finally came to his senses, and staggered forward, following at the end of the prisoner team.

Driven by Qin officials, the prisoners, like a group of grazing livestock, headed towards Beiban, Xianyang.

When they get there, they will also experience a more cruel life.

"It's to repair the palace."

Zhao Tuo shook his head and sighed softly. He heard that every time Qin Wangzheng wiped out a vassal state, he would imitate and build palaces with the country's characteristics on Beiban, Xianyang.

This is the so-called "Qin merged the world, more arrogant, and the palace prepares the seven kingdoms".

Now Qin has destroyed Han and Zhao.

Not surprisingly, on the construction site on the north bank of the Weihe River, palaces imitating the styles of Han and Zhao are being built, built with the blood and flesh of prisoners.

"It's too cruel, this Qin State is really too cruel."

"No wonder it is called Tyranny!"

An angry voice came from beside his ear, and Zhao Tuo smiled helplessly.

Is this cruel?

Zhao Tuo knew that after more than ten years, 700,000 such prisoners would be driven to build the majestic Lishan Mausoleum.

There are also hundreds of thousands of soldiers and apprentices who built the Qin Great Wall stretching thousands of miles in the north.

Be cautious when giving birth to a boy, but use candied meat when giving birth to a girl.

Don't you see the bones of the dead supporting each other under the Great Wall?

Thinking of this, Zhao Tuo shook his head helplessly.

No matter how cruel and harsh, it's better than troubled times.

There is also a saying in later generations, "It is better to be a dog of peace than to be a person in troubled times."

Think about the massacres of cities and captives in those troubled times, and hundreds of thousands of people were massacred at every turn.

The bones of the dead are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

Living people leave behind one hundred and one, and the thought of it breaks people's hearts.

Think about those battles, with heads all over the ground and bones everywhere.

If Qin cannot be unified, more people will die in the war.

Just when Zhao Tuo was feeling emotional, the convoy had passed the prisoner team and arrived at Xianyang City.

At this time, there happened to be a convoy coming out of the city.

The cavalry opened the way, followed by guards of honor, guarding one of the jú (jú) chariots.

The carriage was ornately decorated with gold and silver embellishments, pearls and jade, and there were beautiful little bells tied on the sides of the carriage, which made crisp sounds with the wind.

In this scene, one can tell at a glance that the identity of the person sitting in the car is not simple.

Either a high-ranking person, or a royal family member.

"Is it a woman?"

Zhao Tuo was thoughtful, and the chariots are generally used by women, and with the gorgeous accessories that are biased towards women, the gender of the owner of the chariot is self-evident.

Those bloody scenes in the TV series in the previous life did not appear, and the cavalry guarding the chariot did not domineeringly reprimand the mission to stop and let them go first.

Instead, they parked silently by the side of the road, waiting for the mission vehicles to pass first.

The fifth doctor, Meng Yu, saluted to the chariot, and then guided the mission's vehicles into the city.

Just when Zhao Tuo's envoy's auxiliary car passed by the car, the people in that car seemed to be unable to hold back their curiosity.

A slender white hand opened the small window beside the car.