Since King Huiwen of Qin ordered the Qin army to go eastward, capture the land of Weihan and set up Hangu Pass.
The land in Guanzhong has always been the land of the Qin people and the real foundation of the Qin State. It is far from comparable to the old lands of the Six Kingdoms captured from outside the Guan.
It is fortified and dangerous, the situation is convenient, the mountains, forests, rivers and valleys are beautiful, and the natural resources are abundant.
When I enter the country, I observe its customs. Its people are simple, their singing and music are not dirty, and their obedience is not demanding. They are very afraid of being in charge and obey, just like the ancient people.
This was Xunzi's impression of the land and people of Qin when he entered Qin decades ago.
Now that Zhao Tuo has entered Qin's homeland, his feelings are not much different.
Hangu is naturally dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it can indeed be called a "convenient situation".
As for the Qin people.
The envoy's convoy went west along the road, and Zhao Tuo saw the common people in the fields on the roadside working hard to cultivate the fields.
Zhao Tuo was not very familiar with agriculture and didn't know what they were doing, but at this time of year, he guessed that they might be planting winter wheat.
When they noticed the envoy's convoy passing by, these people looked up at most, then lowered their heads quickly and continued to do their farm work. They seemed not to be interested in the envoy, nor were they curious about who was passing by.
Their clothes are simple, without the beauty of silk clothes, and there is no loud singing and noisy voice.
Zhao Tuo knew that this was the characteristic of Qin's rule of law.
There is a saying in "Shang Jun Shu": "The voice of obedience will not pass through hundreds of counties, and the people will act regardless of their actions and live in seclusion without listening." If you stay in seclusion and don't listen, your Qi will not be lustful; if you don't care about your actions, your thoughts will be the same. If the mind is clear and the Qi is not obscene, then the grass will surely grow.
To put it simply, all kinds of obscene sounds and different clothes are not allowed to be popular at the bottom.
Without the music and fancy clothes, farmers would not waste their energy on these boring entertainments.
If their energy is not wasted indiscriminately, they will concentrate on plowing the fields. In this way, the farmland can be greatly cultivated.
If farmland is cultivated and food production increases, won't national strength increase?
For the common people of Qin State, they do not need entertainment. There are only two most important things in their lives.
In the country, no fighting or wandering around is allowed. All you need to do is farm the fields, pay taxes, and bear corvee labor.
Once on the battlefield, he fought hard to kill the enemy, beheaded people to gain military merit, and worked hard to create a better future for his family.
Plowing and fighting.
This is the fundamental reason why the Qin State was able to swallow up the world and become a country of tigers and wolves.
After the mission entered the customs, there was no need to rush, the speed slowed down, and it was not until the third day that they arrived at the outskirts of Xianyang.
"This is Xianyang!"
Zhao Tuo stood on the chariot, looking at the magnificent city in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh.
Since Qin Xiaogong moved the 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 city 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 has no use.
As for the new city wall, due to the continuous growth of the Qin State's territory, the scale of Xianyang City is also getting larger and larger, spanning the north and south of the Wei River, and is still expanding outward. Under this situation, the new city wall has not been determined. Down, naturally there will be no city wall.
Moreover, there is no need to build a city wall in Xianyang.
The whole world will become the territory of King Qin.
Xianyang, what does it need a city wall for?
Arriving at the outskirts of Qindu, the speed of the convoy slowed down, and Heng, who was sitting in the chariot's seat, also relaxed.
"Tuo, look at those people."
Zhao Tuo looked up and saw hundreds of people walking towards the north of Xianyang under the guidance of several Qin officials on a road not far away.
Now that winter is coming, the weather is very cold, but those people are in ragged clothes, their hands and feet are red from the cold, they are staggering, and they look like they will fall down at any time.
The most striking thing is that they all wear the same color.
Ocher brown.
Ocher clothes block the road!
They were prisoners, prisoners who were punished with hard labor for violating Qin's laws.
Zhao Tuo saw that among the prisoners, a thin young man fell to the ground because his legs and feet were stiff and he could not walk steadily.
The prisoners behind him all ran away when they saw this scene.
Soon, a Qin official came over, and without any explanation, he swung his whip and beat him hard, and kept yelling at him.
The young man seemed to have turned into a zombie, unable to feel pain. After being whipped several times, he finally realized what he was doing and got up from the ground shivering.
He seemed a little confused and turned his head to look around.
Zhao Tuo clearly saw 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 followed the rear of the criminal team with staggering steps, stumbling forward.
Driven by Qin officials, the prisoners were like a group of grazing animals, heading towards the north bank of Xianyang.
Once there, they will experience a more cruel life.
"I'm going to build the palace."
Zhao Tuo shook his head and sighed. He heard that every time the King of Qin destroyed a vassal state, he would build a replica of the palace with the characteristics of that country on the north bank of Xianyang.
This is the so-called "Qin united the world, made many arrogant, and prepared seven kingdoms."
Now Qin has destroyed Han and Zhao.
If nothing else goes wrong, on the construction site on the north bank of the Wei River, palaces imitating the styles of Korea and Zhao are rising from the ground, built with the blood and flesh of the prisoners.
"It's too cruel. This Qin State is really too cruel."
“No wonder it’s called Bao Qin!”
There was an angry voice in his ears, and Zhao Tuo smiled helplessly.
Is this called cruelty?
Zhao Tuo knew that more than ten years later, 700,000 such prisoners would be driven to build the majestic Lishan Mausoleum.
There were also hundreds of thousands of soldiers and slaves building the Great Wall of Qin that stretched thousands of miles in the north.
Be careful not to give birth to a boy, but use breasts to feed a girl.
Don't you see that under the Great Wall, the bones of the dead are leaning on each other?
Thinking of this, Zhao Tuo shook his head helplessly.
No matter how cruel or harsh it is, it is better than troubled times.
Later generations also said, "I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times."
Think about the massacres and prisoner killings in those troubled times, when hundreds of thousands of people were massacred at every turn.
White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles.
One of the hundreds of things left behind by the living people will break people's hearts just thinking about it.
Think about those wars, with heads and bones everywhere.
If Qin cannot unify, more people will die in the war.
Just as Zhao Tuo was sighing in his heart, the convoy had already passed the team of prisoners and arrived in Xianyang City.
At this time, a convoy happened to come out of the city.
The cavalry opened the way, followed by a guard of honor, and escorted one of the jú cars.
The carriage was gorgeously decorated, decorated with gold and silver, pearls and jade, and there were beautiful little bells tied around the edges, which made crisp sounds in the wind.
At this scene, one can tell at a glance that the identity of the person sitting in the car is not simple.
If he is not a high-ranking person, he is a member of the royal family.
"Is she a woman?"
Zhao Tuo thought thoughtfully. The carriages were usually driven by women. Coupled with the gorgeous female-oriented accessories, the gender of the owner of the carriage was self-evident.
The bloody scenes in the TV series of the previous life did not appear, and the cavalry guarding the carriage did not arbitrarily scold the envoys to stop and let them go first.
Instead, he parked silently on the side of the road, waiting for the mission vehicles to pass by first.
The fifth doctor, Meng Yu, saluted the carriage and then guided the mission's vehicles into the city.
Just as the messenger car Zhao Tuo was riding passed by the carriage, the people in the car seemed unable to restrain their curiosity.
A slender white hand opened the small window next to the car.
