Chen Ke took a step forward and looked at the majestic Mount Tai in front of him. He walked to Ying Zheng's side and stood shoulder to shoulder with Ying Zheng, with a cheeky smile on his face. This was the only time in the past few years that Chen Ke smiled so broadly. There is no burden.
He followed Ying Zheng's example, opened his arms, and asked softly: "Dare you ask the heavens if I am majestic?"
As soon as he said this, Ying Zheng almost laughed without restraining his serious expression. He pointed at Chen Ke, his fingers trembling slightly, and the smile on his face could not be concealed at all.
"You."
He shook his head, took a step forward, gave way to the mountain dome, and walked towards the mountains in the distance.
Below are rolling clouds and mist, and above is the long sky.
Ying Zheng actually took a step forward and said with a sigh in his expression: "Dare you ask the heavens if I am majestic?"
He actually used Chen Ke's joking tone just now and asked such a sentence.
Chen Ke also wanted to laugh a little, but when he walked to Ying Zheng's side, he was infected by Ying Zheng's aura at this moment. He couldn't help but asked softly: "Dare I ask the sky, is our emperor majestic?"
The many soldiers following behind seemed to be infected by Chen Ke, and they couldn't help but ask such a sentence.
"I dare to ask the heaven, is our emperor majestic?"
The same, magnificent voice of questioning echoed on the top of Mount Tai. All the officials of Great Qin were asking the sky, is their emperor majestic?
Under the long sky, questions from courtiers were everywhere.
Ying Zheng stood under the sky with his hands behind his hands, with a little peace in his expression.
He said softly: "Chen Ke, actually I was not willing to go out on a cruise. At that time, I thought that if Fusu couldn't do it, I would go back."
"If I regret it, I can go back."
Ying Zheng closed his eyes silently, feeling the wind blowing gently around him, making everything become normal.
He sighed softly: "This is also the reason why I told Fusu that I would go back after three letters at the beginning. This is also the reason why I didn't say when I would go back."
"Leave a way out for yourself. You can go back whenever you want."
Ying Zheng turned around and looked at Chen Ke. He opened his eyes, and the sharp look in his eyes was highlighted. Everything was so peaceful.
"But later, I gradually relaxed."
"I started thinking, am I really suitable to continue to be the emperor?"
"Does the world still need me?"
Ying Zheng smiled brightly and said softly: "Later I figured it out."
Chen Ke asked in surprise: "What did your Majesty want to understand?"
Ying Zheng smiled slightly: "I have figured it out. Does the world need me? What does it have to do with me? Whether the world needs me, I am here. There is no part of the world that does not need me, only I do not need the part of the world."
"Then I was thinking about it. Now that the world has been pacified, although the enemies in the Western Regions have already appeared, I have conquered a lot of land in the north, south, east, and even as far away as another continent."
"I have done enough. I want to leave a way for future emperors to survive, don't I?"
He smiled slightly and walked on Mount Tai, as if a fairy had returned to his own realm. He was so confident that no one could move his heart.
Chen Ke lowered his head and just listened. This was something that the First Emperor had learned along the way. Of course he was willing to listen.
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Ying Zheng continued: "Later, when time gradually passed and the world was developed well in Fusu's hands, I felt relieved and continued the tour. As for when to go back, I have not decided yet."
"At that time, the world was developing very rapidly."
"With the gradual development of Qin Coin Bank, every household in the capital of Guizhou can have enough food to eat, and there is no need to exchange children for food."
"Although I didn't do better, I didn't do worse."
"It is not something that I can do so that everyone can have full stomachs and meat. It's not that I can't do it, but it shouldn't be done overnight in my hands."
"Everything should develop slowly."
"If we try to pull out the seedlings to encourage them to grow, it will only cause the seedling "Da Qin" to die in the field after it grows. This is not what I should do. "
"I thought about it again and again, but in the end I was still unwilling."
He closed his eyes, as if sketching an imaginary Da Qin in his mind.
"When we were cruising together last year, I complained to you that even after the road was repaired, the speed of the carriage was too slow. Half of the time was wasted."
"Tell me, people from Xianyang City Research Institute have already invented steam engines and trains. As long as there is enough money and time, they can be laid all over the world."
"Fusu also told me in the letter that the train is very fast. Perhaps it only takes two or three days to reach Penglaizhou from Xianyang City - you have to know that today's carriages are swaying and take nearly two days. More than a month.”
"It's just like a god."
Ying Zheng laughed at himself: "To be honest, when I heard about trains and steam engines, I understood one thing in an instant. The next Great Qin will probably develop very rapidly, as long as I am willing."
"As long as I am willing, I can go back and take over Daqin, then lay railroad tracks on a large scale, then build railways, manufacture trains, and then make the world surrender."
"At that time, it won't take more than five days for me to go to any place. All officials in the world will start to be timid and afraid of my authority, so they will not dare to do anything."
"My authority and power will reach a peak."
"Then, with the reform of the steam engine, I can replace many things that can only be done by manpower with another kind of power. With sufficient coal reserves, we can quickly expand the development of Daqin for a hundred, or even five hundred years. Year."
Ying Zheng had a cold look on his face. He turned back and looked at Chen Ke: "I even thought of another thing."
"You once told me."
""What is a fairy? How can you be called a fairy if you can't turn over rivers and seas and reach for stars?"
"Just a steam engine can change so much. What if there are other things? Using other energy sources to improve, ships can sail on the sea, why can't they sail on the sky?"
"By that time, I can even go to heaven and earth!"
"At that time, I will be the true emperor of the ages, unrivaled by anyone."
"I am the real one from all ages, and there is no one who can surpass me!"
"I am truly the emperor of eternity, even the emperor of eternity!"
The more Ying Zheng talked, the more excited he became. He walked back and forth on Mount Tai, like a crazy man. At this time, many soldiers checked that there was no danger on the top of Mount Tai, and then retreated to the mountain road. superior.
There were only a few people from Heibingtai around who were watching at all times.
Chen Ke's voice sounded at this time, as if it was echoing under the sky.
"But you finally gave up."
Ying Zheng smiled sarcastically: "Yes, in the end I gave up this opportunity."
"Even if I know, as long as I am willing, I can do all this. The world is at my feet, and all the land will belong to Great Qin."
"Whether it is further west in the Western Region, now look at where the King of the West is."
"It's still the Yin Shang Continent across the ocean, or it's further north in the North Sea."
"I can take them all and make an immortal contribution."
He turned back and looked at Chen Ke: "But I restrained my inner greed, because I long for more."
Ying Zheng smiled slightly: "You may think that I can restrain my greed because I am a saint, but this is not the case."
"I once said that after my death, even if I am no longer the Qin Dynasty, I will transform into the Chinese Dragon Soul to guard the Central Plains and protect it for all generations."
"I have also said that after my death, even if some unscrupulous descendants are mediocre and someone overthrows their rule and establishes a new dynasty, I don't care."
"But, Chen Ke."
"After all, I am an ordinary, ordinary person, not a true saint."
"Confucius, who the Confucianists wanted to promote as a saint, even "killed Shaozhengmao in anger" back then. How could I not care about anything at all? "
"I still want Da Qin to be passed down to all generations."
"I am the first emperor, followed by the second emperor, then the third emperor, and then passed down to all generations."
"This is my ambition."
At this time, Ying Zheng had calmed down. He smiled slightly and said, "So I know that I can't do this."
"The emergence of the steam engine will cause a large number of people to lose their labor needs. The manufacturing and construction of trains and railways will consume people's strength and force. If corvees are recruited, the "employment" that was finally reformed will lose its role. "
"If we really hire someone, the court can't afford the money."
"In the end, I can only go back to the original path. On the vast land, the Qin Dynasty falls apart. It may even fall apart while I am still alive."
Ying Zheng gathered up his clothes and shook his head: "So, I restrained my inner greed and desire."
"I want to leave these things to future generations of kings to slowly control the world and develop slowly. After managing the mainland of Daqin, I will attack the Zhanxi Kingdom and then inform other continents. "
Ying Zheng looked into the distance: "This is my greatest ambition to protect the Qin Dynasty forever."
"For this ambition, I can restrain my inner greed. I can also allow myself to retire early and establish a tradition for the Qin Dynasty. I can also tolerate everyone's arrogance."
"I want the Qin Dynasty forever!"
Ying Zheng turned his head and looked at Chen Ke, who was standing there in a daze, with an unbearable smile on his face.
"Chen Ke, do you think I am a greedy person?"
On top of Mount Tai, in the rolling wind
...........
In Xianyang City, the autumn of the eighth year of the First Emperor has arrived again.
Year after year in autumn, a carriage rolled forward and reached the land of Guanzhong.
Ying Zheng sat on the carriage, closed his eyes slightly, and looked at his hometown in the distance.
When the First Emperor was five years old, he left Xianyang City and went on a tour for a total of two and a half years.
Now, as autumn is approaching again, he is back.
The carriage swayed, and Ying Zheng closed his eyes slightly, with a vague expression on his face: "Hey, Chen Ke, I'm back."
"It's time to give in to Fusu."
Chen Ke lay on his side in the carriage, also closing his eyes slightly, and responded lightly: "Yes, Your Majesty."
"We're back again."
He opened his eyes and looked at the eight hundred miles of Guanzhong. At this time, the land of Guanzhong was no longer deserted as before, but instead villages, or small towns, had been built.
Xianyang County has already been expanding and expanding, and some of the counties have even included some of the land before they set foot on this land.
The city turned into a county, and the imperial capital changed from a city into a large county. This is unprecedented and has never happened before.
But Da Qin, with such powerful technology, has already achieved this.
Of course, this is a different approach.
The drawings Chen Ke originally left behind were intended to be a real city for future generations to build, but after thinking about it, he discovered that the ability and conditions to build that kind of city now are insufficient.
The reason why later generations were able to build it like that was mainly because of two words, peace.
There will be no more internal wars, and numbers are no longer an advantage.
Therefore, we can let go of building cities and expanding them.
Of course, today's Xianyang City is not small, and Xianyang City was built in an unprecedented way.
The large area of expanded land and city wall are as majestic and vast as the Great Wall. It is simply a terrifying city wall.
The land is very huge, dozens of times the previous land area of Xianyang City.
It is divided into areas one by one, including areas where residents live, areas that need to be occupied by "public facilities", and areas that need to be occupied by administrative areas.
"Xianyang City" in Xianyang County includes four large areas, where civilians live, where wealthy merchants live, where officials live, as well as trading houses, administrative districts, and the imperial city.
Of course, the first three places are not really so clearly defined.
Some people in the back also live in the front, but absolutely no people in the front live in the back.
For example, an official may have just been admitted to the official position. He does not have enough money to buy land where the official lives, and he does not reach a certain level that allows the court to provide residence, so he can only live in places where civilians live.
The same is true for merchants.
But no matter how rich a businessman is, it is absolutely impossible for him to buy land and houses in the areas where officials live.
This is a rule, a hard rule.
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Prime Minister's Mansion
The Prime Minister's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Office are already two places. According to a new regulation promulgated by Fusu, the imperial court will provide a residence for ministers of the rank of Sangong and Jiuqing.
If he does well later, the emperor may give the house to this person directly, but it may also be taken back after death.
It all depends on the emperor's opinion at the time.
At this time, in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Li Si was lying on the hospital bed, looking at the curtain above his head with a dull look.
He was sick, very sick.
