Chapter 489: Why

A strong person should have the self-confidence of a strong person, even if he is facing a difficult situation, he must have a strong spirit that has the courage to accept any challenge, and he will not be humble because he is facing a difficult situation.

Since the continuous change of the law, the Qin State has slowly possessed the consciousness of the strong, and it is the mentality that has the courage to meet any challenge that makes the Qin State persist in both good and bad situations, and face no matter what kind of difficulties it is.

The Qin State was able to dominate the world, even if it was once dominating the world, it was by no means out of luck, it was from the king to the common people who were working hard towards a common goal.

After the unification, the Qin State fell into a period of confusion, the king who once overwhelmed the world was once obsessed with immortality, the courtiers retreated one by one, and the heads of the people also lost the goal of struggle.

The Qin State, which destroyed the nations and became the Great Qin Empire, may not have found many hidden dangers for a period of time.

The first emperor was a little superstitious about immortality, and overused the people's power to build straight roads, repair Lishan Forest Garden, build Afang Palace, and so on.

A few courtiers who made immortal feats in the battle of unification, those who had been defeated disappeared with stains, and a few people such as Wang Jian and Wei Yi also retired honorably with the worry of "high merit and trouble".

The heads of the people are the people who have paid the most for the Qin State, without them paying taxes, without them forgetting their lives and deaths, how could Great Qin have such achievements, but they are the ones who get the least rewards after becoming famous.

In fact, only when adversity occurs, people will think about what went wrong, the Great Qin ruled the world for less than three years, and the division that evolved from the small Yiling, in addition to the old territory, it took ten years to destroy the successive "resurrection of the corpses", they had to think about why.

Under the universal law of "hiding for the venerable, hiding for the sage", the fault of the first emperor is not something that no one has thought of. Of course, they knew that the First Emperor was obsessed with immortality, so they let some warlocks have the conditions to engage in slander, such as "the ancestral dragon dies, and the land is divided", and what is the "dead Qin Hu", and then "go to the sea to find Penglai, you can get the elixir" and so on.

In addition to that immortality, the First Emperor seems to be far less virtuous than before, and there is nothing wrong with building a straight road, after all, although there is no "country and people are similar." The center of a country is the brain, the strong military is the heart, and the road is the blood of the body". To put it simply, only with roads can the territory be connected, and only with the roads can countries maintain effective rule.

However, where to build roads is a matter of one day, and the ministers can slow down and repair them slowly, one county a year, and four counties in ten years. In thirty or fifty years, all the counties on the territory can be connected by roads, so although the rivers and mountains of Great Qin are not said to be eternal, it is always convenient to send troops to go where something happens.

The First Emperor didn't know what was wrong, as if he was in a hurry. Refusing to slow down, he longed to extend the straight road to the end of the earth overnight, first with those prisoners of war, and then with a large-scale conscription. As a result, at least two million people from captives to leaders and criminals across the country have devoted themselves to the great cause of road construction.

Repair roads, build roads in 2XX B.C., open mountains and build bridges when encountering water. It is not so easy to use manpower and no mechanical tools to build roads, especially since the government does not care so much about the living conditions, food treatment, safety and so on of those "workers" when building roads.

In the modern era when engineering equipment is crawling all over the ground, even if you are not careful in building a road, there will be deaths and injuries, so the danger of building a road in BC can be imagined.

In less than two years, the number of statistics from Qin to Qin, Wei to Han, Yan to Zhao, and the straight road from Neishi County to Shangjun was used to ensure that it could be used during the invasion of the Hu people, and in less than two years, more than 300,000 people had become cold corpses for various reasons.

In two years, 300,000 people became the bones of the road, to be honest, it may be that the Qin State has guaranteed that the diet is not uninterrupted, and in the period of "I am the Qing Dynasty", the foreign devils deceived the Chinese people into being pigs and transported them to South America to build the north-south railway, and there was a corpse of a Chinese worker under each sleeper, so how many sleepers were there on the railway thousands of miles long? So it's not a big loss to kill 300,000 people in two years, and that's no joke.

The construction of straight roads, the construction of imperial tombs, the construction of Afang Palace, and the connection of the old Great Wall that was originally used by other countries to defend against the Hu people of the grassland, the number of young men and women in the land of China who were conscripted from all over the country reached a very terrifying rate. Maybe the conscripted Qin people only account for a small part, but don't forget that it takes resources to build things, so how much manpower will be used to collect resources later, how many resources will be needed, and how much food will be eaten by so many people every day.

In the era of low productivity, so many large projects were started at once, and the people were overwhelmed, and the second was that the consumption of the national strength of Daqin also reached an unimaginable level.

No one knows what the First Emperor was anxious about, just as no one knows why the once powerful Great Sui had to build the Grand Canal within a year or two.

Yang Guang is just for fun, can he walk the big boat on the Grand Canal? What about liars! Yang Guang is obviously not an absurd and unscrupulous person, it is just the history "written" after Li Tang's successful rebellion. However, there is nothing to dispute about the fact that the two powerful empires used forced labor excessively to lead to their demise.

The Qin State, which had undergone great changes, began to reflect and stopped quite a lot of projects, but they would never realize a fundamental problem, that is, the foreign war was won, and it was either the emperor or the dignitaries who got the benefits, and the leaders who paid the most in order to achieve victory did not get ...... Or that the war dividends received are disproportionate to what was paid.

The Qin people didn't want to fight to the death, but they shed too much blood and got too little, and the Great Qin Center, which found that the Qin people were no longer belligerent, didn't understand why, and maybe didn't bother to understand. When they were faced with a predicament, they didn't know whether to say that after careful consideration or a pat on the head, the 800,000 army was pulled up, but the armed Qin army no longer had the "inertia" of "rejoicing when they heard the war", whether it was the Great Wall Army or the Central Plains Army, the belligerence was not comparable to the battle of unification, nor was it the "tiger wolf" since the establishment of the 20th rank of the "Shang Dynasty Reform".

I found out, as long as you are not blind, you can see that the Qin people are no longer warlike, if Qin Lu is not supported, and Qin Lu who evades military service and the three clans is here, it is estimated that there will be more people who are called up and choose to escape, even if they are recruited but lose their belligerence, they are just numb to obey military orders in battle, and they will never see the kind of ruthlessness that is desperate to get a head.

Sima Xin led an army of 150,000 to attack Lü in the south, if the belligerence is still there, even if it is not adapted to the water and soil, it is still something, not to mention defeating Lü Zhe, who has "the right time, place, and people", but there should be no problem in breaking through. Can't break through? That's like those ancestors, the guy and fight until the last man dies. But no, really not, they have paid so much, shed so much blood, and got too little and too little, so little that they don't know why they want to work hard for the wealth of a few people.

Lowered ...... It was originally numb and relying on the "herd effect" of the group to support, and an edict from the First Emperor relieved them, anyway, they didn't know what they were going to fight for, so it was naturally best to save their lives.

Feng Zheng knew a lot of things, and he even knew that there were quite a lot of Qin people under Lu Zhe's command. He was puzzled, didn't the Qin soldiers who went south lose their belligerence, how did they become the main force of the southern invasion in the hands of Lu Zhe, and it seemed that they had regained the ruthlessness that the tiger and wolf army should have?

When the question came out, Feng Zheng pretended to ask inadvertently, but would Lu Zhe say it?

It is not the same, the Qin State is in a period of confusion, they don't understand that the "credit" established by generations has long been destroyed in the failure of the marquis, if it were not for the desire of several generations to destroy the nations, as early as when the First Emperor rewarded the unmeritorious as marquis again and again, the kind of "credibility" that could desperately change fate would have collapsed long ago.

Chang Yu, Chang Xinhou.

Ma Xing, Wu Anhou.

Zhaoping, Marquis of Tanglin.

Linghu Fan, Du He, Qi Gill, Feng Wuxue......

Who else? Among these marquises, are they really all marquis because of merit?

What is Chang Yu, a guy who can lift the wheels of a "little bird", slept with the Queen Mother, and then became a marquis......

It's collapsed, faith, credit, no matter what consideration is to be feudal, as long as there is one time, there will be a second time, and everything is over!

Of course, Lu Zhe didn't know that much, but he had at least lived in Qin, and knew that the Qin people had lost their "interest" in "fighting", and the Qin people before the war of unification and the Qin people after the war of unification were not the same "Qin people" at all.

Why did those surrendered Qin soldiers become fierce in the hands of Lu Zhe? There are no too strange reasons, such as Lu Zhe has a "bonus", and his loyalty will automatically rise to 100%, or "bloodthirsty" will get a bonus and become 200% combat power. The reason why Qin Pawn found his desperate efforts was too simple, they believed in Lu Zhe's justice and got a treatment that matched the cost of their lives.

Is it simple? It's easy to say, but it's not so easy, looking at Lu Zhe's decision on promotion in strict accordance with the law, and how many small soldiers can be rewarded without compromise after making war exploits, that requires continuous justice and execution.

Feng Zheng was able to figure out why the Qin pawn in Lu Zhe's hands had become martial arts again, but what about thinking about it? Credit is easy to lose, and it is difficult to regain credit. (To be continued......)