Emperor Qin

The sky is bright and the sun is clear, and there is no cloud in the sky. It is a good day for alchemists to discuss the Dharma indifferently.

But Lu Sheng felt something was wrong today.

It took another good paper to write, so he could only put down the pen. Since he met Yan Zi yesterday, his innately sensitive sixth sense has been continuously sending out alarms to him.

He carefully recalled the process of meeting Yan Zi, from meeting to showing their supernatural powers, and then to separation, he felt that there was nothing wrong.

So he opened the notebook again and studied all the information related to Yan Zi collected by the upper border.

This colleague - Lu Sheng firmly believed that this was a colleague. When he returned from the west, he presented the seeds to the Emperor Qin in the name of the "Queen Mother of the West" envoy. Later, he explained the fairy tales in public. , The art of immortality, but Qin Huang was more interested in the land of thousands of miles at that time, so he didn't delve into it.

Not to mention that he went to Lai Ai first, and became a guest under his sect with different skills.

And he later got along like a fish in water in Qin State, from Shangqing to Second Qing, and then to Zhengqing, he can be said to be the winner in life among alchemists like them, and became their idol target.

That's right, they are definitely colleagues, and this method is very familiar to them.

just.

This person shouldn't want to eat alone, right?

Lu Sheng was a little uneasy, everyone was living for nothing, and with their flattery and support, Emperor Qin would definitely rely on him even more, if this person really wanted to eat alone——

He just settled for the next best thing and set his target around other princes and nobles.

Anyway, with so many nobles, it is impossible for Yan Zi to take care of this, right?

If this is the case, he will not let it go-he will design someone to expose Yan Zi's mystery, proving that he is a heretic and an unorthodox alchemist.

At worst, the table will be overturned, and everyone will die together. In this way, everyone will have nothing to eat.

After making a decision, Lu Sheng began to write invitations, and was going to invite other friends to help out, so Yan Zi had to be cautious.

But what he never expected was that before the pen and ink on the first name post he wrote were dry, a group of wolves and tigers gathered like a tidal wave of Qin officials, locked him up, and dragged him into a prison.

"I want to see Your Majesty, I want to see Your Majesty—"

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His Majesty, however, did not wish to see them.

Qin Huang hated that he had more black history, and planned to dig a hole to bury it together with the alchemists.

Yan Jiang then began to dissuade them. He felt that these people, such as Xu Fu and Lu Sheng, were all nautical talents. Didn’t the Emperor of Qin want to conquer Baiyue in the south? It is much easier to solve the food and grass problem of the Qin army, and it can also make the connection between the south and the north closer, making it more quickly integrated into the cultural system of the Central Plains.

More importantly, because "cultivation" still requires a little real skill nowadays, most of these alchemists have unique skills in their hands, including medical formulas, chemical agents, physical phenomena and other knowledge. It is easy to dig a hole and bury them. What should I do next, should he write physical chemistry silently?

Farewell, he has long forgotten.

Therefore, in this matter, what Yan Jiang meant was to include them in the Xianyang Academy, summarize and gather various "cultivation of immortals" theorems, classify them and compile them to become the basis of science.

So the disagreement happened naturally.

"Lu Sheng and others, I have always respected them, how can they be lightly forgiven if they dare to insult the king?" Qin Huang was very displeased, and determined to kill him. Not only that, he also said indifferently, "Now all living beings are Xianyang, I want to investigate the matter strictly to police the people of the country!"

This is a large-scale implication.

Yan Jiang was blowing the pillow wind, and said leisurely: "Ah Zheng, you have been very drifting recently. These are celebrities from the Six Kingdoms. You will be very happy if you get one, but it must be like the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms. It will cause people's turmoil, and the gain outweighs the loss. .”

Qin Huang slightly raised his chin, with a calm expression: "Since I can secure the six kingdoms in the world, how can I be afraid of the turmoil of the common people?"

Yan Jiang bit his ear, and said softly: "My family, Ah Zheng, is an emperor through the ages, so I am not afraid of some criticism, but it has been more than four hundred years since King Ping of Zhou moved eastward, and all the countries in the world are in turmoil. There are so many things to think about, why bother."

The tingling breath spread from the tips of the ears, Qin Huang felt a little restless, and said quietly: "If this matter is not severely punished, the alchemists will definitely deceive the dignitaries. In this way, the future troubles will be even worse."

Emperor Qin was heavily influenced by Legalism, and of course acted according to these principles.

Yan Jiang frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and then slowly said: "These alchemists dare to deceive the king. If they are killed, it would be too cheap. It is better to be sent to build palaces and tombs. They will work hard all their lives. If they do not make great achievements, they will not be exonerated."

How perceptive Qin Huang is, he can see through his intention of retreating to advance at a glance, and then see the gentleness in the other party's eyes, the expression is full of smiles, and he doesn't pretend to be his own thoughts, so he feels warm in his heart.

"If that's the case, it's up to you." After all, it's a trivial matter. Since it can satisfy A Jiang, Emperor Qin didn't insist. He just propped his head on the couch, stared at his own Zhengqing, and said leisurely, "A few days ago, a Confucian scholar wrote a letter to discuss Feng Chan hopes to sacrifice mountains and rivers, and I want to travel east to the counties, what does A Jiang want to do?"

Yan Jiang frowned slightly: "Ah Zheng, didn't you go to the counties of Longxi last year?"

The Emperor’s Eastward Journey is not just talking about it. Disturbing the people is light. Its labor and wealth are no less than that of building a palace.

But Qin Huang didn't like to hear these words, he stretched out his hand to hook, and said displeasedly: "With my achievements, how can I not seal the world of Zen?"

As he spoke, he took out the prepared memorial and handed it to Yan Jiang.

Yan Jiang looked through the opinions of Confucian scholars in Qidi.

The book is colorfully written, but the content is very simple. The person who wrote the book knew Qin Huang's preferences very well. He said that Feng is a sacrifice to the sky, and Zen is a sacrifice to the earth. He took Shun and Yu as examples and said that these two In the past, they inspected the mountains and rivers, worshiped the heaven and the earth, and then inspected the four directions, so the Emperor Qin was invited to sacrifice the heaven and the earth, and inspected and ruled the four directions.And they feel that Mount Tai is the highest in the world today, so going to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices is the closest to heaven and the most able to receive the destiny. You have made a great achievement in reorganizing the universe. It is too unreasonable not to report it. Life is not perfect up.

Yan Jiang glanced at the signature, and it really was the old man Chunyu Yue.

"I won't talk about anything else, Ah Zheng, you haven't been to the sky before," Yan Jiang said softly, "Is Mount Tai the highest, don't you have any points in your mind?"

Qin Huang frowned in an instant, thought for a moment, and then slowly said: "It is not impossible to go to Buzhou Mountain to worship the heavens... It is only possible to destroy the Yue clan and the Western Regions with troops."

One year is enough to destroy the Yue Clan. As for the small countries in Loulan in the Western Regions—it is not because the King of Qin underestimated the enemy. Those small countries relying on the oasis to survive, and the largest is no more than ten thousand households.

If it is occupied, you can go there for a year or two.

He even began to think happily, how many troops should Mie Yueshi send, according to what A Jiang recorded all the way back, the number of Yueshi's households is only 30, the Hexi Corridor is long and narrow, and there are more than [-] people who control strings. Going out from Longxi, you can have [-] soldiers and horses, go straight to the royal court, and open up the land of the Great Qin for two thousand miles.

If you can occupy Hexi, you will have the potential to outflank the Xiongnu. At that time, you can send troops to the southeast and southeast to take down the trouble of the Xiongnu...

Thinking of this, he sat up and looked at the screen with mountains and seas embroidered on the back of the couch. He dragged the tired A Jiang, pointed out Jiang Shan, and confided his thoughts, then raised his head slightly, waiting for A Jiang to praise him. I am wise.

Hearing this, Yan Jiang was choked to the point of suffocation. He regretted that when he passed by the Pamirs, he told His Majesty that this is Buzhou Mountain. You made money by being able to fly over here with a foreign bird. After a while, he said softly: "Your Majesty , the so-called mountains are not high, there are immortals, there are immortals, water is not deep, there are dragons, there are spirits. Those who are not well-rounded are incomplete. How can the matter of sealing the sky go to incomplete places?"

The king of Qin felt that it made sense, so he said: "This statement is very true, so let's change the name from Buzhou to Zhoushan!"

As the Lord of Great Qin, changing the name of an ancient place could not be easier for him.

It's over, what should I do?

Yan Jiang was almost desperate, and tried to persuade him: "The Yue family has tens of thousands of people who control strings. Although the Daqin cavalry is strong, but they often go north to defend Jiuyuan Yunzhong, how can they be easily moved? Why don't you and I go to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen?" , and then do the calculations."

Hitting the grasslands and hitting the Central Plains are two different things, Ah Zheng should be sober!

"That's the way it is, but things in the Western Regions need to be prepared." Qin Wang saw through A Jiang's worries at a glance. Although he was rejected, he was a little complacent. His family, A Jiang, was always worried that his government would be too harsh and that he would be unpopular with the people. ——What a sweet trouble.

Yan Jiang frowned and was about to refute, but was pressed lightly on the lips by King Qin, who stopped his consolation, and listened to the latter calmly said: "I don't know if the long-term war hurts the people, but the Great Qin military system has been in existence for a hundred years. It will take time to change.”

Qin's military merit system can cover up many problems when it is running, such as endless collection of corvee, such as heavy taxes, such as the prohibition of business, such as the shortage of servants... But once it stops, various problems will follow. Today's Qin The veterans of the country need the King of Qin to exchange for the military exploits they made during the conquest of the six countries.

But land reclamation is not just a matter of digging the fields directly. It is not possible to change the land out of thin air by relying on power to cultivate the land, cattle and sheep farm tools, all of which will take time.

Many ministers of great merit have a lot of land, but there are not enough servants to cultivate it; there are also many low-ranking men who have only one piece of land, and have to queue up to wait for new land to be cultivated.

He has ordered the prisoners in Guanzhong to reclaim the land of Weinan, and the Tianxia Fengdi, which was originally used as a golden man, has been melted and cast into agricultural tools by the Shaofu, and the remaining rewards that have not been distributed need more conquests Fortunately, Qin's domestic treasury is now full and can withstand conquest.

These, as long as he expresses his position, Ah Jiang will understand, and there is no need to explain.

Sure enough, Yan Jiang just thought about it for a while, and figured out the key points. After a long sigh, he asked the King of Qin: "The south is vast and sparsely populated. Why don't you exchange fiefs for acres and keep the system of Chu?"

Why does the state of Chu have such a large area, because what the state of Chu relied on in the past was to entrust its descendants to remote places and let them get the land for themselves. Why can't they go to Baiyue?

Because there are too many hills, mountains and dense forests, it is not suitable for farming, and the tentacles of farming civilization cannot reach it. This is the same reason that the civilization of the Central Plains could not expand to the grassland for thousands of years later, and later it was able to extend its influence to hundreds of years. In Vietnam, in addition to Zhao Tuo's meticulous governance in Nanyue, more importantly, terraced fields have been widely promoted in the south.

As long as the land can be farmed, farming civilization is the master there—only farming can feed the largest population, and the exchange of population density is the key to the birth of civilization.

"So, isn't it the way of Chu again?" King Qin refused.

"Unowned land, if you don't occupy it, someone else will occupy it," Yan Jiang said with a smile.

What happened to Chu State? Don’t underestimate Chu State. Although the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, its governance and culture were all taken over by Qi Chu’s culture. Qin State suffered from lack of culture in this regard.

A Jiang's reminder is very inspiring. The King of Qin was originally a man of great talent and strategy. After a little thought, he figured out the reason. A Jiang took him through the situation in the south and sent people to reclaim the south. It can be done.

The advantages and disadvantages of this need to be carefully considered.

"Ah Zheng, it's useless to get it in a bitter and cold place, so don't be in a hurry." The more he talked, the further he went, seeing King Qin's eagerness to try, Yan Jiang regretted it for three seconds. , "It's better to inspect the world first, sacrifice to the world, and frighten the common people."

The corners of Qin Huang's lips were slightly curved, and he calmly said: "Then Ajiang and I will sacrifice mountains and rivers together?"

Yan Jiang was about to refute that I'm not your concubine, how can I be with you——when I saw Qin Huang's slightly playful eyes, it seemed that he was waiting for him to object.

Looking at each other for a few breaths, Yan Jiang lowered his head and said, "How can I miss such a grand event."

Alas, what can I do, just go together, everyone can't be idle, so just make an appointment.

Killing two birds with one stone, the King of Qin smiled undiminished, held his hand, embraced his lover in his arms, and said with a smile: "A Jiang, now that the world is stable, how about you and I walk all over the Yangtze River together?"