Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 74
"Unity!"

Zhao Si gave the answer!
The First Emperor looked at Zhao Si with a smile on his face: "Isn't it the survivor of Fen VI?"

"The unification of the world is the survivors of Fen VI, and the unification of people's hearts is the achievement of His Majesty!" Zhao Si said.

"The ancestors of the Qin State never forgot their fate. The world has been in conflict for thousands of years, and people's hearts are at peace, but the world is only strong for Qin. The fate of the Zhou Dynasty is approaching, and Qin Guohe should replace it. This is inevitable. Your Majesty is nothing more than speeding up the process. Therefore. To rule the world is the survivor of Fen VI." Zhao Si said.

"However, the unity of the hearts of the people depends entirely on His Majesty's efforts!"

"The cars are on the same track, the books are on the same text, the behavior is the same, the currency is unified, and the weights and measures are unified!"

"Your Majesty is the first in the world, there is no one before, and he will set a precedent for all generations!" Zhao Si said.

In the past, Zhao Si's thinking was just that of a modern person, so when mentioning the achievements of the first emperor, he only knew about unifying the world.

Speaking of which, modern people all know that the five things are the same track, the same book, the same behavior, the unified currency, and the unified weights and measures.

But now, after reading a lot of books, Zhao Si finally understood the difficulty.

The difficulty is that there are no predecessors to learn from. Each of these five things is unprecedented.

The most important thing is that the first emperor did nothing wrong in these five things, at least looking at the future generations, he did nothing wrong. It is precisely because of Qin Shihuang that China has formed a sense of identity with the great unity.

Leaving aside Che Tonggui and Shu Tongwen, Xing Tonglun, which is easily overlooked, is the real top priority.

Clothing, food, housing, transportation, customs, and even the trivialities of daily life must be unified.

This is to forcibly establish a unified sense of identity, so that the former Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei all abandon their customs.

Compared with the other four things, this is the most difficult thing to do, but also the most important thing.

"The unification of the Qin Dynasty is not by force, but by control! It is not to unify the world, but to unify the hearts of the people."

"Unifying the world is easy, but it is difficult to rule the hearts of the people!"

"The unification of Xia, Shang and Zhou cannot be compared with His Majesty." Zhao Si answered seriously.

This is the most important achievement of the First Emperor!

Standing on behalf of Zhou is just an inevitable development process. Qin will eventually rule the world, but it is only a matter of time. Qin Shihuang accelerated this process at best.

"In the future, the world will be unified for thousands of generations, from now on." Zhao Si had unabashed praise on his face.

The unification of the Central Plains for thousands of years is an unimaginable miracle. No matter how much disputes there are in the world, the unity and stability of people's thoughts and thoughts is something that Europe cannot envy.

Everything lies in the foreshadowing of the first emperor.

Although Qin died in the second generation, since Qin, all the dynasties and dynasties, the outstanding figures of all dynasties have all regarded unification as their mission, and the common people have all regarded unification as their stability, and the idea of ​​great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Even after hundreds of years of separation between the north and the south during the Jin Dynasty and the separation between the north and the south during the Southern Song Dynasty, they were eventually unified.

This is completely unthinkable for Europe.

In a sense, although the Qin Dynasty died in the second generation, every unified dynasty since Qin can be regarded as the continuation of the Qin Dynasty. Every unified dynasty stood on the foundation laid by Qin Shihuang. above.

In the chaotic period of the later generations, the car tracks were in chaos, the weights and measures were in chaos, and the currency was also in chaos.

But the writing is the same, the behavior is the same, the foundation laid by the first emperor is still there, and the people's hearts recognize the idea of ​​​​the unification of the world.

We write the same characters, and have almost the same behavioral logic and ethical and moral concepts.

This is the sense of identity that makes the West drool with envy.

"Oh?" Shi Huang looked sideways slightly, and his body, which was lying flat, straightened slightly from the reclining chair.

"Unifying the world is not as good as unifying the hearts of the people?" Shi Huangdi repeated Zhao Si's words, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

Zhao Si nodded and repeated.

"Another person may be able to unify the world, but it is absolutely impossible to unify the hearts of the people."

It's not that Zhao Si licked it, it's that these five things are too difficult.

How high?It is so high that no king in the West has been able to do so for thousands of years.

In fact, at the beginning, both the West and the East were aristocratic societies.It's just that the evolution of history turned a corner from the first emperor.

The first emperor changed the direction of history by himself.

It is a matter of course for China that people are united.But it is unimaginable for the West.

The five things that the first emperor did, even in modern times, the West is still trying.

In a sense, the European Union also set out for this goal, and so far it has only achieved a unified currency.

The First Emperor nodded slightly.

What Zhao Si said was very suitable for the first emperor's appetite. In fact, what the first emperor was most proud of was never to rule the world.

It's just to pick up the benefits of the predecessors!
As Zhao Si said, with Qin's national strength and the situation of the world, if you change a hero, Great Qin can still rule the world.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were too many heroes, many of whom stood in the position of the First Emperor and were able to rule the world.

The most proud achievement of the first emperor was precisely what he did after he ruled the world.

In fact, the first emperor did too many things...

Abandoned people were sacrificed, Lingqu was built, the Yangtze River and Pearl River systems were connected, the Great Wall was built, the Xiongnu was conquered in the north, Baiyue was conquered in the south, and Chidao was built.

The first emperor could barely be called militaristic, but he didn't just know how to levy indiscriminately.

After unifying the world, the number of channels built by Qin Shihuang is almost the largest in all dynasties.

The Qin Dynasty's well-connected roads can hardly be replicated by later generations.

Not to mention the Great Wall!

what does that mean?It means that the national power has not been abused, as long as Emperor Shihuang wants to, he can immediately stop and recuperate.

Because the Qin Dynasty's road infrastructure was ranked first in the thousands of years of feudal history, because the Qin Dynasty built so many channels and communicated with the Pearl River and the Yangtze River Basin, as long as it stops, it will not take a few years for the Qin Dynasty's food to meet Come to have a good harvest, because the Great Wall is there, as long as the first emperor does not intend to continue to expand, he can completely withdraw a large number of troops and rely on the Great Wall to guard the border.

These are what he is most proud of.

He has never been an emperor who only knows how to consume the legacy of the ancestors of the Qin Dynasty without leaving anything for future generations.

What he is doing and what he intends to leave behind are all things that can benefit the millennium.

These things, because they are unprecedented, few people can understand them, and few people can be as sure and transparent as Zhao Si said.

Even when Zhao Si talked about these achievements again, he was more sure than Shi Huang himself.

The First Emperor could tell that Zhao Si was sincere!

What's even more commendable is that Zhao Si can speak out with such confidence that even the princes of the court dare not be arbitrary.

"The book is good." The first emperor lay down again, with an even bigger smile on his face.

Maybe it was Zhao Si who said it was on the heart of the First Emperor?In short, this flattery made Emperor Shihuang very comfortable.

The sea counselors discussed merits, and they all spoke in unison, but no one could speak like Zhao Si, a child who hadn't read a few books.

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