Chapter 385: The Great Unification of the Central Plains (Second Update)
In the main hall of Xianyang Palace, Yinggao had been waiting for Han Xin's news for twenty days, and he estimated that Han Xin should have sent someone to deliver the news back.
But what he wants to know is not whether Han Xin defeated Yelang, but what happened to Peng Yue, whether he led the army to attack and died, or was finally saved by Han Xin, or really brought a surprise to Yinggao, when Han Xin arrived at Yelang, Peng Yue had already taken Yelang down......
Finally, just when Yinggao was guessing the various results in his heart, the news came as scheduled, and a general under Han Xin directly sent the news to Yinggao's hall.
"Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, the Central Plains has all been returned to my Great Qin, and the Yelang Kingdom is now completely under the control of General Han Xin, and General Han Xin will settle down in Yelang for the time being in accordance with your previous instructions, and then return to pay respects!"
As he spoke, the general handed over a letter, and it was evident that all the details were in it.
After sending the general reward, Yinggao picked up the letter and couldn't wait to open it, Peng Yue's success or failure, to a certain extent, can be regarded as a test of Yinggao's vision, although for Peng Yue, he does have a little bit of a sprout to help grow, but if Peng Yue dies all of a sudden, it will still make Yinggao quite uncomfortable.
After reading this letter, Yinggao suddenly had a feeling in his heart that he had cheated Peng Yue.
In Han Xin's letter, it is clear that Peng Yue, this guy, still has a bit of wisdom and courage, after he arrived in the vicinity of Yelang Country, he found that the five hundred people he brought with him could not directly knock Yelang down, he took a very smart way, successfully fooled Yelang's monarch and prime minister, and he successfully entered Yelang to accept their surrender.
In Han Xin's letter, he just briefly mentioned that Yelang people were cunning, because he had not been in place for a long time, and finally became suspicious of Peng Yue, and almost wiped out Peng Yue and five hundred cavalry in the city, but fortunately, Han Xin arrived in time, and the frightened Yelang people directly opened the city gate and welcomed Han Xin in, which can be regarded as destroying Yelang.
Peng Yue, this guy, has ideas and courage, but he is still a little tender! It can be used, but he has to be able to exercise well.
Yinggao closed Han Xin's letter, and also gave a summary of Peng Yue's exam in his heart, overall, he still passed the test in Yinggao's heart, barely scoring about 70 points, of course, the full score is 100 points.
On the court the next day, Yinggao was more energetic than ever, and he let himself sit on the throne majestically, and opened his mouth directly.
"Peng Yue, who was sent to Yelang Country before, has already sent back the news, Peng Yue led an army of 500 people, so that the monarch of Yelang Country directly opened the city gate and surrendered to my Great Qin! Now that the country of Yelang no longer exists, and has become a county of my Great Qin, I have already appointed General Han Xin to collect the soldiers and people of Yelang, and wait for the left and right ministers to elect suitable officials, and after a few days, they will go to the new county to serve together, and now, the land of the Central Plains belongs to my Great Qin! ”
This is the tone that Yinggao rarely uses, and it is also Yinggao's rarely so excited speech, so that Yinggao's voice just fell, and the lower officials hula lala knelt down in a large area, and the entire Central Plains is Daqin's, which shows that there is no vacancy in the middle of Daqin's territory, after having Yelang, Bashu is no longer a very remote place, and Daqin's territory has more possibilities, of course, many of Yinggao's thoughts in his heart, those kneeling officials below must not know.
On this day's court, Yinggao made Peng Yue, who had established a miracle feat, a member of the Great Qin, a general, so that people who didn't know the real situation were really very convinced, and many people muttered, why is our king's vision so good!
Seeing this situation, Ying Gao could only say sorry to his brother-in-law Han Xin a little in his heart, originally this credit must have been Han Xin's, if it weren't for Han Xin's arrival at the fastest speed in the distant Yelang Country day and night, it is estimated that Peng Yue would have been killed in the city of Yelang Country by the general of the people.
But should these be able to be said in the court, that must not be.
"Send the news of this Yelang Kingdom's victory to all counties and counties, and make sure that all the people of my Great Qin know about it!"
In this era, there is no such thing as television, and it is even more impossible to have news, so if you want to promote this good news, you still have to come layer by layer.
In fact, if you defeat Yelang, what does it have to do with the common people, especially in the counties that are very far away from Yelang, some people may not know where Yelang is, and what kind of country it is, so if you kill Yelang, what does it have to do with the common people.
The Tao in this, Yinggao's heart is like a mirror, so he has already set a rule, that is, as long as Daqin wins a big battle, just like defeating the Huns before, and he died Maodun, of course, including those Yelang this time, Daqin will give amnesty to the world again, of course, Yinggao will personally decide which sins to pardon, and then there will be corresponding reductions and reductions in forced labor and taxes, which are only things that Yinggao has after becoming the emperor.
After several previous practices, now the common people hope that Daqin can win a big battle no matter what the reason is.
The meaning of amnesty in the world is not just to release the people in prison, but there are many people who have run away because of this crime, and don't know where to hide, so as to become the black household of Daqin, as long as they are among the amnesty in this time, all of them can return to their hometowns to regain their legal identity.
In this way, the result of every amnesty is not to make the wicked out of prison, but to make the black households who walk in all corners of Daqin, of course, some of them have been forced to embark on the road of bandits, and most of them have changed their ways.
So when he heard that Yinggao was going to amnesty the world again, the officials below already knew how to do it, so in such a happy situation, Yinggao ended this court.
In just half a month, the news that Daqin took the Yelang Kingdom and successfully expanded the territory by another county swept all corners of Daqin, followed by another round of amnesty and tax reductions and exemptions for forced labor.
At this time, the people of Daqin, after hearing the news that Daqin had won Yelang, were tantamount to the jubilation of the New Year, because they had just come here twice a few months ago, one was to defeat the 250,000 army of the Xiongnu, capture the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun, and the other was to celebrate the wedding of Princess Daqin and Han Xin.
After these three waves, for many families, there is almost nothing left of this year's conscription, they don't have to worry about dying on the way to the service, and they can spend the whole year in their own homes with peace of mind, which is what the people of Daqin are most excited about.
In fact, when Yinggao himself ascended to the throne of emperor, he had already discovered that in fact, Great Qin didn't need so much conscription.
The reason why these conscriptions made the people of Great Qin complain before, and the title of Tyrannical Qin is more or less related to this conscription, is because the First Emperor wanted to do too many things on the ground of Great Qin, and there were indeed a lot of useful ones, but there were many useless ones.
Not to mention the construction of the Great Wall, the construction of the straight road, the construction of the new palace, and the construction of the imperial mausoleum that Yinggao did not know much about at that time, including the construction of the terracotta warriors and horses inside, and the construction of the palace prepared for the first emperor's patrol in case of emergency, each of these projects was a great project for this era.
What's more, things like the new palace and the imperial mausoleum, which are all very delicate work, not to mention anything else, that is, those raw materials from the production area to the place that needs to be built require a lot of manpower and material resources, how many people died on the way to transport, that is the first emperor sitting high in the Xianyang Palace does not know.
And after Yinggao ascended the throne, he directly stopped everything he thought was useless, and the new palace that he had built under his name was not repaired, because Xianyang Palace was so lively, what are you doing with me as an emperor so far away?
As for the new palace that has been half built, of course, it can't be placed there so indecently, after all, it can't affect the cityscape around Xianyang City. But this is obviously not difficult for Yinggao, Yinggao has already given an order, don't the young and old foreign nobles want to make do with Xianyang City, that place will be drawn on the line, and directly distributed to the nobles who want to move to Xianyang City in other counties.
In other words, if you come over, you will have a Xianyang hukou!
Xianyang is the capital of Daqin, the household registration of the capital, in this era, it is also hard to find, the previous Xianyang City, that has long been overcrowded, there is no place to accommodate the next famous family, so as soon as this policy came out, the rich people of other counties or the nobles of the previous six countries did not look at the conditions at all, and directly signed up.
But when they really got here, they found that almost even the house had to be built by themselves, and what Yinggao did was just to draw a red line for each of them, you are within the red line, and you are willing to build how to build, but that must be a matter of building a high-rise building on the ground, how much money is spent, but the emperor doesn't care, in short, Yinggao's requirement is that you must live here for me within two years, and you can't blindly give up your land to be barren, which affects the city's appearance, isn't it?
After Yinggao ascended the throne for such a long time, at this time the place of the new palace has begun to take shape, although it is still separated from the real Xianyang City by a Weishui, but the nobles who moved over are still very happy, and Yinggao's purpose has been achieved.
There is also the imperial mausoleum, in fact, less than a month after Yinggao ascended the throne, someone proposed to build the imperial mausoleum, but Yinggao sent the guy who raised this matter to repair the Great Wall, on the grounds that this guy cursed himself to die early.
Immediately afterwards, Yinggao sent a fire above the court and warned the officials. In his eyes, it is only necessary to build this so-called imperial mausoleum when he is about to die, I am only in my twenties, you asked me to build the imperial mausoleum, then I'm sorry, you can only go and repair something else first.
As a result, the construction of the new palace and the construction of the imperial tomb were easily resolved by Yinggao.
The construction of the Great Wall Yinggao also adopted a new model, that is, the people who built the Great Wall were all heavy prisoners of Great Qin, and these prisoners could get the opportunity to reduce their sentences by contributing to the construction of the Great Wall, and Yinggao gave an order to Meng Tian that if there were people who were suitable for war and not bad in nature among the prisoners who built the Great Wall, they could make an exception and let them join the army, and offset the crimes he committed with their military exploits.
These strategies implemented under Meng Tian's nose, according to Meng Tian's previous return, made him discover a lot of talents who are good at fighting, but they went astray when they were young, and they can still be saved.
So now, what Daqin really needs the people to serve to solve is nothing more than a straight road.
In Yinggao's view, this is a very wise thing that the first emperor did, he gave the whole Daqin to the car on the same track, if Yinggao didn't repair the entire Daqin's straight road, it would be a bit wrong to start the emperor.
And Yinggao has another advantage of repairing the straight road through the country, that is, almost all the people who serve can serve in the closest place to their hometown, which Yinggao has clearly requested, once he knows that some counties and counties are not implemented well, that is, the county order is demoted, and the pavilion chief, Li Zheng went directly to build the Great Wall.
In addition to these, the remaining major project may be Wang Li's supervision of the construction of warships in Jiujiang County, but this matter is required by Wang Li to be absolutely confidential, and those people who serve can only do some work such as carrying wood.
So in general, under the rule of Yinggao, if the situation of the conscription in Daqin is compared with when the first emperor was still there, it is really quite easy, which can also make Yinggao dare to reduce the conscription of the people in a big way when Daqin has a happy event.
Yinggao knows that only by doing this can he get back the people's hearts lost under the first emperor's somewhat strict policy in the fastest time, so that the common people will recognize him as the second emperor of Great Qin.
And now, it was the time when Yinggao felt that it was almost over, so in less than a month, he really didn't just wait for Han Xin's news.