Since King Qin Huiwen ordered the Qin army to go east, seize the land of Cuihan, and set up Hangu Pass.

The land of Guanzhong has always been the land of the Qin people, and it is the true foundation of the Qin State, which is far from being comparable to the homeland of the Six Kingdoms seized from outside the Guan.

Its solid plugging is dangerous, the situation is convenient, the mountains, forests, rivers and valleys are beautiful, and the benefits of natural materials are many.

Entry, looking at its customs, its people are simple, its vocal music is not dirty, its clothes are not picky, and they are very afraid of having a division and obeying, and the ancient people are also.

This is Xunzi's impression of Qin land and Qin people when he entered Qin decades ago.

Now that Zhao Tuo has entered the homeland of Qin, there is not much difference in feelings.

Hangu is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can indeed be called "the situation".

As for the Qin people.

The messenger's convoy headed west, and Zhao Tuo saw that the common people in the fields on the side of the road were struggling to cultivate the fields.

Zhao Tuo was not very familiar with agriculture and did not know what they were doing, but at this time, he guessed that it might be winter wheat planting.

Sensing the passage of the convoy of emissaries, the men glanced up at most, and then quickly lowered their heads and went on with their farm work, as if they were not interested in the emissary, nor as to who was passing by.

They were dressed simply, without the beauty of silk and glamour, nor with the sound of singing and clamour.

Zhao Tuo knew that this was the characteristic of Qin's rule of the people.

"The Book of Shang Jun" has a saying: If there is no way to obey the hundred counties, the people will ignore it and live and not listen. If you don't listen, you won't be angry; If you don't care about it, you will do it. If you are angry and not lewd, then the grass will be sincere.

To put it simply, all kinds of obscene voices are not allowed to be popular at the bottom.

Without the sound of glamour, without fancy dress, the peasants would not have wasted their minds on these boring entertainments.

Their spirit will not be wasted, and they will concentrate on plowing the fields, so that the farmland can be greatly cultivated.

When farmland is reclaimed and grain production increases, won't the national strength increase?

For the Qianshou common people of the Qin State, they did not need to live an entertaining life, and there were only two things that were most important in their lives.

In the country, it is forbidden to fight, it is not allowed to wander around, it is enough to obediently farm and pay taxes and bear forced labor.

When he went to the battlefield, he fought hard to kill the enemy, cut off people's heads to make military achievements, and fought hard for a better future for his family.

Ploughing and fighting.

This is the fundamental reason why the Qin State was able to swallow the world and become a country of tigers and wolves.

After the mission entered the customs, there was no need to hurry, the speed slowed down, and it was not until the third day that it arrived at the outskirts of Xianyang.

"This is Xianyang!"

Zhao Tuo stood on the car, looking at the magnificent city in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh.

Since Qin Xiaogong moved the capital to Xianyang, after hundreds of years of development, Xianyang has become one of the most magnificent cities today.

Xianyang City has no city walls!

It's not that there have always been no city walls, but that the former city walls have long been included in the city, demolished and abandoned, and useless.

As for the new city wall, because of the continuous growth of the territory of the Qin State, the scale of Xianyang City is getting bigger and bigger, spanning the north and south of the Wei River, and it is still expanding outward.

Moreover, there was no need to build a city wall in Xianyang.

The whole world will become the territory of King Qin.

Xianyang, what do you need the city wall for?

Arriving on the outskirts of Qindu, the speed of the convoy slowed down, and Heng, who was sitting on the throne of the emperor, also relaxed.

"Look at those people."

Zhao Tuo raised his eyes and saw that on an avenue not far away, hundreds of people were walking towards the north of Xianyang under the guidance of several Qin officials.

Now that winter is approaching, the weather is very cold, and those people are in rags, their hands and feet are red from the cold, they walk staggeringly, and they look like they are going to fall at any moment.

The most striking thing is that the clothes they wear are all the same color.

Ochre brown.

Ochre clogged roads!

They were convicts, prisoners who were sentenced to hard labor for violating the laws of Qin.

Zhao Tuo saw that in the team of prisoners, a thin young man did not walk steadily because of stiff legs and feet, and fell to the ground.

When the prisoners behind him saw this, they all avoided in both directions.

Soon, a Qin official came over, couldn't help but speak, brandished the whip and slammed it, and the mouth kept scolding.

The young man seemed to have turned into a zombie, he felt no pain, and only after several whips did he react, and he got up from the ground tremblingly.

He seemed a little dazed and turned his head to look around.

Zhao Tuo clearly saw that the young man's face was tattooed with dark characters, and he had no nose.

After several more lashes, he reacted, and staggered to the back of the line of prisoners.

Driven by the Qin officials, the prisoners were like a herd of grazing livestock, heading towards Xianyang Beihan.

Once there, they will also experience a more brutal life.

"I'm going to repair the palace."

Zhao Tuo shook his head and sighed lightly, he heard that every time Qin Wangzheng destroyed a vassal state, he would build a palace with the characteristics of the country in Xianyang Beihan.

This is the so-called "Qin and the world, more arrogant, palace preparation of seven countries".

Now Qin has destroyed Han and Zhao.

If nothing else, on the construction site on the north bank of the Wei River, palaces in the shape of Han and Zhao are rising from the ground, built with the blood and flesh of the prisoners.

"It's too brutal, this Qin State is really too brutal."

"No wonder it's called Tyrannical Qin!"

There was an angry voice in his ears, and Zhao Tuo smiled helplessly.

Is this called brutality?

Zhao Tuo knew that more than ten years later, 700,000 such prisoners would be driven to build the majestic Lishan Mausoleum.

There were also hundreds of thousands of soldiers and apprentices who built the Great Wall of Qin in the north, which stretched for thousands of miles.

Be cautious when giving birth to a boy, and breastfeed a girl.

Jun Du didn't see the Great Wall, and the bones of the dead were supporting each other?

Thinking of this, Zhao Tuo shook his head helplessly.

No matter how brutal and harsh it is, it's better than troubled times.

Later generations also said, "I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world." ”

Think of the slaughter of cities, the killing of prisoners, and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people in those troubled times.

The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines.

Think of the wars, with skulls all over the ground and bones all over the field.

If Qin can't be unified, there will only be more people killed in the war.

Just when Zhao Tuo sighed in his heart, the convoy had already crossed the team of prisoners and arrived in Xianyang City.

At this time, a convoy happened to come out of the city.

The cavalry opened the way, accompanied by a guard of honor, escorting one of the jú chariots.

The carriage was richly decorated, decorated with gold and silver, and jeweled with small bells tied to the rim around it, which made a crisp sound with the wind.

At a glance, I knew that the identity of the person sitting in the car was not simple.

is either a high-ranking person, or a royal noble.

"It's a woman, isn't it?"

Zhao Tuo thought thoughtfully, the car is generally ridden by women, coupled with the gorgeous women-biased jewelry, the gender of the owner in the car is self-evident.

The bloody scenes in the TV series in the previous life did not appear, and the cavalry guarding the chariot did not scold the mission to stop and let them go first.

Instead, they silently stopped on the side of the road, waiting for the mission's vehicles to pass first.

The five doctors, Meng Yu, saluted the chariot and then led the mission into the city.

Just when the messenger's car that Zhao Tuo was riding staggered past with the car, the people in the car seemed to be unable to suppress their curiosity.

A slender white hand opened the small window next to the car.