Chapter Seventy-Two: The Great Unification Begins Forever
"Unified!"
Zhao Si gave an answer!
The First Emperor looked at Zhao Si with a smile on his face: "Isn't it Yu Lie of Fen VI?" ”
"The unification of the world is the aftermath of Fen VI, and the unification of the people's hearts is the work of His Majesty!" Zhao Si spoke.
"The ancestors of the Qin State have never forgotten their fate, the world has been in conflict for thousands of years, people are at peace, and Qin is the only one in the world, the national fortune of the Zhou Dynasty is near, and the Qin State should replace it, this is inevitable, Your Majesty is nothing more than speeding up the process. Therefore, to dominate the world is the aftermath of Fen VI. Zhao Si said.
"However, the unity of the people's hearts is all thanks to the work of Your Majesty!"
"The car is on the same track, the book is the same, the line is the same, the currency is unified, and the weights and measures are unified!"
"Your Majesty is the first in the world, no one has ever done before, and it is a precedent for all generations!" Zhao Si said.
In the past, Zhao Si's thinking was just a modern person's thinking, so when it came to the exploits of the first emperor, he only knew how to dominate the world.
Speaking of which, modern people all know that the car is on the same track, the book is the same, the line is the same, the currency is unified, and the weights and measures are unified.
And now, after reading a lot of books, Zhao Si understands the difficulties.
The difficulty is that there is no predecessor to learn from, and each of these five things is unprecedented.
The most important thing is that the first emperor did not do anything wrong in these five things, at least looking at the generations and generations, he did not do anything wrong, and it is precisely because of Qin Shi Huang that China has formed a sense of identity with great unification.
Leaving aside the same track and the same text, the same thing that is easy to ignore is the real top priority.
Clothing, food, housing, and transportation customs and habits, and even the trivialities of daily life, must be unified.
This is forcibly establishing a unified sense of identity, so that the former Qi Chuyan Han Zhao Wei all abandon their own customs.
Compared to the other four things, this is the hardest thing to do, and it is also the most important thing.
"The unification of Great Qin is not by force, but by system! It is not to unify the world, but to unify people's hearts. ”
"It is easy to dominate the world, but it is difficult to dominate people's hearts!"
"Xia Shang and Zhou are unified, and they can't be compared with Your Majesty." Zhao Si replied seriously.
The most important achievement of the First Emperor lies in this!
Standing on behalf of Zhou is just an inevitable development process, and it is only a matter of time before the Qin State will dominate the world after all, and Qin Shi Huang hastened this process at best.
"In the future, for thousands of generations, the world will be unified, and it will start from here." Zhao Si had unabashed praise on his face.
The unification of the Central Plains for thousands of years is an incredible miracle, and no matter how much the world is strife, people's minds are united and stable, which is the envy of Europe.
All of this is due to the foreshadowing of the First Emperor.
Although Qin II died, since Qin, all dynasties and dynasties have all taken unification as their own responsibility, and the people have all taken unification as stability, and the idea of great unification has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Even after hundreds of years of division between the north and the south during the two Jin dynasties, the separation of the north and south in the Southern Song Dynasty was finally unified.
This is a completely unthinkable thing for Europe.
In a sense, although the Qin Dynasty died II, every great unified dynasty since the Qin Dynasty can be regarded as a continuation of the Qin Dynasty, and every great unified dynasty stands on the foundation laid by Qin Shi Huang.
In the chaotic period of later generations, the cars were in chaos, the weights and measures were in chaos, and the currency was also in chaos.
But the book is the same text, the line is the same, the foundation laid by the first emperor is still there, and the people's hearts are to recognize the idea of the unification of the world.
We write the same words, and we have very different behavioral logic and moral concepts.
This is the sense of identity that makes the West envious to the point of drooling.
"Oh?" The First Emperor looked sideways slightly, and his body, which was originally lying flat, straightened slightly from the recliner.
"Dominating the world is not as good as unifying people's hearts?" The First Emperor repeated Zhao Si's words, and the smile on his face slowly converged.
Zhao Si nodded and repeated.
"If another person succeeds to the throne, he may be able to dominate the world, but it will never be able to unify the hearts of the people."
It's not Zhao Si licking, it's really that these five things are too difficult.
How high? So high that no king in the West has been able to do so for thousands of years.
In fact, in the beginning, both the West and the East were aristocratic societies. It's just that the evolution of history has turned a corner from the First Emperor.
The First Emperor single-handedly changed the direction of history.
The unity of people's hearts is a matter of course for China. But for the West, it is unimaginable.
These five things that the First Emperor did, even in modern times, are still being tried by the West.
In a sense, the EU has also set out for this goal, and so far it has only become a single currency.
The First Emperor nodded slightly.
What Zhao Si said was very much in line with the appetite of the First Emperor, in fact, the most complacent thing for the First Emperor was never to dominate the world.
It's just a matter of picking up the benefits of the predecessors!
As Zhao Si said, with the national strength of the Qin State and the situation of the world, if there is a male lord, Great Qin can still dominate the world.
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were too many male lords, and many male lords could dominate the world while standing in the position of the first emperor.
The first emperor's most complacent achievement was precisely what he did after he ruled the world.
In fact, the First Emperor did too much......
Waste people were martyred, built the spiritual canal, communicated the Yangtze River and the Pearl River water system, built the Great Wall, conquered the Xiongnu in the north, conquered Baiyue in the south, and built a gallop road.
The First Emperor was barely a military man, but he was not the only one who knew how to levy indiscriminately.
After dominating the world, Qin Shi Huang built almost the largest number of channels in all dynasties.
The Qin Dynasty's extensive galloping roads are almost impossible to replicate in later generations.
Not to mention the Great Wall!
What does this mean? It means that the national power has not been abused, as long as the First Emperor wants to, he can immediately stop and recuperate.
Because the road infrastructure of the Qin Dynasty is ranked on the top of thousands of years of feudal history, because the Qin Dynasty built many channels and communicated the Pearl River and Yangtze River basins, as long as it stops, it will not take a few years for the grain of the Qin Dynasty to usher in a bumper harvest, because there is the Great Wall, as long as the First Emperor does not plan to continue to expand to the outside world, he can completely withdraw a large number of troops and guard the border with the Great Wall.
These are the things he is most proud of.
He has never only known 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, is something that will benefit him for a thousand years.
These things, because there are no ancients, few people can understand them, and few people can be as clear as Zhao Si said.
Even when Zhao Si talked about these exploits, he was more sure than the first emperor himself.
The First Emperor could see that Zhao Si was sincere!
What's even more commendable is that even the princes of the court dare not arbitrarily say things that Zhao Si can say so confidently.
"Good reading." The First Emperor lay down again, and the smile on his face was even worse.
Maybe Zhao Si said that it was above the heart of the first emperor? In short, this sycophant made the First Emperor very comfortable.
The sea participants discuss the merits, and they all speak the same way, but no one can make the words of a childlike like Zhao Si who has not read a few books.
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