"Your Majesty, the emergency military newspaper from General Meng Tian just came from the border. There was something strange about the Huns. It seems that they wanted to take advantage of the situation to rob."

Tang Xiyan frowned helplessly and handed the military report that Meng Tian had just sent back to Qin Qi.

Qin Yu took the military newspaper, looked at it casually, then threw the military newspaper aside, reached out and pinched Tang Xiyan's buttocks, then sneered, and said, "It's just a mere Hun, it's not worth worrying. As long as they dare to emerge, there will be only a dead end."

It has to be said that the invasion period selected by the Huns was very good, because according to historical circumstances, the Qin State unified the Central Plains after more than ten years of continuous warfare.

The Qin State's military strength will definitely fall into an unprecedented trough. In addition, the remnants of the six countries are constantly causing trouble. In the turmoil and uneasy situation within Qin, if the Huns come to invade the border, then Qin State will have much energy to pay attention to them.

This is why Qin Shihuang wanted to build the Great Wall.

But the current situation is completely different. Although Qin had just unified the Central Plains, under the leadership of Qin, the number of soldiers killed in battle was almost less than 10,000, and countless soldiers were captured.

In the huge Central Plains, there was almost no big loss, and at most 50,000 people died and whispered.

The Qin State's current permanent troops are as high as two million, and all of these soldiers are composed of elite soldiers from the original seven countries. As for those ordinary soldiers, they are all sent back to their hometowns and go home to farm.

The reason why the Huns were so powerful is that they were good at riding and shooting.

Therefore, the Central Plains border is invaded by them from time to time, but there is no way to deal with them?

However, a few days ago, the method of making horseshoes and stirrups had been taken out. All the cavalry of the Qin State would be equipped with horseshoes and stirrups soon.

You should know that there were no horseshoes and stirrups in this era of the Qin Dynasty, so it was very difficult to pull a bow on the bumpy horse's back and hit the enemy.

In addition, the horses in the Central Plains are definitely not as good as those Hun horses that live on the grasslands all year round, so the cavalry in the Central Plains cannot defeat those Hun cavalry that live on the horsebacks all year round.

In addition to horseshoes and stirrups, the Qin soldiers also equipped some powerful crossbows to facilitate their shooting and killing the Xiongnu cavalry. Those Xiongnus who lost their advantage in cavalrying were completely impossible to be opponents of the Qin army.

In the next month, Qin Shi sent 100,000 Qin troops, plus dozens of flying fish guards, to conquer the powerful civil forces such as the Mohist, the farmer, Taoist, Confucianism and the Yin-Yang family.

Qin Zhi was very kind to those forces who were willing to surrender, such as the peasants, the Mo family, and the like. As for those forces who were unwilling to surrender, Qin Zhi directly sent a large army to destroy the whole family.

For example, the Mohist and the farmers have worked together to create a large number of farming tools that can improve production efficiency, such as curved plows and keel water wheels.

In addition, Qin Shi produced a bunch of high-yield crop seeds, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and hybrid rice...

Time flies like a flash of time.

A year later, Qin Shi issued a new imperial edict.

After reading the contents of the imperial edict, Tang Xiyan turned to look at Qin Qi's side face, his eyes were filled with admiration, his pretty mouth raised slightly, and he chuckled: "Master, if your imperial edict continues, I am afraid that all the vassal states in this world will become history."

"The reason why the vassal states continued to exist was just to prevent them from rushing to jump into the wall. Our policy has calmed down the hearts of all the people of the entire Qin Empire, so these vassal states naturally have no need to continue to exist."

Upon hearing this, Qin Qi chuckled and picked up the jade seal beside him and stamped the imperial edict.

The content of the imperial edict is actually very simple, it is Qin Zhe imitated the order to promulgate the grace issued by Emperor Wu of Han in later generations.

The Order of Promotion of Grace was an important decree issued by Emperor Wu of Han to consolidate centralization.

This decree required the princes to distribute their fiefs to their children. Later, according to this decree, the princes were divided into smaller and smaller, and Emperor Wu of Han took the opportunity to weaken his power.

Since the Wen and Jing dynasties of the Western Han Dynasty, how to limit and weaken the growing power of princes and kings has always been a serious problem faced by the emperor.

During the reign of Emperor Wen, Jia Yi proposed the suggestion of "building princes but less power" in "Public Security Policy" in view of the rebellion of Kings of Huainan and Kings of Jibei.

The specific method is to divide the princes into several countries, so that the descendants of the princes and kings can share the fiefdom in turn and end the land.

Those who have a vast territory and few descendants will be founded in a false name and will be granted the title of a country when their descendants are born.

The Han Dynasty originally implemented the county system, so the formulation of the order to promote the grace was an improvement based on the county system. The areas under the jurisdiction of the previous princes were only inherited by their eldest sons, and changed to the eldest son, second son and three sons of the princes.

Qin Zhi issued the order to promote grace this time, which stipulates that in addition to the eldest son of the princes, the princes can transfer their fiefs to their children, and the emperor will set the title.

The princes and kings were allowed to divide their children into marquis, and the fiefs of the kingdom were divided to further weaken the power of the princes and kingdoms.

This made China and North Korea weaken the power of prime minister and consolidate his sacred status of imperial power.

The Order of Promotion of Enemies will be a symbol of the unity of ideological and political changes during the Qin Empire.

It shows that Qin Zhi not only formally adopted Confucianism to govern the country, but also achieved success, thus completing the transition from the feudal system to the county system in the Han Dynasty.

After the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the central government decided to reduce the strength of the vassal states.

During this period, the princes had many children, but only one eldest son could inherit the throne. If the land was distributed to the sons of the princes in the name of promoting the emperor's grace.

Then it seemed that the emperor treated them well, but in fact, the area of ​​each fiefdom was completely broken into pieces and gradually shrank, and it was no longer enough to compete with the central court.

This is what Qin Zi is so powerful. Although this order to delegate the vassal states was splitting the territory of the vassal states, I am afraid that many princes and princes would be grateful to Qin Zi from the bottom of their hearts.

Although most princes can understand the true meaning of the order to redeem the grace, sometimes they have to implement the content above.

Because most princes and kings have more than one son, and they often have a few sons, which they particularly like.

Therefore, with the order to give favors issued by Qin Zhi, they will definitely enfeoff some good land for their particularly favorite sons, and will not hand over all the land to the eldest son to inherit as before.

(End of this chapter)
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