102: Chapter 102 The Huns must become the Scourge of God!

"The other sections will be used to introduce the steam thresher, steam rotary tiller, Magic Box Napkins, toilet paper, the bank, and major court affairs. Our Great Qin is implementing a constitutional monarchy, placing limits on the Emperor's power by stripping away legislative, administrative, military, and troop-commanding powers, leaving him with only the power of cooperation."

"The supreme power of Great Qin lies with the Collective Representative Assembly, which meets every five years to formulate Five-Year Plans."

"The administration of our Great Qin will be the responsibility of the National Assembly. The Paramount Leader of the National Assembly holds Administrative Power and the supreme military command of the Great Qin Empire."

"Mhm."

Zhao Fusu nodded.

He intended to change the perception of the people of Great Qin through subtle, gradual influence.

"By the way..."

Li Si suddenly spoke up.

"Hmm?"

Zhao Fusu looked at him with some confusion.

"Chunyu Yue wants to publish Confucian doctrines in the newspaper."

Li Si said.

"That's fine."

Zhao Fusu nodded.

Chunyu Yue had given him 3.6 billion, allowing him to acquire a large number of shops in Xianyang.

He was still quite grateful to Chunyu Yue.

"The fourth section shall be titled 'Promoting Morality and New Customs,' allowing the Confucianists to promote moral role models for respecting the elderly, loving the young, honoring teachers, filial piety, and harmonious friendship."

After the thousands of Confucian Scholars lost their debate with him, none of them spoke of restoring the enfeoffment system anymore.

It was simply that Zhao Fusu's eloquence was too great; anyone who stood for the enfeoffment system was labeled as someone attempting to incite war.

The people of the Six Lands had been at war for a thousand years, and their anti-war sentiment was incredibly high.

Society needed harmony, and the moral standards proposed by the Confucianists were still very useful.

A qualified ruler must understand one thing: whether a cat is black or white, the one that catches mice is a good cat.

Since Confucianism was effective in guiding people toward goodness, he would make good use of that aspect of it.

Since Legalism was effective in punishing criminals, he would make good use of that aspect as well.

"As you command."

Li Si complied.

He was half a Confucian himself.

Li Si was actually quite disdainful of the Confucian ways.

There were many people who wouldn't listen if you spoke to them reasonably, but once you picked up a blade, they became very obedient.

This was why Li Si wanted to ensure obedience by increasing punishments.

But Zhao Fusu said he was using Confucianism to hold up moral role models.

To that, he had nothing to say.

You could call Confucianists naive, but you couldn't say their morality wasn't noble.

"I will personally write the content for the front page."

"You can finalize the content for the other sections."

"Once the first draft is ready, have those thousand Confucian Scholars transcribe it."

"Let each of them transcribe ten thousand copies."

"Te—ten thousand copies?"

Li Si shuddered in fright.

The Great Qin Empire Weekly had twenty-four sections, and each section had at least two thousand words.

All twenty-four sections combined amounted to forty-eight thousand words.

Transcribing that ten thousand times?

Li Si didn't even dare to calculate how many words that would be.

After ten thousand transcriptions, one would probably start questioning the meaning of life.

That kind of agony was worse than just being stabbed.

His Majesty the Head of State was truly petty; if someone offended him, he might not strike immediately, but he would certainly keep a record in his little notebook and settle the score the moment an opportunity arose.

Li Si wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Luckily, he had been quick to submit, or His Majesty would have made him transcribe the newspaper ten thousand times as well.

On this point, Li Si was actually mistaken.

Zhao Fusu had originally thought about sending Li Si to a coal mine to dig coal.

He hadn't found Zhao Gao yet, but once he did, Zhao Fusu decided he would send Zhao Gao to dig coal.

His people had just discovered several open-pit coal mines and were in desperate need of a large workforce.

As the number of Steam Engines increased, the demand for coal would only continue to grow.

Zhao Fusu was actually quite reluctant to let the common people of Great Qin dig coal.

Digging shallow coal mines was relatively safe.

But deep coal mines required digging shafts and going dozens of meters underground.

During the excavation process, besides the risk of cave-ins, there was also the presence of gas.

This gas often proved fatal.

Fortunately, coal was not yet being mined on a large scale during the Qin Dynasty, so shallow seams could still be exploited.

Zhao Fusu had also dispatched a significant amount of corvée labor to mine coal to meet the demands of his steel smelting and Steam Engines.

When the time came to dig deeper coal in the future, he would figure out how to solve the labor problem then.

Zhao Fusu actually had a few ideas in mind.

He needed the Xiongnu people to become his Scourge of God, to bring him a large number of high-quality coal-digging experts.

And if he wanted to be the one holding the whip, he had to possess the strength to grip it.

Even though he was currently equipping his troops with a large number of steel sabers, he was still not qualified to be the whip-holder!

He had to create Firearms!

He needed a large number of Shotguns and a large number of meiliangxin cannons.

The technology to make Shotguns and meiliangxin cannons wasn't high, but their combat capability was terrifying.

Zhao Fusu didn't want to use Black Powder for military purposes.

Black Powder was only fit for fireworks.

Military use required TNT!

However, for now, Zhao Fusu couldn't produce TNT yet, nor did he have the time to spare to research it.

But Zhao Fusu knew that he would definitely develop TNT.

To be the whip-holder, one must have the strength to grip the whip and turn the Xiongnu people into a Scourge of God that served him.

He wanted to crush the Xiongnu in a single battle.

Victory in the first engagement.

The first victory had to be a grand one, a beautiful win that would settle the world in one stroke!

Zhao Fusu planned to research TNT after the summer harvest was over.

Once TNT was developed, making Shotguns and meiliangxin cannons would be much easier.

When Shotguns were used in tandem with the Iron Pagoda, if the Xiongnu dared to launch a frontal assault, they would first face a rain of arrows, followed by the Shotguns and the Iron Pagoda.

If the Xiongnu used hit-and-run horse archery, they would see whose bows and crossbows had the longer range.

And then there would be a bombardment from the meiliangxin cannons.

These meiliangxin cannons could hurl projectiles two hundred meters away.

The killing radius exceeded twenty meters.

He wondered what kind of power the Xiongnu's arrows would have even if they could fly two hundred meters.

Meanwhile, his meiliangxin cannon would leave a crater forty meters in diameter with a single blast!

The meiliangxin cannon was also suitable for night raids; once Hot Air Balloons were created, they could scout Xiongnu settlements from high altitude and launch night attacks.

After a few waves of cluster bombing, the Xiongnu would surely collapse.

Zhao Fusu shook his head; without TNT yet, these thoughts were still too far off.

Zhao Fusu pulled his mind back, picked up his brush, and began to write the content for the front page of the Great Qin Empire Weekly.

Writing in the style of a novel, he wrote about Grand Preceptor Wen of the Yin Shang Dynasty leading an army to suppress a rebellion in the north.

Just when everyone in Yin Shang thought that Grand Preceptor Wen, whose muscles were more fearsome than Dwayne Johnson's, could easily suppress the northern rebellion, he ended up fighting in the North Sea for fifteen years.

Many in Yin Shang didn't understand where this North Sea was or why the rebels could fight Grand Preceptor Wen there for fifteen years.