155: Chapter 155 The Great Qin Dynasty of One Man

"I see!"

Zhao Fusu understood.

The First Emperor was doing this to verify whether the dream he had was real.

He also wanted to hide behind the scenes, letting the Remnants of the Six States surface on their own so he could wipe them all out in one fell swoop.

Zhao Fusu shook his head slightly.

The First Emperor's calculations were good, but they were being exploited by a transmigrator like him who had a cheat.

However, in Zhao Fusu's view, the First Emperor's scheme would not succeed.

The world has suffered under Qin for a long time.

Even if the First Emperor killed a batch of Anti-Qin Forces, more would emerge.

The Qin Dynasty's high-intensity controlled planned economy had a limit of endurance, whether for the common people at the bottom or for the nobility.

People had reached an unbearable point; they would rebel even at the risk of execution.

The flood was surging, and it was not something the First Emperor alone could withstand!

Seeing Zhao Fusu shake his head, the First Emperor's expression immediately became displeased.

He spoke in a cold voice: "Is it not a good strategy to lure the Remnants of the Six States out and then wipe them all out?"

To this, Zhao Fusu shook his head again: "This only treats the symptoms, not the root cause."

"Years ago, our State of Qin was just a small country on the northwestern border, yet it could attract talents from the six states to join us. Shang Yang, Han Fei, and Li Si were not originally from our State of Qin, yet they made huge contributions to the rise of Great Qin."

"Nine years ago, our State of Qin swept through the six states, and the seven states were finally unified."

"Wherever the edge of our Qin Army pointed, we were invincible and victorious. It truly felt like we held all the advantages of heaven and time; that scene of vibrant life and ten thousand things competing for growth is still before my eyes."

"Just nine short years later, our Great Qin is surging with undercurrents, and the people of the Six Lands all want to rebel."

"In your dream, Imperial Father, five years from now, our Great Qin collapses, the children of the Ying Clan are slaughtered to the last person, the Qin Palace is burned to the ground, and the seven-hundred-year foundation of our Great Qin is destroyed in an instant."

"Have you ever thought about the fundamental reason for this, Imperial Father?"

The First Emperor was stunned.

He hadn't expected the Zhao Fusu before him to be so eloquent; for every sentence he spoke, the other party countered with dozens, even throwing back a question that was difficult to answer.

"What brilliant insight do you have?"

The First Emperor's eyes, sharp as a hawk's, stared directly at Zhao Fusu.

His aura was incredibly powerful.

Back then, Jing Ke brought Qin Wuyang to assassinate the First Emperor.

That Qin Wuyang, who prided himself on being a fierce and ruthless man, faced the First Emperor and shook like a leaf, terrified by the First Emperor's aura.

Gulp!

Zhao Fusu couldn't help but swallow hard.

The First Emperor's majesty was definitely no joke.

He could only feel the revolver on his person to find peace of mind.

"There are no eternal rulers, only eternal commoners!"

Zhao Fusu said in a deep voice: "Whomever the commoners support will be invincible!"

Boom, boom, boom!

Zhao Fusu's seemingly ordinary words triggered bursts of thunder in the sky.

His whole person seemed to emit a halo, causing the First Emperor to cover his eyes with his hand, finding it difficult to look directly at Zhao Fusu.

In this parallel world, Zhao Fusu was the first person to value the power of the bottom-level commoners and the first to speak up for them.

As a successor of socialism, the education Zhao Fusu received since childhood was people-oriented and focused on serving the people.

The imperial power created by the First Emperor was a hegemony that demanded absolute obedience to him.

He instilled thoughts of blind loyalty in the commoners and highly exploited them, all for his own selfish interests.

In the following two thousand years, imperial power would continue to innovate based on his foundation.

In the Han Dynasty, the official position of 'Zhoumu' (Provincial Governor) was established; the character 'mu' (to herd) contains the radical for 'cow', which shows the emperor's attitude toward the commoners.

By the Manchu Qing, imperial power reached its peak; even officials were mere slaves before the emperor. In the emperor's eyes, the commoners weren't even livestock, but 'rice meat'.

Meat that eats rice.

This conversation between Zhao Fusu and the First Emperor was a clash between two ideologies.

Zhao Fusu said: "In the nine years since Great Qin unified the six states, the hearts of the people in those states have not been with our Great Qin; instead, they miss their former countries more each day."

"Since the Warring States period, for the commoners, no matter who ruled them, it was just a change of surname."

"But since our State of Qin began ruling them, what was originally a requirement to hand over one-tenth of their grain has jumped to two-thirds."

"Our State of Qin's laws are numerous. For the people of the six states, they don't even know how they've broken the law; at best they are fined, and at worst they are seized for corvée labor."

"This has led more and more people to say that the world has suffered under Qin for a long time."

"They all miss the days when they only had to pay a one-tenth grain tax."

The First Emperor fell silent after hearing this.

Making the commoners pay two-thirds of their grain was beneficial for the nobility.

But for the commoners, it was an incredibly painful thing.

"When someone proposes restoring the days of only paying a one-tenth grain tax, many people will follow him."

"When someone proposes not paying grain tax and that doing as one pleases is not a crime, then with one wave of his arm, followers will gather like clouds."

Zhao Fusu's eloquence was so strong that even a thousand Confucian Scholars could not outtalk him, let alone the First Emperor, who had been frustrated by Confucian Scholars before.

After a long silence, he finally looked at Zhao Fusu and said coldly: "Are you truly not going to be the Emperor yourself?"

"Do you know what the consequences of your proposed constitutional monarchy are?"

"If you continue like this, imperial power will gradually fall away!"

"The land of Great Qin will no longer be in our control."

"Our imperial family will no longer be able to stand high above, enjoying supreme power."

"The people of the whole world will no longer respect our Great Qin imperial family!"

"The consequence of this will be that unruly people will be as common as dogs, and those recklessly discussing state affairs will be everywhere!"

"We will never be able to control the world again!"

The First Emperor's angry eyes stared directly at Zhao Fusu. His majesty was like a mountain, like a roaring tsunami crashing down, threatening to overturn everything.

The First Emperor's mindset still regarded Great Qin as his Great Qin alone.

Everyone in Great Qin should act according to his thoughts.

He was the core of all Great Qin; Great Qin could not turn without him.

Otherwise, he would not have required every matter in Great Qin, large or small, to be reported to him.

The ultimate consequence was that after the First Emperor died, the entire Great Qin collapsed.

Facing the First Emperor's roar, Zhao Fusu's attitude was incredibly firm. His body was like a rock in the sea, enduring wave after wave of impact, yet remaining steadfast.

For the first time, he looked directly at the First Emperor and said: "Imperial Father, you saw the map of the whole world I published in the Great Qin Empire Weekly, right?"

The First Emperor didn't understand why Zhao Fusu had brought up this topic, but he nodded subconsciously.

After seeing that Great Qin only occupied such a small piece of the entire world, he felt extremely distressed.

The territory won by exhausting Great Qin's seven-hundred-year foundation was actually so small.