obsession
Brother Zheng was indeed obsessed with longevity.
In the beginning, Brother Zheng sought an illusory immortality because he wanted to establish a supreme empire.
However, people only had a short life. Even he, who ruled the world, was no exception.
However, for Brother Zheng's ambition, these few decades were far from enough.
Many of Brother Zheng's plans were hundreds of years old.
Immigrate people to guard the border and build the Great Wall!
300,000 troops guarding the Xiongnu!
600,000 troops guarding South Yue!
No matter which one it was, it was not something that could be completed in just a few decades.
Later on, Brother Zheng had been persistent in his pursuit of longevity in his later years. On the one hand, it had become a habit for more than 20 years.
On the other hand, wasn't it because the heir was disappointing?
The eighteen sons of the Ancestral Dragon, all of them are useless
With Big Brother Zheng's eyesight, he could easily tell that neither Huhai nor Fu Su could entrust Great Qin with anything.
Therefore, it was understandable for him to continue pursuing the illusory immortality.
"What's the use of saying this?" Zhao Che glanced at Old Zhao.
"I have two thousand catties of grain per mu, and you still don't trust me? You're not willing to conspire with me?" Zhao Che said.
Brother Zheng rolled his eyes.
This kid really didn't give up.
"You put us under house arrest. Is this your way of recruiting talents?”Brother Zheng avoided Zhao Che's invitation and asked with a smile.
" Didn't the First Emperor also imprison Wei Liao Zi?" Zhao Che smiled awkwardly.
"It's the same thing. Isn't he afraid of losing talent?”Zhao Che smiled.
If a talent could not be used by oneself, it would be used by the enemy.
If you let the talent run away, that would be helping the enemy.
Such lessons were common throughout history, and Zhao Che didn't want to speak of it personally.
"What big words!" Brother Zheng snorted.
How can you compare yourself to the first emperor?
"By the way, when will the potatoes ripen?”Brother Zheng suddenly asked.
Brother Zheng hadn't forgotten that Zhao Che had mentioned a crop that could produce four thousand catties per mu.
With the sweet potato incident as a lesson, Brother Zheng didn't think that Zhao Che would shoot without thinking.
The 4000 jin that Zhao Che mentioned was probably really 4000 jin.
Although Brother Hui Zheng's head was a little buzzing, he couldn't think of a way to describe the concept of 4,000 catties per mu.
Fruitful?
"It ripens at the same time as the sweet potato. However, the potatoes grew fast, and some of them were almost ripe. However, it was usually harvested together with sweet potatoes for convenience.”Zhao Che said with a smile.
Due to the barren land in Dongbin, the potatoes and sweet potatoes had actually helped Zhao Che a lot.
Originally, the barren land of Dongbin had a problem feeding thousands of people.
However, because of the sweet potatoes, the population of Dongbin was close to 10,000.
Moreover, they could save a lot of food.
Although sweet potatoes and potatoes were not nutritious, they were enough to fill one's stomach.
Nowadays, they usually ate grain mixed with sweet potatoes. Moreover, because of the high yield of sweet potatoes, they should have eaten two meals a day, but now they ate three meals a day.
All of them were still eating big and rough, and there was no sign of malnutrition at all.
This was the difference!
If Dongbin's land was only used to grow food, Zhao Che's ability to feed 4,000 people would have reached its limit.
Moreover, these 4,000 people were barely able to survive.
However, with sweet potatoes and potatoes, Dongbin could support up to 10,000 people on the same land.
Moreover, each of them ate three meals a day, so they were not hungry at all.
If one only considered not starving to death, the small Dongbin could even feed more than fifty thousand people.
Brother Zheng naturally saw the advantages of the sweet potato.
In Brother Zheng's opinion, with sweet potatoes and potatoes, the people of the world would be able to live a richer life.
Moreover, Great Qin's taxes would not be too high.
Great Qin's treasury would be filled.
Even if there were natural or man-made disasters, Great Qin's residents would be able to handle them, and Great Qin would not lose a large number of people.
And all of this meant that!
Great Qin! This war machine could be reactivated!
Yes, after Great Qin unified the world, it had been in a truce for a long time.
Other than the occasional skirmishes at the border, large-scale battles had almost disappeared.
It was not because the soldiers wanted to settle down after experiencing war.
On the contrary, Great Qin had been doing this from top to bottom. As long as it was the people of Old Qin, they would not be afraid or fearful when you told them that there was going to be a war. They would only be happy.
It was all because of the system of military merit!
During the Warring States Period, when the aristocrats were rampant.
Among the seven countries, only the Qin country had the courage to do so.
To give the lowest level people a smooth path to heaven!
Confucius, who said that he taught everyone without discrimination, was a noble!
The great scholar Mencius was a noble!
The Taoist father was also born into a noble family!
The Mohist tycoon was also born into a noble family!
In the entire Great Qin, regardless of whether they were born poor or rich, those who were called by their names were either nobles or descendants of nobles.
This was the Warring States Period!
Great Qin was the only country where people at the bottom of society had a chance to become nobles.
Some people, as long as you give them a little hope, they will take out their lives!
Now that Great Qin had stopped fighting for so many years, it was not because Great Qin was afraid of war!
On the contrary, these few years, Brother Zheng had suppressed them and requested to destroy the Xiongnu and South Yue.
It wasn't that Brother Zheng didn't want to fight.
Great Qin had fought for hundreds of years!
Great Qin had destroyed all six countries!
It was not that Great Qin had not suffered any losses!
Great Qin's treasury was empty!
But…
Now, Brother Zheng saw hope again!
Sweet potatoes in his left hand and potatoes in his right.
With these two kinds of food!
Brother Zheng's gaze was faint!
Even if it's the shore of the North Sea, I'll take it down for the world to see!
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