In a small village on the border of the Great Qin Dynasty.
Niu Er, the village chief, held a roll of bamboo slips in his hand. Today, he was going to follow the orders of the chief of the pavilion and explain the word "Huaxia" to the illiterate villagers.
According to the system of the Great Qin Dynasty, ten households were a mile long, ten miles was a pavilion long, ten pavilions was a township long, and above that was the county magistrate.
This morning, he had gathered the villagers at the village entrance. These villagers were holding hoes in their hands, waiting to work in the fields after the event.
"What does the village chief want? I'm still waiting to work in the fields.”
"I heard that he wants to tell us about the world.”
"The world? What does the world have to do with us?”
"That's right. I said it too. If you tell us about the world, how can we not farm?”
Everyone was discussing animatedly. At this moment, Niu Er coughed lightly and walked forward.
Everyone looked at Niu Er, wanting to see what he had to say.
Niu Er didn't really understand the word " Huaxia ". When he knew about Huaxia, it was the chief who told them about it.
He recalled the words of the pavilion chief in his mind and adapted it to his own way of speaking. Then, he slowly opened his mouth.
"Fellow villagers, today I'm here to tell you what China is.”
Huaxia?
No one understood what he meant. What was Huaxia? Didn't he say that he wanted to talk about the world?
Before anyone could ask, Niu Er spoke again,""Our seven countries are not seven different countries, but the seven young masters of China. Only when the seven countries are united can China return to its peak.”
Everyone narrowed their eyes, not understanding what he meant.
What seven young masters? Return to the peak? No matter what, this was Great Qin's world.
Niu Er smiled and said," Even though Great Qin has unified the six countries, this world belongs to China. Be it the State of Qin or the State of Zhao, they are only a part of China!”
When Niu Er said this, he took out the invitation card from his pocket and slowly raised it over his head.
(Body-revealing cards were equivalent to identity cards. Ever since Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State had them. After the Qin State unified the six countries, they were promoted to the entire country.）
He looked around at everyone and continued,"Now, no matter which country you came from, the invitation card only says that you are from China. The people of Qin are like this, and so are the people of Zhao!”
Hearing this, the villagers were ecstatic. This was not a simple change in writing, but that everyone in the Nine Provinces would be equal.
There would no longer be a situation where some Qin people looked down on the people of the original six states.
"I understand what China means. It means the world. The world is China!”
"That's great. This way, the privileges of the Qin people will be gone.”
"The First Emperor is truly wise and mighty!”
Niu Er looked at the villagers 'enlightened expressions and smiled in relief.
Just as he was about to say something, he saw something flying straight towards him.
It was so fast that he could not react in time. The thing was getting closer and closer with the whistling of the wind.
When he was only ten feet away from Niu Er, he saw clearly that it was a bow and arrow.
"Thump!"
The bow and arrow pierced into Niu Er's forehead. He struggled for two steps, and his eyes suddenly widened as he looked into the distance. He shouted with his last breath,"Villagers, run!"
The villagers in front of them did not have time to react. They saw a large number of arrows whistling out and flying towards them like dark clouds.
In the next moment, countless arrows pierced into the chests of the people who had yet to react.
A few people looked in the direction Niu Er was looking at and saw a group of barbarians riding horses and holding machetes charging over.
"Run, the Xiongnu are coming!"
The Xiongnu leader pointed his scimitar forward and said arrogantly,""Eagles of the grasslands, follow me to flatten this village. Kill all the men and leave the women behind!”
"Hou Lue, kill!"
"I haven't been to the Central Plains for a long time. I miss these Central Plains women so much!”
Xiongnu people wearing animal skins rode black horses and rushed toward the small village like a tide.
How could the villagers who had been running for their lives run faster than the horses? The sound of hooves behind them was getting closer and closer. Just as someone turned around, he saw a cold light waving towards him.
In the next moment, blood spurted out and the head flew away.
In a few breaths, the entire village was covered in blood and wails could be heard everywhere.
Along with the wails were the crazy shouts of these Xiongnu people.
A Xiongnu man came to a thatched house with closed doors and windows. He grabbed the horse's mane, and the two front feet of the black horse suddenly rose into the air. Then, he instantly stepped on the door and shattered it.
A woman was lying on the bed in pain. Her husband was holding a hoe, his eyes filled with hatred as he stood in front of his wife.
His wife was about to give birth. If he ran away alone, he could not imagine what would happen to his wife.
The Xiongnu man laughed and looked at the hoe in the man's hand with disdain.
He jumped off his horse and walked into the house.
"Get out! This is Great Qin, you animals, get out!”
The man was very nervous. Behind him was his wife and the child that was about to be born.
In front of him was a " beast " who grew up on the grasslands and rode a horse every day.
In order to protect his wife and children, he could not be timid.
The Xiongnu man looked past the man and looked at the woman who was giving birth in pain, or rather, the woman who was about to become a mother.
A demonic smile appeared on the dirty face of the Xiongnu man, and the lust in his eyes was about to burst out.
"Did you hear that? I told you to get out!”
The man knew what this beast was thinking. No matter what, he would not let this happen.
He mustered up his courage and raised his hoe to swing at the Xiongnu.
In the next moment, the Xiongnu's scimitar, which glowed with a faint cold light, instantly cut off the man's right hand.
"The Central Plainsmen don't know what's good for them. How can weak men like you be a match for us prairie eagles?”
The man covered his right hand. Blood kept flowing, and his expression was very painful.
However, this pain was not enough to stop him. He slowly picked up the hoe with his remaining hand, and there was no fear in his eyes.
The Xiongnu man laughed. It was the kind of contempt that looked at ants. The cold light attacked again, and the man's left hand flew out.
The woman on the bed screamed in pain. The pain of childbirth made her faint several times.
The Xiongnu man suddenly thought of something. He grinned and waved at the people outside the house."There are young women here.”
The man in the room, whose hands had been cut off, was in despair. He looked at his wife who was in pain on the bed and did not have the courage to resist. He begged,"Please, let my wife go. She's still giving birth and is still very weak.”
The Xiongnu responded to him with a kick to his cheek.
A few unkempt Xiongnu men wearing animal skins walked toward the woman excitedly.
"Wow, wow, wow."
Suddenly, a baby's cry came. The woman had given birth to their child.
Before the man could rejoice, a Xiongnu man unsheathed his scimitar without any hesitation and swung it at the child who had yet to see the world.
Bright red blood spurted out, and the baby's cries stopped abruptly.
Then, the few of them took off the animal skin on their bodies and rushed towards the woman impatiently.
The man on the ground saw that his child was dead and his wife was humiliated, so he slammed into the hoe blade at the side.
The originally peaceful and beautiful village was now covered in corpses and blood.
In the fields and small courtyards, the corpses of men were everywhere. On the eaves of the beds and under the shade of the trees, the wails of humiliation of women could be heard everywhere.
The entire village looked like hell.
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