In ancient times, marching was a very difficult and painful thing.
It was not as glamorous and domineering as it was in movies and dramas!
Think about it.
Wearing armor that weighed more than ten catties, holding spears and weapons that weighed more than ten catties, and carrying their own dry rations and personal belongings, just the weight alone was enough to make people complain endlessly.
Moreover, Great Qin had yet to build any roads in the entire country.
Most of the roads between cities were muddy paths. Some of them did not even have a path for people to walk on. They could only walk through the wild grass and forests.
It was a difficult road to travel with heavy loads.
One could imagine the difficulty and pain involved.
In such a situation, let alone the infantry and night watchmen following the army.
Even Ying Mu, who was sitting in the carriage and being taken care of by others, felt that he couldn't take it anymore.
A carriage without any shock absorption design.
It was bumpy.
It was much more uncomfortable than taking the bus that traveled between cities in the future.
In addition, during the march, the food and accommodation could not be compared to when they were in Xianyang City.
Previously in Xianyang City, he could still eat meat soup, barbecue, cooked vegetables, rice, and so on.
There was also a comfortable bed to sleep in.
Other than feeling that the food was tasteless and tasteless, that the accommodation was difficult, that he missed his phone, and that he was very bored, everything else was acceptable.
And during the march?
Other than the few above.
Even the quality of food and sleep could not be guaranteed.
Especially when it was raining, they could only eat hard jerky and millet cakes and sleep in the wet carriage.
This kind of experience was probably even worse than the survival in the wilderness in the future.
Of course, people like Ying Mu were still considered good.
After all, he was the Prince of Great Qin, the King of Yue conferred by the First Emperor. His status was obvious.
Therefore, even if they followed the army, the food and accommodation conditions were the best.
The ones who were truly suffering were the bottom-level soldiers and the conscripted farmers.
Not only did they have to carry dozens of kilograms of armor and weapons on their backs, but their food and accommodation conditions were also difficult to describe with words.
Meat soup, jerky, millet cakes, and rice?
There was no need to even think about it.
The soldiers at the bottom of the hierarchy would eat the army's wok helmet during most of the time.
This kind of wok helmet was not a delicious snack in the future. Instead, it was made from corn flour, roughly crushed wheat grains, wild vegetables, tree roots, turf, coarse salt, and so on.
The huge wok helmet was carried on his back. It was so hard that it could be used as a shield many times.
A pot with water and a bowl of clear corn porridge.
It was an important source of food for Great Qin's soldiers and commoners.
Why didn't he eat steamed buns and rice?
Because in this era.
There wasn't even any flour, let alone steamed buns.
There were only grains of wheat that had been roughly crushed with the skin. Eating them would make one feel bloated and uncomfortable.
Therefore, the wheat of the Qin Dynasty was often used as supplementary food by the lower class people. They would only eat it when they had no choice.
It wasn't until the Western Han Dynasty, with the appearance of the composite millstone, that flour was truly born, allowing wheat to replace corn as the main source of food for the northern residents.
As for rice?
Rice was widely grown in the south.
However, due to the difficulty of shedding the shell.
Therefore, rice became the food of the nobles in the north. How could the lower class commoners afford to eat it?
What he saw and heard along the way with the army.
This caused Ying Mu to be deeply shocked.
Only by truly understanding this era.
Only then did he know.
Real history was not just a few cold words in a book.
It was also not the praise of later scholars.
It was the myriad of living beings in front of him!
When the six kings were finished, the four seas were one. Shushan Wu, Afang came out.
In the carriage that was slowly moving forward, Ying Mu was slowly reciting Du Mu's Epang Palace Ode. He had a complicated feeling.
Although he knew that Epang Palace had yet to be built.
However, when he thought about the Imperial Mausoleum of Mount Li that had already been under construction, the Great Qin Wall that had just been built, and the Qin Chi Dao that was about to be built, Ying Mu's heart was filled with a heavy feeling.
According to historical statistics, the population at the peak of the Qin Dynasty was about 20 million.
Moreover, these 20 million people included refugees and refugees.
According to Great Qin's official statistics, there were only about 15 million people.
However, among the 15 million people, the army alone exceeded a million.
Later, in order to build the Imperial Mausoleum of Mount Li, more than 700,000 corvee were recruited.
To build the Great Wall, he had to recruit more than a million people.
Construction of the road, conscription of more than 300,000 people.
This did not include the soldiers and labor during the war, as well as the corvee for other large-scale civil buildings.
He calculated.
Almost every household in Great Qin had a man serving in the military or in the corvee.
Out of every five people, one would be transferred to military service or labor.
Only the elderly and women were left farming in the fields.
And this was only the " service " that the lower-class people had to bear!
Other than " service ", the commoners also had to pay taxes to the dynasty, which was tax revenue.
The taxes during the Qin Dynasty were much heavier than the later dynasties, about one in five.
The farming in this era was different from the later generations. There were super rice seeds, high-quality wheat seeds, pesticide fertilizers, scientific planting methods, and other methods to increase production.
During the Qin Dynasty, one mu of fertile land could only produce a little more than two stones of grain.
One stone weighed thirty kilograms, which was sixty catties.
In other words, in the Qin Dynasty, a family could only harvest 600 catties of grain even if they planted ten mu of land.
In addition to the taxes that needed to be paid.
In the end, there were only about 500 catties left.
If he were to throw away the grain seeds that had to be left behind, he estimated that there would only be about 400 catties of them that could be eaten.
Was 400 catties of food really enough for a family of a few people?
If this were to happen in the future.
They probably wouldn't even eat one person, let alone a family.
Furthermore!
Could the commoners at the bottom have ten mu of fertile land?
Other than food, did they need other expenses?
For example, clothes, salt, daily necessities, and so on.
These were all unavoidable.
In the past, when Ying Mu read history books and historical novels, he didn't have much of an impression of this.
Now, when he truly came to this era.
He had truly seen the lives of the people at the bottom.
Only then did he know how difficult it was for the people of this era.
If it weren't for the real hardship and hardship, the life expectancy of the people at the bottom of the feudal dynasties wouldn't have been only thirty or forty years old.
It also fulfilled Li Shen's poem," Pity the Peasants."
"A grain of millet is sown in spring, and ten thousand seeds are harvested in autumn. There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmer will starve to death!”
Because he understood.
That was why he understood.
Only then would they understand why the later dynasties and history would call Qin the Violent Qin!
The backward production, the heavy taxes, and the cruel and unreasonable methods of the Qin Empire made Great Qin's massive war chariot unable to bear the burden.
However, after destroying the six countries, Great Qin did not choose to rest.
Instead, they engaged in large-scale civil engineering, wantonly conscripted labor, launched large-scale wars, and chose cruel punishments to suppress the world.
It's a waste of money and manpower.
Hundreds of thousands of young men and women were killed or injured!
In addition, the remaining nobles of the six dynasties secretly incited the conflict between the upper and lower levels.
This caused the bottom-level people to completely erupt. The people's resentment rose everywhere and finally rose up.
Great Qin would become Violent Qin!
"Then, what should I do?”
Ying Mu pondered.
He thought about it for a long time and a lot.
It would have been fine if he had not come to this era.
Since he had already arrived in this era, and with the help of the golden finger, he had the ability to change everything.
Then he couldn't ignore it.
Ying Mu felt that he had to do something.
"It's just that... In this case, how should he face the First Emperor?”
"Or should I say, how should I deal with the relationship between the First Emperor and Great Qin?”
"If I wanted to change the structure of Great Qin from the bottom to the top, would the First Emperor agree?”
"Will Great Qin's nobles agree?”
"After all, this is no longer a simple reform that can be summarized. It's completely changing their lives!”
"I'll take the lives of the Great Qin Imperial Clan, the Great Qin nobles, the Great Qin officials, and the world's landowners."
"Faced with such a choice, the First Emperor, the one emperor in history, can he really be like what was written in a certain online novel in my previous life. He was selfless, caring for the people, caring for the future of Yan Huang, not caring about the fate of the Ying Clan and their descendants. Even if he had to slaughter the entire world, would he still support him?”
Ying Mu couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of this.
He didn't think the First Emperor would do that.
Because the First Emperor was an eternal emperor!
It was the Emperor.
Not a saint.
Even Saints.
He probably wouldn't become the enemy of the world just because of a person's illusory words!
This was simply unrealistic.
Ying Mu sighed faintly.
For some reason, he suddenly had a strong premonition.
He had a premonition.
Perhaps one day in the future.
He would also start a tragic war and slaughter on this ancient land.
This ancient land was bathed in fresh blood and welcomed new life.
，!!，!!
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