Ying Zheng stepped up the steps step by step, wearing a brocade robe that was very gorgeous. The upper body was composed of black clothes, with a single plain gauze in the middle, red ruffles, a leather belt with jade, a large belt with plain outer edges, and green borders on both sides.

, red brocade on the top and green brocade on the bottom.

The large ribbon has six colors: yellow, white, red, black, ethereal, and green. The small ribbon has three colors: white, black, and green. It has three jade rings, a black ribbon, and a pair of white jade pendants.

The crown robe is decorated with a red black bird pattern, and has wide sleeves and a waist. The whole person looks powerful and confident, as if he has the world under his control.

The crown is the highest-level crown that reaches the sky. It is mainly black, with twelve crown pins, and each pin is connected with twelve pieces of colorful jade. They are arranged in the order of red, white, blue, yellow, and black.

Each piece of jade is one inch apart and each jade is twelve inches long. It is the most noble kind. Only clothing with such specifications can be worthy of the status of an emperor through the ages.

Step onto the ninety-nine steps that symbolize the supreme royal power and overlook the civil and military officials and countless soldiers below.

Even Ying Zheng's calmness could not restrain the excitement in his heart. His chest was heaving and his blood was rising. The deafening cry seemed to lift him up into the sky, comparable to the sun and the moon.

I saw the Tianwen Sword in his hand unsheathed, pointing straight into the sky. From today on, he, the First Emperor, Ying Zheng, will open up a prosperous China and create a different world...

However, it is not that simple to reform the past and make new things. As the complicated government affairs of the unified world continue to pile up, problems left over from the war also appear one after another.

It seems that pacifying the Six Kingdoms is just the beginning. Unifying all peoples and creating a prosperous age of great harmony is far more difficult than conquering a piece of land.

After the establishment of the Qin Empire, in order to consolidate his rule, Ying Zheng followed Ye Zhang's suggestion and implemented a system of counties and feudalism in parallel.

The Central Plains region, the core of the important land, was set up as a county directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains, and many officials such as county magistrates and county guards were established for management.

The border areas guessed the strategy of enfeoffment, and their trusted ministers led their troops to sit in the area, guarding against foreign invasion while suppressing the anti-Qin elements in the area.

This system was indeed quite effective. It stabilized the originally chaotic situation in a short period of time. Next, it was necessary to promote the laws of Qin and abolish the old laws of the six countries.

Major adjustments also need to be made in terms of writing, currency, weights and measures, etc.

In terms of currency, naturally we can no longer maintain the tortoise shell jade and other things originally used by the six countries. Instead, they can be divided into two types: upper currency and lower currency.

The upper coin is gold, with yi as the unit, and the Qin system has twenty taels as one yi. The lower coin is round copper coins with square holes, with half taels as the unit.

Of course, the most important banknotes will naturally use the gold tickets issued by Tianyuan Commercial Bank, but they must be stamped with Da Qin's words on them, and then Ye Chang will stamp them with an anti-counterfeiting seal before they can take effect.

After many years of operation of Hesitation Commercial Bank, this link has progressed the most smoothly, and there is not much difference at all for areas that are accustomed to using gold tickets.

In addition, Ying Zheng also used the weights and measures system and weights and measures established during Shang Yang's reform as standards to promote them across the country and further standardize them.

The implementation of these decrees has not encountered many obstacles. What really causes headaches is the ideological and cultural differences.

In order to integrate people's support and facilitate management, Ying Zheng deliberately abolished the writing systems of other countries, retaining only Qin seal script and official script, two convenient writing fonts.

In this way, those complex cultural influences can be erased in just a few decades.

But the reality is much more complicated than imagined. It is difficult to ban something like culture through forceful means. Even if people don't use it openly, they still retain their original habits secretly.

It’s impossible to send people to monitor every household one by one...

On a sunny afternoon, the First Emperor Ying Zheng had a rare free time and came to the pavilion in the Imperial Garden. He also invited Wei Liao to play chess with him.

After Wei Liao dropped a chess piece, he said, "Your Majesty, I saw that you were a little absent-minded today. Is there anything on your mind?"

Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Do I look confused?"

Wei Liao smiled: "My chess skills have always been so-so. If Your Majesty had concentrated on playing with me, he would have won long ago. Besides, you have so many things to do, if you have nothing to do, how can you get me as an idler."

When Ying Zheng heard this, he knew that the other party was just being modest, but he was really uneasy. He immediately put down the chess piece in his hand and said, "I have really been thinking about it recently."

Wei Liao then asked: "I wonder what your Majesty is thinking about. Can I help you?"

When he heard the question, Ying Zheng's expression changed but he did not answer immediately. Instead, he asked: "Guo Wei has a keen mind. There are few people in the civil and military circles who understand my thoughts better than you. You might as well take a guess."

After Wei Liao heard this, he raised his eyes and looked at the former and said: "Since your Majesty ascended the throne, he has issued many edicts in succession, with the same chariots and tracks, and the same writings and texts, to implement Qin laws and to unify weights and measures.

Although this decision is correct, it may not be easy for the people to accept these things. I guess these are the things you are worried about."

"Sure enough, nothing can be hidden from Lieutenant Guo. You also know that although the territory of the Six Kingdoms has now been restored to the Qin Dynasty, there are considerable differences in living habits and writing customs between the people of different countries.

In order to truly unite the tens of millions of people in the empire, I issued various decrees, but with little effect.

In addition, now that the world has been decided, we cannot use ruthless means at will, otherwise it may provoke a popular uprising, which can be described as a dilemma..."

Hearing these words, Wei Liao also nodded and said: "It is easy to attack a city but difficult to attack the heart. Things such as coins, weights and measures that can be controlled by Weng Ti are not controlled by Weng Ti. What is really difficult to implement is Qin's laws and writing."

Ying Zheng sighed softly when he heard this and said: "The laws of our country in Great Qin are relatively strict. Complying with the new laws means that we have to bear greater pressure, and we have to pay a greater price after violating the law.

Originally, the people of the Six Kingdoms were afraid of the Qin Dynasty, but now after seeing the harsh Lu Lin, they naturally do not want to accept it easily."

After saying that, he looked at the other party again and said: "The words must be unified. I wonder if Guo Wei has any clever ideas for this?"

Hearing this, Wei Liao thought for a while and said: "This matter cannot be rushed. If you want the people to accept Qin's laws and Qin seals, the first thing you have to do is to appease the people's hearts.

As long as they sincerely believe that life under Qin's governance is better than before, they will naturally become Qin people willingly."

"It seems that's all we have to do."
Chapter completed!