Chapter 11 1. Domino effect

For the unification of Qin, the first condition is to increase productivity and strengthen ties; the second condition is the desire of the people; who in Taiwan is most willing to be close to the mainland?Taiwanese businessmen.The relationship is strengthened, I will make money with you, and I will not be able to make money after a war, that is what it means.The third condition is that the Qin State is strong, the country is rich and the army is strong; the fourth condition is the strategic strategy of King Qin Yingzheng.Qin Shihuang himself was a man of great talent and general plan, and he was far away and close at hand.Those who are close to him will be destroyed first, and those who are far away will make friends.

The order of destroying the six kingdoms is: Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, Qi.First destroy South Korea. South Korea is small and weak, so it will be destroyed at once, like pouring a glass of water on a candle.Then came the state of Zhao, and then the state of Wei.Although the state of Chu is huge, it has already been beaten once beforehand. The capital was conquered, and Qu Yuan was thrown into the river. He was very weak, so he also took it.Yan was too far away and lived a few more years, but he was still invincible.Finally destroy Qi, because Qi is the farthest and very strong.So he told Qi Wang Tianjian, don't worry about the countries I destroy, you just watch, after the destruction is over, we will divide the world equally, I will be the Western Emperor, and you will be the Eastern Emperor.Tian Jian was very happy, but the consequences were miserable.All the countries asked for help and he didn't save him, just waiting to be the East Emperor. As a result, once the five countries were finished, he became the last domino.There is nothing Dongdi, just sweep the floor of Guanshan Cave!Ended up starving.The six kingdoms of Shandong were wiped out one by one in ten years. The national strength of Qin is indeed super strong, with a population of 5 million and an army of 1 million. It has caught up with the Huns. It feels like using 600,000 troops in one battle. .

In 221 BC, the six kingdoms were destroyed, the Yue nationality area was unified, the Huns were repelled, and Hetao was acquired.Hetao is the place where the Yellow River turns, the Ordos Grassland with rich water and grass.The so-called nine bends of the Yellow River, only rich, is talking about this place.Henan is called the inner sleeve, and Hebei is called the outer sleeve.Take it and build the Great Wall. Why build the Great Wall?Didn't they defeat the Huns?Just wipe it out in one go.But can it be destroyed?He was a cavalryman, so he ran away all of a sudden.Our Han nationality spends too much money in wars with ethnic minorities. After a battle, the food supply cannot keep up, and the national strength is basically exhausted.The ethnic minorities do not have this burden, so the Han cannot afford to fight against them.So I built a Great Wall to stop you. If I don't go there, you don't come. Besides, I have no reason to go there. The land over there can't be planted. I have to build a city there to transport food and materials from the interior, and the cost is too high. It's too big, so it's over after building the Great Wall.People in the Tang Dynasty said that it is not necessary for the emperor to build the Great Wall to enable the general to fight a hundred battles.But it is useless for a general to fight a hundred battles, because "a general dies in a hundred battles", so he still has to rely on the Great Wall, which is how the eight wonders of the world came about.

Unified the Yue nationality area, repelled the Xiongnu, obtained Hetao, and built the Great Wall.After all these were done, the territory of the Qin Dynasty stretched from the Great Wall in the north (today's Inner Mongolia and Liaoning), to the sea in the east, to the South China Sea in the south, and to Longxi in the west (today's Gansu). It is said to have reached 4 million square kilometers, plus 21 million The population is equivalent to that of the Roman Empire at its peak 400 years later, with a population one million more than that of the Roman Empire. The significance of Qin's unification of the six countries:

First, since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the situation in which the princes ruled the roost by separate regimes has ended, and it has become a unified multi-ethnic country.The office has been in a mess for a long time, and it is finally cleaned up. Second, social and economic recovery and development, ending long-term wars, people's lives are stable, and the economy is moving forward.The room was tidied up and finally ready to work.