Chapter 105 Part 1 Empire Building

If there are words, it will be long, and if there are no words, it will be short.In the blink of an eye, it was the thirty-fourth year of Yingzheng, and the bleak autumn wind is here again, changing the world. Eight years have passed since the unification of the world. The huge Qin Empire, like a wind-up machine, runs steadily and at high speed without stopping for a moment. First there is the construction of roads. Today's popular slogan goes: If you want to get rich, build roads first.Yingzheng's road construction was not based on economic considerations, but primarily for military purposes, so as to benefit the long-term rule of the empire.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang went to Europe as an envoy and asked German Prime Minister Bismarck about military affairs.Bismarck said: There is one thing to know about military training. The army of a country does not need to be stationed separately, but should be stationed in the middle. Briefly, no matter when and where troops are needed, they will follow orders.But the road of marching should be considered first. Bismarck's military thinking had been produced and practiced in China as early as the Qin Dynasty. There are two Qinxiu roads, both of which start from Xianyang, one way to the east, Qiongyanqi, and the other way to the south pole, Wuchu.Above the rivers and lakes, the view of Binhai is complete.The road is fifty steps wide, and the tree is three feet long. The outside is thickly built, hidden with golden vertebrae, and the tree is covered with green pine.It also built a straight road, from Jiuyuan to Ganquan, through mountains and valleys, with a length of 1800 li.

With Chidao and Zhidao, the empire does not need to garrison troops in all directions, but can rest assured that the main force of the army will be assembled in the headquarters of the Qin State, and then control the situation in the whole of China.As soon as there is a rebellion in the local area, the Central Army can quickly rush to the scene and put it down in time by taking advantage of the straight and straight roads.In normal times, only a small number of soldiers need to be prepared in the local area to maintain daily law and order. Of course, while the empire was building roads, it also did not forget to build roadblocks.The Great Wall of Yanzhao North Boundary was connected with the old Northwest Great Wall of Qin State, and extensive repairs were made to create the famous "Great Wall of Thousand Miles" to prevent the nomadic people from the north from invading southward.

Then there is the continued development of the territory. In the north, Meng Tian led an army of 300,000 to repel the Xiongnu. From Yuzhong to the east of the Binghe River, it belongs to the Yinshan Mountains.The Xiongnu couldn't bear the prestige of the Qin army, so they retreated more than 700 li in order to protect themselves.From then on, the Hu people did not dare to go south to herd horses, and the scholars did not dare to bend their bows to complain. In the south, Tu Sui led an army of 500,000 troops to conquer Baiyue. He was invincible in all directions and determined the land respectively. Guangdong Province) three counties.