The Warrior of Love

This kind of thing has never happened before... Even at the end of the Warring States Period, the people living on this land still had infinite worship for the gods.

But after the First Emperor conquered the six kingdoms, he forcibly used Qin laws to constrain and unify everything from the most basic written heritage of civilization to the customs and habits of each region, and followed the same standards and rules.

Unconsciously, the object of people's worship changed from "non-existent gods" to "human gods", that is, the "emperor" who called himself the Son of Heaven.

The reason why the First Emperor will be remembered by later generations is not only because he continued the idea of ​​great unification for two thousand years and the county system that was actually passed down, but most importantly, he created a brand new concept and recorded the limits of the power that an individual human being can hold.

That is the transcendent existence that is above all laws, morals, and beliefs—the "Emperor"!

It is still just a bud now. Because the First Emperor was too powerful and violently changed the people's deep-rooted ideas, it could not last long.

But in the original history, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang continued the political system of Qin Shihuang. During the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, the mark of great unification was thoroughly engraved in the bones of civilization.

Even with future changes of dynasties, each cycle will follow a similar trajectory.

The reason why the unified centralized system can continue is simple:

Who among those ambitious people in troubled times doesn’t want almost unlimited power?

Give up being the "Emperor" who is above everything, and instead outsource power...divide it among others, and just be the leader of an alliance?

What a joke!

The great achievements of the First Emperor are there for us to see. Who wouldn’t want to be the second First Emperor?

This is what a man should do!

"I will definitely overthrow the tyrannical Qin and make Chu... no, not just Chu. I will make the six countries destroyed by Qin prosper again and let the world return to what it should be!"

——There are indeed people who think differently.

"Of course, it's after we defeat the White Huns. Now is not the right time. But I believe that since God has allowed me to survive the war that destroyed my country and my family, he will definitely let me pay back the blood debt of Chu one day!"

Xiang Liang, riding on his warhorse, had a firm expression and sharp eyes. He was not putting on a show or joking; he really had this ambition and was already putting it into practice.

If it weren't for the intrusion of the White Huns, Xiang Yu would have probably destroyed the Qin State and started to divide the kingdoms...

As a remnant of the six nobles from the old era, Xiang Liang probably missed that era, and he indeed hated the First Emperor because of the loss of his country.

It is not a question of whether the county system is good or not, but the nobles of the six countries who stand in opposition to Qin Shihuang and regard themselves as the avengers and the righteous side cannot agree with Shihuang's ideas!

Once you surrender, it will be a complete defeat from the battlefield to your beliefs!

Except for Xiang Liang, Lixiang and Mashu looked confused and didn't seem to have any special ideas.

Saber in the red dress who called herself Princess Pingyang frowned slightly, seemingly disagreeing, but she pursed her lips and said nothing.

Although she came from later times and naturally supported great unification and opposed the feudal system, she had no right to rebuke Xiang Liang.

Because Xiang Liang did nothing wrong.

He just misses the past and cannot forget the hatred. His revenge is absolutely justified.

but……

"But the First Emperor is dead, right?"

Li Xiang asked doubtfully: "Uncle's country was destroyed by the emperor, but he is no longer here. Who are you going to take revenge on?"

The girl's voice was pleasant and ethereal, but the content of the question made Xiang Liang lose his mind for a moment.

By the way, although everyone was traveling with Xiang Liang, they only had three horses.

Xiang Liang had one horse for himself, while Jiang Liu and the other four shared two horses.

The main reason is that Ritsuka doesn't know how to ride a horse, so he has to ride together with Jiang Liu. Mashu followed behind Saber. Logically, she should also have riding skills, but in order not to take up precious horse resources, the two had to ride together.

What? Why aren't Mashu and Ritsuka on the same team?

But that has to be what Lixiang wants!

Now, she was completely nestled in Jiang Liu's arms, feeling his strong arms, and even her brother's hot and wet breath, as well as the vibration of his throat when he spoke...

Give up this treatment and exchange places with Saber? It would be strange if Ritsuka agreed.

“Who should I take revenge on?”

Xiang Liang was at a loss for a moment, but soon became determined.

“When the Chu State was destroyed, countless people died under the sword of Qin. Even though the First Emperor is dead, this debt will not disappear. I will still demand repayment from his descendants and people.

Our royal family has been slaughtered, so the Ying clan will not have an easy life either. As many Chu people as were killed, so many Qin people must die too!"

"Is it really necessary to do this?" Ritsuka asked in a low voice.

Xiang Liang answered without hesitation: "It has to be this way... Miss Fujimaru, you are really strange, why are you asking such a matter of course.

In the past, Qi State took advantage of the civil strife in Yan State and the Qi army rushed into Yan State, burning, killing and looting. Yan State never recovered from that defeat.

Later, Qi was attacked by the coalition forces of five countries. General Yue Yi of Yan led the Yan army to rush into Qi first and captured more than 70 cities. The coalition forces of five countries almost completely destroyed Qi. What Qi army had done to Yan was returned to them double...

Such things are everywhere in history books, there is nothing strange about them.

How many times did the Qin people massacre cities and how many people from the six kingdoms were killed?

How many people were taken as slaves and forced to leave their hometowns to serve in the frontier areas?

The Great Wall, the Chidao, the Afang Palace... they were just built by the First Emperor to show off, but how many coolies from our six countries are buried underground?

Even if there are only three households in Chu, Chu will be the one to destroy Qin...

This generation of children does not even recognize their own country’s writing system and has almost forgotten their ancestors.

Miss Fujimaru, I dare not think about it... When I think about these things, I wish I could kill all the Qin people!

But I can't do that now, at least not before defeating the White Huns... However, this hatred will not disappear, and this war will not end until it is fully repaid."

After listening to this, Lixiang was silent for a long time. Jiang Liu noticed her reaction and deliberately lagged behind the others for a distance.

"what happened?"

"elder brother……"

Li Xiang looked gloomy: "Is there no other solution?"

"I don't know." Jiang Liu had a blank expression on his face. "I can't do anything about this."

"But I remember that China was finally unified, right?" Li Xiang said with a hint of anticipation, "How was it done correctly in history?"

"As Xiang Liang said."

"What do you mean?"

"After Xiang Yu entered Qin territory, he caused the Qin people to suffer equal revenge."

"Brother... why do such cruel things happen again and again, but no one thinks it's wrong? The most terrifying thing is that even I think this kind of revenge is... reasonable."

"Who knows? I've never thought about it."

Jiang Liu used his arms to hold Li Xiang tighter, and his voice became gentle.

"Don't think too much, just remember what you have to do and keep moving forward."

Chapter 247: Abnormal

Jiang Liu and his group traveled light, with only five people, three horses and one warhorse. As they were not ordinary people, they did not need to worry about rest and supplies. The only thing that limited them was the physical strength of their horses. Therefore, they traveled very quickly. In just three to five days, they left the territory of Chu and arrived in the territory of Qin.

No major accidents occurred along the way. As long as we moved forward along the road, it was as if we were protected by an invisible magical power and we rarely encountered magical beasts.

According to Chaldea's analysis, this is because the direction of the spiritual veins and the terrain of the mountains and rivers were referenced when the Chidao was built. If the Chidao itself is regarded as a series of lines, then it is a super magic circle drawn with the earth as a platform.

Its function is very simple, which is to protect the road from being destroyed. It also has the function of dispersing wild beasts and common demons.

As long as the earth veins do not undergo large-scale changes, the Chidao will continue to exist. On the contrary, if the direction of the earth veins changes, the Chidao will decline at a very fast speed.

"Ancient China had a science called feng shui, which is a special study of mountains and rivers, so almost all large-scale projects here are related to the earth's veins, the five elements, and yin and yang."

——This is Roman’s opinion.

Although he has a Western face, he seems to have some knowledge of Eastern techniques.

"Feng Shui" based on the theory of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams, "Astrology" that corresponds the trajectory of the stars to human destiny, "Celestial Phenomena" that records climate patterns and deduces the calendar... Each one can be a separate system, enough for magicians to study for a lifetime.

However, due to the different foundations of magic and the isolationism pursued by Eastern sorcerers, even the Magic Association does not have systematic research data... Otherwise, the Clock Tower would not have only twelve disciplines. "

"Although I don't quite understand it, it seems very impressive." Ritsuka smiled politely but awkwardly.

“Well, in short, you just need to know that the ‘mystery’ here is very different from that in the West, and it is a complete system of its own.

Never use your previous experience in other singularities to speculate here, you must be cautious.

You must know that the Age of Gods has not yet subsided here, and all kinds of dangers exist, and even fantasy species and mythical beasts may appear.

In fact, when we met the "fairy" Poppy Yu before, Da Vinci and I were really shocked. We never thought that in this era, there would be elves wandering around the earth in physical form...

Two thousand years ago, in other places of this era, similar existences had already returned to the inner sea of ​​the star, but why is it so unreasonable here in China... Well, anyway, Brother Jun is with you, so you can rely on him more when any problems arise."

"Brother" naturally refers to Jiang Liu. Although Chaldea was surprised that Ritsuka had a brother who was elusive and absurdly strong, she had experienced so many tests in the singularity after all, and had seen all kinds of strange things. She gradually accepted Jiang Liu's existence and was glad to have such an ally.

After entering Qin, everyone found that the atmosphere here was quite tense. Strangers would be asked about their origins in detail, and when encountering checkpoints, they had to produce a pass (pass) similar to an identity card to pass.

At first Lixiang thought it was because of the war that made everyone nervous, but Xiang Liang disagreed and said that Qin was usually like this.

After his explanation, everyone understood that since Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State has carried out all-round reforms with "farming and warfare" as the main focus, and the promotion channels from the bottom to the top have been completely tied to military merit and production, which has greatly increased the strength of the Qin State.

The basis of this reform was "land" and "population", so the Qin State had very strict management of population mobility, and a household registration system similar to that of later generations had already appeared. If the people did not learn to leave their place of residence at will, they would be punished by Qin law.

The "Tingchang", one of the low-level officials established by the Qin State, had the most important duties of arresting bandits and supervising the movement of local population.

It was because of this system that the Qin State was able to truly and effectively utilize the country's resources, turning them from scattered palms into a hard fist.

In comparison, other countries of the same period did not make full use of their population resources at all. There was even a situation where the country did not know how many citizens it had and the people did not know which king they belonged to.

If we evaluate from a God's perspective, Qin's conquest of the six kingdoms was indeed not an accidental event. The so-called "exertion of the six generations' strength" had completely crushed the Qin Dynasty in terms of system, national strength, and military power by the time of the First Emperor.

In addition, the First Emperor, Lu Buwei, Wang Jian, Li Si and others were all outstanding people of the time (interestingly, half of the talents in Qin were "foreigners")... there was a feeling that it was a general trend.

However, Xiang Liang was born into an old aristocratic family. Although he acknowledged the superiority of this system, he could not agree with it.

This would suppress the aristocracy to a great extent, which, in his words, would "go against ancient traditions."

In his view, the king should be the "leader of the world", but Ying Zheng wanted to be the "master of the world".

It's really too greedy and too scary.

To have all the power in the world concentrated in one person - this was something Xiang Liang could not imagine, nor was he willing to face.

Whether he admits it or not, when the First Emperor was still alive, he had no intention of "rebellion", and neither did the descendants of the other six surviving kingdoms.

Because they simply don't understand what they are fighting against and how to fight against it, and once humans encounter unknown existence, they tend to retreat.

It was not until the death of the First Emperor and the world returned to the state they were familiar with that they put down their hoes with peace of mind, picked up swords and began to seek revenge.

"Sometimes I hate Ying Zheng for dying so early, leaving me no chance for revenge... But more often I feel lucky. If he hadn't died, I might never have waited for this day."

The closer they got to Xianyang, the silenter Xiang Liang became. Sometimes he didn't speak for a whole day, and the atmosphere in the team became increasingly heavy.

Fortunately, they arrived in Xianyang within a few days. As soon as he arrived in this city, Xiang Liang was like he had taken stimulants. He forced himself to cheer up and swept away the depression of the past few days. His awe-inspiring look perfectly matched the demeanor that a military general of his age should have.

He was trying to show off - Jiang Liu could easily see that.

No matter how complicated his feelings were before, he was unwilling to show his weak side in front of that man, the successor of the First Emperor.

After taking out the token representing the coalition forces of the six nations, the soldiers guarding the city sent it to the relevant officials for verification, and then conducted an inspection through question and answer. It took nearly half an hour to confirm the identities of Jiang Liu and others, and then opened the city gate to let them in.

When entering the city, Jiang Liu clearly felt something strange, but he couldn't tell what was different.

He looked around and found that Lixiang and others did not have any obvious reaction, as if it was just Jiang Liu's illusion.

——But this is impossible.

His observation Haki has been cultivated to the highest level, which is EX if expressed in terms of skill level. If he gives it his all, he can even foresee the future under certain conditions or bring an island within his perception range.

For someone like him, it is almost impossible for him to have any illusions. Instead, it is very likely some kind of omen.

"Is it a barrier?"

Jiang Liu thought of things like the Chidao. Qin Shihuang had to rely on the power of the earth veins to build every road, so there was no reason for him to just ignore his own capital. Maybe there was some super magic circle under the city of Xianyang.

A massive barrier covering the city... perhaps a bit exaggerated, but considering the level of power displayed in this era, it is not that surprising.

Soon putting the matter behind him, Jiang Liu followed the team through the city of Xianyang, which was even more prosperous than Shouchun, and arrived at the palace.

It is worth mentioning that the "royal palace" here is not the famous Afang Palace. It is said that after Qin Ershi Fusu came to power, in order to make up for the huge consumption during the reign of Qin Shihuang, he emptied the Afang Palace and transformed it into a fortress building.

Jiang Liu was quite looking forward to the legendary "female emperor".