Chapter 48 The Immortal Arrival
A few days later, the ancestor left the cave and set foot in Guanzhong.
At this moment, Guanzhong is still busy with the autumn harvest, and it seems that it is busy continuing.
In the busy life, there is excitement and vitality.
"Brother-in-law, the harvest is good!" The ancestor stepped forward and said.
The old man said: "The harvest is good. I have collected two more dou of millet per mu this year! The land tax has become 15 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, 10 taxes, and more tuitions, which have all been reduced a lot!"
"In previous years, our family had to hand over half of the grain, forage, and straw per mu of land; but now we only need to hand over one-third."
The ancestor nodded.
This is considered a benevolent government.
The ancestor asked again.
The old man said that his son followed King Xiang to fight and did not delay the spring plowing or the autumn harvest.
The soldiers who went to the war were rewarded with fertile land, titles, etc., which was much more generous than when he was the first emperor.
After asking for a long time, the ancestor walked towards Xianyang.
The ancestor asked again: "How about the tax?"
When I entered Xianyang, I was slightly surprised.
He came to Xianyang about thirty years ago. At that time, Xianyang City was like a huge military camp, with many people serving labor service or on the way to labor service.
There are strict monitoring in all aspects of arable land, oxen, grain, forage, etc., and people commit suicide. The entire Xianyang City is silent and boring. Many people walk with their heads down without laughing.
In Daqin, it is easy to be criminalized.
Among the ten males, six or seven were criminalized for inexplicable reasons and then suffered heavy labor service.
Then, it is easy to lose your Jue.
By fighting, it is difficult to obtain military merits, but it is easy to lose titles.
Many people were unwilling to be exhausted and starved to death by the labor service, so they fled directly to the mountains to become thieves and avoid labor service.
At this moment, when I entered Xianyang, I felt a smile on the people's faces. There was still corvee service, but there was no demeanor. The main thing was to build ditches nearby, and there were very few corvee service at a long distance.
It seems that due to the influence of Chu, there are many more rangers and more wealthy merchants here, and there are much more vitality.
At this moment, Xianyang has some systems of the old Qin people, but there are also some of the Chu areas, mixed with each other to form a different landscape.
"This King Xiang has done a good job!"
The ancestor commented.
I have some good feelings for this Xiang Wang.
In essence, humans and immortals still occupy the majority. They are born in the world and grow up in the world. Even if one day they can attain the fruit of human immortals and live in the mountains and avoid the world, they can essentially be bound by the world.
The ancestor directly sent a prayer letter, and about three days later, King Xiang summoned him.
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In the side hall, Xiang Yu sat upright on the throne and was reviewing the memorial.
A palace maid came forward to report that not long after, a young man came in, but his eyebrows were white and his eyes were full of vicissitudes, and he seemed to be very old.
Looking at the boy, Xiang Yu subconsciously felt danger, his double pupils were trembling and fearing, as if a human was encountering a tiger.
What should humans do when encountering tigers?
Lying down and sitting and waiting for death.
Death like this seems a bit dignified.
As for humans, it is impossible to kill tigers.
Wu Song's fight against tigers was just a fabrication by later generations.
In fact, there is a huge gap between humans and tigers in muscles, bone density, weight, etc. With bare hands and empty fists, humans cannot kill tigers.
However, with bows and arrows and muskets, everything becomes possible.
The next moment, Xiang Yu's mind moved and took out the Vulcan cannon and raised such a weapon and thrust out.
At this time, the young man spoke: "I have met King Xiang, I have no malice!"
"So it's senior!"
Xiang Yu said respectfully, but he still did not leave the Vulcan Cannon.
He did not use the Vulcan cannon to attack this great enemy.
Nuclear weapons are most powerful when they are not attacked; they can wait until the nuclear weapons are bombed out, that's the same.
Qiu Shui Zhenren's heart beat slightly, and he vaguely felt that the black weapon would pose a threat to him and cause death.
But he still subconsciously suppressed the impulse to attack.
"I have no malice either!"
Xiang Yu said: "I just want to be alive!"
"As long as the king does not pursue immortality, he can live. No one dares to kill the king!" said Master Qiu Shui: "The human king gathers human luck. Once he is killed by a monk, his luck will affect the monk himself and the sects behind him, which will be almost a disaster!"
"No one will do it!"
"Is that true?" Xiang Yu asked, "What does it mean not to pursue immortality?"
"The human king will not live forever... Once you become a human king, you can only embark on the path of martial arts, not the path of ghost immortals!" said Master Qiu Shui: "The road of martial arts, even if you become a human immortal, your life span is only two hundred years; but once you become a ghost immortal, you can continue to dissolve the corpse and live for life after life, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years... It has caused too much damage to humanity!"
"For the sake of balance, the king of man will not live forever!"
Xiang Yu said, "Thank you for your advice. I am only in my twenties and I am satisfied if I can live to a hundred years old. Now I know that if I become a human immortal, I can live to a twenty-hundred years old, what else can I feel dissatisfied with!"
"As for immortality... If someone in human society really enters the era of immortality, human emotions and passions will fade away over the long years, social development will become slow, resource consumption is called increasing, and class will continue to solidify!"
In the past, even if there were many inequality in society, at least everyone had a steamed bun, and everyone was equal in the face of death, after immortality, class solidification will be stronger!
An era of class solidification is a world without hope.
In the main world, the thirty century was a world of class solidification, a desperate and suffocating era, from no difficult business in the world to no business in the world, and no business to do.
The real person Qiu Shui frowned slightly, but still said, "King, how do you think of the First Emperor!"
Xiang Yu said: "In the past, I was just a commoner, and I hated Qin Shihuang, hated his tyranny, and hated him constantly. But as the queen, I kept learning Qin Shihuang, and all kinds of policies were mostly taken from Qin. Today, the policies of Great Chu are just to learn from Qin's strengths and weaknesses, and gain some benefits and losses!"
While cursing Qin Shihuang, he also learned about Qin Shihuang. Throughout the dynasties, all of them learned about Qin Shihuang and continued to make profits and losses.
This is true for him, and so for later generations.
Even in later generations, the founding of New China was essentially learning from Qin Shihuang.
Only in the Republic of China era did he directly abandon Qin Shihuang and practice democracy and freedom, but the result was that the world was messy, and the Republic of China was not as good as the Qing Dynasty.
In the end, one crab is worse than another.
In later generations, many people praised Qin Shihuang and said that Qin Shihuang was good, but no one wanted to be a civilian under Qin Shihuang's rule.
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Chapter completed!