The ancients watched me play the Starry Sky Railway

"Well, the progress is pretty good. Let's keep speeding up."

Ying Zheng checked the carving progress of the craftsmen and slaves and nodded secretly. At this rate, the statues of the three star gods could be carved out in at most half a month.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I will supervise them well and let them carve the statue of the star god as quickly as possible." Right Prime Minister Wang Wan assured.

He was an old slave-owning aristocrat, and he had a ancestral skill in making his craftsmen and slaves work more efficiently—just log in and get 100 draws! 100 draws, 100 draws!

Craftsmen and slaves are all the same. They are all low-level animals who will slack off unless they are whipped twice. They are different from noble people like him.

That’s right, to the kings and nobles in ancient times, slaves and commoners were not human beings at all.

Whether it is Xunzi’s saying - water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it.

It is still what Mencius said - the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least important.

The "water" and "people" here do not include slaves and civilians.

Can slaves and commoners be called people? What level are you? You are just a human being like me!

At least, the family must have a few hundred acres of land to be considered as the same as them, right?

"Yeah." Ying Zheng nodded and was about to leave.

Suddenly a sentence rang in my mind.

“God has sent down His blessing!”

Suddenly, Ying Zheng's eyes lit up.

It has to be the three star gods of protection, wisdom, and memory!

In the past, we worshipped the gods, made homage to them, offered sacrifices to them, and performed rituals for them, but in the end, nothing happened!

The statues of these three star gods haven't even been erected yet, and they've already bestowed blessings?

This is simply awesome!

Learn from history... Well, well, if he can't achieve immortality, his descendants will be able to constantly learn from the lessons of their predecessors, and each generation will be wiser than the last. The Qin Dynasty's eternal prosperity is no longer a dream!

Aura blossomed... Great, great, the Xiangli clan will definitely be able to create even more powerful weapons in the future! Maybe even a giant iron block like Svarro or the Creation Engine!

Protecting the country and the people...good, good, good...huh? No, this is not good!

Ying Zheng, who was smiling just now, suddenly stopped smiling.

He thought he had done a great job in protecting the country and the people! No matter whether it was the Hu people in the north or the Baiyue people in the south, none of them could invade the territory of the Qin Dynasty and harm the people of the Qin Dynasty!

He even destroyed the six kingdoms and increased the territory of Qin several times. How could this not be protecting the territory and the people?

Then why doesn't he have a shield skill?

He has seen shield skills, the same kind that Xinghe Sanyueqi has, but why doesn’t he have it?

Then, the strange voice gave a hint.

He only protected the nobles, not the real people.

The real people... Ying Zheng turned his head like a machine and looked at the craftsmen and slaves who were working.

The so-called people, don’t they refer to these slaves and craftsmen from Qianzhou?

No, they are not even human!

An unprecedented sense of absurdity struck Ying Zheng's heart. These guys were not even human beings, so how could they be considered "people"?

That’s right, even Ying Zheng had the same idea.

Having lived in such an era since childhood and being at the pinnacle of power, how could he possibly treat slaves and civilians as human beings?

Whether it is Ying Zheng, Liu Bang, Liu Che, Yang Jian, Li Shimin, or Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di...

Judging by the times, these emperors did indeed fulfill the mission entrusted to them by the times.

Ying Zheng laid the foundation for a unified China, Liu Bang carried forward the concept, Liu Che forged the backbone of the Han people, and the myth of "one Han against five Barbarians" was passed down. Yang Jian put an end to the chaos caused by the Five Barbarians, Li Shimin established the foundation for the flourishing Tang Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang expelled the Tartars, and Zhu Di made the Han dynasty great again...

Judging from these achievements, they can undoubtedly be called the greatest emperors of all time.

But if you look at it from a modern perspective... seriously, every single one of them is a fucking tyrant!

Don’t think that many people in modern times are shouting about the charming ancestors or the last human emperor... but if you really ask them to travel back to ancient times to face these emperors, they will definitely not be happy.

(Of course, that’s another story for the system.)

“…” Ying Zheng frowned and pondered.

On the one hand, he thought it was too absurd. How could they treat slaves and ordinary people as human beings? This was ridiculous!

On the other hand, he himself was unwilling to do so. If he really followed the rule of blessing the people and the country, would all the eunuchs and maids in his palace have to go? Who would then serve him?

What's more, even if he is willing, the nobles in the world will not be happy!

If he really dared to issue an order to liberate all the slaves in the country and treat all slaves and common people as human beings... then the Qin Dynasty would be finished on the spot!

But... he also noticed another point.

If he does not receive this blessing of protecting the country and the people, all the nobles in the entire Qin Dynasty will not receive this blessing.

Then one day, a group of invulnerable slave soldiers will appear and attack Xianyang and seize his throne!

He did not regard the common people and slaves as human beings, but that did not mean he did not understand the power that could be unleashed when the common people and slaves gathered together.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have worshipped the Protector Star God..." Ying Zheng's expression was complicated and he couldn't smile at all.

He returned to the palace with a troubled heart. Just as he sat down, he heard Li Si asking for a meeting.

"Xuan."

"Your Majesty!" Li Si rushed in: "I just heard it in my head... Your Majesty also heard it?"

He understood when he saw Ying Zheng's expression.

"Well, my dear, tell me, how should I handle this matter?"

"Your Majesty! I have come here specifically to offer you advice!" Li Si's face was full of confidence.

"Oh?"

"Your Majesty, the blessing bestowed by the Protector Star God only protects the territory and people of Great Qin, but doesn't mention protecting the barbarians? Why don't we just capture the barbarians and enslave them? As long as there are enough barbarians, we can easily support Great Qin's 30 million nobles!"

“…” Ying Zheng was stunned.

You're such a fucking genius!

So you're planning to turn those slaves and common people into nobles?

But if you think about it carefully, it seems to make sense...

"Are you sure there are enough barbarians?"

"That should be enough... We can never kill all those barbarians. Aren't they just growing out of the grass?"

"That makes sense, then quickly send someone to capture the barbarians!"

But when Ying Zheng really sent people to the grasslands and the south to capture the barbarians, he was at a loss, because he found that some barbarians were actually within the scope of "protecting the territory and the people"!

So you barbarians claiming to be descendants of the Yellow Emperor, Chiyou, the Xia Dynasty, and the Shang Dynasty are not kidding?!

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If he wanted to capture the barbarians who should not be protected, he had to either go further west or further east to the sea.

Under Ying Zheng, and in the moods of emperors in different times and spaces who were either giving up, or being at a loss, or having their hearts surge with desire to capture the barbarians, the sky finally appeared again.