From the beginning of the game of power, I became the protagonist

Chen Hui nodded gently and said, "But reform is not a simple matter. It is a major change that can be called earth-shaking. You must know that even Shang Yang's reforms had many prerequisites that cannot be replicated."

"For example, before the reform, Qin had just suffered a disastrous defeat in Hexi, with even Duke Xian of Qin dying on the battlefield. The entire country was in a life-or-death situation. From the king to the nobles to the common people, everyone in the country had a strong desire to reform and strengthen the country, and formed the most resolute consensus."

"And the most coincidental thing is that at the same time that Qin was reforming its laws, Qi and Han were also doing the same, drawing Wei's attention."

"It can be said that the right time, right place, and right people all favored Qin. This is how they were able to buy themselves twenty years to complete the unprecedented Shang Yang Reforms."

"You know, even though everything went smoothly, after the reform was completed, Shang Yang, who led it, still paid the price of being torn into pieces by five horses by the new monarch."

"This shows how difficult it is to reform the law. It can be said to be even more difficult than climbing to heaven."

Thinking of the tragic end of the brilliant Shang Jun Wei Yang, who ultimately committed suicide through his own actions, Chen Hui couldn't help but sigh. Looking at the thoughtful crowd, he shook his head and said, "Even with the blessing of the right time, place, and people, Shang Yang's reforms were so difficult and tragic. What's more, now that all the favorable conditions are gone, how can Ying Zheng reform? Who dares to help him reform?"

"You should know that the people currently sitting in the Qin court are all vested interests of the 'farming and warfare system'."

"The entire Qin state has held the 'farming and warfare system' to be the golden rule. Now you come and tell them that the 'farming and warfare system' is no longer effective and that they need to change it."

"I doubt very much that the moment this sentence was uttered, this person would be torn to pieces by the extremely angry dignitaries and the people."

"For example, let's use Mr. Wei Zhuang as an analogy."

"Why me again?" Wei Zhuang frowned dissatisfiedly.

"Don't worry about these details."

Chen Hui waved his hand and said, "Mr. Wei Zhuang is famous for his Zongheng sword technique. If I come to you and tell you that your Zongheng sword technique is no longer effective and you need to switch to another sword technique that has no reputation, I will have to completely abandon the Zongheng sword technique that you have practiced for decades."

"Will you agree with a smile, or will you draw your sword and kill me?"

"Hmph." Wei Zhuang snorted coldly upon hearing this and turned his head away arrogantly, but the disdainful look on his face already revealed the answer.

"The principles are the same."

Chen Hui spread his hands and said, "Until they've personally experienced the consequences, and without the immense pressure of imminent national annihilation, no one would be willing to abandon the established path that has brought them enormous benefits."

"After all, it is a supreme magic weapon that can allow Qin to unify the world and destroy the six kingdoms."

"What if Ying Zheng relied on his own prestige to force the reform?" Gai Nie had been with Ying Zheng for the longest time and was most impressed by his great talent and strategy, so he was still a little unsure.

"Don't deify this Qin Shi Huang, Mr. Gai Nie."

Chen Hui chuckled and said, "You have to understand that it was the 'farming and warfare system' that made Ying Zheng successful, not Ying Zheng who made the 'farming and warfare system' successful."

"With the existence of the 'farming and warfare system', he was the invincible Qin Shi Huang. Without it, he would still be the pitiful hostage bullied on the streets of Handan."

"Even when meeting a merchant like Lü Buwei, one had to kneel down and respectfully call him 'Zhongfu'."

When good luck comes, heaven and earth work together; when luck is gone, heroes are helpless; any elite cannot do without a suitable living environment, just like Ma, the richest man in Taobao, who is almost omnipotent in the Internet age.

But what if there was no internet? He was just a decent English teacher, struggling to earn enough money to buy milk powder every day.

It is the Internet era that made Ma the richest man, not Ma who made the Internet famous.

This is true for the richest man Ma and Ying Zheng. Without the "farming and warfare" system, he is nothing.

As a founding emperor who once unified the country, no one understood the difficulty of reform better than Chen Hui, which was basically an impossible task.

There are simply too many obstacles and constraints, and too many elusive prerequisites are required. The lack of any one of them will lead to failure.

Chen Hui stripped off all the halos on Ying Zheng in the blink of an eye, exposing his most hidden fatal weakness.

All those people who had been suffocated by the Qin Shi Huang for many years could not help but feel excited at this moment, and even some thoughts that had been suppressed for a long time began to emerge.

"If our Emperor Qin really dares to ignore the wishes of all civilians and soldiers, and even the nobles, and forcefully push through reforms, abolishing the long-standing 'farming and warfare system', I'm afraid everyone around him would be an assassin."

Thinking of the imaginative President Kennedy, Chen Hui shook his head and said, "So what if he's the greatest emperor of all time? You're still human, right? You'll die if you get stabbed."

"Cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing their parents, understand? Those high-ranking officials are all ruthless individuals who have fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. If Ying Zheng really dares to do this, they will fight the emperor to the death."

"For example, let's use Mr. Wei Zhuang as an analogy..."

"Are you done yet?" Wei Zhuang couldn't help but yelled, "Yi Xiaochuan, that's enough!"

"Don't worry about these details." Ignoring the people around him who were already stumbling, Chen Hui shrugged and said, "If Mr. Gai Nie and I teamed up and forced you to abandon the Zongheng Sword Technique you've been practicing and switch to a common sword technique I've never heard of, what would you do?"

"I will chop you and Gai Nie, two bastards, to death!" Wei Zhuang shouted angrily.

Chapter 25: The Qin Dynasty is doomed to fail

"That's it."

Glancing at the nodding crowd, Chen Hui smiled and said, "Mr. Gai Nie and I, working together, are far more powerful than Mr. Wei Zhuang alone. There's no way we can leave him sitting there waiting for death."

"How can Ying Zheng accomplish something that neither Mr. Gai Nie nor I can do?"

"Why would those powerful citizens who benefited from the 'farming and warfare system' willingly surrender instead of fighting to the death with Ying Zheng?"

"So, Ying Zheng couldn't abolish the 'farming and warfare system'. Whether he wanted to or not, knew it or not, he could only move forward in the established direction."

"It's like a truck going downhill with broken brakes. It won't stop unless it crashes into pieces."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but feel enlightened, as if the haze that had shrouded their hearts for a long time was cleared away in an instant.

Seeing the dawn of victory finally appear, Chi Lian, who was the most anxious, could not help but step forward and grab Chen Hui's arm, asking anxiously, "What should we do? Mr. Yi, how can we destroy the Qin State?"

"Ahem, Princess Honglian, don't be so excited. Let go of your hand first."

Unable to bear the death glare Wei Zhuang was shooting at him, Chen Hui quickly pulled Chi Lian's hand away, coughed lightly, and replied, "In fact, the Qin State has long been strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and is riddled with holes."

"After all, after the unification of the country, the national policy of 'farming and warfare' that had been pursued for hundreds of years was on the verge of collapse."

"The reason why we're still missing this crucial moment is mainly due to Ying Zheng's immense personal prestige and his desperate attempts to prolong his life by seeking wars everywhere. This barely kept the empire alive for the last breath of life."

"To maintain the current situation, Ying Zheng must do two things: first, there must always be wars; second, he must always win."

"As long as you know these two points, it will be easy to deal with. Just don't fight him."

Seeing the glint in everyone's eyes, Chen Hui spread his hands and said, "I've said before that the Qin State is a giant war machine. It's not afraid of fighting, but it's afraid of not having a war to fight."

"If the Qin State is a ferocious tiger with bared fangs and claws, then we should be an insignificant mouse."

"We have to keep hanging around this tiger, keeping it on high alert and unable to relax, but we can't catch the mouse no matter what."

"As long as time passes, the tiger will collapse under its own weight due to the huge internal friction, without the mouse having to do anything."

Having said that, Chen Hui glanced at the excited crowd and asked Gai Nie, "Mr. Gai Nie, you know Ying Zheng best among all of us. Is he busy every day? Does he have a good appetite?"

"Ying Zheng was very diligent, reviewing memorials until late at night every day before he would rest." Gai Nie recalled leisurely, "As for his poor appetite, after all, he had too many things to worry about, and often he didn't have time to eat."

"I knew it." Chen Hui had read history books and was of course familiar with the life of Qin Shi Huang. He smiled and said, "How can such diligence, little food, and constant worry last long?"

"I still say the same thing. Ying Zheng is a human being, a mortal with flesh and blood. He has all the joys and sorrows, anger and greed, hatred and delusion."

"As long as we can continue to provoke him and do the things he least wants to see, he will be unable to find enemies to kill and will be unable to continue to bring a series of victories to the million-strong Qin army, and countless titles and wealth."

"Then this Qin Shi Huang will eventually collapse."

"After Ying Zheng's death, the Qin war machine, which relied entirely on his personal prestige to support it, would immediately collapse. This was its inevitable end."

"This is the general trend. No one can stop it, and no one dares to stop it."

Yes, no one, not even Chen Hui dared to stop him.

The "farming and warfare" national policy that Qin State had pursued for more than a hundred years was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Chen Hui did not dare to become another Shang Yang and use his own life to exchange for the continuation of Qin State.

He's not that great.

"call."

After a long sigh of relief, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang stood up at the same time, bowed deeply to Chen Hui, and said, "Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. Gai Nie (Wei Zhuang) is grateful for your teaching."

"Haha, no need to be so polite. Now it's your turn to make a choice, Mr. Wei Zhuang."

Seeing Wei Zhuang frown after hearing this, Chen Hui picked up another string of snake gallbladders and put them into his mouth. While chewing, he said leisurely, "Are you planning to continue to join the Qin camp and fight us to the death?"

"Let's all join hands and give this unparalleled emperor a hard slap in the face."

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After the meeting, Master Ban used a mechanical beast to send the gist of the conversation and the fact that Liusha was also going to join to the leader of the Mohist school, who was nowhere to be found, and let him make the final decision.

After all, Wei Zhuang and the Mohist school had a lot of grievances and disputes before, so the decision must be made by the leader himself.

In fact, even Master Ban himself was a little reluctant at the beginning.

In response to this, Chen Hui could only say that the anti-Qin forces killing each other was what Ying Zheng liked to see the most.

If the Mohists insisted on doing this to make their friends sad and their enemies happy, then he could only think that the Mohists were pretending to be anti-Qin but were actually Qin dogs.

As soon as the name of Qin Emperor Ying Zheng was mentioned, Master Ban's previous hesitation was swept away in an instant, and he immediately sent a message to the leader of the Mohist school.

Seeing this, Chen Hui could only say that if he had not come to this era, he would not have been able to understand how much Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng was hated.

People don’t care about whether you are the greatest emperor of all time. They just know that you destroyed their country, so they have to take revenge on you no matter what.

Therefore, the demise of the Qin Dynasty was a foregone conclusion, and even Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng could not reverse it.

Don’t say that he could turn the world around if he lived a few more decades. The first half of Emperor Minghuang of Tang’s life also had the aura of an emperor of all ages, but what happened to the second half of his life?

Which emperor would not become foolish and cruel after being in power for a long time? Emperor Wu of Han and Emperor Taizong of Tang were no exception. Why would Emperor Qin Shi Huang be an exception?

If Qin Shi Huang could really live a few more decades, it would probably be Ying Zheng, not Li Longji, who would be regretted by future generations for having died earlier.

The building is about to collapse and one tree cannot support it; do you really think that Ying Zheng is an omnipotent god? When he was frustrated, he would kneel on the ground and call Lu Buwei "Zhongfu".

No one can understand the limits of an emperor through the ages better than Chen Hui, the founding emperor, because they have both stood at similar heights.

It can be said that unless Ying Zheng immediately transforms into the version in "Legend of the Emperor", he can sweep away all corrupt and old things with overwhelming strength that surpasses the entire world.

Otherwise, the Qin Dynasty would have been beyond saving, not even the Industrial Revolution, because it would have been disintegrated and destroyed by the old interest groups that were deeply rooted within it.

It is like the Qing Dynasty that missed the Industrial Revolution. Even when England had already put the correct answer in front of them, they still turned their heads and pretended not to see it.

Until the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the First Industrial Revolution had not been truly completed because it would have harmed the interests of too many old aristocrats.

As for saying that giving a globe can conquer the world, it is nonsense to the extreme. The size of a country's territory is matched with its level of productivity.

Unifying the world is something that cannot be done even in modern times, so how could it be possible in ancient times when people pulled things and horses carried things?

Not to mention unifying the world, even if the territory was expanded to the level of the Tang Dynasty, it would begin to give rise to the "Jiedushi", the source of all evil that triggered the "Anshi Rebellion".

After all, if the territory is too large, once something happens on the border, the central government will not have time to react because the intelligence transmission is too slow. It can only give greater power to the generals stationed on the border so that they can act at their convenience.

In this case, was the Qin Dynasty still a unified country? How was it different from the feudal system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties? Wouldn't that be a step backward in history?

So don't think about it, there's no hope, you're doomed.

Chapter 26: Is the Qin Army strong? Stronger than the US Army?

While waiting for the reply from the Mohist leader, Chen Hui certainly would not waste time. He immediately pulled together Mohist and Liusha's group to discuss their respective academic studies.

The first thing was Master Ban's mechanical skills. After he took out the mechanical knowledge he got from Gongshu Chou and the version upgraded by the Iron Blood Computer, Master Ban readily agreed to exchange the Mohist mechanical knowledge.

As to why Gongshujia's mechanical engineering was mainly based on bronze, while Mohism's was mainly based on wood and stone,

Master Ban said that because bronze is the most important war resource in this era, it has always been monopolized by various governments.

Therefore, it was difficult for the Mohist school, which had always maintained neutrality among various countries, to obtain these. Only the Gongshu school, which always liked to rely on powerful countries, had no shortage of bronze.

However, although it was difficult for the Mohist school to obtain bronze, the founder of the Mohist school, Mozi, was so knowledgeable that he was able to carve out a smooth path using the ubiquitous wood and stone materials, and his achievements were even greater than those of the Gongshu family.

In response to this, Chen Hui could only say that Mozi was indeed one of the most outstanding geniuses in China over the past thousands of years, and his achievements in science and technology had reached an unfathomable level.

In addition to Master Ban's mechanical skills, what Chen Hui was most interested in was naturally Duanmu Rong's pre-Qin medical skills and Chi Lian's magical poison skills.

After Chen Hui took out the "Medical Classic" and "Poison Classic" from the world of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber for discussion, the two women were shocked by his erudition and versatility.

After all, it is extremely rare to be proficient in swordsmanship, strategy, mechanical skills, medicine and poison skills at the same time. Throughout history, few people have been able to do it.

In response to this, Chen Hui could only say that this is how awesome he has been after living for several lifetimes.

After listening to Chen Hui's brief account of the story of Hu Qingniu and Wang Nangu, the two women were surprised that two people who were so incompatible could actually become husband and wife, and they subconsciously distanced themselves from each other.

In response, Duanmu Rong said that she just couldn't stand Chi Lian, this cruel and vicious woman.

Chi Lian sneered and said, "I have a man. Who would want to have a lesbian relationship with a country girl like you?"

As for Chen Hui, he said, why not just fight?

The most interesting thing to watch is a fight between beautiful women. He even took out his melon seeds and cola, but in the end he didn't get to see such a good show.