Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 475 The world is shaken, and people’s hearts are more vulnerable

Amnesty for the whole world was undoubtedly the first time for the Qin Dynasty.

For the first time, most people don’t have that much experience, so there is no ritual or formalism.

After the meeting of the princes made the decision, the Xianyang government dispatched a large number of officials to carry out urgent copying, and began to copy the edict of amnesty issued by the First Emperor repeatedly for delivery to all counties in the world.

Good thing!

Zhao Si invented paper!

Nowadays, the production of paper has gradually got on the right track, and it has been incorporated into the production organization of Shaofu. Although it is difficult to popularize it among scholars all over the world due to productivity reasons, it is sufficient for internal use by the government.

Nowadays, government official documents have begun to be archived on paper, and government office staff are also familiar with working with paper official documents.

The first emperor issued an edict, and the officials in the customs worked all night long.

The next day, with Xianyang City as the center, various counties and counties in the pass began to post official notices one after another.

A large number of postmen also brought the temporarily copied pardon documents and embarked on the road to spread the legend to all counties and counties in the world.

Xianyang, as the most prosperous place, posted notices the fastest. At the same time, Xianyang, as the political center, also gathered the largest number of scholars in the world.

Not to mention the surrounding notices, there are also officials who constantly recite them to inform the common people.

Countless people gathered around the notice, and some chanted it word for word.

"In the eleventh year, the eldest son Fusu was made the crown prince, and the eldest son Sun Si was made the grandson, and the world was granted amnesty.

Since before the first month of the forty-second year, in addition to the eight unpardonable evils, the crime of murder has been reduced by one level. The rest have not been noticed, corrected or not corrected, and the crimes are not serious. They are pardoned and the thieves from all directions are ordered to be dismissed. Let the past be forgotten. , if there is anyone who is confused and refuses to return, we will send a million troops to wipe them out in one piece.

Anyone who dares to criticize someone for pardoning the past will be punished. All convenience matters will be stated later.”

"What does it mean?"

Some people poked their heads in the air, some asked questions...

"Your Majesty has established a crown prince, celebrated in heaven, and granted amnesty to the whole world!" Someone explained on the side.

"What is amnesty for the world?"

"Even those who committed crimes before the first month of this year can be pardoned, and all past sins will be forgotten!"

The words fell...

Like a thunder, it exploded among the crowd.

Afterwards, a flurry of discussions and inquiries encircled the Confucian scholar who was enthusiastically explaining on the side.

Amnesty to the world! Let bygones be bygones!

The mood was uplifting and incredible.

Not only the common people who were watching were in disbelief, but also the Confucian scholars themselves felt a sense of magic.

Who is the King of Qin?

The king of tigers and wolves, Qin is a country of tigers and wolves. Qin's laws are famous all over the world. I have only heard that the Qin State turned people into slaves, but I have never heard that Qin was so kind and Qin Shihuang was so kind.

However, the current hustle and bustle and endless inquiries made the Confucian scholar unable to care about these. Now that he was in the limelight, it was difficult to escape the inquiries of people around him, so he could only serve as a voluntary science popularizer.

As for the officials responsible for popularizing science, there are not many common people around them. Even if there are, most of them are scholars, not common people.

Most common people still have a natural respect for officials, especially officials with the blessing of Qin Fa.

"In this case, wouldn't all sins be forgiven?"

"No, no, not all sins can be forgiven. There are eight deadly sins that cannot be forgiven...homicide can only be reduced to a reduced level and cannot be directly forgiven." The Confucian scholar loudly explained to the people around him what the eight deadly sins were.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

After hearing this, the people around them all agreed that these eight deadly sins were unacceptable crimes, and they would only applaud if such crimes were not pardoned.

"In that case, wouldn't my husband, who is a Cheng Dan in Xianyang City, be pardoned?"

"Of course! Of course!"

"What about the bandits?"

"The notice says that no matter whether it is a group of thieves or an individual, as long as they are disbanded immediately, filed with the government, and retrieved for verification, they can forget about it. However, if they do not disband after hearing the pardon order, they will have to use a large army to clean up and conquer in the future. Already..."

"What about the prisoners? There are one hundred thousand prisoners in Lishan Mountain!"

"If those who serve continue to serve, if they serve as punishment, they can be pardoned!"

"Hey, that's more than 100,000 people!"

"Also, I heard that there is a hidden palace. It must have tens of thousands of people, right?"

"Who knows?"

"It's great, my parents can finally go home!"

The noisy sound spread throughout the streets and alleys of Xianyang City.

People gathered in the streets to laugh and discuss, and some even had tears of excitement in their eyes.

If it were other dynasties, the amnesty for the world might only pardon tens of thousands of people at a time, but this is the Qin Dynasty...

The laws of the Qin Dynasty were too many and too complicated... Most Qin people, even those in Guanzhong Qin, would never be able to say that they would not violate the law even once in their lives.

The laws of the Qin Dynasty were designed to make people break...

If you don't break the law, how can you justify reducing your rank and fines?

You must know that the benefits of the Qin Dynasty's military merit system are real. This is a huge expenditure for the government...

Besides, if people are not forced into a desperate situation, how can they have the determination to climb out without fear of life and death and relying on military merit?

The upgrade requirements for Military Merit Lords are very perverted.

This is normal. There are too many people who have been awarded titles, and the government really cannot withstand the expenditure of financial resources.

Therefore, in essence, military merit is actually a game for nobles, but the rights of nobles are weakened in this game.

Therefore, even in Xianyang... there are many people who are burdened with guilt.

Usually for minor crimes, one is punished as a chengdan, a minister, or a prisoner.

It is a labor-type punishment...

But in ancient families, one can imagine what a strong laborer meant.

Strict laws and many regulations mean that many people commit crimes.

Even if it's Xianyang, even if it's Guanzhong!

For the common people, the amnesty for the world not only meant that the emperor's grace was great, but also meant that the shackles that had been placed on them in the past were loosened a bit.

This is truly the first of its kind...

Not to mention that it was closely related to everyone, so the news quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys.

The government also immediately released Chengdan who was sentenced to hard labor... and basically all those in prison were released.

When this group of people came forward to speak out, there was a real excitement.

Da Qin has never been short of bandits...

After Shang Yang's reform, there were descriptions of bandits almost every year.

To put it bluntly, they were forced to survive, but they didn't want to go to the battlefield to work hard, so they hid in the mountains and forests and became a group of people in the underworld.

Qin Fa's current situation means that this group of people will continue to emerge and will never be eliminated.

If you commit a serious crime and narrowly escape death on the battlefield, you will definitely feel safer than hiding in the mountains.

Therefore, the crime of gang robbery has always been a serious crime in the Qin Dynasty, in order to prevent such things from happening with strict laws, but it still cannot be banned.

Moreover, there are so many bandits in some deep mountains and old forests that it is difficult for officers and soldiers to search and suppress them. In a sense, they have formed the prototype of a gathering place. At the same time, some people have family members outside and have external contacts, so it is impossible to completely clean them up.

There was little news in the mountains, but the news of amnesty still reached the ears of some bandits. “Amnesty for the whole world?”

"What's wrong, King Qin has changed his gender? The king of tigers and wolves stopped eating meat and switched to eating grass? Do you believe this?"

Yingbu sat astride the rock and spat as he looked at his subordinates who were no different from the refugees.

"It seems to me that this is the news that the government deliberately released to trick us into going down the mountain..." Yingbu sat on the stone and kept talking.

It's different from the interpretation in the storybook. It's all fake to eat big bowls of meat and drink wine and divide the money with scales.

They couldn't even occupy the mountain and become the king, because the Qin State did not allow such tyrannical bandits to appear.

Like most bandits, they hide in the mountains and forests.

Don't even think about robbing families. You don't dare to do it. You don't have the strength.

Weapons are also purely handmade...

Their main source of food when they hide in the mountains is fishing and hunting.

Yingbu was born into a noble family, but unfortunately he violated Qin law and became one of the prisoners in Lishan.

The prisoners in Lishan gathered criminals from all over the world, and all of them were talented people. When Yingbu was serving in Lishan, he made many friends with talented people, and later took the opportunity to lead people to escape.

When they escaped, they brought out more than a hundred people...

Today, there are only a dozen brothers left.

There's no way, the environment in the deep mountains is so bad... It's a little better than being a prisoner in Lishan Mountain, but the benefits are really limited.

In the deep mountains, their life is no different from that of barbarians, or even worse than barbarians...

I make a living by fishing and hunting, and dare not go out of the mountains...

Due to limited resources, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are occasional contacts, but not many, and there are even fewer women. Yingbu himself has not touched a woman for several years.

The most important thing is that most of them are not locals and have no external information channels, so they can only hide deeper and more remote...

After finally gaining something, we still have to use the hard-earned gains to exchange for expensive necessary supplies.

This mountain range is extremely vast, and there are about a thousand bandits scattered within it... just like a drop in the ocean.

Recently, a rumor spread among the bandits.

The First Emperor granted a general amnesty to the world and let bygones be bygones...

Yingbu didn't believe it...he didn't dare to believe it either.

Likewise, his brothers didn't believe it either.

Anyone who escapes into the deep mountains and forests has some courage, and at the same time he is also a person who commits a serious crime.

If Yingbu's guilt was to be investigated, he would be punished by his clan.

Almost all the brothers Meng under him are like this.

Because of their distrust of Qin and even Qin Shihuang, Yingbu and others had no reliable information channels, so they chose to wait and see...

However, as time passed and the time for bartering became a custom, Yingbu was surprised to find that many people were missing...

Yingbu keenly realized that most of those who disappeared from the mountains were locals.

"No way!"

Yingbu kicked the tree trunk, looked up at Xingye, cursed a few times, and fell into deep thought.

"Is there really a general amnesty?"

After much thought, Yingbo thought this was the only possibility.

He didn't dare go out to inquire, so he could only guess on his own.

Speculations spread in the mountains...

The number of bandits in the deep mountains and old forests began to decrease...

Again, if given the choice, who would want to be a bandit?

It would be fine if we left Guanzhong, but the government's dominance would be reduced, coupled with collusion between inside and outside, it would indeed be possible to eat meat and drink alcohol.

But inside the customs it is a complete hell...

Collusion? Where to hook up?

There is no future for being a bandit in Guanzhong. It was because Yingbu speculated about Guanzhong from a local perspective that he suffered a big loss and suffered a lot.

"If we really want to amnesty the world... we might as well go out. If we really want to make a career, we can't do it in Guanzhong." Yingbu thought to himself.

The Guannai development plan has failed...

He naively thought that the security inside and outside the pass was the same, so he struggled with manpower and hid in the mountains based on his own experience.

"Mom, if you stay in this mountain, you won't survive for more than a few years. Get out! Even if it's a scam, Nai Gong admits it!" Yingbus thought about it and finally made a decision.

This winter, several of his few brothers froze to death. If this continues, Yingbu will die in this deep mountain forest sooner or later.

No matter how much ambition you have, it can only be empty talk.

So after deliberation, Yingbu took the lead and decided to come out and surrender.

Everyone was similar to refugees and had nothing to sort out, so they went out together...

When I reached the foot of the mountain, I saw several officials talking with smiles on their faces by the tree.

"Damn it! I've been waiting here for a long time!"

It is impossible to search mountains. Even small mountains can be searched with manpower. For example, the deep mountains and old forests where Yingbu and others gathered, hundreds of miles of mountains connected in series, cannot be searched even if a hundred thousand troops enter.

However, after the government received the first few people who surrendered from the mountains and forests, they simply made a decision and sent people to wait at the cheap exits...

It is best to register them as soon as possible and screen out whether their crimes fall within the scope of amnesty.

And on the other side...

All parts of the world are affected by its wind.

Within the vast swamp...

Hengchu, who was famous in the Chu land, fell into a breach of defense when he saw the people under his command becoming increasingly scattered.

Chu rebelled, and Heng Chu roared and rose up. Unfortunately, Zhao Tuo pinned him down in Daze and did not dare to go out.

The most important thing is that the Xiang family that he was good with is gone, and he doesn't have much help from outside forces.

The two leading parties of the Xiang family and the Yu family allowed the nobles of the Chu region to find a new direction. They were on both sides of the snake and mouse. As a result, Hengchu did not get much help, and even if he had outstanding abilities, he could not get out of Daze.

After Ren Xiao retreated, Zhao Tuo officially came to power, and rebellions in various parts of the world were put down one after another. Zhao Tuo began to exert his strength, and the Chu land became a grasshopper after the autumn.

They could not survive for a few days, but as soon as the decree of amnesty was issued, the common people were determined to stop the war.

Some of them were bewitched, and some were coerced, but when they later saw the truth, they became members of the ruling party and could not escape.

But now, there is an opportunity in front of them to put things past their past and let them jump off the ship safely. Those who don't jump are the fools.

"General...what do we do now?"

Someone asked Hengchu how to respond, and his words hinted at whether he should forcibly control public opinion and kill those who escaped privately.

Hengchu thought about it and was silent for a long time before waving his hand.

"After all, we are fellow countrymen..."

(End of this chapter)