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After nearly twenty years of training in the newly established counties, Daqin already had enough reserve officials. From among them, it selected young and capable officials who were loyal to the empire to go to various places to begin a ten-year term of office.

These officials were like the cornerstones of the empire at the local level. After arriving at their respective jurisdictions, they immediately began to work in accordance with unified governance norms, and quickly established a layered, tightly organized organization at the local level.

As a high-level administrative unit, the county was divided into counties, and county officials were responsible for the most specific management of people's livelihood affairs. Household registration management became one of their important responsibilities. They needed to record the information of every household in the area in detail, including population size, age structure, gender ratio, etc., so as to facilitate the empire's precise control of the population.

Tax collection is related to the financial foundation of the empire. Officials need to reasonably determine the tax amount and ensure full collection based on land area, crop yields, and commercial activities. Public security maintenance is the key to ensuring local stability. They organize local security forces, patrol the streets, and prevent theft and rebellion.

At the same time, in order to ensure that information can flow smoothly throughout the huge body of the empire and that government orders can be efficiently transmitted to every corner, the Qin Dynasty built an efficient post station system. These post stations are like the nerve endings of the empire, spread all over the traffic arteries of various places. The messengers are like red blood cells in the blood, carrying the empire's orders and intelligence, riding fast horses to shuttle between the post stations. They travel day and night regardless of the scorching sun in the summer or the freezing cold in the winter, and never stop, ensuring the close connection between the central nervous system of the empire and each limb.

The Qin Dynasty adopted a flexible but tough strategy towards the nobles and local forces that originally belonged to the three empires. For those nobles and local representatives who were willing to cooperate with the Qin Dynasty and did have certain talents, the Qin Dynasty gave them the opportunity to enter the local governance system, granted them corresponding positions and powers, and enabled them to continue to play a certain role in local affairs.

Of course, their every move must be under the strict supervision of the Qin Dynasty, and any unusual behavior will be severely punished. As for those reactionaries who stubbornly resisted the Qin Dynasty's rule and attempted to rebel with their own power, the Qin Dynasty ruthlessly suppressed them. All family property was confiscated, land was redistributed, and family members were often exiled or reduced to slavery to warn other potential rebels.

In the newly conquered areas, Qin stationed heavy troops to demonstrate its military presence and deterrence.

Along the border, extremely solid military fortresses were built. These fortresses were like the iron fangs of the empire. Not only were they equipped with sufficient troops, with soldiers standing guard at their posts day and night and always maintaining a high level of vigilance, but they also stored large amounts of food and weapons, enough to cope with long-term war consumption and siege.

The garrison implements a rotation system, regularly exchanging soldiers stationed in border fortresses with inland troops. This not only allows the soldiers to get proper rest, but also prevents them from colluding with local forces or becoming slack during long-term garrison, thus ensuring that the soldiers' combat effectiveness is always at its peak and their absolute loyalty to the empire.

At the same time, the Qin Dynasty was well aware of the strategic significance of "using barbarians to control barbarians" and recruited soldiers locally, incorporating these young people from different nationalities and regions into the Qin military system.

Since these local soldiers grew up in the local area, they are familiar with the surrounding geographical environment, such as mountains, rivers, jungles and deserts, and are also very familiar with the changing laws of local climate conditions, such as rainy seasons, dry seasons, severe cold and heat. After the strict military training of Daqin, in border defense operations, they can use their familiarity with the terrain to cleverly set traps and ambushes to attack the invading enemy by surprise; in terms of regional stability maintenance, they can rely on their own geographical advantages and personal connections to promptly detect and resolve potential destabilizing factors and ensure local peace and tranquility.

In addition, Daqin's military academy cultivated outstanding reserve talents for the empire's military development.

No matter they are noble children or young people with ordinary backgrounds but aspirations to serve the country, as long as they show military talent and loyalty to the empire, they can enroll and receive systematic and comprehensive military education. In the military academy, they study tactics and strategies in depth, study classic battles of ancient and contemporary times, and analyze the key factors of victory or defeat in war; learn weapon manufacturing technology, understand the performance, advantages and disadvantages, and manufacturing processes of various weapons, so as to better use and maintain weapons on the battlefield; learn the art of military command, master the core skills such as how to accurately judge the situation, reasonably deploy troops, and issue correct combat orders on a complex and changeable battlefield, laying a solid foundation for becoming the military pillars of the empire in the future.

Unifying the monetary system became Daqin's primary economic task.

The monetary system of the original three empires was like a mess, with a wide variety of currencies, different fineness, and chaotic exchange rates, which seriously hindered trade and economic exchanges in various places. Daqin decisively abolished this chaotic monetary system and vigorously promoted Daqin's legal tender. This legal tender has excellent craftsmanship and stable value. It is uniformly minted and issued by the central government of the empire, and has extremely high authority and credibility. With the gradual popularization of legal tender in the newly conquered areas, commercial trade activities in various places began to gradually recover and prosper.

For business, the Qin Dynasty has formulated a set of strict and detailed business laws and regulations, which regulate the market order, clarify the rights and obligations of merchants, and make detailed provisions for the quality, price, and transaction methods of goods. Severe crackdowns on profiteers and monopolistic behaviors, for those profiteers who sell inferior goods as good ones, drive up prices, and hoard goods, the law enforcement agencies of the empire will punish them severely according to law, confiscate their illegal gains and expel them from the business field; for business giants who attempt to monopolize the market and manipulate prices, the Qin Dynasty will take strong measures to split and sanction them to ensure fair competition and healthy development of the market.

While regulating the market, the Qin Dynasty actively encouraged merchants to open up new trade routes. Caravans carried Qin's silk, porcelain, ironware and other specialty products across deserts, mountains and oceans, and sold them all over the world. At the same time, they also brought back precious items such as rare treasures and spices from other regions, enriching the variety of goods in the Qin Dynasty and promoting the prosperity of commerce. The Qin Dynasty's commercial network was like an increasingly large and tight spider web, connecting the empire with every corner of the world.

With its own culture as the core, Daqin established schools in newly conquered areas and used the schools as an important base for spreading Daqin culture.

In the school, teachers meticulously taught the characters of the Qin Dynasty, allowing students to learn to read and write the official characters of the Qin Dynasty. This not only facilitated the communication of imperial decrees and the inheritance of culture, but also provided a unified communication tool for people in different regions. They told the history of the Qin Dynasty, allowing students to absorb the wisdom and spiritual strength of the empire from the origin, development, and rise of the Qin Dynasty, and cultivate their sense of identity and pride in the Qin Dynasty. They taught the etiquette norms of the Qin Dynasty, so that students understood the behavioral requirements in different occasions and cultivated their civilized qualities and moral concepts. They explained the legal provisions of the Qin Dynasty, so that the people knew the law, abided by the law, and understood the consequences of violating the law, thereby maintaining the social order of the empire.

However, the Qin Dynasty did not blindly promote its own culture and completely abandon local cultural traditions. On the premise of maintaining the dominant position of the Qin culture, the newly conquered areas were allowed to retain some unique cultural customs, such as some unique folk art performances, traditional handicrafts, festivals and celebrations with regional characteristics, etc. This cultural tolerance policy was like planting the seeds of other cultures in the garden of the Qin culture, promoting the diversified integration and innovative development of culture, and allowing the Qin culture to continuously enrich and strengthen itself in the process of absorbing the essence of other cultures.

As for religious beliefs, as long as religious activities are carried out within the framework of legality and compliance and do not violate the laws and social order of Daqin, people can freely believe in the gods they respect. Whether it is local religious beliefs or foreign religious sects, they can find a living space on the land of Daqin. However, Daqin will not hesitate to crack down on those religious organizations that attempt to use religion to incite rebellion and undermine the rule of Daqin. The security forces of the empire will quickly attack, destroy their strongholds, arrest their leaders and core members, and execute them all. In addition, Daqin clearly divided the citizen classes, and the people of Daqin were first-class citizens, granting them many privileges and priority development opportunities.

The household registration of the native people of Daqin is like a detailed family history book. In addition to recording basic personal information, it also records the family lineage in detail in order to trace the family origin and bloodline inheritance; the record of property status is related to taxation, corvée and social status assessment and other matters; the registration of professional skills information helps the empire to rationally allocate human resources and maximize the value of everyone. With this household registration information, the native people of Daqin enjoy priority in the allocation of educational resources and can enter better institutions to receive quality education; in terms of medical insurance, they can get priority in obtaining medical assistance and services from the empire; in terms of land allocation, they can also get more fertile and vast land.

The indigenous peoples of the newly conquered areas were mostly classified as slaves or of low status. They were required to undertake heavy labor, whether it was building large-scale projects such as palaces, city walls, roads, water conservancy facilities, etc., or engaging in hard labor in agricultural production. At the same time, they had to pay high taxes, which became one of the important sources of fiscal revenue for the Qin Dynasty. Only by making military achievements on the battlefield could they break the shackles of their status, get rid of their slave status, and be promoted to civilians, thereby gaining relative freedom and limited rights.

In the household registration system, the household registration of people in the newly conquered areas focused on several key elements. The record of ethnic group was placed first, which was an important basis for the Qin Empire to implement classified management of different ethnic groups.

By clarifying ethnic affiliation, the empire can formulate targeted management strategies based on the characteristics, traditions and customs of each ethnic group, from population allocation to labor arrangements. Detailed records of service have become the core indicator for assessing their loyalty and contribution to the empire. Every battle and participation in every public project are recorded in detail in the household register. The length of service and the quality of performance will determine their value in the eyes of the empire. The record of tax payment is closely linked to their survival and development under the rule of the empire. The amount of taxes and whether they are paid on time and in full not only affects the empire's fiscal revenue, but also affects their own living security and social status.

The people in these newly conquered areas are undoubtedly in an extremely disadvantageous position in the allocation of social resources. In terms of educational resources, it is difficult for them to obtain the same educational opportunities as the native people of Daqin. Most of the high-quality institutions are closed to them, and they can only receive some basic and simple education to meet the needs of imperial rule. The same is true for medical resources. The simple medical facilities and limited medical staff often make them have to resign themselves to fate when facing diseases. In terms of land distribution, they often get remote and barren land, and it is difficult to achieve wealth by farming. Moreover, they are subject to stricter control and surveillance. The scope of action is strictly limited to a specific area, and leaving without permission will be severely punished. There are even fewer career choices. Most of them can only engage in lowly and hard physical labor such as mining, road construction, and farming, becoming the bottom force of empire construction.

In Yi Huawei's view, although this ethnic policy is harsh, it has profound strategic considerations. In terms of maintaining the imperial ruling order, strict management of the newly conquered ethnic groups can effectively prevent rebellion and turmoil. Clear hierarchical divisions and differences in resource allocation make it difficult for the newly conquered people to form a powerful force that can threaten the imperial rule. In terms of social stability, by restricting their actions and career choices, they can be placed within the social framework planned by the empire, reducing social conflicts caused by disorderly population mobility and professional competition.

At the same time, this policy also clearly demonstrated the superior status of the people of Daqin. The privileges enjoyed by the native people of Daqin in all aspects made them feel a sense of belonging and loyalty to the empire, and the newly conquered people had no choice but to work hard for the empire and seek promotion in their status in order to get rid of their low status. This competition mechanism promoted the exchange and integration between different ethnic groups to a certain extent. In the process of serving the empire, the newly conquered people gradually came into contact with and understood the culture and system of Daqin, and the people of Daqin also absorbed some excellent qualities of other ethnic groups in their interaction with them, providing a continuous source of power for the sustainable development of the Daqin Empire.

It's impossible to conquer you. I'm just letting you come here to enjoy yourself. How can such a good thing exist in the world?
Yi Huawei is well aware that the expansion and rule of the empire requires a price, and this price must be shared by the conquered. Of course, in today's world, being well fed and well clothed is already a great happiness.

But in the Qin Dynasty, even the third-class citizens at the bottom of the society enjoyed a standard of daily diet and clothing far exceeding that of the Roman nobles.

Driven by a series of advanced technologies and efficient management models, the agricultural production of Daqin has considerable grain production. Staple crops such as wheat and rice are not only abundant in production, but also of high quality. On the tables of the people of Daqin, there are a wide variety of staple foods, in addition to fine white rice and white flour, there are also special foods made from various grains. In terms of side dishes, the supply of meat is also relatively sufficient, whether it is domesticated poultry and livestock, or prey and river fish obtained from mountains, forests and rivers, they can often appear on their plates. Fresh vegetables and fruits are even more dazzling. Thanks to the developed agricultural planting technology and extensive trade network, fruits and vegetables from different regions can be tasted even when they are not in season.

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The diet of the Roman nobles, although also unique, was much inferior in comparison. The agricultural production in Rome was limited by the region and technology, and the staple food was mostly coarse wheat products, and the output was often unstable due to factors such as climate. Meat accounted for a relatively small proportion of their diet, and the channels for obtaining it were relatively single, mostly relying on limited local livestock resources. In terms of the supply of fruits and vegetables, the variety was relatively scarce, especially some special fruits and vegetables from the far east, which were rare delicacies for them.

In terms of clothing, the textile craftsmanship of the Qin Empire was superb. Silk, cotton, linen and other materials were all available, and the production process was sophisticated and complex. The third-class citizens of the Qin Empire could wear soft and diverse clothing. The clothing materials of the Roman nobles were mainly wool and linen. Although woolen clothing had a certain degree of warmth retention, the texture was relatively rough and the comfort when wearing was far less than that of the silk and cotton of the Qin Empire. Although linen clothing was cooler in summer, it was easy to wrinkle and the style was relatively simple, lacking the exquisite tailoring and gorgeous decoration of the Qin Empire's clothing.

After conquering the three empires, the population structure of Qin changed significantly. The current population is more than 180 million, plus the 50 million conquered people, the total population has reached more than 230 million.

The Qin Empire attached great importance to increasing grain production. For the newly conquered areas, actively promoting advanced farming techniques became a key measure. The empire sent a large number of agricultural technicians to various places to guide farmers to improve their farming methods. In terms of irrigation, more efficient water conservancy facilities were introduced, such as new water wheels and irrigation channel networks, so that farmland could get a more sufficient and even supply of water. Fertilization technology was also innovated, using livestock manure and wood ash to make compound fertilizers to improve soil fertility. At the same time, the action of reclaiming wasteland was carried out on a large scale in the newly conquered areas. With the remaining power after the war, the army organized the conquered people to reclaim wasteland, turning large tracts of originally barren land into arable farmland.

In the original Daqin, agricultural production was further refined. The government encouraged farmers to rotate and intercrop multiple crops to improve land utilization. For example, legumes were planted on land after wheat harvest, and the nitrogen fixation of legumes was used to improve the soil and prepare for the next season. In addition, agricultural tools were improved and upgraded, and the quality and craftsmanship of iron agricultural tools were continuously improved. Sharper and more durable agricultural tools greatly improved farming efficiency.

The construction of water conservancy projects was a major move by the Qin Dynasty in agricultural development. Large-scale water conservancy hubs were built at the confluence of rivers and in plains. These water conservancy projects could not only prevent floods and droughts, but also provide a stable irrigation water source for surrounding farmland, greatly improving agricultural production conditions and steadily increasing grain output in newly conquered areas year by year.

Through these efforts, the total grain output of the Qin Empire has been significantly improved. In the newly conquered areas, grain production has gradually changed from insufficient self-sufficiency to more than self-sufficiency. Some areas that were originally short of food can now contribute to the empire's reserves. The grain output in the local areas has grown steadily, not only meeting the growing needs of the local people, but also providing sufficient food security for the army's conquests and urban construction.

This sufficient food supply became the solid foundation for the stable development of the Qin Empire, supporting the empire's continued expansion and prosperity in politics, military, culture and other aspects. It also created favorable material conditions for further assimilation of the newly conquered people and their integration into the overall social system of the Qin Empire.

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