Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 28 The crew wraps up filming

The Qin State was about to unify.

The moment Zhao Kuo pulled the blade out of his old friend Lian Po's chest, he saw a faint smile on the face of the old man who had fought for the State of Zhao all his life.

"Congratulations, you are about to realize your dream." Lian Po said the last words.

Zhao Kuo shouted to the soldiers:
"General Lian has been defeated, you two, put down your weapons!"

Zhao Kuo, who won the victory, did not taste any joy. He just returned to his tent, looked at Lian Po's weapons, and sat there all night.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a little confused.

“Perhaps, if I hadn’t traveled through time, none of these things would have happened.”

But soon, he put this emotion behind him.

The way of heaven is constant. It does not exist for the sake of Yao nor perish for the sake of Jie.

The pace of great unification will not stop.

Zhao was defeated, and Qin's eastward advance could no longer be stopped.

Under the attack of Qin's army, other vassal states surrendered.

Finally, after the demise of the last vassal state, the black flag of Qin was finally planted in every corner of the land.

The Qin Dynasty was established.

Li Si presented a memorial to Ying Zheng, saying that the king "has the virtue of the Three Sovereigns and the achievements of the Five Emperors" and should be called the First Emperor.

The establishment of a new dynasty should have been a good time for universal celebration and amnesty.

However, the Qin Dynasty's government was in a state of crisis.

Whether it was the old nobles of the six countries who were bent on revenge, or the farming and warfare system left over from Shang Yang, all of them threatened the life of this emerging country.

Many people in later generations overlooked a fact.

The seven major powers in the Warring States Period, although nominally called powers, were actually established hundreds of years ago.

The struggle between the seven heroes was more like a brawl between seven old men with falling teeth and osteoporosis.

Among them, the old guy Qin Guo gained even stronger strength through Shangjun-style training method, and beat the other old guys to a pulp.

However, no matter how powerful Qin was in fighting, it could not cover up the fact that it was an old guy.

After defeating the other six old men, the Qin State was basically on its way to its end.

"We need reforms and changes in the law."

This was the consensus of the entire Qin court.

But change is easier said than done.

In fact, since Shang Yang's reforms, Qin's system has been maintained for more than a hundred years and is deeply engraved in the bones of the Qin people.

Common people need merit to get more land, soldiers need merit to get higher rewards, and officials need merit to get higher positions.

When all activities are related to merit.

The Qin State prospered because of farming and warfare, and also perished because of farming and warfare.

The establishment of the Qin Dynasty also meant that conflicts reached their peak.

Just when domestic rebellion was on the verge of breaking out.

Zhao Kuo stood up.

He used his great prestige to promote and guide the country's reforms.

Change Shangjun's system, re-establish the domestic merit calculation method, and promote the development of agricultural productivity...

Under Zhao Kuo's guidance, the reform gradually became full swing.

But, everyone has his end.

Zhao Kuo's life gradually came to an end.

Zhao Kuo seemed very calm about the aging of his body.

He was even a little happy, because ever since his wife Yi passed away, he could no longer endure the physical pain.

Now, it's finally time to end.

Before his death, he called Ying Zheng and told him, "Everyone must die. There is no one in the world who is immortal. What matters is what this person did in his life."

Zhao Kuo told his descendants three things:

Treat the people of the world well.

Be a good person.

He also asked Ying Zheng to take good care of his daughter, Zhao Shan, who was also Ying Zheng's sister.

At this moment, the whole country is in mourning.

The dead are gone, so are the living.

Ying Zheng kept his father's teachings in mind and began to promote reforms in the country.

Having been educated by his father since childhood, the First Emperor was no longer obsessed with "whipping the world with a whip". On the contrary, he cared for every citizen like his father.

But misfortunes never come alone.

As the reform gradually gained momentum, the country showed signs of vigor and vitality, and everything was flourishing.

Bad news came.

Zhao Kuo's son, Zhao Kang, the Marquis of Guanjun, who guarded the frontiers and expanded the territory for the empire, also showed the same physical condition as his father before his death.

"Cha, I want to know why this is happening!"

Rarely, Ying Zheng got angry at the doctor.

His father's past teachings taught him that he should not be angry with doctors.

However, he couldn't control himself.

That's his brother.

If the father and the younger brother have this disease, will it be passed on to the younger sister?

Ying Zheng's heart was filled with fear. He ordered a nationwide search for doctors. If anyone could cure Zhao Kang, he would be rewarded with a huge reward and be granted the title of marquis.

Han Fei advised: "The emperor should not give such orders. It is against the rules." Han Fei, Zhao Kuo's most satisfied disciple, was always like this. He was like a cold machine. He always offended others in the most direct way when people were most helpless.

However, since Zhao Kuo's death, he had fainted many times due to grief, and his doctor warned him that if he continued like this, he would die sooner or later.

"I am the King of Qin, I am the Emperor, but I am also a son, a brother, the eldest son of the Zhao family, a horse-fashioned son, and my father's first child.

After my father passed away, I never built any highways, palaces, or imperial mausoleums.

I have reduced taxes and levies so that I can rest and recuperate.

I have now led the Qin State to fulfill my father's ambition of unifying the country. Now I have only one thing to do - I want Shan to live well!"

However, the development of medicine is not subject to individual will.

Soon, Zhao Kang's life came to an end.

On the day of his death, countless soldiers on the border cried for him and countless enemies outside the country cheered for him.

Ying Zheng received a letter from Zhao Kang.

The letter contained only one sentence:

I hope he can take good care of Shan.

The emperor, who had never cried since he became an adult, shed tears once again.

Unfortunately, not long after that, Zhao Shan also developed the same symptoms.

When Ying Zheng was in despair, a man appeared——

Xu Fu.

A person who claimed to be a Taoist priest from overseas.

"Do you know what disease Shan has?"

"The way of heaven is to reduce the excess and replenish the deficiency. King Wucheng (Zhao Kuo) was blessed by heaven and earth and changed the fate of Qin against heaven's will. His descendants are cursed and will not last long."

At this moment, Ying Zheng hated himself so much that he was not his father's biological son, otherwise he would definitely be able to feel their pain.

At the same time, he was somewhat fortunate that only he was not sick so he could persist in finding medicine for his sister.

"What to do?"

"There is a fairy mountain overseas, where fairies live. We need to build a large ship and go out to sea, and bring young boys and girls to pay homage to them. We can get the magic medicine to save the princess."

"allow!"

Ying Zheng ordered Meng Yi to be in charge of this matter because he was Zhao Shan's husband.

After Xu Fu left.

Han Fei once again made a petition: "The reform has just begun. If we devote all our national strength to building ships, it may endanger the safety of the Qin Dynasty and even lead to the demise of the second emperor."

Ying Zheng was very free and easy: "My father taught me that there has never been a dynasty that lasts forever. Although I am the first emperor, I do not desire my descendants to have a second, third, or even eternal dynasty.

Although Qin was destroyed, later generations still inherited Qin, followed Qin laws, and spoke Qin language.

This is the eternal way that my father passed on to me."

……

"I declare that the filming of The Myth has been completed!"

In early November, after more than four months of filming, The Myth was completed.

At the wrap-up banquet, everyone enjoyed the meal to their heart's content.

Only one person looked very unhappy.

Big sweet.

Da Tiantian was unhappy because Zhou Mo cheated on her.

"It was clearly agreed that my storyline was extremely important, but this is what happened?"

Da Tiantian remembered that when Zhou Mo introduced the plot to her, he also mentioned that there would be a sex scene, which made her think about it alone for several days.

"And the sex scene? You want me to lie on the bed like a vegetable the whole time, right?"

"Just tell me if I'm wrong, right?" Zhou Mo was very single: "Because of Shan's illness, Ying Zheng finally approved Xu Fu's application because shipbuilding caused serious obstacles to the economy of the Qin court and even indirectly shortened the life of the Qin Dynasty.

Look how I accomplished this, I'm such a genius."

"What a bullshit genius!" Da Tiantian said disdainfully: "How can there be such a strange disease? Dad lived to be in his sixties or seventies before he died, but his child only lived to be in his thirties or forties, and all his descendants are like this."

Zhou Mo was helpless: "I said you are a hopeless illiterate, but you still refuse to admit it. Do you know how old the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were?"

"I don't know." Da Tiantian said confidently.

"Zhu Yuanzhang was 70 years old, Zhu Di was 65 years old, Zhu Gaochi was 48 years old, and after that, several emperors were no older than 40 years old. I want to ask you, are you convinced?"

Da Tiantian had nothing to say and could only start complaining.

"Besides, I didn't say Shan died," Zhou Mo added.

Da Tiantian's eyes lit up: "You mean I can be resurrected."

Zhou Mo chuckled: "That depends on your performance."

He leaned over and slowly approached Da Tiantian's ear: "Tiantian, you don't want to see Shan die like this, do you?"

"you!"

This trick again.

It’s this trick again!

Da Tiantian stared at Zhou Mo for a long time, and found that he was smiling all the time. Finally, she pursed her lips and squeezed out a few words from her teeth:

"Then I'll wear the clothes."

　I saw this sentence in the mud before:

　　Speaking of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, it is like "seven ancient (hundreds of years) existences, fighting until the end of time (the fall of the Zhou Dynasty), fighting until the great way (false teeth) was worn out.

　　I think it's very vivid, so I share it.

　　There were many factors that led to the demise of the Qin Dynasty, including the issue of succession, the system, Qin Shi Huang's own problems, etc. It is not something that can be described in a few words, and the novel just found a random reason.

　　I hope the readers will forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)