Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 360 Debate on the Great Wall
After Meng Tian explained, Ziying fully understood the series of things that happened after he went deep into the grassland.

I was actually conferred the title of King of Qin. Although this title was a bit posthumous, after all, almost everyone at that time thought that he had died in the desert.

At the same time, Ziying also introduced his experience on the grassland, but withdrew some of the beauty of Lan Shuliu.

It is one thing to write in the battle report, but it is another thing to hear what the person said.

After Ziying finished speaking, Meng Tian and other generals of the Qin army couldn't close their jaws in surprise. Ziying's experience was more mysterious than what was said in the battle report.

Almost everyone thought that he must die, but Ziying not only came back alive, but also kidnapped a Hun prince.

The war in the north was over, and the Huns were unable to go south for at least ten years after this battle, and Lou Fan and Lin Hu in Henan, after the Huns retreated, sent envoys to Xianyang to join the Great Qin.

Ziying was going to return to Xianyang first after taking Haiyan back to the captured Qin army.

"I have been thinking hard day and night recently, and I have found a good strategy to defend against the Xiongnu. I am about to write a letter to the First Emperor, so please ask the King of Qin to walk over it first?" After talking about their respective experiences, Meng Tian said suddenly.

"General Meng Tian, ​​please speak."

"I saw the war in Jiuyuan. The Xiongnu had many cavalry and were not good at attacking the city. In the past, Yan and Zhao built the Great Wall in the northern border to defend it. Fang, Donghu and other clans were able to drive south to plunder our Daqin.

If Xinggong continues to connect the Great Wall of Yanzhao, reaching the sea in the east and the desert in the west, it can cover all the northern regions of our great Qin Dynasty. Why can the Rong people go south to herd horses! "

Meng Tian said excitedly.

As long as the Great Wall can be built well, he is confident that with the troops in his hands, the Hu people in the Northland will always be kept north of the Great Wall.

After Meng Tian finished speaking, Ziying nodded slightly.

"Has the general thought about how many people are needed to complete this project?" Ziying asked aloud.

"30 jobs are enough." Meng Tian replied immediately.

The idea of ​​building the Great Wall has been hovering in Meng Tian's mind for a long time, and he has already sent someone to carefully calculate the approximate demand.

"Now my Great Qin stationed 50 troops in Lingnan, and 70 people in Jiuyuan, including countless logistics soldiers. Gu Zeng supervised the construction of the Lishan Mausoleum, and [-] people built it in Lishan." After listening to Meng Tian narrating, Ziying said a word lightly.

After a careful calculation, although the Great Qin Dynasty is strong, it still uses troops from the north and the south, plus the builders of the Lishan Mausoleum, as well as countless logistics and supply personnel, and the number of personnel used at the same time is as high as millions!

Even today, the cost of millions of people is not a simple figure, let alone in the Qin Dynasty where productivity is extremely low.

What's more, Ziying knows that the construction of Efang Palace will start in two years, and the labor force will be no less than hundreds of thousands.

Although Ziying knew that if Meng Tian's memorial had been heard by Datian, the first emperor would definitely agree to Meng Tian's request, but Da Qin, who had just gone through the melee of the warring states at the end of the Warring States period, couldn't help but toss.

The people of Daqin, under the heavy taxation and labor, are not even as good as they were before the unification.

When the first emperor was there, relying on the high prestige of unifying the six kingdoms, he was able to frighten the world. When the first emperor died, it would be an era of chaotic heroes.

Being able to retain a portion of the power of the people, so that the common people have hope of surviving, may be able to avoid the occurrence of troubled times.

Even Sima Qian of the later generations said: At the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the princes were destroyed, the hearts of the world were still uncertain, and the wounded were not healed, and Tian was a famous general. The harmony of the common people, and Ah Yi's meritorious deeds, is it not appropriate for his brother to be punished?
In Tai Shigong's view, it's not that the Great Wall can't be built, but that the timing of the construction is wrong. At the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the world was uncertain and the people were lonely. What needs to be done now is to recuperate and restore the strength of the people, rather than squeezing it at this time. the strength of the people to build the magnificent Great Wall.

The large-scale construction of the Great Wall in the Han Dynasty also began during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty after the recuperation of the Wenjing Dynasty.

Ziying's attitude is different from Tai Shigong's. It's not that it's not suitable to build now, but that it doesn't need to be built at all.

"King Qin, building the Great Wall is a move that will benefit thousands of years!" Meng Tian naturally understood the meaning of Ziying's words, and hastily retorted.

"But what if the Huns are unable to go south in the future?" Ziying asked.

"How is this possible? The barbarians in the north are unruly and have been doing harm to the Central Plains for hundreds of years. Whenever the livestock decline, they will definitely go south to plunder. How can they be unable to go south?" Meng Tian said subconsciously.

"The Great Wall is nothing more than a dead thing. My Great Qin's Great Wall should not rest on these earth and rocks, but on my Great Qin's tens of thousands of soldiers.

As long as my great Qin is in all directions, why not be afraid of the barbarians in the north, the grassland is just my great Qin's horse farm.

If my Daqin army dare not fight one day, they will be afraid of fighting, even if there is the danger of the Great Wall, it will be difficult to be safe. "

Ziying stared at Meng Tian and said, the meaning was clearly opposed to building the Great Wall, but regarded Daqin's army as the Great Wall!

Objectively speaking, the Great Wall does play an extremely important role in strategic defense, but what Ziying wants is not to wait for the barbarians to attack, what he wants is to include this grassland into the territory of Daqin.

Let the vast grasslands become Daqin's horse ranch, and let the barbarians in the north serve as Daqin's buffer.

As strong as the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there is no need to build the Great Wall at all, and it is impossible to build a city wall that separates the inside and outside of one's own country.

Since the Manchu Qing Dynasty could also achieve a relatively strong rule over Mongolia, they did not maintain the Great Wall. Emperor Kangxi also said that "building the Great Wall is really useless".

As for some agreements between himself and the high priest of the Xiongnu, Ziying decided to hide it for the time being because it was too shocking.

"Mr. Chang'an wants to capture the grassland?" Naturally, Meng Tian's talent in military affairs goes without saying, once Ziying said this, Meng Tian understood Ziying's plan.

"However, the Hu people live nomadicly on water and grass, and their land is uncertain. They cannot set up counties and counties. It is really difficult to control them."

Meng Tian shook his head and said.

"After this battle, the Huns were unable to go south for ten years. How to conquer the Huns has already made a plan in their hearts."

If other people said that they could subdue and effectively rule the Huns, Meng Tian would definitely regard this person's words as absurd.

However, these words came from Ziying's mouth, although Meng Tian still didn't know Ziying's plan, but he believed it.

It was because the words were spoken by Qin Wang Ying Ziying.

Every battle achievement, every pile of past incidents made Ziying feel a little deified in Meng Tian's heart.

Not to mention the advance prediction during the attack on Qi before, the performance of the Xiongnu Ziying this time alone is enough to convince Meng Tian.

If it is true that the grassland can be included in the territory of Daqin as Ziying said, then building the Great Wall is really superfluous.

(End of this chapter)