General Qin

The moonlight is like silver, and the night wind blows past the solemn Daqin Palace.

In a side hall of the Qin Palace, sixty-six bronze lamps of various shapes are shining brightly, illuminating the entire space in the hall brightly.

The First Emperor sat on the couch in a comfortable posture, his face was still rosy after drinking, and there was a faint smell of alcohol between his mouth, nose and breath.

His eyes were still bright and energetic, his eyes jumped over the wooden case with a map rolled up in front of him, and he looked at the woman in the palace with great interest.

This is a rare woman who can arouse his interest.

He is the master of the world, and there are thousands of women in the palace. After the destruction of the six kingdoms, the number of women gathered from the palaces of the six kings is already innumerable.

How many women in the palace were reported last time?

Three thousand?

Six thousand?

Ten thousand?

The number of women he had was too many for Emperor Shi Huang to remember.

At his current age, he is not very interested in women, and after too much experience, that's it.

After Hu Hai, he didn't have a son for a long time.

In the heart of the first emperor, there was only Qin, and only this world.

Before Zhao Tuo made paper, he weighed books by weighing stones. He will never go to bed until he finishes handling the paperwork for the approved weight every day.

Now there is such a good thing as paper, which greatly reduces the weight of the documents and makes the review easier and more convenient. The tasks that used to take a whole day to complete can now be completed in half a day.

But at the same time, because of the advent of paper, the number of tasks he needs to deal with has also increased several times.

After the first emperor discovered the benefits of paper office, during the year of Zhao Tuo's Northern Expedition, various large and small paper mills were spread out in various counties and counties of the Qin State, and a huge number of craftsmen, ministers and concubines from all over the country were continuously produced. paper.

Officials at all levels of the county and county all use paper for office work, which greatly improves administrative efficiency. Originally, due to the inconvenience of transporting bamboo slips and the shortcomings of not having many records, when local governments reported to Xianyang, many things were omitted.

Nowadays, because of the lightness of paper and the large amount of writing, the number of things reported in various places has greatly increased, which has doubled several times in the past.

Coupled with the large army going out to conquer, the four sides going to war, the construction of straight roads in various places, and the policies being implemented such as unified currency, unified weights and measures, and unified writing, the information gathered by the entire country to the central government every day is very huge.

The first emperor was also the master of "everything in the world, no matter how big or small, depends on the above".

The world has been set for the first time, and there are many things to do. He has to be extremely caring, and he doesn't feel at ease if he entrusts it to anyone.

Under such circumstances, the working mode of the First Emperor was naturally different from the past.

He no longer calculates the workload by the weight of the bamboo slips, but by the working hours.

Five hours a day, that is, ten hours for future generations to review documents.

Then add all kinds of miscellaneous things such as court meetings, inspections, and interviews with courtiers. He still has to be busy until midnight every day, so he has no idea of ​​pampering women.

Over time, this kind of thinking will fade away.

It's just that Su Jiasha, the noble daughter of the Yue family who is kneeling in front of him now, is different from all the women he has ever seen, and it is rare to attract his attention.

High nose and deep eyes, slightly curly hair.

The upright facial features give the whole face a unique sense of beauty, and the healthy complexion forged by the wind and frost of the grassland is also very strange compared to the fair complexion of the women in the palace.

Especially those azure blue eyes, which are hard to forget after just one glance.

Even though the first emperor was the son of heaven, he had seen countless women, including Hu Ji outside the Great Wall, but he had never seen a woman like this.

Su Jiasha got up after kneeling, and then felt the emperor's gaze.

He is the Great Qin Emperor.

The master of the entire state of Qin can recruit millions of troops with one order to conquer any corner of the world.

Under the blessing of this kind of power, his gaze has a very frightening sense of oppression. Even though Su Jiasha has a resolute character, his scalp is still numb.

When she entered Xianyang, she saw the majestic and majestic palace of the emperor, and she was deeply awed by it. She thought it was a miracle and admired it very much.

But now, what she thought of was what she had heard before, that the emperor's palace was full of women from all over the world.

They are the emperor's women, numbering in the tens of thousands. They live in gorgeous palaces and live a life of rich clothes and fine food every day. Their only expectation is to wait for the emperor's favor, and their only goal is to give birth to the emperor. his child.

Thinking of this, Su Jiasha shuddered.

She is a child of the prairie, a horse that is supposed to gallop on the prairie, a falcon flying between the sky and a canary trapped in a palace, that is not the life she wants.

Not to mention, in her heart, there is someone more attractive than the emperor in front of her.

Su Jiasha bit her head and said: "I don't know if Your Majesty has summoned his concubines, what orders do you have?"

The First Emperor did not answer, but said calmly: "Are you a little nervous?"

Su Jiasha bowed her head and said: "The concubine is a barbarian from the grassland. She first entered the Great Qin Dynasty and met the Supreme Being. She was intimidated by His Majesty's martial arts, so she was very nervous."

The First Emperor smiled, and said again: "You speak Qin dialect well, and you have good manners, how did you learn it?"

Su Jiasha said: "My concubine has admired the great Qin style since childhood. Every time a businessman from Qin land comes to the Yueshi to do business, my concubine will ask them for advice. I once asked a merchant with a lot of money to be my concubine's teacher, so I can speak Qin language. As for Etiquette, on the way to Xianyang, ministers and concubines are afraid of being impolite when meeting the king, so they ask the general for advice."

At the last sentence, Su Jiasha's eyes flashed a soft and reminiscing color.

The First Emperor nodded slightly, turned his mouth slightly, and said teasingly: "Marquis Wugong wrote a letter before, saying that you are quite clever, and you even came up with the plan to get in touch with the Xiongnu. Since you are so smart, you can know that I am so smart. What summoned you here?"

As he spoke, Emperor Shi Huang looked at her body with his eyes, as if admiring the posture of this alien beauty.

But Su Jiasha had calmed down at this time, facing this gaze, she was no longer nervous.

She looked around.

Notice that this side hall is not a place for the emperor to sleep and rest, and there are eunuchs standing around with their hands down.

Then, she saw the thick rolled up silk on the big case in front of the emperor.

Su Jiasha took a deep breath, thinking that when she was learning etiquette from Zhao Tuo, she had asked the general how she could be used by the emperor.

The general thought about it for a while and said: "The emperor likes useful people. With ability and loyalty, the emperor can reuse him."

Thinking of this, Su Jiasha's heart has settled down.

She bowed to the emperor, but she did not answer the question raised by the emperor. Instead, she said to herself: "Great Qin is the master of the eastern world, and His Majesty is the supreme emperor of Kyushu. But in the west, there are many lands and countries."

"As far as my concubine knows, further west of the land occupied by our Yuezhi, there is the Wusun Kingdom, which is a nomadic country, and its strength is slightly inferior to that of the Yuezhi."

"From Wusun to the west, there is a more extensive land. There are mountains in the north and south, and a river in the middle. It is more than 6,000 miles from east to west and more than 1,000 miles from north to south. Although the land is intersected by deserts, it is also vast and rich. There are small countries in the middle. Lin Li."

"Such as Loulan, Raoqiang, Jingjue, Shache, Kucha..."

Hearing each of these names, Shi Huangdi's breathing became rapid, and he felt a surge of desire rising in his body.

He didn't interrupt Su Jiasha's words and continued to listen.

"Although the concubine is the daughter of Marquis Xi of Guishuang, her mother is from the royal family of Dawan (yuān), so she looks different from other Yuezhi people precisely because she has the blood of Dawan in her body."

Su Jiasha said calmly: "The concubine's mother once said that Dawan is a large country in the west, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and more than 70 cities in the city. It is rich and fertile. It is common to farm and eat rice and wheat. It also produces BMW. Its horses can sweat and blood, and they can travel thousands of miles a day without falling down."

Hearing this, Emperor Shi Huang's blood was boiling with passion, and that desire could no longer be held back.

He suddenly spread out the rolled silk on the case.

Then staring at Su Jiasha, said in a deep voice, "Come here."

"Come to me!"

Outside the hall, Martial Arts Marquis Zhao Tuo had already arrived at the door.