[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-great-qin-i-started-a-mutiny-father-emperor-plea":3,"chapter-great-qin-i-started-a-mutiny-father-emperor-plea-great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-72":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Great Qin: I Launched a Coup, Father Emperor, Please Abdicate!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2141950,3529,"Chapter 72","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-72",72,"\u003Cp>The first was that Great Wall repairs were stopped, and Afang Palace repairs were stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To tell the truth, Ying Zheng was very dissatisfied with these two things!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must know, the Great Wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the foundation of the Great Qin he created for ten thousand generations, mainly used for long-term defense against the Xiongnu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Afang Palace was also the same; since he wanted to create a Great Qin for ten thousand generations, how could a small Xianyang Palace display it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to create a palace more than ten times larger than the Xianyang Palace; only then could he display the national prestige of Great Qin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, these two big things were no longer being done.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking about it carefully, although the Afang Palace stop was done by Ying Su, it was understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all... that palace was too big; tens of thousands of people had been laying the foundation for three years and still hadn't finished!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ying Zheng couldn't accept stopping the Great Wall repairs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Great Wall repairs were stopped, what about the chaos in the north?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Attack the Xiongnu?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what was the use of attacking the Xiongnu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he won, so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we talk about winning against the Xiongnu, there were many people who did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>King King Wuling of Zhao adopted Hu clothing and mounted archery, beating the Xiongnu so they didn't dare to invade the Central Plains!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Mu guarded the Zhao State's Great Wall, beating the Xiongnu every time they came, beating them until they cried for their fathers and mothers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Tian's thirty thousand Meng family troops beat the Xiongnu so they didn't dare to graze horses south, and even forcefully took back the Hetao area from the Xiongnu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcibly fought for a county's territory for Great Qin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But besides increasing national prestige, did these have any substantial significance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xiongnu never fought wars!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They plundered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They rushed into the homes of the people at the border and plundered directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After plundering, they ran away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on fast horses and vast grasslands, you couldn't even catch up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In such times, you could only rely on the Great Wall to block the Xiongnu's plunder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, winning against the Xiongnu could never solve the fundamental problem of Xiongnu plunder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only by building the Great Wall could peace be guaranteed for ten thousand generations!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Ying Su now ordered not to repair the Great Wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to attack the Xiongnu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can he annihilate them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Go blow your cowhide!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you have a peerless fierce man like Li Li Yuanba, you can't annihilate the Xiongnu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still that sentence, the grasslands are vast, Li Li Yuanba can fight, but he can only fight fifty thousand people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You want him to kill all millions of Xiongnu on the grasslands?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you kidding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is impossible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Zheng was very angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding this matter, he did not agree at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And besides his belief that Li Li Yuanba couldn't annihilate the Xiongnu, there was another realistic problem: money and grain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Li Yuanba couldn't annihilate the Xiongnu alone, so he could only rely on the army to cooperate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does the current national strength of Great Qin support this big battle against the Xiongnu?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It doesn't support it at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a big thing must require the strength of the whole country!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Great Qin's hearts are not united, how can they pour the strength of the whole country into fighting such a big battle?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And collecting taxes from the nobles!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This point made Ying Zheng the most angry!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nobles not paying taxes is a rule of how many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shang Yang reforms were so intense, they didn't dare to say anything about making nobles pay taxes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan Zhong wanted to distribute part of the land to farmers, but didn't dare to say anything about making nobles pay taxes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Zhou Gongdan also only dared to ritualize the hundred officials, and even more didn't dare to make nobles pay taxes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a madman like Wei Wei Wuji would think about making nobles pay taxes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now... Ying Su actually wanted to make nobles pay taxes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was according to Qin's half-tax!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this doing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is he crazy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ying Zheng became more and more angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, thinking and thinking, suddenly, his eyes lit up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Connecting stopping Great Wall repairs, stopping Afang Palace repairs, attacking the Xiongnu, and making nobles pay taxes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, he felt he understood Ying Su's intention in doing these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current Great Qin was full of public grievances because of building the Great Wall and the Afang Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And stopping the Great Wall and Afang Palace repairs was the simplest and fastest way to resolve public grievances!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But without the Great Wall, the Xiongnu would constantly harass the border and come to plunder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in order not to let the Xiongnu plunder, they had to attack the Xiongnu, making them unable to plunder!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But attacking the Xiongnu required money and grain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Required massive amounts of money and grain!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So... he thought of making nobles pay taxes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Ying Zheng's eyes lit up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, even he couldn't help but marvel at Ying Su's ideas!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very clever!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very bold!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... after thinking carefully, he still couldn't agree with Ying Su's approach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thing he disagreed with most was stopping the Great Wall repairs!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, it was noble taxation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew the people were suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even if they were suffering, they had to finish building the Great Wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Tian reported that the Great Wall was expected to be finished in thirty years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just let the people finish building the Great Wall, wouldn't that be it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just endure for thirty years, wouldn't that pass?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the Great Wall was finished, the Xiongnu wouldn't be able to plunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, grant a general amnesty, implement benevolent government, and give the people peace, wouldn't that be it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why must they stop the Great Wall repairs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they stopped the Great Wall repairs, they had to attack the Xiongnu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because attacking the Xiongnu had no money and grain, they came up with some method of noble taxation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this doing!\u003C\u002Fp>",1043,"2026-06-16T15:53:55.937Z","2026-06-16T16:02:52.546Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","ac398051409649f2f606f14592137e17347ded8663544e6a0eb0b91adb4a0d45","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-73","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-71",353,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-cover.jpg"]