Outside the city of Chang''an, it''s midnight. It should be dark.
Indeed, at this time, Chang''an city is indeed dark and quiet, and there are a pair of black armour Qin army patrolling on various streets, large and small.
A curfew policy has been implemented in the whole city of Chang''an. Anyone should wait at night unless there is a government document or a general order of the Qin army.
Otherwise, they are not allowed to go out. Once they are found, they will be severely punished. If the circumstances are serious, they can even be killed by the soldiers of the Qin army.
At this moment, several miles away from Chang''an City, the sky is ablaze with fire, and the orange light makes the whole night sky red.
It looks like the boundless flame sweeping from the night, giving people a feeling that the light is coming.
"Stop it. You all give it to my assistant."
"This is the cultural crystallization of our great Wei Dynasty for hundreds of years. How can you be so savage? All the books of civilization have been burned. "
"How dare you, such as your barbarism, to be called an empire
A few miles away from Chang''an City, 20 or 30 huge pits have been dug around, and all of them are burning orange flame.
Next to each pit, there are more than ten cars of books, surrounded by Qin Jia generals and soldiers.
And there are always Qin soldiers holding the books on the table, still toward the burning pit.
Suddenly, countless cultural achievements turned to ashes.
A closer look, around the 20 or 30 pits also have Qin soldiers burning books.
Here, though there are nearly one thousand troops of the Qin army.
Under the fire that seemed to burn out the sky, the originally dark and bright Qin army armor actually reflected a light orange light.
Although it is not as strong as the cold light reflected in the dark night, it has a sense of destruction.
At this time, an old man was denouncing the actions of the Qin army and was deeply distressed that so many books had been burned savagely.
Leaning on crutches, the old man angrily pointed to these soldiers and soldiers, trying to stop this and that.
But the old and decadent body seems so powerless, let the old man feel a desolation.
"Master, don''t be so angry."
Looking at the old man who has been flushed with anger, his neck is thick, and his body is shaking. It seems that he is going to be angry at any time. A young man behind him directly comes up to hold him.
And behind the youth, there are also hundreds of people in various brocade clothing gathered here, they are all members of the major families in Chang''an city.
The family is not a clan. Although it is an official in the Dynasty and holds great power, it will not raise private soldiers, occupy land on a large scale, form a large-scale clique, and will not go against the imperial court. It is essentially different from the aristocratic clan.
Even in the Empire, there were many families. For example, the Mengjia and Wangjia, the capital of Xianyang, belonged to the family category, not to mention Chang''an city. Therefore, these people naturally avoided the first wave of imperial cleansing.
Not long ago, news came that the emperor of Qin left Chang''an City and his destination was unknown.
When the news came, all the family members were overjoyed.
Some time ago, the scene of tens of thousands of people rolling to the ground on the terrible day of Chang''an bloodshed is still vivid. These families do not want to follow the footsteps of those aristocratic families.
It can be said that they are worried and worried for a long time!
With Ying Ji''s departure, these families are finally relieved.
However, what many people didn''t expect was that before the Qin emperor left Chang''an City, he suddenly issued instructions, except for the books on politics, agriculture, medicine and divination, which were conducive to promoting the development of civilization.
Once again, all the books about the imperial city and the army were collected by Yu Wan!
After collecting the books, Ying Ji formally ordered that more than 100000 books of thought should be burned and no one should be left.
And all of these books are forbidden books. Anyone who dares to keep books in private will be killed!
The emperor''s order was conveyed, and Chang''an howled and denounced this as the destruction of civilization.
But Ying Ji didn''t care so much. He directly ordered that anyone who openly did anything against the Empire''s words and deeds should be arrested and executed immediately.
The imperial army went out again to capture and arrest more than 1000 people who set off the uprising, and killed them in the streets of Chang''an.
Once again, Chang''an City, which has just begun to recover its vitality, is one of the most terrible and bloody means!
It''s no wonder that Ying Ji is so ruthless. Ying Ji knows a truth that the real unification of the Empire must first achieve the unity of culture.
To achieve cultural unity, we must first eliminate these heretical cultures.
If you want to destroy your country, you must first destroy its history!
In Ying Ji''s opinion, anyone who obstructed or opposed the unification of imperial culture was more hateful than corrupt officials, and could only be solved by ruthless means."No one is allowed to move!"
I can''t help but see that the books stored in these families are burned as firewood one after another. It''s heartache for these family members.
After all, these books were originally used to train the elite disciples of the family. Once burned out, it would be a huge blow to all families in the future. How can these people still sit still?
However, when these people are ready to act, suddenly a violent drink comes, and the words are full of fierce and murderous spirit.
Let everyone act and dare not respond.
At a glance, he saw a general of the Qin army, dressed in silver and white armor, with a strong bow and arrow on his back.
This man was arranged by Pei Xingjian himself, who was in charge of the plan of burning books and dying history in Chang''an, and Zhong limi, the imperial captain!
All the troops of the Qin army in the vicinity of a thousand men team were the officers and men of Zhong limi who were originally under the command of the Ming Yue world in the Qin Dynasty.
Although the number of troops is small, but its strength can not be ignored. Now Pei Xingjian is the leader of the Fifth Army!
In terms of strength, Pei Xingjian''s 1000 elite soldiers under the command of historical Tang Dynasty can be called the trump card of the Fifth Army. Naturally, Pei Xingjian assigned this task to his Majesty''s historical mission.
"You can''t burn the books, general!"
Looking at Zhong Liyi coming, the old man in the family said to Zhong Liyi with tears in his voice. There was a hint of pleading in his tone.
It''s hard to imagine that the old man is willing to kowtow to a young man for the future of his family.
"Yes, general Zhong Li, these books are the foundation of our family. We can''t burn them!"
"You can''t burn it, general Zhong Li!"
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Looking at the old man''s mouth, hundreds of family members who followed the old man were competing to say that they wanted to force Zhong Liyi to stop burning books.
After all, now that the Qin emperor has left Chang''an, the people of these families are also somewhat relieved.
If this person is Pei Xingjian, even these people did not dare to eat leopard gall.
But this man is Zhong Limi. In the eyes of these family members, Zhong limi is just a general of the Qin army. He has never seen anything in the world.
There should be some backstage, so they were promoted to carry out the task of burning books. Under the firm stand of the big families, they should choose to retreat.
But these people forget that, as the general of the wind, they came from the Ming Yue world in the Qin Dynasty. They fought on the battlefield and were loyal to the Empire, especially those miscellaneous fish could guess.
It''s naive to try to use pressure on others.
PS: in the idea of the next plot jump, today is one more, with the little brother and miss sister to talk about, so as not to wait.
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