An era that had lasted for eight hundred years was over.
After King Wu conquered Zhou, in order to rule the distant lands, the Emperor of Zhou granted eight hundred princes. In the first four hundred years of its birth, this set of systems with the Zhou royal family as its core enfeoffment allowed the Zhou royal family to enjoy the protection of the vassal states like stars holding the moon, until King You of Zhou smiled in praise of Beauties and played with the princes with beacon fire, and since then he has lost faith in the world. After that, King Ping hurriedly succeeded to the throne amid the war. However, after King Ping moved eastward, Emperor Zhou, the old grandmother of the world, could no longer control the affairs of the world.
The ancient order collapsed in the flames of war, and new systems were quietly born.
Zhao Zheng, a princess of the Qin State who was born in the State of Zhao, actually used the power of a country to annex these Warring States states that had been conquering each other for hundreds of years one by one in just ten years, turning all the original kingdoms with different customs into Qin State counties.
She claimed that she was one of the three emperors with high virtues and more meritorious than the five emperors. She said that from now on there would be no ancient wise kings in the world, and that she would be the unprecedented Holy Lord, the embodiment of the Great Dao in the human world. She claimed that she was adhering to the will of God, and said that from now on, there would be no authority under her Majesty the Emperor. There would be no princes, no wealthy families, only the emperor. She was not satisfied with these alone. She did not hesitate to use people's power and even tried to create an army that only belonged to the underworld. She said that even if she died, she would still be an emperor in the underworld!
No one knows whether this brand-new empire will really become the greatest miracle in ancient and modern times, or whether it will disappear in an instant like a building with an unstable foundation.
And our story begins right here.
Intention: This is not a history but a her-story.