Chapter 98: Changing the country's name to Jing, proclaiming himself emperor, and...

Before the whole world was completely unified, the execution ground in Jingchang was already a river of blood. Many people petitioned Shen Zhiwei to stop the arrest of Yanxia and Hu Youan, but Shen Zhiwei remained indifferent.

Those people were asking for help everywhere. In order to avoid the Wen family from being caught, Wen Tao simply claimed to be sick and stayed at home, closing the door to visitors. As Gui Yang was the Prime Minister, he not only had no way to hide, but also had to go up to meet them. Yanxia and Hu Youan had to come to him to report before every action.

Fortunately, Gui Yang only had an old mother in his family. Apart from that, he had no blood relatives. It was difficult for those nobles to please Gui Yang in a roundabout way. After all, although those nobles did not say it before, they actually looked down on Gui Yang because his mother was a slave.

Now asking them to bow their heads and please a female slave whom they once looked down upon is more painful than killing them. Some nobles would rather destroy the evidence of their past crimes than bow their heads to a slave.

Gui Yang really likes the nobles' inexplicable self-esteem, because he doesn't want to get too close to these nobles who are destined to die. He has no clansmen to rely on, but he still wants to stay in a high position. If he is implicated by this group of people and loses the king's favor, Gui Yang will be so angry that he will die.

Shen Zhiwei sat on the throne, looking down at the group of nobles below who were like trapped beasts, gradually going crazy and desperate with no one to turn to for help. Some nobles took the risk and wanted to unite to be the enemy of Shen Zhiwei. They did not dare to rebel. The whole world was almost conquered by generals loyal to Shen Zhiwei, and it was very stable. Shen Zhiwei also governed well. Even if these nobles had troops and weapons, they could not resist the court.

So they just wanted Shen Zhiwei to be afraid of their power, so that he would stop the crazy encirclement and suppression, and thus escape.

Now, no one discussed whether Shen Zhiwei's three wishes were reasonable or not. They just wanted to survive.

Shen Zhiwei was happy to see this situation. After the nobles briefly joined forces, Shen Zhiwei took the opportunity to step down and no longer held on.

Just like the previous crackdown on corruption, there is no need to wipe out all of them. Human nature is greedy. It has been like this since ancient times. It has been like this from the root and can never be changed. It is enough to just catch them tightly. Why do we have to get to the bottom of it?

If everyone is really investigated thoroughly, there will be no one to use Shen Zhiwei in the court. Now that the education cause has begun to show results, Shen Zhiwei is not particularly short of low-level civil servants, but she still lacks senior officials. Talents who are capable of holding high-ranking positions are in short supply at any time.

"Now that no one in the court or the country is talking about the crowning of a king, Your Majesty can choose a date to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony. During the ceremony, you can change the country's name and change the king to emperor."

Wen Tao dropped a child, with a slightly relieved smile on his lips. He had finally survived this ordeal. No one was causing any trouble, and the king could finally get what he wished for.

She was relieved not only because she was happy that the king's wish was about to come true, but also because she could finally stop staying at home and refusing visitors.

She was locked up in the mansion every day. Although she did not stop handling government affairs, the workload was much smaller than before. For Wen Tao, who was accustomed to high-intensity work, she felt uncomfortable all over when she suddenly had some free time.

Shen Zhiwei saw through Wen Tao's secret joy at being able to continue working, and was shocked in her heart. She was convinced that if Wen Tao were in modern times, she would definitely be an involutionary maniac.

"Let's set it on the first day of next month." Shen Zhiwei picked a date at random. She knew that this date would become a very important time in the eyes of the people in the future. She should actually ask someone to calculate and see which time point would be the best recently.

However, in Shen Zhiwei's opinion, as long as it is a day she chooses, it is the best day. Why bother to calculate it?

Wen Tao knew a little about calculation. She calculated with her fingers and found that the first day of next month was actually a pretty good auspicious day, so she nodded immediately.

"The day Your Majesty has chosen is one of the rarest auspicious days in recent times. Tao would like to congratulate Your Majesty in advance on unifying the world and completing the unification task that previous kings had failed to accomplish. Your achievements are comparable to those of Duke Zhou. The people are now united and may Your Majesty bring blessings to the world."

"As long as all the people in the world live and work in peace and contentment, I will be at peace."

Shen Zhiwei didn't react much to these flattering words. Maybe it was because too many people had said such things recently and she was used to it.

It is not as important as achievement points. Over the years, she has completed many special tasks, most of which have SSR-level endings, and obtained 100,000 achievement points. There are currently three tasks in the task bar, and the achievement points she has accumulated in the past ten years are probably more than 20 million.

There is still a long way to go to reach 100 million, and I don’t know if the next ten years will be enough.

Shen Zhiwei felt that the current taskbar was also very crowded, and she wanted more taskbars.

The construction of a country has always involved many aspects, and only three achievement tasks can be triggered actively each time. This is too few and does not conform to the reality.

Shen Zhiwei harassed the system in the background, and the main system was basically blocked. No matter what Shen Zhiwei said, the main system would not pay attention to her at all. The achievement system was relatively flexible and intelligent. Every time Shen Zhiwei asked to add a task bar, the achievement system would use the most tactful tone to reject Shen Zhiwei.

The general meaning is that as the king, Shen Zhiwei can only have these taskbars at present.

Every time Shen Zhiwei saw these words, she felt that there was something behind them. She was about to become the emperor. She wondered if the task bar would increase when she became the emperor.

Shen Zhiwei set the date as the first day of August, which is quite close to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every year on August 15th, there is a tradition that the emperor worships the moon. At present, the people have not yet determined this festival, but some people have already called it the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There will be one more festival in August, Shen Zhiwei thought, holding his chin, and everyone will have a holiday on the first day of August.

Nowadays, every festival has a rich historical heritage. If Shen Zhiwei wants to add a meaningless commemorative day to various cultural festivals, he can only make a big splash.

If everyone is forced to rest on the same day, people with nothing to do will naturally go looking for fun. Shen Zhiwei can add some other celebrations. Over time, the first day of August will become a festival with a historical heritage.

This is changing history personally. Shen Zhiwei was so excited that her hands were shaking when she thought of this. She was even more excited than when she was offering sacrifices.

In Shen Zhiwei's view, sacrifice is not very important. She can achieve her goal even without holding a sacrifice.

Moreover, after coming to this world, Shen Zhiwei holds many sacrifices every year, all kinds of sacrifices. No wonder people in this era say that national affairs lie in sacrifices and wars. Sacrifices and wars are the most frequent large-scale human activities, so they are extremely important.

This was just Shen Zhiwei's inner complaint. In fact, the reason why it appeared so many times was mainly because it was necessary to appear.

The Son of Heaven is the incarnation of Heaven, and he rules the people in the name of the Son of Heaven. Therefore, no matter what important matters arise, they must be discussed with Heaven. Sacrifice is a way of negotiation, so it occurs frequently and is extremely important.

When this sacrifice is successfully completed, Shen Zhiwei's title of emperor will spread throughout the world, and along with it will be the news that the world is now unified and there are no more princes.

The princes who were still jumping around on the border did not dare to say anything at this time, so they tacitly began to expand outward, waiting for the army of Jing State to attack, and then they would withdraw.

The new name used by Shen Zhiwei for the country is Jing. Because she lives in Jingchang, which is the capital, she chose Jing as the name of the country.

It sounds a bit casual, but many times the name of a country comes from a former title, and most of the titles are related to place names, so people can know where the fiefdom is at once. Shen Zhiwei was once the emperor of Zhou, and the name Zhou could not be used for the country, so he used the character Jing from Jingchang.

Jingchang was renamed Shengdu, which means prosperity and also the capital of the country.

The first thing Shen Zhiwei did after ascending the throne was to collect the special rewards given by the achievement system. The main system was still as dead as ever, with no movement at all. Shen Zhiwei knew at a glance that there was no possibility of success in the main task.

Even though she changed the nature of the country, there was no movement in the main task. Shen Zhiwei suspected that it was really broken.

The achievement system completely replaced the main line system. Since Shen Zhiwei ascended the throne, electronic fireworks were set off for Shen Zhiwei every day, and a lot of rewards were given to Shen Zhiwei. Among them, the reward that Shen Zhiwei valued most was the increase of the achievement task bar to ten. The special tasks triggered quickly filled the task bar.

He also gave Shen Zhiwei a reward of 10 million achievement points, which, converted into money, was enough for Shen Zhiwei to live a wealthy life that everyone envied in modern times.

But compared to when he first crossed over, Shen Zhiwei didn't feel as excited when he saw the money.

Ten years of living in ancient times, and being the emperor, has brought about a great change in Shen Zhiwei's personality. She is not as noisy as before, nor does she love money as much as before.

Because she owns an entire country in this world, she can use any resources at will. Money is not important at all in her eyes because she has no use for it. Money is part of her people's property, and she can control anyone's property anytime and anywhere.

In other words, the technological level of this world has not caught up with the modern one, resulting in her quality of life being not that high. Also, Shen Zhiwei does not like some of the systems in this world very much, so she still wants to return to the modern era.

Going back seems to have become an obsession rather than a necessity.

Shen Zhiwei believed that this was the obsession of returning to one's roots. Even though this country was the prosperous era she had created, she still could not regard this place as her true hometown.

Among the task rewards given by the system, there are also several e-books, whose contents include law, history, social economy, etc. Shen Zhiwei looked at the thousands of pages of content after clicking on them, and silently closed these books.

Every country has a different path to take, and there is no need to copy modern things. Some theoretical knowledge may be suitable for modern times, but it will not be suitable for Jingguo at the moment. Shen Zhiwei believes that she should still find contemporary masters to discuss matters such as revising laws, and cannot rely on the books given by the system.

I definitely don't mean to be too lazy to read such a thick book.

The vassal states had just been destroyed, and each country had a different writing system. Even with the promotion of Mandarin, it was not possible to achieve the level of unified writing. Therefore, the first thing Shen Zhiwei had to do was to promote the standardization of writing, wheel gauge, measurement system, customs, and geography.

Shen Zhiwei would like to call this series of actions cosplaying Qin Shi Huang.