Of course, the main reason was that Ying Zheng was not worried about the people of the six states rioting. Six hundred thousand troops were spread throughout the Central Plains, including one hundred thousand Cultivators.
The remaining five hundred thousand were all martial artists.
That was right. There were no ordinary people left in the Qin State's army. Even recruits were issued a pill the moment they entered the barracks, and swallowing it immediately turned them into martial artists.
Ying Zheng had no shortage of cultivation resources. He could produce as many as he wanted!
With an army of five hundred thousand martial artists and another one hundred thousand Cultivators, even if they wiped out every royal and noble family of the six states, the entire Central Plains—indeed, the whole world—would remain as steady as Mount Tai.
As long as all the royals and nobles of the six states were exterminated, there naturally would be no unrest.
Without leaders to stir them up, ordinary commoners would not care who ruled over them. As long as they could live and work in peace, as long as they had enough food and warm clothes, that was enough.
That was why Ying Zheng had reformed first before beginning his eastern campaign to unify the realm. He wanted to take over the lands and people of the six states smoothly.
He had even directly launched a campaign to seize the land of the rich and distribute it to the people!
He slaughtered all the royals and nobles of the six states, nationalized their lands, and then distributed them among the people of those states.
With that, he naturally won the people's hearts.
Of course, these reforms had long been implemented in the Qin State. However, a large portion of Qin's old nobility had already