Loyalty to the Emperor [Second Update]

Heavenly omens descended, and the yellow robe was placed upon him, but that did not mark the end of the ceremony.

At this coronation ceremony, Ye Ting still had many things to announce:

"Since all under Heaven belongs to Us, and imperial authority alone is supreme, the Son of Heaven is honored because he is heard but never seen by his ministers. Thus, We are called 'Zhen.'"

Thus, "Zhen" became a first-person pronoun that only the emperor could use.

He also proclaimed: "We have heard that in ancient times there were titles but no posthumous names. In later ages, there were titles, and upon death, posthumous names were bestowed according to one's deeds. In this way, sons judged fathers and ministers judged sovereigns. It is utterly absurd, and We reject it. From this day forth, abolish the system of posthumous names. We shall be the First Emperor. Later generations shall be numbered: Second Emperor, Third Emperor, unto ten thousand generations, passed down without end."

In truth, what ten thousand generations could there be? With Ye Ting's lifespan, even if the Qin Empire were destroyed, he would not die.

Of course, his willfulness did not end there.

At the coronation ceremony, Ye Ting announced the national policies that Qin would implement in the future.

The first was the unification of weights and measures, as well as writing.

For Qin, which had already entered an industrial society, the importance of weights and measures went without saying. The unification of writing, meanwhile, made communication between people easier and allowed the citizens of this nation to truly become one whole.

As for how the people of the conquered Six States would spend their time learning and adapting, or how the cultures of the Six States would decline with the disappearance of their old scripts,