If the parallel system of counties and kingdoms plus the Enfeoffment Order were meant to nominally eliminate the risk of division in the world, then the standardization of the wheel gauge was the practical implementation of this concept.
The tracks in all parts of the country are the same, breaking the blockade of tracks in various places and truly achieving no barriers.
This was naturally disadvantageous to the Qin nobles who regarded their fiefdoms as their own private plots.
They also thought that after a hundred years after the First Emperor's death, when Crown Prince Julian Ying would succeed to the throne, the empire would be truly divided up.
Standardizing the wheel gauge brought many benefits to the Qin State. It was a major step towards national unification and had great strategic significance.
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