Det omfattade en enda valuta en konsolidering av alla vikter och mått och vagnbredder och dessutom hur det kinesiska språket skulle skrivas. Det omfattade även vad man fick skriva och tänka. ###>This included mandating a single coinage, making uniform all weights and measures, the widths of carts and roads, as well as the precise way the Chinese language was to be written, including what you were allowed to write and think.