I got up to calm down. The driver had already taken over the curtain in his hand, stepped on the dismounting stool and stepped out of the carriage. Looking at the inconspicuous palace in front of me, I sighed in my heart: "Ying Zheng, Ying Zheng, you are such a complicated person." people. Say you have too much selfish desires. When you went to Lishan Mountain before, you could eat dry food with us. The Chengshan Palace is not as luxurious as you imagined. Say you are pure of heart and have few desires. You will overhaul the palace and build the Lishan Mausoleum. There is no county like you in the world. Palace...'
I walked forward and saw a visitor waiting at the palace gate. When he saw me arriving, he bowed and saluted: "See you, Your Highness."
"No gift."
The visitor straightened up and continued to speak: "The emperor has an order. His Highness is the one to come to the throne. The others are waiting outside the palace."
Then he took me to the palace.
Not long after, they arrived at Ying Zheng's palace. Unexpectedly, almost all the ministers accompanying him, including the three ministers, nine ministers and ministers, were there. Ying Zheng was still kneeling in the middle, just leaning on the pillow.
The Ying Zheng in front of him had only been seen for half a year, and he was already so old. His thin body seemed unable to support the high crown on his head, his face was pale, and his lips had almost no blood left.
Although I am not the Fusu before, I have inherited some of Fusu's memories and emotions. I can't help but feel my eyes heat up at this scene, and two lines of tears fall uncontrollably. Although the law of Qin does not kneel, it is common to kowtow to parents and elders. I bent down and knelt on the ground, and my words were trembling a little: "My son, help Su, kowtow to the emperor, the emperor will live forever! The Qin Dynasty will live forever!"
Ying Zheng's tone was not as cold as before, and he replied softly and gently: "Without courtesy, Fu Su, come sit next to me."
You didn't call me the prince, maybe the deadline is approaching, and the family affection deeply buried in Ying Zheng's heart has loosened a little.
I got up and walked to the cushion under Ying Zheng's head and sat down.
Ying Zheng raised his hand and said, "Li Si and Feng Jie stay, and the others are waiting outside."
After everyone left, Ying Zheng said: "My deadline is approaching, and I feel deeply uneasy."
The eyes of the three people suddenly turned red. One was his son, and the two were the three princes who had followed Ying Zheng for half their lives to unify the world. They all had mixed feelings at this moment. When they were about to say comfort, Ying Zheng waved his hands and said: "I know my body myself."
Then he took the lead and looked at Li Si and Feng Jie: "After my death, you must help Fusu."
The two of them quickly bowed and said yes.
Then he turned to look at me, was silent for a while and asked: "What will happen to you if you become the second emperor of Qin?"
I'm a little at a loss. I can understand that Ying Zheng's words have two meanings.
The first level is, of course, asking the world. If I become the second emperor, how will I govern the world and what strategies will I adopt? You must know that the biggest reason why Ying Zheng dislikes Fu Su is that Fu Su does not agree with his political views. If I suddenly change national policy after taking the throne, no one dares to guess how much impact it will have on Da Qin.
The second level is to ask yourself. Ying Zheng dies, and I ascend the throne as the second emperor. Will the ministers and families below obey? They followed Ying Zheng and achieved the feat of unifying the world. I wonder if there is any greater achievement than this. Will I be able to suppress these proud ministers and generals after I take the throne?
After thinking about this, I did not answer directly: "Report to my father. My father has lived for ten thousand years. I dare not think about what the Qin Dynasty would be like without my father. I just want to report to my father what I have done during this period." "
Ying Zheng nodded, it was already difficult for him to speak.
Seeing Ying Zheng nodding, I continued: "While my father was away in Xianyang, I thought a lot and met some people, which benefited me a lot.
My son was deeply poisoned by Confucianism. I am not afraid of my father's scolding. The poison mentioned by Erchen is not that Confucianism is harmful, but because of Erchen himself. To put it simply, he committed a taboo in learning: studying to death and studying to death. If you don't know how to use it according to the actual situation, you will only follow the rules and don't know how to specialize in learning and attack in skills.
In the past few days, your ministers have met Feng Xiang, Shusun Tong, Lishan's Zuo Xiaoling Zhang Han, craftsmen, and various people coming and going in Xianyang City. They have learned the laws, national annals, prefecture and county annals of our Great Qin, Mo, I have a deep understanding of the classics of hundreds of schools of agriculture, military, and law.
With these insights, the son once said when having dinner with his mother on the day of the winter solstice: Knowledge is like the lake water where the son fell into the water. It can be irrigated by drought and stored by rain. It can both live and drown people. There are hundreds of schools of thought, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. It just depends on whether the person who follows him is doing good or doing evil.
Father, don’t be angry. I don’t want to lie to my father. I will not completely abandon Confucianism, but I will apply what I have learned at the right time and place. I will never be paranoid again in the future. , If you are stubborn, you should learn from your father and sages. "
Ying Zheng laughed rarely after hearing this.
I quickly lowered my head and said, "Father, if I say something wrong, just scold me and don't get angry."
Ying Zheng looked at me with relief and said: "I am very happy that my son has changed like this, so how can I be angry? Very good, very good. I heard before that you seemed to be a different person since you fell into the water. There has been a huge change in my personality. I didn’t expect to have such an understanding. It must be a gift from God to give me a successor to Great Qin.”
I cupped my hands and said, "My son was not sensible before and always made my father angry."
After hearing this, Ying Zheng nodded and did not reply. He slowly stopped smiling, frowned, and said, "I have already taken care of Chengshan's matter. You don't need to know the details, and don't ask again in the future."
I raised my head and glanced at Ying Zheng, and quickly replied: "I will obey my father's order."
Thinking carefully about it in my mind: 'Oh, yes, I didn't see Li Fuling and Hu Hai when I came in just now. It's most likely that Li Fuling is causing trouble.
It's just that Hu Hai was only 10 years old, so he probably wouldn't have been directly involved. It was probably in Hu Hai's name that Li Fu ordered the fake edict. Ying Zheng obviously didn't want to see his brothers fighting each other, so he might as well get rid of all the people involved and treat it as if it never happened.
However, Li Fuling is a Zhongche Fuling. He does not have the means of Zhao Gao. Li Si is safe and sound and obviously did not participate. So how can Li Fuling have the ability to do these things? Could it be that they are relying on the survivors of the Six Kingdoms again?
Forget it, since Ying Zheng can rest assured that I won't ask any more questions, it must have been solved, so I don't need to worry. '
It was not until many years later that Li Si explained the reason to me when he was about to pass away, but at that time I no longer cared.
Then Ying Zheng ordered: "Call back the people outside the palace and punish them."
The visitor on the side took the order and hurried out.
Not long after, the ministers and Xingzhong who had just left returned to their respective places. With the support of the maid next to him, Ying Zheng slowly sat up straight, regained his previous dignity, and solemnly said: "I have been feeling unwell recently, and I feel deeply sorry for you. I am weak, you are all the mainstays of our Great Qin, I have an order, everyone in the palace listen carefully."
Then he reached out and picked up a command order from the low table and handed it to Xing Zhong.
