Ying Zheng was very worried about Fusu before he left. He felt that Fusu should be able to do what was required in the test.
But now he looked at the results and felt a little guilty. There hasn't been any movement so far. Could it be that Fusu really didn't understand what he meant?
In fact, Ying Zheng, who had been wandering around for the past two years, relaxed both physically and mentally. He saw a lot of things and saw himself who had been tired in the past.
A year and a half ago, when most places in Baiyue began to assimilate and learn the Central Plains culture, Ying Zheng's inner obsession almost disappeared.
"Hey." Ying Zheng sighed again. He looked at Chen Ke in front of him and said, "Otherwise, may I remind Fusu?" Chen Ke looked at Ying Zheng and couldn't help but want to laugh, even if his achievements were eternal. The First Emperor was also a little helpless and tired when facing his children.
He just smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I don't think His Highness Fusu has given up, or that he didn't see anything." Chen Ke squinted his eyes slightly, took the information provided by Hei Bingtai before, and pointed at Somewhere it said: "Your Majesty, if you are concerned, you will be confused."
"Take a look here." He pointed to a certain place and said, "Although His Highness Fusu did not change everyone's position, he did dispatch some people to work in the Prime Minister's Office." Chen Ke squinted his eyes. , I kept thinking in my heart.
Finally, he let out a long sigh, and then said: "Your Majesty, I seem to have a guess, but I don't know if it is accurate - it may be just a guess made by me." After hearing what Chen Ke said, Ying Zheng said, On the contrary, I was a little curious.
"guess?"
"What speculation?" Chen Ke looked slightly into the distance. If it was really as he thought, then Fusu's mind was indeed ready to succeed the First Emperor.
He said leisurely: "Your Majesty, look here, here, and here." Chen Ke pointed to several places in succession, and then said softly: "There are problems in these places. If I am not wrong, I am afraid that in the past few days, You will receive a letter from His Highness Fusu."
"The general content of this letter is as follows: First, I am concerned about your and my health, and then ask when we will go back; second, I am reporting to you that based on some of the few words I left before, I have developed a system that can allow you to Da Qin's administrative efficiency has improved again; thirdly, he is applying to you - he wants to hold a Da Qin court official selection competition at four universities: Xianyang University, Zhongzhou University, Tianhai University, and Penglai University." Ying Zheng was the most I didn't hear anything at first, but later I did hear some hidden content.
He didn't get angry because of it, but instead felt some pleasure from it. Fusu was not as pedantic as he thought, and did not see his true meaning. He was more stable and ruthless than he thought.
Ying Zheng seemed to be slow to understand, and then laughed: "I see." Once this piece of window paper was pierced, some of his past thoughts completely came back. He smiled slightly and looked at the past information. I looked for a few things: "You just forgot, there are these."
"Some of the people he promoted were simply allowed to work part-time in the Prime Minister's Office, and some were not even given official positions at all, so I ignored them before and didn't notice them." At this time, Ying Zheng seemed as if He said confidently: "So, everything that happened before was just a trick of this guy Fusu. I'm afraid that if I go back, I will see a changed Great Qin, right?" Chen Ke looked at Ying Zheng without any displeasure. His expression immediately relaxed a little.
He also smiled in agreement: "This boy, I did this without telling you and my ministers this time." Ying Zheng shook his head. Although the mood in his heart was cheerful, he was still a little disappointed after all. Disappointment with Fusu.
Fusu's methods were gentle yet cruel, which made people unable to react. This should have been a good thing. After all, the First Emperor himself planned to abdicate and hand over his power, thus forming the rules inherited by the Qin Dynasty.
But now that Fusu had actually done this, he felt a sense of loss in his heart. Just when Ying Zheng was about to say something, a low voice sounded outside the carriage, and it was Han Tan's voice: "Your Majesty, the documents from Heibingtai regarding Xianyang have been delivered today."
"In addition, His Highness Fusu asked Hei Bingtai to send you three letters." Three letters? Hearing this number, not only Ying Zheng, but also Chen Ke was a little surprised.
Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows slightly, with a bit of shock on his face: "Three letters? Before I left, I told him that if there was a third letter, I would end my tour and return to the court." There was a hint of shock in his tone. Some people were puzzled: "He hasn't completed the layout at this time, right? Don't you worry that I will just knock down all his stalls when I go back?" Chen Ke also frowned slightly, and he didn't understand what Fusu meant this time. .
Ying Zheng waved and ordered the people outside the carriage to deliver documents and letters. He first opened the documents of Heibingtai so that he could find out what Fusu had done recently and glean Fusu's purpose this time from these things.
The document is very concise, because Xianyang City, the court, and Fusu did nothing. Ying Zheng opened the first letter with confusion. This letter was just as Chen Ke expected. It was concerned about the bodies of Chen Ke and Ying Zheng, and expressed his longing for them.
By the way, he asked the First Emperor to return to Xianyang.
"Is this worth writing a letter to me alone?" Ying Zheng held the letter with a dumbfounded look on his face, and Chen Ke was also a little helpless.
He looked at Ying Zheng and said, "Your Majesty, will you open the second letter and take a look?" Ying Zheng nodded slightly. After opening the second letter, the content inside was exactly as Chen Ke expected. Regarding Fusu's awareness of the low administrative efficiency of the central court, he learned a certain amount from watching Chen Ke's methods before, and thus speculated on a more reasonable system.
But this matter is too big, so I dare not make a decision on my own. I can only ask Ying Zheng for judgment. Until this point, neither Ying Zheng nor Chen Ke saw the necessity of the third letter.
Ying Zheng frowned slightly and looked at Chen Ke: "Come, let's take a look at what this third letter is."
"I want to see what it is that you, Chen Ke, didn't even guess." He unfolded the letter, and the contents of the letter were spread out in front of the two of them.
"Father, the Emperor personally declares:"
"The matters requested by me are all in the first two letters. This letter is my private matter."
"After my father's tour, all matters inside and outside the court were judged by his sons and ministers. How big is the world?"
"Therefore, I was somewhat overwhelmed, so I specially selected a group of people from Xianyang University, research institutes, and various civil servants to study and help in the Prime Minister's Office and various institutions."
"These personnel do not have official positions, and their salaries are the same as usual."
"In such a spring and Autumn period, the sons and ministers discovered their talents and specially reported to their father what they were good at, their official positions, and their names."
"My son is still young and it is impossible to judge whether his talents can be used by the court."
"Therefore, I would like to ask my father to make a clear decision." Except for these few lines in the entire letter, all the names written below are names.
What is his name, what official position he held in the past, what official position he holds at this time, and where he is seconded.
Written clearly. Ying Zheng looked at the list with some astonishment. He knew that with this list, if he was willing, almost as soon as he returned to Xianyang, he could completely wipe out the forces that Fusu had been running for more than two years.
In other words, he can turn these people into his own. But Fusu still gave this list.
He was a little surprised by his son's frankness. Instead, Chen Ke exhaled, pointed to the letter and said, "Your Majesty, look, this is what His Highness Fusu would do." He said with some emotion: "You and I are all standing at the same angle. You see, that means I must get this right, or I want to test you, but His Highness Fusu is different."
"Even if we go through thousands of sails, His Highness will still be His Highness back then, and he will still be that honorable gentleman."
"In other words, His Highness Fusu has never thought about the so-called throne and wresting rights from you." Chen Ke's eyes were a little complicated. Obviously he did not expect this, let alone Fusu. Do so.
Ying Zheng looked at the letter, and the sadness in his heart suddenly disappeared. He just put down the letter indifferently, then looked in the distance and said: "Let's go to Mount Tai." Ying Zheng's expression was solemn: "In the past, when I just ascended the throne, I worshiped on Mount Tai. , it was raining heavily, but I refused to accept my fate and climbed up anyway."
"At that time, a group of bitter scholars were still mocking me, thinking that I had offended God."
"Now, five years have passed, and I am still here. Daqin is also full of vitality. Mount Tai is still Mount Tai, standing there."
"I am still me, ruling the land of Great Qin."
"But those sarcastic scholars had their heads chopped off by me." He said with a smile: "It starts with Mount Tai, and it should also end with Mount Tai."
"The last stop of this parade is Mount Tai!"......Xianyang City, Zhangtai Palace. Fusu, who had just finished handling government affairs, stretched his waist and stood up to move around. My muscles and bones were still thinking about the three letters I had sent a few days ago.
The thoughts in my mind were spinning a thousand times. In fact, in the first month after Ying Zheng left, Fusu really didn't think about what it meant. He just felt that he couldn't do things with the help of his father's power, otherwise what if his father was gone in the future?
Later, when he was in charge of the court, he discovered a very interesting thing. His power to supervise the country is too great.
He can even appoint any official position, including the three ministers. This is very scary. In other words, except that he does not have the title of emperor, he is now the emperor.
Even if you want to replace the military generals who defended Xianyang City, even if you want to recall Wang Jian stationed in the south, Han Xin stationed in the western region, and Meng Tian stationed in the northern Xinjiang, you can do it.
Even if he wants to make the old Qin troops in Guanzhong listen to him, that's fine. This doesn't make sense.
If he wants to control the Qin Dynasty, he can even appoint a lot of his confidants now, and even if the First Emperor returns, these confidants will probably continue to be in their positions.
By that time, he, Fusu, would truly become a force. But when Fusu saw through this, he was not as calm as Chen Ke and the First Emperor thought. He was extremely peaceful, even smiling.
He was indeed ambitious and wanted to control Great Qin, but Fusu also knew what this incident meant to his father and what decision Fusu wanted to make with this tour.
Fusu didn't want to cause any estrangement in the hearts of the First Emperor or his father. So even though he was still arranging his own manpower secretly and never wrote to the First Emperor to test, on the other hand, Fusu was also fully prepared.
At the critical moment when he was about to complete the changes in the central court, he wrote three letters to the First Emperor. Only the third letter is crucial.
Even the content is not critical; what is critical is the symbol of the third letter. When the First Emperor left for the tour, he once said that if he sent the third letter, he would end the tour and return to Xianyang City. He also heard the subtext clearly.
You will then be screened out. Fusu took advantage of this. He wanted his father to return and wanted to see if his father was satisfied with his results.
As for whether he would be suspected by his father and lose his life, Fusu didn't really care. Since ancient times, there have been countless people vying for the throne. Some people starved their fathers to death for their own throne; some people indulged their own men to poison their fathers for their own throne; some people killed their own children for their own throne. son.
Fusu even thought comfortably, if his father really suspected him, what would happen if he died?
He never gambled, but this time, he did. Because he is willing to accept any result. ........ A guard of honor that had been prepared long ago stood at the foot of Mount Tai, while a carriage drove by in the distance, with the First Emperor and Chen Ke sitting in it.
The surrounding Iron Eagle guards had serious and calm expressions on their faces, and it was nothing more than this when the army was traveling.
.....Xianyang City, there was a letter placed on the table of Zhangtai Palace. Fusu did not open it to read it, he just stood there indifferently, his hands curled up in his sleeves seemed It was trembling slightly.
Fusu was nervous. Because this letter is the letter that determines his future. After taking a few deep breaths, Fusu stretched out his hand, slowly reaching towards the letter in the distance, and then opened the letter with a pair of hands as white as jade.
Whatever the outcome, he was willing to accept it.
