Speaking of this, Concubine Wu bent her eyebrows, and there was a pleased smile on her face: "Speaking of which, although these six princes don't look very good, they are actually extremely beautiful people, and they are smart and steady, tenacious and resolute, and they are very kind, and this kindness is not the benevolence of women." In short, he is a very good and wonderful child, and I can see at a glance that if he ascends the throne, he will become a king. ”

Looking at her bright smiling face, Chen Ying also felt pleased.

Emperor Yuan Jia was indeed a good emperor, this is undeniable.

At this moment, Concubine Wu suddenly sighed, smiled bitterly: "When I was raising the six princes, I was very attentive to his diet and materials, for fear of whom's way. However, as the saying goes, 'there are only a thousand thieves, and there are no thousand-year thieves', I was so cautious, and the result was that Xiao Zhaoyi was successfully poisoned. ”

She shook her head with a weak expression: "Looking back now, I already understand that this is the fate of the six princes, and it is difficult to change it, just like the death of the first emperor and I will never be allowed to interfere in politics, it is all destined." ”

"Then have you saved the Six Princes?" Chen Ying asked.

Empress Dowager Xiao's poisoning also happened in this life, but Concubine Wu saved Emperor Yuanjia, but I don't know what happened in the previous life.

Concubine Wu nodded slightly, her expression was a little stunned: "It took a lot of effort to finally ask me to save the six princes, but he was really ill-fated, although he got a life, he fell ill, and his body was not as good as before." ”

She sighed and raised her eyes, looked at the willows piling up smoke in the distance, danced lightly under the moonlight, and her voice became erratic: "Since then, the six princes have often been sick, and the decoction in the town is continuous, and my whole heart is on him, and I don't care much about the first emperor, and soon fell out of favor, although I was not beaten into the cold palace, but our mother's life is also very difficult." ”

Her voice faded until it fell silent.

At that time, the years were difficult, and her only and all hope was the Six Princes.

But she didn't expect that fate played a joke on her again.

Gently exhaling a breath of turbidity, Concubine Wu looked into the distance, and continued faintly: "In the spring of the year before the death of the first emperor, the princes played horses and went on a wild trip, and the six princes accidentally fell off the horse, and their vertebrae were trampled by the horse's hooves, and they stayed up in bed for half a month, but they still went. ”

She closed her eyes slightly, and let out a very low sigh deep in her throat.

Chen Ying was also full of emotion.

Seeing that victory was in sight, but it still fell short, and Concubine Wu in the previous life had a hard time.

"The sixth prince fell from his horse, was it an accident?" After a short silence, Chen Ying asked softly.

"It's not an accident." Concubine Wu's answer was not as Chen Ying expected.

However, what she said next surprised Chen Ying.

"There is no doubt that the six princes were killed, but if you trace the source, the cause is still in me." Her expression was faint, and there was no emotion in her eyes.

Chen Ying looked at her quietly and did not interject.

After a while, Concubine Wu said again: "In order to allow the six princes to ascend to the throne at the beginning of the death of the first emperor, I have secretly made some arrangements. But who would have thought that one of the people I arranged was bribed by the Xiao family, and she stabbed the news to King An and King Kang's mother and concubine, and the two of them joined hands and killed the six princes. ”

Chen Ying was silent.

Emperor Yuanjia, the chosen king, has a really difficult road to survival.

"The last to ascend the throne in that life was King Shun." Concubine Wu said.

The rest of the princes who have never been emperors are the only ones.

"In that life, is it also a broken country?" Chen Ying asked.

Concubine Wu hooked her lips sneeringly: "Then do you need to ask?" This favorite thing to do in the five years of his reign is to kill the minister, and then call his wife and daughter into the palace after killing, order them to strip naked and dance, resist slightly, dig out the liver on the spot, roast it and give him wine. ”

A tyrant of the whole generation.

Chen Ying gave such a conclusion in her heart.

And then, she had an inexplicable sadness.

Under the rule of a tyrant, how could the life of the people of Dachu be better?

"It was in that life that I learned from the pain and figured out a truth." Concubine Wu's voice was louder again, no longer gloomy as before, but her words were clear: "The so-called Son of Heaven Holy Monarch is really a hundred times more difficult than throwing a dice and a leopard in the blockage." Among the many heirs of the first emperor, except for the current majesty, none of them can govern the country well. ”

She shook her head, and her tone became extremely heavy: "Not a single one." ”

"So, you came up with the idea of founding the Wind Bone Society?" Chen Ying asked.

"Not yet, it's just a vague thought." Concubine Wu smiled, sat up straight, and stroked her sleeves: "I had already read all the history books at that time, and the Four Books and Five Classics were also very familiar. From those scriptures, I realized a truth. It is not a good way to tie the people, the family and the country, and the country to one person. ”

She smiled lightly, and there was a strong disagreement in her eyes: "Even if there is a cabinet, six ministries, and science and Taoism officials, because of the human favors here, and the relationship is superimposed on each other, so the party is selfish and the group is respected, and the people can only hope that the sky will open their eyes and these people will find out their conscience in order to live." ”

She had a cold face, and her expression was between ridicule and righteous indignation: "If you take another 10,000 steps back, even if you have a few capable ministers, if the emperor is a bastard, it will be useless." What's even more terrifying, the minister will use all his wisdom and talent to deal with the emperor, and the monarch and the ministers will fight the law, but the people below will not be cared for at all. ”

At this point, the voice became colder: "After thinking about it, I found that people are the most unreliable and inaccurate, and in a thought, they can be good or evil, loyal or treacherous, life or death, in short, relying on people's hearts to rule the world will not work at all." That's why I thought of Tyranny. ”

She paused for a moment, as if to sort out her thoughts, and quickly continued: "Although everyone is cruel to the First Emperor, after reading the history books carefully, I found that it was just a deliberate debasement of the writer for his own benefit. Qin Shi Huang ruled the country with strict laws and regulations, and during his reign, Qin was the world's most powerful country, unmatched. From this alone, we can know that the First Emperor is truly the Emperor of the ages, and governing the country by system and rule of law is also the real way to govern the country. ”

After saying so much in one breath, she seemed to be a little short of breath, and when she stopped to catch her breath for a while, she smiled at Chen Ying again: "That's it, I was a little emotional for a while, but I said so much, are you tired of listening?" ”

"Not at all." Chen Ying smiled lightly, like a light in her eyes, and gently pressed it on Concubine Wu's body: "I think what you said is very reasonable, but there are some ...... Ahead of its time. ”

At a time when the productive forces have not developed to a certain extent and the overall social environment has not been thoroughly improved, forcibly implementing the rule of law and the rule of law will surely follow the old path of Qin Shi Huang.