Chapter Twenty-Six: Considerations for Ying Zheng
I got up to calm down, a driver took the curtain in his hand, stepped on the horse stool and stepped off the carriage, looking at the inconspicuous palace in front of me, I sighed lightly in my heart: 'Yingzheng, Yingzheng, you are really a complicated person. Say that your selfish desires are too heavy, you can eat dry food with us when you went to Lishan before, and Chengshan Palace is not as luxurious as you imagined; Say that you have a pure heart and few desires, overhaul the palace room, build the Lishan Mausoleum, where is there no palace for you in all the counties of the world......
Walking forward, a messenger was waiting at the palace gate, and when he saw me coming, he bowed and saluted: "See Your Highness." ”
"No courtesy."
The confessor continued to speak: "The emperor has an order, His Royal Highness will come to see him, and the rest will wait outside the palace." ”
Then take me to the palace.
It didn't take long to arrive at Ying Zheng's bedroom, and unexpectedly, almost all of the three ministers and the nine ministers and the Lie Qing were there, and Ying Zheng was still kneeling in the middle, just leaning on the pillow.
Ying Zheng in front of him has only been seen for half a year, and he is already so old, his thin body seems to be unable to support the high crown on his head, his face is pale, and his lips are almost bloodless.
Although I am not the previous Fusu, I have inherited some of Fusu's memories and feelings, and I can't help but have hot eyes in front of me, and two lines of tears are left uncontrollably. Although Qin Lu does not kneel, it is common for him to kowtow to his parents and elders, I leaned over and knelt on the ground, and my mouth was already trembling a little: "The son helps Su to knock to see his father, and his father is ten thousand years!" Great Qin 10,000 years! ”
Ying Zheng's tone was not as indifferent as before, and he replied softly and gently: "Excuse me, Fusu, sit beside me." ”
didn't call me the prince, maybe the deadline is approaching, and the family affection that Yingzheng has buried deep in his heart is a little loose.
I got up and walked over to the cushion at the head of Yingzheng and sat down.
Ying Zheng raised his hand and said, "Li Si and Feng Zheng stay, and the others are waiting outside the door." ”
After everyone went out, Ying Zheng said: "I am deeply disturbed when the deadline is approaching. ”
The eyes of the three of them suddenly turned red, one is a son, and the two are the three princes who have followed Ying Zheng to fight for half his life and unify the world, they all have mixed feelings at the moment, and they were just about to say comfort, Ying Zheng waved his hand and said: "I know my body." ”
Then he took the lead in looking at Li Si and Feng Zheng: "After I die, you have to be good to assist Fusu." ”
The two hurriedly bowed and said yes.
Then he turned to look at me, was silent for a while, and asked, "If you become Emperor Qin II, what will happen to you?" ”
I'm a little overwhelmed, and I can understand that Yingzheng's words have two meanings.
The first layer, of course, is to ask the world. If I become the second emperor, how will I govern the world, and what strategy will I adopt. You must know that the biggest reason why Yingzheng doesn't like Fusu is that Fusu and his political views are not in agreement, if I suddenly change the national policy after I ascend the throne, no one dares to guess how much impact it will have on Daqin.
The second layer is to ask yourself. Ying Zheng is dead, I am the second emperor, are these ministers and families below convinced? They followed Yingzheng and achieved the merit of unifying the world, and I wonder if there is a greater merit than this. Will I be able to hold down these arrogant generals after I ascend the throne?
Thinking about this, I didn't answer positively: "Back to my father, my father is ten thousand years old, and my sons dare not think about what it would be like if Great Qin did not have his father." The son just wants to return to his father what he has done during this time. ”
Ying Zheng nodded, it was already a little difficult for him to speak.
Seeing Ying Zheng nodding, I continued: "During the time when my father was not in Xianyang, Erchen thought a lot and met some people, which benefited Erchen a lot.
Erchen had been poisoned too much by Confucianism before. I am not afraid of my father's scolding, and the poison that Erchen said is not that Confucianism is harmful, but that Erchen's own reasons, in short, it is a taboo in learning: reading dead books, dead reading. I don't know how to use it in combination with the actual situation, I will only follow the rules, and I don't know how to learn and specialize.
In the past few days, Erchen has seen Feng Xiang, Shusun Tong, Lishan's Zuo Xiaoling Zhang Han, craftsmen, and all kinds of people coming and going in Xianyang City, etc., and have studied the laws of my Great Qin, the national chronicles, the county chronicles, the classics of Mo, agriculture, soldiers, law and other hundreds of schools, and I have a deep understanding.
These insights, the sons once said when they had dinner with the queen mother on the day of the winter solstice: knowledge is like the lake where the sons fall into the water, drought can irrigate, rain can store water, both living and drowning. There are hundreds of schools of thought, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and it only depends on whether the person who learns from him is for the good way or for the evil purpose.
The father should not be angry, the son does not want to lie to the father, the son will not completely abandon Confucianism, but it must be at the right time and the right place to learn what he has learned, and the son will no longer be paranoid and stubborn in the future, and should learn from the father and the sages. ”
Ying Zheng laughed a rare time after hearing this.
I hurriedly bowed my head: "Father, if the son is wrong, you can just scold, don't be angry." ”
Ying Zheng looked at me with relief and said, "I am very relieved that my son can have such a change, but how can I be angry." It's good, it's good. I have heard that you are like a different person since you fell into the water, and your personality has changed greatly, but I didn't expect to have this realization, it must be a gift from God, so that I have someone to succeed Daqin. ”
I arched my hand and said, "It's because Erchen was ignorant before, and he always made his father angry." ”
Ying Zheng nodded after hearing this, did not reply, slowly restrained his smile, frowned, and said: "I have already dealt with the matter of Chengshan, you don't need to know the details inside, and don't ask again in the future." ”
I raised my head and glanced at Yingzheng, and hurriedly replied, "I obey my father's orders." ”
I thought about it carefully in my heart: 'Oh, yes, I didn't see Li Fuling and Hu Hai when I came in just now, it is very likely that Li Fuling is doing something.
It's just that Hu Hai is only 10 years old, so he shouldn't be directly involved in it, probably in the name of Hu Hai when Li Fuling was making a false edict. Ying Zheng obviously doesn't want to see the brother wall, so it is better to deal with all the people involved and treat it as if this incident never happened.
However, Li Fuling is a CRRC government order, he doesn't have Zhao Gao's means, Li Si is safe and sound, obviously not involved, so where does Li Fuling have the ability to do these things? Is it with the help of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms?
Forget it, since Yingzheng can rest assured that I don't want to ask again, it must have been solved, and I don't have to worry about it. ’
It wasn't until many years later when Lees was about to die that he explained the reason for this, but I didn't care anymore at that time.
Then Ying Zheng ordered: "Call the people outside the palace back, and they are still under punishment." ”
The confessor on the side took the order and hurriedly walked out.
After a short time, the minister and the criminal middle who had just gone out returned to their respective positions, Yingzheng slowly sat up straight with the support of the maid next to him, and regained his former majesty, and solemnly said: "I have been feeling unwell recently, I feel weak, you are the mainstay of my Great Qin, I have a command, everyone in the palace listen carefully." ”
Then he reached out and picked up a piece of order from the low table and handed it to the torturer.