Xue Ji thought that after Zheng'er became the first emperor, she was still the child who was spoiled by her before, but this time Zheng'er seemed to have matured.

Xue Ji didn't show anything in front of Ying Zheng, only sobbed under the quilt at night.

When the child grows up, it's time to pack his bags and walk alone, and parents are always proud and sad.

Yukihime was dissatisfied: "Aren't you sad?" ”

Zhu Xiang said: "It's okay." Zheng'er is still the same Zheng'er, but she's grown up, isn't it? ”

After being comforted by Zhu Xiang for a long time, Xue Ji finally relieved herself and was barely able to accept that the child had really grown up.

This night, Yukihime finally stopped crying.

After Xue Ji fell asleep, Zhu Xiang got up and put on his clothes and walked into the courtyard.

Ying Zheng was waiting for him in the courtyard with a jar of wine.

Zhu Xiang was helpless: "How old is you, still throwing stones and smashing windows?" Who taught you? ”

Ying Zheng said: "You." ”

Zhu Xiang disliked: "It's definitely not me." ”

Ying Zheng shook the wine jar: "That's Uncle Lin." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "It must be Lin Li!" ”

In order not to wake up Xue Ji, Zhu Xiang and Ying Zheng walked a few more steps and walked to the pond where Zhuangzi raised fish.

The water in the pond has not yet thawed. Zhu Xiang and Ying Zheng lit a fire in the pavilion and directly put the wine jar next to the fire to warm it.

"Why don't you let me comfort my aunt?" Ying Zheng was dissatisfied, "You just let me watch my aunt cry?" ”

How could Ying Zheng not find his aunt sad? But when he tried to comfort his aunt, his uncle stopped him and made him pretend not to see.

"Sooner or later, Yukihime will have to accept the fact that you have grown up and are no longer the child she is carrying. It's good for you and it's good for her. Zhu Xiang said, "Although you will always respect her, her mentality still has to change." ”

The emperor didn't need an elder who dictated to him.

Xue Ji's thoughts were learned from Zhu Xiang. But Zhu Xiang is out of step with this world.

In order to secure the position of the emperor and make the Qin Dynasty more stable and long-lasting, many of the national policies used must be contrary to Zhu Xiang's ideals and Xue Ji's simple morality.

Zhu Xiang was worried that Xue Ji would be psychologically unwell and clash with Zheng'er at that time.

Because Xue Ji once taught Zheng'er, she was more strict with Zheng'er. Once Zheng'er breaks through her moral bottom line, if Xue Ji doesn't establish the psychological construction that Zheng'er is already an emperor, she will definitely blame Zheng'er.

Zhu Xiang expected that scene and didn't want Xue Ji to come to this point.

Now while they and Zheng'er don't have much ideological differences, Zhu Xiang asks Xue Ji to gradually accept that Zheng'er is already the emperor, and they can no longer control Zheng'er's thoughts, they must believe in Zheng'er and let Zheng'er go by himself. In the future, if there is a difference of thought, Yukihime ......

Yukihime and herself can accept this fact calmly.

Ying Zheng stared at the wine altar and said, "Uncle is so sure, I will definitely take a different path from your teaching?" ”

Zhu Xiang said with a smile: "I have read Shang Ying's strategies of tired people, foolish people, and abuse of people. Although I have taught you that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, but the resources of the world are limited, and after satisfying the most basic survival needs of the common people, in order to prevent them from breeding ambitions that will shake the rule of the dynasty, the emperor will definitely use the strategy of Shang Martingale at the same time. ”

Ying Zheng, as always, quietly listened to his uncle's eloquent conversation.

"And natural disasters can't go away. As long as there is a natural disaster, there must be people who will not survive. If someone can't survive, they will rebel. The victims are innocent, but for the sake of the stability of the dynasty's rule, the victims are traitors and need to be eliminated. ”

"Although most of the land has been nationalized by the Qin Dynasty, after the nobles get the land, they will gradually form a new Shiqing aristocracy. Land annexation will become more and more violent, endangering civilians. But now the nobles who can help the emperor govern the country are the backbone of the rule, and the emperor cannot harm the interests of these people. ”

Zhu Xiang poured himself a glass of wine and drank it all.

"An ideal is an ideal, and reality is a reality. The king is the king, and the people are the people. Although the people can carry the boat and capsize the boat, before the stormy seas, the king and the people may also have opposing sides. ”

"Zheng'er, you have to build an unprecedented and great achievement that will amaze future generations. So you will definitely squeeze the people's power. ”

"To develop the Hetao Plain, which is still in the hands of the Xiongnu, and to develop the Baiyue land full of miasma, snakes and insects, it takes a lot of lives to fill it."

"The so-called expansion of territory is to use corpses to pave the ground."

Ying Zheng refilled his uncle with wine.

"It's what you want to do, and it's you...... Things to do. Zhu Xiang's smile was very kind, "Uncle and aunt should not restrain you, let alone this era." ”

Zhu Xiang knew that Yingzheng would be right, but after all, he and Xue Ji were born in the Shu people, and they couldn't bear to see the same Shu people as them become the foundation of this magnificent era.

Later generations will only see the brilliant flower and the great fruit of the eternal deeds.

Zhu Xiang and Xue Ji were people of this era, and the first thing they saw was the accumulation of corpses under the rhizomes as nutrients.

When the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, he was a righteous soldier and did righteous deeds. The state of Qin was more benevolent and righteous than the six kingdoms.

However, if Qin Shi Huang wanted to consolidate his dynastic rule after unifying the six kingdoms, he needed both grace and power. His enemies were no longer foreign enemies, but his own people.

This does not refer to those who do not want to become the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms of the Qin people, but those ordinary people who are not suitable for the rule of the Qin State, and those who encounter natural and man-made disasters and rise up.

Open the history books, not only the chaotic era at the end of the Qin Dynasty, but also the rule of Wenjing, the rule of Zhenguan, the prosperity of Yongle, the prosperity of Kangqian, and the peasant uprising have never been broken.

Because natural and man-made disasters have not stopped, and the people who have died of hunger have not stopped.

There have been few civil unrest in the Qin State in the past ten years, because compared with the six countries, the Qin people have a good life. Moreover, Qin has foreign enemies and can transfer contradictions.

But after the Qin State became the Qin Dynasty, after the whole world was not the king's land, this would not work.

As for giving Qin Shi Huang a map of the world and asking Qin Shi Huang to transfer the contradictions overseas, it is even more impossible.

In order to conquer the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty reduced the household registration of the Han Dynasty by half in his later years, almost causing the collapse of the Han Dynasty's rule. This is still a strong foundation left by the rule of Wenjing.

The Qin Dynasty had 20 million people, how could they trek mountains and seas to conquer overseas?

Where did the soldiers come from? Where does the food come from? Where do the weapons come from?

How can you get in touch with such a long distance?

Qin Shi Huang in history did not try to divert contradictions, so he conquered Baiyue in the south and invaded the Xiongnu in the north, and the result was that the domestic contradictions were more intensified, and there was not enough land to fight.

Therefore, Zhu Xiang understood that Zheng'er could not transfer the contradictions, so he could only recuperate and suppress the domestic civil unrest at the same time.

"But Zheng'er, don't put too much pressure on you." Zhu Xiang said earnestly, "Governing the country must be both graceful and powerful, and the people are afraid of power, but they are also grateful." You let it go, and leave the work of caring for the people to your uncle and aunt. ”

Ying Zheng finally poured himself a bowl of wine, and drank it slowly with a small sip: "Okay...... It's so unpleasant! ”

Ying Zheng slapped his tongue vigorously: "What is this!" ”

"Wine." Zhu Xiang was puzzled, "Zheng'er, haven't you ever drunk?" ”

Ying Zheng took out a piece of osmanthus cake from his arms and stuffed it into his mouth, diluting the taste of wine: "...... My aunt and uncle wouldn't let me drink. But how can the wine be so spicy. ”

"It's spirits." Zhu Xiang smiled, "If you can't get used to drinking, don't drink it." Let's go, Uncle will make you something delicious. ”

Zhu Xiang stood up.

Ying Zheng disgusted and used the wine jar to extinguish the flames, leaving the wine jar in place.

The two uncles and nephews picked up the lantern and went to the kitchen in the dark to steal food.

"By the way, Zheng'er, are you still affected by the feelings of your previous life?"

"It didn't matter. Uncle, I have a question about whether the past life and this life are the same person. ”

"Hahaha, Zheng'er is starting to think about philosophical questions."

"What is philosophy? …… Don't interrupt yet, you haven't answered me yet. ”

"Well." Zhu Xiang put his hands behind his back and said slowly, "Someone's personality is mainly in the past life, and the experience in this life will affect his character; Someone's personality is dominated by this life, and the memories of past lives will affect his character. It's complicated. ”

Ying Zheng looked down at the lantern: "Why is there a difference?" ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "Who knows? Maybe it's because the feelings carried in the memory are different. ”

Ying Zheng was silent.

He wanted to ask if his uncle recognized the past life or the present life. But he eventually gave up.

In fact, he doesn't ask, he also knows the answer.

……

"It's like I know I chose this life. You were my past life, but you are not me. The young First Emperor sat in front of the First Emperor with a vicissitudes of life, "But I'm curious, am I your future?" ”

The First Emperor, whose face was vicissitudes, closed his eyes as always, and did not answer.

The young First Emperor didn't expect the other party to answer.

He continued to muttered to himself: "Uncle said that in the original history, I would die on the way to the south. Oh, 'Ying Zhengzi coffin fee abalone'. But your memory is broken when you first knew that you were deceived by Fang Shi. If you are still alive, if you can also share my memories, will your future be different from what your uncle said? But you only have two years left, what can you do? ”

"I'm really curious." The young First Emperor touched his beard.

"But I don't have a 'future memory' of my own, so even if you become me in the future, you will no longer be the current you." The young First Emperor stood up and stretched a big stretch, "It's time for me to say goodbye to you." ”

"Take care, Yingzheng."

He left the dream.

The vicissitudes of the first emperor opened his eyes.

His voice was low and hoarse, as vicissitudes as his countenance: "Take care." ”

The dream completely collapsed.

……

"Don't send it, it's not the first time that your aunt and I have gone far away." Zhu Xiang stopped Yingzheng from continuing to see him off, "Okay, go back, you have to prepare to travel, there are many things." ”

Xue Ji straightened the broken hair on Yingzheng's head, and then straightened the somewhat scattered clothes: "Zheng'er, sleep well and eat well." You can't forget to sleep and eat for government affairs and harm your body. ”

Ying Zheng said: "Okay." Take care of your aunt and uncle. ”

Zhu Xiang and Xue Ji smiled at Ying Zheng, and the two people who were already covered with wind and frost took the carriage and went all the way to the east.

Ying Zheng stood in the distance, and when the dust raised by the carriage also fell, he turned over and rode back to the west.

Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green. Life is rare for reunions, but there are many separations.

But parting will also be reunited.

Ying Zheng thought that he must remind his uncle and aunt in advance of next year's birthday, but he can't break his promise like last year.

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