My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 623 True Dragon Travels the World

Three years have passed since the founding of the Qin Empire.

With the establishment of the imperial system, Ying Zheng's power expanded unprecedentedly. It is estimated that for thousands of years, no one had such unprecedented supreme authority as Ying Zheng at that time.

Of course, Ying Zheng did not make good use of his power.

In the past few years, the lives of people all over the world have begun to move from disorder to chaos, from poverty to debt, and from innocent to guilty.

The resentment among the people grew higher and higher, just like the gold, silver and jade articles in the Qin royal palace treasury; and the depression among the people grew higher and higher, as the mounds around the Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum grew deeper and deeper.

The Qin Empire and the Han Dynasty were both newborn babies.

The Great Qin Empire, a powerful country built by expanding its territory through annexation wars, is actually a child born by a 60-year-old woman before she died. The old woman did not realize that she was old, and she did not have enough milk to take care of the child after giving birth. She was only immersed in the joy of having a child at the age of 60.

In their excitement, they treated the child as a 30-year-old strong man. It was inevitable that the infant of the Qin Empire would die young.

In three years, Ying Zheng had completed two eastern tours.

This matter is actually related to Fusu.

In the past few decades, Ying Zheng was like an old mother, who stayed in the palace to collect food and fodder and deploy troops for the soldiers fighting on the front battlefield.

Fusu was always able to go out because of his status. Every time he went out, even if it was just a small job like keeping order, Fusu could come up with many tricks.

Every time Fusu went out, he either met a hidden talent like Xiao He, or was able to recruit a righteous man like Ji Bu. Their stories were spread everywhere in the world.

Every time Fusu came back from abroad, the historians would write down these people as quickly as possible, because everyone Fusu brought back had extraordinary abilities.

Ying Zheng was already restless, and now seeing Fusu having a lot of fun outside, he was even more eager to go out and travel around the world.

Ying Zheng always said to his ministers, "I am a dragon. How can I stay in Xianyang for long? I should travel the world."

This made Feng Quji, who also opposed Ying Zheng's continuous tours, speechless for a moment.

As for Li Si, he became the prime minister because he obeyed Ying Zheng's wishes. He agreed with everything Ying Zheng did.

When Ying Zheng called himself Zulong, he was not creating some imaginary god to deceive the common people, because in that era, it was not popular to act in the name of ghosts and gods.

The ancients had great reverence for the heavens, earth, mountains, rivers, ghosts and gods.

According to historical records, before his death, Ying Zheng was busy worshipping the gods and offering sacrifices to the mountains and rivers. This shows how much Ying Zheng feared the gods. In addition, with Ying Zheng's prestige, he did not need to call himself Zulong to achieve some political goals. Ying Zheng was never a person who could rule the world with culture.

In short, Ying Zheng was too lazy to play tricks and disdained to do so.

This is the person who said he was Zulong.

Many people believed it at that time, especially the youngest soldiers in Xianyang City, who fanatically worshipped Qin Shihuang and believed that he was Zulong.

Then he began his grand domestic tour - this is what it means to be a true dragon traveling around the world.

Ying Zheng said that he was going to suppress the people, but in fact he was just going to travel.

Someone's wife and children can see this clearly.

Even a low-key and reserved person like Shao Ping couldn't help but persuade Fusu, "Whenever His Majesty goes on tour, he makes a grand ceremony, and for a time he is the most popular person in the world. Prince, why don't you go and advise His Majesty? Or give him some advice?"

"Why do you need to persuade me?" Isn't Shao Ping asking himself to jump into a fire pit? Fusu had no other thoughts since he went out with Ying Zheng. He just wanted to stay at home and be a filial son. He felt that disobeying Ying Zheng... was really unnecessary.

Shao Ping's eyes were as big as bells. "Prince, didn't you say it yourself? If you are on patrol, you can't let potential enemies bleed and sacrifice. It's like holding a powerful weapon, but just waving it in front of the enemy's door."

"The enemy saw that the man hadn't even unsheathed his sword, and he was walking away so quickly. This is not only extremely embarrassing, but it will also make the enemy more arrogant."

Fusu pondered, "Did I say that?"

"You said so, Prince."

The surrounding ministers also echoed.

Guan Fu said bluntly: "Yes, Your Highness, you have said it more than once."

"This move will cause His Majesty the Emperor to lose all his dignity." Shao Ping advised earnestly.

After all, the First Emperor's kingdom is Fusu's kingdom.

Seeing that Fusu was unmoved, Shao Ping continued to advise, "Prince, do you know what people in the Imperial Academy are talking about you now?"

Fusu looked at Shao Ping and answered seriously, "I don't want to know."

Shao Ping's eyes were confused at first, and seeing the prince's indifference, he said stubbornly, "They say that you are helping the tyrant."

Fusu sent everyone away, leaving only Shao Ping and himself.

"Let me tell you a story."

As soon as Fusu opened his mouth, Shao Ping knew that he was going to be persuaded. He resisted in his heart, but he had to obey. Shao Ping wanted to refuse, he didn't want to listen to the story, but Fusu was the king, so he had to bite the bullet and listen.

"Once upon a time, there was a luxurious and foolish king who was only concerned with changing his clothes every day. He summoned all kinds of people to make him brand new clothes."

"One day two swindlers came to the kingdom. They claimed that they could make a magical garment that only saints could see, and fools could not see."

"The fraudster demanded a large sum of money, constantly claiming how luxurious and dazzling the dress was."

"The officials who came to the court could not see the dress, but in order to cover up their own 'ignorance', they all said that they could see the dress."

"So did the king, who firmly believed that he was dressed in the most gorgeous clothes."

"King, he believed it."

"So one day, the king wore this invisible "dress" to parade in the streets. Everyone looked at the king and praised him loudly, "King, your clothes are so beautiful!"

“It’s gorgeous!”

"And then a child stood up and pointed at the king and said, 'He has nothing on!'"

"Guess what happened to that child?"

After hearing this, Shao Ping just shuddered all over.

"This... Is it really true that His Majesty the Emperor can only continue like this?"

"That's not necessarily true. There will always be someone who points out the truth. But I can only cover up this truth. Because I am the son of His Majesty the Emperor."

The current Ying Zheng is the emperor without clothes. He is walking proudly on the street, and everyone is praising the beautiful clothes of the naked Ying Zheng.

"The reverse scale of a dragon cannot be touched. Let's make father happy first, and then we can act according to the situation when he believes in me."

However, it was really absurd for Ying Zheng to travel around the world naked.

Just to let everyone admire him and look up to him, Ying Zheng went to one place after another in a luxurious carriage.

During this period, he viewed countless beautiful sceneries and even ordered Ying Zheng to write stone carvings at many iconic locations.

Ying Zheng's purpose was actually very simple, which was to satisfy the simplest and most humble wish in his heart and to show that he had been here when he was alive.

He even wanted the whole world to know that he, the first emperor, had once visited this place.

When Ying Zheng stood on the top of a mountain and watched Li Si writing, he was always very happy.

"A hundred years later, a thousand years later. I wonder who will come to read the chapters I left here."

Ying Zheng was very confident. He believed that future generations would definitely worship the stone tablet he left behind.

After all, he accomplished such a great feat.

The war was finally over.

Li Si, Zhao Gao, and Feng Wuzhe also praised Ying Zheng in this way. But the time traveler Fusu knew.

Everyone has such a moment, hoping that their insignificant body in the universe, in such a vast world, in such a long river of time that has no beginning and no end, can leave a little trace for their floating life.

Everyone's mood is completely different from usual when they go to a distant place, meet people they have never seen before, see scenery they have never seen before, and stand on land they have never stood on.

So everyone makes some notes when they travel.

When children are naughty, they will carve their names on the bark of trees and dig a few holes in stones.

What's more, some people who travel far away will write a few words somewhere. Others are worried that they can't leave their traces at the original place, so they simply pick "a leaf or a flower" from the scenery they saw at that time and take it home.

Everyone tries to leave a mark on this world.

It’s just that some people will carve words on stones, while some people are busy writing historical chapters to leave their names in history.

This is because human life has great limitations. Wisdom cannot be fully developed, life is short like a dewdrop that disappears, and one's own strength is too weak.

But it is precisely because of these limitations that immortal art and immortal life are created.

Everyone has the right and the qualification to do some childish things, such as engraving a name to show that they have been there. Everyone also has the right to buy a very beautiful car and drive it to any place as they please, to see the envy in people's eyes and hear their praise.

However, the emperor did not have such qualifications.

Ying Zheng can't do such childish things!
The person sitting on the throne must be like a ruthless working machine. Everything he says and does must comply with the law and moral standards!
As a commoner of a country, he can live a free life, show off his luxury cars and war horses at home, and go to a place and carve the words "So-and-so was here".

But once an emperor of a country does this, he will break his image of being superior.

The more Ying Zheng went out on tour, the more people saw his appearance and knew what he did every day, and the lower his prestige in the eyes of people all over the world became.

The moment he had the urge to show off, Ying Zheng had already been completely defeated.

Fusu had weighed the pros and cons repeatedly. If Ying Zheng went on tours too often, the negative consequences would outweigh the positive ones.

This will cause his status in the eyes of the people of the world to decline rapidly, his prestige in the eyes of the people of the world will decline rapidly, and his image in the eyes of the Qin soldiers will gradually plummet.

When Ying Zheng lived in the deep palace, in the eyes of the soldiers, Ying Zheng was a king who was high above and out of reach!
But when Ying Zheng swaggered out to show off, at that moment, Ying Zheng looked very much like their boss whom they lived with day and night.

Their leaders are like this. They are just like them, two-handed, two-legged creatures who eat three bowls of rice a day and fart when they are full.

Once they are promoted to leaders, they begin to act like roosters in front of the lower-level groups, bossing the vast number of people they lead around.

From that moment on, work, tasks, mission, all the good things were overshadowed by the accusations of the leader.

Subordinates become the leaders' foils and people who keep up appearances, just to make the leaders look more face-saving.

This kind of behavior was originally despised by soldiers, ranks, and low-level Qin officials, but they were overjoyed when it came to themselves. Ultimately, it was the inherent bad nature of human beings.

But Ying Zheng repeatedly violated this taboo.

In ancient times, when people believed that everyone had their own destiny, there were wise men who were well aware of the will of heaven.

They designed the palace and selected guards to guard it, essentially to highlight the royal power and majesty. In many cases, safety is secondary. Because fate is predetermined.

However, when later generations learn from the ancients, they always follow the form but fail to learn the spirit!
Not to mention absorbing the wisdom of ancient sages, Ying Zheng went further and further on the path of learning the ancients' "form".

In order to show off his own merits, Ying Zheng built himself the largest palace with hundreds of halls; he also built himself the largest mausoleum; he traveled the longest distances and patrolled the most territories.

All of this is because we only learned the form but did not grasp the 'spirit'!
Ying Zheng's failure was his own fault. Fusu didn't need to do anything.

Later, Fusu, who became the second emperor of Qin, tried to cover up his father's naked behavior in order to make his father's image in history more glorious. He repeatedly put pressure on the historians, hoping that they would modify their records.

For example, try not to mention or write less about the number of times Ying Zheng went on his eastern tours and even the time spent on them.

Fusu later tried his best to find historians to cover up these things. However, this history of traveling around the country naked has always been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and once became a laughing stock in the eyes of people all over the world and a topic of conversation after dinner.

In the autumn of the first year after the establishment of the Qin Empire, Ying Zheng began his first tour. The purpose of this tour was mainly to suppress the former people of Zhao State.

Ying Zheng inspected Longxi and Beidi, came to Jitou Mountain, and passed Huizhong.

He then built the Changxin Palace south of the Wei River, and soon renamed it Ji Temple, symbolizing the North Star in the sky.

Later, a road was paved from Ji Temple to Mount Li, and the front hall of Ganquan Palace was built.

A corridor was built to connect Xianyang with here.

In the first year, the First Emperor awarded the people of the world a higher rank of nobility, and began to order the mobilization of "idle personnel" to build the highway.

After that came Ying Zheng’s second tour to the east.

This time he climbed Mount Zouyi, erected a stone tablet, and discussed with the Confucian scholars of Lu County, engraving words praising the merits of the Qin Dynasty on the stone tablet, and discussed the matters of Fengshan and offering sacrifices to famous mountains and rivers.

Afterwards, the First Emperor climbed Mount Tai, erected a stone tablet, piled up earth to build an altar, and offered sacrifices to the heaven.

When going down the mountain, they were suddenly hit by a violent storm, so the First Emperor took a rest under a tree.

After resting, Ying Zheng looked at the tree with great pride.

"This is a good tree. It has even been temporarily visited by our great ancestor dragon. In the future, it will be extremely extraordinary."

"I will confer the title of Wu Dafu on this tree."

When all the guests heard Emperor Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng say this, they looked at each other in surprise.

At that moment, the ministers really wanted to laugh, but they tried their best to hold it back.

This short farce, which actually happened in history, happened again and was naturally recorded step by step by historians.

When the Fifth Senior Official Zhang Cang heard this, he was furious. "He really thinks he is a god!"

Afterwards, the First Emperor offered sacrifices to the earth at Liangfu Mountain.

He engraved words on the stone tablet as usual, and the inscription on it was Ying Zheng's true words:
"When the emperor ascended the throne, he established systems, enforced laws, and his officials were strict and disciplined."

"In the twenty-fourth year, I had just annexed the world, and everyone submitted to me. I personally visited the people in distant places, climbed Mount Tai, and looked at the eastern border."

"The ministers accompanying me recalled the past, explored the origins of my cause, and respectfully praised my merits."

"I govern the country wisely, all production arrangements are appropriate, and all affairs are in order."

"I hope that my righteousness, beauty and goodness will be clear today, and can serve as a model for future generations to follow without change."

"I am wise and capable. I have pacified the world, but I am still working tirelessly to govern the country. I get up early and go to bed late every day, make long-term plans for the country, and pay special attention to teaching."

"I have announced my decrees, and all places are in order and follow my will."

"There are clear levels of hierarchy, distinctions between men and women, and they all carefully follow their duties."

"Inside and outside are different, everything is pure and peaceful, and the grace will be bestowed on future generations."

"There is no end to the reach of education. I hope that future generations will obey the emperor's edict and always follow these important warnings."

Ying Zheng looked at these gorgeous words and ordered Feng Wuzhe to read them aloud again and again. He stroked his beard with satisfaction.

Afterwards, Ying Zheng went eastward along the Bohai Sea, passed Huangxian and Shenxian, walked to the end of Chengshan Mountain, climbed Zhifu Mountain, erected a stone tablet praising the merits of the Qin Dynasty, and then left.
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Soon after these stone carvings were completed, local people came to admire them.

Farmers, woodcutters, peddlers, merchants, knights, and robbers.

Everyone comes to enjoy the view.

"I have to say, I have never seen such a shameless person!"

"To be honest, his subordinates are really good at talking. They can even say the sun is the moon!"

(End of this chapter)