My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 627 I Want to Be the Emperor Myself
What is interesting is that none of these comments and discussions that were extremely unfavorable to Ying Zheng fell into his ears.

Ying Zheng seemed to have a pair of magical ears that helped him filter out all the remarks that were unfavorable to him and only absorb and listen to those remarks that praised him.

In the hot summer, Zhangtai Palace was exceptionally cool.

Before leaving, Ying Zheng had to settle all the military and political affairs related to the southern expedition to Baiyue. In order to concentrate on his eastern tour, Ying Zheng did not go to the harem these days, and reviewed memorials and handled military and political affairs day and night.

Zhao Gao was driven out and could not serve the masters beside Ying Zheng. Most of the time, he was responsible for Ying Zheng's food and daily life.

Over the years, he was unexpectedly well-behaved, smart, and 100% obedient to Ying Zheng.

To be honest, sometimes Xin couldn't help but sigh, "Even the dogs in Xianyang City are not as easy to use as him."

Xin almost openly held the power of the Secretariat.

This was all thanks to Zhao Gao. During the years when Xin was away, all the talented people in Zhangtai were driven away by Zhao Gao, leaving only him and his little followers.

When Xin chose to return to Zhangtai Palace to prove his ability, he happened to pick up such a loophole. Fusu disarmed Zhao Gao of all his "arms", which was also considered as "disabling his martial arts".

When the letter came back, on the one hand it catered to Ying Zheng's proud mentality of "the son is indeed not as good as the father", and on the other hand his own personality was very upright and loyal, which completely met Ying Zheng's needs at that time.

In any case, the power of the Secretariat was established in the hands of Zhao Gao.

With Xin around, and Xin and Youzhan being good friends, the two of them often took turns staying with Ying Zheng, so Zhao Gao naturally felt extremely aggrieved.

In the Secretariat, Xin was checking the memorials that had been reviewed by Ying Zheng.

He saw many memorials advising Ying Zheng not to make another tour to the east. When he looked closely, he found that the signatures were actually students from the Imperial College.

The eunuchs did not have the power to open memorials in advance, but they could check them afterwards.

Xin was a gentleman who upheld the moral integrity of a gentleman. He always sealed the memorials that Ying Zheng had read in a proper manner, and then distributed them to various agencies for execution.

But when he saw the word "Imperial Academy", his hands couldn't help but tremble. The prince was the administrator of the Imperial Academy.

Why did the people from the Imperial Academy write a letter to advise the king to stop his eastern tour? Didn't they know that the crown prince would soon accompany the king on the eastern tour?

I don’t know why, but at that moment, there was no one in the Shangshu Terrace, where people usually came and went.

Xin raised his head, looked at the beam and took a breath.

He still opened the memorial with trepidation. It contained a thousand words, many of which criticized the poor results of Ying Zheng's first two eastern tours, the extravagance and waste of money, and the frequent outings for pleasure during the war between South and Vietnam, which would drive the monarch and his subjects apart.

After reading these memorials, Xin couldn't help but sit on the ground in dejection.

At that moment, he began to doubt Ying Zheng.

And doubt is a good thing. Once it starts, it won't stop.

Soon, other servants came in one after another.

Xin pretended nothing had happened, but he kept holding the edict approved by Ying Zheng in his hand.

Ying Zheng's instruction was to throw the memorial to the prince to resolve.

Xin stopped the memorials himself and said, "After you finish sorting out these memorials, come with me to the Crown Prince's Palace to deliver the imperial edict."

"only."

It was the height of summer, and the servants were busy as ever.

While everyone was busy, they couldn't help but make a comment or two.

"Ah, why are there so many advice and letters these days? There are several boxes of them piled up densely. It's a pity that His Majesty the Emperor doesn't even read them."

Xin couldn't help but ask, "How many boxes?"

"Yes."

In the Zhangtai Palace, a batch of memorials had to be cleared every three days. In other words, these several large boxes of memorials and persuasion were all delivered within six days.

Xin looked at them sweating profusely, "All of you go down. Go and use the ice wine that His Majesty gave me. I will handle this here alone."

When these servants heard this, their eyes lit up. They wiped the sweat from their faces and kowtowed to Lin Xin one by one.

"Thank you, Lingshi."

The attendants dropped their documents and ran to the back hall to rest and drink.

When Xin looked at the piled up memorials, his arms were shaking at that moment.

Curiosity drove him to open the documents that had not yet been sealed and sent to other official agencies.

Among them was the advice of the doctor Mao Jiao. Ying Zheng did not respond to his advice. This kind of thing should be burned.

Then there were memorials from various censors and even ministers, including those from Zhang Cang and Meng Yi.

After seeing the signature on Zhang Cang's memorial, Lin Xin threw it aside with a gloomy face.

Among the other ministers, there was Tang Bing, Duke of Dongyuan, who gave a 3,000-word admonition.

There were as many as thirty pieces of advice to Ying Zheng.

Regarding the expansion of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, the consequences of frequently forcing civilians to go to Xianyang for corvée labor, and the frequent orders for the people to relocate to other places, which attracted criticism...

And so on.

Xin looked at it, his eyes widened.

He swallowed a lump in his throat.

These harms are real.

But what made Xin sad was not that these ministers risked angering Ying Zheng by writing down so many of Ying Zheng's mistakes in administration, even though Ying Zheng had clearly abolished the posthumous name system.

These ministers were indeed loyal to the country, but Xin was not moved by such behavior because he was such a person. He felt that this was what a minister should do.

Xin carefully wrote down the names of these ministers, as he believed that they would be the pillars of the future Qin Empire.

Often, a minister's qualities can be revealed under special circumstances.

What made Xin more sad than his subjects' loyalty was that Ying Zheng turned a deaf ear to these advice and memorials.

And Xin gradually got to know Ying Zheng.

When Ying Zheng saw these memorials, he was furious, but he did not think anything of it because he did not listen to the advice. Instead, he felt complacent that he did not kill them, thinking that he was a very virtuous person.

Many doctors and censors repeatedly wrote to Ying Zheng asking him to stop attacking Nanyue, saying that this would cause the emperor and his ministers to betray each other and drain the national treasury.

When Xin saw these piled up memorials, his hands began to tremble.

Xin looked at the memorial, and before he knew it, an incense stick of time had passed.

What he didn't know was that while he was reading the memorial carefully, he was seen by two young eunuchs who had delivered the memorial.

Coincidentally, these two people were once Zhao Gao's subordinates.

When they saw Xin coming, they immediately used their old tricks to curry favor with Xin, but Xin was not impressed and treated them coldly.

After seeing this scene, the two men immediately came to find their former "boss".

Zhao Gao was also very angry when he saw these two little bastards. After he was demoted, they both took advantage of his misfortune.

However, when Zhao Gao heard all the bad things they said about Xin, he immediately suppressed his anger.

"You mean that Shangshu Lingxin secretly read the memorial."

"This...how could he have watched secretly? He just watched. We didn't accuse him of anything. He just saw Changshi Zhao and chatted with him." The two of them were very cunning. Zhao Gao's current status was not as good as theirs.

There was no need for them to be servile to Zhao Gao, as if they were trying to curry favor with him.

After Zhao Gao understood, he could only grit his teeth and respectfully send the two men away. Although Zhao Gao hated these two little bastards, he also realized that people like Lin Xin had too many enemies in the palace, and the people below might not be satisfied with him.

This is my chance.

But such things are nothing more than hearsay and are not enough to serve as evidence of his murder.

After Zhao Gao realized the problem, he chose to remain dormant.

He found his brother Zhao Cheng and asked his brothers to pay attention to the letter. It was better to let the guards look after the letter than to go to the lackeys of the Shangshutai.
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In the hot summer, the bamboo forest is swaying.

A gust of wind rushed past, passing through the many royal palaces and gardens of Xianyang Palace, and all the way to the back garden of Hengyang Palace.

There are many bamboos planted densely here, and the wind blowing through the bamboos sounds like waves crashing against the shore.

The green bamboo stalks sway, and the bamboo leaves sway layer by layer.

The shadows are mottled.

The queen sat in the yard, playing with her grandchildren. The sun shone on her face, and she looked like a child today, with a slightly red cheek, immersed in happiness, teaching the children to "babble".

Fusu stood in the corridor, quietly watching this beautiful scene. Although he had an unreliable father, the family still had an old mother to support them.

Without a camera, we had to ask the painter to come. A technician was forcibly pulled here, and he had just been trained to paint on white paper. Now was the time to show off.

At this time, a ruffian came running hurriedly from the other end of the corridor.

"Prince, Prince! An imperial edict has arrived from the Secretariat."

Fusu looked at Guan Fu angrily and said, "You can't do this. If outsiders see this, they will think that I am incompetent in managing the palace."

Guan Fu scratched his head and wondered whether the prince had ever ruled this palace.

"The letter is here!"

"take it out."

"Prince, it's not this letter. It's the letter from the Minister of the Chancellery, Lin."

Fusu was shocked. The last time Lin Xin came was about the matter of the national commander.

"pass."

Fusu straightened his clothes and went to meet Lin Xin.

As a result, he had come to Fusu's front hall with two attendants. After paying his respects, he looked at Fusu, as if he had a lot to say.

Shao Ping looked at the two people's eyes, which were filled with deep affection, and tactfully withdrew.

When leaving, Shao Ping also took the two servants that the letter brought with him out, and treated them to wine and cold dishes, and also prepared gold for them.

Chen Ping looked at Shao Ping as if he was jealous, and couldn't help but ask the good guy Liang.

"It seems that this Shangshu Ling of Zhangtai Palace has a close relationship with our Crown Prince."

Liang shook his head. "The Crown Prince and the Minister of Chancellery are more than just close friends. One is a bamboo and the other is a pine. Let me tell you this. The Minister of Chancellery is the Crown Prince's teacher, friend, supervisor, and listener. The time the Minister of Chancellery has spent with the Crown Prince is longer than that spent by the Emperor and the Empress combined."
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Inside the hall, Xin looked at Fusu and first handed the memorial from the Imperial Academy to Fusu.

"Father, do you want me to handle it?"

The letter said nothing.

Fusu looked at the memorial and after reading it carefully, he realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Some people under the Crown Prince's command are very restless. Rather than saying that His Majesty the Emperor trusts the Crown Prince and lets him handle these matters personally, it's better to say that His Majesty the Emperor is warning the Crown Prince."

"Your Majesty has been worried about the war in South Vietnam recently. These memorials have never appeared before, but they all appeared at this time. It's because everyone has heard the news of the defeat in the war in South Vietnam."

Fusu couldn't help but frown. "The South-Vietnam War—it was a war that gathered 600,000 troops to march south to attack the barbarians."

"What is that?" Xin was surprised. How could the prince speak in such a tone? It seemed as if this war had nothing to do with him, but also as if it had already happened and the prince was just a later witness.

"You know me." Fusu poured a cup of tea for Xin. "Speaking of such an important matter as delivering the imperial edict, it shouldn't be something that someone of your status should come in person."

Xin didn't care about the embarrassment anymore and just said the most important thing, "It happened suddenly. I think you, the prince, have noticed the change in the emperor."

"So what? You also think that His Majesty is someone who can be persuaded." Fusu asked coldly.

"Prince, you may not know this. The situation is very critical right now. Because of the various mistakes of His Majesty the Emperor, it has now reached a point of public outrage. And you, Prince, want to stay out of it, but I'm afraid you can't. Because everyone has placed their hopes on you. If you don't do something, I'm afraid many people will be disappointed in you. At that time, the situation will probably be even more critical."

He spoke to Fusu calmly and confidently.

Before the letter arrived, Fusu did not know that his influence on the Qin Empire had reached such a great extent. His actions had already influenced the hearts of his subjects and the people.

The arrival of the letter began to force Fusu to take action as soon as possible.

"Perhaps others are advising the prince and forcing him, hoping that he can do something. This action is naturally to use the prince's status and influence to persuade His Majesty the Emperor."

"I also know that doing this will change the Crown Prince's position in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor."

"But based on my understanding of the Crown Prince over the years, he may have ways to persuade His Majesty the Emperor."

Fusu looked at the letter in silence.

"I will think about it."

"I will lead the charge for the prince." Xin said heavily.

"Don't do anything stupid. If you openly make a complaint at this time, there will be no good results."

Xin then asked, "What do you mean, Prince, that you are going to take action?"

"Yes. You are the ones who forced me to take action." Then it's not my fault. Fusu persuaded Xin, "You are now the internal official of the emperor, in charge of documents and confidential affairs. You should not act rashly."

"I will cooperate with the prince. If the prince needs anything, just let me know."

Fusu looked at the letter and didn't know what to say for a moment. How could he still be so upright and still believe in himself so much?

Moreover, what he said was a big taboo for a minister. The reason why he did this was that he and Ying Zheng thought too much of themselves as good people.

And he overestimated his position in Ying Zheng's mind.

Fusu personally delivered the letter, feeling mixed emotions.

In fact, Fusu is no longer the obedient prince in everyone's mind.

He planned to become emperor himself.

Because he didn't want to be Ying Zheng's supporting role anymore, setting off Ying Zheng, this man-eating flower, every day, but the damage it brought to the empire and himself was enormous.

Xin is too bullying, he still treats him as a child. Letting oneself persuade Ying Zheng is nothing more than serving Ying Zheng, and in essence, it is still to maintain Ying Zheng's regime.

This is what Fusu had always done in the past. Now that he has seen how ridiculous Ying Zheng is, he no longer believes that he is capable of maintaining the imperial system.

Ying Zheng spent the money of me and my descendants for generations, and he still wants me to be loyal, righteous, filial and brotherly. How can this be justified?

Fusu believed that Ying Zheng had fulfilled his historical responsibility and that he was no longer of much use.

It is his turn to protect the empire.

After the letter arrived, Fusu changed his strategy again. He could no longer wait for opportunities to fall on his own. He had to create opportunities himself. This eastern tour would be a great advantage for him.

Create opportunities for yourself and stop working as a laborer for the First Emperor.

However, no one expected that something had already happened before Fusu followed Ying Zheng on his eastern tour, which would lead to a rift between father and son.

[How will the next story unfold? Please stay tuned for the next chapter. 】

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