My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 658: In Danger
In the process of fighting wits and courage with Fusu, gradually, the emergence of a powerful opponent forced Ying Zheng to develop a sense of crisis.

He began to regain consciousness.

The so-called opposite is the movement of Tao, and the weak is the use of Tao.

Fusu himself never expected that his father would become sober because of his own strength and no longer indulge in past victories.

"It is true that people are born in sorrow and die in comfort."
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On the outskirts of Xianyang City, an ancient house seems to rise from the broken dust.

There was a pair of brass knockers on the gate, which felt cold to the touch. After entering the gate, there was a spacious garden. There was not a single weed in the garden, and it was obvious that its owner was a very refined person.

After entering the gate, on the left is the main hall of the mansion, which is the banquet hall, and on the right is the host's arcade, which belongs to the prime minister's private territory. Walking in is the prime minister's study, which is quiet and deep, with the prime minister's inscription hanging on the wall.

In the study, wisps of green smoke were rising from the exquisite copper stove.

Wei Zhuang and Wang Wan, who were resting, sat together and chatted.

"I thought you were just joking, but I didn't expect it to come true."

Wei Zhuang stroked his beard, "Mencius said, 'We are born in sorrow and die in comfort.' If a man like your Majesty has an opponent and a goal, he will be wise and powerful. Once he loses his opponent and goal, he will become arrogant and conceited."

Zhixiu's life was relatively good, without having to worry about so many things. Wang Wan also gained more weight, and her complexion became rosy.

"The saint is worthy of being a saint. He has already said so. However, are we just going to sit here and do nothing? I am a little worried about the prince now. Killing Zhao Gao openly like this does not give your majesty any face. Your majesty's recent actions seem to be rewarding the prince, and I don't know what his real intention is."

Wei Zhuang didn't understand, "Why haven't you given up on His Majesty? Haven't you seen through him yet? In the mind of His Majesty, all people are tools for him to achieve his goals, and all relationships are just for the convenience of mutual use to achieve his own goals."

Wang Wan shook his head. "I am not worried about Your Majesty or the Crown Prince. I am just wondering what the future of Qin will be like. When I left the mountains, I wanted to bring peace to the people. Now that there is peace, I see that the people are suffering. This is not a good sign."

Wang Wan was very optimistic about Fusu. He hoped that Fusu would do well in the future and continue to implement the efforts made by those ministers in the court who pleaded for the people.

There were actually no major problems with Qin law; the problems lay with the people who enforced the law.

Wei Zhuang frowned, "I heard that the treasury's economic affairs have now been handed over to Zhang Han. Zhang Han is not good at economics, but the new Zhang Cang has some experience, but he is still in prison."

"I saw that some of the currency was very heavy and some was very light. Real and fake currency was everywhere, affecting the market. I reported it to the city clerk, but he just recorded it in the file."

"Not only that, a few days ago, His Majesty the Emperor personally ordered the minting of new coins on a large scale. The number issued is three times that of previous years. This is all Feng Quji's doing."

"He doesn't understand economics, but when we were here, he knew how to follow the rules and act in a methodical manner. Now that we are gone, he has started to act on his own and directed Zhang Han to issue excessive amounts of currency."

"Your Majesty does not allow business to develop, but blindly issues excessive amounts of currency. This is like drinking poison to quench thirst."

"There are no more talents available in the Shaofu Temple. The economy is a major issue for people's livelihood. If there is no one good at handling the economy to manage the finances for a long time...I'm afraid something big will happen."

Wang Wan's eyes were filled with worry, and he was very concerned about the economic affairs of the empire.

"It's already like this, what can we do?"

Wei Zhuang felt that Ying Zheng's failure to heed their advice and to set up fiefdoms in the border areas had already laid the foundation for a huge hidden danger.

Wei Zhuang was not as public-spirited as Wang Wan, who still worried about the people even after his retirement. Since Ying Zheng was unkind to him, there was no need for him to lick his boots.

"Don't worry about it. That's for future generations. We've done what we should do and said what we should say. We've done our best and that's all."

Wei Zhuang comforted Wang Wan.

However, Wang Wan was always worried about the over-issuance of currency. He was afraid that money would be worthless in the future and the empire's economy would collapse at any time. At that time, there would be chaos in the world.

Wang Wan, who was sitting at the table, had a bold idea brewing in his mind.

He wanted to meet someone.

Talk to him face to face about the major economic issues and currency matters, which concern every household and are actually the foundation of people's livelihood. How come in such a huge Qin court, no one has come forward to explain it clearly?
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Ying Zheng rewarded Fusu for several days in a row.

For a time, Fusu was at the center of the storm in Xianyang City.

Many people boasted that he was very brave, and many people said that Your Majesty was really good to Fusu. Even after such a big thing happened, Your Majesty was still able to protect the prince.

Not only did Ying Zheng grant Fusu a lot of land, he also gave him three mines.

The reason was that Fusu had made many contributions, but Zhao Gao had prevented him from being rewarded.

Now that Zhao Gao was gone, Ying Zheng readily rewarded Fusu accordingly.

In other words, Fusu's past contributions are only now beginning to be fulfilled by Ying Zheng.

It is said that delayed gratification is more satisfying, but this delay has been seven or eight years.

Is a belated reward still a just reward?
At least Fusu did not feel happy, because now Fusu no longer needed to rely on Ying Zheng's rewards or gifts to gain a foothold in the court.

Hengyang Palace has slowly become a huge mountain that no one in the court can shake.

His status would not be raised by Ying Zheng's reward, nor would it be lowered by Ying Zheng's punishment.

Hengyang Palace became an independent power system with Fusu as the only leadership core.

Compared with those external rewards, this is what is most important to Fusu.

But in the eyes of outsiders, after Zhao Gao was killed by the prince, their emperor rewarded the prince lavishly, making many people happy for the prince.

After all, that was what Fusu should have done.

Hengyang Palace became the subject of discussion among everyone in Xianyang City for a while. Everyone was praising Fusu, saying that he did things in the style of the Qin people.

But the celebratory banquet can’t make up for it.

Immediately afterwards, Ying Zheng promulgated new etiquette regulations to stipulate that the scale of Fusu's travel procession was second only to his own.

The reason was that it was the idea proposed by Yao Jia, who said that the prince respected and loved his father, killed Zhao Gao, cleared the court of evil officials, and his filial piety and virtue moved heaven and earth.

Ying Zheng was very grateful to God for giving him such a son, so he made such a reward.

A unique reward in the entire Qin Empire!

When the people of Xianyang heard this, they were all very moved. To be honest, this was not the style of the Qin King Zheng they were familiar with. In the eyes of men, the reason why Ying Zheng was most admired was because he was very ruthless.

But let’s still wish Fusu the best.

The people were not stupid. Although they felt that the emperor was planning something bad, they were powerless and could do nothing but watch how the situation would develop.

After all, the crown prince during the reign of Qin Shihuang, Hengyang Jun, was like a blessing or a mascot of the empire.

In the late Warring States period and early Qin Dynasty, he was like the bright and flawless full moon on the mountains, or like a bright and warm torch in the cold winter.

For the people of the empire, Fusu can bring them spiritual comfort - hope.

No matter who caused the current pain, practice has proved that Ying Zheng was not the one who could end their pain, he only aggravated their misfortune; and Fusu was the one who could save them from the water. In addition, what made the people most excited was that Ying Zheng ordered Fusu to guard the border outside, and supervise Zhao Tuo and Ren Xiong's 500,000 troops.

This incident caused a sensation in Xianyang City.

Fusu has become a popular figure - he seems to have become the representative of anti-war in the minds of the people.

Perhaps after experiencing three or even four generations of slaughter and killing by their ancestors, the people were finally tired and exhausted, and finally agreed with the political ideals pursued by Fusu.

But one thing must be made clear, it is impossible for Fusu to never fight a war after becoming emperor.

In fact, once the public has developed a personal cult for a person, no matter what he does, under the influence of the group, the masses always think that what he does is right.

This is how the Qin people worshipped Ying Zheng from the very beginning.

But now, the old Qin people began to change their attitude. Like the people of the six countries, they began to worship Fusu.

This laid the foundation for the fact that if Fusu started a war in the future, in the minds of some people, the nature of his war could be considered just.

Closer to home.

The common people did not understand the meaning of military supervision. Anyway, everyone understood that the prince was going out to fight.

The people of Xianyang were very worried about Fusu because they heard that the miasma in the Nanyue area was extremely serious. They were worried that if Fusu went to Nanyue, he would encounter poisonous insects and vipers, and his life would be in danger.

Everyone was talking about it in the streets.

As for Qin Shihuang, even the common people at the bottom of society had stopped praising him and did not dare to comment on such a major event as sending the crown prince abroad.

Ying Zheng never restored the posthumous name system. He simply used some means to make Fusu a person that everyone in the world was talking about.

Everyone was praising Fusu for his "wisdom".

But in Hengyang Palace, Fusu felt uneasy.

Fusu still realized that there was always a huge group of political elites behind his father to give him advice.

This series of actions were beyond Fusu's expectations.

For a man as magnanimous as Ying Zheng, he was suddenly given so many rewards and was asked to supervise the war in Nanyue. There must be someone behind this.

The war between the military supervisor and the Nanyue Army was completely different from the war between the military supervisor and the Qin Army and the Xiongnu Army in history.

Judging from the success or failure of history, it sounds like a perfect temptation for Fusu to supervise the South Vietnam War. Because as long as he goes, he can get in touch with the army, and he will return with military merits and victories, and his prestige in the army will be greater than before.

Fusu also knew that his prestige in the army could not have the same influence as Ying Zheng just by relying on the two battles in Chu State, and Fusu could not control his soldiers 100%.

So Fusu would gain a lot by going to Nanyue. However, there is always a loss, and his business in Xianyang City might be completely destroyed by Ying Zheng after he left.

Fusu also had a premonition that the Huben Guards who chose to stand on his side that day would probably be liquidated one by one in the future.

That would make Fusu lose some excellent helpers. There are a group of Tiger Guards who can help him at any time to protect Ying Zheng, why should he give Ying Zheng the opportunity to kill them?

Therefore, Fusu did not want to leave the palace and go to Nanyue. Once he left, Ying Zheng would do many unexpected things.

Fusu had a complicated expression. He could only rely on Chen Ping alone.

Because he is the only one who has the ability to help him solve the current crisis.
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It was late at night and the palace was quiet.

Snowflakes danced quietly in the sky, swirled, and fell to the ground.

Ying Zheng wandered alone in the bedroom where the queen once lived.

The soldiers on duty in the bedroom were still the Chu soldiers who had married the queen. They were brought back by Fusu, who said they wanted to live out their retirement here.

Ying Zheng naturally agreed.

This made Ying Zheng even more sad when he walked in the Queen's bedroom, because everyone was there, everyone was fine, only the Queen was not there.

The queen died, but it seemed as if she had never left.

She always appears in Ying Zheng's dreams.

Only those who have truly loved someone can have this experience, establishing a connection with that person across time and space in all kinds of incredible ways.

The woman who made Ying Zheng feel incredible once used her life to illuminate his dark and complicated heart caused by his gloomy childhood and gloomy court life when he felt extremely desperate about his mother.

It is said that Fuxi designed humans into two halves, male and female, so that they could find each other.

Before he met the queen, Ying Zheng had always felt indescribably lonely and lacked something. After he met the queen, he felt his heart was inexplicably filled.

But now, the woman chose to leave unexpectedly again.

At this moment, Ying Zheng was like a complete soul, as if half of it had been taken away.

Everyone lives on this yellow land.

When we wake up every morning to face the rising sun, and see the crystal clear dew hanging on the petals, the beautiful morning makes us feel the beauty of life.

At noon, we have to face the hot sun, which is also a lucky thing. The scorching sun can dispel all the haze. Almost no one will feel gloomy when the sun is shining at noon.

But at night, the cruel test began. When the sunset crawled to the feet and the sky was hung with gorgeous sunset glow, people began to stop their activities and the people around them returned to their homes one by one.

Only family can make the evening particularly warm.

It is different for singles. It does not matter where they go, because they only have their own half of existence. People without a home are like leaves floating in the air.

Singles have to face all the furnishings in the room alone. When the footsteps of the setting sun tug at their trouser legs and the afterglow falls on their faces, loneliness gnaws at their hearts. At that moment, singles realize that they are extremely pitiful.

A few nights once in a while, it's nothing.

The scary thing is that for the rest of my life, I will have to watch the sun set every day and sit alone in the dark.

No matter how bright the candlelight was, shining like daylight, the long darkness and loneliness forced him to face himself.

The loss of the complementary half of his soul, and the coldness that came from all directions due to his supreme position, these two things would alternately force Ying Zheng to go to an extreme - tyranny.

Because he feels insecure now.

Any random thing would cause him to explode.

In the past political advocacy, Ying Zheng was still rational, and his eastern tour was also for a purpose to visit some important places. But the next thing is different.

Loneliness will make a person's soul begin to alienate.

(End of this chapter)