My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 682 Something seems to be missing

While Ying Zheng was blindly looking for enemies and partners to restrain Fusu in the Xianyang Palace, Fusu decided to take the most extreme way to deal with the conflict between him and Ying Zheng, using the most violent means to fight for a glimmer of hope for the Qin Dynasty.

However, before taking action, that is, when returning to Xianyang, Fusu hesitated.

Seeing Fusu's hesitation, Ren Xiong was so anxious. He had even thought about asking for a reward from Fusu, but Fusu told him this before returning to Xianyang.

"Don't you realize that there seems to be something missing in my plan for a good deed?"

Zhao Tuo looked at Fusu, and in fact, he felt as if something was tickling him. Logically speaking, they should be excited and obliged to help the prince ascend the throne by force.

But after they had made all the preparations and completed all the necessary preparations, they felt anxious and worried.

"The prince is trying to say that the prince lacks a reason to return to the capital."

Fusu's eyes lit up, "Yes. What reason do I have to go back to Xianyang?"

Ren Xiong suddenly realized, "Yes, we are lacking an excuse."

"How can something that is just a reason be called an excuse?" Zhao Tuo asked back.

"Everyone, please leave." Fusu stroked his forehead.

The footsteps of summer have already landed on everyone's pillow. In the south, there is a chorus of frogs and cicadas chirping. They are calling for mates like crazy, as if they haven't spoken for thousands of years. They wish they could tear their throats apart and crow so madly that even roosters have to admit defeat.

Fusu sat alone in the pavilion.

The cicadas were buzzing loudly, and it was hard to calm down completely. But Fusu had to solve this problem.

Don't underestimate this matter. Whether Fusu's reputation for seizing the throne is good or bad, and how the people who rule the world in the future view him, all depends on the reason why he returned to Xianyang this time.

Historically, Prince Fusu was ordered to guard the border and supervise the army. Before his death, Emperor Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng wrote him an edict asking him to return to Xianyang to hold his funeral.

At that time, the eldest son Fusu was far away in Shangjun. Strangely, Ying Zheng's last eastern tour was to pass through Shangjun, but he fell seriously ill halfway and had to go to Shaqiu Palace. He also entrusted such an important matter as offering sacrifices and praying to mountains and rivers to Meng Yi. This gave Zhao Gao the opportunity.

The reason I talk about this specifically is not to review some historical knowledge, but to explain a few very important things, which are related to the success or failure of Fusu's current process of seizing the throne by force.

Historically, at the last moment of his life, Qin Shi Huang, the father, chose to explain the most things with the fewest words.

He only said two short sentences.

If Fusu was in Shangjun at that time and saw his father's last words, he would probably cry to the sky.

The edict that Ying Zheng wrote to Fusu read: Assign the troops to Meng Tian, and meet him in Xianyang for the funeral.

To put it simply, you leave the troops to Meng Tian, and come to Xianyang to handle my funeral and bury me.

It is sad that in this era, when ordinary fathers grow old, they will plan to bury their sons on that hillside. The family will discuss this matter seriously and then execute it.

Poor Ying Zheng, as an emperor, he had no chance to enjoy the warmth of an ordinary family. He didn't even have the chance to talk about these things with his son. First, it was unnecessary, and second, Qin Shihuang hated people around him talking about the word "death" in his later years.

Moreover, his grave had been almost built, so he didn't even need to tell his son where he was going to be buried.

Back to the topic, the content of this will is very simple, but it is of great significance.

First, the most important affairs of the country are sacrifice and military affairs. Meng Yi had already taken care of the sacrifices, and Ying Zheng handed over the troops to Meng Tian, which shows that Ying Zheng valued the Meng brothers. But this was actually the most critical step to pave the way for Fusu.

Looking through the intricate context of history, we will eventually discover that Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng seemed to have intended to use the brothers to pave the way for his son from the very beginning.

Meng Tian, who was originally a clerk, was promoted and sent to lead troops and make merit in the war against the State of Chu. All this was done to train this young man.

Of course, Ying Zheng succeeded in the end. Both the Meng brothers were outstanding.

Of course, the essence of this matter is that Ying Zheng is trying hard to inherit the wise deeds of the previous six generations of kings. He has to make a good handover of the political legacy from the previous generation to the next generation.

In other words, when Ying Zheng passed the throne to Fusu, he did not simply write an edict and be done with it. He actually did a series of cleanups and reorganizations, and finally chose a pair of reliable brothers to assist Fusu, so that he could smoothly inherit his power, inherit the prestige established by his unprecedented achievements, inherit his supreme title of emperor, and inherit his unique throne.

And now, our Fusu chose to seize power by force, which means that Fusu gave up on gaining power by waiting for Ying Zheng to take the initiative to transfer power.

During this process, the risk is increased several times or even dozens of times.

However, Fusu has solved this major problem in the past decade or so. He has so many forces and power groups behind him, which is enough to disperse his risks; he has established the best public opinion in the world, and he is virtuous and capable, and cherishes the people's strength, which is enough to help him stop the gossips.

A tree that can be embraced by two people grows from a tiny seed; a nine-story tower starts from a pile of earth.

All the efforts Fusu had made in the past were to help him complete the handover of power, so that once he succeeded to the throne, the power in his hands could be immediately realized!
Qin Ershi is Qin Ershi. All the land under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are the king’s subjects.

But right now, the real problem that Fusu is currently worried about is the reason for returning to Xianyang to succeed to the throne by force, which is still related to Ying Zheng's edict.

You know, Fusu’s current situation is actually very similar to the situation of Prince Fusu in history.

They were all sent out to supervise the army and had no control over the army. The other half of the tiger talisman was in the hands of General Zhao Tuo. Without the other half of the tiger talisman, even Zhao Tuo had no way to force the troops to move.

In other words, even if Prince Fusu wanted to rebel in history, he had no reason to mobilize troops. The tiger talisman system created by Ying Zheng eventually killed his son.

Secondly, even if Fusu did not mobilize his troops to rebel and return to Xianyang, if he was really the heir to the throne, why would he return to Xianyang when he was ordered to supervise the army? Should he be punished first or cleared of his name first when he returned to Xianyang without an imperial edict?

In history, Ying Zheng asked Fusu to return to Xianyang in order to succeed to the throne, but his words were very clever. You come to preside over my funeral, not mentioning the father-son relationship, but only saying that Ying Zheng in history was very wise. The reason he asked his son to return to Xianyang was to let him go back to preside over the funeral.

Under the circumstances at that time, Fusu did not have an imperial edict, so how could he return to Xianyang?

Therefore, the purpose of Ying Zheng writing the second sentence was essentially to give Fusu a reason to return to Xianyang.

I'm afraid Ying Zheng has always known that he let Fusu go to Shangjun to supervise the army, and his son felt aggrieved, angry, unwilling, and heartbroken. This father has always been suffering for his son's pain.

Ying Zheng seemed to fully understand how desperate Fusu was towards his father in Shangjun at that time. The misunderstanding was so deep that Fusu probably thought that his father did not approve of him and suspected that he was Prince Shensheng who wanted to usurp the throne.

Being driven away was nothing, but what made Fusu sad was probably his father's distrust, disgust and suspicion.

So in the end, what was written in Ying Zheng's edict was the reason for letting Fusu return to Xianyang.

Because Ying Zheng knew that this was the biggest knot between them. Fusu was demoted for making a remonstrance. He had done the right thing but was punished by his respected father. He had been living in the shadows.

Therefore, this edict from Ying Zheng was one that only the eldest prince Fusu could understand.

So this was clearly an edict asking Prince Fusu to return and succeed to the throne, but he did not mention a single word about the succession.

But this is probably the edict that contains the most thoughts of Ying Zheng in his life. It has the fewest words but the most arrangements.

You think this is just a normal sentence, but this is the key point, let Fusu preside over the funeral of Ying Zheng.

This is the reason why Ying Zheng asked Fusu to return to Xianyang.

Fusu was driven away because he made a remonstrance, and now his father asked him to return to Xianyang in order to bury him.

Ying Zheng said nothing, but he apologized.

With the Meng brothers, it is only natural to return to Xianyang City to preside over the funeral of Qin Shihuang. When Prince Fusu arrives in Xianyang, he will usher in the most important moment of his life - he will be crowned the throne by all officials, rather than relying on a handwritten silk book from Ying Zheng and being coldly announced by the Zongzheng to succeed him.

This perfect process is more meaningful than a decree of succession of tens of thousands of words.

What Ying Zheng wanted to give Fusu was the most supreme power in the empire, not some empty and lengthy decree of succession.

He knew too well how much weight the edict of succession carried.

Sometimes, the edict of succession is not as heavy as the hair on a woman's temples. Not to mention the transfer of power, it can't even inspire awe in people.

Facts have proved that Ying Zheng's prediction was correct, because his henchmen Zhao Gao and Li Si personally rewrote a decree to pass on the throne to him, which shows how important this decree was in people's minds.

Ying Zheng almost designed a perfect plan to let his beloved son ascend the throne, and he also told Fusu all the things he wanted to say to his son but could not say or was embarrassed to say.

This edict was so perfect that Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, Li Si, Feng Quji and everyone else were afraid of it and moved by it.

Ying Zheng's love for his eldest son is higher than the mountains and deeper than the sea.

The edict to establish a crown prince, which should have been cold, formal and polite, turned into an extremely warm edict in the last few strokes of Ying Zheng's life.

No matter how many conflicts and misunderstandings there were between this father and son in their past lives, once Fusu received the real edict, he would definitely feel relieved about his father.

However, it is an indisputable fact that in history, Fusu had low ability, lacked ambition, and was blindly loyal and filial.

The current Fusu does not have these shortcomings, but although he possesses countless advantages, he cannot wait for his father's warmth, and is even less willing to wait for his father to take the initiative to transfer political power to him.

His father is now in the sixth line, which means that whatever he does will be wrong and it will be too late to do anything.

It would be better to let him put an end to him and save his reputation.

But the current Fusu has made Ying Zheng fear and guard against him, so Fusu will never wait for the imperial edict in history.

There was no edict to return to Xianyang, and there was no foundation for the handover of power laid by Ying Zheng himself. These two things forced Fusu to come up with a perfect reason to inherit the throne by force.

However, Fusu thought about it and found that this was too difficult. Someone was needed to carefully operate in Xianyang, and the route back to the city had to be meticulous.

Leaving such a difficult task to himself to figure out, doesn't it make him, the future Qin II, seem a little pedantic?

So Fusu thought about it again and again, and wrote a secret letter to Chen Ping, who had the highest IQ, adversity quotient and EQ among his advisers.

Fusu sent this secret letter to Lu Shizhi to deliver it.

"Just deliver it to Xianyang within eight days. The things inside are actually not important. It doesn't matter if others see them."

"Ah? It can be shown to others. Is this still a secret letter?" Lu Shizhi was confused.

Fusu just smiled meaningfully.

When he went back to the room to rest, Feng Jing immediately snatched the secret letter and read it.

When he saw the letter, his face froze, as if he had seen something extraordinary, and he left without saying a word.

This made Guan Fu very curious, and he couldn't help but want to see what the secret letter that could be seen by others looked like.

But when he opened the paper, he left in silence.

Lu Shizhi was trembling with fear and looked around. Two people had already looked at him, so it was okay for him to take a look.

When he opened it and took a look, he saw that his eyes had narrowed into slits and his face was twitching in pain.

Only Lu Ze's eyes lit up after reading it. He urged Lu Shizhi to deliver the letter to Hengyang Palace as quickly as possible while the person was still alive.

In the summer, when cicadas were chirping noisily, Fusu sat in the house, fiddling with a long stick of incense by himself.

When dusk fell, Fusu walked out of his elegant garden, which symbolized the second prince's noble position, and came to the hillside, looking at the western mountains.

The real succession edict from Emperor Qin Shi Huang to Prince Fusu was circling in his mind, but his hand was still tightly gripping his sword, with no intention of letting go.

This is my life.

If you choose power and the throne, you must stay away from family ties.

He would probably never wait for the edict of succession written personally by Ying Zheng with his consent.
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In the city of Xianyang, the old forces of Qin and Chu nobles, high-ranking officials, began to secretly unite again. They were planning to welcome Fusu back to succeed the throne.

Before Fusu's letter arrived at Hengyang Palace.

An event that shocked the world occurred in Xianyang City. Ying Zheng selected Xiao He, an honest official, as the chief justice. This move became a hot topic among people all over the world.

Everyone praised Qin Shi Huang, saying that he was wise and that he had found his way back to the right path.

For a moment, praise seemed like a tide, overwhelming Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng was naturally very proud, he had indeed made the right choice.

However, the fundamental purpose of Ying Zheng's use of Xiao He was to strike Fusu. He just wanted to use Xiao He's loyalty to tell Fusu that the power was still in the hands of his father.

At the moment, Xiao He has not revealed his loyalty to Ying Zheng.

However, Ying Zheng felt that there was no rush for this matter as there would be plenty of time in the future.

He planned to go on another incognito visit, as he would be bored to death staying in the palace.

At this time, Lu Shizhi finally delivered Fusu's letter to Hengyang Palace.

When Chen Ping opened it, he was stunned at first.

"Did you make a mistake?" Chen Ping opened the silk book and asked him to read it again and again.

"No. Just this one word. The prince said, Zhan Shi, you must understand it."

Chen Ping felt a wave of disgust in his heart.

His lips suddenly turned pale and his face twisted slightly.

Is the prince trying to show off his talent?

You're giving me a riddle at a time like this?

Does the prince know that the First Emperor wants to kill me?