My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 706 Why is his so big and mine so small?

"Why is his so big and mine so small!?"
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According to historical records, in the first year of the Second Emperor's reign, he dismissed Prime Minister Li Si and ordered him to return to his hometown - Xincai in Jing.

Afterwards, the Right Prime Minister Feng Quji personally wrote a letter to the emperor, asking him to reinstate Wang Wan. The emperor then got up and sent a carriage to summon Wang Wan again. All the officials followed Feng Quji and personally went to the palace to welcome Wang Wan back to the court in a carriage.

Wang Wan, who left because of the complete county system, was finally invited back because the new emperor decided to re-adopt the original county-kingdom system strategy.

This incident gave almost all the meritorious officials and generals of the Qin State a reassurance.

This means that the division is a done deal.

After Wang Wan returned, he was appointed as the right prime minister by Qin II.

In the Qin State, the left is respected, and the right is gradually second.
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The day when all the officials welcomed Wang Wan's return was the day when Li Si returned to his hometown with his belongings.

Li Si, who had always regarded power as equal to his life, was helpless at this moment while sitting in the carriage.

Qin II wanted to give him the empire's treasury. He just loved power, but he had no reason to retaliate.

What's more, so many gifts are the supreme honor for Li Si.

Qin II let him escape unscathed and did not commit any crime against Han Fei, which made Li Si feel relieved.

A banquet was set up in the Xianyang Palace to welcome Wang Wan's return.

Fusu wisely invited those meritorious officials and generals to celebrate together.

In fact, although these meritorious generals were very quiet in the Xianyang Posthouse, they were all somewhat dissatisfied with this man in their hearts.

They are all fathers, and now they have to be loyal to a man who is rebelling against their father and follow his orders.

Everyone still had some complaints in their hearts.

But I dare not discuss it publicly.

But Fusu invited Wang Wan to the palace and asked them to join him for the banquet.

Those ministers who had been loyal to Qin Shihuang in the past suddenly forgot about him completely.

They felt that the elegant and refined young man sitting on the throne in front of them was more likable.

They had never felt so favorable towards the person sitting there.

These old fathers looked at Fusu as if they saw their own sweet little daughter - their daughter. A happy smile appeared on the corner of each of their mouths, and their ability to think was like leaves that had experienced frost and snow in autumn and winter, falling off one after another.

Today's banquet was not necessary.

Wang Wan doesn't really like to be in the limelight.

However, in order to maintain their status and prevent their old boss from coming back to sit on their heads again, the Feng family, especially Feng Quji, must turn being passive into active.

Otherwise, would he, the left prime minister, have to give up his position to the right prime minister?

Or it may cause the left prime minister to be inferior to the right prime minister in the eyes of the ministers.

Therefore, Wang Wan was welcomed back with great fanfare, and Feng hosted a banquet to celebrate the return of Qin II and Wang Wan, making it seem to outsiders that Wang Wan owed something to Feng Quji's family in terms of friendship.

It can also demonstrate Feng Quji's tolerance and magnanimity as prime minister.

After a game of chess, all of Wang Wan's glory was divided among the Feng family.

At this moment, his pair of millet-sized eyes were smiling slightly, and his fat body and kind smile made him look silly.

Feng Quji, with his narrow eyes, stared at his former boss from across the table.

Ren Xiong is a person who is not very smart, but he thinks a lot.

He wanted to learn the shrewdness of other ministers, so he refused to eat or drink at the banquet and was busy observing people's words and expressions.

He saw the two prime ministers looking at each other without speaking.

I don't know what he was thinking or what, but for some reason he said something that caused the atmosphere of the banquet to suddenly drop to freezing point.

"Come to think of it, Prime Minister Feng was once a capable general under Prime Minister Wang. I didn't expect that Prime Minister Feng's status is higher than Prime Minister Wang's now."

The ministers looked at each other.

Some people were busy drinking, while others were busy eating.

Ren Xiong spread out his hands, not understanding what he had said wrong.

Yang Miao saw through everything but did not reveal it.

A moment——

Wang Wan smiled slightly and said, "Left Prime Minister, your counting chips are left at my house. When you are free, remember to come to my house and get them."

Everyone was puzzled.

Feng Quji's eyes flashed, and he said immediately, "Lord Wang Xiang is very generous, and all the civil and military officials in the court admire him. My little abacus, whether it is gold, silver, or copper, will fall into your house. The prime minister Wang Xiang is very generous, so I'm sure he can handle it."

"Please accept it, Prime Minister Wang."

Feng Quji smiled happily.

Wang Wan was also convinced by this old man. "Since the Left Prime Minister has said so, is there any reason for me to send it back? But I have already pointed out the matter of counting the chips."

"I have a promise. Don't give me anything in the future. I'll give you a token today. If you don't remind me again, I'll dig a hole for me to jump into next time."

"I'm just an old man, you can't bully me, right?" Wang Wan said deliberately, and then looked at Fusu who had been watching the show from above, "Your Majesty, you see these things clearly."

Wang Wan named two people at once. Fusu and Feng Quji both had some admiration for the old prime minister.

Wang Wan knew about power struggles, but he was able to keep out of all those petty tricks for grabbing power.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to concentrate on his work.

"As expected, the older you get, the wiser you become. Both of you are prime ministers, and each of you has your own strengths. As the saying goes, if I interfere too much in your work, I'm afraid I'll become one of them, and not understand right from wrong." Fusu also smiled.

Wang Wan: "Your Majesty, I feel relieved if you can say so. Prime Minister Feng, what do you think?"

Feng Quji was confused by Fusu's comment that they both had their merits, but he remained arrogant and said, "In everything, the overall situation is the most important!"

Ren Xiong was eating barbecue and whispered to Yang Duanhe, "What are the three of them doing? Telling crosstalk?"

"Almost." Yang Duanhe was eating fried rabbit cubes.

Feng Wuzhe looked at the situation and felt something was wrong.

His eldest brother, the sixth brother, is so obsessed with face that he suffers in vain.

Before the emperor ascended the throne, he hesitated. Now that Li Si was gone and Wang Wan was back, the emperor and Wang Wan had similar political views, so it was a foregone conclusion that Wang Wan would be given a new position.

Meng Tian is always steady and low-key.

It would be strange if Feng Quji was not replaced.

There was also Wei Liao, an old caracal, who sat nearby all day long.

This niece's son has now become the next preferred successor to the empire.

When he grows up, there will be countless bloody storms.

If he succeeds safely, the family may live a better life. If not, he will be replaced by the emperor's favorite eldest son, and the Feng family will be purged.

The eldest brother is still confusedly fighting for fame and power, without thinking about what will happen ten, twenty, or fifty years later.

This is not okay.

It seemed that Feng Quji could not hold up the stage - he could not prove his worth to the emperor.

Feng Wuzhe attacked again.

"Your Majesty, you can really invite the left prime minister back to take charge of the overall situation. This is really a clear sign of literary virtue; destroying Chu and pacifying Qi, and negotiating peace with Baiyue, this is really a clear sign of martial virtue. With an emperor like your Majesty, the future of the Qin Dynasty will be peaceful and prosperous. It is just around the corner."

When these generals heard who the person was, they immediately got goosebumps.

Do you know who praised Fusu?
The most famous low-key marquis in Qin State!

Neither Qin Shihuang nor Marquis Wuxin had ever been so flattering.

Moreover, as soon as he opened his mouth, his words of congratulation stood out among the civil officials and military generals. Most of the powerful, middle and lower classes could not get rid of wine, sex, money and anger, and they either drank or played with women.

But these people at the top level are either studying to improve their abilities, or listening carefully to the teachings of masters.

Feng Wuzhe was just like Xiao He. He would work when he had something to do and study non-stop when he had time to rest.

When living in the suburbs, Feng Wuzhe read articles every day.

He admired the poetry of Chu very much.

It was a new literary style popular in rural areas, which evolved from the Chu Ci poems of Qu Yuan and Song Yu.

The writing is gorgeous.

Feng Wuzhe loved to listen to Chu people singing when he had nothing to do.

When he was fighting, when others attacked a city, they were busy capturing beautiful women to present to Qin Shihuang, or stealing wealth.

But he was collecting books, consulting learned people in the city, and bringing talented and famous people home to serve as his advisers.

So when Feng Wuzhe was at home, he could often hear how the people of Chu sang and what the current situation of Chu was.

Although Qin and Chu had been married for a long time, Feng Wuze, as a noble, could also come into contact with things from Chu. But don't forget that the so-called Chu nobles and Qin officials were actually a branch of Qin's local forces, but the people who gave birth to them came from Chu.

In order to live a stable life in Qin State without being influenced by their motherland, the girls who came from far away must unite.

From the time they owned vast lands in Qin and had many descendants, they began to take root in Qin and were forever fixed to this land.

They began to become Qin citizens, contributing their strength to the Qin State in order to consolidate their foothold.

In this situation, it was the Chu people who came from afar who abandoned their past identities and learned to be Qin people.

Therefore, after one hundred and eighty years, there were no authentic Chu people among the nobles of the Qin State.

If you want to understand the local situation, customs and habits, you have to start with the new grass growing on the land of Chu.

Feng Quji absorbed a lot of knowledge, such as the new thing called Chu Fu.

His words were extremely beautiful, and were exactly what the ministers and scholars of Chu used to praise a gentleman.

When no one had ever heard of this thing, Feng Wu Ze had already mastered a lot of information.

The words are fresh as soon as they come out.

At this banquet, everyone heard countless praises, but as soon as Feng Wuzhe opened his mouth, the ministers felt like a fresh breeze blowing past their ears.

The cultural integration between Qin and Chu was gradually driven by nobles like Feng Wuzhe.

It is estimated that it won’t be long before the Qin civilization welcomes a new baby - Qin Fu.

Zhou Qingchen had been thinking about his words of congratulation for a long time, but now it seemed that there was nothing new in them.

The military commanders followed Feng Wuze, a cultured man, and praised him, "Your Majesty is a man of both virtue and martial virtue. The world will surely be peaceful."

Ren Xiong, who couldn't keep up with the rhythm, shouted from the back, "Yeah, too. Yeah, too."

Fusu was naturally happy, "The civil virtues are shining, and the martial virtues are bright." In the past, the Qin people's words, even in the words of the world, almost never said this.

It's like turning lyrical ballads into a more respectable literary genre.

Very novel.

"What a great Marquis Wu Xin! I have never heard such a statement before."

Feng Wuze stepped forward and said, "I heard that a new song was born in the southern Jing land recently."

"The grass and trees are falling, and the clouds are flying."

"If Your Majesty likes it, I can send a few literati to Your Majesty."

As soon as Fusu heard the word "literati", he felt the area in which he was proficient.

"can."

The literati group of Jizhong had too much of an academic atmosphere and lacked creativity.

Fusu understood poetry and loved to recite them.

They don't have the talent.

The king and his minister hit it off immediately and started talking and laughing.

Wang Wan's bean-sized eyes began to narrow slightly again. The two Feng brothers have never had a sense of serving the public.

The best we can do is to make our family prosperous. If we want to rely on them, we can make the country and the people prosperous.

difficult.

The ministers' faces were all filled with joy. Listening to the two men talking about things they didn't understand, they felt that the Emperor and Marquis Wuxin seemed very powerful.

All kinds of music, as if Your Majesty knows everything and can talk about everything.

Wei Liao looked at these heroes warily.

Although they all had the title of marquis, once they were granted fiefdoms, the land of Xianyang City had to be given up.

Take advantage of this opportunity to clear out those cancers.

Wei Liao saw that the civil and military officials in the court today were all convinced of Qin II.

By observing the atmosphere in the court, you can understand the daily living conditions of people across the world.

If the king is cruel and ruthless, the officials and the people will inevitably suffer from brutal exploitation and oppression.

If the king is magnanimous and can make his subjects respect him from the bottom of their hearts instead of obeying him, there will surely be a harmonious atmosphere among the people of the world, and the officials will be able to act reasonably.

Liao felt very cute, drank some wine, and fell asleep in a daze.

That day, many people left drunk.

When they got what they had always wanted, they also had to lose some of what they cherished in the past - their life-and-death friendship on the battlefield, their mortal enemy in daily life, the mansion in Xianyang City, and... Qin Shi Huang who had lost his power.

A man will not easily show his sadness, and everyone is happily drinking the wine.

After drinking this cup, I'm afraid there won't be a chance to see you again next time.

Especially some captains, who have experienced too many battles and know this truth well.

But on this day, Li Si drove away from Xianyang with his family.

Next to the carriage, there were a few yellow dogs that ran out from home.

Li Si kept driving them back, fearing that they would die on the road, but the yellow dog followed firmly.

Although Li Si was gone, his two sons still served in the Qin State, and the Li family's mansion did not have to be taken back by the government.

Looking at the puppy that kept running after the carriage, Li Si had a moment of remorse.

He felt that he was not as loyal as the puppy.

If he had followed Ying Zheng firmly, this would not be the case.

He betrayed Ying Zheng a month ago and was abandoned by Fusu a month later.

Regret welled up in my heart, but everything has become a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed.
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Three days later, the official division results came out.

Gongzi Gao and others held the imperial edict and looked at it in comparison with the map taken out from the royal library.

Prince Jianglu also looked unhappy.

The main thing is that the fiefdoms given to meritorious officials are completely different from those given to the princes of the Qin royal family.

"Why? Wang Ben's fiefdom is so big, and mine is so small. His fiefdom is as big as a whole chicken, and mine is just a small chicken drumstick!"

"I really don't know what I've been studying so hard for."

(End of this chapter)