My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 738: Boiled Toad in Warm Water

"It's over, it's over. I think the Qin Empire will be destroyed in this man's hands."

After returning home, Feng Quji couldn't sit still anymore.

"From the moment the emperor came to power, he abolished many of the emperor's decrees. I could tell that this person didn't respect the past and didn't follow the laws of his ancestors. He will definitely do something big in the future."

Although Feng Jie also had a gloomy face, he spoke seriously after thinking for a while.

"Actually, I think His Majesty the Emperor is right."

Feng Quji was horrified. "Could it be that you, like those unruly people promoted from the countryside, were deceived by the emperor's few words?"

"That was just a dream. Reality will wake the emperor up sooner or later. Only the common people don't understand the etiquette of respect and inferiority, so they only think about equality."

"This world is fair. The so-called unfairness is nothing more than the weak complaining about their environment."

"If you don't believe me, just wait and see. When they have power and status, do you think they will still say that the world is unfair?"

Feng Quji took a sip of ginseng tea, rinsed his mouth, and then sat on the mat to think about things.

Those eyes slid back and forth in their sockets, as if looking for a way out.

Feng Jie had a long sword tied around his waist and sat upright in front of Feng Quji.

In spring, the noble men of Qin State all wore black battle robes with their sleeves rolled up, looking dignified and graceful.

"I don't really care about your Majesty's ideals. Your Majesty is the emperor. In order to go down in history books and to surpass the emperor emeritus, it is not excessive to have these ideals."

"And your majesty's teachers, from the Legalist Han Fei, to the Confucianist Chunyu Yue, and then to Wei Liao, have determined that your majesty's thoughts are different from ours."

"As a subject, I feel that your majesty's actions are in line with the current situation of our Qin State."

Feng Quji raised his left eyebrow, drooped his right eyebrow, and opened his lips.

"Do you want to listen to what you are saying? Qin II is a practical person?"

Despite his father's wrath, Feng Jie remained calm and explained in detail:
"Father, think about it. A ceasefire is a matter of following the trend, and enfeoffment is also in line with the will of the subjects."

"Under such circumstances, the whole country must reform. If reform is to be carried out, the system of military merit and rank must be changed."

"Since we are no longer using repression, we must find another method. Using culture and education seems to be the slowest to take effect, but I think it will have the greatest and most far-reaching impact."

"It's like boiling a toad in warm water. At first, the toad doesn't feel anything in the clear water and feels comfortable swimming around. But as time goes by, it gradually becomes unable to get out and cannot change the situation even if it wants to."

[The frog commonly referred to in modern spoken and written language is called "shrimp toad" (or "toad") in ancient books of the Qin and Han dynasties. 】

"It is better than the policy of His Majesty the Emperor at the beginning. He wanted to use repression to make the nobles of those kingdoms and the people of the six nations surrender, and to completely destroy their desire to start a war."

"Isn't your majesty's method more sophisticated?"

Feng Quji's nostrils were originally wide open, like an old cow's nose, huffing out hot air. But after hearing his son's words, Feng Quji's nostrils quickly shrank back to their original state.

"You mean, the emperor also wants to stabilize the country, and the original intention of the reform is to make the people feel at ease."

Feng Jie: "Yes. Your Majesty has always been that kind of person. He said that fighting and killing are bad, but he killed 100,000 people at random. He said that the king should set an example in governing the country and that the king should be filial and respectful. However, Your Majesty carried the people we used to respect to Yuzhen Palace."

When Feng Quji heard these things, he kept pounding his legs. "So I have always been worried that the second emperor of our Great Qin Empire is such a person. What will become of the Qin Empire in the future?"

It would be better not to mention this matter. Once Feng Quji mentioned it, he could not help but feel annoyed. How great it would have been if the First Emperor was still alive...

Thinking of the fact that the new emperor and Wei Liao in the court both questioned his political vision and believed that he was unrealistic, Feng Quji, a loyal realist, could not help laughing.

"Father……"

"Father, what are you thinking about?"

Feng Jie looked at the gloomy expression on Feng Quji's face and he also looked embarrassed.

After all, there is a sister who is the queen in the harem.

The closer his relationship with the emperor, the more Feng Jie worried about the future of his family.

In the past, the First Emperor once made a slight complaint about his father's large number of carriages, and killed more than a hundred people present in one breath.

This incident caused quite a stir in Xianyang City. But what surprised everyone was that Qin Shi Huang punished many people present, but he still trusted Feng Quji as always. In the mind of the first emperor, Feng Quji was more important than Li Si.

At that time, everyone thought that Feng Quji would be the next to suffer.

Almost all of his uncles, nephews, brothers, sons, and nephews had military merit or held important positions in the court.

Everyone thought that a tall tree attracts the wind and the Feng family was doomed.

It turned out not to be.

No one could guess what the First Emperor was thinking.

After experiencing that incident, Feng Quji admired and respected Qin Shihuang even more.

Feng Jie had asked Feng Quji several times why the First Emperor was so furious that he killed everyone present but did not touch Feng at all.

With the tremendous power of Emperor Qin Shi Huang at that time, he could do anything.

However, only Qin Shihuang and Feng Quji knew the secret.

Feng Jie even thought that maybe his father couldn't explain it. His father was just grateful that Qin Shi Huang had the opportunity to kill him but didn't.

Feng Quji came back to his senses and looked at Feng Jie intently.

"Tell me, between your Majesty and me, who is the down-to-earth person and who is the unrealistic one?"

"This..." Feng Jie was speechless. His father was the prime minister, why would he bother with such a problem?

It seems that my father was jointly accused by the emperor and Wei Liao today, and he began to doubt his own governing philosophy. My father is still upset about what happened in the parliament this morning.

"My son doesn't understand." Feng Jie bowed and shook his head.

Feng Quji's nostrils began to open slowly again, and his nostrils became wider.

"His Majesty actually said that he would invent so many machines that two people would be able to cultivate fifty acres of land in the future. This is simply wishful thinking."

Feng Quji stroked his beard, carefully considering every look, every movement, and every word of the emperor in the court today.

"Although he is the Son of Heaven, and there is nothing wrong with imagining himself as the savior, but if he says something like that, aren't you afraid that the officials and the people will hear it and laugh at you?"

"Invent a few machines so that two people can cultivate fifty acres of land. How is that possible?"

Feng Quji laughed loudly.

He had no regard for his dignity as prime minister.

Even though Fusu did not openly make things difficult for Feng Quji because of Feng Quji's attempt to force him to abdicate and establish a crown prince, the status and political influence of Feng Quji's party in the court had been significantly weakened.

Feng Quji was in the court discussing state affairs. Even though he tried to calm himself down again and again and wanted to be a good prime minister, he always felt like there was a thorn in his heart.

"Father, the Queen has given birth to another son for Your Majesty. Father, won't you go visit the Queen?"

Feng Jie suddenly asked.

Feng Quji opened his eyes suddenly. He did not understand Feng Jie's intentions, but asked a question in panic, "I heard that His Majesty dotes on Han Ji very much. They have been close since childhood."

"This is your Majesty's private matter."

"Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. How can a Son of Heaven have any private affairs? The Son of Heaven's family affairs are state affairs."

As Feng Jie listened, he also felt a black shadow flash before his eyes.

Feng Quji stood up, put his hands on his hips and asked Feng Jie a question.

"You may think that the emperor forced my father to abdicate, just going with the flow. But this is just the beginning. As long as someone takes the lead in breaking a rule, the next people will do whatever they want."

"For example, the simplest one. Do you think that a man who dares to force his father to give up the throne to himself would follow the ancestral etiquette and make the son of the queen the crown prince?"

"This..." Feng Jie was immersed in horror, he didn't dare to think about it any further.

(End of this chapter)