My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 768 The So-called Feat

"Your Majesty, a short pain is worse than a long one."

"If we continue to allow the Emperor to cultivate, it will go against the Yuzhen Palace's budget cuts, and the subjects will rebel. In the end, your Majesty will have to bear all the consequences."

In Zhangtai Palace, Chen Ping said these words with righteous words.

The palace maids on the side were all stunned. This was not what Chen Ping said when Qin Shihuang was in power.

Zhang Cang felt a little nauseous after listening to Chen Ping's words.

"Isn't this Shangshu Ling being fickle?"

Chen Ping didn't say anything, but just glanced at Zhang Cang fiercely. "It's better to be flexible. Otherwise, like Zhang Yushi, you will not only fail to accomplish anything, but also cause trouble and disputes for others all day long."

Don't forget that Chen Ping saved Zhang Cang once.

Although Zhang Cang had always been disgusted by Chen Ping's cunning and deceit, he did not say anything because Qin II was suppressing him.

The Second Emperor didn't know much about this person at the beginning, and he might have been a little disgusted with Fusu.

But once you really understand him, you will realize that the emperor actually knows everything clearly and can see through everyone.

Everyone under the command of Qin II knew to restrain themselves, because they knew that no matter what they did, with Qin II's wisdom and reaction speed, they would not be able to deceive him, but would be blamed by him instead.

Not only those who stand in the light are considered gentlemen, but those who choose to carve out a path in the shadows are true warriors.

Zhang Cang looked at Qin Ershi, who seemed to have a headache. He looked at his mouth, as if he had made sufficient preparations and mustered up the courage to accept those unpleasant words.

What surprised everyone was that Zhang Cang was not angered immediately this time.

He lowered his head as if in shame and did not question Chen Ping immediately.

The second generation of "All Ears and Attention" also waited in vain.

That’s right, Zhang Cang carefully chewed over Chen Ping’s reply several times.

What Chen Ping said does make sense. The troubles Zhang Cang caused were far greater than the good things he did.

Zhang Cang...how to say it.

This handsome man who once dared to advise the people and write for justice, had to reflect on himself after being wronged many times and attacked by the powerful.

After all, they were often stripped naked, pressed on a wooden board, and had their necks scraped by a butcher's knife.

After experiencing the same thing a few times, everyone will change.

What's more, this time Zhang Cang's memorial exposed the past of those powerful and aristocratic families and their respected teachers, and directly pointed out the injustice and absurdity of this world.

The lower class people were forced to jump into the "furnace", while the wealthy and powerful were busy cultivating immortality and achieving longevity.

The truth has been covered up and the world is struggling in the fog.

Zhang Cang didn't want to change his heart, he still wanted to use his talents to benefit the people.

However, human hearts are unpredictable and current situations are hard to predict. After Zhang Cang realized that he had his shortcomings and that the emperor also had his own difficulties, he naturally restrained himself in outward behavior.

Zhang Cang also discovered his own problems: he was too impulsive and too rigid.

This will not solve the problem at all, but will make things worse and put yourself in danger.

The old Xunzi once said to him, who was not yet 20 years old, "You have a long way to go. You can't just think about the beginning."

At that time, Zhang Cang thought that the teacher just asked him to be careful about distributing food according to time when he was going on a long journey, and not to eat happily at the beginning and have nothing to eat at the end.

Now when I recall these words, the teacher, who usually doesn't talk much, suddenly said something like this, which definitely had a hidden meaning.

At that time, he naively thought that the master was just reminding him to eat less. . .

So in Zhangtai Palace, in front of Fusu, in full view of everyone, something unexpected happened.

Zhang Cang didn't say a word and put his hands back into his sleeves.

In an instant, everyone's eyes fell on Zhang Cang.

Chen Ping was also surprised.

Did this guy eat something wrong today, or did the sun rise from the west today?

Shao Ping looked at Zhang Cang and was also startled.

It would be meaningless if Zhang Cang were no longer Zhang Cang.

Everyone was used to Zhang Cang's straightforwardness, and even liked his straightforwardness. But as long as it didn't go to their heads, they would accept it.

Zhang Cang chose to keep his mouth shut.

Chen Ping naturally had the upper hand. He talked at length about the absurdity of cultivating immortals, the impact of the retired emperor's cultivation of immortals on the people of the world, how this would delay farmers' farming, how it would affect merchants' business, and how it would lead to the collapse of national order.

As for cultivating immortals, every hair on Chen Ping's body was opposed to it.

Unfortunately, his strenuous opposition at this time seemed like a joke and slapped himself in the face.

Because at the same time last year, Chen Ping encouraged Ying Zheng to collect the first bunch of wheat from the people to help Qin Shihuang in his sacrifice.

Heaven is constant, it does not exist for Yao, nor does it perish for Jie.

Even if Chen Ping was as smart as he was, he still had to accept the punishment he deserved. He used all means to achieve his goal, so could it be that the boomerang he inflicted on the people could not hit him?

Anything that has exceptions is not truth.

Chen Ping soon tasted the bitter fruit of his own making.

His opposition seemed a joke to outsiders.

Zhang Cang, who was supposed to be his ally, did not agree with him. To outsiders, Zhang Cang was resisting Chen Ping in a more special way, indicating that he and Chen Ping would never go along with each other.

After all, Chen Ping really doesn't mind doing dirty things, and Zhang Cang is too upright.

The status of a minister can be seen in matters like this.

After all, Chen Ping and Zhang Cang were of the later generation and not stable enough.

At this time, Fusu missed Li Si very much. If he were still there, he would definitely have a better insight into this matter.

After all, Li Si was a generalist who read the teachings of the Six Kingdoms, ancient and modern books, and mountain medicine, fortune-telling, and was one of the key contributors to the compilation of Lü Lan.

But Li Si had been asked to leave, so Fusu could only ask Wang Wan, Wei Liao, and Feng Quji. The three men, who were over 200 years old in total, were so anxious about such a question that their hair turned white.

Feng Quji really didn't want to think about the complicated interests involved. Not to mention that the interests of too many people were involved, the obscuration caused by past history to modern people could not be ended by the second emperor of Qin alone.

Moreover, there is a major logical loophole in cultivating immortals. If one succeeds in cultivating immortals, one will ascend to another world. In other words, if a person disappears from this world, whether it is the disappearance of the body or the soul, the way to verify whether he succeeded in cultivating immortals is to see whether he has left this world that can be seen by the naked eye.

Then, the paradox arises.

If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, how can you believe that the other person has ascended to another higher dimensional world?

What's more, the soul ascends but the body still exists. How can the living people in the world prove that their soul has ascended?

It is known that creatures in higher-dimensional worlds can observe lower-dimensional worlds, but people in lower-dimensional worlds cannot observe higher-dimensional worlds.

Some people can use divination, and some relatives can "verify" and "believe" through dreams.

But after all, there are more laymen in the world, not to mention the swindlers who cheat people.

In other words, there is no way to use a tool that can convince everyone or something visible to the naked eye to verify that the practice of cultivating immortals is real, and there is no actual evidence to prove that ordinary people can ascend to heaven through hard practice.

There is an extremely important link missing in the logical chain.

Of course, the most terrible thing is that the vast majority of people are immersed in the seven emotions and six desires, greed, anger, ignorance and hatred, and are obsessed with one thought, falling into this Saha world.

If you can't even overcome lust, let alone walk down this path.

After all, it's too ridiculous.

Feng Quji did not know more than Li Si, but could he know less than Li Si?

He is the left prime minister.

"Your Majesty, please limit the matter of cultivating immortals to Yuzhen Palace. The most appropriate way to deal with this matter is to make a big thing small, and a small thing nothing."

"If the news reaches the ears of the people, it will only cause more trouble. The people will attribute all the suffering they have endured to your majesty's filial piety."

Unfortunately, Feng Quji's answer did not satisfy Fusu.

Wang Wan looked at Fusu and felt a lump in his heart.

This is not the first day he has known Fusu. Fusu is not an idealist who makes decisions on a whim.

Like Qin Shihuang, Fusu was the planner of the era, and they were the foundation builders of the era.

They were the people who followed Fusu and carried out his orders, occasionally helping with advice.

All along, heaven and the people will make choices together on the future development of the country, and who will make this decision for them.

Sometimes you do the right thing and everyone is happy; sometimes you make the wrong choice and you have to bear the consequences yourself.

Everyone who comes into this world has his mission and meaning.

Although the power of one person is small, tens of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people combined can accomplish an epoch-making feat.

In the past, such a world would have been unimaginable.

But Qin Shi Huang made this imaginary world a reality by creating a centralized system.

It can be said that the centralized system controls people from top to bottom, but power comes from bottom to top; so it can also be said that China has become an absorption plate since the birth of the centralized system, forcibly gathering the power of everyone under the coverage of this regime in order to accomplish some kind of feat.

In other words, in history, Qin Shihuang still had a backup plan. When evaluating a system, we should not only consider its results and significance. Why not think about the purpose of creating this system?

Since Zulong was sent down by heaven to accomplish this feat, why did heaven let Qin Shihuang accomplish this feat, and then after thousands of years of sedimentation, finally make this system as solid as a rock?

Under the centralized system, everyone is one. What is the purpose of making everyone one?

If it is difficult to imagine the purpose of Qin Shihuang's establishment of the imperial system, and the ultimate purpose of Qin Shihuang's cultivation of immortality, you might as well learn about the knowledge that has been banned throughout history.

Is "Classic of Mountains and Seas" really a strange story novel? Why can't the authorities prove that it is not a strange story novel, but dare to openly tell everyone to brainwash that it is a strange story novel?
Why are there so many statues of gods and Buddhas when there are no gods? Why did Buddha statues already exist four thousand years ago, but people keep whitewashing it by saying that Buddhism is a religion?

What are some people trying to hide? What are some people afraid of? Who is afraid?
The period in which Ying Zheng lived was the end of the Zhou and Qin dynasties. As the most powerful person in the world, he had access to the highest truth.

Therefore, from the most incredible perspective, let us re-experience this historic event of Qin Shihuang's cultivation of immortality, and re-experience the purpose of Qin Shihuang's building a unified empire.

Think of these two things together.

We might even boldly review thousands of years of history and think carefully about why the emperors' cultivation of immortals did not make the common people feel absurd, but only made them angry?
I'm afraid the people's anger is not because the idea of ​​cultivating immortals is absurd, but because they are watching themselves suffer while the emperor is thinking about ascending to heaven and getting away from all suffering, so they are angry.

Why?
Some people may think that this is going too far, but this is what Fusu is really going to lay the foundation for next.

Wang Wan’s thoughts were the same as Fusu’s.

These two people really wanted to use Qin Shihuang's cultivation of immortals to reveal something to the people, and to give some correct guidance to those who were in the sea of ​​suffering but realized that material things could not help them get rid of their suffering, and who had good roots and opportunities to practice.

Therefore, this major issue involves the future of the entire Chinese people and even the future of the entire human race.

Wang Wan expressed his attitude, "Confucius once did something knowing it was impossible. Your Majesty was not the first to propose what you wanted to do."

"Throughout history, many saints and sages have written books and taught people to follow the path of truth. Your Majesty is now the ruler of a country, and what is rare is that you have the heart to benefit the world."

"With this intention, and with the assistance of others and the trust and support of the people, I am not afraid that I will not be able to give an explanation to future generations."

Feng Quji frowned when he heard this. He couldn't imagine that Wang Wan actually supported Fusu to do the same thing that Confucius wanted to do.

"How ridiculous." Feng Quji wished he didn't have those ears. "Your Majesty is hot-blooded and wants to burn the house. How can you, Prime Minister Wang, pass on the firewood?"

Wang Wan did not answer, but just looked at Fusu firmly.

Wei Liao was unusually silent, stroking his beard. What the emperor wanted to do was something that the world dared not think about. Or, it was these self-righteous high-ranking officials who thought that the people could not understand what the emperor was thinking and what the high-ranking officials were in control of.

In fact, Fusu is also very conflicted now.

He didn't know how the public would react when he told them about the solution he had found through his hard work and exploration.

Who would have thought that the answer would be this.

The question is, should we announce it?

"If I spread the secrets of cultivation throughout the world, would it lead to even greater evil consequences?"

"I have always known that people always believe that things are valuable when they are rare. If the truth that has been kept in the closet is spread, wouldn't it be like turning fine wine into water?"

“Who would believe that the water that can be seen everywhere is the truth?”

(End of this chapter)