My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 793: Try to curse again.

When everyone left the hall, Zhou Qingchen was so angry that the flesh in his chest was throbbing and the spot on his temple was also throbbing wildly.

Before coming here today, he saw a scene where people who were unimaginable in his life gathered together.

The old nobles of the Qin State were the true descendants of Qin Fuzi, with the blood of the Shang Dynasty and even the Zhou royal family flowing in their veins.

What's more, except for the two brothers of the Xiong family, there are other Chu nobles.

On the surface, the Chu nobles left with the Xiong brothers, but over the past hundred years of their operations in Qin, they had already placed their relatives in several important counties near Qin's Xianyang city as local governors.

Without the two Xiong brothers, they can still find other vassals.

Even without men who can take charge of important affairs, there are still women who can.

Our Mrs. Bear has never been an easy person to deal with.

Zhou Qingchen thought about the people he had met before. Each one of them had a prominent status, or had a shocking status that would scare people to death if it were told to others.

How could he, a foreign official, meet the emperor's wife?

If this gets out, he'll lose nine heads.

But whenever he thought about the person like this following him, Zhou Qingchen couldn't help but say, "I am no longer the same person I used to be."

In fact, the current Qin Dynasty is controlled by such people at the grassroots level. This coincides with the previous situation.

They become officials because of their bloodline and connections. How could they possibly take office with the intention of working for the people?

Therefore, these royal relatives felt that the new policy threatened their interests at the first time.

They did not benefit from the enfeoffment of Qin II.

On the contrary, because of the succession of Qin II, their space for interests was greatly reduced.

As the pressure was passed down layer by layer, the emperor's wife naturally felt unhappy because she no longer had the rouge, fine cinnabar, and fine gauze that were tributed to her by local governments.

As for those high-ranking officials who retired behind the scenes, originally the salaries they enjoyed were just the best tributes, but with the people's blood and sweat, they could live in attics made of pure gold, use screens made of pure jade, and wear silk clothes that could only be made by spending a person's youth.

The contradiction between the nobility and the common people is irreconcilable.

As for Zhou Qingchen, he self-righteously chose to follow the nobles.

Because according to his experience, the common people will never be able to defeat the nobles. They are too easy to satisfy, as long as they can have enough food to eat, get married and have children, then they will be content with the status quo and be satisfied with the current good life.

So, after seeing the stupidity, simplicity and complacency of the common people, Zhou Qingchen chose to be the vanguard of these people behind him.

Although he knew that they were using him as a gun, Zhou Qingchen was, after all, someone who had worked with Zhao Gao, Li Si, and Yao Jia.

Who in this world can avoid being used as a tool by others?

The key is to see whose gun you can become and what benefits you can get by being a gun.

If he were alive, he could become a big figure like Yao Jia in the future. What's wrong with that?

Zhou Qingchen had thought it through long ago. There was no way out for him if he followed the emperor anyway, so he might as well rely on these ancestors and relatives whom even the emperor himself was wary of and respectful of.

But Zhou Qingchen has been planning carefully, and today he has been trying to please all the adults, in order to chop off Xiang Li Che's head.

As a result, Zhang Cang showed up unexpectedly.

Zhou Qingchen was so angry that his teeth ached.

After leaving the palace gate, several people came to the palace corridor.

But now, the situation is different.

They no longer care about new or old grudges.

The two men walked outside the Arch of Triumph, staring at each other with fire in their eyes.

Zhou Qingchen had always been a person who was highly rewarded by Qin Shihuang. Although he held a low official position, he was favored by Qin Shihuang and no one dared not respect him.

It was not just today that he dared to loudly ridicule Zhang Cang. In the past, he relied on the favor of Qin Shihuang and walked in front of Zhang Cang, who was a fifth-rank official, with swaying strides.

Zhang Cang had impeached Zhou Qingchen many times before.

But Zhou Qingchen didn't care at all, because he knew that what Qin Shihuang hated most was Zhang Cang, a hindsight expert.

Zhang Cang had no forward-looking opinions and was always pointing fingers afterward, secretly criticizing Qin Shihuang for this and that. To be honest, Zhou Qingchen always thought Zhang Cang was a fool.

He never believed that Zhang Cang would be able to achieve any great success in the future.

Don't forget that Zhang Cang was only a junior minister in the palace in the past, while Zhou Qingchen was a serious doctor and minister of state, and was of the same generation as Chunyu Yue, the great Confucian scholar and teacher of the current emperor.

In terms of knowledge, Zhang Cang was broad but not deep, and in that era, Zhang Cang was obviously a liberal arts student with a bias towards certain subjects. He was very good at mathematics, but he was very poor at gentlemanly social etiquette and the ways of the world. Moreover, his understanding of Confucian classics was different from that of the great Confucian scholars of the time.

Great Confucian scholars always try hard to get closer to Confucius, but Zhang Cang is different. He is more realistic and always puts forward some new ideas, saying that Mencius is better than Confucius.

This would make some followers of other Confucian schools angry.

During the initial assessment, Zhang Cang was considered by the chief academician of Qin's Imperial Academy to be young and unruly, with little knowledge but lofty and broad ideas, because he expressed his own opinions. Therefore, he was excluded from the list of doctors and ministers.

Therefore, Zhang Cang's knowledge has always been excluded.

Because he was always criticizing this and that, he had offended many people. As a result, he was not even awarded the title of Doctor or Minister of State, so naturally everyone laughed at him.

Moreover, he was not even 30 years old at the time, but he dared to compete for the position of Doctor and Minister of State, which made people at that time remember the name Zhang Cang.

But famous lay Buddhists like Tang Bing, Duke of Dongyuan, Shao Ping, Marquis of Dongling, etc. did not dare to nominate themselves, and they relied entirely on recommendations from others for their titles.

But Zhang Cang was very brave and directly recommended himself.

As a result, Zhou Qingchen always ridiculed and bullied Zhang Cang because of this matter.

Even though Zhang Cang later became one of the five great officials, in Zhou Qingchen's eyes, Zhang Cang did not get to the position by any formal means. He always believed that Zhang Cang just served tea and flattered Qin II, which led to his current position.

Therefore, when Qin Shihuang was in power, Zhou Qingchen dared to squeeze Zhang Cang.

When Qin II ascended the throne, Zhang Cang's power grew. He was even able to directly enter the Shaofu Temple as a censor to handle grain and tax matters at the end of Qin Shihuang's reign. It was only then that Zhou Qingchen began to avoid Zhang Cang.

However, Zhang Cang had no intention of letting Zhou Qingchen go. During the days when Zhou Qingchen had stopped doing things, he wrote several articles of thousands of words, satirizing Zhou Qingchen and saying that he was a complete villain and a treacherous and treacherous person.

It was these things that planted the seeds of disgust and resentment towards Zhang Cang in Zhou Qingchen's heart.

However, things changed. With the support of the powerful, Zhou Qingchen soon became rebellious.

Before going to the palace, he was confident that he would succeed, so he criticized Zhang Cang for his public daily conversation.

In fact, Zhou Qingchen has always been worried that Qin II would settle accounts for his past deeds in the future. Only by relying on those powerful people behind him could he survive.

Otherwise, I would be forced to crash to death in the palace...

That was a psychological shadow that haunted him throughout his life.

As a result, when this persuasion failed, Zhou Qingchen knew that his mission had failed, and he became even more furious.

Zhang Cang, that bastard, actually ruined his plan today.

Originally, the content of their memorial today was to list the various threats posed to the emperor by Xiang Li Che, forcing the emperor to submit and kill the hateful Xiang Li Che, so as to prove his strength to his masters.

In the history of the Qin State, there were people who were good at being thugs and became prime ministers.

Zhou Qingchen always plans a lot.

But Zhang Cang, this bastard, I don’t know if he is really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

He actually didn't follow the rules. Zhou Qingchen was very angry, and he wanted to test whether Zhang Cang was really stupid or just pretending to be stupid.

Zhou Qingchen was filled with anger, but when he saw Zhang Cang's eyes were full of anger towards himself.

At that moment, he didn't even need to ask.

It turned out that Zhang Cang deliberately used tricks to sabotage his plan.

"Zhang Yushi, what good will this do for you?"

Zhang Cang stood where he was.

The other imperial censors were startled and stood trembling by the wall.

Zhang Cang smiled at Zhou Qingchen and said, "It doesn't matter to you, Censor Zhou, that I, Zhang Cang, didn't get any benefit. After all, I am just a humble person. But if you, Censor Zhou, get any benefit, the people of the world will suffer."

"What did you say?" Zhou Qingchen raised his eyebrows and stomped his feet, wishing he could jump up and eat Zhang Cang alive.

The ministers on one side had wanted to laugh in their hearts a long time ago. These two were the favorites in front of the emperor, but they disliked them on weekdays. So what they liked to watch most was the internal fighting between these two people. Every time they fought each other, they felt that the world became inexplicably beautiful.

Soon, at the entrance of Yingxuan, one group of people pulled Zhou Qingchen, and another group of people pulled Zhang Cang.

"Alright, alright, let's just forget about it in public."

"Censor Zhang, you have been in the Censorate for a long time. You have seen all kinds of storms. Why do you want to pick a fight with Censor Zhou at this critical moment?"

The more the censors on both sides tried to persuade the two men, the more angry they became.

Because every word they said was aimed at worsening the relationship between the two.

"You, Censor Zhou and Censor Zhang, were colleagues in the past. You two have a deep relationship and a strong friendship. Why would you start a war out of nothing?"

Zhou Qingchen was held high up, and he felt a surge of anger in his heart when he heard that.

"out of thin air?!"

He knew that no one around him was a good person, but he didn't expect them to be able to come up with such shit.

"What kind of shit can come out of your mouth."

Zhou Qingchen shouted without reservation.

His saliva sprayed on the man's face.

Censor Qi was trembling with fear, not knowing what to say.

He no longer needs to be wary of these little cats and dogs. The person standing behind Zhou Qingchen now is even more powerful than Yao Jia's backer.

Zhou Qingchen is a long-term speculator and has been observing the Qin court for too long.

With such support, he has nothing to fear.

Because Zhou Qingchen knew that the emperor was not as unattainable as people imagined, and the emperor did not wield the golden hoe as people imagined.

The emperor's power must be squeezed and oppressed bit by bit in order to be firmly held in his own hands.

And it is impossible for the emperor to hold on to power forever.

The other ministers did not understand why, they just felt that Zhou Qingchen was insulting them.

Zhang Cang was furious when he saw Zhou Qingchen's vassal being scolded by Zhou Qingchen for no reason.

Then Zhang Cang angrily asked, "Did you come out of a dog hole?"

Zhou Qingchen's eyes widened, he knew Zhang Cang was about to attack.

Zhang Cang smiled and said, "If it can only bark all day long, it must be a dog."

"Just try to scold me again!" Zhou Qingchen raised his fist.

Zhang Cang looked at Zhou Qingchen and smiled, "If you ask me, you are just a low-class person."

Zhou Qingchen looked at Zhang Cang and tried to hold back for a long time but couldn't utter any other dirty words. After all, he was a doctor and had considered himself a scholar for too long, so he hardly said anything too obscene.

But as expected, the two still mentioned their ancestors in their conversation.

The two men started arguing fiercely, and finally they started fighting each other, and other imperial censors also joined in.

The main thing is that the Censorate is a place where various forces are instilled with their will and is full of contradictions.

All of a sudden, the Censorate, who were fighting in a ball, immediately stood up from the ground.

The guards around were so frightened that every hair on their bodies stood up.

We dare not intervene, and we dare not ask.

Just at this moment, General Meng Tian, ​​General Li Xin and General Zhao Tuo suddenly passed by Yingxuan Gate.

Li Xin looked leisurely at the bruises on the faces of the doctors in the Censorate. He thought excitedly, "Well, I knew that being a civil official would be unavoidably undignified, so I chose to fight on the battlefield. The undignification on the battlefield is called heroism."

But in the court, this is considered not presentable.

When the three men passed by, the ministers of the Censorate all blushed with shame.

However, when Zhou Qingchen looked at the mighty figures of Meng Tian, ​​Li Xin, and Zhao Tuo walking by, a strong sense of jealousy and shame surged in his heart.

Zhou Qingchen straightened his clothes and said these words to Zhang Cang indignantly.

"Do you think that after you have done these things, His Majesty will make you a marquis?"

"Don't you see what kind of people His Majesty has conferred titles on these people?"

After hearing this, Zhang Cang stood there with his lips trembling with anger.

This guy Zhou Qingchen really touched Zhang Cang's heart.

In fact, Zhang Cang has been working in the Qin Empire for quite some time, but up to now, he has always been just a Censor.

He was a great military official, but during his sixteen years in the Qin Empire, he was only able to become a censor.

Although he bears heavy responsibilities and is deeply respected by the people, so what?

He saw that those who came later than him successfully became marquises or even generals, and their future was bright.

Zhang Cang, however, seemed to be standing still.

He neither won the emperor's heart nor lost the emperor's heart.

Zhang Cang stood there in a daze for a long time.

The sunlight shone on Zhang Cang, and the others also dispersed.

Only Zhou Qingchen looked at Zhang Cang, "Why, aren't you very powerful?"

Zhang Cang pursed his lips and snorted coldly. He brushed the dust off his clothes and said with a smile, "Even if it's not my turn, it's not your turn to sit in the position of Jiuqing either."

Zhou Qingchen felt as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water over him from head to toe.

My feet felt like they were filled with lead and I couldn't walk for a while.

However, in the Zhangtai Palace, Fusu, who heard about the fighting scene in the Censorate, was so excited that he was laughing.

"Hahahaha, Zhang Cang has come to this day!"

(End of this chapter)