My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 812 Your Majesty is wise!
Counting the days, it was the end of autumn this year, and Fusu had been officially on the throne for a year.

The comfortable life of a prince who enjoyed a leisurely and pampered life in the past seemed like a dream of the past. Fusu had completely devoted himself to working hard to be a good emperor every day.

The memorials of these young disciples were full of suspicion of being ghostwritten, but Fusu actually felt a taste of scholar-officials in them.

The whole article is full of beautiful words, but the piling up of these gorgeous words makes them seem meaningless.

After all, I am a disciple, and I can't get a good one if I ask someone to write for me.

I feel much better after reading the minister's article.

The whole article is eloquent and vigorous, and every word it says makes a lot of sense.

However, about twenty years later, when Qin II was sitting in the same palace and in the same position, and after reading thousands of memorials, his understanding of the remonstrances finally made a qualitative leap.

In the so-called remonstrance, Fusu grasped the essence.

The admonition makes your scalp tingle and you feel full of passion when you read it, but after reading it, you will sit on the ground dejectedly, at a loss as to what to do, as it is of no practical use at all.

Fusu had long been sick of reading the memorials of remonstrance; they were not interesting at all.

However, after reading Lin Yannian's memorial, he became very curious about the memorials of today's ministers.

Because he had just captured Zhang Cang, if nothing unexpected happened, someone would definitely persuade him to keep Zhang Cang.

No matter what he said this time, Fusu would not withdraw his edict.

He must kill Zhang Cang.

Qin II opened the stack of books in which the princes and ministers had submitted their advice with great interest, ready to see if there were any other accomplices of Zhang Cang.

Sima Wuyi was really annoyed by Qin II's behavior today, because in the eyes of this minister, Qin II's words and deeds were really not like what a mature emperor should do.

But he didn't dare to speak out.

I can only fully express what happened today by working hard on writing.

I hope that one day, when His Majesty the Emperor reads these records, he will be able to recognize his mistakes and correct them.

Today, not only Sima Wuyi was wearing a mask of pain, but the other ministers were also timid and dared not speak.

The emperor retired from court in a rage in the morning, and then vented his anger in Shanglin Garden. Finally, Censor Zhang added fuel to the fire, forcing the emperor to personally issue an edict to execute him.

For the emperor himself, today was just an unhappy day, but for these lowly servants, it was as if the dam they had worked so hard to build to prevent floods suddenly showed its might and a flood occurred, which could destroy the dam at any time.

In Zhangtai Palace, everyone is in danger today.

Everyone felt that their head was hanging on a knife edge.

Those who hold power and those who are held in power are indeed in the same world, but the scenery they see is different.

Perhaps from the moment Qin Ershi pulled his father down from the throne, he was no longer the emperor that his ministers knew and were familiar with in the past.

Because the position he sat in had changed. He used to be a prince below the emperor, but now he had become the supreme being.

The emperor has millions of lives in his hands, and killing one life is nothing. After all, he has a huge fish pond.

But for the fish that he could kill at will, there was a knife hanging over their heads that could fall at any time.

History always has some surprising similarities.

Shao Ping looked at Qin II with vigilance and anxiety, and he was worried about Zhang Cang.

The time spent in Hengyang Palace didn't seem to be very pleasant at the beginning, and there were many factions in the Prince's Palace. But as time passed, everyone missed it.

Especially on a day like today, this feeling is even stronger.

Because in the past, the ministers still felt that Qin II was real, or that they could have an equal dialogue with him; but now, they feel that Qin II is getting farther and farther away from them.

It's like they are in different worlds.

There's no way, their battle lines are no longer the same.

But no matter what, he still wanted to give it a try to save Zhang Cang, otherwise the loss of the Qin Dynasty would be great.

If such a talented person died, there would probably be no more ministers who could give advice to the Qin Dynasty in the future.

So, Shao Ping quietly observed the emperor's expression from the side, and he planned to find a suitable time to make suggestions. Not only did he want to persuade the emperor successfully, but he also wanted to save his own life.

Shao Ping stood aside, serving quietly, without showing any dissatisfaction towards the emperor.

However, as he watched the emperor's expression change from jubilation at first, to boredom, and finally to a frown, as if something big had happened, Shao Ping felt that something had changed.

Yes, Fusu's mood became very bad when he saw the remonstrance.

He raised his head as usual to look for Chen Ping, but Chen Ping was not around at this time. Instead, Shao Ping, who was like a quiet woman, was standing beside him, quiet and motionless like a bronze lampstand.

"Shao Ping, what do you think?"

Shao Ping took the memorial and read it one by one.

Every time he read a copy, his brows furrowed a little more.

Shao Ping, who originally had a 30-50 chance of success in his advice, now has no confidence at all.

It turned out that all the remonstrations were asking the emperor to severely punish Zhang Cang.

Among them, the great general Meng Tian also signed his name, asking the emperor to kill Zhang Cang directly.

Shao Ping couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

He knew very well that the focus of this matter was not on Zhang Cang, but on the emperor.

If the emperor could not overcome the barrier of his ego, and was always limited to his own likes and dislikes, and could not think beyond these to solve problems, then the governance of Qin II would have come to this point.

Zhang Cang was merely a representative of the loyal ministers.

The battle between justice and evil has never ended.

Either justice triumphs over evil, or evil triumphs over justice.

If Qin II's killing of Zhao Gao and forcing Qin II to retreat in the past was promoting justice, then his ordering of Zhang Cang's execution today was equivalent to Qin II overthrowing the justice he had established with his own hands.

At that time, those negative energies will come out to cause trouble again, and a new round of power struggle will begin in the court. Loyal ministers will be persecuted, wise and capable people will flee to live in seclusion in the countryside, and treacherous ministers will come out to cause chaos.

Shao Ping sighed this time, not because of Zhang Cang's life or death, but because almost all the court officials had advised the emperor to execute Zhang Cang.

No one pleaded for him.

What Zhang Cang found most unbelievable was that the great general Meng Tian also advised to execute Zhang Cang.

Shao Ping looked at these advices and felt that the Qin Dynasty was doomed.

"Your Majesty, if you cannot even keep this one honest minister, how can you accommodate hundreds of honest ministers and thousands of honest officials?"

Shao Ping sobbed and questioned Qin II.

Fusu was always able to withstand Zhang Cang's advice, which was like firecrackers, so he might as well shut him up forever.

But facing someone like Shao Ping, he couldn't do it.

Shao Ping is really a good guy and is friendly to everyone.

I live in the Warring States Period, and everyone around me has blood on their hands, but Shao Ping behaves like a lotus in a sewage pond. People like him are rare. When Qin II saw the memorial, he felt confused.

Is Zhang Cang's crime really so serious that he must be sentenced to death?

Why do all people want to kill Zhang Cang? Are they doing this to curry favor with me, or is it because Zhang Cang has something on them?

Shao Ping felt sorry for Zhang Cang.

Qin II began to rethink this matter.

After all, Zhang Cang is an upright person and a well-known minister of remonstration. If I kill him, those treacherous ministers will probably be overjoyed.

I inherited the throne from my father, but to this day I still have many unspeakable hardships.

The most troublesome thing was the construction of projects such as the imperial mausoleum, the Great Wall, and the Lingqu Canal.

At this juncture, the harm caused by rashly stopping the project would be many times greater than the problems caused by continuing the project.

Compared to this, what made Fusu most embarrassed was the empty treasury.

Qin Shi Huang, who was always extravagant, plus the large group of parasites he kept, greedily used various orders to embezzle the money and other materials taken out of the national treasury, and lived on free food and drink for decades.

More than ten years later, when Fusu succeeded to the throne, there was not much money left in his treasury.

Of course, the greater impact on the Qin Dynasty's economy was that Qin Shihuang launched wars year after year without stopping for a moment. The continuous expenditure of war expenses made the Qin State, which already had little money, even worse.

If it weren't for Xiao He and Zhang Cang who made careful budgeting for him, he would probably have been forced to live a poor life like Emperor Wen of Han.

Thinking of this, Fusu finally remembered one good thing about Zhang Cang.

However, the third difficulty he faced since ascending the throne was that his ministers were all older than him.

Although I am in a high position and have great power, it is a fact that I am young.

Occasionally, if he was not careful, he would expose his inherent defects and shortcomings caused by his youth to these cunning ministers.

Although nothing major has happened yet, who knows what will happen to the Qin Empire after three to five years in power?

However, Zhang Cang frequently disobeyed him at this time. After all, he was also a human being. Now he was under heavy pressure and moving forward in the fog. He just wanted to guide the Qin Empire onto a better path, but this required innovation.

What Fusu thought and did were things that the ministers of that era could not even imagine.

This was because the Warring States Period had just ended, people were still immersed in the shadow of war, and all they were thinking about was the military merit system.

No one studies the Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine to consider how to make oneself healthy and live longer, and no one pays attention to whether there is anything in alchemy that can improve people's lives...

All people think about is how to win the war, become a king, and become the most successful person in the area.

Since they had not changed their mindset, they naturally felt unfamiliar with, or even rejected, the ecology and technology proposed by Qin II.

Or in other words, they didn't think that what Qin II was saying now was relevant to their lives.

Considering his future career and his own ideals, Qin II changed his previous ideas.

Given Zhang Cang's value to him, it would be better to keep him alive and use him instead of killing him to establish his authority in front of his ministers.

What's more, now everyone wants to kill Zhang Cang, and I can't do what they want.

Especially at times like this, I must insist on my own opinion.

Most of these ministers who have given me advice are involved in corruption. If I listen to them, wouldn't it make me look like a tyrant?

"Shao Ping, I misjudged you before."

"You are a true Qing official."

Qin II suddenly changed his tone.

Sima Wuyi thought there was something wrong with his ears, and he stretched his neck hard to listen to what Qin II was saying.

Shao Ping was also surprised by the emperor's change of words.

Could it be that my crying just now moved the emperor? Judging from the emperor's expression, it didn't seem like that was the case.

"I was thinking, if I kill Zhang Cang, wouldn't it make me look like a tyrant?"

Shao Ping wiped his eyes and looked at Fusu in disbelief.

Although the ancients did not understand what time travel was, they did understand soul exchange.

When Fusu said this with his hands on his hips and full of momentum, Shao Ping always suspected that their emperor had just been possessed by someone.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Fusu smiled in his heart, of course, I am a time traveler.

"I was just joking with you before, and wanted to see your reaction."

Qin II smiled and let the matter go.

In the evening, Zhang Cang looked through the window of the cell and watched the red sun going down the hillside.

After brushing shoulders with death several times, Zhang Cang seemed to have touched the edge of the "truth". He now began to understand the so-called life. Apart from life and death, everything else is trivial.

He did not regret his advice at all. Instead, he felt that what he said should have been harsher and that he was too concerned about old friendships.

If I had known I was going to die, I would have kicked Zhou Qingchen a few more times.

Just as he was thinking about how to be a hero in his next life, he suddenly heard two clanging sounds. He turned around and saw the chain fell to the ground.

The Xianyang Pavilion Chief said with a smile, "Your Majesty has issued an imperial decree to release Censor Zhang immediately and to annul the previous charges."

"Censor Zhang, you can leave now."

Zhang Cang looked at the headman of Xianyang. He couldn't believe that Qin II was willing to let him go again.

As the saying goes, things never happen more than three times. He has been doing this for several times. Logically, even a saint would want to give up on him after seeing how much trouble he has done.

Although he was confused, Zhang Cang became unhappy again after he found out the whole story after leaving the prison.

He knew Qin II too well. It was because all the ministers advised the emperor to kill him that Qin II wanted to spare his life, which showed that he was very kind to him.

Well, that's who he is.

From the first time I saw him, I realized that he was this kind of person. He has not changed in more than ten years.

He always looks superior, as if he is ready to save people from danger at any time.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cang was too lazy to go to the palace to meet the emperor and thank him for not killing him.

He finally understood that being a subject of the emperor meant risking one's life.

Live one day at a time. Trying to guess what the emperor is thinking is as ridiculous as wondering whether the sky will fall.

Zhang Cang felt that he had understood, understood.

None of the emperors are good.

(End of this chapter)