My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 838: The Second Emperor of Qin who persecuted his ministers
Not long ago, the queen gave birth to another son, which was definitely a good thing for the Feng family.

The daughter became the queen and was able to maintain long-term honor and favor. The most important thing was that she was able to give birth to two sons in this snobbish era. These two sons were not only the best guarantee for her position as queen, but also the strongest political bargaining chip for the entire Feng family.

Some time ago, Feng Quji went to the palace to see the queen under the pretext of visiting his daughter.

Unfortunately, when visiting his daughter, Feng Quji could clearly feel from his daughter's words and actions that since she had a youngest son, she was more concerned about the future of her two sons, and she was no longer willing to take care of family affairs.

When Feng Quji paid a visit to the empress, the empress only talked about the crown prince and the young master, and reluctantly asked about her own brother Feng Jie. She did not mention anything about the future of those children of the same clan and family as officials.

The way she spoke sounded as if she had nothing to do with the Feng family anymore.

Feng Quji suspected that the Queen had developed a certain aversion to her father, herself, and even to the Feng family.

She didn't want to care about the Feng family's affairs anymore.

But in Feng Quji's mind, this matter doesn't make sense.

After all, he is the prime minister of a country, and the prince's future depends on himself. The queen has to think about her son as well as herself.

The right thing to do is to help the Feng family continue to consolidate and expand their power in the court. How could they dig their own graves?
Feng Quji went to the palace to visit his daughter, naturally for a purpose.

The empire is now developing industry and technological innovation, and even the emperor is taking the lead in opening large factories and building cities, but the Feng family has no chance to interfere in these affairs.

If you don't do anything, how can you establish your authority or promote people?

Relying only on the small piece of land under his control, his real power as the prime minister will sooner or later be drained away by this kid Meng Tian.

Meng Tian was really cunning and scheming. Although he had obtained such great power, he always acted modestly when facing himself. His respectful appearance and his greedy nature behind the scenes were simply disgusting.

Feng Quji looked at the emperor and the prince, and couldn't help asking himself, could it be that he, Feng Quji, could only be a hollow prime minister of the empire and not be able to do something great for Qin II?

It's impossible for this situation to continue until one day he can't work anymore.

It's so fucking uncomfortable...

Feng Quji muttered to himself.

The princes were escorted back in canopied carriages by a huge convoy.

Ministers such as Xiong Yao and Yang Miaocong could only pull open the curtains of the carriage and look out at a corner of the scenery of the Xianyang Palace.

Just now, the princes presented gifts, and each one announced the gifts they presented.

This conference of princes suddenly turned into an occasion for a competition of national strength, with each county and kingdom doing their best to report the treasures they had to offer.

It can be seen that everyone has made careful preparations before coming here this time.

It was just a brief presentation on stage, but behind the scenes they were actually making long preparations and searching, just to win the emperor's smile.

The inequality caused by this power oppression made the princes smile on the surface, but in their hearts, thousands of horses were galloping on the grassland.

The princes went away slowly in their carriages. On the altar, Qin II was still talking and laughing with his ministers on the high platform.

The winter wind blew the laughter of Qin's ministers into the ears of the princes.

Some of them were reluctant to leave their second hometown Xianyang, some were indignant about having to present luxurious gifts to Qin II, some were elated because they had finally completed the task and could go home immediately, and some were ambitious and planned to do something big after returning.

On the other hand, the ministers who were promoted by Qin II just now stole the limelight at the audience ceremony and participated in many ceremonial links.

This made the old officials who were still in their original positions feel very lost.

Not only Feng Quji was standing by and watching, but also Shaofu Zhang Han, Shangqing Mao and others were all looking coldly at Qin II.

Who could have thought that the second emperor of Qin would directly use the reform to cut off the source of the trouble. He directly transferred the power, and before these ministers could react, a lot of power was already in the hands of others.

At this time, one can't help but fantasize.

Are the many so-called reforms in history actually essentially just for kings to take back their own power, rather than to provide convenience to the people and make their lives better?

There are too many lies in this world, aren't there?

Zhang Han was also very indignant about Qin II's arrangement. After all, he was the first person to help Qin II ascend the throne. If he had not defected, Qin II would not even be able to enter the gate of Xianyang City.

But now, as he watched Liu Ji boldly put Prince Yao on his neck and let him overlook the scenery under the altar, Zhang Han could no longer sit still.

Feng Quji was still doubting himself, wondering if he had done something wrong to cause dissatisfaction between the emperor and the empress. Why did the emperor now keep a distance from him?

Or was it that this old man wanted too much? He was already a high-ranking official, his son became the Imperial Censor, supervising all officials, his daughter was the Queen, and his grandson was the future Crown Prince.

Logically speaking, I should be more cautious when facing power at this time. Why do I want more?

The Feng family was highly valued by the retired emperor, and was not abandoned and was treated with respect by the current emperor. There was no further improvement they could make.

Just as Feng Quji was doubting and reflecting on himself, Zhang Han suddenly stepped forward and said, "It's really lively today, but it's a pity..."

When Feng Quji saw that the person who was speaking was Zhang Han, he took a step back slightly.

"I wonder what the young master regrets?"

"This excitement belongs to them. We have nothing." Zhang Han said a few words while leaning on his sword.

The ministers following Feng Quji stared at each other in amazement for a moment.

Shang Qingmao narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Han with great interest, as if Zhang Han was showing him a big show.

Unexpectedly, when the prime minister heard this, he did not respond to Zhang Han. He just looked at the emperor by himself and waited until the emperor left before he withdrew.

It turns out that Zhang Han has been targeted by Qin II these days.

Zhang Han had always been corrupt and even indulged his subordinates in corruption. Over the past decade or so, he had already received a lot of bribes. There were hundreds of carts of wealth in his home.

His wealth is simply staggering.

However, he had just loaned 300,000 yuan to the national treasury, and the next moment he received 500,000 yuan.

This is equivalent to the amount of 800,000 that he actually collected and would collect from the Qin Dynasty’s treasury, not including interest.

This way of eating is so ugly.

Although this matter was blocked, Feng Quji was a very smart person. He had worked in the court for thirty years. How could he not know about such a big thing?

In order to prevent the situation from getting worse, the emperor immediately sought advice from Chen Ping. He set up the Grand Minister of Agriculture to handle major economic affairs and turned the Shaofu Treasury into the emperor's private treasury.

The complete separation of the national treasury and the royal private treasury cut into the arteries of too many people and directly cut off the path for some people to engage in corruption.

Qin II created some enemies for himself, which meant he created friends for his enemies. The world is just like this, it is constantly moving and changing every day.

For the sake of power and interests, the two people regarded each other as enemies yesterday, but today the two people have to stand back to back and entrust their life and death to each other.

Feng Quji has seen a lot of things like this.

Qin Shi Huang had always turned a blind eye to such things, because he knew that such things would never stop happening.

As long as it is not brought to the surface, Qin Shihuang will never pursue it.

After Qin II came to power, he was a shrewd man, so he checked the past accounts but did not pursue them. He just told his ministers that he already had an idea of ​​the situation.

The ministers also remained unscathed.

However, Qin II simply did not pursue past events. After he came to power, he still exercised strict control over the affairs of his dynasty.

For example, since Zhang Han had reached into the national treasury this time, Qin II had no intention of letting him go.

Zhang Han has been a hot potato recently, and everyone knows that he has pissed off the emperor.

Unlike what most people imagined, Qin II did not get angry with Zhang Han and order an investigation to punish him. Instead, he kept the matter secret and did not let anyone know.

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Therefore, even though the officials in the court knew about it, they did not dare to say that they knew it.

The most extreme punishment was imposed on Zhang Han by Emperor Qin II.

People say that Qin Shihuang was cruel and ruthless, but to be honest, only dogs that don’t bark bite.

Qin II learned from his father's failure and was determined not to be a man of temperament.

The so-called temperamental person is moody. He is happy when he wants to be happy and loses his temper when he wants to lose his temper, which scares the people around him. In essence, the emperor is the owner of supreme power, so he is arrogant and does not care about the opinions of people around him.

But not caring about the opinions of outsiders has two-sided effects. If the king's decision is correct, then his advantage of not caring about the opinions of outsiders will help him to take the risk of being criticized by thousands of people to do some great deeds or great things that will benefit future generations.

It is not something that most people can do to remain calm even when the whole world criticizes them.

If a king can implement a good policy against all odds, everyone will be happy.

But if the king's decision is wrong, there will be catastrophic consequences, and even the gods cannot save it.

Relying on that kind of arrogant self-confidence and arrogant attitude to firmly implement some wrong decisions is not something that ordinary people can do. Because ordinary people cannot reach this level.

An extreme personality will only lead people to make big mistakes in sensitive matters.

This is why Qin II was determined not to reveal his true feelings and tried to solve problems with gentle means and methods as much as possible.

Most of the shortcomings in Qin Shihuang's rule were caused by his own improper behavior.

For example, if it were Qin Shi Huang, he would have been a loyal minister who worked hard for me, and I would have forgiven him. If anyone disobeyed me, even if he was not corrupt, I would have let him die.

How should I put it? This is a very direct way of thinking, using one's own likes and dislikes, happiness, anger, sadness, and joy as the criteria for evaluation. There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking, but it is fatal!
Fusu didn't do that.

He was very angry, but rather than killing Zhang Han to vent his anger and get a momentary pleasure, Fusu wanted to use Zhang Han to do something he loved and let him taste the bitter fruit.

Didn’t Fusu use the Shaofu Temple as the treasury of his palace? Then he issued several orders to Shaofu Zhang Han, asking him to enrich the treasury and make sure to fill all the holes in the treasury.

Qin II had discovered long ago that one cannot get anything done just by being a gentleman, and at critical moments one has to work on the method of doing things, or the "skill".

He had long been thinking of keeping some treacherous officials to help him achieve his goals.

This treacherous minister must be his scapegoat.

Fusu searched around for a long time but still couldn't find a good candidate.

Although there is a Zhou Qingchen, he is really stupid and will be recorded in history books and have a chance to be included in a museum in the future. If you choose this person, you will probably suffer a great loss.

Fusu could only keep him as a person to entertain everyone in the court.

It was not until Zhang Han reached out to take the national debt money that Fusu seized the opportunity.

Since Zhang Han was greedy for money and good at embezzling money, why should Fusu waste his talent?

Therefore, Qin II ordered Zhang Han to search for money and replenish the treasury.

This treasury was the private money of Qin II himself.

Qin II knew that Zhang Han would be greedy for money, so he deliberately let him manage his money.

Then there are only two possible endings for Zhang Han.

First, he embezzled the emperor's money, and the emperor ordered his execution.

Second, Zhang Han honestly and painstakingly tried his best to get money for the emperor. Although, if nothing unexpected happens, Zhang Han will not break the law or embezzle money and will die of old age in the future, Zhang Han will definitely use illegal means to plunder money and property for Qin II.

Then according to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, he still has to die.

Therefore, Zhang Han was so angry that his teeth were itching.

But he was caught in this scheme and couldn't get out of it.

Qin II gave Zhang Han a military tactic - when encircling an army, there must be a gap.

Allowing prey to see a sign of life often means death.

Zhang Han fell into a trap and had to obediently get money for Qin II.

Qin II was originally a poor man, but now he suddenly became extremely wealthy.

Could it be that some people really think that the meeting of the princes under the Second Emperor of Qin was held with the money collected from the national debt? Of course not, Fusu used the money that Zhang Han found for him.

Feng Quji knew the whole story. He was well aware that both Zhang Han and Qin II were smiling but hiding daggers.

Unfortunately, Qin II's prestige was obvious to all. Standing at the pinnacle of power, everything he did was right. His wise deeds will be recorded in history forever, while his shortcomings will be buried forever under the iceberg.

Perhaps twenty years ago it was not that the adults did not believe Fusu's confession of his mistakes, but because Fusu was the crown prince, and no one would say that the crown prince was wrong.

But what is true and what is false? As time has passed, what is the point in distinguishing between them?

This is the Xianyang Palace, where the smartest people in the world are gathered.

What happens every day is either chaos or conspiracy.

(End of this chapter)