My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 970: All my ancestors have knocked their heads flat on the ground! I can still live another years!
Ying Chengjiao had never seen Ying Zheng show such a weak expression in front of him.

At this moment, Ying Zheng no longer looked like an overlord who wanted to conquer the world, but just a man trapped in the struggle between life and death.

An ordinary person!
But this is also the truth, no matter you are the greatest emperor or an ordinary person, you will all die equally in the end!

Ying Chengjiao's heart could not help but feel a little heavier, and he forced a smile to cover it up, saying, "Brother, you are only in your twenties this year, why do you have to worry about life and death?"

"Grandfather is grandfather, elder brother is elder brother, we can never generalize!"

"What you should really think about now is how to treat Zheng Anqi and the other twelve immortals later."

"If the quota is too low, Zheng Anqi and others will not be unwilling, but they will not be able to convince the people of the world."

"If the quota is too high, I won't agree!"

Ying Zheng was not fooled by Ying Chengjiao's poor skill of changing the subject. He sighed softly with a sad look in his eyes, "How can I not worry, brother?"

"I won't hide it from you, my brother."

"Recently, my brother has been feeling sleepy, lacking energy, and having a greatly reduced appetite every day. He can only take medicine to calm his nerves and nourish his body to be able to muster the energy to handle state affairs."

"Even if you take medicine every day, you still need to take a nap at noon (11:00), otherwise you will still feel very sleepy."

"Brother has only been in power for seven years, and you are already so haggard!"

"With Brother Yino's body like this, how many more seven years can he last?!"

Ying Chengjiao's eyes suddenly focused, and a fresh bloody aura swept out from around Ying Chengjiao!

Ying Chengjiao knew very well that Ying Zheng could live to at least forty-nine years old, and Ying Zheng was only twenty-nine years old this year, so Ying Zheng still had twenty years to live!
Ying Zheng's health definitely shouldn't have such serious problems at this point in time!
Ying Chengjiao asked in a cold voice, "After I left for the battle, did you summon the alchemist and take the elixir he made?"

Ying Zheng seemed to be completely unaware of Ying Chengjiao's murderous intent. He shook his head slowly without changing his expression and said, "My brother has already described the abilities of those alchemists in detail, and has either taken them back to the Chang'an Palace or sent them to the far west."

"Brother Nai will never take the medicine of the alchemist again."

Ying Chengjiao narrowed his eyes slightly, and one guess after another emerged in his mind.

Did someone in the palace poison Ying Zheng? Or were the building materials of Xianyang Palace extremely toxic? Or maybe...

Ying Chengjiao suddenly asked, "How many hours do you sleep every day recently, big brother?"

Ying Zheng said calmly: "It will still take two hours."

Ying Chengjiao was stunned and asked incoherently: "Two hours?"

"Brother has been feeling quite sleepy lately, but he still only sleeps for two hours!"

Everyone knows that when you are sleepy, you should sleep, and when you are tired, you should rest, right?
As a result, you are already feeling obviously sleepy, but you still only sleep for two hours a day?
Ying Zheng asked in confusion, "Brother was a sleepyhead when he was young, but since he ascended the throne, he has only slept for two hours a day. I know this."

"There have been a lot of government affairs in the court recently, and my brother sometimes only sleeps for an hour and a half."

"What's wrong?"

Ying Chengjiao's mouth twitched as he said, "What's wrong with that?"

Ying Chengjiao knew very well that Ying Zheng would whitewash his rest time from Ying Chengjiao.

So Ying Zheng's "occasionally sleeping for only an hour and a half" ≈ Ying Zheng actually slept less than an hour and a half every day.

I sleep less than three hours a day, and at most I take a nap for a dozen minutes at noon, day after day without a break. This has lasted for nearly half a year. An ordinary person would have gone crazy long ago!
More importantly, when Ying Zheng was not sleeping, he was not having fun, but thinking about government affairs, handling political affairs, manipulating forces, and winning people's hearts. Even if he went to the harem to find concubines to accompany him, for Ying Zheng it was just a means of governance rather than pleasure. Every word he said during this period was full of political intentions but no romantic feelings.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the twelve hours of a day, except for the one and a half hours of sleeping, Ying Zheng spent the rest of the time working or thinking intensively.

Now Ying Zheng feels very sleepy and lacks energy every day. He even suspects that he is dying. He doesn’t even question whether his rest time is reasonable!
Ying Chengjiao could not help but angrily scolded: "How many people in the world only sleep for an hour and a half every day like you?"

"You only sleep for an hour and a half every day, while the court officials rest and you never rest."

"Now you just feel quite tired, but you haven't died suddenly at your desk. This is a blessing from heaven that my ancestors of the Great Qin Dynasty have prayed to countless ghosts and gods in the underworld!"

"You still have the nerve to ask what's wrong!"

Ying Zheng still did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and said as a matter of course: "Zhongfu, Guowei, and Yushi Dafu can only rest for two hours every day, and then take a short rest in the carriages on the way to and from the court."

"The government has been busy these days, and Zhongfu has even less time to rest every day than you, my brother."

"After my father took power, he only rested for an hour and a half every day. My grandfather and great-grandfather also rested for a similar amount of time every day."

"The couch next to the imperial study was moved there by my great-grandfather. It really saves a lot of time going back and forth to the harem."

"My brother is really making a big deal out of nothing."

Ying Chengjiao held his forehead with his hand.

Originally, Ying Chengjiao thought that Lu Buwei could still fight for the Qin Dynasty for another ten years, but now it seems that Lu Buwei's shelf life may only be three or four years.

You guys are really good at enduring as long as you have a life!

But Ying Chengjiao also understood why there was such a huge gap in ideas between Ying Zheng and Ying Chengjiao.

Because everyone that Ying Zheng could contact, including his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and the ministers around him, consciously compressed their sleep time to the limit to expand their work time. Even his great-grandfather King Huiwen and his great-grandfather Duke Xiao of Qin, whom Ying Zheng had never met, were all ruthless people who put their lives on government affairs, leaving traces of diligence in the subtle details of the imperial study in the Xianyang Palace. So Ying Zheng naturally thought that such a desperate working state was the norm, and that the healthy work and life state of Ying Chengjiao was an alternative!
Ying Zheng's energy could not cope with what he considered to be a 'normal' workload, so he naturally felt that he was exhausted, not that he needed to rest.

Ying Chengjiao pointed at Ying Zheng, angrily saying, "Brother, you were just lamenting that our father lived a short life, but now you are using our father's diligence to motivate yourself?"

"The previous kings of our Great Qin did not have their lifespans shortened by the throne, but rather by their diligence in government!"

"Brother, have you not seen the King of Yan?"

"According to Prince Dan of Yan, the King of Yan would sleep soundly for at least three hours every day, and spend at least another two hours enjoying himself and relaxing."

"The Prince of Yan has been in power for twenty-four years. Does he look like he's dying? It won't be a problem for the Prince of Yan to live another ten or twenty years!"

"Brother, if you really want to live longer, you should make a rule that you must sleep at least three hours a day!"

"If you don't want Marquis Wenxin, the lieutenant generals, and other generals of the Qin Empire to die young, then issue a royal decree requiring these generals to sleep for at least three hours every day!"

"Otherwise, it would be a miracle if Big Brother didn't collapse!"

Ying Zheng immediately waved his hand and said: "It's alright if my brother is lazy, I will just share more of the burden for him."

"But you are the King of Qin, how can you be so lazy?"

Ying Chengjiao advised earnestly: "Brother! This is not laziness! Sleeping three hours a day is really not much!"

"You are already in your thirties, not your early twenties anymore. You should take care of your health!"

"Brother, if you continue to endure like this, even gods cannot save you!"

"I have found so many talented people to serve in the court, please use them freely, big brother!"

Ying Zheng finally showed some hesitation on his face: "Really?"

"My father and grandfather didn't die because of their hard work, but because of their longevity as the King of Qin?"

Ying Chengjiao asked in return: "Will I harm you, elder brother?"

"If you trust me, then listen to my instructions and get at least three hours of sound sleep every day!"

"If government affairs are not busy, it is best to sleep for four hours."

"It would be best if you could relax for a day every ten days and have a good rest. This is the way to longevity!"

After a few moments of silence, Ying Zheng said with emotion: "My brother will not harm me."

"My brother used to think that the reason why I slept for four hours every day was because I was lazy."

"I never thought that my brother had already shown you the way to longevity, but you didn't even realize it!"

"When my brother left for the war, the doctor did not advise me again based on the situation in Great Qin that 'things are in all directions, the key is in the center'. Instead, I combined the strategy of the supervisory censors that my brother had advised me to draw up a strategy for governing the local areas, hoping to delegate power to the local counties."

"Once this policy is implemented, the responsibilities on your shoulders will also be reduced."

"When that time comes, you must get enough sleep for three hours every day, okay?"

Ying Chengjiao almost cried with joy: "Brother, you finally figured it out!!!"

Ying Chengjiao is really happy!
If Ying Zheng died earlier than the original history, then Ying Chengjiao would have to take over the throne of King of Qin.

Not to mention how hard Ying Chengjiao would have to work at that time, Ying Chengjiao seriously suspected that he would be the next person to die from overwork!

The smile on Ying Zheng's face was a little more apprehensive: "But, my brother has been working hard for a long time, and he is nearly thirty years old. I am afraid it will be difficult to make up for the loss."

"Even if you wake up in time, I don't know if you can hold on for another seven years, and see the Qin Dynasty unify the world and realize our wish!"

Ying Chengjiao said confidently: "Don't worry, brother. You will definitely be able to see the Qin Dynasty unify the world with your own eyes!"

"As long as you take good care of yourself and don't overwork yourself, you and I will be able to see our dreams come true together!"

It will take two to three years to complete the great cause of unification, and another 17 or 18 years to promote unification and win the hearts of the people. Time is indeed very tight.

But Ying Chengjiao believes that the surge in productivity can suppress many dissatisfactions.

By the time the growth rate of productivity slows down and public dissatisfaction begins to erupt, the people's determination to turn to Qin will have already been formed!

Ying Zheng looked deeply into Ying Chengjiao's thoughtful, determined, and desperate eyes, exhaled a breath of relief, and laughed softly, "That's right."

"Brother, you still have twenty years. Even if you can't see our wish come true, you can at least see most of it come true."

Ying Chengjiao nodded repeatedly in agreement and said, "Yes, yes!"

"Brother, you still have twenty...huh?"

Ying Chengjiao looked at Ying Zheng suddenly.

What did you just say? ! !
(End of this chapter)