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Chapter 60 Come on, fight back!

The 29th year of Qin Shihuang's reign.

People in Xianyang city were in panic.

Since this morning, the capital of the Qin State, Xianyang, has been in chaos.

First, His Majesty issued an order to capture all the alchemists in the city and execute them outside the city, and then the Minister of the Imperial Chariots Zhao Gao was dragged to the palace gate and torn to pieces. These incidents were not concealed at all, and it seemed that the emperor was determined to make all the people and officials in Xianyang look through them carefully.

Not only was he executed in public, but the decree also stated that the body should be hung on the city wall for three days in the sun before being buried...

It is so cruel that it makes people terrified just by looking at it.

In the afternoon.

Ying Zheng was sitting in the Zhangtai Palace with Fusu beside him, but neither the father nor the son spoke, and the atmosphere was quite silent.

half an hour.

Fusu mustered up his courage and finally spoke carefully:

"Your Majesty...Father, is everything you said today true?"

Ying Zheng glanced at him and said in a light tone:

"What you said is true."

Seeing that his father had no intention of blaming him, Fusu felt a little relieved.

He grasped the corner of his clothes and whispered:
"That's right, it's the immortals who are guiding them."

Ying Zheng nodded calmly:

"it is true."

"The immortal not only told me your future destiny, but I also know which dynasty would inherit the world next."

"What do you want to ask?"

Fusu suddenly looked up and asked anxiously:

"The next dynasty? Who is responsible for this? Shouldn't we arrest those traitors first?"

Hearing his words, Ying Zheng seemed a little surprised:
"arrest?"

"Nothing has happened yet. What can we do after we capture him? Are you planning to kill him without any evidence?"

"Or, in your heart, I am such a tyrant who kills people indiscriminately?"

This……

Fusu was speechless and didn't know what to say for a moment.

He actually wanted to nod and say, yes, it’s not just me who thinks so, everyone in the world thinks so. Aren’t people of the six kingdoms saying that you are a tyrant? What’s wrong with that?
What's more, killing people without any reason, hasn't this been done twice today, so what's the point of those few more?

But he dared not.

Ying Zheng picked up the cup and took a sip of water, then sneered and shook his head:
"Fusu, Fusu, I don't know what you learned from those great scholars to end up in such a situation, but today's matter has not been in vain."

"At least you know the importance of the situation and know that it is better to strike first. You must cut off the disaster for Daqin in advance."

"Yes, I did that too. I executed those alchemists in public, but they had evidence. Everyone saw that the elixir poisoned the livestock after it was fed to them. But Zhao Gao had no evidence at all, so I killed him without any reason."

"You think I was cruel in killing Zhao Gao, right?"

He did not wait for Fusu to hesitate and answer, but continued speaking on his own.

"Different."

"Zhao Gao was originally a eunuch. I liked to use him in the past because he was meticulous and could notice many things that ordinary palace servants could not notice, so I promoted him to be the Minister of the Imperial Chariot Department."

"But in fact, Zhao Gao has no talent for government affairs except serving others. Keeping him is useless except for causing trouble for me. What's more, he is a palace servant. If he makes me unhappy, I can kill him. What's wrong with that?" "But I didn't kill Li Si, and I didn't ask who would rebel in the future."

"Why do you think that is?"

This is a test for yourself.

Fusu's grip on the corner of his clothes tightened, his knuckles turned blue and white, and he used tremendous strength.

He vaguely understood what his father was saying.

"You think Zhao Gao is useless, but Li Si is useful, so you keep him?"

"But father, if that's the case, then Prime Minister Li was also involved in the forgery of the imperial edict. He even revised the Qin law, but he broke it knowingly. Are you going to keep such a disloyal and unrighteous person just because he is useful?"

"It's fine if he wants to kill me, but he actually helped Zhao Gao to disguise your body... and sent it all the way back to Xianyang before announcing the death. No matter how useful this kind of person is, we can't use him!"

Hearing the child's silly words, Ying Zheng wanted to laugh, but in the end he forced himself to hold it back and maintained the image of a majestic monarch and father in front of Fusu.

He raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
"I'm not keeping him because he's useful, Fusu. I'm very short of manpower right now, and Li Si is also very useful, and he's a smart man."

"For a smart person, you only need to hit him once or twice to scare him out of his wits, and then he will stop having any inappropriate thoughts."

"The main reason why Li Si helped Hu Hai and Zhao Gao at that time was because of you. Have you ever thought about it?"

Fusu was stunned.

How does it have anything to do with me?
His face was solemn:
"Is it because he later had a dispute with me?"

Ying Zheng finally smiled:

“No, it’s because you learned different things.”

"Fusu, I asked you to study with the great scholar not because I wanted you to learn Confucianism, but because after me, the Qin Dynasty needs a benevolent ruler who will live in harmony with the people. I don't want you to follow the Legalists from a young age, so that the Qin Dynasty will still be like a fully drawn bow when there is no war. If so, the bowstring will break at any time."

"You are good at your studies, but too good is not good either."

"Under your rule, the Qin Empire should be more lenient and benevolent, but not too relaxed, and return to the way it was hundreds of years ago, just like Confucianism teaches. Have you ever thought about whether the remnants of the six kingdoms would be willing to do so, even if you are willing to do so?"

"Law is the foundation of the Qin Empire. If it is discarded right from the start, the Qin Empire will be like a pile of loose sand and perish in a few generations."

"Li Si chose Zhao Gao and Hu Hai because he probably thought you would completely abandon the Legalists and choose Confucianism to govern the country. If so, he would have no future and might even die. The Legalists were on his shoulders alone, and he would rather risk forging an imperial edict than support Qin II, who had studied Confucianism since childhood."

"Do you understand?"

Fusu understood, but not quite.

After a long silence, he said:

"My child doesn't quite understand it right now, but I will think it through carefully."

"But father, are you really not going to pursue those traitors? If we let them do what they want, if they find a loophole, they will..."

What he actually wanted to say was, what if those people did the same as in history and rebelled when they found an opportunity.

Ying Zheng also heard it.

Looking at his son who was hesitant to speak, Ying Zheng laughed, poured himself a glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp.

"Anyone who is capable can rule the world! That's how I conquered it!"

"As long as I am here, no one will dare to act rashly; and even if I am gone this time, I will leave you a better country."

"If all the people in Guizhou can have enough food and clothing, why would they rebel?"

"Come on, come and fight. I am in my prime. If you are afraid, you are a coward!"

(End of this chapter)