Chapter 408: If the Emperor forgets his people, he will perish; if the princes forget their people, they will perish!
"Nonsense, what does he need the ceremonial guard for?"
The First Emperor slapped the letter, his eagle eyes half puzzled and half angry.
After entering Xiang County, a certain guy just ran away without a trace, without saying where he was going, without caring about the hidden attacks at all. Did he really think that the wax sacrifice against heaven could be let go after he shouted it out?
King Wu defeated King Zhou and proclaimed himself the Son of Heaven, acting on behalf of Heaven.
After Shang Tang destroyed Xia, it was said that a black bird was sent by heaven to descend and give birth to the Shang Dynasty.
In ancient times, Hua Xu stepped on the footprint of the thunder god and became pregnant. She gave birth to Fuxi, the Emperor of Heaven, and Nuwa, the two siblings who were the ancestors of mankind.
Going back thousands of years, in which period did the rulers not rely on the words of heaven to fool their people?
Last year during the Spring Festival, a certain idiot shouted to the heavens in front of the whole world from the altar:
"If I don't die, there will be no Qin."
With just this one sentence, which nobleman doesn't want you to die?
The jackals and tigers in Guanzhong did not dare to show any sign of complaining when the Meng, Xi and Bai families were brutally exterminated; when all the ministers in the court cheered for Ying Chengjiao and insisted on demanding the title of Marquis Che for the old general Meng; and when Ying Zheng took advantage of Ying Chengjiao's assassination to force the children of the noble families to be buried unjustly.
But what about the remnants of the six kingdoms outside Guanzhong? There were many people on the Qin ship, and even more people off the ship!
The First Emperor felt unhappy. He relaxed his shoulders which were a little sore from the heavy load, took out a hard object from his arms and slapped it on the letter paper.
The world is so big, there are countless talented people. Do you really think that you can do whatever you want just because you are wearing inner armor and holding a broken gun? How naive!
Not to mention others, the imperial physician Xia Wuqie was a master of acupuncture and moxibustion, which could save lives as well as kill people.
The gold and silver needles, as thin as hair, did not cause wind or sound when thrown out. The First Emperor had seen the flying needles five times, and all the skilled assassins fell to the ground after being hit in the face by the needles. It was so abrupt that they called it a sorcery.
None of the dozen or so-called martial arts masters could spot the flying needle in advance .
Old man Xia, whose hair turned white before he aged, once said that injuring without killing is not because one cannot, but because one is unwilling to. A doctor has a kind heart and does not kill people. However, the truth of this statement cannot be verified to this day.
When the world turns upside down and the sun and the moon rotate, Xia Wuqie will change from a doctor to an assassin , and then he will know which is better, saving people or killing people.
Every time the First Emperor traveled, he had at least five four-horse chariots of the same weight, size, and specifications running side by side.
It's not that he is timid, but he is forced to do so by countless assassination methods that normal people would never think of.
The First Emperor had seen things like lacquering the body and swallowing charcoal to change the voice, cutting off arms and killing children to gain trust.
Those assassins were like corpses without emotions or senses. They had no family, love, or friendship, and could not feel the sharp pain of hot coals entering their throats. The only thought in their minds was to kill the King of Qin.
At the beginning of the reign of the First Emperor, more than a dozen assassins died in the Xianyang Palace every month. When he unified the country, the number of assassins who could not defeat the six kingdoms head-on and had to resort to underhand tactics suddenly increased to dozens.
It was not until half a month after the wax festival that the number of assassins dropped. What did the assassins do? They all went to assassinate Chang'an Jun.
One of the two brothers led his army eastward to destroy the six kingdoms, turning the nobles of the six kingdoms into remnants. The other brother raised his sword to the sky, severing the will of heaven and preventing the remnants from becoming nobles again.
There are many people in the world today who want to take the head of the First Emperor, and there are even more who want to take the life of a certain young man.
The First Emperor summoned Zhang Han, the imperial physician, and gave him a few instructions.
Not long after, Zhang Han came back with a man in night clothes. The man took off his hood, revealing a head of thick, soft and vibrant white hair. It turned out to be the Liusha commander, Wei Zhuang, who was born with white hair!
Dozens of people from Liusha have followed the convoy from Xianyang to now. They have been intertwined with the Shadow Secret Guards during the journey, but they have kept to themselves and mind their own business.
Liusha’s predecessor was the Dark Guard, and the Shadow Guard took over the duties of the Dark Guard, and the two sides were secretly competing with each other.
One is to tell the latecomers that you are just substitutes, and the other is to tell the predecessors that you are eliminated.
The two groups not only turned a blind eye to each other, but also turned a blind eye to the fruits of each other's labor. I still have to patrol the route you patrolled, which makes it difficult for those knights who are enforcing justice.
Many people saw that the Shadow Secret Guard had just finished patrolling here, and sneaked in. A moment later, Quicksand patrolled here. They were searched out and faced the attack from both the Shadow Secret Guard and Quicksand. They died in hatred, and cursed loudly before they died.
"Qin dog! Damn Zhao Zheng! You are so afraid of death!"
Wei Zhuang clasped his fists and bowed his head, extremely respectful.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
"Get up, what is Cheng Jiao doing in Pei County?"
"For the past twenty years, Chang'an Jun has been sending people to Pei County without interruption, to protect the safety of Liu Ji, Xiao He, Cao Shen, Fan Kuai, Zhou Bo, Lu Wan, and Xiahou Ying, especially Liu Ji."
The First Emperor had never heard of the name Liu Ji and looked at Zhang Han.
Zhang Han immediately said in a deep voice:
"Liu Ji was from Pei County. He was once a retainer of Zhang Er, a famous official in Wei State. He and Zhang Er hit it off immediately and had a great conversation. Three months later, the Marquis of Tongwu flooded Daliang and Wei was destroyed. Zhang Er fled and is still wanted by the empire. Many of his retainers also dispersed."
Wei Zhuang added.
"The Lord of Chang'an in Daliang also sent people to follow Liu Ji. What happened to Liu Ji during this period, Zhuang does not know."
He is the commander of the Quicksand and is in charge of the Quicksand. He is not a secret agent. The reason he knows all this is because he has inquired more frequently.
He was the First Emperor's man.
On the day when the secret guards rebelled, it was true that the First Emperor was angry, but it was also true that he intentionally condoned them, because his unfortunate brother lacked protection even more than he did.
The First Emperor thought for a moment.
"Pass on my oral order, and order the guards to go to Pei County with drums, zithers, harps, and flutes, as well as swords, spears, axes, and halberds. Arrange the event in the same manner as the day I left Xianyang, and make the most of it."
The order was given and the two men took their leave.
The First Emperor picked up a copy of Pengzi and looked through it. It recorded in detail the political policies and propositions of "equality of things" and "inequality of things", which benefited the First Emperor a lot.
Coming out of Han, there were many more books from various schools of thought in the carriage, many of which had never been circulated and were only copied and studied by the disciples.
Many of these books were considered heretical and nonsense by the First Emperor.
For example, the first sentence of Yang Zi's "Valuing Yourself":
If everyone does not take even a hair and does not harm the world, the world will be peaceful!
This is bullshit!
How can we manage a people where everyone only cares about themselves?
But there were also some words that touched the heart of the First Emperor and made him agree deeply.
For example, there is a sentence in "The Corpse":
If the emperor forgets his people, he will perish; if the princes forget their people, they will perish!
The First Emperor had always been people-oriented, believing that without the people there would be no country. Most of the Qin army was made up of the people, not the nobles.
The peasant uprising in Han wiped out all the nobles in Han and taught the First Emperor a vivid lesson, which is a true reflection of this sentence in "Shi Zi".
The First Emperor took up his pen and wrote four words below it:
Use people in moderation!
