Chapter 478: Chang'an Jun is the king, what should the prince do?
Zhao Ji remained silent. The image of the young girl with a sweet smile who always secretly stared at Teng appeared in front of her.
The personal maid who likes to wear green clothes because she was named Green.
The beautiful girl who had been raised by her since she was a child and whom she had treated as her own daughter.
She lowered her head slightly, and her bright eyes, like deep autumn water, met Gan Luo's black pupils filled with resentment.
This Qin genius, who was appointed prime minister at the age of twelve, killed her maid and put the blame on Ying Chengjiao, exacerbating the conflict between the two.
A mere minister raised an army to ambush and kill, and intervened to seize the throne of Qin.
Between him and her, there was both a deep personal hatred and an unforgivable public grudge.
Zhao Ji was both Lu'er's half master and half mother, and also the Queen Mother of Qin. Shouldn't she have killed him who was both her enemy and a thief?
Why has it come to this?
It should have been done long ago!
But she wasn't going to say any of this.
The illegitimate son squatting in front of her was one of the smartest men in the world.
Is this guy really unexpected? No, this guy is just hypocritical.
Respect the elderly, and respect the elderly of others.
Love your own children, and also love other people’s children.
I must first treat my own elderly and children well before I can treat other people’s elderly and children well.
Many of the Confucian theories are only talked about by today's Confucian scholars, but a certain young man has already put them into practice.
The reason why this young man felt disappointed at this moment was only because the person lying on the ground was Gan Luo, who had always followed him and called him "big brother" when they were little. It was not about the justice of family and country.
Throughout history, the only one who could truly love all living beings and treat everyone equally was the great master of the Mohist school.
When the great leader of the Mohist school is exposed, everyone in the world will hold double standards.
Zhao Ji held her head high, revealing her smooth neck that was whiter than frost and snow, like an extremely proud white swan.
Her shadow covered her son, who had made her wary for half her life. She asked Ying Chengjiao, who lived in her shadow, again:
"Do you want to avenge him?"
Ying Chengjiao shook his head, stood up and looked towards the northwest.
The dim and pink sunset spread across the sky. No matter how expensive the Shu brocade and silk are, they cannot be one-tenth as beautiful as it.
"The sunset is beautiful, but it is almost dusk."
Ying Chengjiao recited softly.
He stood up and got out of Zhao Ji's shadow, but still couldn't see the sun. The warm sunlight was blocked outside by the tall palace.
"Wang Xi died in Langjuxu Mountain without leaving any last words.
"I ordered his body to be taken for burial, next to Bai Qi. I wanted to engrave his name and his great military exploits on the tombstone, so that future generations would know that the Qin Empire still had such a powerful general. I think this should also be the wish of the prince.
“Whether it’s burying the body at Wu’an or passing down one’s name through the ages, it’s all the same.
"It was not until today that I finally understood that this was not the prince's wish, but my selfish desire. Confucianism says that when a son wishes to support his parents, they are no longer around, which is roughly the same idea. When the prince was alive, I was not good enough to him, so I always wanted to make up for it after he died.
"Even if a prince who didn't leave a single last word has any regrets or wishes, it's not something a boy like me can fulfill.
"From the day he was executed in Xianyang for treason, he never let the world know his name, Wang Xi, again.
"If you die, die thoroughly."
Ying Chengjiao turned around and saluted Zhao Ji.
"Goodbye, mother. May your father visit you in your dreams today."
He strode away, arms raised high, waving to the proud Zhao Ji, the silent Meng Yi, Gan Luo who died with his eyes open, and the city defense troops who obeyed his orders , chanting softly:
"I leave quietly, just as I came quietly.
"I waved my sleeves and not a single cloud was taken away."
He walked into the sunshine, coated with a layer of gold, and headed towards the light, with a carefree and unrestrained attitude that could not be fully expressed in the four words "free and unrestrained".
Did you forget about me?
Jing Ke, who was hiding in the dark, said secretly, and put his thumb and middle finger into a ring and put them into his mouth. The crisp bird song suddenly sounded in this winter.
Hundreds of birds chirped in unison, echoing through the sky.
An inexplicable gust of wind blew by, and the area in front of the Qin Ancestral Hall became even quieter.
"You all wait outside. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Anyone who moves without authorization will be killed!"
Meng Yi gave the order brazenly.
"only!"
The city defense troops all bowed their heads and responded, leaving the scene quickly without any unnecessary nonsense.
Those who have survived to become city defense troops have already engraved the four words "obey orders and set rules" into their bones.
In the empty square, only Zhao Ji and Meng Yi were standing, standing among a group of corpses whose eyes were open.
"It's inexplicable! It's of no use!"
Zhao Ji suddenly said, snorting coldly.
"It's still the same today. I have overestimated him over the years!"
A qualified Qin II should take this opportunity to kill the Queen Mother here!
With the empress's power and the aristocratic families gone, those Qin officials who always had petty ambitions in their hearts lost their reliance. Only then would they stop having wild thoughts and be used by the new emperor.
Every king desires to hold all the power.
And today the opportunity is right within Ying Chengjiao's reach, and the food is right at his fingertips.
Ying Chengjiao didn't touch it or eat it, but said a bunch of half-truths.
It was not until this time that Zhao Ji had to admit that all her suspicions about a certain young man over the years were groundless.
After the death of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, this guy had no desire for power, let alone when Emperor Qin Shi Huang was alive.
Chang'an Jun Ying Chengjiao really had no interest in the throne and he was not pretending.
"Mother, please be at ease. This boy is just angry with me."
A figure poked out from the ancestral hall. He had a bee-like nose, long eyes, a chest like a bird of prey, and a voice like a jackal.
He was wearing a long black robe, with black hair hanging down behind him and blending into the clothes. He was none other than the late First Emperor, Ying Zheng.
"Your Majesty."
Meng Yi bowed his head and felt overwhelmed with emotion.
This was not the first time he saw the First Emperor after he traveled back in time after hearing the news of the First Emperor's death, but the second time.
But he still couldn't hide his excitement.
If you are not a person of the Qin Dynasty, you will never understand what the First Emperor meant in that era.
The First Emperor had long transcended the category of human beings and was the only true God in this world.
Ying Zheng smiled and nodded, then walked to Meng Yi and patted his arm heavily.
Strong muscles and full of strength.
"You are indeed a fake scholar. You and Meng Tian should be sent to guard the border."
The king and his ministers exchanged pleasantries and chatted.
Zhao Ji quietly looked at her resurrected Zheng'er, with a look of true peace between her brows.
When the news of Ying Zheng's death came, Zhao Ji, who was riding a horse with her guards, fainted on the spot and fell off her horse.
If the guards beside her had not anticipated it and were quick to pounce on Zhao Ji and catch her in their arms before she fell to the ground, how could Zhao Ji be so calm today?
After waking up, Zhao Ji cried until she lost her voice. She was heartbroken and completely hopeless.
She came to Qin for her Zheng'er, and lost her motherland Zhao for it, and now her Zheng'er is gone.
Everything in the world has no meaning to her anymore.
She clearly did not suffer any external injuries when she fell off the horse, but she nevertheless became bedridden.
Until Ying Zheng appeared in front of her, she, who had been unable to stand up for several days, jumped up instantly and hugged Zheng'er tightly, who had been carrying her for ten months and continued her life, fearing that this was a dream.
The joy of regaining what she had lost washed away all of Zhao Ji's ambitions.
Her greatest hope is that Zheng'er can stay alive and stay alive forever.
While talking with Meng Yi, Ying Zheng was doing two things at once. He asked Meng Yi about court affairs while thinking about what his brother had done in the northwest.
[This guy has always been sour and pedantic, and thinks he is righteous.]
[The purpose of asking Meng Tian to bow his head was to make the court fear him, remember what happened in the past, and not dare to stir up trouble.]
[He acted arrogantly, but in fact he did it to save the lives of his ministers.]
Ying Zheng glanced at Gan Luo.
[Perhaps, it was more to save Gan Luo's life?]
[Given this kid's temper, this is really possible... How short-sighted.]
[Oh, this is just like Wang Jian going to war and asking me for titles, lands, and beauties.]
[If I am really a narrow-minded person, I will be able to tolerate you defaming yourself and exposing your shortcomings like this? How naive.]
[With 600,000 soldiers under his command and the ability to overthrow the Qin State, where else can he hide?]
[You, a young man, want to be the second emperor of Qin. You must make all the people in the world bow down to you. Those who do not will be killed.]
[There are tens of thousands of people in the world, and many are capable. Why keep someone who shows rebellious intentions? He is not your own brother.]
[How can you establish your authority if you are so stingy with killing?]
As soon as Ying Zheng learned about what Ying Chengjiao had done, he secretly summoned Meng Yi.
He wants to clear all obstacles for his younger brother and become the real Qin II!
During the reign of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Gan Luo was as obedient as a kitten and always kept his belly exposed.
He who dared to obstruct his brother's ascension to the throne must be killed!
Just like after the Qinian Palace mutiny, Ying Zheng imprisoned his mother in Yongdi, and everyone in the court said that it was against filial piety.
Ying Zheng sat on the throne and said:
"Anyone who dares to speak of the Empress Dowager again will have his limbs chopped off and his body thrown in the square in front of the Xianyang Palace to be exposed to the sun."
There were also eighteen advisers.
They held important posts in various government offices of the Qin State, and eleven of them came from old Qin families.
Is this an exhortation?
No, this is forcing abdication !
It was because Ying Zheng's foundation was unstable, and it was a power struggle between the king and the nobles.
So what if you are the king? Don't you still have to rely on us nobles to manage the Qin State?
We say that what you did was wrong and that is it. Just do as we say and bring the Queen Mother back.
We are all old Qin people. If you don't do what we say, we will shut down and paralyze the government.
I heard that you wanted to kill someone. There are so many of us. Do you dare to kill us all?
Ying Zheng killed them all.
Eighteen people had their limbs cut off and were thrown into the sun on the square outside the Xianyang Palace, with all the Qin officials required to witness it with their own eyes.
Having experienced the intimidation of the nobles, Ying Zheng hated the fact that his subjects dared to interfere with the royal power.
What Gan Luo did was even worse than those eighteen people.
Ying Chengjiao could tolerate it, but Ying Zheng could not!
"Your Majesty, I have something to say that is unbecoming of a minister, but I have to say it out loud."
Meng Yi hesitated to speak.
"You were born and raised in Qin, yet you are so unhappy! No, no! Tell me now!"
The First Emperor laughed and scolded, looking encouragingly at Meng Yi, who had followed him since childhood.
Meng Yi took a deep breath, looking ready to die.
"Your Majesty, are you really going to pass the throne to Chang'an Jun and no longer be the King of Qin? As long as Your Majesty returns to Xianyang, Qin will still be Your Majesty's Qin. Your Majesty faked his death, and I have some guesses. Is it to let the remnants of the six kingdoms come out? Now there are voices of rebellion everywhere, and those who are plotting rebellion are ready to make a move. Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Once they set foot on this road, there is no turning back. If Your Majesty's plan comes true, why not ascend the throne again and sweep across the six kingdoms again?"
Meng Yi originally didn't dare to say these words.
With the lives of the entire Meng family at his back, he has transformed from a hot-headed teenager into a mature and steady Internal History of the Qin Dynasty in the past year.
Perhaps it was because the First Emperor, who had died once, had lost his divinity, or perhaps it was because the First Emperor was no longer the King of Qin that made Meng Yi find some of the shadow of his childhood brother Zheng.
He overstepped his authority.
Ying Zheng smiled indifferently.
"Didn't that brat say that if you're going to die, you'd better die thoroughly."
As early as when he decided to help his brother get rid of Gan Luo, Ying Zheng knew that it would make his brother unhappy.
Ying Chengjiao said that after Wang Zhi died, he wanted to do something for Wang Zhi, thinking that he was fulfilling Wang Zhi's wish, but in fact, it was selfish. He also said that he did nothing during his lifetime but made great achievements after his death, which was all a veiled criticism of Ying Zheng.
You are doing all this because you want to do it, not because I want to do it. I don't like the road you have paved for me, and I don't want it. If you want to do something, do it on the throne. Why bother with it after you die?
But Ying Zheng, who was almost being scolded, was not angry at all. Instead, he was very happy.
So this is what it feels like to do the king's work without working for the king. You, boy, finally understand how I have felt this year!
Meng Yi sighed inwardly, and was somewhat disinterested as he was certain that the First Emperor had no intention of becoming king again, but he blinked his eyes.
"Your Majesty, are you saying that Lord Chang'an guessed that Your Majesty is not dead?"
"Now even you, Meng Yi, are hiding your abilities from me? If you have nothing to say, get out of here."
"...Yi does have a guess, but why doesn't Lord Chang'an see His Majesty?"
Zhao Ji, who loved Ying Zheng the most, did not show any sadness today, and even paved the way for a certain boy whom she had wanted to kill in the past.
The Meng family, who only stood by the king and obeyed the orders of the King of Qin, helped the Queen Mother of Zhao lure Gan Luo into the trap.
As the person involved, Meng Yi found all these behaviors abnormal, let alone Chang'an Jun who was watching from the sidelines.
"Didn't I tell you that the brat is mad at me? Let him be mad, haha."
Ying Zheng was overjoyed when he thought about how he had no control over the past year.
"If Chang'an Jun is the king, what about the prince?"
This time, Meng Yi was not pretending not to understand, he really was a little confused.
"Continue to be his crown prince."
Thinking that Ying Chengjiao would not enter Shangjun, he negotiated with his eldest son outside the city of Shangjun.
He can't shoot, what a lewd ass! That bastard is more willing than me to pave the way for Fusu...
Ying Zheng wanted his eldest son to be in charge of the seven northwestern counties and sent Meng Tian to assist him. This was to pave the way for him to be in charge of military affairs and use the northwest corner to sweep across the entire country.
Ying Chengjiao's debauchery in front of his eldest nephew was also paving the way.
The worse his ability to compare with Ying Fusu became, the worse his relationship with Ying Fusu became, until his drastic reforms caused the wrath of heaven and people and he was forced to abdicate.
The later Ying Fusu succeeded to the throne, the more stable his position on the throne became.
Meng Yi left and returned to Xianyang.
Under Zhao Ji's order, the soldiers in Yong cleaned up the corpses in the courtyard.
Gan Luo, who had been a powerful figure in his lifetime, was piled up in a palace together with those who he considered to be untouchables.
This palace is magnificent and is the most luxurious and grand one in the Yongdi Palace. It is the bedroom of Queen Mother Zhao Ji.
