Chapter 98: Meng Tian was dumbfounded and shocked!
Wei Zhuang used three different names in a row, shouting that it was impossible.
He was able to become the Left Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty, and his intelligence was far superior to that of ordinary people.
But he could not figure out why Ying Chengjiao had persuaded King Zhuangxiang to bring Ying Zheng back.
"The late King Zhuangxiang had only two sons, Your Majesty and Lord Chang'an. If Your Majesty had not returned to Qin from Zhao, this huge Qin State would have been inherited by Lord Chang'an. It is a blessing that Lord Chang'an did not object to taking Your Majesty back, so why would he take the initiative to mention this matter!"
Wang Wan smiled bitterly and said, "What the Left Prime Minister said is still too conservative. Although I am Your Majesty's subject, I have to say it. After Your Majesty returns, even if Chang'an Jun is only half as magical as before, Your Majesty still has no chance of winning. The Left Prime Minister has never seen that kind of momentum."
"The Chu forces represented by the Queen Mother Huayang, Lord Changwen and Lord Changping, the royal forces represented by the former King Zhuangxiang, the foreign scholar forces represented by Marquis Wenxin Lu Buwei, the old Qin noble forces represented by Shangqing Gan Luo, and the Qin military forces represented by Marquis Wuding Meng Ao. All of these people regard Master Cheng Jiao as the hope of the Great Qin."
"The day that Prince Chengjiao came of age was considered the day of the rise of the Qin Dynasty. In order to ensure that Prince Chengjiao could ascend the throne, the Qin Dynasty had long known that the Queen Mother had a son with the State of Zhao, but no one mentioned bringing back the mother and son."
"Under the circumstances at that time, if Master Cheng Jiao had not heard from somewhere that he had a brother in Handan and threatened King Zhaoxiang with a hunger strike to bring back the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, Your Majesty would never have been able to enter Qin."
Wherever there are people, there are factions and struggles.
All factions across the country support one person.
Wei Zhuang had never heard of such a country or such a place.
On the grassland, people from different tribes would fight endlessly for a small grazing area.
Wei Zhuang couldn't understand how one person could satisfy the needs of all factions and gain their support.
Fortunately , he had heard of the even more ridiculous thing "the only son established two kings" before , so he had a high immunity to it.
If he had heard this for the first time, he would probably not be shocked for a moment.
"Doesn't that mean that Lord Chang'an has given Your Majesty a second life? Without Lord Chang'an, there would be no Your Majesty. Without Your Majesty, there would be no Qin that unifies the world today."
In the minds of Qin's ministers, the right prime minister Wang Wan, who was half a level higher than the left prime minister Wei Zhuang, shook his head.
Seeing this, Wei Zhuang clapped his hands and said loudly with excitement: "I said that there are no selfless people in this world. Chang'an Jun asked Your Majesty to return to the country. Is his heart not pure and evil? Does he want to kill Your Majesty and solve the problem once and for all, and completely guarantee his throne?"
Wang Wan's shaking head in denial was in line with Wei Zhuang's inner understanding of human nature. It also made Wei Zhuang less incredulous about Ying Chengjiao's feeling of seeing a saint.
This is what a human being is!
As long as one is a human being, no matter how magical he is, he cannot escape the worldliness!
As long as Your Majesty is alive, Chang'an Jun will always have a rival.
Asking Your Majesty to return to the country must be for the purpose of assassinating Your Majesty.
Only by making sure that he is the only surviving heir of King Zhuangxiang can his throne be guaranteed to be secure.
After Wei Zhuang finished speaking about his guess, he saw that Wang Wan was looking at him with the same eyes as when he was five years old and followed King Zhaoxiang to meet the ministers. He knew something was wrong.
Did I guess wrong again?
Wang Wan sighed and said, "I shook my head, not to deny the Left Prime Minister's words that Master Cheng Qiao had saved Your Majesty's life. I was denying the Left Prime Minister's last sentence. Without Your Majesty, there would be no unified Qin today."
Wei Zhuang's blue eyes were dazed. He stuttered at first, but the more he spoke, the more fluent he became: "Right, right, the right prime minister is right. Lord Chang'an, Lord Chang'an rescued your majesty and brought him back to the country with no distractions, purely out of a pure heart. And even if your majesty had not returned to Qin, could Qin have unified the world?"
"It's not just Wan who thinks so. In fact, everyone who has seen Master Cheng Jiao's miraculous performance in the past thinks so. The day Master Cheng Jiao ascends the throne will mark the beginning of the countdown to the fall of the six kingdoms."
"This is a case of young children becoming talented, while those who grow up but achieve nothing are everywhere."
Wei Zhuang had never seen how powerful Ying Chengjiao was in the past, but he knew how powerful the First Emperor was now.
In his heart, the status of the First Emperor was as lofty as a god.
What he pursued throughout his life was related to the division of fiefdoms and titles for his descendants for eternity.
He dared to make proposals before the First Emperor expressed his opinion, and he also dared to refute Li Si, a favorite of the First Emperor, but that was based on the fact that the First Emperor did not explicitly support the county system.
If the First Emperor had shown a clear preference for the county system, he would have simply given up his lifelong pursuit and waited for the Second Emperor of Qin to take the throne.
Wei Zhuang treated the First Emperor in this way, and his respect was greater than his fear.
So even after hearing Wang Wan talk about how miraculous Ying Chengjiao was when he was young, he still felt that the First Emperor was stronger than Ying Chengjiao.
"Your Majesty has been on the throne for less than ten years, and you have already destroyed the six kingdoms, created an unprecedented world, and created unprecedented achievements. There has never been anyone like your Majesty in the history of thousands of years. Even if Lord Chang'an ascended the throne, how could he be compared with your Majesty?"
"well."
Wang Wan walked to the door and looked at the vast sky that seemed to have no end in sight.
"Less than ten years, so fast? At that time, all the ministers thought that Master Cheng Jiao would only need less than five years. It is your regret that you did not meet Master Cheng Jiao. Master Cheng Jiao's wisdom is so great that even the vast sky cannot cover it."
"impossible!"
Wei Zhuang shouted, he stood straight with his hands behind his back, and regained the shrewd aura of the Left Prime Minister.
With the sound of clattering steps, like a horse stepping on the flying grass, he walked to Wang Wan's side and stood shoulder to shoulder with her.
He stretched out a finger with traces of friction on the joints, pointed at the blue cloth-like sky above the two men's heads, and said, "I was born under the blue sky and grew up on the grassland. As far as the eye can see, the blue sky is boundless and the grassland is endless. Eventually, the grass will grow and the sky will become a line. Have you ever seen such a scene, Right Prime Minister?"
Wang Wan had never been to the grassland. When he imagined the scene where the sky and the grassland intersected as described by Wei Zhuang, a trace of difficulty appeared on his face - Wang Wan could not imagine it.
The distance between the sky and the grass cannot be measured in miles, so how can they intersect?
"I have never seen this before. If the Left Prime Minister is not lying to me, it is a magnificent sight."
"You can believe what the Right Prime Minister said today. The magnificent scenery of heaven and earth described by the Right Prime Minister seems to be like cattle and sheep grazing and horses galloping, which are already commonplace."
“I hope I can see it in my lifetime.”
Wang Wan nodded, a hint of fascination appearing on her face.
He stretched out his left arm slightly, but without straightening it.
Bend your elbows slightly and spread your palms.
Then the sunlight fell.
The old man felt the warmth of the sun and looked at his palm being split in half by the light, a trace of sadness appeared on his face.
The half of the hand not exposed to the sun looks better.
The half of the hand illuminated by the sunlight was clearly visible, and the wrinkles on it and the palm texture that had been blurred by years of wear and tear were all reflected in his eyes.
He looked at Wei Zhuang next to him again. His right arm was stretched straight like a sword, and the hand pointing to the sky was the sharpest tip of the sword.
I am old, I cannot see you again in this life...
At his age, if he were to travel to the grassland, the bumpy ride and the discomfort of acclimatization would most likely cost him his life.
Wei Zhuang did not sense Wang Wan's change of mood and continued, "There are more than 70 people in my tribe , and more than 40 of them can fight on horseback. When the tribe fights with other tribes, both sides are skilled in archery and horseback riding, and their individual combat strengths are almost the same. If the enemy is 50, you can still fight, but if the enemy is more than 100, you have to avoid it, and if the enemy is more than 100, you have to flee. This is called the limit of human strength, and the Qin State is also like this."
"Qin soldiers fought bravely and fearlessly, and they had plenty of food and grass, so they had no worries. They had the foundation to unify the world. Your Majesty boldly appointed Wang Jian and his son, who were unknown, as generals, and made use of Wei Liao, who had lived in Wei for a long time but was not given a high position. You appointed Dun Ruo, who was rude to you and refused to pay his respects to you, as a senior minister, emptied the treasury and gave Dun Ruo a million gold coins, asking him to go on a diplomatic mission to the world to sow discord among the countries. You and I, who had never been to the Qin court, were promoted to left and right prime ministers."
"Only by implementing such audacious and daring strategies can you unify the world in less than ten years. Your Majesty has used the power of Qin to the utmost. As long as the Qin people are not born on the ground and as long as food and grass are not dropped from the sky, there will be no one stronger than your Majesty in the world."
"The sky and grass are connected in a line, which is real, because the wonders of the world are beyond reason. It is impossible to accelerate the unification of the Qin State, because human and national strength must be rationalized. The right prime minister is unparalleled in government affairs, so he must be unfamiliar with fighting and fighting, so he can say the childish words that Chang'an Jun can pacify the world in five years."
Wang Wan laughed, and the sadness she had just felt had long since disappeared.
"When did I ever say that Master Cheng Jiao wanted to take over the world through military operations?"
Wei Zhuang straightened his back a little more, with a hint of pride in his blue eyes, and said, "You can't be a tyrant. Could it be that Chang'an Jun wants to be a king? Do you want to unite the four seas with virtue? If so, how is he different from the eldest son?"
"In the troubled times, with the national strength of Qin, such a monarch is just a mediocre person who wastes people's food. How can he be compared with Your Majesty? On the grassland, sheep eat grass, wolves eat sheep, and lions can hunt sheep and kill wolves. If sheep don't want to fight, will wolves not fight? Lions don't fight? The strong prey on the weak, this is the truth I knew when I was still breastfeeding. Only you who have lived in the Central Plains for a long time and have never seen the grassland believe in the supremacy of the kingly way and that virtue can make all the people kneel down and obey such foolish words!"
"How can the Hu people understand the wisdom of the Central Plains?" Wang Wan said softly.
He was lost in memories, not knowing what he was thinking about, and his whole body couldn't help but shiver violently.
He tightened his robes and said to the proudly standing Wei Zhuang: "Do you remember the Chang'an Jun's style of doing things that I mentioned first, Left Prime Minister?"
Wei Zhuang heard too many words and said too many words today.
I can only vaguely remember things like "at the age of five I followed the king to meet the ministers" and "at the age of nine I asked the king questions whenever he encountered something".
There were also shocking words such as establishing two kings for one son. How could anyone remember what Wang Wan first said about Ying Chengjiao's style of doing things?
"Please point it out, right Prime Minister."
"Sinister, dangerous, treacherous and cunning." Wang Wan said word by word.
"If we follow Master Chengjiao's strategy, without sacrificing a single soldier, the six kingdoms will collapse in five years, and the world will be deserted except for Qin!"
As Wang Wan slowly told the story of Ying Chengjiao's strategy.
Wei Zhuang's straight back became more and more bent, and the pride in his eyes turned into fear and terror.
This Hu people's nemesis, who was born on horseback and accustomed to fighting since childhood, was so frightened that he sat down on the ground halfway through hearing the news. His clothes were all soaked with sweat and he was in a trance.
The words "sinister and treacherous" were redefined in his mind!
His face was full of an expression as if he had seen a ghost. It seemed that he was afraid that Master Cheng Jiao, who had just learned about it today, would hear him. He said in a trembling voice, "Chang, Chang, Lord Chang'an, no, no, you can't keep him here! He is not a saint, but a fierce ghost!"
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Meng Mansion.
"Insidious and treacherous? Why does my father evaluate Chang'an Jun like this?" Meng Yi said to his father Meng Wudao.
Next to Meng Yi, Meng Tian also looked curious.
Meng Wu was silent for a while and then sighed.
"The matter of the tower is shrouded in mystery. There are some things you two don't know. Perhaps you will become a pawn for others, so be it..."
