Qin Official

"Since ancient times, emperors have succeeded to the throne and established the empire and governed the Huan area. They must establish the Yuan Chu and Mao Long kingdoms so that the Mian Zongshe can rest without borders. I will sweep Liuhe and make one country, abolish feudalism, establish prefectures and counties, greatly regulate the customs of Zhuo, and inherit the inheritance of Jiuzhou. The winds all obey the track, be peaceful and encourage, and then respect and serve the Dharma. They are always in control, and the boat does not tip over. However, they work hard day and night, remembering the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in Qin Dynasty, and the 26th ancestral temple entrusted them with the utmost importance."

"My eighteenth son, Hu Hai, has been studying Dharma for several years, and he has never made any mistakes. He is compassionate and kind, despising wealth and favoring scholars. He debates with his heart and speaks with his mouth. He knows the Dharma and respects his scholars. None of the disciples of Qin can do this. He can be his heir. On the seventh day of the second lunar month in the thirty-seventh year, Hu Hai was given a book of treasures and established as the crown prince. He will care for the army on my behalf, so as to maintain the lineage of eternity and tie the heart of the four seas."

Prime Minister Zuo Li Si finished reading the edict, and Emperor Qin Shihuang dragged his weak body and forced himself to complete the ceremony of "registering the prince" for Hu Hai. Zhao Gao breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's settled..."

As Hu Hai's teacher, Zhao Gao, the commander of CRRC, was undoubtedly the biggest winner among the ministers, and he secretly rejoiced.

Li Si also quietly wiped his cold sweat. The stubborn Emperor finally realized that he was about to die and finally established a prince. The generals, ministers and ministers of the Qin Dynasty had been worried for more than ten years and finally let go.

In fact, Li Si knew very well that after the prince fled from Fusu and the prince was afraid of rejecting the emperor's wishes, the only suitable heir that Qin Shihuang could pass on to the throne was Hu Hai. He prefers to establish love, and often lies to himself by saying, "My beloved son is also the most virtuous and the most like me."

However, Qin Shihuang only asked Hu Hai to accompany him on the tour, but did not directly make him his heir. Except that the emperor was still lucky and hoped to change his destiny. It was also to allow time for the impact of Fusu's escape to gradually disappear, and not to make it look like the emperor forced his eldest son to flee in order to abolish the eldest son and establish a younger one...

Moreover, from Qin Shihuang's summons yesterday, Li Si also noticed the emperor's worries.

The old emperor was about to die, and the succession of the new emperor was inevitable. However, Qin Shihuang pitied his loneliness and was afraid that he would not be able to overcome the disputes among his ministers. This led to the phenomenon of "treachery and regicide" that Han Feizi warned about, and the new emperor was ignored by the powerful ministers! Lost authority!

Although Hu Hai was proficient in law, well-versed in Han Fei's studies, was not compassionate, and even had a touch of ruthlessness, he was too young, only 21 years old. Could his methods really control the spirit of the people of the dynasty?

For example... Prime Minister Zuo Li Si.

So yesterday Qin Shihuang deliberately mentioned the young master general to test Li Si's attitude.

As the third son of the First Emperor of Qin, the young master, Jiang Lu, and his younger brother were three brothers from the same mother. Although they were not favored, they supported each other. What is more noteworthy is that Jiang Lu's two younger brothers were both married to Li Si's daughters. as a wife...

Li Si was immediately frightened and expressed his attitude: "Your Majesty, I am a commoner in Cai Luxiang. I am honored by your Majesty to promote me as Prime Minister and to make me a Tonghou. All the men will be the princess of Qin, and the women will marry the princes of Qin. Their descendants will all have the highest status." Lu. A loyal minister will become a concubine if he does not avoid death, and a filial son will see danger if he does not work hard. Everyone just keeps their duties. Not to mention that your majesty still has a long life. Even if you want to establish an heir, everything should be decided by your majesty. It is inappropriate. Ask my subordinates."

He bowed again and said: "No matter which young master your Majesty chooses to be the prince, as long as the old minister has not been buried in the grave for a day, he will serve him with all his loyalty! Otherwise, I am willing to kill myself and be buried in order to repay your majesty's kindness!"

The implication is that he, Li Siwei, obeys the Emperor's orders and will not have any evil intentions after His Majesty's visit...

Zhao Gao had secretly promised before: No matter who succeeds to the throne, Li Si can return to the position of Prime Minister! Li Si was cautious and would not take risks.

Qin Shihuang sighed at that time: "I know the Prime Minister's loyalty, but I have heard that cattle and horses fight, and mosquitoes and flies die under them; ministers fight, and the people of Qi suffer. Once it occurs, it will be a sign of great chaos. If the Prime Minister can do this, I am heartbroken. What a relief!”

So Qin Shihuang no longer mentioned the other princes, but decided to canonize Hu Hai as the prince. After the canonization ceremony, Qin Shihuang made another appointment that shocked the court:

"Make Tongwuhou Wang Ben the Taiwei!"

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If the establishment of the crown prince made the officials feel relieved, the subsequent appointment shocked everyone.

Because after the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, although the prime minister, the imperial censor, and the Taiwei were appointed as the three princes, who were responsible for assisting the administration, supervising, and running the army respectively, from the beginning to the end, Qin Shihuang never appointed anyone as the Taiwei, and the vacancy was always vacant. And firmly control the military power in his own hands.

Although Wei Liao made a strategy for Qin Shihuang to unify the world, he was still just a state captain.

Wang Jian, the greatest contributor to the unification of China, never got this post.

Why did Wang Ben, who had been ill for a long time, suddenly be appointed as Taiwei to this day?

Does this mean that the Wang family, which has been suppressed for a long time, will rise again?

Everyone thought of a relationship: "Hu Hai, married a woman from the Wang family..."

The court structure set by Qin Shihuang for Hu Hai has gradually become clear: the three meritorious families of Li, Feng, and Wang will jointly assist the government. Only in this way can we deal with the complicated situation between the government and the opposition after the Fusu and Heifu cases, and the possibility of the hometown of the Six Kingdoms. The "group of thieves" appeared.

But the current situation is that the Feng family is somewhat powerful, Feng Quji is the right prime minister, Feng Wuze is in charge of tens of thousands of troops, Feng Jie is in the northern army, and Feng Jing is also the captain.

Although Feng has always been honest, simple and loyal to the surname Ying, she must be careful. Qin Shihuang summoned Li Si, entrusted him with the crisis, and asked Wang Ben to sit on the position of Taiwei. He hoped that Wang Ben, who had once swept the world, would sit in and help Hu Hai stabilize the situation and make the world tremble. No matter the ministers, the young men of the Six Nations, or even the black man who didn't know life and death, they didn't dare to make a mistake!

After doing all this, at noon, Qin Shihuang fell into coma again. The imperial physician Xia Wuji came out shaking his head and told Hu Hai, Li Si, Zhao Gao and others that His Majesty the Emperor was on his deathbed...

Hu Hai cried and looked at his father, only to see that the once tall and mighty Emperor Qin Shihuang was so weak that he could not sit up. Hu Hai could only hold his hand and explain some funeral arrangements in a piecemeal but chaotic manner...

"Li, Feng, and Wang assist in the administration, which can maintain the stability of the government and the opposition. But you can also promote Meng Tian and Meng Yi to compete with them, and then rely on Zhao Gao, Zhao Cheng, and others around you. As a king, you must not have your own loyal ministers."

"I have cleared everything that can be cleared and conquered all the countries that can be conquered. My descendants can sit back and enjoy the territory, let my horses fly to the Nanshan Mountains, and there is no need for war...but I must not divide the feudal states, and create difficulties for the princes to unify the cause. Destroyed!"

"The south and north are the most worrying. The Xiongnu must be well guarded. The northern army cannot be weakened, allowing the Hu people to take advantage of it. As for the south, after Li You takes over the military power of the camps in Jiangnan and Lingnan, he must slowly replace them. Captain, to prevent the Mafia from resurrecting."

"I have never given up halfway, especially in the Queen Mother Kingdom of the West. I will never change my mind until death! There is no need to recall Li Xin from the west, but how far he can go and what he can do depends on him..."

"All the ministers have said that the rents and taxes of the Qin Dynasty are too heavy. After you succeed to the throne, you should reduce the taxes appropriately and stop the palaces, so that the leaders of Guizhou feel that the burden is lighter and they will support you. Then you can appropriately attract some people from the six countries to Xianyang. By re-establishing a doctorate position, let the hatred of the people of the six countries be concentrated on me."

After saying that, Qin Shihuang suddenly regained consciousness and slapped Hu Hai, who was crying hard: "Don't cry! The Tao is invisible, and it is used by the unknowable king. Don't show your joy in front of others." Anger, sorrow and joy!”

But then he immediately changed his face, touched his younger son's face, and sighed sadly and pitifully:

"Hu Hai, when I do this, do I love you? Or am I hurting you?"

Afterwards, Qin Shihuang said no more, but said weakly:

"Go out... I don't want anyone to see my dying state of embarrassment!"

…

The moldy carpet underfoot had once been gorgeous, and the gold pattern decoration on the fabric was faintly visible, shining intermittently between dull gray and mottled green.

The First Emperor of Qin walked through prosperity and withering, and his time had come. Most of the things he saw when he was dying were from the past, which later generations called "revolving lanterns."

This seems to be a spiraling tower, with stairs going up layer by layer. Staring at them, people will climb involuntarily.

But Qin Shi Huang, who had a deep understanding of the true meaning of climbing, stopped in front of a door and could no longer move forward.

He recognized this door and the pear tree in the yard. This was the place where Qin Shihuang grew up.

Handan City, Zhao Ji's maternal home, as the daughter of a wealthy family in Handan, this thick black paint gate can protect the mother and child who were abandoned in Handan from being torn into pieces by the angry Zhao people after the war between Changping and Handan...

Whenever those Zhao people came to make trouble, humiliate, or knock on the door, the mother would hug her Zheng'er tightly and hide in the back room, shivering.

Zheng'er's face was close to his mother's plump body, and he could smell the faint smell of orchid. There was no fear in his eyes. Hearing the words that humiliated his mother and the Qin State, he was full of anger. He clenched his fists and vowed to let Handan... Let Zhao Guo pay the price!

He did it. Thirty years later, the Qin Dynasty left the enemies of Handan City littered with corpses. The royal family, young knights, soldiers, and even the elderly, women and children. The pools of congealing blood in the streets and alleys were like the blooming flowers in midsummer. .

But when he happily told his mother these things, her mother just slapped him bitterly.

"You goddammit!"

Covering his face, he retreated step by step until he reached the edge of the tower. In the blink of an eye, there were two more cloth bags in his hands. They were heavy and they were still struggling...

Of course he knew why his mother hated him.

"Let them go..."

The mother's attitude changed and she knelt down to her son, her face full of tears and her voice full of pleading.

"They are also your brothers..."

The way she looked at those two scoundrels was as if she had looked at Xiao Zheng'er with deep affection.

Perhaps this was what triggered the jealousy buried deep in his heart.

"I have no brothers."

With a cold face, he loosened his grip, and the two cloth bags were thrown off the tower. Accompanied by his mother's sharp wail, they fell to pieces and were bloody!

"No!"

My mother has changed. Her beautiful hair has turned into withered silver threads, her plump and graceful body has gradually become rickety, and even her appearance has become ugly!

The familiar smell of orchids also turned into the stench of decaying corpses.

"The blood of the royal family is cold, and what you have done must not be desecrated!"

I won’t even forgive you! Or ask for forgiveness!

No longer caring about the crazy woman, Qin Shihuang strengthened his gaze and continued walking to higher ground.

The stairs kept extending upward, and after passing the biggest hurdle in life, Qin Shihuang still passed by countless doors, but they could only make him stop, but they could not keep him for a long time.

He saw his father-in-law saying to himself when he first ascended the throne:

"Your Majesty, the world belongs to everyone, not to one person."

"No."

The young King Qin raised his head with sharp eyes: "The world belongs to me alone!"

He smiled and shook his head, pulling away from the feet that were still shaking after hanging himself.

"Your Majesty, you are fighting hundreds of battles every day. Power... power must not be shared with others! The way of a king only consists of three words: law, technique and power!"

At the next door, the stuttering Han Fei was explaining to himself the way of being a master. The middle-aged Qin Wangzheng kept nodding, talking to him about the morning, and asked several questions...

But after he absorbed Han Fei's knowledge and found that his purpose was still to save Han, he turned his back and refused to recognize him.

"Mr. Han, you presented me with a sharp sword. The blade is called the method, the sword pattern is the technique, and the hilt is the power. But now, I would like to ask Mr. Han to test it for me as to whether this sword is sharp or not! "

Han Fei smiled miserably, drank his sword and killed himself, blood flowing all over the ground...

Stepping on his blood, Qin Shi Huang finally approached the top of the tower.

But when passing by the last open door, a baby cried, causing the emperor to stop again...

It was snowing heavily outside, and the pink-puffed baby was held in the arms of his father, who had not yet grown a thick beard on his chin. He named him with a smile:

"Fusu, your name is Fusu!"

The child grew up rapidly, but was so cowardly and indecisive that it was a headache. Even after smashing the jade into pieces, he ran away desperately and hid in the wormwood, sobbing in fear.

Qin Shihuang looked at him with pity and disgust, hesitated for a long time, and wanted to reach out to hold him, but the child slipped away again and left without looking back.

He chased, he searched, and before he knew it, he had reached the top, the ladder, to the end.

He drew his sword and looked around, but saw nothing. There was no one around. The whole land was white and so clean...

Along the way, everyone left him, and it seemed that only betrayal and Qin Shihuang followed him step by step...

Those ghosts that had deeply affected Qin Shi Huangdi in this life lingered in his ears, gossiping.

"At the end of the day, Zheng'er, you are still a weakling. It's so pitiful..." The smell of mother's orchid drifted over.

"One person rules the world? A single man will be betrayed by everyone in the world!" Lu Buwei, who had his tongue hanging out, sarcastically said.

"Without me, your majesty, I'm afraid there will be no one in this world who understands you, right?" Han Fei covered his bleeding neck and walked forward step by step, but he stopped stuttering.

Qin Shihuang remained unmoved and stood quietly at the top of the world, reluctant to take the next step.

"No."

A thick voice interrupted Han Fei's words.

"I understand Your Majesty, I understand Your Majesty."

He knelt on one knee very far away from Qin Shihuang. His face was dark and his appearance could not be seen clearly, but his voice was still loud and clear. He became bolder and asked Qin Shihuang a very disrespectful question.

"Your Majesty, what's on top of the peak?"

Qin Shihuang spread his hands. At this moment, all his clothes and robes were gone. He came and left naked.

"you saw it."

Qin Shihuang spread his hands and said: "There is nothing above the top..."

He took steps and stepped onto the clouds, but when he crossed the bridge leading to the underworld, he stopped again.

"really?"

Qin Shihuang lowered his head and saw the human empire he had built, the magnificent territory he had laid, and the solid system he had laid the foundation for.

It, it, and it will be passed down for eternity!

Looking back, Emperor Qin Shi Huang looked at the man who bowed to him in farewell, with a proud and stubborn smile on his lips:

“On top of the summit, there is everything!”

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As the sun sets, with reluctance for the world and worries about the future of the empire, Qin Shihuang, who has been dying for a long time, finally exhales his last breath...

"On the seventh day of February in the thirty-seventh year of the lunar month, Emperor Qin Shi Huang died in Xiling County, Hengshan County!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is at night.