"Since ancient times, emperors have succeeded to the heaven and set up their own empire, and they have governed the whole region. They must establish the Yuan Dynasty to establish the foundation of the country, so that the Mianzong Society can rest without borders. I will sweep Liuhe and make the world a unified country, abolish feudalism, establish prefectures and counties, greatly regulate the customs, and inherit the inheritance of Jiuzhou. The winds all obey the track, be peaceful, and encourage, and then respect and serve the law. They are always in perfect control, and the boat does not tip over. However, they also work hard day and night, remembering the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in Qin Dynasty, and the 26th Ancestral Temple has entrusted them with the most important things."
"My eighteenth son, Hu Hai, has been studying Dharma for several years, and he has never made any mistakes. He is compassionate and kind, despises wealth and favors 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 crown prince. The generals, ministers and ministers of the Qin Dynasty finally let go of their worries for more than ten years.
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 candidate for Qin Shihuang's successor to the throne was Hu Hai. He prefers to establish love, and often deceives 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. In addition to the fact that the emperor was still lucky and hoped to change his destiny, it was also to allow time for the impact of Fusu's departure to gradually disappear, so as not to cause any trouble. It's like the emperor forced his eldest son to run away 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 felt pity for 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! Got 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 entire court?
For example... Prime Minister Zuo Li Si.
So yesterday Qin Shihuang deliberately mentioned the young master's general status to test Li Si's attitude.
As the third son of the First Emperor of Qin, the young master Jiang Lu and his two younger brothers 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 does not avoid death and becomes a concubine. A filial son does not work hard and sees danger. 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 must 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 crown prince, as long as the old minister has not been buried in the grave for a day, he will do his best to assist him! 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 right prime minister! Li Si is cautious and will not take risks.
Qin Shihuang sighed at that time: "I know the loyalty of the Prime Minister, but I have also 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. I am heartbroken that the Prime Minister can do this. 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!"
…
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 established 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 there was always a vacancy. And firmly control the military power in his own hands.
Although Wei Liao made the strategy of unifying the world for Qin Shihuang, he was still just a state captain.
Wang Jian, the most important figure in 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, as well as the possibility of the hometown of the Six Kingdoms. The emergence of "group thieves".
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 and honest and loyal to the surname Ying, he must be careful. Qin Shihuang summoned Li Si to take care of the crisis, and also let Wang Ben sit on the position of Taiwei, hoping that Wang Ben, who had once conquered the world, would sit in and help Hu Hai stabilize the situation. It made the world tremble. No matter the ministers, the young men of the Six Kingdoms, or even the black man who didn't know life and death, no one dared 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 the government, which can maintain the stability of the government and the opposition, but you can also re-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 enjoy the territory, and my horses can be released to Nanshan. There is no need to fight...but I must not divide the feudal states and create troubles among the princes to unify the cause. Destroyed!"
"The south and north are the most worrying. The Xiongnu must be on guard, and the northern army cannot be weakened, allowing the Hu people to take advantage. As for the south, after Li You takes over Jiangnan and Lingnan, the military power of the battalions in Lingnan must be slowly replaced. Captain, to prevent the underworld 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 appropriately reduce taxes and stop palaces, so that the leaders of Guizhou feel that the burden is lighter, and they will support you. You should also appropriately attract some people from the six countries to Xianyang.
Re-establish a doctorate, and let the hatred of the people of the six countries be concentrated on me."
After saying this, 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 was once gorgeous and 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, and later generations called them "revolving lanterns."
This seems to be a spiraling tower, with stairs going up step by step. 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 Second World War in Changping and Handan...
Whenever those Zhao people came to make trouble, humiliate him, or knock on the door, my 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, Qin Wangzheng left the enemies of Handan City dead everywhere. 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, with tears on her face and a 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 it was this that 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 wailing, and they were smashed to pieces!
"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! Or ask for forgiveness!
No longer caring about the crazy woman, Qin Shihuang set his sights firmly and continued walking to higher ground.
The stairs kept going up and up, 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 who had just ascended the throne:
"Your Majesty, the world is the world of all people, not the world of one person."
"No."
The young King Qin raised his head with sharp eyes: "The world belongs to me alone!"
He shook his head with a smile and pulled away from the feet that were still shaking after hanging himself.
"Your Majesty, you have to fight hundreds of times every day. Power... power must not be shared with others! The way of a king can only be found in three words: law, technique and power!"
At the next door, the stuttering Han Fei was explaining to himself the way of being a leader. The middle-aged Qin Wangzheng kept nodding his head, chatting with him until dawn, 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...
Trampling 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 quickly 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 and whispered.
"At the end of the day, Zheng'er, you are still a weakling. It's really 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, an old man with a long tongue, 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 clearly seen, 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 the top, there is everything!”
…
As the sun set, with reluctance for the world and worries about the future of the empire, Qin Shihuang, who had been dying for a long time, finally breathed 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!"
