My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 847: Why don’t you take the opportunity I gave you?
Although Qin II was not a person who acted recklessly on a daily basis, it did not mean that his ministers would not act recklessly.

Qin II, who was impeached by Zhang Cang for going to Shanglin Garden for hunting on weekdays, knew the impact that would be caused if his secret visit was exposed.

If the matter is exposed, he won't be able to leave the palace for the whole year.

He is not a hen incubating eggs. He can't stand staying in the nest for even a day, let alone a year.

After all, this outing was not a night tour of Xianyang, so Qin II made special arrangements for it.

Who knows if there will be an emergency...

So the Second Emperor of Qin issued an order saying that he had caught a cold and was ill and had to rest for three days. During this period, all the officials performed their duties conscientiously and everything went on as usual, except that they did not meet with officials or attend court.

Most of the ladies and concubines in the harem thought this was normal.

Because the emperor is always busy, it is only natural that he gets sick. No, it should be.

Obviously, spring has arrived, and the young Qin II, like his peers, also wants to find an opportunity to go out and have fun, go for a walk, and pick flowers.

Unfortunately, even though Qin II's arrangements were very appropriate and almost flawless, some ministers still discovered some tricks.

After Zhang Cang took office as the Minister of Agriculture, he experienced a lot of changes. Before, there were always people who squeezed him, but after he became the Minister of Agriculture, everyone began to respect Zhang Cang.

Moreover, most people began to speak well of Zhang Cang.

For a time, there were rave reviews about Zhang Cang in Xianyang City.

However, can Zhang Cang be deceived by the superficial appearance of things?

Faced with these compliments, Zhang Cang simply said with disdain, "I'm afraid those who praise me now are the same people who scolded me in the past."

Zhang Cang gave no face to those fence-sitters and ignored their overtures.

These people had no idea that Zhang Cang was so ignorant, so they naturally held their anger in their stomachs and hoped that he would quickly roll down from the position of Minister of Agriculture.

"For a man as petty as him, I don't think his career as an official will be that good."

"That's right. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. If everyone is as petty as him, there won't be any human interaction in this world."

In this way, Zhang Cang once again lost the opportunity to win over those scholars who had no jobs.

Zhang Cang was so stubborn that even his wife couldn't stand it.

"They're giving you a way out, why don't you take it?"

Zhang Cang looked at his wife and said indignantly, "They are worthy of giving me a way out?"

"What's wrong with them? Why are they not worthy?" The wife's voice was so loud that everyone in the yard could hear it.

Zhang Cang's neck was red. "What's wrong? Just a bunch of sycophants."

Zhang Cang just wanted to draw a clear line between himself and those people. Although he knew his wife meant well, he was unwilling to listen.

Zhang Cang and his wife were just living together at the beginning. However, Zhang Cang was a good man with a conscience. He felt that he should not judge people by appearance. Although the other person was a little ugly, he still had to respect her.

After Shang Qingmao's daughter got married, she felt that Zhang Cang was not only handsome but also had a good heart.

Gradually, feelings developed between the two.

It’s just like brothers in a barracks. They couldn’t stand each other at first, but then they were slowly forced to see each other every day. After getting used to each other, they developed some feelings for each other.

During this period, Zhang Cang's wife felt inferior about her body shape because of her handsome and promising husband, so she worked hard to lose weight.

Love is a good thing.

She did lose weight at first, but unfortunately Zhang Cang was always on business trips. When Zhang Cang was not at home, his wife felt that there was no point in losing weight, so she started eating whatever she wanted, and then her weight began to rebound.

After all these years, Zhang Cang had nothing to say when he saw a woman working so hard.

However, Shang Qingmao thought his daughter was a loser, as she was ashamed of herself for a man and changed herself for him. Shang Qingmao always wanted to find an opportunity to beat Zhang Cang up and teach him a lesson.

After all, Zhang Cang is really arrogant.

He even dared to impeach his own wife's brother and did not take Gongcheng's family seriously at all.

Although they have declined from generation to generation, they are still royal relatives after all.

But Zhang Cang never cared about this matter.

He always felt that he was forced into this marriage.

Zhang Cang had always wanted to take a concubine for himself, and he wanted to marry someone who was gentle, spoke softly, and had a low profile.

But he didn't dare because his wife was too strong.

Zhang Cang had no choice but to suppress his fear of his wife and prepare to go back to the hall to do something big to vent his anger.

His wife glared at Zhang Cang, "Where are you going? Today is the fifteenth, it's a holiday."

"Your Majesty, this is not a matter of worrying about money. I will go and find a solution with Doctor Cao."

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty is sick, don't you know? How dare you lie to me?" The wife's roar started again in the courtyard.

Zhang Cang covered his ears with his hands. "Can't you keep your voice down? Can you learn from those Chu girls?"

"What do you mean by Chu girls? They are all bought and sold and trained since they were young. Which decent girl would speak in a timid way? I tell you, Zhang Cang, don't be ungrateful. Those people who appear to be pitiful on the surface and have tears in their eyes all day long, whether they are men or women, are not good people."

"No decent person would cry when something happens."

Zhang Cang frowned, very unhappy, "Nonsense, they are already so pitiful, and you still say that to them."

"They are pitiful because their parents and grandparents did things they shouldn't have done. They are not pitiful, they deserve it. Their parents are not human beings, they sell their daughters to survive. Their children are suffering, why do you worry about others every day when your own family members have nothing to do with it?"

Zhang Cang didn't like sharing housework with his wife at home and had already handed over all these things to his wife.

His wife's complaints about him were not just big, but quite big. So big that every time she saw him, she wanted to eat him up.

"Humph! You also know that they were forced, and you know that they were forced, yet you still beat them severely every day."

Zhang Cang was particularly annoyed by the fact that his wife always beat the female slaves they bought.

"That's because they have bad character. I was not at home for just one day, and they dared to wear my jewelry. If I don't beat them, they will team up to poison me sooner or later. They took my money and lived happily outside." Zhang Cang's face was dark, and he muttered in a low voice, "You deserve to be poisoned to death. How can there be such a cruel person as you, who wants to beat others to death."

The wife's face turned pale, "What did you say?!"

Zhang Cang's legs were shaking with fear, "I didn't."

Mrs. Zhang sneered, "Look at you, am I that powerful?"

"Don't look down on me and think that I did this because I was jealous of their thinness. Although I have a bad temper, I can still tell right from wrong."

"Not all bad people are bad just because they openly scold you. Those who appear to be wronged and pitiful are the scariest."

"You read so many books all day long, but you have seen less than I have. Although this person has only one heart, it can grow eight hundred tricks. It is impossible to guard against it."

"Do you know why there are always poor people in the world? It's because of people like you who always think they are great and say things like using public resources for personal gain and robbing the rich to help the poor. Originally, they might have worked and cooked for themselves, but once you showed up and started offering relief, no one wanted to work anymore and just waited for relief."

"Then the relief led to new unfair distribution. But the money will only flow to those who are not in need, not to those who are really in need."

"In the end, the money was simply sent to the relatives of the powerful landlords. This is how the world works. Even if more people become emperors or kings, it will all be the same."

"To deal with those at the bottom, you have to whip them and starve them. Once you treat them too well, they won't know who they are."

"If they live well, they will become greedy, want to be lazy, and just lie at home and wait for death, and will no longer think about working hard."

"You treat some people well and let them get money for free without doing any work; those who work very hard will feel that it is unfair and they will not want to work anymore. They will just pretend to be poor and pitiful to cheat those kind people to get by."

"If you have always been nice to them, and then one day you treat them badly, they will hate you."

"And if you treat them well for a long time, they will take it for granted and think it's what you should do. Over time, they will want more."

"People are inherently bad. No matter how good you are to them, they won't change."

"Only by whipping them from time to time will they remember who is the master."

Zhang Cang was naturally dissatisfied with his wife's remarks.

Very true, but too negative.

Zhang Cang also experienced a lot. He was penniless and had to study at a young age. He met many people along the way, and those who helped him were often poor people like him; while those who were rich ignored him.

"That's nonsense. You mean that we ministers should just stop working?"

"It's just a token of my appreciation. Everyone is just acting and just messing around. Why are you taking it so seriously?" Mrs. Zhang shouted, "Look around Xianyang City, is there anyone as stubborn as you? You fight the emperor with real swords and guns every day. If the emperor wasn't so good-tempered, I would have been killed with you."

Zhang Cang got angry when he heard this, "What do you mean everyone is just acting, everyone is just messing around? Have you ever been to a battlefield? Have you ever seen the fickleness of human nature?"

"Do you know how the strongest warriors of the Qin Empire are trained? Do you know who they are for?"

"Do you know how ordinary people live?"

"Don't we know that someone might cheat?"

"But this is what we do. We want to prevent some people from cheating and try to find ways to compensate those who work hard."

Mrs. Zhang said loudly, "There have been so many smart people throughout history. If it could be solved, it would have been solved long ago. Admit it, if you were in someone else's position, you would also have selfish motives. This is reality."

"Besides, the reason why those poor people are poor is because their ancestors did not accumulate virtue. They should have suffered hardship and accumulated virtue. But you just give them money and food. People are helped, but what can they learn?"

Zhang Cang just laughed after hearing this.

"Ridiculous, really ridiculous. Where did you hear such a ridiculous theory? According to what you said, your family is rich because your ancestors were virtuous, and my family is poor because my ancestors were not virtuous."

Mrs. Zhang was shocked. "That's it. Otherwise, how do you think you became so rich all of a sudden? Isn't it because of the blessing of my ancestors?"

Zhang Cang was naturally angry. "I was able to be employed by the emperor because of my talent. What does it have to do with you?"

"There are so many talented people, many of whom starved to death at the gate of Xianyang City or were murdered in prison. Why do you think you can achieve success because you are so talented?"

The couple quarreled endlessly, but Zhang Cang firmly refused to believe that a family's wealth or poverty was due to the virtues of their ancestors.

Zhang Cang accused her, "You woman, you can't even read a few words, yet you are trying to explain things to me. My teacher is the famous Xunzi, how could I be wrong?"

"Then how do you explain that your father was less than five feet tall, but you were eight feet tall when you were born?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the Zhang family compound suddenly fell silent.

Zhang Cang's father picked up his grandson and ran quickly to the backyard.

He finally realized that the couple was going to beat their brains out today.

Mrs. Zhang was originally a female aristocrat with the personality of an arrogant tigress. No one in Xianyang city dared to provoke her. Zhang Cang was so bold that he even dared to scold her. Wasn't he trying to make trouble for himself?
So, Mrs. Zhang directly brought out a fact that had always made Zhang Cang feel ashamed.

That is, Zhang Cang's father was less than five feet tall, but Zhang Cang was a handsome man who was eight feet tall.

Everyone knows that this kind of thing is not in line with common sense.

And if it doesn't conform to common sense, it means there will be gossip.

Chen Ping only said a few words to his sister-in-law, but he became a sister-in-law thief. Could it be that Zhang Cang's situation would make him a good person?

Even if some people don't say it, Zhang Cang is well-read and has seen a lot of things, so he would still feel confused about some things.

But when he was a child, whenever he asked his mother this question, she would slap him in the face.

Later, Zhang Cang stopped asking, but the doubt remained in his heart.

Zhang Cang stood there, bewildered.

His thoughts drifted back to his childhood. He clearly remembered that his grandfather was not a tall man, but he had a kind personality and was very nice to his neighbors.

Not to mention my own father.

But why did it suddenly increase from five feet to eight feet in my generation?

Ugh.

I can’t even believe that I am my father’s biological son, let alone others?
Zhang Cang's lips trembled twice, and he swallowed all the words.

(End of this chapter)