My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 869 Good friends

A group of people surrounded Shao Ping and told him, "You and Shang Qingyi were born in the same year, and had the same teacher. After that, you studied under different teachers. After you finished your studies, Shang Qingyi became Shang Qing in just thirteen years."

"As for you, you wasted a lot of time. Now you finally get to serve as an official in the court and become a doctor."

"You work in the Imperial Court, which has only two top officials. The first is Imperial Court Judge Xiao He, who likes the teachings of Huang Lao, sympathizes with the people's suffering, and is deeply loved by the people."

"The other person in charge is Shangqing Meng Yi. Meng Yi advocates ruling the country by law. But a country ruled by law is bound to be strict and inhumane."

"As for China, we have always valued morality, justice, loyalty and filial piety, and ruled the country by law, which is bound to make the people dissatisfied."

"Only by governing the country with virtue can we appease the people. As a Confucian scholar, so many of us have come here to admire your reputation, hoping that you can accomplish great things and benefit the people."

"This is such a great cause. As a man, you should do such a great thing. How can you cry for a woman?"

Everyone surrounded Shao Ping and pretended to comfort him.

"When you become the Shangqing, Madam will definitely come back."

Shao Ping had tears in his eyes. He looked at the starry sky above his head, wiped away his tears and said, "No, she won't come back."

"She's not that kind of person."

Shao Ping dragged his tired body back to the main room alone.

However, losing his wife was not a blow to Shao Ping at this time, but rather a shame.

For a doctor, it is not a pleasant news for his wife to run away from home.

Whose wife always goes back to her parents' home and doesn't want to come back? Isn't this clearly showing that she looks down on her husband?

It was originally a matter between husband and wife.

But when he opened his eyes, he saw the yard full of wise men and retainers, and Shao Ping was no longer embarrassed to look for his wife.

The beautiful love legend that once stood beside the mausoleum is now vulnerable in the face of reality.

The couple was torn apart by something and was completely separated.

Shao Ping did not look for a wife, he chose to be with a bunch of concubines.

He has become a doctor, no longer the small eunuch in the past who could not speak loudly when meeting people.

Shao Ping stepped into the Supreme Court, ready to do something great with great fanfare.

Meng Yi and Shao Ping are good friends.

Their wives also have a good relationship with each other.

However, Shao Ping was very considerate to his wife and took care of her in every possible way. But Meng Yi was different. He treated his wife more like a brother. He would wrestle with her in her bedroom and perform for her when she was sick.

Meng Yi doesn't know how to take care of his wife.

Meng Yi's wife was very troubled by this.

She felt as if he had found her a son.

Meng Yi's wife envied Shao Ping's wife very much. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen.

So this matter, which the men kept silent about and did not want the other party to know, was told to Meng Yi by his wife.

Meng Yi was very surprised, "Shao Ping, how is this possible?"

"Shao Ping loves his wife the most. He once said that the person who understands him best in this world is his wife. Unless he dies, he will never separate from his wife."

Meng Yi's wife just smiled and said, "Then why did Madam Shao leave Xianyang?"

Meng Yi always remembered this incident. He felt that Shao Ping's greatest strength was that he did not lie.

The two of them agreed to each other that as gentlemen, they should be able to change as easily as a dragon or a snake, but they should never violate the principle of integrity.

"A gentleman should not deceive others. If a gentleman does not pay attention to the way he does things, what is the difference between him and a villain?" Although it was just a small matter, the hot-tempered Meng Yi still asked when the two were working together.

Shao Ping only said, "Don't interfere in the affairs between us."

"Your wife left Xianyang to accompany you to guard the mausoleum; you entered the palace as an official, and your wife was still waiting for you at home. How could you abandon her just because you became an official?"

Shao Ping was very angry. "Why do you have to care about me? What does my wife have to do with you?"

This question made Meng Yi explode.

If someone hadn't stopped them, the two would have started fighting right away.

Shao Ping had already lost his wife and didn't want to lose his friend again; moreover, those retainers didn't want Shao Ping to offend Meng Yi, because Meng Yi was a favorite of the emperor and his brother was the general Meng Tian, ​​and this family could not be offended.

The retainers then instigated Shao Ping to reconcile with Meng Yi.

Meng Yi was just angry for a moment. He valued the relationship between brothers very much. Once Shao Ping apologized, Meng Yi softened his heart and the two reconciled.

After all, if news got out that he had turned against his brother because of his brother's wife, wouldn't that hurt Meng Yi's reputation?

Not only did Meng Yi reconcile with Shao Ping, he also never mentioned anything about Meng Yi's first wife again.

Shao Ping also noticed the changes in Meng Yi. Thinking about their status, situation, and career, he no longer argued with Meng Yi about the past.

But when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Shao Ping would look at the moon and miss his wife. When the breeze blew, Shao Ping would mistakenly think that his wife was hanging clothes to dry nearby.

However, Shao Ping has changed his mind now. He wants to be like all other men and have three wives and four concubines. He hopes that his wife will bow her head and come back to him as soon as possible, and stop being angry with him and embarrassing him in front of others.

Unfortunately, no matter how many letters Shao Ping wrote, his wife just didn't come back.

This incident became the most hotly discussed topic in Xianyang City between June and July.
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However, Qin II didn't care whether Shao Ping and his wife were together or apart.

He just hoped his arrangement would work.

The deliberate move of arranging Shao Ping to enter the Supreme Court naturally promoted the growth of the Supreme Court.

Shao Ping is not an ordinary person. He has connections not only with the powerful people in Xianyang.

Historically, he was a retainer of Xiao He.

After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the Marquis of Dongling became a melon seller. Shao Ping, who was willing to bow down to his will, became a retainer of Xiao He, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty.

With Shao Ping's help, Xiao He avoided many disasters as prime minister.

Now, Shao Ping and Xiao He are working in the same government office again.

From then on, there was another heavyweight figure in the Supreme Court.

Xiao He has Shao Ping in literature and Meng Yi in martial arts.

Whether it was Shao Ping or Meng Yi, both of them admired Xiao He deeply and assisted him wholeheartedly.

Gradually, Xiao He's power in Xianyang city grew.

This is all thanks to Shao Ping's joining.

To become an influential minister, one must not only have obedient subordinates, but most importantly have power, which requires Xiao He to have allies and supporters.

In the past, when Xiao He said something, did anyone in the court agree with him?

No.

But the situation changed after Shao Ping joined the Supreme Court.

After all, Shao Ping is a man who is in the same boat with the emperor.

(End of this chapter)