My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

"Brother, are you planning to force the emperor to abdicate?" Meng Yi asked in a low voice, but his face showed uncontrollable excitement.

"What nonsense!" Meng Tian shouted, "What's wrong with you again?"

"But your majesty trusts Shangqing Zhou Qingchen so much, how could he agree to this?"

"Is there a possibility that this is what Your Majesty originally meant? King Zhuang of Chu also made a name for himself, but he was silent for three years before that."

Meng Yi replied, "But your majesty is not King Zhuang of Chu. Your majesty has been one of the most outstanding people since childhood."

"It's a different time now. Besides, Your Majesty has never been someone who would get entangled in means. When Your Majesty took over the empire, the country was already in trouble both internally and externally. The most serious one was the empty treasury. Have you forgotten how you raised the money in the first place?"

"It's not easy for the whole country to raise this money. Why would Your Majesty deliberately let Zhou Qingchen manage these things? It's just to test him and deliberately give this matter to him. Once he makes a mistake, Your Majesty will punish him then."

"What's more, His Majesty has been patient with Zhou Qingchen for a long time. When the time comes, he will naturally eliminate this person."

Meng Yi shouted, "How could this be possible? I really can't see that Your Majesty intends to kill Zhou Qingchen?"

"If you can see it, Zhou Qingchen will be scared to death." Meng Tian said solemnly.

The right prime minister of the empire, a man of both civil and military talents, especially good at military affairs. Youyan was majestic and awe-inspiring, and only his younger brother was immune to this aura. Others dared not even breathe when they saw Meng Tian.

"I can't tell. Normally, His Majesty is the most tolerant towards Zhou Qingchen. No matter what mistakes he made, His Majesty tolerates him." Meng Yi felt a chill in his heart when he thought that the emperor had been thinking about killing Zhou Qingchen. He did so many things just to use Zhou Qingchen.

His Majesty the Emperor has deceived himself. He is really good at disguise and acting.

Meng Tian looked at Meng Yi leisurely, "Your Majesty is not a good man, so how can you indulge him and allow him to eat up the national treasury for no reason?"

"Your Majesty is not the kind of person who is willing to waste his youth. If you wanted to let these parasites corrupt the country from the beginning, then why did you appoint Chen Ping and Xiao He as senior ministers?"

Meng Yi suddenly understood.

"This is all the plan that Your Majesty has planned from the beginning."

"Of course." Meng Tian has always trusted Fusu.

Trust is accumulated slowly through little things in daily life.

"Your Majesty's performance in the battle was so wise and brave. The enemy anticipated your Majesty's prediction, and your Majesty anticipated the enemy's prediction of your Majesty."

"That was the only war in my life that I could describe as walking on flat ground. But you, you know too little about His Majesty."

"Your Majesty has always been a man of foresight. For something as big as this, you must be extremely cautious. How could Your Majesty not see who Zhou Qingchen really is?"

Meng Yi looked at Meng Tian and said, "Your Majesty is truly far-sighted."

After understanding the emperor's true thoughts, Meng Yi immediately felt that the emperor was somewhat scary.

After all, he was so good to Zhou Qingchen on a daily basis, so good that everyone was jealous of Zhou Qingchen and thought that the emperor had real feelings for Zhou Qingchen.

In the end, the emperor had this in mind.

It was just a moment, and Meng Yi felt that the emperor was actually no different from the previous emperor.

Both of them will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.

Maybe they are like kind mothers deep down in their hearts, but their methods are always cruel and brutal.

Even though the Second Emperor seemed to be very nice to everyone on the surface, his heart was actually colder and harder than that of the Emperor Retired; while the Emperor Retired seemed strict, he was actually very tolerant towards everyone.

Based on this understanding, an idea suddenly emerged in Meng Yi's mind. Will the current emperor follow the same path as the past emperors after a few decades?

From working hard to govern the country in the beginning, to being proud, complacent and arrogant in the later period, he finally became a crazy egomaniac, befriending villains and keeping away from wise ministers.

However, Meng Yi got the answer here and no longer felt guilty about following Qin II.

In fact, Qin Shihuang treated Meng Yi better than Meng Tian.

The main reason was that Meng Yi was originally a fan of Qin Shihuang, and Qin Shihuang admired Meng Yi's handsomeness very much. The two hit it off and got along happily for many years.

And Fusu did not treat Meng Yi as well as Qin Shihuang did.

Meng Yi saw and remembered all these little things.

So when Qin Shihuang and Qin Ershi had a conflict, the emperor emeritus abdicated easily. After that, Meng Yi always felt guilty towards the emperor emeritus for giving up Qin Shihuang and choosing to follow Qin Ershi.

Every time Qin II disappointed him, Meng Yi's sense of guilt would grow worse, and he would always ask himself if he had made the wrong choice.

From today's perspective, Qin II was not considered stupid.

"In my opinion, this year will be a turbulent year. With Zhou Qingchen taking on the responsibility, there will probably be a bloody storm in Xianyang City, and the common people will suffer again."

"But I'm very worried about the Emperor. His condition has been very bad recently. He insisted on taking the elixir, but was interrupted by the Emperor's orders."

"Every time your majesty ordered the emperor to stop taking his medicine, he would go on a hunger strike to protest. It's hard for your majesty to control him after all this."

Meng Tian frowned, "The emperor is probably in bad shape... The doctor has given a diagnosis."

Meng Yi's face turned pale, "So fast——"

Meng Yi thought that the reason why Qin Shihuang ruined his future in the eyes of his ministers was for the sake of immortality, but in the end, he did not even live to the age of fifty.

If this gets out, I'm afraid many people will laugh at Your Majesty.

After all, Your Majesty is not a perfect person...

Meng Yi couldn't help but worry more about Qin Shihuang.

Meng Tian's face was gloomy. "Life is like a fleeting moment. It seems like yesterday that Your Majesty pulled me out of the Court of Imperial Censors, but today, I, Meng Tian, ​​have become the Prime Minister of a country. I have experienced so many ups and downs during this period, but now, the Emperor is already very old."

Meng Yi looked at Meng Tian and said, "Brother, now that Zhou Qingchen is in power, why don't we take this opportunity to go together to see the emperor for the last time, and by the way, go back to pay homage to our father's tomb."

"Over the years, we have been busy dealing with government affairs and trivial matters day after day. Anyway, we have never been able to find an opportunity. We might as well take this opportunity to temporarily stay away from the court. First, we can let Zhou Qingchen run wild and make it difficult for His Majesty to tolerate him; second, we brothers should have gone back to see our father long ago."

Meng Tian looked at his brother and didn't know what to say for a moment... His hands trembled slightly.

"What's wrong... did I say something wrong again?" Meng Yi was afraid that Meng Tian would deny him and scold him again, so he took two steps back. "No, no. You are right. We should go back and rest."

"It's not just because of the family sacrifice, but also because of state affairs. In recent years, the northern nomadic people have been invading the north of our country from time to time. Although they are just testing, their wolfish ambitions to spy on the picturesque landscape of our empire have been fully exposed."

"Moreover, the Nanyue people have always been resentful of our empire. Their leader is on good terms with Your Majesty on the surface, but in fact he has been secretly learning our Chinese culture and technology. They imitated our Qin's military equipment and wanted to recover their territory."

"What's more, those vassal states have long been ready to make a move."

"Moreover, there are a large number of corrupt officials in the country. They are in collusion with each other and take advantage of the opportunity of your majesty launching the industrial revolution to cooperate with those businessmen. They even want to infiltrate the army to do business and make profits."

"In the past five years, the empire's wealth has increased dozens of times, but the number of people with little or no land has also increased. Many people have been tricked into going into debt. Within the empire, more than half of the people are in debt."

"The empire's territory is almost the entire world, but the people's livelihood is prosperous on the surface, but a mess inside."

“People across the country are facing internal and external troubles.”

"War is imminent."

"Within three years, the Empire will be at war again."

Meng Tian was deeply worried about this and he was making the worst-case scenario plan for the empire.

"If we want to resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the internal situation. The situation is very urgent."

"Your Majesty is more anxious than the two of us. The reason why he set up this chess game is to raise money as quickly as possible to prepare for future wars in the empire."

"However, the empire has at least survived the most dangerous situation. Even though the people are now heavily in debt, they are not unable to afford food."

"However, if there is no new war to reshuffle the cards, the people of the empire will live more and more tense lives in the future. They may still be able to afford food today, but in three to five years, I'm afraid something terrible will happen."

Meng Yi looked at his elder brother. Now he understood why his elder brother was able to become the prime minister even though he did not have as many ideas as him.

It’s really that big brother has a broad vision and a broad mind, which I can never catch up with.

Half a month later, the brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi both left Xianyang City.

What's strange is that not long ago, Zhang Cang was sent to Nanyang County to reconfirm the land tax revenue... Because the people of Nanyang County are always making trouble, first robbing food, then looting military supplies, just relying on the fact that the emperor is far away and can't hurt them, so they do whatever they want.

The purpose of sending Zhang Cang, a civil servant, was to take these people's lives and their lands.

At one time, the three most important figures in Xianyang City who were related to economic power all left Xianyang.

Zhou Qingchen was originally still worried whether the emperor was setting a trap for him, but after Zhang Cang left and Meng Tian went to guard the tomb, Zhou Qingchen could no longer suppress himself.

He believed that Qin II really treated him as his own, so he naturally and completely let himself go.

As soon as Zhang Cang left Xianyang City, Zhou Qingchen hurriedly took over the task of collecting farmland taxes.

During this period, most of the smart people in Xianyang City kept silent...

The Left Prime Minister Feng Quji chose to stay indoors and compile classics with his followers; Wei Liao chose to revise his own Strategic Strategy at this time.

The treacherous ministers were all very happy. They hugged each other and celebrated the coming of a lawless day.

Qin II himself went to Yuzhen Palace in person. During the days when he was away from the palace, the city of Xianyang was in a mess.

Various small figures began to use Zhou Qingchen's disguise, claiming that they were Zhou Qingchen's disciples, or confidants.

For a while, there was a Zhou Qingchen fever in Xianyang City.

Not to mention the wealthy businessmen, everyone started to stand on Zhou Qingchen's side. In any case, those top wealthy businessmen were all praising Zhou Qingchen, saying that he was a rare clean and famous official.

Zhang Cang's son listened to these rumors and was extremely disgusted with Zhou Qingchen and his followers, and denounced them as all disciples who were in collusion with each other.

This made Zhang Cang's father-in-law very angry. He didn't expect that his beloved grandson would be such an ungrateful person.

On the other hand, at the end of Qin Shihuang's life, Qin Ershi ran to accompany him for the last part of his life.

In his later years, Qin Shihuang basically associated with these gods and sorcerers, refining elixirs, taking dew, cultivating qi, and so on. In the end, he became like an immortal.

In his later years, he became much thinner and more elegant.

If his mother saw this, she would definitely feel sorry for her strong son becoming so thin.

Qin II personally came to Yuzhen Palace, which alarmed many people for a while.

Qin Shi Huang himself was lying on the couch, and he actually felt that he didn't have much time left.

But I didn't expect that it would be so grand before death.

In the end, it did save some face in history.

Qin Shihuang and Qin Ershi discussed behind closed doors the issue of whether to retain or reject the fiefdoms of the empire in the future.

"If the closure of the country cannot be solved while you are alive, then it will be even more difficult to solve after you die."

"When it's time to kill, kill."

Fusu looked at this old man with a sage-like demeanor and sometimes felt strange. His appearance had been completely changed by being trapped in the cold palace. Fusu wanted to call him father, but he couldn't say it.

But looking at this father who would do anything to achieve his goal, he was pleasantly surprised. Because his father was dying, but he was still concerned about the empire, Fusu felt happy.

"Even if my father didn't say so, I would still do it."

"How do you plan to deal with those princes?"

"Well, let's take back the land first. I haven't made up my mind about those princes yet."

"Take them all to Xianyang City and let them guard my mausoleum. This is my last will and I have already thought it through."

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Thank you brothers. (End of this chapter)