It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 494: The fall of Qin will be caused by Chu, and the journey begins again

The first person to arrive was not Yin Tong, but Zhou Bo who brought people to the door.

"Where are Cao's mother and son?"

It was Li Xian who stepped forward and used his identity as Chen Bo to shield Xu Zhi from the questioning.

But he could never hide it from Ying Zheng.

During these ten days of visits, Ying Zheng discovered some abnormalities that he did not want to see.

The Chu land was prosperous, but many Chu people were lazy in behavior and had little interest in farming. If we talk about their occupations, we often see people making a living by fishing.

However, the fishermen he saw were different from what he had imagined. In this land with abundant water and grass, the fishermen had dark skin and worked hard, but they did not catch much fish.

Ying Zheng could not stay idle in Kuaiji, and most of his time was spent traveling.

Li Si worked very quickly. Within three days, he had reorganized the officials in Kuaiji.

There are a lot of things going on in Xianyang, and Xu Zhi doesn't know why her father hasn't gone back yet.

She was really suspicious of Liu Bang's disappearance, so she advised him to return to Xianyang as soon as possible.

Ying Zheng paused, then spoke earnestly.

Ying Zheng looked at her and told her a story that happened thirty years ago.

Her mother, Zheng Li, was imprisoned in Kuaiji by the King of Chu, and it was here that she lost all her memories of her time in Handan, Zhao State.

Ying Zheng was worried that the Chu witch would use the same trick again, so he asked her to return to Xianyang first.

Perhaps Ying Zheng was smiling at her, and he reached out his hand to ruffle her hair.

The relaxed and humorous tone of Xu Zhi's early years reappeared.

"Father, does this count as absenteeism?"

Ying Zheng listened and changed a book.

The lamp oil burned to the wick, making a crackling sound. Xu Zhi stood up and added more lamp oil.

Then she listened to Ying Zheng.

"As Hehua said in the past, just work overtime."

Xu Zhi was startled.

Ying Zheng looked at her surprised expression.

He smiled and said, "You used to go to the Imperial Court quite often. Then you took a carriage back to the palace after staying there for a short time. When people asked you why you came back so soon, you said that Li Si was always working overtime, and Li You and Li Xian were always on business trips. There was nothing fun there."

She didn't even need to think about it, this must be the secret that Meng Yi told her.

When she heard these words coming from Ying Zheng's mouth, she felt it was very strange and a little novel.

She became more and more knowledgeable, and Ying Zheng was influenced by her.

Ying Zheng hoped that she would go back and rest early, but he spoke naturally with his usual logic.

"Hehua, you must take good care of the mother and child you brought back."

Xu Zhi was stunned.

"Don't go back yet."

Under the candlelight, she heard the sound of bamboo scrolls and clearly saw the white hair on his temples. But he was only forty years old at this time, just in his forties.

He worked overtime by himself and did not call Li Si or Yao Jia.

And now, he wouldn't let Ying Hehua stay by his side and stay up late with him.

Ying Zheng’s method of driving people away was really... cliché.

Xu Zhi walked to the door and turned back.

"I'm not sleepy." She snorted softly, "Father. If Mother knew that I didn't even give you more lamp oil, she would definitely blame me."

Ying Zheng smiled and handed her a scroll filled with information about the harvest.

But this kind of thing was so complicated and confusing that Xu Zhi didn't want to read a single word. In addition to this, there was more of the situation in Chu, which was unimaginably strange. She wanted to go to Shouchun after meeting Liu Bang and others.

After she finished reading the volume in her hand, she rambled on and on, quoting many scriptures, until she came to the last sentence.

"So, father, this time I will..." not return to Xianyang.

The bamboo slips clattered onto the table.

Then, Ying Zheng just looked at her quietly.

The majestic gaze left her with no choice but to not dare to say the following words.

"Father..."

"You forgot something."

"My daughter remembers what she promised father. But father said he would give me ten days. So I dare to ask for your permission."

Ying Zheng looked at her. He didn't know since when, but whenever he showed any anger, she would kneel down as if by reflex.

"You said you were going to Chu, and you also mentioned Daze Township. I came to Kuaiji to investigate, but I saw that it was just a cover-up. How can this place guarantee your safety?"

"My safety is closely related to Xianyang. Father, the people of Chu are different from our Great Qin in every way. This is obvious to all. I know very well that after you annexed the world, you treated people from all countries equally and treated prisoners well without favoring one over the other. However, the people far away in the border areas do not believe that the war will not continue."

Ying Zheng looked at her. She was neither humble nor arrogant when she said these words.

However, when it comes to national affairs, he acts not as a kind father, but as an emperor.

"Go on." "It will take time for them to accept us." Xu Zhi took a deep breath and continued, "It's like Cao's mother and son."

She raised her head. "Cao's husband left Pei County during the destruction of the country and lost his trace. She crossed the border to look for him and accidentally violated Qin law. In the original Chu land, there were nobles who took unlimited benefits from the mountains and lakes. The king of Chu changed, and soon after the noble fell, another noble rose. It was normal for the people to be displaced. Therefore, Cao was lacking legal education and actually did not know that she had violated Qin law."

Ying Zheng didn't care at all who the mother and son of Cao were.

But Ying Zheng personally confirmed to Xu Zhi what those monarchs in "Zuo Zhuan" were like who listened to examples given by their ministers and were very good at summarizing.

"What He Hua said is similar to that of an old friend."

She knew that Ying Zheng was talking about Lu Buwei.

She didn't dare to touch the taboo, but she said, "Father, this is what I say from the bottom of my heart, there is absolutely nothing complicated."

"There are hundreds of schools of thought interweaving with each other. Would Xunzi be a good ending?"

Ying Zheng picked up the brush and ink rolled down the green bamboo skin.

Eight words: adapt to local conditions and proceed step by step.

The night was thick and Zhao Gao was standing at the door, looking as if he was about to fall asleep.

He said in a somewhat sarcastic tone, "Young Master is in such good spirits."

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Yes, we have to leave early tomorrow."

Looking at her, Zhao Gao was really furious.

But he quickly smiled back, "Then you need to conserve your energy."

Zhao Gao stared at Ying Hehua's back, waiting to see if the prophecy would be discovered by Ying Zheng and whether her father would believe that she had no selfish motives in insisting on staying in Chu.

Zhao Gao was confident that he knew Ying Zheng well enough.

Whenever the monarch has doubts, in order to eliminate this possibility, no matter whether you are a princess or a prince, there is only one way to go, and that is death.

Early the next morning

They walked to the top of the hill after the survey, and looking over there, they saw three or five Chu people sowing rice seeds in the shallow mud.

These Chu people spoke the difficult-to-understand Chu dialect, and only Li Si and his sons could understand it.

Ying Zheng didn't need to say anything, Li Si was already repeating it in a low voice beside him.

After saying a few words, Ying Zheng stopped and looked back, only to see that his daughter was indeed wearing her 'dandy' attire again.

She had her hair tied in a man's bun, waved a whip in her hand, sat in a donkey cart, and chatted and laughed with Li Si's son.

If Li Xian knew that Ying Zheng had such a misunderstanding, he wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry.

She told him that she could not wait for ten days and ordered him to invite Liu Bang to her within five days.

He said frankly that he couldn't do it.

She threatened him shamelessly, "If the emperor knew that Han Xin's appearance was planned by you."

He stared at her and said happily: Then I can only say that the princess has contributed to many things of Xunzi and others.

She smiled and poked his heart: How could you hide it? Haven't you done a great job in Chu for so many years?

He used the strategy of Bihe to make Chu abandon Han and secretly killed the witches in Chu. These were all things that should not be seen in public.

She became hideous just to achieve her goal.

However, even though she was so hateful, so heartless, and so cold-blooded, he could see the sincerity in her words.

Every time she showed him that he had no other choice, she expressed her threats and inducements accurately every time.

Like now, she tightened the rope in her hand, crossed over the brown-gray donkey, and said with a smile.

"It's not that you can't do it, you just don't want to. But if you keep making excuses, then I'll have to take some extreme measures."

"Then please do as you please, Princess."

Li Xian's collar was grabbed.

"If I tell Meng Tian everything you said to me in Changle Palace, he will probably regret not listening to Meng Ao."

"From what Brother Tian thinks, he would probably think that the princess is unreasonable and doesn't know how to help others."

Xu Zhi was about to speak when he heard a voice of Chu Yan.

"Master, you have come from afar. Would you like to take a look at this fish? Blackhead fish is abundant in Kuaiji County. The meat is delicious, white, soft and chewy. If you are on the way, you must try it."

Ying Zheng felt happy and puzzled when he saw Li Xian being left behind by Ying Hehua.

Naturally, he didn't want his daughter to like someone outside the Qin State, so he gave Li Xian a chance very early on. However, Ying Zheng had never seen such a stupid young man when it came to matters between men and women.

For nearly a decade, there has been no progress.

But then I thought, his father is Li Si.

Ying Zheng thought all this was reasonable.

Li Si's wife accompanied him during his frustrated youth, and hated him for several years when he was away from home. Finally, she died of illness on the eve of his journey to Zhuangkang.

After Li Si's first wife died, he never remarried, as if he could live the rest of his life holding a cat.

He never told anyone other than Ying Zheng the specific origin of the cat in his house.

Li Si said in a few words that he raised the cat with his wife in Shangcai before he went to Lanling Academy.

Ying Zheng asked people to stop for a moment, and Yao Jia was so frightened that he hurried forward.

"Let Hehua get in the car."