I am already immortal, why should I ascend to become an immortal?

Chapter 351: The People Are Stupid

Fear of father for many years.

Not to mention being so blunt and contradictory like today, I normally wouldn't even dare to think of offending you in my heart.

These words just said had exhausted all of Prince Su's strength and courage.

And after coming to my senses.

Prince Su's face turned pale, his legs trembled, and he suddenly collapsed.

Thump~
"Father, I am punished!"

Kneeling on the ground with his knees and head lowered, Prince Su was ready to accept the punishment before Ying Lou even opened his mouth.

It was snowing heavily and very cold, but the sweat that broke out from my body soaked my underwear in an instant.

It even dripped down the tip of the nose and cheeks and onto the floor tiles.

Hey~
"Get up, and make me a cup of tea, with some ginger and dogwood in it."

Ying Lou took a step forward and patted "Su" on the shoulder.

The tone was calm and there was no anger.

"As you command, my son."

After stammering a reply, Prince Su forced himself to walk back into the house with unsteady steps, supporting his trembling calves.

Then he carefully picked up the teapot on the stove and put in the tea leaves, ginger and dogwood on the table.

"Although he is afraid of me, he dares to speak out for the sake of the people of Qin. He can be a ruler who governs the world, but..."

Ying Lou looked at Prince Su's back and sighed softly.

Before he finished the second half of the sentence, he turned around and looked at the snow-white city of Xianyang.

Not a moment.

Prince Su came over respectfully with a cup of hot tea in both hands.

"Drink it. It's cold. Keep warm."

Ying Lou did not take the teacup, but turned his back to "Su" and spoke.

"Father, is this for your son?"

Prince Su asked in a low voice in disbelief.

Twenty years.

This seemed to be the first time I heard that my father cared about me.

"Drink it. As the crown prince of the Great Qin, how can you be so submissive?"

Feeling that Ying Lou's voice was a little unhappy, Prince Su forgot the temperature of the tea for a moment and drank it in one gulp.

The boiling hot tea, with ginger and cornus officinalis, is refreshing.

The body, which had just been wet with sweat and gradually became cold, quickly returned to its original temperature.

"Come forward."

Ying Lou waved his hand, called "Su" to his side, and continued.

"I ask you, what is the most important thing for the emperor of Daqin?"

"The most important thing is the country and the people."

Su thought about it and came up with these two conclusions without any mistakes.

"If one day, the Qin Empire was plundered and the people were murdered, what would you do?"

Ying Lou continued to ask.

"Kill those who dare to harm the Qin Dynasty! Kill those who harm the people of the Qin Dynasty!"

The low sound seemed to blow away the falling snow.

Hearing his son's unhesitating answer, Ying Lou's calm mouth corners finally raised slightly.

"I ask again, what if this person who plundered the Qin Empire, made the people his food, and killed them, is the inviolable and unblasphemous God in your heart?"

"Father, God has blessed the universe and spread fire to the darkness. How could they..."

"Su" opened his eyes wide with a look of panic, as if he had heard the most ridiculous remarks in the world.

"Shut up and answer my question!"

Ying Lou's scolding made Prince Su frightened again.

"My son."

"Su" lowered his head, not knowing how to answer.

God created mortals, brought fire to the darkness, enlightened the ignorant, and sprinkled nectar on the wasteland.
The laws of nature cannot be violated.

Even the Son of Heaven and the Emperor are under Heaven.

This is the conclusion of all the sages throughout the ages.

What he had learned and known in the previous twenty years now became shackles that imprisoned Su's thinking.

"Answer my question!"

Ying Lou's eyes were cold and majestic as he stared at the Prince Su of the Qin State in front of him.

He wants an answer.

A real answer.

"Su" looked struggling, with his hands tightly grasping the corners of his clothes, but then slowly let go.

His eyes went from confused and cloudy to clear and determined.

After a long time.

The blizzard suddenly stopped and a ray of sunshine fell from the sky.

"Su" suddenly straightened his spine, and there was no longer any confusion in his eyes.

"Heaven is unkind, the Qin will take its place."

This is the final answer given by the Crown Prince of Qin.

"As expected of my son."

Ying Lou smiled.

At this moment, he was very satisfied with his son.

But then, Ying Lou continued, "Starting tomorrow, you will handle government affairs with Li Si and Luo Yang. Learn well and do well."

He is clearly in the prime of his life, like the sun at its zenith.

But Ying Lou's words made Prince Su hear a different feeling.

"I will definitely live up to your expectations, father."

"Come on, follow me to bask in the sunshine of my Great Qin."

The dragon robe rustled as Ying Lou walked step by step along the steps of the imperial road towards the open space under the sleeping palace.

"Father, I have something else to say, but I don't know if I should say it or not."

"explain."

After breaking the shackles that imprisoned his thoughts, Prince Su began to talk more.

"Although I don't know what you are doing by building the Great Wall and digging the river to divert water, I know that everything you do is for the Qin Dynasty and for the people."

"But now the world is full of criticism and there seems to be a rudimentary uprising among the people. The people don't know how hard your conscience is. I think it would be better to announce the existence of the 'enemy' to the world and tell the people that there will be such an unprecedented war."

"In this way, just like when the Three Kingdoms came to Hangu Pass and the barbarians in the Western Regions invaded, the ruler and people of the Qin Dynasty will be united, which will reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles."

After all, he is still young and doesn’t know much about Jiufang Tiangong.

Prince Su did not think deeply about what he said.

Although the barbarians and the six kingdoms were also enemies of the Qin Dynasty in the past, there was a world of difference between the three.

"Although the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the people were mostly stubborn and ignorant. Not to mention the prosperous times, whenever the world was in chaos, most people believed in heaven but not the country."

"If one day, I lead the soldiers of the Great Qin to leave their homeland and attack the heavens, and some clever and unscrupulous people use the banner that the Great Qin is against the way of heaven to raise an army to rebel, do you think that only a few people will respond?"

"Moreover, if the people knew in advance that they were about to face a disaster that had not yet occurred, I am afraid that the ruler and the people would not be of one mind, but would each have their own agenda."

Although, logically speaking, even if Ying Lou had been hiding the truth from the people, they would know it sooner or later when the Jiufang Heavenly Palace came into being.

I don’t know what Ying Lou’s intention is in making these remarks.

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Prince Su was silent for a long time, thinking about these words.

"The people are mostly stubborn and stupid!", "Whenever the world is in chaos, most people trust God but not the country!"

These two sentences have never been mentioned in any of the classics.

Especially in the Confucian scholarship that he had studied in depth, which is centered on "benevolence" and "propriety and righteousness", he would never say something like "most of the people are stubborn and stupid."

Think about it now.

Perhaps those ancient saints knew what was going on.

However, in order not to arouse public resentment and anger and to avoid selfish motives, the deeper meaning was not made public.

"Father, I understand. But Father, you are doing this for the sake of the Qin Empire and the people, yet you have to bear this responsibility..."

Su did not utter the word "bad reputation".

He knew that in the present-day Qin Dynasty, everyone was talking about the tyranny of the First Emperor, who disregarded the lives of the people and conscripted laborers on a large scale to build the useless Great Wall.

At this moment, Prince Su actually felt sorry for Ying Lou.

"The previous king once told me that to bear the disgrace of the country is to be the master of the country, and to bear the misfortune of the country is to be the king of the world. Although the emperor is at the top, while enjoying the glory of the country, he must also bear the darkness on the other side."

"I will teach you one more thing. An emperor should not harbor selfish motives and should regard the country and the people as his own responsibility. As for whether he will be infamous or famous thousands of years later, it does not matter. As long as the Great Qin is safe, what does it matter if I am cursed by future generations?"

Ying Lou, standing in the white snow, was enveloped by a ray of sunlight that pierced the clouds in the sky. At this moment, in Su's eyes, his father's back seemed to be much taller.

The fourteenth year of Emperor Qin Shihuang's reign.

The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Ying Lou, handed over the power of the government to four people: Li Si, Luoyang, Feng Jie, and Crown Prince Su.

Although Xiao Luoyang was also among them, she rarely participated in the parliament and only held a decision-making title.

Ying Lou himself was either resting in his bedroom or reading in the Lanshu Tower.

Until half a year later.

On a summer night in June.

Inside the Afang Palace, a huge white dragon with its claws stepping on flaming clouds and shining with silver light was seen pulling a black carriage into the sky.

Some sharp-eyed palace maids and eunuchs saw through the windows of the carriage the great Qin Shi Huang sitting inside.

And since this day.

Ying Lou never appeared in the palace again.

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Late June.

It is also near Daliang, the former capital of the Wei State.

Because the heat is unbearable.

Nearly 50,000 laborers who were building the Great Wall near Taihang Mountains died.

Most of them were slaves who had no access to water.

For a while.

The people are complaining.

The slaves who were brought back from the Western Regions, Northern Di, and the Maurya Empire were the first to revolt.

The slogan is still to overthrow the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty.

As the slaves rebelled, some laborers recruited from all over the Qin Dynasty also joined them.

At one time there were tens of thousands of people.

In addition, the troops stationed nearby were limited and they were outnumbered.

In less than ten days.

The number of rebel soldiers increased day by day.

And they were led by two men named Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

They actually occupied a part of the Taihang Mountains and declared the establishment of a country.

The country was named "Zhang Chu".

Chen Sheng was elected king.

"Generals and ministers have no particular breed, and heroes do not ask where they came from!"

"The King of Qin is now cruel and does not follow the Way of Heaven. The Central Plains has suffered from Qin for a long time. Please follow me to punish the tyrannical Qin and overthrow the tyranny of Ying Lou!"

On the Taihang Mountains, Chen Sheng stood on the top.

He waved his arm, and the crowd below responded with a roar.

"Fight the unjust and punish the Qin Dynasty!"

"Fight the unjust and punish the Qin Dynasty!"

"Fight the unjust and punish the Qin Dynasty!"

The passionate voices grew louder and louder, causing the Qin troops who had rushed down the mountain to suppress them to stare in anger.

but.

Suddenly.

On the Taihang Mountains.

Dark clouds are approaching.

A second ago, it was still scorching hot.

At this moment, there was a slight chill in the air.

It seems like raindrops are falling.

"Everyone, please look, this is the immortal in heaven, responding to this king."

"Fight the unjust and punish the tyrannical Qin. Follow me in rising up in rebellion, obey the will of heaven, and overthrow the rule of the tyrant Ying Lou."

Chen Sheng was worthy of being the first man who dared to proclaim himself king after the Qin Dynasty unified the world.

Originally, the temperature suddenly dropped and rain moistened the earth.

These scattered soldiers who were assembled in a short period of time are very likely to turn against their own side and return to the arms of the Qin Dynasty.

However, Chen Sheng's words ignited the fire in the hearts of these people.

Everyone fantasized about being granted a title of nobility and appointed as prime minister after overthrowing the Qin Dynasty.

"Destroy the unjust, punish the tyrannical Qin, King Chen Sheng of Chu, the common ruler of the world"

Chen Sheng, standing on a high place, finally felt relieved when he saw the people below him getting so excited.

"Everyone, after we enter Xianyang, you will all be princes and dukes."

suddenly.

Chen Sheng had not yet finished speaking.

In the dark clouds above his head.

A pillar of lightning as thick as a century-old tree struck down with a loud bang.

The vibration made everyone's eardrums buzz and feel extremely painful.

And as the lightning column disappeared.

I saw rocks collapsing and black smoke rising.

The area around the mountain peak was charred black.

Chen Sheng, who had been king for less than an incense stick of time, died without leaving even a trace.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, he was struck by lightning. He has angered the heavens. We should not rebel against Qin. We should not rebel against Qin."

The group of people closest to the mountain were so frightened that their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

His knees went weak and he fell to the ground, kowtowing and begging for forgiveness from God and the First Emperor.

And just then.

I saw a circular gap a hundred feet long in the sky that was dyed black by dark clouds.

The golden sunlight was like a flood that broke through a dam.

Shoot straight down through the gap.

It transformed into a golden beam of light that reached the sky and the earth.

The dragon's roar echoed.

Followed by.

I saw a giant white dragon swimming in a winding manner and slowly flying down from the column of light.

Behind the giant dragon, there was a black carriage.

There was a big word "Qin" printed on the flag on the roof of the car.

"Boy, are you sure you want to be so ostentatious?"

Bai Longju rolled his eyes upwards and asked Ying Lou who was in the car.

"If the people of the Great Qin must believe in the existence of an immortal in heaven, then this immortal can only be me."

Ying Lou pulled open the car curtain and looked at the rebels below.

Just this one glance was enough to make these rebellious laborers and slaves feel frightened, dizzy, and their calves tremble.

Subsequently.

Ying Lou crouched down and walked out of the car.

Stepping on the huge body of the white dragon colt, move to the top of the mountain.

Walking towards the densely packed rebel army not far away.

"He, he, he is."

Wu Guang, who had seen Ying Lou from afar in Xianyang, pointed his finger forward.

However, his fingers were shaking and his words were stuttering, so he couldn't finish the second half of the sentence.

"Are you going to rebel against Qin and resist me?"

Every time Ying Lou took a step forward, this group of people would subconsciously take a step back.

However, due to the large number of people, it was a little difficult to move.

"Your Majesty, the First Emperor, I dare not!"

"We were just unintentionally led astray because of the unbearable heat and lack of water, and we had no way to survive. Please forgive us, Your Majesty."

Wu Guang, who had recovered from his shock, quickly knelt on his knees and said with his head down.

The others who heard this were all shocked.

He just stood there with his mouth open, unable to close, stupidly, not knowing what to do.

"In that case, today, I will bring down sweet rain to the hot summer places within the Great Qin territory."

Ying Lou lowered his head and looked ahead, then spoke.

(End of this chapter)