Diqin Designer

Chapter 253: Another member of the Daqin Listening Group

After the princes left, Ying Zheng told the other ministers to do what they were supposed to do and kept Li Nian, Meng Tian and Meng Yi.

Ying Zheng looked outside Zhangtai Palace. Seeing so many of his sons leave, even a man as resolute and strong as Qin Shi Huang felt a little upset. He asked, "Li Nian, can they really guard and govern the place for Daqin?"

Li Nian said: "Of course it can. I believe it can. This is an unprecedented event. Daqin will definitely be able to take a different path."

Ying Zheng nodded and said, "It's been a while since I heard you talk about future events. Why don't you tell me about it today?"

Meng Tian, ​​who was in the hall with him, was shocked. What were His Majesty and Master Li Nian talking about? What did they mean by future events?
But Meng Tian reacted quickly. Some things that he couldn't figure out before were now clear to him. No wonder Master Li Nian knew so much, no wonder His Majesty made those changes that were not in line with his previous temperament, no wonder his brother kept his mouth shut to him, no wonder His Majesty suddenly ordered them to take down the Xiang family, no wonder His Majesty invited those people to participate in the ceremony of proclaiming the emperor...

It all depends on the fact that Master Li Nian knows about future events, and Master Li Nian has informed Your Majesty of what will happen in the future.

But there were many things that made Meng Tian think terrified, such as why they wanted to capture the Xiang clan and exterminate all of them?
I'm afraid that in the future events that Master Li Nian talked about, the Xiang clan did something similar to what they did to the Qin Dynasty. Now it's just that Your Majesty knows the future in advance and takes the initiative.

Meng Tian's mind was working very quickly, and he had even determined that the existence of the Qin Dynasty might not last long, because His Majesty attached great importance to the double pupil of the Xiang family, and it was obviously the double pupil that caused great harm to the Qin Dynasty.

And the man with double pupils was more than ten years old when he was captured in Xianyang. If he wanted to pose a threat to the Qin Dynasty, he must have been in his twenties or thirties at the earliest, and in his forties or fifties at the latest. Doesn't that mean that the Qin Dynasty lasted only more than ten years at the shortest, and fifty years at the longest, and definitely no more than a hundred years.

Thinking more deeply, why could Xiang Shi's double pupils cause such great trauma to the Qin Dynasty, and even possibly enter Xianyang and massacre the Qin royal family? Where did they go at that time?

Even when Xiang Yu rebelled, he and his brother, old General Wang Jian, and General Wang Ben had all passed away, but there were still generals like Wang Li, Tu Sui, Zhao Tuo, and Prince Fusu. Was there no one to stop him?

If we think based on the shortest duration of the Qin Dynasty, he and his brother should still be alive. Why didn't they come out to help the Qin Dynasty stop the Xiang family from having double pupils?

Maybe it was the worst case scenario, that he and his brother had already died at that time, and it was not a normal death, but His Majesty kept him here today, obviously intending to tell him these things, which meant that his death had nothing to do with His Majesty.

That has nothing to do with Your Majesty. Who else in the Qin Dynasty would want them dead, and who could let them die? Apart from the successor of the Qin Dynasty, who else in the Qin Dynasty could kill the two brothers?
But the Meng family has always supported Prince Fusu as the crown prince. If Prince Fusu succeeds to the throne, they should not be sentenced to death.

Meng Tian gradually came up with an answer in his mind: there was something wrong with the successor of the Qin Dynasty, it was not Prince Fusu, he and Meng Yi were both killed by the successor. But which prince would kill them?

After going through all the princes in his mind, Meng Tian found that no one seemed to have the motive to kill their brothers, but through some operations of the First Emperor, he thought of one person: Prince Hu Hai!
If Prince Hu Hai became the successor, many problems could be explained. Prince Hu Hai was definitely not a legitimate successor, so he had to get rid of Prince Fusu. The Meng family was deeply involved with Prince Fusu, so of course they had to be eliminated. Just as Meng Tian was thinking, Ying Zheng's voice came: "Li Nian is not a person of the Qin Dynasty at this time, but from the era of 2,000 years later. We are ancient people to him, and the things we have experienced and some things that have not happened are history to him, just like we look at the people and things of the Xia and Shang dynasties."

This made Meng Tian even more shocked. Master Li Nian actually came from an era 2,000 years later. How far back was that era? How many generations did that take?
However, a strange idea came to his mind. Young Master Li Nian came from two thousand years later. Then, wouldn’t they be the ancestors of Young Master Li Nian? The same goes for Princess Shunying.

Your Majesty, if you marry Princess Shunying to Master Li Nian, isn't that like letting the descendants marry the ancestors? The generation gap is a bit big...

But this thought only flashed through Meng Tian's mind. He did not say it out loud. Instead, he was thinking about what the era would be like two thousand years later. It should be much better than the current Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng added: "You two brothers are my most trusted ministers. I will tell you about Li Nian's situation now. Do not let outsiders know."

Feeling the trust from Ying Zheng, Meng Tian immediately expressed his gratitude: "Thank you for your trust, Your Majesty. I will keep this a secret until my death!"

That's right, if she didn't trust him and his brother very much, how could she let him know such top secrets?
But this also confirmed Meng Tian's guess. In the history that should have happened, he and his brother did not have a good ending. That's why His Majesty thought that he and his brother were trustworthy and let him know about this matter instead of other people.

For example, Prime Minister Wang Wan, Vice Prime Minister Li Si, old General Wang Jian, Wei Liao, Feng Jie and his son, etc., were all meritorious ministers of the Qin Dynasty. Some of them even made greater contributions than the two brothers. Why didn't Your Majesty let them know, but let yourself?

It must be that their loyalty to His Majesty is not as strong as that of their brothers. However, Meng Tian is very curious about what General Wang Jian, Li Si, Wang Wan and others have done in history that made His Majesty unable to fully trust them and not select them into this team.

This also made Meng Tian feel a heavy pressure. After knowing this, he and his brother were purely ministers of the emperor. The advantage was that by joining this small group, his power would rise higher. The fewer people there were, the greater the power. It could be said that the direction of the Qin Dynasty would be determined by these people.

The real power he holds is greater than even that of Prime Minister Wang Wan, but the downside is that he will have many secrets that cannot be told to outsiders, and he cannot betray His Majesty, although he has never thought of betraying.

Looking at Meng Tian's serious face, Ying Zheng nodded with satisfaction. The reason why he chose Meng Tian was very simple: Meng Tian was capable, both civil and military, and loyal enough, unlike Wang Wan, Wang Jian, Li Si and others.

Although Wang Jian had made great contributions, he and his son Wang Ben actually retired. Wasn't it because they thought Wang Jian was intolerant and would kill them because of their great contributions?

In Ying Zheng's view, such behavior showed a lack of loyalty. As for Li Si and Zhao Gao, there was no need to mention them. Li Si was not loyal to him, but to power, and the same was true for Zhao Gao.

(End of this chapter)