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Chapter 55: Hu Hai, born a bad seed, no hope of salvation

"Prince Fusu is a firm believer in benevolent governance, so the king will find a place for him to live and let him use his understanding of benevolent governance to bring about change."

"When you are not in the position, it is easy to point fingers at others. You always think you can do it if you are in their shoes. But when you really put yourself in their shoes, you will understand that things are not as easy as they think. If they are in their shoes, they will not be able to do it."

“People cannot teach people, but things can teach people, and they will learn once they are taught.”

Ying Zheng nodded and agreed deeply. He had also gone through many things to become as mature as he is today.

Li Nian recalled a movie she had seen, in which a wealthy father built a small town and hired a group of actors to make his son mistakenly believe that he had traveled back to the Middle Ages in order to change his spoiled son. The First Emperor could have done the same.

Then, he added: "If the king is willing, you can arrange for people to create a specific environment for Prince Fusu."

Ying Zheng glanced at Li Nian. He understood what Li Nian meant. He wanted him to create a special environment for Fusu to achieve the changes he wanted.

"Other gentlemen can also follow this method. There are sayings in later generations, 'What you learn from books is shallow, and you must practice it to know it thoroughly' and 'Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles', which is exactly what this means."

"What you learn from books is always shallow. You must practice it yourself to know it well. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles..."

Ying Zheng repeated these two sentences, and then asked Li Nian a question: "Do you think Hu Hai can change?"

After asking this question, Meng Yi felt that the hall had become much colder. The eunuchs who were copying records wanted to bury their heads in the bamboo slips.

Is this something they can listen to?

Li Nian also paused. This question is very tricky and hard to answer.

Because this question is actually what Qin Shi Huang was asking: How do you think we should deal with Hu Hai?

Just say that Hu Hai is a hopeless villain and let the First Emperor issue an order to kill Hu Hai. This is suspected of provoking family affection, alienating father and son, and causing the father to harm the son.

But Li Nian was unwilling to say good things about Hu Hai. He had exposed so much negative information about Hu Hai before. If Hu Hai got the chance to get to the top, it would be strange if he didn't kill him.

Li Nian had thought about this question a long time ago, and he replied: "I think it is difficult to change Master Hu Hai!"

After answering this, Li Nian gave his reasons: "I once told the king that people are neither good nor evil at birth. The difference between good and evil is determined by the influences they receive after birth. In fact, this is true for the vast majority of people. There are very few people who are born more likely to do evil than others."

"In later generations, there was a science called biology, which studied humans, cows, horses, dogs and many other lives. It was discovered that our birth, growth and aging are determined by a substance called 'gene'. Men's genes are XY, and women's genes are XX..."

Knowing that it was difficult for the First Emperor to understand, Li Nian thought for a moment and said, "To explain it in terms of the Taoist Yin and Yang, a normal man has Yin and Yang energy, and a normal woman has Yin and Yin energy. Your Majesty, the Taoist Yin and Yang theory is not like this. I am just using it as an example."

Taoism is really a good thing. Although the theory of chaos, yin and yang, two principles and three talents was proposed in the pre-Qin period, it can explain some problems of later generations.

I don’t know how Lao Tzu and other Taoist sages came up with this idea?

Was it just an accidental guess, or was there some unknown reason?
Ying Zheng nodded, indicating that he understood. Li Nian continued, "When a man and a woman come together to raise children, it means that the man and the woman separate parts of their own energy and combine them, but women can only separate Yin energy."

"If the female's yin energy combines with the male's yang energy, a son will be born. If the female's yin energy combines with the male's yin energy, a daughter will be born."

Meng Yi, who had been silent, spoke up at this time: "Doesn't it mean that whether you have a son or a daughter depends not on the woman, but on the man? Many people blame their wives for not being able to have a son, but they are wrong?" Li Nian nodded and said: "Yes, whether you have a son or a daughter depends entirely on the man, the chances are the same."

Meng Yi sighed, "But people in this world don't understand. I don't know how many women have been bullied by their husbands or even died because they couldn't give birth to children."

"General Meng, please don't distort my words. I was proving to the First Emperor that Hu Hai was a born bad guy and there was no hope for him. You dragged me into the topic of having a baby."

Li Nian muttered inwardly and decided to correct the topic that had gone off track.

"But sometimes the combination of male and female yin and yang can cause problems. For example, if another yang is separated from the existing yang, the resulting person will no longer be a combination of yin and yang, but a combination of yin and yang, with yang being at its most extreme!"

"Because he was born with an extra Yang energy than the average person, this person is different from the average person and is more likely to do evil than the average person. This is determined by his innate nature and cannot be changed later!"

Ying Zheng understood now and frowned, "You mean Hu Hai is more likely to go astray and do evil than others? But why didn't I see that Hu Hai has the potential to do evil?"

Li Nian said: "Although they have more Yang energy than ordinary people, these people are born with normal appearance and normal intelligence. They naturally know how to avoid danger and seek good fortune, and know how to benefit themselves. But at certain times, they will also reveal some traces."

Hu Hai's cruelty was definitely not developed overnight after he ascended the throne. There must have been signs of it before, but he was just good at pretending to be a good boy in front of the First Emperor.

Hearing "sometimes, they will show some traces", Ying Zheng's pupils shrank slightly.

After Li Nian first said that Hu Hai was the cause of the death of the Second Emperor of Qin, he ordered people to secretly monitor Hu Hai and investigate the eunuchs and palace maids around Hu Hai.

According to the investigation results submitted to him, there seemed to be nothing unusual about Hu Hai. He was very well-behaved and respectful to him, and was also very nice to the eunuchs and palace maids who served him.

But one thing was mentioned in the investigation: Hu Hai arrested and killed Bin Que.

The specific method of killing Binque is unknown, but according to the palace maid who buried Binque's body for Hu Hai, those Binque seemed to have incomplete limbs.

When seeing this, Ying Zheng wondered if this was a sign from Hu Hai?

Because according to the history told by Li Nian, when Hu Hai slaughtered his daughters, he used crucifixion - a torture of dismembering limbs.

Now Li Nian's words aroused Ying Zheng's idea again, forcing him to think that Hu Hai might really be a born bad guy, a cruel person since childhood.

Li Nian didn't know that the First Emperor was investigating and monitoring Hu Hai, and his words accidentally touched the First Emperor's heart.

Coming back to his senses from his thoughts, the First Emperor did not want to beat around the bush and asked directly: "If it is really as you said, how do you think Hu Hai should be dealt with?"

Li Nian, who was known as an "honest man" who "would never lie" in front of the First Emperor, hesitated for a moment and then expressed his thoughts.

After all, the character is here, and the collapse of the character may be more fatal than telling the truth.

"In my opinion, it is natural to kill Prince Hu Hai to eliminate future troubles. Your Majesty may want to change Prince Hu Hai and prevent him from becoming the second emperor of Qin recorded in history books, but can Your Majesty ensure that Prince Hu Hai will be successfully changed? Can you ensure that Prince Hu Hai will not cause trouble for the Qin Dynasty after your death?"

　This book does not write about the protagonist teaching Hu Hai, correcting and changing Hu Hai.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)