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Chapter 83 Overlord Xiang Yu, an Unconventional Path
"Xiang Ji, the Xiang clan!"

"boom!"

The eunuchs and palace maids in the hall were so frightened that they trembled all over. They saw the First Emperor put his bowl of wild rice on the table in front of him.

An eunuch was about to step forward to clean up, but heard the emperor say, "Don't come over!"

He picked up the upside-down bowl and used chopsticks to sweep the wild rice on the table into the bowl: "Great Xiang Ji, great Xiang family!"

The anger in Qin Shi Huang's heart was difficult to calm down. Although he was a king, he was also a human being. How could he not be angry when he suddenly heard that his descendants were slaughtered?
But what can I say? Karma is a cycle.

In history, Qin Shihuang was not very kind to the royal families of the six kingdoms. Among the rulers of the six kingdoms, three were missing, three were killed, and King Jian of Qi was even starved to death.

It’s a pity that the people of Xianyang suffered.

The First Emperor quickly calmed down and asked, "Xiang Ji is the Xiang Yu?"

When he first saw the name Xiang Ji, Li Nian thought that he was Xiang Yu's elder like Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo. However, after checking, he found out that Xiang Ji was Xiang Yu.

Li Nian said: "Xiang Yu, surnamed Ji, clan Xiang, given name Ji, courtesy name Yu, from Xiaxiang County, Sishui Prefecture, grandson of Xiang Yan, a general of Chu."

"Grandson of Xiang Yan?"

There was a chill in Ying Zheng's eyes. He knew who Xiang Yan was, the general of the Chu State, the defeated general who was killed by Wang Jian. He never expected that this man's grandson would become the undertaker of the Qin Dynasty.

"Xiang Yu is a very brave man with double pupils in his eyes. He is known as the Overlord and can compete for the strongest general in Chinese history."

"Perhaps because of his extraordinary bravery and good family background, Xiang Yu had a rather flawed character. He was very different from Pei Gong and in many ways they were almost opposite."

The sentence "He is very different from Pei Gong and almost opposite in many aspects" made Ying Zheng roughly understand what kind of person Xiang Yu was.

Li Nian didn't have much good feelings towards Xiang Yu, the Overlord, but he wouldn't deliberately discredit him: "When Xiang Yu first started, he was 24 years old. His youngest grandfather was Xiang Liang and his oldest grandfather was Xiang Yan."

The First Emperor frowned and asked, "When did Xiang Yu first rise up?"

Li Nian replied: "The history records that it was the first year of the reign of Qin II, which was the year after the king passed away."

Only one year after his death, Xiang Yu rebelled. He definitely had the idea of ​​rebellion beforehand and was just waiting for an opportunity, and that opportunity was exactly the rebellion of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang that Li Nian had mentioned.

The First Emperor calculated in his mind. If what Li Nian said was true, then Xiang Yu would be only about ten years old at this time, still a child?

Li Nian continued: "When Xiang Yu was young, he failed to learn calligraphy and gave up. He also failed to learn swordsmanship. Xiang Liang was angry. Xiang Yu said: 'Calligraphy is only enough to remember names. Swordsmanship can only defeat one person, so it is not worth learning. I should learn to defeat ten thousand people.' So Xiang Liang taught Xiang Yu the art of war. Xiang Yu was very happy, but he only knew the idea and was unwilling to learn it."

While eating, the First Emperor commented expressionlessly: "Without perseverance, even if you succeed temporarily, you will eventually fail."

Li Nian said: "Your Majesty is right. In history, Xiang Yu and Pei Gong have both met Your Majesty, but their performances were completely different."

Have you two seen me?
This aroused the Qin Shi Huang's great interest!
He originally thought that it was after his death that Pei Gong and Xiang Yu rebelled, so he should have never met them, and they should have never seen him either.

"How different?"

Li Nian said: "When Pei Gong met the king, he came to Xianyang to participate in the corvée service. When he saw the king's imperial power, he sighed and said: 'Alas, a real man should be like this!'"

There is nothing wrong with this sentence, and it can even be regarded as praising the First Emperor. Of course, if we must nitpick the words, then there is definitely a problem: From what you said, you also want to be a "real man"?
The First Emperor was quite pleased to hear this, because Pei Gong was the emperor who founded the Han Dynasty, and his ambition to become an emperor actually originated from him.

Isn't this a different kind of praise for him?

But then, he felt that weird feeling in his heart again...

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system. The dragon robe and laws were copied from the Qin Dynasty. Even the founding monarch developed the ambition to be an emperor because of him.

The sense of déjà vu of being wronged once again surged into the Emperor's mind, even more so.

He now wanted to lift the neck of Pei Gong, who had become the Emperor of Han, and ask him: Do you Han people still have anything of your own? Without the Qin Dynasty, there would be no Han, right?
After cutting the big Han open, they found there was no Han at all inside, it was full of Qin!

Of course, this is just a joke. There are still big differences between the Han Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty. But it did not prevent the First Emperor from having this awkward feeling at this time: You Han people are really "inheriting" my Qin Dynasty.

After talking about Pei Gong’s reaction when he saw the First Emperor, Li Nian talked about Xiang Yu’s reaction when he saw the First Emperor.

"Xiang Yu met the king when he was touring Kuaiji and crossing the Zhejiang River. Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang were there to watch. Seeing the majestic scene of the king's trip, Xiang Yu said: 'He can be replaced.'"

The joy he had just felt from Pei Gong's words, "Alas, a real man should be like this!" suddenly disappeared without a trace. The First Emperor slapped the table in front of him and said, "What an arrogant boy!"

Xiang Yu's words in themselves were disrespectful to him, and when compared with Liu Bang's words, they seemed even more disrespectful.

What Liu Bang expressed was envy and desire, hoping that he could become an emperor like the First Emperor, but Xiang Yu’s “He can be replaced” was different, as it implied “I am better than that person” and “That person is just so-so, I can replace him”.

There is a sense of disdain for the First Emperor, and at the same time a sense of arrogance: The old First Emperor is just like this, and I, Xiang Yu, can replace him.

This is the art of speaking. Although Pei Gong also wanted to become an emperor, his words were tactful and made people feel comfortable, while Xiang Yu's words made people feel uncomfortable.

Xiang Yu sometimes did things that seemed to be thoughtless, such as killing Han Wangcheng and forcing Zhang Liang to become his mortal enemy, and cooking Wang Ling's mother and forcing Wang Ling to become his mortal enemy...

Wang Ling was the third prime minister of the Han Dynasty. He was also a member of the iron-blooded Pei Gong party and a filial son.

Since Wang Ling worked under Pei Gong, Xiang Yu "invited" Wang Ling's mother to come and try to persuade Wang Ling to surrender, but Wang Ling's mother refused and committed suicide by drawing her sword.

Wang Ling's mother was already dead. If Xiang Yu really had a plan to become an emperor, the best arrangement at this time would be to return Wang Ling's mother's body intact and to send an envoy to confess his guilt to Wang Ling.

Although the hatred between him and Wang Ling is still inevitable, at least it won't be that great.

The second option is not to return the body, but to give it a proper burial.

However, the Overlord was the Overlord. He was not a normal person and did not follow the usual path. He cooked the body of Wang Ling's mother.

Forced the mother to commit suicide, and even cooked her. This hatred is so...

Wang Ling was the third prime minister of the Han Dynasty after Xiao He and Cao Shen, which shows how capable he was.

Xiang Yu had a mortal enemy with him, so even if he surrendered at Gaixia, he would still be killed, because there were too many people on the Han side who had grudges against him.

Liu Taigong and Lu Zhi were once detained by Xiang Yu, who even threatened to cook Liu Taigong. How could Liu Bang and Liu Taigong not hate him? How could Lu Zhi not hate him?
(End of this chapter)