Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 447
The First Emperor slowly opened the cloth bag and took out Ziying's memorial.

As soon as he took out the memorial, Ying Zheng suddenly found that there seemed to be other things in the cloth bag.

He reached out and took it again, but this time he took out a jade pendant from the cloth bag.

Upon seeing this jade pendant, Ying Zheng immediately fell into deep thought.

Zhao Gao looked at it, and immediately remembered the origin of this jade pendant.

The decorations on the jade pendant were only used by the kings of Qin in the past dynasties. Later, as Ying Zheng proclaimed the emperor, they became the emperor's imperial decorations.

If it is said that there is only one jade pendant with such decorations that is not in the Qin Palace, it is the one in Ziying's hand.

As a close minister of the first emperor, he also knew how Ziying asked the first emperor for admonishment.

"How difficult it is for your Majesty to make a promise. There is only this one in the world. The King of Qin is willing to use him for matters such as returning from South Vietnam." Looking at Ying Zheng who was caught in memory, Zhao Gao slowly Said slowly.

These days, Ziying has written many letters to the First Emperor. Apart from introducing the current situation in South Vietnam, the content is all asking to return to Xianyang for various reasons, but the First Emperor rejected them one by one.

When Zhao Gao saw this jade pendant, his first reaction was that King Qin's return to Xianyang might be a certainty.

It can be said that Zhao Gao is more familiar with Yingzheng's temper than anyone else, and there is absolutely no reason to take back what he said. Since he made a promise to Ziying that kid back then, as long as the request is not too outrageous, he will definitely agree to it.

"It seems that I have to restrain myself in the future." Zhao Gao thought to himself.

"What's so good about Xianyang, it's just a bigger cage." After listening to Zhao Gao's words, Ying Zheng also remembered his promise back then, and opened Ziying's letter while talking.

However, when his eyes saw the words on the bamboo slips, his expression suddenly froze.

After looking at it for a while, he rubbed the jade pendant in his hand in a daze.

Ziying's letter was spread out on the table, seeing the expression on Shi Huang's face, Zhao Gao moved two steps sideways in curiosity, and sneaked a glance at the memorial.

Due to the blocking of the first emperor in front, Zhao Gao could only see the two lines on the side above, but only the two lines of the previous text made Zhao Gao feel as if he was struck by thunder.

"King Qin is asking for a crown prince!"

Although Yingzheng has more than 20 children, he has never established a prince.

Now as the first emperor is getting older, it is not that no one wrote to suggest that the first emperor should establish a prince in advance, but they were all severely reprimanded by the first emperor.

In the past few years, as the first emperor became more irritable, no one dared to bring up this topic again.

As the closest eunuch of the first emperor, Zhao Gao naturally knew more reasons. When he was young, it might be because the first emperor was in his prime and there was no need to establish a prince.

Now it is entirely because the first emperor believes that before he dies, he will be able to find the medicine of immortality or get the enlightenment of the immortal, so he can still rule the world for a long time.

Not setting up a prince is also a little confidence that the first emperor gave himself. He believed that he would not die like others.

According to Zhao Gao's understanding of the emperor's character, anyone who dared to bring up this topic would have been angry long ago.

What frightened Zhao Gao was that after reading Ziying's memorial, Shi Huang just fell into deep thought without expressing anything else.

Zhao Gaotong was familiar with Yingzheng's expression. Whenever he encountered a difficult decision, Yingzheng would have such an expression.

The first emperor was moved by Ziying's memorial!

He also has his own thoughts about the second emperor Zhao Gao, and there is his disciple-Hu Hai.

Moreover, in these years, Zhao Gao has already begun to lay a lot of groundwork for Hu Hai. Those who have nothing to do on weekdays will take advantage of his constant companionship to subtly convey some of Hu Hai's outstanding performances to the first emperor.

Because if the second emperor who succeeds to the throne is not Hu Hai, Zhao Gao will definitely die without a place to bury him. It is not that he has never contacted Fusu who is the most likely successor, but he was shut at the door of Fusu's mansion.

Through some channels, Zhao Gao even heard Fusu once said: "If there is an opportunity in the future, Zhao Gao will be punished as a traitor." Such words.

He, Zhao Gao, doesn't have much friendship with the other princes, he doesn't think they will spare him if they succeed to the throne. It is well known that he and the King of Qin are at odds. In order to win over Ziying, the first one will cut off his own head and give it to Ziying.

Therefore, only the disciple Hu Hai who obeyed his words succeeded to the throne and could save his life and his current status.

Ziying proposed to the first emperor to establish a prince, and the candidate would certainly not be his young disciple Hu Hai, and no one except Hu Hai was the result he hoped to see.

Whether Ziying's words had great power in Shihuang's heart, or whether Yingzheng took the promise represented by this jade pendant very seriously, it didn't matter, the important thing was that Zhao Gao was about to die.

What Zhao Gao didn't know was that what really moved Yingzheng was not Ziying's status, nor the jade pendant, but the words Ziying wrote at the end of the letter:
"I heard that the ancient holy emperor rode away on the dragon after becoming a fairy, and did not stay in the world for a moment, but his descendants succeeded to the throne. The current emperor has made great achievements in the world, which is no less than the ancient holy emperor. I thought, so the gods It didn't show up, because the heirs of the Great Qin Dynasty have not yet been established, and the gods think that the emperor's heart is still unbroken, so they don't come to welcome him."

(End of this chapter)