To the First Emperor of Qin: The state has decreed this!

Chapter 25 Ying Zheng is dumbfounded

Instantly.

The entire 749th Bureau instantly sprang into action.

A staff member responsible for taking notes typed rapidly on the keyboard, muttering to himself:

"Emergency Incident Log: Comrade Zhang Fan is currently conducting ideological intervention against Fusu!"

The research topic is a debate between benevolent rulers and hegemonic rulers, and the intervention method is modern online voting...

In no time at all.

One staff member reported to the leader:

"Report! Page views have exceeded 100,000! Number of voters has exceeded 20,000!"

Upon hearing this...

Zhang Fan immediately hung up the phone and handed it to Fu Su.

"Your Highness, look! This is the will of the people."

Fusu took the phone with trembling hands, and the first thing he saw was the voting results.

Option A: 2%.

Option B: 98%!

An overwhelming victory!

Fusu's mind went blank for a moment before he could react.

Comments kept scrolling down below the phone.

Zhang Fan turned his head to look at the screen and read out the comments one by one.

"Is there even a choice? Of course, choose B! Get lost, you sanctimonious saint!"

"To have 30% of the population starve to death and call that the right way? That's idiotic! That's treating human life like dirt!"

"Good riddance! Those profiteers who hoard goods deserve to die! Those domineering officials are just wishful thinking!"

"A is a complete waste of space. He's been talking about rules until he's killed. What's the point of rules anyway?"

"Support B! Whoever lets me live, I'll support them! It's that simple!"

boom!!!!

Listen to these blunt and crude words!

Fusu was struck dumb, and his phone fell to the ground with a "thud"!

He opened his mouth, wanting to refute, wanting to defend himself!

I want to say that those people don't understand what etiquette is, and they don't know the value of virtue.

But look at that cold "99%"!

Look at those words, "Let me live!"

He couldn't utter a single word.

He always firmly believed in and fought for the benevolent and virtuous way of kingship!

Two thousand years later, it was despised to be worthless!

He was completely dumbfounded!

……

Meanwhile, inside the attic.

Ying Zheng listened to the comments that Zhang Fan read aloud.

He was stunned for a moment!

immediately!

An unprecedented feeling of comfort surged through my body like an electric current!

"Good! Well said! Hahahaha!"

Ying Zheng clenched his fist and growled in a low voice, suppressing his emotions.

His face was filled with ecstasy and... a sense of exhilaration at being understood!

"I'll support whoever lets me live! That's the will of the people!"

"This is the true voice of all people under heaven!"

"Fusu! Did you hear me?"

"The etiquette and rules you speak of are worthless compared to the hunger of the common people!"

He lived a life of tyranny, and how much infamy did he bear?

He was condemned as a tyrant by Confucian scholars across the land!

Even his own son couldn't understand him!

But today!

These public opinions from two thousand years later gave him the highest affirmation!

At that moment, Ying Zheng felt all the resentment that had been building up in his chest for years vanish!

Feels so good!

An unprecedented level of comfort!

I am not alone!

Li Si, standing beside Ying Zheng, had the completely opposite reaction!

He listened to those comments, his face turned deathly pale, and his back was instantly soaked with cold sweat!

terror!

so horrible!

He wasn't afraid of the comments themselves, but rather of the power they represented!

"Public opinion...is this the public opinion the Immortal Master speaks of?"

"Vulgar and crude, yet... it strikes right at the heart!"

"This celestial artifact can actually gather the hearts and minds of the entire world in an instant, creating an overwhelming force!"

Li Si was trembling all over!

This is something far more terrifying than any political maneuver or military strategy!

A power that can instantly overturn everything!

"Zhang Fan... if he wanted to destroy someone, he only needed a single thought!"

"If he wanted to undermine the foundation of the nation, it would only take him a moment!"

This moment.

Looking at the young figure on the ridge of the field, Li Si felt nothing but endless awe and fear.

This person... should never be made an enemy!

……

Dead silence.

There was a long, deathly silence on the ridge between the fields.

Fusu stood there blankly, like a stone statue.

Ying Zheng and Li Si, who were in the attic, held their breath, waiting for his reaction.

For a long, long time.

Fusu slowly raised his head!

But his gaze was no longer lost; instead, it became exceptionally complex.

He first gave Zhang Fan a deep look!

Then, he suddenly turned towards the direction of Ying Zheng's palace, his knees buckled, and he knelt down heavily!

"Father!"

Fusu's voice was hoarse.

"It was I... who was wrong!"

boom!

This sound was like a thunderclap from the heavens, striking hard into the hearts of Ying Zheng and Li Si!

Fusu did not stop; he kowtowed heavily and continued:

"Only today do I realize that Father Emperor's tyrannical methods, which have earned him eternal infamy, are not for his own selfish gain, but for the sake of all living beings!"

"Your Majesty, I have only spoken of benevolence and righteousness, and have not understood the suffering of the people. I have almost ruined the country and its people! Your Majesty... understands!"

"Your Majesty, I finally understand your good intentions!"

Inside the attic.

When he heard the words "Your subject was wrong," Ying Zheng's body trembled violently!

And when they heard the last line, "Finally, I understand my father's good intentions,"

This First Emperor, who swept across the land and whose power lasted for eternity, could no longer control himself!

A surge of scalding heat rushed straight to my eyes!

His once domineering eyes suddenly welled up with tears!

how many years?

He stood alone at the pinnacle of power!

He unified the six kingdoms, burned books and buried scholars alive, built the Great Wall, and dug the Ling Canal...

Everything he did was for the eternal prosperity of this empire!

But the people of the world cursed him, the Confucian scholars cursed him, and even his most beloved son regarded him as a tyrant!

This loneliness, this pain of being misunderstood, has long since seeped into my bones!

But today!

Just today!

His stubborn son finally understood!

"Okay...okay!"

Ying Zheng slammed his fist on the railing, his voice choked with emotion, tears welling in his eyes, and a roar erupted in his heart:

"My precious son has finally grown up!"

"I... have a worthy successor!!"

Li Si, standing to the side, was utterly shocked!

He wasn't shocked by Fusu's transformation, but by Zhang Fan's methods!

What terrifying, heaven-reaching power could it possess?

Chunyu Yue taught for more than a decade, and countless Confucian officials tried their best to persuade him, but none of them could sway Prince Fusu in the slightest!

And Zhang Fan, in a mere half-day! A few words!

A divine artifact!

This caused Fusu's worldview to completely collapse, and he even suddenly realized and understood His Majesty!

This is no longer about political maneuvering or eloquence!

This is attacking someone's spirit!

It's an unfathomable art of immortals!

Li Si felt a chill run through him. He stared at Zhang Fan's retreating figure, only one thought in his mind:

This person should be chosen as the new crown prince!

It could overthrow the very foundation of the nation!

But... we can rebuild the Qin Dynasty!

however.

At this peak moment of reconciliation between father and son, and of awe between ruler and subject.