Chapter 108: Huangdun Conversation [Jinjiang Authentic Exclusive Release·Under House Arrest?]...
In the season of bright spring and nourishing spring rain.
Just after the Dragon Raising Festival on February 2, there was a major change in the positions of officials in the court.
The old Prime Minister Wang Wan, who represented the interests of the old Qin nobles, finally withdrew from the court. His Majesty then appointed Feng Quji as the Left Prime Minister and Li Sidian as the Right Prime Minister. All the civil and military officials in the court understood that the head of the civil service was named "Prime Minister Feng", but the real power was in the hands of "Prime Minister Li".
Li Si worked diligently day and night to contribute to the unification cause of Emperor Qin Shi Huang and his own Legalist cause. After he was over 60 years old, he finally reached the pinnacle of his career by constantly climbing, and achieved a huge and inspiring counterattack from a poor boy from Shangcai in the Chu land to the powerful prime minister of the Qin Empire.
For a moment, Li Si walked with a breeze. Although he was in his sixties, he was still full of energy every day, just like a middle-aged man.
While Qin Ying was feeling emotional for Old Li who had spent his entire life and struggled to achieve the title of "Rat Prime Minister", Meng Yi, who had been away from the capital for several months, finally returned to the imperial capital in early March.
The news that Meng Yi sent back immediately was—
After six months of investigation, interrogation, and purges, the remnants of the fallen state within the Chu counties, who harbored deep resentment towards the Qin Empire, were finally rounded up by the imperial court! A significant source of instability had been eliminated.
Xiang Liang, who made great contributions in this process, worked hard for half a year, and was exhausted mentally, physically and mentally along the way. When he returned to Xianyang with Meng Yi again, he seemed to have aged more than ten years in appearance. Fortunately, his merits and demerits offset each other in the end. Meng Yi helped Xiang Liang to re-register his household in Xianyang, and he settled down as an ordinary commoner in the east city of the imperial capital. However, Xiang Liang was stuffed into the Qin army's new recruits by Meng Yi, and he accidentally became a recruit in the same batch as Han Xin.
These two famous generals from Chu, who would perform extremely brilliantly on the battlefield outside the Great Wall during the Qin Dynasty's expedition, unexpectedly became colleagues and friends in the spring of the 29th year of Qin Shihuang's reign.
When the fat little Ying, who had given birth to two generals, turned three and a half years old, he was like a tender bamboo shoot in spring. When it was wet by the spring rain, his height suddenly grew a lot taller. He still had all the fat on his body, but the little guy not only had two more liberal arts subjects, but also had martial arts courses added to his schedule under the arrangement of his martial arts master.
It seemed that the possibility of Zhao Gao, who was imprisoned in the Qinxue Palace with the Eighteenth Prince, returning to the Zhangtai Palace to perform his duties was becoming increasingly slim.
In early summer of April, after asking for permission from His Majesty, Meng Yi started the examination to select Shangshu Zushi for His Majesty. After four rounds of extremely competitive examinations, the person who was finally selected was - Lü Zhi, the Director of the Qinxue Palace.
Knowing how difficult it was for a woman to compete with men for the same official position in the officialdom, Lu Zhi did not dare to relax in the past two years.
When she was doing her duties in the palace during the day, she would diligently immerse herself in the Palace of Study and follow the doctors to compile books and study classics. In the evening, after finishing her duties and returning to her home in Dongcheng Xishi, she would light a lamp, hold a brush, and review her gains and losses of the day over and over again in front of the paper covered with ink.
Meng Yi, who was unaware of Lu Zhi's future great achievements, was somewhat troubled during the final round of examinations for the Shangshu Zushi. He found that from the perspective of knowledge alone, Lu Zhi was indeed not as knowledgeable and talented as Zhang Cang, Xunzi's last disciple. But if one looked at it from the perspective of being serious, rigorous and meticulous in doing things, two Zhang Cangs tied together could not compare to Lu Zhi alone.
The most important thing for the Shangshu Zushi is to share the worries of His Majesty. After weighing the pros and cons in his mind, Meng Yi could not make up his mind, so he had to take the two final places to find His Majesty the Emperor.
The First Emperor flipped through the booklet, checked the past performance of Lü Zhi and Zhang Cang in the Palace of Diligence, and finally decided to appoint the 20-year-old Lü Zhidian to replace Zhao Gao as the new "Shangshu Zushi" in the Zhangtai Palace. Zhang Cang did not continue to waste his talent on compiling books, knowing that he was proficient in mathematics and had the ability of a prime minister. The First Emperor directly handed him over to his good senior brother, the right prime minister Li Si to arrange it.
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When Qin Ying heard the two mechanical electronic sounds ringing in his mind, he hurriedly opened the system panel. As soon as he turned to the taskbar page, he saw the blue numbers under the names of "Lü Zhi" and "Zhang Cang" jumping from "99.99%" to "100%". The little fat boy couldn't help but raise his beautiful eyebrows. He really didn't expect that the reason why these two were stuck at the last point of the task progress and could not move forward was actually because of "job hopping".
This year, by chance, as soon as Lu Zhi and Zhang Cang got rid of the job of "Zhi Dian Lang" and successfully walked out of the Novice Village, their careers took a step forward, and they were all 100% conquered. He couldn't help but laugh.
After seeing that the progress bar of the strategy task below Zhang Liang, whose name was next to the other two, had slowly increased to "70%" through Zhang Liang's "self-strategy" after summer came in Xianyang, "Ying Ba Zong" couldn't help but touch his chubby chin with his little hand, and carefully planned the schedule for his next cordial meeting with "Liang Baihua" in the prison.
However, before Ying Xiaopangdun'er could plan the rules, the Xiongnu prince who lived in the hostage house in the northern suburbs missed his hometown so much that he could not stay in Xianyang City any longer, like a restless wolf.
In May.
The temperature in Xianyang City was rising higher and higher, and everywhere you looked there were clusters of lush green shade.
In the afternoon sunlight, after finishing a busy day of classes, the chubby little Ying, dressed in a crescent-white silk robe, was eagerly rushing from the side hall to the main hall to say goodbye to his grandfather, ask for his instructions, and then take a carriage to the prison to increase the remaining favorability of Zhang Liang. Unexpectedly, the little guy had just run into the main hall when he saw Lu Zhi coming out. He hurried forward, looking at the young woman with increasing momentum with some curiosity, and asked:
"Lü Zushi, is Grandfather receiving the court officials in here?"
Seeing the bright, handsome, fair, tender and cute eldest grandson with a rosy face, Lu Zhi's eyes also had a deep smile. She leaned over slightly and whispered to the little guy:
"Your Highness, His Majesty is indeed meeting someone inside now, but it's not a court official, but the Xiongnu Crown Prince who lives in the hostage house in the northern suburbs."
"Is my father in there having a meeting with Maodun?"
Qin Ying widened her eyes in surprise when she heard this.
Lu Zhi nodded slightly.
The little fat Ying blinked her eyes, and without asking Lu Zhi any more questions, she simply held the black lacquered door frame with her little hands, stepped over the threshold with her short legs and walked into the hall. She walked all the way through the outer hall, and just as she reached the door of the inner hall, she heard the sound of a conversation coming from inside, neither loud nor soft.
He immediately grinned, laughed and shouted while running inside:
"Grandfather! Grandfather! Ying's classes for today are over!"
Hearing the bright and sweet voice of a baby suddenly coming from the door of the inner hall, the First Emperor, who was sitting high up beside the lacquer table, and Maodun, who was kneeling on the seat on the left side, both looked towards the door subconsciously.
Seeing his beloved eldest grandson, the First Emperor smiled and extended his hand:
"Ying, you've arrived just in time. Come sit next to me. Crown Prince Maodun is talking to me about his return to the grasslands."
Hearing what her grandfather said, Qin Ying turned her head in surprise and looked at Maodun, who was wearing Xiongnu clothing.
Maodun also bowed to the emperor's eldest grandson, who was still as childish as ever after more than two years, and said gracefully, "Modun greets Lord Xiao'an."
"Prince Maodun is very polite."
Qin Ying smiled and waved her hand, then ran to her grandfather with her short legs, took the juice handed to her by the palace maid, and drank it with her head down.
In the more than two years since Maodun moved into Xianyang, the two of them, one in the eldest prince's mansion and the other in the hostage's mansion, have never met each other.
Qin Ying was busy studying and growing up, and Maodun was not idle either. He cherished the opportunity in Xianyang very much. He studied hard in the hostage house every day, diligently learning the elegant music of the Great Qin and practicing large and small seal scripts. After hundreds of days and nights, his temperament was very different from when he was injured and first came to Xianyang.
The accent when he speaks is no longer "pengyou~pengyou~". If he took off the Xiongnu clothes he was wearing and put on Qin clothes, I think most people would mistakenly think that he was a Hu person who grew up in the former land of Yiqu in the Qin Dynasty.
Qin Ying lowered her long eyelashes and slowly drank the icy, sweet juice in the glass in her hand, listening quietly to her grandfather negotiating with Maodun.
"Your Majesty, when Maodun was injured in the Yuezhi tribe, it was thanks to you and your ministers' kindness that I was able to study the advanced culture of the Central Plains in the capital of the Qin Empire. I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. Compared to the Qin Empire, we nomadic tribes scattered across the grasslands are truly like uncivilized savages, possessing a language but even our written language is vague."
"For more than two years, you have been willing to treat Maodun to good food, drink, and clothes. Maodun is grateful to you in his heart."
"Now, thanks to your diligent training, Maodun has finally grown up. He can return to the tribe to kill his scumbag father, avenge my mother, and reclaim the crown princeship from that despicable half-brother! If you can show me mercy and send soldiers to escort me to the border town and lend me a helping hand, once I return to the tribe and eliminate my political enemies, I will become your loyal guardian of the grasslands beyond the Great Wall. I will never allow a single Xiongnu man or horse to cross the Great Wall and harass anyone or any land of the Qin Empire!"
After patiently listening to Maodun's long string of words, Qin Ying couldn't help but chuckle in her heart. She felt that after Maodun's wings had grown stronger, he really didn't want to bow down to the Qin Dynasty like a minister. The meaning revealed in his words was very clear -
In the future, he will learn from his grandfather's feat of sweeping across the world and unify the nomadic tribes on the grassland one by one. His grandfather built the Qin Empire, which represented the Central Plains dynasty, within the majestic Great Wall. After Maodun realized his lofty ambitions, he also planned to build a Xiongnu Empire, which represented the nomadic dynasty, on the grassland.
Subsequently, during the reign of the Great Father, the two unified empires were on a two-way street, with the principle of "you don't offend me, I won't offend you" prevailing.
When the throne of the Qin Dynasty is taken over by someone else, whether Maodun is still willing to abide by the rules is another matter.
Haha - what a crazy Hun!
Qin Ying raised her eyelids, her eyes flashing coldly.
The First Emperor, however, picked up the porcelain cup on the lacquer table, took a sip of the warm tea, and calmly looked down at the young Xiongnu man who was just beginning to grow up and was eager to fight the wind and waves and challenge him to a duel in the air. He curled his lips and said:
"Modun, your idea is good, but what you said is not what I want."
"His Majesty the First Emperor of Qin."
Maodun frowned upon hearing this and was about to speak again when he saw the tall man at the head of the table raise his eyelids. He looked at him in a low voice, his eyes blazing with ambition, and said:
"I can send the Qin army to help you return to the grassland, regain power, and control the tribe. When you conquer the other nomadic tribes, I can also help you from behind, but -"
"The prerequisite for me to help you with these matters is that you, on behalf of all the Xiongnu, submit to me and my Great Qin! No matter how many nomadic tribes you merge on the grasslands in the future, these territories must be incorporated into the territory of the Great Qin! No matter how much gold, silver, and jewelry you seize, they must all be sent to Xianyang as spoils of war! I don't want the Xiongnu Empire you conquer in the future to be on par with the Great Qin, but to be like the Baiyue, just a unique and remote piece of land of the Great Qin."
"Impossible! Qin Shi Huang, your demands for the future are too much!"
"We on the grasslands are fundamentally different from you, the people of Great Qin! Whether it's our food culture or our appearance, there's a huge gap. We can't possibly accept the jurisdiction of your Qin laws. And those who believe in Changshengtian won't switch to believing in your Great Qin's Xuanniao!"
Seeing that the young Xiongnu prince was so angry that he was jumping up and down, the First Emperor raised his eyebrows calmly and continued with a smile:
"Okay, Maodun, since we can't reach an agreement, there's no need to waste time talking today. It's quite hot outside, so you can just go back to the hostage house in the northern suburbs and stay there."
When Maodun heard this, his heart instantly sank to the bottom. He subconsciously clenched his two large hands hanging at his sides. His face was gloomy, and his eyes were like ice as he looked at the tall, black-clad Qin Emperor at the top. He frowned and asked:
"Qin Shi Huang, do you mean to put me under house arrest?"
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