Chapter 41 Love and Hate [Jinjiang genuine exclusive release - the generals are excited, ...
Li Si, Cai Ze, Wei Liao, Zhang Han, Feng Quji, and the others were all shocked. This was the first time they had seen His Majesty enfeoff a remote small country as part of the Qin Empire, and even send a group of civil officials to "take it over"?!
How on earth did someone come up with such a genius idea?!
The whole hall was silent for a moment. Li Si, who was the first to come to his senses, was so happy that his teeth were showing. He leaned over to the emperor and complimented him:
"Your Majesty, I think your idea is truly brilliant!"
"If Dr. Chunyu can lead a group of Confucian officials to educate the natives living in these barbarian lands to know etiquette, understand good and evil, and make them loyal to the Great Qin, then I, this old minister, will wholeheartedly praise Confucianism as worthy of being the preeminent school of thought in the Great Qin, and it should be the world's first-class scholarship!"
"Li Si, you!"
Chunyu Yue, trembling with fear, hadn't yet recovered from his immense shock. Upon hearing his sworn enemy Li Si's words, which threatened to expel him from Xianyang, his years of court habits subconsciously made him want to lash out at Li Si.
But just as he uttered three words, he caught a glimpse of the Emperor's fiery eyes, and Chunyu Yue felt as if a pair of large hands had invisibly strangled his neck, and he instantly became obedient.
He understood that His Majesty was serious this time. Even though Chunyu Yue was confused, he also knew that once His Majesty the First Emperor spoke, there would be no room for maneuver.
Thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all the grace of the king. If the king wants his subjects to die, the subjects have to die.
Even though he understood that His Majesty was planning to use the Confucian officials as pathfinders and send them far beyond the Great Wall, Chunyu Yue had no other choice. He was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, his face pale. After hesitating for a moment, he leaned over to the First Emperor with tears streaming down his face, as if accepting his fate.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your respect for Confucianism. If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would lead the envoys and leave the capital immediately upon Your Majesty's order. We would travel to the remote borderlands to educate the barbaric natives and spread the name of the Great Qin far and wide."
"Unfortunately, the heavens do not grant my wishes. I am now over sixty, my hair and beard are gray, and I am old and frail. Even if I wanted to share your majesty's worries, I am afraid that my frail body would drag me down. If I die midway before I can reach those barbaric lands to teach them, wouldn't that be a disgrace to my Great Qin's envoys and a waste of national strength?"
Upon hearing this, the First Emperor looked at Chunyu Yue, whose lips were trembling from crying and whose old eyes were blurry. He narrowed his eyes slightly and said coldly:
"Then Doctor Chunyu is unwilling to share my worries and does not want to go to the frontier to serve me."
Hearing the cold tone in His Majesty's words, Chunyu Yue's heart skipped a beat. He quickly leaned forward again, crying,
"Your Majesty, it's not that I'm unwilling, but my health is really not holding up! But please rest assured, Your Majesty, I know that Your Majesty is giving Confucian officials a good opportunity. I will carefully select strong and healthy young Confucian officials from the court and persuade them to serve as angels of the Great Qin, spread Confucianism in the barbarian lands, and help Your Majesty to recover the distant counties."
"good."
When the Emperor heard this, the invisible pressure he emanated from his body instantly retreated from his body like the receding tide.
He only needed a clear attitude from Chunyu Yue, the leading Confucian official in the court. He had no real intention of sending an old official like Chunyu Yue to the frontier to fight for his life.
Let's not talk about anything else. Just the fact that Chunyu Yue, an old man with frail arms and legs, left the capital and died of illness in the frontier. When his stubborn eldest son came back from the other side of the Great Wall, he would have something to make trouble for him.
The fat little boy Ying, who was in his grandfather's arms, watched Old Man Chunyu sobbing so freely and could not help but marvel in his heart: "It's really better to let my friend die than to let me die! I thought Old Man Chunyu was so tough!"
At this moment, the ordinary mechanical electronic sound rang out in the little fat boy's mind again:
【"drop……"】
[According to this system's testing, the host, with the help of a globe, popularized the correct view of heaven and earth to the Qin emperor and his ministers, allowing the First Emperor to glimpse the true face of the world, which strongly stimulated the First Emperor's ambition to expand his territory!]
As the current Grand Marshal and a representative of the military school, Wei Liao was originally worried that after the unification of the empire, wars would become rare, and the proud twenty-level military merit system would gradually become a mere decoration. If this continued, it would cause unrest among the people. Today, after seeing the vast territories outside the Qin Empire and hearing your majesty's words about conquering the lands beyond the Great Wall, he was very pleased. He understood that as long as there were foreign wars, the military merit system, which had flourished for a century, would continue to thrive within the Qin Empire. Based on this, his favorability towards the host increased from "40%" to "50%."
Hearing that Old Man Liao's favorability towards her had increased because of the foreign war, Qin Ying couldn't help but glance at the old man with a very arrogant appearance.
Then he heard:
[In addition to Wei Liao, Cai Ze, Feng Quji, and Zhang Han, thanks to the host, were able to glimpse the global map. They were deeply shocked by the fact that the host was favored by heaven. After testing, the three officials' favorability towards the host also increased from "40%" to "50%."]
[good!]
The "0.5 blind box coin reward" and the "50 blind box coin deduction penalty" were both within Qin Ying's acceptable range. In fact, he no longer cared about the "reward" and "punishment" of the temporary task "Charming Me! Don't Speak!", but he still cared about whether he could completely conquer the several important officials in front of him.
After all, each of them is a famous official in history. If he wants to become the crown prince in the future, the loyalty of these old officials can still play a big role.
The chubby boy's bright eyes swept over Cai Ze, Zhang Han, and Feng Quji one by one. When he saw Li Si, he saw the old man Li gloating over the old man Chunyu's misfortune. What did not surprise him was that Li Si's favorability was rising again at a snail's pace.
[According to system testing, Li Si's mood became exceptionally good after seeing the host ruthlessly helping him deal with his political rival. As a result, his favorability towards the host increased from the extremely high "99.999%" to a full "99.9999%"!]
Qin Ying's mouth twitched, and she immediately shifted her gaze from Li Si to Chunyu Yue.
The old man and the young boy made eye contact. Qin Ying couldn't help but yawn when he saw the complicated look in Chunyu's eyes. He was ready to listen to the system's report in his mind: Chunyu Yue's favorability towards him dropped from the remaining "10%" to "0%", and thus he failed to conquer the five ministers, and "50 blind box coins" were deducted from his account.
He never expected that after Chunyu Yue shifted his gaze away from him and turned his head away, the mechanical electronic sound that rang in his mind made Ying·Little Fatty's eyes widen in surprise.
【"drop……"】
[This system has detected that the host, in front of several important officials, proposed to the First Emperor the idea of having the Confucian officials in the court serve as imperial envoys to go to the outer reaches of the Great Wall to persuade the Hu and Yue peoples to surrender to the Qin Dynasty.]
Chunyu Yue, the leading Confucian official in the court, bore the brunt of the attack. He felt a mixture of love and hate for the host, the eldest son's son!
Qin Ying: "[Hate, he understands, love, where does it come from]"
Doctor Chunyu resents the fact that despite being the eldest prince's son, he's nothing like his father! At such a young age, he's come up with this barbaric plan to persuade His Majesty to banish the court's Confucian officials to the borderlands and educate the natives! He possesses none of the benevolent virtues of the eldest prince, Fusu, who respected his teachers.
Qin Ying's speechless lips trembled twice.
However, every advantage has its disadvantages, and Chunyu Yue was keenly aware of this. Although the host's method of lobbying the First Emperor was somewhat damaging and malicious, it did provide a unique way to promote Confucianism.
[Within the Qin Empire, the Confucian school is being tightly suppressed by the Legalist school, with no way out in sight. If they truly want to expand the number of Confucian disciples, it seems the only way is to start from the remote counties!]
[After Your Majesty has incorporated all the barbarian lands surrounding Great Qin into your empire, whether or not the Confucian officials who were sent abroad return to Xianyang alive, their names will be recorded in history. Future generations will also remember the contributions made by the Confucian officials who were sent out in advance to serve as pathfinders when Your Majesty conquered the distant counties. After this event, the Confucian officials will be remembered for thousands of years!]
After receiving the Emperor's approval, allowing him not to travel to remote areas, Chunyu Yue began to feel a bit fonder of his host.
[Under a complex mix of love and hate towards the host, Chun Yuyue's favorability towards the host increased from "10%" to "20%"!]
[Everything is going well. Please keep up the good work, host! Conquer the five important officials in the court as soon as possible!]
After listening to the clear analysis of Chunyu Yue's mental journey by the semi-finished system, Qin Ying couldn't help but frown. She looked at the old man Chunyu, whose nose was red from crying, with some disbelief. Could this old man have a masochistic tendency?
provoke!
Whether Chunyu Yue likes being tortured or not, Ying Xiaopangdun'er is not 100% sure, but he knows that the Confucian officials in the court are really going to be tortured next!
As the sun was setting, Qin Ying waved goodbye to her grandfather and returned to the mansion contentedly in Zhao Gao's carriage.
A few days later, when the "Four-Step Book Control Order" and the "Great Qin Angel" edict began to be implemented, the court and the people were in an uproar.
The former was not so bad, after all, it was about controlling the books of the people. Apart from making the nobles and wealthy families of the fallen country curse and be extremely reluctant, and either voluntarily or passively hand over their family collections of books to contribute their own strength to the great cause of compiling the "Great Qin Knowledge Treasure Book", neither the nobles in the court nor the ordinary people felt that it had any impact on their lives.
However, the incident of the "Great Qin Angel" excited the military generals in the court, and the civil officials were all unable to sit still.
A group of Confucian officials were so panicked that they couldn't help crying for their parents in the court. After the court was dismissed, they begged everyone to remove their names from the list of "Angels of the Great Qin".
But His Majesty had made up his mind. In order to protect himself and not be driven out to the frontier by His Majesty to eat sand, Chunyu Yue was extremely determined and cooperated with his mortal enemy Li Si in making plans.
For half a month, the Qin capital was scorching hot in the midsummer and the cicadas were buzzing.
The work of "collecting books" from all over the country was carried out in full swing. Under the strict supervision of Li Si, the court selected more than 60 young and strong Confucian doctors at once, and determined where they would be sent to and the mission of educating the barbaric natives there.
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