Chapter 42 As expected of you, Fusu!
Li Nian also understood at this time and looked at the two piles of bamboo slips in front of him.
‘This pile is the bamboo slips of the gentlemen, so could this pile be the bamboo slips of the ministers of the Qin Dynasty? The First Emperor must have assigned these two questions as homework to the ministers and princes, asking them to answer them. ’
‘The First Emperor is worthy of being the First Emperor! ’
Li Nian was impressed in his heart.
These two questions were too late for some emperors to avoid, but the First Emperor raised them openly and allowed everyone to answer them.
Is this the value of "China's first monarch to be called emperor"?
‘But why did the First Emperor send these bamboo slips to me? Let me give you advice? '
Li Nian asked the guard who reported the report: "Aside from these bamboo slips, is there any other edict from the king?"
The guard thought about it seriously and said, "Sir, no!"
This is strange. You don't tell him what you want him to do. You just send him these bamboo slips. Do you want him to simply look at them?
The First Emperor must not be so boring!
After reading Gongzi Gao's bamboo slips, Li Nian picked up another volume from the pile of bamboo slips that were suspected to be written by the princes of the Qin Dynasty.
The bamboo slips supported his conjecture. They were written by another young master. The content on the bamboo slips also answered the two questions, but what the young master said was unremarkable.
I read the bamboo slips of several young masters one after another, but none of them had much new ideas, and the writing and wording were relatively ordinary. When I opened a bamboo slip and saw that the signature was Fusu, Li Nian felt refreshed.
He wanted to see how wise this young master of Qin, who was most valued by the First Emperor, would be.
Expectation goes as quickly as it comes!
After reading a few words, Li Nian looked strange and said to himself, 'As expected of you, Fusu! ’
The writing on the bamboo slips is better than that of other princes, and the description seems to be reasonable and well-founded. The purpose is very clear, and it revolves around "the harsh punishment and torture laws of the Great Qin Dynasty are wrong, and the only way is to implement benevolent government."
But Fusu, you are the Young Master of the Qin Dynasty and the eldest son that the First Emperor valued most. When you presented such a bamboo slip, did you consider what your father, the First Emperor, would think?
‘It seems that the above content is not finished yet. Did Fusu write a bunch of bamboo slips? ’
Li Nian glanced at the remaining bamboo slips and took a breath. There were only so many sons of the First Emperor, but the number of bamboo slips in this pile obviously exceeded the number of the First Emperor’s sons.
There is no doubt that someone must have written more than one volume, and there is no doubt that Fusu has written the most.
Picked up another scroll of bamboo slips, and sure enough, the book followed the previous scroll, and it was still a bamboo slip from Fusu. He picked up another scroll, and it was still a bamboo slip from Fusu...
Li Nian could probably think of it. The First Emperor's mood when he saw Fusu's bamboo slips must have been that he was filled with fire from the bottom of his heart and anger from his mind, but there was nothing he could do to deal with Fusu.
This is the tiredness and helplessness of an old father when he encounters a son who does not understand him.
Fusu didn’t understand the crux of the problem at all, nor did he recognize his own position.
What the First Emperor wanted was for him to become a qualified king, to have the skills of a king, to act in the way of a king, and not to listen or to believe.
But now Fusu is obviously growing crookedly, and he is developing in a direction that does not look like a king.
He is the eldest son valued by the First Emperor and the person who will inherit the hegemony of Qin in the future. How can he not recognize himself and what he should do?
What the First Emperor didn't like was Fusu's talk about benevolent government?
Of course not. If it was because Fusu talked about benevolent politics, then he would not let Chunyu Yue teach Fusu. After reading all the bamboo slips in Fusu, Li Nian called him a good guy. He really wrote more than ten volumes. The first emperor was probably very angry when he saw these bamboo slips.
The eldest son whom he values is a stick that doesn’t understand his thoughts at all and often pokes his heart and lung tubes. The younger son whom he loves is a beast, and the other sons are a bunch of idiots with mediocre qualifications. .
No wonder the First Emperor has not appointed a crown prince for so many years. Who among these princes can he appoint?
‘The son is useless, and the First Emperor himself has problems. For example, like the young master Fusu, he should change his surname and get a better understanding of folk life. Only then will he understand the difficulty of running a country and understand the thoughts of his father, the First Emperor. As for Hu Hai, there is nothing to say. It is better to humanely destroy him as soon as possible to avoid polluting the air. ’
Li Nian has no ill feelings toward Fusu, nor does he have any favorable impressions.
But if he were to choose, it would be better for Fusu to become the next emperor, because Fusu was tolerant and his life would be more secure under his hands.
After looking at the bamboo slips of the princes of the Qin Dynasty, Li Nian looked at another pile of bamboo slips and took a scroll from it.
This first volume was written by Zhao Gao.
Seeing the signature on the bamboo slip, Li Nian thought to himself: 'Did the First Emperor do it on purpose or accidentally? ’
There are so many bamboo slips from ministers, and Zhao Gao’s bamboo slips are placed first. Li Nian doesn’t believe it if there is no intentional element.
Remembering that among the bamboo slips of the princes of the Qin Dynasty, the first volume he had just obtained was the bamboo slips of Hu Hai, Li Nian felt more and more that it was the First Emperor's intention.
‘Zhao Gao is also a capable person. He speaks well and gives good examples. No mediocre person can climb to the high position of Da Qin. In the history books, they did some things that would be considered foolish by later generations, but they were actually in line with the times and their own interests. ’
‘This is Li Si’s bamboo slip, with the whip inside. But I remember that Li Si had not admonished in history, “A suspended punishment, a small amount of tax and a small sum of money.” Why should the punishment be increased here to make the people afraid? ’
Seeing the contents of Li Si's bamboo slips, Li Nian thought about it in his heart.
'Yes, people's thoughts are not fixed. They will have different thoughts at different ages and under different circumstances. Now that the Qin Dynasty has just unified the world, Li Si may indeed have such thoughts. '
Continuing to look at the bamboo slips, Li Nian sighed when he saw Wang Wan's proposed method of seizing the core areas and enfeoffing remote areas. However, the First Emperor in history was too confident and felt that Qin had the ability to completely control the world, so he did not adopt Wang Wan's suggestion. '
'Wang Wan lost his position and Li Sicheng became prime minister. I am afraid it was also for this reason. The First Emperor wanted a prime minister who thought the same as him. '
'There are many problems with the demise of the Qin Dynasty, but there is no doubt that one of them is that the Qin Dynasty was the first unified dynasty in China. No one has ever governed such a huge dynasty, and the method of governance is still being explored. Going too fast. ’
‘Wang Wan’s method provides a transition. If adopted, it will have a chance for Da Qin to pass through the novice period of governing a unified dynasty. '
'The Han Dynasty divided the kings among themselves when it was first established, and finally weakened the power of the kings during the reign of Emperor Wu. This is somewhat like Wang Wan's method. ’
‘But the big man definitely didn’t think so much at the time. He just had to seal the ball due to the situation, and he didn’t want to make a transition for himself by accident. ’
‘Of course, Da Qin and Da Han cannot be completely generalized. The situation in Da Qin is more complicated. ’
Li Nian carefully read Wang Wan’s bamboo slips again. This prime minister of the Qin Dynasty who did not leave many records in later generations was indeed capable.
If he has no ability and is just a mediocre person, how can he serve as prime minister under the First Emperor?
(End of this chapter)