Chapter 401 No peace of mind
Li Si didn't say much. He brought paper and pen and started writing. Looking at his serious appearance, Ying Zheng did not disturb him, but just waited for him to finish it. Li Si's writing speed was very fast, with almost no interruption. Li Si quickly completed his creation on two pieces of paper. He placed the content he wrote respectfully in front of Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng read it seriously. The first one was written in the horse costume book. Zhao Kuo once lamented that there was not a thousand-mile horse in the world, but there was only a lack of Bole. Li Si wrote this story with a clear intention, implying that he had the talent of a thousand-mile horse, but he was not appreciated by Bole. Ying Zheng looked at it and couldn't help but laugh. It's hard to say whether it was a thousand-mile horse. These days, I have seen many thousand-mile horses, and even thousands-mile horses!
He picked up the second piece of paper again, and when he saw it, he was stunned because he could not recognize the contents of the second piece of characters, and he did not recognize these characters... Ying Zheng frowned. He had learned the language of various countries since he was a child, but this was the first time he had seen such words. He narrowed his eyes and looked at them seriously. Finally, he could see that although the words were different, he could still roughly see what words were. This was the same story.
"What is this...what text?"
"This is my improved Qin Zhuanzi characters. What do you think?"
"What you improved?? You were preparing for it?"
"No, it's because what has been improved now, and there are still many shortcomings... Give me some time..."
Ying Zheng took a breath, and he suddenly understood what Han Fei said about being able to do practical things. Han Fei could say that one king of the world should unify the words, but he would immediately improve the words and come up with a set of new words that can be promoted. Han Fei would probably take several years... and Li Si could not say what the necessity and importance of unifying the words after one king of the world should be unified, but the problem is that he could make a new set of new words for you within an hour.
Many people know that we must unify the weights and measures, but not many people can do this directly.
Ying Zheng raised his head and looked at Li Si in surprise. Li Si was particularly calm. Ying Zheng looked at him for a long time and put down the paper in his hand. He asked, "The Kuchu of Chu killed the lord and became the king of Chu. He wanted to take the initiative to give up his friendship with Qin. What do you think should do?" Li Si said seriously: "You should ask Liao, Wu Chenghou and others to discuss this matter."
"No matter who ruled Chu, we must destroy him. At this time, the strategies given by these generals are probably more accurate than mine."
"Hahaha, very good!" Ying Zheng laughed. His attitude towards Li Si also changed a little, so he did not hide it anymore and told him about Han Fei's recommendation of him as the prime minister. Li Si was a little unbelievable when he heard Han Fei recommending him. His relationship with Han Fei was not very good. When the two sides first met, they had some holidays. Han Fei and Li Si were actually perfect matches in some aspects.
Han Fei has very outstanding theoretical achievements, while Li Si has extraordinary practical ability.
Ying Zheng said: "I have understood the reason why Han Feizi recommended you, but I want to tell you that your current political achievements are not enough to become the prime minister... Now, Qin has the Sanjin area, where Han is crowded with less cultivated land, Wei is few officials, and Zhao is short of everything... I will leave the matters of these three regions to you. You want to make the Sanjin into the Sanjin of Qin. As long as you can accomplish this, your contribution will be enough to serve as the Prime Minister."
"only!"
After seeing off the confident Li Si, Ying Zheng felt relieved. After Lu Buwei, he still had many people to take over his position. This Li Si was very good. He had indeed ignored him before. Ying Zheng thought about this and reprinted the memorials sent from various places. As the territory of Qin continued to increase, he had to deal with more things. It was really not an easy thing to make all countries accept the lifestyle of Qin.
The arrival of officials from Zhao made Ying Zheng put down his report.
Ming was very sad because her relatives killed each other... After Fu Chu came to the stage, she lost all her relatives. During this period, Ying Zheng always comforted himself, and occasionally asked Qi to come to the palace. The three of them had some meals together. Ming and Qi were close relatives... Ming's father was King Kaoli's younger brother. Because his younger brother died young, King Kaoli raised her.
Therefore, Qi, the eldest son of King Kaoli, is also Ming's elder brother. However, because Qi grew up in Qin, he was not very close to Ming. Ming, who grew up beside King Kaoli, grew up with the executioner, and even the king-killer Fu Chu. Therefore, when Fu Chu killed two other people, Ming almost broke out. Fortunately, Ying Zheng was with her and there was a sensible son.
Ming was pregnant again, and Fusu was very happy about this. As he grew up, Fusu showed a gentleness like his mother. He was never bothered or naughty, and was very well-behaved. He could sit beside Ming all day without crying or making a fuss. Ming loved him very much. The little guy rarely acted coquettishly, was kind-hearted and gentle. Ming often called him my little gentleman. His performance was directly a copy of Wu Chenghou.
A young gentleman.
In fact, our Wu Chenghou was not like this when he was young... the person who was most attuned to his personality was probably Zhao Kang, who was owed to be beaten.
Ming had just coaxed Fusu to lie down, thinking about something, when she saw Ying Zheng breaking in. Ying Zheng's eyes were red and his whole body was trembling. It seemed very wrong. Ming hurried forward. Before Ying Zheng could speak, he burst into tears. He closed his eyes and let the tears wash his face.
"What's wrong with you?"
"The big mother is gone."
"I'm going to go to the horse suit."
Ming looked at the extremely sad man in front of him and felt a sharp pain in his heart. Of course, she knew how much Ying Zheng cared about his eldest mother. He almost grew up in the arms of his eldest mother. Ying Zheng always told him that no one in this world loves him more than his eldest mother. He would also talk about many interesting things when he was young, and every thing was related to his eldest mother. Like Zhao Kuo, Ying Zheng was also unacceptable.
He threw down what he had done again, got into the carriage, and just told Lu Buwei about his departure, and hurriedly left Xianyang.
Kang was also with him. Kang was silent at this moment and no longer had the optimistic attitude he had in the past.
Sitting in the inner room, Zhao Kuo had changed his appearance, with messy hair, listlessness, pale face, and red eyes. It was almost impossible to tell that he was the handsome and elegant gentleman before... The death of his mother had a huge blow to Zhao Kuo and almost destroyed him. Zhao Kuo had been silent for a long time. He didn't say a word, but sat in the inner room, and could not get out of the sadness for a long time.
Yi persuaded him for a long time, but this could not heal Zhao Kuo's inner wounds.
Time passed quickly, Ying Zheng brought Kang to Mafu. When he saw his mother, both of them couldn't help crying. They could not see the last time they were old mother. Yi took them to Mafu's grave to worship Zhao's mother. Ying Zheng had never been so embarrassed. Since he became king, he had never lost his composure. Because he was a king, he could not show too much that ordinary people had.
Zhao Kang also reached out to wipe his tears. The eldest mother always said that she wanted to wait until his child was born and his child was about to be born, but the eldest mother could no longer see it. The place of Mafu is quite lethal to Zhao Kuo and Ying Zheng, because they could find Zhao's mother in every place here, and this place was still the same as before, but the person who walked here with his hands could no longer be found.
Yi comforted her two sons. She could no longer touch the top of her two sons, but her arms were still so strong that she could hold her two sons... Zhao Kang first asked Zhao Kuo, "Where is the father?" Yi sighed and said, "He..." She could not describe Zhao Kuo at this moment. She could only take her two children to see him.
Their arrival did not change anything. Zhao Kuo was still so sad, but in front of his son, he could no longer cry, especially when Zhao Kang hugged him and cried, Zhao Kuo just numbly slapped Zhao Kang's back and comforted him to be strong. The family reunited again, but at this moment, there was no such happiness and happiness as before. Faced with the sadness that Zhao Kuo showed, Yi could not find any way.
Ying Zheng endured the pain in his heart. While eating, he spoke about the three laws established by Han Fei.
Sure enough, Zhao Kuo was entrusted with some ideas. He was also a little surprised when he listened to Ying Zheng's recounting what Han Fei did. He nodded and said, "He did it right, but it was still not perfect enough, economic law, political law, etc. In fact, when it is necessary to refine it, there are many things that can be done to the extreme. However, his direction is right, which is very good. It seems that he will be able to issue a Constitution of the Qin Dynasty in the near future..."
"What did you say?"
"nothing."
"He recommended Li Si to me and wanted Li Si to serve as the prime minister..." Ying Zheng suddenly talked about state affairs, which made Zhao Kang a little angry, because in his opinion, now is not the time to talk about national affairs. His father is so sad. Can't he give him some rest time to calm him down? He was about to scold his brother, but Yi, who was standing beside him, pulled his sleeves, and the one who knew his son best was his mother.
Yi seemed to know what Zhao Kang wanted to say, Yi signaled Zhao Kuo's direction, and Zhao Kang also looked at his father.
Zhao Kuo, who was on the verge of collapse, became serious at this moment. He looked at Ying Zheng, listened to Ying Zheng talking about Han Fei and Li Si, as well as spring farming in various places, and the arrangements for the local area, his father seemed to have returned to the past. Zhao Kang didn't speak anymore. When Ying Zheng talked about the amazing feat accomplished by Li Si, Zhao Kuo nodded and sighed: "Li Si is a capable person, and almost no one can compare with his execution ability."
"However, there are still some improvements in creating fonts. Fonts are for easy recording. The simpler the text, the more beneficial it is and promotion it can cultivate more officials for Qin State... I knew a very simple font, maybe I could help him..."
"He said he wanted to write an article in new fonts as an enlightenment reading."
"Enlightenment reading...then I can help him too."
"I have left the spring farming matter to Li Si... I also specially ordered officials from all over the country to starve to death if the people starve to death in their territory, they will be severely punished. For the local situation, you can rest assured... Li Si wants to reclaim 10 million hectares of arable land on the land of the Sanjin within eight years. In this way, the Sanjin will become the largest grain-producing land for Qinzi, and even surpass the Guanzhong and Bashu areas..."
"At the same time, he can support tens of millions of people..."
"Okay, this is the best..." Zhao Kuo nodded. If Li Si could really achieve his goal, Qin would probably not be short of food for a long time, and could even withstand some large-scale natural disasters. The two talked about state affairs, and Ying Zheng complained about Zheng again. In order to save manpower, he promised Zheng to set up six small channels in the south of Zhengguo Canal.
But in the hands of Zheng State, the construction madman, these six small canals gradually became eight, and later ten. Now he is digging the eleven small canals. He has a very ambitious ambition. He wants to irrigate the arable land in the southern highlands of Guanzhong... Zhao Kuo said seriously: "You still have to stop this matter. Building a canal is a good thing, but years of construction will turn good things into bad things."
"I want to give the people a rest time."
Ying Zheng suddenly said, "But this will be a huge result. After completing the six small canals, I will gather people to build a water conservancy project far exceeding the Zhengguo canal on the river bank, so that Sanchuan, Henoi, Hedong, Handan, Dongjun, Julu and other counties can be affected by the canal..." Zhao Kuo couldn't help frowning, and he said, "How can this work? The Three Jin Dynasties have just been pacified. If you want to dig such a canal, how many people will have to be used?!"
"You are right... In the short term, you should not gather people, because I will attack Chu State. The Chu State's Fu Chu killed the monarch and openly slandered Qin State. I will use the power of the whole country to attack him and destroy Chu State!"
"Silly! Chu is a great country. If you are not fully prepared, how can you start a war easily? If you are defeated, there will be big problems in the Three Jins!"
Zhao Kuo was angry by Ying Zheng and scolded him.
Ying Zheng showed a respectful attitude and said, "You are right. If you don't remind me, I will almost make a wrong decision... It seems that I will still ask you more questions in the future and then make a decision."
Zhao Kuo was about to say something, but suddenly, he was stunned. He looked at Ying Zheng in front of him and instantly understood his intention.
Zhao Kuo sighed and said, "Okay, I understand."
Chapter completed!