The younger brother of the First Emperor

Chapter 338: The Crown Prince is angry, and all officials are silent
Tingweifu, Tingwei Prison.

When Ying Chengjiao saw Baili Sheng, he almost couldn't recognize him.

The elegant patriarch of aristocratic family who loved to play the piano and recite poetry was now unkempt, with dirty clothes and a dull look, even worse than the filthiest beggar in Xianyang City.

If you speak to him in a slightly louder voice, this noble lord of aristocratic family will cry out miserably, shouting "I confess, I confess, I confess everything. Wang He was murdered by me, Xidi, Wang Kuan, Meng Hua... ".

The head of the Baili family said his family name like the names of dishes in a crosstalk, one after another, one connected to another. With his quick tongue, he could easily participate in a rap show and win a gold chain.

Ying Chengjiao didn't know why his thoughts went astray in such a miserable situation. He almost immediately felt absurd and felt that he was losing himself more and more.

But who can remain unchanged?
What are the three views?
Outlook on life, world view, and values.

A person's three views are shaped according to the environment and education he receives. If a modern person is reborn at the end of the Warring States Period, how can he keep his three views unchanged?

After listening to Baili Sheng's report of the list of the Qin nobles, Ying Chengjiao waved to the nearby court judge Li Si to come over, pointed at the unconscious Baili Sheng and said angrily:
“Absurd!
"Who allowed them to treat our officials like this! Who gave them such courage! Huh?!

"Let Xiong Wen and Xiong Qi go home! All matters concerning the Prime Minister's Office will be handled by Bo Fuqiu!"

Baili Sheng lowered his head and shouted, shielding his even dirtier face with his two dirty hands, and his body trembled.

Gongsun, the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice, who was waiting for instructions nearby, had a bright light flashing in his eyes.

Li Si, who was about to leave Xianyang, was urgently called back by Ying Chengjiao. He lowered his head and said "Yes". He walked to the prison gate, called the clerk, and gave orders in a deep voice.

Li Si is now the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice, and is nominally the second in command of the Court of Justice. The old Court of Justice Huayang Bufei is sometimes lucid and sometimes confused, and has long been in charge of affairs. Li Si is the de facto number one in the Court of Justice.

Of course, he didn't need to do such a small matter personally.

The clerk trotted out to report the news on the red and wet mud, breaking the bloody and foul underground air.

After giving the order, Li Si returned to his original position.

Standing behind Chang'an Jun, he quietly waited for Chang'an Jun's possible orders with a very respectful attitude.

"Take Baili Gong to wash up, find the imperial physician to treat Baili Gong, and change him into clean clothes." Ying Chengjiao said without turning his head.

After he finished speaking, he stood up, glanced at the eighteen officials of the Imperial Court who were standing respectfully, and said in a cold voice:
“I don’t know who you all belong to.

“I don’t care about the nobles of Zhao, Chu, and Qin, the outsiders, or the military commanders.

"Documents are lost, seals are taken away, people can't be found, private punishments are set, confessions are forced... You have caused a lot of trouble recently, and my ears are callused.

"I know you are very opinionated and the people behind you are very powerful, but please don't use them on me.

"All orders I give must be carried out meticulously. If any mistakes are made, the offender will be punished according to Qin law.

"Your Majesty is merciful and unwilling to kill. See if I dare to kill, and see if my Qin Sword is fast!"

Pointing at the trembling Baili Sheng, the young man said sternly:
"Lis!"

"I'm here!" Li Si lowered his head to his chest.

"The old court judge is old, and you are in charge of the affairs of the court judge's office now, right?"

"Yes."

"Okay. If Lord Baili makes any mistakes while he's in prison, I'll look for you. If someone is tortured into confessing in the Prime Minister's Mansion again, you'll go back to Qi. Do you understand?"

"I understand, but..."

"Don't be so hesitant. If you have something to say, just say it! Qin people hate chattering the most!"

"But if there is an error in the format of the bamboo slips, such as a half-inch gap,

"Didn't you hear what I just said?" Chang'an Jun interrupted with a dark face, and said in a deep voice: "Isn't there any provision in the Qin Law on how to deal with it? Or do you, the chief official of the Tingwei Mansion, want me to teach you the Qin Law?"

Li Si was much shorter and said in a trembling voice:
"If, if, if we act in accordance with the law, the abolition of the Court of Justice may be beyond your imagination!"

Ying Chengjiao laughed up to the sky and said angrily:
"It's beyond my imagination. Tell me! How many people can you lay off?"

"Maybe, half of them..."

"Half of the people..." Chang'an Jun glanced at the crowd for the second time and grinned, "Those who need to be dismissed should be dismissed, and those who need to be killed should be killed. As long as you, Li Tonggu, act according to Qin law, I will not trouble you even if you empty the entire Tingwei Mansion! It's hard to find a three-legged toad, but there are plenty of two-legged people!"

"Yes!" Li Si responded loudly with sweat on his forehead.

The crown prince of Qin left.

Chief Justice Li Si, together with the Left Justice of Gongsun and the Right Justice of Wei, watched Lord Chang'an leave.

The two supervisors on the left and right stood behind Li Si, looked at each other inconspicuously, lowered their heads, and no one knew what they were thinking.

"Someone come here!" Li Si roared, as if he wanted to vent all the anger he had suffered in front of the Crown Prince of Qin.

The turbid and smelly air vibrated, and two minor officials in black blood-stained official uniforms stepped forward and responded respectfully.

"Have you no ears?" Li Si grabbed a minor official's ear and said, "Didn't you hear what the Lord said? Hurry up and take Lord Baili away!"

The clerk's ears hurt, but he dared not cry out, so he shouted "Yes", and his response was connected with the "Yes" of another clerk.

The two men carefully helped Baili Sheng up and carefully left the Tingwei Mansion.

On this day, Ying Chengjiao, the crown prince of the Qin State, visited all nineteen government offices in the Qin State.

These government offices are all related to government decrees.

Every government office is an important part of the Qin State machine, and every person in the government office is a screw on the machine.

When Ying Chengjiao arrived, he didn't do anything to oil the screws or give them benefits, but instead waved a hammer in front of the screws, threatening to knock them out and replace them with parts if they dared to cause trouble again!
Wang Wan suggested finding a scapegoat, and Ying Chengjiao admitted that this was an effective policy.

But he doesn't need to.

Just as his brother King Zheng of Qin did not use him as a white glove, he also did not need to find a scapegoat.

If something goes wrong, he will take responsibility himself!
"Mencius": A gentleman can be deceived by tricks.

It means that a gentleman can be deceived by reasonable excuses.

Zou Zi said that everything in the world has two sides, yin and yang.

It cannot be said how profound his knowledge was, but the Imperial College Chief Academician, who had read all the theories of various philosophers, combined Zou Zi's Yin-Yang theory with Mencius' Confucianism and put his knowledge into practice.

Since a gentleman can be deceived by tricks. Since there are two sides to a coin, there is yin and yang.

Then, a gentleman can deceive others! A gentleman pretending to be a gentleman can also deceive others!
He killed a white horse in public, wiped out the entire Bai family late at night, and wiped out one of the three major clans of Meng, Xi and Bai. He issued an imperial decree belonging to him as the crown prince to the old Qin nobles in Xianyang.

do not move.

I'll fuck you if you move.

If you don’t believe it, try it.

For a time, all the major government offices made no more mistakes. ————

The old patriarch of the Meng family, Meng Hua, celebrated his birthday and invited many friends.

There were old friends, young friends, and close friends and juniors. There were hundreds of people in total.

Hundreds of people came to attend the birthday banquet of Patriarch Meng. This scale was actually not considered large, and it was even a bit shabby.

But King Zhuangxiang of Qin was frugal, so the Qin nobles also lived a frugal life. There was nothing wrong with doing so during the reign of King Zhuangxiang of Qin.

But now it is King Zheng of Qin who is in power.

The old head of the Meng family led the old Qin nobles to express their dissatisfaction to King Qin Zheng with this move and to pass on information to those who had ulterior motives.

The current King of Qin is not capable, and they miss the previous king.

An hour before the birthday banquet, everyone gave gifts, enjoyed singing and dancing, and toasted each other, having a great time.

An hour passed, three rounds of wine were served, and five kinds of dishes were served.

The girls, both those in gauze and those without clothes, went down, the actors who were singing also left the stage, and the copper pipes that were fixed to the ground with a machine amplifier were also removed and taken away.

Meng Hua, who was still not at peace despite his old age, knocked the ground with his cane:
"My son told me that Chang'an Jun is a jerk who is capable of killing people and dismissing them from office, so we have to act slowly.

"Do you all think so?"

Xishan, the head of the Xi family, sat at the first seat on the left. His sister Xitao had died at the hands of Ying Chengjiao. He said with hatred on his face:

"This bastard is lawless and ambitious. What can't he do? The reason why the Bai family is not at the banquet today is because of this bastard! This guy should be killed!"

Sitting at the first seat on the right of the guest seat was Xidi, the old patriarch of the Xi family. Xidi, who was a military commander when he was young, still had a very bad temper and yelled at his son:

"Damn it! Are you looking for death? You *****"

Assassinating the crown prince, this son is so stupid that he wants to do it. Does he want to die? Isn't the lesson of the Bai family bloody enough?
There was silence at the table for a moment, with only the rare old general among the Qin nobles roaring.

Meng Hua, who hosted the banquet, was helpless.

It's not that I feel helpless about my old friend's anger, but that I feel helpless about the integrity of my country's crown prince.

Damn it, we are playing politics, why did an upright person sneak in?

How could such a ruthless, ungrateful, and mentally ill royal family have changed its feng shui? How could such an upright gentleman be born?
It wasn't just the old man who was speechless; almost everyone at the table was speechless.

If others said this, even King Zheng of Qin would not believe it, because it was not in his interest.

The world is hilarious, all come for profit.

The world is bustling with people, all seeking profit.

Clearing out the old Qin nobles who had made mistakes would paralyze the Qin government and prevent the king's orders from leaving Xianyang. This would alienate the monarch and his subjects and lead to the demise of the Qin state.

The Qin State is gone, and the King of Qin is nothing but shit.

But the person who said this was Chang'an Jun. The world all praised Qin Prince Chengjiao as the virtuous Ying Chengjiao.

For the sake of friendship, he fought with the previous king after the death of King Xiaowen of Qin but survived. For the sake of morality, he represented the State of Zhao, which hated Qin to the core, and went to the State of Yan to ask the King of Yan to stop attacking Zhao. For the sake of morality, he released Prince Dan of Yan, who had been imprisoned for several years, and let him return to Yan.

These are the good sides of the upright Prince Cheng Jiao; his bad side is even more horrifying.

Bai family, the Bai from Meng Xibai, is gone.

Although Master Chengjiao's reasons were extremely sufficient, and although many old Qin nobles also believed that Bai's death was not to be blamed.

But the fact that the Bai family, as a representative of the old Qin nobles, died at the hands of Master Chengjiao was enough to make the old Qin nobles harbor a hidden hatred for Master Chengjiao.

The butt determines the thinking, and the interests of the Bai family are the interests of the old Qin nobles.

Many people present agreed with Meng An's opinion.

The Crown Prince of Qin is a man of his words. There is nothing in the world that he dare not do!

This guy doesn't consider benefits or disadvantages, he only thinks about whether it is in line with morality, just like those thieves in Mohism, he will do anything as long as it is in line with morality.

It seems that morality can allow them to have enough food to eat, wear good clothes and play with women every day, it seems that morality can allow the Qin State to dominate the world, it seems that morality can prevent other countries from taking advantage of the situation.

Those who are righteous will have many supporters, while those who are unrighteous will have few supporters. This is bullshit!
Did the Qin State rise to power by morality? No! The Qin State rose to power by being immoral!
The old Qin nobles had always faced the Qin royal family, which was immoral and profit-oriented.

Now that a moral and upright crown prince has been appointed, the old Qin nobles have no idea where to start.

They are forcing others in order to gain benefits rather than to perish together. This guy from Qin State doesn't want them, but he still wants them.

After Xidi finished scolding Xishan, everyone made comments:
"I don't think this is a bad thing. Isn't Lord Baili fine now? This guy is not targeting us, but all those who are immoral." The head of the Wei family who said this smiled silently when he mentioned the word "morality".

The smile spread to those around him, and everyone was smiling.

The fact that the two prime ministers were temporarily dismissed from office made them vent their anger.

Baili Sheng's imprisonment in the Supreme Court was like a vacation, which made them feel very happy.

"What Duke Wei said is very reasonable." Gongsun Ce, the eldest son of the head of the Gongsun family, bowed and said, "All the seniors are here, and I would like to share my humble opinions to stimulate discussion. It seems that the fire of Lord Chang'an is going to burn us, but it has not burned us after all. The ones who were burned are the two prime ministers and the Chu clan. We have not suffered any losses at the moment."

Everyone nodded and smiled, both for Gongsun Ce's knowledge of etiquette and his analysis.

Yes, what Chang'an Jun is doing now is beneficial to them. Without considering the issue of face, as long as he doesn't cause trouble, it is really a good thing for Chang'an Jun to do things.

Wang Kuan, who was sitting second from the right, sighed inwardly.

He didn't know whether the young man had planned this or he was just an upright person.

In short, the boy achieved his goal.

The young man obtained the concession of the old Qin nobles by the royal family's concession in the Wang He case. It was a successful exchange.

The old Qin nobles' demand was that their official positions remain unchanged, and that the royal family not pursue Wang He's case, which gave them the satisfaction that the old Qin nobles, who had been satisfied on another issue, calmed down.

This is a very widely used technique.

You ask your boss for a raise, thinking you will quit if he doesn't raise your salary. But your boss doesn't raise your salary, but approves you for half a month of annual leave in more than a year. Then you may not leave.

The young man was the first to back down, but he spoke in an extremely firm manner, as if the old Qin nobles had to give in under his coercion - although there was also a little bit of this reason.

The royal dignity was preserved and the national crisis was resolved. It was a really good job.

But... these are only temporary. The head of the Wang family, who stands on the side of the old Qin nobles, smiled and said:

"Why guess so much?
“There are so many government offices, why not find one and give it a try.

"I, Wang, am willing to be the vanguard."

(End of this chapter)