Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 269 Longxi
“…This is my fault.”

After coming out of the tent,
Ying Zheng was dragged by He Bo and walked around the surrounding areas.

After walking for a while,

The First Emperor suddenly spoke, uttering these words without any expression.

"What?"

The ghost, whose eyes had been attracted by a perfect-looking wooden stick on the roadside, came back to his senses.

He reluctantly withdrew his gaze from the stick and moved it to the face of the First Emperor.

"Why do you say that suddenly?"

Will the stubborn ones ever wake up one day?

The First Emperor simply turned his back.
The soul appeared a little hazy under the dim sunlight of early spring.

He fell silent again.

So He Bo ignored him, ran over to pick up the stick, and waved it, dealing heavy blows to the grass and trees nearby that had finally survived the winter snow and sprouted a few green buds.

After the ruthless ghost roared at a large area around it and beat a mixed-haired rabbit that had just crawled out of its nest and came to look for food,

The First Emperor then spoke again:
“I thought I had everything under control.”

"I thought the problem had been solved and it won't appear again, so Fusu can travel more easily and conveniently."

"but……"

Today's world,
How can it be called "good"?

The common people, whom he had never taken seriously, stood up first and shook the Qin Dynasty's 700-year-old country.

Although Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had died one after another,

But the rebels still exist.
One of the main forces,
Even Liu Bang, who came from a humble background!
Ah,
Just a Sishui Pavilion Chief...

In Xianyang, in front of the noble Qin Shi Huang, wouldn't such an identity be considered lowly?
If there is no rebellion,

After Liu Qing's death, the most praiseworthy person who could improve Liu's wealth and status must be his distant relative, Hei?
In places outside of the Xia Dynasty,
The First Emperor also thought that by repairing the Great Wall, he could stop the Huns and everyone could rest assured.

But who could have expected that
Would the Huns take a detour through the Western Regions and attack the heartland of the Qin Dynasty?
The Qin Dynasty was attacked from both sides.

The already not-so-good situation has become even worse!

Before Ying Zheng was pushed into the tent, he met his eldest son Fusu and discovered that the 33-year-old Emperor II already had strands of white hair and looked very tired.

He looked back at the other person's past appearance.

It was discovered that Fusu aged rapidly during the few years since he ascended the throne, and the sadness between his brows was always lingering.

Fusu is a person,
He is a kind gentleman.
Nor is there a lack of courage.

If he was a timid, bookish, and foolish scholar, he would not dare to refute his father's decrees or argue with him.

Because Fusu's maternal clan was physically wiped out by the First Emperor, and the names of many of them were erased from history.

Hei Zhuang also secretly tried to find out Fusu's thoughts through his daughter Sha -

In the heart of this eldest son,
In fact, I have always had the thought that "my father might kill me".

Since he had such an idea and dared to raise objections to his father, Fusu could definitely be called "brave".

But he is really not suitable to be emperor.

Or,

He was not suitable to take over the foundation left by the First Emperor. He should have been born in a peaceful dynasty and become a stable heir.

Can be biased,
Ying Zheng passed this throne to him.

"So I ask, is there anything that cannot be said between a father and a son?"

"If you love him, tell him honestly!"

In He Bo's opinion,
Fusu's current performance,
Isn't it because he experienced his father slaughtering his mother's clan when he was young, and thus developed this fear and anxiety in his heart for many years?
He Bo looked at Ying Zheng and said to him seriously, "If Fusu fails to protect his foundation and dies, you should not have a stern face and just curse at him."

"Otherwise I'm afraid he will run away with Ying Quliang later!"

Since Qin Xiaogong had let go of everything, he had been enjoying his free and easy life after his death.

Also, because he was the most senior ancestor of the Qin Dynasty in the underworld, he gained the closeness and trust of many of the Qin Dynasty's rulers and ministers.

Fusu thought that he would also like this ancestor.

Ying Zheng wanted to refute him and said, "Fusu will never betray his father." But when he turned around, he found that he had to look up to find He Bo among the dense branches.

"Why are you climbing a tree again?"

Ying Zheng couldn't help but think of the "Xuanniao" that was transformed from a ghost.

After dying,

He Bo specially invited Ying Zheng many times, and proudly showed off his years of secret surveillance of him.

Ying Zheng therefore knew that

Ghosts and gods are just ghosts and gods.
He can transform everything, not just the "black bird" that descends from the sky.

But this does not affect the inherent impression of Ying Zheng.

After all, when he was alive, every time the ghosts and gods appeared before him,
He Bo always looks like a big fat black bird, and at first glance he looks like the kind that is suitable for incubating eggs.

Therefore, Ying Zheng did not think it was "inappropriate" when ghosts and gods climbed up trees.

The scene of just a bird and a person hanging on a tree still feels different.

Especially since the tree was not strong, and after surviving the winter snow, it was oppressed by He Bo, which made people feel distressed at the sight.

"Oh, I was hitting this tree with a stick just now, and accidentally knocked down the bird's nest on it."

The ghost said kindly, "There are still a few eggs in this bird's nest. I can't let the little lives die before they hatch, right?"

"But if you want to eat bird eggs, I can help you get them."

Looking down at Ying Zheng from the tree, He Bo winked at him again.

“…That’s not necessary.”

"You're welcome. You're more important than the bird! And I just checked and found that this is a cuckoo's egg. It's not a pity to eat it!"

The "dove" in "the dove takes over the magpie's nest" refers to the cuckoo.

Ying Zheng no longer responded to him and turned away.

Before he could take two steps,
Another gust of wind blew over, carrying the shouts of battle into the ears of He Bo and Ying Zheng.

The latter saw that
A flag representing the emperor was raised in the Qin army.

Although it is in the back position,
Although there were many soldiers surrounding the flag,

But it finally appeared on the battlefield.

Ying Zheng just stared at the flag and subconsciously clenched his hands into fists.

He turned his head and wanted to ask something from the ghosts and gods, but in the end he didn't say it.

He Bo heard him sigh, and then murmured, "This is my fault."

up to now,

Ying Zheng still did not think that unifying the world was a wrong thing to do.

Or as a monarch,
Rule over a wider area of land,
Leading the army to conquer a vast territory,
Establish a strong and tight centralized system.
This should be his innate mission!

Ying Zheng was just fulfilling his duties.

His regrets and reflections are more about his identity as a "father".

Failure to leave a stable and prosperous country to the successor,

I cannot let my beloved children live a peaceful and smooth life.
Isn't this his fault?

Now the world has become like this,

Fusu endured such a shock after his own death.

Ying Zheng couldn't put all the blame on others and said, "This chaos has nothing to do with me, it's all caused by the incompetence of the heir!"

Thinking like this,

He unclenched his fists and walked forward. He stood on a hill near the battlefield, quietly looking at the flag and the soldiers below who were fighting bravely for Ying Qin.

He Bo continued to stay on the tree pretending to be a monkey.

Ximen Bao emerged from thin air and reported the latest battle situation in Shandong to the ghosts and gods.

Although ghosts and gods can know what is happening thousands of miles away, as a subordinate, Doctor Ximen always has to fulfill his duties.

How can we not report and leave no trace of our work just because the leader already knows about it?
After finishing talking about Shandong, Ximen Bao looked at the back of the First Emperor again and knew that he was worried about his kingdom and descendants.

He secretly said to the ghosts and gods, "Building the imperial mausoleum, the Great Wall, the straight road and many other major projects will certainly benefit the country."

"But how could he think that he could repair everything in more than ten years without causing drastic consequences?"

Imperial Tomb,

It is the burial place of the emperor after his death.

The Zhou Li had long stipulated that the more noble a person is, the more grand their burial should be after their death.

So, in the eyes of the dead ghosts in the underworld, there was nothing wrong with Emperor Qin Shihuang building his mausoleum.

There is no need to mention the Great Wall.

Expanding territory and expelling foreign invaders has always been the mission of the Chinese nation to educate the people. Moreover, building walls is an old skill of the Chinese gentlemen, and it must be continued and developed.

As for the roads,

Anyone with legs will not question road construction.

But with so many things happening at the same time, and the leaders constantly pushing for progress,

A good thing turns into a bad thing.

For this,

He Bo could only say, "They were all built to repair the canals!"

Ximen Bao built the "Yinzhang Canal" in Ye County.
The First Emperor built the Zhengguo Canal in Guanzhong.
The common people endured the pain for a period of time.

But the result is always good.

The Qin State accumulated strong capital to unify the world by relying on the Zhengguo Canal.

Therefore,
With this precedent,

There was a reason why the First Emperor had more confidence in large-scale projects.

When Ximen Bao heard this, he remembered what happened in the past and laughed under the tree where the ghosts and gods were causing trouble.

(End of this chapter)