VII

Chapter 17

The incident happened 300 years ago, in the spring of the fourth year of the Qin calendar 710, the regent Su Zhe killed the late emperor with a cup of poisoned wine, and led his troops to slaughter more than 20 children of the late emperor, leaving only the youngest prince Yingxi who was only seven years old. On the second day, he supported the little emperor Yingxi to become emperor.Yingxi, who later became Emperor Qin Cheng, was an emperor with mixed reputations.

It stands to reason that Su Zhe's conspiracy to rebel and kill the emperor has become known all over the world. Since Su Zhe has killed the royal family to the point where there is only one seedling left, why didn't he just kill the little emperor and enthroned himself as the king? The emperor, why do you want to support a puppet to be the emperor?No one knew what Su Zhe was thinking, just like no one knew why the little emperor grew up to adulthood safely.

Ten years back in time, in this precarious, endangered Great Qin Empire with only one-third of the land left, Su Zhe, who took part in the imperial examination for the first time and won the third prize, was appointed as the number one scholar by the late emperor. , from official to prime minister in six years, for a time the family was crowded and powerful.The first emperor even wanted to honor him with his favorite princess, but Su Zhe refused on the grounds that the country had internal and external troubles and had no intention of starting a family.

At that time, Su Zhe was still a loyal and capable minister. At least on the surface, after he refused the emperor's marriage offer, he took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the battlefield, rectify military discipline, train soldiers, and even left behind many classic battles. It should have been a joyful and universally celebrated event to receive and pay most of the land, but the enemy was frightened upon hearing Su Zhe's name, and the army he led was called the Su Family Army.

It's a pity that the good times don't last long, since ancient times, those who have made great achievements generally have no good end. The first emperor listened to the instigation of the courtiers and fell into the enemy's countermeasures. First, he refused to cut off the food and grass for the reinforcements, causing Su Zhe to be defeated. Zhe blamed Su Zhe on the grounds that he could not regain the last bit of land.Probably it really is that the birds are all good bows, the cunning rabbits are dead and the dogs are cooking. Seeing that there are only a few cities left that have not been recovered, the first emperor thought that without Su Zhe, he could defeat the enemy. After changing the generals, he actually gave a white silk , a glass of poisoned wine and a sword, let Su Zhe choose one of them decently to commit suicide.

Therefore, Su Zhe was forced to rebel against the late emperor, leaving half of his troops to guard the frontier, and took the other half straight to the imperial city. The poisoned wine was returned to the first emperor, the white silk was given to the concubines in the harem, and the sword took away many princes.

No one thought that Su Zhe would rebel, because Su Zhe was too decent no matter how he behaved or acted. When all the ministers thought that Su Zhe, who was so loyal and courageous, would choose to commit suicide to prove his innocence, they did not expect that in just a few days, everyone Has been reduced to a prisoner.He was originally a loyal minister and a pillar of the country, but he did such treacherous and evil things.It's puzzling.

Su Zhe is an unpredictable person. People thought he was a loyal minister, but in the end he committed such a heinous crime of treason; people thought he would commit suicide, but he brought his troops back to poison and massacre the late emperor. Many children; people thought that since he succeeded in rebellion, he should change the dynasty and become the emperor himself. As a result, he pushed the little prince to the throne and became the regent himself. Under one person; people thought that he wanted to use the little emperor as a puppet and a fig leaf for the last bit of face. In Su Zhe's heart, and everyone knew it, people thought that the little emperor would not live to be an adult, but the little emperor was mediocre. An An lived to adulthood; people thought that the little emperor would be made useless by Su Zhe, and he would be raised as Emperor Hui of Jin who knew nothing about the sufferings of the world and told why he should not eat minced meat. It turned out that Su Zhe, known as the number one talented man in the Great Qin Dynasty, personally taught him The little emperor, the little emperor has grown up very well, he is not crooked at all, he is not lacking in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the way of governing the country, and the emperor's mind...

When the little emperor was 25 years old, he was still not in charge, and the regent Su Zhe still firmly controlled the government. The strange thing is that in the past 20 years, Su Zhe has regained the lost ground and eliminated the most terrible enemy of the Great Qin Dynasty.Internal reforms and innovations, rectification of officials, made the country recover from the decline, and there is a bit of ZTE.Because the little emperor has grown up for a long time, Su Zhe has been reluctant to return to power. Many ministers seem to have forgotten how the late emperor and the many children of the late emperor died. , because of their interests, everyone began to form the Royalist Party and the Regent Party.

For the little emperor Yingxi, his feelings for Su Zhe are too complicated, so complicated that he doesn't know whether to love more or hate more.Su Zhe killed his father, queen, mother and many brothers and sisters, but he played the role of father, elder and teacher in his life.

At first Yingxi was very afraid of Su Zhe, afraid of screaming out of control when he saw Su Zhe, he hid behind the eunuch and shivered, because he had seen that massacre, and the bright red hot blood even splashed on him face.In his eyes, Su Zhe is a nightmare!It's the devil!It's the butcher!Later, Yingxi gradually realized that it seemed that Su Zhe needed himself to be a puppet, and he would not kill himself, so he started all kinds of rebellious confrontation, verbal insults, and everything was against Su Zhe, opposing for the sake of opposing; Later, when Yingxi realized that if he wanted to bring down Su Zhe, he had to learn those things, Su Zhe had patiently taught him for ten years.

As everyone knows, Su Zhe is a very contradictory and strange person. He doesn't have a strong desire for power, but he firmly controls the government and treats the little emperor as a puppet in his hands, a machine for imprinting jade seals.But at the same time, he patiently and carefully taught the little emperor everything he must have to become an emperor, taught him to read and write, and taught him to understand people's hearts.In Yingxi's eyes, Su Zhe looks handsome, upright, gentle and scholarly, not like a general who has experienced a sea of ​​corpses and blood, nor like a ruthless and decisive emperor changer.But he is just a bastard who stole the imperial power and despised the Lord!

This is a disease, the little emperor said to himself, Su Zhe is in control of his own consciousness and heart, he cannot rely on Su Zhe, he cannot like Su Zhe, he must hate him!Sooner or later, he will be killed!But the little emperor felt that he was hopelessly dependent on him, liked him, and wanted to see him.This made the little emperor feel fear, fear, confusion, and sweetness and happiness that he couldn't help himself.

Finally, with the support of the royalists, Yingxi finally overthrew the regent who was overwhelming him at the age of 27.In the dungeon, facing Su Zhe who was bound by heavy iron chains, Yingxi felt a strange sense of comfort and a desire to conquer. He said, "Uncle Regent, have you ever thought about today?"

Su Zhe smiled lightly, under such circumstances he could still laugh! "I have thought about it, and I also expected today's end." Yingxi felt that Su Zhe didn't look embarrassed at all, he was safe and peaceful, just like a long time ago, in the imperial study, he patiently and meticulously taught him to read Han Feizi over and over again. , the little emperor didn’t read, tore up the book, smashed the inkstone, lifted the table, and yelled loudly, Su Zhe acted as if he couldn’t see or hear, forcing the little emperor to read along word by word, if he couldn’t memorize it, he wouldn’t have dinner .

"Please!" The little emperor, no, the 27-year-old Yingxi is not too young, but he is as anxious as a child, walking up and down in front of Su Zhe with his hands behind his back, "Su Zhe, You beg me!"

"Your Majesty, what do you want me to ask of you?" Su Zhe asked softly.

"Of course it is..." Yingxi suddenly got stuck, what did he want Su Zhe to ask him for?spare him?impossible!What Su Zhe committed was a crime that would not be exaggerated to punish the Nine Clans!Although Su Zhe has no father, no mother, no relatives, no friends, no wife and no children.Let him go?Less likely!The crime has been settled, and he has personally approved the punishment of death by a thousand swords. He wrote the word 'Zhun' with a fine cinnabar pen, and the Chuan Guo Yuxi seal is printed in the center with cinnabar, which is so red that it dazzles the eye.

The irritable emperor was speechless. He quickly walked up to Su Zhe, clamped Su Zhe's jaw, and said gloomily, "Please forgive you! Please forgive you! 'Su Zhe' must die! But You can live!"

Su Zhe smiled: "Your Majesty is planning to find a substitute for the minister? After that? How does Your Majesty plan to arrange the minister? The face of the minister, once shown, will cause more than an uproar!"

"For! Zhen! Forbidden! Shu!" the emperor said to Su Zhe seriously.

"Hahahahaha!" Su Zhe was out of breath from laughing, and said while laughing: "Your Majesty is disappointed, I can't do it!"

"Su Zhe!" The emperor shouted angrily: "Why can't you do it! You haven't married a wife and had children for so many years, and you don't have a loved one. I see that you treat women equally with men and have no preference. Why don't you agree? I? I was taught by you, isn't it good?"

"I have." Su Zhe stopped laughing, turned his head and shook off the emperor's hand clamping his chin, and said lightly: "I have someone I love, and I have loved him for many, many years. Your Majesty, you are very good, but you are not him." .”

"Who is it!" The emperor was extremely angry, but calmed down: "I'm going to chop him up and feed him to the dogs!"

Su Zhe's face turned cold, and he said in a distant manner: "Your Majesty, please go back. Tomorrow noon is the time for execution. Don't waste time here!" The person who lost his fear, melted away his fear, and felt pain in his heart just thinking about it, is the ancestor of this little emperor, how can he be insulted by ignorant people?

"You!" The emperor said angrily, "Is it true that you won't allow me?"

"Get out." Su Zhe said lightly.

"I don't believe it yet!" The emperor approached Su Zhe, tore off Su Zhe's coat, opened his mouth and bit Su Zhe's neck, his hands eagerly stretched in from Su Zhe's hem, and couldn't wait to caress that soft skin. waist. "I want you here today!"

Su Zhe was firmly bound by heavy chains. He couldn't resist, and he never thought of resisting. He knew the emperor, and there were many ways to calm down the emperor who was dazzled by anger. "Your Majesty, do you want to know why Daqin's army didn't mutiny when you locked up the minister?"

The emperor paused, Su Zhe's words hit the place that he was most worried about. It stands to reason that two-thirds of the empire's army is in the hands of Su Zhe. Those generals and soldiers regard Su Zhe as an undefeated military god. , as a belief.Even if he has changed the marshal as quickly as possible, he may not be able to control the slack military spirit.Yingxi never thought that he could bring down Su Zhe so smoothly, but it was just a big gamble, because he was the only one left in the royal family, and Su Zhe would not gamble on how he would do if he failed. Opportunity.The emperor is 27 years old this year, and he has not yet taken control of real power after being an adult for nearly ten years. How can the emperor be reconciled to this?

"Your Majesty... If you stop now, you will still be the emperor of the Great Qin Empire, and your minister will still be a sycophant of this country. Tomorrow, you should go to the execution ground to scare others with thousands of swords, so that the entire empire will face, and you will avenge the late emperor... If you are serious If you use force against your ministers, the throne you have managed to secure will probably change hands!" Su Zhe said coldly.

"You are threatening me!" the emperor said calmly, "You really saved a hand! You did it on purpose! You were caught by me on purpose! You have confidantes in the army! You also have confidants in the court! Who are you! How did you get in touch! Tell me!"

"Since you are a confidant, how can you tell me at will?" Su Zhe looked at the emperor with a smile, and there was a vague sense of fatherly comfort in his smile, "As for the contact information, to be honest, there is no one. It's just that your majesty, you said that the minister was deliberately forced You caught it, do you think this prison can trap ministers?"

"This is the strongest prison in the empire! A fly can't get out of it!" The emperor obviously lacked confidence, but he wanted to be brave.

"Oh, really?" Su Zhe looked at the emperor indifferently, and broke the thick chain of the baby's arm in front of the emperor. Under the shocked eyes of the emperor, he reached out and grabbed the emperor's arm at an unavoidable speed. neck. "You should be lucky, you are the last blood of the orthodox Ying..." The old monster who has lived for more than 700 years, even if he has not cultivated into a fairy god, is not as powerful as ordinary people can imagine.

Throwing the emperor to the ground, Su Zhe turned his back to the emperor and said, "You should go back, Your Majesty. You don't want to force the ministers to walk out of this prison and call the old department to rebel again, do you?"

"Ahem... Can I know who your beloved is?" the emperor said unwillingly, rubbing his neck. "Is everything you did for him! Is he dead? Otherwise, why have I never seen him, and never heard you mention it! You are not human! Who are you!"

"He's not dead, and he won't die..." Su Zhe said calmly, "Your Majesty should not know the rest. Go back! If Your Majesty is interested, you can personally come to the execution ground for punishment tomorrow. Your parents Brothers and sisters are all killed by my hands, you should hate me! As for those messy feelings, they shouldn’t exist in the world, they should rot in your heart, never say it!”

"Haha." The emperor stood up and laughed, pointing at Su Zhe's back and said: "Su Zhe, you are more pitiful than me! I can't ask for it! You are not much better! Tomorrow I will arrive at the execution ground on time and see it with my own eyes. See if Aiqing really has a heart of stone under her flesh and bones!"

On the second day, Su Zhe, the guilty minister, was hacked into pieces. His Majesty the Emperor personally imprisoned him. Afterwards, he ordered the executioners to collect the sliced ​​meat, make it delicious, eat it himself, and merge with Su Zhe in another way. , to achieve the desired.

Yingxi, Emperor Cheng of Qin, six months after Su Zhe's death, collected beauties from all over the world to enrich the harem, and he was lucky every day.There are tens of thousands of beauties in the harem, but there is no queen for life.Because the power once fell to the side, Su Zhe was in the shadow, and he firmly controlled the power all his life, worked hard to govern, and loved the people like his own son.Emperor Cheng studied under Su Zhe, both civil and military, and even painted excellent paintings. According to legend, Emperor Cheng dreamed of entering a fairyland in his later years, and had to meet immortals. They had a good conversation. After waking up, he retreated from everyone and stayed in the imperial study for three days and three nights He painted an image of a fairy, laughed three times and died after the painting was finished. No one saw the painting, and even disappeared after that, which is also a strange story.

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PS: Su Zhe is one of Fusu's aliases, the little emperor has Stockholm syndrome, and finally became sick and black.Su Zhe's work is similar to that of Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty. Interested to know more about it.

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