Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 140 Teacher and Disciple [Second update, please subscribe]

The king's lack of kindness never happens overnight, but lasts for a long time.

Ying Ji put down Chen Shen's memorial and turned to look in the distance, which was the direction of Lord Wen'an's residence and the direction of the tomb of Lord An Guo Chen Ye.

After An Guojun died, he was buried with him according to the instructions of the late king Ying Si.

This went beyond the standards of ordinary ministers, and was called "beautiful talk" for a while. The friendship between An Guojun and Huiwen King Yingsi was praised by everyone.

But only Ying Ji knew that the king's suspicion had already appeared.

Why did he begin to promote the positions of "Three Officials" and "Three Divisions" not long after he took office, and began to divide the power in the hands of the Chen family?

After all, Chen has always been very "loyal", or rather not showing loyalty, but really being loyal.

No matter how much jealousy Ying Ji had, Chen should not have shown it at this time, when he had just ascended the throne.

——At least after taking full control of power.

But he still did it.

Because this was the explanation given by the late king, before King Huiwen died and before Chen Ye, Chen Shen and others arrived at the palace, he had already given instructions for his future affairs, and only Ying Ji knew about it.

Ying Ji still remembers that scene.

His father held his hands and told him to beware of the Chen family to avoid something like what happened in Qi.

But while you’re on guard, you don’t have to be afraid either.

Because as long as Chen Ye and Chen Shen are together, or the second generation of the Chen family is together, the Chen family will always be Qin's greatest guarantee.

What he was worried about was Chen's future.

Therefore, the power must be taken back, but only while one of Chen Ye, Chen Shen, and Chen Zhan is alive.

Why did Ying Ji start doing this as soon as he took office?

Because Chen Ye has passed away, Chen Shen is not in good health, and Chen Zhan is a military general. He doesn't know when he will die in battle.

The threat of taking back power later is too great.

So, come now.

Ying Ji stood up and walked in the palace. His mood was very complicated, and he felt that he was embarrassed to see his teacher.

Perhaps, when people are afraid of something happening, something will happen.

There was a sound of rapid footsteps outside the hall, and the chamberlain came in. After calming down his voice, he said: "Your Majesty, Grand Master Chen Shou is here to see you."

Ying Ji was squatting there. His teacher was here?

After hesitating for a few moments, he looked at the waiter and said, "Please come quickly."

After saying this, he sat behind the desk and looked at the memorial in his hand. Although his face was still calm, there was a trace of guilt deep in his eyes. He was busy with something in his hands and just put things down back and forth. pick up.

"Tap tap tap——"

There was a sound of footsteps and Chen Shou walked in. The first thing he saw was Ying Ji sitting there pretending to be busy.

He shook his head and sighed.

In fact, in the second half of today's "family meeting", everyone clearly understood that it was not Ying Ji who wanted to be wary of the Chen family and who wanted to dismantle the Chen family, but "King Huiwen", so they I lamented over and over again how "the king is so ungrateful".

He looked at the disciple in front of him, wondering what he was thinking in his heart.

Will this disciple of mine be like the late king in the future?

Be wary of your own teachers?

Before he died, he made arrangements for his son's funeral, one of which was to deal with his teacher?

he does not know.

Ying Ji, who was sitting behind the desk and pretending to be busy, was a little flustered. He lowered his head and couldn't see clearly what was going on in the hall. He didn't know what Chen Shou was thinking when he was standing there. He just heard the footsteps stop. It never rang again.

He began to wonder in his mind, was his teacher looking at him with a disappointed look?

After a long time, Chen Shou's still calm voice sounded in the hall.

"Is Your Majesty so busy today? I just don't know if you have time to listen to my minister chatter a few words?"

Ying Ji raised his head, and the movements in his hands were still busy concealing his anxiety and embarrassment. He just said softly: "Teacher, are you here?"

"Please take a seat."

Chen Shou looked at Ying Ji like this and suddenly smiled.

He didn't know whether Ying Ji would be like Ying Si in the future, but Ying Ji was obviously not like that at this time. He would feel guilty and embarrassed because "Chen's" loyalty was broken, and he would feel embarrassed because he didn't know How to pretend to be a teacher in front of yourself.

this is normal.

Chen Shou shook his head and sighed: "Okay, no need to pretend."

His tone broke away from the alienation just now, and became familiar to Ying Ji again. He said with a smile: "The king must have seen the memorial from the eldest brother, right?"

Ying Ji nodded slightly, his voice a little heavy: "Wen Anjun is the pillar of the Qin State. If there is a problem with your body, you must be concerned."

"I have sent an imperial physician to go there, and I will definitely make Wen Anjun recover."

Chen Shou smiled, but his words were as sharp as a knife: "Does the king really think that the eldest brother is "seriously ill"?"

Ying Ji was silent.

He didn't know how to answer.

However, Chen Shou did not show any mercy and continued: "Brother's complaint of illness is not just for the king, but also to give Mr. Chen some dignity."

"We know this is not what the King meant."

Hearing this, Ying Ji suddenly raised his head, with surprise in his eyes. He did not expect that Chen would know this.

Chen Shou continued: "The eldest brother will report his illness. In two years, when Zhang Yi can accept his affairs, he will write a letter and start a memorial to return to the fiefdom."

"Zhao'er will also resign from the position of Sikou, stating that he wants to travel around the country and complete the "writing of books and biographies" that my father has not completed. This is to fulfill the last wish of our ancestors, so I hope the king can agree."

Chen Zhao is leaving too?

Before Ying Ji could react and say anything, he heard Chen Shou continue: "Chen An will also write a letter and resign from the position of minister, indicating that he only wants to follow in the footsteps of the sages."

He sighed and said, "Zhuangzi has agreed to accept Third Brother as his disciple."

Chen Shou continued: "The eldest brother only has two children, one is Zhao'er, and the other is just born. Zhao'er has no choice but to leave, but that child cannot leave his mother, so he leaves together."

"My fifth brother and I will stay in Xianyang City. At the same time, the second brother's eldest son will come to Xianyang City from Guandu, and the third brother's eldest son will also stay in Xianyang City."

He looked at Ying Ji: "My fifth brother and I will not talk about it. If the two of us stay in Xianyang, our children will naturally stay in Xianyang too."

"The rest of the Chen family will return to Guandu."

"Your Majesty, do you think Chen's proposal is appropriate?"

At this time, Chen Shou was no longer the Grand Master Chen Shou or Ying Ji's teacher, but Chen Shou, the fourth son of the Chen family. He represented the interests of the Chen family.

The young emperor looked at Chen Shou with a hint of melancholy and helplessness in his tone: "I know the teacher is afraid that I will feel guilty, but teacher, do you and I have to come to this point?"

Before Chen Shou could answer, he said, "I agree with what the teacher said."

"But the teacher and Wu Anjun's children don't have to stay in Xianyang City."

Ying Ji laughed at himself: "Presumably in the hearts of all the Chen family's disciples, Xianyang City has become a dragon's pond and a tiger's den, right?"

"In that case, why stay?"

"I am not a fatuous monarch, and I don't need Chen to leave a "proton" to feel at ease." He looked at Chen Shou: "I just want to know, is Chen really willing? Is Wen'an really willing?"

Chen Shou's expression remained unchanged. He knew that this was the king's last temptation, so he just smiled and said: "Chen has nothing to be unwilling to do. At first, my father was just a beggar. Later, he met Lord Shang and rose to prominence."

"After that, after three dynasties including Xiaogong, Xianwang, and Wangshang, he was awarded the title of Anguo. He even reached the 20th level of military merit and was granted the title of Marquis of Che."

"Such brilliance has already satisfied Chen."

His voice was soft as he recalled the past: "Nowadays, the Chen family has three titles, including half of the three divisions and three princes. Such glory, which family in the past and present can achieve this?"

"As for the so-called loss, Chen doesn't care."

Chen Shou looked at Ying Ji: "When my father was still alive, he once said that all Chen wanted was to be worthy of heaven, to be worthy of the earth, and to have a conscience worthy of oneself."

“Now people like Chen can do that.”

"Wealth is fleeting."

Ying Ji listened to Chen Shou's words and was filled with emotion. Chen at this time was exactly the same as what his father said before his death.

He immediately took out an edict from under the desk.

"No, it's not one sect with three titles."

Chen Shou was stunned, one sect with three titles?

He took a look at the edict and saw that it clearly stated that he would be crowned king for himself.

Chen Shou looked complicated: "Your Majesty, my merits may not be enough to make you a king."

Ying Ji smiled casually: "This is not Gu's edict. Look, whose edict is this?"

Chen Shou looked down and realized that this was actually an edict from King Huiwen!

It says on it that Chen Shou is granted the title of Lord of Guandu!

Previously, Chen Ye, plus the fiefdoms of Chen Shen and Chen Zhan, had already occupied half of Guandu, and this edict directly gave the remaining half of Guandu to the Chen family.

From then on, as long as the Qin State was still there, Guandu would always be the Chen family's Guandu.

Of course.

A hundred years later, as long as the Chen family is still in this land, the people in this land will gradually become accustomed to the existence of the "Chen family".

For them, "Chen" is the "king of the country".

Regardless of the change of dynasties, no one can touch the existence of the Chen family anymore.

Chen Shou sighed slightly and sighed in his heart, "Zhen En is the most emperor, but thinking about his old love is also an emperor."

He bowed his head and saluted: "On behalf of the Chen family, I would like to thank the king."

In the winter of the ninth year of King Zhaoxiang's reign, Chen Shen, the right prime minister, wrote to complain about his illness, and Zhang Yi was appointed to take over his duties temporarily.

In the spring of King Zhaoxiang's tenth year, Chen Shen, the right prime minister, wrote a letter claiming to be sick and asked to return home. The superiors refused and sent the imperial physician to treat Wen'an Jun. When the imperial physician came back, he said that Wen'an Jun's health was caused by overwork.

If he continues to work like this, it may affect his lifespan.

After hearing the news, Ying Ji no longer had any reason to retain Chen Shen.

In the summer of the tenth year of King Zhaoxiang.

Wen'an Jun and Youxiang Guo Chen Shen wrote for the fourth time to complain of illness and request to return home and return to their fiefdoms. King Qin Ying Ji finally agreed.

In the autumn of the same year.

Sikou Chen Zhao resigned, saying that when An Guojun Chen Ye passed away, he regretted that he could not write a book and write a biography. As Chen Ye's grandson, he needed to fulfill his father's wish, so he wanted to travel around the world.

However, there is a heavy burden on me and I cannot leave it easily.

Therefore, I resign.

Wang repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, but in the end he couldn't.

When Chen Shen resigned, people didn't notice anything. But when Chen Zhao also resigned, people finally smelled a little "flavor" from it, which was a kind of regret that he missed the "big war".

In the winter of the tenth year of King Zhaoxiang, after the position of right prime minister had been vacant for half a year, Ying Ji issued an edict, appointing Zhang Yi as left prime minister and moving to Su Qin as right prime minister.

In the spring of the eleventh year of King Zhaoxiang.

Taiwei Chen Zhan complained of illness and stated that his body could no longer handle the affairs of the Taiwei. He hoped that Ying Ji would allow him to hand over some of his affairs to the military commander Ma Baiqi.

He continued to hold the position of "Taiwei".

Ying Ji agreed.

In just two years, the situation in Qin has changed.

The Chen family, which was so glorious in the past, suddenly fell like a big tree. In the past, the three masters and three princes accounted for half of the Chen family. Now there is only Chen Shou, the grand master with no real power in the court. Chen Zhan, the "Taiwei" who gained most of the power.

Although Anguojun's Mansion and Wen'anjun's Mansion are still there, most of Chen's disciples have left Xianyang City and returned to their fiefdom, Guandu.

相府

Zhang Yi looked complicated. He should have been happy to become the prime minister, but he didn't know why he couldn't be happy.

"The Chen family's decline was so rapid."

Su Qin glanced at Zhang Yi and said, "Do you think the Chen family has declined?"

Zhang Yi was stunned, isn't it?

Su Qin said with emotion: "If this is considered a failure, then I hope that the Su family will also be in such a decline in the future."

"Mr. Wen'an and the others have left Xianyang City and returned to their own fiefdom."

"Be like a king in your fief."

"Chen did not completely stay away from the court, but went into hibernation."

"Although it seems to be defeated on the surface, in fact, no matter whether it is the foundation or the connections, there is no shortage."

"There are two people, Taiwei and Taishi, at court, and in the middle there are countless disciples and students of the Chen family, and then there is Guandu as the backbone of the fiefdom."

"Since then, the Chen family has had a phenomenon that can last for hundreds of years!"

A phenomenon that continues for a hundred years?

Zhang Yi was shocked, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Thinking about this, I couldn't help but sigh: "So that's it."

He shook his head and chuckled: "I'm afraid this is what Mr. An Guo wants to see, right?"

Su Qin put down the cup in his hand and said, "How could I know that this was not arranged by Lord An Guo?"

Zhao State, Handan City.

King Zhao Huiwen looked surprised and surprised: "What did you say?"

"Mr. Chen left Qin?"

The person in the audience said with an embarrassed look: "Your Majesty, the Chen family did not leave Qin, but just returned to their fiefdom, Guandu."

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"In the eleventh year of King Zhaoxiang, the Chen family went to Guandu. From then on, the Chen family in Guandu was established." "Hua Xia Shu·Chen Family in Guandu"

(End of this chapter)