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

Chapter 209 Conflict [Second update, please subscribe]

The people of Xianyang City and the people of Qin State did not feel much difference for the time being, but the officials of Qin State were the first to feel the difference.

After Chen Zheng ascended to the position of "Left Prime Minister" and Wang Wan became the Right Prime Minister, people thought that the power of the Chen family in the court would be suppressed. After all, Wang Wan was not a member of the Chen family.

But the truth is exactly the opposite.

Not only was the Chen family's power not suppressed, it actually reared its head again.

Even more powerful than during Chen Zhong's time.

Because the style of "Chen Zheng" is different from that of Chen Zhong. Chen Zhong is the heir of Chen Yu, and he has studied with his father since he was a child. Therefore, strictly speaking, he is a disciple of the "Taoist" lineage, and he also studied the Taoist "Wuwei" And rule" style.

He is quite free and easy, exactly like Zhuangzi, Chen Per's teacher back then.

But Chen Zheng is different.

Chen Zheng is the child of Chen Su and the eldest son of the fifth generation of the Chen family. Chen Su is the child of Chen Zhao and the eldest son of the fourth generation.

Just like Chen Zheng.

He stood on tiptoes and wiped the sweat from Chen Su's forehead.

But Chen Zheng is different.

Guandu

After what happened to Chen Jun and others last time, Chen Jun asked himself to go to the ancestral hall to guard the ancestral hall and never came out from then on.

Of course, after it is expressed, the form of expression is also the "Dharma".

Chen Su is not worried about Chen Ju and Chen Zheng living together, nor is he worried about Chen Zheng teaching Chen Ju

When he was young, because he was traveling around the country and running schools, he did not teach Chen Zheng attentively. As a result, Chen Zheng grew up to be like this without a city. He was already suffering enough. If his eldest grandson also grew up with him. The same as the eldest son.

Chen Su helplessly held his forehead.

Chen Zhengxue doesn't know how to be tactful.

Of course, following him back was Chen Zheng's eldest son, Chen Ju.

Chen Ju, who looked to be only five or six years old, stood in front of Chen Su, holding Chen Su's hand and smiling with a warm smile on his face: "Father, don't feel bad, Ju'er is here."

There were only a few people in the Chen family who could make the decision, so Chen Su returned to Guandu to take charge.

Before that, whether it was the Chen Ye period, the Chen Shen period, or the Chen Zhao and Chen Zhong periods, the Chen family would restrain themselves and would not confront the imperial power and the emperor head-on.

Days passed in this situation, and Chen's power gradually expanded, and Chen Zheng became a "powerful minister" unconsciously.

If Chen Zhong is like the "spring breeze" blowing in the spring breeze, then Chen Zheng is like the cold and fierce "winter snow". Wang Wan thinks that he is older, and the reason why he can become the Right Prime Minister is because of Chen Zheng. rejection.

Chen Ye's is "Za", Chen Shen's is "Confucianism", Chen Zhao's is "Mo", while Chen Su and Chen Zhengze are both "Fa", with Legalism as the core, integrating the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought. The "tolerance of hundreds of schools of thought" has been achieved.

So Wang Wan generally doesn't take care of things.

This also caused the Chen family's power to rise again in the court, and because Chen Zheng's character was too upright, he was even upright to the point that he could stalemate with Ying Zheng many times in order to maintain Qin's laws. , so the "Chen family" who suppressed themselves in the past has reached its true peak in this era, in this era of the First Emperor.

Even if they have different ideas from the emperor, they will usually resolve them tactfully.

"Ju'er will be obedient."

Of course, no matter how powerful the ministers are, they will eventually surrender to the majesty and solemnity of the "First Emperor".

This is why Chen Su was very worried about him back then.

They all follow the path of "Chen Ye" who integrated everything and tolerated hundreds of schools of thought, but the "core" of the path taken by each generation of Chen's family heads and heirs is different.

Chen Su's heart seemed to melt into a pool of water, with a soft smile on his face.

"Okay, Dad knows that Ju'er is the most obedient."

He stood up, took Chen Ju's hand and walked forward: "Let's go to the "Zhuoshen Building", where there is Chen's collection of books."

Zhangtai Palace

Ying Zheng's expression was gloomy. Zhao Gao stood beside him, quietly serving dishes for him, and whispered: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Chen did not mean to offend you."

"He's just too stubborn about Qin Lu."

Ying Zheng sneered. He and Chen Zheng did not have any teacher-student friendship, so his patience with Chen Zheng was not as good as Chen Zhong's.

"Can you defy me in public if you insist on Qin's laws?"

His hand was holding the tea cup in front of him, with a cold look on his face. If Chen Zheng didn't really have any bad intentions and didn't deliberately contradict him, he would have dismissed Chen Zheng as the current head of the family!

As he grows older and dominates the world, how many people in the world dare to talk to him like this?

There is only one Chen Zheng!

Ying Zheng stroked the Qi on his chest, and the discomfort in his heart slowly dissipated.

He closed his eyes and thought of another plan.

Now that the world is unified, he wants to do something else that can show his "majesty".

That is like the ancient emperors, conferring Zen on Mount Tai!

Chen Mansion

Chen Zheng was sitting there, talking to Han Fei opposite him. Han Fei's stuttering had improved a lot over the years, but he still stuttered a bit when speaking in public, but in private, especially when he was with Chen Zheng, , but just like ordinary people. Perhaps it was because he never saw a "ridiculous" look in Chen Zheng's eyes.

"Brother Chen, you shouldn't be like this today."

Han Fei had helplessness on his face. He poured a cup of tea for Chen Zheng and said, "As you know, His Majesty's temper is becoming more and more domineering. Even if you feel that something is wrong, you can't do this." ah."

"You contradicted His Majesty in front of so many courtiers. Fortunately, His Majesty has a broad mind. What if you did?"

Chen Zheng sat there, quenching the anger in his heart with a sip of tea.

He pressed his forehead tiredly. In fact, he didn't want to have any conflict with Ying Zheng, but there were some conceptual differences between him and Ying Zheng. He couldn't help but look at Han Fei and said, "Brother Han, you should also You know, His Majesty’s idea is good, but it’s unrealistic for him to want to leap so far in one step.”

"Now Qin is attacking Baiyue. Although it cannot be said to be very difficult, it is definitely not easy."

"Under such circumstances, His Majesty wants to attack the Huns again."

He looked at Han Fei and said, "How can Qin have such national strength to support it?"

Han Fei was a little silent. After a moment, he stared at Chen Zheng and said, "In fact, is it possible that His Majesty's idea is not really to attack these two places, but to have other plans and purposes?"

He hesitated for a moment, and then speculated in a low voice: "I suspect that His Majesty wants to use these two wars as a "sharp weapon" to consume those Guizhou leaders who still have their homeland in their hearts."

Han Fei took out a bamboo slip from his arms: "This is the bamboo slip that Zhang Liang gave me before. It records the conscription, the number of sacrifices and compensation in Han."

"Zhang Liang had no suspicion at first, but he saw the names of many people who had opposed Qin's rule in the past."

"That's why you came to me."

Putting the bamboo slips on the table, Han Fei's voice was a little erratic. In fact, he had no thoughts of rebelling against Qin and restoring Han, but when he first heard about this, he was still a little shocked and unbelievable.

Chen Zheng paused while holding the tea cup.

He knew that Han Fei's guess was not false, but true.

His opposition to the First Emperor's idea of ​​attacking the Huns was not because of the reasons he just mentioned, but because he felt that the First Emperor's idea was too radical, so he wanted to persuade the First Emperor.

But Chen Zheng couldn't tell Han Fei directly, so he came up with such a reason.

I didn't expect that Han Fei had known about it for a long time.

After Chen Zheng looked at Han Fei's eyes, he sighed softly, looked at the bamboo slips and said softly: "Your Majesty's idea is too radical."

"What is he worried about?"

Han Fei also shook his head and expressed confusion. Now that Ying Zheng is in his prime and in good health, he still has at least twenty years to solve these hidden dangers.

Why are you in such a hurry?

It's not just the two of them who don't understand this, but the rest of the people don't understand it either.

But their lack of understanding was not able to stop Ying Zheng's steps. It was in the past two years that Ying Zheng's domineering behavior became more and more obvious.

In the summer of the fourth year of the First Emperor's reign, amid heavy rain and thunder, the Yin and Yang family reported to the First Emperor how they observed the celestial phenomena.

It is said that the Huns are secretly plotting the fate of Qin.

The First Emperor was furious and announced that he would start another war against the Xiongnu.

Hearing this news, some people are happy, while others are sad and painful.

Those who only wanted peace were forced to pick up the weapons in their hands and walked towards the border. Their eyes were numb, peace, peace! When will peace come?

In the past, it was thought that after Qin unified the world, it would be able to enjoy a stable life, but what about now?

Not now.

Some people began to secretly regret it.

In the fourth year of the First Emperor's reign, the declaration of war on two consecutive battlefields put Qin under strong pressure.

Meng Wu and Li Mu were dispatched from the Baiyue battlefield and went to guard the northern border to plot a war against the Xiongnu.

Although the Xiongnu had recovered some of their strength at this time, they still began to be afraid when they heard Qin's reputation.

Most of the Huns lived near Langjuxu Mountain and went slightly south, while some of the Huns broke away from the rule of the Huns and began to slowly move towards the direction of Great Qin.

The fifth year of the First Emperor.

Zhangtai Palace

The increasingly majestic First Emperor sat opposite the increasingly tired Chen Zheng. Ying Zheng's expression was somewhat peaceful. He looked at Chen Zheng and said, "I am preparing to be enshrined in Mount Tai. What do you think, Prime Minister Chen?"

Chen Zheng was sitting there, and he really had no opinion on this matter.

Ying Zheng deserves to be enshrined in Mount Tai.

He said softly: "I will obey what your Majesty says."

PS: Hehe, now that I have found the feeling, I will try to recover 8,000 or 10,000 yuan tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)