Chapter 23 Strategy
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is still thinking about how to break the deadlock?" Lu Buwei chuckled: "I think the gentleman is definitely not a pure and kind person. Meng Yan, the leader of the cavalry, seemed to have already joined the gentleman's politics."
Yiren nodded: "If you are in an enemy country, you will bear the hatred of everyone and be able to be at ease, you are a great talent! You are worthy of being my descendant!"
He was in a complicated mood at this time.
On the one hand, it was because the eldest son was doing well in Zhao State, and according to the news, when he returned to China, he conquered several rangers and recruited several Confucian scholars for his own use, which was very capable of showing off.
With such talents and experiences, it is difficult for Yiren to not remember his past self.
He was able to see his own shadow in Ying Zheng, his past loneliness and his various efforts to survive.
This is a kind of inheritance that transcends blood ties.
The better Ying Zheng is, the more relieved and guilty Yi Ren is.
On the other hand, this kind of inheritance has become a stumbling block on my own path forward at this time.
Ying Zheng's existence itself has become a threat to prevent Yiren from seizing power, and a disaster that shakes his supreme power of the Qin King.
The better Ying Zheng is, the more uncomfortable Yi Ren will be.
"It would be great if he was a little mediocre!" Yi Ren thought for a long time and finally sighed.
I can't think of any good idea.
Or, to be more precise, I can't think of any good way to implement it!
Ying Zheng is now a powerful weapon in the hands of Queen Huayang. If Yiren wants to touch him, Queen Huayang will not sit idly by.
If you cannot find a suitable solution to the problems caused by his existence, killing him directly is undoubtedly the best way!
But killing him is contrary to Yi Ren's own wishes.
"Your Highness..." Lu Buwei pondered for a moment: "Do you know the old story of Tian Chengzi?"
"Tian Chengzi?" Yiren shook his head: "What is this allusion?"
"Tian Chengzi is Chen Heng of Tian!"
"What's wrong with Chen Heng?" asked Yi Ren.
"Chen Heng killed his king, Duke Jian, established a puppet as the king, and controlled the government!"
"This is a common thing." Yi Ren frowned: "Is there any problem?"
"Chen Heng killed his king, and the Confucians defiled it and said: Chen Heng married hundreds of beautiful concubines, and enjoyed the guests at night, and gave birth to dozens of sons."
"This is also common." Yi Ren was even more puzzled.
Whether the ministers kill the monarch, or the Confucians slander or praise the monarch's ministers, it is a common thing in the past.
Yi Ren did not understand the reason why Lu Buwei mentioned this.
"Crown Prince, can you tell me, what do you think of Tian Chengzi when people think of him again?"
"What?" Yi Ren frowned and nodded for a moment: "So that's it. No matter what the facts back then, the Confucians have been slandering for a hundred years, and Tian Chengzi has long become a kind of Jie and Zhou!"
"That's right!" Lu Buwei nodded.
"So?" Yiren asked, "Sir, do you want to kill him with rumor?"
The trick of rumor to kill his name is slander. Rumors can lead to social death.
"Not bad!" Lu Buwei nodded: "It is clear that there are no tigers in the market, but the words of the three people are enough to become tigers!"
"Why is slandering Qin Zheng's stupidity or unfiliality?" asked Yi Ren.
"No!" Lu Buwei smiled: "It's like the old story with Wen Jiang!"
Wen Jiang, the daughter of Duke Xi of Qi, had an affair with his brother Xiang when he was young. After marrying Duke Huan of Lu, he had an affair with his brother, and eventually killed her husband.
Yi Ren hesitated a little and nodded: "Then I'll bother sir... Forget it, I'd better stay for the time being, it's not appropriate to do so!"
"Your Highness..." Lu Buwei thought for a while: "But you worry about the King of Qin?"
"Not bad!" Yi Ren admitted without hesitation: "It is precisely so. If you start doing it now, then relying on the power and status of the father, the queen can easily suppress it at this time - this matter cannot be done!"
"The day before yesterday, I saw that the king's face was as good as gold paper. I'm afraid that time would not be too long. Please make plans for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to avoid being too sad and forgetting the big thing!"
"Don't worry sir!" Yiren nodded.
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Ying Zheng and Ju Zizhou sat opposite each other, and Meng Yan sat aside with an iron sword in his hand.
Ying Zheng poured two glasses of water, first handed it to Ju Zizhou, then picked up the water cup and took a sip: "Senior brother, are we now allegiance with the queen?"
"Of course it's!" Ju Zizhou nodded: "When you appear in Qin, we have formed an alliance. Even if you don't want to form an alliance with her, she will spare no effort to help you the next prince of Qin."
"Because this is in her best interest!" Ying Zheng nodded: "So senior brother, what should we do now?"
"What do you think?" Ju Zizhou asked back.
Ying Zheng thought a little and said, "We should show our enemy as weak now."
"Why?" Ju Zizhou asked.
"Because the opponent is my father... he should have mercy and guilt towards me. When I was in Zhao State, I heard that parents' love for their children is an instinct engraved in their bones. Some mothers even want to sacrifice themselves for their children to block the tiger."
"Although my father may not be as good as the mother who blocks the tiger for her children, she will always have the love of her parents for me."
"When we show weakness at this time, he should be soft-hearted to me."
Ju Zizhou thought about it and said, "There will definitely be parents in the world who are willing to die for their children, but the matter between your father and you is not a simple matter of "father and son", and your conflict is not a trivial matter like "father and son dispute."
"The purpose of showing weakness is to make the enemy careless, and then be careless and proud, and lose his composure."
"But what is your father's relationship with you?"
"It's a father-son relationship!"
"Will a father be proud of his son showing weakness to himself?"
Ying Zheng shook his head: "No."
"Then is it useless to show weakness?" Ju Zizhou asked.
Ying Zheng nodded: "That's true."
"So senior brother, what should we do now?"
"Accumulate your reputation!" Ju Zizhou said: "You have just returned to Qin State at this time. Many of the Qin people didn't even know that you were the "Qin Zheng" in the world, and they didn't know that you were the "the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Qin."
"What you have to do at this time is to quickly find a position for yourself, gain a reputation as a "wise man" and gain your own foundation!"
"Otherwise, even if you become the next "Crown Prince Qin", you will easily be replaced!"
"Find a position, take over the reputation of talented people, and obtain the foundation?" Ying Zheng was puzzled.
"The so-called political affairs are nothing more than uniting the forces that can unite, defeating the enemy, and mastering the "right to speak" and "justice." Ju Zizhou said.
"Right to speak? Justice?"
"The right to speak is the right to let everyone feel at ease to listen to you."
"Justice is the foundation of making everyone obey the interests you make!"
"The right to speak... is the power to occupy a high position in "production relations" and make everyone hear my words!" Ying Zheng nodded: "Justice is..."
"It is the "reason for beating people" and the "reason for sharing food"!" Ju Zizhou said.
"We are sitting here now. My fists are big, and you have more food."
"Then your food is mine!"
"But if I rob you, you will definitely resist. When others see me rob you, they will definitely help you resist, or take the opportunity to rob some food."
"So I want to give a reason that you can accept and others can accept it."
"When I give this reason, you hear the reason, and look at my fist bigger than yours, you won't resist, and others will think it's right."
"This is justice!"
"All the kings under the world are the kings!" Ying Zheng's eyes lit up: "Ordinary people go to the people's homes to grab food during the harvest. When the people resist, they are called thieves."
"When the government confiscates and robs the people, the people will not resist."
Chapter completed!