Chapter 39 What? This rebellious son actually dared to go against me!
The First Emperor slowly opened his eyes, his heart already filled with gloom.

Based on recent experience, most of the reports in the morning were not good news.

The First Emperor glanced deeply at the table at his feet and at the leader of the secret guards who was already wearing a mask and ready for battle.

He asked expressionlessly, "Go ahead."

The dark figure knelt on the ground, trembling.

"Your Majesty, today is the first time that the Thirteenth Young Master has come to court. He did not arrive until the end of the morning hour, and he brought two maids with him."

The First Emperor: "Well, what advice do you have for this act of disregarding etiquette?"

The shadow whispered, "Your Majesty, Lord Fengchang was frightened and used the excuse of being ill, and was afraid to get up. As a result, the Thirteenth Young Master directly dismissed him from his position as Fengchang..."

"Humph! My uncle, Lao Fengchang, who has followed me for decades, was dismissed by him so easily?!"

The First Emperor spoke in a stern voice, and although he had anticipated this, he still could not suppress his anger.

However, this is just the tip of the iceberg...

The shadow hesitated for a while, and continued, "It seems that the Thirteenth Young Master has decided to abolish the post of Fengchang, claiming that Fengchang has no real power, and ordered Prime Minister Li Si to set up a new agency called the 'Ministry of Rites'..."

boom!
The huge palm slammed the table, shaking the two people in the secret room.

Fortunately, the First Emperor was able to skillfully control his internal strength and did not smash the table.

"The Three Dukes and Nine Ministers system that I personally established was actually abolished by him?!"

"Very good! What a great little Thirteenth Brother, he actually dared to abandon my system. If I let him supervise the country for another half a year, will he even overturn my Legalist philosophy of governing the country?!"

The shadow shuddered inwardly: Why would it take half a year? It could be done in just one day...

The First Emperor asked, "Why do other ministers have no objection to abolishing Fengchang?"

The shadow responded: "Your Majesty, the other ministers seem to be afraid to express their opinions, and the other minister who expressed dissent has pretended to be ill."

"Why is this?"

"It's because the Thirteenth Prince executed more than a dozen ministers in the hall as soon as he came to court today. The blood has not yet dried..."

"Why is he so bold? How can my Great Qin Imperial Guards obey his orders?" Qin Shi Huang asked again.

Given that Jinyiwei Qinglong listed the crimes of more than a dozen officials at the court meeting, some of them were involved in collusion with Zhao's treacherous officials to restore the country, some of them were Zhao's clan members who oppressed the people, and some of them secretly communicated with the old anti-Qin nobles...

The palace's guard force has now almost entirely been replaced by the Jinyiwei cultivated by the Thirteenth Prince himself.

Each of these people has outstanding martial arts skills and is loyal to the Thirteenth Young Master.

The First Emperor frowned and fell into deep thought.

Xiao Shisan's move was obviously premeditated. The Jinyiwei acted so swiftly and decisively that they uncovered so many secrets in just a few days. Even the palace guards were quietly replaced.

It is obvious that he has been harboring the intention of usurping the throne for a long time and has already prepared his trusted soldiers and horses!
"Humph!"

Ying Zheng said in a cold voice: "It seems that you have disguised your dandy image for the past twenty years very well!"

He continued to ask: "Besides punishing the guilty officials and deposing Feng Chang, what else is there?"

The black shadow was speechless for a moment, and could only report step by step: "The Thirteenth Young Master also proposed a punctuation rule, which surprised all the civil officials in the room, claiming that this method can greatly facilitate reading."

At this time, the First Emperor had become somewhat numb to these kinds of innovations that should have been amazing, and his psychological endurance was becoming increasingly strong.

His eyes moved slightly, and he continued, "Well, why did you come up with such a symbol method?"

The black shadow replied respectfully: "It is said that the officials discovered it by chance when they were reading ancient books. I don't know the specific details."

"Hundreds of ancient books?" Qin Shi Huang was cheered up when he heard this.

"What does this have to do with the classics? Didn't I order them to be burned? How come they are still here?"

"go on."

Black Shadow took the order and continued to report: "After the officials studied hundreds of classics, the Thirteenth Young Master proposed the idea of ​​reforming the law."

"I heard from that rebellious son that the laws of our Great Qin are too outdated and that they are the root cause of the empire's progress, and he wants to reform them..."

boom!
The table was hit hard again, and wood chips flew everywhere.

The Emperor's eyes were like a thousand-year-old ice. His bone-chilling gaze swept through the hall and he said in a deep voice:
"I thought he would need time to plan, but he attempted to overthrow my laws as soon as he entered the court."

"What an elaborate plan! They tampered with the will, slaughtered the most trusted ministers, and shook the foundation of the country!"

"It is obvious that all this was premeditated and put into practice immediately after my death."

"If he were not my own flesh and blood, and if the rebellion was not directed against the Qin Dynasty, I would really have to praise him as a hero in troubled times!"

"Well, let's talk about his reforms."

The shadow continued to report: "They argued for a long time about the specific content of the reform, and I was not able to fully understand it. In the end, I only heard the Thirteenth Prince declare that he would abandon the hundreds of schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone."

boom-!!

This time, the case could not escape the fate of being broken.

The First Emperor could no longer suppress his rage, and with a wave of his palm, the table turned into powder in an instant.

"It's just nonsense!"

"Is he deliberately going against me?"

"I just started burning books and burying scholars alive, and now he wants to promote Confucianism alone!"

"The Qin Empire that I founded with my own hands is about to be turned upside down by him!"

"If this continues, before I leave the border, the Great Qin will be completely unrecognizable!"

"Secret guards, listen up! Quickly capture that evil creature and banish him to the cold palace, and keep him under strict guard!"

In a rage, the First Emperor no longer hesitated to test Fusu, fearing that the Qin Dynasty would fall into chaos before he returned.

At this moment, he must take action himself to stabilize the situation.

However, the Shadow Leader could only smile bitterly after hearing this. He advised:
"Your Majesty, it is not that I am unwilling to carry out the order. The Thirteenth Young Master is surrounded by many heroes. The two maids beside him are extraordinary and are no less powerful than me."

"Now, he still controls hundreds of Jinyiwei with superb martial arts. Even if all the elites of the Black Ice Platform are deployed, I am afraid that both sides will suffer losses."

"If this happens, your Majesty's strongest force will be greatly damaged. If there are any unexpected changes, I am afraid I will not be able to deal with it properly."

"Your Majesty, please listen to what I have to say. Even if we mobilize a large army at this moment, we can only force the Thirteenth Prince to retreat at best."

"However, if Your Majesty fails to successfully break through in the next half year, and that happens, and the Thirteenth Young Master returns again, who will be able to resist him?"

"Your Majesty, please think twice. For now, you should still focus on improving your cultivation. After all, the Great Qin Empire belongs to you in the end."

"No matter how the Thirteenth Prince manipulates the situation, half a year later, when Your Majesty regains his glory in Zhangtai Palace, the entire Great Qin will return to your control."

"As for the past six months, with war raging everywhere, even if he stirs up trouble again, how big a wave can he cause?"

The earnest words of the leader of the Black Ice Platform made the First Emperor temporarily give up the idea of ​​taking action immediately.

(End of this chapter)