Chapter 430: The previous king once said that you have great ambitions. You don't want to be a king, but to become a saint!
"How can I have a family if the Xiongnu is not destroyed?"
Ying Chengjiao was righteous and awe-inspiring, and his handsome face was full of determination.
He drew his sword and pointed it to the north, pointing it at the blue sky. His white robe fluttered in the wind, making Ying Chengjiao look even more majestic. Anyone who saw him would praise him as a good man, and that's how he should be!
The Yue girl who was protecting him secretly had a bright look in her eyes, and she did not hide her love at all. She felt as if she had returned to the day of the wax festival. Her man declared war on the sky, and the whole world was his enemy, but he was not afraid at all.
Today is not as heroic as that day, the situation is similar !
However, such behavior, which would shock passers-by, was simply abominable to his biological mother, Han Ji!
Han Ji, wearing a phoenix crown, took a few quick steps, and with almost no martial arts skills, she easily snatched the sword from Ying Chengjiao's hand.
Ying Chengjiao was dragged away with a helpless look on his face, saying repeatedly "How can I return home when the Huns are not yet destroyed?"
He was like a helpless child who was forced back home by his biological mother.
Fortunately, there was no one on the street at that time, so no one saw Chang'an Jun losing his power.
"Mother!"
Ying Chengjiao stopped and exerted a little strength to stop Han Ji, who was so powerful and unstoppable.
Han Ji pulled hard and pulled again, but it didn't move no matter what she did. She turned around and cursed in anger.
"You brat! Are you trying to piss off your mother to death? You must consummate your marriage with Ding Xiang today!"
Ying Chengjiao was a little dazed. He couldn't remember the last time his mother got so angry.
As the Queen Mother of Qin, Han Ji was far inferior to Zhao Ji of the same period, as well as the Queen Mothers Huayang and Mi of the past.
She was not good at civil administration, martial arts, or employing people, and she was naturally indifferent to power. Many people thought that Ying Chengjiao was just like Han Ji because he didn't care about the affairs of the state and didn't want to be a king.
She was a very special person in the Xianyang Palace, like a white lotus that fell into a black dye vat but never turned black.
Under the protection of Ying Zichu, Ying Chengjiao, Ying Zheng, Afang and many others, Han Ji always maintained her innocent heart and was not contaminated by the petty intrigues of the royal family.
She didn't ask for much. Just bounce some glass balls, chat with the daughters of fallen nations in the Six Palaces, and go against Zhao Ji and make her lose face. That was almost all she asked for.
The First Emperor treated her as if she were his own mother and met all of Han Ji's requests.
Compared with other Qin queens who wanted to hold power, participate in politics, and build up their own forces, Queen Dowager Han's demands were not even requirements, they were too simple.
All her wishes were granted, she had fine clothes and delicious food, and Han Ji was very satisfied with her life. How could she lose her temper if she had no reason to be angry?
"Mother, I really can't have the wedding night. If I lose my virginity, all my martial arts skills will be wasted."
Ying Chengjiao squatted in front of his mother. He was eight feet tall, and when he squatted down, he was half as tall as Han Ji.
He looked up and patiently explained that he would be leading his army deep into the desert, into the heartland of the Huns. Without martial arts skills, his tactics would not be effective.
Full body armor is not a panacea.
A person with great martial arts skills wearing this armor will be invincible and unbeatable.
A person with a weak body would have difficulty putting on the armor, and the armor with outstanding defensive power is not light.
And even if a person is carried by a warhorse and does not need to wear any clothes to fight under the horse, that is not possible, because the Mi Sui arrows can shoot him down.
Arrows cannot penetrate armor because their sharp edges are blocked.
But because the sharp edge was blocked, the power could not be released, and all concentrated on the armor. How could someone without martial arts foundation receive such a strong force?
Ying Chengjiao explained the necessity of this battle, and said that when God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, and his body hungry...
As she spoke, Han Ji's eyes turned red.
As time passed, her face aged and crow's feet appeared at the corners of Han Ji's eyes.
Ying Chengjiao gently wiped away his mother's tears.
"Why are you crying? Is there something Cheng Jiao didn't do well enough?"
"There are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no descendants. You've read so many books, don't you know this?"
"Isn't this a distortion of the words of the saints? The original meaning of this sentence is clearly..."
As soon as he started to speak, Ying Chengjiao stopped talking and gave a bitter smile.
"Mother is right. Can you give your son some more time?"
What if he analyzed the meaning of this sentence thoroughly? This was not what my mother wanted to hear. What my mother cared about was not this sentence, but the expression of my mother's thoughts.
When this sentence could no longer express Han Ji's thoughts, her mother no longer needed it.
If your thoughts do not change, no matter how much you say, it will be in vain.
Men focus on logic and reason, while women focus on emotional communication.
"not good."
Han Ji wiped her tears with one hand and held her son's hand tightly with the other. The back of her hand was covered with tiny blue veins. She was afraid that if she let go, her son would be gone.
"You must consummate your marriage with Ding Xiang today and give birth to a bunch of children for me to play with!"
"How can a child be born just like that? Even if I start trying today, it will take at least ten months. Mother, how about this? When I finish this battle, I will get married when I come back. I will marry Dingxiang, Qingmei, Yuenu, and Ping'er."
Han Ji was crying, her voice choked with sobs.
"There are also Lü Changxu, Lü Zhi, Lü Shang, and Yu Ji."
"Wait wait wait! Yu Ji? Where is Yu Ji?"
Ying Chengjiao hurriedly called a halt, feeling a slight headache.
Although the third daughter of the Lu family was a little outrageous, he could still understand her as she had been forced to take a concubine once before.
But he couldn't understand this Yu Ji at all!
He admitted that he had a stamp collecting habit, but he collected famous officials and generals, not beautiful women!
It is true that he is lustful by nature, but before he solved the problem of the broken "Huangdi" technique, he was not that obsessed with women.
And this is too coincidental, isn’t it? If it was any other name, Ying Chengjiao wouldn’t be that surprised, so why is it the famous Yu Meiren? This is too coincidental, isn’t it?
God willing?
Does God want to corrupt his soul with beauty?
"Qingmei found it. Mother saw it. She's a very pretty girl. She's from Chu and can dance with a sword. Her sword dance is also very beautiful. Come on, mother will take you to watch Yu Ji dance with a sword."
Han Ji pulled Ying Chengjiao with both hands, trying to pull her son up.
"Just watching the sword dance?"
Ying Chengjiao stood up.
He was still very interested in Concubine Yu's sword dance, and he could also ask about the story of her childhood sweetheart, Concubine Yu.
"Watch the consummation of the marriage."
Ying Chengjiao sat down again.
"Go! Boy! Follow me!"
"Mother, today is really not possible!"
Han Ji pulled desperately, with her movements becoming more and more vigorous.
But since Ying Chengjiao was determined not to leave, there was no way she could pull him back.
The tears were getting bigger and bigger, and they were everywhere.
Han Ji stopped talking, pursed her lips to save energy, and just pulled hard, with a hint of madness in her expression.
Ying Chengjiao realized that something seemed to be wrong. His mother was too anxious, a hundred times more anxious than last year when she urged him to get married. She seemed to have lost her mind.
"Mother, why are you..."
At this moment, the phoenix crown fell off Zhao Ji's head because her body kept shaking and her head was seriously unstable.
The golden phoenix crown fell to the ground, flattened a small corner and rolled twice.
Swallows, swans, phoenixes, bluebirds and other birds carved from expensive jewels such as tortoise shells, agate, jade and colored glaze fell one after another, colorful and sparkling with dazzling light in the sunlight.
Ying Chengjiao's eyes didn't even look down, as he was captured by the even more dazzling white light.
He opened his mouth wide, and his eight-foot tall masculine body was shaking.
He did not tremble when he stood on the altar and shouted against heaven, he did not tremble when the First Emperor was furious, and he did not tremble when Guiguzi revealed that he came from the future.
After he came of age, he still felt afraid, but he never trembled with fear again, because he knew that no matter what he did, he would not die, and he was more than capable of protecting himself.
He can withdraw at any time. The worst result is that the reform fails and he fakes his death to escape. The world simply does not have the power to kill him.
"Ah, mother, your hair..."
His hands were shaking as he groped upwards, and his voice was trembling too.
The phoenix crown fell off, and Han Ji's hair, which had been underneath the crown, fell down completely, turning snow-white.
Royal women have access to all the world's resources and possess maintenance methods that the world cannot even imagine. It is impossible to stay young, but it is not difficult to maintain their beauty for another twenty years.
Zhao Ji was like this.
The same is true for Han Ji.
Ying Chengjiao remembered that when he parted with his mother several months ago, his mother still had smooth black hair, which would be the envy of young girls.
It's only been a few months, how come my black hair has turned completely white? How come my hair is all white!
"ah!"
Han Ji screamed and hurriedly bent down to pick up the phoenix crown.
The white hair slid across Ying Chengjiao's face, still smooth, but it caused Ying Chengjiao's heart to stop suddenly.
He grabbed his mother's arm, and noticed that her originally smooth skin had become rough, and her originally fleshy wrist was now painful to hold.
Han Ji said nothing , but tried desperately to get the phoenix crown, trying to cover up her three thousand strands of troubles.
"clove!"
Ying Chengjiao hugged his mother tightly and shouted loudly towards the corner of the city wall.
"Come out and see me!"
A graceful figure turned around the corner, her face was charming, her curves were surging, her mature style was far from that of a virgin, and her eyebrows and eyes were naturally charming.
The beautiful woman appeared and immediately knelt on her knees, lowered her head, and was ashamed to look the young man in the eye.
"Lilac is guilty."
The beautiful woman bit her red lips, put her hands forward and bowed gracefully. Her mournful voice fell into Ying Chengjiao's ears, but it sounded like the sound of a great bell!
"When the Queen Mother heard that the Prince was going to the border counties and was going to the desert to attack the Huns, her hair turned white overnight."
Ying Chengjiao gently held his mother's shoulders, and his internal strength flowed from the palms of his hands into his mother's body. The warm current soothed the chaotic qi and blood, moving the body and the mind, and relieving Han Ji's uneasiness.
Ying Chengjiao forced a smile and said:
"Mother, why is it so?"
Han Ji, who was no longer obsessed with wearing the phoenix crown, stared at her son in a daze. In just one month, she had aged more than in the past five years.
More than ten years ago, after the mother and son from Zhao State returned to Qin, Zhao Ji became the Queen of Qin, but Han Ji didn't care too much.
The position of queen is just a title to her. It is useful, but not of great use.
The successor to the throne changed from Prince Cheng Jiao to Prince Zheng. After Han Ji asked about her parents' thoughts, she didn't care at all.
She really doesn't care whether her son becomes king or not.
She only cared that her son and husband were alive and happy.
But now, my husband has passed away due to illness.
The person she cared about changed from two people to one person.
"The previous king once said that you have great ambitions. You do not want to be a king in order to become a saint. You do not care about personal reputation and want to benefit the world, and for this you do not hesitate to become the enemy of the world you want to benefit."
She looked at Ying Chengjiao, the love in her eyes was so deep and strong.
The Yue girl who protected him secretly thought that she could die for her husband, but her love for him could not compare to that of Han Ji.
"I often wonder if your mother's background influenced your choice. If my family was half as prominent as Zhao Ji's, she wouldn't have been the queen. My son wouldn't have given up the throne.
“The former king saw that I was depressed and told me that you have a longer-term vision than everyone else. When they were still thinking about how to unify the world, you had already started thinking about conquering the world.
"Everyone in the world only sees that the Qin Empire is invincible and unstoppable, but my son is the only one who sees the hidden crisis under this empire.
"You know that the Qin will definitely unify the world, so you don't want to be king. What you need to do is to eliminate the ills of the Qin and ensure that the Qin can maintain long-term stability. The only one who can ensure the stability of the Qin is the young Qin King.
"I still don't know whether the words the late king said to me were words of comfort or sincere thoughts. Can you take your mother to Yongdi to ask your father?
"Ask him, there are so many people in the world, why do you have to be appointed as the Lord of Chang'an? Why do you have to go out to fight? Don't the generals in the court know how to fight?"
No country has ever penetrated the depths of the desert. Everything there is a blank to the Central Plains.
Going to such a place for an expedition was very dangerous even for Han Ji, who knew nothing about civil or military affairs.
From the moment she knew her son was going north, she felt uneasy. She didn't want a heroic son, she only wanted a weak one.
She had long known from the previous king that Ying Chengjiao was practicing "Huangdi". This kind of thing could be hidden from Prince Zheng, but not from King Zhuangxiang of Qin.
She repeatedly wanted to consummate the marriage with Ying Chengjiao because she wanted to ruin her son's marriage to Huangdi. She thought that if her son lost his high martial arts skills, his safety index would drop sharply and he would not dare to go into the desert alone.
This was the best plan she could come up with.
She was the queen mother, but she had never been a queen. So she didn't need to be the mother of the country, she just needed to take care of her own children.
"Mother, I can't go back. Don't worry, no one can hurt me."
Ying Chengjiao comforted him softly.
What he said seemed to Han Ji to be showing off. Nothing in the world is certain.
Smoothing the wrinkles on her son's forehead, Han Ji realized that she couldn't stop her son, just like she couldn't stop the previous king from asking about government affairs despite his illness.
"Lü Buwei gave me a man, saying that he was as capable as Sun Bin. If there is anyone who can go deep into the desert to defeat the Xiongnu, this man must be one of them, and he is ten times more capable than you. If someone can do what you want to do for you, would you still go?"
"Who is it?"
Ying Chengjiao did not bite the bullet and said, if there was someone who could do it, he really didn't want to go to the battle.
It is too high an evaluation to say that Sun Bin is not inferior to Sun Bin. Sun Bin was the man who produced another Sun Tzu after Sun Wu, the ancestor of military strategists.
"Wang Liao."
"The noble former king Liao, one of the ten great men in the world?"
"Lüshi Chunqiu" records:
Laozi values gentleness, Confucius values benevolence, Mozi values inclusiveness, Guan Yin values purity, Lie Zi values emptiness, Chen Pian values uniformity, Yang Sheng values self-esteem, Sun Bin values power, Wang Liao values the past, and Er Liang values the future.
These ten people are all heroes in the world.
