Xiang Shaolong shook his head, stopped thinking about this kind of question, and replied: "Okay, if you don't like it, don't stand up. Of course I support you. If the king asks me, I will convey it to you."

Prince Zheng said: "You are not conveying it to me, I want you to object, Taifu."

Xiang Shaolong was stunned and asked: "What? What do you mean?"

Prince Zheng said: "What I mean is: you are the one who opposes the establishment of the young princess of Chu as the crown princess."

Xiang Shaolong said: "What reason do I have to object?"

Prince Zheng smiled and said: "Then it's up to you to think about it yourself. You said you support me." Gan Luo laughed next to him.

Xiang Shaolong shook his head helplessly and said, "Let me think about it."

Prince Zheng said: "With Taifu's talent, such a trivial matter will certainly not be a problem for Taifu."

Xiang Shaolong stopped dwelling on this matter and asked, "How are your studies lately?"

Prince Zheng rolled his eyes and said: "You still know how to care about my studies. You are not very good as a tutor. Mrs. Qin is so busy and she has not forgotten to teach me. Every book she publishes is

Give me a copy first and explain it to me in detail. You're welcome. I don't see you busy with anything. You just don't have time to teach me."

Xiang Shaolong got a little angry and said, "Didn't I tell you that what I know is not suitable for you. You have so many teachers and so many useful things to learn. It's a waste of your time for me to teach you."

Prince Zheng smiled disdainfully and said: "You can say you are lazy if you are lazy. I heard that you don't even want to be the left prime minister anymore. You are too tired and just want to stay at home with your wife all day. What a pity, your women

Everyone has more serious business than you, so you have no choice but to go to Li Si’s place to watch Li Si work.”

Xiang Shaolong felt that he couldn't continue talking like this, so he turned to Gan Luo and said, "Have you made any progress in the past two years?"

Gan Luo thought for a while and asked, "Does growing taller count?"

Xiang Shaolong wanted to vomit blood: "Why are today's children so nagging? They are not cute at all." He said: "You have gained weight. I hope you will grow into a big fat pig in the future."

Gan Luo laughed.

Xiang Shaolong once asked: "How did you get out? Is it easy to get out of the palace?"

Prince Zheng said: "What's the problem? We come out often."

Xiang Shaolong asked curiously: "Does the King not care about you?"

Prince Zheng said: "Why don't you care? But he can't stare at me all day long. As a prince, if I can't even get out of the palace, wouldn't I be too useless?"

Xiang Shaolong heard that he often ran out, but he did not continue to ask. He thought for a while and said: "Be sure to pay attention to safety. Your position as prince is not as stable as Mount Tai. The attraction of the throne is enough to make people crazy. Dare to

There are many people who take desperate measures.”

Prince Zheng nodded, feeling that he had not considered it well.

After seeing off the Prince, Xiang Shaolong was helpless. He went back and thought about how to find a reason for the Prince. He didn't know much about the ways here, but Qin Qing and Ji Yanran should know better.

Before he could sit down, Changping Lord came to him. Xiang Shaolong thought to himself: "What happened today? They are all looking for me at this time."

Changping Jun said: "Shaolong, you know that the young princess of Chu wants to marry the prince."

Xiang Shaolong didn't expect that he would also ask about this matter. Why do so many people care about it? He nodded and said: "I know, what, do you have any opinion?"

Changping Jun said: "I hope Shaolong can promote him as the crown prince."

Xiang Shaolong said: "What? Li Yuan begged you?"

Lord Changping said: "Li Yuan, I don't know him."

Xiang Shaolong was surprised and said: "Then why do you care about this matter?"

Lord Changping was also surprised and said, "I am from Chu!"

Xiang Shaolong was shocked and said: "How come you are from the Chu country? Aren't you a member of my Great Qin royal family?"

Lord Changping was even more surprised and said: "My mother is the princess of Qin, and I am the son of Chu. My surname is Xiong. I have the same clan as the King of Chu. My real name is Xiong Qi."

Only then did Xiang Shaolong know his name, a flash of lightning flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "So it's you."

He finally remembered who Lord Changping was. He was the son of the Chu State, and he had been serving Qin, and he was doing his best. But as the Qin army attacked Chu, he rebelled against Qin in the rear, and was crowned King of Chu by Chu general Xiang Yan.

He was defeated and died. He was the last king of Chu. He was indeed a member of the royal family of Qin, but he was a relative.

During the Dazexiang uprising, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang launched the banner of "Gongzi Fusu, Xiang Yan" and sang for the world to establish the Zhang Chu regime. Why should Qin Shihuang's eldest son Fusu be linked to the famous Chu general Xiang Yan? Why did Qin Shihuang live his whole life?

There was no queen and no head wife? Could it be that Fusu’s mother was the princess of Chu? Could it be that she was eventually involved in the rebellion of Chu?

Because the original work did not have the story of the unification of the world, Xiang Shaolong always regarded the Changping Jun brothers as members of the royal family, and never thought about what their names were.

Changping Jun didn't understand what Xiang Shaolong meant and asked, "Isn't it just me? What's wrong?"

Xiang Shaolong was silent for a moment and stared at Mr. Changping, which made him feel very uncomfortable. Xiang Shaolong asked, "Why is your sister's surname Ying?"

Lord Changping said: "She takes her mother's surname."

Xiang Shaolong asked: "Why does she take her mother's surname?"

Changping Jun was even more surprised and said: "If you take your mother's surname, you will take your mother's surname. There is no reason for this." I really don't understand why Xiang Shaolong is struggling with this matter.

In the pre-Qin period, only nobles had surnames, and commoners did not. Men were called surnames, and women were called surnames. The surname was used to differentiate between marriages, and the surname was used to distinguish between high and low.

Qin Shihuang should be called Zhao Zheng, with the surname Ying, and the Zhao family name. Only the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty can use the surname to show respect. After Qin Shihuang unified the world and became the Supreme Being, he began to use the surname Ying Zheng.

According to the surname of Changping Jun, Ying Ying should be named Mi, Mi Ying. Since she is an original character, I just made up a random reason for taking her mother's surname.

Xiang Shaolong also knew that there was no point in asking for someone's surname. He also somewhat understood the meaning of a royal wife. In ancient times, relatives were a force that could not be ignored.

In the early Han Dynasty, Empress Lu took the throne; because the prince was young, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would rather leave the prince alone to the powerful minister Huo Guang than execute the prince's mother, Mrs. Gou Yi.

Xiang Shaolong really needs to think carefully about establishing a crown princess. Xiang Shaolong did not explicitly promise Changping Lord, he only said that he would consider it.

Changping Jun keenly felt that Xiang Shaolong was a bit repelled by his identity as a Chu countryman, so he had no choice but to leave.

After all, establishing a crown princess was not a trivial matter. The King of Qin also convened a group of officials to discuss it, and Xiang Shaolong also participated.

Xiang Shaolong listened for a long time and got a taste of it: the Daqinists in the military were firmly opposed to maintain the purity of the royal blood; while the "outsiders" headed by Lu Buwei advocated establishing the Princess of Chu as the crown prince.

They wanted to use this to break through the psychological defense line of Qin people's racism.

King Qin saw that Xiang Shaolong didn't say anything for a long time, then he directly asked: "Shaolong, what do you think?"

Xiang Shaolong originally didn't care about the Crown Princess's affairs. He just regarded it as the king's family affairs at first. But the appearance of Lord Changping reminded him that how can an emperor have family affairs? Every move has far-reaching consequences, not to mention the

The prince's request for help.

Xiang Shaolong shook his head and said, "I don't agree." After saying that, he stopped talking.

Lu Buwei said: "The Chu State is powerful. If you make the Chu Princess the Crown Princess, you can destroy the alliance of the five eastern kingdoms and reduce the strength of the alliance by half. What a good opportunity this is."

Xiang Shaolong said: "There are many ways to break the alliance of the five kingdoms, but the crown princess will be the queen in the future, and her son will be the king, which is of great importance. Moreover, the crown prince is young and the king is in his prime, so there is no urgency to establish the crown princess.

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The King of Qin thought for a while and said, "Okay, there is no rush to establish a crown princess. We will discuss it later." As soon as this statement came out, the discussion came to an end.

The ministers saw that this group of people had been discussing for a long time. The king was hesitant. Xiang Shaolong just said a word and the matter was over. If you trust Xiang Shaolong so much, just ask him directly. Why did you call us here?

?It seems that every time everyone quarrels back and forth, and Xiang Shaolong finally makes the final decision.

Even the military bosses are disgusted: Aren’t we saying we don’t agree? There are so many reasons to oppose, but none of them are as good as Xiang Shaolong’s “I don’t agree.” Aren’t the reasons we said important?

Is it important that "the king is in his prime of spring and Autumn" as he said?

King Qin left Xiang Shaolong behind and said that the prince wanted to see him. All the ministers could only curse secretly in their hearts and bowed to leave.

King Qin took Zhu Ji and the prince to continue chatting with Xiang Shaolong on a pond beside a lake in the palace. Gan Luo was also beside him.

The King of Qin thought that Xiang Shaolong, like the military, insisted on royal blood, and said with a smile: "Shaolong originally went to Wei as an envoy to solve the siege of Hangu Pass, but with a casual word, he promoted the alliance with Wei to destroy Han. Naturally,

I will not place my hopes on marriage to destroy the alliance. Naturally, the importance of my Great Qin royal family’s bloodline cannot be compared to marriage.”

Xiang Shaolong felt the xenophobic sentiment in Da Qin from top to bottom. He remembered the "Expulsion Order" in the future. Seeing that the prince was also present, he felt that he had to say more, so he said: "I don't agree because of my blood, I don't agree just because of my bloodline."

It's because she is a princess of Chu, and if she was just an ordinary Chu person, I would not object."

King Qin was stunned and asked: "Why?"

Xiang Shaolong said: "Your Majesty, you like to divide people into Qin people, Chu people, Zhao people, and Wei people, but I don't think so. In my opinion, there are only people from the Central Plains and people outside the Central Plains. And the people from the Central Plains and others

They all belong to the Zhou Dynasty, and now that the Zhou Dynasty has been destroyed, I regard them all as my own people in our Great Qin, but they are not yet under the rule of our Great Qin, but this will happen sooner or later."

King Qin nodded and finally understood what Xiang Shaolong meant. At the same time, he felt relieved and excited. Xiang Shaolong always kept saying "unify the world" and seemed to be more enthusiastic than himself, the great king.

Xiang Shaolong asked: "What does your Majesty think of Empress Dowager Xuan?"

Empress Dowager Xuan was called Mi Bazi, and she was the protagonist of the TV series "The Legend of Mi Yue".


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