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Fusu was indeed not worried about his mistakes, Yingzheng's repeated operations after the surrender of Qi State did make Chunyu Yue very angry.

After insisting that ministers use Xiaozhuan, Yingzheng followed up the excuse of Xiaozhuan to suppress those unwilling ministers one after another, transferred power to himself and Li Si, Gan Luo and other ministers, and conveniently transferred the Qianjin Pavilion Wang Wan and Kai Lin were promoted.It would not be a big deal if the match cats were just a replacement of power, but coincidentally, most of those who were removed were nobles from the old forces, and those who were replaced were not descendants of their families: some were directly replaced by newcomers. Instead, some were replaced by people from hostile forces...

In line with the system of prefectures and counties that the Qin State has always implemented, it can be said that the courtiers of the entire Qin State were held in the hands of Yingzheng. If the Warring States period was broken, then Yingzheng was re-established on this ruin. A new order framework has been set up, although it is not perfect, but it has begun to take shape.

Under Yingzheng's operation, the possibility of Zhou Li and Zhougong's return that Confucius yearned for was completely eliminated. Confucianism has always yearned for a political structure of virtuous kings and capable ministers. Of course I disagree.

But no matter what, no one cares about his thoughts now, and everyone is preparing for the upcoming coupling ceremony.

The first thing that needs to be held is Ying Zheng's birthday.

The distance between Qi State and Qin State is very far. When King Qi set off from Linzi, the weather was still in autumn. When he arrived in Xianyang, it was already winter.It just so happened that Ying Zheng's birthday was in the twelfth lunar month. After thinking about it, the ceremonial officer boldly discussed with Ying Zheng, wanting to co-organize the acceptance ceremony with his birthday.

This proposal was quickly approved by Ying Zheng. He originally wanted to take an opportunity to make trouble, preferably at a time when he could do anything wrong but others had to follow him. Qi's surrender was an excellent opportunity. With the title of birthday star, even if Yingzheng is so self-willed that he wants a star, the ministers can go to the meteorite to coax him.

Of course, Ying Zheng is not such a naive person, and every time he does something, he can determine the pattern of the world.

"Your Majesty wants to advance the birthday gift from me first?"

Mo Dou looked at Ying Zheng wonderingly, but the other party was quite confident: "It's the widow's, why can't the widow not control it?"

Yingzheng is so strong, but Mo Dou starts to feel guilty: Yingzheng probably knows about the existence of Chuanguo Yuxi...

He tentatively asked, "So what does Your Majesty want to do?"

When he was in power, Mo Dou had piercing eyes: "Help the widow make money!"

ha?Mo Dou was in a daze. He traveled through the Qin Dynasty, right? Not the Han Dynasty, right? Why did he hear the lines of Emperor Han Wen just now...

Again, Yingzheng is not such a childish person. Although the later Emperor Wenwen of Han directly cast money for Deng Tong, although he was domineering, it still could not conceal the stupidity of his purpose—and Yingzheng wanted Mo Dou to help him design the shape of copper coins. .

The matter of weights and measures has been handed over to Kai Lin, and the policy of unifying the currency should also be put on the agenda, and Mo Dou is the perfect candidate in Ying Zheng's mind.

"Just for this? The king directly ordered it, why use the name of a birthday gift."

Mo Dou relaxed, and he played with the various currencies in front of him contentedly... Even though Mo Dou himself has no hobby of collecting souvenirs, a neat set of Warring States coins is enough to satisfy anyone's collection addiction.

In the era of backward information, rough roads, and closed places, only Ying Zheng has the ability to collect them all.

Although Mo Dou's hand has grown a lot of calluses due to carpentry, the shape of the hand has not been deformed, and it can even be said to be pleasing to the eye at first glance: the fingertips are clean and round, and the fingers are long and strong. A bit of masculine charm.

At this moment, his hands were playing with the bronze-colored coins, which looked even more delicate and fair. Ying Zheng looked down at Mo Dou nimbly and somewhat casually pinching the knife-shaped Qi coins, feeling inexplicably as if he was pinching his own heart.

"It's different. If the widow orders you to do it, maybe some blind historian will miss your name." Ying Zheng lowered his eyes and grabbed Mo Dou's hand into his own, and gently and forcefully took the other's hand. Toss the Qi coin aside, "But if you donate it on your own initiative, you can leave a name no matter what."

Mo Dou was made both hands and heart itchy by Ying Zheng. He tried in vain to take back his hand, but when he found that he couldn't, he simply gave up and let Ying Zheng play with it with peace of mind: "The things I made are not enough to keep. Next name?"

"That's different," Ying Zheng raised his eyes and smiled at the uncomfortable Mo Dou, "Do you really not know?"

The unified currency is a feat that can be recorded from beginning to end in history books, of course it is different.

Mo Dou's heart skipped a beat. Unlike Han Wendi's forced payment of money, what Ying Zheng gave him was respect and personality.

In Mo Dou's silence, as if afraid of Mo Dou pretending to be stupid, Ying Zheng said seductively: "Dou Ke still remembers the Mo Award, the name is so nice, I think the Mo Coin is also very nice."

Mo Dou, who originally planned to agree: ... I think it's you who are 'stupid coins'!

……

In the end, Mo Dou agreed, but the name of the coin was stubbornly rejected by him. Ying Zheng wanted to say something, but was stared back by Mo Dou, so he could only shut up and listen to Mo Dou's idea.

"Based on the "first-line money" made in the second year of King Huiwen, the shape of the coin is a round square hole. How about half a tael?"

Not good, ugly...

Ying Zheng opened his mouth, finally sighed, and reluctantly agreed: "It's enough if you like it..."

Knowing that he has dampened Ying Zheng's enthusiasm, especially since Ying Zheng planned to exchange it with a birthday gift, but the name is too shameful, Mo Dou can't accept it no matter how he does his psychological training, so he can only comfort Ying Zheng: "Then this It’s not counted as a birthday present, and I’ll prepare another gift for the king at that time.”

Ying Zheng immediately healed on the spot, nodded, with a satisfied expression: "I will wait."

Mo Dou froze for a moment, looked at Ying Zheng's proud eyes for a few seconds, then smiled and shook his head: This man...has learned how to sell miserably!

……

In the twelfth lunar month of 229 BC, King Qin Yingzheng was 31 years old, and King Qi arrived in Xianyang, which coincided with King Qin's birthday, so he presented a letter of surrender.

King Qi's gift was the first one, which was expected by everyone, but the next candidate was something no one thought of: the carpenter Mo Dou.

He had no official position, yet he was ranked in front of all the ministers, including Li Si, but Li Si and the others had no sullen expressions on their faces, so that everyone dared not have any criticism, and stayed honestly waiting for their time to play.

Ying Zheng was sitting calmly on top of the main hall, and no one below could see Ying Zheng's expression clearly, only the Mo Dou, who was advancing step by step with a gift box in his hand, fell into the fragments of time together with Ying Zheng.

Everything is like going back to 18 years ago, when Yingzheng was 13 years old and succeeded to the throne as the new King of Qin.

18 years later, Ying Zheng was 31 years old and conquered the six kingdoms to rule the world, but now he needs to build a new order with the help of Mo Dou's new copper coins.

Mo Dou walked slowly, approaching Ying Zheng slowly, just like in memory, although the distance from the entrance to the main hall was not far, but under the attention of Ying Zheng, Mo Dou walked the distance unknowingly .

He took a deep breath, leaned over and raised his hands, and said word by word: "Being ordered by heaven, you will live forever, the imperial power is granted by heaven, and it is orthodox and legal. Therefore, I donate half a tael today to pass on the national seal. The position of the king belongs to the destiny." .”

Ying Zheng's eyebrows twitched, he knew about the existence of Qian Banliang, but Chuan Guoxi...

Ying Zheng got up, went down the stairs, and stopped in front of Mo Dou. He pinched the other man's arm, pulled him up forcefully, and asked in a low voice, "Chuan Guoxi?"

Mo Dou straightened up, smiled and said, "Why don't you open it, Your Majesty?"

Under everyone's gaze, Ying Zheng finally took his eyes away from Mo Dou's face. He slowly and gently lifted the silk cloth on the wooden plate, revealing a stack of copper coins and a square jade seal inside.Copper yellow and warm white are mixed and printed together, forming a strong golden light that shimmers on each dragon scale, shining like the supreme power.