i don't want to be emperor

The servant sitting by the fire raised his head, revealing a delicate girlish face, and smiled sweetly at the rich businessman: "Father, it's boring to stay at home."

The girl's name is Hu Lan, the daughter of Hu Jinyi, a famous spice merchant.And the rich businessman whom Hu Lan called father, with a bunch of servants, was Hu Jinyi.

The previous emperor, that is, Qin Yi's dead father, suddenly became interested in spices some time before his death, and his sudden interest was noticed by many businessmen. Business.

Among the many spice merchants who suddenly appeared, there was a young merchant named Wang Shizhen, who, by virtue of a kind of incense called Daughter Incense, miraculously made a penniless ordinary person in a very short period of time, He became an imperial merchant with a very high status in the merchant circle.

Hu Jinyi is also a spice merchant who has only risen suddenly in recent years.Before Wang Shizhen appeared, he was already a quite successful spice merchant.At that time, with some outrageous 'means', he quickly obtained a large number of spice markets, which also gave birth to his ambition to become an imperial merchant.

Therefore, while earning a lot of wealth, Hu Jinyi also continued to collect the formulas of various spices, and spent a lot of money to ask people to study, just to concoct a kind that would allow him to obtain the status of an imperial merchant, which is attractive enough smell.

Just before he succeeded, Wang Shizhen was born out of nowhere, using the "daughter fragrance" to trample all the spice merchants on the soles of their feet, and seized the identity of the imperial merchant.

No spice merchant would not want to know the formula of Wang Shizhen's 'Naughty Fragrance', and Hu Jinyi is no exception.He went out this time for such a 'big business', so he didn't take his daughter out to gain knowledge as usual. He didn't expect that this girl was spoiled by him, and she would secretly follow her like this. coming.

Just as Hu Jinyi thought, the servants naturally knew that one of them was pretending to be the eldest lady, but because Hu Jinyi usually doted too much on Hu Lan, the servants were afraid that if they told the owner that the eldest lady had followed her secretly, they would be punished. The eldest miss bears grudges, even if the eldest miss was driven back by the Patriarch at that time, she will not have a good life in the future.

Now that my daughter has followed, and they are so far away from Liangzhou Mansion, it is impossible to drive them back now, so I can only let her follow.

Thinking of this, Hu Jinyi couldn't help sighing again: "The clothes on your body are already soaked, it's not good for your health to wear them like this, go to the package to find a clean dress, go to the inner room to change your clothes, and then come out to warm yourself by the fire. "

Hu Lan heard the meaning of compromise in his words, and the smile on his face became wider, and he replied softly: "Yes, Daddy." Then he went into the inner room with a package and closed the door.

In the front hall, Liu Li, who had finished wiping Zhong Kui's statue, walked towards the closed door, intending to close the door and go back to his room to rest.Originally, he would not buckle the door, at most he would close the door.But tonight it was windy and rainy, if the door was not closed, if the door was blown open by the wind and rain, the statue of Zhong Kui inside would inevitably be affected by the rain.

But just when he closed the door and turned around to leave, the sound of footsteps stepping on water sounded from far to near, and then there was an eager knock on the door, and at the same time there was a young man's voice: "Excuse me, someone Are you there? Xiaosheng wants to stay here for a night, so I would like to ask the owner of this room to make it easier."

What's going on today? Usually, there are not as many people who come to his place in a month or two as today. Are these people here in a hurry?Liu Li muttered in his heart, but he still opened the door for the young man outside.

After walking in the rain for an unknown amount of time, a young man dressed as a scholar who was soaked all over his body stood outside the door. After seeing Liu Li who opened the door, he bowed to him: "Thank you, old gentleman."

Liu Li let him in sideways, and repeated what he had said before. Seeing his drenched appearance, he told him where the firewood was.

After hearing Liu Li's words, the scholar also showed joy on his face, and took off the burden in front of him, gratefully said: "Xiaosheng himself is nothing, but the book that can wet Xiaosheng It’s even better when it’s baked.”

Only then did Liu Li notice that the package in the scholar's arms was much drier than the clothes on his body. It seemed that when it was raining, the scholar held the package in his arms all the time, without letting the It's because of the rain.This picture of people who regard books as more important than themselves really has the appearance of a scholar.

According to Liu Li's instructions, the scholar quickly set up a fire in the room he had chosen, and carefully placed the slightly damp books taken out of the package by the fire one by one bake.

"There are so many people who came to this Yizhuang to shelter from the rain today." Feeling the movement of these people in the backyard room, Hu Yin couldn't help sighing.

It was not too late at this time, so the three of them were sitting outside at this time, and had no intention of going to sleep at all.After Hu Yin said this exclamation, Qin Yi said to the two of them as if he suddenly became interested: "It seems that there is a fire next door, you also go to the corpse guard for some firewood, let's build a fire here .”

Although they did not get wet at all because they entered Yizhuang before it rained, the temperature in the rainy night was indeed a bit low, so Hu Yin and Liu Qingxuan were not surprised when they heard Qin Yi's request. I happily went out to borrow firewood.

Both of them were skilled in martial arts and had good ears and eyes. They quickly borrowed the firewood, and after pushing the outer bed to the wall, they set up a fire in the middle.

When the fire was raised, the atmosphere of the conversation came out. The three of them sat around the fire, and Hu Yin was the first to start the conversation: "Master, are you really planning to go to Lincheng next?"

"Yes." Qin Yi nodded and asked, "Why, is there any problem?"

It's a big problem, but as the saying goes, he has not known the little emperor for a long time. If King Li might have a problem, he shouldn't say it out of his mouth.And judging from the little emperor's attitude towards Duan Wang before, and his performance when he mentioned Li Wang, this little emperor seems to care about his brother very much.

How should I put it, although he is very happy that this little emperor is not a cruel emperor who would step on his brother's corpse to rise to power, but it seems that it is not a good thing to treat his brother too much.

Even Hu Yin can think of so many things at this time, and Liu Qingxuan, who is delicate in mind, naturally thinks of more things.Qin Yi looked at the two people who were confused by his rhetorical question and didn't know what to say, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I know what you are thinking. You don't have to be so Worry, I know Brother Dahuang, he will never do the kind of thing you think."

Qin Yi happily planted a flag for himself.

It would be great if this flag is really useful.Thinking so, Qin Yi threw a piece of wood next to him into the fire to make the fire burn even more.

Now that Qin Yi has already said that, Hu Yin and Liu Qingxuan naturally don't have much to say.The original topic can no longer be talked about, so naturally a new topic should be started.

Qin Yi thought for a while, and asked the two of them: "You and I have traveled a lot. In your opinion, how about this great Qin?"

This is a proposition!

Hu Yin and Liu Qingxuan looked at the little emperor who was waiting for their answer, feeling like they were about to break out in a cold sweat.

Is Qin strong?Of course, otherwise, how could the surrounding foreign countries voluntarily become Qin's vassal states, pay tribute every year, and come to court every year?

But that was in the past, the state of Qin when the state was just established.Even in a country as powerful as Qin, as long as there are a few bad emperors, it is enough to hurt this behemoth.Although the surrounding small countries of Fanbang are still nominally the vassal states of Great Qin, their attitudes have undergone obvious changes.

It is not a day or two since they coveted the rich land of the Central Plains, but the former Qin State was strong enough that they could only hide this covet in their hearts, pretending to be submissive, and let Qin State Will not kill them easily.

After Qin State weakened, they gradually showed their fangs.First of all, the annual tribute is decreasing year by year, like a hunter testing the reality of the prey, testing Qin's attitude.And Qin's retreat undoubtedly exposed his own weakness to these foreign and small countries.

Those countries felt that their opportunity had come, and they couldn't wait to start preparing their armaments, planning to take a bite out of Qin, the huge prey.If Qin is too weak, they don't mind killing the prey directly and replacing it.

However, one of these countries was too eager after all. Perhaps because of the mentality of wanting to get the most benefits before everyone else, it launched an attack on Daqin first.

This country is the Kingdom of Jin. It underestimates the Kingdom of Qin too much. Even if it is so weak now, Great Qin is not something that a small country like it can rub against, and it also paid the price for its arrogance. Under the counterattack of Great Qin, The country was completely wiped and ceased to exist.

And the fate of the Kingdom of Jin seems to have deterred other countries, causing them to go dormant for a while.They are still staring at Daqin covetously, and have changed the way of invasion, nibbling away at the country's land bit by bit along the border.The land of Qin State is too large, the border line is too long, and it has lost a considerable amount of troops in the war of Jin State, so it is unable to stop the harassment of these small countries.

Moreover, this kind of low-intensity encroachment also made some people in the court underestimate the strength of these small countries, and did not take these losses to heart at all.To make matters worse, the emperor sitting in the highest position happened to be a pleasure-loving person.

The author has something to say: All the actors are on stage, it’s time for a good show