Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One: I am for fame and fortune, why are you?(1/2)
Chen Ke blinked when he heard Ying Zheng's order, and for the first time he didn't show a very decadent state.
This made Ying Zheng feel a little strange.
Logically speaking, if you arrange work for Chen Ke yourself, shouldn't Chen Ke become decadent?
Doesn't Chen Ke like people who lie in bed with nothing to do all day long?
Why is it a little unusual today?
Ying Zheng glanced at Chen Ke several times, but Chen Ke stood there motionless with an ordinary expression.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Ying Zheng looked at Chen Ke and said in a low voice: "What's going on?"
"I'll arrange a job for you, but you won't bargain?"
Chen Ke stood there respectfully, with a very calm expression on his face, and there was no hint of reluctance.
"Your Majesty, I am a minister of the Qin Dynasty, and I am a minister of your Majesty."
"Isn't it my duty to serve His Majesty and share your worries?"
"Why is Your Majesty surprised?"
Ying Zheng looked at Chen Ke's normal expression and glanced at Chen Ke suspiciously.
He still felt that Chen Ke was a little strange.
What exactly does Chen Ke want to do?
"Chen Ke, what are you kidding about?"
"Tell me now, I'm in a good mood right now. Maybe if you tell me now, I might be able to agree to your not working."
Chen Ke looked at Ying Zheng helplessly: "Your Majesty, it's really nothing."
The chariot was moving slowly at this time, and Chen Ke and others followed Ying Zheng and slowly walked towards the palace.
The most important thing of this southern tour has been completed. After returning to Qi County and dealing with the affairs of the Tian clan, we can return to Xianyang City.
An hour later, the chariot returned to the palace.
Ying Zheng walked to the palace, turned around and told the ministers to go back and rest.
At this time, the clothes on his body were dry, as were the clothes on many ministers, but wearing such clothes would always be uncomfortable.
When Ying Zheng was about to enter the hall, Ying Zheng looked back again.
"Chen Ke, do you really want to ask me to let you rest and not join in the revision of Qin's laws?"
Chen Ke blinked and smiled: "Your Majesty, it's true."
Ying Zheng frowned: "Okay."
"I can tell you that if you miss this opportunity, I will never agree to your withdrawal from revising Qin's laws."
Chen Ke nodded slightly: "I understand."
Seeing Chen Ke's appearance, Ying Zheng walked towards the main hall full of suspicion, while Han Tan supported Ying Zheng.
In the main hall
Ying Zheng sat there, thinking about it, with a puzzled look on his face.
"This in the end is why?"
He touched his chin, feeling confused.
"Why is Chen Ke so obedient this time without any resistance?"
"I suddenly threw him a job, and he didn't even respond at all?"
Suddenly, Ying Zheng seemed to have thought of something.
"Dunruo."
Dunruo walked out: "Your Majesty."
Ying Zheng smiled slightly: "Go and check with the people at Heibingtai to see if Chen Ke is cheating Li Si into working and he is being lazy."
He snorted coldly: "How can this kid work willingly?"
"I must be talking about it, but I don't do any work."
Dunruo responded in a low voice: "Here."
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In the side hall
Chen Ke sat in front of the eucalyptus, with books on past Qin laws placed in front of him, reading bit by bit.
He held the pen in his hand, and the tip of the pen was a little cinnabar.
Chen Ke circled some areas in the Qin Code that he thought needed to be revised, and then wrote his first opinions next to them.
Li Si on the side did the same thing.
Li Si reviewed for a while, then raised his head and saw Chen Ke reviewing seriously.
He couldn't hold it back and said, "Brother Chen, did you make any mistake?"
"Why are you working so hard today?"
Li Si teased tentatively.
"Brother Chen, I always feel that you are a little weird today. Have you committed some crime and are you afraid that His Majesty will find out?"
"If anything happens, let's talk to my brother."
"If I can help my brother, I will definitely help you."
While Chen Ke was reviewing the Qin Law in his hand, he said helplessly: "Why did Brother Li say that?"
"Can't Chen just work hard once?"
He looked at Li Si with a look of disbelief and a look on his face that said, "You must have something going on in your heart." He held his forehead helplessly.
What image did you have before?
The emperor and Li Si were so surprised when they saw his hard work.
Brother Zheng asked him five times, but Li Si still didn't believe it.
Chen Ke smiled and shook his head, and said helplessly: "Brother Li, nothing is really wrong."
"It's just that I think the revision of Qin's laws is too important."
His eyes were fixed on Li Si sitting opposite him.
"Qin's approach to governing the country by law cannot be said to be wrong, even if the other six countries accuse Qin of doing so and being too cruel."
Chen Ke's expression was unprecedentedly serious.
He looked at Li Si gently and handed out the Qin Law in his hand.
"Brother Li is a smart man. You should have heard it when we were on Mount Tai today."
"I appear to be a Legalist, but I am actually not a Legalist."
"Brother Li should have noticed it when he looked at me on the mountain today, right?"
Li Si nodded.
Now that Chen Ke has spoken out, he is no longer hiding it.
"When we were on the mountain, you said you were from the Mo family. It would be too false to say that this surprised me."
Li Si sighed.
"Actually, there is not a single stupid person in the imperial court."
"When you take out things one after another, everyone knows that you are from the Mo family."
Li Si looked at Chen Ke with a trace of subtle doubt on his face.
"It's just that everyone is confused. You are obviously a disciple of the Mohist family, but why don't you carry the slightest bit of Mohist persistence in you?"
"You have a kind heart, but you advocate the heavy use of criminal law to govern the country."
"You are good at all kinds of ingenuity and craftsmanship, but you have no objection to Da Qin's war."
"You are outside the Great Qin, but you seem to be watching the development of the entire Great Qin and standing in the center of the Great Qin."
Li Si looked at Chen Ke and asked the question that not only he wanted to know, but the entire court actually wanted to know.
"You are like Confucianism but not Confucianism, like Mohism but not Mohism, like Dao but not Dao, and like law and illegality."
"You don't belong to any current school of thought, but you have a strange sense of contradiction."
"You seem to be in a league of your own."
After telling this guess, Li Si looked much more comfortable.
To be continued...