[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-great-qin-i-started-a-mutiny-father-emperor-plea":3,"chapter-great-qin-i-started-a-mutiny-father-emperor-plea-great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-324":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Great Qin: I Launched a Coup, Father Emperor, Please Abdicate!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2142202,3529,"Chapter 324","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-324",324,"\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me guess: you did not participate in the nobles' siege of the city not long ago.\" Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Prime Minister is as wise as a god; neither I nor my father participated.\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm.\" Zhuge Liang nodded: \"You came to find me; are you acting as a lobbyist for them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought this Prime Minister Zhuge was truly like a god; how did he know everything?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Prime Minister is right; I am here to pass on a message for Prime Minister Feng.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it Feng Feng Qiji? Is he a distant relative of your Cheng family?\" Zhuge Liang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are truly a god; you guessed it completely!\" Cheng Ze showed a look of admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Feng Feng Qiji mixed with people like Wei Pao, and his close relatives would also participate in it just like him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So your Cheng family should be a distant relative of his.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although we are distant relatives, Prime Minister Feng Feng Qiji once invited us to oppose the imperial court together with them. However, my father refused.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because my father broke his foot and it was inconvenient to move.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I guess your father’s foot wasn't really broken, right?\" Zhuge Liang said indifferently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... it wasn't broken, but it was very painful...\" Cheng Ze showed an awkward expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's not talk about these; whether your father’s foot was really broken or fake has nothing to do with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now let's talk about the business; what message did Feng Feng Qiji ask you to pass on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister, the message I want to pass on is not just Prime Minister Feng’s meaning, but also that of General Meng, several princes, and Lord Wei, etc.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, I am just a messenger; their opinions have nothing to do with me or my father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Requesting flowers]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't worry, I won't blame the messenger. Say everything you have to say; don't have any reservations.\" Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister, Prime Minister Feng asked me to bring you a message, saying they are willing to negotiate. As long as the imperial court agrees to reduce the tax to fifty percent, this disturbance can be quelled.\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh heh...\" Zhuge Liang said: \"Do you think that is possible?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I personally feel it is not very possible!\" Cheng Ze said: \"But Prime Minister Feng and the others did indeed tell me that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget about fifty-fifty; if the Emperor only collected seventy percent of their taxes, the vast majority of them would pay honestly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is precisely because the Emperor didn't even give the nobles thirty percent but only ten percent that this disturbance of the nobles stirring up trouble occurred.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So Feng Feng Qiji and the others are simply indulging in wishful thinking, and sending you here is just a waste of your time and mine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, they are just asking for an exorbitant price to be in a favorable position during negotiations.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Their main purpose in letting me come is to sit down and talk with the imperial court; if the imperial court is willing, both sides can set a time and place to talk. I think it is possible to negotiate for an eighty percent tax!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eighty percent is also impossible!\" Zhuge Liang shook his head: \"Do you know why the Emperor wants to collect ninety percent in taxes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... I don't know.\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Emperor believes that those nobles possess a large amount of land, but they can obtain a large amount of benefits without doing anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the peasants work hard, but in the end, they can't even get enough to eat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Emperor believes this is unfair and not conducive to the development of our Great Qin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So he wants to change all of this and will not allow those nobles to suck the blood of the common people!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Emperor’s words make sense, but not all nobles are blood-sucking waste!\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang glanced at Cheng Ze, then said indifferently: \"Of course the Emperor knows this; otherwise, he would have wiped out all the nobles long ago; how could he allow them to act recklessly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister, I believe we should not push the nobles too hard, otherwise it will be disadvantageous to Great Qin and the Emperor!\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, tell me, how is it disadvantageous?\" Zhuge Liang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>175. Vicious Plan\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister, Prime Minister Feng and General Meng are currently leading a great army and have retreated to defend within Huashan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although they were defeated, their strength cannot be underestimated; the total number of troops, roughly calculated, is still nearly a million.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister Feng and the others believe they still have the strength to fight; if the imperial court pushes them to a dead end, they will perish together with Great Qin!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perish together? How to perish together?\" Zhuge Liang laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister Feng said that although General Li Li Yuanba is powerful, they will just avoid General Li.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When they see where General Li is, they will immediately leave and go to attack other cities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not just cities, they will also attack small villages and towns; it can be said that they will kill everyone they see and leave after killing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In this way, Great Qin will inevitably suffer a great loss of vitality. If less than one in ten of the Great Qin subjects survive, then how will the Emperor govern this country?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a vicious approach!\" Zhuge Liang said angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Feng Feng Qiji and the others really did this, it would indeed be very troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently, the imperial court is strong in two points: the divine general Li Li Yuanba and the possession of cannons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if the other side does not confront the imperial court directly but burns, kills, and plunders everywhere, then the imperial court would be in a very difficult position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister, they are already at the end of their rope; if things go wrong, they might really do this!\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang stood up and paced back and forth in the room for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After half a stick of incense, Zhuge Liang stopped his pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go back and tell them that I cannot make the decision on the tax issue. The Emperor has not returned yet; after the Emperor returns, I will report to the Emperor. At that time, whether to talk or fight will be entirely up to the Emperor!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Okay, I will go back and tell them immediately!\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wait, there is one more thing I want to tell you.\" Zhuge Liang called out to Cheng Ze, who was about to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please speak, Prime Minister.\" Cheng Ze said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Emperor does not intend to wipe out the nobles; he just doesn't want the incompetent nobles to suck the blood of Great Qin and the blood of the common people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So capable nobles will also be reused.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the future, the Emperor plans to establish an examination system; no matter who it is, as long as they pass the examination, they can become an official.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those with particularly excellent results may even have their taxes reduced or exempted!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Additionally, I heard the Emperor say that this policy is prepared to be implemented among the nobles first, and then it will be targeted at everyone in Great Qin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selecting talent through the imperial examination was something Ying Su had long wanted to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that there were too many important things a while ago, so it was delayed again and again and not implemented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, Zhuge Liang believed the time was ripe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he revealed the news to Cheng Ze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, he felt this young man Cheng Ze was good and could let him serve the imperial court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, he also wanted to take the opportunity to divide and disintegrate the nobles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although most noble children were parasites, there were also many excellent talents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The saying that dragons beget dragons and phoenixes beget phoenixes had some truth to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the older generation was excellent, then the children would also inherit a portion of the excellent genes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, nobles didn't have to engage in labor and had a large amount of free time that could be used for learning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, there were not a few people with talent among the nobles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If these people were all straw bags, it wouldn't have given Ying Su such a headache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely because some of these people were very strong that they became the imperial court’s number one enemy at present.\u003C\u002Fp>",1483,"2026-06-16T15:53:56.883Z","2026-06-16T16:02:53.586Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e0b4a29077d4e7b586d4b071d2fd60fbd414f1469a01434ce6a8347526ca7edd","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-325","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-323",353,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-cover.jpg"]