[{"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-335":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},2142213,3529,"Chapter 335","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-335",335,"\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang, Xiao He, and others stood at the entrance to welcome him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Everyone of importance had come, except for Ying Zheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the Retired Emperor, there was no need for him to personally welcome his son back.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After Ying Su entered the palace, the first thing he did was summon Zhuge Liang and Xiao He to his presence to ask about the events that had transpired during this period.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After listening to the reports from Zhuge Liang and Xiao He, Ying Su fell into deep thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not wiping out the nobles was his own idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He was especially reluctant to kill the hundreds of thousands of troops on the nobles' side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hundreds of thousands of young and able-bodied men—this was a precious treasure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Great Qin was already short on population, and every place needed people.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Farming needed people, fighting wars needed people, and bearing children needed people.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Without people, how could the Great Qin develop?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The Xiongnu in the north had already been wiped out, and the vast lands in the north needed people to inhabit them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, after a long time, they would become wasteland and be occupied by other forces.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Additionally, there was the Nanyue issue that needed to be resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There were also some forces in the west and east that needed to be dealt with.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"What the Great Qin needs most right now is people. You two think of a way: how can we get those armies in the hands of the nobles over to our side?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ying Su asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"From the current look of things, they are almost at their breaking point. As long as we apply a bit more pressure, they will collapse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"It's just that the pressure applied cannot be too great, to prevent them from becoming desperate and fighting us to the death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Give me some specific suggestions. How exactly should we apply this pressure?\" Ying Su asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Surround them without attacking, and at the same time, send people to incite defection.\" Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Incite defection?\" Ying Su thought for a moment and then nodded: \"This is a good method. See who would be suitable to send?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I have one person who can go.\" Zhuge Liang said: \"He is the eldest young master of the Cheng family, named Cheng Ze. This person is shrewd and capable, a real talent, and he is a relative of Feng Feng Qiji, making it convenient for him to go to Huashan to meet with Feng Feng Qiji.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Good, send him! If this matter succeeds, count it as a great merit for him!\" Ying Su said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty, Cheng Ze once told me that if he performed a meritorious deed and Your Majesty wanted to reward him, he would want to use that reward to mitigate Feng Feng Qiji's guilt.\" Zhuge Liang said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ying Su smiled and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Feng Feng Qiji had stirred up such a huge mess; could it be forgiven just by saying so?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If he were forgiven, others would surely follow suit in the future and rebel at the slightest provocation!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty, this person Feng Feng Qiji cannot be lightly forgiven, but if he agrees to surrender, it can be considered a meritorious deed. I believe he can be allowed to live, perhaps by being exiled to the frontier or placed under house arrest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"As for his family members, they can be dealt with leniently. Come to think of it, the Cheng family is considered a relative of Feng Feng Qiji. Since the Cheng family can be rewarded, it is justifiable to deal with Feng Feng Qiji's family leniently.\" Xiao He said from the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ying Su listened and could not help but nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Xiao He was right; the Cheng family was a distant relative of Feng Feng Qiji, within the five degrees of kinship.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Since the Cheng family could be rewarded, it was justifiable to spare Feng Feng Qiji's family.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This kind of practice had existed both in the past and in later generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"We shall follow your advice. Feng Feng Qiji's family can be spared, but only on the premise that the Cheng family's merit is great enough!\" Ying Su said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty, I have another plan that can accelerate the collapse of the rebel army.\" Xiao He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Please speak!\" Ying Su said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty can announce that all rebel soldiers below the rank of chiliarch will be pardoned. Additionally, if ordinary soldiers surrender, they will be given a certain amount of reward, and they will be given land to farm so they can live and work in peace!\" Xiao He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Prime Minister Xiao's method is good!\" Zhuge Liang immediately echoed: \"The land promised to them can be carved out from the land of the rebel leaders. Additionally, I suggest that some rebel leaders can also be pardoned; this can trigger suspicion within their ranks, thereby accelerating their collapse!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I agree with Prime Minister Zhuge's opinion. Except for the ringleaders, other rebel leaders are not impossible to pardon. Of course, even if they are pardoned, they must be treated differently. The first batch of those who surrender or have merit can have most of their crimes pardoned, or even be completely pardoned, while those who surrender later can only have their lives and their families' lives preserved.\" Xiao He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang and Xiao He went back and forth, offering many specific suggestions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And Ying Su was happier the more he listened.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These two assistants were simply too formidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They were equivalent to his left and right brains.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>With them around, he didn't even need to use his own brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>187. Sowing Discord\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This person Wei Pao cannot be pardoned. The few rebellious Imperial Princes can be allowed to live but must be placed under house arrest. As for the handling of the others, you two decide.\" Ying Su said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhuge Liang and Xiao He discussed for a while, and soon a list was written up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ying Su took a look and felt very satisfied.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The people on this list were all important figures in the rebel army.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There were members of the royal clan, nobles, and generals of various ranks.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the handling of them was roughly divided into three types.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One type was that the ringleaders must be dealt with; people like Wei Pao must be beheaded, and even if they surrendered, it would not be accepted!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If anyone killed Wei Pao or handed Wei Pao over to the Emperor, that would be a great merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The second type was the target of efforts to win over; if they surrendered immediately, their past would be ignored, and they would even be assigned official positions.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This type of person was mainly generals, because in the eyes of Ying Su and others, the generals were only following orders from their masters; they took obedience as their duty and were sometimes helpless, so the role they played in the rebellion process was much smaller.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The practice of being lenient toward generals was very common, and there had been many such examples in later generations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Among them, Zhuge Liang's seven captures of Meng Huo, as well as Huang Zhong and Jiang Wei, were all generals who had surrendered.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Not only were they not killed, but they were also given important responsibilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was just that in the list drafted by Zhuge Liang and Xiao He, Meng Tian, one of the main leaders of the rebel army, was also placed in the second category.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because in their view, doing so could serve the purpose of sowing discord between Meng Tian and Wei Pao.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for the third type of person, they were people like Feng Feng Qiji.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The handling of them was based on the principle of using merit to offset guilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If they performed meritorious deeds, they would offset their guilt according to the size of the merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But as long as they surrendered, they could at least preserve their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After the three lists were finalized, the rest was to transmit them to the rebel army.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sending people to transmit them certainly wouldn't work; that way, the lists would be intercepted by Wei Pao and his cronies.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If Cheng Ze were allowed to transmit the lists, he could at most tell Feng Feng Qiji.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If Cheng Ze told others, then Cheng Ze's own situation would be dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After thinking it over, Zhuge Liang came up with an idea: he prepared to send scouts to deliver the lists and the letters of persuasion to the front line.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This way, when the enemy's patrols or front-line soldiers discovered the lists, they would spread throughout the army.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, they could also utilize kites.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Paper was so cheap now, so they would use paper to make kites.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They could write the letters of persuasion directly on the kites and then send people to fly the kites into the enemy's camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This way, they could drop the letters of persuasion directly into the middle and rear of the enemy camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Letting everyone in the rebel army know the content of the letters of persuasion.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ying Su was very happy after hearing the idea of using kites to transmit the letters of persuasion and the lists.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He let Zhuge Liang take full charge of this matter; some small decisions could be issued directly by Zhuge Liang without needing to report to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After determining the action plan, Zhuge Liang immediately took action.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The first step was to make the kites.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was easy to handle; making kites was not difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially with a large amount of paper available, the speed of making kites was extremely fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for writing on the kites, it was not troublesome either.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just find a group of people who could write and have them copy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon, one thousand kites were made.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Among them, eight hundred kites had letters of persuasion written on them, and the other two hundred kites had the lists of pardons written on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These one thousand kites were just the quantity used for the first batch of deployment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>More kites would be made subsequently.\u003C\u002Fp>",1692,"2026-06-16T15:53:56.883Z","2026-06-17T08:55:27.161Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f19a150ab035447f7427d882e7916017602307fa16f7ef511c156c06c2904b90","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-336","great-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-chapter-334",353,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-qin-i-launch-a-military-coup-asking-father-cover.jpg"]