Chapter 669: Those who seek their own death!

As soon as this imperial decree came out, it immediately caused an uproar among many ministers.

Before this, the Qin Guo did not have a so-called Imperial Preceptor. But from this title, it was not difficult to imagine what an Imperial Preceptor was. In common terms, it was a teacher of a country. Besides that, in this imperial decree, Ying Zheng also gave Su Xuan various privileges, such as status equal to the Emperor, not needing to bow when seeing the Emperor, seeing Su Xuan was like seeing His Majesty the Emperor, and allowing him to open a mansion and granting him a fief. All these measures undoubtedly pushed the position of Imperial Preceptor to an extremely high status.

After this imperial decree was issued, ministers immediately stood up.

"I ask His Majesty the Emperor to think twice!"

"In our Qin Guo, there has never been a position of Imperial Preceptor. An Imperial Preceptor, although without military or political power, has a respected status as a teacher of a country. How can it be conferred casually?"

It was not just one person who stood up, nor was it just two.

After Ying Zheng's imperial decree, they appeared impassioned and resolutely opposed it.

Listening to their opposition, Ying Zheng's gaze gradually turned cold, looking at these people as if they were dead people.

"According to your meaning, is Mr. Su not worthy of this position of Imperial Preceptor?"

Cold words came from Ying Zheng's mouth. Many people realized something was wrong and chose to close their mouths. But there were still some who resolutely opposed it. In their words, it was nothing more than the position of Imperial Preceptor being no small matter and not to be conferred lightly. At the same time, they also implicitly mentioned Su Xuan, the hidden meaning being that Su Xuan was "virtue not matching the position," without so-called talent and learning. Even if he had powerful strength, he could not easily serve as the Imperial Preceptor.

"My intention is decided, you all stop talking!"

Ying Zheng listened to these people's words and became more and more irritable, and said coldly again. Everyone's voices were covered by him. This matter could be considered to have come to an end.

Even if there were still people dissatisfied, Ying Zheng's imperial decree had already been issued, and it was impossible to change it.

Just like that, without Su Xuan going to the palace to accept the conferment, because of Ying Zheng's imperial decree, he became the Imperial Preceptor of the Qin Guo, with a transcendent status.

After the court meeting dispersed.

Those officials who opposed Su Xuan becoming the Imperial Preceptor left in groups, and the other officials also dispersed.

"Junior Brother Li Si, I wonder how you view today's matter~~?"

Han Fei came to his Junior Brother Li Si's side and asked him.

"What does Senior Brother want to say?" Li Si's appearance looked much older than Han Fei's. This was not strange; his age was indeed a bit older than Han Fei's. The reason he was a Junior Brother was just because he started his apprenticeship relatively late.

This situation was somewhat similar to the Ghost Valley brothers. Wei Zhuang among the Ghost Valley brothers was a bit older than Gai Nie, but because of the time of starting apprenticeship, he could only call Gai Nie Senior Brother.

"Regarding His Majesty the Emperor conferring Su Xuan as Imperial Preceptor!"

Han Fei did not believe that his Junior Brother Li Si really did not understand what he was asking.

Li Si's gaze flickered slightly, and he said coldly: "Seeking one's own death!"

"Yeah, there are always some people who cannot see the situation clearly and want to find death themselves." Han Fei sighed with a complicated tone.

Li Si said coldly again: "Senior Brother feels some reluctance?"

Han Fei said bluntly: "Indeed some reluctance, after all, these people come from the Confucian School!"

"Even if they come from the Confucian School, their seeking death is also bringing it upon themselves and has nothing to do with us." Li Si saw it very clearly.

What he and Han Fei were talking about were the officials who stood up to oppose Ying Zheng after Ying Zheng read the imperial decree today.

Did they oppose Su Xuan becoming the Imperial Preceptor really because the position of Imperial Preceptor was no small matter and could not be easily granted to others?

Not so!

Before this, the Qin Guo had never had an Imperial Preceptor. Even if Ying Zheng wanted to confer an Imperial Preceptor, it did not matter, let alone that the one who became the Imperial Preceptor was Su Xuan.

For the old ministers of the Qin Guo, Su Xuan's existence had never been a secret. His status was transcendent. Before this, although there was no title of Imperial Preceptor, in fact, it was no different from an Imperial Preceptor. Now, it was just because of the imperial decree that he had an extra title.

But some people could not see clearly and intended to stop Su Xuan from becoming the Imperial Preceptor.

This group of officials was the representative figure among them.

They stopped Su Xuan from becoming the Imperial Preceptor, not because Su Xuan was not worthy of the position, but because Su Xuan came from the Yin-Yang School.

And they came from the Confucian School.

An Imperial Preceptor, a teacher of a country, has a transcendent status. How can it be served by a person from the Yin-Yang School? Even if there really had to be an Imperial Preceptor, it should be served by a person from the Confucian School, which was a prominent school.

This was their thought, and Han Fei also knew their thoughts very well.

Watching these people seek their own death and anger Ying Zheng, he felt very painful but could do nothing.

Even though back then when he and Su Xuan went to the Confucian School, Fu Nian of the Confucian School had already expressed his stance that the Confucian School had surrendered to the Qin Guo, in the end, some people could not see the situation clearly and thought highly of themselves.

The Qin Guo required the Confucian School to surrender because the Qin Guo did not want to see a Confucian School that caused trouble, but it did not mean that the Qin Guo really needed the Confucian School and could not do without it. If the Confucian School did not know the current affairs, the Qin Guo would not mind destroying the Confucian School.

The initiative had been in the hands of the Qin Guo from the beginning.

But this group of Confucian officials did not think so. In their view, the Qin Guo required the Confucian School to attach itself because the Confucian School had indispensable value to the Qin Guo, and their talent and learning were things the Qin Guo could not lack.

After the Confucian School surrendered to the Qin Guo, in order to show respect for the Confucian School, Ying Zheng appointed some officials from the Confucian School, which made them even more unable to see the situation clearly and even more arrogant.

In the eyes of the Confucian officials, the Legalist School was a group of eagle dogs. Although they helped the Qin Guo unify the world, to govern this world, they still needed their Confucian School.

Today's matter was just a small episode. On the surface, it was their resistance to Su Xuan becoming the Imperial Preceptor; in fact, it was their test, their expression of dissatisfaction.

But some things cannot be tested easily.

A few days later, those officials who opposed Ying Zheng conferring Su Xuan as Imperial Preceptor at the court were dismissed from their official positions. If they were dismissed for no reason, it would be difficult to convince the public, but Ying Zheng brought out solid evidence.

It could only be said that no one is perfect. As long as they are human, they will make mistakes.

If it were in the past, these mistakes might not be fatal, but at the present, in the case of offending Ying Zheng, these mistakes were found out, which was enough to make them lose their official positions.

They implicitly stated that Su Xuan was "virtue not matching the position," and Ying Zheng directly let them, who were "deficient in private virtue," lose everything. ===== CHAPTER 671 =====