Chapter 374: Confrontation

Sanghai City, Haiyue Xiaozhu.

"Young Master, you came to find me just for this small matter?"

"Small matter?"

In the pavilion, Su Fan and Fusu sat facing each other, with Wang Zhan and the others guarding the surroundings. Haiyue Xiaozhu was Fusu's residence; the security work here was even tighter than Su Fan's military camp.

Inside and out, manpower was arranged, and they were all experts. Just now, Su Fan even sensed experts like the Black Ice Terrace sword guards by his side.

Clearly, as the direct eldest son of Great Qin, even if he hadn't been named Crown Prince, he had all the protection a Crown Prince should have.

Invited by Fusu early in the morning, hearing Fusu's words, Su Fan was also somewhat surprised.

His tone was inevitably a bit impatient.

Wang Zhan, who was on the side, heard Su Fan's tone and widened his eyes, but he quickly reacted, hurriedly retracting his expression, and then signaled with his eyes.

The person sitting in front of them was the eldest son of the Empire. Even if he hadn't been named Crown Prince, in the eyes of most people, Fusu was the future successor of the Empire.

Even if you chose not to enter the struggle for the state foundation, you should avoid what needs to be avoided, but your attitude and tone like this—isn't that wrong?

Wang Zhan kept signaling Su Fan.

Su Fan didn't care. He was very clear about Fusu's character. To be honest, he didn't think Fusu would be the best successor.

If in the future, Ying Zheng won and defeated everyone, then as a ruler who maintains the status quo, he would be qualified.

Although he was easily misled and fooled, at least he wouldn't be headstrong.

As long as there were no internal or external enemies in the country, Great Qin would continue, and the national strength would even slowly increase.

Just like when Zhu Yuanzhang designated Zhu Yunwen—whether Zhu Yunwen was emperor material, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew. In terms of ability, Zhu Yuanzhang knew he was definitely not as good as his several sons.

But according to Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts at the time, the world had already been conquered by him, and with the grassland as an external enemy, and his several sons watching, there would definitely be no trouble.

As a result, he didn't expect Zhu Yunwen to be so stupid. Cutting the domains was not impossible, but it was too rushed, and after that, he made frequent mistakes, which was equivalent to handing the world to Zhu Di.

Fusu and Zhu Yunwen were very similar—both taught by great Confucian scholars, both benevolent. So who knew if he would be as stupid as Zhu Yunwen?

At least in history, because of a single imperial decree, he committed suicide. Based on this alone, in Su Fan's eyes, Fusu's evaluation was not high.

And now, Fusu actually came to find him for the sake of those people. Listening to the other party's meaning, he understood that he wanted to speak for them, and was even unhappy because of his excessive slaughter.

Su Fan's heart was naturally unhappy.

Not to mention that Fusu was not yet the Crown Prince; even if he were the Crown Prince, as someone comparable to one of the Nine Ministers, he wouldn't be afraid of the other party at all.

After all, he was now considered a heavy minister.

There was no need to care about Fusu's face, because he was only responsible to Ying Zheng.

In Great Qin, only Ying Zheng was worth his respect. As for others, such as Bai Qi and Wang Jian, they only made him look at them differently.

After all, he had seen too many famous generals.

Of course, Bai Qi's strength would make Su Fan cautious of him.

Su Fan ignored Wang Zhan's signaling and looked at Fusu intently, saying, "Does Young Master think these count as big matters?"

"Small matters? Agriculture Director Su, you killed more than a hundred people in just a few days, and captured nearly a thousand. Do these count as small matters in your eyes? And aren't you too cold-blooded?"

Fusu saw Su Fan's attitude and was also somewhat displeased.

For Su Fan to reach his current position at such an age, Fusu didn't care, because the other party had indeed contributed to Great Qin. As the eldest son of Great Qin, he naturally hoped that Great Qin would get better and better.

However, today, seeing the other party's tone and attitude, he felt that the other party was too arrogant and too indifferent to life.

"They violated Qin law. I killed them, which means I was executing Qin law. Even if there were more people, it wouldn't count as a big matter."

"And these people have been obstructing our Agriculture Office's promotion work. I didn't capture them all and behead them, which is already very benevolent."

Su Fan felt more and more that this guy was too ignorant. These people obstructing the Agriculture Office was equivalent to obstructing Great Qin.

Just because of his slight benevolence, he had to let those people go—it was simply pedantic to the extreme.

"If Young Master feels that these people should be released, then I will release them."

"I still have some matters, so I won't disturb Young Master's meal. I will take my leave."

Su Fan was too lazy to deal with this guy.

No wonder he didn't succeed in history. With this pedantic spirit, what could he succeed in?

Blind benevolence, listening to a few good words, and he would be dizzy.

Of course, he also knew that Fusu was likely fooled by those people, but so what? He didn't even investigate beforehand.

So Su Fan didn't give the other party a good face at all.

"You..."

Fusu didn't expect Su Fan to say this, and to leave so decisively. He wanted to stand up and say something, but in the end, he stopped abruptly.

After Su Fan left, he suddenly laughed mockingly at himself: "Hehe! Is it that I am really too benevolent? Why does everyone feel that I am too benevolent? Is benevolence not good?"

In the pavilion, no one responded to Fusu's words.

"Hey! Why did you have to talk to Young Master Fusu like that just now? Aren't you making the Young Master angry?"

"Even if he is not the Crown Prince of the Empire now, with his current status, as long as he doesn't make mistakes, he will inevitably ascend to the throne in the future. Aren't you afraid that he will hold a grudge against you in the future?"

Wang Zhan reminded him with a serious face after catching up with Su Fan.

"Hehe! So what?"

"By that time, I'm afraid I would have already reached the peak of my official career. At worst, I will directly announce my retirement and return to my hometown. Fishing every day in the East Sea—how relaxing."

Su Fan said indifferently. He didn't think about how long he would be an official in Great Qin; he was just borrowing Great Qin's strength and luck.

He wasn't Li Si, who was extremely keen on power and officialdom; he didn't care about power at all.

Not to mention, whether the other party could ascend to the throne was another matter.

First of all, in this world, Ying Zheng would inevitably be on the throne for a long time. Unless an accident occurred when Great Qin attacked the Divine Court in the future and Ying Zheng died, then Fusu might still ascend to the throne.

But that was only a possibility, because he didn't know if Zhao Gao would, like in history, help Hu Hai ascend to the throne.

After all, based on the information he had now, Zhao Gao was Hu Hai's teacher, and the relationship between the two had long been inseparable.

Zhao Gao would definitely choose Hu Hai. Zhao Gao, who controlled the Net and whose strength was a mystery, would certainly not be willing to let Fusu ascend to the throne.

Therefore, Su Fan was not afraid at all.

What's more, it was estimated that by the time Fusu ascended to the throne, he would have already left. ===== CHAPTER 375 =====