【This contact may be unidirectional.】
【Perhaps after this contact, the owner will no longer be able to establish contact with Li Si.】
【Please arrange accordingly.】
【Would you like to use it?】
【Note: Using the Ji Ren Tian Xiang card this time will not change the original historical trajectory. Each change in history ultimately leads to a result that becomes the final impact factor for the owner.】
"Use!"
"Finally, I can use it after waiting so long!"
Zhao Ping'an looked at his phone. In fact, he had long wanted to use the Ji Ren Tian Xiang card.
But there had never been an opportunity.
Recently, the beast game system kept rejecting Zhao Ping'an's reasonable demands under various pretexts, such as "not in line with historical arrangements" and "could affect significant changes in major historical nodes," leaving Zhao Ping'an with no autonomy:
Is this still the attitude that scholars should have?
No!
"Don't give the game too much autonomy in the future."
Zhao Ping'an had gradually mastered the key to it:
Does it affect history and what does it have to do with me?
"All things pass, but I stand firm amidst the chaos."
I will only do what I can do, the best thing for the group of people I represent and the future groups.
【The owner has successfully agreed to use the Ji Ren Tian Xiang card.】
【The Ji Ren Tian Xiang card has been loaded into Li Si."""
【Li Si will now be able to have everything go smoothly and follow his heart.】
【Until death.】
【We will automatically communicate with Li Si on behalf of the owner. If Li Si agrees to use it, he will only have one year left to live.】
"One year?"
That explains it.
"No wonder. It's because it hasn't been time for death yet."
"If such a bug-level function appears in the game, I'll even curse the wall. If this thing appears in reality?"
"Creator All-Powerful God?"
【Next, history continues.】
The modeling on the phone continued to show the scene at Li Si's place:
......
Li Si sits in the study, the lights flicker, and the air is filled with anxiety and dullness.
The piles of books and scrolls in front of him are stacked like mountains, each sheet bearing the detailed and refined strategies he has repeatedly deliberated on. However, none of them can truly address the current impasse.
He heaved a deep sigh, rubbing his temples, with a myriad of thoughts swirling in his mind but no clear path to follow.
These methods are actually very reliable.
Li Si is naturally an idea-rich person, and these ideas seem like natural and spontaneous thoughts for him.
But then?
Now, the plague is like an invisible demonic claw tightly grasping the throat of the Qin Empire.
Li Si knows that this is not just a health crisis, but a serious test of the Qin Empire's ruling foundation.
If not handled properly, the entire country could sink into an irreversible chaos.
However, no matter how hard he thinks, the current situation is almost a death sentence for the Qin Empire.
Several possible strategies, with success rates low enough to be despairing, resemble gambling.
These methods are almost all about gambling, whether betting that next year will be a bountiful harvest, or that the Eastern feudal lords won't dare to make a move, or that the Mongols from the north won't invade southwards……
However, from this time of the year, the situation in this winter has almost been repeatedly using facts to tell Li Si that—
Don't count on a bountiful harvest next year, it's impossible——
If next year is not a disastrous year, it's like the Qin ancestors' graves are shrouded in smoke and cover the entire realm.
Will the Eastern feudal lords dare to make a move?
Joke? How could that be possible.
Among the Eastern feudal lords, only Liu Bang and Xiang Yu have stable power. The others are all softies who would be overthrown if they didn't receive some benefits.
The Mongolian nomads in the north?
When winter comes, these people would love to head south.
To Li Si, who has always preferred to be cautious, aside from that one chance when he was young and went gambling with Lu Buwei on King An's behalf, he has hardly ever taken a gamble otherwise;
After all, his whole life, he has been a young official who earned money to pay for his studies and later gained experience by serving the First Emperor.
Since he started serving the First Emperor, he has never been without power.
Even in those early years following the First Emperor, he had at least the power over the lives of court insiders.
He cannot gamble.
Moreover, this time he is holding the fate of all the people in his hands?
His thoughts were wandering, and then a thought flashed through his mind—Zhao Shi!
That renowned wise man, who has countless times pointed the way in critical moments.
Everyone calls him Zhaizi, but Li Si knows that this Zhao Shi will not easily give up the fate of all the people:
He won't just watch as the people of the world are poisoned.
Li Si's heart ignited a glimmer of hope.
Perhaps Zhao Shi can help him find a way to break the deadlock.
With a thought, he quickly summoned the board used for communicating with Zhao Shi, his hands trembling slightly, filled with anticipation.
However, when he looked at the board, only a few simple words were written on it——
Zhao Shi seems to have anticipated Li Si would come to him for help.
【I know what you need and the kind of predicament you're in.】
【Give you a chance.】
【You are getting old, and if your remaining lifespan is only one year, but if the Qi (auspiciousness) of the Qin Empire is restored within that year, you will naturally have your blessings.】
【Ji Ren Tian Xiang, everything will go smoothly】
【Are you willing?】
Li Si was taken aback. This was Zhao Shi's usual style—brief, yet always profound.
The words and sentences reveal a force that cannot be described.
"Everything will go smoothly? Does that mean I can make everything happen according to my wish?"
Looking at the board before him, although he believed in Zhao Shi's abilities, the Qin Empire now could not withstand any more turmoil—
Who knows what kind of Qin Empire the future will bring?
But Li Si knows that if he were to die now, those who are rebelling in the palace might be able to tie things even with the loyalists.
【I also know that such a thing has a great impact, and I'm giving you the chance to experience it.】
【Don't ask me what, you are now achieving your wishes.】
The winter wind outside is fierce, blowing against the windowpane and making a wailing sound like a howling wind.
He took a deep breath and decided to try the so-called "Ji Ren Tian Xiang" technique.
He slowly closed his eyes, and in his mind, he formed the most pressing wish of the moment—wishing for a year of good weather and rain, so that the people of the Qin Empire would be spared from natural disasters.
He silently recited in his heart, "May the coming year be blessed with good weather and rain, abundant harvests, and peaceful lives for the people."
When he reopened his eyes, the atmosphere in the study seemed to have undergone a subtle change.
An invisible force seemed to fill the air, giving him a sense of unprecedented peace and confidence.
A small white object fell onto Li Si's hand.
Li Si was stunned.
"Is it snowing?"
"It's the dead of winter, so of course, the most hoped-for is for it to snow a lot."
Blessing snow heralds a good harvest.
In the future, a poet will say, "The wheat ear is covered with three layers of fleece, and next year I will sleep on a mound of bread."
