Chapter 243: The truth comes to light
Meng Xifan didn't believe Gan Mao when he saw it, and was very helpless.
"Old Bai, tell me, have we done anything to harm Gan Luo?"
Bai Siqi shook his head and said: "I don't have any anyway, so you and I don't know. Everyone knows that all the members of my Bai family are in the military and don't care about the affairs of the court at all.
Gan Luo's ambition is in the court, and all the members of your Meng family are in the court. Once Gan Luo comes to power, your Meng family's dominance will be replaced by the Gan family.
So basically no one believes you, Meng Xifan, is not the murderer. "
"What did you say?" Meng Xifan was furious, "Bai, you must have evidence for what you say, otherwise I, Meng Xifan, will fight you until death."
Bai Siqi said disdainfully: "You are worthy of fighting to the death. Can you beat me?"
Gan Mao said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, even if the Meng family wants to deal with the Bai family, we have to see if I, Gan Mao, agree."
"You...you..." Meng Xifan covered his heart and pointed at Bai Siqi and Gan Mao out of breath. He could only look at them angrily but couldn't say a word.
Bai Siqi spoke again: "Don't get excited, I'm talking about normal people's opinions, and these are outsiders' opinions.
As long as they know that Gan Luo went crazy because he was assassinated and not because of illness, then the first person most people will suspect is you, Meng Xifan.
But our three families are different, especially Gan Mao. He also knows that someone is framing our three families, and the most likely person is Lu Buwei.
Our Bai, Meng, and Gan families supported the First Emperor. At that time, Lu Buwei wanted to eradicate the First Emperor and establish himself as king.
At that time, Lu Buwei tried to win over the three of us, especially recruiting Gan Luo to his house as a young concubine.
Gan Luo has been very smart since he was a child, and all three of our families regard him as the hope of the nobility. In the future, Gan Luo will lead us to greater heights and become a being like Lu Buwei.
But the good times did not last long. When Gan Luo was twelve years old, he went to Zhao as an envoy and helped the Qin Dynasty acquire more than a dozen cities. The First Emperor had already learned about Gan Luo, and in addition to rewarding Gan Luo with gold and silver, he also made him a minister. This was Equivalent to the position of prime minister.
His Majesty not only rewarded Gan Luo, but also said that Gan Luo would be another prime minister in the future.
If you think about it, you will know how angry Lu Buwei was in his heart at that time. He was not dead yet, and His Majesty was already planning to unite the two sides. Do you think Gan Luo can still live well?
The three assassinations were all caused by Lu Buwei. His purpose was not really to assassinate Gan Luo, but to tell the First Emperor that without Lu Buwei's order, anyone who wanted to be promoted needed Lu Buwei's consent.
He, Lu Buwei, disagrees. Even if you give him a promotion, you must be prepared to die.
Think about it, many of the officials appointed by the First Emperor had accidents and were either dead or injured, and Gan Luo was among them. "
After Gan Mao and Meng Xifan thought about it, their expressions changed.
Meng Xifan said in shock: "I remembered. My son was also named one of the top ministers by the First Emperor, but he died inexplicably in the end. After the doctor checked, he said he was bitten by a poisonous snake.
At that time, I felt something was strange. Without evidence, I had no choice but to leave it alone.
Now that I think about it, it turns out that Lu Buwei did all of this. It's a pity that he is dead, otherwise I would definitely seek revenge from him. "
Looking at Meng Xifan who was gritting his teeth, Bai Siqi said again: "Since Lu Buwei's fall, who else do you think has been assassinated? Except of course His Majesty.
So Gan Mao, don't worry about the murderer. Do you really think that Meng Xifan and I went crazy because we didn't know that Gan Luo survived the catastrophe? "
Gan Mao narrowed his eyes and said, "How do you know?"
"Not only do we know, I'm afraid Lu Buwei also knows, after all, there is no airtight wall in this world.
We didn't expose you to protect Gan Luo. Lu Buwei didn't expose you probably for two reasons. One was because he didn't want to completely offend the Gan family, and the other was that Gan Luo had already resigned from the position of Shangqing and his goal had been achieved. .
Lu Buwei had big things in mind, so in the end he didn't care whether Gan Luo was really crazy or fake. "Bai Siqi said. 33
"Why do you know so well?" Gan Mao asked suspiciously.
Bai Siqi said: "Don't forget what my Bai family does."
In addition to having a large number of contacts in the military, the most important thing about the Bai family is that they have a powerful intelligence agency. As long as this agency spends money, it can get any information.
"Since you already knew the news in advance, why did you still watch my son die?" Meng Xifan asked through gritted teeth.
Bai Siqi replied: "I just didn't inform you, but I informed your son that a group of assassins assassinated your son.
I also didn’t expect that your son escaped the assassin’s pursuit but not the poisonous snake’s poison. All I can say is that your son is destined. "
"Nonsense. It's fate. It's okay if my son doesn't go out that day." Meng Xifan roared.
Bai Siqi curled his lips and said: "If he can't go out, he will never go out. Lu Buwei gave him a task at that time."
"Then I can let him bring more guards."
"That's even worse. Do you want Lu Buwei to attack the Meng family directly? You have to know that Lu Buwei's power at that time was no worse than His Majesty's now.
As long as he said a word, Lu Buwei could convict the entire Meng family with just one privately trained dead man.
Your son also knew this, so he hid very cleverly, but God is not as good as man, who could have known that he would be bitten by a poisonous snake.
Now, it is useless to say this, what should happen has happened, what we should do now is that the Nine Ministers System has lost, there will be big changes in the court, and we need to rearrange manpower. "Bai Siqi said.
"Manpower will definitely be arranged, but now the court's system has changed, the recommendation system has been cancelled, and the imperial examination system will continue to be improved.
It won't be long before it's not easy for us to arrange for our own people. We need to take the imperial examination. "Gan Mao said.
Meng Xifan calmed down his emotions and said slowly: "Reading, the younger generations must read. And not only the Analects of Confucius, but also Mohism and doctors must understand it."
"That's right." Gan Mao said, "This time Li Si was dismissed from office, it happened to be the time to re-enable Gan Luo."
"It's a good idea, and I, the Meng family, fully support it."
"My Bai family also fully supports it."
"Well, you should make a list of personnel as soon as possible. When the First Emperor launches the purge, list down who will be removed voluntarily and who will stay." Gan Mao said.
"Okay." Meng Xifan and Bai Siqi said at the same time.
Meng Xifan spoke again: "What should Feng Quji do? Should we just let him go?"
Some people died, but not completely...
