Xianyang Prison.
Gan Luo was placed in a single cell.
This single cell has no neighboring cells and is on its own.
The outside is built with green bricks and iron gates, using the materials used in the palace built by Xianyang Palace.
Inside, there is a rosewood bed covered with Sichuan brocade and Su satin, as well as precious wooden tables and benches.
Gan Luo, who was among them, not only was not mistreated or tortured, but was treated very favorably.
The three meals a day not only satisfy the common people with unpalatable chicken, duck, and fish, but they can also drink alcohol that is strictly prohibited outside, and there is no limit. You can drink as much as you want.
If this kind of treatment spread to the outside world, I don't know how many people would dream of entering Xianyang Prison.
As long as you don't die, even if you are locked up for a lifetime, you will still make a lot of money.
A doctor in Da Qin with an annual salary of 800 shi could not enjoy as much as Gan Luo did outside.
Lying on the rosewood bed covered with countless animal skins, Gan Luo put his hands behind his head and swayed his crossed legs.
This posture was neither etiquette nor noble, but it was very comfortable. He learned it from Ying Chengyu when he was a child.
"Looks like he's in a good mood."
Ying Chengyu held a copper key in his hand and stood in front of the gate of Xianyang Prison. Through the small open window on the iron door made of fine iron, he looked at Ganluo Dao lying inside.
Dangdangdang~
He took the copper key and knocked on the iron door. The sound of copper and iron hitting each other attracted Gan Luo's attention.
Gan Luo turned his head and glanced lightly, then turned his head and ignored it, as if he didn't see Ying Chenglong.
Click~
The lock tongue bounces open under the action of the key, making a crisp sound when it hits.
Ying Chengyu pushed open the cell door, stepped into the cell, and first looked around the entire cell.
He said with some regret: "A few years ago, I rescued Han Fei in this cell, but I didn't expect to send you in with my own hands today."
A sneer appeared at the corner of Gan Luo's mouth, feeling that Ying Chengyu's behavior was really ridiculous.
Since you sent me to Xianyang Prison, and now you are showing off proudly, that is also your skill. I can only admit that I am unlucky.
But if you insist on pretending that this is not your true intention and that you have no choice but to do so, I just look down on you.
There was a strange feeling in his waist, and Gan Luo knew that Ying Chengyu was sitting next to him.
He suddenly turned to the left, and his lifted thigh hit the bed with a "bang". He treated Ying Cheng like a snake and a scorpion, for fear of getting even the slightest bit of it.
Ying Chengyu narrowed his eyes and said nothing. He slapped Gan Luo on the head with force, and there was a loud cracking sound, as if he had been slapped on a big watermelon.
Gan Luo was caught off guard and felt his head was stuffed into an ancient bronze bell. Outside, there were ten ceremonial officers working together to ring the bell with a bronze pillar.
His head was shaking back and forth, his ears were ringing, and he was so dizzy and confused that he couldn't even get angry.
After finally getting through this period, the ringing in my ears became slightly smaller.
Gan Luo's eyes widened in anger, and the body he had just turned around turned back again, holding the soft animal skin behind his hands and yelling at Ying Chengyu: "Shu Zi, what are you doing!"
These five words sounded like normal sounds to Ying Chengqiao's ears, but Gan Luo heard them with echoes. This fact made Gan Luo, who was already dizzy, even more angry.
If he hadn't known that his three-legged cat kung fu would be far from Ying Chengyu's opponent.
Young Master Gan Luo, who has never suffered much since he was a child, wants Ying Chengxuan to experience what it means to be a playboy, the kind who beats him to death.
Qin's laws can control many people and many things.
But these people do not include Gan Luo, and these things do not include Gan Luo's affairs.
There are two reasons for this.
First, Gan Luo’s eldest father, Gan Mao, was very awesome and laid a solid foundation for early Gan Luo.
After Gan Mao rebelled against Qin, in order to make Gan Mao change his mind, the King of Qin not only refrained from harming the Gan family members who stayed in Qin, but also rewarded and cared for them.
The Gan family became the first-class family in Qin during the second generation of Gan Mao, and its power reached its peak.
After Gan Mao's rebellion, the power of the Gan family still did not decline too much even though there were no outstanding descendants serving in the Qin court.
This is why the kings of Qin in the past dynasties wanted to let Gan Mao return to Qin by treating the Gan family well, and they did not hesitate to use their royal power to favor him.
During this most mediocre vacuum period for the Gan family, relying on Gan Mao's prestige allowed the Gan family to survive without any danger.
Second, Gan Luo is not a mortal.
By the time Gan Luo, Gan Mao's grandson, came to power, Gan Mao had passed away.
And relying on Gan Mao's remaining shadow and his own efforts, Gan Luo was named Shangqing at the age of nine.
After he succeeded as the head of the Gan family, he began to resell used weapons. The First Emperor, perhaps because he didn't know or had other considerations, did not order the arrest.
The two generations of major aristocratic families in the Qin State have always been led by the Gan family. They have been waiting and watching for Gan Luo for the time being, and have not taken the initiative to find Gan Luo.
A few months later, Gan Luo, who had figured out the connection and made money, did not eat alone. Invite all the major families to make a fortune together and bind them with benefits.
He used his eldest father Gan Mao's talent for attacking and rectifying in interpersonal communication, and became the leader of the Qin family as the Qin State's top minister.
In the Qin State, Gan Luo's reputation was far less famous than that of Wang Wan, Wei Zhuang, Wang Jian, and Meng Ao. But in terms of power, Gan Luo from the old and new aristocratic families of Da Qin stood behind him the most.
How can Qin Law control such Gan Luo?
No matter how fair Qin's laws are, as long as they don't operate automatically and require people to implement them, it is false to Gan Luo.
In the Qin State, as long as they reached a certain status, few people were willing to trouble Gan Luo for the so-called fairness and justice.
Those stupid young people who couldn't see clearly the situation are now 34, 5, 6, 7, 89 years old.
Pa~
Ying Chengyu slapped him hard again, causing Gan Luo's head to suffer a second injury.
The big bronze bell was hit twice, and Gan Luo, who had just gotten up, was slapped on the bed again.
My mind was in a mess, and the sound of water rushing and flowing was extremely joyful.
Gan Luo lay on the bed and panted heavily. While enduring the torture with his eyes closed, he cursed Ying Chengyu in his heart for not being a human son.
"If you want to curse, just curse out. It's so uncomfortable to hold it in your heart. It makes me uncomfortable to see you like this."
Ying Chengyu said with a smile, and in the eyes of Gan Luo, who was a little more clearheaded, there were several smiles on his face, as if he had used the art of shadow clones.
Gan Luo wanted to spit on the first smiling face, hit the second smiling face with a big blow, and slash the third smiling face with a sword.
A single smiling face made Gan Luo hate him deeply, and multiple smiling faces made Gan Luo hate him twice as much.
What he wanted most now was to put a big copper bell on Ying Cheng's head and then hammer it down hard with a thick and big copper hammer outside, so that Ying Cheng would experience dizziness and tinnitus.
"Brother, look what you said." Gan Luo grabbed Ying Chengyu's raised right hand with both hands, "How could I scold you? You are my brother!"
Two big dicks that fell into place and one that didn't fall caused huge damage to Gan Luo, who was not yet thirty years old and could barely get along with the young man.
Let this leader of a family who was not afraid of heaven or earth and looked down on Ying Chengyu learn to be patient, learn to be a hero and not suffer the immediate disadvantages, and learn to endure hardships even if he suffers.
"I thought you had forgotten how to speak human language after being a beast for ten years. It turns out that you still haven't forgotten what I taught you when you were young, and you still know how to respect your elders."
Why don't you think about respecting the elders when Queen Mother Zhao is shouting about Zhao Xianglu? How hypocritical! How hypocritical!
Gan Luo was convinced and responded: "Brother is right. After ten years of not being taught by his brother, Luo went astray. It is really a blessing for Luo to meet his brother today."
Ying Chengyu laughed loudly and slapped Gan Luo on the head.
Gan Luo rolled from the end of the bed to the end of the bed, covered his head with his hands and said with a smile: "Luo said something wrong again? Brother, what do you want to hear? You tell me."
"Dogs bark." Ying Chengyu also smiled and said, "I like to hear dogs bark."
Gan Luo's face changed. He couldn't maintain the smile of joy at seeing his long-awaited brother, and a gloomy look appeared on his face.
"Ying Chengyu, don't go too far. My case is not over yet, so don't think you will win."
Ying Chengyu narrowed his eyes and raised his right hand.
Gan Luo only felt that a big bronze bell was placed on his head again.
"A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!"
Pa~
The copper bell was rung and the buzzing continued.
Gan Luo wailed and fell on the bed, covering his ears and shaking.
Before he could recover, the slap that struck the big bronze bell struck again.
Gan Luo's body twitched slightly, and his brain nerves could no longer control all parts of his body as he wished. He lay on the bed like a puddle of soft mud.
"Woof."
He cried softly, face down, laughing.
"Woof woof woof woof woof."
In his ears, a series of dog barks sounded, so he smiled even more happily.
Ying Chengyu placed his palms on the back of Gan Luo's head, and the warmth from his palms seeped into the back of Gan Luo's head.
The boiling river water began to slow down and even calm down, and the surging waves stopped rising after they fell.
Soon, Gan Luo was sweating profusely and lying on the bed panting.
I pressed my ears to make sure that the buzzing sound had gone away together with the unpleasant barking of the dog.
The "Yellow Emperor" technique is evil and weird, but the internal energy it produces is righteous and peaceful, with no signs of immorality.
If you don't look at the training process and only look at the internal strength, "Yellow Emperor" does deserve this name.
Just like the legendary human ancestor, he has an invincible side that can overcome all obstacles, but also has an all-encompassing side that preserves all things.
"I thought you and I would meet at my house, but I didn't expect it to be in Xianyang Prison."
Based on Gan Luo's understanding of Ying Chengxuan, before Ying Chengxuan attacked him, he should have met and talked with him to make sure that there was no room for peace between the two parties before taking action.
"I didn't expect that Li Si would act so decisively. I thought he would inform me at most." Ying Chengyu sighed.
Things are unpredictable.
He threw a bamboo slip at Tingwei Mansion, which was indeed to test Li Si. He wanted to know whether Li Si was still on his side.
Although Li Si's most valued eldest son, Li You, became Ying Fusu's personal soldier and followed Ying Fusu to the northwest, it seemed that Li Si was tied to his chariot, Ying Chenglong.
But after what was said at the wax sacrifice came out, Ying Chengyu took the place of others.
If he were Li Si, he would definitely renounce the relationship now and stay far away from himself, a man who claims to be an aristocrat, to avoid being splattered with blood and costing his family his life.
No matter how much you love your eldest son, he is not as important as the family, right?
When I saw those bamboo slips, I would definitely send them to Gan Luo and stand on Gan Luo's side.
Li Si came to the court in Qin during the reign of the First Emperor. He didn't know much about him, so it was natural to have no confidence in him.
However, Li Si just doesn't take the usual path.
Those bamboo slips did reach Gan Luo's hands, but they captured Gan Luo from Gan's house to Tingwei and handed them over to Gan Luo to plead guilty.
In the absence of the plaintiff, Li Si himself took advantage of the plaintiff and charged into battle for Ying Chengyu, turning the trial into a decisive battle.
Now Gan Luo is living at ease in Xianyang Prison, and all the major factions outside Xianyang Prison are in chaos.
Normal struggle should be about testing, contact, finding flaws, and losing ground. Just like what Gan Luo did, he started with the people around Ying Chengyu.
There is no way that the two armies have just faced each other, and the troops have not yet formed their formations. They just kill the general with a flying sword and kill his head. There is no such way of fighting.
Li Si's desperate fighting style not only surprised Ying Chengxiao.
This made people from all factions even more frightened, and they blamed Ying Chengxiao for this kind of thing.
At the Yongcheng altar, it was Ying Chengyu who said in front of everyone that he would attack Gan Luo, not Li Si.
Only Lu Buwei was not surprised at all when he heard this.
The businessman Xiangbang continued to tease the fat fish in the pond with the straight needle. The old god sat on the ground and commented - he is also a businessman.
"I thought Li Si had been given your instructions a long time ago."
Gan Luo replied with some surprise, and said with a mixture of admiration and ridicule: "I didn't expect that I fell on Li Si. Is this what you said, 'barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes'?"
Ying Chengyu gave Gan Luo another big blow without hesitation, but Gan Luo dodged for a while.
Fortunately, this big butt bag had mostly symbolic meaning, and the real damage was minimal. Gan Luo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"Gan Mao was already Prime Minister Zuo. You, a minister, said Li Si was barefoot? If you give him another ten or twenty years, all the aristocratic families will only follow Li Si's lead."
Gan Luo chuckled and said, "That's not bad."
When Ying Chengyu saw Gan Luo smiling cheerfully and without any trace of pretentiousness, he knew that his trip was most likely in vain.
Gan Luo would rather lose his position as the leader of the family than cooperate with his reform. Gan Luo sided with the family.
Ying Chengyu slapped Gan Luo on the head with his palm. This time Gan Luo didn't dodge and watched helplessly.
Ying Chengyu rubbed Gan Luo's head twice, and Gan Luo blinked in discomfort.
"Brothers and brothers, why have we ended up in this situation? When Qianlong blocked Shang Yang, he did not die well. If your eldest father had not entered Qin to reorganize the Gan family, there would be no one with the surname Gan in a high position in Qin now. You must Do you want to learn from Qianlong? Is it so difficult to help me reform?"
Gan Luo arranged his hair that had been messed up by Ying Chengyu, and said calmly: "Wei Yang entered the Qin Dynasty with no foundation in the Qin Dynasty, hoping to enter the eyes of the filial ancestor and reach the sky in one step. He is as tall as a weed, and has long been There’s nothing to lose.”
"Of course I don't care about offending all the aristocratic families in the Qin State. I can use the blood of the aristocratic families to exchange for his glory and wealth."
"And at the right time, the Qin State was in danger. General Pang Juan of the Wei State led the Wei soldiers to watch covetously outside Hangu Pass. There was a possibility of breaking through the pass and destroying Qin at any time. The Qin State would die if it did not change."
“The interests of the country are consistent with his personal interests, and with the full support of the filial ancestors, it is possible to implement reforms.
"Now, the Qin State's national power is booming, and there are countless loyal ministers and good generals. There is no worry about destroying the country externally, and there is no possibility of internal trouble. At this time, there is no time for reform."
"Relying solely on your own ideas, we will definitely not succeed. If Xiaoxian Gong didn't want to change the law, how could Wei Yang do it?"
Ying Chengyu stood up and stood with his hands behind his back.
"Whether I can succeed or not, you should have the result in your mind. Brother Huang does not support my reform, but he will not support you either. Your eldest father relies on charging into battle and using his military capabilities to create the glory of the Gan family. It is precisely because of the military achievements created by Shang Yang Lord."
"Shang Yang has opened martial arts to the world, and I have opened the arts to the world. What you worry about is not whether the emperor supports him or not, but that you, the children of aristocratic families, can no longer just wait to die. If both civil and military arts are open, you will live a good life. It’s over.”
The 20th-level military meritorious service brought Qin's military force value to the highest level, and it reached an extremely abnormal level, but this was achieved by giving up on civility.
The Qin State did not have a systematic education system. Qin people only did two things in their lives - farming and fighting.
Therefore, the literary culture of Qin has been declining, and it is completely in the hands of aristocratic families.
Only the children of aristocratic families can read and write, and ordinary people basically have no such possibility.
Even if some people are lucky enough to encounter this possibility, for example, if people from hundreds of families come to Qin to teach and solve doubts, the common people will not participate.
Because the Qin State valued military affairs from top to bottom, and regarded literature as an enemy. It was not that it did not promote it, but that it opposed it. Ordinary people violated the laws of Qin if they could not read or write.
This led to the fact that the capitals of the civil servants of the Qin Dynasty were from outside, such as Lu Buwei, Zhang Yi, Fan Ju, etc.
Because the Qin State did not have the soil to breed culture, this land was based on the whole country, and it was very easy to produce invincible generals.
With these aristocratic families as the foundation, it is extremely difficult to give birth to a talented person who governs the world.
If you sleep and play in the same class until graduation, you can have a good job.
Everyone around you is sleeping and playing, so studying hard will not be looked down upon.
In the end, there is a high probability that you will still be doing the same work as those students who are sleeping and playing. So who in this class will study hard?
The top civil servants of the Qin State, such as the Prime Minister and Jiu Qing, are difficult for the children of aristocratic families to reach out to. However, the entire Qin State cannot be run only by the Prime Minister and Jiu Qing.
There are dozens of official positions in a prime minister's palace, and the Qin State has more than ten palaces.
There are hundreds of official posts in a county, and Da Qin has thirty-six counties.
There are so many middle- and lower-level official positions, which are enough for the children of these aristocratic families to divide their lives happily.
They eat, drink and have fun every day, and when they are old enough, they can take up a job and be picky and picky.
Qin is a country with outstanding military achievements. The military family is very powerful. They are respected and have real power, and no one takes them seriously.
And in the shadows of these arrogant generals, there is a group full of people who laugh and eat happily - the civil servant family.
Gan Luo smiled, very happily, even happier than barking like a dog just now.
"My eldest father fought for the Qin Kingdom for half his life. As his grandson, what's wrong with me enjoying his blessings? Why should I compete with those lowly people whose ancestors have not made any contribution to Qin?"
"You keep saying you want fairness, but this matter itself is unfair. Those who have merit have no power. Who is willing to make merit for Qin? Mozi was a saint, but he was also a fool."
"You violated the Legalist way of governing the country. You gave up the throne that was within your reach. You picked up the articles discarded by Wei Yang and allowed the five beetles to become active in Qin again."
"Brother, you are really ridiculous. Why do you want to rebel against yourself? Can you tell me what you want?"
"Wei Yang's reform was to transfer all the fiefdoms to the king, and then what? Duke Xiaoxian said that the commercial land should be enfeoffed to him, but he ran away like a dog to eat the bones, and didn't even remember what he said. What's going on?"
"Does he deserve to be called Lord Shang? He's just a villain who talks about being righteous, but in reality is just for fame and fortune."
"Aristocratic families, the Chu family, the royal family, the Korean family, civil servants, and military generals. It turns out that these are all standing behind you. Look what you have left now."
"The rebellion of the Chu clan was suppressed by your majesty. The civil servants headed by Lu Buwei were suppressed by your majesty and all were accepted by Wang Wan. The only general left is Wang Yan who is still loyal to you."
"The other Meng Ao who seems to be standing next to you is His Majesty's sharp sword. If you dare to turn back, this sword will kill you first."
"The Korean faction has already declined, and you have been silent for ten years, so you are no longer a faction at this time. I don't know about the royal family, but I think there is a greater chance of siding with His Majesty. They will never want you to rebel."
"Now you want to be my enemy again, and you are the enemy of all the aristocratic families. What do you want? You said you feel good. Then I want to ask, brother, is it really good to be separated from all the relatives? Where is the joy?"
"What I want is the brother who could take me into the tower, not the hypocrite who sent me to Xianyang Prison to talk to me about things he didn't mean!"
Ying Chengyu glanced at Gan Luo with disappointment, said nothing, and walked quickly towards the prison door.
Today's Gan Luo is no longer the same Gan Luo who could listen to his words ten years ago, with great ambition and light in his eyes.
In fact, he had known for a long time that he was just unwilling.
"How disappointed are you? Why are you disappointed? It's you who let me down! It's only right that you let us down!"
Gan Luo jumped from the bed to the ground, ran barefoot to the cell door without wearing shoes, and stood at the door blocking Ying Chengyu's path, feeling very emotional.
Ying Chengqiu smiled, and his smile was a little bitter.
"I remember there was a little boy who refused to obey me. I gave him five glass balls, and he told me that he didn't want them. He wanted to make them himself. He became the prime minister at the age of nine and refused to obey anyone. I saw him The most proud person, he never bows down in any field."
"Even Lu Buwei, the prime minister with overwhelming power in the court, could only accept him as a disciple through gambling and fighting, thinking that the latecomers are better than the early ones."
"I told him what I wanted to do, and he was excited, he found it challenging, he was full of visions for that world, and he said he wanted to create something new with me."
"Since then, he has been following me. I kept reminding myself of him during the most hesitant period. Ying Chenglong, you are not afraid of any ancient people, so what are you afraid of?"
"In fact, it's not just him who is following me, I am following him. And now, that proud little boy asks me why I am disappointed."
Ying Chengyu reached into his arms and took out five rough glass balls with irregular shapes, mixed colors, and handed them to Gan Luo.
"Luo Di, do you want a glass ball?"
Gan Luo lowered his head and stared at the glass balls in Ying Chengyu's palm.
Oh no, it’s the glass ball.
These are the five glass balls that he rejected more than ten years ago, the five glass balls that he said he didn't want.
At that time, the glaze balls had just come out, and the manufacturing process was not skilled. The first batch of glaze balls made were not beautiful, they were just so ugly.
Gan Luo gritted his teeth, sniffled, and slowly stretched out his right hand toward the glass balls.
