"Qin is our Qin, and it is also your Majesty's Qin."
Gan Luo's eyes flashed with cold lightning, and he scanned the heads of the aristocratic families as if in reality.
"Luo advises you not to make mistakes on your own."
After that, he rolled up his sleeves and left.
All the heads of the aristocratic families looked at each other and asked each other why Shang Qing was so angry.
Cai Ze was also asking, the old man has been doing this kind of thing for almost his whole life, pretending to be crazy and acting stupid.
Gan Luo knew what the First Emperor meant, and the establishment of Xianyang Academy was to defeat a number of aristocratic families.
Your family is not the only one who can use it in my hands. You can continue to resign and give it a try.
This is not a court discussion, and you can express different opinions. At this time, no one dared to stand against the First Emperor, not even Gan Luo.
The heads of the Xianyang family also knew what the First Emperor meant, but they pretended not to know. They did not dare to stand against the First Emperor, but they dared to stand behind Gan Luo.
Defeated, Gan Luo died.
It is done, and everyone will benefit.
All they need to pay is a useless face.
The banquet ended unhappy.
Tsunade-kun returned home, picked up paper and pen, and wrote down everything that happened at today's banquet. He stood completely from the perspective of an onlooker and only described specific matters without adding any personal opinions.
In the evening, the First Emperor returned to Zhangtai Palace.
Zhang Han, the doctor who was ordered to form a secret guard to protect the safety of the First Emperor, grabbed the letter with both hands and handed it to the First Emperor.
The First Emperor waved his hand to Zhang Han to leave without even looking at the forbidden letter.
"Send it to that guy."
"only."
Ying Chengyu asked Cai Ze to monitor every move of the Xianyang family and report on time. Cai Ze did as he was told, but added an extra step in the middle. He submitted the written letter to the First Emperor, who sent it to Ying Chengxuan.
This month, Cai Ze has sent seven letters, but the First Emperor has not read any of them. The First Emperor is not very interested in what the family does.
It was not the First Emperor himself who took the initiative to be the transfer station, but Cai Ze, who kowtowed endlessly and begged the First Emperor for help.
The steady Cai Ze outlasted Bai Qi, Fan Ju, and a whole bunch of his contemporaries, all because of his stubbornness. Tsunade-kun will not do anything out of the ordinary.
"How has Hu Hai been learning from you recently? How has he learned the art of punishment and prison?"
The First Emperor asked casually.
"Your Majesty, the Eighteenth Young Master is very talented and making rapid progress."
Zhao Gao replied respectfully.
"Oh, that boy is actually willing to learn? Zhao Gao, aren't you deceiving me?"
In the impression of the First Emperor, his youngest son only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, and he was a good at catching bugs. It's almost the same as reading and literacy.
Because Queen Afang had no heirs, the First Emperor preferred her, so he wanted all the princes to be raised by the Queen and educated by Afang when they were young. In this way, no matter which prince succeeds to the throne, the status of Afang, who has nurtured him, is guaranteed.
But the eighteenth son Ying Huhai was an exception. Ying Huhai had always been at the knees of his mother and concubine.
It wasn't that Ying Huhai's mother and concubine were powerful, but Queen Afang gave up education because Ying Huhai was too playful.
Zhao Gao said with a panic look on his face:
"How dare I deceive Your Majesty?"
"I'm just joking with you. In that case, let's go and have a look."
On a whim, the First Emperor happily led the two guardians Gai Nie and Zhao Gao straight to the palace of Hu Hai's biological mother Hu Ji.
Outside Hu Ji's bedroom.
A palace maid saw a group of more than sixty officials marching straight towards this direction from a distance. She was surprised at first, and then overjoyed.
Xianyang Palace has a strict system, and only the First Emperor can be surrounded by three teams of officials.
She hurriedly turned around and entered the palace to report to Hu Ji.
Concubine Hu has a beautiful appearance and graceful figure. The most striking feature is her slender waist that can be grasped with both hands.
Hearing the middle of what the palace maid said, her pretty face turned cold immediately when she heard the words "Your Majesty is here."
"What is he here for?"
"Concubine, please don't..."
"I'm sick and can't see you."
Concubine Hu raised her sleeves and returned to the bedroom from the front hall with a cold face, refusing to listen to the persuasion from the palace maid behind her.
The maid had no choice but to turn around and go out, waiting in front of the palace door. Soon she saw the First Emperor.
"Greetings to Your Majesty."
The First Emperor did not respond. Not everyone's greeting was worthy of his response.
Zhao Gao stepped forward and pushed the door open.
The palace maid did not dare to stop him, but he had to do what Concubine Hu ordered. So he lowered his head and said in panic at a very fast speed:
"Your Majesty, Concubine Hu is ill and should not be exposed to the wind."
Zhao Gao stopped, his hand was only a millimeter away from the door.
After waiting for a while, no order was heard from the First Emperor. Then he gently pushed open the palace door and led the First Emperor in, leaving himself behind.
The First Emperor walked past him and entered the palace. Zhao Gao looked so humble that he made a palm with his hand and suddenly patted the palace maid on her head.
If this palm lands on the right place, the palace maid will die. Let alone palace maids with no martial arts skills, even if martial arts masters were slapped on the head by Zhao Gao, not many could survive.
Genie, who was following the First Emperor, raised his sword eyebrows, drew his sword and stopped in front of the palace maid, looking at the crazy licking dog unkindly.
"What to do?"
This question was not asked by Gai Nie, but by Zhao Gao who stopped in time.
I didn't know that Miyamoto, who had almost died just now, was standing behind Ganie. He didn't understand why the two personal guards around His Majesty seemed to be fighting. He lowered his head and looked at the toes of his shoes and did not dare to speak.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Gao kills people indiscriminately."
Gai Nie stared at Zhao Gao with his eyes neither high nor low.
The First Emperor was originally in a bad mood at being shut out, but he was amused by Ge Nie's complaint.
He turned around and looked at Zhao Gao who was speechless and asked with a smile:
"Zhao Gao, why do you kill people indiscriminately?"
Zhao Gao turned around to face the First Emperor, lowered his head, raised his hands, and said respectfully:
"Your Majesty, Concubine Hu's breathing is well-proportioned, her vitality is strong, her body is not weak, her spirit is not lost, and she shows no signs of illness. This woman dares to deceive Your Majesty, so Gao will kill her."
Pause briefly.
"I don't know why Mr. Gai blocked it. Could it be that he thought it was not a big deal to deceive His Majesty?"
"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!"
After realizing it later, the palace maid who walked around the Palace of Hell realized what she was doing. She knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, her forehead broken and bleeding.
Gai Nie's face was expressionless.
"Your Majesty did not say killing."
Amidst the series of pleas from the palace maids, the First Emperor smiled and said:
"Haha, Gai Nie, kill her."
Ge Nie turned his head numbly and stared at the First Emperor for a few breaths.
During these few breaths, the palace maid's kowtows became louder and louder, and her cries became more and more shrill. She kept repeating words such as "I know my fault, I will never dare to do it again, and I beg Your Majesty to spare me."
The blood on his forehead splashed onto Gai Nie's white clothes, turning red instantly and spreading out from a small dot, which was very conspicuous.
"only."
He raised his sword and dropped it.
The long sword pierces the chest.
The palace maid was stabbed in the heart, but Gai Nie's internal force shattered her heart and killed her instantly. She fell down with infinite regret. His head first hit Gai Nie's thigh, and finally hit Gai Nie's shoes, leaving a large stain of blood on Gai Nie's white robe.
"The clothes are dirty, go back and change them."
The First Emperor ordered and walked towards the interior of the palace, Zhao Gao followed with small steps.
The sword master did not respond to the First Emperor's words, he just drew his sword and returned it to its sheath. He raised his right hand that had just stabbed the palace maid with the sword. The sword master's right hand was trembling all the time.
He firmly grasped the wrist of his right hand with his left hand, finally making his right hand stop shaking. But he can hold the trembling hands, but what about the trembling heart?
The sword master gasped for air several times and was even more tired than fighting against Lu Goujian, the former best swordsman in the world. He turned his head, wanting to see what the palace maid he stabbed to death looked like. He had not yet taken a serious look at the palace maid's appearance.
But the ground was empty, and even the blood stains had disappeared, leaving only a colorless wet mark that had not yet dried.
Just when he calmed down, the eunuchs who were quick and agile worked together to not only drag away the body of the palace maid, but also clean up all the blood stains.
This wasn't the first time they had done this, practice makes perfect.
Gai Nie covered his head and was short of breath. He was in pain.
He knew why the First Emperor wanted to kill the maid, and he understood it. The situation is at this point. If we don't kill him today, wouldn't everyone dare to bully the emperor in the future?
Ganie understood everything, but he was still in pain. This was not the king he wanted.
"What are you doing here?!"
The angry Concubine Hu is still beautiful.
She made no secret of the hatred in her eyes. She looked at the First Emperor not like she was looking at her husband, but like she was looking at the enemy who killed her father. The First Emperor was her father-killing enemy.
Hu Ji was a princess of the Chu State. Wang Jian's army was ordered by the First Emperor to destroy the Chu State, killed Hu Concubine's father, the King of Chu, and kidnapped Hu Ji from the capital of Ying to Xianyang.
The First Emperor destroyed Hu Ji's country, destroyed Hu Ji's family, killed Hu Ji's father and mother, and brought Hu Ji into the harem as his concubine.
"Where's Hu Hai?"
The First Emperor asked naturally with a calm expression and a smile on his face. It was as if he didn't see the deep-seated hatred in Hu Ji's eyes, and heard the unwelcomeness in Hu Ji's words.
"In the side hall."
Concubine Hu pointed to the door of the dormitory.
"Get out and find your son."
The First Emperor looked at the angry Concubine Hu, raised his right hand and waved it back.
Zhao Gao understood immediately, lowered his head and backed out of the dormitory, and closed the dormitory door.
In the gap between the bedroom door and the hall door, one could see Concubine Hu getting up from the red gauze and green silk rosewood bed in shock and anger. You can see the First Emperor rushing towards Concubine Hu like a ferocious beast and throwing her down on the bed.
"Qin Gou! God damn Ying Zheng! Don't touch me! Get out!"
The closed palace door blocked most of the sounds, but the wooden palace door could not intercept all the sounds.
The sounds of clothes ripping, women screaming, the bed creaking, and the violent collision of skin kept ringing out.
Zhao Gao, who was standing guard outside the dormitory with his back against the palace gate, listened to all the sounds, his waist hunched, his face full of humility.
The wind has stopped and the rain has stopped.
Concubine Hu's hair was disheveled, her face was stained with tears, she was hugging a brocade quilt, her snow-white shoulders were exposed, and she yelled at the neatly dressed First Emperor:
"Beast! Qin Gou! Why don't you die!"
The First Emperor ignored him, put on his clothes, straightened his clothes in front of the bronze mirror, opened the palace door and went to the side hall to look for his son.
As soon as the First Emperor left, Concubine Hu's strength suddenly drained away, and she slumped down on the bed, closing her eyes and crying silently.
She hated the First Emperor. If she could kill the First Emperor, she would not hesitate at all, but she did not have the ability.
Give her a long sword made of fine steel in her hand. Even if her fingers are not wet with spring water, she will not be able to hurt the unarmed First Emperor. The First Emperor's martial arts were not that high compared to Ying Chengyu. For ordinary people, such as Concubine Hu, the First Emperor's martial arts were extremely high.
She was kidnapped from Chu State and had no influence in Qin State. All the relatives from abroad in Chu stood behind Concubine Chu who was born in Qin and grew up in Qin. He had always ignored her, a princess of Chu who was born and raised in Chu, and who was just a fake princess.
She didn't love the First Emperor, and she knew that the First Emperor didn't love her either.
Born in the palace, she was used to intrigues and checks and balances through marriage. It was clear that the First Emperor took her as his concubine in order to give the old forces of the Chu State something to look forward to and a reason to convince themselves not to take revenge.
Of course, this must be due to her beautiful appearance. She had many sisters, but the First Emperor only accepted her as his concubine, and the others were abandoned in the Sixth Palace.
She was happy for her beauty when she was in Chu, but she really hated her face after entering Qin. If she were not born so beautiful, she should be in the Chu Palace among the six palaces now. Although it is also a cage, it will not be ridden by the damned Ying Zheng.
She thought about committing suicide after being taken over by the First Emperor, but the reason why she didn't do it in the end was because she figured it out. If she died, the First Emperor would find another one of her sisters to be his concubine. The First Emperor would not lack her as Concubine Hu.
When she was in Chu State, she was not actually very close to her sisters who were also princesses, and many of them were very hostile and tit-for-tat.
But after the fall of the Chu State, in the face of the hatred of the country and the family, Concubine Hu, the princess of the subjugated country, did not want her sister to be defiled by the Qin dog.
"Zhao Gao, if you dare to lie to me, I will kill you!"
Concubine Hu's eyes burst into bone-deep hatred.
Under the brocade quilt, her smooth body, as white as milk, had several conspicuous red marks and bruises that had just been added.
In Xianyang Palace, the number of eunuchs and maids in Concubine Hu's bedroom was one of the fewest among the concubines.
The princess of the subjugated country, who had no power to support her, treated the First Emperor with cold eyes and hatred, and abandoned the First Emperor's favor. In the playground of the harem, Queen Afang would not be used to it.
Refusal to educate Ying Huhai is Afang's response. Every child is playful when they are young, so why was Ying Huhai alone refused to be educated by Afang?
After the exchange, Afang was talking to Concubine Hu through actions - your son will not inherit the throne.
"Hu Hai, what are you doing?"
The First Emperor kept a straight face and maintained the dignity of a strict father.
The First Emperor had no prejudice against Ying Huhai and did not discriminate against his eighteen sons because his mother and concubine were Hu Ji.
When he arrived this time, the First Emperor really wanted to test Ying Huhai's learning progress.
"Father, father, father?"
When the First Emperor came in, Ying Huhai was lying on the ground with his little butt stuck out, holding a piece of grass in his hand, and kept teasing the two worms in the jar, making the two worms fight each other.
This is Ying Huhai's favorite game. He looks very focused. He likes to watch bugs biting each other the most. The bitten legs turned away and he didn't notice his father entering.
I was startled by the First Emperor's call. When I looked up and saw my father's face, I screamed, hurriedly threw away the grass in my hand, and stood up in embarrassment.
When the First Emperor saw Ying Huhai's appearance, he was immediately unhappy. He was so cowardly.
(End of chapter)
