There are dense forests outside Xianyang City.
"We found someone, here?" Following a loud shout, a dozen sergeants holding sharp weapons and wearing leather armor gathered around.
The sharp-eyed Yi Xiaochuan also saw several people climbing up some trees in the distance, pointing their crossbows at this direction.
"Put down your weapons and capture us without mercy!"
Yi Xiaochuan quickly identified himself: "I am from the Meng family. I was hunting outside today. I saw this man sneaking around and captured him."
The leading soldier was a little disbelieving when he heard this: "How do you prove that you are a member of the Meng family?"
Yi Xiaochuan quickly opened the clothes on his chest, and there was a branded tiger symbol mark on it. This was the mark he made by mistake when he first came to Da Qin, and he was considered by Meng Tian to be his lost brother.
Seeing this mark, the general put away his sword and pointed at Xiang Yu: "Tie that man up, tie him tight."
The remaining sergeants also breathed a sigh of relief. Anyone who can run so far in one night is probably a strong person. It is better not to fight if he can. No one is born to his parents, and no one wants to be injured and sacrificed.
After the general tied Xiang Yu up several layers with iron chains, shackles and hemp ropes, the general walked up to Yi Xiaochuan and greeted him warmly: "Haha, thank you for your help today. I will definitely ask for credit from your majesty when I get back. I don't know that you are from the Meng family." Which one?"
Yi Xiaochuan also relaxed and said with a smile: "Yi Xiaochuan!"
"Oh~" The soldier nodded, thoughtfully, and waved his hand.
"Be careful!" Xiang Yu shouted.
"Bang!" Yi Xiaochuan was stunned, as if he had been hit by something heavy, and turned his head to see what was going on.
The soldier just now was behind him and hit his head directly with his sword scabbard.
"dang~"
Yi Xiaochuan rolled his eyes and fainted.
Xiang Yu's eyes suddenly burst: "Xiaochuan!"
"Tie this man up and take him down!" the soldier commanded.
After taking the two of them down, the confidant came over and asked curiously: "Sir, how do you know that person is not a member of the Meng family?"
The soldier glanced at him: "Does the Meng family have anything to do with us? Anyone who is with the thieves is an accomplice! Didn't you see that the person just called him by his name? They must be part of the same group!"
"Besides, catching one is called catching a thief, but catching two means rounding up large-scale criminal forces? The merits are different!"
The cronies seem to understand, but the boss is the boss, and he knows more than them.
"By the way, do we have more black uniforms? We'll put them on those two men later. Remember to cover your face and gag your mouth. Once the conviction is over, we'll behead who knows who it is!" the soldier general ordered. road.
Although there are many people, Meng Tian is still a general of the Qin Dynasty and holds a high position of power.
But these people he brought were all the elites of Heibingtai, with clean financial status, and their families and children were all under His Majesty's control. He believed that no one would tell the truth.
The confidant suddenly realized. He was still wondering why the boss asked him to bring some black uniforms before setting off. It turned out to be the guy they were eating.
"promise!"
"Sir, what should I do with this sword?" The confidant came over and asked, holding the sword that Yi Xiaochuan had thrown on the ground.
The soldier picked up the sword and looked at it carefully. The sword was thick and had fine forging patterns. The blade of the sword shone with cold light, and there was a soft sound when struck lightly. There were two words on the hilt: Qian Jiao.
"What a sword! I'll give it to him as a gift when I go back to pick up the prisoner with my team!" the soldier smiled, worrying that he didn't have anything valuable in his hands.
"promise!"
...
Half a day later, at the gate of Xianyang City.
"Commander, these are the thieves captured this time, a total of thirty-eight people! A sharp sword was also seized. It is extremely sharp and seems to have an extraordinary origin." The soldier said respectfully to the general.
As a veteran, he knew the importance of intelligence. The new team member in front of him could actually control birds and animals. From now on, if you go out to fight, you won't be able to just sit behind the team and get the credit.
He must hold this thigh firmly!
Gao nodded, took the sword and looked at it without caring: "Put it away."
What kind of sword does a chef like him use?
Then he was a little confused and pointed to one of the criminals who saw him look excited: "Why are they all covered with their faces and their mouths gagged?"
The soldier smiled and said: "The captain doesn't know. According to experience, some traitors are unrepentant. When caught, they curse and spit. We are afraid of staining the eyes and ears of nobles, so we usually deal with them this way."
"Okay, bring them all to Heibingtai for detailed interrogation. When the confessions are obtained, I will go to His Majesty to ask for your credit!" Gao Yao was very satisfied.
Hearing this, one of the criminals became even more excited.
"Woooooooo~"
"Be honest!" Bing Jiang went over and gave him a kick.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Not honest?" The soldier kicked him to the ground, and then beat him severely.
Gao Yao simply stayed away, fearing that the blood would be splattered all over him, which would be unlucky.
...
Three days later, Gao Yao taught several of his confidants how to cook various dishes in the dining room. Although he was promoted, the work still had to be handed over.
"General Manager, there is someone looking for you outside the door."
When Gao was about to go out, he saw the familiar soldier at Black Ice Terrace, named Han Zheng.
Although he is only a small captain, he has a seventh-level knighthood and a twentieth-level knighthood in the Qin Dynasty. This level has reached the upper echelons of scholar-bureaucrats. Relying on military merit to reach this level, he is a true elite.
When Gao was about to come out, Han Zheng's face turned ugly: "Report to the captain, many of the thieves arrested three days ago were real dead soldiers. No matter how hard we tortured them, they didn't say a word. Only two people have confessed so far, and the leader is confirmed His name is Xiang Yu, and he is from the old Chu state."
Gao Yao didn't care: "Just make sure it's treason. Give me those people, and I will give them to Your Majesty after I sort them out."
As the leader of the Black Ice Platform, with hundreds of strange people under his command, he has the right to directly seek an audience with Ying Zheng. This is why many officials in Da Qin are afraid of them.
Han Zheng hesitated for a while and then said: "Captain, one of them named Yi Xiaochuan was arrested with the thieves, but he refused to admit it. He also kept saying that he was a member of the Meng family, knew you, and was your brother, and those The thief did not identify Yi Xiaochuan."
"But our wolf guards have confirmed that Yi Xiaochuan and Xiang Yu did stay in that dense forest for a long time that night."
"Yi Xiaochuan?" Gao Yao was stunned. Only that person should be able to use this name.
In the afternoon, Heibingtai Prison.
Gao Yao looked at the acquaintance in front of him, dumbfounded. Although there was no good flesh on Ogawa's body and his face was covered in blood, he could still barely recognize him.
As if he felt someone standing in front of him, Yi Xiaochuan slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw the person, he closed his eyes.
When you are down and out, what you fear most is meeting someone you know. He used to be the son of a professor, singing and singing every night, the proud son of heaven, but now he is a prisoner, and he has no face to face it.
Gao Yao took a chair and happily sat in front of him. He even curiously played with the shackles on Xiaochuan's body, not knowing what it felt like to wear them.
Although he didn't like Ogawa's character, he always considered him and himself to be people from the first world and friends, so he didn't do anything specifically against him.
Unexpectedly, the two met again at this time.
"Xiaochuan, I really can't figure it out. If you have countless glory and wealth, why are you rebelling against Qin? You two are both modern people. What does the life and death of ancient people have to do with us?" Gao Yao was very surprised.
Yi Xiaochuan slowly opened his eyes, tried to open his chapped lips, and said in a hoarse and weak voice: "It wasn't me... I didn't do it!"
Obviously he had a good experience of the special services of Heibingtai these days, but he knew that there would be no way to survive if he admitted it.
Gao Yao shook his head and laughed: "You were with the thief at night, and the wolf guard still trained your aura to chase you. You can't tell me that you had nothing to do in the middle of the night for an outing, and you happened to be on the same road with the thief. I must have walked dozens of kilometers."
"Can you believe this yourself?"
Yi Xiaochuan blinked. He himself didn't believe it. Why were the ancients so smart?
"Old...Old Gao, look for me, Brother Mengtian! I...I can't die!"
He still wants to make great achievements and overthrow the violent Qin Dynasty. He still wants to stand high in front of Yu Shu. He has a reason why he absolutely cannot die!
Gao Yao stood up and left: "It's up to Your Majesty to decide whether you die or not. I can't make the decision."
He was a kind-hearted man, and he couldn't stand this bloody scene.
...
The second day, Xianyang Palace, study room.
Gao Yao stood aside, while Da Qin General Meng Tian knelt down.
"General Meng, give me an explanation!" Ying Zheng held an official letter in his hand and asked in a deep voice without raising his head.
Meng Tian was silent for a moment and kowtowed again: "I just want Xiaochuan to survive."
There is no one left in his Meng family, and he is still unable to have children. Now Xiaochuan is the hope of his family. If Xiaochuan dies again, then his Meng family will really be extinct.
Ying Zheng on the high platform is also a bit difficult to deal with. According to Qin law, as long as there is any rebellion involved, the Meng family will definitely be exterminated. But Meng Tian's father, Meng Wu, was a general who destroyed Chu, and Meng Tian was a general who destroyed Qi.
Even if he had reason to exterminate the Meng family, other important ministers would only think that he was clearing out the court and the important ministers.
The cunning rabbit dies and the lackeys cook it, so why bother trying to inflict a crime on it?
Put the evidence on the faces of those generals, and they would not believe that the Meng family, which was once the main force in destroying Chu, would mix with the descendants of Chu and participate in the rebellion.
Do you think they are fools?
Even Ying Zheng himself found it unbelievable when he received the news. Is there something wrong with Yi Xiaochuan's brain? Against yourself? What could possibly be delicious? The Meng family has never felt sorry for him.
After pondering for a moment, Ying Zheng decided to let the Meng family go. Seeing that Great Qin was going to last forever, he did not want these famous generals who had devoted everything for the rise of Great Qin to fall behind.
The world is so big that only Da Qin occupied one Yu, but now the territory is too small!
"Xuan: Meng Tian was demoted to the third rank and transferred to Changsha County. His younger brother Meng Yi was confined at home for three years."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Meng Tian's eyes turned red. The title that the Meng family had worked so hard for for generations was gone.
He was even more happy. The monarch whom the Meng family had loyally loyal to for generations was kind, and even under such circumstances, he was given the right to lead troops.
"Back off." Ying Zheng was a little impatient. Although he would not punish the Meng family severely, he would not completely believe it anymore. The Meng family's foundation is all in the north, and his trusted subordinates are also in the north, so we might as well just transfer him to the south.
"promise!"
Then Ying Zheng looked at Gao Yao and said simply and directly: "Well done!"
Gao Yao couldn't help but laughed.
Ying Zheng also smiled. Why did he like Gao Yao? Because this guy couldn't hold back any emotion. Unlike old ministers like Meng Tian, whose emotions and anger are invisible, they don't know what they are thinking at all.
"Go to General Manager Zhao to get a sign, and the Lu family will let you deal with it. Later, you can set up a bird camp and an animal camp to train some obedient and useful animals." Ying Zheng ordered.
Sometimes animals are more useful than people.
Gao Yao was stunned: "Your Majesty, Heibingtai does not have such a staff, so what kind of official am I?"
Ying Zheng thought for a while, Heibingtai was commanded by sixteen Black Ice lieutenants. The representatives of birds and animals were actually eagles and dogs, so he would add another lieutenant: "Let's call him Eagle and Dog Lieutenant. The subsequent positions and personnel will be arranged later." Transfer it to you."
Eagle Dog Lieutenant? Then will I be the imperial eagle dog that was killed by those heroes in the future?
Gao Yao was silent for a moment, looked up at Ying Zheng, and didn't dare to object: "No!"
He is obviously very strong, but for some reason, every time I see Ying Zheng, I feel like His Majesty is getting stronger.
Hasn't he always been nostalgic for the harem? This is unreasonable!
After Gao Yao left, Ying Zheng took the official document and read it for a while. Feeling a little hungry, he took out a handful of Yuan-building Pills from under the table and stuffed it into his mouth.
If you don’t work hard enough, you’ll take drugs to make it happen!
...
In Meng Mansion, Yi Xiaochuan was carried back, with almost no good flesh on his body. Most people would almost lose hope of treatment after being beaten like this.
Meng Tian carefully took out a small cyan glass bottle from his sleeve, opened it, poured the only red moiré pill inside into his hand, and put it into Yi Xiaochuan's mouth.
The effect of the medicine was almost immediate, and Yi Xiaochuan slowly woke up after a while.
"Big...brother, I've caused you trouble again!"
Meng Tian twitched the corner of his mouth and forced a smile: "It's okay!"
"Brother...brother, can you...can you save brother Xiang Yu?" Yi Xiaochuan prayed.
Meng Tian's face darkened, and he ordered to the sergeant on the side: "Tomorrow I will go to Changsha County to lead the army. Meng Yi has been imprisoned by His Majesty for three years. Just wait and see, don't let him go out."
"In addition, buy me twenty plump, unattractive girls of the right age, come back, and lock me up with Meng Yi. Whichever girl gives birth to a boy first will be the main wife of my Meng family!"
Beautiful women are in trouble.
"If Meng Yi doesn't want to, go buy some medicine from that Gao Yao. I heard he's good at aphrodisiacs!" Meng Tian said, hating the iron.
"promise!"
Yi Xiaochuan was stunned when he heard this. He struggled for a while and couldn't get up. Can he still fight with twenty women in his current state? The key is that they are all ugly girls!
Also, his chastity is gone! Yushu, I’m sorry for you!
And if he couldn't get out, how could he save brother Xiang Yu? If Liu Bang is gone and Xiang Yu is gone, when will Great Qin be destroyed?
Big brother is going to Changsha County? So is the Great Qin's Southern Expedition about to begin? But he remembered that the first Southern Expedition failed.
In South Vietnam, there are high mountains and dense forests, inconvenient transportation, and all kinds of miasma and mosquitoes. Although Da Qin has a strong military, it is impossible to maintain military formations and logistics in such a place. That kind of battlefield is basically a meat grinder, whoever goes will die.
Isn’t his only remaining eldest brother gone?
"Brother, don't go!" Yi Xiaochuan tried his best to persuade.
Meng Tian's eyes flashed with warmth. Although this younger brother was very stupid at times, he was somewhat knowledgeable and sometimes cared about him. Then he let out a long sigh.
"After all, you were suspected of treason, and it was only because of His mercy that Your Majesty spared me, the entire Meng family.
My life has been earned in vain. I went to South Vietnam just to go into battle and kill the enemy. May my Qin Dynasty live forever! "Meng Tian's tone was decisive.
Hearing this, Yi Xiaochuan felt a little guilty in his heart. Although he was not Meng Tian's biological brother, he had really made selfless sacrifices for him.
Did you do something wrong?
Then came the hatred for Gao Yao. If it weren't for him, how could Da Qin be like this?
Everything is his fault!
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