"Descendants of Lord Yan?" Ziyou asked, narrowing his eyes slightly.
"Yes, my grandfather is Lord Yan." Chuiliyi said neither humble nor arrogantly. Although their Chuili lineage has declined, the pride of belonging to the Qin clan is still in his bones, so when he sees someone bullying and deceiving him, the Qin clan When he was serving the common people, the responsibility deep in his bones made him stand up.
"My name is Ziyou, you should know my name, right?" Ziyou looked at Chu Liyi and said.
"I've heard of Mr. Ziyou's name. It was Mr. Ziyou who proposed the three locust control strategies. It's a pity that these wealthy families don't regard the people of Qin as human beings, and only care about themselves." Qi Liyi said with some hatred.
"Do you want to change this situation?" Ziyou said calmly.
"Think!" Qi Liyi looked at Ziyou with firm eyes and said.
"Become your master and I will teach you how to govern a powerful family." Ziyou looked at Chu Liyi and said.
Zhao Gao and Wang Ben looked at Ziyou in astonishment, and looked at Chuiliyi with some envy. If Chuiliyi became a disciple of Ziyou, as long as he grew up smoothly, he would definitely be ranked in the Qin Dynasty court in the future, Ziyou's disciple, Yan Liyi. The grandson of the king, the former clan member, no matter how you look at it, he is someone who started out as a nine-level minister and is destined to be the king.
Qi Liyi looked at Ziyou with a complicated expression and said
"I can't promise it now sir, I need to think about it."
"My child, although you are a descendant of Yan Jun, the Qili lineage has declined. Countless people want to become my disciples. If you give up now, you may not have the chance." Zhao Gao reminded.
"No, I'm waiting for you. I will work here for three days. During these three days, you can come to me if you think about it. How about becoming my disciple?" Ziyou looked at Chu Liyi and asked.
"Okay, thank you sir." Chui Liyi bowed to Ziyou and left.
Looking at Chu Liyi's figure, Wang Ben whispered:
"Sir, although Chuili is a concubine and has now left the royal family, his blood is still royal blood. If you rashly accept Chuiliyi as your disciple, the clan may have objections."
Wang Ben is different from Li Xin. He is a full-fledged Yingzheng faction. Because his father Wang Jian served Yingzheng, the Yingzheng label on him cannot be removed. Seeing Ziyou want to accept Fan Liyi The disciple couldn't help but remind him.
"Don't worry, the clan will be happy to see this happen. Since the three generations of Qin monarchs, the Chu clan has continued to grow. Who can tell whether the Qin Dynasty is the Qin Dynasty or the Chu Dynasty? They will be very happy. I saw Chu Liyi." Ziyou said confidently. Since King Zhaoxiang, the temples of the Qin State have always been dominated by the Chu family. Even though they expelled the four nobles, King Zhaoxiang attracted a large number of foreign sages to settle in the court. , but the Chu faction is still too strong to lose. Even if it is temporarily suppressed, it will soon counterattack. This is the case in today's court.
Although the number one force in the temple is Lu Buwei now, Lu Buwei's foundation is too shallow and the Chu family, a foreign relative that has been rooted in Qin for hundreds of years, is still insufficient. The combined forces of Queen Mother Zhao's Zhao family and Lu Buwei can suppress the Chu family. .
Wang Ben and Zhao Gao looked at Ziyou and were very wary of the Chu clan. Although they didn't know why Ziyou was so wary of the Chu clan, they had silently distanced themselves from the Chu clan. Wang Ben was already thinking about finding an opportunity to go home and reunite with the Chu clan. His father Wang Jian talked about this matter.
"Sir, what are we going to do next?" Zhao Gao asked.
"Ask from this man how he summoned the locusts. Secondly, Wang Ben went home and mobilized a team of guards from your father. The middle-aged man was escorted back to Xianyang." Ziyou said.
"Sir, do you want to kill someone with a borrowed knife?" Wang Ben said.
"No, the battles in the court naturally require professional people. The figure of Lord Chang'an is inseparable from behind these people. Now that we represent the King of Qin, we cannot break up with the Chu clan, so the best way is to send Ting Wei , naturally someone will take action." Ziyou said.
"Yes, sir." After Wang Ben said that, he rode away and went back to mobilize his manpower.
Zhao Gao glanced at Ziyou and said
"Sir, did you deliberately take away Wang Ben?"
"It's quite smart. The Wang family is the king's die-hard supporter and is also one of the big families. If we rashly start a war with those big families, the Wang family will be implicated. How can they be trapped by their allies? This kind of thing should be left to those who can handle it. Come on, don't worry, he will thank us afterwards." Ziyou smiled slightly.
Bei Mingzi, Bei Mingzi, it is disrespectful to come and go. Li Xin, who was guarding the middle-aged man at this time, couldn't help but sneeze, and then felt a chill. He felt that someone was plotting against him.
"At any time, you must learn to follow the trend and take advantage of it, especially when facing an enemy that is stronger than yourself. You must remember that your enemy's enemy is your friend, but you must be careful about seeking skin from the tiger." Ziyou said.
"Zhao Gao is taught."
"Take him and follow me to find Li Xin." Ziyou said.
"It's sir." Zhao Gao, holding the charlatan in one hand, led Zi You to find Li Xin.
Li Xin was responsible for guarding the middle-aged man. He was currently in a simple cell in the countryside. Li Xin was talking to the three elders outside. When they saw Ziyou and Zhao Gao coming, the four of them hurriedly stepped forward.
"Mr. Ziyou." The four of them saluted.
Ziyou missed the salutes of the three elders and joked that these three people, whose combined age was almost two hundred years old, saluted him. He couldn't bear it. After Ziyou returned the salutes, Li Xin and Zhao Gao stood behind Ziyou. You and the three elders sat around the table, listening to the three elders talking about this incident.
"The common people are still too afraid of locusts. Even though they are led by the army, they still don't dare. Coupled with the propaganda of these people, if it weren't for the military orders, the soldiers would not dare to hunt and kill the locusts." San Lao said.
In ancient times, locusts represented natural disasters and punishment. People were deeply afraid of them and generally did not dare to hunt them.
"I understand, I will solve this matter." Ziyou looked at the half-dead charlatan, "Zhao Gao, wake him up."
Zhao Gao brought a bucket of cold water to wake up the charlatan. The first thing the charlatan wanted to do when he woke up was to run away, but he was kicked to the ground by Zi You, and Li Xin drew his sword and held it at his neck.
"Sir, don't kill me." The charlatan said, kowtow.
"I only ask you two questions. If you tell the truth, I will let you go." Ziyou said.
"You say?"
"First question, how do you control locusts?" Ziyou asked.
"this....."
"It seems that you don't want to say that Zhao Gao sprinkled this powder on his body. It was developed by doctors. It has no special effect, but the infected person will be extremely itchy. As for the consequences? You should be able to imagine it. ." Ziyou took out a bottle of powder from his arms and threw it to Zhao Gao.
Zhao Gao took the medicine bottle and looked at the charlatan on the ground and said
"If I were you, I would tell you, and the gentleman might let you go."
Seeing that the other party still refused to say anything, Zhao Gao directly sprinkled the powder on his body. Before the charlatan could react, a strange itch spread all over his body, as if countless ants were climbing and biting him. , for a moment the charlatan scratched his whole body crazily, and soon his face and body were covered with countless scratches.
Zhao Gao and Li Xin turned their heads when they saw the misery of the charlatan, but Zi You watched with gusto while drinking tea.
"I...I said...I said..." the charlatan shouted crazily.
"Zhao Gao, give it to him." Ziyou threw another bottle to Zhao Gao.
After taking the antidote, the charlatan lay on the ground panting like a dead dog and said
"This... this is a medicine I discovered accidentally. I mixed it with other medicines to feed some locusts, and then used these medicines to attract small groups of locusts to pretend to be the locust god and defraud money. I was originally just in some deep mountains. There was fraud in the village, but then someone came to see me and wanted to join forces with me.
I refused at first, because I knew that Qin Fazhong wanted to cut the body into pieces for this kind of thing, but they said there was someone above them, so there was no need to worry. They gave me a large amount of money, so I believed it, and finally At first we were in Beidi County, and I found that, as they said, the local government turned a blind eye, so we went all the way to Qili. "
"Do you know who the people behind them are?" Ziyou asked.
"I don't know. I'm only responsible for pretending and counting money. I don't know the rest."
"Do you still have the medicine powder and the locusts you fed?" Ziyou asked.
"Yes, but there are not many locusts to feed." Seeing Ziyou's expression change, the charlatan said quickly, "It doesn't take long to feed. As long as you catch the locusts for me, it will only take seven days to feed them."
"How many locusts can be attracted at one time?" Ziyou asked.
"Ten thousand at most. No matter how many locusts there are, they will be attracted by other locusts."
"Zhao Gao took him down to heal his injuries. He will be useful in the future." A perfect plan emerged in Ziyou's mind.
