"My master is very depressed now."
"Master. Master"
Zhao Hao was a little unhappy when Zhang Cang interrupted him, and looked at him angrily: "What are you doing?"
"Mr. Zhongling is here. It seems there is something urgent. He is waiting for you outside!" Zhang Cang wiped the sweat from his forehead and trotted up to Zhao Hao.
"Why are there so many bad things happening every day? Everyone comes to see me."
"The captains of Heibingtai are all idiots. They can't even handle a stone. It's been three days, and they still tell me that they can't find a suitable one. Damn it, are all the people my father raised? "
"How about we take someone to look for him?" Wang Li suddenly said.
"yes!"
Zhao Hao reacted for a moment, then turned to look at Li Zhan: "Li Zhan, your father is our Great Qin Tingwei. He has many capable people and strangers under his command. Why don't you let him get some people to help?"
"this"
Li Zhan hugged a small yellow dog and shook his head with a look of embarrassment: "I'm afraid this won't work. My father is very busy recently and has no time to pay attention to me!"
"Then what's the use of you guys trying your best to trouble me, Mond, even if you cut bamboo, you can hurt your hand. Yang Cen almost fell into the Wei River and drowned. And Li Zhan, please put the dog down first."
Zhao Hao cursed and shook his head, secretly thinking that this was not the strongest class reunion, it was simply a waste concentration camp.
Wang Li said with some pride: "They are useless, unlike me."
"You can pull it off. I taught you arithmetic last time and rounded it off. The march distance was thirty-eight miles. You just rounded it up to forty miles. By the time you arrived at the battlefield, everyone was dead!"
Wang Li's cheeks turned red.
At this moment, Zhang Cang reminded again: "Master, Lang Zhongling is still waiting for you outside!"
"knew!"
Zhao Hao responded casually and walked straight out of the workshop.
Soon, he saw Meng Yi circling outside the gate, and couldn't help but said: "Mr. Lang Zhongling, why are you looking for me in a hurry?"
"Young Master, you have figured it out. The eldest son is in big trouble!"
Meng Yi saw Zhao Hao and immediately greeted him.
Zhao Hao frowned and asked: "What's the big trouble? Didn't I ask you to tell him to leave it alone?"
"I informed you, but the eldest son had a stubborn temper and stood outside His Majesty's study for a day and a night. Your Majesty finally met him!"
"What a headache!"
Zhao Hao raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and said helplessly: "Then what's going on now? Is my father angry?"
"this"
Meng Yi looked hesitant, wondering whether he should reveal the First Emperor's condition to Zhao Hao.
When Zhao Hao saw his hesitation, he wisely did not ask further questions and just said to him: "Just tell me about your eldest brother!"
"yes!"
Meng Yi nodded, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "When the Master came out, I was a little distracted, but there was not much movement in His Majesty's study!"
"In that case, it shouldn't be a big problem. Send someone to keep an eye on him. Don't let him do stupid things and anger my father again!"
"What about the two Marquis Lu?"
"I guess they escaped from Xianyang City, but didn't go far. Inform the guards to check the woods around Xianyang. Once you find traces of human activities, immediately conduct a large-scale search!"
"good!"
Meng Yi responded and prepared to leave.
Zhao Hao seemed to remember something and added: "In addition, you must always pay attention to the trends of the Confucianists. After all, they want to cause trouble and cannot do without the Confucianists!"
"this"
Meng Yi was stunned for a moment and then asked: "The core of Confucianism is Confucius. Do you want me to report to Your Majesty and keep an eye on Confucius?"
"Well"
Zhao Hao thought for a while, nodded and said: "You can send people to keep an eye on Confucius, but it is best to put a large reward on the two Luhou people. As long as the Confucianists bring their heads, the Confucians will forget the blame and give them a gold title. The purpose is to make them Confucianism abandons darkness and embraces light, you have to explain this clearly to my father!"
"Sir, I'm afraid this strategy won't work! Even if a large reward is placed on them, the Confucians will not take action and send their heads over!"
Meng Yi was shocked and said quickly: "What's more, His Majesty will not negotiate conditions with Confucianism and change his decision!"
Zhao Hao sneered: "So what? Anyway, the purpose of the reward is to make them sleepless and suspicious of each other!"
"Young Master is so wise!"
Meng Yi suddenly understood and looked at Zhao Hao excitedly: "Old minister, I will go find your Majesty now!!"
Under Zhao Hao's gaze, Meng Yi hurriedly boarded the carriage. The moment he got on the carriage, the excitement on his face disappeared completely and he became extremely calm.
Perhaps, this is the reason why he and Zhao Gao were reused by the First Emperor at the same time.
Not long after, Meng Yi returned to the palace.
He first sent people to keep an eye on Fusu, and then reported Zhao Hao's plan to the First Emperor.
After hearing this, the First Emperor neither agreed nor refused, not knowing what he was thinking.
Meng Yi knelt down and sat down, wanting to ask, but he didn't dare to disturb Ying Zheng at the critical moment.
At this moment, Zhao Gao's voice came from outside.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Gao wants to see you!"
"Xuan!"
Zhao Gao walked in with a bow, and when he saw Meng Yi, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
His relationship with the Meng clan has never been very good. Recently, Meng Yi's frequency of coming in and out of the emperor's study seems to be a bit high. This is not good news for him.
Of course, with the First Emperor here, Zhao Gao did not dare to say anything.
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Jiuyuan County. The Huns from the north are ready to move and may plunder our Qin Dynasty at the same time as Donghu!"
"The damn aliens won't stop at all!"
Ying Zheng snorted coldly.
When Donghu suffered a disaster and planned to go south, he was worried that the Huns would take advantage of the situation and plunder him, so he sent Wang Ben to Liaodong to make preparations for Meng Tian to go north later.
Now that I heard Zhao Gao's report, I couldn't help but feel very angry.
"Is Meng Tian ready?"
"The troops are already being assembled. We only need to wait for His Majesty's order to march northward!"
Zhao Gao said and handed over a bamboo slip, which was Meng Tian's request to send troops.
Ying Zheng opened the bamboo slip and after looking at it for a few times, he frowned.
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first.
The 300,000-strong army marching north requires absolutely astronomical amounts of food and grass. However, the autumn harvest has not yet begun, and this year's taxes have not yet been confiscated. The national treasury is seriously short of money and food.
"Send an order to Li Neishi and ask him to find a way to raise food and grass!" Ying Zheng collected the bamboo slips and ordered Zhao Gao.
"Back to Your Majesty, General Meng Tian has already gone to collect food and fodder. There is nothing we can do about Li Neishi's side. The treasury is out of food and fodder." Zhao Gao reported in a low voice.
The treasury of the Great Qin Dynasty has never been rich, especially the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, which consumed decades of accumulation of the treasury. Coupled with the construction of the emperor's mausoleum, straight roads, Chidao and other projects, the treasury, which was already not rich, was even worse.
"It's ridiculous! If you have no other way, don't you have to think of a way? What use do I need from you wastes?!"
Ying Zheng was so angry that he threw out the bamboo slips and shouted angrily at Zhao Gao.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me, I'm afraid!"
Zhao Gao's legs went weak and he knelt down quickly.
"Meng Yi, come with me to relax!"
Ying Zheng waved his sleeves. He really didn't want to talk to Zhao Gao, so he took Meng Yi and left the study.
Zhao Gao looked at Ying Zheng's leaving figure and couldn't help but be filled with doubts.
His Majesty didn't treat me like this before. Could it be that Meng Yi made some slanderous remarks to His Majesty, causing His Majesty to deliberately alienate himself?
Is it because of the matter between Lu and Hou?
Thinking of this, a chill flashed in Zhao Gao's eyes, and it disappeared in an instant.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
Fusu returned to the palace and said to Kong Yu dejectedly: "Master Kong, Fusu has already asked to see his father, but his father did not talk to Fusu about trapping and killing Confucian scholars!"
"So your Majesty has no intention of killing Confucian scholars?" Kong Yu said excitedly.
"No!"
Fusu shook his head: "Father doesn't talk about killing Confucian scholars. He must have made up his mind and doesn't want to talk to Fusu!"
"this"
Kong Yu was surprised for a moment, and then said with a sad face: "What should we do? What should we do?"
"Fusu is incompetent and has let you down, Master Kong."
Fusu bowed to Kong Yu, and then sat down on the table slumped.
He was now numb with pain.
Because his father had said so many things to him for the first time, but almost all of them were about political matters. Based on his father's situation at the time, if he continued to pester him, he might as well just die.
But when I come back and think about it, why have all my years of hard work been so useless? If I had been more ambitious, my father would not have worked so hard that he would get sick from exhaustion.
Seeing Fusu gradually sinking into self-blame, as if he was about to lose his energy and energy, Kong Yu quickly stepped forward and said: "Eldest Young Master, you don't need to think too much, there may be another way!"
"?"
Fusu raised his head and looked at Kong Yu with confusion.
But Kong Yu continued: "Although the Confucian case was investigated by Feng Jie, the trial should be handed over to the Tingwei Mansion. Li Si is the minister whom His Majesty most relies on in the direction of major political affairs. As long as Li Si is persuaded, there should be a turn for the better!"
"But will Li Tingwei listen to Fusu's words?"
"How will you know if you don't try?"
"this"
Fusu hesitated for a long time, then finally stood up and murmured: "My father said that Fusu has no insight and no sense of Machiavellianism. Fusu will not talk about the Confucian case for now. He only wants to learn political affairs from them and see how they react." , make a decision again!”
"The eldest son is wise!"
Kong Yu was overjoyed, and then watched Fusu leave.
Regardless of whether Fusu can succeed or not, he feels that 'a dead horse can be a living horse doctor'.
As for whether Fusu would anger the First Emperor, he didn't consider it at all.
Anyway, it was impossible for the First Emperor to kill his own son.
If Zhao Hao were here, he would definitely scold him. Sure enough, "For every man who slaughters dogs in a righteous manner, he will be a scholar who betrays his heart." '
There is a reason why Confucianism and Confucianism can last for nine generations.
"Jun Wentong, Zhou Pushe sent someone to inform you and ask you to return home as soon as possible!"
Not long after Fusu left, a palace attendant hurried over to report to Kong Yu.
Kong Yu was stunned for a moment, and without saying much, he also left Fusu's palace.
When he returned to the mansion, he saw Zi Xiang kneeling behind the desk.
"why you?"
Kong Yu was so surprised that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
Zixiang calmly raised his head, looked directly at him and said, "Brother doesn't seem to want to see Zixiang? But Zixiang came here because he was worried about his safety!"
"Worried about my safety?"
Kong Yu narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiang for a while, then said in a deep voice: "Come in with me and talk!"
Soon, the two came to a secret room.
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