When Zhou Yuanfu and others reached the main road, they rode on horseback and ran wildly, fearing that there would be pursuers behind them.
When passing by the edge of Qixian City, it was already dawn. Looking at the black balls hanging on the city wall, Zhou Yuanfu and the others stopped curiously, fearing to be discovered and not daring to get too close. Cui Niubi was still excited.
, volunteered to go check it out.
"Bah, bah, I'm scared." Cui Niupi said as he walked, "Brother, big brother, guess what those balls are, they scared me."
Guan Yu said angrily: "Don't try to betray me, just tell me."
"Okay, okay, I said, don't do it. You are too rigid and it's not fun at all. Those are not balls, they are heads. The heads of the bandits we caught have all been chopped off. Here,
They are all hung up, probably to scare people."
Zhou Yuanfu and Guan Yu were both shocked when they heard this. Guan Yu was used to fighting on the battlefield and had long been numb to the dead, but this was the first time he saw thousands of people beheaded and hung on the city wall at once.
Zhou Yuanfu dismounted silently, turned over and knelt down, "I will not kill Boren, but Boren died because of me. Zhou Yuanfu swears here to end this troubled world that regards human life as nothing!"
Everyone didn't know who this Boren was, but they could understand the general meaning and knelt down to worship him. Only Lu Buwei stood quietly and said nothing.
After a few people got up, they discussed it. It was easy to expose their whereabouts during the day, and Zhang Liao was immediately tied up. If someone discovered it, it would be troublesome. They discussed it over and over again, and temporarily went to hide in the stronghold where the thieves were wiped out.
After breaking through the stronghold, the people took away their belongings and burned the stronghold to the ground, leaving ruins and broken walls everywhere they could see.
Cui Niupi muttered: "If I had known I'd come back, I wouldn't have set it on fire. I'm afraid I won't be able to find a shelter from the wind and rain now."
"Don't be nagging. We are not stationed for a long time, just hide and go. Now we are trapped and exhausted. You go feed the horses, and I will find some food." Guan Yu was quite impatient.
But Cui Niupi declined: "You go feed the horses, and I'll find some food. In the story told by the elder brother, Zhu Bajie is the one who leads the horses and feeds them."
Guan Yu then slapped Cui Niupi on the neck and said, "Zhu Bajie also turns into a vegetarian to beg for food." After saying this, he took the horse and left.
Cui Niubi touched his neck and said unconvinced: "Don't forget, I'm the elder brother and you are the younger brother. My face hasn't swollen yet, and my neck is red again." He mumbled and went to get some food.
Seeing no one around, Zhou Yuanfu raised his hands to Lu Buwei and said, "Prime Minister Lu, you have worked hard this night."
He turned around and searched again, pointed to a house that had not been completely burned down, and continued: "This is not a place for conversation. Let's go there to talk."
Lu Buwei didn't say much and followed him.
Entering the house, Lu Buwei lost his reserve and asked directly: "What year is it now?"
As he was talking, he was stroking his beard out of habit. When his hand touched his smooth chin, he couldn't help but be startled. He suddenly felt embarrassed.
"I said it is the seventh year of Guanghe. You must be as confused as I was at the beginning. Let's put it this way, it is hundreds of years after your death."
"Then which king of Qin is in charge of the court now?"
"Where is the King of Qin? The Qin Kingdom has long since disappeared. Now it is the Han Dynasty."
Lu Buwei was horrified and immediately sat down on the ground, "What? Our Great Qin has perished? Our Great Qin has actually perished?"
"What's so strange about this? No dynasty is immune from the fall of the country. Your Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world. Your Qin Dynasty was relatively short. It didn't even last for twenty years, and only Ying Zheng and Hu Hai served as emperors.
.Later it was destroyed by Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, so now we have the Han Dynasty. This Han Dynasty has been around for hundreds of years and is about to die."
Lu Buwei was stunned on the spot for a moment. He was happy that Qin destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, but he was also sad that it was short-lived. He couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of Ying Zheng.
Zhou Yuanfu quickly comforted him: "Stop it, stop it, old man, please don't cry. The Qin Dynasty has been destroyed for so many years. What's the use of crying now. Besides, you are as beautiful as a flower now. It makes me sad when you cry."
Lu Buwei couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.
"Does the old man want to take revenge? The Qin Dynasty was destroyed by the Han Dynasty, and the current emperor Liu Hong is the descendant of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty."
After all, Lu Buwei had seen big scenes before and slowly calmed down, "Looking at you, are you rebels?"
"Yes, and they are currently the largest band of rebels!" Zhou Yuanfu said half-truthfully, "The so-called enemy of the enemy is a friend. We are all enemies of the Han Dynasty now, almost, almost, haha."
"Then how should I call you? General Zhou? Brother Zhou?"
"Don't be polite, old man. You can call me whatever you want when we are alone. But you also know that they all think you are Diao Chan. If you let them know that you are... I guess they will treat you as a monster, so in front of
In front of them, you should still call me Brother Zhou."
"I understand, General Zhou, how many troops do you have now and how many cities do you occupy?"
Zhou Yuanfu suddenly lacked confidence and thought that Lu Buwei was a talented person, probably more powerful than Tian Feng and Yan Zhong. Although the Qin State did not unify the world when he was alive, he laid a solid foundation for the establishment of the Qin Dynasty. There was an old man in his family.
If there was a treasure, including him, he would be three elders, so he would have to find a way to keep it.
"Ahem, I don't have many people now, just a few thousand, but I will soon have tens of thousands. Territory, I will soon occupy Hanzhong and support Yizhou, enter Liangzhou and then Guanzhong, this Qin Dynasty
It’s also the hegemony.”
Now that Zhou Yuanfu thought of what Tian Feng said back then, his heart still surged.
Lu Buwei was very calm, "Oh, what happens next?" Without waiting for Zhou Yuanfu to speak, he said to himself, "Then you have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, millions of soldiers and horses, and then you send your troops in
Guandong. Then what? The world is everything, and you have to create a foundation for eternity. You are no longer called Dahan, you are called Dazhou? Then, will it start to kill the rabbit and kill the dog? Kill the heroes? Give me a glass of poisonous wine?
Or do you want to send me back to Shu to rest in peace?"
There was no wave in Lu Buwei's beautiful eyes, no sadness or anger, he just looked at Zhou Yuanfu steadily.
Zhou Yuanfu was at a loss when he was looked at. Being stared at by Lu Buwei's unwavering eyes, he always felt weak in his heart.
"Don't think so, Prime Minister Lu. I'm not a person like Ying Zheng."
"Well, just because you are not a person like Ying Zheng, I don't even bother to assist you! Do you know what the heart of an emperor is like? The founding emperor needs ambition, ambition, cruelty and black heart, but not
What is needed is compassion! You feel sad when you castrate an opponent, and you feel sad when you chop off the heads of thousands of people. How can a person like you achieve great things! It turns out that when Qin was the prime minister, Qin State had already dominated Yizhou.
The land of Guanzhong is merged with Liangzhou, what about you? Why!"
Lu Buwei's pretty face turned red, and his heart was probably in turmoil. Zhou Yuanfu was a little overwhelmed by the heart-wrenching questions.
"I just want to do something for the people of the world. I have generals like Guan Yu and Ju Yi who are enemies of thousands of people, and I have the title of General Lei Gong of the Yellow Turban Army, the biggest rebel in the world. We have millions of soldiers and horses in the world. Besides,
Don’t you feel sad that the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by the Han Dynasty? That was the Qin Dynasty that you created with your own hands, so you won’t take revenge?”
"Revenge? Didn't you say that any dynasty will inevitably destroy the country. I take revenge? What about the people of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty that I destroyed? Come to me for revenge? When will retribution happen? Sometimes I think, what if?
I may have lived a more carefree life as a businessman."
Lu Buwei looked like he had seen through the vicissitudes of the world.
"Don't be depressed, Mr. Lu. If you hadn't been able to support strangers to the throne, then Ying Zheng wouldn't have been an emperor for eternity. If Ying Zheng hadn't been on the throne, the Qin Kingdom wouldn't have been able to unify the world. Then the princes would fight in confusion, and the world would be ruined."
The people don’t know how long they will suffer.”
Zhou Yuanfu was still unwilling to give in.
"Since Yingzheng unified the world, the people will not suffer hardships? As you said, the Qin Dynasty could not last even twenty years. If the people do not suffer hardships, then why should they rebel?"
Lu Buwei was very perceptive and quick-thinking, completely unlike a waning old man. Zhou Yuanfu even suspected that Diao Chan was possessed by that little brat again.
Zhou Yuanfu was really at a loss for words and fell to his knees on the ground, "For the thousands of heads of common people hanging on the city wall, please ask Mr. Lu for his generous help and save the people of the world."
Lu Buwei also knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said: "Please General Zhou let me live a life, let me travel around the world and see these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers again."
The two of them were at odds with each other and refused to give in.