Chapter 273 Your Majesty doesnt even dare, how dare you?
The next morning, the rooster crowed.
It was already bright at Chenshi, but the sun had not yet appeared.
In the Zhangtai Palace, the First Emperor wore loose brocade robes, put a jade hairpin in his hair, and lightly splashed his face with cold water from a basin.
The cool touch was so exciting that all the remaining pajamas of the First Emperor were patted away.
Wow~
The First Emperor washed his face with cold water and said casually: "Have you not caught the remnants of the Xiang family yet?"
Ge Nie said nothing and glanced at Zhao Gao beside him, Your Majesty asked you.
Zhao Gao responded with a grateful look, bowed and humbly said: "Never."
As the two personal bodyguards of the First Emperor, their schedules were basically the same as those of the First Emperor.
Of course, the two did not always follow the First Emperor together, and they also took turns to rest. But when it came to traveling, they were basically together.
Fortunately, martial arts masters have masters. After practicing to the level of Ge Nie and Zhao Gao, they can control their bodies to the smallest detail in seconds. Resting does not have to be limited to the bed. You can rest standing up when you have nothing to do.
"Never?"
The sound of splashing water paused, and the First Emperor held a handful of cold water and narrowed his eyes.
Wow~
Cold water paving.
The First Emperor rubbed his cheeks vigorously.
"Zhao Gao drafted an imperial edict and asked those in Chu where the remnants of the Xiang clan are hiding."
Taking the plain white handkerchief handed over by the palace maid, the First Emperor wiped his face carelessly twice before throwing it back into the palace maid's hands.
"Whoever has a remnant of the Xiang clan on his fief shall be arrested and brought to justice within three days. If this is not possible, then the fief shall be given to someone who can."
"only."
Zhao Gao bowed his head and responded respectfully.
"What if the remnants of the Xiang clan are not in Chu?" Gai Nie, dressed in white as snow, asked with an expressionless face.
Zhao Gao was already used to the plague god around him having convulsions from time to time, and he pretended that he didn't hear anything.
He ran to the table made of sandalwood, laid out the blank bamboo slips, picked up the Chishou Yantai, added water and the ink purified by Qin ink, and while grinding it, he thought about the content of the imperial edict to be drafted later.
This is the work of the Xingxi Mansion.
Most of the imperial edicts given by the First Emperor were general, and the specific content was polished by the decrees of the Xingxi Mansion.
Although it has been more than two months since Zhao Gao resigned from his position as the magistrate of Xingxi Mansion, there is no trace of unfamiliarity when he returns to his old job.
The First Emperor casually answered Gai Nie's question.
"If you want to rebel, you need soldiers. The Xiang family only has prestige in the Chu land, so they can only recruit soldiers from the Chu land. I don't believe that there is not even a single remnant of the Xiang family in the huge Chu land."
Gai Nie was puzzled.
Your Majesty has unified the world and conquered six kingdoms. Why do you think so highly of the Xiang family alone?
"Your Majesty cares so much about the Xiang family, is it because he is worried that Xiang Yan will inherit his military strategy and become a serious nuisance to Qin?"
The First Emperor straightened his clothes and smoothed out the wrinkles.
"I don't care about the Xiang clan. What I care about is the control power of our Great Qin in the world. Whether we can capture the Xiang clan and how many Xiang clan we capture. According to what Zhuzi said, it means that I will eat the Chu land.
How many."
Zhao Gao studied the ink peacefully without making any other noise.
Gai Nie nodded clearly. He knew everything with his clear sword mind.
In this era when there were no telephones for instant communication, the First Emperor used the intensity of his pursuit of the Xiang family in the Chu region to determine the extent of the empire's penetration into the Chu region.
It’s not that the memorials submitted from various places cannot be trusted, it’s just that we cannot trust them all.
If all the affairs of an emperor were understood through the memorials submitted by his ministers, there would be the absurd incident of "the people have no corn to satisfy their hunger, so why not eat minced meat?"
The First Emperor spent the whole morning in Zhangtai Palace reviewing the endless memorials.
It's approaching noon.
Ge Nie went out for a while, and when he came back, he stood next to the First Emperor and reported mechanically.
He sent a detailed report to the First Emperor about how a group of aristocratic families rushed to Xinlou Terrace last night and stayed there for the night.
The First Emperor nodded, waved his hand, and continued to review the memorial, obviously not taking this little thing to heart.
The First Emperor had long been tired of watching the drama of fighting for power and profit.
As long as it doesn't violate the laws of Qin, it doesn't matter. The First Emperor is too lazy to care about such nonsense.
"Zhao Gao, go and call Fu Sheng over."
"only."
Zhao Gao was humble and looked at Gai Nie with envy, without hiding his eyes.
It was Zhao Gao's job to learn that the intelligence report was reported to the First Emperor before.
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In Xianyang Prison, there is hay paved with the remaining warmth of the setting sun.
Ying Chengyu and Gan Luo were lying on the warm hay, one lying on his back and the other lying on his side.
Ying Chengyu lightly kicked Gan Luo's right hand that was supporting his head.
"Bao Bailing died, why don't you seem sad at all?"
Gan Luo rolled his eyes.
"Brother, if you are really bored, go out or find a few beauties to have fun. Don't bother me all the time and ask me these stupid questions."
Ying Chengyu kicked Gan Luo's forearm away with force. Gan Luo was caught off guard and his head lost its fulcrum and hit his upper arm.
"What did you do!"
Gan Luo sat up, furious.
This time it doesn't hurt much, it's more insulting.
He waited for a moment and found that Ying Chengyu closed his eyes to rest, and did not answer his intention at all. Instead, the anger on his face disappeared.
He smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, you don't have to compete with me? From the moment you started to catch me, you were destined to not win. Why are you holding on so hard now?"
"oh?"
Ying Chengyu raised his head, glanced at Gan Luo with a half-smile, and then lay down again.
"I actually lost so early? Can you please Gan Shangqing to explain it to me so that I can understand clearly?"
"Pretend, just pretend."
Gan Luo sighed, sat down where Ying Chengyu could not kick, picked up a pile of hay and put it behind him, and leaned against the prison wall behind him.
"The specific charges for your arrest have never been determined, right?"
Ying Chengwen didn't answer, and gave him a look that said, "I won't give you anything to eat today if you talk nonsense."
Gan Luo silently rubbed his belly and continued: "I have to say, brother, you are really shady. You did not hesitate to expose the surveillance on the building and asked Li Si to arrest me. After arresting me, you immediately imprisoned me in Xianyang Prison, and you did not hesitate to expose me.
By interrogating me, no one knows what the specific charges of arresting me are."
Gan Luo observed Ying Chengyu's expression and found that there was no fluctuation on Ying Chengyu's face, so he secretly said to himself, "Let's see how long you can keep pretending."
"Don't talk about them. Even I don't know what crime I was arrested for. I didn't know what your plan was at first. It was only in the past two days that I realized that Luo was in Xianyang Prison.
It was only then that they suddenly realized that they had taken no other major action except writing a letter of impeachment.
"As long as Luo is in Xianyang Prison, if he is not tried, his crime will not be established. Those people outside dare not let go and do anything, for fear that you will also arrest them in Xianyang Prison on the same charges. Selling scraps.
Weapons, Luo is not the only one to bear such a big crime."
Ying Chengyu finally responded. He put his hands on the ground, sat up and scratched his head.
"It seems that my stay in Xianyang Prison these days has not been in vain. I have gained a little understanding of human nature."
Gan Luo cursed you in his heart for being such an insidious and treacherous person. You spend all day pondering these shady plots and tricks, and said with a shy smile that it was all thanks to your brother's good teaching.
Ying Chengqiao chuckled.
"Keep going, let me see what else you have learned."
Gan Luohan smiled and nodded.
"Okay. My original thought was that it would be best if I could instigate rebellion. If I couldn't instigate rebellion, all the aristocratic families would not dare to do anything. But brother, you have forgotten that you have tied up all the aristocratic families with the law of selling weapons.
Your hands and feet are also tied up. You can never judge Luo.
"Once Luo is tried and the charges are brought to light, you will inevitably face the most thorough counterattack from all the aristocratic families. No one can bear the backlash from all the aristocratic families, not even Lord Shang, not Lord Qin, not Lord Chang'an. You can't last forever
Luo was imprisoned for no reason. According to Qin law, a maximum of thirty days would be allowed."
Bang bang bang~
Ying Chengyu clapped his hands three times and gave Gan Luo a soft cheer.
"This trick is called Schrödinger's cat. If you can get out alive, you can use it later."
Gan Luo didn't know what Schrödinger's cat was, and he didn't want to know either.
The young brother in front of me has liked to speak words that no one understands since he was a child.
"You are still scaring me."
Gan Luo grabbed a piece of hay and put it in his mouth, bit it tightly and pointed at the hay in his mouth.
"As long as I grit my teeth, this stick of hay will not fall off. In ten days or so, you will be defeated."
Ying Chengyu said angrily: "Am I defeated? I have in my hands the irrefutable proof that you are colluding and collaborating. Do you believe that I can arrest you all?"
Gan Luo didn't wait for Ying Chengxuan's words to fall to the ground, and he followed them like a barrage of words.
"That's why you don't dare to arrest me. The two prime ministers and nine ministers in the court and the noble family do not account for 30%, but the official family in Guanzhong accounts for 80%.
"If you really arrest all the aristocratic families, the Qin State will immediately be without officials. Your Majesty will not agree. Brother, you taught me the principle that the law does not punish the public. Have you forgotten?"
Ying Chengqiao shrugged, looking at Gan Luo's eyes as to how you could still laugh.
He smiled and said, "How do you know that Brother Huang won't allow it? You see, we are both in prison. This huge difference in treatment is enough to show that Brother Huang is on my side."
"Brother, stop pretending. If His Majesty were really on your side, you wouldn't have come in at all. I've figured everything out in the past few days. It's not that you don't want to go out, it's that you can't."
"You also know?"
"At first I thought you were going to jail voluntarily, but then I thought about it and thought it would be of no benefit to you. Then His Majesty should have sent you to Xianyang Prison. Your Majesty is showing by his actions that he will not help you."
"Oh, you are wrong. The emperor is too lazy to take care of these nonsense. He cares about the stars and the sea. I am the one who wants to come in here."
"Oh? Is that so? Then why didn't you continue to kill other people from other aristocratic families after you killed Bao Bailing? You could have used the same method to kill people again. Swordsmanship is not what you are best at? His Majesty came forward.
That’s it.”
"Brother Huang's original words were to act within the scope of Qin's laws, not to protect your family. Don't overthink it, kid."
"If that's the case, then brother, you can arrest all the heads of the aristocratic families and send them to Xianyang Prison. Get pens, ink, paper and inkstones, collect them as witnesses, and write down physical evidence. I guarantee that you can catch all the aristocratic families in one go."
Gan Luo calmly looked at Ying Chengyun, and even when Ying Chengyun showed murderous intent in his eyes, he did not avoid it at all.
"In addition to selling used weapons, the other things you have done are enough for the Yi clan. The evidence is overwhelming. I can now use other crimes to punish you Gan family. Do you think the emperor brother will stop me?"
"No." Gan Luo shook his head and laughed at himself: "Your Majesty will not care about the survival of a family, even the largest family."
The corners of his mouth turned from self-deprecating to self-deprecating. Gan Luo stared at Ying Chengyu and said, "Gan Luo can die, and the Gan family can perish. But the family will not die. If you are satisfied with this, then you can start my trial now."
Already."
"Sometimes I really don't understand what's going on in your mind. You can die for the family, but you can't work with me to achieve a great cause?"
"If Luo follows you, your descendants will not be blessed if things succeed. If you don't follow the official path, the second generation will only be rich for the third generation, and the Gan family will not be able to survive for a hundred years. If things fail, Luo and the Gan family will be doomed."
"That will happen in the future. If you don't follow me, the Gan family will destroy the Yi tribe immediately."
"No, the Gan family will not die. Qianlong blocked Wei Yang's reform and was responsible for the three Yi tribes. In the end, under the efforts of all the aristocratic families, only he himself died. The Gan family has been supported by the Qin family since then until the future
Father."
"Oh, you think you are Qianlong? You have committed so many things and you can die alone, and then your Gan family is waiting for the second Gan Mao with the support of other aristocratic families? You are overthinking, I am sure that your three clans will be despised.
It’s useless for anyone to come.”
"You can invade my three tribes in Xianyang, your three tribes in Guanzhong, and your three tribes in the Six Kingdoms? Li Mu and Li Xin are the same Li. Do you know how many of my Gan family there are outside?"
Gan Mu, where is Gan Xin?"
"It seems that I really can't convince you." Ying Chengyu shook his head regretfully.
"Brother, if you lose, you lose. Don't hold on. Now let me out, and you will still be your Lord Chang'an. I will suppress all the noble families and not do anything to you." Gan Luo smiled apologetically.
"Hey, you were so majestic just now. I thought you weren't afraid of death? You actually have two faces?"
"You are my brother, how can you have the heart to kill me? Don't take what you said just now seriously, they are all jokes, jokes."
"I don't see the joke at all. I'll invite some friends in for you."
Gan Luo's body stiffened for a moment.
This guy really dares to risk the disapproval of the world and arrest all the Xianyang family?
How could Your Majesty agree? Your Majesty would not agree!
This guy must be deceiving me again!
"This expression looks much better." Ying Chengyu patted Gan Luo's face, yawned, and said, "Although the success or failure of Xianyang will not affect the overall situation, I don't like to see a villain like you getting successful."
He stood up and walked to the iron gate. Ying Chengxuan opened the door and instead of walking out, he called the jailer at his voice.
"Ask Li Si to come see me."
"only."
After closing the iron door, Ying Chengyu sat back down next to Gan Luo and waited patiently for Li Si to arrive.
Gan Luo looked gloomy.
"You can avoid me completely."
Ying Chengyu had a sunny face.
"No, I just like to be slapped in the face."
Gan Luo suddenly chuckled.
"I still don't believe you dare to do this. Even His Majesty doesn't dare. You must still be deceiving me. Brother, if you lose, you lose. There is really no need to hold on."
Ying Chengyu waved his hand and did not answer Gan Luo's words.
When Li Si comes, he will naturally convince Gan Luo that there is no need to waste time now.
Not long after, Li Si pushed the door open and saw Gan Luo was there, so he bowed his head to Ying Chengyu.