A quarter of an hour later, Li Si basically got what he wanted, briefly talked about friendship with Zhao Gao, and then quietly left Tingwei Mansion.
Cooperation will benefit both sides, and the biggest gain for the two this time is that they have secretly reached an alliance.
Lin Ze naturally had no way of knowing that Li Si and Zhao Gao formed an alliance, and that Li Si even had murderous intentions against Lin Ze.
During this period of time, apart from practicing martial arts, Lin Ze had focused almost all his energy on cleaning up the Fusu forces. He even skipped his daily trip to Xianyang Palace.
Whether there are other reasons is unknown.
Although Lin Ze had left all the specific matters of eliminating dissidents to the forces that had recently taken refuge with Hu Hai, this did not mean that Lin Ze could sit back and relax.
Lin Ze not only arranged for people to monitor the situation in Chang'an at all times, but on several occasions, he even had to personally lead people to remove unstable factors to ensure that the situation was within his control.
It wasn't until the situation became clearer and clearer that Lin Ze relaxed, thought about it, and headed to Xianyang Palace.
As usual, when Lin Ze was offering incense to Emperor Qin, he told Hu Hai all about the recent situation.
But during the whole process, Hu Hai looked indifferent and listened without saying a word.
Lin Ze didn't worry, and told him all the things he had done recently, as well as some changes in Chang'an City, in detail.
Afterwards, Lin Ze turned around and said, "Sir, I don't have enough cultivation resources at hand. I'm afraid I need you to mobilize some from your inner treasury for me."
At this time, Hu Hai's expression changed a little, and he said in a deep voice: "What do you want? How much do you want?"
Lin Ze said calmly: "Three thousand top-grade jade stones and a thousand sixth-grade earth treasures."
Hu Hai nodded slightly, reached out and summoned a young eunuch and said: "Sir Ying Lei, who is guarding the inner treasury, sent a message for me, asking him to allocate three thousand top-grade jade stones and a thousand sixth-grade earth treasures from the warehouse to deliver them to me.
Lin Mansion, a villa in the east city."
"Nuo" the little eunuch quickly bowed and responded when he heard this, then turned around and trotted away.
Lin Ze cupped his hands towards Hu Hai and said, "Thank you, sir."
Hu Hai said with an indifferent look: "No need to thank you. You have done so many things for me, isn't it just for these things? If I don't give it to you, wouldn't it make you feel chilled?"
Lin Ze's face changed several times, and countless words of defense emerged in his mind, but in the end he still did not say it out loud. He just showed a self-deprecating smile on his face and said: "Yes, I work hard just to get these others easily.
Something you’ll never get in your lifetime?”
"My lord, please feel free to watch over His Majesty's body. I will take my leave first."
Without waiting for Hu Hai's response, Lin Ze turned around and left, but his steps were a little slow, and his back looked like a staggering old man.
Hu Hai looked at Lin Ze's back with extremely complicated emotions. He wanted to call out to Lin Ze several times, but the words reached his throat and he remained silent until Lin Ze's back disappeared from his sight.
…
In the evening, Lin Ze asked Hu Hai for the cultivation resources, which were carried in front of him by a group of palace guards.
After Lin Ze inspected the goods and signed the receipt documents, the palace guards quickly left.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Ze devoted more energy to cultivation. After all, relying on anyone is not as useful as relying on yourself.
…
In the North, Meng Tian's first reaction when he received the news of Fusu's death was disbelief. When news came, Hu Hai sent people to assassinate Fusu. In order to provoke civil strife in the Qin Dynasty, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms found assassins to assassinate Fusu.
However, these messages without exception conveyed one message: Fusu is dead?
Meng Tian immediately summoned all the senior generals of the Northern Army for discussion.
After everyone arrived, Meng Tian said with a sad look on his face: "It is a great misfortune for the world. Master Fusu was brutally murdered. I want to seek justice for him. What do you think?"
A veteran of the Northern Army immediately asked: "I wonder how the Marquis wants to seek justice?"
Another young general replied: "Of course I will find the murderer and cut him into pieces to avenge Mr. Fusu."
The veteran then asked: "Then do you know who the murderer is?"
The young general said coldly: "Your Majesty passed away, and Mr. Fusu rushed thousands of miles back to Chang'an to attend the funeral, but was assassinated. Can't the old general guess who was responsible?"
The veteran general shook his head and said: "I can't guess anything without evidence, and I don't want to make any wild guesses."
The young military general became anxious, pointed at the veteran and said, "You are obviously pretending to be confused because you understand. Who in the world, except Hu Hai, would kill Master Fusu at this time?"
The veteran shook his head and said: "Don't talk nonsense. Mr. Hu Hai has a noble status, how could he do such a beast? Young man, I know that you have been greatly favored by Mr. Fusu and want to avenge him, but this
When doing things, you can’t use your brain and do whatever you think.”
"It doesn't matter if you want to do something, but don't implicate the Marquis and the hundreds of thousands of Northland troops."
The young military general retorted mockingly: "From what the old general said, I thought our Northern Army were all timid and timid."
The veteran general did not argue with him, but raised his hands to Meng Tian and said: "For those who are so brainless, disregarding the overall situation, and dare to slander Young Master Hu Hai, the Marquis should tie him up and send him to Young Master Hu Hai to deal with him, to prove that the Marquis and the North
The loyalty of the earth army to Da Qin."
Meng Tian felt a headache after hearing this. He looked at the other generals in the camp and said, "What do the other generals think?"
The other generals in the camp expressed their opinions one after another, and then they were clearly divided into two groups, one group agreed with the veteran general's approach, and the other group agreed with the young general's approach.
The veterans said that the Northern Army should not get involved in this matter. If someone wants to avenge Mr. Fusu, he can be released from the military, sever his relationship with the Northern Army, and then go on his own.
The group of young generals strongly encouraged Meng Tian to lead his army southward and must seek an explanation.
The current situation was naturally caused by the troubles laid during the period when Meng Tian gave up power to Fusu.
Three years ago, Fusu was ordered to supervise the Northern Army, and then impressed Meng Tian with his unique personality charm, making Meng Tian devoted to him, and even let him take charge of the military power of the Northern Army.
It is a pity that not all the generals of the Northern Army are like Meng Tian, who like Fusu who has some obvious defects in womanly kindness, and even show obvious disgust for Fusu who is occupied by the magpie's nest.
There were even many veteran generals who specially led their troops to fight against the barbarians for a long period of time, just because they did not want to see Fusu or listen to Fusu's orders.
Of course, Fusu was not an easy person to deal with. With Meng Tian's full support and the help of many retainers, he gradually pushed the disobedient generals out of the Northern Army, and then placed his cronies in them.
It has to be said that if this trend continues, Fusu will only need a little more time, and sooner or later the Northern Army will completely change their surnames from top to bottom.
Unfortunately, God did not give Fusu that much time. Emperor Qin died and he had to return to Chang'an. As a result, the current Northern Army was almost split into two, with the veteran faction and Fusu faction fighting each other.
Non-stop.
If Meng Tian hadn't been biased towards Fusu's cronies, with the connections of these veteran generals in the Northern Army, if he was serious, he would have cleared out Fusu's cronies without much effort.
For this reason, the veteran group gradually became extremely dissatisfied with Meng Tian's performance.
If it weren't for his deep-rooted instinct to obey military orders and the friendship he had with Meng Ao, who had been in charge of the Northern Army for many years, Meng Tian might not be able to command them anymore.
Meng Tian looked at the two sides in the camp who were jeering at each other and almost starting to fight. His face was extremely ugly, and he shouted softly: "Stop, someone, come and gather the army."
The faces of the veterans present changed greatly, while Fusu's close followers showed proud expressions.
The veteran who spoke first took a step forward and said loudly: "General Mo and others will never agree with the Marquis doing such a treasonous act."
Meng Tian's face changed greatly, and he was about to have a fit, when a soldier came in and said, "Master Marquis, there is a message from Chang'an."