Chapter 115: Brother Emperor, you are trying to poach my people when I’m not around, right?
Chang'an Jun Mansion.
By the side of a pond, an old man was fishing in the slightly warm sun, holding a fishing rod with a needle on it and throwing it into the water.
I don't know whether he is fooling himself or the fish.
"The King of Qin is coming."
Li Mu was rarely drunk and looked energetic. He walked up behind the old man and spoke.
The old man shook his fishing rod. He couldn't catch any fish anyway, so he said in a relaxed tone, "I have to trouble Wu Anjun again."
"How do you want me to speak this time?"
"Say it however you want."
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he said with some uncertainty: "Can I speak freely? Can I scold the King of Qin? Will it not bring disaster to the king?"
The old man shook his head and said slowly: "Ying Zheng's generosity is rare in the world. You are not from Qin, so you all underestimate him."
Li Mu laughed, turned around and left in a good mood.
"Shanghai Merchant, you are not from Qin either."
The old man also laughed, picked up the fishing line, looked at the shiny silver needle on the tip, and swung it again and threw it out.
"King of Qin, the First Emperor, those who are willing will take the bait, those who are willing will take the bait..."
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Outside Chang'an Jun's mansion.
The First Emperor, dressed in casual clothes and followed by Gai Nie, Zhao Gao, and Fu Zikang, knocked on the door of Chang'an Junfu.
A servant opened the door, stuck his head out and recognized the First Emperor at a glance.
The servant rushed out, not forgetting to close the door, and bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty is looking for Master Jun?"
The First Emperor was a little surprised. He had clearly changed into ordinary clothes, so how did his servants recognize him? During the Qin Dynasty, except for court officials, most people could not recognize the emperor.
Looking at the servant's exposed skin, which was darker than that of ordinary Qin people, the First Emperor's eyes showed understanding.
To confirm, the First Emperor patted his servant's arm.
"Head of bronze and arms of iron, never injured in a hundred battles. I was able to ascend the throne thanks to you, the Armored Sect."
"It's all thanks to you, my Lord." The servant bowed his head humbly and said, "If your Majesty wants to find you, you can go to the tower."
When the First Emperor was on his way to Chang'an Jun Mansion, a guard reported that Ying Chengjiao was having fun on the tower, but the First Emperor still came to Chang'an Jun Mansion.
"I'll wait for him here. Go to the balcony and call him."
After the First Emperor finished speaking, he looked at the servants who were standing there with an embarrassed look on their faces and motionless, and his smile gradually turned cold.
"You want to shut me out?"
"I dare not."
The servant hurriedly shook his head, then slowly pushed open the door of Chang'an Jun's Mansion with a bitter face.
The First Emperor snorted coldly, strode into the Chang'an Palace with his head held high.
Zhao Gao, Gai Nie and Fu Zikang followed closely behind.
The first thing the First Emperor saw was not the scenery of Chang'an Jun's Mansion, nor the maids and servants there.
Instead, it was a thirty-year-old man dressed in white like Gai Nie, with a face as cold and hard, who was staring at him with hostility.
Zhao Gao frowned and took two quick steps, getting half a body length ahead of the First Emperor.
When the First Emperor saw Zhao Gao's actions, he immediately understood the identity of the visitor.
He stopped and looked up and down at the thirty-year-old man in white. After half a cup of tea, he looked at the man with admiration and said, "Li Mu, are you waiting for me?"
Li Mu's voice was filled with hatred as he said, "Mu is waiting for all the enemies of Zhao people in the world."
"Bold, you!"
Zhao Gao had just uttered the words angrily.
The First Emperor tried to stop him with his eyes, and Zhao Gao kept silent.
The First Emperor smiled and corrected Li Mu, saying: "All under heaven is Qin territory. All people on this land are my subjects. There is no distinction between people from Zhao, Han, or Qi. You are all Qin people."
"You seized my land and killed my people. Today you are so shameless that you say they are all your people? Your Majesty is not here. Ying Zheng, you are not afraid of death today as you step into the Chang'an Palace?"
Li Mu walked to the stone table next to him and picked up the sword he had placed there.
He drew his sword and threw away the scabbard.
Looking at his own sickly face due to alcoholism on the sword, he said in a deep voice: "Do you think Gai Nie and Zhao Gao can protect you?"
Gai Nie had a blank expression on his face, his hand on the sword, and a strong sword energy surrounded him.
Zhao Gao's expression was respectful, but his body was always half a body length ahead of the First Emperor.
Fu Zikang...was so frightened that his face turned pale...
Zhi Su Nei Shi, one of the Nine Ministers of the Qin Dynasty, hurried to Li Mu and picked up the scabbard that Li Mu had dropped on the ground.
While trying to cover the sharp sword in Li Mu's hand again, he whispered anxiously: "Put it away quickly, don't cause trouble for the young master!"
A sneer appeared on Li Mu's lips.
He turned his wrist and struck Fu Zikang on the back of the head with the hilt of the sword.
Fu Zikang's eyes went dark and he fainted on the ground without any resistance.
Before fainting, Fu Zikang’s last thought was: This drunkard is causing trouble by drinking!
He didn't realize that Li Mu didn't smell of alcohol today.
The First Emperor watched all this quietly until Fu Zikang was knocked unconscious and fell to the ground. He then sighed helplessly.
"I have long heard that Zhao Wu'an will win every attack and achieve his goals. Seeing him today, I am very disappointed."
"Why are you disappointed? Didn't Disappointed Mu come up and kill you right away?"
"A few years ago, Li Mu, who could make my elite soldiers unable to advance even a single step and Wang Jian unable to accomplish an inch of success, has now become a fraud. Did Cheng Jiao destroy your will?"
"It's a trick! Are you saying that Mu doesn't dare to attack you?"
Li Mu was furious and walked away with a sword in hand at an extremely fast speed.
He was still twenty steps away from the First Emperor just now, but in the blink of an eye he was right in front of the First Emperor.
Zhao Gao immediately stepped forward to stop him.
Li Mu held the sword with both hands and chopped it down with great force and bravery.
This is the martial arts that Li Mu honed on the battlefield. In the battlefield, when fighting, both sides usually only have one chance to strike.
Zhao Gao was unarmed, but he was not afraid at all.
His respectful face remained calm as he watched Li Mu's every move.
He touched the ground with his toes, his feet two inches off the ground, and curled up slightly in the air to avoid Li Mu's sword.
While dodging, he moved closer to Li Mu like a black ghost and struck Li Mu's heart on his left chest with one palm!
His palm fell with the wind, and looking at the strong wind, if someone was hit by it, he would either die or be seriously injured.
Prince Gao of Zhao versus Lord Wu'an of Zhao.
The first move was a killing move, leaving no room for maneuver.
Li Mu's martial arts follow the approach of vigorous and aggressive fighting on the battlefield, emphasizing that every strike must be made with all one's strength and in an upright and dignified manner.
Zhao Gao's martial arts style is similar to the fighting style in the martial arts world, which emphasizes cleverness and flexibility, and the ability to make a lotus blossom in a small space.
Li Mu's martial arts skills are not weak, and he was able to defeat Meng Tian, who was also training martial arts on the battlefield.
But when he met Zhao Gao, he was caught in a flaw by Zhao Gao when he slashed with his sword, so he could only avoid Zhao Gao's hand once.
Just as he had exhausted all his moves, he was about to be hit in the heart by Zhao Gao.
A white shadow appeared behind Zhao Gao at some point, as if the white shadow had always been sticking to Zhao Gao's back.
The white shadow had no murderous intent. When the sharp dagger in his hand was placed on the back of Zhao Gao's neck, Zhao Gao felt the coolness of the blade and was startled.
How could there not even be any murderous intent or any sound?
He dodged hurriedly, turned his neck to the side, and stepped on Li Mu's right foot with his left foot to gain leverage.
His body drifted irregularly like a leaf, and he did not dare to stop until he saw a white shadow appear in front of him again.
"Assassinating the King of Qin, this is something I'm familiar with!"
Bai Ying stood beside Li Mu, playing with a dagger in his hand, and said with a smile.
The extremely sharp dagger flew back and forth between his hands like a butterfly, but it could not hurt his hands at all.
"Jing Ke." Zhao Gao looked at Jing Ke, his eyes revealing a bloodthirsty beast, and grinned: "If an assassin misses his attack, he will flee thousands of miles away. Now that you are in my sight, try to see how many of my moves you can take."
Jing Ke was too lazy to pay attention to Zhao Gao. What was there for him to do with a eunuch?
Holding a sharp dagger, Jing Ke glared at the First Emperor provocatively, as if he was going to assassinate him at the next moment.
Ying Zheng looked at Li Mu, who was decisive in killing, and Jing Ke, who looked like a ghost, and sighed heavily.
"Two clowns, Cheng Jiao's retainers. If it were just the two of you, I would be greatly disappointed today."
"Who are you calling a clown?"
“Arrogant!”
Li Mu and Jing Ke both glared at Ying Zheng angrily.
"If you two still want to waste your time on this meaningless conversation, then just leave now."
The First Emperor sneered and said, "There are only two places in the world where I am safest. One is the Xianyang Palace, and the other is the Chang'an Palace. If I can die in the place where Chengjiao lives, it will take two suns to appear in the sky."
Jing Ke looked at Li Mu: He figured it out... Should I give up? But I can't really kill him.
Li Mu gritted his teeth.
If you can’t kill the King of Qin with your own hands, can’t you even scare him?
Gai Nie drew the sword from his waist and took two steps forward, leisurely and relaxed, as if he was going for an outing.
He said to Jing Ke: "I haven't been back to my hometown for a long time. Chang'an Jun said that you were itching to fight Nie, so Nie came to ask for advice."
Jing Ke's face froze.
Your Majesty, you are truly not a human being! You don't even do the slightest human thing!
"I never said goodbye!"
Before he finished his words, Jing Ke disappeared in an instant, like a mouse seeing a cat.
Li Mu looked at Gai Nie angrily and asked, "Swordsman, do you want to fight?"
Gai Nie sheathed his sword and said, "You can't scare His Majesty, so stop now."
Li Mu almost couldn't breathe, and his face instantly turned red again - it was shame and anger.
The first emperor changed his expression of disappointment.
He was not afraid of the sharp sword in Li Mu's hand, and took the initiative to walk towards Li Mu, saying earnestly: "Lord Wu'an of Zhao, are you willing to be Lord Wu'an of Qin?"
Li Mu took a deep breath, turned around, put the sword into the scabbard, and said coldly: "I don't want to."
"Lord Wu'an of Zhao is a master of military tactics. He once defeated the Xiongnu for ten years and made them afraid to march south to the Great Wall of Zhao. Don't you think it's a pity that all your life's learning is wasted in this small mansion of Lord Chang'an? If you join the court as an official, I will grant you the title of Marquis! I can give you Handan, the land of Zhao, as your fiefdom!"
Jing Ke.
The First Emperor didn't care.
He's just an assassin who relies on his superb assassination skills. It's not a big deal.
These so-called martial arts masters, especially those who were good at assassination, were not taken seriously by the First Emperor.
If I had great martial arts skills, I could be a guard, but if I can only assassinate, what am I doing here?
But Li Mu, the First Emperor was really greedy.
There were only two people in the Warring States Period who had an undefeated record, one was Bai Qi and the other was Li Mu.
Bai Qi is dead, and now only Li Mu is left.
Wang Jian, the most capable fighter of the Qin State, now has some thoughts. He wants to enjoy his old age with his children and grandchildren around him. He does not want to participate in the war, nor does he want his son Wang Ben, the second most capable fighter of the Qin State, to participate in the war.
Although the First Emperor was unhappy, he was not a person who liked to force others to do things - if you don't want to, I will not use your Wang family.
But apart from the father and son of the Wang family, there is no one in the Qin Dynasty who can truly make the First Emperor feel at ease and feel that they can win this war.
Neither Meng Tian nor Li Xin can do it.
Both of them lacked experience in winning major battles, and the First Emperor was worried.
The First Emperor now urgently needed a famous general who could make him feel at ease after sending him out.
Because according to the First Emperor's plan, he wanted to conquer the Huns and subdue the Baiyue.
And Li Mu fits the bill perfectly.
First, Li Mu was an expert at fighting the Huns - he fought against them so hard that they did not dare to move south or near the Great Wall of Zhao for ten years.
Second, Li Mu defeated Wang Jian - the only defeat Wang Jian suffered in his life was at the hands of Li Mu.
This is exactly what the First Emperor likes. This is the famous general I want!
The First Emperor came to Chang'an Junfu today specifically to ask Ying Chengjiao for someone - it would be a waste if I let Chang'an Junfu take over such an invincible general. Give him to me, I can use him very much.
What I just said was only to maintain the dignity of the emperor and avoid being looked down upon by Li Mu.
Now that we have taken the initiative, the next step is to show respect to those who are more capable than us.
Since you want to restore Zhao, I will grant you Handan of Zhao as your fiefdom!
The First Emperor thought that the money he invested would at least make Li Mu's eyes light up and make him interested.
Unexpectedly, Li Mu's expression was not moved at all, but his eyes became even colder.
"Your Majesty once explained in detail the parallel system of counties and kingdoms and the Enfeoffment Order to the governor."
This guy, why does he tell everything to others?
The First Emperor secretly hated Ying Chengjiao, but still smiled on the surface and said, "I don't understand, if you can become Chengjiao's retainer, why can't you follow me? What Chengjiao gives you, I can give you!"
"How can you compare with the Lord?"
Li Mu turned around and stared at Ying Zheng, with undisguised sarcasm in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, can you make Mu lose his will to fight the enemy?"
"In terms of martial arts, I am indeed not as good as Cheng Jiao. I never thought that Wu Anjun, who led troops in battle without a single defeat, actually advocated personal bravery."
"Mu is not talking about personal bravery." Li Mu stared into Ying Zheng's eyes and said word by word: "Mu is talking about the battle between the two armies! You can only be stopped by Mu and it is difficult for you to move forward! But the Lord can make Mu have no desire to fight! The Lord is the only one who can make Mu know that he will lose before the battle!"
The First Emperor's eyes opened wide.
That brat actually made Li Mu afraid to fight?
How high must this guy's attainment in military strategy be to be able to defeat Li Mu without fighting?
"Zhao Wu'an Jun is facing Qin Wu'an Jun, do you dare to fight him?"
"Mu only regrets that he was still young during the Battle of Changping!"
"You dared to fight against Bai Qi, but you dared not fight against Cheng Jiao? Your words of praise for Cheng Jiao are too much."
"Oh."
Li Mu was about to say something else.
There was a loud bang at the gate of Chang'an Jun's mansion.
Ying Chengjiao burst in and said in a very dissatisfied voice: "Royal brother, you are poaching people when I am not here, right?"
