Chapter 192 Because This Is Impossible
Zhao Ji slapped Ying Zheng mercilessly.
Ying Zheng didn't finish his words and tilted his face to the right.
Feeling a stinging pain on the left side of his face, he smiled inwardly and pushed the left side of his mouth with his tongue.
This feeling is very strange.
He couldn't remember when he was last slapped.
"You want to give up the throne? I have fought for the throne for you all my life, and you want to give it up just like that? For this throne, I betrayed my motherland, the State of Zhao, and I was expelled from my family tree."
"I came to Qin after suffering so much injustice. The former king treated me with such rudeness, but I still had to greet him with a smile. Who was I doing this for?"
"That bastard knew that the martial arts I practiced were seductive skills, so he told me that anyone could insert Zhao Xianglu into their body. The name Zhao Xianglu became known to all the nobles in Xianyang!"
"If it weren't for you, would I have to endure such humiliation? Mi Bazi had a son before entering Qin, and he was not insulted like this."
"I seduced Lao Ai and Teng, but I never made peace with them! The former king is the only man in my life. Why do you give me such a vicious nickname?"
Zhao Ji pointed her finger at the First Emperor's nose and shouted at him, with hatred and disappointment in her eyes that was higher than the sky and deeper than the sea.
The First Emperor rubbed his left cheek to ease the pain a little, and endured it in silence.
"Mi Bazi held great power as the queen mother, and the Queen Mother Huayang held great power as the queen mother. What about me? I, the queen mother, have imprisoned myself in Yongdi for ten years. Have you ever seen a queen mother so cowardly?"
"It's so hard to get to the court, but my own son is using me as a target to establish my authority. You can bully me, but why can't you bully that brat? Why don't you dare to use Ying Chengjiao to establish your authority!"
"I gave you my all, because I wanted you to be the king! The King of Qin! The King of the world! Not to let you be a stepping stone for that bastard! I can die, but I will never give up the throne!"
"Ying Zheng, listen to me. If that bastard wants to be king, he can only do so by stepping on your dead body. If you are not king, how can you still live with dignity?"
The First Emperor smiled and patted Zhao Ji's chest twice.
"Okay, don't be angry, mother. I won't let you."
Zhao Ji waved her hand and shot it away, her face full of disappointment.
"If I had known you were so disappointing, I would not have given birth to you!"
"It's all my fault, mother, go to bed early."
The First Emperor said a few words, rubbed his left cheek which had five finger marks on it, and walked towards the door of his sleeping palace.
"There have been many assassination attempts in Xianyang recently. For the safety of my mother, I have assigned Zhang Han to guard her. If she wants to leave the palace, please remember to let me know."
Zhao Ji immediately understood the hidden meaning of the Emperor's words and turned around in shock and anger.
"I am your mother! How dare you put me under house arrest?"
The First Emperor never stopped.
"Inside the Xianyang Palace, you can do as you please. Outside the Xianyang Palace, you are not allowed to go. If you insist on calling this house arrest, then so be it."
Zhao Ji's face looked extremely ugly. She walked quickly to the front of the First Emperor and slapped him in the face again.
The First Emperor reached out and grabbed Zhao Ji's wrist, and said with a smile: "Mother, you can hit me, but you can't hit me."
"Okay, very good, you've used all your skills on my mother! Get lost!"
"Goodbye, mother."
The First Emperor bowed his head and pushed the door open to go out.
"His Majesty."
More than a dozen maids bent their knees and bowed. This was not Qin Li, but Zhao Li.
In Yongdi, these maids and the guards outside performed Zhao rituals on Zhao Ji for ten years.
The First Emperor saw it.
He opened the door behind him and returned to Zhao Ji's bedroom.
Zhao Ji turned her head and saw that it was Ying Zheng again. She thought that Ying Zheng came to apologize, just like when he admitted his mistakes to her when they were children.
Snorted coldly.
"You rebellious son! Why did you come back? Do you want to kill me?"
The First Emperor picked up the old sword from the ground, and instead of hanging it around his waist, he held it in his hand.
"Something is left behind, so go to bed early, mother."
With Zhao Ji's face livid, the First Emperor pushed the door open and walked out.
"Ah! Your Majesty, spare my life!"
A long red streak was shot out on the door of the sleeping palace, and Zhao Ji could see it clearly from inside the palace.
There are shadowy figures outside the door.
Some people suddenly straightened their waists halfway through their run, became stiff for a moment and fell down.
Some of them were running on all fours like dogs and pigs, then suddenly raised their heads and fell to the ground in despair.
There were also those who stood still without moving, their legs trembling continuously, and then their heads rolled down, their bodies leaning backward or forward, and they fell to the ground.
Zhao Ji walked to the door silently, leaned her back against it, and listened to the noise outside.
"Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me!"
"Don't kill me, don't kill me, ah!"
"I know nothing, ah, nothing..."
"Queen Mother! Queen Mother, help! Your Majesty has killed someone!"
“…”
The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
The sound of a sharp weapon entering flesh.
The sound of an iron blade chopping bones.
…
The sound of running.
The sound of rolling and crawling.
The sound of falling.
…
The maids screamed in shrill voices, begged for mercy, and shouted at the top of their lungs.
Mixed with these sounds that don't come from the voice.
No need to look, just listen.
You will know what kind of hell it is outside.
All these sounds reached Zhao Ji's ears, but her dark face gradually returned to normal.
The sound gradually became fainter and fainter...
Bang, bang, bang~
Bang, bang, bang~
There was a violent knock on the door, shaking Zhao Ji's body. The force was so strong that even Zhao Ji, who was good at martial arts and was trying her best to hold on to the door of her bedroom, could hardly withstand it.
"Queen Mother! Queen Mother, please open the door! Wuuwu! Queen Mother, please stop leaning against the door, please save me!"
This voice is urgent, desperate, anxious, resentful, and puzzled...
Zhao Ji inside the door could see the figure outside.
The palace maids outside the door could naturally see the figures inside.
The knocking stopped.
Plop~
Someone seemed to be kneeling outside the door.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Please spare my life, Your Majesty! I have done nothing wrong, Your Majesty! Uh..."
Gurgle gurgle~
When you speak, blood rushes to your throat, and the throat drives the air upward, making the sound of the blood.
This sound is almost the same as the sound of taking a mouthful of water, tilting the neck back, and exhaling through the throat.
Bang!
The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Outside the door, things seemed to have quieted down.
"Mom, go to bed early."
The voice of the First Emperor came from outside the door.
Snap, snap~
There was no water sprinkled in Ganquan Palace today, but the footsteps outside sounded like footsteps on water.
The snapping sound lasted for more than ten steps before it turned into normal footsteps.
But the footsteps at that time were so faint that Zhao Ji could not hear them.
Zhao Ji looked normal and acted as usual.
She found an incense burner, put incense in it, and lit it.
Soon, the mixed aroma of precious flowers such as ambergris, musk, and vanilla covered up the bloody smell coming from the crack in the door.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Zhao Ji laughed, took out a jar of Chu state wine and removed the mud seal.
There is no need for wine bottles or other utensils. Just raise your snow-white arms high and pour the wine into your mouth.
Tons of tons of tons
Zhao Ji was extremely beautiful, and her practice of charm made her even more graceful. No matter how you looked at her, she looked like a woman.
But her aura did not show any feminine weakness; she was even more heroic than a man.
Soon, the jar of Chu State wine was empty.
Zhao Ji threw it away and burped.
An ordinary man would get drunk after drinking half a jar of it. It is known as the strongest wine of the King of Chu in the world.
The whole jar of liquid filled Zhao Ji's stomach, but it only made her face red and her eyes blurry, but she did not fall down immediately.
“This is the right wine!”
Zhao Ji threw the wine jar casually.
The wine jar smashed to pieces on the ground.
The fragments were mixed with the black bird-shaped tortoise shell and swallow-shaped agate from the phoenix crown.
"That's what a king looks like!"
Incense is burned in an incense burner.
Zhao Ji swayed from side to side, took three candles in the room and inserted them into the incense burner.
"I will set up the tomb of Sanxiang myself. Ying Chengjiao, come and kill me."
Snap~
Zhao Ji didn't hold the candle firmly and it fell to the ground.
He was half asleep but still wanted to pick it up, but then the alcohol started to set in and he laid down on the table to rest for a while.
He fell asleep as soon as he lay down, still mumbling to himself.
"Even if you kill me, you will feel bad... Vietnamese girl... Do you dare to want her... Legend... Who knows if it's true or not..."
The candle flame stabbed into the ground, where there were three or two drops of wine, and a slight blue flame was rising.
The flame burned for a while, and then went out because there was no combustible material.
After a while, a palace maid entered the palace, swept the floor, and helped Zhao Ji onto the bed.
The palace door was wide open.
There was a pool of blood outside the door, and it was impossible to tell how many maids there were, lying outside in various ways, with different causes of death.
The floor tiles are all red.
March unchanged.
Just one door away.
Hell on earth.
Zhao Ji was the first person in Chinese history to be posthumously named Empress Dowager.
There are two explanations about Zhao Ji's background in "Records of the Grand Historian". One says she was the daughter of a wealthy family, and the other says she was Lu Buwei's concubine.
Since Lü Buwei was a retainer of Ying Yiren, how could he dare to marry his own concubine to Ying Yiren?
Since they wanted to help Ying Yiren return to Qin, they had to win over all the forces, so that the marriage would bring good luck to Qin and Jin. For such an important force, they naturally had to win over the wealthy families of Zhao.
Moreover, when Zhao State was hunting down Ying Yiren and Ying Yiren fled back to Qin State alone, Zhao Ji was still able to bring Ying Zheng to survive in Zhao State under such circumstances.
Not to mention Lu Buwei's concubines, even Lu Buwei himself couldn't do it.
King Zhuangxiang of Qin died and King Zheng of Qin succeeded to the throne. Lu Buwei became the prime minister and monopolized power, refusing to give it to Ying Zheng.
Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei had an affair. Lu Buwei could not bear Zhao Ji's demands for him, so he gave him Lao Ai. Zhao Ji gave birth to two sons for Lao Ai.
Afterwards, King Zheng of Qin rushed to Yongcheng to be crowned, intending to rule the country personally after the ceremony and pay homage to the spirits of his ancestors in the Qinian Palace.
This time, Lao Ai rebelled and launched a mutiny in the Qinian Palace, leading his followers to attack the Qinian Palace.
King Zheng of Qin put down the rebellion and killed Concubine Zhao. The two sons born to Lao Ai were killed, but because Lao Ai was offered by Lu Buwei, Lu Buwei was implicated and withdrew from the Qin stage and returned to his hometown.
King Zheng of Qin gave a handwritten letter to Lü Buwei who was returning to his hometown. After seeing the letter, Lü Buwei committed suicide.
Assuming everything is true, what role did Zhao Ji play in it? Was she just a lewd queen mother?
First, what would happen if Lao Ai succeeded in launching a mutiny in Qinian Palace? Could he get what he wanted?
The troops in Xianyang did not move. If he killed Ying Zheng in Yongcheng, would he be able to become the King of Qin? If he could not, why did he launch this mutiny?
Second, was Ying Zheng's life in danger during the mutiny? No. During the sacrifice, Ying Zheng was protected.
Lao Ai brought his followers to attack the Qin army so directly. If they wanted to break through the six kingdoms, they had to recruit Lao Ai and train the soldiers.
3. Who was the beneficiary of the Qinian Palace mutiny?
After the Qinian Palace mutiny, Ying Zheng seized power, abolished the position of Qin prime minister, and established left and right prime ministers.
What did Zhao Ji
Having given birth to two children for Lao Ai, was she trying to seize the throne from Ying Zheng?
Mi Bazi also had a child back then, so why doesn't anyone say that she wanted to use her child to usurp the throne?
Because it is impossible.
Is it stupid to be a member of the Qin royal family? King Zhuangxiang of Qin has been dead for several years. The queen mother has a child who is of the Ying clan bloodline? Can she still be king?
I will not make any final judgment on what kind of person Zhao Ji is. You can judge for yourselves.
