Chapter 194: Sir, Lord Meng is here!
The sword has been cleaned.
Throwing away the blood-stained white strip, the First Emperor returned the sword to its sheath.
"Did I hear you wrongly? You are pleading for the Queen Mother's maid."
"Among those maids, there are people from Lord Chang'an."
“…Who is it?”
"I don't know."
The First Emperor frowned as he thought about the performance of each maid when he had just killed someone.
"I am sure that no maid has ever told me this."
“They won’t do anything that is inconsistent with their current identity.”
"Even if it means death?"
"When you have to die, you have to die."
"Oh."
The First Emperor chuckled and shook his head.
"I remember that Cheng Jiao often said that life is equal, so these people were definitely not trained by Cheng Jiao. Cheng Jiao's subordinates are really talented, no wonder the Queen Mother is afraid of him."
The First Emperor stood on the steps in front of the gate of Ganquan Palace and looked around.
The Yongdi guards dressed in Langguan uniforms looked straight ahead and stood upright under the inspection of the First Emperor, even though their hearts were about to jump out of their mouths.
The palms of his hands holding Chang Ge were sweating, and his breathing was still rapid despite his best efforts to slow it down.
They could smell the stench of blood through the broken gate of Ganquan Palace.
How many people had to die for the smell of blood to fill the courtyard of Ganquan Palace.
Gai Nie grabbed the hilt of the long sword at his waist, he was a little impatient.
He received twenty strokes of the cane without any reduction, the hem of his gown was stained with blood, but he still insisted on following here, just for this moment.
The sword master, who has never liked killing, wants to go on a killing spree tonight.
"You have induced the Queen Mother to assassinate Lord Chang'an. Your crime is unforgivable. You should end your lives here."
The First Emperor shouted majestically.
The corner of Gai Nie's mouth twitched.
What's the point of saying these things? In the end, we still have to...
"only!"
"only!"
"only!"
“…”
One response after another interrupted Gai Nie's thoughts.
The sword master watched helplessly as the Yongdi guards in official uniforms stood in pairs in the field, wielding the bronze spears in their hands and piercing each other's throats with their blades.
The sound penetrates into the flesh.
Blood splattered everywhere.
The courtyard of Ganquan Palace, like the palace itself, was stained with blood.
The stone surface of the beast statue was stained with blood, which added a bit of horror to its already hideous portrait.
The Sword Master was greatly shocked.
He had never heard of such a sight.
The long spears waving in the air shattered the Sword Master's cognition into pieces.
How could this be...
Most of the Yongdi guards looked for their companions to kill each other, only two Yongdi guards fled towards the outside of Ganquan Palace without saying a word.
There was a flash of anger in the First Emperor's eyes, and he showed great anger at someone who dared to disobey his orders.
Zhang Han assessed the situation and was about to fly out.
The First Emperor stretched out one arm to stop Zhang Han, and stretched out the other arm to pat Gai Nie on the back.
"Bring the bodies of these two men to me."
Gai Nie was slapped awake.
"only."
Before he finished speaking, his figure was already in mid-air.
The sword master crossed more than ten meters in a few breaths and unsheathed his sword in mid-air.
The First Emperor withdrew his gaze and stopped looking at the scene in the courtyard. His eyes moved to the three city defense soldiers who had been standing still.
"Send fifty gold coins to each of their families."
"only."
Zhang Han responded.
The three men, who had been mentally prepared, lowered their heads, clasped their hands, performed the Qin ritual to the First Emperor, and spoke in unison.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The First Emperor nodded and accepted it.
"What else do you wish for?"
A city defense soldier knelt on the ground.
"My mother is in poor health. When Your Majesty sends someone to give her fifty gold coins, please don't tell my mother that I'm dead."
"Zhang Han, remember that these three will set off for Longxi today to guard the border for our Great Qin."
"only."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After expressing their wish, the city defense soldiers kowtowed.
Another city defense soldier knelt on his knees.
"I have a brother who is a merchant. I beg Your Majesty to change my brother's merchant status to civilian status."
The Legalists were in charge during the Qin Dynasty.
The Legalists believed that merchants who resold the fruits of others’ labor and did not think about independent production were opportunists and were of no benefit to the country.
Therefore, Qin law stipulated that, apart from slaves, merchants were the lowest class.
This decree was temporarily abolished during the reign of Lu Buwei.
After Lu Buwei stepped down and Ying Zheng regained power, it was restored again.
It is easy to change from upper to lower level, from civilian registration to commercial registration.
But it is almost impossible for a merchant to become a civilian, and this is a change from the bottom up.
"I agree."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
The second city defense soldier also kowtowed.
The last city defense soldier pursed his lips and did not kneel.
He looked at the long sword at the First Emperor's waist and said, "I want to die under the sword of Lord Meng."
The First Emperor drew his sword and threw it away.
The third city defender took the sword with both hands.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
His body couldn't stop shaking, he didn't want to die.
When Gai Nie returned with the bodies of the two escaped Yongdi guards, he saw the First Emperor polishing his sword in front of the gate of Ganquan Palace.
There were three more corpses on the ground, wearing city defense army uniforms.
The First Emperor didn't even look at the two corpses that Gai Nie brought back, and was wiping his sword carefully.
"These two are from the Yi San tribe."
"only."
Zhang Han obeyed the order.
Gai Nie was stunned again.
He understood why these Yongdi guards did not resist.
Gai Nie, who comes from the Zhao State, a country with tough folk customs, is a willful and free-spirited man.
Look at the corpse wearing palace maid's clothes at your feet, look at the corpse wearing palace maid's clothes in the palace, and finally look at the corpse wearing city defense soldier's clothes in front of Ganquan Palace.
The First Emperor looked at Gai Nie, who looked confused again, and asked casually, "What are you thinking about?"
"If it was the young master, these three people would not have died."
In front of Ying Zheng, Gai Nie always called Ying Chengjiao "Chang'an Jun". "Gongzi" was the name he called Ying Chengjiao in private.
But this did not cause any cognitive error for the First Emperor, who did not mistakenly believe that Gai Nie was talking about one of his sons.
"A woman's kindness."
This is what the First Emperor commented.
This evaluation sounds very familiar, and Gai Nie has also made this evaluation of Ying Chengjiao many times.
When Gai Nie heard the familiar four words again at this moment, he had a completely different feeling from before.
A woman's kindness is also kindness...
Gai Nie said in his heart but didn't say it out loud.
He knew that the First Emperor did this to keep the secret and conceal the fact that it was Zhao Ji who sent people to assassinate Ying Chengjiao.
If we let these three city defense soldiers go, the matter might be leaked, and the best option is to silence them.
Gai Nie knows everything and understands .
But he just felt uncomfortable.
Even worse than the pain and the discomfort of his buttocks which were now in great pain and bleeding from the intense exercise he had just done, his wound had ruptured.
"Ganquan, you are in charge personally. The Queen Mother is not allowed to leave the palace walls."
The First Emperor ordered Zhang Han.
"only."
Zhang Han accepted the order.
"Send a secret guard to go in and clean up the mess."
The First Emperor ordered Gai Nie.
"only."
Gai Nie obeyed the order.
The First Emperor glanced at Gai Nie, who had an expressionless face, and added, "Ask the female secret guards to clean up the Queen Mother's room."
"only."
Gai Nie took the order again.
If it were Zhang Han from a few days ago, he would have doubted the deeper meaning behind the sentence added by the First Emperor.
But today's Zhang Han won't do that.
Because he had heard from Gai Nie himself that he wanted to kill the Queen Mother, and in just two quarters of an hour, he had dealt with Gai Nie several times.
He now knew very well that the last sentence of the First Emperor was purely supplementary.
If you don't make it clear.
Gai Nie is likely to send a male secret guard in.
Even Zhang Han made another bold, treasonous and absurd guess.
If the First Emperor had not added the four words "clean up the room", would Gai Nie have rushed in and killed the Queen Mother?
The leader of the secret guards is also a secret guard.
Dealing with people is also dealing with things.
"Gai Nie Shenshi went to the Chang'an Palace and asked Cheng Jiao to come to the palace to see me."
"only."
The First Emperor had already learned from the three city defense soldiers that Ying Chengjiao was safe.
Thinking that Ying Chengjiao had gotten up very late, he must have fallen asleep again after receiving Meng Ao, so he asked Gai Nie to call Ying Chengjiao into the palace at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Throughout history, I am the only one who would place my biological mother under house arrest in order to share the imperial power with my younger brother.
I told that boy that there would be no one to hinder his participation in politics, and he should be very happy.
I don't know why that guy has been hiding so many things from me. I'll ask him when the time comes.
We have to call Afang, otherwise that guy won’t tell the truth.
The Qin State has not had a prime minister for ten years, and it is time to fill this position.
While thinking, the First Emperor walked towards Zhangtai Palace.
The moon in the sky was tinged with a hint of red at some point and turned into a red moon, as if it was stained with blood.
However, Ying Chengjiao, who was thought by the First Emperor to be supposed to go to sleep again, did not fall asleep.
Half an hour ago.
A carriage arrived at Chang'an Jun's Mansion and knocked on the door of Chang'an Jun's Mansion in the middle of the night.
The main room of Chang'an Jun's mansion.
"Sir, wake up, wake up."
"Hmm, it's already Mao time? So soon? I feel like I just went to bed not long ago."
"It's not the morning hour yet."
"Why are you calling me before the Mao hour? Go play somewhere else!"
Ying Chengjiao was grouchy when he woke up, so he turned over and continued to sleep.
"Sir, Lord Meng is here!"
"Come whoever wants to, no one can disturb my sleep... Meng Ao?"
Ying Chengjiao opened his eyes and became alert.
"Why is this old guy here? It seems that Meng Yi can't make the decision, so he told Meng Ao about the matter. He came to me to ask about the situation."
Ying Chengjiao turned over, got up, and put on his clothes.
"It's just right that he's here. I don't have to run to the Meng residence. I can just tell Meng Ao to suppress the matter. Beauties, wait for me. When I come back, I will fight you for three hundred rounds!"
Ying Chengjiao was full of interest and enthusiasm, and ran out to meet Meng Ao.
He doesn't know.
Meng Ao had just returned from the Xianyang Palace.
I also don’t know that Xia Wuqie also came with Meng Ao.
