Chapter 330: Hu Hai, what are you doing?
"Qin is our Qin, and even more so your Majesty's Qin."
Gan Luo's eyes flashed with cold lightning, and he glanced at the heads of all the noble families as if he was actually looking at them.
"Luo advises you all not to make mistakes."
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left.
The heads of the noble families looked at each other and asked each other why Shang Qing was so angry.
Cai Ze was also asking, the old man has been pretending to be crazy and stupid for almost his entire life.
Gan Luo knew what the First Emperor meant. The establishment of the Xianyang Academy was to warn the aristocratic families.
Your family is not the only one I have at my disposal. You can continue to resign and try.
This was not a court discussion, where different opinions could be expressed. At this time, no one dared to stand against the First Emperor, not even Gan Luo.
The heads of the Xianyang noble families also knew what the First Emperor meant, but they pretended not to know. They did not dare to stand against the First Emperor, but they dared to stand behind Gan Luo.
After the defeat, Gan Luo died.
It is accomplished, and everyone benefits.
All they have to pay is a useless face.
The party ended in a bad mood.
Gang Chengjun returned home, picked up a pen and paper, and wrote down everything that happened at the banquet today. He was completely from a bystander's perspective, only describing the specific events without adding any personal opinions.
In the evening, the First Emperor returned to Zhangtai Palace.
Zhang Han, the imperial physician who was ordered to form a secret guard to protect the safety of the First Emperor, grabbed the letter with both hands and handed it to the First Emperor.
The First Emperor didn't even look at the letter paper that should have been banned, and waved his hand to ask Zhang Han to leave.
"Send it to that bastard."
"only."
Ying Chengjiao asked Cai Ze to monitor the actions of the Xianyang family and report on time. Cai Ze did so, but added an extra step. He handed the written letter to the First Emperor, who sent it to Ying Chengjiao.
This month, Cai Ze has sent seven letters, but the First Emperor has not read any of them. The First Emperor is not very interested in what the aristocratic families do.
The First Emperor did not volunteer to be the transit station, but Cai Ze cried and kowtowed repeatedly, begging the First Emperor to be the transit station.
The steady Cai Ze outlasted Bai Qi, Fan Ju, and a bunch of his peers, all by staying at home. Gang Chengjun would not do anything out of the ordinary.
"How has Hu Hai been learning from you recently? How has he been learning the art of criminal justice?"
The First Emperor asked casually.
"Your Majesty, the Eighteenth Young Master is very talented and has made rapid progress."
Zhao Gao answered respectfully.
"Oh, that kid is actually willing to learn? Zhao Gao, you are not deceiving me, are you?"
In the impression of the First Emperor, his youngest son only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, and was good at catching insects. He had nothing to do with reading and learning to read, but it was almost the same.
Because Empress Afang had no heir, the First Emperor favored her, so he asked the princes to be brought up by the Empress and educated by Afang when they were young. In this way, no matter which prince succeeded to the throne, Afang's status would be guaranteed because she had raised him.
But the eighteenth prince Ying Hu Hai was an exception. Ying Hu Hai had always been enjoying the love of his mother.
It was not because Ying Hu Hai's mother was powerful, but because Queen Afang gave up on educating Ying Hu Hai because he was too playful.
Zhao Gao said with a look of fear:
"How dare I deceive Your Majesty?"
"I was just joking with you. If that's the case, then go and take a look."
On a whim, the First Emperor enthusiastically led his two bodyguards, Gai Nie and Zhao Gao, straight to the bedroom of Hu Hai's biological mother, Hu Ji.
Outside Hu Ji's bedroom.
A palace maid saw from afar a group of more than sixty eunuchs marching straight towards them. She was startled at first, and then overjoyed.
The system of the Xianyang Palace was strict, and only the First Emperor had three teams of palace guards surrounding him.
She hurriedly turned around and went into the palace to report to Hu Ji.
Concubine Hu was beautiful and graceful, and her most notable feature was her slender waist that could be held in one hand.
The palace maid was halfway through her words when she heard the four words "Your Majesty has come". Her pretty face immediately turned cold.
"What is he doing here?"
"My concubine, please don't..."
"I'm sick, I won't see you."
Concubine Hu raised her sleeves and returned to the bedroom from the front hall with a stern face, ignoring the persuasion of the palace maid.
The palace maid had no choice but to turn around and go out, waiting in front of the palace gate. Soon, she saw the First Emperor.
"Your Majesty."
The First Emperor did not respond, because not every greeting was worthy of his response.
Zhao Gao stepped forward and was about to push the door open.
The maid didn't dare to stop him, but she had to obey Concubine Hu's order. So she lowered her head and said in a panic at a very fast speed:
"Your Majesty, Concubine Hu is ill and should not be exposed to the wind."
Zhao Gao stopped, his hand was only millimeters away from the gate.
After waiting for a while and hearing no order from the First Emperor, he gently opened the palace gate, led the First Emperor in, and fell behind.
After the First Emperor walked past her and entered the palace, Zhao Gao, with a humble look on his face, suddenly slapped the maid on the head with one hand.
If this palm landed on the right spot, the palace maid would be dead. Not to mention the palace maid who had no martial arts skills, even if a martial arts master took a palm strike on the head from Zhao Gao, few would survive.
Gai Nie, who was following behind the First Emperor, raised his eyebrows, drew his sword and blocked the palace maid , looking at the crazy bootlicker unkindly.
"What?"
This question was not asked by Gai Nie, but by Zhao Gao who stopped in time.
The palace maid who had almost died just now was standing behind Gai Nie, and didn't understand why the two personal guards around His Majesty seemed to be fighting. She lowered her head and looked at the tip of her shoes, not daring to speak.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Gao killed people indiscriminately."
Gai Nie stared at Zhao Gao and spoke in a neither loud nor low voice.
The First Emperor was in a bad mood because he was refused entry, but he was amused by Gai Nie's complaint.
He turned around and looked at the speechless Zhao Gao and asked with a smile:
"Zhao Gao, why do you kill people so recklessly?"
Zhao Gao turned around and faced the First Emperor, bowed his head, raised his hands, and said respectfully:
"Your Majesty, Concubine Hu is breathing evenly, her life force is vigorous, her body is not weak, her spirit is not lost, and she has no signs of illness. This woman dared to deceive Your Majesty, so Gao will execute her."
Pause for a moment.
"I don't know why Mr. Gai stopped me. Could it be that he thought deceiving His Majesty was no big deal?"
"Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me!"
The palace maid, who had just walked around the King of Hell's Palace, finally reacted and knelt on the ground, kowtowed her head, and her forehead was broken and bleeding.
Gai Nie had no expression on his face.
"Your Majesty did not say anything about killing people."
Amid the maid's continuous pleadings, the First Emperor smiled and said:
"Haha, Gai Nie, kill her. "
Gai Nie Muran turned his head and stared at the First Emperor for a few breaths.
During these few breaths, the sound of the palace maid's kowtow became louder and louder, and her cries became more and more miserable. She kept repeating words like "I know I'm wrong, I won't do it again, please forgive me, Your Majesty."
The blood from his forehead splashed onto Gai Nie's white clothes, instantly turning them red and spreading from a small dot, which was very conspicuous.
"only."
The sword fell with the hand raised.
The long sword pierced the chest.
The maid was stabbed in the heart by a sword, and died instantly after being shattered by Gai Nie's internal force. She fell down with infinite regret. Her head first hit Gai Nie's thigh, and finally hit Gai Nie's shoes, leaving a large blood stain on Gai Nie's white robe.
"Your clothes are dirty , go back and change them."
The First Emperor gave the order and walked towards the interior of the palace, with Zhao Gao following him in small steps.
The Sword Master did not respond to the First Emperor's words, but drew his sword woodenly and sheathed it. He raised his right hand, which had just stabbed the palace maid with the sword, and it was shaking all the time.
He held his right wrist tightly with his left hand, and finally stopped his right hand from shaking. But he could hold his shaking hand, but what about his shaking heart?
The Sword Master took several deep breaths, which was more tiring than the duel with Lu Goujian, the former number one swordsman in the world. He turned his head and wanted to take a look at the maid he had stabbed to death. He had not yet carefully looked at the maid's appearance.
But the ground was empty, even the bloodstains had disappeared, leaving only a colorless wet mark that had not dried yet.
Just when he had just calmed down, the nimble eunuchs worked together to not only drag away the body of the palace maid, but also cleaned up the bloodstains.
This is not the first time they have done this, and practice makes perfect.
Gai Nie covered his head, breathing shortly, he was in pain.
He knew why the First Emperor wanted to kill the palace maid, and he understood it. If he didn't kill her today, wouldn't everyone dare to bully the emperor in the future?
Gai Nie understood everything, but he was still in pain. This was not the king he wanted.
"What are you doing here?!"
The angry Concubine Hu is still beautiful.
She did not hide the hatred in her eyes. She looked at the First Emperor not as if he were her husband, but as if he were the enemy who murdered her father. The First Emperor was actually the enemy who murdered her father.
Hu Ji was a princess of the State of Chu. Under the order of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Wang Jian's army destroyed the State of Chu, killed Hu Ji's father, the King of Chu, and abducted Hu Ji from Yingdu to Xianyang.
The First Emperor destroyed Hu Ji's country, ruined Hu Ji's family, killed Hu Ji's father and mother, and took Hu Ji into the harem and made her Concubine Hu.
"Where's Hu Hai?"
The First Emperor looked calm, with a smile on his face, and asked naturally. It was as if he didn't see the deep hatred in Hu Ji's eyes, and heard the full of unwelcome in Hu Ji's words.
"In the side hall."
Concubine Hu pointed outside the bedroom door.
"Get out there and find your son."
The First Emperor looked at the angry Concubine Hu and raised his right hand and waved it backwards.
Zhao Gao immediately understood, lowered his head, backed out of the bedroom, and closed the door behind him.
In the gap between the doors of the bedroom, one can see Concubine Hu rising from the red gauze and green silk rosewood bed in shock and anger. One can also see the First Emperor pounce on Concubine Hu like a ferocious beast and throw her onto the bed.
"Qin dog! Damn Ying Zheng! Don't touch me! Get out!"
The closed temple door blocked most of the sound, but the wooden door could not block all the sound.
The sounds of clothes tearing, women screaming, beds creaking, and skin colliding violently could be heard.
Zhao Gao, who was standing outside the bedroom with his back against the palace door, took in every sound, his back hunched, his face full of humility.
The wind stopped and the rain ceased.
Concubine Hu had disheveled hair and tear marks on her face. She hugged a brocade quilt, with her snow-white shoulders exposed. She yelled at the Emperor, who was getting dressed in an orderly manner:
"You beast! Qin Gou! Why don't you just die!"
The First Emperor ignored him, put on his clothes, straightened his robe in front of the bronze mirror, opened the palace door and went to the side hall to look for his son.
As soon as the First Emperor left, Concubine Hu's strength suddenly drained away. She collapsed on the bed, closed her eyes and cried silently.
She hated the First Emperor. If she could kill him, she would not hesitate at all, but she did not have that ability.
If she was given a long sword made of fine steel, she would not be able to hurt the unarmed Qin Shi Huang. Qin Shi Huang's martial arts skills were not high compared to Ying Chengjiao. Compared to ordinary people, such as Concubine Hu, Qin Shi Huang's martial arts skills were extremely high.
She was captured from Chu and had no power in Qin. The relatives of the Chu clan all stood behind the Chu princess who was born and raised in Qin. They always ignored her, who was born and raised in Chu and was a real Chu princess.
She did not love the First Emperor, and she knew that the First Emperor did not love her either.
Born in the palace, she was used to intrigues and marriages. She knew very well that the first emperor took her as a concubine in order to give the old forces of the Chu State hope and a reason to convince themselves not to seek revenge.
Of course, her beautiful appearance must have played a role in this. She had many sisters, but the First Emperor only took her as a concubine and left the others in the Six Princes' Palace.
She was delighted by her beauty when she was in Chu, but she really hated her face after entering Qin. If she was not so beautiful, she should be in the Chu Palace among the six palaces. Although it is also a cage, she will not be ridden by the damned Ying Zheng.
After being raped by the First Emperor, she thought about committing suicide, but she didn't do it in the end because she figured out one thing: if she died, the First Emperor would find another one of her sisters to be his concubine, and the First Emperor didn't need a concubine like her.
When she was in the State of Chu, she was not very close to her sisters who were also princesses. Many of them were hostile to her and were hostile to her.
But after the demise of the Chu State, in the face of national hatred and family feuds, Concubine Hu, the princess of a fallen country, did not want her sisters to be defiled by the Qin dogs.
"Zhao Gao, if you dare to lie to me, I will kill you!"
There was hatred deep in Concubine Hu's eyes.
Under the brocade quilt, her delicate body, as white and smooth as milk, had a few obvious red marks and bruises, which were recently added.
In the Xianyang Palace, Concubine Hu had one of the few concubines with the fewest eunuchs and palace maids.
The princess of a fallen country, who had no power to support her, treated the First Emperor coldly and with hatred, and abandoned the First Emperor's favor. In the playground of the harem, Queen Afang would not indulge her.
Afang's response was to refuse to educate Ying Hu Hai. Every child likes to play when they are young, so why was Ying Hu Hai the only one refused to be educated by Afang?
After the exchange, Afang talked to Concubine Hu with actions - your son will not inherit the throne.
"Hu Hai, what are you doing?"
The First Emperor had a stern face and maintained the dignity of a strict father.
The First Emperor had no prejudice against Ying Hu Hai, and did not discriminate against his eighteenth son just because his mother was a Hu concubine.
This time, the First Emperor came with the intention of testing Ying Hu Hai's learning progress.
"Father, father, father king?"
When the First Emperor came in, Ying Hu Hai was lying on the ground with his little butt sticking up, holding a piece of grass in his hand, and constantly teasing the two insects in the jar, making the two insects fight each other.
This was Ying Hu Hai's favorite game. He looked very focused. He loved watching the insects biting each other. They bit each other so hard that their legs were broken and their bodies were apart. He didn't notice his father coming in.
He was startled by the First Emperor's shout. When he looked up and saw his father's face, he stammered and cried out, hurriedly dropped the grass in his hand, and stood up in embarrassment.
When the First Emperor saw Ying Hu Hai's appearance, he immediately looked displeased. He thought he was too cowardly.
