Chapter 94: The First Emperor’s Thoughts!
Li Si rubbed his brows harder and harder.
Lord Chang'an, how big of a fuss do you want to make before you give up?
The Tingwei was rubbing his head intently.
He suddenly felt pain in his head which had hit Li Si's neck just now.
The Left Supervisor of the Supreme Court stared at Ying Chengjiao with gritted teeth.
If he had the intention of going to the Xianyang Palace to capture someone, the soldiers present could chop him into meat paste.
The happier Ying Chengjiao laughed, the angrier Tingwei Zuojian became. He really wanted to smash Ying Chengjiao's smiling face with one punch.
He thought so and did so.
The two were very close to each other, and the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice suddenly punched Ying Chengjiao in the face.
Although the Qin Dynasty was a martial nation, the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice was not a weak man, and this punch, thrown with anger, looked very realistic.
But if Ying Chengjiao had been hit by such a punch, he would have been assassinated long ago.
Plop~
The Left Supervisor of the Court of Censors was kicked in the abdomen and flew out with his butt sticking up like a shrimp, hitting the gate of Chang'an Jun's mansion with a loud noise.
He fell from the door to the ground, his body covered in mud, his abdomen was in excruciating pain. At this moment, he felt as if he was experiencing the excruciating pain his wife felt when she gave birth.
The kick was so powerful that the Left Supervisor of the Imperial Court curled up into a ball, holding his stomach, breathing heavily and sweating. He wanted to get up, but he didn't have the strength.
Li Si dared not speak.
The Tingwei Zheng dared not speak. The fifty government soldiers dared not speak.
Attack, the exquisite Qin crossbows held by the maids were enough to shoot everyone present into a sieve.
The servants who were guarding the place and wearing simple servant uniforms were the members of the Armored Sect.
The soldiers of the Supreme Court looked at the extremely sharp Qin swords in their hands and felt for the first time that the Qin swords were not so sharp.
Ying Chengjiao walked to the side of the Tingwei Zuojian, squatted down and looked at the Tingwei Zuojian's shaking body, and suddenly asked: "You want me to kill you?"
The left supervisor of the court, who was just laughing in shock, had his pupils shrink and his shaking body stopped for a moment.
"You saw me scatter the palace soldiers. You knew you were no match for me, but you still dared to attack me. Do you want to die in my hands, so that you can use public opinion to persuade your brother to kill me?"
The Left Chief Justice of the Supreme Court did not understand what "public opinion" meant, but he could probably guess the meaning of this sentence.
He still didn't speak, he was still making "shaha" sounds with his mouth, and the volume of the sounds was almost the same as before, but he did it on purpose.
In fact, the severe pain in his abdomen was easing with time. He was accumulating strength, preparing to take a Qin sword from the palace soldier.
He wants to use this Qin sword to decide life and death with Ying Chengjiao - if you don't kill me, I will kill you.
Ying Chengjiao lowered his body and said in a voice that only he and the left supervisor of the court could hear: "You should know what your brother did. He almost forced the tower manager to death. Do you think this is right?"
"Shaha, Shaha..."
"It would be more realistic if the breath was more even."
"Shaha, Shaha..."
"You see, this is boring. If you don't want to talk to me, then I can only talk to others about your brother joining the army in your place."
"S..."
The Left Supervisor of the Supreme Court took a deep breath of the cool air from his mouth.
In the Qin State, which only focused on farming and fighting, evading military service was a serious crime and the offender would be demoted to a slave and become a state slave.
Having come this far, the Left Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has already disregarded life and death, and he is not afraid of being a slave.
But he was afraid that after he became a slave, no one would avenge his brother.
"I will definitely kill you." The Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice stared at Ying Chengjiao with bloodshot eyes and said in a rough voice.
"Why?"
"You killed my brother!"
"Your brother almost killed my woman. Oh, yes, he almost trampled a servant to death."
The Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice looked at Ying Chengjiao, whose smiling face turned into a serious expression, and couldn't figure out what Ying Chengjiao was really thinking.
Now that things have come to this, does any of this still matter?
You killed my brother, so I will kill you!
"You are blinded by hatred. It seems you won't have a good chat with me."
"... Loutai Manager, what's the difference between accompanying one woman and accompanying dozens of women in this land of love? If a servant dies, he dies, and the compensation is paid. According to Qin law, my brother is innocent!"
"Here lies the crux of the matter. Why is your brother not guilty even though he almost killed two people? I think the current Qin law is only suitable for the Qin before it unified the world, and not for the current Qin. What do you think?"
The hatred in the eyes of the Minister of Justice and the Left Supervisor could not hide the shock in his eyes at this moment.
Qin law is the foundation of the Qin State.
Only the First Emperor was qualified to amend the Qin laws.
"You want to rebel!"
"Another person who said I wanted to rebel... As a student of the Legalists, do you feel that Qin's laws are too harsh?"
"Quickly capture Ying Chengjiao! He wants to rebel! He wants to rebel!" The Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice shouted loudly with a flushed face, and he seemed to be extremely emotional.
But then he whispered: "If you don't kill me, I will make your maids into military prostitutes and your servants slaves. I may not be able to kill you, but I can definitely kill them."
"I said I wanted to change Qin law, and you said I was rebelling. Now you are violating Qin law and targeting my family with malicious intent. Aren't you bullying an honest person?"
Ying Chengjiao sighed.
"When I'm being reasonable, there are always people who want to fight me with fists."
Standing up, Ying Chengjiao walked to Li Si.
On the ground, the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice suddenly jumped up, snatched the Qin sword from a palace soldier, and stabbed Ying Chengjiao in the back.
A servant rushed behind Ying Chengjiao. His speed was much faster than that of the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice, so he was able to arrive first.
Ding~
The tip of Qin's sword pierced the servant's chest, and there was a sound of metal clashing. The bronze sword body bent into an exaggerated arc.
The servant shook his head regretfully.
"Too little force."
He exerted a little force and pushed forward, and the huge force was transmitted from the tip of the sword to the hilt, and the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice was knocked to the ground.
The Left Supervisor of the Supreme Court stared resentfully at the servant standing in front of him and vowed to turn him into a slave.
"Put Li Zuojian in the Tingwei prison."
Ying Chengjiao didn't care about what was happening behind him and directly gave orders to Li Si.
Li Si rubbed his eyebrows violently.
You violated the Qin law, and the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice was acting in accordance with the law. You wanted me, the Chief Justice, not to arrest you, but instead arrested the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice and put him in the Court of Justice's Prison, and even told this in front of everyone.
Lord Chang'an, did you really perfect the county system?
How can you say that?
The Chief Justice still had a severe headache.
Yes, yes, yes, the Chief Justice is the most powerful one in the Supreme Court. You should go to him if you have any problems.
Fifty palace soldiers all looked at the palace soldier who had his Qin sword taken away and was currently unarmed.
With that little strength Li Zuojian has, can he snatch the sword from his hand?
This kid just wants to see Li Zuojian make a fool of himself.
You are really shady...
So cool! This is how Li Zuojian should be punished!
"Lord Chang'an, this is against Qin law, against..."
Li Si let out a long sigh and started to explain to Ying Chengjiao, the man who was supposed to have his three clans exterminated, trying to make Chang'an Jun, who had amazed him before the arrest, understand some truths.
He was halfway through his words when Ying Chengjiao handed him a token with a strange shape, half the size of his palm.
The token feels strange, yet familiar.
Li Si was talking, he lowered his head and looked carefully, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he stopped talking.
He suddenly looked up at Ying Chengjiao, the shock in his eyes was even stronger than the day he heard Ying Chengjiao talk about the improved county system!
This texture! This pattern! There is only one of its kind in the world! How could this item be in Changan Jun's hands!
His rigid face was no longer expressionless, and anyone could see that he was extremely shocked. He clenched the token in both hands, staring at Ying Chengjiao, unable to say a word.
"You won't give it back to me?"
"Oh, oh oh oh! I dare not! I am guilty!"
Li Si knelt on the ground with a thud, lowered his head, raised his hands above his head, and tremblingly handed the token back to Ying Chengjiao.
It seemed as if the person in front of him was not Ying Chengjiao, but the First Emperor.
Li Si's action shocked the Chief Justice standing next to him so much that his head no longer hurt.
You are the Chief Justice.
So what if this guy has hidden so many Qin crossbows? Does he dare to kill us?
Why do you do this and lower your status?
Tingwei Zheng did not see the scene of Ying Chengjiao handing the object to Li Si, but he saw the scene of Li Si presenting the object to Ying Chengjiao.
He glanced over and saw what appeared to be a jade piece.
Ying Chengjiao grabbed the object in his hand and put it into his arms.
"Send Li Zuojian to the Tingwei prison." Ying Chengjiao repeated the previous order.
"Yes!" Li Si said in a deep voice, "Take down Li Zuojian and send him to the Tingwei Prison."
"only!"
Fifty soldiers responded in unison to this "Yes", feeling extremely happy.
They rushed forward and pushed the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice to the ground, and wrapped hemp ropes around his hands.
"Li Si! How dare you violate the Qin law! And shelter those who are plotting rebellion!" The Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice shouted.
“Woo woo woo.”
The palace soldier who had just lost Qin Jian tore off a piece of cloth from his body and stuffed it into the mouth of the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice.
Shut up!
The Chief Justice ordered that the soldiers should only obey orders and not consider anything else.
The Chief Justice opened his mouth, then closed it again, and decided it would be better not to speak.
Although he was very puzzled about Li Si's arrest of the Left Supervisor of the Supreme Court and his imprisonment in the Supreme Court Prison.
This is obviously against Qin law. Why did Li Si dare to do this?
Just now, Li Si answered that boy with "Yes", shouldn't it be "Yes"?
The answer should be on that jade token. Go back and find out if the Qin State has any jade token of great significance.
"You all, under the leadership of Lord Tingwei Zheng, will return to the Tingwei Mansion first." Li Si said.
The emotion in the phrase "Sir" that he called Tingwei Zheng was completely different from the one he had called him before in the Tingwei Mansion.
The Chief Justice could tell that the last time it was a mockery, but this time it was a compliment, so he gladly accepted it.
He walked out of the Chang'an Lord's Mansion with his hands behind his back, followed by fifty palace soldiers. They forced the Left Supervisor of the Court of Justice, who had a cloth strip stuffed in his mouth and his arms tied with ropes, out of the Chang'an Lord's Mansion.
The maids took back the Qin crossbow and went about their business, watering the flowers, cutting leaves, and doing their work.
The servants all shook their heads regretfully and uttered a few sour words to the servant who had just stood behind Ying Chengjiao to block the sword.
"You run fast enough, even in your husband's bed?"
"If you weren't the closest to Master Jun, I would have definitely not let you go."
"How many times can Master Jun give you this opportunity? Let you take it."
They were cleaning up the mess in Chang'an Jun's Mansion caused by the palace soldiers who had just rushed in. They really looked like servants and did not look like the human murderers at all.
"Lord Chang'an, you have caused me so much trouble." Li Si said with a wry smile, "In order to make the play more realistic, the Imperial Physician Zhang Han has been arrested and thrown into the Xianyang Prison. How can I explain this to His Majesty?"
"Tell the truth." Ying Chengjiao snorted coldly: "How can I know what he is going to do without discussing it with me? Why should I cooperate with him? Can't he cooperate with me?"
You and His Majesty were acting out a play in the court without telling me in advance...
" Your Majesty must want to see who will jump out after Chang'an Jun is arrested."
Ying Chengjiao looked at Li Si strangely. "Did my brother tell you this in person?"
Li Si said with a hint of embarrassment: "I figured it out myself, isn't that right?"
Ying Chengjiao patted Li Si on the shoulder and said earnestly, "It's okay, stop thinking about it."
"only."
Li Si responded respectfully and turned to leave.
From the moment Ying Chengjiao showed him a token, he never felt that there was anything wrong with Ying Chengjiao's attitude towards the First Emperor.
"Your Majesty, what is the King of Qin thinking?"
The reckless man appeared out of nowhere, looked at Li Si's back, and made a neck-cutting gesture with his hand at his chin.
"That 'bitch' has been trying to kill the Lord's Imperial Court Justice Zuo Jian, and I killed him in the middle of the night? Is this 'bitch' correct?"
Ying Chengjiao put down the hand that the reckless man had placed on his neck and said unhappily, "You only have a talent for words like this. I still have some use for people, so don't just think about stabbing people all day long. Use your brain when doing things."
"What do I need that for? Everyone in the mansion is just playing with their brains."
Ying Chengjiao was speechless.
"I was deceived by history books and always thought you were chivalrous, brave and resourceful. If I had known you were so foolish, I would not have saved you and let you be crushed to death by Xia Wuqie."
The reckless man was stunned and said, "Your Majesty, are you talking about the imperial physician Xia Wuqie who I wanted to kill earlier? Can he beat me?"
"Before Gai Nie entered the palace, if there was no Zhao Gao by my brother's side, there must have been Xia Wuqie. Medicine and martial arts are inseparable. On that day in the tower, Xia Wuqie's acupuncture was so fast and his pulse-taking was so accurate that it was unbelievable."
"Then I'll go and try to stab him in the middle of the night."
"It seems like you've been craving a fight lately. I'm going to ask Gai Nie to come back in a few days to practice with you."
"Sir, can you speak what others say?"
Ying Chengjiao ignored the reckless man and turned back to his room.
It was still early and he hadn't slept well yet.
"Your Majesty, you haven't told me why the King of Qin arrested you. Is it as Li Si said?"
The ruffian rushed in front of Ying Chengjiao and walked backwards in front of him, his face full of curiosity.
Ying Chengjiao was so annoyed by the reckless man that he could only stop and sigh, "No, my brother never does such things to test people's hearts. He disdains it. All the orders he personally issues must be upright and just as glorious as the sun. He wants to arrest me and put me in the prison. It has nothing to do with other people. He just wants to control me."
Ying Chengjiao walked around the reckless man and went towards the bedroom.
The reckless man rushed to the left side of Ying Chengjiao's body and walked with Ying Chengjiao. "Then why did the King of Qin control the Lord?"
Ying Chengjiao clenched his fists and resisted the urge to run away. "I don't know."
The reckless man rushed to the right side of Ying Chengjiao's body and asked, "Is there anything else that Your Majesty doesn't know?"
Ying Chengjiao's biceps bulged: "I should know everything!"
Seeing that Ying Chengjiao’s anger was almost full, the reckless man dared not follow him anymore.
After Ying Chengjiao walked a little further, the reckless man felt that the distance was safe, and shouted from behind Ying Chengjiao: "Your Majesty, apart from not knowing what the King of Qin thinks, what else do you not know?"
Ying Chengjiao roared loudly, and the whole Changan Palace could hear it clearly. "If you continue to be so annoying, I promise you will have a very comfortable day today!"
The leaves on the trees fell rustlingly.
The maids smiled softly, and the servants did their work more quickly.
Han Fei glanced at the front yard with sympathy.
Li Mu smiled helplessly and shook his head.
"Why is Wu Anjun laughing?"
"I haven't seen an old friend for many years. I am so happy to see him again."
Li Mu, who was laughing just now, saluted with a bitter smile. This salute was from Zhao Li.
"I failed to protect Zhao State, and I am ashamed to be called the Lord of Wu'an. I, the guilty minister Li Mu, pay my respects to Prince Gao."
