Chapter 96: Zhao Tuo in the South China Sea
After much deliberation, Hu Hai decided that it would be better to ask these two cunning old guys. Three cobblers are worth one Zhuge Liang, not to mention that the two old men in this room are not cobblers.
The hidden meaning of the unfinished sentence "Maybe it's Ziying" is very clear. Hu Hai wanted to say whether it was Ziying who directed and acted in the play.
As soon as Hu Hai finished speaking, Li Si said: "Your Majesty, I feel that it was neither done by anyone in the court nor by Prince Ziying himself. His Highness Fusu had a close relationship with Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Wang Li and others during his lifetime.
The four adults, Lao Zongzheng, were the best friends.
At present, Meng Yi has gone to Jiuyuan, General Meng Tian has been by your Majesty's side, and General Wang Li has led the expedition. As for Master Lao Zongzheng, he has been following your Majesty today. He has no time. Your Majesty is now the recognized emperor of our Great Qin Dynasty.
No one behaves this way.
Although Mr. Ziying is the son of His Highness Fusu, he is still young and has a gentle personality. He will definitely not kill the guards who have been accompanying him personally. Therefore, I think it will not be done by Mr. Ziying himself. "
Wei Liao next to him heard Li Si's words and immediately said: "I think what the Prime Minister said is absolutely true."
Li Si's analysis was very comprehensive. There were only a few people in the court who had the ability to abduct Ziying in Xianyang. Hu Hai had already carefully considered and eliminated them, but he was worried that he alone did not think comprehensively enough.
Not to mention what Ziying relied on to win over these ministers for his use, even he himself probably did not have the ability to direct and act in this drama by himself. Li Si's analysis only completely confirmed Hu Hai's judgment.
"Take the Emperor to control the world!" Hu Hai blurted out.
"oh?"
"Huh?"
When Li Si and Wei Liao heard Hu Hai's words, they both let out a sound of surprise. Seeing that the other person was like themselves, Li Si and Wei Liao couldn't help but look at each other.
"Your Majesty, how do you say this?" Wei Liao asked first.
Taking advantage of the emperor to control the world should have been used to control the princes. It comes from "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty·Yuan Shao Biography". This was a strategy proposed by Yuan Shao's counselor Ju Shuo to Yuan Shao, but unfortunately Yuan Shao did not adopt it. Instead, Cao Cao used it with great proficiency.
Of course, this sentence had not come out at this time, but Hu Hai immediately thought of this possibility.
"My dear friends, you might as well think about it. If I had not been awakened from my dream by my father, what would Great Qin be like? What I can tell you for sure is that during my eastern tour, Zhao
Gao once brought several edicts for me to stamp.
And the edict that Zhao Gao asked me to stamp with the seal is to kill my brothers and sisters one by one, kill Feng Aiqing and his son, and kill Meng Tian brothers." Hu Hai paused at this point and said: "And Li Aiqing will be killed.
, and Li Aiqing will execute the entire clan! These edicts are still in Zhang Han's office."
"By that time, the survivors of the Six Kingdoms must have revolted against Qin. In our land in Guanzhong, there will be no useful people and no useful soldiers. Qin will be destroyed in an instant, and I will die too. But after my death, who can take over?
My throne?"
Hu Hai revealed Zhao Gao's plot to kill Li Si and others at this time, and made a bold assumption.
After returning to Xianyang from the eastern patrol to kill Zhao Gao, Hu Hai never told anyone the contents of the several edicts that Zhao Gao prepared to give him to stamp. Li Si and the others had no idea that Zhao Gao actually wanted to kill so many people.
Of course, what made Li Si particularly intolerable was that Zhao Gao, who had always regarded himself as a slave in front of him, actually wanted to kill him, and wanted to kill his entire Li family.
Thinking of this, Li Si couldn't help but shudder, and then he felt an unspeakable anger. Wei Liao was also deeply fearful and shocked. He didn't expect that Zhao Gao's ambition was so huge and hidden so deeply.
It can be said that only now did the two of them know why Hu Hai wanted to kill Zhao Gao and annihilate the three tribes. Originally, they always thought that Hu Hai did this in order to return to Xianyang to establish his power.
Really unexpected!
Li Si and Wei Liao never doubted the authenticity of what Hu Hai said. It was an obvious question. Hu Hai had no need to throw dirty water on Zhao Gao for a dead person, let alone deceive them.
"Your Majesty, I have requested that Zhao Gao and the ten clans of thieves be killed! The sinister intentions and deep scheming of this thieves are simply shocking." Li Si was extremely angry.
Wei Liao bowed and said: "Your Majesty, God has truly blessed our country, Qin!"
"Zhao Gao, the thief, has already been killed by me. There is no need to pursue this matter any further. Now what the two beloved ministers need to think about is if I die and Ziying succeeds to the throne, who in the Qin Dynasty has the strength and ability to control Ziying and Ziying?"
Put down the rebellion." Hu Hai didn't bother to pursue Zhao Gao's matter any more and directly brought the topic to the point.
"The old minister said before that the available troops of our Qin Dynasty are now in three places. Longxi, Jiuyuan and Nanhai! Longxi has 100,000 soldiers, Jiuyuan 300,000, and Nanhai 500,000. I think that General Li Xin of Longxi will be the leader.
That won't be the case. The troops in Longxi are too few, and General Li Xin has returned to Xianyang."
Wei Liao thought for a moment and Li Si nodded in agreement.
The implication is that now only two places, Jiuyuan and Nanhai, have the ability to "hold the emperor and control the world".
"Which of these two places do you think is most likely to be the cause of this matter?"
"This... I'm really not sure," Wei Liao hesitated and said. Li Si didn't say anything, obviously he wasn't sure either.
Because once it’s decided, action will be taken later. It’s okay if you guess right, but if you guess wrong! That will make the real person behind the scenes happy.
In fact, Hu Hai had already eliminated Meng Tian's Jiuyuan Army at the first opportunity.
The reason is simple. Meng Tian would rather watch Fusu commit suicide than commit suicide himself. He has never thought about holding the emperor hostage to rule the world, let alone now. It can be said that holding Fusu hostage and holding Ziying hostage are completely different.
The value of Fusu is much higher than that of Ziying.
Everyone in the world knew that Fusu was virtuous, benevolent and kind, but apart from being Fusu's son, how many people in the world knew what Ziying was like?
In this case, the answer to the mystery is already obvious at this moment.
Nanhai Zhao Tuo!
But Hu Hai was not sure. After all, in history, although Zhao Tuo had 500,000 elite soldiers and did not send troops to quell the rebellion and save the Qin Dynasty when it fell, there was no real rebellion.
If Zhao Tuo wants to rebel, it shouldn't be difficult to wipe out the world with the 500,000 elite Qin army in Nanhai, especially when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu are fighting for hegemony. What's more important is that the Qin Dynasty has not yet perished, and Li Si and Meng Tian are still there.
not dead.
Even if Zhao Tuo wanted to rebel and kidnap Ziying to use the emperor's strategy to control the world, the best time would be to at least wait until brothers Li Si, Meng Tian and others were dead?
Could it be that Zhao Tuo had foresight and knew that Meng Tian and Li Si would die, so he abducted Ziying, who had not yet succeeded to the throne, in advance?
Could it be that this is the butterfly effect again? Hu Hai cursed secretly.
"This matter ends here. You two beloved ministers must not tell outsiders what we have said today, not even the three princes and nine ministers. We have drawn up a decree to summon the South China Sea general Zhao Tuo to lead an army of 200,000 to go north to King Qin."
"I obey the decree! But Your Majesty, I am afraid that I will not be able to send the edict to hundreds of places across the South China Sea at this moment!" Li Sidao.
"Go to Hanzhong, leave Bashu, pass the imperial edict to the South China Sea by water, and order Zhao Tuo to lead the army northward by land and not through the Bashu waterway. After drafting the decree, he immediately ordered Meng Kuo to lead a battalion of 10,000 soldiers to Shu County to guard the plank road.
Without my will, no soldiers or horses are allowed to enter the Bashu Plank Road, especially the Southern Navy!"
"I obey the order!"
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