Although the children of the Qin family are basically related to each other, they are also divided into primary and secondary relatives.
The head of the family is naturally Qin Hao's lineage, and there are only five people in his direct lineage: Qin Hao, Qin Wen, Qin Jian, Qin Zheng, and Qin Wu.
Except for Qin Hao's lineage, the other descendants of the Qin family are all collateral lines and can be roughly divided into three lines, namely: Qin Qiong Maid, Qin Yong Maid, and Qin Ji Maid.
The reason why the three collateral lines are named after these three people is naturally because of their high achievements and great potential, so the descendants of the same line are headed by these three people, and Hu Hai is a close relative of the same lineage as Qin Qiong.
Among the three lines of the Qin family, the Qin Qiong line has the most prosperous population, which is incomparable to the other two lines combined. If you really count, basically everyone has a blood relationship with Hu Hai.
If everyone is punished, it would be equivalent to half of the Qin family taking the blame for Hu Hai alone.
Therefore, we can only punish Hu Hai's direct blood relatives.
Hu Hai's only direct blood relatives in Qin Qiong's lineage are: Qin Ying, Qin Gao, and Qin Lu, all of whom are Hu Hai's biological brothers.
Perhaps because they knew how serious a crime Hu Hai had committed, Qin Gao and Qin Lu worked extremely hard in the previous battles.
After the North Gate was opened, Qin Gao issued several correct orders to ensure that the situation at the North Gate did not deteriorate further, and he continued to fight until the last moment. He is still in the Taiyuan Hospital for rescue.
Qin Lu was responsible for defending the city after Qin Gao left. He also held on to the last moment. Even though he was seriously injured by a stray arrow, he did not withdraw from the battle. Only Qin Ji took over and was carried away for rescue.
As for Qin Ying, because he is a civil servant, he may not be as eye-catching as Qin Gao and Qin Lu, but in the Qin family, which is passed down by martial arts, children who follow the path of civil servants are extremely rare, so Qin Ying himself is a
baby.
"To punish the three brothers Qin Ying for lax discipline, all civil and military officials in the Hu Hai family will be demoted three levels."
Jia Xu sighed and ordered, of course he knew that the three Qin Ying brothers were innocent, but he had to do this.
Qin Gao, Qin Lu, and Qin Ying all made great contributions, but Hu Hai made mistakes but they were punished. It must be said that this is really innocent, but who allowed their family to have such a scammer as Hu Hai and commit such a heinous mistake.
You can only consider yourself unlucky.
"Report... Sir, something bad has happened. General Qin Gao, he, he..."
"What's wrong with Qin Gao?"
Jia Xu frowned slightly and asked, "Is the injury too serious and you can't come over?"
"No, Imperial Physician Sun Simiao rescued General Qin Gao, but his injuries were too severe and damaged his five internal organs. He is destined to become a cripple in the future.
General Qin Gao couldn't accept this result, and he blamed himself for Qin Hai's mistakes. He felt sorry for his lord, and couldn't think about it for a moment, so he left a suicide note and committed suicide."
"What?"
Jia Xu and Qin Jian screamed at the same time, no longer caring about anything else, and hurriedly went to the Taiyuan Hospital to check, but what they saw was Qin Gao's body.
Qin Jian lay on Qin Gao's body and cried bitterly, crying: "Gao'er, why are you so stupid? The mistake was made by Qin Hai, it has nothing to do with you..."
Jia Xu picked up Qin Gao's suicide note written on gauze with blood, and saw only two words on it: Kill Hai.
"Why bother." Jia Xu sighed with a complicated look.
"Sir, it's not good, General Qin Lu, he also..."
Jia Xu suddenly had a bad premonition and asked quickly: "What happened to Qin Lu?"
"General Qin Lu also committed suicide."
As soon as he finished speaking, the scene suddenly fell into silence.
Qin Lu's injury was not as severe as Qin Gao's, and it would not leave any disability. It would only be a matter of time before he fully recovered, but he still committed suicide like Qin Gao.
Qin Lu committed suicide, obviously not afraid of taking responsibility, but mourning the misfortune of his family, the traitor Hu Hai, who had a strong personality that would rather break than bend, so he died to prove the innocence of his family.
In this regard, we can only say that brothers Qin Gao and Qin Lu are too staunch.
Within one day, two heroes of the Qin family committed suicide, which was a big blow to the entire Qin family, and Qin Jian, a tough guy with blood and blood, even burst into tears.
In an instant, Jia Xu seemed to have remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Quick, go find Qin Ying."
Only then did everyone realize that, except for Hu Hai, all the Hu Hai family had extremely strong personalities. Now because of Hu Hai's rebellion, both Qin Gao and Qin Lu committed suicide. Will Qin Ying commit suicide too?
People don't know and don't dare to bet.
Qin Ji and other younger generations of the Qin family had a good relationship with Qin Ying. When they learned that their good brother might commit suicide without thinking, they all rushed to Qin Ying's mansion without stopping.
Qin Ji and others didn't have the time to knock on the door and kicked the door open. The servants looked at them in surprise and broke into the inner courtyard of the Qin Mansion.
"A Ying, A Ying..."
Qin Ji was the first to find Qin Ying.
In the mourning hall, Qin Ying was kneeling in front of his parents' memorial tablets. In front of him was a Bailian Hengdao given by Qin Hao. The handle was engraved with: Zhongyong.
After seeing this scene, Qin Ji's eyes suddenly split open, he quickly stepped forward and kicked the Hengdao away, and threw Qin Ying to the ground.
"Aying, calm down, calm down..."
Seeing Qin Ji's reaction, Qin Ying couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Brother Ji, don't worry, I didn't mean to kill myself, I'm not that fragile.
It's just that Brother Hai will become like this. As the elder brother, I also have an unshirkable responsibility and I feel very sorry for my parents.
By the way, Brother Ji, why do you think I would kill myself?"
Qin Ji faltered and was speechless. Qin Ying had been hit hard enough. If he told Qin Ying the news that Qin Gao and Qin Lu had committed suicide, he would be completely crushed by the blow and unable to think about it.
After learning that Qin Ji had 'rescued' Qin Ying, Jia Xu was immediately relieved, and immediately revoked the demotion punishment of Qin Ying's three brothers, and went to enlighten Qin Ying from time to time to prevent him from actually committing suicide.
Qin Gao and Qin Lu committed suicide and died. If Qin Ying also died, their lineage would be severed. Not only Jia Xu would not allow such a thing, even Qin Hao would not allow it.
As for Hu Hai, he made such a big mistake. Even if he was protected by the Tang army and survived for a while, he would be endlessly hunted by the Qin army, so in Jia Xu's eyes, Hu Hai was already a dead man.
Not long after he comforted Qin Ying, Jia Xu received another major news: Sima Fang committed suicide by taking poison at home after leaving a thousand-word suicide note.
Sima Fang would commit suicide, which is a bit unexpected, but very reasonable.
The surprise is because Sima Fang is a person who is very afraid of death. It is hard to imagine that a person like him would have the courage to commit suicide.
As for reasonableness, it is because the offense committed by the Sima family does not need to be treated much lighter by Hu Hai.
If only Sima Yi had rebelled, Sima Fang would not have been forced to commit suicide, but the Sima family still had another serious crime that was not a crime: raising the emperor's son privately.