"Is Your Majesty really going to rest in Concubine Li's palace tonight?"
After hearing Hu Hai's promise to Concubine Li, Cui Niang, who was changing Hu Hai's clothes, paused slightly and said.
"What?"
Hu Hai, who was thinking about where to put brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi to achieve the greatest effect, heard Cui Niang talking to her, who was tying her robe on her chest, and asked a little confused.
Seeing Hu Hai's distraught look, Cui Niang thought that Hu Hai was thinking about Concubine Li who had just left. Her lowered eyes darkened and she asked quietly: "Your Majesty, is Concubine Li beautiful?"
"Beautiful. That's a complete fairy."
Hu Hai stretched out his arms and listened to Cuiniang's words and replied smoothly, but in his heart he was wondering whether he should let Meng Tian continue to go to Jiuyuan to defend the Huns or let him lead troops to defend the line from Nanyang to Langye.
"No wonder His Majesty is so distraught."
Even if Hu Hai was very arrogant at this time, he could still hear the strong sourness in these words. Hu Hai couldn't help but reached out and patted Cuiniang's little head, and said with a smile: "Where are you thinking? Concubine Li is beautiful, but she is beautiful.
It’s not to the point where I’m fascinated. I was just thinking about how to arrange Meng Tian and Meng Yi.”
When Cui Niang heard that she had thought wrong, she was greatly embarrassed. She lowered her head and said, "Your Majesty..."
"You and Luzhu are the people I trust most in this world. I just asked Concubine Li how to deal with you. Does Cui Niang have any resentment in her heart?"
"I don't dare!" Cui Niang hurriedly knelt down in the tunnel after hearing Hu Hai's words.
"I said this just to see if Concubine Li is a vicious-hearted woman. If she really wants to deal with you two, I will immediately put her in the cold palace. Cui Niang and Lu Zhu should not misunderstand me."
Hu Hai helped Cuiniang up and teased.
"His Majesty……"
When Cui Niang heard Hu Hai's explanation, she looked at Hu Hai with tears in her beautiful eyes, and her heart was filled with endless emotion and happiness.
"Your Majesty, please bring Meng Tian and Meng Yi."
At this moment, a rough voice came from outside the door. It was Zhang Han who arrived with two brothers, Meng Tian and Mengyi.
Cui Niang screamed when she heard Zhang Han's voice, and hurriedly wiped the tears on her face with her sleeves, and hurriedly changed Hu Hai's clothes.
Hu Hai looked at Cuiniang like a frightened rabbit. He unconsciously scraped her small nose with his fingers and said with a smile: "Don't panic, don't panic."
Cui Niang was so heartbroken by Hu Hai's sudden intimacy. When she heard his teasing words again, she was immediately in a hurry and couldn't buckle the jade belt around her waist.
Seeing this, Hu Hai had no choice but to get enough food and clothing by himself. While buckling his jade belt, he said, "Cui Niang, where is my palace now?"
"Your Majesty, you are resting in Xianyang Palace today."
"Oh, does Xianyang Palace have a study room?"
When Cui Niang heard Hu Hai's words, she looked at Hu Hai in surprise and said, "Your Majesty, Xianyang Palace has your Majesty's study and meeting place." Apparently Cui Niang was very puzzled that Hu Hai couldn't even figure out the palace where he lived.
Hu Hai smiled awkwardly and said, "Then let Zhang Han take Meng Tian to the study. I will change my clothes myself, and then you will take me to the study." But in his mind, he must know the terrain clearly.
After Cui Niang heard Hu Hai's words, she bowed slightly to Hu Hai and went to deliver the order.
Xianyang Palace was first built during the period of Duke Xiao of Qin. At that time, there were only three palaces in Xianyang Palace, which were built together with the new capital of Xianyang in Qin State.
After Qin Xiaogong, many Qin kings successively repaired and built Xianyang Palace. Until the First Emperor destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, the entire Xianyang Palace had become a palace complex with more than 20 palaces, large and small.
But among the entire Xianyang Palace palace complex, the most important ones are the three palaces in the front palace, which are the central main hall and the east and west side halls.
The main hall protrudes from the front and is built on a hillside more than six feet high. It is the highest palace of the Qin State. Apart from large-scale court meetings and receiving foreign envoys, daily government affairs are not easily handled here.
The two side halls are located on the flat land behind the central main hall. Except for the white jade paved square in front of the hall, the three sides are green: a bamboo forest in the west, a large green pine in the north, and a grassland in the east.
The West Side Hall is where the king's study and bedroom are located. Apart from summoning his trusted ministers, there are very few ceremonial meetings here.
The East Side Hall is much larger than the West Side Hall, with nine bays and five entrances. It is the main place where the king handles state affairs on a daily basis. It has multiple doors and is divided into many areas. In addition to the last entrance, there are other doors, where the chief historian and his subordinate civil servants are.
Apart from the confidential official office where edicts were drafted, transcribed and official documents processed, the remaining four entrances were connected and divided into three areas: east, middle and west: the middle area was the government hall, and the east and west sides were where senior officials of the empire worked.
Hu Hai had just returned to Xianyang, and the palace where he spent a day racking his brains to think of countermeasures was the political meeting hall in the East Palace.
Xianyang Palace, including the old Xianyang City, was designed and supervised by Mohist craftsmen during the Qin Xiaogong period. The ancient engineers were equivalent to the designers of later generations. Qin people advocated frugality, so although Xianyang Palace is still grand,
However, compared with the overlapping cornices of other royal palaces during Qin Xiaogong's period, they are grand, luxurious, and yet much simpler.
The more than twenty palaces in Xianyang Palace are much more luxurious, but most of the time they are vacant.
Hu Hai currently lives in the bedroom of the West Side Hall, not far from the study. So when Hu Hai followed Cuiniang to his study in the West Side Hall for the first time, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, and Zhang Han had just entered
The study room is not far away.
Cuiniang did not enter the study with Hu Hai, but waited outside the door.
Hearing Hu Hai's footsteps, Meng Tian and three other people who were waiting quietly in the study came forward and knelt down in the tunnel and said: "The guilty minister (subordinate) Meng Tian (Meng Yi, Zhang Han) pays homage to your majesty."
Hu Hai hurriedly took a few steps, helped the three of them up one by one affectionately, and said: "Three of you, I love you, you don't need to be polite, please get down quickly, get down quickly."
After helping the three people up, Hu Hai suddenly bowed down and bowed deeply to the two brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi, saying solemnly: "Hai was young and ignorant. He listened to the slander of Zhao Gao and was greedy for pleasure. He ignored the people's livelihood and almost destroyed the Great Wall.
, unjustly killed two beloved ladies.
The two beloved queens have made countless contributions to the Qin Dynasty, and the father regards the two beloved queens as brothers. Fortunately, the two beloved queens have returned safely. If not, how could Hai have the face to see the father's soul in heaven in the future?
The two uncles apologized."
Hu Hai's move stunned Meng Tian and the other three who had just stood up.
This apology was actually something Hu Hai had planned for a long time.
Meng Tian and Meng Yi had a deep friendship with their eldest brother Fusu, and they were firm supporters of Fusu's succession to the throne. However, they, the dark horse who suddenly appeared and seized the throne with the cooperation of Zhao Gao and Li Si, were even more hypocritical.
Fusu was forced to commit suicide.
Many people must be doubting whether there is something fishy in this, not to mention Meng Tian and Meng Yi, who have always had a close friendship with the First Emperor. It doesn't matter that he killed Fusu himself, and he also detained the two brothers. Everyone can see this.
It was me who wanted the lives of these two people.
Historically, Meng Tian and Meng Yi, including the entire Meng family, never betrayed Da Qin. However, after the news of Meng Tian and Meng Yi's death spread, countless high, middle and low generals of the Meng family in the entire Da Qin army all fell into disgrace in just one night.
Zhong left the camp and never came back. Then the entire Meng clan disappeared in Xianyang at night, and the whole clan headed south to the land of Baiyue.
Among the 500,000 troops of the Qin Dynasty that went south to conquer Baiyue, many of the leading generals were also members of the Meng clan. When the Qin Dynasty was in greatest danger, Zhao Tuo never sent troops to rescue and quell the rebellion. It cannot but be said that there was no
The reason for the Meng clan.
Now I suddenly killed Zhao Gao, and then said that it was Zhao Gao who wanted to kill you, not me, but that I was deceived by Zhao Gao. This is okay for a three-year-old child to say, but Meng Tian and Meng Yi are three years old
A child? The answer is obvious.
How important the Meng clan was in the Great Qin Empire, not to mention the 500,000 troops in the south, it can be seen from just the generals who followed Hu Hai on his eastward tour.
Although he is the emperor and can kill as much as he wants, who can guarantee that Meng Tian and Meng Yi will feel gratitude instead of resentment for sparing their lives?
If it is resentment, then there is no need for them to openly stand up against themselves. With the Qin Dynasty now in danger and all the heroes in the world rising up against Qin, they only need to add insult to injury at the critical moment and it will be enough to kill them hundreds of times.
You should know that Fusu's son Ziying is not young anymore, and I heard he is still very virtuous!
Hu Hai didn't want to let the tiger that was released to kill the enemy turn into a poisonous snake that wanted his own life because of his momentary negligence and carelessness, and finally ended up dead and buried.
(Thank you to Xiaoni’s Knight and Shunshun 666, two book friends for their tips. I highly recommend the tickets.)