"Then the son of Ben will rest assured, Zhao Gao, after I inherit my father's throne, you will be my first hero, and I will never let you do these things in vain. Hu Hai said.

Zhao Gao bent down and said respectfully: "Son, rest assured, for the sake of His Highness, Zhao Gao will not give up." It's just ......"

Hu Hai turned to look at Zhao Gao and asked, "What's just that, is there anything that this son needs to worry about?"

"Not really. Zhao Gao replied, "It's just that if Gongzi wants to replace Fusu as the crown prince, we must also have a strong ally, and with him saying good things for Gongzi in His Majesty, I believe Your Majesty will like Gongzi more." ”

"Oh, who is that? If you're talking about Meng Tian, I think that's impossible, he's Fusu's teacher, how could he come to help me. ”

Zhao Gao shook his head and said to Hu Hai: "Naturally, it won't be Meng Tian, the villain is talking about the Prime Minister." As long as the Prime Minister is willing to cooperate with us, the throne will be Gongzi sooner or later. ”

"My eldest brother relied on his scholarly sourness, thinking that he could take over his father's throne by virtue of his father's love for him, but I just didn't obey his wishes, and the throne of Daqin would belong to me sooner or later. ”

His Majesty the Emperor was suddenly assassinated by assassins in the palace, and the news that the great general Meng Tian was injured in the palace and fell into a coma came out, and the Qin State was shaken. It is better to say that the distant counties have passed a long time by the time they receive accurate information, but for the ministers of the Qin Dynasty living in Xianyang City, this matter is undoubtedly a bolt from the blue, and it makes people's heads buzz after listening to it.

Both the early and afternoon dynasties were dismissed by His Majesty the Emperor, and all the daily state affairs were handed over to the Prime Minister Li Si. Therefore, in the past few days, the big threshold of the Prime Minister's Mansion is said to have been broken by the courtiers from all walks of life who came to inquire about the news, but the ministers who entered the Prime Minister's Mansion sighed when they entered, and when they came out, they had become depressed, and their faces were full of depression, as if it was not Meng Tian who was injured in the palace, but His Majesty the Emperor.

Li Si was appointed by His Majesty the Emperor to deal with government affairs, and he was already a headache stimulated by the bamboo slips full of cases, and from time to time, ministers from the court came to visit, which made Li Si have no intention of dealing with government affairs. So Li Si ordered the old housekeeper of the family to close the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and no one would see anyone coming.

was sitting in the hall to review the chapter, and saw that the county below wrote the chapter and submitted it to His Majesty the Emperor because of a trivial matter in the county, Li Si was a little speechless, and directly wrote a sentence on it to handle it as appropriate, and then threw it directly to the ground in the hall. The people of the Prime Minister's Mansion standing at the door were accustomed to this kind of behavior of the Prime Minister, looked at each other and smiled, sighed helplessly, and then walked into the hall and picked up the bamboo slips and put them on the table aside.

"My lord, my lord!" Before Li Si could calm down, the butler outside the hall ran in with a shout, and after entering the hall, he found that Li Si was looking at him angrily, and the housekeeper took a deep breath, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and closed his mouth.

With a "snap", Li Si slammed the brush in his hand to review the recital on the table, looked at the housekeeper and said, "What's the matter, you shouted so hard outside, why did you come in and didn't say a word?"

When the housekeeper heard this, he immediately bent down and fell to the ground, lowered his head and said, "Master Qiqi, there are people outside the door who ask to see you." ”

"Didn't I say it, Benxiang is going to review the chapter at home today, and no one will see anyone coming, you forgot my words, right?" Li Si was angry, this housekeeper has also followed him for many years, why is he so careless today.

The butler knelt on the ground and said, "Go back...... Back to Xiangye, the person who came was ......."

Before the housekeeper could say who it was, Li Si interrupted him and said, "Again, whoever comes, I won't see them today, you go, go and drive them away." ”

"That'...... That villain should ...... How should I answer him?" the butler did not dare to look up, but lowered his head and continued to ask.

This housekeeper Li Si also likes it very much, originally he was just a little bored in his heart, not really angry, he thought for a while, and then said: "You just said that the prime minister is busy with government affairs today, and he can't see guests, let them go back." ”

"Yes, Xiangye. The butler got up from the ground and walked outside.

"Hey, come back first, come back first. Li Si stopped the butler who was about to go out of the door, and then said, "If they have something to do, let them leave their names, and I will visit them in person tomorrow." ”

"Yes, the villain obeys. After receiving instructions from the Prime Minister, the butler turned around and continued to walk outside. fresh

Not long after the butler walked out, he turned around and came back, and unlike just now, this time he was followed by two people, and the three of them walked into the hall together.

Li Si was reading the chapter with his head down, and when he heard the sound of someone coming in the hall, he didn't look up and said directly: "How is it, have people driven away?"

"Who is the Prime Minister trying to chase me?" a voice rang out in the hall.

"What ...... are you" Li Si raised his head, and before he could say the words, he immediately closed his mouth, and then said: "It turned out that Gongzi Huhai had arrived, please forgive the minister for being busy with official business, and he couldn't get up to greet him, and I hope that Gongzi will forgive his sins." ”

It was Hu Hai and Zhao Gao who followed the housekeeper in, and after Li Si saw the person who came clearly, he hurriedly got up from his seat to review the recital, and bowed down to Hu Hai.

Hu Hai came to Li Si's Prime Minister's Mansion for the first time, and after entering the hall, he has been looking at a large number of furnishings around the hall. On the contrary, Zhao Gao, who came with him behind, stood behind Hu Hai and looked at Li Si.

Zhao Gao and Li Si are also acquaintances, one of them manages the outside of the palace for Ying Zheng, one takes care of the outside of the palace for Ying Zheng, one is inside and one is outside, and they are the closest people around Ying Zheng. There is also the fact that Ying Zheng's decree to Li Si was all sent by Zhao Gao in person, and when the Qin State failed to unify the six countries, the two of them were assisted by His Majesty the Emperor, and their friends couldn't say it, but they could only say that they got along quite well. After all, Li Si is a foreign minister, and he is still the prime minister of the Qin State who is above 10,000 people under one person, except for Ying Zheng, who holds all the rights, and Meng Tian, who holds the million-strong army of the Qin State, the Qin State has the greatest power under Li Si, and he can't get very close to a eunuch like Zhao Gao in this position.

Zhao Gao gently pushed behind Hu Hai, Hu Hai came back to his senses, stretched out his hands to help Li Si up, and then snorted and said: "The Prime Minister is exempt, Hu Hai took the liberty to come to disturb today, it was Hu Hai's fault, the Prime Minister should not be angry with Hu Hai." ”

"No, no, Prince Hu Hai came to the minister's mansion, and the minister welcomed him, but now there is chaos inside and outside the palace, shouldn't the prince stay by His Majesty's side and accompany His Majesty at this time?

It was Zhao Gao who answered Li Si, "The Prime Minister doesn't know, two days ago, Chu Fei, the original commander of the forbidden army in the palace, suddenly assassinated His Majesty when His Majesty was having dinner for some reason, fortunately the general was on the side to protect him, and His Majesty was spared, but the general was seriously injured and is still in a coma, and is being taken care of by the imperial doctor in the palace. After this fright, coupled with the last Jing Ke assassination, His Majesty has increased the guards in the palace by nearly half, and said that when the general wakes up, the general will continue to take over the post of commander of the forbidden army to protect the safety of His Majesty the Emperor. ”

After listening to Zhao Gao's words, Li Si nodded and said: "Your Majesty is also thinking well, this Chu Fei is much more powerful than Jing Ke, it is said that if there is no ambush of General Meng this time, I am afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will also be killed." ”

"Not bad. Zhao Gao said to Li Si, and then he also glanced at Hu Hai who was sitting next to him, how did he know that since Hu Hai sat down, his eyes have been staring at a maid who came in with tea in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he has never left, it seems that the second son of himself and Li Si did not listen to these words at all.

Li Si has also heard of Hu Hai's behavior, once Hu Hai was Yingzheng's least favorite son, because he was not good at learning, and he couldn't even answer the very simple Analects and poems that Yingzheng asked, so that several old masters who had taught Hu Hai were beheaded. There is even news that Hu Hai let his maids in the palace sleep at a young age, which made Yingzheng even more angry, and severely punished Hu Hai, and since then, Hu Hai's behavior has been much more restrained.

Li Si chose to ignore Hu Hai's rude behavior, but the maid who served the tea was blushing when Hu Hai saw it, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to raise her head.

Li Si looked at Hu Hai and said quite loudly: "There is also news that the reason why General Meng Tian was able to defeat Chu Fei this time was because of the sword that the second prince stabbed in Chu Fei's back, I don't know if this matter is true or not?"

Hu Hai was finally awakened by Li Si's words, and hurriedly said: "Eh, all this is still the credit of General Meng Tian, I just stabbed him to death with a sword when that Chu Fei withdrew, so that he can no longer do evil." ”

"The second son is really worthy of being His Majesty's son, and he has the demeanor of His Majesty when he was young. Li Si praised Hu Haidao.

Hu Hai looked at Zhao Gao, and was praised by Li Si, but he was a little embarrassed.

Zhao Gao knew very clearly about Hu Hai's number of catties and taels, and he said for Hu Hai: "What the Prime Minister said is right, although the second son was born to other His Majesty's concubines, compared to the eldest son Fusulai, the villain also felt that the second son was more like His Majesty the Emperor back then. ”

Zhao Gao's words made Li Si a little confused, but no matter how much Hu Hai looked like His Majesty the Emperor, he was the second son after all, and the throne of Qin State in the future would definitely be inherited by Fusu. And today Hu Hai and Zhao Gao came to the door, could it be ......

Thinking of this, Li Si looked at Hu Hai and Zhao Gao with a vigilant brilliance in his eyes.