"The king has arrived. A voice came from outside the door of the Mongol Palace.

In the mourning hall, Meng Wu took his wife, son, and daughter-in-law to quickly clean up and get up to welcome Yingzheng's arrival.

Before their family walked out of the mourning hall, they saw Ying Zheng walking into the courtyard in plain clothes, and when he saw them come out to greet him, he said from afar: "You don't have to be polite, the widow comes to pay tribute to the old general, you don't have to pay tribute to the widow." ”

Seeing Ying Zheng say this, Meng Wu took the lead in bending down to bow to Ying Zheng, and behind him, Mrs. Ying, Meng Tian and his wife and Meng Yi also followed suit, and then followed Ying Zheng back to the mourning hall.

When he arrived at the mourning hall, Ying Zheng first bent down to pay tribute to Meng Fu's spiritual position, and there were already attendants next to him who stepped forward to light three incense sticks, and then handed them over to Ying Zheng. Ying Zheng took the incense, then bent down to salute the spiritual seat, and finally handed the incense to the inner attendant to insert it into the incense burner in front of the spiritual seat.

Then Ying Zheng stepped aside and saluted Wang Jian who was standing aside, and followed by Lü Buwei and Li Si, Wei Yi and others stepped forward to pay homage to Meng Fu

After Ying Zheng's memorial to Meng Fu, it was naturally impossible to let Ying Zheng stay here for a long time, and everyone in the Meng family thanked Ying Zheng and others, and Ying Zheng did not stay for a long time, and took people away after a few words of good words of comfort. Before leaving, he instructed the father and son of the Meng family to do their best to manage the funeral of the old general at home in the past few days, without the need to discuss matters in the court.

Meng Fu's funeral lasted for seven days, which is what the folk call the "first seven", and then Meng Fu's coffin was buried. In the past seven days, not only the friends, relatives and friends of the Meng family, but even the old subordinates who Meng Fu had brought before came thousands of miles to mourn the old general. If it weren't for Meng Li's stop, I'm afraid that half of the soldiers of the Mengjia army would have come.

However, when Meng Li and Du Hui left, Meng Li told Meng Tian that after the soldiers of the Mengjia army knew that the old general was ambushed and killed by the rebels, they were all filled with righteous indignation and shouted that they wanted to go to Shangdang to kill Fan Yuzhi, and the rebel general would avenge the old general.

Meng Tian didn't say anything after hearing this, this is also what he wants to do, but now that his grandfather's funeral is not finished, the matter of revenge can only be put on hold.

After the funeral of Meng Fu was completed, in the early morning of the eighth day, Meng Wu, Meng Tian and Meng Yi, father and son, took off their filial piety clothes and changed into court clothes to go to the court. First, I thanked the king for the grace of Mengfu's burial place, and secondly, I also wanted to write to Yingzheng to ask for troops to quell the rebellion and avenge Mengfu.

As the sun shone on the roof of the palace, the palace gate opened, and the ministers slowly entered in two columns, until they reached the main hall of the court hall of Zhangtai Palace.

Ying Zheng walked to the throne and sat down, and accepted the kneeling of many ministers under the ranks.

There is no major event in the court, and after the Qin State suffered a locust plague in the second year after Yingzheng ascended the throne in the past two years, the wind and rain have been smooth over the years, and the output of grain and iron tools has increased every year. In addition, the year before last, the northern resistance to Rong Di, the collection of Yiqu set up the northern county of Qin, vigorously opened pastures, and the output of military horses was also extremely guest, although it was not as good as the Hu people, but it was gradually catching up. Now, the national strength of Qin alone is enough to compete with the six kingdoms of Shandong.

After the hundred officials finished playing, Meng Wu walked out of the queue and knelt on the ground and said, "Chen Meng Wu has a performance." ”

"Oh, can Meng Qing handle the funeral of the old general?" After Ying Zheng saw Meng Wu, and then saw Meng Tian and Meng Yi standing in the courtiers' queue, his heart was much more steady.

"Back to the king, yes. Meng Wu raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, the minister's father was killed by the rebel general Fan Yuzhi on the road to suppress the rebellion in Shangdang County, and the minister wants to ask the king to allow the minister to lead the troops to Shangdang, first, to recover the lost territory for the king, and second, to avenge his father." ”

Ying Zheng nodded and was about to speak, but unexpectedly, Lu Buwei was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, General Meng, I think that the matter of going to the party needs to be discussed in the long run, and we must not rashly send troops to attack, otherwise the fate of General Meng will be staged again." ”

"Lu Xiangguo, you ......" Meng Wu looked at Lu Buwei speechless.

Ying Zheng was robbed by Lu Buwei, and he was naturally unhappy. "Meng Qing, you get up first, if you have something to say, stand up and say. ”

Meng Wu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the matter of going to the party is urgent, my Great Qin has lost three battles in a row, and now it is necessary to win a big victory to save the face of my Great Qin army." The minister's father died in battle, and the minister was willing to uphold the will of his father, take back Shangdang County for the king, and dedicate the head of Fan Yuzhi's dog thief to the king. But if the minister is unable to do so, the minister will bring his own head to the king. ”

Lu Buwei smiled slightly, and said to Meng Wu: "General Meng's words are wrong. In the past few days, the general has been guarding the old general's soul at home, and naturally he doesn't know that the situation in Shangdang County has changed again in the past few days, so the prime minister said that he should think about it in the long run, not because he looked down on Lord Meng. As for the general saying that he would take his own head as a guarantee, it is even more unnecessary, General Meng's family is the mainstay of my Qin ** team, and now that the old general has died in battle, General Meng should stay in Xianyang City and continue to lead the Meng family's army. ”

"So then, if the minister can't go, then the last general can go?" Meng Tian stood up and said.

Lu Buwei turned around and saw that it was Meng Tian, and the smile on his face remained unchanged and continued: "Young General, what I want to say is that the six cities of Shangdang are far from the hundreds of thousands of troops a few days ago, since Chang'an Juncheng and Na Fan Yu defected from our Qin State and switched to Zhao State, then Zhao State sent Li Mu, who had been fighting with the Hu people for decades, to go, and then Zhao State stationed 50,000 troops in Shangdang. Now that Shangdang County has an army of 250,000, and Li Mu has built six cities like iron buckets, attacking one place and all the other cities coming to the rescue, how can he fight it?"

Meng Tian didn't know what Lu Buwei meant, and he retorted: "Listen to the meaning of Lu Xiangguo's words, can I give up the six cities in Shangdang County to Zhao State?"

"Hugh is talking nonsense. Meng Wu stood in front and turned around to reprimand Meng Tian. "Then according to the meaning of Lord Xiangguo, what should my Qin army do to return the land of the Six Cities to my Qin State?"

Ying Zheng saw that Meng Wu's father and son and Lu Buwei were pinched, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Father, Meng Qing, you go back first, this matter really needs to be discussed in the long run." Shangdang has a great deal to do with our Qin State, and if my Qin State wants to send troops to recruit the princes of Shandong, Shangdang is in me

On our route, if we bypass the attack, then the Shangdang rebels can attack our army's heavy grain and grass from the rear at any time, if the attack, as Xiangfu said, Li Mu is also an extraordinary person, leading the troops to fight against the Hu people for many years, rarely defeated, plus the Shangdang land with the addition of the Zhao army, it is indeed not easy to attack. ”

Lü Buwei bent down and said, "What the king said is extremely true. Lu Buwei opened his mouth to speak, and the Wenchen behind him immediately echoed.

"The king's words are good, and Ben Shuai thinks so too. A loud voice came from the gate of Zhangtai Palace.

When everyone in the hall heard this voice, they all turned their heads to look at the door of the main hall, only to see Wang Jian wearing battle armor and his grandson Wang Li came to the main hall.

Lu Buwei looked at Wang Jian who walked to his side with tiger steps, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: Look at this old horseman's strength, it is not at all like the appearance of being sick and sick for a long time as I said before, it seems that the ability of this old general and thin mud is not weaker than that of himself, a person who is used to playing tricks.

Wang Jian walked to the steps of the throne and knelt on the ground: "The last general, Wang Qian, will visit the king, long live the king." ”

Ying Zheng didn't expect Wang Jian to come, so he hurriedly left the throne and walked down the steps, personally helped Wang Jian up, looked at Wang Jian and said, "Why did the old general get to this court today?"

Wang Jian clasped his fists and said to Ying Zheng: "Back to the king, a few days ago, my old brother Meng Lao General died on the battlefield, how can I, as an old brother, continue to sit at home and ignore it? Otherwise, after the minister died, he went underground to meet the old brother, wouldn't he be ridiculed by him for not being able to die on the battlefield but dying on the bed? Not to mention that the old brother can't look past it, and the old minister himself is not willing. ”

"So, did the old general come to the court to ask the king to personally lead the troops on the expedition?" asked Lü Buwei.

Hearing this, Wang Jian turned around, looked at Lu Buwei and said, "If I don't lead the troops to the battle, will I let the Lord Xiangguo and a literati lead the troops to the battle?"

Lu Buwei sneered, "Have you forgotten that when the first king was alive, Benxiang also led troops to fight on the battlefield, and the land of Shangdang was originally fought by Benxiang with troops." ”

"Yes, but now it has been taken away by the Zhao people without much effort. Wang Jian said sarcastically.

"You, hum ......" Lu Buwei was speechless by Wang Qian's words.

Ying Zheng saw that Wang Jian was finally about to make a move, and said happily: "The old general wants to personally lead the troops to quell the rebels?"

Wang Jian replied: "Li Mu and Lao Chen were rated among the four famous generals together, so Lao Chen wanted to meet this person a long time ago, but unfortunately he never had the opportunity. Now that he has come to the party and wants to snatch back the land of my Qin State, then the old minister will naturally meet him for a while. Therefore, the old minister went to the palace this time to ask the king for his life and allow the old minister to go into battle to kill the enemy. ”

Ying Zheng was overjoyed, "The old general is worthy of being the backbone of my Great Qin, or not, others are not at ease when they go to the widow, if the old general goes in person, it will naturally be a success." ”

After Ying Zheng finished speaking, he returned to the throne and said loudly: "Come and spread the will of the widow!"