Zi Yanran was dragged away by Meng Tian's mother to talk in the backyard when she entered Meng's house, and she didn't even care about her biological son who she hadn't seen for a long time, which made Meng Tian embarrassed for a while.

Meng Wu patted Meng Tian on the shoulder from behind and said, "This girl is very good, I told your mother when I returned to Xianyang that day, but your mother was so happy, and since that day on, I have been at home every day talking about why you didn't bring Yanran home." ”

Meng Tian scratched his head, a little embarrassed, although he had already made contributions on the battlefield, Meng Tian was only fifteen years old now, and this was just beginning to become independent in ordinary people's homes. Meng Tian said to his father: "It seems that I have more worries than I do, and my mother likes Yanran more than I do." ”

"Alright, let's go, let's go in, and tell me what's going on along the way, and what's going on with the two people you've brought back. ”

As soon as Meng Tian returned home, Meng Wu sent someone to the palace to report to Meng Yi, and after Meng Yi received the news, he told the good news to King Yingzheng of Qin. Ying Zheng was also very happy to hear that Meng Tian was back, after all, Meng Tian and Meng Yi were the two people with whom he had the best relationship, and knew that Meng Yi missed his brother, so he let him go home to reunite with his family.

"Big brother, big brother is back, where is the others?" Meng Tian was talking to his father at home about what happened in Yiqu after meeting Zi Yanran, when he heard Meng Yi's voice coming from outside the door.

Meng Yi entered the house and saw his father and eldest brother sitting together talking about things, saluting his father and eldest brother, and also sitting aside to listen to what happened between the eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Meng Tian made it clear to his father and younger brother about him and Zi Yanran, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, then looked at Meng Yi and said, "Why, the king has less official duties today, did you let you come back in advance?" Just now my father told me that you won't come back until it's time for dinner. ”

Meng Yi shook his head and said: "The king is also very happy to hear that the eldest brother is back, it just so happens that I have been separated from the eldest brother for a few days, and today I heard a letter from the family saying that the eldest brother and sister-in-law have returned home, and I specially asked the king for leave and left the palace early." ”

Meng Tian then asked, "What, what kind of official business has the king been lately? I remember that before you went to the northern border, you only had to be busy until noon every day and then go home, why are you busy until late in the evening?"

Meng Yi looked at his father, then at his eldest brother, and said, "There are not many kings, and many of them are handled by Lord Xiangguo. It's just that my father and eldest brother have been on the expedition for more than a month, and many changes have taken place in the court. ”

"Oh. Meng Tian didn't expect these things to happen after he left, and asked Meng Yi: "What, what has happened in the court?"

Meng Wu put down the water cup in his hand and said: "When my class teacher came back to meet Wang Shang and hand over the tiger talisman, I found that there were fewer familiar colleagues in the court, but there were more unfamiliar faces. It turned out that Lord Xiangguo took advantage of the fact that General Wang Lao was ill and could not go to the court to fight against him, and released some of the old ministers left by the previous king to the current king, and at the same time promoted some of his own henchmen, so now the civil officials above the court are basically all Lu Buwei's people, and even some people on the military general's side may secretly take refuge in Lu Buwei, but General Wang Lao is still suspicious and has not caught substantial evidence. ”

Meng Tian continued his father's words and said: "That's not all, what my father said was just something above the court, and a strange thing happened in the palace. ”

Meng Wu also didn't know anything about this, and looked at Meng Yi with Meng Tian. Meng Yi said: "A few days ago, that is, the day after I just came back, I heard that the empress dowager's palace suddenly dismissed the highest-ranking eunuch, and was replaced by a person I had never seen or heard of, Chang Yu. ”

"Who is this?" asked Meng Wu and Meng Tian at the same time.

Meng Yi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. Meng Yi said: "The blame for this matter is that the big eunuch who was demoted to the palace was Lü Buwei's person, and before that, Lü Buwei had been frequently in and out of the queen mother's palace, and the king sent me to arrange for someone to enter the queen mother's palace to be on duty, but it was also unsuccessful." What's even more strange is that since that Chang Yu came to the throne, Lü Buwei has obviously reduced the number of times he goes to the Queen Mother's bedroom, and the Queen Mother rarely summons Lü Buwei again. ”

It is not difficult to hear from Meng Yi's words that the key person is this Chang Yu, now everyone doesn't know his origin, and they don't know how he entered the palace, and finally he was promoted to the big eunuch in the queen mother's palace, all this sounds a bit unbelievable, but it is a real thing.

The father and son were still talking, and a maid came to report: "General, eldest young master, second young master, Madame said that dinner is ready, please come over with the two sons." The father and son ended the conversation and went to the backyard for dinner.

Mrs. Meng saw her eldest son, who had not seen her for a long time, and her eldest daughter-in-law, and kept serving vegetables to Zi Yanran during the banquet, as if she regarded Zi Yanran as her own daughter, and Meng Yi was jealous next to her, saying that her mother had never been so good to her since she was a child, and now she has been so good to her sister-in-law for only one day, and she must hurry up to find a daughter-in-law, otherwise she will be alone in this family in the future. After speaking, the four of them laughed, and Meng Yi also began to think about spring.

On the second day, Meng Tian got up early, put on his court clothes, and prepared to meet the king of Qin. After all, he is now the lord of the first army of the Qin prince, so if he is not going out to fight, it is indispensable to go to the morning every day. Mrs. Meng and Zi Yanran sent the father and son to the door, watched the three of them get on the horse, and then returned home.

Riding a horse to the gate of the palace, it was just cold at this time, and Qin Di had begun to gradually turn cold, but there were still many people waiting outside the palace. The military generals who were waiting here saw the father and son of the Meng family coming, and came to congratulate Meng Tian, after all, this time he was able to put down the rebellion in the north in one fell swoop, and Meng Tian contributed a lot, after all, the king of the Rong Di people is still locked up in the prison of Xianyang City, and this alone is a great achievement.

As soon as the hour arrived, the gate of the palace slowly opened, and many ministers of the Qin State who were waiting outside lined up in two lines according to their rank, passing through the gate of the palace in turn, and heading to the main hall of the court meeting.

When they arrived at the top of the main hall, the ministers stood and waited for the King of Qin to arrive. Not long after, Ying Zheng ascended to the throne of King Qin accompanied by the internal officials, and the ministers standing below knelt down the mountain and shouted long live.

King Yingzheng of Qin sat on a high throne and easily found Meng Tian who was standing in the middle of the queue of generals. Ying Zheng said on the throne: "The widow heard that Meng Aiqing has returned to Xianyang yesterday, has the dynasty come early today?"

Seeing that King Qin talked about himself, Meng Tian hurriedly came out of the ranks, knelt on the ground, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister Meng Tian pays a visit to my king." ”

Ying Zheng looked at Meng Tian, who was kneeling below, and said, "Meng Aiqing got up and spoke. After Meng Tian stood up, Ying Zheng continued: "This time, I was able to defeat the Rongdi people who disturbed my border so quickly, and I led the cavalry to capture the Khan King of the Rongdi people in one fell swoop, and Meng Aiqing contributed a lot. The widow decided to give Meng Aiqing as the court captain, 100 ingots of gold, 5,000 ingots of silver, and all the warriors of Daqin who followed Meng Aiqing to the court of Rongdi this time will be rewarded. ”

"Thank you, the king. "Meng Tian bows here.

"Your Majesty. Lu Buwei suddenly stood up and spoke.

Ying Zheng looked at Lu Buwei, "Lord Xiangguo, please have something to say." ”

Lü Buwei looked at Meng Tian, and then said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the reward for General Meng is too little, in addition to pacifying Rong Di this time, General Meng also pacified the Yiqu Rebellion, and opened up a good place for my Great Qin to raise war horses, which is also a great achievement." Therefore, the minister thought that this credit was no less than the credit of the Khan King who captured the Rongdi people, and saw that the king did not praise General Meng for this merit, so the minister stood up and said a word for General Meng. ”

As soon as these words came out of the court, there was no sound at all, and Lu Buwei's words were clearly to ask for credit for Meng Tian, but many people heard that this was to provoke the relationship between the king and the Meng family. Of course, Meng Tian's contribution is indispensable for leveling the canal this time, but the king did not say it, but Lü Buwei said it in front of the ministers, the meaning is obvious, that is, to create a gap between the Meng family and the king of Qin.

Meng Tian saw that the king did not speak on the throne, and bowed to Lu Buwei, "Xiangye didn't say it, but I forgot that there was such a thing." In fact, the matter of Yiqu was a secret edict given to me by the king, asking me to go to investigate Uncle Wang Yingguang, but when I arrived in Yiqu, I found that Uncle Wang had been killed, so in order to give the king an explanation, I found out the murderer, and I have already reported the matter to the king. I think since it's a secret edict, I don't need to talk about it on the surface. ”

Ying Zheng saw that Meng Tian was helping him to relieve the siege, and hurriedly said: "That's right, at that time, the widow gave Meng Aiqing this secret edict, since Lord Xiangguo also said it, then I will reward Meng Aiqing more." Then Meng Aiqing was appointed as a lieutenant, and was in charge of the palace guards, and the Meng family army was first taken over by Meng Wu and Meng Aiqing, and if there was a war, it would be redeployed. ”

"Thank you, the king. Meng Tian said.

After the court meeting was dispersed, Meng Tian did not leave the palace with his father, but followed an internal manager into the palace. Originally, after the court meeting was dispersed, Lü Buwei came to invite Meng Tian to fulfill his promise in the Xiangguo Mansion and to invite Meng Tian to celebrate his achievements in the best restaurant in Xianyang City. Meng Tian is not easy to shirk, and there are even more things that Lu Buwei said for himself in the court just now, not to mention what his intentions are, but this face must be given to him, and after the agreed time, Lu Buwei let Meng Tian leave.

followed the internal official to Yingzheng's study to deal with political affairs, and the internal official led Meng Tian to the door and retreated. As soon as Meng Tian entered the door, he heard Ying Zheng's angry voice: "This Lu Buwei bullied the widow too much, don't you think that the widow can't do without him." ”

Then Meng Yi persuaded beside him: "The king is angry, there are undoubtedly two reasons why Lü Buwei said those words above the court today, the first is to destroy the relationship between the king and my Meng family, and want to tell our family that the king doesn't remember our merits, and the second is to try to win over my eldest brother, and now there are military generals who have secretly defected to Lü Buwei, but we don't know who they are, so the more angry you are, the more angry you are, the more you happen to fall for Lü Buwei." ”

Meng Tian walked over and said, "That's right, that's exactly what you say. Chen Mengtian has seen the king. ”