Lu Buwei sat in his seat and didn't speak, after thinking about it again, he looked at Ying Qiang and asked, "Listen to what you mean, do you have a candidate for the Ying clan?"

Ying Qiang smiled slightly, took a sip of the tea in front of him, and said, "That's natural, if I don't have a suitable candidate, I don't dare to come here to talk to Lord Xiangguo about such a confidential matter." ”

"Who is the chosen one?"

Ying Qiang stood up, walked to Lu Buwei's side, sat down and whispered, "I don't know what Lord Xiangguo thinks of Chang'an Jun Chengqiao?"

Lu Buwei was slightly surprised when he heard Cheng Qiao's name come out of Ying Qiang's mouth, and said, "Chang'anjun, he is indeed a candidate." He and the current king are half-brothers, the king now has no heirs, and after returning to heaven, Chang'an Jun is indeed qualified to inherit the throne. ”

Seeing that Lu Buwei did not object to what he said about Chang'an Jun inheriting the throne, Ying Qiang continued: "Lord Xiangguo, this Chang'an Jun is also the heir of the first prince, but there is still the Queen Mother alive today, what if the Queen Mother does not agree to set up a new monarch?"

Lu Buwei waved his hand and said, "The matter of the Queen Mother can be talked about later, what I want to know now is why do you Ying clan relatives have to choose Chang'an Jun to replace the throne?"

Ying Qiang said: "Lord Xiangguo doesn't know, this today's King Qin did not grow up in my Qin State since he was a child, but was born in Handan by the former king and the Queen Mother Zhao Ji, and now it has been sixteen years. And after returning from Yongcheng a few days ago, someone kidnapped Ying Hao's father and son to Xianyang that night, and they are still in prison. After discussing with many clan relatives, they all agreed that in the long run, the children of my Ying clan would inevitably be gradually moved away from the center of the Qin State, so we decided to change someone who was more friendly to our Ying family to sit on the throne. ”

Lu Buwei nodded, Ying Qiang said well, Ying Zheng has never had a good impression of the children of the Ying clan of the Qin State, when he first came to the Qin State, he was not less affected by these people's eyes, until the first king set the position of the crown prince of Ying Zheng, and everyone's perception of Ying Zheng improved. Lü Buwei said: "So you went to Yingzheng's own brother Chengqiao, and prepared to train him to ascend to the throne?"

Ying Qiang nodded and said, "Yes, that's exactly what we mean." Lord Xiangguo, this Chang'anjun is only fourteen this year, not to mention how his character and ability are, the important thing is that Chang'anjun personally promised us that if he ascends the throne, then in the future, the position of Xiangguo of this Qin State will still belong to your Xiangguo, and the power is only higher than now, only a lot more. ”

"I'm not worried about that. Lu Buwei said, "Although I don't know much about Chang'anjun, as far as I know, this person is not how capable he is, but he has no ability at all." If it weren't for that, why did the former king choose Yingzheng, who was far away in Zhao State, instead of Chang'anjun, who grew up beside him, next to the two princes. In fact, Ying Zheng's father, Prince Chu of Qin, made a choice between his two sons, and he asked his two sons to do one thing separately, and the result was that Ying Zheng quickly completed the task assigned by his father, and Cheng Qiao was lazy and timid by nature and did not complete it as scheduled. For the sake of the great cause of Qin, the first prince Chu had no choice but to choose Yingzheng as the next generation of monarchs of Qin. It's just that this matter has always been a secret, only the four of Xianwang, Lü Buwei, Yingzheng and Cheng Qiao know, and people from the outside world don't know.

Ying Qiang understood that this was Lü Buwei fighting for his own greatest interests, in order to make Lü Buwei promise himself, Ying Qiang said: "I know what Xiangda is thinking, Xiangguo just wants to know what benefits he can get, how many benefits." I don't dare to promise Lord Xiangguo about this matter now, the only thing I can tell Lord Xiangguo is that Yingzheng can't give you Chang'anjun. That's all I said, but please consider the suggestions below. If you have any questions, you can ask me. ”

After Ying Qiang finished speaking, he got up to say goodbye, and Lü Buwei asked Yizi to send him out the door. When Liu Xiaoye came back, Lu Buwei asked, "Dong'er, how did this person find you?"

"Back to my father, this person came to me the day before yesterday when he was drunk, and as soon as they met, he said that there was something important to discuss with his father, and asked me to take him to my father. Liu Zhendong said.

I see, it seems that these Ying clan relatives have long been dissatisfied with Ying Zheng, this trip to Ying Zheng Yongcheng, after returning to Xianyang, and then arrested Ying Hao Ying Lei father and son, this incident should be a fuse, so that the Ying clan completely lost information about Ying Zheng, and wanted to set up a new king. It's just that this time he may not do these deals with these people, even if Ying Zheng is in charge in the future, how can he say that he has merit to the first king, Ying Zheng was able to sit on the throne and his own ability was discovered by the first king, and he also played a lot of role in fueling the troubles, Lu Buwei thought in his heart.

Lü Buwei said to Yizi: "In the future, when this person is coming to you, you will directly turn this person away and never associate with him again." ”

"The child obeyed. Liu Xiaoye said.

"Alright, you go down first. Lu Buwei was the only one left in the room, he returned to the back room of the room, walked to the wardrobe, pressed it in a raised position on the wardrobe, and the wardrobe moved slowly, leaking a dark compartment behind it. There was a roll of yellow silk cloth in the dark compartment, Lü Buwei opened it, looked at what was written on it, and said to himself: "I have this thing, who can help me." ”

Meng Tian and Zi Yanran arrived in the territory of Chu State, stopping and stopping along the way, browsing the mountains and scenery of Chu State, Meng Tian explained the customs of Chu State to Zi Yanran along the way, and the married life of the young couple was also happy.

There are many waterways in the Chu State, and the weather is more humid than the Qin State, and there are many winds and rains in the Chu State in the past few days, so within a few days of entering the Chu State, Zi Yanran was infected with the wind cold, so Meng Tian had to slow down the trip and hire a carriage to hurry. Poor Black Wind is a BMW that travels thousands of miles a day, but now he has to be reduced to an ordinary horse pulling a cart.

On this day, by the Miluo River, the two stayed in a small town by the river, Meng Tian placed Zi Yanran in the post house where he stayed, and went to the pharmacy in the town to grab medicine. When he arrived at the pharmacy, Meng Tian asked the doctor in the store to prescribe some medicine to dispel the wind and cold. Just when Meng Tian finished grabbing the medicine and was about to go back to decoct the medicine for Zi Yanran, a person from the pharmacy also came to grab the medicine.

As soon as this man entered the pharmacy, he said loudly: "Doctor, grab me some poppy shells, my lord is about to die of a headache." ”

The doctor handed him Meng Tian's medicine, and then said to this person: "Didn't I say it, this medicine can only temporarily relieve your master's headache, if you want to completely cure it, you have to take bitter medicine." As the saying goes, good medicine is good for disease, and your lord always relies on poppy husks to relieve pain, and sooner or later he will harm himself. ”

The man was also anxious and said, "Those of us who are subordinates are naturally what the master says about what we do." Besides, if you say this to our master, I don't dare to say that to him. No, these are two ingots of silver, hurry up and give me the medicine, so that I can take it home and give it to my master." ”

Hearing the word poppy mentioned in the conversation between the two, Meng Tian didn't remember to go back to decoction the medicine.

The owner of the pharmacy handed a bag of medicine that looked like a dried fruit pit to the man who had come to grab the medicine for his master, and the man took the medicine and quickly left the pharmacy. Seeing that Meng Tian hadn't left yet, the pharmacy owner asked, "Does the guest officer need anything?"

Meng Tian leaned on the counter and asked the boss, "Boss, what kind of medicine is that poppy husk, and is it very effective in relieving pain?"

When the boss saw Meng Tian asking, he whispered, "Why, objectively you also want this medicine?"

Seeing the boss's cautious expression, Meng Tian nodded and whispered: "That's natural, I am a person who practices martial arts, and I naturally have to be careful about medicine that has such a good pain-relieving effect." ”

When the boss saw Meng Tian say that he was a martial arts practitioner, he suddenly realized, and continued: "Then I won't recommend you to buy this medicine, guest officer." As the saying goes, medicine is three parts poison, but this poppy is one point medicine and nine points poison, and the guest officer is a person who practices martial arts, so I recommend the guest officer not to buy this medicine to take it, otherwise it will harm the guest officer. ”

"Why is that?" Meng Tian asked.

The boss closed the door of the pharmacy, returned to the counter and continued to say to Meng Tian: "Although this poppy has a miraculous effect on pain relief, it is limited to here. The boss pointed to his head, "It has no effect on external and internal injuries." Moreover, this drug is very addictive, and after becoming addicted, it is difficult to get rid of it, and finally he dies young. So you know why I don't recommend the guest officer to buy this medicine. ”

Meng Tian nodded and said, "I see, then boss, do you know where this medicine is produced?"

"Yes, it's in the mountains by the Miluo River. That's where I source my medicine. ”

Meng Tian took out a gold ingot and handed it to the boss, saying, "Thank you, boss, please accept this gold and say goodbye." With that, he put down the gold and left the drugstore.