Chapter 149: The Wedding of Ying Zheng (2)
At noon, Ying Zheng's wedding celebration officially began. First of all, King Yingzheng of Qin took the hand of Queen Mi Fang'er, and the two knelt down in front of the altar placed at the gate of Ganquan Palace, burning incense and praying, praying that God would bless the country of Qin and the people of peace and prosperity, and the national fortune would be long.
After worshipping heaven and earth, the two knelt down in the direction of Yongcheng outside the hall, worshiped the queen mother Zhao Ji, and then the husband and wife entered the Ganquan Palace hand in hand, and Li Si announced the marriage of Qin and Chu, repaired from generation to generation, and lived up to the grace of heaven. After a set of etiquette, then led by Lü Buwei, the minister of Qin, a group of civil officials bowed to the new queen, then Wang Jian led a group of military generals, and finally the envoys who came to watch the ceremony, so they knelt down for nearly an hour.
The marriage ceremony is very simple, that is, there are more red tapes in it, which is since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, to govern the country with etiquette, passed down the etiquette for more than 800 years, and this time there are envoys from various countries here to watch the ceremony, so Yingzheng listened to Li Si's suggestion, and the entire wedding ceremony was held in a grand and grand manner, which opened the eyes of the envoys of various countries, and showed an incredible appearance for the Qin State, the country of tigers and wolves.
After the wedding ceremony, there was a banquet in the palace of King Qin, and there were about 1,000 guests who came to watch the ceremony, except for a few who could sit in the Ganquan Palace to accompany Yingzheng and Queen Mi Fang'er to drink, most of them were arranged outside the palace.
In addition to the foreign envoys, the courtiers of the Qin State sitting in the palace also kept toasting to the Qin King Yingzheng, Yingzheng drank ten glasses in a row, his face was flushed, and he was faintly drunk, begging for mercy from the king, and everyone saw that the king was indeed not strong enough to drink, and they no longer persuaded him to drink. Ying Zheng left a sentence and asked Lord Xiangguo to accompany him to drink, and then under Lü Buwei's repeated shirk, Ying Zheng left Ganquan Palace with the support of the queen.
After Yingzheng left, the atmosphere inside and outside the palace was better, and some ministers outside the palace also went to the Ganquan Palace to toast Lü Buwei. Lü Buwei couldn't shirk it, so he had to sit on his seat and accept the toasts of many courtiers, and for a while everyone surrounded Lü Buwei.
Meng Tian and his father Meng Wu, who were sitting not far behind Lu Buwei, looked at Lu Buwei who was surrounded by everyone, and sneered on their faces. Two days ago, Meng Yi went home and told them about the assassination of the Queen Mother in the old palace of Yongcheng, and the king rewarded the Queen Mother's side, and before that, Lu Buwei secretly went to Yongcheng under the pretext of being ill. This series of events is connected, as if someone deliberately arranged it.
Meng Wu saw Meng Yi, who was sitting not far from them, gave him a look, he pulled Meng Tian's clothes, and signaled Meng Yi to find him for something. After Meng Tian saw Meng Yi, he got up and left his seat and followed Meng Tian out of Ganquan Palace. After the two brothers walked out of Ganquan Palace, they came directly to Zhangtai Palace, where Yingzheng and the old general Wang Jian and Li Si, who had left with the strength of alcohol, were all here, and Zhang Han stood at the door, and no one was allowed to approach Zhangtai Palace.
When everyone saw Meng Tian coming in, Ying Zheng nodded at Li Si. Li Si stood up and said, "Since everyone is here, then I will tell you a few things for the king, and I hope that everyone can keep silent about what they hear here."
Like a bottle, once it leaks out, it will be the disaster of extermination. ”
Seeing that everyone in the hall had no objections, Li Si continued: "Today's king's wedding, I believe everyone knows what this means. General Meng Tian was assassinated in Shu County half a month ago, and we have already caught the killer who assassinated Meng Tian two days ago. ”
"Really?" Meng Tian perked up when he heard this.
Wang Jian said to Meng Tian: "That's right, the killer has already been arrested, but after he was caught, he died, and the five black-clothed men captured in Shu County, we didn't get any useful information from these people." But what is certain is that these are two groups of people, one is going for the queen and the other is going for you. ”
Meng Tian was a little puzzled, he didn't expect there to be so many things here. He thought of something and asked Wang Qian, "Chu Guoxiang's family?"
This time it was Meng Yi who spoke, and he replied to his brother: "Yes, the killer who assassinated your eldest brother was sent by the night owl of the Chu State. And I learned through the channel of Brother Mengli that the killer you met when you passed through Korea from the Chu State was also a night owl, and this killer was with those people, but this killer was a Tianzi-level killer, and he would never have shot before he was sure of killing with one hit, so you almost died under his sword. ”
Before he finished speaking, Li Si continued: "We haven't found out the identity of the five black-clothed people until now, but the person who killed you was caught in Xianyang City, and the place where it was caught was a remote mansion, and the owner of this mansion is surnamed Lu. ”
"Lu Buwei?" Meng Tian exclaimed.
Ying Zheng said: "Okay, anyway, this matter has nothing to do with Lü Buwei, the purpose of the widow coming to you this time is how to take the rights that belong to the widow from Lü Buwei, this is the big deal." ”
Wei Yu, who had not spoken for a long time, opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, it is not easy for me to see this matter. According to the information we received, Lü Buwei went to Yongcheng before, and in addition to meeting the Queen Mother, the two had a secret conversation in the palace, and he also met the next day. A few days after he left, the Queen Mother was assassinated in the old palace, and there was also news that according to the imperial doctor who treated the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother was actually pregnant, and it had been nearly two months. This incident is what we think is terrible, which means that the Queen Mother had already found out that she was pregnant before going to Yongcheng, so she was in a hurry to go to the old palace of Yongcheng to live temporarily when the king got married. ”
Meng Tian heard a lot of information at this moment, and he didn't react for a while, the Queen Mother was pregnant? If this news spread, wouldn't it be that the face of the Qin royal family would be lost. Meng Tian suddenly remembered another incident in the Qin royal family decades ago: Ying Zheng's grandfather Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji's mother Empress Dowager Xuan Bazi was also pregnant in the harem, and in the end, the Manchu Dynasty was forced by the power of the Empress Dowager Xuan and her brothers, and finally it was over, but now the same thing has happened, I don't know if Ying Zheng will allow such a thing to happen
Meng Tian looked at Ying Zheng and found that Ying Zheng's face was like cold frost, sitting on the throne without saying a word, but those who knew Ying Zheng knew how angry Ying Zheng was at this time. Meng Tian opened his mouth and said, "Is this true?"
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "That's true, although the widow doesn't believe it, but the imperial doctor who took the pulse of the queen mother should not dare to risk the danger of raiding the family and exterminating the family to deceive the widow, and soon after the news was revealed, the imperial doctor disappeared, thinking that he should have been killed." ”
Wang Jian said: "Now that the king has gotten married, it is indeed time to ask the Queen Mother and Lü Buwei for the power of the country, but it seems that it is a little difficult to find the current situation." ”
"What does the old general mean by this? After the king's wedding, isn't it natural for the queen mother and Lü Buwei to return all their strength to the king, why is it a little difficult to do?" Meng Yi asked.
Li Si took over and said: "Now it seems that it should be a sure thing for Lu Buwei and the Queen Mother to practice, but our strength is not enough to compete with them. Not to mention that the army mobilization must have the seal of the Queen Mother and Lü Buwei, the only people we can trust in the court are General Wang Lao and General Meng Lao and the generals under him, and there are only a few henchmen on Wenchen's side, and Lord Wei and I are far from being Lü Buwei's opponents. If the Queen Mother believes that the king cannot govern in person, then according to the laws of our country, the king's pro-government can be postponed for several years. When the Empress Dowager Xuan was alive, the first king Zhaoxiang was forty years old before he completely took over the power of the court. ”
Speaking of which, everyone looks at Yingzheng, since there is history first, then it can't be done according to common sense.
Ying Zheng looked around at everyone, then stood up from the throne, walked among the people and said, "The widow is not the first king, and the widow will not wait that long. The widow is here to tell you a word, the ambition of the widow lies in the world, but if you want to take this step, you must first calm the internal troubles. The reliance of the widow is all of you here, as well as the army of tigers and wolves of the Qin State under your hands, and I hope you can help the widow to unify the Qin State. ”
Wang Jian took the lead in kneeling, Li Si, Wei Yi, and the Montessori brothers all knelt down, "The minister will not live up to the king's trust, and he is willing to follow my king and never give up." ”
In the Ganquan Palace, an attendant quietly went to Lu Buwei, who was surrounded by everyone, and whispered a few words in his ear. Lu Buwei's face stiffened when he heard this, and then he asked the person to step back. Lü Buwei left Ganquan Palace under the pretext of convenience, walked to a remote place, and when he saw that no one was following him, he turned around and walked towards the gate of the palace, and got into the car at the gate of the palace and drove back to his home.
When he returned home, Lü Buwei sent someone to summon his righteous son, and then wrote a secret letter to his righteous son, instructing him to go to Yongcheng to hand over the letter. After watching Yizi leave, Lu Buwei muttered: Since things have come to this point, then I, Lu Buwei, am not the one who leads the neck to be killed, hehe, Yingzheng Xiao'er, the next thing depends on which of the two of us has better means!
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