The twenty-fifth year of the first emperor, the Great Qin Dynasty, the Qin Palace

The weather is getting colder, and the howling north wind begins to sweep in, mixed with the smell of slaughter.

With the arrival of the cold wind, the goose feather snow also began to arrive as scheduled, the heavy snow began in the night, but in the middle of the night, when the sky showed a touch of belly white, the heavy snow has completely covered the majestic palace of the King of Qin.

The snowflakes are thick and large, and the squeezed snow layer can flood a person's ankle to the knee.

"Ahem." There were bursts of coughing sounds in King Qin's bedroom, mixed with exhaustion, and even a hint of sickness could be heard.

The palace maids and eunuchs cheered up one after another, hurriedly brought basins and hot water, etc., and went in and out of King Qin's bedroom.

At the same time, at the beginning of the morning, more than two dozen eunuchs had already gotten up early, swept the ground with brooms, and piled up snowflakes aside, revealing the ground paved with bluestone slabs.

The eunuchs and palace ladies knew that King Qin was the least fond of winter, especially when he saw the sky sweeping snowflakes and falling one after another.

This will let King Qin know that it will be another year to ruthlessly crush King Qin's life.

There have been too many things that have happened in the past few years, so that King Qin, who was originally domineering and domineering, and his amazing momentum has begun to be overwhelmed.

The King of Qin, who once terrified the princely states of the Quartet, is now also on the irresistible path of old age.

As King Qin's body continued to weaken, the turmoil of the Qin Dynasty continued to expand in the opposite direction of King Qin's body, and there was an increasingly fierce formation.

In the past, the burning of books and the construction of the Great Wall caused many people's complaints have quietly erupted in the past few years.

suppressed the rebellion of Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others, but attracted other resistance forces.

The remnants of the former Western Chu entangled a large number of former Western Chu generals and formed a resistance force.

The leader was Xiang Yu, a remnant of the Western Chu royal family in the past, who dared to claim the overlord of Western Chu and threatened to exterminate the Qin Dynasty.

What's more, the head of the small pavilion in Yipei County, a small person named Liu Bang, also dared to take advantage of the situation to revolt, which made King Qin even more angry.

The rebel forces continued to fight against the Qin Dynasty, but the Great Wall was still being built, and the Qin King still carried out an iron-blooded policy and suppressed it with strong force.

And still mobilized a large number of male financial resources to build the Qin Palace on the basis of the Qin Palace, and even secretly built the underground mausoleum of the Qin King, all of which was exchanged for more fierce resistance from the people of the Qin Dynasty.

Before dawn, it was still night, and when there was still starlight, Li Si had already hurried to the palace of King Qin to wait for King Qin's summons.

"It's really early." Zhao Gao walked out of King Qin's room, saw Li Si standing outside the door waiting, and immediately said in a somewhat sharp voice.

There were still bursts of coughing from King Qin in the room, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were constantly busy coming and going.

"Whatever Gonggong Zhao said, as a courtier, he naturally has to obey His Majesty's call at all times." Lees smiled.

A few years is too long, and the forces above the court of the Qin Palace have been reshuffled several times.

Xu Fu's departure caused many drastic changes, and Li Si's power expanded unscrupulously above the court, but originally Xu Fu's party had nothing to do, so they could only watch Li Si's power continue to expand.

Xu Fu is not there, and there are some things that they can't resist, but as time passes, Xu Fu does not return for a long time, and many ministers know that there is little hope, so they have to choose their camp again and gain a firm foothold.

Not to mention the many officials, even if it is a popular person around King Qin, Zhao Gao subconsciously keeps getting along with Li Si.

Sometimes, the wealth of interests is often more important than the relationship of affection.

Moreover, in the past few years, King Qin's health has not been as good as a year, so that many people can see that the Qin Palace will undergo a great change.

The same is true for Zhao Gao, if King Qin falls, the power he has cultivated in the palace for many years will collapse with King Qin, everything he has come from King Qin, and without King Qin, he is nothing, which is why he began to befriend Li Si.

"Hasn't Your Majesty's health improved in the slightest recently?" Liss asked.

Zhao Gao shook his head, glanced at the palace maids and eunuchs who were still coming in and out, and his sharp voice was very low: "It's a little worse than a few days ago." ”

"It's ......." Li Si frowned: "I hope Your Majesty's dragon body can be healthy, after all, Your Majesty is related to the entire Qin Dynasty, only Your Majesty's health is good, can the Qin Dynasty be stronger and stronger, and now with the ...... of Your Majesty's body, the remnants of the Quartet are all ready to move." ”

Zhao Gao sighed, and said in a sharp voice: "What Master Li said is extremely true. ”

"Is Li Si here?" Ying Zheng's slightly weakened voice came from the room.

Zhao Gao nodded at Li Si, hurriedly walked into the dormitory, and said respectfully: "Yes, Your Majesty, it's Lord Li, he has been waiting outside the room for a long time." ”

"Let Lees in."

King Qin had already sat up from the bed, and the palace ladies were serving and dressing him.

"Yes." Zhao Gao nodded, and then went out to announce Li Si entering.

"Your Majesty." Lees knelt on the ground.

"Well, get up." King Qin nodded.

When the palace maids dressed the dragon robe for King Qin, King Qin waved his hand to let the eunuch and palace maid leave, but did not let Zhao Gao leave.

"Ahem...... Accompany the widow to live and go out for a walk. King Qin stood up, and Li Si and Zhao Gao hurriedly supported King Qin's left and right arms.

"Just let Zhao Gao support the widow, the widow's body is not so weak." King Qin frowned.

"Yes." Li Si immediately let go of King Qin, and when he saw King Qin frowning, he knew that King Qin hated to make others think that his body was constantly weakening.

The oppressive King of Qin in the past was a fierce tiger, he had his own pride, even if he began to grow old, he still stubbornly believed that he was still the supreme king who fought in the Quartet and made the Quartet surrender and fear.

The snowflakes in the courtyard had been swept to the sides by the eunuchs, and the remaining ice slag on the exposed ground had been wet with hot water, invading the dirt between the cracks in the stone slabs, so the ground was not slippery.

But seeing the snow layer in the courtyard, King Qin frowned.

"When the widow returns, don't let the widow see that there is still snow left in the widow's dormitory." King Qin's voice was a little impatient.

"Yes." Zhao Gao immediately ordered the other eunuchs.

In winter, even if there is no wind, there is still a chill in the air that invades the bone marrow.

King Qin's dragon robe was already covered with a thick tiger skin cloak.

But King Qin's face was still a little pale.

"Your Majesty, why don't we go back to the dormitory, it's a little warmer there." Zhao Gao said.

"Do you think that the widow can't resist even this little chill?" King Qin snorted coldly.

"Slaves should be damned, Your Majesty, minions just care about Your Majesty." Zhao Gao immediately fell to the ground.

"Hmph." King Qin snorted coldly: "Get up." ”

He also knew Zhao Gao's original intention, so he didn't choose to blame.

"Still haven't heard any news?" King Qin asked with a sigh.

Zhao Gao and Li Si glanced at each other, they both knew what King Qin was asking.

Every year, King Qin would ask for news about Xu Fu.

King Qin, whose body is not going day by day, still puts his only hope on Xu Fu, even though Xu Fu has not heard anything for four years.

When Xu Fu left at the dock four years ago, it seemed destined that Xu Fu would never return.