Chapter 1072: East Becomes West (65)
"Your Majesty, I'm back!" Meng Tian knelt in front of King Qin Wulie's bed, and said in a low voice, he didn't hear an echo for a long time, and when he looked up, King Qin Wulie was leaning on the pillow, his eyes slightly closed, and he couldn't wake up. He looked inquiringly at the old guard on the side, who leaned down and whispered in the ear of King Qin Wulie, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, General Meng is back."
After a few calls, King Qin Wulie's fingers moved slightly, and his eyes slowly opened, seeing Meng Tian in front of the bed, a trace of light flashed in his cloudy eyes, but it didn't flicker.
The two monarchs and ministers, after a moment of silence, King Qin Wulie finally opened his mouth.
"General, have you hated me all these years?"
Hearing King Qin Wulie's question, Zhongli's body standing on the side behind Meng Tian couldn't help but tremble.
After an embarrassing silence, Meng Tian raised his head, "Hate, Your Majesty. I Meng Tian has asked myself to be loyal to Daqin in my life, and I have never done a single thing to be sorry for Daqin, but since you succeeded to the throne, you have thrown me aside and ignored me, although I am in command of an army of 200,000 people, which seems to be infinitely beautiful, but in fact, I have been completely erected outside the court, over the years, you have spared no effort to transfer people to the army under my command, and you want to empty me again and again, your lord, is it because I kept silent in the succession battle of your year?"
"General Meng!" Zhongli behind Meng Tian was so frightened by his words that he trembled and wanted to stop him, but King Qin Wulie just rolled his eyes and looked at him, and Zhongli was so frightened that he closed his mouth.
"Is it just silence?" King Qin Wulie smiled with difficulty, raised a hand, beckoned, and the old guard behind him took over a box and handed it to Meng Tian. I'm afraid you've forgotten these things, right? Or do you think that the people who collected these things back then have ruined them? So you have the audacity to question me?"
Meng Tian opened the box, picked up one of the letters, and only glanced at the inscription on the envelope, and his face changed suddenly. His hands trembled involuntarily.
"If it weren't for Ying Teng risking his life to go to your army and make you undecided, there would have been a big chaos in Daqin back then, right? You are indeed loyal to the Qin State, but you are not loyal to this king! But even so, over the years, I have been letting you stay at the border of Qin and Chu, and let you lead an army of 200,000 people, looking at the history books, I am afraid that except for this king, there is no king who has such courage, right?" King Qin Wulie smiled, although his laughter was weak, but he was very proud.
"You are a fierce tiger, but I am confident that I can control you, it turns out that I have not done anything wrong, for more than 20 years, you have firmly watched the Chu State for Daqin, especially in the first few years, or you want to atone for your crimes, you have fought a few battles with great intention, let Qu Chong eat a few defeats under your men, and finally exchanged for twenty years of stability on the border of Qin and Chu in these years, and also made the Six Nations Alliance return in vain."
Meng Tian was speechless.
"Now, I'm going to die!" King Qin Wulie said lightly: "Yingying is still young, Lu Chao is also less qualified in the army, not to mention Zhou Yu and Tan Feng, they are both outsiders, talented but not virtuous, they can't suppress you."
Meng Tian raised his head and looked at King Wulie of Qin, and Zhongli even knelt on the ground with a bang, "Your Majesty, the ministers guarantee General Meng's loyalty to Great Qin with the lives of his whole family."
King Qin Wulie smiled, ignoring Zhongli, but looked at Meng Tian, "Do you understand what I mean?" If Li Xin is still alive and he is holding you down, I would be relieved, but now, Li Xin is gone. So, I'm not at ease!"
Meng Tian's face turned pale, and he kowtowed heavily, "The minister understands, and asks the king to be lenient with the minister's family."
"I have written the king's order, stamped the seal, the things are now in the hands of Fan Sui, your two sons have been named Hou, the Mengshi clan, will not decay because of your departure, on the contrary, they will be under Yingying's hands to create a brighter future for your Mengshi clan, I know, your two sons are very talented in leading the army."
Meng Tian's face turned pale, and a trace of flushing appeared on his face, "Meng Tian did not get the king's trust during his lifetime, I did it wrong, so after the death of the minister, I am willing to be the left and right hand of the king with General Li Xin."
King Qin Wulie laughed, laughed a few times, and coughed suddenly, and the little red that erupted from his mouth was shocking, "Okay, very good, Li Xin will be buried in the tomb of this king, since you say so, then add you, are you satisfied?"
"The minister is very satisfied!" Meng Tian said loudly, being buried with Li Xin in the tomb of King Wulie of Qin is the greatest protection for the Meng family.
"You have been in the army for decades, and when you leave, do you have any competent candidates to recommend to Yingying? I trust your vision." King Qin Wulie said to Meng Tian: "Don't kneel, just sit in front of me."
Meng Tian was lost, sitting cross-legged in front of King Qin Wulie's bed, "The minister thinks that the king wants to find the next Li Xin for the fourth prince, although Lu Chao is good, but his mind is not open-minded enough, which limits his future development, or in the local war, this person can make strange moves and win one victory after another for Daqin, but in terms of big strategy, it is difficult to achieve great success."
"This statement is very pertinent, originally I thought that let Li Xin last for ten years, and after ten years, Lu Chao might be able to grow up, but now Li Xin has gone before us."
"As for Zhou Yu, although he is talented and has a strategic vision, his ears are too soft, he is not resolute and resolute enough, he procrastinates, looks ahead and backwards, and is better than the road."
King Qin Wulie nodded.
"Tan Feng is a talented person with strategic vision, but as the king said, he is talented but not virtuous, and this person is very ambitious, Daqin is now reusing this person, but once the crisis is over, this person must be removed, otherwise it will be a disaster for Daqin in the future."
"Hearing you say this, none of the people I reused before I died can support the overall situation?" King Wulie of Qin laughed at himself.
"At this time when Great Qin is in danger, it is not wrong for the king to reuse these people, at least they can support the current situation of Great Qin from collapsing, but in the long run, they should choose another good one to escort the four princes."
"Who do you think is suitable?"
"It's a pity that Wang Jian doesn't know his whereabouts, otherwise this person would be the best choice." Meng Tian said regretfully.
"Could it be that among the hundreds of thousands of generals and thousands of generals, there is no one who can take on such a heavy responsibility?" King Qin Wulie asked.
"Your Majesty, the minister recommends a person, but this person's current official position is far from enough." Meng Tian said.
"Who, it won't be Hua Zhen, right?" A smile appeared at the corner of King Qin Wulie's mouth.
Meng Tian shook his head, "Hua Zhen is not as good as the above, how can he bear such a heavy burden, the minister recommends Bai Qi, who is still under Lu Chao's command. It's just that he's just an ordinary general now."
"Bai Qi, I remember this person, the annihilation of the 100,000 Hedong army of the Zhao State was the one who hid in the secret passage under the Hangu Pass, recaptured the Hangu in one fell swoop, captured Zhao Jin alive, and later killed tens of thousands of Zhao army soldiers in Changping Pit, right?" King Qin Wulie said in a low voice.
"Yes, if there is one person who can support Great Qin in the future, there must be no doubt about this person."
"I trust your vision!" King Qin Wulie nodded, turned his head to the old guard, and said, "You immediately go and pass on my king's order, transfer Bai Qi into Xianyang, take over the position of the commander of the Xuanyi Guard, and lead the 30,000 Xuanyi Guards in Xianyang."
"Yes!" The old guard turned and left the main hall.
"I'm tired too, so go down too!" King Qin Wulie closed his eyes tiredly.
Meng Tian and Zhong Li kowtowed to King Qin Wulie and stepped out of the hall together. Hearing the heavy palace gate ringing behind him, Zhongli stopped and looked up at the sunset that was gradually setting in the west, "Meng Tian, you, are you really willing?"
Meng Tian smiled and looked at Zhongli, "How else?" Zhongli, if I say I'm going to rebel, will you do it with me?"
Zhong parted and looked to the other side.
"You see, that's the reality. It's good that I can have this ending, I have had luck before, but today the king has completely shattered my last hope, I have to admit that the king is the wisest and most open-minded king in the history of my Great Qin, but unfortunately, I can't get his trust like Li Xin, of course, this is also my own fault, back then, I didn't recognize who was the real master. Now, I can exchange my whole body for the peace of the Montessori clan and even decades and hundreds of years of glory and wealth, why not?"
Seeing that Zhongli's eyes were a little red, Meng Tian laughed and said, "You and I are both soldiers, why do you want to be such a child, Zhongli, when you were young, you and I were wandering in this Xianyang City, would you like to accompany me again last year?"
"You're a lot older, why are you still young and frivolous? Well, I'll accompany you as long as you want." Zhongli said sadly, and walked out of the palace, Zhongli immediately summoned a person and whispered a few words in his ear, the man's face showed a look of shock, and after a little hesitation, he still left quickly.
This night, the most famous fireworks alley in Xianyang City was suddenly cleared by the Black Ice Terrace personnel, this night, all the wine shops in this alley, Qinglou, only received two guests, one is the general of the Qin State Meng Tian, and the other is the boss of the Black Ice Terrace Zhongli.
On the day, Meng Tian returned drunk, and when the red sun rose, there was a great mourning in the Mongolian mansion, and Meng Tian died of a violent illness.
Almost as soon as the news of Meng Tian's violent death reached the palace, King Qin Wulie in the Black Ice Platform also passed away amid Yingying's bitter crying.
All of a sudden, the people in the Qin State were panicked, King Wulie of Qin, Li Xin, Wang Xiao, Meng Tian, these pillars of the older generation of the Qin State left one after another, so that all the people of Qin had a feeling of impending disaster, until Hangu Pass reported that the general Lu Chao led an army of more than 100,000 troops had safely retreated to Hangu Pass, and Xianyang was a little more stable.
King Wulie of Qin He Bang, the fourth son Yingying ascended the throne as King Qin Wei. (To be continued......)