Sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy!

Chen Xu watched the forbidden army drag Ao Ping and Shang Tu away directly, and couldn't help but feel a little afraid of Meng Yi, an old handsome guy, and his heart was slightly hairy.

As the saying goes, revenge is not revenge, but Meng Yi's means of avenging his son are too vicious, and he endured it for more than a year, and then broke out a big move to kill with a direct blow, burying all three clans of the Ao family.

There was silence in the court, everyone was terrified and didn't know what to do, Zhao Gao, who was standing next to him, lowered his head, but his fists were clenched, his body trembled slightly, and his teeth chattered.

"Mrs. Zhao, are you feeling unwell? Do you want to go home and rest first? ”

Chen Xu was also in a much better mood at this time, and couldn't help but care about his biggest enemy, his voice was not loud, but the entire court heard it clearly.

"Multi-...... Thank you Qinghehou for your concern, Gao ...... Noble and good, just a little cold...... ...... coldly, "Zhao Gao didn't dare to raise his head at all, if he looked up at this time, everyone could see his face distorted by extreme fright.

"Hehe, that's good, the weather is cold, don't suffer from the wind chill!" Chen Xupi retreated to the front of his chair without smiling.

"Fortunately, Meng Qing found out these two rebellious ministers and thieves for me!" Qin Shi Huang's mood also slowly calmed down at this time, although his face was still cold, his tone was much calmer.

"Thank you Your Majesty for the compliment, this is the duty of the minister!" After Meng Yi saluted, he retreated to his seat with a blank face.

"Ma Teng, this time you cooperated with the Marquis of Qinghe to find out about Shang Qi and others causing trouble in the factory, and also dug up two rebels for me, I want to reward you, say, what reward do you want?" Qin Shi Huang looked at Ma Teng, who was still kneeling under the main hall, and said.

"Your Majesty, the grass people want to ...... I want to ask for ......" Ma Teng raised his head excitedly, secretly glanced at Chen Xu when he spoke, looked at Chen Xu and shook his head slightly, quickly swallowed back what he wanted to say, and changed his words, "I want to ask Your Majesty for an official position!" ”

"Yes, you go home first and wait for the news, tomorrow there will be an edict from the confessor to your house to announce my edict, although your uncle Ma Boyuan committed a crime, but it has nothing to do with you, and he will do his duty in the future!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After prostrating with tears in his eyes, Ma Teng left the main hall under the guidance of the confessor.

"Your Majesty, the craftsman Shaofu is the pivot of the country, and one day must not be left without an owner, and please ask Your Majesty to select and appoint meritocracy, otherwise I am afraid that the following offices will be in a mess!" An old man in his fifties with gray hair stood up and said.

"Right Zhonghou is right, the minister seconded it!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

Several officials stood up one after another to support the old man.

Qin Shi Huang nodded slightly and then looked at the two prime ministers, Feng Quji stood up and arched his hand: "The right middle candidate Zaihong Lao Cheng is serious, he is an old minister of the two dynasties, and he can be an order!" ”

"The minister seconded the proposal, and at the same time, the minister elected the Marquis of Qinghe to temporarily take the post of Zuo Zhonghou, so that he could personally coordinate the manpower of the Academy of Sciences and the Craftsman Shaofu, so as not to reappear in today's situation, so as not to spoil His Majesty's major affairs!" Li Si also stood up and said.

"Quasi~" Qin Shi Huang agreed without the slightest hesitation, and the answers of the two prime ministers were completely in line with his appetite.

"Thank you Prime Minister Zuo, thank you Your Majesty!" Chen Xu saluted Qin Shi Huang and Li Si next to each other.

To be honest, Chen Xu was a little surprised, I don't know why Li Si suddenly pushed him up and let him become the second-in-command of the craftsman Shaofu, although he didn't want to be an official, but with this position, it is indeed like what Li Si said, in the future, there will be a lot less constraints on coordinating craftsmen and manpower, and you can have the final say in selecting and employing people, and you don't have to worry about someone secretly stumbling up.

In the next court meeting, Chen Xu didn't have much interest.

Today, he was able to get rid of a group of people who were making trouble in the factory and the Academy of Sciences, in fact, Chen Xu was already very satisfied, but he didn't want to make his own moves, but instead fulfilled the old fox Meng Yi, and directly took this opportunity to sacrifice a big move to kill the two bosses of the craftsman Shaofu, and by the way, he was also promoted to a not too small official, it can be said that he is the biggest beneficiary of this change in the court.

Old fox, old fox.

Chen Xu sat on the chair and listened to the court discussion, his mind full of recalling the fierce confrontation just now when Meng Yi gambled with the Nine Clans.

Meng Yi should have been aware of the identities of Shang Tu and Ao Ping, but because he didn't have a good time and excuse, he had never poked out the news, because if he couldn't get any pain points from Ao Ping on weekdays, I am afraid that Qin Shi Huang would not necessarily deal with it so harshly, after all, just a piece of paper and a sentence, there can be many explanations, because the meaning of these eight words of Ao Ancestral Motto is very strange, which does not conform to the characteristics of the current era, and does not have any direct meaning of rebellion, Because the last is a flip word, not a reverse word, the difference between one word, it can be said that the meaning is very different, so if you want to use these eight words to bring down a diligent Jiuqing, it will definitely not be so easy, or even if you move down, but you can't step on it to death, I'm afraid there will be many twists and turns in the future.

And it just happened that there were many accidents in the construction site in the past few days, and the things that he secretly inquired about were also closely implicated in Ao Pingshangtu, and after seeing the new harness and weapons created in the factory yesterday, Qin Shi Huang's reward for craftsmen was also unusual, a few craftsmen were just rewarded, and they also rewarded horses and slaves, which was unprecedented in Daqin, that is to say, the things developed by the factory have made Qin Shi Huang eager to sweep away the Huns.

And what Qin Shi Huang feared and hated the most?

That is rebellion and rebellion, and all those who dare to destroy his imperial foundation will only have one end, that is, death.

So after Meng Yi saw Chen Xu and Ma Teng forcing Ao Ping into a corner, he didn't say a word, used the lives of the three clans as a guarantee, stepped on it fiercely, and with his insight into Qin Shi Huang's thoughts, he completely smashed Ao Ping into meat sauce with a piece of unwarranted rubbing.

Chen Xu even had some suspicions that these eight words were made up out of thin air by Meng Yi, an old fox, in order to bring down Ao Ping.

Chen Xu also has an even more strange feeling, that is, these eight words may be the same as himself, from another time and space.

Otherwise, how could the Ao clan have such an incompatible strange ancestral teaching.

As for whether Ao Ping and Shang Tu are disciples of the Mo family, it doesn't matter whether they are disciples of the Mo family, even if they are, according to Qin Shi Huang's character, they will not be killed, at most they will be removed from their official positions and never hired, but a Mo disciple who may have an antipathy is completely different, he must die, and the cleaner the death, the better.

What a special Yi tribe! The cruel criminal law with Chinese characteristics, which was pioneered by Shang Ying, and then his own family tried this decree, can be regarded as a well-deserved death.

In the process of the development of China's one-family civilization, more terrifying derivative criminal laws slowly developed later, such as the five tribes, the seven tribes, the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the nine tribes, and even the ten tribes.

And he suddenly remembered a laughable costume TV series, there was a prince who rebelled, and as a result, the emperor was furious and wanted to issue a holy decree to punish the prince to the nine clans, but he was stopped by a minister who was still relatively sober, otherwise as soon as the holy decree came out, the emperor would be the first to cut off his head, because he was the prince and his father.

Thinking about it in a mess, Chen Xu suddenly felt that someone had poked him, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that Li Si was still poking his arm with a wat board.

"Oh, what's the matter with Li Xiang?" Chen Xu hurriedly asked in a low voice.

"Qinghe Hou, Your Majesty is calling you!" Li Si looked at him with a strange expression on his face.

"Ahh Chen Xu hurriedly stood up and saluted Qin Shi Huang, "Your Majesty forgives me, the minister was thinking about something else just now!" ”

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all looked at Chen Xu speechlessly.

Qin Shi Huang seemed to be interested, and asked with a smile on his face: "What is the Marquis of Qinghe thinking?" ”

"The minister is thinking that now the steel has been successfully smelted, and the construction of steel equipment has also begun to be familiar with craftsmen, but if you want to quickly promote it, it will take a lot of time, if it may take three or five years to pass through the country according to the previous way, so the minister is ready to recruit some craftsmen and warlocks who are proficient in writing and drawing to compile a book on steel smelting and building methods, and then print it out to pass the world, so that the copper and iron workshops across the country can quickly become familiar with it, and can also quickly train a large number of craftsmen. By the way, he also compiled the tools such as quyuan plows, rakes, horizontal rakes, wheelbarrows, shovels, iron hoes, hacksaws, etc., as well as stone grinders, steamers, iron pots, boiling sugar, papermaking, sauce, oil extraction and other daily necessities, as well as the production methods of steamed buns, noodles, dumplings, tofu, bean sprouts and other foods developed by the minister in the past, and distributed them to counties, counties and towns across the country, so that the people of the whole country can quickly know and understand, and craftsmen from all over the country can also imitate the production, so that the people of Daqin and Li can quickly use these things. I can also feel His Majesty's care for the people, and I must be grateful to Dai Deye! ”

"It turns out that the Marquis of Qinghe is thinking about this, I am accurate, but I heard that engraving printing is quite time-consuming and laborious, and I am afraid it will take a lot of time to get all these things out, I know that the Marquis of Qinghe has a fist, but there is no need to be so anxious, just now I just wanted to ask you, I am ready to start building a large number of iron-making furnaces and building horse harnesses and weapons, and I need Qinghe Marquis to make overall arrangements for me, where do you see where it is more appropriate, how many craftsmen are needed, how much money is needed, how many prisoners and slaves are needed?"

"Your Majesty is preparing to attack the Huns?" Chen Xu couldn't help but his eyes lit up.

"Yes, I saw the new horse harness and weapons yesterday, and I was also praised by the two generals Li Xin and Zhao Tuo, I am ready to quickly form a new horse pawn of at least 10,000 people, and sweep the land of Henan after the beginning of spring!" Qin Shi Huang nodded.

Chen Xu silently calculated in his heart and said: "Your Majesty, it is indeed difficult for the equipment of 10,000 horsemen to be prepared within three or four months, steel alone needs about 200,000 catties, and tens of thousands of pieces of leather to make saddles, and a large number of people are also needed to mine coal and iron ore, as well as a large number of craftsmen and helpers who are familiar with smelting, casting, woodwork, and tanning. Therefore, the minister suggested that it is best to prepare for a year, so that the minister can ensure that at least 30,000 new cavalry are equipped, and then go directly to Hebei in one go after the autumn of next year! ”

Qin Shi Huang shook his head with a slightly anxious face: "The land of Henan is my henchman, hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu have been nomadic here for hundreds of years, scattered and scattered, retreated and returned, like a vicious wolf to my Great Qin, constantly invading my northwest counties, not to mention that as the Marquis of Qinghe said last time, I arranged for 300,000 troops to garrison the northwest, and there are millions of soldiers constantly strengthening and building the city wall, the daily consumption is a bottomless pit, as long as I think that I can kill these barbaric Xiongnu, I am anxious and restless, So I can't wait another year! ”

"Xuan I decree, requisition prisoners and people to speed up the excavation of coal and iron ore, from now on, I have full authority to entrust the Marquis of Qinghe to build new harnesses and weapons, the world's craftsmen and slaves are all subject to its deployment, those who dare to delay without reason will be punished, before March next year, I want to see a force of 10,000 iron horses, I want to take advantage of the Huns' cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock can not move quickly when a large number of cubs can not move quickly!" Qin Shi Huang stood up and said loudly.