At the end of July, Qin Shi Huang's procession almost day and night without stopping, finally arrived at Hangu Pass, thousands of forbidden troops and accompanying officials, chariots and horses and honor guards stretched for more than ten miles like black clouds, and hundreds of officials of Sanchuan County had already received an order to greet them in front of Hangu Pass.

After arriving at Hangu Pass, Qin Shi Huang's face sank like water, although he was tired from rushing for days, but looking at a group of trembling officials still couldn't help but be angry, and scolded the county guard Li You on the spot, and the Hangu Pass guard and the guard general had already been arrested and imprisoned by the forbidden army ten days ago, the emperor put forward the prison guard and the guard general Duwei proposed a prison to arrange Meng Yi to interrogate in public, and in fact, on the day when the emperor's edict arrived at the Sanchuan County Government, Li You had already arranged for the soldiers to take over the Hangu Pass, after night and day interrogation, Sure enough, it was discovered that the officials and soldiers involved in the pass had colluded with the bandits, so that a large number of bandits disguised as merchants and civilians gathered in the vicinity of Hangu Pass and waited, only waiting for the Qinghe Marquis to pass by and launch an attack, and most of these colluding officials and soldiers have been arrested and imprisoned, and some have escaped and disappeared.

Li You's report and the results of the interrogation naturally made the emperor even more angry, and ordered on the spot to kill more than ten officials and soldiers involved in the bandits, and then left Meng Yi to sit in Hangu Pass to continue investigating the details, and sent a large number of forbidden troops to arrest all the bandits who were implicated, and the news from the mouths of the injured bandits The masterminds behind the assassination were Ji Xin and Ji Bu, the two heroes in the pass, but Ji Xin had died in the canyon, Ji Bu escaped without a trace, and more than ten days have passed, Sanchuan County and Guanzhong have already been rumored, In this era when the news was slowly spreading, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to find Ji Bu and others, as long as they drilled into Taiyi Mountain, the gods could not find a trace.

Under the strict defense of thousands of forbidden troops and the lieutenants of Sanchuan County, the dense army guards traveled all over the mountains on both sides of the Hangu Valley to inspect the traces left by the ambushers, while the emperor rode into the pass and saw the traces left by the original ambush of Chen Xu in the narrow valley.

The boulders blocking the road had been carried out of the canyon, but the rock walls and ground on both sides of the canyon that were last mile long were full of splashed and dried blood, and the concrete pavement was full of potholes, and dozens of craters that had been smashed by boulders or blown open by grenades were still vividly visible.

Qin Shi Huang slowly walked through the mile-long canyon under the strict protection of a group of Xuanwu guards, his slightly chubby cheeks twitched continuously, and finally found the place where Chen Xu was attacked under the identification of local officials, and there was still a large area of dried and blackened blood on the concrete floor.

"Newspaper~~"

Just when the emperor inspected the Hangu Pass where Chen Xu was ambushed, several soldiers with command flags on their backs galloped from the direction of Xianyang.

"Your Majesty, Feng Xiang urgently reported that the recurrence of Qinghehou's poisonous wound is now in danger......"

"What?"

The emperor covered his forehead and shook his body slightly, but he was soon supported by the attendants around him, and a group of accompanying civil and military officials all felt that their hearts were suddenly pinched, and their whole bodies began to tremble slightly.

If the Marquis of Qinghe really dies, I am afraid that the emperor will lose his mind in an instant, and Great Qin will inevitably bleed into a river, and this will inevitably bring about a series of chain reactions caused by the shaking of the world, and Great Qin, who has finally settled down, may soon fall into chaos.

The sudden news made Qin Shi Huang distracted, and after staying in Hangu Pass for less than two hours, he set off again to return to Xianyang.

In any case, he needed to see Chen Xu again while he was alive, and he still had countless doubts or matters related to the future of Great Qin to get Chen Xu's guidance, especially the overseas catalogue of Hu of the Dead Qin presented by Fang Shi, which was like a thorn, as long as he thought about it, he was confused, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep.

This tour to the southeast, he very obviously felt the difference from the tour three years ago, in addition to the civil business travel to activate the people's cohesion, officials and hundreds of disciples also showed great excitement and excitement for the arrival of the emperor, all kinds of praise of the book and congratulatory table piled up more than ten carts, the gifts of the merchants are countless, and along the way the people carry pots and pulp filled in the road kowtow to kowtow to greet and send off, so that his emperor's mind has been greatly satisfied, and even in Wuzhong also witnessed the auspicious water, Get a rare black pearl.

All these changes are obvious to all, if it were not for Chen Xu's vigorous promotion of new farming methods and the invention of cement and steel, and the relaxation of commercial laws, according to the previous policy of the court, the people would still be in the same extremely depressed state as three years ago, just an oriental road and the increase in grain production in recent years have greatly promoted the prosperity and development of the people of Daqin, and also made the tax grain nearly double, and the great prosperity of commerce will also bring more taxes to the imperial court. These great changes in the people made the emperor and the accompanying officials feel indescribable all the way.

If Chen Xu died suddenly, then the emperor felt at a loss how to develop Great Qin in the future, he was used to many things being promoted by Chen Xu to achieve success, and all the successes made him, the Great Qin Emperor, get great support from the people.

"Chen Xu, I didn't expect you to end up today!"

Zhao Gao, who was wearing a mask, sat on the car, looking at the carriage of the First Emperor's Son of Heaven in front of him and Li Si who followed behind, and a vicious glint of joy flashed in one eyehole.

As long as Chen Xu dies, and then finds a chance to kill Li Si, then he can hide in the palace unharmed, perhaps......

Zhao Gao's thinking was very divergent, and he couldn't help but shudder slightly.

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In the southwest of less than three hundred miles away from Hangu Pass, there is also a Xiongguan, called Wuguan, if Hangu Pass is the key to the Central Plains, then Wuguan is the throat leading to Chu, the same more than ten zhang of the city wall and the city tower are like a gate located in the steep canyon, the Wuguan gate is dead, the Great Qin attacked the Chu State twice, all of them were soldiers out of the Wuguan long drive straight into the hinterland of the Chu State, so that the Chu State that has no danger to defend can not be stopped at all.

A caravan that often traveled back and forth between Xianyang and Chu successfully exited the pass after checking the waist card at the pass, and after traveling dozens of miles, it entered an extremely hidden mountain col.

There is a natural stone cave in the col, a group of men who speak accents from all over Guanzhong gather here, the first is a slender young man, about thirty years old, with a black beard and a white face and a long sword on his waist, he has a heroic appearance, it is the heroic Ji Bu who is famous in the Guanzhong, and there is a burly middle-aged man with a beard next to Ji Bu, carrying a three-stone hard bow, and a quiver hanging from his waist, and the arrows inside are all thumb thick, and his whole body is full of breath, and he looks like a killing god.

"What is the situation in Xianyang?" Seeing a few men dressed as businessmen come in, all the people in the cave stood up, and Ji Bu and the middle-aged man rushed to several people and asked.

"Brother Ji, Zhong Ligong, good news, Qinghe Hou has a poisonous attack, and I heard that he is dying!" A businessman lifted his hat and said happily.

"Haha, okay, it seems that Brother Zhongli had the foresight to guess that the Marquis of Qinghe would escape the ambush, but he still didn't escape Brother Zhongli's calculations, but it was a pity that the second brother was killed, and Bu's heart ached." Ji Bu laughed and sighed sadly.

"A certain poisonous arrow is soaked in the juice of aconitum grass for half a year, even if the tiger rhino elephant is hit by an arrow, it will die quickly, not to mention a person, although Qinghe Hou claims to be a disciple of the immortal family, and he got the dream of Taiyi Xianzun to teach the book of heaven in his dream, but after all, he is still an ordinary mortal body, even if he is punctured, the flesh will be poisoned, and a certain arrow is also smeared with acacia venom from Minyue, both of which are highly toxic to see blood and seal the throat, especially acacia Zi There is no medicine in the world that can detoxify, although it was blocked by a woman under the ambush that day, I thought I had missed ......," the burly man said with a grim face.

"Brother Zhongli's arm strength is world-shattering, and the arrows within ten zhang under the three-stone hard bow can penetrate the stone for half a foot, how can a weak body be able to stop it, since the poisoning of the Qinghe Marquis is now clear, Brother Zhongli still quickly returned to Wuzhong to inform the head of the Xiang family to prepare for an incident, hehe, the emperor is paraded, the Qinghe Marquis is poisoned and will die, and the court only leaves Feng Quji alone to control it, now is the best time to start an incident!" Ji Bu sneered excitedly.

"Okay, then for the time being, I will temporarily wronged Brother Ji and the others to hide in the mountains for a while, and then return to Wuzhong to pass Xiang Gong, once the incident is successfully captured, the big thing can be done!" The burly man clenched his fists and said.

"It's good to say, Ji has great respect for Xiang Gong, once he gets the news of Xiang Gong's incident, Ji will inevitably unveil the flag near Guanzhong to echo!"

"Brother Ji has a promise, he wins thousands of soldiers and horses, Brother Ji is waiting for the good news of a certain one, and nephew Xiang also asks for help to take care of it carefully, and say goodbye!" The burly man strode out of the cave, and soon rode away with a whip, and in the blink of an eye he rushed out of the valley and disappeared.

Seeing the burly man leave, Ji Bu shook his head slightly and sighed, "General Xiang Yan has been brave all his life, I can't imagine that my descendants are so unfilial, and I almost ruined Xiang Gong's big thing, you wait and don't let the little overlord get away, otherwise exposing our hiding place may be killed, and at the same time spread the news that Qinghe Hou was seriously injured and died!" ”

"Yes, I'll do it later!" Several people dressed as caravans also quickly left the valley.