"Report, Xu Fudao sent someone to send a secret report."

A bloodied man was carried in front of Zhao Gao, one of the soldiers sent by Yingzheng to follow Xu Fu.

Zhao Gao stepped forward to investigate the man's injuries and found that although the man was covered in blood, he was not injured by someone, but fell from a horse on the way to the road.

The man opened his eyes, took out a piece of silk cloth from his arms, handed it to Zhao Gao, and fell into a coma, he was too tired.

Zhao Gao took the silk cloth in the man's hand, spread it out and saw that it was actually Xu Fu's letter asking for help, which said that Xu Fu was on the way to Xiandao, but encountered the way blocked by immortal beasts, and if he wanted to continue to move forward, he needed to sacrifice 3,000 boys and girls to successfully enter Xiandao.

Zhao Gao hurriedly took Xu Fu's letter of request for help to see Qin Shi Huang, and after Ying Zheng read the letter of request for help, he summoned Li Si and Meng Yi to discuss the matter.

Meng Yi and Li Si came to Xianyang Palace, and Yingzheng handed Xu Fu's letterhead to the two, and after the two read it, they were silent.

"Ahem, what do you think this matter should be?"

Ying Zheng coughed, these days, Ying Zheng felt that his body was getting weaker and weaker.

Meng Yi said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, the words of the immortals are illusory, and the fairy beasts are even more nonsense, and the minister thinks that Xu Fu is just a swaggering liar, Your Majesty should not trust this person." ”

"Otherwise, Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that Xu Fu's words still have some truth, since there are immortals in the world, then there are naturally fairy beasts, and fairy beasts need to be sacrificed, which is normal, anyway, there are only three thousand boys and girls, and three thousand virgins, as far as my Daqin is concerned, if they want to collect virgins and girls, it is just a matter of raising their hands, and they can sacrifice immortal beasts, that is also their honor, if they can really exchange the medicine of the immortal medicine for Your Majesty, then only a few thousand boys and girls, what is it?"

Li Si said with a smile, in his mouth, it seemed that sacrificing a few thousand boys and girls was as simple as sacrificing a few thousand animals.

When Meng Yi heard this, his face flashed with anger, and he said: "Prime Minister, since the Prime Minister feels that it is their honor to sacrifice immortal beasts, I wonder if the heirs of the Prime Minister's family are willing to enjoy such an honor?" To be offered as a sacrifice? ”

Li Si's face froze, and there was a hint of displeasure in his eyes when he looked at Meng Yi.

Ying Zheng watched his two ministers start arguing, and couldn't help but snort, Meng Yi and Li Si saw that Ying Zheng was angry, so they had to stop arguing.

Ying Zheng looked at Meng Yi and Li Si, a little headache, after Ying Zheng saw the power of the elixir of life, he no longer doubted the theory of immortals, so his heart was inclined to Li Si, as Li Si said, for Daqin, three thousand boys, three thousand virgins are nothing, Ying Zheng can levy hundreds of thousands of people for the construction of the Great Wall, or for the construction of the imperial mausoleum, hundreds of thousands of craftsmen, and now for the sake of immortality, sacrifice thousands of boys and girls, what is it.

Ying Zheng said slowly: "What the prime minister said is very reasonable, since this is the case, Zhao Gao, I plan to let Zhang Han collect the boys and girls from the people near Xianyang, and ten days later, send the boys and girls to the East China Sea." ”

Meng Yi was shocked, he had never seen the elixir, so he couldn't understand Ying Zheng's desire for immortality, he looked at Ying Zheng in disbelief, and didn't understand why Ying Zheng would believe in such nonsense as sacrificing immortal beasts.

Meng Yi opened his mouth to stop it, but Ying Zheng waved Meng Yi and Li Si back on the grounds that he was sleepy.

Meng Yi walked out of Xianyang Palace with an angry face, and walked straight towards Li Qing's mansion, he knew that Li Qing had always been witty, and wanted to ask Li Qing to see if there was a way to dissuade Qin Shi Huang.

After listening to Meng Yi's intention, Li Qing's heart sank, according to the records of later classics, Xu Fu took three thousand boys and girls to the sea, and after going to Dongying, he never came back, but with the help of the three thousand armor soldiers given to him by Qin Shi Huang, he defeated the Dongying natives and occupied Dongying.

Li Qing said: "Once Xu Fu goes, he will never come back." ”

Meng Yi asked suspiciously, "Brother Li, why are you so sure?" ”

Li Qing smiled and said, "Brother Meng, do you believe that people can really live forever?" ”

Meng Yi shook his head and said, "How is this possible. ”

Li Qing nodded and said: "Yes, since it is impossible for people to live forever, then Xu Fu's so-called elixir of life cannot exist, and if he can't take out the elixir, how dare Xu Fu come back to see the First Emperor?" Therefore, he should have collected the money, took the boys and girls overseas, and never returned to the Central Plains. ”

Meng Yi said angrily: "Damn demon Dao, I knew that when he entered Xianyang, I should have killed him with a sword." ”

Li Qing comforted: "The matter has come to this, Brother Meng should not be too angry." ”

Meng Yi sighed: "His Majesty the First Emperor built Chi Road, built the Great Wall, hundreds of thousands of people have died, plus the imperial tomb, how many people have died because of this, but whether it is the Great Wall or Chi Road, it can protect my Great Qin River and Mountains forever, although the people are dead, it can be regarded as a worthy death, only this time, Your Majesty because of Xu Fu's demon words, will let six thousand boys and girls leave their hometowns and go overseas, they are still children, this time, they will never see their parents and family again, what a sin." ”

Li Qing also felt a pain in his heart, Xu Fu's eastward crossing, for Li Qing, is just a historical story, but for the people of Daqin, it is a real 6,000 lives.

However, Li Qing can't do anything about it, don't look at Li Qing's status now, but compared with Meng Yi, Li Qing is still far behind, and now even Meng Yi has no way to dissuade Qin Shi Huang, even if Li Qing has the heart to prevent the tragedy from happening, he is powerless.

"Master Jun, let my child go."

"No, don't rob my child."

"Qin dog, I'll fight with you."

Zhang Han looked at the people crying everywhere, and a trace of unbearability flashed in his eyes, but Qin Shi Huang only gave him ten days, so Zhang Han had no choice but to forcibly take away all the boys and girls of the right age near Xianyang City.

Of course, Zhang Han couldn't directly say that he wanted to sacrifice these boys and girls to the immortal beasts, he claimed that the overseas immortals wanted to accept apprentices, so he deliberately selected these boys and girls to go overseas to be the disciples of the immortals, but even so, most of the people were unwilling to let their children leave them, and many of them had violent tempers, and they directly picked up the sticks and chose to resist.

"Let go of my children, or I'll fight with you."

A strong man carried an axe to chop wood and slashed at the Qin army holding his daughter, but before his axe could fall on the Qin soldier, he was nailed to the ground by another Qin soldier with a spear.

The rebellious people were suppressed, and in front of the Qin army, the strength of the people was too weak.