"Your Majesty, drink saliva."

On the evening of the second day of the seventh month, twenty miles north of Wangyi Palace, by the Zhengguo Canal, the son of Chang'an Junchengji, the younger brother of Qin Shi Huangdi, came over with a scoop of water and went to Hu Hai on his knees.

Hu Hai didn't drink the non-golden cup jade cup in the past, but now he has been running away for a long time, his throat is dry and smoking, but he is not so particular, he took the wooden scoop and drank it for a while, and choked himself, or Ziying thoughtfully stroked his back.

Hu Hai raised his head and looked at his clan brother with tears in his eyes: "I never expected that in the end, it was my clan brother who saved my ......."

Ziying's face, which was a little swollen due to a long illness, showed a sincere smile: "This is the duty of your subordinates." ”

The head of the family of Ziying's author's generation, a few years ago, as a prison army, went to the Heifu army, when Qin Shihuang toured south, Heifu cheated to death, Ziying "never knew through", but Hu Hai, who succeeded to the throne afterwards, did not blame this brother who had always been good friends with him:

"The black thief is cunning, the first emperor has not seen through it, let alone the baby who can't even tell a lie from childhood to adulthood?"

Hu Hai didn't want to pursue it, but Ziying said in front of people every day that he regretted the incident, and asked Hu Hai for punishment several times to let him be a commoner......

The more this is the case, the more Hu Hai trusts Ziying more and more, and makes him one of the "Zongzheng" of the Nine Qings, in charge of the affairs of the clan.

Although he was Jiuqing, Ziying was still very low-key, and when he saw Li Si and Zhao Gao, he had to bow from afar, no matter who looked at it, this was a timid and afraid elder of the clan.

In office, Ziying followed the rules and regulations, and said that if the new monarch succeeds to the throne, he will worship the mountains and rivers and temples, but since His Majesty is busy with government affairs and cannot do without Xianyang, he will do it for him.

Huhai Dayue, so for more than a year, Ziying traveled around Guanzhong, and thus cleverly avoided a series of political overturns in the Xianyang court:

When Feng Quji and Gongzi Gao had an accident, Ziying sacrificed to Chen Baoci in Yongdi.

When Li Si and Gongzi launched a coup d'état, Ziying went to the upper reaches of Jingshui to sacrifice Shuibo for Hu Hai.

It wasn't until after the incident that he returned to Wangyi Palace, and immediately got out of the car after seeing Zhao Gao and called him "Prime Minister", and actively escorted a group of sons and princesses to Gaoling to be detained.

Unexpectedly, the child who had been sick suddenly broke out, and outside the Wangyi Palace, with a group of children of the Gong clan, he launched a key blow with a chariot to capture Hu Hai, so that Zhao Gao's plan to capture the Son of Heaven and invest in the Six Kingdoms fell short......

Zhao Gao originally had more people, but when he was suddenly attacked, his cronies thought that Heifu was coming, and they made a mess, and they had no desire to fight, so they were scattered by Ziying.

He had no choice but to abandon Hu Hai and flee to the east, and after Ziying rescued Hu Hai, he did not dare to stay in Wangyi Palace for a long time, so Hu Hai and his queen went north to the vicinity of Zheng Guoqu before stopping at a pavilion to rest.

Seeing that Hu Hai's face was depressed, Ziying bowed down and said: "Your Majesty is talented and intelligent, otherwise the First Emperor would not belong to Your Majesty, he only hates Zhao Gao for being a traitor, isolating China and foreign countries, deceiving superiors and subordinates, and deceiving Your Majesty to this day, which makes the society collapse......"

"Yes, it's all Zhao Gao's fault."

After Hu Hai was enlightened now, he hated Zhao Gao, but he asked Ziying again:

"Zhao Gao has been plotting rebellion for a long time, and everyone knows about it, but I don't know, why didn't the public sue me earlier?"

Ziying was stunned for a moment, and sighed: "The minister didn't dare to speak, so he got it." The envoy said early that he had been punished by Zhao Gao like a guard and servant, and he had to protect His Majesty? ”

"Yes, yes." Hu Hai accepted the argument.

Ziying seemed to remember something again: "When Your Majesty left Wangyi Palace, the jade seal and the sword of the Son of Heaven could be on your body?" ”

Ziying's face was full of grief and indignation: "The jade seal has been taken by Zhao Gao, but the sword of the Son of Heaven is there......"

Saying that, Hu Hai looked at the little eunuch who had been following him and did not dare to leave, and what he was holding in his hand was the Sword of the Son of Heaven of Emperor Qin: Tai'a!

Ziying was relieved now, and glanced at Han Tan, a close confidant next to him: "Take him out, I have a secret to report to Your Majesty." ”

Here Hu Hai did not doubt him, and picked up the wooden scoop again, and sighed while drinking:

"Adversity knows loyal ministers, Hu Hai knows today, this huge court, the clan brother is the real loyal minister......"

But when he turned around, he was stunned to find that the courtyard door of this pavilion was tightly closed, and there were several cronies behind him, with their hands on the sword at their waists, looking at him unkindly.

"What do you want? Brother, they ......"

Hu Hai was shocked, but at this time, Ziying, who had fallen to the ground, also slowly got up, tidied up his clothes, and the cowardice and honesty on his face disappeared, but he changed to another look.

That was the perseverance and determination that Hu Hai had never seen his son and baby have for more than 20 years!

"Your Majesty, are you guilty!?"

……

From childhood to adulthood, whether it was a son with fine clothes and food, or an emperor who said that he was the same, Hu Hai never thought that one day he would suffer such a great shame......

He was pressed to the ground, his shirt stripped off, revealing white flesh, and his mouth was stuffed with a ball of cloth, and he couldn't stop screaming—even if he could, no one would come to his rescue.

And Ziying held a bundle of thorns high, stood behind Hu Hai, and said condescendingly: "The first emperor placed high hopes on you to make you the emperor, but you forgot the words of the first emperor on his deathbed in a blink of an eye......

"The first emperor said, after you succeed to the throne, you should appropriately reduce taxes, stop the palace, let the leaders of the Qianqian feel lighter, and then absorb some people from the six countries into Xianyang, re-set up a doctorate official, so that the hatred of the people of the six countries will be gathered in the first emperor, and praise the benevolent government of the second emperor."

"However, you did the opposite, intensified, and broke the promise of rent reduction, so that the reputation of the court was discredited, and no one believed it, and the world also swarmed and rebelled, which is also a crime!"

After that, Ziying raised the thorn high, Hu Hai was ready for severe pain, but unexpectedly, the thorn fell gently, like brushing away a speck of dust on Hu Hai's back, not painful or itchy......

The first emperor also said that it is necessary to guard against the Xiongnu, and the northern army cannot be weakened, so that the Hu people have a chance. Li Xin in the west does not have to be recalled...... But you sent someone to summon Li Xin, so that he broke with the imperial court, and withdrew the Great Wall to defend it, so that 300,000 border people were left unguarded, and Hu Lu broke the Great Wall and went south, wreaking havoc in Henan, this crime is also two! ”

"The first emperor said that the four ministers of Li, Feng, and Wang can assist the government, which can maintain the stability of the government and the opposition, and you can also re-promote Meng Tian and Meng Yi to compete with them, and then rely on Zhao Gao, Zhao Cheng and others around him to be the monarch, you can't do without your own ministers, but you can't listen to one person."

"You are close to the villain, far from the virtuous minister, let Zhao Gao, indulge in pleasure, indulge in extravagance, connive at his power, exclude dissidents, cause trouble to the court, punish Feng's family, kill his brother Gao, but he does not listen to the court for many years, which makes the national government corrupt! In the end, he left the country and lost his society, and this crime is also three! ”

On the same day, Qin Shi Huang issued an edict, and the child was beside him, and every sentence was remembered in his heart!

"In the past, King Chu Wen hunted Yunmeng, and he didn't rebel in March. The concubine of Dedan, who is obscene all day long, does not listen to the court for many years, and Bao Shen is flogged. Today, you are ten times more guilty than King Wen of Chu, but the first emperor has collapsed, your teacher Zhao Gaoben is a traitor, and Ziying, as the head of the clan, has to do it for you! ”

After three gentle whippings, he asked people to untie the cloth in Hu Hai's mouth: "Does it hurt?" ”

Hu Hai was shocked and angry at first, but now he has become weak-hearted, and he lowered his head and said: "It doesn't hurt......

"yes."

Ziying sneered: "The gentleman is ashamed, the villain is painful, the shame remains the same, what is the benefit of pain?" No matter what, Hu Hai, gathering the iron of Kyushu, is not enough to cast your big mistake, and the water of the great river will not save the Great Qin Sheji! “

"Rutian Capital is not stupid, if at the beginning of the succession, there was one-tenth of the first emperor's wrist, and he put his hundred and one minds on state affairs, it would be impossible for Heifu to break through the capital so easily, and now Daqin Sheji is like fish and meat, and Heifu is a sword, you really damn it!"

Hu Hai pursed his lips: "Since Hu Hai's crime is to death, why did the clan brother rescue me from Zhao's master?" ”

He thought of a possibility, and said in despair:

"Brother wants to sacrifice me to Heifu?"

"Nope."

Ziying threw the thorn strip: "Because, no matter what, you are the second emperor of Great Qin." “

"Therefore, it cannot fall into the hands of the Six Nations and humiliate the ancestors."

"You can't be captured by Heifu, and let him be humiliated."

A long silk was thrown at Hu Hai's feet.

"There is only one way to keep the last trace of dignity of Emperor Great Qin!"

Hu Hai stared at the white silk, trembling and trying to pick it up, but at the moment of touching, he shrank back as if his hand had been burned, his eyes full of fear.

"What, can't you do it? What a son! ”

Hu Hai shook his head and didn't answer, only turned around and closed his eyes.

"Brother, give me a ride......"

Someone approached, and then, the long silk wrapped around his neck, circled a few times, and someone pressed his hands and feet, and the long silk around his neck became tighter and tighter......

"Hu Hai, Your Majesty...... Do you have any last words? A familiar voice came from his ears, it was Ziying's own hand.

Death choked his throat, and tears overflowed in Hu Hai's eyes:

"Hu Hai...... Shameless, face ...... Father! ”

……

After a while, looking at the second emperor Hu Hai, who was strangled and died in the pavilion, Ziying looked at his slightly trembling hands and said:

"The supreme emperor is no different from the corpse of an ordinary person after death......

At this time, the door of the pavilion opened silently, and Ziying's confidant Han Tan entered the door, glanced at Hu Hai's corpse, and arched his hand:

"The queen has also hanged herself, lord, what should I do next?"

What kind of person is the lord, Han Tan knows best, as the son of the criminal minister Chang'an Jun, he has been obscure since he was a child, pretending to be stupid, otherwise how could he be more and more mixed?

Ziying joined the Heifu Army as a prisoner in his early years, and adhered to the idea of "Your Majesty is not King Chu Huai, there is no Zilan in the court, there is no Zhuang Ji on the front line, and my Ziying will never be Qu Yuan".

Even the cunning black man who was as cunning as a fox did not suspect him, and even cheated to death in front of Ziying, and although Ziying saw it, he pretended to be stupid to the end, and he was not guilty.

Sure enough, Qin Shi Huang and Hu Hai did not pursue Ziying.

Today's events are just a copy of the past.

Ziying pointed to Hu Hai's corpse: "Fake the appearance of hanging yourself from a hanging beam." ”

Han said: "Let history see ......"

"It's best to see it."

Ziying said with a smile: "I have to let the world know that Hu Hai was unwilling to be humiliated and resolutely committed suicide, but only Hei Funa must let him know that it is me, I have always been greedy for life and afraid of death!" Solved the Huhai ...... for him"

Ziying preserved the last vestiges of dignity of the Great Qin royal family, and did not delay seeking his own life.

The upper is worthy of the ancestors, and the lower is not affected by the family.

"Then it's time to wait."

Ziying walked out of the pavilion, it was a bright summer outside, and more than ten miles to the south, a puff of smoke and dust was billowing in—it was the chariot of the Black Husband's striker.

"When Heifu's vanguard chases this place, we will present Hu Hai's corpse, the sword of the Son of Heaven, and ......."

He messed up his hair, picked up a handful of ash from the ground, and threw it in his face, so that his face was covered with dust, and he looked embarrassed and depressed, and when he knelt beside the road and held the sword of the Son of Heaven high to greet the victor, he would also look even more cowardly.

"The honest elders in the clan are sick and don't know when they will die...... Baby's loyalty! ”

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