In mid-April, Jianghan had already changed color, Heifu set up a separate central government, Huainan Chu people rebelled, and Shouchun was in danger.

At the same time, in Xianyang, Guanzhong, people have gradually accepted the fact that "the first emperor has collapsed".

As early as the beginning of April, after a two-month trek, Hu Hai and his party, who were not mourning, hurried and finally returned to Xianyang City through Hangu Pass. When they were in Sanchuan County, they had heard the news of Heifu's "resurrection" and led the Southern Expeditionary Army to rebel, and they knew that they couldn't hide it.

On the one hand, he did not expect that Heifu's rebellion would quickly burn the prairie fire, and on the other hand, he also saw that the sky was about to enter the summer, and there would be no funeral, and the body of the great Qin Shi Huang would stink even though it had been specially treated.

So Hu Hai consulted with Wang, Feng, Li, and his most trusted Zhao Gao, but decided to announce the death of Qin Shi Huang and turn the page of the empire as soon as possible.

For a while, Xianyang fell into a city full of weeping......

The first to cry was the people of the Qin Palace, crying low, accompanied by a heavy elegiac chorus, coming from Xianyang Palace, Zhangtai Palace, Ganquan Palace, these majestic but cold palaces, with boundless pressure, hitting the hearts of Xianyang people, making you at a loss.

As the news spread, this cry resounded in the streets and alleys where every Qin people lived.

Although the government has made it very clear that this news that made mountains and rivers whimper is made public, people are still quietly conveying this message.

A lieutenant came back from the outside and walked inside, and several village women who stood on weekdays rarely spoke saw him, and even uttered four words: "The first emperor is ......"

The lieutenant only nodded, and hurried home, everyone who carried the news believed that they had not slept well that night.

Qin Shi Huang ruled the Qin land for 37 years, for all Qin people, His Majesty the First Emperor is the sun in the sky, since he was a child, he has been exposed to the elders chanting "Your Majesty Long Life", and he also shouted, and has seen the majesty and majesty of the First Emperor many times.

Many people really think that the First Emperor can live forever and rule over their descendants for hundreds of generations.

But suddenly, the sun went down, and everyone was in a panic, like the end of the world:

Tomorrow, will the sun still rise?

Although the sun rose day after day, life did not seem to have changed since the death of the emperor. But during that time, Xianyang, which originally had excellent public security, had soldiers from the Weiwei Mansion standing guard with spears at all intersections, checking the passing crowds, and there was a lot of rumors.

Compared with the chaos caused by Gongzi Fusu a few months ago, the people of Xianyang are even more panicked, and their backbone is completely gone.

The Son of Heaven was buried on the seventh day, and seven days after the death of the first emperor was announced, he was buried and stopped for burial, called "funeral", and moved to the funeral room.

One day after the end of this ceremony, on April 18, the crown prince Hu Hai also officially succeeded to the throne as the second emperor!

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"Long live Your Majesty!"

In the Xianyang Palace, under the leadership of Wang Ben, the chief lieutenant, Feng Quji, the left prime minister, and the right prime minister Li Si, the ministers called for worship three times.

Although he was still wearing a layer of coarse linen clothes, Hu Hai was already wearing the sword of the Son of Heaven, and in front of the case was the jade seal carved by He's Bi, sitting on the imperial couch, looking at the civil and military officials through the twelve beads in front of him.

"No wonder Zhao Gao strongly persuaded me to fight for the throne, it turned out that sitting on this son was ...... feeling"

The grief for his father has been polished on the way home, and Hu Hai, who is only twenty years old, only feels fluttering at this moment.

Under the worship of the ministers, he felt as if he was a god standing among the clouds.

Thanks to the centralization of power by the First Emperor, no one is greater than the Emperor except God in the underworld, and even the so-called "providence" cannot bind the Emperor.

Kill whoever you want!

Do whatever you want!

With such a status, Hu Hai's dream: to know what is good for the ears and eyes, and to enjoy the poor, it is really simple.

Those treasures that once belonged only to his father and the emperor were rewarded with Hu Hai when he was in a good mood, such as the jade of Kunshan, the treasure of easy-going, the pearl of the bright moon, the horse of the slender detachment, the banner of the emerald phoenix, and the drum of the spirit dragon......

Now, it has become a private thing that he can play with at any time.

And those who are full of harem, wearing the hairpin of Wanzhu, Fu Ji'er, A's clothes, and the splendid ornaments, the father has been snubbing them, but Hu Hai will not waste it, and when the filial piety period is over, as long as there is a passing by, you can make it serve on the side and enjoy it.

When he was young, he liked to listen to exotic music such as "Zheng", "Wei", and "Sangjian", which could only be played by a huge court band, and no one could stop him.

Not to mention, the huge empire, the land of Kyushu, all kinds of things in the world, all living things, are all under his control!

Thanks to the system created by the First Emperor, even if a monkey or a fool ascends to this position, he can kill and take whatever he wants!

But Hu Hai also knew very well that he was not the first emperor, and his authority was less than one-tenth.

When Piao Piao Ran was over, he began to drum in his heart again, and his eyes looked at the faces of the towering crowns in the hall, and he always felt that the ministers did not think of him:

"How many people in this Manchu Dynasty can be truly loyal to me?"

After all, Heifu, who had just been named "Wuzhong" by the First Emperor and sealed the coffin, immediately rebelled after learning of his death! also openly denied the legitimacy of Hu Hai's succession, drummed up a false "edict of clothes and belts", clamoring to get rid of him as a rebel, and it was difficult to be Jingtian!

According to Zhao Gao, Heifu, a thief, has long been anti-minded, and has been arranged in the government and the opposition for many years, and his henchmen are all over the world.

And there are not a few people who sympathize with the eldest son Fusu, maybe they are hiding in the court, waiting for the opportunity to make trouble......

Zhao Gao also reminded Hu Hai that the Feng family, who was also a minister who took care of his life, should not be taken aside.

Now that the Feng family has the military power in the north and south, Feng Quji is the right prime minister, the head of the hundred officials, he is the wife of the elder brother's son, it is said that after the father and the emperor ran out of the Su, he once had the intention of establishing a son, this Feng family, will it be because of the birth of a different heart?

The prison army also reported that Feng Wuxuan lost two battles in the south in a row, Wuchang and Anlu, and was suspected of raising his own respect, although Wu Xinhou immediately sent his son Feng Jing back to show his intentions, but let the Feng family be too powerful, is it really good?

Although he inherited the throne by his father's edict, Hu Hai was still restless in his heart, and he couldn't eat sweetly and couldn't sleep at night.

On the first day of his succession, he appointed his only trusted teacher, Zhao Gao, as one of the nine Qings, and his younger brother Zhao became Zhonglang General, responsible for the security of the palace gate.

After making up his mind for a while, at least after he could sleep at night, Hu Hai ordered that the officials of the government and the opposition who were related to Heifu, such as Beidi County Lieutenant Zhang Han, Zhu Xia Shi Zhang Cang, and a farmer's cadre, all of them be arrested and imprisoned, regardless of whether they were good or bad!

But Zhang Cang was clever, he slipped away long before Hu Hai returned to Xianyang, and now he is missing, some people think that he ran back to his home in Yangwu County, and some people think that he followed the Daxia scholar "Su Shi" who left the Qin Dynasty, hid in the caravan of the Daxia people, and went west......

Hu Hai was furious, planning to create a big prison, drive out the traitor's henchmen, and even immediately take action to balance the Feng family, but in the end Li Si persuaded Hu Hai.

"The first major thing after Your Majesty succeeds to the throne is to deal with the aftermath of the former emperor in order to show his pure filial piety, so that the rumors of His Majesty's disobedience, unfilial piety and even father-killing spread by the black thieves will not be self-defeating......"

Legalists also pay attention to filial piety, and those who are accused of unfilial piety by their parents can even be sentenced to death on the spot.

Only then did Hu Hai have an epiphany, and he postponed the killing of dissidents, and paid more attention to the burial of the first emperor.

Because Qin Shi Huang himself canceled the ancient system of "sons discuss fathers, ministers discuss kings", Hu Hai could not choose another beautiful one to show his "filial piety".

According to the ancient rites, the Son of Heaven was buried on the seventh day of the seventh month, and was buried in July, although the first emperor died on the seventh day of the second month, but Hu Hai and others announced his death in the middle of March, so it was necessary to wait until the first year of the "second year" of the next year in October, and the coffin of the first emperor could be buried in the Lishan Mausoleum.

The construction of Lishan Mausoleum, accompanied by the life of Qin Shi Huang, he was 13 years old when he just ascended the throne in the first year of the reign of King Qin (247 years ago), the first brick of the cemetery has been laid, has been repaired for 37 years, because of the huge scale, not only the underground palace view, but also the ancient and peerless underground wonders, so hundreds of thousands of people have worked for several years, until today, has not been completed.

Hu Hai immediately asked people to stop all other projects in Guanzhong, and let the prisoners and men all go to Lishan, and gather the world's skilled craftsmen to contribute their skills. For a time, there were as many as 700,000 followers in Lishan, and the finishing works were accelerated.

Hu Hai also issued a cruel secret order to Feng Quji, who was overseer: "If it cannot be completed before July and the burial period of the former emperor is delayed, everyone from the overseer to the craftsman to the prisoner should die!" ”

At the same time, Hu Hai also issued an edict to repair the temple for the first emperor, the ancestral temple of the Son of Heaven in ancient times was seven temples, worshipping seven generations of ancestors, five temples for princes, three temples for doctors, and canceling sacrifices from generation to generation.

But Hu Hai believes that the merits of the First Emperor exceed the three emperors and five emperors, and also exceed all the descendants of later generations, so the Temple of the First Emperor is the ancestral temple of the emperor, which is supreme and cannot be destroyed even after ten thousand generations!

It has only been two days since he succeeded to the throne, and Hu Hai has made this series of actions, and Hu Hai is trying to prove his legitimacy.

But on April 19, there was a news from Wuguan to Guanzhong, so that he could no longer sit in peace:

"Wuxin Hou Feng has no choice but to die and the army is overthrown, and the traitor Heifu has occupied Jiangling!"

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"The dignified Marquis of Wuxin, I gave him trust and gave him the right to transfer troops in the entire Huaihan Prefecture, but he was defeated by a mere traitor? Is this incompetence or deliberate thieves? ”

Hu Hai was furious, this was already the third big defeat, the Wuchang battalion was not saved, and more than 20,000 people were thieves. Then, the 50,000 thieves of Anlu also called Heifu to take it back.

It's just three things, Feng Wuxue has repeatedly promised that he will definitely annihilate Heifu and his henchmen in Jiangling City - this is also the reason why Wuxin Hou does not defend the city and fights in the field, if he lets Heifu escape again, the court will have to change generals!

Now, Lao Feng is dead, Jiangling is lost, and several counties in Jingzhou have fallen one after another. Hu Hai, who was bent on enjoying peace and happiness after becoming an emperor, suddenly found that the southern frontier of the empire he had just inherited was already on fire, and it was gradually burning the prairie and could burn towards Xianyang at any time.

That night, he even dreamed of a black shadow that pulled himself off the throne and killed him with a sword!

Hu Hai then summoned Zhao Gao overnight to ask for advice.

"Lang Zhong ordered, the black thief has become a climate, and if it continues like this, the trouble of elbows and armpits will be in the heart, and I want to send troops to exterminate it immediately, but I don't know who to ...... general."

With Zhao Gao knowing, Heifu must be stopped, otherwise he and Hu Hai will be at risk of death, and the rebellion must be quickly quelled and dragged on.

"Heifu is known as a good general, and has been praised by His Majesty the First Emperor many times, and now the Great Qin generals have withered, and even the Marquis of Wuxin has been defeated, according to the old minister, looking at the world, there are only three people who can command the army and fight against Heifu!"

Hu Hai asked urgently: "Which three people are they?" ”

Zhao Gao said: "One of them is Meng Tian, Tian once commanded 300,000 soldiers and civilians, and built the Great Wall in the north to chase the Huns. ”

Hu Hai shook his head: "Meng Tian can't do it, he once let Fu Su go privately, and was imprisoned by his father, he must be dissatisfied with his father for making me the crown prince, let him command the army, I am afraid that he will collude with Heifu, I will not kill him, it is already a great mercy......"

Zhao Gao was deliberate, he guessed that although Hu Hai had not yet been killed, it was impossible to trust the Montessori brothers, and this temptation was indeed so, so he continued: "The second is Li Xin, Li Xin is the first emperor's favorite general, good at riding, repeatedly performing miraculous feats, and Heifu is called the black dog and white horse, if he and Heifu confront, he should be able to win." ”

Hu Hai still thinks it's inappropriate: "Li Xin also has a close relationship with the black thief, not to mention that he is far away in the Western Regions, and now he doesn't know where he is." ”

When Zhao Gao mentioned Li Xin, he reminded Hu Hai that he felt that the west was not safe, not only did he not want Li Xin to crusade against Heifu, but he also decided to send people to the Western Regions to chase Li Xin and his tens of thousands of people back! Only by imprisoning Li Xin can you rest assured.

As a result, only the last one remains, and in fact, the only candidate!

Zhao Gao smiled meaningfully.

"This person is the number one player today! He once commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, gathered like a cloud of soldiers, and broke the enemy like a thunderbolt. In comparison, Li Xin, Meng Tian, and Heifu are all juniors, and they are not even worthy of attaching a tail to them! ”

"This person has been a general for more than 30 years, and he has made great achievements, including destroying Wei, breaking Chu, dying Yan, and descending Qi! In terms of meritorious titles, it is no less than Wu Anjun and Marquis Wu Cheng (Wang Jian)! ”

"He is His Majesty's wife, the auxiliary minister of the emperor, the Great Qin Taiwei, the Marquis of Tongwu, and Wang Ben!"

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PS: There is still only one chapter today, and the fifth volume will end tomorrow.