A horse-drawn carriage slowly drove out of the Xianyang Palace Castle and headed north in the twilight of the setting sun.

Lu Buwei, the prime minister of Qin, sat in the carriage, and the expression on his face looked like a dark cloud in the sky, so gloomy that it could rain at any time.

And then it really rained.

The dripping raindrops fell, crackling on the roof of the carriage and around it, making Lü Buwei feel a sense of isolation, he sat quietly in the carriage, the raindrops dispersed the hot summer air, and the carriage slowly became cooler.

This period of time is definitely very sad for Lü Buwei.

Due to the success of Cai Ze's plan to advocate war against Zhao, Cai Ze can be said to be proud of his eyebrows at this time, and he has been supported by Qin Wang Chu in many matters, and has repeatedly overwhelmed Lü Buwei's proposals.

As a result, the political situation of the Qin State, which had a clear advantage over Lü Buwei, was now slowly pulled back by Cai Ze.

If it is said that in the original political arena of the Qin State, the power of Lü Buwei and Cai Ze was 73 or even nearly 82 open, then now the relationship between Lü Buwei and Cai Ze has changed back to 64.

This made Lü Buwei finally realize one point, that is, no matter how good his relationship with Qin Wang Chu was, Qin Wang Chu was a monarch after all.

As long as he is a monarch, he will more or less use some imperial techniques, and the most basic of these imperial techniques should be checks and balances.

Although the current Lü Buwei's power is still the largest in the Qin State, whether it is Cai Ze or the Qin military that still makes it difficult for Lü Buwei to intervene, they are all the objects of great headache for Lü Buwei.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, the dense raindrops hit the carriage hard, the sound was several times louder than before, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the carriage shook violently, which made Lu Buwei startled, and subconsciously grabbed the window edge of the carriage, but the rain on the window edge instantly wet his sleeves.

Lu Buwei cursed, stretched out his hand to push open the door of the carriage in front of him, and asked the driver to find a place to hide, but thinking of the violent wind and rain outside, the half-stretched hand retracted again, and picked up the leather spread on the floor of the carriage and directly blocked the gap in the window.

This damn rain!

But fortunately, this situation did not last long, and after about a cup of tea, the rain slowly became lighter, from a downpour to a light rain.

Lu Buwei breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to push the window open a slight gap.

On the corner of the street not far away, there are three white linen cloths hanging on the wall of a house, which still looks very conspicuous even in the dripping rainline.

Lu Buwei's eyes widened, and he looked at it carefully, and it was indeed three pieces of cloth.

At this moment, a thick lightning bolt suddenly flashed in the sky in front of Lu Buwei, which made Lu Buwei startled and subconsciously closed the car window.

"Boom!" After a few breaths, the thunder came as promised, shaking Lü Buwei's eardrums.

Even though he had been mentally prepared for a long time, when faced with all this, Lu Buwei couldn't help but let out a long breath and muttered: "It's really an eventful time." ”

After returning to the house, Lu Buwei immediately called his henchman butler and said, "I am a little unwell today, it seems that I am feeling cold, so you should go to the hospital on the corner of the street to find that person to treat me." ”

About two quarters of an hour later, there was a knock on the door, and the butler appeared in front of Lü Buwei with a man dressed as a doctor with a medicine box.

Lu Buwei waved away the housekeeper, looked at the man in front of him with blazing eyes, and said slowly: "But Handan has another order?" ”

The man saluted Lu Buwei respectfully, and then said, "Returning to the monarch, it is not an order from Handan. ”

Lu Buwei's face sank slightly, and he said, "It's not an order from Handan, why do you use the highest-level code?" ”

The man took out a token and a letter, and respectfully handed them to Lü Buwei's hand.

Lu Buwei took these two things, first picked up the token and looked at it carefully, thoughtfully: "It is indeed the highest level token ......"

Lü Buwei put down the token, then picked up the letter, opened the fire paint on it, took out the letter paper and read it.

It was written very briefly in one sentence.

"Li Mu wants to break Xianyang City again, I don't know if you can help?"

Lu Buwei looked at the silk book in front of him and was speechless for a long time.

After a long time, Lu Buwei suddenly stretched out his hand, slapped the table hard, and shouted angrily.

"It's just nonsense!!"

Lü Buwei's roar was so loud that the Hu Yiwei man opposite him, who was actually a secret agent, was startled.

Lu Buwei shook the secret letter in his hand, and said to the Hu Yiwei spy in front of him with an angry face: "Do you know what is written in this letter? ”

Spy Hu Yiwei shook his head blankly.

Lu Buwei gritted his teeth and said: "This Li Mu actually wants me to cooperate with him to break Xianyang City again!" ”

The spy paused for a moment, and then said, "Your Majesty, if you can break Xianyang City again, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing, right?" ”

"Phew!" Lu Buwei snorted heavily and said, "How can this matter be so easy? There are 40,000 troops in Xianyang City today, and with the 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry in Li Mu's hands, do you still want to capture Xianyang City? ”

The Spy said cautiously, "Maybe we can follow the last plan to break the city......"

Lu Buwei shook his head irritably, and said, "Didn't anyone in Rudang think that the last time the city was broken? The last incident had already been noticed by Hou, if I hadn't been alert enough to cut off all the clues in time, you and Hu Yiwei and I would have died together in this Xianyang City! As the saying goes, there is one and there can't be two, unless the people of the Qin State are all fools, how can this matter be hidden from the people of the Qin State again? ”

There was silence in the room.

After a while, the spy Hu Yiwei said cautiously again: "But your lord, this token is the highest level, representing the will of the king......

"Of course I do!" Lu Buwei interrupted the words of the nasty ghost in front of him irritably, and said, "Otherwise, I would have told you to get out of this room!" ”

Spy Hu Yiwei was so scolded that he didn't dare to speak anymore.

Lü Buwei stood up and paced back and forth in the room with some irritability.

I don't know how long it took, Lu Buwei suddenly stopped, returned to the table and took out the silk paper, picked up the pen and wrote a letter with a swish, then sealed it with fire paint, and angrily threw the letter and token back into the hands of the Hu Yiwei spy in front of him.

"You asked him to bring this letter back to him, and tell him that if he can do it, there is still a slight possibility of things, and if he can't do it, then he should cross the Yellow River as soon as possible and go to the Central Plains to join the war!"