Chapter 623: The Past
But in half a day's effort, Lintun has been captured, even if the rest of Canghai Jun is fighting for trapped beasts, but the Qin soldiers did not have too many casualties, dozens of deaths, more than 100 injuries, this injury, not even more than a year ago, the army was reduced when marching in Liaodong......
The Qin soldiers were all happily cutting their heads, Fusu had long been accustomed to such a scene, and after letting the "medical soldiers" take care of the wounded, he ordered several captains to search Xiaoyi, and they were sure to find Canghaijun!
"To live to see people, to die to see corpses!"
Fusu knew that only by cutting off Canghaijun's head could he give an account to Qin Shi Huang, and this long expedition could be regarded as a final victory.
Soon, the two lieutenants reported that the captured exiles from the Six Kingdoms confessed that Canghaijun had died in the deepest tower of Xiaoyi, and the soldiers had found the body suspected of being Canghaijun.
Fu Su personally went over to see what was going on, Canghai Jun was not dressed like a barbarian, but like a Chinese person, neatly dressed, with a beard covering his chest, and a dried blood mouth on his neck, he committed suicide by swallowing a sword......
Fusu took matters into his own hands, beheaded him with his light sword, hung it above the flag, and told everyone:
"The culprit has been punished!"
"Canghaijun is dead, we can finally go home!"
While the soldiers cheered, the soldiers came to report to Fusu: "General, when Canghai Jun died, there were not only a few remnants of the Six Kingdoms around him, but there was also a Qin person, who said that he was the general's deceased and asked to see him." β
"Qin people? Do you still know me? β
Fusu frowned, he wanted to let the soldiers deal with the interrogation on their own, but after thinking about it, he still asked people to bring the "Qin people".
"Meet Childe."
Fusu rubbed the light Lu sword, and when he raised his head, he saw that the soldiers escorted a gray-haired old man over.
"Are you Qin?"
The old man saluted to Fusu from afar, which was actually the standard etiquette of the Qin Palace!
"Although the old slave was born in Chu, he grew up in Xianyang, and he is half a Qin person."
He did speak with a Xianyang accent, and it was a palace tone with a round tone.
Fusu put his sword across his knees and didn't get up, he has always been polite, and when he meets such a sixty-year-old man on the road on weekdays, he will stop and give way, but this person is different, he is a traitor, and with the status of Qin, he can't be forgiven.
"I don't remember such an 'old man' as you."
The old man smiled and said: "The son doesn't remember the old slave, but the old slave remembers the son. The Empress Dowager Huayang also likes her son the most, dresses her son in Chu clothes, teaches her son to speak Chu Yan, and is happy. When the Empress Dowager Huayang died, the son cried so much that he almost fainted, and Changping Jun and Concubine Mi both said that the son was pure and filial...... Right now, I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and the former son has grown into a great husband! β
Fusu was a little surprised, this person actually knew his mother, when he was young, he did often go to the palace of the Empress Dowager Huayang, so to speak, this person was actually a person in the Qin Palace.
The old man said again: "I am a Miao eunuch, more than 60 years ago, I entered Qin to serve the Empress Dowager Huayang......"
Most of the people with "prison" after their name are internal officials, Miao Jian , this name Fusu seems to be familiar, and my great-grandmother really liked to call a middle and internal official named Miao Jian back then.
Fusu was slightly moved, the Empress Dowager Huayang, the queen of King Qin Xiaowen, was very favored, although she had no heirs, but under the mediation of LΓΌ Buwei, she recognized a stranger, that is, the later King Xiang of Qin Zhuang as his son.
After the death of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, the Empress Dowager Huayang and the Empress Dowager Xia, the grandmother of Qin Shi Huang, plus the Empress Dowager Zhao, the third empress dowager was in charge of the inner palace.
During the rebellion, it was the Chu relatives represented by the Empress Dowager Huayang, who supported Qin Shi Huang to quell the rebellion, and afterwards, the Chu relatives were highly respected, Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun brothers were generals, and Qin Shi Huang was also under the auspices of the Empress Dowager Huayang, married Fusu's mother, the sister of Changping Jun, and Ji Mi, who was left in Xianyang by King Chu Kaolie, and this is what he ......
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and in the 17th year of Qin Shi Huang, the old queen mother passed away. After losing the backer, the relatives of the Chu family also withered like autumn leaves.
Fusu's mother died of illness first, and in the same year, Changping Jun was relieved of his throne, and he later defected from Qin and defected to Chu, becoming the last king of Chu......
The grievances and hatreds between Qin and Chu are like a knot, and Fusu is like the last fruit of these two entangled trees. Although since the death of the Empress Dowager Huayang, Fusu has never worn Chu clothes and spoken Chu Yan, but Qin Shi Huang still reprimanded Fusu, saying that compared with the prince of Qin, his temperament is more like a prince of Chu!
Fusu almost knows the story of this Miao Prison: after the death of the Empress Dowager Huayang, the tree fell and scattered, and after the death of his mother and the rebellion of Changping Jun, it was even worse.
In the past, Chu's relatives and their internal officials and maidservants who were invincible in the palace in the past have plummeted, and many people have been punished to work as coolies in the hidden palace. But there are also people who have guarded the mausoleum for the Empress Dowager Huayang for three years and escaped, and Miao Jian is one of them.
Miao Jian said with a smile: "At that time, Changping Jun rebelled in Chen Ying, Qin Chu was fighting, I didn't dare to go to Chu State, so I ran to Qi Land, but soon, Qi State was destroyed, so I could only continue to run, cross the sea to this barbarian land, and it was Canghai Jun who took us in." β
Fu Su bowed: "You asked to see me, to live?" β
"Did any of the people who betrayed the Qin Palace survive?"
Miao Jian said hesitantly: "Chang'an Jun, Fan Yuqi, Changping Jun, as long as they betray the emperor, the end will be very miserable, the anger of the Son of Heaven, bleeding and drifting, who shed the blood?" Naturally, it's us little people. β
He seemed to know his fate very well: "I am the punishment of heaven, and I will be far away." This is the Qin Shi Huang I know, if anyone touches the scales, his anger of the Son of Heaven, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, he can't hide! Canghaijun is dead, and I'm afraid we won't be able to live! β
Fu Su was silent, what Eunuch Miao said was right, they really had no intention of taking the captives back!
Eunuch Miao bowed again: "Eunuch Miao is over sixty years old, a crippled person, no children, no daughters, no worries, just thinking about the good of the Empress Dowager Huayang, there are two things, I want to take this opportunity to inform the son ......"
Fusu was very vigilant: "What's the matter? β
Eunuch Miao didn't ask Fusu to shield him left and right, and said directly: "In the past, LΓΌ Buwei had an affair with Zhao Ji, the daughter of the Handan clan, and knew that he had a body, but he deliberately asked for Zichu to marry, and also pulled the strings for him to make him fornicated. Zhao Ji hid herself, and when she was older, she gave birth to a son, and her son Chu then made Ji his wife......"
"Your Majesty, Qin Shi Huang, is not the son of King Zhuangxiang, but the son of LΓΌ Buwei! His name is Lu Zheng! β
"Ridiculous!"
Fusu was furious, stood up, and scolded: "This is the slander of the people of the Six Kingdoms, it is really ridiculous! β
This matter was spread before Qin Shi Huang succeeded to the throne, and it was passed on by Cheng Ji's mother, and the purpose was very simple, to prove that Qin Shi Huang was not worthy of succession, and that the king of Qin was naturally Cheng Ji, the second son of King Zhuangxiang.
This matter was suppressed by the Empress Dowager Huayang at that time, and when Cheng Ji rebelled against Qin and Zhao, it was circulated among the six countries, and was processed by the vertical and horizontal strategists and Jiayi, and the head of the story was the Tao.
Unexpectedly, some people still mention it today, but they are still from the Empress Dowager Huayang's palace.
Fusu naturally knows that this matter cannot be trusted, and it cannot be believed! And as a son, I can't even listen!
"Bring this thief down and cut out his tongue!"
He resolutely gave the order, but Eunuch Miao was still shouting.
"It's true that this matter is my hearsay, or it may be fake, but there is one thing, it is absolutely true!"
Eunuch Miao was dragged to the door, still twisting his neck, and said loudly:
"Fusu, do you know why your mother and concubine died? The palace said that she died of illness, but in fact it was not, it was Concubine Mi who bitterly advised Qin Shi Huang not to destroy Chu, but to no avail, Concubine Mi was strong, so she committed suicide...... It may also ...... It's death! β
"Let him go!"
The guard let go of Miao Jian, and the old man wanted to say that Fusu's light Lu sword had already collided and stabbed directly into his chest!
The sword penetrated into his chest, Miao Jian couldn't see it alive, his eyes widened, he especially remembered that in the palace of the Empress Dowager Huayang, Changping Jun taught Fusu to shoot in the hunting garden, and he was reluctant to kill even a deer, but now he is a general with blood on his hands.
Eunuch Miao looked at Fusu in front of him and exhaled his last breath: "Empress Dowager Huayang said that you look like a prince of Chu, in my opinion...... Not at all like ......."
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Fusu's sword was drawn, Miao Jian was angry, Fu Su had a gloomy face, and let people drag his body out, Miao Jian's purpose was obvious, he had escaped for so many years, and he pretended to be resentful, so he had to leave a thorn in Fusu's heart before he stopped.
But in Fusu's heart, that thorn has long been there, but it is buried very deeply.
He still remembers that in that drowsy morning, he touched the cold body of his mother, wept bitterly, and promised that he would eat every bite of food and would not save her life......
That scene, Fusu will never forget, if this scar was uncovered by Eunuch Miao two years ago, it may make him miserable.
But now, the sensitive and fragile naΓ―ve boy in Fusu's heart is dead.
Died in the march of 10,000 miles, died in the camp of the soldiers, and died in the dry treatment of looking at the sea in Hancheng......
Killed by his own hands, in this senseless expedition that outweighed the gains!
Fusu's heart will no longer be hurt by the gossip of these outsiders!
Even if it's true!
"I was ten years old at the time, and I already knew a little about the world, and I didn't know better why my mother died than a bystander like you?"
Concubine Mi is the princess of Chu State, and her last hope is that Qin and Chu can be peaceful, the Eighteenth Curse Alliance can have a good ending, and the world can be united in another way, instead of endless hatred, and people with the same blood will kill endlessly.
Mother's expectations, those occasional sighs, Fusu remembered in his heart, and he had been stubbornly practicing it for so many years. He hopes that the world can be truly unified, and the people of Qin, Chuyan, Han, Zhao, and Weiqi can be treated equally, instead of conquerors from above, and slaves who are always thinking about revenge......
Now he knows how difficult it is to do this, there are people who have countries and families, and they do not suffer from inequality, but it is almost impossible to be average, and sometimes, you have to sacrifice some people.
This is the knowledge that thousands of people who died on the road in exchange for this expedition.
From now on, Fusu is no longer obsessed with the flawless process, but more concerned with the final result, why his mother died, he doesn't even want to think about it.
It doesn't matter, it's all the process, it's not important at all, it's the result that matters!
This is what Heifu practiced in the two wars and taught Fusu.
"Let Qin and Chu be peaceful, let the world stop the war, and let the hatred subside. What my mother looked forward to but didn't see back then, Fusu will do it! β
Standing in this exotic land far away from the Central Plains, Fusu asked himself, he volunteered, and he was still the same!
"Even if it's as the Second Emperor!"