"I'm going to beg! I was wronged! ”

In the hall of the county government of Jiujiang County, an interrogation was coming to an end, and the warlock Hou Sheng repeatedly shouted grievances, but Ye Teng, the court lieutenant sitting in the hall, was indifferent.

"If the township judge is unfair, he can beg to bow to the county, and if the county judge is unfair, he can beg to the county, and if the county judges the unfairness, he can beg to the court again......"

This is the review system of the Qin Dynasty, but if Tingwei, the "Supreme People's Court", directly convicts the guilty, the suspect will no longer have the possibility of begging for a review!

Hou Sheng did not give up, this magician who studied medicinal stones and immortality for a lifetime, his voice became hoarse: "I want to personally meet Your Majesty and state my grievances, those things that colluded with assassins and traitors were all plotted by Lu Sheng, Han Zhong and others, I don't know anything!" ”

"You are the same as a magician, such as a neighbor, complicity is a crime, knowing and not reporting is a crime, not knowing is also a crime, it is enough to be connected!"

But Ye Teng just sneered, and let Hou Sheng be taken back to the dark cell, and he was relieved, this big case that shook the world could finally be closed.

The evidence provided by Jiaodong and Linzi was actually only the last straw for the conviction of the magician.

As early as March, after the assassination of Qin Shi Huang in Langya Junan, Tingwei regarded this case as the most serious case of rebellion since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Not only do they have to hunt down the fleeing assassins and find the mastermind of the assassination, but they also have to find out who leaked the emperor's whereabouts and car inside!

Because of the coincidence, the assassin not only knew the route and time of the emperor's car, but also directly hit the emperor's vehicle.

"There must be a ghost inside!"

Tingwei Ye Teng was so sure that he could know that the emperor was riding, and only the people closest to the imperial car were the closest to him, so the thousands of people who accompanied him that day, from the ministers of Jiuqing to ordinary Lang Wei and the coachman, almost all of them were investigated by the black-clothed officials of Tingwei.

As Li Si's successor, Ye Teng must show his shrewdness and ability, and in terms of prison, he is no less than his predecessor.

Therefore, the Imperial Lieutenant Office was very efficient, and on the 10th day of Dasuo Tianxia, after distributing a batch of printed pictures of assassins to various places, the identity of the Hercules who attempted assassination and committed suicide after the battle gradually became clear: there was a Tingyi report, saying that this person had been haunted in Linzi and other places, he pushed a chariot, dressed as a slave, and walked around with a middle-aged merchant, and later the two went to Xue County in Jibei, and then went to Langya from Xue County......

Strange people, even if they are disguised, but if they see it once, they will not forget.

Seeing that the case had been settled, the Tingwei Department was overjoyed, but unfortunately, it encountered the rebellion of Linzi County and Jibei.

In the chaos of the war, everything was chaotic, and the court officials could not carry out an investigation, so they had to wait for Heifu to set Linzi and Gaotang, and the court lieutenant immediately sent people to the local area to investigate thoroughly. However, because of the turmoil, the people were dispersed, the pavilion was destroyed, and it was very difficult to investigate and collect evidence.

Fortunately, Ting Wei decided that after the assassination, the Zhutian rebellion followed, and the two must be related. Ting Wei tortured the captured traitors and pirate leaders, and learned the following news:

The "middle-aged businessman" who was suspected of assassination was called Zhang Liang, a Korean nobleman, the fifth generation of the family, this person has always been obsessed with the restoration of Han, after the Xinzheng Rebellion, he ran to the east, wandering between Qi and Chu. After the death of Qi, Zhang Liang crossed the sea to Shamen Island with Yongmen Sima and others, but did not stay long, and further went to the Canghai Jun on the other side of the sea to take refuge, and a few years later, he returned through Shamen Island......

Ye Teng immediately confirmed the assassination case: so this was an assassination conspired by Canghai Jun, Zhutian and the restoration forces of the Six Kingdoms!

As the interrogation deepened, the people who delivered the news of the emperor's royal drive to this group of traitors, and even spread rumors afterwards, also surfaced.

"Warlock!"

The arrest operation was carried out immediately, and until now, Qin Shi Huang's royal car is still followed by many magicians......

The first to bear the brunt was naturally Hou Sheng, but this guy who was bent on refining the elixir of immortality was actually ignorant of these things.

The most suspicious ones are Lu Sheng and Han Zhong, but as early as when Qin Shihuang left Jiaodong and Langya, they resigned one after another, under the pretext that they went to famous mountains and rivers to collect medicine.

Even with An Qisheng, who was on Zhifu Island and almost fooled Qin Shi Huang, as early as when the emperor left Jiaodong, he also left a letter, saying that he traveled all over the world to find elixir for the emperor, and also left the two hundred gold given by the emperor in the museum as it was, and left a pair of "red jade shoes", which looked mysterious.

At that time, the emperor thought that he was a god, and he was a little regretful, but now that he looks, this old guy is also running away in a hurry!

Ye Teng immediately issued an arrest warrant, ordering all counties to search for the whereabouts of Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, and An Qisheng. But only caught Han Zhong's disciple in Chen County, and the disciple truthfully confessed that Han Zhong had been in contact with a "middle-aged businessman" in the past few years, and it was probably Zhang Liang!

Even Han Zhong's identity was revealed, and it turned out to be a branch of the Korean clan!

In addition to participating in the assassination, other crimes of the Fang Warlock were also identified one by one, such as some Qi local warlocks made false prophecies for Zhutian, saying "Tian Dangfu, Xian Dangjun", which means that the Tian clan wants to restore the country, and Xianyang of the Qin Dynasty will suffer the same fate as the famous city of the Six Kingdoms, and the evil words will confuse the public.

When reporting the case to Qin Shi Huang, Ye Teng said: "His generation has already harbored ill intentions, or because of his trip to Jiaodong, the warlock was reprimanded and had resentment, so he conspired with Tian Rebellion and the assassins!" ”

In hindsight, all the actions of the warlock looked suspicious, such as Hou Sheng and Han Zhong wanting to refine the "immortal medicine" and wanted to persuade Qin Shi Huang to take it, who knows if this is poison?

And when the emperor was unwilling to take it easily, the sorcerer used the excuse of lack of materials, and he had to refine the rare mineral elixir in the world, which was obviously delaying time.

When they were in Jiaodong, they had been encouraging Qin Shi Huang to go to sea on a big ship, and the overseas was unpredictable, and there were even Haikou lurking, putting the Son of Heaven in danger, and his heart could be punished!

Not long ago, after Qin Shi Huang did not catch the big tripod in Pengcheng, there were even rumors among the people, in fact, he found the tripod, and when he was about to salvage the tripod, a dragon head in the tripod stretched out, bit off the rope that tied the tripod, and the tripod sank underwater, and there was no trace, which was the omen that the emperor was not virtuous, should not be the son of heaven, and could not gather the nine tripods......

I'm afraid this incident was also made up by the magician!

Qin Shi Huang hated deception and betrayal the most, so he was furious.

"I have a lot of respect for Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, etc., but they have bad intentions and want to collude with the rebels to plot assassinations.

So, following the coercion of the law, another decree that shocked the world was issued from the palace of Shouchun City!

"All the counties in the world, for the magicians, the words of the immortals, all arrested!"

The arrest was followed by harsh interrogations and the sorcerers reporting each other's misdeeds.

This investigation doesn't matter, in order to survive, Fang Warlock began to expose his division commander and friend's so-called "Fang Immortal Dao", which is actually a trick to deceive people, and the true faces of this group of immortal people have been revealed one after another.

Of course, there are also people like Hou Sheng who are too deep in the drama and insist that he has quickly refined the elixir of immortality and can make the emperor immortal.

However, in more than ten days, the four counties of Qidi, Donghai County, and Jiujiang County arrested more than 460 magicians who violated the ban, and all of them were brought to Shouchun to wait for the emperor's fate.

Qin Shi Huang didn't want to listen to this group of people's grievances, so he ordered all the people to be pitted, so that the world would know about it, so as to punish future generations!

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In the thirty-second year of Qin Shi Huang, on the first day of the eighth month, outside the south gate of Shouchun, there was a sea of people, after everyone was looking forward to it for a long time, more than 400 Qi Chu Fang warlocks were taken outside the city by the Qin soldiers, stripped of their clothes, tied into zongzi, and pushed into the pit and buried alive.

As the sand and soil sowed down little by little, the cries and begging for mercy were endless for a while, and this group of people who were looking for immortality could not even save their lives at this moment. There were also a few people who were not afraid, but laughed and began to close their eyes and exercise, intending to use the technique of "turtle breath" to survive in the solid soil, so as to prove to the emperor that they had real skills.

It's just that after waiting for the incident, Qin Pawn threw away the soil, and these guys had already distorted their faces and their bodies stiffened......

Hou Sheng, as the head of the magicians, was sentenced to an even more cruel car crack and executed in Nanshi.

After knowing that he had begged for nothing, Hou Sheng was not afraid, and he calmly said that he had taken the immortal medicine that was supposed to be offered to the emperor long before he was arrested.

"I'm immortal now!" He was convinced of this.

But on the day of the execution, the officials were surprised to find that Hou Sheng was already half dead, his face was blue and dying, and he asked the doctor to check it.

This confirmed the charge that the warlock was refining poison and wanted to murder the emperor, but until this time, the weak Hou Sheng still muttered to himself, saying that even if he was torn apart by the car, he would be able to come back to life five days after death, which was the magic of Fang Xiandao.

He was immediately torn into four or five pieces by the tremendous force of the chariot and horse, and his stomach was torn apart. The county of Jiujiang County was still a little curious, so he asked people to collect his body, put it in one place, and go to see it every day.

But five or six days passed, and I saw only that the flies and maggots were increasing day by day, rotting and stinking, but there was no sign of "resurrection" at all.

Jiujiang Juncheng was disappointed, and asked people to throw the body out to feed the dogs, and the wild dogs ate Lu Sheng's flesh and actually died......

Everyone said that what Hou Sheng refined was probably not an immortal medicine, but a quick death medicine......

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It was not only the local people who watched the grand occasion of this "pit warlock", but also dozens of doctors and Confucian students such as Shusun Tong, who all looked at the dead and silent former colleagues in the pit and trembled.

Uncle Sun Tong was afraid, and when Zhutian raised an incident, his master Kong Kun was so happy that he almost went over with the family ritual utensils, but was persuaded by his uncle and grandson Tong.

Sure enough, soon, Zhutian's move was in trouble, and he was driven all the way west by Jiaodong County Shouhefu, and finally collapsed in Gaotang, which only lasted for more than two months.

There were many Confucian scholars in Qidi, but most of them were intelligent, they believed that Qin Shi Huang's dictation was true, that the emperor was not dead, and that it was unwise to rebel, although they were also victims of the imperial court policy, but they did not mix in.

Therefore, after the investigation, only a few Confucian scholars who could not see the situation clearly and followed the Tian brothers were executed. This is an individual act, and the emperor did not connect the entire Confucian group, but just killed the chickens and monkeys, so that they could see with their own eyes how the nonsense magicians died.

The effect was very good, and Dr. Confucius, who survived, trembled on the edge of the pit.

It has been a year since Qin Shi Huang began his eastern tour, and this long eastern tour was strongly encouraged by the Confucian scholars, hoping to lead the empire onto the road of "royal road" and strengthen the Confucian students' right to speak, but the whole process was like a nightmare for them.

Sealed Zen, banned books, rebellion, pit warlocks.

From a hundred flowers blooming, to being silent.

Everyone now understands that summer is over and winter is coming......

After this incident, there was no Confucian scholar who made any more noise, and they became quiet, and everything was only obeyed by the emperor's orders, and the voice of flattery replaced the past words of the past and not the present.

But the emperor was not happy because of this, in the past few days, he has been depressed and happy, almost deceived, it is an experience that the emperor will never forget, and it is a great shame in his life!

After this incident, Qin Shi Huang sent people to seek immortals at sea and refine the immortal pill, which was completely dead, and the only hope for "immortality" seemed to be the Western Queen Mother State of the Western Regions.

As for the East China Sea, his only idea now is to let the territory of Great Qin, with the East China Sea in the east, and cross the boundless ocean, and punish the "Canghai Jun" and its small city-states on the other side, and those remnants of the Six Kingdoms who would rather flee to the land of Jiuyi than submit to Qin!

The emperor said in the edict to Jiaodong: "The chaos has been calmed, but Jiaodong County should not be slack, although the group of Kou is fixed, the sea waves are not peaceful, and the Canghai Jun on the other side of the sea is plotting to assassinate the great rebellion!" Let Heifu continue to govern the county, restore the people's livelihood, and make Ren Huan train and build ships, and within a year, I will level Korea and the sea! ”

The edict was issued, the matter was over, and Qin Shi Huang was about to continue his journey.

Immortality is not easy, the road is difficult, Qin Shi Huang is still strong now, although there are some minor problems in his body, but it is harmless, he will not stop his steps because of a few praying mantis that are not self-sufficient, a little fly buzzing!

On the map, Qin Shi Huang stretched out his hand and designated the next stop of his tour, which was the former wilderness, the southern frontier of the empire, a young but thriving county.

At the beginning of September of the 32nd year of Qin Shi Huang, Nanchang City, Yuzhang County, ushered in the car of Qin Shi Huang......