When Ying Jun and the others heard this, they immediately bowed to the ground: "The ministers are guilty, and they hope that the king will give them their sins." ”

Xiong Huai was furious and said: "Give sin, can you know what crime you have committed?" When the national disaster is at hand, you are the king of Chu and the lord of a land, and you should have lived and died with the country, but as a result..."

As he spoke, Xiong Huai's voice became extremely cold and said: "As a result, you wait for a good time, not only did you not kill the enemy to the death, not only did you not commit suicide and martyrdom after the defeat, but surrendered to Qin and Han after the defeat, but also shamelessly formed a coalition army to help the Qin State attack Xiangyang City." ”

At this time, the indignation in Xiong Huai's heart was already on the surface, and he said with hatred: "Tell me yourself, what kind of crime is this!" ”

Ying Jun and the others were terrified, especially Jiulijun and other eight people, because they had not obtained the head of the Qin general, their hearts were even more chaotic at this time, so they had to pause again and again: "Capital crime... Capital offense..."

After Ying Jun and the others wept for a while, Xiong Huai's face softened slightly, and then he spoke: "Fortunately, you still have a sense of shame, and you can wake up at the last moment, and you don't follow the rebel to make mistakes again and again, otherwise, the widow will destroy the whole clan to set an example." ”

When Ying Jun and the others heard this, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the King of Chu would not repent of the promise he had made before, and would fulfill the crime of exempting the extermination.

So, the ten people bowed together and said, "Thank you for the grace of the king not to kill." ”

Xiong Huai snorted coldly and continued: "However, capital crimes can be avoided, and living crimes cannot be escaped. If the widow has a word, he immediately abandons the darkness and turns to the light, avoids death, and fights the Qin army with all his might, so as to avoid the punishment of being demoted to a concubine. And wait..."

Jiulijun and the others were stunned for a moment, they wanted to fight to the death for the country, charging in front and retreating in the back. It's just that the decisive battle between Qin and Chu started at all, and the 40,000 Chu army they led only fought an encounter with Gan Mao's broken army, killing thousands of enemies and nearly 10,000 casualties, and then the war ended.

The decisive battle did not start, and the matter of fighting with the Qin army with all its might naturally could not be started.

It can't be said that 40,000 people attacked 10,000 Qin troops for more than an hour, even if they went all out.

I have to say this...

Maybe the king of Chu would kill them directly in a fit of rage.

There is also a limit to shamelessness, which is okay externally, but not internally.

Thinking of this, Jiulijun and the others suddenly turned to ashes, and it was inevitable that they would be demoted to the punishment of the concubines.

However, as soon as they remembered the news they had received from Yiling Jun, a surge of hope swelled in their hearts.

As he spoke, Xiong Huai swept over the crowd again, but they all fell to the ground and couldn't see any faces.

Seeing this, Xiong Huai shook his head, and then sighed: "It's just that you are all brothers and brothers of the widow, and your ancestors and even you and others themselves have contributed to the country." If the whole clan of you and others is reduced to a common man, and sent to a remote place to serve as hard labor, toiling day and night, and then dying of exhaustion, the widow really can't bear it.

However, it is difficult to violate the law of the country, and the widow is the king of a country, and he cannot ignore the law of the country. Is it because the widow hesitates in his heart, and he doesn't know why he can teach the widow? ”

"The king, the ministers..." When Jiulijun and the others heard this, they seemed to feel the helplessness of the King of Chu, and they seemed to be sad for their miserable future, and they couldn't keep their fiefs and even their titles no matter what.

Thinking of the sorrow, and then immediately wailed in the temple.

Then, Xiong Huai raised his hand, stopped everyone's crying, and slowly said under the eyes of everyone's teary eyes: "Moreover, there is something wrong with this matter. The widow originally thought that after the Qin army got the news, he would go to contact the rebel, and then let the rebel break off, and then you could take the opportunity to kill the Qin army as a friend, and then you could break the Qin army.

Unexpectedly, the Qin army walked so resolutely that they withdrew in the middle of the night, and they withdrew directly without any communication with you, resulting in no chance for you to fight with the Qin army. ”

As he spoke, Xiong Huai looked at everyone and sighed, and then said:

After learning about this, the widow thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a way to get the best of both worlds more than a month ago. Although the law of the country cannot be violated, it is not impossible to remove the status of a concubine, that is, to amnesty the world.

A few months ago, when auspicious weather fell from heaven, Taibu had mentioned this to the widow, but it was during the Great War, so it was not a good opportunity to grant amnesty to the world. Now that the six countries have retreated, our Chu country has won a complete victory, and the ministers and the people have many poverty in order to support the war, so the widow decided to announce an amnesty to the world soon after, so as to ease the hearts of the people and the ministers.

You can rest assured for the time being, this matter has already begun to be prepared by Taibu half a month ago, and you don't have to leave Yingdu when you wait, you can ask for the identity of the people. ”

At this time, when Ying Jun and the others heard King Chu's words, not only did they not breathe a sigh of relief, but their faces all changed.

They did not suspect that the king of Chu was lying to them, because with their crimes, there was no need for the king of Chu to deceive them at all.

Moreover, the king informed them of this at this time, obviously to appease them.

If the king didn't panic, then...

Yi Lingjun and the others are deceiving them!

Then, Taibu made a statement about amnesty to the world a few months ago, and the king of Chu decided to grant amnesty to the world a month ago, which instantly filled his mind.

The king had long planned to let them go, but Yiling Jun and others, who learned about the incident in advance, did not tell them, let alone let them go, but took advantage of their ignorance of the matter to force them to hand over their family wealth and private land in the name of lobbying the ministers to bribe the ministers.

As a result, after they handed over their family wealth, they were told by the king that the amnesty had already begun to be prepared, and there was no need for them to do much at all.

In other words, all the wealth they had worked so hard to manage was swallowed up by the Emperor of Yiling and the ministers of the court. It's okay to say that after losing the title of feudal king, they will definitely not be able to keep it.

However, the wealth they have operated for several generations, or even more than ten generations, has transferred most of the hidden wealth, and the wealth that is ready to make a comeback after restoring their civilian status has actually handed over more than half of it because of the deception of Yilingjun and others, in exchange for the civilian status of the whole clan.

And these didn't have to be handed over in the first place.

Thinking of this, everyone's faces suddenly distorted, and they gritted their teeth with hatred for Yi Lingjun and the others who asked them for their family wealth.

Falling into the well, peeling off the cocoon, scraping the ground, knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow...

Just when everyone was scolding Yilingjun and the others in their hearts, Jiulijun, who was full of panic, fear, grief, resentment, hatred and other emotions, his head was hot, and suddenly, he cried bitterly:

"The king is merciful, the minister is grateful, and it is difficult to repay the death. The minister has one thing, and he doesn't vomit or be unhappy. Although the minister was forced to be helpless, under the threat of the whole clan, he had no choice but to temporarily join forces with Qin and Han. However, in the heart of the minister, he has always been on the king's side, and outside Xiangyang City, there is only one thing he thinks about day and night, that is, to find an opportunity to be loyal to the king.

However, some people, although they are in Yingdu, have already drifted to Deng County in their hearts, and they have already pledged their allegiance to the pseudo-prince Lan. not only wrote disgusting flattery words, but also sent the children of the clan to pay allegiance to the puppet king. ”