Chapter 8: The Shadows
Zhao Ji didn't speak again, leaned down and picked up Ying Zheng, opened the curtain and put it into the carriage, and then got into it herself. Wang Shi was always silent, and there was no qualification for her to speak here, so she could only sigh, and then followed into the carriage.
The head of the guard did not get up for a long time, and waited until the groom got into the carriage and drove the horse forward before slowly raising his head.
"What's your name?" Zhao Qi walked up to the head of the guard.
"Back to the little young master, the villain Hong Sanbao." The head of the guard changed to one knee and still knelt in front of Zhao Qi.
"I will intercede for you, whether it will succeed or not depends on Madame's mood." Zhao Qi left this sentence and went to pull the horses of the two dead guards.
"Thank you, little boy!" Hong Sanbao knelt down again and kowtowed heavily, Zhao Qi's words were worth his doing.
Zhao Qi waved his hand, and rode a horse with Zhang Han to chase the frame in front of him.
"Why are you helping them?" Zhang Han straddled the horse straight, his eyes always staring ahead.
"It works." Zhao Qi turned his head and smiled, "Where is the person you brought to answer it?" ”
"It should be right up ahead." Zhang Han lifted his chin.
Hong Sanbao tied up the rough man who Zhao Qi knocked out and threw it on the horse of his subordinates, ready to take it back for interrogation. He had another robber tied to his horse. stepped on the stirrup and got on the horse, and looked at Zhao Qi, who was riding away on the horse, and had mixed feelings in his heart. Whether he can live well depends on whether this little boy can convince Zhao Ji. Shaking his head, he shook off his distractions and chased after him with his horse's buttocks.
Zhao Qi was a little surprised by Zhang Han's appearance, he almost thought that Zhao Ji was going to die under the robber's knife just now, and he was ready to do his best to help Zhao Ji block the knife, but fortunately he saw Zhang Han who appeared on the roof of the carriage shed when he turned around. He is still very confident in Zhang Han's strength, when they trained together, Zhang Han was a good boy in the eyes of all his predecessors, serious and studious. They are also happy to teach their housekeeping skills, resulting in Zhang Han's martial arts being much more powerful than Zhao Qi.
The dark department is a spy agency made by Lü Buwei and Zi Chu, which is full of famous strange assassins in the rivers and lakes, including martial arts wizards and various rooster and dog thieves, who will train a group of young people every few years, and then assign them to Lü Buwei, Zichu and their families to protect their safety, and at some moments these people can also help them complete the assassination mission.
The latest batch of people sent in were all five or six-year-old children, including Zhao Qi, who was called a genius by Bai Qi.
Zhao Qi is already outstanding in those gangs, although he is often lazy, he still crushes many people, but he is always inferior to Zhang Han, who is talented in this area. Zhao Qi is not annoyed, he has experienced the education of later generations, and he always feels that it is more important to arm his mind than to arm his body. Facts have proved that his idea is correct, if it weren't for his extensive knowledge and intelligence, the person who grew up with Yingzheng would be Zhang Han.
When Lu Buwei's subordinates sent Zhao Qi to the dark department, they deliberately told them that it didn't matter if they couldn't learn martial arts, don't hurt him, and the old men who taught them martial arts still scoffed, not thinking how smart a little kid could be.
But they would never have thought that Zhao Qi's heart was almost the same as that of a person in his thirties, he had lived in the later life for more than 30 years, and he had lived here for a few years after coming here, and his mind must be much more meticulous than that of a child, and he would never think about things from the perspective of an adult, and he would never do something as unscrupulously as a child.
After not being in contact for a long time, the old men also discovered this matter, and after sitting together and discussing it, they found that Zhao Qi's depth of thinking was even better than that of several of them, he was only a five or six-year-old child at the time, and the knowledge made them all feel unreachable. After coming to this conclusion, a middle-aged man named Li Xin immediately wanted to accept him as an apprentice.
How could Li Xin, this person, Zhao Qi, not know that the generals in the last years of the Warring States Period, but they have never had the opportunity to emerge, and later they were reused by Yingzheng and made great achievements in the war with Yan State.
This kind of person must not be bad in martial arts, Zhao Qi heard that he wanted to be his master, and he didn't want to bow his head and worship, and the ugly corners of his mouth provoked a lot of old men to scold, of course, many of them deliberately counted Zhao Qi out of envy of Li Xin.
At this time, Li Xin was only in his twenties, not a little worse than those old men, seeing that a rare genius in a hundred years actually worshipped a young man as a master, those old men were jealous, the old man's skills are not worse than that Li Xin, why is Li Xin, this kid so lucky, can accept a genius apprentice?
When the people in the dark department told Lu Buwei about the situation, his eyes were shining, as a businessman before, he had set up ambitions from the moment Zhao Guo met Zi Chu, and he felt that his life would be turned upside down because of Chu, and now it seems that even God is on his side, after several years of operation, he already has the strongest assassin group in Qin State under his hands, and he also has the right to speak in court politics, but he didn't expect that God also sent a genius-like child to himself.
Everything is ready, the only thing to do now is to wait for an opportunity, wait for King Qin Zhaoxiang to find a way to make his successor die thoroughly, and then logically send Zichu to the throne, and then his status in the Qin State will rise to the sky one step at a time.
Poor Ying Zhu is estimated to be still immersed in the dream of Qin Zhaoxiang's eldest son Ying Zhuo dying and becoming the crown prince himself, but he doesn't know that there is already a poisonous spider that has been eyeing him for a long time.
There are three different views on Yingzhu's death in history: one is due to excessive indulgence when he was young, and he trembled and depressed his emotions under the lewd thieves of King Qin Zhaoxiang, so he hiccups when he ascended the throne. The other is that Lü Buwei poisoned Zichu to death after winning the pillar and guarding filial piety in order to let Zichu ascend the throne as soon as possible. The third is due to his sudden death due to overexcitement.
History thinks that the first one is the most reliable, but Zhao Qi doesn't think so, he thinks that Yingzhu Bacheng was killed by Lü Buwei, probably because the reign of King Qin Zhaoxiang gave him a psychological burden, and he was afraid that Yingzhu would stay on the throne for another few decades, and it would be troublesome if Zichu was boiled to death.
Of course, this is just Zhao Qi's speculation, King Qin Xiaowen can't be the king of Qin for decades, King Qin Zhaoxiang lived for seventy-four years, you know, the average life expectancy of people during the Warring States period was less than fifty years, and it was a miracle to live past sixty years old, and those over thirty years old were called self-proclaimed old husbands. He just survived his eldest son, and even the second son was over fifty years old when he died, if King Qin Xiaowen could still sit on the throne for fifty years, it would be a real miracle, not to mention the Warring States, it would be difficult for future generations to find a centenarian.
The happiest person when King Qin Xiaowen died was of course Lü Buwei, he successfully put Zichu on the throne and became the prime minister himself, of course, this is all later, and now Lü Buwei is just a well-known courtier.
In order to stabilize Zi Chu, what he has to do is to protect Zi Chu's wife and children, and if he wants to keep Zhao Ji and Ying Zheng under the search of the Zhao army, he can only send his own personnel from the dark department, and who to send has become a big problem, Zi Chu's requirement is that he must be good at deciding right and wrong while knowing martial arts. At this time, he remembered the child who was sent to the Zhao family's compound a few years ago, since Bai Qi said that he was a genius, I want to see how powerful you are.
After taking Zhao Qi to the dark department, he really didn't disappoint him. originally planned to send Zhang Han to protect Zhao Ji's mother and son, but since he saw Zhao Qi's getting smaller, there was no need for this, and Zhao Qi alone was enough.
Now thinking of the experience in the dark department, Zhao Qi still has palpitations, thanks to his adult perseverance, otherwise he can survive that kind of inhuman training, which can only be said to be an eye-opener.
Don't look over and look at the indifferent Zhang Han, he couldn't help but shudder, the dark department was stunned to train this young man into a cold-blooded killing weapon, he was sure that the current Zhang Han would not do anything but kill people, and his childhood was spent with swords and corpses.
The people who come out of the shadows are basically this virtue, of course, excluding Zhao Qi, his hippie smiling personality is incompatible with the people in the shadows, Li Xin touches his chin many times and thinks: Am I giving this little cub too low training intensity?