After everyone left, Chen Xu opened a bottle of Qinghe wine and poured a full glass for Meng Yi and himself, and then said with a smile: "Master Meng, my Qinghe Restaurant is rich in dishes, and mainly stir-fried, and the number of dishes is small and exquisite, so I designed this kind of round table, everyone gathers and sits around, and talks while eating!" ”

After Chen Xu finished speaking, he reached out and broke off a duck leg and put it on his plate, dipped it in the sauce and gnawed it.

In the morning, I ate two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge, and sat in the court for nearly two hours to listen to the process of the court's restructuring, and I was already hungry at this time.

You must know that at the age of fifteen, no matter how much you eat, you won't feel full, you can eat seven or eight meals a day, and on weekdays in the Hou Mansion or the Academy of Sciences, almost the snacks have not been broken, but when you go to the court, you can only hold on, even if he has a braised chicken leg hidden in his sleeve, it is definitely inconvenient to gnaw under the noses of Qin Shi Huang and Li Si, that person is really too embarrassed, and he loses Taiyi Xianzun.

And Meng Yi has never eaten such a fragrant roast duck, especially this secret sauce, dipped in some crispy and fresh hemp in his mouth, Meng Yi swears that he has lived for most of his life, and has never eaten such delicious duck meat.

"Come, Lord Meng, please try this braised elbow too!" Chen Xu saw that Meng Yi only ate a duck, and he was already torn a little miserable, so he gently turned the turntable in the middle of the round table.

Ga! Seeing that the table turned up, Meng Yi shook his hand and almost poked a duck bone into his nostrils, and after being stunned for a long time, he put down the duck bone in his hand, and watched the table continue to rotate with his hand, his face was full of surprise.

"Because of the abundance of dishes for the common meal, and in order to ensure that all the diners can eat the dishes they want to eat, I designed this kind of table that can be rotated......

"Okay, thank you Qinghehou, this round table is not only exquisitely designed, but also easy to eat......" Meng Yi had already picked up a stewed soft pig's trotter with his hand and gnawed it when he spoke.

"Master Meng, and this sweet and sour pork ribs are also good, not fat, not thin, sweet and sour, suitable for ......"

"Lord Meng, this mapo tofu is also delicious, fresh and tender......"

Under Chen Xu's explanation, Meng Yi's beard and clothes were full of soup, licking his fingers while eating, and only after more than 20 minutes did he burp and stopped and said with emotion: "Qinghe Hou is worthy of being a master of food, every dish is a peerless delicacy, the old man has never eaten such a rich and delicious food, this table of dishes must be worth a lot!" ”

"It's not expensive, it's not expensive, if you don't count the wine, it's only three or five thousand yuan!"

The corners of Meng Yi's eyebrows shook fiercely, Chen Xu wiped his mouth with a napkin, picked up the wine and said, "Originally, I invited Master Meng to drink, but Fang Cai only cared about eating, come, let's have a drink together!" ”

"Drink together!" Meng Yi's face instantly calmed down, he hid his face in his sleeve robe and drank the Qinghe wine in the toast, and only after putting down the wine glass did he say: "Qinghe Hou invited the old man to a banquet today, if you have something to say, just say it, the old man will naturally not shirk if he can help!" ”

The so-called taking people with short hands and eating people with soft mouths, Meng Yi also knew that Chen Xu would not wait outside the court for no reason today to invite him to dinner.

Chen Xu filled the wine glasses of the two of them again and sat down and said: "Since Lord Meng is willing to help, Xu will no longer hide it, or the matter just said, I want to solve the grievances between me and Zhao Gao, so I have to ask Lord Meng for help!" ”

Meng Yi was silent for a long time and then shook his head and said: "Difficult, Zhao Gao is a member of the royal family, and he is deeply valued by His Majesty, and it can be seen from the restructuring of the three provinces and six ministries this time, although he is not involved in military and political affairs, but they are all important positions related to the royal family, holding ceremonies, chariots and horses, clans and daily offerings, these positions seem to be inconspicuous, but they are closely related to His Majesty's daily life, and his son Zhao Zhe is now still a eunuch in the inner palace, in charge of hundreds of eunuchs in the inner palace, And these eunuchs are all serving the emperor's concubines, princesses, and princesses, both father and son are close ministers of the emperor inside and outside, and they must not be able to move it, and if Zhao Zhe communicates with the mountain bandits to rob the summer grain as a reason, I am afraid that the power is not strong enough, and there are too many people involved, the most important thing is that more than a year has passed since this matter, and the officials of Wancheng have made the matter a real case, unless there is a person with enough weight to testify against Zhao Gao! ”

"You say it's a general?" Chen Xu asked with a calm face.

"Yes!" Meng Yi nodded, "This case was also in my hands at the beginning, and I don't know the inside story, once I do it, my pressure is also very high, and if I am not careful, I will lose my official position, and offending Zhao Gao is not a wise choice for me!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Xu was silent, took a sip of the wine glass, and then slowly ate the vegetables.

"Qinghe Hou, it's not that the old man is unwilling to help, but the gains outweigh the losses for the old man, my Mengshi has been enlonged by several generations of Qin kings, and Zhao Gao is also a royal clansman, as long as Zhao Gao does not fall out of favor for a day, then he and His Majesty are still one, I can't do this kind of thing at the expense of the entire Mengshi three clans! The old man also advised the Marquis of Qinghe, it is not a wise move to go against the royal family, in the eyes of His Majesty, the blood relationship of the same line is far more reliable than that of us foreigners, Zhao Wei of the Shaofu Order, and Zhao Gao of the Ministry of Rites are all royal relatives, and outsiders in the royal family cannot touch it at all, in fact, Qinghe does not have to be so cautious, with your current reputation and status, Zhao Gao will never dare to touch you half a point! Meng Yi ate people's soft mouths, but he couldn't help but explain a lot.

"It's a pity that the emperor's favor is only fed to the dogs, and if Lord Meng keeps thinking like this, I'm afraid that one day he will regret it!" Chen Xu put down his chopsticks and shook his head with a sigh.

"Why did the Marquis of Qinghe say this?" Meng Yi asked after being stunned for a long time.

"Master Meng, if I say that Zhao Gao will rebel one day, will you believe it?" Chen Xu looked at Meng Yi's face and said.

"Pap~" The chopsticks in Meng Yi's hand fell on the table, and his cheeks twisted and said: "Qinghe Marquis don't want to be suspicious for his own selfishness, if this word gets out......"

"Hehe, it's not suspicion, but I've already got the evidence, otherwise I wouldn't have invited adults to eat here, in fact, Zhao Gao didn't just want to usurp the rebellion, he also wanted to kill the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces who were in charge of the Great Qin world, including you and me, including the left and right ministers!"

"Wow~" Meng Yi stood up in shock, and the bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses in front of him fell to the ground with a clatter, and his face stammered in horror: "Evidence...... Where's the evidence? ”

"When Meng Yun went to Qinghe Town to rob the papermaking technique, the person who instructed him was not Ao Ping, Lord Meng should be suspicious of this matter, right?" Chen Xu said lightly.

Meng Yi was silent for a long time and nodded with an ugly face and said: "Yes, the old man does suspect that Zhao Gao did it, but he also brought down Ao Ping and Shang Tu, this lesson is enough for him, if he is wise, he shouldn't come to provoke me again!" ”

"Hehe, there is an idea in the world called wishful thinking, Lord Meng has lived in the court for a long time, it can be said to be a scheming, as the saying goes, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and a villain holds revenge from morning to night, Xu Ke heard that the hatred between you and Zhao Gao is much greater than the hatred between me and him, right!"

Meng Yi was silent again.

After a full minute, he sighed: "Yes, Zhao Gao committed a big crime at the beginning, and His Majesty handed him over to me for interrogation, so the old man sentenced him to death according to the law of Daqin, but then when he was about to be executed, His Majesty relented and released him, Zhao Gao did not die, and naturally hated the old man to the bone, this matter has passed for a full eight years, and Zhao Gao has not had any other movements to entangle with me, but Zhao Gao is narrow-minded, so the last time the dog was tricked to Qinghe Town to rob the papermaking technique, the old man also secretly investigated, although he was suspicious of Zhao Gao, But there is no conclusive evidence, so the old man can only endure this matter for the time being. ”

"If I have conclusive physical evidence and human evidence that can prove that the last incident was instructed by Zhao Gao, what will Master Meng do?" Chen Xu looked at Meng Yi.

Meng Yi took a few sips of the wine glass silently, and the room fell silent for a long time.

"Those who are good at fighting in the past are invincible first, and then they are invincible when the enemy is victorious. You can't win against yourself, but you can win against the enemy. Therefore he who fights well can be invincible, and he who cannot make the enemy invincible. Therefore, it is said: victory can be known, but not done. ”

Looking at Chen Xu's bewildered expression, Meng Yi put down his wine glass and said: "This sentence is the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War, it is about the strategy of the enemy and our soldiers. In just over a year, the court has dismissed three Jiuqing, from Gao Qi to Yang Tong to Ao Ping, all of whom are old ministers entrenched in the court, especially Ao Ping, who ended up miserable and suffocating......"

Stangle your uncle! Ao Ping was razed to the three clans, and you didn't trample to death!

Chen Xu started drinking with black lines on his head, and he didn't want to talk to a hypocrite like Meng Yi.

"Hehe, does the Marquis of Qinghe think that the old man killed the three clans of Ao Ping and pretended to be a special villain?" Meng Yi said with a smile.

It's good that you know! Chen Xu pursed his lips and drank without speaking.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were all hypocrites and villains.

This is the experience summed up from the historical civilization of the next 2,000 years, the higher the power, the more black-bellied, put on sacks, beat stuffy sticks, splash dog blood, fall into the well and trample to death opponents who disagree with their own political views, simply play one by one, and those who do not slip will either not be able to climb up for the rest of their lives, or they will be trampled to death.

For example, a second-level boss like Zhao Gao, the royal family and the Ministry of Rites ordered these two protective auras are enough to kill most opponents in seconds, plus the super boss Qin Shi Huang will throw him a resurrection scroll from time to time, so although Meng Yi is at the top level, he doesn't dare to shoot casually, because sometimes it doesn't work.