"If it seems that there is something abnormal, that Antiochus III will not become the monarch of Seleucus, you send someone to follow the merchant from the Mauryan Dynasty closely, to see if he has any abnormal behavior, and even whether he returned to his own home directly after returning to the Mauryan Dynasty, or go to Seleucus, once the anomaly is found, directly detain this person, and see if you can find any clues from his mouth or body."

Cao Shen knew at a glance that Ying Gao had basically concluded that there must be something wrong with this Antiochus III, but he just wanted to know what his problem was.

Although Antiochus III seemed to be very calm and calm, and the reasons seemed to be quite sufficient, but he couldn't fool Yinggao, Yinggao didn't believe and didn't know that Daqin had many scholars who were already very proficient in their language, he didn't propose to let these people teach him Daqin's language, but let a mercenary merchant of the Peacock Dynasty teach him this, obviously he had some other plans in his heart.

After all, the merchant of the Mauryan Dynasty was randomly found by Antiochus III in the market, he did not have any anti-reconnaissance ability, and in Antiochus III's mansion, he not only received a huge amount of money from Antiochus III, but was also threatened by Antiochus III.

As a merchant of the Mauryan Dynasty, his news is still quite well-informed, and he knows that Daqin is attacking the Seleucians with all his might, so after knowing that this person is actually the former Seleu monarch, he naturally believes it, because what the Seleuc looks like, he really knows it too well in his heart.

In Antiochus III's palace, Antiochus III wrote a letter in the Mauryan script, and had the merchant recite it word by word, after which he destroyed the letter, and threatened the merchant that if he could not inform the designated person in Seleucus of the contents of the letter as soon as possible, Antiochus III had many ways to let his family die in the Mauryan Dynasty.

A former monarch wanted to scare a merchant, of course, it was as easy as a matter, and when the man saw this posture, he did not dare to delay at all, and after coming out of Antioch's house, he did not do any other business, and went directly to the Western Regions, wanting to go to Seleucus to report the news.

That person's abnormal behavior was reported to Cao Shenna before he left Xianyang City, and after thinking about it, Cao Shen still came to Yinggao again.

"Your Majesty, that man's goods have not been sold out yet, and he is so eager to return to the Peacock Dynasty, it is almost certain that there must be a problem, don't we wait any longer, and catch him directly outside the city, he is just a merchant, Antiochus III can use him, we can naturally ask something, otherwise when he arrives in Seleucus, he doesn't know that he will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Moon, in case there are some changes in the meantime, but it will be a bit more than worth the loss."

Cao Shen's words made Yinggao fall into deep thought, but it didn't take long for Yinggao to make his own decision.

"I really didn't think about this matter before, you reminded me right, my Great Qin can't ask some truth from the mouth of a merchant of the Peacock Dynasty? Go get him back now, he'll be able to ask something out of his mouth! ”

If this is an ordinary monarch, how can anyone dare to put forward a different opinion like Cao Shen, but Cao Shen, as the first group of people to follow Yinggao, he still understands Yinggao's temperament, and he and Xiao He both know.

Don't look at Yinggao as if he is giving up on me, and the decisions he makes are very stubborn, but if you can say the truth in front of him, he will definitely listen to everything no matter what.

Cao Shen and Xiao He both knew that it was precisely because of a monarch like Yinggao that Great Qin was able to get to this point, otherwise, needless to say, Zhao Gao had been operating for decades, and Great Qin had been ruined for I don't know how long.

The merchant had just left the gate of Xianyang City and had not walked ten miles before he was knocked out by a few people who fell from the sky and put him in a sack.

Although it has been determined that there must be a problem with this person, Cao Shen still deliberately instructed his subordinates to pay attention to the impact when arresting him, and he must not arrest a Peacock Dynasty businessman who is doing business in Daqin in full view, otherwise the people of the Peacock Dynasty finally have a sense of belonging to Daqin, which is all over.

It turns out that Cao Shen's guess is not wrong at all, the merchant from the Peacock Dynasty is not stupid at all, of course he knows that once he does that, he will die if he is known by the people of Great Qin, so when he woke up and found that he was really in prison from Great Qin, he almost didn't bother Cao Shen, and when Cao Shen said that he only needed to tell him everything that Antiochus III asked him to do, he could save his life, and he told everything he knew at that time.

In fact, in the hearts of the people of the Peacock Empire, it has been very clear, Seleu is not as good as Daqin, and Seleuc has always been submissive to the Peacock Dynasty at the beginning, let alone destroy the Great Qin of the Mauryan Dynasty at once.

It was precisely under the influence of such thoughts that although he was a little afraid of the very scary-looking Antiochus III, in front of the Qin Law of Great Qin, the threat of Antiochus III was simply worthless.

Antiochus III obviously made a great mistake in this matter, that is, he still regarded Great Qin as his own territory, he was indeed famous in his own territory and the enemy's territory, but in the hearts of Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty, it was almost meaningless.

It was his overconfidence that his name was enough to scare a businessman and make him lose everything, although he knew the moment he decided to surrender to Great Qin that he would most likely not live long, but he never thought that he would end his life in such a form.

Although the merchant of the Peacock Dynasty who was arrested was considered a felony according to the Qin law, because of his good attitude of admitting guilt, he was also punished lightly by Yinggao, but Antiochus III was different.

Less than two days after the merchant left, Cao Shen personally led people to the palace of Antiochus III and invited him to the Xianyang Palace.

As a monarch in charge of a dynasty of millions of people, Yinggao of course still had to deal with him personally, and sure enough, as Yinggao expected, when Antiochus III saw that the merchant was also submissively on the scene, he knew that his plan had completely failed, and perhaps his plan had been seen by the emperor of Great Qin from the beginning.

From the merchant's mouth, Yinggao already knew about Antiochus III's plan, and he basically sacrificed himself and assigned the task to a few of his own cronies, who should have been ambushed in the larger cities of Seleuc, waiting for news from the outside.

Once there was news, they would mobilize the people in the city to join forces with the army outside who didn't know what forces, consume as much of Great Qin's 300,000 troops as possible, and then try to regain control of the Seleuces in the hands of the Seleuks themselves.

The reason why he was so eager to get a merchant to report to him was because a few people he had assigned a task to him were suddenly brought to Daqin as his cronies, so they didn't have the opportunity to discuss the replacement at all.

Now this matter has been completely known by Yinggao, in fact, this is similar to Yinggao's own guess before, but now Yinggao urgently needs to know one thing, that is, who is the enemy who should cooperate with Seleuli.

"Now that all of your things have been known to me Daqin, I have already given you a chance, you could have lived a life like a relic in the territory of Daqin, but you didn't cherish it yourself, it's a pity!"

"Hmph, as early as when I decided to surrender to your Great Qin and set this strategy, I had already put life and death out of the way, no matter how well I behaved in Great Qin, in the end, the matter of Seleu would be passed on to your ears, but it was just a few more months to live."

Ying Gao looked at the posture of Antiochus III, that is, he had already looked down on life and death, such a person is really not easy to deal with, but it is for others, Ying Gao, he is really not afraid of this.

"Oh? It's rare that you know so much about your fate, but there is one thing you forget, you can know when you died, but I can decide what kind of way you want to die, I'm afraid you have been ignored before, right? ”

As soon as he heard this, Antiochus III frowned, although Yinggao still needed a Great Qin scholar to translate it for him after he finished speaking, but Antiochus III could clearly hear that this was a threat to him.

This game is really not played by Antiochus III beforehand, he thinks that Daqin as a superpower, the monarch must also act above board, which is also in line with Daqin's attitude towards the Peacock Dynasty, although he occupied the Peacock Dynasty, but he never killed a person from the Peacock Dynasty, so Antiochus III himself defined Yinggao as a generous person, such a person is definitely not compatible with insidious and vicious.

But now that Yinggao has said such a thing, it means that Antiochus III's previous judgment was very wrong, and of course he will face a choice at this time, once he chooses wrong, what awaits him will be endless torture.

"Xianyang Order, I will give him all the punishments of my Great Qin, but I can make it clear to you in advance, it is not that I intend to target you, but that you have indeed violated my Great Qin's Qin law, since you have surrendered to our Great Qin with your dynasty, then naturally you are already the people of my Great Qin, and the Qin law is used on you, you are afraid that there is nothing to refute, right?"

After Ying Gao threw out such a sentence, he turned his back, Cao Shen introduced the many punishments of Daqin to Antiochus III in a strange way at this time, what Ling Chi, what a waist cut, a lot of mess, but they are all punishments that can scare ordinary people into fainting just by hearing it.

Antiochus III is of course different from ordinary people, people are people who have seen blood, of course they will not be scared by Cao Shen on the spot, but Rao is that no matter how much blood he has seen, he has really never heard of such cruel punishments, especially if these punishments really happen to him in the end, Antiochus still has a little numb scalp when he thinks about it.

It took a full half an hour for Cao Shen to introduce those cruel punishments with a dry mouth, and after the introduction, Cao Shen also said meaningfully: "Since you have already judged your own ending, then of course you should also know what the outcome of Seleu will be no matter how much it struggles, if there are many changes in this, the soldiers of Great Qin will naturally have casualties, but how many casualties will the people of Seleu cause, and the reason why you surrender is not to save the people of Seleus?" What is Daqin like to the people of the Peacock Dynasty, you naturally have a number in your heart, if you replace Daqin with something else, I'm afraid you won't have it in your heart, and now our monarch is too lazy to ask you, as long as you say who you are with, our monarch can give you a happy death! ”

Yinggao really has nothing to hide from Antiochus III, since it has been confirmed that he surrendered, he is inevitable to die, and the only thing that is controversial now is the way to die.

On the one hand, it was his own way of death, and on the other hand, the people of Seleucus, after saying that, Cao Shen closed his mouth, and Yinggao never turned around, obviously it was time for Antiochus III to make a decision.

This is undoubtedly a difficult decision, so Yinggao is not in a hurry, just waiting silently.

Another half an hour passed, and just when Yinggao's patience was about to be worn out, Antiochus III spoke.

"Indeed, it was because of a previous messenger that I had the idea of surrendering."

Antiochus III finally didn't make any ruthless decisions, he knew that what Daqin said about treating the people well was not bragging, the Peacock Dynasty was already a living example, at the last moment of his life, Antiochus III figured it out, he knew that he shouldn't just think about fighting Daqin to the end just because Daqin went to attack him, and used the way of introducing another force that he didn't know anything about.