In the Daliang Palace, Xiong Jing thought hard about the reason for his brother's exposure, and carefully studied everyone who knew about it; In Xianyang, Qin State, where the autumn breeze is rising, Zhao Zheng is watching a flock of pigeons in the garden. The nobles ate six grains, six animals, six beasts, six birds, six Qing, and eight treasures, and the pigeon was one of the six birds. No one could have imagined that the pigeon could pass on letters and become a tool for the spy of the Jing people.

The pigeons on the pigeon cage 'cooed' and ......, and when Zhao Zheng walked in, they flew up quickly, rolling up fine pieces of pigeon droppings and fluff. The Persians, who domesticated pigeons, hurriedly bowed to Zhao Zheng and asked for atonement.

Aristotle IV was just right to say: "Pigeons are afraid of the living, they depend only on the domesticators." ”

Fan the fluff in front of him, Zhao Zheng did not retreat, but only asked, "When can this pigeon be arraigned?" ”

"Your Majesty," said Aristotle IV, who did not know Persian, after several turns, "Your Majesty, these are not carrier pigeons, which must be selected and trained for a long time before they can and can deliver letterheads." ”

"Geometry?" Zhao Zheng asked, the transmission of information is very important. Even if it can't be used for Hou Spy, it can be used for military transmission.

This time Aristotle IV did not ask the Persian pigeonmen again, saying, "If your Majesty is in urgent need of carrier pigeons, the fastest way is to buy them from Sogdiana." In Egypt, ancient Babylon, Persia and Greece, carrier pigeons were used hundreds of years ago. If Your Majesty buys a batch of carrier pigeons, and when they lay eggs and hatch their kittens, they can be used. ”

"Buying from the Great Xia Kingdom?" Hearing that he had to buy pigeons from so far away, Zhao Zheng couldn't help frowning.

"Yes. There is also the Seleucid scythe chariot, which is ten times better than the chariot now used by the Qin state. Aristotle IV naturally talked about chariots, he had seen the chariots of the Qin army, and the axles were equipped with chariots, but the length of the chariots was significantly shorter than that of the sickle, and it could not form an arc like a sickle, and could only be pushed forward in parallel.

"The most important thing is books," weapons were not Aristotle IV's favorite. "I suggest that Your Majesty send an envoy to the library in Alexandria, the capital of Egypt, and that he should take the books with them, and transcribe some great works from there and translate them into the Chini language. For example, the great Homeric epic, Hesiod's Theogony, Aristotle's Instrumentalism and Poetics, Plato's Republic of Ideals, and Euclid's Geometry ......"

Aristotle IV reported a series of titles, all of which were books that Zhao Zheng had not heard.

"As far as I know, the Chuni are buying these books in large quantities, some of which have been translated into the Chuni language." In order to make the people of this land Hellenistic, it was necessary to translate Greek writings and spread Greek ideas. Aristotle IV was worried that Zhao Zheng would not agree, and mentioned that the state of Chu was doing this.

Zhao Zheng knew that the carrier pigeon and the sickle chariot were useful, but he was a little puzzled by these books with strange names. He asked, "What is the use of these books?" ”

"Usefulness?" If there is any use, even Euclid's "Geometry Primitive" is not very useful. Legend has it that when a young man broke into Euclid's academy and asked him what he could do if he had studied geometry, Euclid said to his servant: 'Give this gentleman three coins, he wants to gain a lot from his studies.' ’

Aristotle IV somewhat understood why Chuni translated those books and did not publish them in the newspapers, for the embarrassed common people, everything had to be useful and valuable, and books were not used for use, this was a game for the nobles in their leisure time.

"Your Majesty, they are useless," Aristotle IV confessed, "but they are very, very, very important. ”

Aristotle IV used three verys in a row, and Zhao Zheng looked at him obliquely and said another thing: "Can they really solve the mystery of witch medicine?" ”

The power of witchcraft is unmatched, and the giant thorn crossbow is no match for it. In order to defeat the Jing people, Zhao Zheng couldn't care about the secrecy of 'the sharp weapon of the country is not shown to others', and the Shaofu must imitate the witch weapon as soon as possible to fight against the Chu army.

"Your Majesty, if there is only one place in the world where you can crack the secrets of witch potions, it is the Library of Alexandria." Aristotle IV vowed that "there are more than 400,000 books there, and all the secrets of the known world are recorded in those books; There are the greatest philosophers, historians, and alchemists there, who surely know what the powder is and how it is prepared......"

Witch medicine contains sulfur, that's for sure. Using Archimedes' method of testing the authenticity of the golden crown, Aristotle IV experimented with charcoal instead of pulverized coal in witch medicine. But apart from these two substances, what else is in the potion, he doesn't know.

The Chu people invaded Xianyang and seized a large number of slips from the Yan Dynasty, the Prime Minister's Mansion, the Guowei Mansion, and the Shaofu Mansion, but the Chu Shogunate advisors did not immediately read through the slips that recorded the witch medicine. This should be due to the fact that the bamboo slips have the word 'witch medicine' written on them, they thought it was a medicine to treat injuries and diseases, and they did not know that witch medicine was gunpowder, and they were eager to find out the advisors of the Qin State in the Kwantung Hou Spy and put them in the boxes to be read.

The fire of Xianyang City burned everything, but there was a moat around the royal city, and there was a high wall on the inside of the moat, so the entire Xianyang became scorched earth, and the royal city was fine except for some temple people and palace maids. Now that Zhao Zheng allowed the witch potion to be sent to Alexandria, Aristotle IV was smiling at every pore.

"Good." Zhao Zheng only replied to one good, and he was desperate to destroy Chu in order to take revenge.

Aristotle IV was about to ask who the envoys to Alexandria would be, when a whining cry came from afar. The person who cried was Fusu, and behind him was Mi Qian's Mi Wen. Fusu cried and walked over, whimpering and kneeling in front of Zhao Zheng and paused, "Father... Father, father, ......, woo woo, save... Queen Mother, Rescue ...... The queen mother ......, woo woo woo ......"

The day before yesterday, Zhao Zheng kicked Mi Qian to the ground and jumped violently, at first no imperial doctor dared to heal, but the queen mother Zhao Ji, who played with cats and mice, didn't want Mi Qian to die so happily, and ordered two imperial doctors, so they bandaged the wound, straightened the broken bones, prescribed a prescription for healing, and temporarily saved a life. However, today, the two imperial doctors were killed by Zhao Zheng, and Fusu could only come to Zhao Zheng.

The child's whining cry was pitiful, but Zhao Zheng hardened his heart and avoided it. He wanted an eldest son who only belonged to Great Qin, not an eldest son who was friendly with the Chu people.

"Your Majesty," Aristotle IV, Fusu's teacher, called Zhao Zheng to stop. "Even if the queen is at fault, Fusu is not wrong, and respecting his parents is what every prince should do."

In the past few days, anyone who interceded for the Chu people was beheaded by Zhao Zheng, but Aristotle IV was an adult after all, and Zhao Zheng wanted to be angry and endured his anger. He turned to stare at the crying Fusu and asked, "Are you from Qin or Jing?" ”

"It's... It's the Qin people. Fusu was so frightened by his father's drink that he stopped crying, but the tears did not stop, flowing directly on his immature cheeks.

"Your uncle," Zhao Zheng said this, gritting his teeth with a hideous expression. "Is it the good or the wicked? Are Jing people good or evil? ”

"Yes, it's good," Fusu was stunned by his father's expression, but fortunately, as soon as the word 'good' came out, he changed his tone, and he replied loudly: "It's a wicked person, my uncle is a wicked person, and the Jing people are also wicked people......"

Fusu answered correctly, which made Mi Wen, who was kneeling behind him, put his hand on his chest and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yet," Zhao Zheng's hideous face was gone, and his cheeks were still bulging. He drew his sword and threw it directly in front of his son, saying, "Since you know that Jing Ren is a wicked person, then your father wants you to kill her, and she is Jing Ren." ”

Zhao Zheng pointed his hand and ordered Fusu to kill Mi Wen. Mi Wen brought Fusu to beg Zhao Zheng, but she didn't expect the king to kill Fusu to kill herself, she was frightened: "The king spares his life, the king spares his life!" ”

Fusu was also stunned when he heard this, Mi Wen was the closest one to him among his mother's many concubines, but he didn't expect his father to kill her himself.

"Why don't you kill? Jing people are not evil people, right?! Jing people are not evil people, right?! Zhao Zheng saw his son hesitate and shouted angrily. As soon as he bent down and stuffed the sword into Fusu's hand, he pointed at the frightened Mi Wen and ordered: "Stab her to death!" Stabbing her to death!! ”

Seeing that Zhao Zheng wanted his son to stab his concubine to death, Aristotle IV wanted to persuade him again, but he hurriedly stopped him and signaled that he could not. Under the influence of Xiong Qi, the right prime minister, all the officials related to the Chu State were arrested and imprisoned in the past two days, and the queen was also sent to the cold palace. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is no longer a palace struggle, this is a struggle of political positions, and a struggle between the Qin people and the Chu people.

A large number of Chu officials were purged, a large number of Chu Temple people and palace maids were replaced, and a large number of Chu-style utensils were smashed and burned. In the past, when I walked on the street, the street was full of Chu Guan, Chu Fu, and Chu Che, but now on the street, not to mention Chu Guan, Chu Fu, even the red store banners hanging high outside the store have been replaced with green, yellow, and white - Chu people are still red, in case the red store banner is said to be Chu Feng and Chu style, the store can't eat and walk around.

"Don't stab it yet!" Zhao Zheng glared at his son, he hated cowardly people, and it was impossible for the future Great Qin to be handed over to a cowardly person.

"Wow-" Fusu was so frightened by Zhao Zheng that he didn't dare to cry before, but now he was drunk continuously, and Wow Wow started crying again.

"In that case, go and collect the body of your queen mother." Zhao Zheng gave up urging and was about to retrieve the sword in Fusu's hand. However, Fusu didn't let go, and when Zhao Zheng tried harder, he closed his eyes and said loudly, and the sword finally stabbed at Mi Wen who was spread on the ground.

The iron sword was sharp, stabbing Mi Wen, but not the vital point. Zhao Zheng said in a deep voice: "Stab again!" Don't close your eyes. ”

"Ahh

"Stab again." Zhao Zheng smiled, from this moment on, he took back his son from Mi Qian.

"Give the head to your mother," Mi Wen didn't blink an eye, and Zhao Zheng of Dayue asked her head to be cut off, and handed it to Fusu, who was covered in blood, and said with a smile: "Tell her that you killed a wicked person in Jing today today, and you will kill a wicked person in Jing every day in the future, until all the people in Jing are killed, and there is no left of the old and the young." ”