Chapter Forty-Nine: The First Emperor's Wrath
There must have been a man hiding in this dune, and this man had been dormant here for a short time, but now this man had left unnoticed in the midst of thousands of troops, and before leaving, he had unknowingly taken the lives of ten sergeants, and caused a lot of panic. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
This person had indeed fled in advance, Meng Tian's men and horses were almost all over the sand dunes, even if there was a mosquito that could not escape the palm of their hands, he led his subordinates to turn over almost the entire sand dunes, even an ant could not escape their eyes, but they didn't find that person.
Ying Zhengtie's face was blue, behind him was a large iron spine that was carried out of the sand by several sergeants, in front of him was a kneeling minister of civil and military affairs, and standing next to him were Prime Minister Li Si and Neishi Ling Zhao Gao.
"A bunch of rice buckets!"
Ying Zhengqi kept pacing back and forth, trembling all over!
"First of all, the imperial official Zhang Cang came to investigate in advance, then Wang Li's vanguard reconnaissance, and Meng Tian brought two thousand soldiers to search, but he didn't find out, and someone assassinated me!"
The more Ying Zheng talked, the more angry he became.
"You say, 'What use do I want you?' What do I want you to do? ”
Zhang Cang was also among them, and he didn't know when he returned to Yingzheng's parade, he bowed his head and knelt in the crowd and didn't dare to move, the sweat on his face was flowing down, and he didn't know if it was sweat from the hot weather, or cold sweat from fright.
"The sin of the minister deserves death!"
"You're to blame!"
Meng Tian and his generals knelt on the ground straight, their waists straight, their eyes staring ahead, motionless.
"It's just that you didn't search for people in advance, after the assassin assassinated me, you actually let one of the thousands of soldiers commit suicide and run away!? I was brought to me by a few things I don't know what they were! ”
What Ying Zheng was holding in his hand was a few bullet casings, which several generals had never seen and didn't know what they were. I have been looking at it for a long time, but I have never seen it, but I know that it is cast with copper and iron with superb skills.
Ying Zheng looked down at the few bullet casings in his hand again, no more, no less, exactly ten, and his own soldiers were also exactly ten. He asked, as if he had smelled a kind of smoke, so he shook his nose and sniffed it, it was indeed the smell of freshly smoked by the smoke. What the hell is this thing? What is it for? It was these few little things that caused the inexplicable deaths of ten sergeants?
It's really hard to get out of his imagination for this unprecedented emperor. Ying Zheng couldn't imagine that this was not a thing of this era at all, even the immortals who could create elixirs in his mind could not recognize it.
Ying Zheng frowned, so he had to ask the best foundry master in Daqin to come over and take a look.
"Let the best foundry come over!"
No one said alive, there was silence.
Ying Zheng's anger is slowly brewing, and it is about to explode.
Still no one dared to speak.
Internal history made Zhao Gao have no choice but to remind in a whisper.
"Your Majesty, our best foundry in Daqin is still in Xianyang, and I can't come for a while!"
Ying Zheng was stunned! After a while, he handed Zhao Gao two bullet casings in his hand.
"Let people hurry up and send it to Xianyang, find the best foundry to see what this is for? Who minted it? ”
"Such a delicate thing must have been cast by someone with a name and surname, and there are only a few good foundries in the world, they should be able to recognize it!"
Zhao Gao took the two bullet casings and hurried away.
In a moment, two sergeants each with two fast horses kicked away in the direction of Xianyang.
Ying Zheng retracted his thoughts about the bullet casing, and suddenly looked at the civil and military ministers who were still kneeling below.
"Zhang Cang!"
"The minister is here!"
Zhang Cang knelt with his head bowed, his knees aching like pins and needles, but he didn't dare to move.
"Don't do this imperial official, go home and study your knowledge!"
"Emperor Xie!"
Zhang Cang's face was pale, and his life's career was coming to an end! But he didn't dare to say anything, he could only thank him! Ying Zheng didn't kill him, it's already good!
Ying Zheng looked at Wang Li again.
"Wang Li! If you had half your grandfather's talent, I could rest easy! ”
Wang Li's face was expressionless, and he continued to straighten his waist and look ahead.
"As a vanguard general, you didn't find the assassin all the way, and in the end, the search was still missed in the area you were responsible for, do you think I should kill you?"
"Minister, the sin deserves death!"
Wang Li's tall and mighty body remained motionless, and his voice was loud.
"Do you think I won't dare kill you?"
Yingzheng is furious!
"The emperor is angry! The minister is the commander of this search, and all the responsibilities should be taken by the minister, and if you want to kill, you should also kill the minister! ”
Meng Tian's face did not change and stopped the responsibility.
"You're damned, do you think you'll be able to escape?"
Ying Zheng couldn't suppress her anger when she thought of her tragic death of her concubine, she died for herself. But her innocent death was due to the negligence of these people.
Ying Zheng really wanted to kill them to vent the hatred in his heart.
At this time, Li Si took a few steps forward, turned around, looked at Yingzheng, and gave a deep salute!
"Your Majesty! Calm their wrath for their guilt, but sin is not unto death! ”
"They are so derelict in their duties! And thou sayest that they did not sin unto death? Will it be that when I am killed by the Assassins, they will not die for their crimes? ”
Ying Zheng can be described as a word of heart!
But Li Si was unhurried and took a step forward.
"Looking around this place, it can be said that the terrain is complicated, there are sand dunes everywhere, the sand dunes are overgrown with weeds, and the valley floor between the dunes is a reed, not to mention the Tibetans, not to mention, the Assassins have dug a cave near the top of the dune, this cave would not have been found if it had not been for the sergeants who searched the military to dig three feet into the ground. Looking at the cave, it is said to be so strong that it has not collapsed even a single bit when trampled by thousands of troops and horses during the search for the Assassins. ”
Li Si looked up at Ying Zheng and saw that he had no other expression, and then said: "So, the ministers are brave, the soldiers are not derelict in their duties, but the assassins are too cunning!" ”
"Also, it was an accident that the Assassin used a huge iron cone to assassinate him, which shows that his force is extraordinary! After throwing the cone, the Assassin had several chances to escape, but he did not flee, and it was obvious that he had a will to die, and since he had a will to die, it would have been easy for a powerful Assassin to kill himself. In the emperor's itinerary, this place is the only place where there is a chance to assassinate the emperor, and he chose this place, which shows that they have been planning for a long time, and they think that they are intentional or unintentional, of course we can't prevent it! ”
"Therefore, the ministers are bold, they are guilty because of their ineffective protection, but they are not guilty unto death!"
Obviously, Li Si is defending Meng Tian and other military generals everywhere. Defend them because Li Si knows that Ying Zheng doesn't really want to kill them in his heart.
When Ying Zheng was young and not yet in power, he came to the Qin State and has been following Ying Zheng until now, and he has a deep understanding of him.
Ying Zheng is not a tyrant as the legend goes, moody and ready to kill. It's possible to be moody, but it's never possible to kill people at any time. On the contrary, he is a person who solves problems with reason, and will never be influenced by his emotions in his behavior judgment.
Meng Tian was an excellent general of the younger generation of the Qin Dynasty, and it could be said that they were the future military pillars of the Qin Dynasty, how could they kill them for the sake of a few assassins?
Ying Zheng listened to Li Si's words, his face was blue and purple for a while, but in the end, he took a deep breath and slowly spit it out. No longer paying attention to Li Si, but gritted his teeth and said: "When the sergeants were frightened and panicked, Zhang Han was able to deal with them in a timely and reasonable manner, which greatly improved the morale of the army. ”
"Wang Li first missed the assassin in his search area, and then let the assassin easily commit suicide, so that the clues were cut off and the difficulty of searching for his accomplices increased, you don't want to be a general, just be an ordinary soldier!"
"Meng Tian's command is inappropriate, let's go home and rest first!"
Li Si listened and laughed!
Before Li Si's smile dissipated, Ying Zheng shouted loudly: "Prime Minister Li, I want you to arrest suspicious people in the world and arrest the accomplices of the assassins, until you are caught!" ”
Li Si's face turned pale! shouted: "Your Majesty! Cannot! ”
Ying Zheng's face is pale! He said coldly, "You want to stop me from catching the assassins?" ”