Sima Xin knew very well what the emperor was going to do when he ordered Long Wei to arrest all the Sima people in his palace, whether they were old or weak, women or children, and they were all in prison.

The emperor is going to make an example of a hundred people and punish the entire Sima family!

Sima Xin knew very well that what he was doing could not make the emperor bypass him, and all he wanted was to move out of the ancestors of the Sima family, hoping that the emperor could see in front of them and give the Sima family a way out.

However, Sima Xin didn't say that it was okay, as soon as he talked about the ancestors of the Sima family, Hu Hai, who was already angry, suddenly erupted like a volcano.

"Shut up!"

A roar of thunder suddenly sounded in the council hall.

This burst of shouting made Meng Tian, Feng Qujian and others in the entire hall who had not yet figured out the situation as silent as a chilling cicada. Sima Xin, who was like garlic, was even more frightened by Hu Hai's loud shout, stopped his movements, and lay on the ground deeply and did not dare to move.

"Do you think of your Sima family's ancestors and ancestors who were loyal to me in Great Qin now? Sima Xin, Sima Xin, when you ordered the guests of the middle gate of the mansion to attack and kill the dozens of Great Qin soldiers in my Xianyang South Gate Guard, did you think about the ancestors of the Sima family who have been loyal to me for hundreds of years? When you ordered the people in the middle of the house to set fire to the houses of the people of my Great Qin, did you ever think about the ancestors of the Sima family who have been loyal to me for hundreds of years?

When you betrayed the lord to seek glory and reported the news of my secret northward journey to the traitor Xiang Liang, did you ever think about the ancestors of the Sima family who were loyal to my Great Qin? Well? Have you ever wondered? Sima Xin, you tell me! Have you thought about it? ”

Hu Hai almost roared several questions in a row, and before he could ask a word Sima Xin and the ministers in the palace, his body trembled, and when Hu Hai finally asked the sentence "You are a traitor seeking glory", Sima Xin was already paralyzed on the ground, kowtowing more than once.

No one had ever seen the emperor so furious, so roaring.

"Your Majesty is angry!"

Meng Tian and the others in the hall finally understood why the emperor's face was so gloomy and ugly today. One by one, their faces changed drastically, and they all knelt down on one knee and said respectfully, even the three of Long Xuan, Long Jiao and Long Mei, who were waiting outside the council hall, couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts when they heard the emperor's extremely angry roar, and knelt on one knee.

Because of the anger Hu Hai's chest rose and fell sharply, he didn't expect that Sima Xin still didn't repent now, but wanted to save the surname of the Sima family with the shadow of his father.

"Zhang Han, this is the loyal minister you let me use. What a faithful man! ”

Hu Hai suddenly looked at Zhang Han, who was kneeling on one knee, and said sharply.

"The last will be guilty! Please punish Your Majesty! ”

When he heard Hu Hai say that "Sima Xin" was a traitor seeking glory, even with Zhang Han's calmness, he was almost frightened out of the sky.

Hu Hai secretly went north and was ambushed by Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops on the way back to Xianyang.

Although Hu Hai did not tell Li Si, Feng Quji, Wei Yi and others about this matter after he came back, Hu Hai told Zhang Han about it privately after he arrived in Xianyang. After all, Hu Hai's 20,000 elite soldiers lost more than 10,000 people, and anyone could see the problem.

At this moment, Hu Hai obviously vented his anger on Zhang Han, who was commensurate with Sima Xin's brother in Pingyue. After all, Zhang Han said more than once in front of Hu Hai for Sima Xin, who has a long history but no long history.

It was precisely because of Zhang Han's opinion that Hu Hai, out of trust in Zhang Han, would remember to summon Sima Xin to attend a big court meeting. If it weren't for Zhang Han, Hu Hai, who had long forgotten that he still had a long history of study, would not have thought of Sima Xin at all, and Sima Xin would not have had the opportunity to know about his northward journey.

"Humph!" Hu Hai didn't pay attention to Zhang Han, and turned to look at Sima Xin, who was like garlic. "Sima Xin, tell me, when did I and Daqin lose your Sima family? Why would you be willing to be a thief? Also, what kind of information did you tell Xiang Liang about my Great Qin. ”

"The guilty minister dared to ask His Majesty to leave a piece of incense for my Sima family. The guilty minister begs Your Majesty, and the criminal begs Your Majesty!! Sima Xin kowtowed.

"Presumptuous!"

"Your Majesty, the old minister, please punish the nine clans of the Sima family to set an example!"

When Meng Tian and Feng Qujian heard that Sima Xin dared to bargain with Hu Hai at this moment, they burst into tears in unison. Meng Tian even directly wanted to kill Sima Xin's nine clans. After all, as a party to the case, he knows better than anyone what danger Hu Hai faced when he became a martial artist. Coupled with the more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army who died of heat stroke, it can be said that the hatred of the country and the family are all in their hearts, so they will naturally not be polite to Sima Xin.

The two bigwigs in the court and China spoke at the same time, and Sima Xin still said "The guilty minister begs His Majesty" and kowtowed. In a few moments, a faint stain of blood appeared on the smooth floor of the council hall.

"Say it!" Hu Hai was silent for a while, and suddenly spoke.

"Your Majesty! No! ”

Meng Tian and Feng Quji, Wei Yu, and Li You said in unison.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Sima Xin, who kept kowtowing, was overjoyed when he heard the word Hu Hai, and sobbed.

After Wang Qian's army destroyed the state of Chu, Great Qin began to hunt down the nobles of the state of Chu. Among them, the arrest of the descendants of the Xiang clan of Xiang Yan, the general of Chu State, was particularly serious.

At that time, Xiang Yan, the general of the Chu State, had a total of four sons (there is also a theory that Xiang Yan had seven sons, and the fourth son is selected in this article), the eldest son Xiang Rong, the second son Xiang Liang, the third son Xiang Le, and the fourth son Xiang Bo.

Among them, Xiang Rong is Xiang Yu's father, and Xiang Zhuang is the son of Xiang Yan's third son, Xiang Le.

Wang Jian destroyed Xiang Yan's 500,000 Chu army in the last battle of the Chu army, and in the chaos, Xiang Yan and his eldest sons Xiang Rong and Xiang Le were killed together. The second son Xiang Liang and the fourth son Xiang Bo escaped.

Xiang Liang, as Xiang Yan's sister-in-law, was elected as the head of the Xiang family. After becoming the head of the family, in the face of the continuous search and arrest of Great Qin, Xiang Liang divided the Xiang clan into two parts, he escaped from Chu with his eldest brother Xiang Rong's sisters-in-law Xiang Yu and Xiang Bo, attracting the attention of Great Qin, while the remaining Xiang clansmen were scattered and secretly moved to the Xiang family's hometown in Jiangdong to recuperate, waiting for the opportunity to raise an army against Qin.

Chu Nangong, the yin and yang master of Chu State, once told Xiang Yan that "although Chu has three households, if Qin dies, Chu will die", gave all the Xiang clan great confidence.

Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo fled separately from Chu, Xiang Liang fled north with Xiang Yu to the hinterland of Great Qin, while Xiang Bo traveled east. After Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu fled to Liyang (one of the former capitals of the Great Qin, between Guanzhuang Village and Guchengtun Village, Wutun Town, Yanliang District, Xi'an City, later generations), Xiang Liang was implicated in a crime that occurred in Liyang, and was arrested and imprisoned by Liyang County. Prison Cao waited for Sima Xin, and at the same time, Xiang Liang gave Sima Xin a large amount of gold and jade goods to bribe him.

Sima Xin was just a small official who was released at that time, so even though he knew that Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were important criminals wanted by Daqin, he still accepted the goods, pretended not to know, and secretly released Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu.

This is the first time that Sima Xin and Xiang Liang have become acquainted.

After Xiang Liang raised troops against Qin, the first thing that came to mind was Sima Xin, who had now been promoted to Xianyang and didn't know why. So Xiang Liang sent someone all the way to deliver a letter to Sima Xin.

The letter did not mention that Sima Xin accepted bribes to let his uncle and nephew go, but blindly emphasized the friendship between the two. However, the implicit threat is self-evident.

At this time, it was Sima Xin's son who was almost forgotten by Hu Hai and suffered from refrigeration. Not long before Xiang Liang's letter, Sima Xin almost broke the legs of his favorite young son Sima and grounded him in the mansion.

The reason for the incident was precisely because the emperor traveled to the red and green family at night, but was humiliated by Sima Dan's "untouchables".

Sima Xin, who has been refrigerated and has the name of having a long history of study, but has no real power, is almost desperate for his future in Daqin. Coupled with Sima Dan's insult to the emperor, and then there was Xiang Liang's letter that did not mention a word but showed a threat everywhere, several superpositions finally made Sima Xin make up his mind.

Sima Xin knew very well that once Xiang Liang found out that he had accepted bribes and secretly released the felons arrested by the imperial court, with the strictness of Qin law, he would at least be punished by a common people. And if the emperor remembers the insult by Sima Dan, then he can basically be said to be certain to die.

In this way, Sima Xin reached an agreement with Xiang Liang and became an important shadow buried by Xiang Liang in the Great Qin Dynasty.

After listening to Sima Xin's words, Hu Hai really didn't know whether he should be angry or laugh. encountered Sima Dan in the red and green family, if Sima Xin hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten it all a long time ago. And it is simpler to ignore Sima Xin, who is the emperor's study history, Hu Hai didn't know Xiao Zhen at that time, and he had never stayed in the study, what do you want a long history of the study?

Of course, there is no point in saying these words now. What's more, Hu Hai didn't need to explain anything to Sima Xin.

The wretched will have something to hate.

If it weren't for Sima Xincai's obsession to accept Xiang Liang's bribes, then how could Xiang Liang get his handle? He wouldn't have gotten to where he is today. The so-called one drink and one peck, its own destiny. Exactly.

Everything is already clear, the cause that Sima Xin planted, no matter what kind of fruit it bears, should be swallowed by himself.

On August 15 of the first year of Great Qin II.

Emperor Hu Hai of the Second Great Qin issued an edict, and Shi Sima Xin, the head of the emperor's study, collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, secretly released the imperial court to reoffend Xiang Liang, and colluded with Xiang Liang to betray the secret military information of Great Qin with the intention of assassinating His Majesty the Emperor, and the evidence was conclusive and the crime was irreparable. Within the three clans of the Sima clan, people over the age of six, regardless of men, women, and children, will be beheaded at the Xianyang vegetable market on August 16 to set an example!

In the matter of dealing with the Sima clan, Hu Hai still did not agree to the tragic punishment suggested by Meng Tian and others to punish the nine clans of the Sima clan.

Life is precious! (To be continued)