Yongcheng is located on the bank of the Yonghe River, fifty miles west of Xianyang, and is the former capital of the Qin State, and the second largest city in Guanzhong after Xianyang. From the accession of Qin Degong to the throne and the establishment of the capital here, to the Qin Xiangong in order to compete with the Wei State for hegemony, the capital was moved to Liyang, which is close to the west of the river, and Yongcheng ended the mission of the capital of the Qin State for nearly three hundred years. Soon after, his son Qin Xiaogong carried out the famous Shang Dynasty Reform after his accession to the throne, and built a new city of Xianyang as the capital, which replaced Yongcheng as the political, economic and cultural center of Qin.

Although Yongcheng is no longer the capital, the temple of the Qin State and the tomb of the former king are still in Yongcheng, so every big sacrifice ceremony is held in the temple of Yongcheng Dazheng Palace. October 20 of each year is the day of the ceremony of sacrificing the ancestors of the Qin State, and according to the custom, the King of Qin will come to preside over it in person, burning incense and offering sacrifices to worship the spirits of the ancestors.

It's just that in the past six months, Prince Qin's infant has been lying on the sickbed, and all the sacrifices and blessing ceremonies have been presided over by the Ying clan's Zongzheng. Over time, the people in the temple gradually developed a sense of neglect, and many ceremonies were hastily completed by cutting corners.

However, this time it was a little different, Ziying suddenly sent a messenger to inform that he was going to visit the Taimiao Temple to worship the ancestors. This is a top priority for the Taimiao, you must know that Ziying has never been to the Taimiao since he ascended the throne, and today is the first time to come to the Taimiao, so it is naturally very grand. Therefore, the eunuchs and miscellaneous servants of all sizes in the Taimiao were driven up early, and they were busy all morning and finally cleaned the Taimiao spotlessly, and some old and damaged things were all replaced with new ones. After finishing the work, hundreds of people waited outside the hall respectfully, patiently waiting for the arrival of Prince Qin.

King Qin's carriage left Xianyang at the time of Chen, and it was close to noon when it arrived in Yongcheng. Hundreds of Yongcheng officials waited outside the Dazheng Palace for two hours, but Ziying did not come forward to meet them, but the carriage went straight into the Taimiao without stopping halfway. Yongchengling, who had originally prepared many audience ceremonies, couldn't help but be disappointed, and had no choice but to follow the frame of King Qin and enter the Taimiao alone.

Because Ziying's physical condition was not good, Han Tan specially told him to stay clean within too many seconds, and the idlers should not approach so as not to disturb the king's frame.

King Qin's guard of honor slowly stopped in front of the Taimiao, and Han Tan stepped forward and carefully helped out the child.

After more than a month of recuperation, Ziying's physical condition has improved a lot, but his face is pale and abnormal because he has not seen the sun for a long time, and he slowly got out of the car and walked into the Taimiao Temple with the support of Han Tan.

Walking in, there was a solemn and solemn feeling in front of him, and the high platform was densely enshrined with dozens of kings of the Qin Dynasty. The first was Shao Hao, the son of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of the Ying family, and next to him was the founding monarch of the Qin State, who was able to establish the country because of his meritorious work in raising horses for the Zhou family. After that, there were thirty-two generations of monarchs in the past 700 years, and in the end, under the first emperor, it was not the second emperor Hu Hai, but the biological father of the child, Fusu.

Although Fusu is the eldest son of the first emperor, he has not been in the dynasty system, and his identity is just a son, and he is not qualified to enter the temple to be worshiped by the incense of later generations. Although Hu Hai is tyrannical and mediocre, he is the legitimate monarch of Qin, and he is going to enter the Taimiao.

After Ziying returned to China, he had a fierce quarrel with the ministers over the status of Fusu. He insisted that since the edict of the first emperor was to welcome the prince Fusu, then Fusu should be the legitimate monarch of Qin, and Hu Hai, who seized the throne, could only be regarded as a usurper. And a large number of old ministers and clans insisted on doing it in accordance with the rules of the Ying clan, and they should not enter the Taimiao according to their qualifications.

In the end, with the support of Ying Ke and Meng Jian, Ziying reluctantly sent his father Fusu's spiritual position into the Taimiao, but it was not in the right position, but under the first emperor, he was called King Qin Yin, and was no longer called the emperor.

Ziying's eyes fell on Fusu's spiritual position, and he didn't take his eyes off for a long time, took a long breath and tried to calm the melancholy in his heart, and said slowly; "Han Tan, you all stand down, the widow wants to talk to his father and the ancestors alone.

"No." Han Tan bowed in response, then stood up and waved his hand, and the palace eunuchs beside him withdrew from the palace gate one after another.

There was a sound of Suosuo's retreating footsteps, and the huge temple was empty in an instant. Ziying put her hands behind her back and slowly paced forward, the expression on her face seemed to be a little excited and a little melancholy.

There was one man in the temple who remained. The high priest in a black robe stood calmly with his hands tied, as if he had merged with the black pillar behind him, and his presence would not have been visible unless he had looked closely.

The high priest of Qin was in charge of sacrifices, divination, and blessings, and he was the only person in Qin who could not follow the orders of the Qin king in the Taimiao. Ziying also ignored his presence, and he was not worried that the high priest would leak what he said, because as the high priest, he could not hear anything at all.

Since the Xia Qi, the clans of all countries have greatly respected the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods, and the position of high priest is the microphone for the king to communicate with the emperor as the name suggests. But since it was a communication with the Emperor of Heaven, it was natural that it could not be affected by external noises, so every high priest would prick his ear before taking office, and this cruel rule became the system of the Qin State for generations.

Therefore, each generation of high priests can only say that they can't listen, and Ziying, who is the king of Qin, naturally knows this rule, so he turns a blind eye to his existence.

Ziying walked forward slowly, pulled up the placket of his clothes and knelt down slowly, closed his eyes and prayed softly; "The ancestors are then up, and the children and grandchildren are below. Great Qin has passed a great disaster, but now it is a powerful minister in charge, and I, the king of Qin, will do nothing like a puppet, praying that the ancestors will use their wisdom to give me guidance and help my Great Qin to survive this calamity. ”

When Ziying muttered, he didn't see that the high priest who had been closing his eyes behind him suddenly opened his eyes, and a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes.

Wei Man is not a Qin person, he is a famous warlock in the Yan and Zhao areas. When Emperor Fushi pursued the art of immortality, he once recruited scholars and warlocks from all over the world to enter the court as officials, and it was at that time that Wei Man came to Xianyang. Later, the first emperor died, and the new second emperor was not interested in the art of immortality because he was still young, so he drove hundreds of monks and warlocks from the palace out of Xianyang Palace.

Fortunately for Wei Man, Zhao Gao unexpectedly discovered his talent and recruited him into the Prime Minister's Mansion as a guest. Later, he secretly opened up the relationship and sent him to the Taimiao, and after some operation, he became the high priest of the Qin State, and Zhao Gao used Wei Man to deceive Hu Hai for the results of his repeated divination.

Because the position of high priest is extremely mysterious to the outside world, Wei Man is a cautious and low-key person, although his ears are sound, he always pretends to be deaf, and over time, no one knows that he is Zhao Gao's confidant. Therefore, after Zhao Gao was executed, he was not implicated, and still dutifully served as the high priest in the Taimiao to divinate the Qin State.

Although Wei Man is not a warlock, and all he has learned and used is ethereal, but he is an upright person who knows how to repay his kindness. Although Zhao Gao went against the grain and caused trouble in the world, and many of his actions made Wei Man despised, he was still loyal to Zhao Gao.

is nothing more than anything else, the matter of eating the king's loyalty to the king, Zhao Gao pulled him when he was most impoverished, and the status and family beauty he can have now are all thanks to Zhao Gao, and he naturally wants to repay him with death.

The death of a confidant is not just a simple sentence in Yandi, but a spirit that is integrated into the bone marrow, so a large number of outstanding assassins such as Jing Ke, Gao Yuanli, and Qin Wuyang will emerge in the small Yan Kingdom.

After Zhao Gao was ambushed, Wei Man was extremely sad and angry, thinking day and night about how to avenge Zhao Gao. Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity of King Qin's sacrifice to assassinate, but Ziying had been seriously injured in bed since he ascended the throne, so he had no chance to do it. Today, when I heard that Ziying was going to worship my ancestors, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, and I hid the short blade in the long sleeves early, thinking that I would take the opportunity of divination to assassinate Ziying in one fell swoop.

But Ziying's words just now made Wei Man change his mind. Although he lives in the Taimiao all the year round and ignores the mundane affairs of the outside world, he also knows the general situation of the Qin State now, and now the army of the powerful minister Han Xin is in control, and Ziying is just a Qin king in name only. If Ziying is killed, the Qin State will soon nominate a new Qin king to inherit the throne, but it will be beneficial to Han Xin without any harm.

Zhao Gao's defeat that year, the enemies in Wei Man's heart were Ziying and Han Xin, if you want to take revenge, the best thing is to let the two dogs eat dogs to fight each other, and in the end, the vitality of the Qin State was greatly damaged. So Wei Man quickly changed his mind and temporarily canceled the assassination plan.

And Ziying didn't know that he had just come back from a circle around the ghost gate, if it hadn't been for his words to save him, I'm afraid he would have died on the ground by now. He just stood up and coughed softly, then waved Wei Man over.

Wei Man easily opened his right hand holding the dagger in his sleeve, walked forward slowly and quietly, walked to Ziying and bowed his head, and then took out fifty peach sticks for divination from his sleeve and placed them in front of Ziying.

The number of Dayan is fifty, and there are nine out of forty. The most common method of yarrow in divination is to use fifty peach sticks to throw the hexagram by begging, if you meet the old yang or the old yin, you also need to change the hexagram, that is, the yin becomes yang, the yang becomes yin, and the hexagram obtained at this time is called the hexagram, which is the hexagram obtained by divination.

Ziying picked up the peach stick, put it in his palm, closed his eyes and prayed secretly; "The king first and then the king, please show the direction to the child."

After the peach stick in his hand was gently shaken and thrown, Ziying closed his eyes for a long time before he slowly opened his eyes, and his face changed greatly when he saw the hexagram on the ground. Ziying freely likes miscellaneous studies, and has a lot of knowledge in divination, so he naturally recognizes this hexagram.

Seventy-four returns to three, the guest offender is dark, and the hexagram of the murderer.

Ziying took a deep breath, picked up the peach stick again and threw it down, still a great hexagram, after doing so three times, he finally sat down on the ground with a dead face, and finally muttered: "Could it be that the widow will really become the king of the fallen country of Great Qin, and the national fortune of the Qin State will really be so unbearable?" ”

His attitude towards Han Xin was still wavering, on the one hand, he wanted to limit Han Xin's rights and re-establish the absolute leadership of the Qin king over the Qin state. On the other hand, he was grateful to Han Xin for his achievements in the world, and knew that the reason why the Qin State still existed was only because of Han Xin's hard work, and he was originally a gentle and generous person, so his attitude towards Han Xin was undecided for a long time.

But today's repeated hexagrams made him like a lightning strike, what he prayed for was the national fortune of the Qin State, and the future fate of the Win clan, but three great omen in a row, how could this not make him suspect Han Xin.

If it is said that the biggest threat to the Ying clan at present is no longer Xiang Yu in Kanto, the three passes have been restored, the army has been rebuilt, and the Qin State can completely protect the Guanxi region by closing the country. And the internal threat comes from Han Xin, who is in the hands of the army, although Han Xin has never clashed with Ziying, but retreats step by step, but the more he does this, the more reassuring Ziying is.

The Qin State established the country with military merits, and the army in hand was enough to subvert the court, and the sword was the best means of conquest. So if Han Xin has a different heart, Ziying can guarantee that he will be in a different place that day.

People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, even if the swords are not interested in fish and meat for the time being, but fate is in the hands of others is by no means a happy thing. Ziying is the king of Qin, and the dignity of the king of Qin makes him unable to bear a potentially deadly threat hanging around his neck at all times.

Ziying lowered her head and was silent for a while, and finally raised her head to look at the high priest, and suddenly reached out and picked up the pen on the side, and wrote four words with a pen: "If you talk about the country, how is this hexagram?" After writing, he looked up at Wei Man, his eyes were full of expectation, hoping that he had misinterpreted the hexagram.

Wei Man stared at the hexagram on the ground and said; "Your Majesty's hexagram is a big murderer, if you talk about the national situation, the main star is dim, and the guest star enters the palace and dominates the lord. It is a hexagram for traitors. ”

Ziying's heart tightened, and she hurriedly blurted out and asked; "Is there a crack?" But seeing that Wei Man was still sitting there by himself, his face was a little dazed but he did not reply, and then he remembered that he was deaf, so he held the pen and wrote quickly; "Is there a crack?"

Wei Man pondered for a long time and said slowly; "The only way to crack this hexagram is to break it and then stand up, if there is still a glimmer of life."

Ziying wrote again; "What does it mean to break and then stand?"

"The first emperor came to the Taimiao to ask for a hexagram before the crown ceremony, which is basically the same as the hexagram asked by His Majesty."

After Wei Man finished speaking, he shut up and stopped talking, he knew that Ziying was a smart person, and if he said too much, it would arouse his suspicions. Now that the effect has been achieved, it seems that keeping your mouth shut is the best option.

Sure enough, Wei Man's words shocked Ziying, his eyes widened suddenly, and his face was full of horror.

What happened on the day of the coronation ceremony of the First Emperor, as the king of Qin, he naturally knew it clearly. On that day, the young and vigorous Ying Zheng suddenly exerted his strength on the way to Yongcheng, and the secret dispatch Wang Jian led a large army to attack Xianyang and quickly killed the conspiratorial rebellion Chang Yu and his party, and the blood of the rebels dyed the entire Xianyang City bright red. Then Yingzheng quickly captured the powerful minister Lü Buwei, deposed him as prime minister, drove him back to the fiefdom of Sanchuan County, and then sent someone to kill him on the way.

Wei Man said such a sentence lightly, and took out the example of the first emperor as a comparison, and the meaning is self-evident. It is nothing more than persuading him to be his grandfather, while Han Xin is Chang Yu and Lü Buwei.

The words have already been said for this part, Ziying has nothing to ask, silently stood up and walked out of the Taimiao, Han Tan, who was waiting outside the door, hurriedly stepped forward to support him. When he saw that Ziying's face was blue and he looked depressed, he didn't dare to disturb him, but just shut up and carefully sent Ziying to the carriage and drove back to the palace.

Ziying closed his eyes tightly on the bumpy carriage, but his heart was already turbulent, and one thought flashed through his heart, but he rejected them one by one.

If you want to do it, there is only one chance, if it fails, your face has been torn, Han Xin will never be stupid enough to wait for death, and then it will be the death of his child.

After returning to Wangyi Palace, Ziying still frowned and ignored the outside world. Han Tan didn't dare to salvage his thoughts, but it can be seen that he is so distracted and forgetful, he still can't help but remind; "Your Majesty, your body is important, don't burn your body.

Ziying came back to her senses and said with a wry smile; "This body is like this, what is the difference between bad and not."

After speaking, Ziying didn't wait for Han Tan to speak, but stared at him urgently and said; "Han Tan, can you be worthy of my trust?"

Han Tan trembled, then knelt on the ground with a 'plop' and choked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, what are you talking about, the old slave has been serving Your Majesty in the Gongzi's Mansion since he was twenty-six years old, and it has been more than twenty years now, and the old slave's loyalty to Your Majesty can be seen by the sun and the moon, as evidenced by heaven and earth!" ”

"Okay, then I'm going to do something, and I need you to help me."

Han Tan bowed and replied; "Your Majesty has tormented the old slave, if there is anything you want, just ask for instructions, where to use 'help'."

Ziying stared at Han Tan's eyes tightly, as if she had made a great determination and said; "I'm going to kill Han Shin!"

"What?" Han Tan couldn't help but blurt out, and hurriedly persuaded him; "Your Majesty, this matter is not trivial, Your Majesty must not be deceived by villains to do anything harmful to the national body."

Ziying's face did not change at all and said, "I only need to ask you one word, can you help me?"

Han Tan sighed and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to be safe, although the general is extremely powerful, he is not a traitorous minister like Zhao Gao. ”

Ziying snorted coldly; "He has a lot of power than Zhao Gao, Zhao Gao was just holding the Xianyang garrison, while Han Xin was the commander of the world's soldiers and horses. What if he had a different heart? ”

Han Tan saw that Ziying's mind was broken, but he still couldn't help but persuade again; "Your Majesty, don't forget, although Han Xin is a powerful minister, he has made great contributions to the Qin State, and his status in the army and the hearts of the people is very high. Far from being a perverse Zhao Gao who angered the world, you said that if you attack him, aren't you afraid that the foundation that the Qin State has rebuilt with great difficulty will be destroyed in an instant? ”

"I'm afraid!" Ziying nodded, a hint of determination flashing in her eyes. "But I'm more afraid that Ying's world will fall into the hands of others."

"Instead of sitting still, let's go for it! I have made up my mind, and you don't need to say more. ”

Han Tan sighed. "In this case, the old slave has no choice but to repay Your Majesty's kindness with an old life."

"Okay, recruit the prime minister and An Yangjun to meet for me."

PS: Friend's birthday, drank too much, drowsy and dizzy all night, and finally rushed out the manuscript before twelve o'clock, sorry everyone~