If you want to say that the veteran-level ministers have been following the side of the first emperor and can be trusted, then Huo Qing is the most suitable, and it just so happens that Huo Qing is going to return to the court.

Wen Ling always felt that although Kang Yi had left the palace, there were too many points to dig up on him.

waited until Huo Qing returned to the court, met Gu Xun, and mentioned what happened on the way to the funeral of the first emperor, with a solemn face, "Your Majesty, Weichen did see some things on the road." ”

Gu Xun couldn't help but feel a little more upright, "What's the matter?" ”

"Here's the thing..."Huo Qing told the story.

Huo Qing escorted the bodies of the first emperor and "Gu Xun" to the imperial tomb according to his will, the place where the imperial tomb was established was hidden, and after ten years, the terrain passed all the way was extremely remote.

At first, Huo Qing didn't notice anything abnormal.

But when I passed by those small mountain villages, I always met people who said that people had disappeared in the village recently, and there was more than one case.

In remote mountain villages, people in the depths of the villages, because of the topography and because of the deep poverty-stricken mountainous areas, there are many people who disappear every year.

At first, Huo Qing didn't take it seriously, and in order to escort the first emperor, he was careful all the way.

In order to prevent people from knowing the location of the imperial tomb, and to prevent people from rushing out to disrespect the first emperor halfway, Huo Qing has tried his best to hide it.

But who would have thought that there were still many people missing along the way, and many people thought that the other party was dead.

One day, there was a village where people went out to the toilet at night.

When he heard the noise, he went out to look, but he was startled by the sight.

He saw his eldest brother, who had been missing for three months, lying pale in his pigsty, looking like a dead man, with chapped marks on his face.

When he thought that the other party was dead, but he didn't want to sigh, the other party suddenly opened his eyes again, his eyes were blank, and his pupils were white, and then he disappeared in front of the person the next moment.

Hearing this, Gu Xun's expression became completely solemn, "What does the general mean ......?"

"Since Tuyuhun used blood slaves, there have been blood servants after my Jin Kingdom, and the power of Gu worms has aroused the fear of many people with hearts. It is much easier to use the dead than the living, and now that many Gu masters have secretly poured into the Jin Kingdom, Wei Chen suspects that there are Gu masters who secretly arrest those villagers to test blood Gu. Huo Qing's face was solemn, "If these people want to gather, they will inevitably cause trouble." ”

Although Gu is called Gu, only Gu masters know that each Gu has its own uniqueness when it is born, so the first Gu born of each Gu is the most important.

This Gu is called the Yuan Gu, and the Gu born from it is called the Mother Gu.

For example, the blood servant of the Jin Kingdom also went through countless experiments and countless failures before finally succeeding in a Yuan Gu.

After having this Yuan Gu, this kind of blood Gu was fed with the help of the corpse.

It is the principle of two for one life, two for three, and three for all things.

But first, there must be this one.

Tuyuhun's blood slave is also a blood Gu, but because of the uniqueness of the Yuan Gu, the mother Gu born is also different. The blood servants of the Jin Kingdom are obedient, easy to control, and powerful, and unlike the blood slaves of Tuyuhun, the blood servants do not need to be fed by human lives, just one person and one Gu, the mother gives birth to the child, the mother dies and the son dies, Rao is much better than the uncontrollable blood slave.

However, the Yuan Gu of the Jin Kingdom has already been destroyed after Tuyuhun's victory, and the mother Gu that still exists today are all in the bodies of the living soldiers, not to mention that it is very difficult to obtain, the blood servants of the Jin Kingdom will count on time every day, the number of people, the loss, once there is a lack of one, it will be found in time.

Even this can't stop the Gu Masters from trying, because this is not only a challenge, but once successful, it will definitely be co-opted by various countries.

Huo Qing guessed that not only the Jin Kingdom, but also in all countries would have such a situation.

"Does the old general think that someone is manipulating this?" Gu Xun frowned and asked.

Huo Qing shook his head, "Weichen doesn't know, but you have to be fully prepared, the emperor forgot the three thousand blood servants who disappeared in the past, although we destroyed a lot in the last attack, but there are still many blood servants missing." The other party may obtain the Mother Gu from the Blood Servant, use it to study it, and then test it on the people. ”

Gu Xun's face was slightly gloomy, "I know, only Gu can find traces of Gu on Gu, in the past, we used the blood servant to help Qi eliminate the blood slaves." After the war stopped, I have been hesitant whether to eliminate the blood servants, but I have never made up my mind, now that the general has found out like this, then I can only use the blood servants again, let them search the Jin Kingdom from the four directions of the southeast, northwest and north, and if they encounter Gu people other than the blood servants, they will all be annihilated. ”

"Yes!" Huo Qing immediately asked, "Then the emperor wants to tell the world about this matter, I have a lot of blood servants in the Jin Kingdom, and now I have recovered the four countries, and the territory has expanded a lot, but I will search day and night, and it is inevitable that the people will be encountered, and the people will be frightened, and the emperor can tell the world." In this way, if the people encounter any strange things again, it can also be explained as a search by the blood servants, so that there will be no fuss. ”

Gu Xun thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Seeing that Gu Xun listened to his opinion, Huo Qing was actually not too happy in his heart, he always felt as if he had ignored something, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Leaving the imperial study, Huo Qing saw Rong Qing waiting at the door.

Rong Qing arched his hand and said, "Old General Huo, the queen mother is invited." ”

"Queen Mother......" Huo Qing's mother pondered for a moment, he had no intersection with Princess Chang'an, although he had a few words with the prince of Qi, but he was not close. And the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and when he was alive, he rarely met with courtiers, so what is the matter with the queen calling him now?

However, when he saw Wen Ling, Huo Qing was very surprised.

No one would have thought that the current queen of the Jin Kingdom would hold a stack of books and sit on the ground with a book.

"Queen, you ......"

Huo Qing's eyes widened, could it be that the queen mother was also so unruly when she was in Qi Kingdom?

"Ah, General Huo, you're finally here, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Wen Ling flipped through the books for several days and gnawed countless Wei history books, and he almost memorized them to a rotten end. Fortunately, the hard work paid off, although she did not find the exact history book, but according to the wild history, assuming that what the wild history said was true, she had a few bold guesses.

"I don't know what the queen has to order?" Huo Qing hurriedly knelt down.

"General Huo, please get up, I have something important to ask General Huo." Wen Ling was not vain, and said directly, "I don't know how much General Huo knows about Kang Yikang's father-in-law?" What is the origin of Kang Gonggong? Got in doubt? What is the relationship with Eucommia? General Huo is a minister who followed the first emperor, and he followed the first emperor from the time when the first emperor was reckless, and there must be some things that only General Huo knows. ”

Huo Qing naturally knew that Gu Xun suspected Kang Yi, but who would have thought that this investigation of Kang Yi would start from Kang Yi's origin.

After all, if Kang Yi conspired with Du Zhong, it would be to directly seize the evidence.

"I remember that the first emperor ascended the throne for a long time, and after ascending the throne, in order to clean up the eyeliner that Emperor Wei secretly inserted around him, he was in the Qing Palace, and not a single slave was left, and then a little palace maid and a little eunuch were recruited. What about Kang Yi? Kang Yi is the same age as the first emperor, and he was already in his twenties back then, so how did he enter the palace? Wen Ling asked.

Huo Qing thought for a while and replied seriously, "That's the case, the first emperor dismissed the people in the original palace in order to exclude Emperor Wei's meticulous work. Originally, the first emperor recruited a little palace maid and a little eunuch into the palace, but the first emperor was born recklessly, and many of the soldiers who followed the first emperor at that time were also reckless, and there were many heroes in temperament. In the past, when the emperor was the king, he didn't like the rules and was more indulgent to his subordinates, so most of the people under his command were like this, and they were slightly presumptuous to women. Later, the first emperor married successively, and then established himself as the king, and established a harem, at the beginning there were not enough people to let these people guard the palace. ”

"But these people are more intense, and later the first emperor found out that something was wrong, so he summoned more little eunuchs and palace maids, because of the hurry, there were no trustworthy and experienced old people around them, so the palace maids and eunuchs did not serve very carefully, and often did wrong things. At that time, Kang Yi appeared, he claimed that he was poor when he was a child, and he wanted to be sold into the palace by his family, so he decided first, who knew that he was not selected by the eunuchs in the palace, and he had been pretending to be a normal man for slavery all these years and did not dare to expose himself as a eunuch. I don't want to live in a group of normal men to disguise myself. ”

Huo Qing thought about it and twisted his eyebrows and said, "The first emperor was soft-hearted, and at that time, it was a time when there was a shortage of people, so he accepted Kang Yi for a few months, and he didn't find anything wrong with Kang Yi, but he only served in an orderly manner, and he has been letting Kang Yi serve by his side until now." ”

Wen Ling smiled.

In this world, if you want to hide it, you will definitely make some efforts.

Let's not talk about whether Kang Yi's reason is true, even if it is hypothetical, Kang Yi has another purpose, so why is he lurking by the side of the first emperor?

"What about Eucommia?" Wen Ling asked again, "During this period, what is Du Zhong's role?" ”

Huo Qing squinted, time had passed too long, in fact, he didn't think much about it.

After a while, Huo Qing remembered, "At that time, we didn't really like Kang Yi's appearance, because there was a lesson from Emperor Wei Xian, and we all suspected that the eunuch who took the initiative to come to the door had another purpose. At that time, the first emperor trusted Prime Minister Du very much, and it was Prime Minister Du who said a few words for Kang Yi, and the first emperor agreed...... Huh......"

As Huo Qing spoke, he felt that something was wrong.

Could it be that Du Zhong and Kang Yi have long been related?

But it's not like that......

For so many years, no one has felt it.

Wen Ling pondered for a moment, then flipped through the wild history in his hand, and asked instead, "Does General Huo know the real age of Prime Minister Du?" What happened to Prime Minister Du, and when did he meet the first emperor? ”

There are only two possibilities about that secret passage.

One is that someone knew about it from the beginning, and the other is that someone found it by accident.

If it's the second, it's easy to say anything, but if it's the first, the person's true identity is suspicious.

Wen Ling made a bold guess and carefully confirmed, no matter which one it was, there were always some clues, so everything went back to the original point, maybe some people didn't show their feet now, but they had a long time ago, but no one has found out. After all, if you think about it, the first emperor was just a reckless person at that time, poor and white, and worthless, maybe even he couldn't imagine that he might be calculated.