The expressions on the faces of the nobles were slightly frozen, with a little stunned and incredulous.

In officialdom, the subordinate has to guess every word of the superior.

It's not just about promotion, it's about self-preservation.

As soon as the sky was bright, the gate of Xianyang City had not yet opened, and the bell of the court meeting rang.

When all the officials arrived at the Xianyang Palace, the First Emperor was already sitting on the throne and waiting.

This shows that the First Emperor did not leave Xianyang Palace at all last night.

Unless the First Emperor returned from Yongdi in the middle of the night, this possibility is extremely low. No matter what era it is, the night road is more difficult to walk than the day road.

Yesterday deliberately suppressed a day's affairs, and now it is the first to win people at the court meeting.

If the two prime ministers want to say that they don't know what happened, and someone is deliberately looking for something, the heart of the first emperor - the nobles all know.

His Majesty doesn't want to deal with Chang'anjun......

The nobles thought to themselves, and several of the big nobles who wanted to speak immediately closed their mouths and looked around, wanting others to be the first birds.

The idea of the crowd was simple.

This Qin Sword, which rested above everyone's heads and would fall at any time, had to be destroyed, at least taken down.

But who will be the destroyer of the sword, the bearer of the sword? That's the problem, no one wants to mess with the First Emperor.

They didn't speak, and the conversation between the First Emperor and Li Si continued.

"The high-ranking officials are the things that the kings have obtained by killing the enemy bravely and wholeheartedly for Qin. You are not as tall as others, so you have jealousy and insinuation against him, and this should not be. ”

He was jealous, but what he said was true. There are no less than twenty people with court titles higher than Si, and all of them are higher than Sihu in Qin's achievements? Si is not convinced. ”

Li Si bowed to Baili City, the head of the Baili family, who was sitting on the ground and did not move.

"Si fourteenth class, Baili family master fifteenth class. Si has the merit of promoting the unification of the world, admonishing His Majesty to recall the ministers and workers, and establishing the merit of the county and the state and the national policy. Dare to ask the head of the Baili family, what is Yu Qin's merit? Why can he be above Si. ”

Is this Lees a mad dog? Or is it that his words are all granted by His Majesty, and he insists on reducing our authority.

Combined with what Chang Anjun did yesterday and His Majesty's way of dealing with it, it turned out that it was not Chang Anjun who wanted to do something to us, it was Your Majesty.

The nobles were thinking about what to do next. They weren't named, they still had time.

The party Baili Cheng can't be silent like others, the fire has burned on his body, and he must make a choice.

He stood upright and stared at Lees with a murderous gaze.

"The power of the city is not as good as the left phase, and the power of the city ancestor is far greater than the left phase. The ancestor Baili Xi Yu Qin Gong does not need me to say much, the world knows it. ”

The First Emperor nodded in agreement.

"Yes, there is no Qin State without a hundred miles, and Mu Xiangong is the hegemon, all of which are the work of a hundred miles."

The first emperor said this, but Baili City did not dare to say it, and it was taboo to be proud of his achievements.

The reason why he did not list the merits of Baili Xi was to contrast with Li Si's achievements, and to ask the first emperor to pay attention to Li Si.

Li Sili shouted: "What does Bailizi's merit have to do with your Baili City?" It's you who ask! What merits do you have in the Qin State! ”

Mad Dogs!

This guy is crazy!

For the sake of one's own benefit, we will all fall! Why did this guy do this again!

The families couldn't take it anymore.

Regardless of whether Li Si's words were signaled by the First Emperor, they had to respond, and Li Si's words touched the bottom line of the nobles of the family.

The merits of the predecessors and the descendants cannot be added to the body, so the lords and descendants of the predecessors cannot be hereditary.

The title, in the Qin Dynasty, was a symbol of class, meaning that the status was superior to others. There are people who are out of reach, and they can enjoy privileges that ordinary people cannot enjoy.

In fact, as early as when Shang Ying changed the law, Shang Ying wrote that the title cannot be hereditary, but it ended in failure in the implementation of the policy, and the opposition was too great.

Many people think that the title promoted by the Qin Dynasty's twentieth military merit system is not hereditary, and the Shang Dynasty's reform is very thorough, which is taken for granted.

In fact, the title of Qin Dynasty remained hereditary until its demise.

"Historical Records: Qin Shi Huang Benji": Lang evil platform, standing stone carving, praising Qin De, Ming proud. Said: King Weiqin has both the world and the emperor, and he is named the emperor, which is to fu the eastern soil, as for the Lang evil. Liehou Wucheng Marquis Wang Li, Liehou Tongwu Marquis Wang Ben......

The liehou is the Marquis of Che, the highest twentieth rank of the Qin State. Wang Li was a child when he carved the stele, and even if he added all the military exploits at the end of the Qin Dynasty, he was not enough to be a marquis.

Moreover, Wang Li is the son of Wang Ben, but his name is in front of his father when the stone is carved, indicating that Wang Li's title is higher than that of his father Wang Ben.

Wang Jian was not a marquis in the history books, but the merit is not as good as his sons have been made marquis, it makes no sense that Wang Qian, who had the greatest military merit at that time, was not a marquis.

All the facts are in front of us, and if they are true, then there is only one possibility. After Wang Jian died, his son Wang Ben was a liehou who did not inherit the title, and his grandson Wang Li inherited it.

Wu Anjun Bai Qi had brilliant military achievements in his life but did not become a marquis, and Wang Li was born as a marquis of Che as a child, which is the difference between King Qin Zhaoxiang and the first emperor.

The fact that the Qin State was able to dominate the world in the generation of the First Emperor is definitely related to the fact that the First Emperor must be rewarded for his merits and is not afraid of the high achievements of his ministers.

In addition, King Qin Zhaoxiang, who is also a Ming monarch, Wang Qian, whose military achievements are not as good as Bai Qi, will not only not be able to be crowned marquis, but will also be settled by the queen of the autumn, and it would be good if he was not killed.

And Wang Jian can't be a marquis, and he can't seek great benefits for future generations. It is unknown whether he will teach his son Wang Ben to attack the Six Kingdoms with all his might.

The first emperor was the remnant of Fen VI who won the world, but without the first emperor, there is a high probability that another king will not be able to win the six kingdoms.

And now, what Li Si wants to do is to tear down the bridge built by the First Emperor to drive Qin Chen to fight bravely and make meritorious contributions to Qin regardless of life and death.

Titles cannot be hereditary.

It is to be the enemy of the world.

Sima Yin, the head of the Sima family, stood up from the seat, and his ancestor was Sima Cuo, a general who laid a reserve granary for the destruction of the Ba State and the Shu State for the Qin State.

Pointing at Li Si, his hands trembled: "You are going to die and the Great Qin will prosper for a thousand years, and the ancestors will be blue and blue, overcoming thorns and thorns." Thou art just lucky to speculate that the Sacred Heart has won the left phase, how dare you be disrespectful to it here! ”

Wei Fa, the head of the Wei family, stood up from his seat, and his ancestor was Wei Zhang, a general who captured Hanzhong for the Qin state.

Flicked his sleeve robe and scolded coldly: "A scholar An dares to say the merits of our ancestors? Ru Yan has a great merit in Qin, but he is only a mouthful. It is all about His Majesty's holy will, and dare to steal for his own merit? Cowards who don't go to the battlefield dare to talk nonsense! ”

The head of the family stood up from the seat, and his ancestors were to capture Quwo of Wei, Lin Yi of Zhao, and Zhu Wei Zhang to capture Chu and Hanzhong.

He didn't look at Li Si but faced the First Emperor directly, and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, such a deceitful and thief of the world, please be beheaded outside the palace!"

“……”

One nobleman after another stood up and gave their opinions on this.

The milder scolded Li Si, and the more fierce ones directly asked the First Emperor to scold Li Si.

They were using their strong and fierce emotions towards Li Si to express their dissatisfaction with the First Emperor.

They were 100% sure that the First Emperor wanted to carry out this matter and wanted to centralize power.

The hereditary system was abolished, and Li Si's descendants could not inherit his title, and they needed to continue to struggle. The vested interest in this move was not Li Si, but the first emperor.

At this moment, the matter of Ying Cheng's killing of the three major families was put aside by them for the time being.

There are priorities, Ying Chengcheng's Qin sword has not yet fallen on their necks, but the Qin sword of the First Emperor has already cut blood.

"That's enough."

The First Emperor's words of suppressed anger calmed down the originally noisy scene in an instant.

"I'm here to listen to Qin's plan, not to listen to you and others attacking each other."

The sound of words was not big or small, so that the ministers under the high platform all stopped, waiting for the first emperor's next words.

Title, is it hereditary or not?

Is Your Majesty stubborn, or is he persuaded by us?

"Lis."

"The minister is here."

"The prime minister is busy with affairs, so you will hand over the post of court lieutenant to the court lieutenant, and you can do things in the prime minister's mansion with peace of mind."

"Yui."

His Majesty changed his mind and the title was retained.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their hearts were filled with joy.

Taking off Li Si's position as a court lieutenant is nominally to make him feel at ease as prime minister, but in fact it is a punishment, which reveals a signal that he is biased towards the aristocratic side.

Lees returned to his seat.

The First Emperor glanced at the high platform and said, "The miscellaneous affairs are over, who will tell me why I am in such a hurry to find me."

If the first sentence of the First Emperor was to ask this, there must be countless nobles who have risen now, just like when the nobles opposed Li Si before.

But when the first emperor had just been persuaded by a group of families and promised not to cancel the hereditary system, all the nobles of the family looked at me, I looked at you, and they all wanted each other to stand up.

Politics is about balance, and power planning is more about the exchange of interests than life and death.

The nobles had just worked hard to regain the hereditary power they already had, and they could no longer open their mouths to the First Emperor to punish their younger brothers.

Even if they thought so at the beginning, they just can't open their mouths at the moment. On the battlefield, the more you win, the better, but this is not the case in officialdom.

If there is a person who only wins and does not lose, and never asks for nothing to lose. Then this person is either a powerful minister who uses the emperor as a puppet, or a lonely minister who is the emperor's puppet.

Powerful ministers, lonely ministers, will die.

The Xianyang Hall fell into an eerie silence, and the golden dragon climbing on the pillars flashed with golden light, and he didn't know what the group of humans in front of him was hesitating.

No, the shaft must be solved!

Baili City, the head of the Baili family, saw that no one around him showed signs of standing up, and he gritted his teeth and was about to get up.

Among the heads of these families, Baili Cheng wanted to kill Ying Chengcheng the most, he was too close to the Meng family.

If Ying Chengcheng does not die for a day, his Baili family may follow in the footsteps of the three major families one day, and he is the first one who can't sit still.

"It's okay, but I'm fine."

The First Emperor waited for more than a dozen breaths, and when he saw that there was a movement in the hundred miles of city below, he slowly spoke.

Baili Cheng's originally raised butt sat down again, he didn't want to directly fight the First Emperor, it didn't matter if he waited for a while.

"I heard that the queen personally complained, saying that the three major families were traitors and thieves of national wealth. Violate the laws of Qin, and the three tribes should be destroyed according to the law. He was arrested for Li Si yesterday and brought to the Tingwei Mansion to correct the law on the spot. ”

"Your Majesty!"

Baili Cheng's face turned pale, and Huo Ran stood up.

He couldn't wait any longer, and from the tone of the First Emperor, he was already going to put the matter to a conclusion.

If the death of the three great families is normal, then the executor Ying Chengcheng is innocent. This time the three major families died, and the next time it was his Baili family.

The other nobles also had very bad faces, obviously thinking the same as Baili City, the difference was that they were not as anxious as Baili City.

"I'm not done yet."

The First Emperor stared at Baili Cheng coldly, and scared Baili Cheng, who wanted to tell the truth in one go, so that his legs and feet weakened, and he almost sat down on the ground and made a fool of himself in public.

"Baili City, do I say it first, or you say it first. Are you going to wait for me, or are you going to wait for you. ”

Puff~

Baili Cheng could no longer stand, and immediately fell to the ground, hurriedly kneeling.

"Minister's rudeness! Minister's faux pas! ”

If it is a dynasty in later generations, it may be a sentence that the minister should die, and the minister should die.

The Qin Dynasty did not have this mantra, they were afraid that the First Emperor would take it seriously.

Meng Fu, a veteran who has not been in the court for many years, was very surprised by the reaction of the first emperor in his heart, but he did not delay him to poke his grandson next to him with his elbow, and his sparse white hair hung low.

"You birdman is so scared! Last night, I asked Naigong to find Your Majesty, and this matter will be a credit to the Meng family! ”

I don't know who ran to the Captain's Mansion to stop people and was knocked unconscious, the Meng family is the pinnacle of military exploits, so don't do such feats.

Meng Yi, who sought stability, looked at Meng Yi with admiration while slandering.

"It's still the eldest father."

The First Emperor coldly stopped the review of Baili City and continued to speak.

"Chang'an Jun Ying Cheng Cheng was tortured in Xianyang Prison, and his disciples wanted to save his master from breaking into the palace of the court and committing a rebellious act, headed by Wang Qi. According to Qin law, Wang Qi and Yingcheng should be beheaded. Chang'an Jun Yingcheng was in prison and did not know about foreign affairs, so he was light, and he was imprisoned in Xianyang Prison for the rest of his life. Take the position of captain of the country and the state. ”

If the First Emperor had pronounced such a sentence at the beginning, the nobles would definitely not be satisfied.

Yesterday, it was not one or two people who saw Ying Chengcheng appear in front of the public and take the lead in killing people, but thousands of city defense troops and a group of noble spies.

Such a heinous act must be killed!

But at this moment, the nobles who had no hope of Ying Chengcheng being punished felt that this punishment seemed to be acceptable.

Now what makes many families hesitate is that Ying Chengcheng has their black material in his hands.

It was not only the three major families who sold used weapons and stole the treasury, but all the families in Xianyang headed by the Gan family.

The three great families were killed under this pretext, will they also be killed under this pretext in the future? Was Ying Cheng's actions voluntary, or was it instructed by the First Emperor?

"Shangqing Ganluo, after investigation, there is no crime. framed Meng Jiakun, Bai Fei, and Xishu. The robbers of the treasury are only Meng Jiakun, Bai Fei, Xishu and their cadres. After the dispersal of the court, Tingwei immediately released Ganluo. ”

The First Emperor finished saying this in one breath, and without waiting for his subordinates to react, he looked at Baili City, which was still kneeling on the ground.

"Baili City, I'm done, it's your turn, what's going to happen."