Wait until the figure of the Empress Dowager Huayang completely disappears.

Ying Zheng turned around and returned to Zhangtai Palace, and just after he turned around, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

Return to the throne.

Ying Zheng continued to deal with government affairs, but just as he picked up the brush and reviewed the notes, he said as if chatting casually: "Mr. Gai thinks that the 5,000 soldiers and horses privately raised by the 'four major clans' of Nanjun this time are really raised by themselves?" ”

Gai Nie on the side was silent for a moment, then hugged his sword and saluted, and said, "I think that the king already has an answer in his heart for this matter. ”

Ying Zheng's eyes closed slightly, put down the brush in his hand, sighed and said, "Yes!" The widow actually knows it, but he just doesn't want to believe it. After all, before this, even if they had been against the widows, the widows felt that they were also members of the Great Qin royal family after all. But I didn't expect ······"

Ying Zheng himself doesn't know how to describe his current mood.

His brother, whom he once trusted and regarded as his own, betrayed him.

His own mother colluded with an outsider to create a rebellion against her own son.

Now even he thinks that no matter what, he can at least be regarded as a 'Chu foreign relative' who has the same position as the Qin royal family, and he is actually secretly plotting rebellion.

Is he, the king, really so incompetent?

Before that.

Ying Zheng actually still trusts the brothers Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun quite a lot, even if the other party is against him above the court, but he thought that the other party just disobeyed him, at least he was still loyal to the Qin State and devoted himself to his duties.

Therefore, when Chang Yu was exterminated, Yingzheng chose to let Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun lead the troops to quell the rebellion.

Even after this incident, Ying Zheng once promoted Changping Jun to the right prime minister of Qin with the help of 'counterinsurgency', which can be regarded as winning the hearts of the people, and can also give Lü Buwei one more opponent who restricts each other above the court.

However, later, because Mo Jun suddenly offered the 'first generation of improved rice seeds', Ying Zheng was too excited for a while, and he put the matter behind him for the time being.

Not long ago, Ying Zheng remembered this incident again.

As a result, before he could take action, there was another flood in Nanjun, and Mo Jun was ordered to return to Nanjun for disaster relief, but he didn't expect to uncover such a shocking case all of a sudden.

"Hehe~~ The grain tax collected by my Qin State in a year is only less than eight million stones. Now it is only 27 nobles in a remote county, and they actually seized 800,000 stone grain and 200,000 gold coins. ”

"No matter how the widow looks, he feels that he is extremely ridiculous as the king of Qin."

Ying Zheng casually opened a scroll of bamboo slips, which recorded the results of Mojun and Mengwu's reports.

The contents of these reports, including the 200,000 gold coins withheld by Mo Jun, as well as the commercial channels left by the major nobles in Nanjun, and some real estate such as houses and fields, have not yet been recorded.

However, even so, these confiscated grains and gold coins alone were enough to make Ying Zheng's heart angry, and his killing intent burst out.

To know.

At present, the annual grain tax of the Qin State treasury is only about 8 million stones.

This is still a good time for the year, and if there are some natural disasters and disasters, the annual grain tax revenue may only be five or six million stones.

Of course.

Ying Zheng also knew that these grain taxes were not real taxes, after all, taxes would be added layer by layer when they were transmitted to the local government, and they would be deducted layer by layer when they were reported to Xianyang.

This kind of unspoken rule that almost the entire Seven Kingdoms of the Central Plains has now acquiesced, Ying Zheng is not deaf or blind, so it is naturally impossible not to hear a little wind at all.

But if you are not deaf or blind, you can't be a home.

Some things are difficult to change even if Yingzheng is in power, so he usually turns a blind eye to some unspoken rules.

But even Yingzheng didn't expect that these local nobles would be so bold.

Just the twenty-seven nobles in the land of Nanjun and one county actually seized 800,000 stone grain and 200,000 gold coins, which totaled almost 2.8 million stone grain.

Such property has even exceeded one-third of the total annual grain tax of the entire Qin State.

Where is this still an unspoken rule?

It's just lying on the body of the Qin State, sucking the living blood of the people of Great Qin!

After this battle.

It is naturally impossible for Ying Zheng to still think about promoting Changping Jun to the right prime minister.

Opposite.

Now Ying Zheng is a little more vigilant about the entire 'Chu foreign relatives'.

Seriously.

If it weren't for the fact that this matter was too wide-ranging, Ying Zheng would have been quite happy this time, after all, he sent Mo Jun back to Nanjun last time, and he just had the idea of trying it out, and let Mo Jun go to the disaster relief.

As a result, now Mo Jun not only did not spend a penny from the treasury to calm down the disaster in the entire Nanjun, but even sent 600,000 stone grain and 200,000 gold coins to Ying Zheng.

If there were more such courtiers, Ying Zheng would feel that he would have taken Lu Buwei and Chang Yu a long time ago····· All of them have been killed, where do you have to suffer so many years of grievances.

That's it.

Ying Zheng suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and subconsciously sighed: "Mo Qing, it's really the humerus of a widow!" ”

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The other side.

Chang Pingjun led Chang Wenjun and returned to the mansion with a gloomy face.

When he returned to the room and closed the door, before Chang Wenjun could react, a big fighter 'snapped' on his face.

"The five thousand soldiers and horses over there in Nanjun, did you do it?"

This big fighter directly shut down Chang Wenjun's brain, and it wasn't until he heard his eldest brother's suppressed angry questioning that Chang Wenjun covered his face and said aggrievedly: "This ······ I didn't expect those guys to be so stupid that they would raise those 5,000 people in their own homes! ”

"How dare you quibble?"

It's okay not to mention it, as soon as Chang Wenjun said this, Chang Pingjun suddenly became even more angry, and stretched out his hand to add another big fight to the idiot in front of him.

But in the end, he endured.

No way.

After all, this is his own brother, and if he really wants to play a good game, he is still distressed.

Changping Jun had no choice but to put away his anger, and after calming down for a while, he asked in a low voice, "What are you secretly training so many troops in Nanjun?" Want to rebel? ”

Chang Wenjun said aggrievedly: "I didn't want to rebel, I just wanted to stay there for a while." ”

In fact, speaking of which, this matter is really not to blame Chang Wenjun.

Because although the 5,000 soldiers and horses were indeed sent to Nanjun by him, he was not stupid enough to put the whole 5,000 people in someone else's house, and the whole thing that night was actually like this.

The cause of the incident can be traced back to the Empress Dowager Huayang's secret order to let the four major clans of Nanjun prepare food to help the Chu State start disaster relief.

After getting this secret order in the first place.

The four major clans quickly raised 400,000 stone grain through their own channels.

However, it is easy to raise grain, but if you want to secretly transport so much grain to the Chu State, you not only need hidden channels, but also need a large number of people.

After all, 400,000 stone grain is not a small amount, and the four major clans' own manpower is still useful, and they can't use too much at one time.

But if the staff is called on an ad hoc basis, secrecy will become an issue.

So at that time, some people thought of the '5,000 army' that Chang Wenjun put into Nanjun and let their four major clans train on their behalf.

These people are strong, numerous, and secretive, and have no problems with loyalty, so they are simply the best candidates for transporting food.

So that night, these 5,000 people did not hide in the homes of the four major clans all the time, but temporarily came to the four major clans to help carry the grain.

It turned out to be so coincidental.

Mo Jun happened to lead the black-armored soldiers to surround the four major clans that night.

What the four major clans didn't expect was that after the reckless man Mo Jun arrived, he didn't even leave time for them to 'quibble', and directly carried the sword to slash and kill.

All the way from the front gate to the back door, without blinking an eye.

In the end, the four major clans were forced to have no choice but to protect themselves, so they could only expose the 'five thousand soldiers and horses'.

And then ······

There was no more then.

These coincidences Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun are obviously not clear, but after listening to Chang Wenjun's explanation, Chang Pingjun really has the idea of strangling his own brother to death.

But now is not the best time because they still have some things to clean up.

"Those Nanjun officials who are now imprisoned in the dungeon should not know about the 'five thousand soldiers and horses', but Rong Buyi and a few old foxes inside will be able to guess the truth of the matter sooner or later."

"Big brother, you mean ······"

A cold light flashed in Changping Jun's eyes, and he said coldly: "So as not to have many dreams at night, before the execution tomorrow, it is best to let them keep their mouths shut forever." ”

Chang Wenjun was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and said in a low voice: "I'll do it." ”

Chang Pingjun reminded: "Remember, take care to hide yourself in this matter, you are still grounded, be careful not to let someone get caught." ”

Chang Wenjun nodded and said, "I understand, big brother!" ”

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Early the next morning.

On death row in prison.

Several prison guards carrying food boxes and wearing prison uniforms walked into death row. Seeing these unfamiliar prison guards, the cell leader on duty today was about to step forward to ask, but at this moment, I saw the leading prison guard take out a token and shake it towards the cell head.

The cell leader's face changed, and then he quickly stopped, and returned to his original position without squinting, as if he had not seen these people at all, and let the other party walk into death row.

A moment later.

Bursts of terrible screams suddenly came from the death row.

But this did not attract anyone's attention, after all, in a place like death row, there are dozens of screams every day, which is not worth mentioning at all.

By the time the screams had subsided, the prison guards who had been carrying food boxes had come out again, and the cell boss on duty had already left the door with urgency.

So a group of people came quietly and disappeared without a trace.

Until an hour later.

Someone came to death row to pick up the condemned prisoners who were beheaded today, only to find that the dozen or so rebellious criminals who were to be beheaded today had already 'committed suicide in fear of crime'······

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(End of chapter)