"Alive?"

Mo Jun was taken aback.

The news of Lü Buwei's death has now spread throughout most of Xianyang, and it is naturally impossible for Mo Jun not to know.

It's just that what surprised him was that his relationship with Lü Buwei was not good. Even to put it mildly, Lu Buwei has fallen to this point, and he definitely has an inescapable connection with Mo Jun.

If it is said that Yingzheng is the person who handed the 'knife of self-determination' to Lü Buwei.

Then Mo Jun is definitely the craftsman who forged the knife, and he not only forged the knife, but even quenched the blade with poison.

In this case, Lu Buwei even left something for Mo Jun before he died, which is obviously difficult for people not to be suspicious.

"Your Excellency!"

Xiong Da, Hei Yu, and Jian Jiuyuan came to Mo Jun at the same time, stretched out their hands and pressed the bamboo slips, although they didn't say anything, the meaning of the three of them was already obvious.

Although Mo Jun felt that it was unlikely that Lu Buwei would engage in such a 'small trick', for the sake of insurance, he also handed over the bamboo slip to Jian Jiuyuan, and instructed: "Be careful! ”

In fact, in this bamboo slip, if there is really some hidden mechanism, poisonous smoke, among the people present, Mo Jun is the safest to open it.

Half a year ago.

Mo Jun had already cultivated the "Song of No War" to the highest level of the ninth layer, and now he was practicing defense, even if he resisted the explosion of the "Fire Sulfur Stone (Gunpowder)", he could be unscathed.

In addition, with [Life Crystal] as a hole card, there is no poison in the world today that can poison Mo Jun.

However, now Mo Jun's status is not what it used to be.

No matter how high his martial arts cultivation was, it was impossible for others to let him take such a risk.

Even if he is still the county guard of Nanjun, as a retainer and a guest, he has never let the lord take the lead.

The rest of the people scattered in all directions.

Leaving only Jian Jiuyuan and the medicine ghost, the medicine ghost took out a silk scarf and put it on his face, and then carefully opened the bamboo slip with a wooden stick.

And Jian Jiuyuan, who was beside him, held the hilt of the sword with one hand, his mind was concentrated, and he was ready to draw the sword at any time.

Thankfully, nothing happened.

When opened, the bamboo slip revealed a yellow-brown map made of some kind of animal skin.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

After checking a little more, and after making sure that there were no problems, he handed the bamboo slip to Mo Jun along with the map.

And when Mo Jun saw the contents recorded on the bamboo slips and animal skin maps, his eyes suddenly froze.

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The next few days.

Almost every day, Mojun's mansion would receive congratulatory gifts from all sides.

Most of them are out of etiquette and friendship, and only a few are out of apology.

After all, in the land of Bashu, because they were afraid of the power of Lü Buwei and Chu's foreign relatives, many people subconsciously snubbed Mo Jun.

As a result, five days to the east of the river, five days to the west of the river.

In an instant.

Mo Jun not only became the most favored minister of the Qin Dynasty in the current dynasty, but also worshiped Jiuqing and was named "Shengping Jun".

And after returning to Xianyang, a group of people suffered the super crit of "Lü Buwei's death".

With the death of Lü Buwei, Yingzheng, who monopolized power, completely lost the last trace of scruples, no longer concealed his ambitions, and began to frantically purge the hostile forces of the Qin court.

In just three days.

There have been two Jiuqing and 32 scholars and doctors who have been dismissed from office.

Instead, there are officials secretly cultivated by Ying Zheng in the past, these people are the same as the former Mo Jun, who were recruited by Ying Zheng early, and for so many years, they have been hidden in the court and everywhere in the locality.

It's just that they didn't bring so many surprises to Yingzheng like Mo Jun.

Time.

The entire court of the Qin State was turbulent and turbulent.

Many veteran aristocrats and officials are all in danger.

After all, from the power struggle between Chang Yu, Lu Buwei, Changping Jun, and the four forces of Yingzheng at the beginning, he has survived until now, and no one dares to guarantee that he will be clean.

And the only way to survive such a storm is to take a large ship of sufficient weight.

Nowadays, there are only a few big ships in the entire Qin court.

in the old forces.

The relatives of Chu, the Meng clan, and the Wang clan can all be regarded as relatively stable ships.

However, in the court of the Qin State today, anyone can see that although the big ship of the Chu foreign relatives is luxurious and noble, it is already on the cusp of the storm.

After the forces of Chang Yu and Lü Buwei were defeated one after another, the next target of Qin Wang Yingzheng must be the relatives of Chu abroad.

Now the king of Qin has become a great trend.

With only the lineage of Chu's foreign relatives, it is impossible to stop the stormy waves that Yingzheng is about to set off.

The end result is nothing more than two.

One, desperately resisted, and then the ship was destroyed and people died.

Second, take the initiative to surrender, and the person may survive, but the ship will be destroyed at least half.

At this time, it is obviously not a smart choice to go to the big ship of Chu foreign relatives.

As for the remaining Meng clan and Wang clan, they are also the representative forces of the old aristocracy, and their heritage is profound, even compared to the former Chang Yu and Lü Buwei, they will not be much inferior.

But because the background is too deep, although the ship is large, there are few vacant places on it.

Now, even if someone wants to join the Meng's clan and the Wang clan, others may not be willing to accept it.

The old forces don't work.

Then naturally only the new forces that were promoted after King Qin took power this time.

The new forces also have three big ships.

One is Gai Nie.

As the chief guard and swordsmanship teacher of King Qin, when Ying Zheng was still weak, he had already chosen to serve his Gai Nie, who not only learned from the famous family of Guigu, but also was deeply trusted by Ying Zheng.

Although this ship is small, it is already docked on the shore, and if you can get on this ship, you will definitely be able to protect yourself.

However, because the ship was too close to land, it was inconvenient to shelter others.

The second is a young man named "Li Si".

In this purge, this young man, who had been unknown in the court of the Qin State, suddenly rose to prominence and was promoted to the position of a 'pawn' in charge of foreign affairs and ethnic affairs.

It is the only two emerging nobles above the court who have been directly promoted to the 'Jiuqing'.

Li Si's ship is still a little simple, but people with a discerning eye can see that this ship has a lot of potential in the future, so there are not a few people who choose to serve Li Si's disciples.

But in comparison.

Mo Jun, the third big ship, is the one that most people want to take.

After all, his big ship is not only big and stable enough, but the most important thing is that there are a lot of empty seats on the ship, if you take the ship of Mojun at this time, you can not only survive the storm smoothly, bring the storm to retreat, and even have the possibility of going further.

So a few days after Mojun returned home.

In addition to sending congratulatory gifts.

Almost every day, there are at least dozens or even hundreds of people who want to join his command and become a doorman of the Mo Mansion.

And Mo Jun did not refuse, after all, the big ship under his feet is indeed a little empty now, and with the existing manpower of Mo Mansion alone, it is very reluctant to even control the ship's navigation.

However, he didn't have all of them, after all, Mo Jun had just ascended to a high position, so it was okay to be a little high-profile, but if it was too high-profile, it would be a good way to die.

So it took half a month.

Mo Jun scattered and selected about thirty or so disciples, planning to find an opportunity to insert them into the various institutions of the Qin State as his own forces.

It just so happened that Yingzheng was carrying out a purge in the Qin State during this time, and there would inevitably be a large number of vacancies at that time.

As for the loyalty of these temporary doormen, Mo Jun didn't expect it at all.

The characteristics of the 'recommendation system' are here, but those who are recommended by Mojun are born with Mojun to belong to the "community of interests". It can be said that from the very beginning, the 'door-to-door system' and the 'recommendation system' complement each other.

As for the real diehards.

Mo Jun planned to spend some time cultivating himself.

This is also the purpose of the thirty children he brought back from Nanjun, these children rescued from the 'meat pool', as long as they are carefully cultivated, the possibility of loyalty problems is extremely low, and even if it is a 'net', it is impossible to plant spies in these children.

Although Mo Jun doesn't need much loyalty now, it doesn't mean that he won't need it in the future.

As his ship grows larger in the future, the use of personal talents will be infinitely diminished, and loyalty will become more and more important.

Somewhat similar to some large companies in later generations, once a set of their own operating system was formed in the later stage, then the company could continue to operate regardless of the lack of anyone.

It's not nice to say.

Now the more than 30 disciples installed by Mo Jun, if they do well in the future, they can continue to do it.

But if some people have some ideas that they shouldn't have, then their current purpose is to temporarily occupy the 'pit', that's all.

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Ying Zheng's purge lasted throughout the winter.

The foreign relatives of Chu represented by Changping Jun still failed to survive this winter after all, and finally chose to surrender.

And Lü Buwei's remnant forces, except for a small number of nobles and officials who joined Li Si's command in time, the rest of the disciples either surrendered to Yingzheng or were expelled and suppressed.

In addition, the 'messenger' of the sun was killed at the same time as the "leader" of Lü Buwei, and for a while, Luo Wang also fell into a leaderless situation, and could only lie dormant temporarily.

With the first snow melting.

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of spring.

On the surface, Xianyang seems to be no different from last year, and it is still the same Xianyang.

However, internally, compared with last year, the entire Xianyang power has taken on a new look.

Inside the Zhangtai Palace.

The civil and military officials were arranged on both sides, and Yingzheng was dressed in a dark royal robe, wearing a beaded crown on his head, and sat high on the throne.

Ying Zheng, who has taken over the military and political power of the Qin State, is now more and more powerful, compared with the previous time when the four forces of the court were fighting, the current Ying Zheng just sat there, which has made many courtiers subconsciously bow their heads.

After a short silence, only a voice full of majesty was heard slowly spit out of Ying Zheng's mouth:

"Mo Qing, how are you preparing for spring planting?"

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(End of chapter)