Chapter 52: Hu Hai kills himself
d7fd34b8f3Hu Hai saw that Yan Le forced himself to kill himself, his heart was full of grief and indignation, and when Hu Hai's eyes touched the bronze sword on the ground, his already angry heart suddenly softened again,
After a short silence, Hu Hai stared at Yan Le and asked, "Who sent you?"
"Prime Minister,"
Hearing the word 'prime minister', Hu Hai's heart was like being struck by lightning, indescribably sour, he looked at Yan Le, and then at the hundreds of soldiers in the hall, a kind of desolation that had gone to his heart welled up, Hu Hai sighed lightly, and asked: "Can you let me see the prime minister?"
"The prime minister is not in the palace at this time, even if the prime minister comes, I'm afraid your majesty won't be able to see him,"
Seeing that Yan Le was not allowed, Hu Hai said again: "I know very well that the prime minister is like this, he must be jealous of me, if I am willing to voluntarily abdicate and give up the imperial power, can I be given a county king,"
"No,"
"Don't allow me to be the king of the county, can you give me the marquis of Wanhu, leave Xianyang, stay away from Guanzhong,"
Hu Hai's pleading again completely angered Yan Le, and Yan Le waved his hand angrily and said, "Your Majesty, why should you be like this, if you don't kill us, how can we be safe?"
Seeing that Yan Le was so resolute, Hu Hai said angrily: "Can you let me live, I should have thanked me with a lot of money,"
"Why bother, Your Majesty should go early," Yan Le finished speaking, and gave the soldiers behind him a look, several soldiers stepped forward with their swords, ready to kill Hu Hai, Hu Hai knew that it was difficult to escape at this time, so he had to cry sadly, after crying, Hu Hai picked up the bronze sword on the ground, and sighed: "I misheard the bandits, when there is such a report, I only hate the foundation created by my ancestors, but it was destroyed in my hands, but it is a pity...... It's a pity ......"
Hu Hai sighed, had to put the copper sword across his neck, he glared at Yan Le and others, his eyes wandered on everyone, as if to remember everyone, after a long time, Hu Hai roared, the copper sword slashed, blood splashed, accompanied by the sound of the copper sword falling to the ground, Hu Hai also collapsed on the ground, twitching // twitching for a moment, before he died,
Emperor Yong II of the generation, only twenty-three years old, reigned for three years, and died.
Yan Le saw that Hu Hai was no longer twitching, he stepped forward and kicked Hu Hai's head with his foot, confirming that Hu Hai was dead, and then turned around and left in a hurry with everyone.
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In the back hall of Zhongcheng Mansion, Zhao Gao wandered anxiously in the house, it has been a day since Yan Le left, what is the situation in the palace at this time, Zhao Gao has no way to determine, he can only wait anxiously in the mansion,
In fact, forcing Hu Hai to death is a plan, although Zhao Gao controls the military power of Qin, but once a loyal minister raises his arms and shouts, the army will inevitably respond to Hu Hai, at that time, Zhao Gao will become extremely passive,
But the news of the Chu army's entry into the customs has swept the city, Zhao Gao knows that he can't suppress the news, and once Hu Hai knows that the Chu army has entered the customs, he will inevitably attack himself, which is one of the reasons why Zhao Gao is so anxious to make a move on Hu Hai.
There are only two ways in front of him, one is to surrender Liu Bang, and the other is to support Ying Ziying, however, surrendering Liu Bang is risky, not to mention whether he agrees or not, even if he surrenders the whole country, whether Liu Bang can let himself go is unknown, and Ying Ziying is already crazy at this time, he has no ordinary thinking, he can be used as a puppet support, which is also the main reason why Zhao Gao will support Ying Ziying,
But there was no news in the palace for a long time, Zhao Gao was really anxious, the more he thought about it, the more worried he became, Zhao Gao got up and paced in the house, suddenly, a rush of footsteps sounded, Zhao Gao hurriedly looked out of the door, Yan Le and Zhao Cheng hurriedly walked in,
When the two stepped into the house, a government soldier gently closed the door, and at this time, the two of them walked quickly in front of Zhao Gao, Yan Le said excitedly: "Lord Yue, Your Majesty has committed suicide,"
When Zhao Gao heard that Hu Hai committed suicide, he was excited in his heart, his eyes narrowed, and he asked, "Before he died, did he have a last word?"
"He wanted us to spare his life, but I refused," Yan Le confessed.
"Hmph......" Zhao Gao snorted coldly and said to himself: "He has defeated the Qin State, even if I release him, can he still survive in this world?"
Stopped, Zhao Gao looked at Zhao Cheng and Yan Le, and ordered: "Immediately take my token, go to the south of the city to mobilize troops, control the palace, I want to enter the palace in person,"
About an hour later, nearly 20,000 Qin troops rushed into Xianyang, controlled the streets and alleys, and surrounded the Xianyang Palace, at this time, the people did not know, what happened in the palace, only heard that the second emperor suddenly fell seriously ill, in order to prevent accidents, the palace temporarily strengthened the guard,
On the long corridor of Xianyang Palace, Zhao Cheng was dressed in light armor, accompanied by Zhao Gao, the two of them walked quickly to the side hall of Xianyang Palace, in Hu Hai's imperial study, Zhao Gao found the tiger charm and jade seal, at this time Zhao Gao needs the most, is these two items, with these things, Zhao Gao can command the Quartet,
He happily stroked it for a moment, and then picked up a holy decree in front of the imperial case, and wrote Hu Hai's last words on it, which will be passed on to his uncle, father and son, and covered with a jade seal.
After a while, Zhao Gao picked up the holy decree, gently dried the ink, and reviewed it again, before handing it over to Zhao Cheng and instructing: "Bring Ziying back, he will be our most powerful backing,"
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In an inconspicuous corner of Xianyang, a man and a woman hurriedly walked out of a wine shop, and behind them, several middle-aged men in white dead soldiers' suits followed closely.
And the man just now, is Hua Yu under Xiang Zhuang's curtain, since Qin Guo's three assistants were wronged, Hua Yu left Xianyang, returned to Pengcheng, and got Xiang Zhuang's secret letter, and rushed to Xingyang with Gui Yinghao, at this time, Xiang Zhuang's artisan shops opened in the major county towns have not known when, quietly closed, and the former intelligence network, but has a new face standing proudly in the troubled world, has become a famous wine shop or inn in the major county towns,
During this time, due to the tense war situation in various places, Huayu also hurried to Xianyang, and wanted to send some information to the south and hand it over to Xiang Zhuang.
I thought that I had been exposed, the Qin army would come to arrest people in these days, Hua Yu burned all the information of the Chu army in Guanzhong, and was ready to face everything that was coming, but I didn't want to, it was not the Qin army soldiers who came to the door, but a plainly dressed girl, although she didn't show anything too much, but she put forward a request that made Hua Yu incomprehensible, she wanted to cooperate with Hua Yu and others, only in this way, she would not expose the identity of Hua Yu and others,
At first, Hua Yu was still vigilant, he didn't dare to trust this woman easily, but later, Hua Yu used various means to investigate and learned that this woman was Ying Xuerou, the second daughter of Ying Ziying,
As her name suggests, she is indeed very beautiful, so much so that Hua Yu feels that he has fallen in love with her, and after a few more contacts, Hua Yu gradually released his vigilance against Ying Xuerou, because he knew that Ying Xuerou was only weakened by the family and involved in the endless power struggle, and she was only seventeen years old this year.
In the past few days, with the entry of the Chu army, the Xianyang wind // waves have risen, and the news has come out from the palace that the second emperor Hu Hai has occasionally contracted a serious illness and died, and the counties in Guanzhong mourned.
Ying Xuerou is looking for herself at this time, it must be because of this matter, therefore, Hua Yu did not think about it, agreed to Ying Xuerou's request, and accompanied her to meet a very important person, although Hua Yu didn't know who this person was, but he was willing to believe Ying Xuerou,
After a few people walked for a distance, a carriage drove out of an alley, and after the two hurriedly entered the carriage, the carriage hurriedly left from the alley, and behind, the ordinary dead man who originally followed Huayu took off the reins from the horse stake, and the horse followed.
Here is a dilapidated land temple, and a madman roars inside: "Jin Ge Iron Horse, Twenty Military Lords, Black Armor Qin Army, Eventually Dust, Western Chu People, Zhuolu Central Plains, Wave a sword and ask the sky, who is the lord of ups and downs,"
The seemingly unintentional words, which contain Ziying's dissatisfaction with the decline of the Qin State, and this man with a stubble on his face has been floating here for three years, he is the winning Ziying who was implicated in the meteorite case.
Hibernation, waiting to see what happens, just hibernation, Ziying has been waiting for three years, he let his children leave the palace, incognito, just to leave a trace of blood, but the two daughters are unwilling to leave, one is called Xueyue, the other is called Xuerou, they have always wandered in Xianyang, and they have also accompanied Ziying for three years.
The Chu army entered the customs, the opportunity came, as the surviving Ziying of the Ying family, they decided to do it, but they never thought that today, in Xianyang City, the dull bell rang, this is the bell of the national mourning, Ying Ziying faintly guessed, I am afraid that Hu Hai has been killed, and his brother Yingzheng's flesh and blood will be cut off, although Ziying is very sad, but he does not dare to show it on his face, he can only silently cry in his heart,
Today, Ying Xuerou will bring a very important person, this person is the backbone of Xiang Zhuang's command, and he is also a person that Xiang Zhuang trusts very much, and he can hand over the intelligence agency of Nuoda to this person to take care of, Ziying knows that this is not an ordinary person,
And Xiang Zhuang is Ziying's old friend, Ziying only hopes to contact Xiang Zhuang through him, with the help of the status of the Xiang family, negotiate peace with the Chu State, he is waiting for an opportunity to get rid of Zhao Gao, reinvigorate the Qin State, all the dreams are pinned on this person named Huayu,
Ziying thought of this, sighed secretly in his heart, suddenly, from outside the broken temple, there was a rush of footsteps, Ziying's heart tightened, pretending to be crazy, but his heart was vigilant, and soon, with the sound of hurried footsteps, Zhao Cheng hurriedly walked in with hundreds of soldiers,
Zhao Cheng stared at Ziying outside the door, and shouted with a slight meaning: "Stinky madman, you are going to make a fortune, come and go with us,"
As soon as Zhao Cheng's words fell, Ziying dodged backwards in a panic, Zhao Cheng saw Ziying like this, he was even more angry, spit at Ziying with a mouthful of saliva, and then hated: "Look at what, don't you take people away from Lao Tzu quickly,"
Several soldiers pounced, knocked down the winning child with his backhand, and took him out of the broken temple.
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