Chapter 134: Wooing Bai Qi
King Qin died, and the second son Qin Hai succeeded to the throne.
The eldest prince Fusu, the military supervisor dereliction of duty, damaged the face of the royal family, and was specially demoted to a concubine and given death!
When the sunshine of a new day fell on the land of Great Qin, a shocking news came out from the royal family of Great Qin.
Qin Wangzheng, the powerful king of Qin, suddenly died, and the successor to the throne was not the eldest prince Fusu, but the second son Qin Hai, who was not very famous. Not only that, as soon as the new king ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to give death to the eldest prince Fusu.
Not only that, with the issuance of this edict, a group of Praetorian Guards walked out of the palace, and when the cadres did not react, the ministers who originally supported the eldest prince were arrested and imprisoned, and then directly beheaded on the charge of being a barbarian.
At the same time, the new Wang Hai issued an edict that other royal princes were not allowed to leave Xianyang for a single step, otherwise they would be punished as treacherous and killed.
For a time, there were mourning in Xianyang City, blood flowed everywhere, and complaints arose.
It's just that at this time, Prime Minister Li Cheng, who has the most voice in the court, chose to be silent, and seemed to faintly acquiesce in the succession of the new king. In fact, what everyone didn't know was that the night before the new king ascended the throne, Zhao Gao took Qin Hai into the palace and found Prime Minister Li Cheng as soon as possible.
Under coercion and temptation, Prime Minister Li chose to bow his head and fall to Qin Hai's side. Therefore, this time the purge, Prime Minister Li Cheng's forces have not been affected much.
Xianyang's changes, although Zhao Gao and others are deliberately concealing it. However, with the issuance of the edict, the news spread quickly. For a moment, the entire Great Qin fell into chaos.
During the reign of Qin Zheng, Great Qin was very strong and offended many forces. At this time, these forces finally waited for an opportunity, and almost in the shortest possible time, rebellions of various sizes broke out in many places in Great Qin.
One rebel force after another conquered the city, and the cities of one county after another were breached. Of course, the county guards of some counties took the opportunity to support their own troops and were in a semi-independent state. The entire Great Qin is about to fall apart.
At the same time, the edict of the death prince Fusu also came outside Chishui City.
It's just that because the barbarians are still besieging Chishui City, the edict can't be sent in for the time being. Because the chamberlain who delivered the edict also had a task, which was to convey the edict to Bai Qi and Zhang Xuan.
Of course, the new Wang Hai's strategy for Bai Qi and Zhang Jiang is naturally to be promoted and wooed. At this time, both the new Wang Hai and Zhao Gao knew very well that they could not afford to offend those generals who were in charge of the army for the time being.
Therefore, the top priority is naturally to envelop those martial artists first, and then clean them up when the opportunity is right in the future.
The chamberlain saw that he couldn't enter the city for a while, so he went straight to Bai Qi's military camp. At this time, Bai Qi, Zhang Jiang and others were discussing how to attack the city next and rescue the eldest prince Fusu, but they didn't know anything about what happened in Xianyang.
From Xianyang to Yumen County, it is too far. So, the chamberlain spent a lot of time on the road. In fact, in these days, Bai Qi has organized several attacks, but the effect is not very good.
The reason for this is that there are too many barbarians outside Chishui City, and the people and horses of Bai Qi are obviously a little short now.
In the continuous attack, the barbarians were indeed killed, but the men and horses under Bai Qi's command also lost a lot. Fortunately, at this time, Chishui City saw that the reinforcements outside had begun to attack, and they would also cooperate at the appropriate time, which had some impact on the barbarians.
When the royal family's herald arrived, there were only 100,000 generals left under Bai Qi's command. More than 40,000 cavalry, more than 50,000 infantry. Ma Shuo's cavalry was less than 8,000 left. However, after this period of tempering, the eight thousand cavalry under Ma Shuo's command can be described as reborn, and each of them can be called elite.
However, Ma Shuo was also very worried in his heart, he didn't know how much of his 8,000 cavalry would be able to survive in the end. Because Bai Qi was bent on attacking the city to rescue the eldest prince, he basically didn't have the heart to understand the situation in the outside world.
Ma Shuo is different, because he has a hidden guard in his hands. Therefore, he knew the news of the internal turmoil in Great Qin one step earlier than Bai Qi. Although Western Xinjiang is far away from Xianyang, a lot of news will actually spread faster among the people, although many of them are false.
Because their tentacles are already wide, and their sources of information are becoming more and more extensive.
When Ma Shuo received information about the changes in the Great Qin Dynasty and the rampant civil strife from the hidden guards, he realized that the chaos in the world that he had felt before was not actually referring to the barbarian invasion, but the nationwide chaos caused by the changes in the Great Qin Dynasty.
For Daqin, such a big chaos is a change of the sky.
Although the new king Qin Hai has ascended the throne, he does not have the ability to control the overall situation. Not only did he not have it, but even Zhao Gao didn't either. Without the existence of Qin Wangzheng, Zhao Gao's influence is actually within the range of Xianyang, because the power in Zhao's hands can only cover the range of Xianyang.
In other words, because of Zhao Gao's selfishness, he killed Qin Wangzheng in advance, and the result was that his decree could not come out of Xianyang. Of course, it will take some time for this evil result to be truly manifested, because many people have not had time to show their strength.
"What do you say? The king is dead! The second son succeeds to the throne? ”
In the white tent, after listening to the edict conveyed by the chamberlain, he suddenly jumped up. Although Bai Qi killed, he was definitely a royalist, and the sudden death of King Qin made Bai Qi feel extremely incredible, because Bai Qi seemed that King Qin could not live so shortly.
As for when Qin Hai succeeded to the throne, although Bai Qi was shocked, he didn't have too many opinions. Because Bai Qi was not a staunch supporter of the eldest prince before, because his killing characteristics determined that it was impossible to stand with the eldest prince. However, he didn't have any good feelings about his second son, Qin Hai. To put it bluntly, Bai Qi's attention and interest are on the battlefield, and he has no interest in the political struggle in the court.
"Bai Hou, you heard it right, no, the new king knows that Bai Hou has worked hard and made great achievements, and he specially rewarded you with the title of Marquis of Guannei! You haven't thanked you yet! The chamberlain reminded.
The Qin State conferred knighthoods with military merits, a total of 20 ranks, first-class public servants, two Shangzao, three hairpins, four not more, five doctors, six official doctors, seven public doctors, eight public passengers, ninety-five doctors, ten left chiefs, eleven right chiefs, twelve left guards, thirteen middle guards, fourteen right watches, fifteen young ones, sixteen big ones (Daliang made), seventeen car chiefs, eighteen big chiefs, nineteen Guan Nei Hou, twenty Che Hou.
Before, Bai Qi's title was the eldest concubine, but now in order to win over Bai Qi, Qin Hai directly raised Bai Qi's title to the level of the Marquis of Guannei. The title of Marquis of Kannai, second only to Marquis Che, is already an extremely high title.
It's just that the new king Qin Hai seems to have underestimated Bai Qi-