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Hu Hai sighed and went limp in despair.

Despair, endless despair hit his heart.

Outside the 'door', the sound of soldiers running and shouting became clearer and clearer. Hu Hai knew that it was the voice of the rebel soldiers looking for him.

"Peng!" After a loud bang, the door was kicked open from the outside. A rebel officer stands at the 'gate' with a sword in his hand.

"My lord, I found it!" Kicking open the 'door' of the room, and seeing Hu Hai and the nearby 'servant' staying in the room, the rebel officer turned around and shouted at the 'door'.

It didn't take much time for Xianyang Ling Yan Le, who was wearing armor, to walk in.

"Xianyang ordered Yan Le to see Your Majesty!" Entering the house, Yan Le bowed down and saluted Hu Hai and said, "The humble minister is here to send His Majesty on the road by the order of the Prime Minister!" ”

"What way to go." Although Hu Hai had come to an end, his imperial prestige still existed, he frowned and stood up, and said to Yan Le: "Xianyang Ling, please tell the prime minister that I am willing to give up the throne to him, as long as he allows me to take my wife to be a commoner." ”

Yan Le clasped his hands into fists and bowed slightly, after hearing Hu Hai's words, he smiled and said: "Your Majesty is laughing, Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, where does the prime minister have the right to depose you as a concubine." I think Your Majesty should not shirk, hurry up and get on the road, as for the mother and the princes, the prime minister will naturally arrange for them to go to you! ”

Hu Hai glared at Yan Le angrily, then raised his head and laughed, and said with a smile: "It's ridiculous that I, Hu Hai, have been on the throne for three years, and I have been raising tigers for trouble. killed the heroes, misheard the slander, and finally ended up like this. That's it, that's it, today I'll take the first step, Zhao Gao's 'traitor' will not die well! ”

After that, he 'drawn' his portable sword, wiped it on his neck, and Hu Hai, who had been the emperor for three years, finally drew a bleak end to his life.

Zhao Gao was very happy to get the news that Hu Hai was killed, and he went to the palace to forcibly 'force' the inner 'servant' who was responsible for managing the 'jade' seal to 'hand over' the 'jade' seal.

Holding the 'jade' seal in his hand, looking up at the majestic Qin Palace, Zhao Gao's heart was beating "poof, tom, poof". has been silent for several years, and has been 'waiting' for the emperor. Even if the second inherited the throne, he held real power in the court, and he still acted on thin ice, for fear that the second emperor would know what he had done and behead him all over the 'door'.

Now that he had taken the lead in killing the second, he had no need to fear anyone. The 'jade' seal is in his hands, as long as he is willing, he can climb this magnificent treasure hall at any time and take the rivers and mountains of Daqin into his pocket.

Zhao Gao raised his head and looked up the stone steps one step at a time. When the emperor was in the court, the Jinluan Hall was in front of his eyes, and when he saw the tall palace, he seemed to see himself sitting in the palace in the imperial robe, giving orders to the ministers.

Thinking of this, Zhao Gao closed his eyes slightly and took a deep breath.

He settled his mind and walked towards the stone steps with the 'jade' seal in both hands. He had walked on this stone step countless times, but he had never walked so easily and casually this time.

"Boom!" As soon as Zhao Gao's feet entered the main hall, a loud noise reached his ears, and then the entire hall shook along with the white 'jade' paved steps outside. Zhao Gao was taken aback, and hurriedly turned around and walked out of the main hall.

Strange to say, as soon as he left the hall with his front feet, the trembling stopped. The main hall and the steps were quiet again, and there was not even a single piece of dust that had been shaken off, as if they had not shivered at all.

Zhao Gao frowned, and raised his feet again and entered the main hall. This time when he first entered the hall, the hall did not tremble, he stood at the entrance of the 'gate' for a while, and seeing that the hall did not shake as much as it had just now, he sighed and walked towards the throne.

Just after he took two steps, the hall suddenly shook again, this time the shaking was slightly different from the last time, Zhao Gao felt that the entire hall was spinning, as if it would collapse in the next moment.

He crawled out of the hall, and as soon as his feet stepped out of the 'door' threshold, he trembled and stopped again.

Zhao Gao patted his chest, looked back at the majestic palace with palpitations, shook his head bitterly, and walked down the steps with the 'jade' seal in his hand.

The abnormal phenomenon made Zhao Gao very depressed, and the throne was rejecting him, showing that he was not the true son. In desperation, he had to summon all the ministers and royal members of the Qin Dynasty to the palace. In order to maintain his absolute position in the court, he ordered the ministers and members of the royal family who did not want to come to be directly executed.

Under pressure, the vast majority of ministers and members of the royal family, despite their resentment, rushed to the court. As for the few who did not want to go to court, they were ordered by Zhao Gao to be killed by the full 'door'.

Seeing that most of the ministers and members of the royal family had gone up to the main hall, Zhao Gao sat in the position of second only to the throne and said to everyone: "Qin was just a kingdom before unification, and it was because the first emperor unified the king of the world that he was renamed emperor. The second has no way, has been killed, the country can not be without a king for a day, we have to consider another new king, I think the prince has always been benevolent, and is the nephew of the second, he is the most suitable to inherit the throne, what do you think? ”

There was silence in the court, most of the ministers and royal family members all lowered their heads and did not dare to answer, Zhao Gao covered the sky with one hand in the court is well known to each of them, if he spoke out to refute his decision at this time, it was not only his own 'life' that was implicated, but the 'life' of the whole family.

"Doesn't anyone approve?" Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zhao Gao turned his face and glanced at everyone, whose eyes fell on him, who would 'provoke' Lingling to shiver.

"Back to the prime minister, I didn't wait to speak, it's not that I don't agree with the prime minister's proposal, it's precisely because I agree that I will remain silent!" Seeing the ferocity on Zhao Gao's face, a minister hurriedly bowed down and said, "Gongzi Ying is benevolent, and he is indeed the best candidate for King Qin, and we agree with the Prime Minister's proposal!" ”

Zhao Gao smiled and nodded, and then asked the other ministers and members of the royal family, "What about you?" Did anyone disagree with this proposal? ”

Everyone hurriedly bowed down and echoed and said: "Everything depends on the prime minister, and I don't agree with it!" ”

After appointing Gongzi Ying as the heir of King Qin, Zhao Gao actively prepared for the ceremony of the new king's enthronement.

At this time, Xiang Yu's army had already entered Guanzhong, and Liu Bang's army was in the pass, only waiting to break through the pass and capture Xianyang in one fell swoop.

After being designated as the next King of Qin, Ziying fasted for five days under Zhao Gao's arrangement.

In these five days, it was as if five years had passed. He knows very well that when he ascends the throne, the government will inevitably be in the hands of Zhao Gao, he is just a puppet like the second, once there is a crisis, Zhao Gao will definitely put all the sins on his head and let him be a substitute for the dead.

Gongziying is not a fool like Hu Hai, he knows his current situation very well, and he also knows that if he wants to get out of this predicament, what he must do is to get rid of Zhao Gao.

"I heard that Zhao Gao has made an agreement with Liu Bang that when Liu Bang captures Xianyang, he will dedicate all the members of the royal family to Liu Bang, and he will divide Guanzhong with Liu Bang. I am the king, just to apologize for the bad things he has done in the past, I have been thinking about it for the past few days, I must not sit still like this, I must get rid of Zhao Gao! The night before he ascended the throne, Gongziying summoned his two sons and the eunuch Han Tan to the fasting ashram and said, "I called you here today to discuss with you how to get rid of Zhao Gao!" ”

As soon as Gongziying's words came out, his two sons and Han Tan were taken aback.

"King, Zhao Gao is now in charge of the government, all the military power is in his hands, if you want to get rid of him, I'm afraid it won't be easy!" Han Tan bowed down and said quite worriedly: "Once the matter is 'revealed', I am afraid that the king and I will die without a place to be buried." ”

"Tomorrow I will carry out the enthronement ceremony, you wait in the inner room to arrange the knife and axe hand, hide it, wait until Zhao Gao comes to urge, listen to my order, and kill him in one fell swoop." Gongziying wrinkled his brows, his eyes narrowed slightly, he knew that this would be his only chance to kill Zhao Gao, and it was also the last chance, if it didn't work, his whole family and Han Tan would all be killed by Zhao Gao.

But the arrow has to be sent, if he obeys Zhao Gao's words and ascends the throne smoothly, once the rebel army breaks through Xianyang, he will be the first person to be dragged out and executed. Anyway, if you do it, you will die, and if you don't do it, you will die, for the only hope of living, Ziying decided to take a risk and gamble on this.

Early the next morning, the hundred officials put on their court clothes and waited outside the main hall, but the new prince and the infant did not appear for a long time. The child's baby was not there, and the ceremony of receiving the seal could not be held for a long time, and the anxiety of the hundred officials and others asked Zhao Gao when the new king would arrive.

Zhao Gao sent people to urge several times in a row, but each time Gongzi Ying was delayed for various reasons. In the end, he simply said to the person sent by Zhao Gao: "I am not feeling well today and cannot go!" ”

Hearing that Gongziying was unwilling to participate in the ceremony, Zhao Gao was very angry and said to the officials: "The new king is too disagreeable, the date of the ceremony has already been set, how can it be changed at will." Everyone, wait a minute, I'll go and urge it myself! ”

Zhao Gao led several guards to the quiet room where Gongzi Ying was fasting, and as soon as he entered the 'door', he saw Gongzi Ying sleeping on the table.

"King, the ceremony of receiving the seal is about to begin, please change your clothes immediately and go with your ministers to receive the seal!" Zhao Gao frowned, and walked over to Gongziying very unhappily, and when he arrived at the table where Gongziying was lying down, he didn't salute, and shouted at Gongziying: "Take the throne today, why are you still ......?"

Before Zhao Gao finished speaking, Gongzi raised his head violently and shouted, "Where is Han Tan?" ”

As soon as his shout fell, Han Tan, who had long been hiding behind the curtain, took a group of internal officials who had been ambushed in advance, and pounced on Zhao Gao with a sword.

The guards who followed Zhao Gao were far away, and as soon as they reacted that something was wrong, Han Tan had already raised his sword and cut off Zhao Gao's head. ~