Chang'an, Chengtian Palace, court.

Li Si and Zhao Gao were side by side, with hundreds of civil and military officials, saluting Hu Hai and shouting long live.

In the normal process, hundreds of officials will take out some unresolved political matters and put them in the court to work together.

The officials would express their opinions, and then the prime minister would finalize several different solutions, and finally Hu Hai would finalize the decree.

In less than half an hour, those so-called problems were easily solved.

During the whole process, Hu Hai seemed a little drowsy, because it was too boring for him.

All the problems, when they are in the hands of Li Si, if they are transformed, how to deal with them will become very clear, Hu Hai, as a monarch, just choose any one.

To put it mildly, the entire court meeting is Li Si's personal show.

Hu Hai doesn't care, but some people may not be able to watch it.

Huang Banban represents Hu Hai's will, and will read a sentence every day: "The secretaries have something to play, and they have nothing to do." ”

At this moment, a member of the Imperial History Tower, took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a book." ”

Hu Hai lifted his mind violently, looked at the imperial historian with excitement on his face and said, "Qing has something to say, and the widow listens." ”

The imperial historian Zhongcheng saluted Hu Hai and said: "The minister impeached Wang Xing and Lu Long of Zhongshu Province, and when evaluating officials, they accepted bribes and seriously derelicted their duties, so please order Your Majesty to order the Tingwei Mansion to thoroughly investigate this matter and eliminate this black sheep." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Si, who was standing at the front, immediately turned around and looked at this imperial historian with a gentle smile.

Seeing this, the imperial historian couldn't help but shrink his head, and quickly reacted again, straightening his body with a fearless look.

Zhongshu Province, a subordinate agency of the Prime Minister's Office, the officials in it are naturally all subordinates of the Prime Minister.

This imperial historian directly poked out this matter at the court meeting, and the implicit meaning is self-evident.

Hu Hai's face immediately became serious, if it is true, it is not a trivial problem.

"What do the prime minister and Tingwei think?" Hu Hai asked without making up his mind.

Li Si was the first to speak: "Your Majesty, this matter should be thoroughly investigated, the original intention of assessing the hundred officials is to meritocracy, if someone is corrupt and derelict in this, it is tantamount to digging the foundation of my Great Qin, and it should be killed." ”

Zhao Gao continued: "The minister agrees with the Prime Minister's opinion, but Weichen believes that since it is a problem caused by the officials of Zhongshu Province, it should be investigated by the Prime Minister, and the Tingwei Mansion will not intervene, and I believe that the Prime Minister will be able to give His Majesty an explanation." ”

Li Si's face was grim, and he shook his head and said: "Lord Tingwei's words are wrong, since ancient times, how can anyone correct their own mistakes, I am afraid that this matter still needs to trouble Lord Tingwei, get to the bottom of it, and give an explanation to the officials who are unfortunately assessed by these two people." What does Your Majesty think?"

Hu Hai didn't think much about it, so he spoke: "The Prime Minister is right, the black-clothed guard is better at investigating the case, so leave this matter to the Tingwei Mansion." ”

Li Si and Zhao Gao said in unison: "The minister obeys the order." ”

On the same day, a team of black-clothed guards rushed into the homes of two Zhongshu provincial officials, preparing to arrest them.

However, when they rushed in, they found that the two officials had already committed suicide by taking poison, and they did not even leave a suicide note.

The next day, Chang'an Mansion received a complaint that a thousand households in black clothes were black-clothed and blackmailed merchants, and after being refused, they became angry and led people to arrest the merchants' entire family, and then within three days, all the family died in prison and their property was confiscated.

The person who reported the case was the cousin of the bitter master, and it is said that he had a handful of snot and tears, and told Chang'an Ling of the original story of the incident, and asked Chang'an Ling to make decisions for his cousin.

This case involved thousands of black-clothed guards, and Chang'an Ling did not dare to make his own decisions, so while sending people to protect the complainant, he wrote to Li Si and Hu Hai, asking for instructions on how to deal with it?

Soon the whole story of this matter reached Hu Hai's ears, and Hu Hai ordered that the Chang'an Mansion should arrest thousands of criminals and thoroughly investigate the matter.

Coincidentally, when the officials of Chang'an Mansion arrested this Qianhu, they also found that this Qianhu was bleeding and died at home.

I don't know when it started, and there was suddenly a tense atmosphere in Chang'an City.

However, the atmosphere did not last long, and soon subsided.

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Lishan, Wu Fan told Lin Ze about the big and small things that happened in Chang'an in the recent period of time.

First of all, these two things are discussed.

After listening to this, Lin Ze couldn't help but sigh: "It's really a mountain that can't tolerate two tigers!"

Are Li Si and Zhao Gao finally going to fight?

When Li Si and Zhao Gao teamed up to suppress Lin Ze and "exiled" him to Lishan, he guessed that there would be this scene, but it was a little later than he imagined, which actually showed that the two grandmasters were quite calm.

But no matter how calm they are, as long as they don't become one and respect one person as the head, sooner or later there will be a conflict between the two.

They may not have caused the conflict, but they all converged on them in the end, just because the two of them were the heads of the crowd.

If there is a strong monarch pressing on it, although they will fight, they will not tear their faces after all.

For example, when Emperor Qin was here, the thirteen grandmasters of Great Qin, even though there was some friction, would they fight to the death? No.

But now that Hu Hai is the emperor, Hu Hai is weak, and he can't deter the two of them at all.

There is no external threat to the two, and infighting is inevitable, because the one who wins will become the real speaker of Daqin.

Of course, it is far from the step of completely tearing the face, and it is only a preliminary friction.

This friction will continue for a long time for three reasons:

One is that both sides need to win Hu Hai's support, although Hu Hai is weak and cannot suppress them, but once Hu Hai supports one side with a clear banner, the other side will be quickly defeated, even if he is a grandmaster, he can only escape to the ends of the earth to save his life.

After all, the Grandmaster is not invincible.

Second, the current conflict is still within a certain range, and it has not yet reached a certain level of killing the other side.

However, as time goes on, the conflict between the two will only become more and more intense until the winner is decided.

After the conclusion was reached, Lin Ze put it aside, without the slightest intention of intervening.

The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman benefited.

In Lin Ze's opinion, the more intense the fight between Li Si and Zhao Gao, the better, it is best to get off the field in person and play all the brains, that is in his interests.

He himself only needs to build the emperor's mausoleum in Lishan with peace of mind and wait for the situation to develop.

As for sending people to sow discord and add fuel to the fire, Lin Ze thought about it and gave up.

Li Si and Zhao Gao are not fools, if Lin Ze really gets involved, it is guaranteed that the two of them will be vigilant immediately, and then join forces to destroy Lin Ze first.

Therefore, Lin Ze does nothing is the best way to deal with it.

It would be even better if he could take the opportunity to break through the Grandmaster.

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