No change

The armor bearer at the road gate of Qutai Palace seems to be an iron lock, separating the royal palace and the dormitory of Daqin. Inside the iron lock, there is the main bed of the Qutai Palace with the door closed, and sometimes there is some music and dance in it, but more often it is silent, only death-like silence;

Outside the iron lock, there were hundreds of courtiers of Great Qin led by the prime minister, the state captain, and the court captain. Although there was no snow on this winter day, it was still cold when the north wind blew, so they knelt in the wind, and every once in a while these people would shout in unison: "Your ministers, please let the king die for a day!" The ministers ask the king to die for a day and ......"

The shouts of hundreds of people shook the road gate, but the courtiers shouted outside the road gate for four or five days, and the main door was still closed. It was a few days ago that Yang Wenjun was ordered by King Jing to enter Qin Jin's words, and such crimes in Xianyang were well known, but the vast majority of Qin people did not know what Yang Wenjun had said.

The courtiers kneeling here knew it, and the more they knew, the more they trembled. This kind of rhetoric can no longer be briefly summarized as discord, but according to Wei Yi's words, it is called Zhu Xin. Everyone said that this was a trick of the Jing people, that the army of 600,000 had been assembled, and that the excavation of the river embankment was about to be completed. At this time, the king ignored the government and did not move to Hanoi, obviously not wanting to order Wang Jian to attack.

If the Qin army does not attack the Jing people, it will definitely attack something else; If the king does not want to dominate the world, he will inevitably turn around and rectify the Qin State. Thinking of Yang Wenjun's words and the fact that Jing Guo had slaughtered officials, the courtiers and officials trembled even when they sat by the fire.

It's not impossible. The last time King Jing invaded Xianyang and restrained his subordinates, he showed great hostility towards his ministers. What Yang Wenjun said is not wrong at all, King Jing's enemy is indeed not the Great King, King Jing's enemy is the Great Qin officials who built and ran the Qin system. If the king really believed those words of Yang Wenjun and invited King Jing to join Qin Qing to suppress officials, King Jing would definitely be happy to come, and Qin Chu would be a country of marriage alliance in the future.

And if the king continued the previous strategy, took advantage of King Jing's wedding to break the beam and attack Ying, annihilate the Jing army, and destroy the Jing country, then there would be no force in the world that could balance the army of ordinary people that Yang Wenjun said, and the world at that time was the world of officials - the king could kill any official at will, but he could not overthrow the entire bureaucracy; The king can act willfully with the dignity of the Son of Heaven, but he cannot guarantee that his orders can be carried out in every village.

The news came out of the main bed that the king was depressed and bored, but just by looking at the more and more guards gathered in the gate, the courtiers knew that the king was making a decision. In order to survive the bloodline of the Zhao family, he may have given up the ideal of the gradual fullness of his ancestors, made peace with King Jing, and asked King Jing to enter the customs to help; He may also do nothing, as if he had been seriously ill for the past ten days, and now he has recovered and continues to rule the world.

The courtiers had nothing to do but kneel until the chariot of the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji appeared outside the road gate.

"The ministers have seen the Queen Mother." Wang Juan, Wei Xuan, and Li Si took the lead, and the ministers stood up and saluted Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji is old, and she didn't dare to interfere in the government anymore after Chang Yu, but she didn't expect her son to not go to the court for more than ten consecutive days and ignore government affairs. The elders of the clan said that the king would not go to bed again to manage the Qin State and would die, so she hurried to Weinan. Lifting the curtain of the chariot, Zhao Ji glanced at the ministers and asked, "What is the king?" ”

"The Queen Mother, the king can't go to bed, ignore state affairs, and if this goes on for a long time, the country will not be a country!" Wang Juan looked like he was beating his chest, and in the past ten days, he finally saw someone who could complain.

"Empress Dowager, Jing people know that they are going to die, so they send Yang Wenjun into Qin to say the king, Yang Wenjun enters the words of the heart, and the king hears it, and his heart and brain are afraid of being hurt by the Jing people." Li Si rushed to confess. Seeing that Zhao Ji's expression had changed greatly, he urgently told again: "The ministers have broken Yang Wenjun's car, but the king still can't sleep." ”

"Empress Dowager," Wei Yu's voice was louder than Wang Juan and Li Si, and his situation was more urgent than the previous two. "Now 600,000 soldiers are gathered in Rongyang, and the river digging force is about to break the embankment, but the king is not in the army, and the Wei people are Jing people or know. Once they know that I dig through the river embankment and attack the beam, the Great Qin will be ruined, and the plan of the whole day will be ruined! ”

Even in the past, Zhao Ji rarely participated in military affairs, but now she heard that 600,000 soldiers were waiting for her son's royal order, and she couldn't help but panic. But a more serious threat is yet to come.

"So far, Daqin has been hungry several times, and the county and county warehouses only have the newly harvested millet last year. The army will not attack at this time, Jing people equipment, two months later, the corn in the army will be exhausted, once it is exhausted, my Great Qin will ......, and it will die!! ”

Wei Yi's purpose in entering Qin was to unify the world in Great Qin, and now he was not reconciled no matter what he was doing. In the end, he knelt down and bowed to Zhao Ji, and shouted: "Please comfort the queen mother, the foundation of the ancestors of the Great Qin Dynasty cannot be destroyed in one fell swoop." ”

Wei Yu shouted, and the rest of the courtiers also shouted, this time the courtiers shouted much louder than before. After that, they guarded Zhao Ji's chariot and followed her straight to the door. The guards guarding the door knew that it was the queen mother, but the king ordered him, so he could only stop it. It's a pity that Zhao Ji is not a well-behaved person like a courtier, she got out of the chariot and walked forward in front of the guard's copper pin, and directly let the chariot touch her chest.

The guards didn't dare to swing and could only let her get close to him, and they didn't dare to really stop her, so she could only take a step back by herself. In this way, he retreated to the bottom of the steps of Qutai Palace, and then the iron lock of the cross-cutting road door was broken. Surrounded by the ministers, Zhao Ji turned the Ming Hall in the south and climbed the steps of the general chapter. Through the door of the general chapter, she did not speak, but listened to the voices inside.

“…… There are already fallen leaves under the tree, so you can't tell them, so you can only sweep a few buckets and return home. He took them one by one at home, and asked his wife, 'Do you see me?' Will you see me? ’”

"Haha......" Behind Youhan's voice was Zhao Zheng's hearty laughter. Through the gap in the gate, Zhao Ji could see her son smiling, as well as Youhan holding a yellow leaf.

“…… His wife always replied, 'See you.' See you. But there were so many fallen leaves that he could not finish the obstacle for several days, and his wife was tired of it, so she said, 'No, no, I don't see you.' 'Jing people were overjoyed and entered the market with leaves,"

"Hahahaha......" This time, his son's laughter was even more hearty, and he danced with his hands, and the wine lord and wine rope on several cases were accidentally pushed to the ground by him. When the clang sounded, the door of the general chapter was opened by Zhao Ji's servants, and Zhao Ji walked in alone.

There is a carbon fire burning inside the general chapter, warm as spring. Zhao Zheng half leaned on the mat, surrounded by two disheveled beauties. Seeing that it was the Queen Mother who came in, the beauty hurriedly tidied up her clothes and saluted Zhao Ji with the dwarf Youhan, who was telling jokes. Zhao Zheng, who still had a smile on his face, was very surprised to see Zhao Ji appear in front of him, and then saw the ministers standing outside the door, and instantly understood everything.

"I've seen the Queen Mother." Zhao Zheng staggered up and wanted to bow to Zhao Ji.

"Zheng'er." Zhao Ji grabbed her son's hand, "The queen mother heard that you didn't go to court for more than ten days, and she didn't care about the government......"

"The child is fine. The queen mother, the child is unharmed. "In the huge Qin Palace, there are very few people who can talk to each other. Zhao Zheng also held his mother's hand, and waved his sleeves at the same time, Youhan and the beauty hurriedly retreated, and the door of the hall was also closed by Zhao Gao.

"It's okay if you're fine, it's okay if you're fine." Zhao Ji looked at her son's face and smiled with satisfaction. Guowei said that 600,000 troops gathered in Rongyang and were about to break through the beam and attack Jing. If we don't attack it, the corn will be eaten in two months......"

Zhao Ji mentioned the most urgent matter, Zhao Zhengyan's face gradually became heavy when he heard this, and he nodded: "Yes." ”

"Then ......" Zhao Ji asked again, but was interrupted by Zhao Zheng. The queen mother, the child now seems to be at the wrong side, not knowing where to go. Go right, die in the Jing country and go down for a day, but you can ...... in the future; Left ......"

I don't know if it's really as Yang Wenjun said, Great Qin will die; But the Zuoxing Qin State is likely to die this year - make peace with the Chu State and ask the King of Chu to lead his troops into the pass, this method Zhao Zheng did not think of, but it was difficult for him to trust others. How could he entrust the fate of himself and Great Qin to his enemies?

Zhao Ji didn't know what the right and left lines in her son's mouth were, looking at her son's hesitant face, she said: "In the past, when your father and king also hesitated, he took care of you and my mother and son, and I don't know whether I should listen to Lu Buwei's words and return to Qin." ”

"Father?" Zhao Zheng was thirteen years old, his father was lost, and he lost his father at a young age, and he was very sad. His eyes were a little moist, and he grabbed Zhao Ji's hand and asked, "What was my father at that time?" ”

"Your father and king have been thinking for days, but he is still undecided. One day, when he passed by the butcher's shop, he saw that although the dog was strong, he was killed by the butcher, and said, "It can be a sword, but it must not be a dog or a sheep." And he went. Zhao Ji blinked, saw that his son was already pondering, and then said: "If Zheng'er doesn't die in Jing today, he will die in Qin ...... tomorrow."

"Alas. The death of the society is unknown. Zhao Zheng sighed when he heard this.

"If you don't die in another country today, but you are killed by another country, what can you do?" Zhao Ji really sighed this time. It's not what I want, but I have to be forced into that situation. "For example, your father, if your father did not return to Qin at that time and did not become the king of Qin, you have been killed by the Zhao people today, and I will also be sold to the women's market by the Zhao people."

"Queen Mother!" There was an indescribable sadness in Zhao Ji's voice, this sadness reminded Zhao Zheng of Handan Quality Palace, and remembered all kinds of bullying of Zhao Ren to himself and his mother, he didn't want to live like that anymore even if he died.

"Now those Zhao people who are bullying their mothers...... "The son is not a person who can often be persuaded by reason, but he is often moved by emotions, especially those close to him." Zhao Ji's crying made Zhao Zheng's blood surge with anger, and she said again: "They are now in Daliang, Zheng'er Ning watched them die of old age?" ”

"Zheng'er doesn't dare." Zhao Zheng suddenly bowed, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Zheng'er will definitely avenge his mother and taste the humiliation of the past!" ”

.。 m.