Volume IX Chapter 26 The Divine Decree and the Decree

Under the strong leadership of Ying Zheng, with the blood of a Ying clan, the fast capture camp was established, and this department was established from then on, and it played an extremely important position in the Great Qin regime.

Historically, there has never been such an independent branch of power. Ying Zheng imitated the local yamen of the Tang Dynasty and established the fast hunting camp in advance with the concept of six doors. This advanced consciousness usually Ying Zheng does not dare to do at all, but in order to stabilize his power, through Zhao Ji's eagerness to investigate the cause of Ying Zichu's death, and also to cater to Mrs. Huayang's mentality of maintaining the continuation of the Mi clan, this was established.

The power to arrest the fast camp is already very large, but if there are insiders who are involved and need to avoid suspicion, and continue to investigate, the power of the fast camp is unimaginable. It is too urgent for a department that is already ahead of its time to give such a big power.

In Ying Zheng's view, all administrative decrees must first be integrated into this era, and under his influence, they must be slowly understood by others. This is like boiling a frog in warm water, under the influence of subtle thoughts, people feel that there is really a need to set up this department.

Especially in the court, he and Gong Ming have clearly clarified the difference between the fast fishing camp and the court captain. Although there are many similarities between the two departments, the scope of the investigation is very different. The arresting camp is investigating a big case and a special case, and it must have a lot of privileges, at least about the affairs of the royal family, the court lieutenant does not dare to investigate, but the arresting camp dares to investigate.

And when the Capture Camp exercises its power, it will not hinder the affairs of the Ting Lieutenant, and even under the right circumstances, the things that the Ting Lieutenant finds tricky and cannot be investigated can be completely transferred to the Capture Battalion, so as to achieve a win-win result for the two departments.

But now there is a huge problem, it seems that Gong Ming and others ask for the meaning of the holy decree, Ying Zheng's first thought is, what if there is some kind of huge problem with the people who catch the fast camp, then what should I do? Do you want Ying Zheng to check it himself? Except for Ying Zheng, others dare not investigate at all, and they have no right to investigate.

The forces in the palace such as the Zhong Hall and the Yiling Palace, which should have been able to supervise the fast camp, are now the targets of investigation, and they cannot be reconciled at all. Therefore, it is really not good for Yingzheng to give an immediate reply to the holy decree, and most of the ministers behind him shook their heads.

The power of the fast camp is already very large, and everyone who is found to be related to the case has to avoid suspicion, but the fast camp itself does not need to avoid suspicion. People can't help but ask, even if King Qin Yingzheng makes a mistake, he will be scolded by the Queen Mother of the Three Palaces, is it possible that the people who hunt the fast camp are even better than the King of Qin, and they don't even need to avoid suspicion?

The people present were not stupid, Chenxi, Lin Ye, Li Si, Wei Yi and others felt distressed for Yingzheng. The establishment of a fast hunting camp is itself difficult, and the external pressure has been borne by Yingzheng. But this internal difficulty, it is necessary to come up with a charter, and it can't be based on loyalty.

Loyalty and righteousness are all things done by the forces of the rivers and lakes, above the court, how much money does loyalty count? Saying that they are loyal to the monarch and loving the country is the truth, but when they encounter problems of their own interests, even the military personnel cannot stay out of the matter, and they will definitely block them.

Ying Zheng thought for a moment and sighed: "You wait for the time being, let me discuss it with several queen mothers, although I have the right to issue this holy decree, I must also take into account the opinions of all parties." ”

"Ye Zi, immediately pass the news to Xiao Min, ask her to rush to Huayang Palace as soon as possible, and then send the message to Zizhulin and Ganquan Palace, and ask the three queen mothers to discuss this matter with me immediately. In order to convince the ministers, and to reassure Gong Ming and others, there is no need to discuss it privately, just talk about this matter publicly, should this holy decree be issued? If you want to go down, how do you want to get down? ”

Lin Ye nodded and whispered a few times in Zhao Cui's ear, Zhao Cui hurriedly transmitted the voice to the contacts of several families, and soon the voice reached several queen mothers.

Mindai, who was furious in the Zhongdian, heard this and immediately got up and rushed to Huayang Palace. Before leaving, he ordered loudly: "From now on, everyone in the Zhong Hall will be grounded, whoever dares to step out of the doors of each hall and break his legs, all the people around him will be executed, and Li'er and Run'er will supervise this matter." ”

Liji and Mirun hurriedly replied, "Oh." ”

The two also felt pressure, and this time, Toshiyo was really hot. Someone dared to make a major mistake in the short few days that Yingzheng and Lin Ye were away, although Min Dai did not say what mistakes were made, nor did he point out who made the mistakes, but they knew that this matter must be related to the people of Zhongdian, and it was also related to Lin Sheng, who died on the side of Yihuanyuan.

The importance of Lin Sheng was clear to everyone in the Zhong Palace, so they naturally didn't dare to take it lightly, and made all the preparations, waiting for the people from the fast camp to come over and ask questions.

Toshiyo quickly rushed to Huayang Palace and passed on the news of Yingzheng with Mrs. Huayang.

Mrs. Huayang sighed: "This holy decree is not good, the power of the fast hunting camp is already so great, if it is not restricted, in the future, when the fast hunting camp grows, it will definitely be a big force, even greater than the power of the entire Qin Palace, this matter really needs to be discussed." ”

"I can feel the pressure in Zheng'er's heart, don't look at the ministers under his strength, set up a fast hunting camp, and also killed a royal family. But this secret struggle will never stop, and I am afraid that it will continue until the reunification of the nations, and it may still be fighting in the dark. ”

"When you ask me here, I don't dare to make such a holy decree, and I have to join in with the other two, and we will discuss a solution together. It is not only necessary to prevent the people who hunt the fast camp from avoiding suspicion, but also to prevent them from making mistakes in the future, otherwise such a holy decree cannot be issued at all. ”

Min Dai nodded and smiled on the side: "What Grandma Huayang said is reasonable, they only listen to the orders of the king alone, which is not wrong, but if any of them makes a mistake in the future, who has the right to investigate?" Do you want the king to check it himself? That's definitely not going to happen. In order to unify the nations, the king has enough government affairs to deal with every day, and he has to intrigue with the royal families of the countries, and he also has to pacify several relatively large forces in the people, and he has no intention of investigating the people around him. ”

"There are enough institutions in this palace, if a new department is added, and there is one more Zhong Palace, North Palace, etc., then the king will have no time to deal with the government affairs."

Mrs. Huayang nodded, who said it wasn't. Originally, Xianyang Palace only had Huayang Palace as the lord of the harem, although no one dared to move this position, but then a Yiling Hall appeared, which did divide many powers of Huayang Palace. Then the North Palace appeared, which made the status of Huayang Palace drop to the bottom, and it had to be pushed out of the Zhong Hall to check and balance.

But this time, it was precisely the Zhong Hall that had a problem, and if a new palace force was added, who would dare to say that there would be no more problems? There are enough forces in the palace, and they are not united enough, so let's not create a new department and make the harem noisy. What's more, outside the Qin Palace, there is an extremely powerful Ganquan Palace, the owner of that palace, but he has the real military power, and his tone of voice is more confident than that of the people in other palaces.

The tough Mrs. Zhao Ji, sure enough, in the interrogation of Mo Chou Nu and others, said from the mouth of the inner historian: "The mourning family has no opinion, let's set the tone first, this holy decree should be issued, how to do it specifically, Huayang Palace and Beigong will discuss it." But no matter how it goes, it can't hinder the investigation of the fast hunting camp, since this department has been established, it can't give up halfway, and it must be reassuring Gong Ming and the others. ”

"This person, if he has concerns, he has to avoid suspicion of everything, and he can't do things wholeheartedly at all."

Mrs. Huayang smiled bitterly and said: "Sister Zhao Ji, this holy decree is really not easy to make, we must discuss a proper way to come out, and we can't pressure Zheng'er to carry it alone." We are all old, and we must bear what we should bear, and we can't put too much pressure on the younger generations. ”

Xia Ji wondered: "My family Gong Ming's child is the most calm and will not do anything for personal gain, I think such a holy decree can make him more loyal to Zheng'er." As long as the three of us and Zheng'er agree, how can those courtiers have any reason to object, and what this palace says, forgive Wang Qian, Meng Wu and other military generals, and they will not dare not listen. ”

Wang Qian, Meng Wu and the others hurriedly bowed their heads and remained silent, they had been under Xia Ji's power for a long time, how could they dare to put forward other opinions, not to mention that they didn't think about the problem of not being able to make a holy decree.

Mrs. Huayang felt aggrieved, this is not as good as Xia Ji, most of those military generals listened to Xia Ji's words, and did not dare to have anything to do with Huayang Palace. Whoever made Huayang Palace the master of the harem, all things related to the harem are things that the military avoids. But Xia Ji is different, she has been in the army in previous years, and she knows people from Wang Jian and Meng Wu's father's generation, and they are naturally influenced by it.

Mrs. Huayang said: "My sister didn't understand the problem, the problem now is not whether she can make this holy decree, but how to restrain the power of the fast camp. The power of the fast battalion is already very large, if something happens to the people inside, who will investigate? ”

"For example, Gong Ming and the others are loyal to Zheng'er, but have you ever thought that a hundred years after the king of my Great Qin, a new king is born, will the people of the fast camp continue to assist loyally? When Gong Ming and others are old, there will be a new god and deputy capture in the fast fishing camp, how can we guarantee the loyalty of those people? ”

"There is an old saying, a treasury of iron and a king of flowing water. The kings will change, but the treasury of each country will not be moved. If there is no suitable man in charge of the treasury, who of us can guarantee that the treasury of each generation of kings will be filled with more money and grain? Or have some of them been stolen and fewer? ”

"Therefore, for the scope of the power of the fast battalion, as well as a series of internal personnel changes, supervision and inspection, etc., a charter must be drawn up in advance, at least so that both Zheng'er and we can be satisfied. This holy decree seems simple, Zheng'er can issue it immediately, Gong Ming and the others are at ease, but have they ever thought about whether we will be at ease? I've said it now that I'm honest, I'm not at ease at all, neither of you has thought of what the problem is, so naturally you won't think about it. ”

Zhao Ji and Xia Ji were silent, it turned out that this seemingly simple holy decree still had so much knowledge in it, and it was worthy of Mrs. Huayang, who was known for her power and strategy, and her ability to think about things was indeed not comparable to them.

Ying Zheng smiled bitterly: "Grandma Huayang and I have thought of it together, but this holy decree must be given." Otherwise, this time Yi'an wants to avoid suspicion, and then several others must also avoid suspicion. The only person who can investigate this matter is Nei Shixi, but he alone can't find out the case of Lin Sheng's death at all. Because the people involved in it not only include Zhong Dian, but also people from Huayang Palace and Beigong, how can Gong Ming, Mi Xiao and others investigate? ”

The three queen mothers were stunned, the scope of the impact was so wide, it was indeed very tricky.

Mrs. Huayang asked, "What does this have to do with Huayang Palace and North Palace?" ”

Ying Zheng said frankly: "For the time being, I found out that the silver and bronze of the Zhong Palace were found, but the silver and bronze are dead, and the palace maid who once talked to him is a person from Huayang Palace. And the palace maid, after talking to Yintong, turned around and died in a well in Huayang Palace. According to Yi'an, there are too many Beigong people in Huayang Palace, who dares to say that the dead palace maid didn't know a few Beigong people? Even if you don't know each other, then Mi Xiao also needs to avoid suspicion, because Mi Xiao is from Beigong, and Wang Heng is Mi Xiao's husband, so you should avoid suspicion, and with the rest of the people involved, only Nei Shiyan is left. ”

"We all know Nei Shixi's ability, but let him go to check the affairs of the palace alone, it is estimated that it will be difficult to move an inch, so it is better not to go, so as not to lose his mother's face."

Zhao Ji hurriedly said: "I can't let my family go to check alone, there were enough people who died in Yongcheng back then, and Ganquan Palace sent people who were familiar with Xianyang, and none of them were as good as him." If he is allowed to enter the palace alone to investigate the case, it is estimated that it will be easy to die, and none of the people in the Qin Palace are good masters. ”

Mrs. Huayang suddenly said: "Pass the order, from this moment on, all the people in Huayang Palace will be grounded, and whoever dares to take a step will be killed directly." Immediately sent someone to control the well, and waited for Gong Ming and others to come over to investigate, this palace smelled some kind of deep conspiracy, and this feeling would not be wrong. It's not strange for anyone to die, but the death of Lin Sheng's girl is the strangest thing. Who will benefit from the eventual benefit? I don't even have a single person who doubts, it's terrifying, and the art of scheming is definitely above me. ”

"It's just a matter of having an E'an, after all, the girl is a person from the Yiling Palace, and it's not surprising what kind of people come out there. But I think about it, the person who is higher than me and Yi'an's scheming is hidden so deeply, it shouldn't be the people of the Yiling Palace, because the people of the Yiling Palace want to kill whom, there is no need to spend so much trouble, not to mention that Lin Sheng is very important to Ying Ai, it is impossible for the Yiling Hall to do it himself. ”

"In my Qin Palace, except for the Yiling Palace, it is definitely our great enemy to be able to play such a deep conspiracy under our noses. But why did that man kill Lin Sheng? There is no reason at all, even if in order to compete for favor, it is impossible to kill some of Beigong's subordinates to get angry, it is impossible to kill Lin Sheng's head. What's the secret? If it's not to compete for favor, then it can only be aimed at Zheng'er, killing Lin Sheng is just to cut off your ears and eyes, what the other party really wants to kill must be Zheng'er. Yes, it must be so, otherwise there is no way to speculate. But the biggest question, or that question, who is the ultimate beneficiary? ”

The eyes of the people around widened when they heard this, and even Chenxi showed a surprised expression, this master of Huayang Palace could say so much truth just through a small thing. No wonder everyone says that Mrs. Huayang is very scheming, and only those who know the most about scheming can smell the smell of their peers.

Ying Zheng asked again: "May I ask grandma, if you temporarily change someone to investigate, is it feasible?" ”

Mrs. Huayang said decisively: "You can't change people, you have already found out this step, and Yihuan Yuan is the place where Gong Ming is most familiar, and he is also familiar with the palace." Lin Sheng's matter, as well as the matter in the palace, can only be checked by someone who knows the roots, and we can rest assured, if someone else is changed, it is impossible for me to let him enter this palace. ”

"This holy decree must be given, and Yi'an must not avoid suspicion, because she understands what I mean best, and she also understands the situation in the palace best. Without Yi'an, Gong Ming couldn't investigate it at all, and in less than ten years, he couldn't sort out the intricate and complex relationships in the palace. Don't look at the power of the fast camp, if you enter the Qin Palace and commit some taboos, it is still easy to die, and Feng Yi back then died like that. Therefore, Yi'an must get involved, and even more so to protect himself. ”

"As for the decree? It's very simple, there is no need for Zheng'er to make a holy decree, and the three of our queen mothers jointly issued a decree to him. Except for Zheng'er, I, Daqin, have no people and forces that dare not be investigated. The difference between a decree and a decree is that as soon as a decree is announced, it is written into the law. The Yi decree is different, it is the exclusive power of the Queen Mother, and the handling of special matters will not be written into the law. ”

"Especially for the cause of Lin Sheng's death and the incident in the palace, the fast camp can avoid suspicion, because that is what the queen mother meant. As for the future, Zheng'er can spend some time to consult with Gong Ming, Yi'an, Wang Heng and others, draw up a suitable charter, and at the right time, discuss with the ministers in the court, and then promulgate the holy decree. ”

"Things have to come one by one, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach them, and if you rush the decree, it's easy to get into big trouble. I don't know if Sister Xia Ji and Sister Zhao Ji have anything to add? ”

Xia Ji and Zhao Ji said at the same time: "That's it, we will jointly issue an edict, and there is no need to ask Zheng'er and the courtiers for their opinions. ”

Ying Zheng opened his mouth wide, revealing an incredible expression, in fact, Ying Zheng was ecstatic in his heart, Jiang was still old and spicy, such a tricky problem had become so simple under Mrs. Huayang's words. By the way, he also reminded Ying Zheng to discuss with the ministers at the right time, these two 'suitable' are just right, as long as they don't come out for a day, no one in the ministers dares to stop Gong Ming and others from investigating the case.

What's more, Mrs. Huayang only issued an edict, and no one during this period would be stupid enough to remind Yingzheng to promulgate laws to limit the power of the fast camp. How long can this time be delayed? Then it depends on Yingzheng's ability, the queen mothers have done enough, if you even have to ask them this question of how long it will drag on, it can only mean that you, the king of Qin, do not know how to use power and are not mature enough.

If you don't issue a holy decree and issue a decree, not only Gong Ming, Yi'an and others will be at ease, but the ministers will not object, this is a way for everyone to be happy, at least the ministers will not have resistance. The matter of the three queen mothers of the family who asked the fast camp to investigate it, of course, had to be handled on a special basis, and it was not written into the law, and there was no conflict with the interests of each family.

If anyone jumps out to oppose it at this time, it is slapping the faces of the three queen mothers, and it is estimated that they will be ordered to be executed on the spot. The queen mother is happy to give people a decree, don't you think it's an eyesore? I don't understand the rules of superiority and inferiority.

Chenxi, Lin Ye, Gong Ming and others, as well as the ministers behind Ying Zheng, all showed surprised expressions, from the holy decree to the Yi decree, the queen mothers of the Qin State really know how to play. But this trick has to be convincing, at least the queen mother's meaning is very clear, the fast hunting camp was first established, and many things are not perfect, it's not that they don't limit the power of the fast hunting camp, it's just that it's too late, and they have to wait for the investigation of the case.

Anyway, it is a matter of time before the power to limit the capture of the fast camp, the queen mothers are not in a hurry, what are you in a hurry? It's not really harming your interests. One day, which family feels that their interests have been damaged, and then they stand up and mention it to King Yingzheng of Qin, urging him to promulgate the law as soon as possible.

In a word, the case must continue to be investigated, and the people who arrest the fast camp do not need to avoid suspicion, and you don't want to make the queen mothers unhappy. As for the future, they don't care, which queen mother makes a decree, it will be discussed with others, and it is not a decision made by the queen mother herself at will.

Therefore, when the edict was issued, no one dared to object, and the palace Ming solved the worries of the consequences and could safely investigate the cause of Lin Sheng's death.