The grand hall is monotonous in color, and only some parts of the silk are hanging on the horizontal jaw and dancing in the wind.

Above the main hall, two rows of courtiers sat on their knees, most of them afraid to look up at the dimly lit high building, where sat the supreme ruler of the empire.

The First Emperor seemed to be a little distracted with the bamboo scroll in his hand, and he seemed to be listening to the sound of rain outside, for a long time: "The Six Kingdoms defeated the army and did not change, and there were constant rebellions in various places. Ladies and gentlemen, do you have anything to say? ”

Li Si, who was dressed in Shu brocade tailoring, looked left and right, slowly stood up and walked out, Yan Sù said: "The disease of scabies, the army is all powder. ”

Empty and unreal, now there are fewer and fewer ministers who dare to speak and tell the truth, Ying Zheng's eyes are fixed on Li Si, and his eyes are full of tiredness.

Ying Zheng put down the bamboo scroll and looked at the ministers in the hall. When he was a child, he was a hostage in Zhao State, and his patience as a child was exchanged for a tenacious character, and after taking power, he fought with Lü Buwei for power, and his temperament was always easy to be irritable.

"Who knows how much I have paid for the Great Qin River?" Ying Zheng looked at the courtiers in the hall, and was about to raise his hand to summon, but there was a colic pain in his chest, which made him breathe sluggishly and almost suffocated.

No one in the hall found out about the abnormality of the First Emperor, and even if they did, no one dared to shout, let alone go to the God Yuan Platform to care about the emperor.

Ying Zheng held the roll in his left hand and covered his chest with his right hand, not wanting people to find out what was wrong. Sometimes he wonders if he has killed and tortured too much, and his health is getting worse and worse, but he thinks more about building a strong empire, for the empire in his mind, even if he kills many people, he will have no regrets!

"Xuanlang Lieutenant Order!" Win the government and endure the pain. Wave and yell!

Suddenly, the eunuchs in the palace shouted, "There is an order to invite Lang Zhong!" The shouts came in waves. Spread all over the palace.

Soon, a samurai with a steel sword and a silver crown walked into the hall quickly, and he was not seen shouting long live, but quietly knelt under the emperor's platform and waited for the order of Win Zheng.

"Does Wang Ben have any news back? Can Xu Yan send back an official letter? ”

Lang Zhongling didn't dare to raise his head, he said, "There is no news yet." "It's simple and straightforward, and it feels very cold.

Zhao Gao's eyelids, who were standing next to Emperor Yuan, jumped, and the first emperor had recently given people a somewhat abnormal feeling about him. It's not about character.,It's the kind of impatience that is vaguely always exposed.。

Ying Zheng put down the bamboo slip, and the pain in his chest was no longer very obvious. He said slowly: "It's been half a year, how is the conscription in various places?" How can grain be collected so slowly! ”

The face of the minister in the hall changed several times, and no one dared to express his opinion, and the palace was quiet for a while.

"The army must not delay the grain supply until next autumn." It's been half a year. The time to jump out has jumped out. Ying Zheng is forbearing, not to let those rebels have a chance to develop: "Prime Minister? ”

There are two prime ministers, the left prime minister Kui Lin and the right prime minister Wang Juan glanced at each other, the two walked out slowly, and saluted: "The minister is here." ”

Most of the eyes of many officials in the palace are focused on Zuo Prime Minister Kui Lin, who was born in Shu County, has not been so conspicuous, but it is such a person who has raised millions of stone grain in Bashu within half a year, and has been very important to the emperor recently.

Forget it. Shu County is really a large grain-producing county, and it is the plains developed in Shu that Kui Lin can raise so much grain in half a year. But so. I don't know what the situation is, it may be that there is too much food in a short period of time, there is some instability within Shu County, and the junction with Dajinchuan and Guiyue is a piece of erosion, Qiang and Guiyue actually raised troops to attack Shu, there must be an inside story that the ministers do not know.

Not only that, Shu County has been transferred so much grain in a short period of time, and some big clans seem to have moved, and there have been rumors recently that the big clans in Shu are entangled with Gui Yue, but I don't know if it's true or not. If it is true, Kui Lin has thought about how to collect grain and grass.

Kui Lin bent down and saluted again: "Shu County can still raise 300,000 stone grain and grass in two months." ”

Wang Juan followed with a salute: "Guanzhong and Longxi are also in preparation. ”

The Central Plains lost control, and the Qin State was almost the same as if it had not unified the Six Kingdoms, and the First Emperor knew this, but this was a process that had to be tolerated.

In order to achieve the goal of eliminating hidden dangers at one time, the armies in various parts of the Central Plains took the initiative to shrink, so that the unscrupulous people hiding in the shadows could go to the light by themselves. And it seems that the strategy of the First Emperor worked, and the old nobles of the Six Kingdoms, who were hiding in the shadows, really jumped up and down and came out by themselves.

After finishing the battle, sweeping away the traitors at once would be beneficial to the future of Great Qin, which was more effective than leaving infinite hidden dangers. The First Emperor was confident that he could destroy all countries once and he would be able to exterminate those rebels more easily, after all, the rebels couldn't stop the Qin army's sharpness before they had a country, so how could they be the opponents of Great Qin without a country?

It's just that there is one thing that the First Emperor did not expect, and the situation in Nanjun is the only point where he was wrong in judgment.

Because of the error of judgment, there has been no conclusive conclusion, Nanjun 1 did not raise the anti-flag, 2 is still paying taxes, 3 is still performing the duty of the southern invasion, it seems that the Nanjiang Army should be doing what Nanjun is still doing?

Of course, the First Emperor did not immediately send troops to Nanjun not for anything, but because of the influence of the whole body, sending troops to Nanjun would destroy the entire grand strategy, which is the most important reason. If you don't accept it, you will be suppressed, there will be no extra choice, and what the first emperor thinks about is when it is most advantageous to suppress it.

The two prime ministers looked at each other when they saw that the First Emperor did not speak again, and they could see a lot in each other's eyes, the only thing they had in common was their deep worry.

If there is a sprout, it should be extinguished immediately, this is Kui Lin's thought and Wang Juan's idea, they actually don't think that making the Central Plains a hunting ground is a good way.

Is it really good that the country has made too many efforts and sacrifices to unify the world, and after waiting for reunification, it has provided a place for those with ill intentions to cause chaos in order to eliminate hidden dangers, and has a motive to let the Central Plains form a separatist?

However, Kui Lin and Wang Juan can understand why the First Emperor has so much courage, all because the empire has not had a qualified heir so far, and the First Emperor has no choice but to deal with it after his own death.

In some ways, the First Emperor's pursuit of immortality may be because he has no hope derived from a qualified heir, so he still pursues it knowing that immortality is ethereal.

The left and right prime ministers returned to the train, and Ting Wei Li Si looked up at Zhao Gao, the commander of the CRRC Mansion who was standing in the shadows, and then looked at the colleagues around him, and finally bowed his head.

Since the strategy of luring the snake out of the hole, the entire center has fallen into an atmosphere of unease, not that no one advised the First Emperor not to play with fire, but the First Emperor has made up his mind and cannot persuade him.

The Central Plains and the South were all eroded, and many people did not see any benefit to the empire except for the elimination of hidden dangers hiding in the shadows.

The country has no heir, and I don't know where this rumor came from, the first emperor ordered to kill wave after wave of rumors, and it seems that the more he killed, the more rumors prevailed. This was not a normal phenomenon, especially when the Montessori and Wang fought over the military power of the Northern Frontier Army, and the rumors changed their flavor.

Li Si felt the need to have a good talk with Zhao Gao, he always felt that Zhao Gao knew some things that others didn't know, such as why the First Emperor ignored the advice of his ministers, such as why the country had regarded Nanjun Lu Zhe as a hidden danger and why Zhao Gao didn't dissolve the marriage contract.

There are too many things that are unreasonable, not only Li Si can't think through it, but many courtiers can't grasp the pulse, which is also an important reason why they feel uneasy.

The voice of the first emperor came from the main hall again, he was asking about the affairs of northern Xinjiang, and the right prime minister Wang Juan had just sat back and had to go to work to accept the emperor's questioning.

Meng Tian did a good job in the north, using the fortress system not only to consolidate the northern frontier but also to slowly advance to the grassland, but also to send back a military situation that made the First Emperor feel wrong.

The steppe Hu people want to go south, this is not a rumor, it is something that is really happening.

When Meng Tian consolidated the defense line and built the fortress, the grassland Hu people were still wreaking havoc, waiting for Meng Tian to bear heavy losses and establish the fortress system and move forward, but those raging grassland Hu people rarely saw it again.

One moment it was still raging, the next moment it disappeared without a trace, no matter how you look at it, this is very wrong, the first emperor, who is no stranger to military affairs, sensed the crisis.

“…… Most of the grain was transported to the Central Plains Army, and the grain of the Northern Xinjiang Army was kept at the amount consumed in March. "What Wang Juan said is what the courtiers know, and this is also the logistics deployment set by the center in the near future.

The First Emperor opened the bamboo slip on the desk, checked it, and suddenly looked up: "At the beginning of the year, the Baiyue barbarians invaded Nanjun, what were the Huns doing at that time?" ”

Wang Juan thought for a moment and replied: "The Huns and General Meng Tian are in a stalemate near the place, and the two sides have tested each other. ”

The alien races in the north and south seemed to be related to each other and invaded Great Qin, so there must be a force secretly causing evil. The enemy who dared to be the enemy of Great Qin on the open side was not terrible, and the enemy hiding in the shadows was worth worrying, but as soon as he indulged, he jumped out of so many rebellions, and the First Emperor felt that he was even more correct to ignore the Central Plains' move into chaos.

"The thief of Huiji County is called Xiang Liang? Is it the son of Xiang Yan? "The First Emperor only learned half a month ago that there were also rebellions in Huiji County.

Wang Juan looked at the imperial historian Feng Zheng.

The Imperial Historian is responsible for supervising the hundred officials, accepting the hundred officials on behalf of the emperor, managing the important atlases and classics of the country, drafting edicts on behalf of the imperial court and other duties.

Feng Zai came out of class, smiled at Wang Xuan, and then saluted in the direction of Emperor Yuan: "Xiang Liang is the son of Xiang Yan." ”

Unconsciously tapped his fingers on the long case, and the corners of the First Emperor's mouth showed a sneer, probably thinking in his heart, "Sure enough, those lost dogs will all jump out as long as they relax." Thinking about it, he stood up, glanced at the courtiers with sharp eyes, and his voice was calm and powerful: "Retreat!" ”

Seeing the back of the First Emperor disappear with the support of the inner servants, the ministers looked at each other silently for a long time...... (To be continued......)