At this moment, I saw a family member hurriedly walk into the lobby, saluted Meng Wu, and said, "General, the king has summoned the general and the young lady." ”

Meng Wu was stunned, Qin Wangzheng summoned him at this time, what would happen? Is it for the sake of the spirit? Of course, this is possible, Meng Ling's attack must be unconcealable, and since Meng Ling has been designated as the object of Fusu's marriage, then Meng Ling was attacked, and Qin Wangzheng naturally couldn't ignore it, so of course he had to recruit Meng Wu and Meng Ling to see him, and ask what happened, that is, Qin Wangzheng didn't mention it, and Meng Wu also took the initiative to report to Qin Wangzheng, but Meng Wu didn't expect it to be so soon.

Therefore, Meng Wu arched his hand to the plateau and said, "Mr. Xia, the king has summoned you, and the old man can't accompany Mr. ”

Gao Yuan smiled: "Business is important, the general doesn't have to worry anymore, and I'm full, so it's better to disperse like this." ”

Meng Wu listened, nodded as well, and said, "That's fine, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, treat Mr. Xia well on behalf of his father." Ling'er, hurry up and change your clothes and go to the palace with your father. ”

After Meng Wu left with Meng Ling, Meng Tian immediately ordered to arrange a room for Gao Yuan to stay, and at the same time invited Gao Yuan to the quiet room and set up tea to entertain Gao Yuan.

In this era, the habit of drinking tea is only popular in the Bashu area, and it has not yet been popularized, so the usual drinks of the powerful family are mainly wine, but Bashu has been returned to the Qin State for nearly a hundred years, and tea drinking has gradually become popular in the Qin State, after all, there are many benefits of drinking tea, so the elite of the Qin State likes to use tea as the main drink.

Of course, the plateau likes to drink tea, and some tea was also bought through merchants in Daijun, and driven by the plateau, Daijun is also more popular to drink tea. However, in terms of the quality of tea in this era, it is naturally the best in the Qin Kingdom, so Gao Yuan picked up the teacup, took a sip, and couldn't help but nod and said, "Good tea." ”

Meng Yi smiled: "Does Mr. Xia also like to drink tea?" ”

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "When I was studying art in the mountains, the teacher used the mountain spring to boil the old tea in the mountains as a drink, but after a few years of teaching, he has been wandering, it is difficult to have a foothold, and he has rarely drunk such good tea." ”

Meng Tian said: "It turns out that Mr.'s master also likes to drink tea. ”

Gao Yuan nodded, said: "There are many benefits of drinking tea, it is said that in the past, Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons a day, and got tea to solve it, my master is proficient in medical science, and good at the way of health preservation, once said that drinking tea can quench thirst, refresh the mind, eliminate food and phlegm, remove oil and greasy, far better than drinking." ”

Meng Tian said with a smile: "Sir's master is worthy of being a master in the world, it turns out that there are so many reasons for drinking tea." This tea is the best tea in Bashu for the palace, only for the palace to drink, is the king specially given to the father, but unfortunately there is no mountain spring in Xianyang, if Mr. likes, wait a while I will let people send a few bags to the yak. ”

Gao Yuan smiled and said: "Then you are not welcome to be in the next place, but the general is still the pillar of the Qin State, and he has won the trust of the King of Qin, so it seems that it is true." ”

Meng Tian said: "Mr. is talking too much, in fact, my father is just doing his job as a minister, and it is really difficult to deserve such an honorable treatment." ”

Gao Yuan shook his head and said: "The Meng family can have the current powerful position, which is the result of the three generations of the Meng family for the hard work of the Qin State, so it is not an exaggeration to get the trust of the King of Qin and receive special treatment. General Meng is too humble. Meng Yi sighed lightly and said: "It's a pity that not everyone is as Mr. thinks, the eldest brother and father have been fighting abroad for a long time and are not in the court, so there are some things that you don't know, and I am afraid that you will be worried, so I didn't say much, this time the little sister was attacked, I'm afraid it is not simple." Suddenly, he turned to the plateau and said, "I want to hear what the gentleman thinks about this matter." ”

Meng Tian was stunned, looked at his brother, and then at Gao Yuan, but did not speak.

Gao Yuan drank the tea very calmly, and said: "Shizun once said that if you want to find clues from clueless things, you only need to grasp a little core, which is profit. ”

Meng Tian and Meng Yi glanced at each other, and Meng Tian said, "Interests." ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said: "Any thing is not accidental, it will inevitably be inextricably linked with other things, an official dies, and the one who benefits is the person who takes over his official position, then the one who makes the profit is this person, and if a businessman dies, then the heir of his property is the beneficiary; Even if an ordinary person dies, his property and land will have new beneficiaries, so as long as the beneficiaries after this incident are found, the truth will be clear. After a pause, Gao Yuan said: "Taking Miss Meng's attack as an example, the marriage between Miss Meng and the Grand Duke Fusu will be decided, if Miss dies this time, which family will marry the Grand Duke." ”

After Meng Tian and Meng Yi heard this, they couldn't help but admire Gao Yuan a lot, because this truth was too clear. Therefore, Meng Yi said: "Mr. Gao is really admirable." ”

Meng Tian pondered for a while before he said: "Don't hide it, sir, the candidate who chose to marry the eldest duke, in addition to the little sister, there are also the daughters of several ministers, but if the little sister is killed this time, it is most likely to be Cheng Quanjun's granddaughter, Miss Qi Liyun." ”

Gao Yuan said: "Who is Chengquan-kun?" ”

Meng Tian explained: "Chengquan Jun Mingxuan is the son of Yangquan Jun, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Huayang, and the uncle of the king. ”

Gao Yuan realized that this matter was very far involved, and if he wanted to figure out the ins and outs, he had to start with Qin Wangzheng's grandfather, King Qin Xiaowen.

King Qin Xiaowen's queen of the main palace is Mrs. Huayang, and Yang Quanjun is Mrs. Huayang's younger brother, Qin Wangzheng's father, Qin Zhuang Xiangwang's biological mother Xia Ji, was originally just an ordinary concubine of King Qin Xiaowen, and she had no power, nor was she favored by King Qin Xiaowen, so King Qin Zhuang Xiang was not valued when he was young and was sent to Zhao State as a proton. But Mrs. Huayang has never had children, so under the planning and operation of Lü Buwei, King Xiang of Qin Zhuang worshiped Mrs. Huayang as his mother, and as a result, he was not only taken back to Qin, but also made the crown prince by King Qin Xiaowen.

After King Xiang of Qin Zhuang succeeded to the throne, Mrs. Huayang also became the Queen Mother of Huayang, although King Xiang of Qin Zhuang respected his biological mother Xia Ji as the Queen Mother of Xia, but still took the Queen Mother of Huayang as his mother and respected Yang Quanjun as his uncle. Therefore, Qin Wangzheng succeeded to the throne, and also took advantage of the situation to regard the Empress Dowager Huayang as his grandmother, and later the Empress Dowager Huayang and Yangquanjun passed away successively, and Qin Wangzheng named the son of Yangquanjun as Chengquanjun, and respected as his uncle.

Mrs. Huayang and Yang Quanjun are actually the Chu State Mi clan, and they are originally the clans of the Chu State. Although in the middle of the Warring States Period, there were continuous vicious battles between the Qin State and the Chu State, and the Qin State once defeated the Sanyi Capital of the Chu State, but the Chu clan of the Mi clan had great power in the Qin State, and affected the government of the Qin State for decades.

The initiator of the Mi clan's power in the Qin State was the concubine of King Huiwen of Qin, Empress Dowager Xuan, and in 306 BC, King Wu of Qin, the son of King Huiwen of Qin, died. Because King Wu of Qin had no children, his younger brothers competed for the throne and were divided into two factions, one was Gongzi Zhuang, the half-brother of King Wu of Qin; The other faction is the son of the Empress Dowager Xuan, and later with the help of the Empress Dowager Xuan's half-brother Wei Ran, Gongzi Ji seized the throne, that is, King Qin Zhaoxiang, and killed other princesses, pacifying the ** competition for the throne within the royal family.

However, because King Qin Zhaoxiang was young, Empress Dowager Xuan was in charge of the position of Queen Mother, and appointed her younger brother Wei Ran, Mi Rong and her sons Gongzi Kui, Gongzi Shi and others to assist the government, and adopted the method of marriage, so that King Qin Zhaoxiang married the princess of Chu as the queen, and married his niece to An Guojun (that is, King Qin Xiaowen), the son of King Qin Zhaoxiang, as a result, King Qin Zhaoxiang reigned for 55 years, but the Mi clan held the power of Qin for 36 years.

Later, King Qin Zhaoxiang enabled Fan Ju of Wei, regained power, deposed the Empress Dowager, and expelled Wei Ran, Mi Rong, Gongzi Kui, Gongzi Shi, etc. from Qin, but the power of the Mi clan has been completed, intertwined, and deep-rooted, and it is impossible for King Qin Zhaoxiang to completely eradicate the Mi clan, and later King Qin Xiaowen succeeded to the throne, and Mrs. Huayang was the queen, and the Mi clan gained power again.

However, King Qin Xiaowen died less than a year after succeeding to the throne, and the Empress Dowager Huayang did not have the power desire of the Empress Dowager Xuan, and after Qin Wangzheng succeeded to the throne, he did not marry the daughter of the Mi family, and reused a minister who had nothing to do with the Qi family, so the Mi family gradually lost control of the government, but there was still a strong influence in the Qin State, under the operation of the Qi family, the Chu clan Changping Jun and Changwen Jun of the same Mi clan also went to the reuse of the Qin State, and Changping Jun also served as the minister of the Qin State for a time.

Although Meng Tian and Meng Yi didn't say it very clearly, what kind of person Gao Yuan is, as long as the relationship between the Mi family, the Empress Dowager Huayang, Yangquanjun, and Chengquanjun is clarified, otherwise it will be cleared up.

This time Fusu chose a wife to marry, and the Qi family saw an opportunity again, if the daughter of the Mi family could be married to Fusu, then after Fusu succeeded to the throne, the Mi family could become a relative of the Qin State again and restore power. Therefore, Chengquan Juncai tried his best to marry his granddaughter Mi Liyun to Fusu as his wife. And Qin Wangzheng did not choose Qi Liyun, but chose Meng Ling, probably because he had a lesson from the past, and he didn't want to let the Qian clan have another chance to take power.

Meng Tian said: "Mr. thinks that the attack on the little sister has something to do with Cheng Quanjun?" ”

Gao Yuan shook his head and said, "No, the benefits are divided into two types: clear benefits and dark benefits, and they can't be simply looked at." ”

Meng Yi was a little puzzled and said, "May I ask sir, what is Mingyi?" What is a dark benefit? ”

Gao Yuan said: "If Miss Meng is killed, then the one who marries Fusu Gongzi will be Miss Mi Liyun of the Mi family, it seems that the Mi family has benefited from it, so the suspicion of the Qi family is also the greatest." However, there are many talented people in the Qin State, and I am afraid that many people can see this truth, so the Mi family is a beneficiary on the surface, but it may also be a victim. ”

Meng Tian and Meng Yi glanced at each other again, and Meng Yi said: "I'm a little confused, so in Mr.'s opinion, who is the beneficiary?" ”

Gao Yuan said: "If you exclude Miss Meng and Miss Mi, the family is most likely to marry Fusu's son, and this is the one who benefits from the secret." ”