Chapter 41 Gan Luo
The next day, Lu Buwei reported the recent progress of the war to Ah Zheng. Meng Ao had captured the thirteen cities of South Korea, and South Korea was about to fall.
Qin's war in South Korea is about to end, Lu Buwei suggested to Ah Zheng that the next step is to attack Zhao. Lu Buwei suggested that Qin State attack Zhao State first, because of his own selfishness. Lu Buwei was granted the title of Marquis of Wenxin, and his fief was in the Luoyang area. If Qin State attacked Zhao State next, he would be able to wait for an opportunity to expand the scope of his fiefdom.
So he suggested to Ah Zheng: "Your Majesty, now South Korea has won more than half of it. South Korea and Zhao State are the closest to Qin State. We have to prepare a plan to attack Zhao State in advance. After the Changping War, Zhao State's national power has declined greatly. Now, taking advantage of this opportunity to attack him is the best time to take him down."
Ah Zheng nodded: "In this case, what idea can Wen Xinhou come up with to make Qin Guobing take down Zhao Guo without bloodshed?
Lu Buwei laughed and said, "I have no way to take down Zhao's city without bloodshed, but today I want to recommend someone to the king to send an envoy to Zhao in order to attack Zhao."
Ah Zheng became a little interested and asked "Who is it?"
Lu Buwei said: "This person is already waiting outside the palace of King Qin, and please be summoned by the king."
Ah Zheng then ordered the people from Zhangtai Palace to bring him in.
Ah Zheng was surprised by the figure and appearance of the visitor, he was actually just a child who looked underage.
Ah Zheng didn't think that Lu Buwei was fooling him, but he felt strange, and asked the child: "Who are you? What's your name?" The visitor knelt on the ground and saluted:
"My servant, Gan Luo, pay homage to the king."
Ah Zheng looked Looking at the slightly familiar face of the child in front of him, he couldn't help asking: "Have I met you before?"
Gan Luo lowered his head and replied: "When I was young, I was played by playboys in the market. Thanks to the rescue of the king and the little general Meng. I feel ashamed that I have nothing to repay, and I am willing to go to Zhao Guo to repay the king's kindness."
Ah Zheng remembered that he had indeed saved the child once and sent him to Meng Tian's home for treatment, but Gan Luo was only a twelve-year-old child after all. Could it be that Qin State wanted to send a child to Zhao State? ?
Ah Zheng looked at Lu Buwei: "This is the candidate Wen Xinhou recommended to me?"
Lu Buwei stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Your Majesty does not know something. Although this son is young, he is born with intelligence, ingenuity, and is good at Argument of tongue and tongue. If the king sends him as an envoy to Zhao, he will surely win the battle."
Ah Zheng looked at Gan Luo: "I remember that you are Gan Mao's grandson?
" name."
Ah Zheng sneered and said, "I still remember that Gan Mao was a rebel against Qin. He first took refuge in Qi State, then went to Chu State as an envoy, and finally died in Wei State. Let me ask you, you are from Qi State, Chu State Are you still from the state of Wei?"
Gan Luo replied: "The Gan clan was originally powerful and strong in the state of Cai, but later the state of Cai died in the state of Chu, and King Cai moved his capital to become Xiacai, which almost destroyed the state. My father came to the state of Qin in order to revitalize the lintel of the Gan family. , loyal to King Qin Huiwen, and pacified Hanzhong. Later, he was framed by traitors and had no choice but to defect to Qi State. My elder father was indeed at fault, but didn’t the King Qin and the treacherous officials in the court have any problems?” Gan Luo looked directly at
Ah Zheng: "Your Majesty asked me which country I am from? I was born in Qin, grew up in Qin, learned from Qin, and is loyal to Qin. Naturally, I am from Qin." Ah Zheng looked at
him: "In that case, if I really What will you do when I send you as an envoy to Zhao Guo?"
Gan Luo smiled confidently, "I would like to be with General Meng
Ao. " Can you take down the thirteen cities of Zhao State?" Since Ah Zheng became King of Qin, it has been a long time since anyone dared to speak such wild words in front of him, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, if you can really capture it like General Meng Ao If South Korea takes down the city of Zhao, I will make you a minister."
Gan Luo: "Then please wait and see, Your Majesty."
After Gan Luo was taken away by the palace servants, Lu Buwei couldn't help asking A Zheng: "If Gan Luo's words can really come true, does the king really want to make him a minister?
" The general can be named Shangqing, so why can't Gan Luo be named?"
Lu Buwei said: "The king employs people regardless of trivial matters
. Ah Zheng complained: "Isn't Gan Luo recommended by Lu Buwei to you? Why do you say that you are good at employing people? It feels like he is secretly praising himself." Ah Zheng couldn't help laughing, and responded to her
: "Yes, Ah Ju, that's what you said."
Lin Ju: "However, that kid just now is really cute, it looks like Zai Zai when you were a child."
Hearing Lin Ju praise others for their cuteness, Ah Zheng smiled Slowly restrained: "How cute is he? He doesn't look like me at all."
"That kid really looks like Zai Zai." Lin Ju said, "Just like Zai Zai, he always pretends to be indifferent, but in fact he is A very soft and lovely child."
"Oh." Ah Zheng's ear tips slowly turned red.
After a while, he retorted slowly: "I am seventeen years old, and I am an adult according to the laws of the Qin State. Ah Ju, I am no longer a child." "Zai Zai, your seventeen years
old It’s not over yet. And in our place, eighteen years old is considered an adult. Besides—” Lin Ju laughed, “Zai Zai, you will always be a child in Grandma’s heart.” But
Lin Ju seriously After looking at Zai Zai for a while, Zai Zai's excellent and handsome face, the child grows so fast, unexpectedly he has grown so big all at once.
She glanced at the task progress bar below. The progress of the task to ascend to the position of King Qin is currently 87%. It seems that this task is really related to Zai Zai's complete power. As Zai Zai gradually gains power, the progress bar is also slowly rising .
She couldn't help asking: "Zai Zai, when will you become the real King Qin?"
Ah Zheng said: "Zhou etiquette stipulates that a man should marry at thirty,
and a woman at twenty ." Afterwards, did you become the real King of Qin?"
Ah Zheng sneered and said, "Who knows? But the Zhou Dynasty has long since perished, so which country in this world still follows Zhou rituals? These words are nothing but fooling people."
Lin Ju said: " Lu Buwei is becoming more and more powerful in the court, and the ministers in the court will definitely oppose him. Zaizai, you are the king of Qin, and your position is more in line with the interests of the ministers in the court. They will definitely help you. For example, Qin The people of the national clan, they definitely hope that the children of the Qin family will inherit the throne. Zai Zai, you must make good use of the resources in your hands and work hard to officially become the real King of Qin as soon as possible." Ah Zheng smiled and said: "Okay,
Ah Ju will work hard with me "
But at the next day's court meeting, not only did Ah Zheng not get the support of the Qin clan, but he got a lot of doubts on the contrary.
Azheng looked at the eloquent young master Xi who was standing below, and suspected that his ears had heard it wrong. He couldn't help asking again: "What did you say?" Young master Xi sneered: "I said you, the King of Qin, are just the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother
. It’s just Lu Buwei’s bastard. How can the son of a lowly merchant ascend to the throne of King Qin? You are not worthy of being King Qin.” Ah Zheng was enraged, and he looked at the
courtier in front of him coldly: “Who else thinks so, stand up Come out."
The Qin clan's team shook a few times, and a few people stood out unsteadily.
The more angry Ah Zheng was, the more the smile on his face: "Do you also think that I am not worthy to be the king of Qin?" One of them stepped out of the
team and said, "No, we think your identity is doubtful. Orphans and widows have lived in Zhao for many years. , who knows if you, the King of Qin, are the descendants of the previous kings?"
Ah Zheng stepped down from his seat and slowly walked in front of him step by step.
With every step forward, the man's heart trembled.
Ah Zheng laughed and said, "I didn't hear you clearly just now, please say it again."
The man could only stammer and repeat the words just now.
Ah Zheng pulled out his saber and pierced it into the man's heart.
Blood spurted out and splashed on Ah Zheng's face.
He looked at the clan standing next to him again, and asked, "Please explain your point of view again."
The man was startled by the scene just now, and couldn't react for a while, so he had to follow Ah Zheng's meaning and say: "My lord...Your Majesty, I just feel that your background is still in doubt..."
Ah Zheng wiped his neck with his sword.
He looked at the other person again: "What about you?"
The person spoke harshly, with panic on his face: "You can't kill me, you can't kill me, I am the clan of the Qin Kingdom..."
Before he could finish speaking, Ah Zheng Kick fell to the ground, the bronze sword pierced into his chest.
He casually wiped off the hot blood on his face with his sleeve, looked around at the courtiers, and finally looked at Young Master Xi: "This sword is the saber given to me by my father back then, and it was originally used by King Qin Zhaoxiang. Eighth When I returned to the state of Qin when I was young, my eldest father was still alive at that time. He did not deny my identity, and even gave me a sword to my ancestor. After my father came to the throne, he made me the crown prince, and he also recognized my identity. Your son, Xi, A son of a lowly slave, dare to doubt my identity, what are you?"
The young master said: "As the king of Qin, you willfully kill the loyal and good, and you don't obey the laws of Qin, so you are not worthy of being a king."
"Fa Qin? What is Qin? Fa? I am Qin Fa!" He commanded, "Come here, my son Xi disrespected the kingly way today, committed treasonous acts, his car was torn apart, and his body was thrown in the market!" Although Young Master Xi struggled desperately, he still couldn't escape the control of the imperial army
. , was finally dragged down to the palace.
Ah Zheng looked at the people in the court, and slowly wiped the long sword in his hand with a towel: "My dear friends, do you have any other opinions?"
Hearing Lu Buwei knelt down on the ground and kowtowed three times: "Your Majesty is heroic—" The other silent courtiers hurriedly followed and kowtowed.
Ah Zheng asked: "Is there any other important matter to report? If there is nothing wrong, then retreat."
When everyone left Zhangtai Palace, Ah Zheng slowly looked at the sword in his hand, the blood on the sword had not yet Wipe it clean and keep it warm.
This is the third time he has killed someone, the first time was when he first entered the border town of Qin State, he counter-killed the assassin who assassinated him. The second time was to kill the assassin in Shanglinyuan. The first two killings were all in self-defense, which was an act of justice.
But this time he killed someone with his own hands, for his own benefit.
If Ah Ju knew about this, he would probably hate him. After all, Ah Ju liked the soft-hearted child back then, even though he had never felt that his heart was soft.
He wiped off the blood on the saber, put it on again, and strengthened his heart.
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The word "chen" was originally the same as "slave", meaning a slave. In a sense, it can be said to be a modest term.