Qin Official

"I want to beg for justice! I was wronged!"

In the lobby of Jiujiang County Government, an interrogation was coming to an end. Hou Sheng, the warlock, repeatedly cried out for injustice, but Ye Teng, the court lieutenant sitting high in the hall, remained indifferent.

"If the county magistrate's trial is unfair, you can beg for mercy from the county magistrate. If the county magistrate's trial is unfair, you can beg for mercy from the county magistrate. If the county magistrate's trial is unfair, you can beg for mercy from the court captain..."

This is the review system of the Qin Dynasty, but if Tingwei, the "Supreme People's Court", directly determines guilt, the suspect will no longer have the possibility to beg for review!

Hou Sheng was determined not to give up. This alchemist who had studied medicine and stone and immortality for a lifetime, his voice became hoarse and exhausted: "I want to see Your Majesty in person and state my grievances. Those things that colluded with the assassins and traitors are all the fault of Lu Sheng and Han Zhong." I have no idea what others are planning!"

"You are just like a magician, just like a neighbor. It is a crime to be complicit, it is a crime to know but not report, and it is also a crime to be ignorant. It is enough to implicate!"

But Ye Teng just sneered and asked Hou Sheng to be taken back to the dark cell. He also breathed a sigh of relief. This major case that shocked the world could finally be solved.

The evidence provided by Jiaodong and Linzi was actually just the last straw to convict Fang Warlock.

As early as March, after Qin Shihuang was assassinated in Langyajunan, Tingwei regarded the case as the most serious conspiracy since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Not only do they want to hunt down the fleeing assassins and find the mastermind of the assassination, but they also want to find out who leaked the emperor's whereabouts and vehicle inside Emperor He's car!

Because it was such a coincidence, the assassin not only knew the route and time of the emperor's car, but he could also directly hit the emperor's car. If Zhao Gao, commanded by the CRRC, had not controlled it properly, he turned the car over and broke it, so that the sledgehammer could not directly break it. Entering through the car window, Qin Shihuang might be seriously injured.

"There must be a mole!"

Tingwei Ye Teng was so sure that the only people who knew about the emperor's ride were those closest to him, so almost all of the thousands of people accompanying him that day, from the ministers to ordinary guards and coachmen, were investigated by Tingwei's black-clad legal officials.

As Li Si's successor, Ye Teng must show that he is shrewd and capable, no less than his predecessor in prison matters.

Therefore, the Tingwei Office is very efficient. After ten days of distributing batches of printed pictures of assassins to various places, the identity of the strongman who attempted an assassination and committed suicide after a fierce battle gradually became clear: You Tingyi reported that this person had been in He was seen in Linzi and other places. He was pushing a chariot, dressed as a servant, and followed a middle-aged merchant. Later, the two of them transferred to Jibei to Xuejun, and from Xuejun to Langya...

Strange people and strange people, even if they dress up in disguise, if you see them once, you will never forget them.

Seeing that the case was settled, the Tingwei Office was overjoyed. Unfortunately, they encountered rebellions in Linzi County and Jibei County.

In the chaos of war, everything was in chaos, and the court officials were unable to launch an investigation. They had to wait until Heifu settled in Linzi and Gaotang before Tingwei immediately sent people to the local areas for a thorough investigation. However, due to the turmoil, the people dispersed and the pavilion was destroyed, making it very difficult to investigate and collect evidence.

Fortunately, Tingwei determined that after the assassination, rebellions in Zhutian followed, and the two must be related. Wei Ting tortured the captured rebels and pirate leaders, and learned this news:

The "middle-aged businessman" suspected of assassination was named Zhang Liang. He was a nobleman of Han and his family had been in Korea for five generations. This man had always been obsessed with restoring Han. After the Xinzheng Rebellion, he ran to the East and wandered between Qi and Chu. After the death of Qi, Zhang Liang followed Sima Yongmen and others across the sea to Salmon Island. However, he did not stay long and went further to Canghaijun on the other side of the sea to seek refuge. A few years later, he returned via Salmon Island. At this time, he There has been a taciturn Yi warrior beside me...

Ye Teng immediately concluded the assassination: So this was an assassination conspired by Canghaijun, Zhutian and the restoration forces of the Six Kingdoms!

As the interrogation progressed, the people who conveyed the emperor's message to these traitors and spread rumors afterwards also surfaced.

"Alchemist!"

The arrest operation was carried out immediately. Until now, Qin Shihuang's chariot is still followed by many magicians...

The first person to bear the brunt is naturally Hou Sheng, but this guy who is obsessed with refining the elixir of life is actually ignorant of these things.

The biggest suspects were Lu Sheng and Han Zhong, but these two people had resigned one after another when Qin Shihuang left Jiaodong and Langya, on the pretext of going to famous mountains and rivers to collect medicine.

Also, An Qisheng, who almost deceived Qin Shihuang on Zhifu Island, left a letter when the emperor left Jiaodong, saying that he was traveling around the world to find the elixir of longevity for the emperor, and also gave him the two hundred gold gifted by the emperor. , left intact in the library, and even a pair of "red jade shoes", which looked mysterious.

At that time, the emperor thought he was a god and felt a little regretful. But now, looking at it, this old guy also ran away in a hurry!

Ye Teng immediately issued an arrest warrant and ordered all counties to search for the whereabouts of Lu Sheng, Han Zhong, and An Qisheng. But only Han Zhong's disciples were caught in Chen County. The disciples told the truth that Han Zhong had been in contact with a "middle-aged businessman" in the past few years, probably Zhang Liang!

Even Han Zhong's identity was revealed. He turned out to be a member of a Korean clan!

In addition to participating in the assassination plot, other crimes of Warlock Fang were also identified one by one. For example, some local Warlocks from Qi wrote forged prophecies for Zhutian, saying that "Tian will be restored, Xian will be killed", which means that the Tian family will restore the country. Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty would suffer the same fate as the famous cities in the Six Kingdoms, and its evil words deceived the public.

When reporting the case to Qin Shihuang, Ye Teng said: "They may have had ulterior motives, or they may have been resentful because of the rebuke of Warlock Fang during their trip to Jiaodong, so they conspired with Tian Ni and the assassins!"

In hindsight, all of Warlock Fang's actions seemed suspicious. For example, Hou Sheng and Han Zhong wanted to refine the "elixir of immortality" and persuade Qin Shihuang to take it. Who knows if it was poison?

When the emperor was unwilling to take it easily, Warlock Fang used the excuse of lack of materials and had to use rare mineral elixirs in the world to refine it, which was obviously stalling for time.

When they were in Jiaodong, they had been encouraging Qin Shihuang to go out to sea in a big ship. The overseas dangers were unpredictable, and there were even pirates lurking. They put the emperor in danger, and they had a heart that could be punished!

Not long ago, after Qin Shihuang failed to fish out the big tripod in Pengcheng, there were even rumors among the people that he had actually found the tripod. When he was about to salvage the tripod, a dragon's head stretched out from the tripod, biting off the rope holding the tripod, and the tripod sank again. Under the water, there is no trace. This is a sign that the emperor has no virtue, is not worthy of being the emperor, and cannot gather the nine tripods...

I'm afraid Warlock Fang also made up rumors about this matter!

What Qin Shihuang hated most was deception and betrayal, so he was furious.

"I have given Lu Sheng, Han Zhong and others great gifts, but they have evil intentions and want to collude with the rebels to plot assassinations. When the magicians in Xianyang ask about refining the elixir, they will only lie and prevaricate. This is People are walking around Guandong, often making evil remarks to mess up Guizhou, so don't stay!"

So, after holding the Shulu, another decree that shocked the world was issued from the palace in Shouchun City!

"Every county in the world will arrest those who are magicians and those who preach the immortal way!"

After the arrest, there was a rigorous interrogation, and the alchemists were asked to report each other's evil deeds.

This investigation didn't matter. In order to survive, Warlock Fang began to expose the so-called "Fang Xiandao" of his teachers and friends. In fact, it was a trick. The true faces of these people with the spirit of immortality were gradually revealed.

Of course, there are also guys like Hou Sheng who are too involved in the drama and insist that they have almost made the elixir that can make the emperor live forever.

Within ten days, the four counties of Qidi, Donghai County, and Jiujiang County arrested a total of more than 460 warlocks who had violated the ban, and brought them all to Shouchun to await the emperor's fate.

Qin Shihuang didn't want to listen to these people's cries of injustice, so he ordered them all to be trapped, so that the world would know about it and punish future generations!

…

In the thirty-second year of Qin Shihuang, on the first day of August, there was a sea of ​​people outside the south gate of Shouchun. After everyone had been waiting eagerly for a long time, more than 400 magicians from Qi and Chu were taken outside the city by Qin soldiers and stripped naked. , tied into rice dumplings, pushed into pits and buried alive.

As the sand fell bit by bit, cries and begging for mercy could not be heard for a while. These people who were looking for immortality could not even save their own lives at this moment. There were also a few people who showed no fear, but laughed loudly, and began to practice martial arts with their eyes closed, intending to use the "turtle breath" technique to survive in the solidly filled soil, thereby proving to the emperor that they had real abilities.

But after the Qin soldiers put aside the soil, these guys had long been distorted and their bodies were rigor mortis...

Hou Sheng, the leader of the alchemists, was sentenced to a more cruel punishment of car breaking and execution in Nanshi.

After knowing that his begging was fruitless, Hou Sheng was not afraid at all. He calmly said that he had taken the elixir that was intended to be dedicated to the emperor before he was arrested.

"I am immortal now!" He was convinced of this.

But on the execution day, the officials were surprised to find that Hou Sheng was already half dead. His face was blue and he was dying. When the doctors came to check, they all shook their heads and said he was too poisoned.

This more solidified the accusation that Warlock Fang refined poison in order to murder the emperor. But until then, the weak Hou Sheng still murmured to himself, saying that even if he was torn apart by a car, he could still come back to life five days after his death. This was Fang Xiandao. The magic.

He was immediately torn into four or five pieces by the huge force of the carriage and horses, and his stomach was torn and his intestines were leaking. The magistrate of Jiujiang County was still a little curious, so he asked people to collect his body and put it in a place to see it every day.

But five or six days have passed, and we can only see flies and maggots increasing day by day, rotting and smelling, but no sign of "resurrection" at all.

The Jiujiang County Magistrate was disappointed and asked people to throw the body parts out to feed the dogs. The wild dogs ate Lu Sheng's meat and actually died...

Everyone said that what Hou Sheng refined was probably not an elixir of death, but a quick-death medicine...

…

Not only the local people, but also dozens of doctors and Confucian scholars such as Shu Suntong were watching this grand scene of "pitting warlocks". They all trembled as they looked at the dead silence of their former colleagues in the pit.

Shusun Tong was so frightened that his wife, Kong Kun, was so happy when there was an uprising in the fields that he almost took the family's ritual vessels and fled, but Shusun Tong persuaded him to stop him.

Sure enough, Zhutian's rebellion soon fell into trouble and was driven westward by Heifu, the governor of Jiaodong County. Finally, it was destroyed in Gaotang and lasted only more than two months.

There were many Confucian scholars in Qi, but most of them were smart. They believed that Qin Shihuang's oral instructions were true and that rebellion was unwise while the emperor was still alive. Although they were also victims of the imperial policy, they did not get involved.

Therefore, after investigation, only a few Confucian scholars who could not see the situation clearly and followed the Tian brothers were executed. This was an individual act, and the emperor did not implicate the entire group of Confucian scholars. He just killed the chicken to scare the monkeys and let them see with their own eyes how the nonsense magician died.

The effect was very good. The Confucian doctor who survived was trembling by the pit.

It has been a year since Qin Shihuang began his eastward tour. This long eastward tour was strongly encouraged by Confucian scholars. They originally hoped to lead the empire on the road of "kingdom" and strengthen the voice of Confucian scholars. However, the whole process had no impact on the Confucian scholars. For them, it's like a nightmare.

Fengchan, banning books, rebelling, trapping warlocks.

From a hundred flowers blooming to being as silent as a cicada.

Everyone now understands that summer is over and winter is coming...

After this incident, no Confucian scholars were noisy anymore. They were talkative and became quiet. They only obeyed the emperor's orders. The sound of flattery replaced the past talk of the past and the present.

But the emperor was not happy about it. In the past few days, he had been depressed and almost cheated. This was an experience that the emperor would never forget and a huge shame in his life!

After this incident, Qin Shihuang completely gave up on sending people to the sea to seek immortality and refine immortality pills. The only hope for "immortality" seemed to be the Queen Mother State of the Western Regions.

Regarding the East China Sea, his only current idea is to make the territory of Great Qin, with the East China Sea in the east, and across the boundless ocean, treat the "Canghai Lord" and its small city-states on the other side, and those who would rather escape to the land of Jiuyi. Nor was he willing to succumb to Qin and impose punishment on the remnants of the Six Kingdoms!

The emperor said in the edict to Jiaodong: "The chaos in Qi has been calmed down, but Jiaodong County must not slack off. Although the bandits have been calmed down, the sea has not calmed down. Lord Canghai on the other side of the sea is plotting to assassinate him! Let Heifu continue to rule. County, restore people's livelihood, let Ren Xiao train troops and build ships, within a year, I will conquer Korea and Canghai!"

The edict was issued, the matter was over, and Qin Shihuang was about to continue his journey.

Immortality is not easy, and the journey is difficult. Qin Shihuang is still strong now. Although he has some minor health problems, they are not harmful. He will not stop because of a few overestimating mantises or the buzzing of a fly!

On the map, Qin Shihuang stretched out his hand and designated the next stop of his inspection. It was a barbaric land in the past, the southern border of the empire, and a young but prosperous county.

In early September of the 32nd year of Qin Shi Huang, Nanchang City of Yuzhang County welcomed Qin Shi Huang’s chariot...