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"In this way, Li Xin transformed himself from a defeated general and an abandoned son into a famous general of the generation."

After what seemed like a long time, Heifu finally finished telling Li Xin's story.

He stood up and looked at the west and said: "No matter what happens to Li Xin in the future, he should have a place in the Jingbian Temple because of his achievements in driving away the Xiongnu, destroying the Yuezhi, opening up Hexi, and connecting the Western Regions!"

"It is the ambition of the First Emperor, and also the ambition of Li Xin and I, to turn all Liuhe into the land of Great Qin. Fortunately, I have not accomplished nothing in the past eight years. He waded through the quicksand in the west and crossed Daxia in the north, while I There is the East China Sea to the east and the north to the south, so it’s evenly divided.”

Han Xin nodded: "I just wonder where General Li Xin is now?"

Heifu knew this old colleague very well: "Li keeps his promise and respects the First Emperor. Even if he hears about the Central Plains, based on my understanding of him, I will not find the so-called Queen Mother Kingdom of the West until I go to the end of the sky and the end of the earth." , I’m afraid he won’t look back. General Li, I’m afraid he will go further than I imagined!”

After Hei Fu finished telling Li Xin's story, he said to Han Xin: "The reason why I mentioned Li Xin's old story is to tell you that suffering a small setback when you were young is not a bad thing. The key is to know your shame and then be brave, and you will gain wisdom from every experience. "

Han Xin quickly bowed down and said, "Han Xin knows his crime."

Heifu waved his hand: "How can you be guilty? I only asked you to attack Yingchuan and Nanyang, but you also cut off the food roads to Luyang and Wuguan. This is far beyond my expectation. If you change anyone in the army, even if you are I can't do any better, so it's just my fault that the opponent you met is Wang Ben..."

He said earnestly: "Han Xin, you are a handsome man and an unparalleled scholar in the country, but don't underestimate the people of the world, especially Wang Ben! The Wang family and his son are the great heroes of Qin Shihuang's victory over the six countries. They are not simple! When you play against him, you have to be careful, because if you are careless, you may make the same mistake again."

"Han Xin, save it!"

Han Xin gritted his teeth and said: "I only hope that the emperor will give Han Xin another chance, so that Han Xin can compete with Wang Ben in Nanyang, and it will be determined that Wuzhonghou defeats his army and seizes the county!"

Heifu shook his head: "This winter, the main battlefield is in Hanzhong and Nanyang. I don't plan to make any big moves."

"Then Han Xin is willing to go to Hanzhong!" Han Xin expected that the tens of thousands of people who intercepted him on the Danshui River were sent by Wang Ben to help Hanzhong and stop the Northern Expedition. If he could defeat them, it would be avenging his past humiliation.

However, Heifu deliberately suppressed Han Xin: "There is a Dongmen Leopard in Hanzhong. He has captured Shangyong. Zhao Tuo and Wu Chenying can also quickly annihilate Feng Jie. The three armies will hunt Nan Zheng."

Han Xin was a little disappointed, feeling that Marquis Wu Zhong still trusted those old troops more.

Unexpectedly, Hei Fu said: "You don't have to be in a hurry to go on another expedition. From last year to now, there has been almost no rest. Let's take a rest. I have one more thing to discuss with you."

Han Xin was still obedient in front of Hei Fu. He lowered his head and said, "Just obey your military orders."

"This matter is different. It is your lifelong event."

Heifu smiled and said: "My brother Wei Zhong is serving as the captain of the field in Jiangling. I heard that you are young and promising, a young talent, and single and unmarried, so I want to marry my legitimate daughter to you and let me be his matchmaker..."

"Han Xin, I have watched my niece grow up, just like my legitimate daughter. She is eighteen years old, looks good, and was raised by my wife herself. Are you willing to have this marriage?"

…

Han Xin came from a humble background, his parents were both dead, and he never thought about getting married when he was young. After becoming a general, he was busy with the military and had no time to think about it.

On the contrary, when he entered Jiangling, many local clans came to get close to him and wanted to marry this rising star, but they were all rejected by Han Xin.

Now that he was defeated, instead of complaining and scolding him, Hei Fu decided to marry his niece to him. Han Xin was so surprised that he could not agree! ?

Heifu was very satisfied: "Next month, I will arrange for you to go to Jiangling to meet her, and then let the fortune teller count the days, and take advantage of the winter truce to get this happy event done!"

He patted Han Xin affectionately and said, "From now on, you will also be my nephew."

"The kindness of the king will never be forgotten!"

The depression of not being able to send generals to war in a short period of time has long been forgotten in the back of his mind. Now Han Xin only feels that he is indeed unique in the heart of Wu Zhonghou...

After Han Xin left happily, Hei Fu looked at the young man's retreating shadow and whispered:

"This time, I have bound you..."

However, Han Xin is also considered a talented person. Although he does not get along with his colleagues, he is also a person who remembers his gratitude. Especially since his niece married him, he does not have to serve his parents-in-law, which is not bad.

On the same day, Heifu stayed up all night again. In addition to military dispatch, food and fodder expenses, and reward money expenses, he also paid the land rent for each county. After handling the endless government and military affairs, he walked out, and it was already dark. Shine.

Taking care of a quarter of the world and already having so many things, Heifu somewhat understood why Qin Shi Huang's body collapsed from exhaustion before he reached his fifties.

He beat his sore shoulders and said enviously:

"Li Xin, Li Xin."

"If possible."

"I really want to switch with you. We can go all the way to the west in a leisurely way. We don't have to worry about this case, and we don't have to watch the sky collapse."

"But it doesn't work..."

He sighed: "I personally took part in the unification of the world, and I know how difficult it is."

For some reason, Hei Fu always had a premonition that the black dog and white horse who were equally famous in the past would probably be under three springs when they meet again...

"You and I each have our own missions."

"Some people go to open up new territories and carve out foreign lands."

"Someone has to stay and clean up the mess left by Emperor Qin Shihuang!"

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In the late October of Mengdong, the first year of the Second World War, in the hinterland of Guanzhong, under the tall Li Mountain and on the loess plain, a new city rose from the ground under the buildings of hundreds of thousands of people.

The layout of this city is very similar to Xianyang. It is more than five miles in circumference. There are two layers of city walls inside and outside. There are tall gates on all sides of the city wall, which are shaped like the three gates of the emperor's capital. But inside the city wall, there is not a main hall, but a palace. An unfathomable underground palace!

This is the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuang.

According to the etiquette, the emperor was buried on the seventh day and buried in the seventh month. Hu Hai, Li Si, Zhao Gao and others did not want to keep the secret and did not announce the funeral. They actually said that the first emperor arrived in Xianyang at the end of March on a patrol and died after hearing about Hei Fu's rebellion.

Therefore, Qin Shihuang's coffin had been buried as early as April, before Hu Hai succeeded to the throne.

There were more than 100,000 people in the funeral procession that day. In front of it was the guard of honor, with five rows of eight people in each row. In the middle is the coffin, and there are more than 2,000 people pulling the coffin alone. The funeral procession was huge and stretched for more than ten miles. It took three full days from Xianyang to Lishan to place the layers of coffins of the First Emperor in the repaired underground palace tomb, and then closed the inner gate of the tomb passage.

From then on, only legends remain about the mysterious underground palace in Neixian Gate: it is said to be deep and wide, dug under three springs, and then poured with copper liquid to strengthen the foundation.

The tomb palace was built with palaces, pavilions and places for officials to meet, and was filled with rare treasures. In order to prevent theft, there are clever hidden arrows in the tomb. The curved roof of the tomb is decorated with gemstones and pearls, symbolizing celestial bodies and stars; below is the geographical situation of Baichuan, Wuyue and Kyushu, infused with mercury, symbolizing the endless flow of rivers and seas. There are golden phoenixes and pheasants floating on the top, and the surrounding lights are decorated with whales from the East China Sea. "Eternal lamp" made of oil...

As for the Inner Xian Gate, there are the Zhongxian Gate and the Outer Xian Gate, which are built layer by layer toward the outside.

The amount of the project was so huge that in order not to damage the feng shui of Lishan Mountain, one hundred thousand prisoners were quarried dozens or even hundreds of miles away. Dozens of people were exhausted to death every day, fell to death, or were crushed by large rocks. number.

Hundreds of thousands of stones were gradually transported to the tomb area by oxen and horses. The stonemasons here were making stone bricks with a clanking sound, and their bodies were covered with a layer of white ash. The pottery workers who fired the pottery figurines were also replaced, and the furnaces were not turned off day and night. Non-stop, the colorful terracotta warriors and horses are fired one after another.

With the hard work of hundreds of thousands of people, the underground palace walls, terracotta warriors and horses, burial pits, etc. were completed one after another before the official funeral in late October. Although there was no reward for completing the work ahead of schedule, at least it exempted the new emperor from punishment.

During a formal funeral, the pomp should never be inferior to that of a funeral. Although the rebellion in the east and south became more and more intense, in order to show his filial piety, Hu Hai still rejected Li Si and others' suggestion of "simple funeral" and held a grand ceremony.

He almost spent the last of the young man's money and brought all the civil and military officials to attend. After a huge and complicated ceremony, he concluded the funeral.

Seeing that the ceremony was over, the Second Emperor and his relatives left the Lishan Mausoleum. The three thousand skilled craftsmen responsible for the construction of the core of the underground palace breathed a sigh of relief and felt that they could finally go home - they had been working here for more than half a year. He was placed under intensive guard by the army, all contact with the outside world was closed, and no letters were allowed to flow out.

But these three thousand people were happily packing their things when they were told by the official supervising the work: "Before closing the outer gate, we need to check the organs in the underground palace one last time!"

Then everyone reluctantly returned to the dark underground, groped around, and after confirming that everything was correct, they wanted to return to the ground. However, they were shocked to find that what was waiting for them at Waixian Gate was a group of fully armed crossbowmen and a cold-looking man. Young eunuch...

"This is……"

The wise man guessed the reason, and cried loudly: "What crime have we committed?"

"You are not guilty."

The young eunuch smiled: "It's just that he knows too much!"

He waved his hand, and the indignant voices of the craftsmen were broken by the crisp ejection of the crossbow machine. The officer mechanically wound the string, aimed, pulled the trigger, and emptied the quiver, and cartloads of crossbow arrows were sent over again...

The corridor was long and straight, and the craftsmen had nowhere to escape. Many people fell in a pool of blood, and more were nailed to the wall by crossbow arrows.

In the underground palace, screams continued continuously. After a long time, when no one groaned anymore, the heavy outer door slowly fell down, blocking the last beam of light from outside, but it could not block the water that slowly flowed out from the gap at the bottom. Blood!

There are three thousand Tibetan craftsmen, from gray-haired old men to apprentices who have just worked with their masters. As long as those who participated in the core construction of the underground palace, no one will come back!

Lang Guan, who was ordered to act cautiously, asked the young eunuch: "My lord, don't you need to check whether someone faked his death?"

"No need."

The eunuch was in his early twenties, with thin lips, white face and beardless eyes, and sinister eyes. His name was Zhang Ao. He was the son of a thief from the Wei Kingdom who was sent to Guanzhong before unification. After being castrated, he worked as a horse feeder in the palace and was later in charge of carriages. Ma's Zhao Gao discovered and promoted him, and now he has become his confidant.

"Living on is more painful than dying on the spot."

Zhang Ao sneered: "Those who are lucky enough to survive, even if they survive the decay of their wounds, will probably have to taste human flesh amid the stench of corpses!"

He licked his lips and returned to the outside of the palace, but his face changed. He knelt and bowed to Yan Le who was supervising the prisoners to fill the underground palace and pile up the earth:

"Young Supervisor of the Young Mansion, the minor matters have been completed!"

"Great kindness."

Yan Le is Zhao Gao's son-in-law: "This way, we won't have to worry about anyone leaking the secret of the tomb passage!"

The wailing and the smell of blood here were no lower than those at Waixian Gate. Zhang Ao glanced into the distance and saw many palace maids of different ages, driven by Lang Weijun, jumping into the deep cave one after another. Burial pit, directly buried alive.

There are also women who have been hanged or killed elsewhere, transported here by carriage, thrown into pits and buried...

This horrifying scene was actually the order of the second emperor Hu Hai.

"Your Majesty has an order. If the late Emperor has no sons in the harem, it would be inappropriate for him to do so. All of them must die."

Yan Le said helplessly: "But you must know that the late emperor conquered the six kingdoms and moved all the palaces of the six kingdoms to Guanzhong, and the chariots came from Qin. Some of them were rewarded for the meritorious soldiers, and the other were placed in the palaces of the six kingdoms in Ganquan, Zhangtai, and Xianyang. , but most of them have never even seen the face of the First Emperor. They only hear the palace carriages passing by, and the winding wheels from a distance. Those who have no children, there are seven thousand..."

According to the rules, the women of the Seven Thousand and Six Kingdoms, who have never had children and are aging, should be released from the palace and allowed to marry and make a living.

But Hu Hai actually listened to Hu Wu's words and thought it was "unsuitable". In addition, he disliked that these women were old and he did not want to take over. However, he disliked the large number of them and wasted money and silk, so he simply cut them all off and buried them all!

He also proudly said to Li Si: "Didn't you, Prime Minister, always advise me to be frugal? I will be frugal now! I have done the work of reducing expenditures, and leave the matter of increasing revenue to You Prime Minister!"

These words stunned Li Si.

Lang Weijun, who was supposed to protect the emperor, now became the murderer of the women. Many Lang Wei who came from noble families refused to obey, so they were arrested and imprisoned by the doctor's order, Zhao Gao.

Another group of palace maids, whose hands were tied, were driven over by Lang Wei. They were too frightened to walk, so they were dragged forward. When they passed by Zhang Ao, a handsome little palace maid recognized him, and she was overjoyed and howled. Begging for mercy...

"Ao, save me, save me!"

"roll!"

With a ferocious look on his face, Zhang Ao kicked the palace maid who rushed towards him and hugged his leg away from her, regardless of the fact that she had eaten with him and comforted each other.

"It's the Wei girl who was sent to Xianyang in the early years."

After the woman was also thrown into the burial pit, Zhang Ao explained to Yan Le with a smile.

Yan Le sneered: "Zhang Ao, do you know why Lang Zhongling values ​​you so much?"

Zhang Ao quickly bowed down and Yan Le said: "Because you have not forgotten who you are and who your enemy is!"

"My enemy is the traitor Hei Fu!"

Zhang Ao fell to the ground and gnashed his teeth: "If it weren't for the black husband, Zhang Ao's mother would not have committed suicide, she would not have been separated from her father, and she would not have been a prisoner!"

"It's good if you know." Yan Le nodded with satisfaction:

"Li Shan's affairs have been done beautifully, but Lang Zhongling still has something else that I want to entrust you to do."

Zhang Ao was obedient.

"Did you know that Fusu has two sons?"

"Know."

Zhang Ao heard that when Fusu fled, his second son fled with him. Later, the second son was taken away by Fusu's aide Dong Gong and hid among the people. The eldest son was captured back to Xianyang and put in Qiongdu, Shu County by Qin Shihuang.

After the second emperor succeeded to the throne, he continued to hunt Fusu's two sons.

In the autumn, the second son was captured in Hanzhong County. Dong Gong was cut into pieces by five horses, and the four-year-old Su Su was also strangled to death by Yan Le, the order of Hu Hai, and put together in the burial pit of Lishan Mausoleum.

Yan Le, who was in charge of this matter, was promoted to Shaofu Shaojian.

As for Fusu's eldest son, he was supposed to be buried with him, but a rebellion broke out in Shu County and he was not brought back, so the matter was settled.

"Then do you know that the black husband also has two sons?" Yan Le asked again.

Zhang Ao nodded: "When Fusu left Xianyang, Heihu's wife also took the opportunity to run away with her two sons. The villain was ordered by the doctor to chase her, but the thief woman was cunning and Zhang Ao was incompetent, so he couldn't catch her... "

For this reason, Zhang Aoke was severely punished by Zhao Gao and was whipped.

"Now, here's your chance to redeem your past mistakes." Yan Le said with a smile:

"Someone has tipped off that Heifu's eldest son, Wei Polu, is hiding at the foot of Helan Mountain. Go and capture him now! Remember, you have to live!"

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ps: I came back late and only have one chapter.

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