It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

In the Qin Dynasty, high marriage rates were considered a good custom, and this was especially true for royal marriages.

On the day of the wedding, there was a ten-mile long red wedding dress, a tall horse bridle, a betrothal gift of 30,000 yuan, carriages, horses, slaves, and tens of thousands of silk scrolls and precious treasures.

However, at the state banquet, many court officials would not regard this as just a wedding. The day of destroying Qi was just around the corner, so unifying the world was an important meeting to glimpse the future situation of the court.

The gate of Zhilan Palace opened, and Meng Yi was waiting in front of the carriage. His clothes were old, but because of the wedding banquet, the solemn black official robe added some joy.

When Xu Zhi saw Meng Yi coming, he guessed 90% of the reason. Even though a lot of things had happened, Xu Zhi always spoke kindly to Meng Yi.

"Thank you for your hard work, sir."

"I dare not." Meng Yi lowered her head and asked the eunuch beside her to bend his elbows to help her onto the horse.

"I have been ordered by the King to escort the princess to Zhangtai Palace. After the eldest son's wedding banquet, please go to the main gate of the front palace at twilight hour. I will take you back to Zhilan Palace."

There was nothing superfluous when Meng Yi spoke.

"Youshi."

She was surprised that no one else was as familiar with the detailed procedures of marriage as she was.

At twilight hour, half of the ceremony had not yet been completed. If she returned so early, how could she meet Li Si in the Plum Garden?

She knew that Meng Yi had never had a good impression of her since she was a child. She was afraid of death at that time, and insisted that Wang Wan invite Meng Tian to be her palace guard. Meng Yi was a venomous fan of his brother.

The You hour is also divided into one quarter and three quarters. Li Si always speaks quickly and can be heard in less than one quarter.

She nodded. "It's Youshi."

Meng Yi was a little surprised to hear her decisively agree. In the past, Ying Hehua's words were basically sarcasm.

For example, before she went to Yongcheng, she tried to test Zhang Liang on the road and tried to put the blade into Zhang Liang's hand. Meng Yi was not blind and he saw almost everything.

"Your Highness," Meng Yi reminded, "I was talking about the hour of You."

Xu Zhi has always been very patient with the Meng and Wang families.

"One hour and eight quarters. The Lord just said that it is the evening hour, and it won't cost you your life if you wait a few more quarters of an hour."

After hearing her words, Meng Yi thought that what the king said was right, and it was probably that she really had someone she wanted to see.

At this time, the only people who dared to discuss the matter with Princess Yong'an, except Wang Wan who had the approval of the king, must have the intention of forming cliques.

Meng Yi refused just as quickly as he had done many years ago. "If you don't come to the front palace at 15:00, I will have to act according to circumstances. I hope you won't blame me for disturbing your highness's feast."

"Really?" She smiled. "I'll see if Lord Meng dares to take me back to Zhilan Palace in front of everyone."

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As for Ying Hehua's personality, many of Meng Yi's colleagues said that since the princess returned from the State of Chu, she has become gentle and soft-spoken and no longer arrogant, which is like a complete change.

In Meng Yi's opinion, this is not the case at all.

Meng Yi was good at chess and had played against Ying Zheng for many years.

Zhang Liang was definitely an expert at chess. During the two or three years he spent in Yuelin Palace, he also managed to maintain very good relationships between the upper and lower levels of the Qin Academy.

However, in the words of Chunyu Yue, the doctor's tutor, Ying Hehua was "stubborn and unyielding" and difficult to learn. As a result, when Zhang Liang was decided to be her tutor, Meng Yi was worried about Zhang Liang.

Meng Yi knew what kind of character his king had. Ying Hehua would definitely be better than her. He even suspected that Zhang Liang's current disappearance was due to her.

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The Chu clan had been wiped out since the Changping Jun Rebellion, and they still did not know the truth that Zheng Li was not a princess of Chu but a princess of Zheng.

What Ying Hehua did in Chu State put them in a dilemma.

Treat her as one of their own? But the Chu State was destroyed, and something happened, so her status as queen could not be confirmed. Ying Hehua had lost her effect on them.

Moreover, many people in the Chu faction believed that Ying Hehua would not even be allowed to attend this wedding banquet.

If they did not regard her as one of their own kind, then Fusu's wedding would be an important occasion for them to interact with the court officials.

When Xu Zhi appeared, her sister Wang was the first to step forward, gently holding her hand, and looking her up and down.

"Sister Wang, I have recovered."

Ying Yuanman didn't believe it. "The doctors said you can't see the wind, I can't see you, and I heard from everywhere that my father agreed to let you..." ... buried in Mount Li... these four words are too heavy.

She stopped talking here and talked to her for a long time.

She knew that her return was difficult, so she did not mention anything about Chu. For Yuan Man, murder, escape from marriage, assassination, these words were unimaginable to her.

"My father and mother allowed me to come here, which proves that I am fine."

Ying Yuanman was very friendly to Xu Zhi, but many people looked uneasy. Most of the nobles from the six countries were members of the royal family of the Three Jins.

"Yong'an, Princess Yong'an." "She is not..."

"What am I not?"

Hearing this gentle question, amid the noise, only these few nobles stopped talking, and their smiles immediately froze on their faces.

It was obvious that they were afraid of her. In addition to being afraid of Ying Zheng, they all agreed that Princess Yong'an was the most terrifying among the Qin royal family!

She is beautiful, but her way of killing people is the most direct and terrifying.

It was rumored that Fu Chu died at her hands, and the fall of the Five Kingdoms, except for Wei, was closely related to her. Today, although she was dressed in light green, her red skirt was stained with a lot of bright red.

Xu Zhi raised his head slightly, smiled and said to a young man from the Wei royal family, "Sir, do you think I'm still sick?"

Her smile was not really a smile, but a sinister threat.

"Seeing that Your Highness is fine, we...we think it is very good..."

At this moment, someone patted him on the shoulder. Seeing the person coming, the prince of Wei let out a long sigh, nodded in greeting, and took a step back behind him as if escaping.

"Your Highness." Wei Ju was not satisfied with the tall hat, and he looked particularly tall in the Qin-style official uniform.

Thanks to the protection of Wei Ju and the fact that Wei was the most law-abiding, the State of Wei was allowed to participate in the banquet.

"It's just right that you're here," she waved her hand, and the others withdrew.

"My cousin has offended you just now, Princess, please don't take it to heart," said Wei Jiu.

His claiming to be a minister made Xu Zhi stunned for a moment. It was a kind of familiar pressure.

Xu Zhi suppressed the bitterness in his heart and said, "They don't seem easy to discipline. If you feel embarrassed, you don't have to..."

"Your Highness." Wei Ju stopped her from speaking. "I will always remember the kindness that the King and Your Highness have shown me. If I were not in Qin, the disaster would have been so severe that the people of Wei would have been unable to live in peace." Seeing that no one was around, he continued, "Your Highness. I cannot let Wei repeat the chaos of Han."

Ying Zheng was such a fierce and majestic person that he would not tolerate any suspicion of violence.

Only Wei Ju knew that since Zhang Ping committed suicide, Han An was the only one left in the royal family of Han.

Zhang Liang of that time is Wei Ju of today.

Xu Zhi overlapped their figures for a moment, but the two people took different paths.

"Your Highness,"

She was at a loss for a moment. The winter weather was cold and the tip of her nose suddenly felt cold.

So he spoke faster. "By the way, Wei Ju. How do you like the book I gave you the other day? Do you need any updates? Do you want anything else besides "Nongsang Jiyao"?"

"This book is full of subtleties. I need to practice more."

"Yes. There is no need to rush. I heard that you have a good relationship with Zheng Guo."

"Shui Ling is a very balanced person."

Wei Ju's background made him very sensitive to power struggles. He was silent for a moment, "Your Highness seems to be in a dilemma. Is it because Li Tingwei has something to say... If Your Highness needs my help in recent matters, I will go through fire and water and do my best..."

Xu Zhizhi said: "I'm not hiding it from you. You know, sometimes when a person wants to be pure, the less he knows about the future, the better."

Li Si and Zheng Guo were fellow apprentices.

During the Warring States Period, Han was often bullied by Wei.

She didn't want to suspect someone who could have been her confidant. She explained one thing to Wei Ju in an unobtrusive way, especially for Zheng Guo.

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Li Si is a smart man, but Zheng Guo has been a fool for a long time. He openly spoke for Zhang Liang in the court, which made my father very angry. That's why he was called to survey the Honggou with Li Si. You should protect him occasionally and don't let him rush forward for everything."

People are just weird sometimes. The flood in Wei was not the first to happen in Zheng.

Wei Ju's brows visibly relaxed. Only then could he properly balance his responsibility to the people of Wei and his friendship with the State of Zheng.

Xu Zhi continued: "In addition to agricultural machinery, if Zheng Guo is interested in combining machinery with water conservancy, Mr. Mo has a lot of things."

Many years ago on Mount Zhongnan, Wei Jiu and Xu Zhi already had a tacit understanding.

He knew she was hiding her distress.

"Your Highness Yong'an, there are many things that need your attentiveness."

She paused, avoided his gaze, looked outside, and hummed.

Meng Yi immediately gave her a look that suggested she not to cause trouble.

This is Fusu's wedding, she must be crazy to cause trouble at the banquet.

Fortunately, she arrived early, and there were only a few royal families from various countries present.

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Although there were many state weddings, the scale of this was rare for the Qin State, which always advocated frugality.

The red and black silk cloth will form a dome in the sky.

The eldest son, Fusu, had been training at Hangu Pass since he was young. He was the only one among the king's sons who could combine the two words, resolute and brave, with elegant and dignified, which seemed unrelated to outsiders, without sounding abrupt.

Wang Jian's reputation as a brave and skilled warrior was well known to all his subjects. He was also a capable general who destroyed five states, and was feared by other states. However, he was neither arrogant nor impatient, and had good ways to educate his children and govern his subordinates. He also made friends with court officials, which made people deeply admire the general's ability to relax and work hard.

Wang Heng, the apple of Wang Jian's eye and his only daughter, grew up in a military camp. She improved the crossbow and personally led a crossbow team to assist the main force of the Qin army in capturing several cities.

"A match made in heaven."

Dun Ruo's sigh was impartial. It was he who instigated the marriage proposal that day.

Dun Ruo looked older than when he returned from Zhao.

He was nearly eighty years old, and looking at the colorful red hall, he recalled many things from the past.

Fusu's figure gradually overlapped with and then shifted from his father's. On Fusu's handsome and heroic facial features, there were a kind of eyes engraved that was different from his father's.

Dun Ruo was different from Wei Liao and Yao Jia. He was not a guest official in the era of Ying Zheng. He had come to Qin since the period of King Zhao.

After Cai Ze's death, Dun Ruo became the only veteran of three dynasties in the true sense.

There were many young court officials in front of Dun Ruo.

He looked into Fusu's young eyes.

When the newcomer entered the palace, he probably sat a little closer to the royal family. On the right side opposite him was Ying Hehua, and when Fusu's eyes swept over him, they happened to meet his old eyes.

After the fall of Chu, Dun Ruo discovered for the first time this kind of power as slow as water, which was vaguely different from his father's, so that people who looked at him would not be burned by his eyes.

Among the young men that Dun Ruo met was Li Xian.

Dun Ruo had never expected that after returning to Qin from Handan, his career, which was supposed to be on the rise, would fall into a slump. For six whole years, he was demoted instead of promoted, and he couldn't even return to Xianyang.

As for him and Princess Yong'an, before the Chu Kingdom was destroyed, the story between them was widely spread and almost known to everyone.

After some people died inexplicably for unknown reasons, these "rumors" soon became as silent as ice, and no one dared to spread them.

Some people die directly. Some die in a roundabout way.

The most direct order was naturally given by Ying Zheng.

As for the latter, Dun Ruo knew what kind of person Li Xian was when he was in Handan.

Li Xian had never felt the air so hot in the middle of winter. He simply couldn't sit through the banquet until the end. The anger in his heart grew little by little with what he saw, and he was about to break the silver chopsticks in his hand.

During the dinner, Xu Zhi was looking at his brother and sister-in-law with a smile and at everyone else.

When she heard the words "eat three meals together, drink from the wedding banquet together...", she lowered her head, lifted a lock of her hair, and looked at it thoughtfully. This action lasted less than three seconds. As if she was not feeling well, she coughed and quickly picked up a cup of tea to drink.

Xu Zhi knew that she was not feeling unwell, but was simply heartbroken.

The new bride fanned herself and performed the ritual of washing her hands and washing her hands. She was going to marry in Chu, and no one was more familiar with the process of marriage than she.

Afterwards they will share the same jail, drink the same wine, and tie the same hair.

She suddenly recalled a field of red plum blossoms. She remembered that she had once stuffed cherries into his mouth to eat, and that they had once drank a cup of wine together under the cold moon in Handan.

The candlelight flickered in Liquan Palace. She once wore a wedding dress, gave her true heart, and tied a hair ring.

The green people are like the sun and the moon.

Love and affection, no doubt about each other. No doubt about each other... But the relationship between Xu Zhi and Zhang Liang has never been just these three words.

In her hazy vision, her eyes inevitably filled with tears.

Suddenly, the ceremonial officer shouted, "The ceremony is over."

She suddenly raised her head and looked at her father and mother, and then saw Fusu and Wang Heng holding hands facing each other.

Xu Zhi felt relieved, all the gloom was gone, and she let herself cry.

The music gradually became more gentle from elegant music.

She had calmed down while drinking.

It makes one look no longer worried.

She was smiling, but her eyes were not gentle.

She looked at the courtiers for a while, had a rather long conversation in a low voice with Meng Yi, then glanced at Prime Minister Wang Wan, and then nodded slightly in a friendly manner to his father Li Si.

Not long ago, she said that she hoped he would transfer the recent files in Shu to her for review. After achieving her goal, she ruthlessly forgot about him and did not even look at the supervisory officials during this period.

Finally, she seemed to have found her ultimate goal, and her head kept tilting towards the southeast corner.

Li Xian subconsciously looked in that direction.

The distance from the central hall to the front of the hall is neither far nor near.

This is the gap in the royal class and the disparity in status between the monarch and his subjects.

Li Xian looked at her, as if he had been looking at her for a lifetime, looking at the rivers and mountains for two thousand years, interweaving the endless mysteries and entanglements between the two lives.