[Wei Nie] Vertical and horizontal killing

After the thunder exploded in the sky, the rain clouds made the night sky look even darker, and there was no starlight.

Zhao Gao stood outside the main hall, with worry in the corner of his mouth, his face drooping slightly.

Standing beside him was Hu Hai, the son of the eighteenth generation. The three of them took turns serving the emperor these few days, and they didn't have a good rest for a long time.At this moment, the young man looked haggard, leaning against the pillar as if he was taking a nap.

The door was pushed open, and he saw the prime minister standing on the threshold with a dazed expression by the dimly lit palace lantern, holding a hastily rolled up scroll in his hand, about to get out.

Hu Hai was startled awake, and when he saw Li Si was about to speak, Zhao Gao stopped him with a look.Then Zhao Gao said: "Your Majesty, it's not good for Your Majesty to be alone in the inner hall right now, so go in. But you must only speak out when Your Majesty needs it."

The corner of Hu Hai's mouth twitched, and he said: "Understood." Then he bowed to Li Si, bowed his head and walked quickly into the inner hall, closing the door.

Zhao Gao's eyes flickered over the scroll, and finally showed his obedience and humility as always, as if worried, he took a step forward: "Prime Minister, take care of your health!"

He didn't mention the emperor's situation at all, so that Li Si's confused expression was slightly relieved, and he murmured: "Master CRRC Mansion... CRRC Mansion Lord..."

Zhao Gao still didn't seem to be curious, instead he urged: "The Prime Minister wants to issue an edict according to His Majesty's oral order? Do you need the secret guard to summon Lang Zhongling for you?"

Li Si's complexion changed again and again, and the scroll in his hand was almost crumpled by him.

Another thunderstorm rolled by, the two looked at each other speechlessly, and Li Si's complexion became even paler.

Seeing that the time had come, Zhao Gao pretended to want to ask but didn't dare to ask, stepped forward and said in a low voice: "The sky is about to change, I was just worried about your majesty's dragon body, and every time there is a thunderstorm, I will be irritable and irritable. Hey..."

Li Si gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind and said: "The CRRC Mansion Commander, Meng Yi left, at the moment in the Dune Palace, the only person I can trust is the Lord. In this way, I won't go around in circles, let's just say it straight! "

Zhao Gao's eyes flashed a look of success, and he became nervous: "Prime Minister, you mean? You mean?"

Li Si closed his eyes and sighed, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid your Majesty is about to travel to the immortals..."

The sky was suddenly white, as if it had suddenly lost its color.

The thunder exploded, shaking the ears of the two of them.The flash of lightning just now made both of them see clearly some meaning in each other's eyes.

Zhao Gao took two steps forward and bowed his head: "Master Prime Minister, you should not be too sad. Your Majesty - Your Majesty - is too tired."

Li Si was disappointed, but because of Zhao Gao's comfort, he calmed down somewhat.He looked down at the imperial edict in his hand, hesitant to speak for a moment.

How is Zhao Gao good at reading people's hearts? Upon seeing this, he immediately asked: "What the prime minister is holding is His Majesty's imperial edict? Do you need an official to fetch the jade seal and use it with you?"

The emperor was suspicious. Ever since he fell ill in the sand dunes, he no longer fully trusted the people around him. When Meng Yi left, he asked Meng Yi to hand over the preserved jade seal to Zhao Gao, but he always summoned Li Si when he drafted the imperial edict, which was clearly to restrain the people around him. .

But at this moment, Zhao Gao raised his head, and the fire in his eyes was startlingly bright: "Prime Minister, Yuxi is in my hands. It's just that your Majesty is about to ascend to immortality, but you and I are still alive, and Daqin is still alive... You should always think about one or two things for the living."

Li Si was startled by the gaze in his eyes, and he couldn't help but take a step back: "You—"

【You are trying to force me to do that treacherous thing! 】——This sentence rolled three times in his throat, but he didn't utter it after all, stuck on the word "you", like a stick in his throat.

The corner of Zhao Gao's mouth hooked slightly.

It's really a secret edict, Li Sida can hide it in his sleeve to prevent himself from seeing it.He just held it in his hand, and made such a rude appearance in front of himself, obviously deliberately for him to see and question.

Since you know something well, why bother to shirk it again and again.

He turned around, and his voice became vague: "Prime Minister, if you really want to use the seal, please follow me." Then he turned his head slightly, and said to the dark place: "Really strong, cut off the water, you stay Here, don't let others disturb His Majesty's rest."

Li Si immediately shuddered.

How could he forget the snare?Forgot Six Swordsmen?Really just, the water is cut off, so what about the others, are they dormant in the dark... If he didn't mention the imperial edict—then would he——

Li Sihan was like rain, only then did he realize that the scheming just now was probably not worth mentioning in front of the snare killer.

"Please, Prime Minister." Zhao Gao interrupted him, with an imperceptible sneer in his tone.

This is a threat.

Li Si's face was ashen.

……

In the room where Zhao Gao rested temporarily in the side hall, there were not many items. On the table were rolled up black dragon scrolls and a jade box inlaid with beautiful jade.

Zhao Gao pushed a cup of hot tea to Li Si: "Your Excellency, take care, the empire can have no emperor, but it cannot live without a prime minister."

This sentence made Li Si suddenly raise his head, his eyes widened: "You! What do you mean?! Zhao Gao, are you going to trap me in injustice?!"

Zhao Gao was unmoved, smiled slightly, and tapped the jade box with his bright red nails: "If you want to trap the prime minister, Gao will let you use the seal and issue an edict without hesitation."

Li Si's face was pale: "You...you guessed it?"

The corner of Zhao Gao's mouth twitched, his eyes suddenly turned cold: "Your Majesty is suspicious. Since the illness, the Prime Minister has tried many times, hasn't the Prime Minister experienced it long ago?"

Li Si thought of the emperor's previous temptations, and suddenly felt sore.

Your Majesty, don't believe me!

Zhao Gao opened the scroll, revealing the words "Chuan Wei Fu Su" written in ink, the corners of his mouth tightened: "Prime Minister, God sent you to His Majesty's side to achieve a career. However, in troubled times The prime minister is willing to let His Majesty's will be abandoned halfway?"

Li Si: "This..."

Zhao Gao: "The emperor is gone, and the new king is enthroned. The prime minister informed the son in the past and exiled the young master. I heard that the young master is still poisoned at the moment. Even if this edict is sent to the border, I am afraid that the eldest son's body will not be able to sustain it." Live back in Xianyang."

Li Si was shocked when he heard the words: "Master Fusu has been poisoned? Does His Majesty know?"

Zhao Gao showed an inscrutable smile, a small red spider crawled across his finger, landed on the table, slowly climbed onto the teacup, and slowly crawled along the cup wall.

Zhao Gao deliberately paused, and said in a very low voice: "Even if you come back, Mr. Fu Su has suffered so much and disagreed with the prime minister, will you be reused?"

If you don't use yourself, who will you use?

This is almost a no-brainer.

The Meng family... The Meng family that I have never paid attention to...

However, the Meng clan has always been the clan of the Qin State, but he himself is just a small official of Shangcai in the Chu State. Meng Tian has a long history of military exploits, but among his clan, he has never even been a general in battle...

Mistake.

Li Si grasped the robe under the table with his fingers, and Zhao Gaozhi's words pointed directly at people's hearts, but every word mentioned what he was most worried about.

The Li family has grown from ordinary officials to a huge family that no one in the world knows today. Several of his daughters can marry the emperor's son...including Hu Hai.But the emperor did not let his daughter marry the eldest son.

If the eldest son really succeeds to the throne, I'm afraid that his family, young and old...

Zhao Gao raised his head and sighed: "You are already an extremely human minister, this is such a wealth and honor, I'm afraid there are only a few days left."

Li Si said nothing, Zhao Gao said again: "But the Prime Minister is not afraid, I will accompany you. Zhao Gao is just a CRRC government official, and he has offended the Meng family in the past. Once the eldest son ascends to the sky, then I will Zhao Gao's days are probably coming to an end. Perhaps we shouldn't drink tea today, we should drink strong wine and sigh for ourselves."

Li Si's eyes fell on the paper black dragon scroll, his shoulders shrugged slightly, and there was already a look of struggle in his eyes.

"If you resign now, Elder Gao..." Li Si's eyes showed a final brilliance.

Zhao Gao: "The prime minister can naturally entrust the family's life and death on the weakness of the eldest son, but I don't know if the Meng family will allow the eldest son to have this opportunity." When Daqin was regarded as the same through the ages, I'm afraid he wouldn't have thought of the later ending."

The fire in Li Si's eyes went out.

Zhao Gao saw it, and he laughed in a low voice: "Prime Minister, once this edict is sent out, the fate of you and me will change. Mr. Fusu has always been dissatisfied with His Majesty's laws and regulations, and has many complaints about your Legalists. Destiny, just to change, I'm afraid that the rebels against Qin in the world will take advantage of the cowardice of the eldest son to attack him."

Li Si's eyes suddenly became firm: "No, Daqin is His Majesty's painstaking effort, and it should never end here!"

Zhao Gao pretended to sigh: "It's just that His Majesty has made a will—"

Li Si gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "No, it wasn't written by His Majesty himself, it was just dictated by His Majesty, and Si drafted it on his behalf. Just now His Majesty was panting heavily, and Si was disheartened for a moment, and I'm afraid he heard it wrong."

Zhao Gao took out a pen and paper with a smile, and spread it out on the table: "The prime minister doesn't rest all day long, so it's possible to hear something wrong. Fortunately, I have pen and ink here."

Li Si bowed his head, and finally picked up the edict he wrote earlier and threw it into the brazier.

But at this moment, the door was knocked open with a bang.

The eighteenth son, who was drenched all over, stood outside the door, his eyes wide open, panting: "Quickly, go and see Father! Just now, Father seems to be out of breath!"

The author has something to say:

Reasonable romance, don't study it carefully.

I personally feel that with the emperor's remaining prestige, the people around him will not poison him to death.He is an emperor through the ages, and when he can't bear to write to death, just write from the side.

Here is an explanation of why Zhao Gao knew Li Si so well: In Li Si's life, the allusion of the rat in the toilet is very famous. As long as Li Si is still greedy for power, he will definitely not be willing to step down and let his family decline.Sometimes people who have suffered from poverty in their youth stay with that fear throughout their lives.

His greed is still obvious.

In the end, he took advantage of the emperor's distrust of Li Si, which made him finally break through the bottom line in his heart.

"Li Si Biography" Li Si is a native of Chu Shangcai.When I was young, I was a county official, and I was terrified when I saw that the rats in the toilets of the official house were not clean, and they were close to people and dogs.Si enters the barn, watches the rats in the barn, eats the accumulated millet, lives under the big verandah, and sees no worries of humans and dogs.So Li Sinai sighed and said: "A man's virtuousness is not as good as a mouse, it depends on his ears!"

Ahem, the idiom that the building will collapse is from the Sui Dynasty, and it should not have been used here.But I think it is very suitable, so everyone will compare with me~