[Qin] Qin Shi

"The news just came." Ying Zheng looked down at Bai Shu, "Lian Po has returned to Zhao."

The young man kneeling on the ground held the faded cloth bag in both hands, and looked up at the black-robed king standing above him. For the first time since entering the hall, his face showed bewilderment. His sharp aura dissipated at this moment, and his whole person was no longer that unstoppable.

[Lian Po...returned to Zhao? 】Watching the confrontation between Bai Shu and Ying Zheng all this time, applauding the system secretly, was also stunned by the sudden news, 【Before we left Zhao, didn't we say that he broke up with the envoy? 】It's only been a few days, why did you suddenly change your tone, and more importantly, why is it at this very moment?

Ying Zheng, who was standing on a high place looking at all the ministers, naturally also saw Bai Shu's gaffe: "There is another piece of news." He looked at Bai Shu with a hesitant voice, as if he couldn't bear it and seemed to be secretly rubbing his hands Looking forward to watching the play, "King Zhao announced to the world that Lord Yanbei Bai Shu was intercepted and killed on his way to Qin. He, Zhao Qian, was deeply saddened." The last four words were extremely ironic.

There was silence in the hall, the courtiers of Qin State were silent, and Bai Shu who was kneeling under the stage was also motionless.In the end, Ying Zheng, who was still announcing the news, broke the silence: "If the general doesn't believe it, he will be alone—"

"No," Bai Shu interrupted him, his voice trembling slightly, "The minister heard it." His fingers moved slightly, but the next second he was about to curl up, he remembered that the thing in his hand was a sharp weapon for the next negotiation. There can't be any damage, "The foreign minister has heard it." He said, his lowered eyelids covered the rolling waves in his eyes.

【Host? 】The system tentatively said tremblingly,【Are you okay? 】Because of being one, he could feel Bai Shu's mourning and the despair of being betrayed.

"I don't understand..." Xu Shi was finally asked, and Bai Shu asked in a daze, "Why did Lian Po do this?" Am I not good enough to him? Because of the promise to stay at the border, isn't what I have paid for all these years not enough to offset the favors he gave me?

"To be honest, this notice is really familiar." Ying Zheng thought that when Han Fei died in Qin, the exiled King of Han also said the same in the notice denouncing Qin, "I don't know who came up with the idea, but said Yanbei Lord——dead?" Ying Zheng made an indeterminate nasal voice, "Yanbei Lord has been stationed in the northern border of Zhao State for many years, and he has made great achievements in battle, but he was settled by a group of guys who don't know rice millet with just a few pens. life and death?"

Back then, South Korea had to send Han Fei as an envoy in the face of a catastrophe, and Han Fei really died.Out of an extreme situation, King Han wanted to use Han Fei's death to motivate the Korean warriors to fight against Qin, but now King Qin withdrew his troops according to the covenant after winning Lord Yanbei.

And it was Lian Po's return to Zhao. If there is no connection, anyone with a little brain would not believe it: "I have heard that Yan Beijun was taken care of by the old general Lian Po a long time ago," Ying said. Politics "Looking at it now, the general really has a deep friendship with the old general Lianpo. But now that the old general Lianpo suddenly returned to Zhao, the agreement between Lord Yanbei and the old general—"

Bai Shu didn't answer, he maintained the previous movement of kneeling on one knee and holding his hands high above his head, firmly holding the cloth bag that was stained red with blood because of Ying Zheng's throw on the ground before.Silent, silent, standing in the center of the hall like a statue carefully carved by a craftsman.

This is the best answer.

"Even the agreement with the dead, the general will abide by it?" Ying Zheng's hand slipped from the scabbard around his waist, and he put it behind his back. "Now that everyone knows that Lord Yanbei is dead, how can the dead speak?"

Ying Zheng, who lived in another country since he was a child, is very sensitive to emotional changes. He noticed that the other party cared about the "Yanbei Lord is dead", and even cared about the first time he lost his composure since entering the hall. degree.

"But King Qin, don't you know the agreement between the ministers and Lord Xinping (Lian Po)?" Bai Shu didn't look up, wondering if he knew how sad his voice was at the moment, like the sound of a cuckoo weeping blood Weeping, "King Qin knows, what is the difference between humans and animals?"

Although he was not facing it, the system was stunned by this familiar question, and he inadvertently remembered that many years ago, he asked why Bai Shu refused to promise Lian Po with false words that he would guard the border all his life and be his Lian Po's adoptive son, to be a Zhao man, to be the heir of Yanbei Border Guan, guarding Zhao Guo, guarding Yanbei?

When others treat me with sincerity, how can I not reciprocate with sincerity?

But now, he has no sincerity towards you, so why do you still keep your promise?

"The most basic difference between human beings and animals," the courtiers' voices of discussion behind them faded, and Bai Shu was the only voice in the hall at some point, "It's the restraint on oneself."

"A person is alive or dead, old or young, what does that have to do with promises? Could it be that if the person who made the oath breaks his promise, can he be just as confident as him and break his promise? The so-called promise, isn't it? Isn't it just a lifetime to practice?" Bai Shu said, he didn't know if he was questioning others, or he was strengthening his own heart, "Could it be that if others broke the contract first, I have a reason to also not keep the promise and do what they say Is your person gone?"

"I promised, how can I break my promise."

Where Bai Shu couldn't see, the smile on Ying Zheng's face faded a bit: "General," Ying Zheng's eyes slid to Bai Shu's back, the faces of Qin's clan and important officials of Qin who he trusted, "In the past, what you believed in Lord Ping was to guard the country of Zhao, wasn't it?"

At that moment, many things flashed through Bai Shu's mind, including Lin Xiangru who was seriously ill on the bed, and Zhao Yan who scolded Lin Xiangru in the study.There was Zhao Jia who entrusted him with such a big gift regardless of his status, and Lian Po who hadn't seen him for many years and gave him such a big gift after hearing about it again.

Bai Shu's heart was beating fast, among them was the unplanned change brought about by Lian Po's sudden return to Zhao, but more of it was the tension of surviving in a dead situation in the face of danger and unknown: "I don't understand Ah, the system. 'He didn't understand why Xin Ping Hou became what he is now, and he didn't understand what he did wrong to be treated like this.

With just one word, the system just watched the red light shining on the yellow and green maps: "Yes!" After speaking, he was no longer weak before, and became firm and firm without any hesitation.

However, Yingzheng changed from being neutral to being friendly. He waved his hand, signaling to the courtiers who wanted to come forward to give advice and not to be impatient: "The general should believe in Pinghou's promise, and he will guard the country of Zhao in this life. But now there is a Ask, just as the general’s world is not just the land of the seven countries, but the people of the seven countries. So the general’s Zhao country—is it the people of Zhao, or the king of Zhao?”

Bai Shu paused, and suddenly heard that before the identity of King Qin was revealed, he also had a pleasant conversation with him as 'Meng Yi'.It's just that at that time, he only thought that the other party was a good official who cared about the people, but now it seems that he is a king with great ambitions who can tolerate everything for the sake of the world.

If possible, Bai Shu really wanted to find a place to laugh out loud. He never thought that in the world thousands of years ago, there would be someone who understood his obsession and knew his obsession.Maybe the people who know him and understand him can't fully understand his thoughts, but as long as he thinks that his maverick ideas have been recognized, he can't hold back his tears.

"It's the subjects, not the royal family." He said bluntly, he didn't mind that he was in the Qin country at the moment, and Qin Jun was in front of him.Once upon a time, the other party also used Meng Yi's identity to say the same thing, but after all, it was only "Meng Yi" and not an emperor who held great power and had no one before or since.

The situation has come to this point, thinking and worrying like Wei Liao, being as good at studying the king's mind as Zhao Gaolisi, being as close as Meng Yi Ganluo, has already reflected the King Qin's question, what is the reason for this move-but such a minister If you can enter Qin for this today, you can also rebel against Qin for this in the future.

"If Gu ordered the people of Zhao to migrate, to the northern frontier, to the southern barbarians, to the Great Qin in the west, and out of Jin and Qi in the east, the general's Zhao Min, the general's Zhao country—can it be called Qin?" Ying Zheng used Bai Shu's words before. , "The people of the Seven Kingdoms and the barbarians of the grasslands, if you give them time to be alone, can you call me an old Qin?"

The system that had finally reacted late at this moment gasped, and before the shock was over, he heard the calm voice of his host: "Yes."

The system has always known that the Zhao country that Bai Shu mentioned was Zhao Min, not the Zhao royal family that Lian Po mentioned.He also knew that what Bai Shu wanted to protect in his heart had always been the common people rather than the powerful, but this kind of thinking that was incompatible with this era was always considered by the system to be irrelevant, and could not cause any disturbance—until now.

Up until now, there has been an echo.

According to what Bai Shu said before, if the people of Zhao State are integrated into the rest of the Central Plains or even Qin State, Zhao people will gradually turn into Qin people, and Bai Shu's promise of "protecting Zhao State" to Lian Po will become protecting Qin people .If the people of Zhao were on the land of Zhao, then as long as the people of Zhao migrated far enough—Ying Zheng could ask Bai Shu to fight the world.

Bai Shu didn't answer, but silence was the best answer.

"If you are alone, what should you do?" Ying Zheng bypassed the case, took off the blood-stained sword on his waist, and put it on the shelf on the other side of the throne, "Zhao people are not familiar with it—of course, the general It’s not the Zhao people—leaving them alone will only increase future troubles. What’s more, during the Changping War, I can’t believe that their anger and hatred for the Qin people will dissipate in this mere 40 years.”

As he said that, Ying Zheng let out a long sigh: "Forget it, those children who lost their fathers back then have already teased their grandsons."

Bai Shu still maintained his movements, did not raise his head, and did not reply.

"Even at this time, you don't plan to find any reason at random to fool Gu?" After a short silence, Ying Zheng laughed, "Any excuse is fine, after all, Lord Yanbei has control over the northern border of Zhao State. , I have seen it with my own eyes—whatever the general says, I believe in whatever the general sees, okay?"

Turning his back to the sword stand, Ying Zheng walked down the steps again.But this time it was different from the slowness before, his steps were steady but also fast, and within a few breaths he walked in front of Bai Shu, without a weapon in his hand, relaxed all over, as if Qin Chen was in front of him, not General Zhao.

He looked down at Bai Shu who was squatting in front of him, and had the illusion that the other party was swearing allegiance at the moment: "Any lie is fine." As if worried that Bai Shu hadn't heard, he repeated, "What does the general say? Believe it all."

The system observed that Bai Shu's heartbeat was gradually slowing down, but it was not the slowness of relaxation, but the firmness of putting all one's eggs in one basket: "The minister said that Yanbei will not rebel, King Qin is trustworthy?" King Qin's black robe was in his sight, and he held it high. The temperature and weight of the other hand pressed up in both hands.

Ying Zheng rested one hand on Bai Shu's palm, separated by a small cloth bag: "Gu Xin."

He has seen the appearance of Yanbei in Zhao Guo, the people there have bright smiles on their faces, the soldiers there have the blood of defending their homes and the country, the women there are proud to resist the barbarians, and the children there are their sons when they open their mouths and shut their mouths ——Yanbei was not King Zhao's Yanbei many years ago.

Ten years ago, those common people were able to speak in unison for the sake of Lord Yanbei. After so many years, if it is said that Bai Shu has no management of the border and let people be distracted, Ying Zheng will not believe it. In the past 15 years, Yanbei has long been his Lord Yanbei's world: "Since the general has such confidence in Yanbei," he is confident that they will not oppose Qin because of you, "Why don't you stand on your own?"

"If you are self-reliant, you will ignore the common people and turn Yanbei into the target of the crusade of all countries." Bai Shu said bluntly, "Even if the Zhou Dynasty is declining now, and there is no glory before, everyone can be a king. You can be a prince, but the Central Plains is divided into six countries (Han is already destroyed), and no one else can be allowed to intervene."

Having said that, Bai Shu changed the subject and talked about his management at the border all these years.He told Yingzheng that in Yanbei, the people's anger towards the barbarians far exceeds that towards the countries in the Central Plains.Moreover, he has always instilled in the children the concept of the original family, and it doesn't matter if his own family is in the nest, but he can't stay behind with Yi Di, let alone let them take advantage of it.

"They didn't submit to the foreign ministers, but because in their hearts, what they hated was not Qin, but the barbarians." It seemed that they were worried about Yingzheng, "If the king can't trust them, the foreign ministers are willing to be king In the last life, he was stationed in Yanbei."

"The last general will be stationed in Yanbei all his life?" Ying Zheng finally grabbed the bag that belonged to him in Bai Shu's hand, slowly raised it to his front, raised his left hand and pulled it away, which he had been wearing all the time but put it in the paper That day, the bag was never opened again, "I want the general alone, but it's not for throwing the general in the bitter cold of Yanbei."

In the faded little bag was a piece of folded paper with broken corners: "Can you still count what the general said back then?" The blood-stained little bag fell to the ground again, but this time no matter whether it was Bai Shu who withdrew his hands, , or Ying Zheng standing in front of Bai Shu, they didn't bother to pay attention.

Because the important thing has been taken out.

"Naturally." Bai Shu replied.

The next moment, two fingers appeared in Bai Shu's sight, and the spread paper was clamped between them.The paper was slightly yellowed, and the writing on it was already somewhat blurred: "Okay, Gu Ying."

On the yellowed paper was a line of words written by Bai Shu many years ago - exchange Yanbei for the safety of the people.

The author has something to say: Brother Zheng couldn't have killed Ah Shu from the very beginning, because if Bai was under his command, then Yanbei would naturally turn against him, and this is why Bai Shu was so confident.Knowing this, Ah Shu used the hands of Brother Zheng to change the red names of the courtiers to green names, and even brushed up the favorability of Brother Zheng. If the matter of Lian Po hadn't happened so suddenly, Ah Shu would have gotten him now. Wanted something.

He didn't even show his hole cards yet—however, man can't be counted.

It is said that in those days, every battle had to be fought first, telling you when to fight in that place, and both sides would clean up the bodies of their own people after the fight.It seems a little unbelievable, but in that era, "rituals and music" were very important, and words must be followed by deeds, and promises must be fulfilled throughout the life (so there are places in this chapter that do not conform to the historical background, as long as everyone knows)

In fact, Jiu Ge has been thinking about whether to let Lian Po die in Wei State, or let him return to Zhao State to lead the army and fight Bai Shu again.Later, I thought about Lian Po's age, so don't let him experience the cruelty of the subsequent Zhao Kingdom-I heard that Li Mu, the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, has been playing soy sauce all the time?

Want to open a new hole... No, I have to hold back, I am wholehearted in Zheng Ge, eh!