Mrs. Qin Xiangguo

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The next day, Lu's restaurant.

"Where are people?" Zhao Weizhen stepped into the door and asked.

"Go back to madam, arrange to go to the inner room," the shopkeeper hurried over, "Should I send someone to inform?"

Zhao Weizhen thought for a while: "No, I'll go and see for myself."

Lu Buwei was supposed to come, but as Prime Minister, Lu Buwei has been very busy recently.

I have to be busy preparing for the mission, and I have to assist Ying Zheng to meet the envoys from various countries who came to Xianyang for the national mourning. Things are complicated inside and out.

He had something to see the king, even if he wanted to see Li Si, he put it aside for the time being.

Lu Buwei could hold back, but Zhao Weizhen couldn't.Anyway, he doesn't care, so she will take a look first.

Zhao Weizhen stepped into the inner room, and saw a young man in plain clothes sitting behind the long table.

The prime minister of a country in history, the hero who promoted the unification of the Qin State, and Li Si, who forged an edict after the death of Qin Shihuang to help his son Hu Hai to the throne, and was cut in half, is still a commoner in white clothes.

He looks about the same age as Zhao Weizhen, dressed plainly, but still has a decent bearing.He wasn't born handsome, but the books he had read added a bit of the appearance that a scribe should have.

Zhao Weizhen feels that if he changes his dark clothes, cuts his hair short, and wears glasses again, it will be like a high-achieving student in the hearts of people in the 21st century.

At the age of 25, he is already a doctoral student.

At this time, the "doctoral student" who was waiting to apply was staring at the tableware in front of him in a daze.

There are two food utensils placed in front of Li Si, one contains a large and plump flat food, and the other contains hot noodle soup.

In recent years, Xianyang City has popularized pasta, and at best it has spread to the entire Qin State.The customs of the pre-Qin period did not spread so fast. For the rest of the countries, it was the caravans that brought the princes and nobles a taste of something new. Li Siben was from a poor family, so it was naturally the first time he saw it.

Young Li Si touched the flat food with his chopsticks curiously, and then picked up one.

He was already confused, so he brought it to his mouth and bit it lightly. Half of the dumpling was imported, and after biting into the smooth and tender dough and rich fillings, his face suddenly showed surprise.

Li Si took the chopsticks away and carefully observed the filling inside the flat food.

Zhao Weizhen stepped forward: "Mr. Lang, do you think the food doesn't suit your taste?"

On weekdays, Lu Buwei changed his court clothes and still insisted on dressing frugally.He dressed like the head of Guizhou, so Zhao Weizhen naturally couldn't hang expensive fabrics and luxury jewelry outside.

She was dressed simply, like a wealthy ordinary rich man. Li Si probably regarded Zhao Weizhen as the steward of the restaurant, and just shook his head.

"It's not unpalatable." Li Si explained politely: "It's just that this food called flat food is filled with leeks?"

"It's spring leeks."

Zhao Weizhen explained: "Lang Jun came to Qin just at the right time, the first batch of spring leeks was collected, they are very fresh."

"The Book of Songs Bin Feng" has a cloud: On the fourth day, the fleas will be sacrificed, and lambs will be sacrificed to leeks.

Leek is easy to grow, and its growth is often very vigorous. Since ancient times, it has been associated with strengthening ()yang and reproduction () and is a symbol of auspiciousness.Therefore, in the pre-Qin period, leeks, like lamb, were important enough to worship ancestors.

Moreover, it does not delay people from eating.

"It's actually wrapped in the dough with the river prawns." After tasting it carefully, Li Si felt quite miraculous: "Spring leeks are pungent, and river prawns are delicious. These two flavors are supposed to be completely incompatible, but they complement each other. If you eat like this, Unaware of the pungent chives, it enhances the umami taste of the river prawns. Today is considered an eye-opener."

Zhao Weizhen: "It's good to suit Mr. Lang's appetite."

Lis nodded.

He took another bowl of noodle soup for himself.

The cold spring is coming, and a few mouthfuls of hot noodle soup into the stomach, it is almost warm from the mouth to the stomach, completely driving away the last bit of coolness in spring.

"It is said that the food in Lu's Restaurant was all thought up by Mr. Xia Yang, isn't it?" Li Si asked.

Zhao Weizhen was still taken aback for a moment before realizing that the "Jun Xia Yang" that Li Si said was referring to himself.

Presumably, Li Si felt that the grand master was just a false name, and it seemed disrespectful to call Mrs. Meng Wei, so he simply called himself king.

After becoming a king, it is understandable to use the name of the feudal city as a title.It's just that it wasn't long after Qin Wangzheng bestowed the fief, and Zhao Weizhen wasn't used to it yet.

"Indeed." She affirmed.

Holding the soup bowl, Li Si sighed.

He brought the bowl to his mouth again, and said with emotion: "I didn't know until I came to Qin State that the grain here is so abundant that it can be ground into fine powder, and the impurities can be sifted out before eating. It can be seen that it produces a lot of grain. No wonder the grain is so abundant. Qin is so powerful."

After finishing speaking, he looked at his bowl again: "Mr. Xia Yang pays attention to political affairs, but also does not care about people's livelihood. He is very good. No wonder, as a woman, he has been valued by successive Kings of Qin. If I were King Zhao, I would definitely regret it now. "

Zhao Weizhen raised a bright smile when he heard the words: "Thanks to Mr. Lang for looking at me highly."

Li Si: "..."

Zhao Weizhen: "Is Mr. Lang satisfied with his meal?"

A moment of silence spread, and then Li Si almost spat out the noodle soup in his mouth.

He put down the soup bowl like an electric shock, a carp straightened up, and quickly bowed to Zhao Weizhen: "I'm being rude, but I'm so blind that even your majesty didn't recognize it!"

After speaking, he covered his face with his sleeve in embarrassment, not daring to speak again.

Zhao Weizhen couldn't help raising his eyebrows seeing the young Li Si's expression of embarrassment and bewilderment.

What kind of monster is she?After meeting each other, I felt embarrassed. Li Si in history didn't seem to be socially fearful. Wasn't it his brother Han Fei who was not good at speech and communication?

Zhao Weizhen: "Lang Jun, you don't have to be polite, just call me Meng Wei."

Li Si hesitated and answered vaguely.It's just that his eyes couldn't stop glancing at the food utensils on the long case.

Only then did Zhao Weizhen react.

The smell of spring leeks is strong, so Li Si felt it was rude.

"It was Meng Kai's negligence." She suddenly realized, and hurriedly called the shopkeeper: "Prepare coarse salt and rue. When you are ready, sir, you can come to the backyard and talk to me in detail."

Zhao Weizhen took a step ahead and ordered the people in the restaurant to prepare long tables and futons.

Li Si returned after rinsing his mouth and sat down opposite Zhao Weizhen.

When we met again, he had calmed down the panic just now, and apologized: "Thanks to your majesty for taking care of you."

Although Zhao Weizhen asked him to call his name, Li Si still didn't dare.

He didn't shout, and Zhao Weizhen couldn't say much.It's just that I suddenly became the "Jun Shang", which feels a bit strange and I'm still not used to it.

Getting to the point, she looked at Li Si in front of her again.

"Historical Records Biography of Li Si" records that Li Si once sighed: "The virtuousness of a man is like a mouse, and it is in his ears!"

It means that whether a person is virtuous or not, just like this mouse, depends on the environment in which he is.Comparing himself with a mouse, it is enough to show that he is not afraid of outsiders' beaks.

However, Zhao Weizhen had mixed feelings about Li Si in history.

On the one hand, he was the first person who directly challenged Ying Zheng to destroy the six countries and proposed corresponding policies.It can be said to be one of the heroes who contributed to the great unification.

But on the other hand, this person framed his fellow student Han Fei first.Later, the first emperor died suddenly in the sand dunes during his tour. He feared that the crown prince Fusu would not have the same ideas as his own, so he could not reuse him, so he tampered with the last edict of the first emperor, and changed his son Hu Hai to be the emperor.

To sum it up in one sentence: he is an ambitious X-stirring stick.

But this description is not a derogatory term.

In Zhao Weizhen's view, if he hadn't had real talents and great abilities, he wouldn't have been able to stir up trouble in Qin.

No one can let Li Si go!

"take it easy."

Zhao Weizhen said broadly: "Meng Kai has heard of Xunqing's name and admired him for a long time. He heard that a student of Xunqing came to Xianyang, so he became curious and decided to take a look first."

After finishing speaking, she added: "Recently, the new emperor of Qin State has a new funeral, and the new emperor is young. Lu Buwei really can't get away from many things, so don't worry about it."

Li Si quickly shook his head.

For Li Si right now, meeting Zhao Weizhen has the same effect as meeting Lu Buwei.

"It is an honor for me to meet you." Li Si said earnestly: "The family teacher is in Chu State, and he also praised you very much. It is said that the monarch of Qin State knows people and uses them well, and he is not afraid of his status, but Xia Yangjun is concerned. Livelihood of the people, not expecting anything in return, is a model of a wise ruler and virtuous minister."

Zhao Weizhen: "..."

Praise her guilty conscience!

Li Si's teacher is Xunzi!The last sage among the three sages of Confucianism has been hung on the wall for thousands of Confucian scholars to worship, and has been revered as the teacher until 2021!

When I was studying in college, Zhao Weizhen felt honored if he asked his tutor's tutor to praise him a few words.

Now it is equivalent to being praised by the masters of all the teachers in the world, but she is embarrassed.

"You...you came to Qin State." Zhao Weizhen coughed a few times, carrying his own embarrassment: "When you come to Qin State, what kind of official position do you want?"

Li Si said modestly: "I have no qualifications for advancement, and no past achievements. To say that I want to be an official is really exaggerating. I just want to come to the Qin State to make a living, and I am willing to be the servant of the King and the Prime Minister, and make suggestions for it. "

To be her savior, or Lu Buwei's sacrificing person?

Zhao Weizhen tilted his head slightly, clarifying a concept.

That is outside Qin, at least in the eyes of Chu people, she and Lu Buwei are firmly bound together.

Good.

Zhao Weizhen doesn't mind if they think so.

People in the world think so, if Lu Buwei really floats up one day, he has to weigh whether it is worth breaking bones and tearing flesh with her for a part of his own interests.

"Why do you want to be the servant of me and Xiangguo?" Zhao Weizhen asked.

Li Si smiled.

He pursed his lips, and asked back with a smile: "Your Majesty, you should ask the poor families in the world, who doesn't want to be your servant and Xiangguo?"

That's a compliment.

But Zhao Weizhen was indifferent: "But as you said, you have neither the qualifications nor the past achievements, so why should you be my family?"

That's what it meant to ask Li Si to take something out of his stomach.

Li Si naturally understood.

He is well versed in the way of a strategist, and understands that in such a situation, he must speak out amazingly, saying things that others cannot say, and while making people's eyes shine, he also feels that what he said has something to say and can be reused.

In this regard, Li Si has been in Qin for a while, and he has long been prepared.

"Thank you sir."

He readily agreed, and said with confidence: "After many days in Qin Dynasty, I was surprised by the abundance of Xianyang. When I walked in the fields, I saw farm tools that I had never seen before in Qi and Chu; I lived in a post station and traveled with envoys from various countries. There is an endless stream of scholars and strategists. The countries of the Central Plains speak of Qin and Chu with contempt, saying that the two countries are the country of tigers and wolves, and it is the fault of the barbarians, but they do not know that Qin has the conditions, Your Majesty, the time has come."

Zhao Weizhen: "What time?"

Li Si took a deep breath and said loudly, "It's time to annihilate the six countries and unify the Central Plains!"

Even in Qin, Li Si was sure that no one would say that to Zhao Weizhen and Lu Buwei.

Looking around the world, everyone has the heart of tigers and wolves, and every country is a country of tigers and wolves.Everyone wants to take advantage of each other and ask for a few pieces of land, but no country dares to say that it is going to destroy the six countries.

But Li Si knew that the monarchs of the other kingdoms dared to think but did not speak or act, but the monarch of Qin State dared.

The people of Qin State are only waiting for a person who dares to speak out.

That's why he came to Qin.

"Since Duke Huan of Qi, it has been hundreds of years since the feudal lords have ruled over the hegemony and the heroes have divided their regimes." Li Sikan said, "The world has been suffering for a long time. The people inside are miserable, and the Xiongnu threatens outside. It should have been time to restore unity. Now the emperor of Zhou has declined. , without that ability, the burden will naturally fall on the most powerful country."

"Qin's food production is abundant, its military strength is strong, and the weather has been smooth in recent years. Although there have been several generations of monarchs, the government has a monarch and a prime minister in charge, and even drove the Queen Mother's party away from Qin. But it's a great opportunity."

Li Si plausibly said: "Your Majesty, I think it's time."

After speaking, he looked up at Zhao Weizhen.

It's just that Li Si's carefully prepared "shocking words" did not surprise Zhao Weizhen at all.

The female monarch in front of her still had that smiley look on her face. Although there was a bit of admiration, she seemed to have expected it a long time ago: "Well, what then?"

Li Si: "..."

This--

Can't this impress the other party?

Li Si began to sweat.

Seeing that he was at a loss, Zhao Weizhen was afraid that Li Si might misunderstand, and added: "Your Majesty's remarks are indeed reasonable, but it is not so easy to destroy the six kingdoms. You have to come up with specific measures."

Li Si: "..."

He was a little lost.

In this picture, a stone stirs up thousands of waves, but Xia Yangjun is like a deep well, so deep that when a stone is thrown into it, no sound can be heard at all.

Say she thinks it is, but she doesn't show anything on the surface; say she didn't listen, it doesn't mean to continue to unfold on her own.Feeling the pressure, Liston secretly glanced at Zhao Weizhen several times, hesitated for a while, and then responded: "There are indeed measures."

"Sir, please speak."

"Use bribes to get rid of leisure, and use fine work as an intermediary. Provocation first, and troops later."

"Ah."

Zhao Weizhen nodded in agreement: "The strategy of alienation is a good idea. You can come up with a plan for me later."

Li Si: "The plan?"

Zhao Weizhen smiled and said: "The method is the method, and the case is transcribed into the case. It means that you write down the method you think of. When it is finished, please let me know from the shopkeeper, so that I can introduce you to the monarch."

Li Si: "........."

He raised his head in disbelief: "What did your majesty say?!"

See the monarch?

This is the time to see the king? !He hasn't done anything yet!

"how?"

Zhao Weizhen didn't care, "You're talking about the destruction of the six kingdoms. Besides the king, who else can decide whether to fight or not? What's the use of talking to me? Naturally, you have to tell the king."

Anyway, sooner or later you will gain the trust of Yingzheng, so don't be a doorman, Zhao Weizhen and Lu Buwei are not short of people.

After the historical Yingzheng ascended the throne, he was controlled by the queen mother's party and Lu Buwei, and he endured until his wings became full before he was able to fight.

Now that the Empress Dowager Huayang is not here, Lu Buwei is not in the mood, so what are you waiting for?

The sooner the unification, the sooner the reform will be, and the pace of Yingzheng will be slowed down.

Therefore, Zhao Weizhen can't wait to collect all available people tomorrow.Now that Li Si bumped into her, give her 996 to work overtime!

"Ok, deal."

After catching a coolie, Zhao Weizhen was satisfied: "Write it quickly, and it is best to finish it before Xiangguo goes to Chu as an envoy."

Li Si was still in a daze, but hearing Zhao Weizhen's firm tone, his mouth came down before his mind: "...Yes."