It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 496: Taxation Investigation, Treason is a Serious Crime

The crossbow was delicately assembled, with a pattern engraved on the inner groove. It was a bird, which she did not recognize.

Li Si was anxious to leave, saying it was getting late. As soon as he stepped out of the door, he bumped into a hard obstacle. When he brought the candle closer, he found a dead person! The blood on his chest had dried up, and he had been dead for some time.

Li Si quickly calmed himself down. At this time, Lu Heng came down from the beam and dragged the corpse into the room.

"you are?"

Li Si stared at him and saw something from his sword. "So you are Lu Heng, Fan Zeng's eldest disciple."

"Yes." "The princess and your whereabouts may be exposed. You'd better not return to the courtyard now to avoid causing greater disaster."

Li Si frowned and returned to the house, wondering what went wrong and how the news could have been leaked despite his watertight precautions.

Ying Hehua had stood up from the desk and was having a detailed conversation with Li Xian.

Hearing the content, it was all nonsense. Li Si wondered, when did she have such a good relationship with his son?
She was joking with him in the morning, and now when she saw Lu Heng dragging the body into the house, she seemed to subconsciously lean towards Li Xian.

Shen Zhi immediately pulled the cloth off the screen to cover the corpse.

Ying Hehua then became serious. "Father knows that I came to ask the Prime Minister for advice. I asked the Prime Minister to come here, not for a secret meeting. Their target may not be you and me."

She looked at the crossbow on the table. "The Prime Minister once had the task of thoroughly investigating rebellion in Yingchuan County. These things have been dug up, and only someone who is well versed in government affairs can get them."

Li Si's brows sank.

For Ying Zheng, those messy assassinations that occurred before unification could be explained by wars of conquest, which was reasonable and acceptable.

But now that the world has just been settled, if these things happen again, Ying Zheng will be furious.

It is not known whether the assassin dealt with by Li Xian is the same as the corpse now.

He couldn't ask.

With security measures like this, he, a prime minister, was actually followed and brought into trouble, which would be a great loss of face for him.

Few people knew that Li Si was coming to see Ying Hehua.

It was spread from several secret ministers who were accompanying him. This person was hiding among them and wanted to kill him and Ying Hehua. What a sinister intention!
Li Si's face was turbulent, but he was horrified. He drank tea and waited for dawn, but he felt uneasy.

He secretly made up his mind that he must find this person and deal with him during the patrol!
He temporarily put aside the issue of taxation in Kuaiji County and whether the county had implemented Wei Ju's system.

So he decided to go back at night.

Li Si's persistence made Ying Hehua ask him twice.

Li Si looked at her and pointed out the way for her, "If the princess can find out the tax revenue of Kuaiji, then it will clear up the doubt in His Majesty's mind."

He didn't finish.

But the meaning is very clear. If the tax problem is to be solved effectively, Ying Zheng's reliance on her will not be limited to the work of a strategist such as questioning, discussing matters, supervising and winning over others.

If she had talent, she would see the lifeblood of the empire and touch the source of its foundation, and then she would not think that what the old man Chunyu Yue said made sense.

Li Si stopped there and said no more.

The moon was in the middle of the sky. Li Si insisted on leaving.

Firstly, he didn't want anything to happen to Ying Zheng, and secondly, he didn't want that kid Meng Yi to gain Fusu's trust and stay by Ying Zheng's side all day long.

But he didn't go back alone.

Xu Zhi asked Li Si to take Lu Heng with him.

"If the Prime Minister is not careful and something happens on the road, I will not be able to explain to my father."

Li Xian found that she didn't need to be frightened. She was not afraid of the corpse at all, and even stepped forward to lift the curtain covering the corpse. This person was not tall, and his figure was thin. He was wearing a short brown boy's uniform and was very white.

"The princess is intentionally leading father to investigate Zhao Gao."

The fire color passed over her hairpin, and she smiled, "I told you a long time ago that we will get rid of him."

She continued, "Before the tour, he was already a little strange. At present, the emperor is very protective of him. During the tour, this is the opportunity. If we can't kill him in one blow, we can borrow the power of the prime minister to guard against him in the future, and the road will be much easier."

She didn't ask Lu Heng to protect Li Si at all, but sent him to monitor Li Si.

Ying Hehua doesn't care about the outcome of the battle between Li Si and Zhao Gao. She just wants the Qin State to not go down the old path in the future.

Li Xian noticed a special pattern on the body, which came from the Xianyang Palace. With Li Si's intelligence, he only needed to calm down and think about it again and again, and the general direction would be in his mind.

Her jokes, her soft words, and her expression of trust in him, were just to make his father let down his guard.

"…When Zhao Gao tried to silence the witch from Chu, the princess sent Lu Heng to set up this trap."

Li Xian was a person who had truly lived two lives. Her acting skills and calculations could not be hidden from him.

"Zhao Gao is an extremely cunning man, and he is unpredictable."

She raised her head slightly, "So I sincerely want to help your father avoid risks."

Li Xian said, "Zhao Gao's loss of the right to wield the seal is a gradual approach. If the princess suddenly involves her father in this, it would not be the best strategy."

She shook her head gently. "I summoned you from Xianyang because your father thought you were the dagger I used to kill people. He was willing to go through this for you."

Li Xian paused.

"Don't say that your father would misunderstand you and me. In fact, I also feel that I have never understood you in all these years."

As she spoke, her fingertips brushed over the hilt of the sword tied at his waist, and she gently grasped the hilt, then casually rubbed the uneven patterns on the bronze with her thumb.

He took a deep breath. It still bore traces of his years of use, and the air around him became stagnant.

For someone who uses swords all year round, this is a naked provocation, but for a man, this action is a straightforward seduction.

He has always been in absolute control, and even if he was slapped a lot, it was always because he deliberately provoked it.

It would never be the case now.

This time she took a step forward, but he subconsciously stepped back.

Li Xian was finally forced to the point where she could no longer retreat. She smiled and raised her head, "You didn't let me touch Zhao Gao before. I didn't understand, so I sent Zhao Gao to Shu to supervise you, hoping to force you to react. If I don't start the investigation from Shu, how can I know what you are thinking?"

It was all thanks to Ying Zheng that he asked her to read the tax regulations.

She had always had the perception of him of "hoping for the best for him and persuading him to do the best". She realized it later, but figured it out in an instant after reviewing two thousand years of history.

Li Xian is not an ordinary person. He has lived two lives. He can easily gain the trust and cultivation of Ying Zheng. He took half of the profit from Huai Qing in Shu and learned many new things from Mo Qi.

He has a father who will definitely become the prime minister, a brother who will definitely have military power, and he holds her secrets in his hands. He is familiar with the Qin operating system and has access to documents and intelligence from the four counties in the hinterland. What a terrible accumulation.

The miserable ending of his previous life was enough to destroy everything he had.

There was a faint fragrance on her body, which was the scent of sandalwood ink after reading by lamplight.

The most secret things about those early years were in her words.

That was an absolutely fatal thought.

It's not that he hasn't thought about it, he just doesn't dare.

He didn't dare to do that when Ying Zheng was alive.

And now, Xu Zhi finally discovered the cuteness in him that had been hidden for many years.

The human heart is hard to predict, but she guessed it so accurately.

Li Xian did not react as she expected, but smiled as if he had some serious illness.

He covered her sword-holding hand and tightened his grip on the sword, "Princess, do you want to kill me?"

"Treason is a serious crime. Are you admitting it?"

He lowered his head and locked his gaze with hers. "I said I would never lie to you again." He turned over and said, "When the Qin sword passed through this place, my hatred was indeed greater than my remorse."

Xu Zhi never had unprepared conversations. Especially when she found out that her earlier guess had come true, her ally really had the attributes of "Yuan Datou"!
Shen Zhi was ready to give him a hard blow on the head.

But Li Xian called her name at this time.

"Howard."

He relaxed his body and said with relief, "It's better for you to ask me in person than to hear it from others. Mo Qi is wrong. Since you chose to come back, will you never leave again?"

"?" What nonsense.

"That's not necessarily the case."

Xu Zhi wanted to tease him, but as soon as he said this, his eyes suddenly became empty for a moment.

She tilted her head and Shen Zhi was already ready to take action.

Her back tightened, and he hugged her into his arms and held her tightly.

He said nothing, but protected her like a treasure.

"Xu Zhi, Ah Zhi."

He hugged her tightly in panic, fearing that this shaky dream was also false.

"Don't keep me here any longer."

She never thought about the ending in which Zhang Liang died in Qin Prison on the day she returned to the modern era.

How did Li Xian repeat the same mistakes step by step under tremendous pressure...

He believed more than anyone else that what Mo Qi said about the irreversible ending was destined.

But he trusted Xu Zhi more than anyone else.

She was probably as cold-blooded and heartless as the rumors said, or maybe she had seen him so resentful too many times, with a mixture of sincerity and falsehood. She didn't want to think about it, but just patted his back, sighed, and then gently asked him to write a confession that she could use to threaten him in the future.

As he wrote, his trembling eyelashes cast a butterfly-wing-like shadow on his eyelids. After Li Xian finished writing, he looked at her intently.

"How would the princess know?"

Her attention was focused on the silk book, and she said, "I was falsely accused in my previous life, and I couldn't figure it out in this life, so I just went all out. This is normal."

There was no blame, complaint, or anger in her tone.

"You are not afraid……"

She smiled, with a kind of self-confidence that looked down upon the crowd, "You have already told me everything, there is nothing to be afraid of."

The edge of her sleeve was about to slip from his hand.

He pulled her sleeve, and the corners of his eyes naturally raised when he lowered his eyes.

She was stunned when she saw him like this.

"My life and property are all in the hands of the princess. Don't you have any other reward?"

...Li Xian has been caught in a trap many times, and she is not stupid.

"Don't even think about it."

Li Xian lowered his head and did not move.

Xu Zhi was just about to let down her guard and get up to leave, but she felt a weight on her waist and was hooked back by the hilt of the sword and fell back into his arms.

Li Xian soon had a slap mark on his face.

He finally let her go, smiled shamelessly, and said slowly, "The prefect said that Liu Bang has arrived in Kuaiji."

She stood up and set off quickly.

There were lakes and swamps everywhere, and it was not easy to tell the direction at night. The wilderness of Chu was more complex than she had imagined. Insects chirped on the road, and cicadas sang at the top of their lungs.

Xu Zhi dismounted and walked towards the shed. When she was a few steps closer, she heard someone breathing heavily. She drew out her dagger and held down the crossbow at her waist.