I am already immortal, why should I ascend to become an immortal?

Chapter 283: Lü Buwei Seems to Be Determined to Die; Meng Family Army, Meng Tian and Meng Yi
As for the second thing, it was a happy event for the Qin State.

In front of all the civil and military officials in the Qilin Palace, Yinglou officially announced that Wen Yu and Han Nian'er would be his concubines.

Hong Wenyu was canonized as "Eighth Son" and Han Nian'er as "Madam".

And the royal wedding ceremony will be held after the ceremony of coming of age.

This was also the first time that the King of Qin took a concubine after many years since Huayang.

Although in the court, all the officials from the Longguan gentry had gloomy faces.

But the other ministers were completely the opposite.

After all, any discerning person could see that the signal that the Prince of Qin was taking a concubine was coming.

And the other side.

Although Jin Chan told Xiao Luoyang about this matter in advance, Ying Lou, who was sitting on the dragon throne that day, couldn't help but secretly glance down a few times.

But surprisingly, Xiao Luoyang's expression and demeanor were the same as usual, without any emotional fluctuations.

However, after returning to the mansion from the court, Tang Qianyan, the blind fellow, asked Xiao Luoyang in a frivolous way in front of Jin Chan: "Are you envious?"

Unexpectedly, the little girl only said one sentence: "Big brother is big brother, the king is the king, the two cannot be confused."

time flies.

Tomorrow is the day when Jin Chan, along with the three sons Meng Wu, Meng Yi and Meng Tian, ​​will set out from Hangu Pass, then enter the heart of Korea and march straight to Luoyang City.

But unexpectedly.

Jin Chan did not expect that Lu Buwei would personally knock on the door of his mansion the night before his departure.

"General Jin, I haven't seen you in Qi for a long time. I brought two pots of good wine. May I come in and have a chat with you?"

Outside the door, Lu Buwei was playing with a pair of black and white jade chess pieces in his left hand and holding two jugs of fine wine in his right hand.

He was alone, without even a single follower.

"Prime Minister, please!"

Jin Chan opened the door and made an inviting gesture to Lu Buwei without asking the reason.

"Haha, the general is indeed extraordinary. Even though I have become the target of criticism in the court of the Great Qin, the general still does not despise me at all."

Lu Buwei's hearty laughter was the same as usual.

At this time, the rest of the people were already asleep.

There were only a few faint candle lights in the entire Jin Mansion.

After the two arrived at the main hall, Jin Chan ordered Butler Wu to warm up the two pots of wine that Lu Buwei brought.

"Prime Minister, what is your purpose for visiting me unexpectedly tonight?"

Although there is no need for such clever arguments between smart people.

But Jin Chan didn't understand why Lu Buwei chose to visit him tonight when he had been back in Xianyang for more than a month.

"Work together with the general for a great cause!"

As always, Lu Buwei leisurely played with the beads in his hand, but as soon as he opened his mouth he went straight to the point.

"Haha, about conspiring for a great cause, the Prime Minister should probably say this to the King, not me."

The white gown was blown by the night wind in the hall, and Jin Chan tapped the wooden table three times with his index finger.

He seemed to be smiling, but murderous intent was rising.

It made the cold night even more chilling.

"General Jin, if you want to kill me, I'm afraid you will have more than a hundred chances!"

Lu Buwei stood up, took the warm wine prepared by Butler Wu, filled Jin Chan's cup first, and then poured one for himself.

Starting from Hangu Pass, Lian Po led his troops to suppress the pass tower, and then to Qi State, where the two had a long conversation by the Gu River.

If Jin Chan wanted to kill Lu Buwei, he would have no less than a hundred opportunities to do so.

"In my life of more than fifty years, I have been to places that ordinary people would not be able to visit even if they were five or ten generations, let alone three generations."

"I was born in Wei. Although I am not from a prominent family, I can still be considered a wealthy family. When I was young, I went to the rich Chu State and saw the extravagance and debauchery of the gentry and nobles. I also did business with the barbarians in the northern border and the western border who ate raw meat when hungry and drank blood when thirsty."

"When I was young, I met the former king Ying Chu, and then I became an official in Qin. Now, I am rich enough to rival a country."

"Eighty percent of the merchants from the seven Central Plains countries are dependent on my bank; when it comes to grain transportation, even the royal families of the six major countries cannot get away from my granary; half of the officials of the Qin Dynasty are from the Lu family."

Listening to Lu Buwei talking about the glory of his life, Jin Chan, who was sitting at the table, sipped warm wine and thought in his heart.

"General, do you know that I am already in a high position, richer than a prince, but why am I going to a dead end now?"

Sudden.

Lu Buwei stopped playing with the two chess pieces, one black and one white, and placed them on the table. He stroked his beard with one hand and looked straight at Jin Chan.

"If you stop now and take off your court clothes, you can spend your old age in peace."

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, Jin Chan looked back.

"Haha, when I was eight, all I wanted was a caravan of my own. When I was fourteen, I wanted to become the richest businessman in the Central Plains. Although I'm not the richest man in the Central Plains at the age of twenty-two, there are only four or five people above me. The end of this merchant road is within my reach with just time."

"When I entered Qin as an official at the age of 23, I immediately fell in love with the position of prime minister, the head of all officials. It only took me three years to sit on it, and I founded the world's money house and the world's granary, bringing my official career and business career to the pinnacle."

Lu Buwei's self-confidence is innate. As long as he does it, he will reach the top.

Just like King Zhao and Ying Lou, when they were young and had not yet come to power, they set the goal of unifying the Central Plains, and they were determined to do it.

"He is the head of all officials in the Qin Dynasty and the richest businessman in the Central Plains. What the Prime Minister is going to covet next is the unique throne?"

Jin Chan snorted lightly, his momentum was not at all inferior, and the word he used in his words was actually "covet".

"The throne? General, you underestimate me. If it's just a chair, I don't care about it."

Lu Buwei smiled contemptuously, then stood up, walked to the door of the hall with his hands behind his back, and looked up at the lonely moon in the sky.

The night wind blew wildly, ruffling a few strands of silver hair that had just grown out.

"If it's not the throne, then what does the prime minister value?" asked Jin Chan.

"The seven kingdoms in the Central Plains have had a total of 342 kings over a thousand years. Although most of them are incompetent and mediocre, there are also quite a few excellent ones. However, none of them can be remembered for generations. Even without a hundred years of reign, the people of Zhao State don't know who the King of Chu is, and the people of Qin State don't know who the King of Tang is."

"So I, Lu Buwei, will unify the Central Plains, and then use my methods of governing the country to create an immortal Qin that will go down in history and be remembered forever!"

"And this throne is just the beginning of my ambitions."

With his arms outstretched and roaring to the sky, Lu Buwei was extremely arrogant at this moment.

"The road you are going to take may exist for a hundred years, but it is destined to be a dead end. I think you should have known this when you were by the Gu River."

Jin Chan picked up the cooled wine glass on the table again, put it to his lips, lowered his eyes and took a sip.

"General, some things are like arrows shot from a bow, they cannot be turned back. Even if you know you can't hit the prey, you still hold hope in your heart and don't want to give up."

After Lu Buwei finished speaking, he turned around, picked up the white chess piece on the table, then picked up the wine glass, tilted his head back and drank the wine in the glass.

"Having said this, I will not disturb the general's rest."

Lu Buwei eventually took a path that went against Ying Lou's, a path of eyeing the throne.

At this moment, although Jin Chan closed his eyes and remained silent, he already had murderous intent in his heart.

And his five fingers were already placed on the hilt of the sword in the fish's belly.

"By the way, I came to the general's mansion today. I'm afraid that everyone in Xianyang City has already known about it. If the general wants to kill me, then there will be no place for you in the Great Qin. Even the king cannot keep you." As soon as his left foot stepped out of the hall door, Lu Buwei suddenly seemed to remember something. He turned his head slightly and said to Jin Chan who was three steps behind him.

huh~~~
Jin Chan let out a long sigh and took back the fish belly he had pulled out: "Prime Minister, you can't win!"

"If you lose this time, I will hand over all the banks and granaries that I built to you, Your Majesty, and give you another great gift."

After saying this, Lu Buwei waved his hand and walked towards the gate.

The Qin State was based on law and governed the country according to law.

From kings and nobles to common people.

It’s all within the Dhamma.

If Jin Chan had really killed Prime Minister Lu Buwei just now, it would have destroyed the system that the Qin Dynasty had spent a hundred years to establish.

However, there was another reason why Jin Chan stopped.

"Big brother, has the Prime Minister left?"

I saw little Luoyang wearing only a single layer of clothes, walking in from outside the door.

"Let's go. Do you think I was right or wrong to spare his life just now?"

In fact, when Butler Wu brought the warmed wine jug, Jin Chan already knew that Xiao Luoyang was eavesdropping outside the door.

"Brother, I feel like the Prime Minister is seeking death."

What Xiao Luoyang said was actually the same as what Jin Chan felt just now.

There is no way that Lu Buwei came here tonight to win over me.

It is more like a return trip that tells the story of a lifetime.

In addition, these days, Lu Buwei did things without any reservations, and even went against the majority opinion in the court and let Xiao Luoyang take the post of Imperial Doctor.

This is also the reason why Jin Chan did not take action just now.

Moreover, Lu Buwei should also be aware that if Jin Chan wanted to kill him, he could do it even if he was not in the mansion.

As for the seemingly threatening words just now, both of them knew that it was meaningless.

"If a person who is absolutely confident that he has never failed spends his entire life discovering that he might be wrong, what do you think will happen to him?"

Jin Chan sat back in his chair, picked up the black chess piece left by Lu Buwei, put it in his hand, and asked.

"Keep going until you fail completely, and then die!"

Xiao Luoyang answered very straightforwardly, and this was exactly what Jin Chan was thinking.

Could it be that what Lu Buwei had been doing these days was really just to prove his own failure through death?

After a night.

It's just getting light.

Jin Chan put on the unique black armor of the Qin Dynasty, and rode a horse with Xiao Luoyang towards the direction of the Meng family army outside the city.

Tangqianyan and Bailongju stayed in the mansion.

He planned to wait until Jin Chan captured Luoyang City and then set out to attack Han.

"Brother Jin, why don't I see your white dragon colt?"

Although the brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi are not very old, they have been guarding the western border for many years, so they are far from comparable to Li Xin and Zi'an in terms of leading troops and military morale.

Even compared with rare geniuses like Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao, he would not be much inferior.

Each member of the Meng family army was also brave and good at fighting, and together with Bai Qi's Bai family army, they were known as the Twin Swords of the Qin Dynasty.

Although he was stationed at the western frontier for many years, he rarely participated in disputes in the Central Plains.

However, the famous generals of the six countries never dared to underestimate him.

The bravery of the main general Meng Wu was praised as the best among the four famous generals in the Central Plains.

"I didn't bring it with me this time, as I didn't think I needed to go alone."

Because the Jin family army was still in Hangu Pass at this time, Jin Chan joined the team of the Meng family father and son.

"Alas, what a pity, what a pity! I wanted to borrow Brother Jin's white dragon horse to show off my power!"

Meng Yi just sighed, crossed his hands behind his head, and said with a look of regret.

"Nonsense, General Jin's white dragon horse is not meant to show off to you."

Meng Tian took out the scabbard and hit his brother directly on the head.

The tone was unhappy.

"General Jin, I was rude just now. Please bear with me."

Meng Tian put one hand on Meng Yi's head and spoke to Jin Chan.

"It doesn't matter!"

"By the way, General Jin, after I returned to Xianyang, I heard that you not only defeated Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao at Hangu Pass, but also killed Lian Po. Is this true?"

Although Meng Tian's tone was respectful, Jin Chan also saw the fanaticism unique to military generals in his eyes.

"Yes."

Although this matter had already spread, Meng Tian couldn't help but be shocked after hearing the person's answer.

As for Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao, two of his peers, he had only heard from others about how brave they were, but he was disdainful of them in his heart.

But Lian Po was different.

As one of the four famous generals in the Central Plains, Lian Po was of the same generation as their grandfather, Meng Ao, the father of Meng Wu.

When he was a child, Meng Ao mentioned Bai Qi, Lian Po and Xiang Yan many times in front of Meng Tian.

He even admitted that he was no match for these three people.

Now, seeing that Jin Chan, who was of the same age as him, was able to kill Lian Po, it was quite a blow.

"Although Lian Po died, he did not die at my hands."

When Meng Tian was feeling lost, Jin Chan suddenly spoke.

"I told you so. Grandpa is no match for Lian Po. You are the same age as us, so there is no way you can be that powerful. This rumor is too exaggerated."

Meng Yi on the side quickly interrupted.

After hearing Jin Chan's words, Meng Tian's heart, which had nearly caused him to be hanged, was temporarily relieved.

If he was really able to kill the four famous generals of the Central Plains when he was in his early twenties, then the towering mountain of Golden Cicada would be really difficult for him to overcome.

"That day, Lian Po died of exhaustion after defeating a million soldiers. I only blocked his last move and did not fight him."

Just when Meng Tian had just relaxed, Jin Chan's next words were like a mountain pressing down on his heart.

"Brother Jin, this is no joke. Breaking through a million soldiers' spirit is something no one in the Central Plains has been able to do in the past thousand years."

Deep down, Meng Yi didn't think that what Jin Chan said just now was true.

Breaking through the morale of a million soldiers is the lifelong dream of every military commander in the Central Plains.

Although he heard rumors after returning to Xianyang that Bai Qi had led an army of over a million, Meng Tian thought it was just a ridiculous rumor because he had not seen it with his own eyes.

(End of this chapter)