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Chapter 122: The First Emperor Meets Xiang Yu (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)
Xiang Yu in another prisoner car snorted: "What a magnificent city! With 30,000 soldiers, we can definitely take it!"

After more than half a month, Meng Yi and Meng Tian have come to understand the character of this boy with double pupils. Compared with his peers, he does have some outstanding qualities, but he also has many flaws, especially his arrogance and conceit at times.

Seeing that Meng Yi and Meng Tian did not argue with him, Xiang Yu felt humiliated and said angrily: "Are you guys kidding me? If you dare, let me out and give me 30,000 soldiers!"

Meng Tian simply didn't bother to pay attention to Xiang Yu.

Originally in his mind, people with double pupils should be far superior to their peers in all aspects, both physically and mentally, otherwise how could they live up to the legend left by people with double pupils in the world, but the appearance of Xiang Yu broke his idea.

Of course, maybe Xiang Yu, the man with double pupils, is only ten years old and has not grown up yet. Maybe when he grows up, he will be worthy of the legend of people with double pupils.

Unfortunately, this person with double pupils from the Xiang family has bad luck, and probably has no future...

Meng Yi glanced at Xiang Yu and thought to himself: "In the history that Li Nian told me, you really entered Xianyang and burned down the entire city."

When they were not far from Xianyang, they heard crying sounds coming from the Xiang clan members in other prison cars. They were all going to die when they arrived in Xianyang.

The crying made Xiang Yu irritated, and he shouted: "Why are you crying? It's just death, what's there to be afraid of? I am a son of the Xiang family, even if I die, I will not let the Qin people underestimate me!"

In Xianyang, Zhangtai Palace, Ying Zheng sat high on the throne, calmly looking at several members of the Xiang family who were escorted into the palace.

Although the two sides were enemies and Ying Zheng might even be about to execute Xiang Liang, Xiang Liang and several members of the Xiang family still saluted Ying Zheng.

"I've met King Qin!"

After all, no matter how much hatred there is, the other party is still a king and should be treated with courtesy.

Of course, the etiquette performed by the Xiang family was just the etiquette for foreign officials to meet the king of another country, not a grand ceremony.

Only Xiang Yu did not salute, but instead held his head high and looked directly at Ying Zheng.

Seeing that the Xiang clan members were prisoners, they did not pay homage with great ceremony, but only performed ordinary greetings. The young Xiang clan member did not show any courtesy at all, and stared directly at Ying Zheng. An eunuch shouted angrily, "How dare you be so rude..."

Ying Zheng waved his hand to stop the eunuch, and his eyes fell on Xiang Yu: "Are you Xiang Ji?"

Xiang Yu did not answer but asked: "Are you the King of Qin?"

Ying Zheng was not angry, and said calmly: "If there is no other King of Qin in the world, then I am the King. Since you entered the palace, you have been looking at me. What did you see?"

Xiang Yu said, "I thought the King of Qin was a hero, but I didn't expect him to be such a coward. He sent tens of thousands of Qin soldiers to capture a ten-year-old boy like me. I'm afraid the King of Qin's behavior will make the world laugh at him."

Such words would most likely anger the King of Qin, but Xiang Liang and others on the side remained indifferent. They did not stop Xiang Yu at all and let him say it.

At this point, they have completely given up hope. The Xiang family will definitely end in tragedy. So what does it matter whether Xiang Yu says it or not?
It would be better to let Xiang Yu speak out clearly and scold the King of Qin, at least he can vent his anger before he dies.

After hearing Xiang Yu's words, Ying Zheng said meaningfully: "You are not an ordinary child!"

Xiang Yu thought that Ying Zheng was saying that he was a child with double pupils, not an ordinary child, and said, "Doesn't this make you look even more cowardly? If it were me, even if I had a child with double pupils as my enemy, I would let him grow up, not be afraid of him, and fight him in an open battle. A child with double pupils, what is there to be afraid of?"

From this brief conversation, Ying Zheng had already roughly understood Xiang Yu's character. He shook his head and said, "It is just as Li Nian said. Although he is not yet strong, he is good enough to show his future."

Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were stunned. Who is Li Nian?

From what the King of Qin said, it seems that the Xiang family's misfortune was related to Li Nian?

Ying Zheng lost interest in talking to Xiang Yu anymore. He looked at Xiang Liang and said, "Are you Xiang Liang, the son of Xiang Yan, the general of Chu?" "Yes!"

Ying Zheng asked, "How do you think I should deal with the Xiang clan?"

Xiang Liang's expression was calm: "Your Majesty has made up his mind, why do you need to ask me? Does Your Majesty want to see us kneel down and kowtow, begging for our lives? We have ended up like this, and the winner will be the king, and the loser will be the bandit!"

Ying Zheng nodded, looked at Xiang Liang, and said, "You are a smart man, but it's a pity that you were born into the wrong family."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ying Zheng's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he said: "The Xiang family is harboring evil intentions and deliberately plotting rebellion. Now that the evidence is irrefutable, according to Qin law, the family will be exterminated!"

"Three days later, they will be executed in the east city of Xianyang. No one is allowed to plead for the Xiang family!"

When they heard that Ying Zheng had ordered the extermination of the Xiang clan, the brothers Meng Yi and Meng Tian had no expression on their faces, but they sighed in their hearts.

The Xiang clan included not only adults like Xiang Liang, but also women and children, some of whom were even ignorant, but now, they were all going to be killed along with their parents and uncles.

But Meng Yi immediately thought of what Li Nian said about history. After Xiang Yu entered Xianyang, he massacred the people of Xianyang. Was there no women, children, or ignorant kids in the city of Xianyang at that time?

All we can say is that this time it was the king who took action first and prevented Xiang Yu from growing up.

Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu did not show much excitement or anger about Ying Zheng's plan to exterminate their clan. It was already expected, so what was there to be angry about?
Xiang Yu looked at Ying Zheng and said, "King of Qin, sooner or later, Qin will follow in the footsteps of Chu. I will go first and wait for you underground!"

Xiang Liang and his men bowed to Ying Zheng again and said, "Thank you, King Qin!"

They performed the ceremony because although Ying Zheng ordered their execution, he did not order them to be tortured with the various cruel punishments in Qin law before their death, but only beheaded them.

The Qin laws contained many cruel punishments, such as beheading, crucifixion, and the extermination of three generations of a family.

To destroy the three tribes was not as simple as just killing all the people from the three tribes with one knife, but it was an extremely cruel process.

The first step is tattooing, the second step is cutting off the nose, the third step is cutting off fingers and toes, the fourth step is flogging to death, the fifth step is chopping off the head, and the sixth step is chopping into meat sauce.

The King of Qin did not use these cruel laws on them, but simply chopped off their heads, which was considered a mercy.

Ying Zheng did not intend to conceal the execution of the entire Xiang family, so it didn't take long for the whole Qin government and the public to know the news.

In Liuying Palace, Li Nian was silent for a long time after receiving the news. The Xiang family would be wiped out, and he could be said to be the culprit.

If he had not told the history to the First Emperor, how could the First Emperor have harbored murderous intentions towards the Xiang family and ordered Meng Yi to lead his army to capture the entire family and bring them back to Xianyang for execution?
"There must be hundreds or thousands of people in the Xiang clan. If we calculate their ages, Xiang Yu is only ten years old, still a child. Is there anyone younger than him in the Xiang clan?"

'Because of me, everyone is going to die!'

Although he did not like Xiang Yu and felt that the Xiang family was at fault, Li Nian still felt heavy when he thought about the many children who died because of him.

After some thought, Li Nian wrote a bamboo slip, not pleading for the Xiang family. In this matter, his plea could not change the decision of the First Emperor. He just wanted the First Emperor to change the method of executing the children of the Xiang family.

After receiving the bamboo slips written by Li Nian, Qin Shi Huang only replied with one sentence on it: If Xiang Yu were to enter Xianyang and massacre the Qin royal family at this time, would you do the same thing?

When the bamboo slips returned to Ying Zheng again, seeing the word "yes" on the bamboo slips, Ying Zheng whispered: "This Li Nian!"

(End of this chapter)