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Chapter 13: The "good things" that Hu Hai and Zhao Gao did in those years (Part )
He had to continue to flatter people like Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si. Anyway, after what he said today, Li Nian would no longer be able to hang out with Hu Hai and others.

Since they are destined to be enemies, we must be more thorough in applying eye drops!
Li Nian continued: "After the great king passed away, in order to seize the throne, Prince Hu Hai and his men did not immediately send the great king's body back to Xianyang, but waited."

Ying Zheng then asked, "Are they waiting for news about Fusu and Meng Tian?"

Li Nian nodded and said, "Yes! Without accurate information about Prince Fusu and General Meng Tian, ​​they dared not act rashly. After all, General Meng Tian had 300,000 troops under his command at the time. If their forged edict failed to get rid of Prince Fusu and General Meng Tian, ​​but instead brought Prince Fusu and General Meng Tian here, they could use the king's dragon body to cover for them."

If this is really what will happen in history later, people like Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si should all die for daring to use his corpse in this way!

"Only after receiving the exact news that Prince Fusu and General Meng Tian were dead did Prince Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si order the caravan to travel day and night and return to Xianyang. But by then, several days had passed since the king's death, and the king's dragon body..."

Li Nian didn't say the whole thing, but Ying Zheng and Meng Yi understood what he meant.

The body had been left for several days, and it was a hot July, so it must have rotted and started to stink.

"In order to prevent the news of the king's death from spreading, the caravan did not dare to take a shortcut back to Xianyang. Instead, it pretended to continue its tour and took a detour back to Xianyang. In order to cover up the smell, Prince Hu Hai and Prime Minister Li Si came up with a good idea and bought a lot of abalone on the car. If anyone smelled the smell, they would say it was because of the bad weather and the abalone had rotted and stank!"

Ying Zheng's face became even uglier. If this was historical fact, wouldn't he be treated like abalone?
He, the number one leader of the Qin Dynasty, is actually equated with seafood?
Li Nian continued to add fuel to the fire, making it burn even more vigorously: "With this operation, Prince Hu Hai returned to Xianyang and successfully inherited the throne. But Prince Hu Hai, who succeeded to the throne through these means, was very worried. He was always afraid that someone would dig up these things about him and take his position. Who in the world is most likely to take his position?"

Meng Yi felt a chill in his heart. This man was really bold. Was there any need to ask? Of course, it was about the brothers of Prince Hu Hai?
Ying Zheng's face became more and more ugly. He had already guessed what his eldest son Hu Hai would do next, but he never expected that his eldest son was more brutal than he guessed!
"Of course they are Prince Hu Hai's brothers and sisters, and the king's other children."

"So, Prince Hu Hai started killing people. According to historical records, the king had more than 20 sons and 10 princesses, and Prince Hu Hai killed 12 of them at once. The historical records said: 'The 12 princes were tortured to death in Xianyang City, and the 10 princesses were tortured to death in Du. The property was confiscated by the county officials. The number of people implicated was countless.'"

"Three brothers of Prince Jianglu were forced to commit suicide by drawing their swords, and another six princes were killed in Du County. Prince Gao was terrified when he saw his brothers and sisters being killed one after another. He wanted to escape but was worried about bringing trouble to his family, so he took the initiative to submit a petition and said that he was willing to be buried alive with the king."

"Prince Hu Hai was very happy to hear this. After Prince Gao was buried alive with the king, he rewarded him with 100,000 coins. The history records that 'Hu Hai approved of the letter and gave him 100,000 coins for burial.'"

Hearing this, Ying Zheng could not help but say: "This official is a beast. He is so cruel to his brothers and sisters that he will not have a good end!"

Ying Zheng knew very well what "矺死" was, it was to kill a person by dismembering his limbs, which was quite cruel. Hu Hai actually used this method on his own brothers and sisters. What else could he be but a beast?
Li Nian said: "Your Majesty is right. Prince Hu Hai did not have a good end. He was forced to death by Zhao Gao and his son-in-law Yan Le."

When he thought of his ten daughters being torn apart alive, Ying Zheng's anger rose up and he said coldly: "He got it easy. He should be sentenced to death for his crime!"

As long as there is evidence that Hu Hai might do these things in the future, he will definitely beat that bastard to death. What he did to Lao Ai's children back then was just throwing them to death.

Li Nian said: "As for the fact that Master Hu Hai was forced to commit suicide, that is another story. But the Minister of the Imperial Chariots helped Master Hu Hai gain the throne, and his power and status in Qin naturally rose. An interesting incident happened during this process, which left an idiom for future generations."

"Zhao Gao was in power at that time. One day, when all the ministers were paying homage to Prince Hu Hai, Zhao Gao had someone bring a deer, and pointed at the deer and said to Prince Hu Hai: 'This is a horse that can run a thousand miles a day. I specially present it to Your Majesty.'" What a funny thing is this? I'm afraid it's an ugly thing, right?
Ying Zheng said: "No matter how stupid or evil Hu Hai is, he can't be so stupid as to not be able to tell a deer from a horse."

Li Nian said: "Your Majesty is right. Prince Hu Hai can indeed tell the difference. Seeing that it was clearly a deer, but Zhao Gao said it was a horse, he smiled and asked if Zhao Gao had made a mistake. It was a deer, how could he say it was a horse? But Zhao Gao ignored Prince Hu Hai and asked the ministers in the court to say whether it was a deer or a horse. "

Ying Zheng's eyelids twitched a few times, and he slammed the table in front of him and said sternly: "What a sly call a horse, what a sly call a horse!"

It doesn't matter whether it's a horse or a deer. It's obvious that Zhao Gao was deliberately showing off his power and didn't even care about Hu Hai's imperial majesty.

"Some ministers were afraid of Zhao Gao's power, but did not want to say anything against their will, so they kept silent; some tried to please Zhao Gao by identifying the deer as a horse; some ministers pointed out that it was a deer, not a horse."

"Zhao Gao wrote down all the ministers who told the truth, and charged them with various crimes. Some of them were expelled from the court, while others were killed. Your Majesty has already mentioned the idiom left by this allusion, which is 'calling a deer a horse'!"

Ying Zheng asked, "Where is Li Si? Didn't Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Li Si tamper with the will together? Where is Li Si?"

"When he called a deer a horse, Prime Minister Li was already subjected to the 'Five Punishments' and his entire clan was exterminated!"

Ying Zheng was silent for a moment, knowing that this must have been done by Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, and then said: "Hu Hai is stupid and evil, Zhao Gao is domineering, with these two, I am afraid that my Great Qin will not be very good."

This question silenced Li Nian.

Seeing Li Nian silent, Ying Zheng said: "I have said before, just tell me, I will not punish you for what you said!"

Li Nian then slowly spoke: "Your Majesty's guess is correct, the Qin Dynasty will perish in the second generation!"

Ying Zheng could no longer sit still. He stood up from the throne with an expression of disbelief on his face.

He could accept the demise of the Qin Dynasty, but in his opinion, even if the Qin Dynasty was to perish, it should be after several hundred years.

But now Li Nian told him that his great Qin Emperor II had died. What did this mean?
The second generation, if the first generation refers to him, then the second generation should refer to Hu Hai. That is to say, with Hu Hai, the great Qin Dynasty was gone, and it was finished in just a few decades?

No, probably not for decades yet.

Ying Zheng thought of the various years revealed in Li Nian's words, and his Qin Dynasty would most likely perish in a dozen years!
(End of this chapter)