Ni Chu

Hu Hai sighed and slumped down.

Despair, endless despair hit his heart.

Outside the door, the sound of soldiers running and shouting became more and more clear. Hu Hai knew that it was the sound of rebel soldiers looking for him.

"Peng," after a loud noise, the door was kicked open from the outside, and a rebel officer stood at the door with his sword in his hand.

"My lord, I found it." Kicking open the door, seeing Hu Hai and his servants staying in the room, the rebel officer turned around and shouted towards the door.

Not long after, Xianyang Ling Yan Le walked in wearing armor.

"Xianyang orders Yan Le to meet His Majesty." After entering the room, Yan Le bowed to Hu Hai and said, "My minister is ordered by the Prime Minister to send Your Majesty on his way."

"What way to go?" Although Hu Hai has come to the end, but his imperial majesty still exists, he frowned and stood up, and said to Yan Le: "Xianyang Order, please tell the prime minister, I am willing to give up the throne to him , as long as he allows me to take my wife and be a commoner,"

Yan Le cupped his fists and bowed slightly. After hearing Hu Hai's words, he smiled and said, "Your Majesty is just kidding. Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year Lord. How can the prime minister have the right to depose you as a commoner? I think Your Majesty still don't refuse, hurry up and get on the road, as for the empress and the princes, the prime minister will naturally arrange for them to come and find you."

Hu Hai glared at Yan Le angrily, then raised his head and laughed, and said after laughing: "It's ridiculous that I, Hu Hai, have been on the throne for three years, and I have been raising tigers, punishing heroes, misunderstood slander, and finally ended up like this, that's all, that's all, Today I will take a step ahead, Zhao Gao is a treacherous and sycophant, he will die a bad death."

After all, he drew out his saber and wiped it on his neck. Hu Hai, who had been emperor for three years, finally drew a dismal end to his life.

Zhao Gao was very happy to hear the news that Hu Hai had been killed. He went to the palace and forced the servant in charge of Yuxi to hand it over.

Holding the jade seal in his hand, looking up at the majestic Qinhuang Palace, Zhao Gao's heart was beating "噗嗵噗嗵", and he had been silent for several years, serving the emperor all the time. The real power is in his hands, and he still walks on thin ice when he does things, for fear that the Second King will know what he has done and will kill him all over the house.

Now that he has taken the initiative to kill the second generation, he no longer has to fear anyone. The jade seal is in his hands. As long as he wants, he can climb up to this magnificent palace at any time and take the land of Great Qin into his pocket.

Zhao Gao raised his head and looked up along the stone steps. The Golden Luan Palace was in front of his eyes. Seeing the tall palace, he seemed to see himself sitting in the palace wearing a royal robe, facing the crowd. The minister gave orders.

Thinking of this, Zhao Gao slightly closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

He made up his mind, held the jade seal in both hands and walked up the stone steps. He had walked this stone step countless times, but he had never walked so easily and casually this time.

"Boom," when Zhao Gao stepped into the hall, a loud noise came into his ears, and then the whole hall and the white jade steps outside shook together, Zhao Gao was startled, turned around and walked out left the hall.

Strange to say, as soon as his front foot left the hall, the trembling stopped, and the hall and steps returned to tranquility, not even a speck of dust that had been shaken off, as if he hadn't trembled at all just now.

Zhao Gao frowned, and stepped into the hall again. This time, the hall didn't tremble when he first entered the hall. He stood at the door for a while, and seeing that the hall didn't tremble as before, he let out a sigh of relief. Walked towards the throne.

Just after he took two steps, the hall suddenly shook again, this time the shaking was slightly different from last time, Zhao Gao felt that the whole hall was spinning, as if it would collapse in the next moment.

He escaped from the hall by rolling and crawling. Just as his feet stepped out of the threshold, the trembling stopped again.

Zhao Gao patted his chest, looked back at the majestic palace with lingering fear, shook his head in distress, and walked down the steps holding the jade seal.

The abnormal phenomenon made Zhao Gao very depressed. The emperor was rejecting him, so it was obvious that he was not the right man. He had no choice but to summon all the ministers and royal family members of the Qin Dynasty to the palace. In order to maintain his absolute position in the court, He ordered the direct execution of those ministers and members of the royal family who did not want to come.

Under pressure, the vast majority of ministers and members of the royal family rushed to the court despite being resentful in their hearts. As for the few who did not want to go to the court, they were ordered to be executed by Zhao Gao.

Seeing that most of the ministers and members of the royal family had gone to the main hall, Zhao Gao sat on the second seat to the throne and said to everyone: "Before the unification of Qin, it was just a kingdom. The princes from all over the world have risen, and there is only a small piece of Qin's land. Now it is no longer suitable to use the title of emperor. It should be changed back to the original title of king. The second generation has no way and has been killed. The country cannot live without a king , what I want to consider is to establish another new monarch, I think the son Ying has always been kind, and he is the second nephew's nephew, it is very suitable for him to inherit the throne, what do you think?"

There was silence in the court hall, most of the ministers and members of the royal family lowered their heads and did not dare to answer. Everyone of Zhao Gao was familiar with covering the sky with his hands in the court. If they spoke out to refute his decision at this time, not only the His own life, but the life of the whole family.

"Is there no one who agrees?" Seeing that no one spoke, Zhao Gao turned his face hard and glanced at them, whoever his gaze fell on would start a cold war.

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, I will not speak. It is not because I disagree with the Prime Minister's proposal. It is precisely because I agree that I remain silent." Seeing Zhao Gao's fierce face, a minister quickly bowed and said, "Young Ziying is a kind person, and it is indeed the King of Qin's displeasure." Two candidates, I agree with the prime minister's proposal, "

Zhao Gao nodded with a smile, and asked other ministers and members of the royal family: "What about you, do you disagree with this proposal?"

Everyone hurriedly bent down and said in agreement: "Everything is up to the prime minister, and we all agree."

After appointing Gong Ziying as the successor of King Qin, Zhao Gao actively prepared for the grand ceremony of the new king's ascension to the throne.

At this time, Xiang Yu's army had already entered Guanzhong, and Liu Bang's army was approaching Gaoguan, only to take Xianyang in one fell swoop after breaking through the pass.

After being selected as the next King of Qin, Ziying fasted for five days under Zhao Gao's arrangement.

During these five days, Gong Ziying seemed to have passed five years. He knew very well that when he came to the throne, the government would still be in the hands of Zhao Gao. He was just a puppet like the second generation. Gao will definitely put all the crimes on his head and let him be a scapegoat.

Gong Ziying is not an idiot like Hu Hai, he is very aware of his current situation, and also knows that if he wants to get out of this predicament, what he must do is to get rid of Zhao Gao.

"I heard that Zhao Gao has made an agreement with Liu Bang. When Liu Bang captures Xianyang, he will dedicate all the members of the royal family to Liu Bang, and he will carve up Guanzhong with Liu Bang. I am the king, just for the bad things he did in the past. Come to take the blame, I've been thinking about it for the past few days, I absolutely can't just sit around like this, I must get rid of Zhao Gao." On the night before his enthronement, Gong Ziying called his two sons and the eunuch Han Tan to fasting Jingshi said to them: "I called you here today to discuss with you how to get rid of Zhao Gao."

As soon as Gongziying's words came out of his mouth, his two sons and Han Tan were startled.

"My lord, Zhao Gao now controls the government and all the military power is in his hands. It may not be easy to get rid of him." Han Tan bowed and said rather anxiously: "Once the matter is revealed, I am afraid that the king and I will be killed." will die without a place to bury,"

"Tomorrow, I will hold the enthronement ceremony. You wait to arrange the knives and axes in the inner room, hide them well, and wait until Zhao Gao comes to urge, listen to my orders, and kill him in one fell swoop." Gong Ziying frowned, eyes slightly narrowed, he He knew that this would be his only chance to kill Zhao Gao, and also his last chance, if not, his whole family and Han Tan would be killed by Zhao Gao.

But the arrow is on the string and has to be fired. If he obeys Zhao Gao's words and ascends the throne smoothly, once the rebel army breaks through Xianyang, he will be the first to be pulled out and executed. Anyway, he will die if he does it, and he will die if he doesn't. He will live for the little left Hope, Ziying decided to take the risk and gamble on it.

Early the next morning, all the officials put on their court clothes and waited outside the main hall, but the new Prince Ying did not show up for a long time. When will the king arrive.

Zhao Gao sent people to urge him several times in succession, but every time Gong Ziying postponed it with various reasons, and in the end he simply said to the person sent by Zhao Gao: "I'm not feeling well today, so I can't go."

Zhao Gao was very angry when he heard that Prince Ying was unwilling to participate in the ceremony of accepting the seal, and said to the officials: "The new king is too outrageous. The date of the ceremony has already been set, so how can you change it at will? Everyone, wait a little bit. I went to urge myself, "

Zhao Gao led several personal guards to the quiet room where Young Master Ying was fasting. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Young Master Ying sleeping on the table.

"Your Majesty, the ceremony of receiving the seal is about to begin. Please change your clothes immediately, and go to receive the seal with your ministers." Zhao Gao frowned, and walked over to the son Ying very unhappy, to the table where the son Ying was lying , he didn't salute, and shouted at Gong Ziying: "You are enthroned today, why are you still..."

Before Zhao Gao finished speaking, Young Master Ying suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly: "Where is Han Tan?"

As soon as he yelled, Han Tan, who had been hiding behind the curtain for a long time, led a group of internal officials who had ambushed in advance, and rushed towards Zhao Gao with his saber.

The guards who followed Zhao Gao were far away. They just realized that something had happened. Han Tan had already raised his sword and chopped off Zhao Gao's head.