Chapter 323
At the end of the Youth hour, Chen Xu came out of the palace under the leadership of the envoy and the eunuch.
At that time, the dinner had already ended, and the ministers attending the dinner had already dispersed and returned to their houses to rest. Qin Shihuang specially kept Chen Xu for half an hour to communicate, and Chen Xu also took the opportunity to give the emperor a set of the Constitution of Gods that he and Shui Qingrou combined to give to the emperor.
Judging from Qin Shihuang's expression when he opened it, Chen Xu knew that Qin would probably not sleep tonight because it would be addictive to reading novels.
Moreover, the List of Gods is also a great killer to solve the mystery in Qin Shihuang's mind. Even people in later generations think that the content is true. In this era when the sayings of gods are prevalent, it is easy to be fooled and unable to get out.
A carriage was parked outside the palace and had been waiting for a long time. There were several guards with large waists and round waists and leather armor around them. Yu Wuya and Ying Bu also stood beside him with their horses. When they saw Chen Xu coming out, they quickly came up to say hello together.
"Let's go, go home!" Chen Xu got on the carriage, and Yu Wuya and Ying Bu also turned over and followed.
Before Chen Xu came to Xianyang, Qin Shihuang had prepared a mansion for him. Just southeast of Xianyang City, there was a huge mansion covering an area of 100 acres, with a high-walled courtyard made of bluestone. There were dozens of houses inside, hidden among flowers, plants and trees. There was also a huge garden at the entrance. There was a pond in the middle of the garden, and there was a pavilion and corridor on it, which was simply luxurious.
However, this mansion was not newly built, but was lived by a famous person back then. The famous man was named Lu Buwei, so it was originally called Lu Xiang Mansion. However, after renovation, the plaque of Lu's mansion has long been gone, and even all traces of the Lu family in the mansion have been cleared.
Lu Buwei, such a powerful person in history, and he is also a contradictory person who respects and hates Qin Shihuang to the core.
It can be said that the Qin Dynasty was able to achieve its current glory and Qin Shihuang had its current status, which was completely caused by Lu Buwei.
However, this character ended up not being good, so he committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine.
Therefore, Chen Xu was full of entanglement about Qin Shihuang giving this Lu Prime Minister's Mansion to him. Let's live, it's so disgusting. It's hard to refuse. Is Qin Shihuang dissatisfied with him?
In fact, Qin Shihuang was full of contradictions about Lu Buwei, and he didn't want to kill him, but he was just worried about him, because even though Lu Buwei was dismissed from his post as prime minister, he had too many disciples and too many officials in the court who sympathized with Lu Buwei. Qin Shihuang was afraid that Lu Buwei would threaten his royal power, so he asked him to move to Shu with his family, saying that he would never want to see him. At the same time, he wrote a letter to severely reprimand him. Therefore, on the way to Shu, Lu Buwei was afraid that Qin Shihuang's resentment would accumulate more and more, and finally he would destroy his tribes, so he simply drank poison and poisoned himself to death. In this way, Qin Shihuang would never have the chance to attack his family again.
Lu Buwei thought well. After his death, Qin Shihuang thought of his old love, so he did not make things difficult for the descendants of the Lü family. In fact, Qin Shihuang should be said to be a soft-hearted person, and even the disciples raised by Lao Ai returned to Xianyang.
The character Lu Buwei has a very high historical evaluation in China. It can be said to be a magical existence. Whether it is the strange goods that can be lived and supported Qin Shihuang's father Yiren to return to the throne, or the animal husband who compiled "Lüshi Chunqiu" and offered a reward of one word to make a mistake, it can be seen that his magic is no longer as simple as ordinary magic.
Later generations regarded him as the leader of the miscellaneous schools, and this book was also widely used, and learned from the strengths of many schools, and was also a Confucian and Mohist, and was a combination of names and laws. It was both a history book and a strategy for governing the country. Unfortunately, Qin Shihuang did not like it, so he abandoned it and passed down to later generations for the famous classics to understand the culture of the pre-Qin period.
Although Lu Buwei was the prime minister of the country, he was even a big merchant who was rich enough to rival the country. Therefore, the mansion was built in extremely luxuriously, which was the best in Xianyang... In addition to opening the palace.
But at the moment, Chen Xu felt that there was always haunted inside in such a large mansion. From the moment he entered the door, he felt that something was gloomy and bad was at work.
The carriage drove into the yard and parked at the door of a huge room. The two leather lanterns hung on the lintel kept swaying in the cold night wind. The trees, flowers and plants around made puffs and slap sounds, and all kinds of strange sounds came from all directions. Chen Xu's hair stood up in a terrifying way.
"What's in the bushes?" Chen Xu pointed at the black bushes and asked in horror.
"Should the night bird? Or it's a weasel!" Ying Bu next to him glanced at him and said lightly.
"Impossible, why is it always a rumbling sound!" Chen Xu didn't believe it.
"My benefactor, don't be nervous, I'll go and see!" Yu Wuya naturally heard the voice in the bushes. Although he felt that it was similar to Yingbu and should be a wild thing, as Chen Xu's most trusted person, he decided to go and see it.
Yu Wuya crawled into the woods several feet away, and soon walked out with a strange face holding something still struggling and shaking in his hand, "My benefactor, it's a rabbit!"
"Mr. Chen, you see I'm right!" Ying Bu said with a sigh of relief.
Chen Xu also breathed a sigh of relief and said curiously: "Is this rabbit tied inside? Otherwise, you would have been caught so easily?"
"Hey, benefactor, you hit it off. This rabbit was tied to a small tree with a thin line, half-hanged inside and kept kicking, making such continuous sounds!" Yu Wuya said in surprise.
"Ah?!" Chen Xu and Ying Bu were stunned at the same time.
"I guess someone's servant caught it and tied it inside. Let's go, let's make a braised rabbit meat tomorrow!" Yu Wuya said heartlessly.
Chen Xu also felt that this should be the case, so he asked several guards to disperse first, and asked the coachman to drive the carriage away, and then the three of them walked along a straight corridor to a building.
"Listen, there is another sound!" Before we walked far, Chen Xu heard a sensational sound from the woods next to him, which sounded particularly creepy in the middle of the night.
"I'll go and have a look!" This time Ying Bu drew out his long sword and drilled in. After a while, he also jumped out with a strange look on his face.
This is a fox, and there is a half rope tied to its legs.
The situation was almost the same for two consecutive times. This time, not only Yu Wuya's face became solemn, but even Chen Xu felt something was very wrong.
"Yingbu, is there a habit of tying small animals when moving to a new home?" Chen Xu looked at the rabbit and fox in Yu Wuya and Yingbu's hands and twitched a few times.
"I haven't heard that at least we, Chu, have never had this habit!" Ying Bu replied.
Yu Wuya also shook his head: "Wuya has never heard of this strange custom!"
Chen Xu pinched his chin and thought for a while, "It seems that someone did it on purpose. We have just come to Xianyang today and stayed in this mansion for only an hour. The guards and servants inside were arranged by the emperor, and some of them must have problems!"
"My benefactor, do you say it's the emperor who wants to scare you?" Yu Wuya couldn't help but say.
"Can you not think so much? The emperor scares me to do something? Although these guards and servants were arranged by the emperor, they were definitely not arranged directly by him. Some of them must be secretly causing trouble with their worries!"
"Dare!" Yu Wuya suddenly felt a murderous aura, and he pinched the rabbit in his hand with a crack, and then said viciously, "My benefactor, don't worry, I'll find the troublemaker and kill it!"
Chen Xu grabbed Yu Wuya and said, "What's so excited? How can I find it in the dark? Besides, there are dozens of houses in this mansion, and there are hundreds of guards. How do you tell it? Don't be confused. Tomorrow, you can go to the Tongwu Hou Mansion to call Wang Sanwang Si and others, and then search in the mansion for a while, don't be alerted!"
"Brother Yu, Mr. Chen is right. It's too late today. It's not too late to investigate again tomorrow. If someone really has something wrong, he must find out the source. Otherwise, someone might have to frame Mr. Chen in secret!" Ying Bu also said coldly, pressing the long sword on his waist.
Because the Lu Xiang Mansion in the past was too big and too many rooms, Chen Xu could only ask the official family to arrange a large room with several bedrooms, including a study and living room. Even in the study, the bookshelf and wooden boxes were filled with various ancient classics, including bamboo, wood, bamboo, bamboo, slips and cloth, but many of them had been bitten by mice, and the cloth books were even crippled by insects.
It seems that the emperor's arrangements are thoughtful, but his subordinates are indeed perfunctory in their work. The renovation is too careful. The study room has not been moved at all, and it may be that it is too late.
Under the leadership of a middle-aged man with an honest and honest face, Chen Xu, Yu Wuya and others looked at the inside and outside of the big house with pine lights and lanterns. Then a maid came to serve the three of them with hot water, linen and changing clothes.
Because he was afraid that some of these people would be unfavorable to Chen Xu, Yu Wuya drove out several maids who served the bath and asked Chen Xu to take a bath by himself. Although Chen Xu was a little disappointed, for his own sake, he temporarily gave up the lifestyle of a decadent feudal bureaucratic landlord who was caressed by a few gentle hands to take a bath. He lay in a big wooden barrel and took a comfortable bath. At the same time, he slowly recalled in his mind who was tied up a few small animals to scare him. Moreover, in such a large house, there would definitely be no only one rabbit and a fox. There were too many flowers, plants and trees in the prime minister's mansion, and maybe seventeen or eighteen could be found tomorrow.
Who is it?
Could it be that I can be scared by a few small animals?
It seems that we must buy some slaves to train themselves, and there are also guards. There must be people who are unfair to them, and the coachman must also replace them...
Chen Xu thought while washing, and finally felt that the biggest driver of this matter might be Zhao Gao or Meng Yun.
There are only these two characters in Xianyang City who have conflicts with him. Although there may be ideological conflicts among others, including Li Si, it is definitely not that now. He has just entered Xianyang and is not even an official, and there is no threat to them. If Li Si is unhappy because he blocked an agricultural decree that was ready to be enforced tonight, he would not be able to do this at such a speed. What's more, the dignified left prime minister of the Qin Dynasty might not be able to scare others with a little rabbit. It is mainly because it is too shameful.
Li Si is indeed not very familiar with Chen Xu, and his evaluation of him in history was also mixed. But overall, the prosperity and prosperity of the Qin Dynasty from unification to destruction was closely related to him. In addition to promoting the Legalist concept, this person persuaded Qin Shihuang to abandon the enfeoffment of the kings and adopt the county system, and then vigorously promoted the measures of writing, carriages and tracks, and the same system. Finally, the Chinese nation was united into a whole, completely breaking the sequelae of the feudal system, and laying a solid foundation for China to continue to become a unified country in the war of separation and reunion for more than two thousand years.
Without Li Si, perhaps there would be no glory of the Han Empire later.
And the most important thing is that Li Si has only been two years since he was the Tingwei to become the Left Prime Minister. Although he has great power, he has not yet achieved the ability to speak in the court. There are many people who have disagreements with the nine ministers and officials, so he is also careful and is in the time to cultivate his own followers.
More importantly, Li Si's character is quite honest. From the "Letter of Admonition for Exile" he presented to Qin Shihuang, he can be regarded as a gentleman and a good official. At least he has always done a good job in terms of whether he is responsible for his status or status, protecting the interests of ordinary people, and weakening the powerful. However, there is a huge stain on this person, which is what Jiang Beiting mentioned at the beginning. He poisoned his senior brother Han Feizi. Although he had no choice, it can be seen that character and integrity are not a combination of two. In other words, although Li Si had the heart to serve the country and the people, his character was not flawless. As the saying goes, flies do not bite seamless eggs. Otherwise, after Qin Shihuang's death, he would not have revised the edict together with Zhao Gao's persuasion.
Therefore, according to Chen Xu's limited understanding, Li Si can be dated, but he cannot be an ally because of his character.
Apart from Li Si, there was no one in the civil and military affairs of the court who would be detrimental to him as soon as he came to Xianyang.
Could it be that Wang Jian is just having fun? I heard that he is about to die?
Chen Xu thought about it all, but felt that he couldn't find any clues, so he went to bed after taking a shower.
In the living room of the front hall, Yu Wuya held an iron sword and meditated on the pudding mat.
Chapter completed!