The emperor's meaning is very clear. Chen Xu now blessed two marquises and titles, which was unprecedented in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, and even less than that in the Qin Dynasty.

Chen Xu was stunned by himself. He stayed for a long time before he came back to his senses and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this... this is not up to you."

"It's true that the courtesy is not up to me, but I can't treat my grandson badly!" Qin Shihuang waved his hand.

Chen Xu was covered in black and stopped talking.

This is completely shameless. The grandson who comes from the eight characters is not even apart at the moment. Besides, is the grandson so important in your eyes? Li You’s wife and Meng Yun’s wife are both your daughters, and you probably haven’t seen the children you gave birth to.

After inspecting the cement road, Qin Dada returned to the palace. Chen Xu stood by the river alone for a long time, and then slowly figured out the joints.

The biggest possibility of Qin Shihuang was to take this opportunity to stay in Xianyang.

The civil and military officials of the court, except for Wang Jian and his son, did not have any foreign officials' fiefs within the scope of the Neishifu, because the Neishifu includes Xianyang and dozens of surrounding counties, it is the location of the Great Qin capital and the Jishu. The foreign ministers cannot be involved. The titles of the Neishifu are all royal families of the Zhao clan of the Ying family, including the Jiancheng Hou Zhao Hai, the Changwu Hou Zhao Cheng, the Shaofu Order Zhao Wei, the exiled Zhao Gao, the former Chang'an Jun Chengjiao, and even Li Sifeng Quji Mengyi and many other great ministers who assisted the unification of the Great Qin could not get the fiefs within the scope of the Neishifu. At most, they had rewarded hundreds of hectares of land and manors around Xianyang.

Moreover, all the marquises in the Qin Dynasty did not have the precedent of titles with the county name as titles. This is the case for both the Marquis of Wu and Wenhou. The place name as titles was the way of enfeoffment of the princes in the past, which was also the reason why Chen Xu and all the civil and military ministers were surprised.

In other words, although Qin Shihuang overthrew the Great Zhou and established the Qin Dynasty's pattern of unifying the world, abolished the feudal system and changed it to the county system, laying the imperial model governed by the central dynasty, he was actually the same as the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty. He still believed in his own tribes and enfeoffed the Zhao clan of Ying near Xianyang, and all the heroes were enfeoffed in remote places. Although the only feudal fiefs were only a fief, it shows the emperor's trust in the Zhao clan.

From what happened to Zhao Gao this time, we can see that the emperor's trust in his tribe has reached a point where people cannot let go. If it weren't for Chen Xu and Meng Yi's efforts to cooperate for several months, it would be unlikely to move Zhao Gao down...

Chen Xu recalled what Zhao Gao had happened in his mind, and suddenly felt that it was not related to the fact that Taibu said that the severe drought in autumn and the need to reduce the punishment, but that there must be other reasons.

It seems that I have to find an opportunity to communicate with Meng Yi and find out the whole story, otherwise I might step into a pit next time and I can't get out of it!

"Congratulations to the Marquis for his promotion. When he married the fifth princess, his subordinates must go and congratulate him!" Zhang Cang and a group of craftsmen and craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences all gathered around to congratulate Chen Xu.

"I am happy and happy. You are also rewarded by Your Majesty today. I hope you can work hard and prepare materials as soon as possible after surveying the location of the Weihe Bridge. If it can be repaired before the winter, next year will be the year for the Academy of Sciences to make great efforts. We will build a highway that connects directly to Luoyang, Handan, Daliang and Linzi. Once this road is built, the land route from Xianyang to Qijun will only be five days. Freight will save nearly twenty days on the current basis, and it will also drive the development of business and tourism along the road. The entire Central Plains will flourish because of this road. Let's go back to the Academy of Sciences to hold a meeting to discuss the issue of preparing for the road construction office..."

Under the temptation of a blueprint of the highway beautiful scenery drawn by Chen Xu, Zhang Cang and a group of craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences surrounded Chen Xu back to the Academy of Sciences.

At the end of the Si period, Chen Xu returned to the Qinghe Marquis' Mansion after leaving the Academy of Sciences, found the land deed of the manor outside the city that Li Xin gave him, and then arranged a manager to hold his own greeting to invite Meng Yi to have a banquet at the Qinghe Hotel in Wushizhong.

It’s around three o’clock in the afternoon.

At the entrance of Qinghe Park.

Meng Yi's four bridles arrived as promised under the escort of a group of guards with their backs and bears.

Meng Yi was as expressionless as ever, and there was no trace of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness on his face.

Chen Xu stood at the door to greet him with the sun. Meng Yi just bowed his hands slightly to show his politeness. His face was not good-looking, as if he felt that Chen Xu owed him millions of dollars.

What happened to this old hooligan today? When I was just standing by the river, I was talking and laughing, but why did I turn my back on you in a blink of an eye!

Chen Xu inexplicably but still enthusiastically welcomed Meng Yi into his suite where he specially picked up customers.

After greetings, sitting down, serving tea, a few little maids came over to fan, and when they felt cooler, Chen Xu waved his hand and asked the maids to leave to arrange a banquet.

"Why does Lord Meng look unhappy today?" Chen Xu finally couldn't help asking.

"When will I be unhappy?" Meng Yi said lightly, holding his beard.

Chen Xu thrust a few times. How could I answer this? Don’t you know if you are happy? But since you treat me, as the host, you must not be in a mess. So he smiled and said, “Xu hasn’t had a long time to drink and chat with Lord Meng. Today, he happened to have free time, so he invited Lord Meng to have a banquet. At the same time, there is one thing I want to confirm with Lord Meng.”

"What's the matter?" Meng Yi still had a expressionless face.

Chen Xu was too lazy to continue to quarrel with this old hooligan, so he bowed and said, "It's about Zhao Gao, there must be some insider information afterwards. Did Lord Meng know about it?"

Meng Yi picked up the teacup and said, "Of course there is inside information, and I know a little bit. I heard that His Majesty summoned the royal family members such as Jiancheng Hou Zhao Hai and Changwu Hou Zhao Cheng to discuss it, and then used Taibu's words to relieve Zhao Gao's guilt!"

Chen Xu held the teacup for a long time and smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Zhao Gao was so serious, but His Majesty did not kill him. If this continues, it will only make the civil and military officials in the court feel sad. It is not the wise ruler. This is the way to cause disaster!"

Meng Yi didn't speak for a long time. After drinking a few sips of tea, he sighed: "Your Majesty is hard to figure out. I thought I could succeed in one fell swoop, but unfortunately... We still underestimated Zhao Gao's connections in the court. Over the past ten years, Zhao Gao has been rooted in countless gangs in the court and is also indirectly connected with the royal family. You must know that when Zhao Gao was the Grand Duke of the Nine Ministers, I was just a lieutenant. When he was the rank of the CRRC, I became the chief censor. If it weren't for the incident eight years ago,

Why should I take this muddy water? It is a taboo for our foreign officials, because dealing with any royal family may scare other royal family, let alone killing them. Do you know why Shang Yang was broken by a car? It was because he was too serious about the criminal law and did not respect the royal family, so he cut off Gongziqian's nose. As a result, Qin Xiaogong died, and Gongziqian immediately defiled Shang Yang's rebellion. All royal families agreed and supported Gongziqian's actions. Shang Yang betrayed his relatives and resisted hastily, but he was quickly killed and then broke into pieces and left the market..."

Meng Yi said that he was silent for a long time before continuing: "So when dealing with Zhao Gao's affairs, the royal family is actually holding a group to keep warm. He is unwilling to impose heavy punishment on the royal family because of us foreign ministers. There will inevitably be a second and third time. This is what they fear the most. In addition, we planned the last time too well, without any flaws or room. The arrest of more than ten second-rank third-rank fourth-rank officials at that time will inevitably arouse the emperor's suspicion and alertness..."

Chen Xu was stunned for a while before shaking his head with a bitter smile.

Meng Yi said very clearly. The so-called too much is too little. That time, the matter of using Zhao Zhe in the court was like a storm and storm, which broke all the Zhao Gao and his gangsters. The handling was too fast and too fast at that time. Not only were the civil and military officials in the court stunned, but even the emperor had to express his intention to severely punish Zhao Gao. In a rage, the three tribes of the car split were all serious crimes, including this kind of operation that was too complete and without any room for the emperor, which made the emperor definitely have some concerns about Meng Yi's operations afterwards, because he did not know all of Meng Yi's investigations at all. This was a manifestation of mutual distrust between the monarch and the ministers.

Even though Qin Shihuang could understand Meng Yi's approach, he did not mean that he liked the minister he valued the most to do so.

What's more, that incident involved Wang Jian, the imperial military god.

In other words, this was a premeditated act of several foreign ministers he relied on to unite against the royal family.

Although Wang Jian only said one thing in court, and it seemed that he was not important in that matter, Wang Jian's identity is the most fearful.

Wang Jian retired and ignored any government affairs, but because of Wang Qingxiu's affairs, he had to come forward to prove Zhao Gao.

No matter how serious Zhao Gao is, how damns he deserves, foreign ministers unite to target the royal family and even force the emperor, which will inevitably cause uneasiness among all royal families.

An emperor who is used to controlling everything suddenly finds that many things have lost their control power, which will inevitably feel very frustrated and angry.

Therefore, even if Zhao Gao was a death sentence that would never be restored, Qin Shihuang still had to express his anger with his own attitude, that is, no matter how anyone operated, everyone's life and death were still controlled in his hands, Zhao Gao's life or death was in his thoughts.

Apart from Zhao Gao's death penalty, it was just an attitude of the emperor to show his foreign ministers.

"I can't sleep or eat if Zhao Gao is not dead, but killing Zhao Gao will inevitably make Your Majesty suspect me. This is the most difficult choice since I became the censor. Zhao Gao's migration to Shu this time is the best time to kill him. How did the Qinghe Marquis arrange it?" Meng Yi turned his head and looked at Chen Xu and asked.

"After the court's discussion that day, I informed Shang Qi and Ma Teng of the matter, and secretly sent family servants to Shu, but no news has been heard back at the moment!" Chen Xu replied.

"Actually, at this end, Zhao Gao basically has no room for a turnaround. It doesn't matter whether he dies or does not die. What is important is another thing?" Meng Yi nodded.

"What's the matter?" Chen Xu asked in confusion.

"When will the Queen of Qinghe plan to marry her little daughter Wan'er?"

"Ahem...ahhhh..."

Chen Xu sprayed out his nostrils with a mouthful of tea, and tears and snot came out.
Chapter completed!