Qin Shizhi's Confucian junior master

Chapter 428, Biography spread

Zhao Wangqian was waiting cautiously for news about Zhao Wu during the civil war in the Zhao Palace, and beside him was the prostitute.

"Queen Mother, do you think Zhao Wu can stop Li Mu?" Zhao Wangqian asked worriedly.

The prostitute glanced at her unsatisfied son. Although she wanted to ask her son if he regretted the idea of ​​killing Li Mu, it was no longer helpful.

"Qian'er, we can only resign ourselves to fate at this point." The prostitute hugged King Zhao Qian into her arms and consoled him.

Zhao Wangqian, who hid in the arms of the prostitute, cried silently like a young child. The prostitute is no longer the queen mother who is greedy for power, but a mother who is ready to share weal and woe with her son.

Panicked footsteps sounded, and a chamberlain opened the palace door in a panic and said in a miserable tone.

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother, Handan City has been destroyed, Lord Zongzheng committed suicide, and now the Wuling Cavalry and the Qin Army are coming towards the palace, please leave quickly!"

"What?" Zhao Wangqian stood up from the prostitute's arms, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Looking at the stunned Zhao Wangqian, the prostitute took Zhao Wangqian's hand and said

"Qian'er, prepare to surrender. Surrender to the Qin army. If the Wuling cavalry rushes into the Zhao palace, I am afraid that no one in the clan will be left alive. Surrender to the Qin army and our lives may be saved."

Zhao Wangqian glanced at the sky outside the palace. Surrendering to the Qin army was his last choice. He was the king of Zhao. If Qin wanted to stabilize the people of Zhao, it must keep him. After making a decision in his heart, Zhao Wangqian suddenly felt a lot empty in his heart, and he nodded with all his strength.

The prostitute patted Zhao Wangqian's hand and then said

"Have someone bring the seal and change the king's clothes!"

"promise!"

On the other side, after the Wuling Iron Cavalry rushed into Handan City, the remaining imperial army blocked them. Li Mu stood in front of the Wuling Iron Cavalry and confronted Jin. The remaining Forbidden Army soldiers watched Li Mu's hand holding the spear keep fighting. Li Mu just glanced at them lightly, and the Forbidden Army soldiers kept retreating.

A large number of people in the surrounding houses looked at the scene outside through windows or door cracks. Their emotions were very complicated. They did not expect that General Li Mu of Wu'anjun, whom they considered to be the pillar of the country, would actually lead the Wuling Iron Cavalry in the midst of the national crisis. Ji Ji rebelled and personally attacked Handan.

Of course, they believed that it was natural for Li Mu and the Wuling Cavalry to rebel. They were the people of Handan. Whether it was Li Mu being paraded through the streets by Guo Kai or the family members of the Wuling Cavalry being massacred, they had witnessed it with their own eyes. This was unmistakable. But there were different opinions in Handan City about the reasons why Li Mu and the Wuling Cavalry rebelled, and they didn't know how to feel about Li Mu and the Wuling Cavalry.

Li Mu glanced at the Forbidden Army in front, then at the surrounding houses and said

"I know you are all scolding me, Li Mu, saying that I did not want to serve the country during the national crisis, but instead defected and attacked Handan. It doesn't matter what you say about me, Li Mu, but the Wuling Cavalry cannot suffer unwarranted accusations.

When Lieutenant Wei led the Imperial Guards to massacre the family members of the Wuling Cavalry, I believe the people of Handan saw it for all to see. You may think that it was because I, Li Mu, rebelled that you learned that Zhao Qian ordered the massacre of our family members of the Wuling Iron Cavalry clan, but do you know that before I, Li Mu, entered Handan City, Zhao Qian had all the members of my Wuling Iron Cavalry clan arrested. My family members burned the land of my Wuling Iron Cavalry clan into scorched earth! "

Hearing Li Mu's words, the guards looked at each other in shock, and the people hiding in the houses also recalled that they had also heard of this rumor.

"If you don't believe it, you can go to the villages near the fiefdom of my Wuling Iron Cavalry clan and ask around. This time we are not rebelling for power, but only for one thing. Seeking justice and truth for our Wuling Iron Cavalry who have guarded the country's borders and resisted foreign enemies for generations. !" Li Mu's voice sounded like a loud bell, echoing around him with the blessing of his inner strength.

While the people were still eating melons, a soldier in the imperial guard dropped his weapon on the ground and cried, hugging his head. This immediately attracted the attention of the people around him.

"What Mr. Wu An said is true. I was one of the people who went to the Wuling Cavalry fiefdom. At that time, the king ordered Lieutenant Wei to take us to wipe out the rebellion. When we got there, we found out that it was the Wuling Cavalry fiefdom. At that time, we were still I thought it was a mistake. How could the family members of the Wuling Iron Cavalry rebel? But the military prince who raised the question was directly killed by Lieutenant Wei, saying that this was the king's order. Forced by the king's order, we killed all the family members of the Wuling Iron Cavalry clan. He was arrested and imprisoned in the abandoned palace in the east of the city.

But everyone knows what happened next. The king sent people to massacre these family members. Some family members escaped, and they were chased and hacked to death on the streets! "The soldier said with tears in his eyes.

Listening to the soldier's words, the eyes of the Wuling cavalry behind Li Mu were blood red at this moment. They looked at the streets around them and did not dare to think whether their family members were killed on this street. These men who were on the battlefield got off their horses and knelt on the street.

Seeing this scene, the guards blocking Li Mu's way lowered their weapons and gave up resistance. The people hiding in the houses also shed tears silently when they saw this scene. They were crying for these men who defended Zhao State from foreign enemies at the border but could not protect their relatives, and for the Wuling cavalry who died tragically at the hands of Zhao Wangqian. The family members wept, weeping sadly that their Zhao country had such a monarch.

The Golden Fire Cavalry who entered the city with the Wuling Cavalry did not encounter any resistance from the guards. After Meng Tian sent people to occupy the city gate, he led the people to rush towards the Zhao Palace. When Meng Tian arrived at the Zhao Palace, Zhao Wang Qian led hundreds of officials and internal officials to open the city gate.

Zhao Wangqian, who was dressed in white, held the royal seal and map of Zhao State in his hands and walked towards Meng Tian. Meng Tian looked down at Zhao Wangqian. For someone like Zhao Wangqian who backstabbed the family members of the border soldiers, he wanted to cut off Zhao Wangqian's neck with his own hands. head, but for the sake of the overall situation, he still resisted this idea.

"Mr. Zhao, Zhao Qian begs for surrender from Qin!" Zhao Wangqian knelt down to Meng Tian and raised the seal of King Zhao and the map of Zhao State in his hands.

Meng Tian glanced at Zhao Wangqian, got off his horse, checked the seal and map in Zhao Wangqian's hand to make sure they were correct, and said to Zhao Wangqian

"I am Meng Tian, ​​the pioneer of the Qin Kingdom. I will beg for surrender temporarily on behalf of King Zhao. I will make a decision after I report it to the commander-in-chief."

Meng Tian turned around and said to the Golden Fire Cavalry behind him.

"Come here, seal off King Zhao's palace, imprison the Zhao clan and officials, and wait until the commander-in-chief arrives before making a decision!"

"No!" the Golden Fire Cavalry shouted in unison.

The majestic voice broke through the sky. Because of what Zhao Wangqian had done before, the Golden Fire Cavalry was not too polite to Zhao Wangqian. He threw Zhao Wangqian into a palace like a livestock, guarding and preventing him. After his suicide, he began to block the royal palace of Zhao.

After dealing with the imperial guards in Handan City, when Li Mu brought the Wuling Cavalry to the Zhao palace, the Zhao flag on the Zhao palace had been replaced by the Qin black bird flag. Looking at the fluttering black black bird flag, Li Mu didn't think too much. Zhao Wangqian couldn't fall into their hands, otherwise he wouldn't have wasted so much time with the guards in Handan City.

The Wuling Iron Cavalry behind Li Mu looked at the fluttering black bird flag and felt a little aggrieved. They wanted to kill Zhao Wangqian to vent their anger, but now that the Zhao Wang Palace was captured by the Qin army first, they could only endure it.

The door to Prince Zhao's palace opened, and Meng Tian walked out slowly on horseback.

"Jun Wu An!" Meng Tian saluted Li Mu with fists on his horse.

"General Meng, since you have captured the Zhao palace, why bother asking King Zhao to order the border soldiers to give up surrender and reduce killings," Li Mu said.

"This is natural." Meng Tian took out the surrender edict written by Zhao Wangqian himself and handed it to Li Mu. "This is the surrender edict written by King Zhao himself. I have troubled the brothers of Wuling Cavalry to send it to the South Great Wall and other border passes."

Li Mu took the edict and checked that it was correct before giving it to Sima Shang. Sima Shang handed the edict to a soldier and asked him to go to the South Great Wall.

"Where is Mr. Ziyou?" Li Mu asked.

"The Taiwei should be outside Handan City at the moment." Meng Tian said.

"When Mr. Ziyou enters the city, please tell me that I want to see him." Li Mu said.

Meng Tian nodded.

Then Li Mu took the Wuling cavalry to clean up the corpses of those who died in the battle and the people who took advantage of the chaos in the city, while Meng Tian returned to the Zhao Palace and continued to garrison the Zhao Palace. Before Wang Jian arrived, Meng Tian did not dare to abandon the Zhao Palace. He was not sure whether Zhao Wangqian had a back-up plan, or whether Zhao's unwilling minister Wu Jiang would take advantage of their slackness to counterattack them.

Under a tree outside the city, Ziyou was listening to Gai Nie talking about what he had seen these days. In the past few years, Gai Nie and the law enforcement team have cleared out all the strongholds of the descendants of the Gods in the Qin State. Hundreds of sects from all over the country also gave them great help, which made them so successful.

"After we, the Mo Family, and the Yin Yang Family cleared out the descendants of the God Clan in Yuyang County, we started to clean up the descendants of the God Clan from Dai County. We met Po Jun and the others in Handan, and finally tracked them to Dai County, and finally fell into their trap. Strategy." Gai Nie raised his hands to Ziyou and said, "Thank you very much, Lieutenant, for going to Zhao State to rescue us."

"There is no need to mention these false etiquettes. You have made great contributions in cleaning up the strongholds of the descendants of the Gods in recent years. Have you heard anything about Yun Mengze among the descendants of the Gods in these years?" Ziyou asked.

After Gai Nie thought for a while, he took out a piece of tortoise shell from his arms and handed it to Ziyou and said

"Indeed, I have heard about it. This is a piece of tortoise shell we found when we were cleaning up the stronghold of the descendants of the God Clan in Yuyang County. It does contain records about Yunmengze, but this tortoise shell is just one of them. As for the ultimate goal of the descendants of the God Clan, What, just a few words, about weapons and power."

Ziyou took the tortoise shell and read the words on it. They were words on a piece of tortoise shell. Ziyou didn't recognize it, but he could barely tell that it looked like ancient writing.

"We don't recognize the words on it either. A senior of the Yin-Yang family recognized the three characters Yunmengze above. The Yin-yang family has a close relationship with Yunmengze, and there are such words in the ancient books handed down by them. , but the senior didn’t know what the specific content was, but he made a rubbing and went to Jiugong Shendu Mountain, saying that after translating it, he went to the Great Qin Academy to report it to the king." Gai Nie said.

Ziyou nodded, that was all he could do now.

Then Ziyou led everyone towards Handan City. After arriving in Handan City, Sima Shang sent someone to invite Ziyou, and Ziyou met Li Mu alone.

"Of course I know what Mr. Wu An wants to ask," Ziyou said with a smile.

"I knew I couldn't hide these things from you." Li Mu nodded and said.

"Although it was Zhao Wangqian who forced the Wuling Iron Cavalry to rebel, the Wuling Iron Cavalry did besiege Handan during the national crisis of Zhao. This is an indisputable fact and will not disappear easily in the hearts of the Zhao people. In order to balance the relationship between the Zhao people and the Wuling Iron Cavalry In the meantime, King Zhao Qian will die, but the Wuling Cavalry will also be disrupted and incorporated into the Qin army, so Lord Wu An is worried about this matter, you don't want the Wuling Cavalry to disappear." Ziyou said.

Li Mu did not speak, but continued to wait for Ziyou.

"If you want to maintain the glory of Wuling Cavalry, it depends on Lord Wu An's choice." Ziyou said with a smile.

"Do I still have a choice?" Li Mu said with a bitter smile. Ever since he drank the poisonous wine, he had no choice anymore.

"Of course there is. The Qin State lacks a real lieutenant. If Lord Wu An becomes the lieutenant of the Qin State, the existence of the Wuling Iron Cavalry can be preserved. As for how to make the Zhao people continue to recognize the Wuling Iron Cavalry, it is also very simple. First, the novel The family established a legend for the Wuling Cavalry. Whether it was the defeat of Shanyu Maodun at Yanmen Pass, or the defeat of twelve tribes by Wu Anjun in the grassland for 600 miles, these were all things the people loved to hear.

Secondly, the grassland is always a danger. Let the Wuling Cavalry continue to guard the border and resist the invasion of the grassland for the people of the Central Plains. With the Qin State behind the scenes to provide logistics support for the Wuling Cavalry, the Wuling Cavalry can safely do things on the grassland that they dare not do. " Ziyou said.

After listening to Ziyou's words, Li Mu began to consider the powerful relationships. First of all, he was asked to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Qin State. This shocked Li Mu. The commander-in-chief of a country actually gave him the title of surrendered general. , this was an unprecedented thing, but Li Mu didn't think it was Ziyou's joke, or to stabilize his thoughts. There were too many outrageous things in Qin.

The second is the matter of the Wuling Iron Cavalry. The second one is easy to say. The Wuling Iron Cavalry is originally a garrison at Yanmen Pass. Guarding the border is their belief and mission. As for the matter of asking a novelist to write a biography of it, this gives Li Mu a headache. Because he didn't know anyone who was a novelist, and he didn't think Ziyou knew anyone who was a novelist. Confucianists have always looked down on novelists, thinking that they were from the lower reaches and could not stand on the stage.

"I don't know anyone who is a novelist, and I don't have much contact with them," Li Mu said.

"Don't worry about this. The head of the novelist's family is currently in the Daqin Academy. He will be very willing to help Wuling Cavalry write a biography." Ziyou said.

(End of this chapter)