Chapter 721
"This song, how come I haven't heard it before?" When Gao Jianli finished playing the song, Qin Shi Huang suddenly frowned and asked.
"In reply to Your Majesty's words, this is a song that I have been working on for many years, but I have not been able to come up with a satisfactory ending, so it has never been finished."
"Today, on the occasion of Your Majesty's birthday, I have finally come up with a coda, so I am playing it to wish Your Majesty a long and prosperous life!"
Li Linfei secretly brushed aside his mouth, this old blind man's psychological quality can be ah, this horse's ass kissing is very unprompted, but who would have thought that he was a man who could do it, personally poked his own eyes to approach Emperor Qin Shi Huang, lurking around him for years to gain trust, only to not necessarily succeed, but absolutely will be deadly assassination strike?
"Then sit a little closer so that I can hear you more clearly!"
"Yes, sir!" Looking at Gao Jianli, who had a smile on his face, Li Linfei couldn't help but roll his eyes, for Gao Jianli was now absolutely ecstatic, for he was one step closer to succeeding in his assassination of Qin Shi Huang, and this time it was most likely that he would succeed!
But at a time when he was so excited and ecstatic, and when his hatred for Qin Shi Huang was bursting out, Gao Jianli could laugh so happily and sincerely, which made Guo Dong sigh that he was really a madman!
So the ancient people were not to be messed with, they were all paranoid and crazy, they didn't know what to do with their lives, they would kill you one after another, and they wouldn't care if they succeeded or not, they would fight for the chance to kill you!
It is precisely for this reason that Li Linfei has been in the mythical world for so long, yet he has been trying to find ways to spread his reputation and make it all kinds of great and lofty?
Not just for the sake of the Everlasting Life Pill, or for the sake of having to not offend these lunatics as much as possible!
But although he was a madman, he had to admit that Gao Jianli, who was able to strike a song for a thousand years, was definitely very advanced in musical attainments, and could be said to be a perfect master, and was definitely a top international master nowadays, but it was a pity that he was going to die soon!
"Your Majesty, I couldn't care less!" Looking at Yushu, who was attracted by the sound of Gao Jianli striking the building, after drinking the poisoned wine, and then clamping down on the poisoned dish, soon to be attacked by the mixture of the two poisons, General Jin simply could not hold back.
When Li Linfei saw a small disturbance on General Jin's side, he immediately drank the wine in his cup without moving, but did not put the empty cup down, instead he held it in his hand and played with it, as if it was not an ordinary cup, but an heirloom treasure.
On the other hand, he put most of his energy into Queen Tu'an and General Jin, who were not far away, ready to save the day again!
He had just become the great general of the town's borders, his 150,000-strong army had just arrived, and he had not yet brainwashed them, so how could he allow Qin Shi Huang to die at this time?
What's more, at this time, the heavenly star had not yet fallen, and the idea of building a heavenly palace was not yet in the cards, so naturally the Eternal Life Pill was still missing the most important one of the main medicines, for no other reason.
It was for the sake of the Longevity Pill that Li Linfei could not allow Emperor Qin Shi Huang to die at this time!
Therefore, when the chopsticks had reached Yushu's lips, General Jin could not bear it any longer, and even the Queen pushed aside to draw the attention of all the people, and after interrupting Yushu to take the other part of the mixed poison as well, he directly struck the concealed weapon detached from the zither in his hand at Qin Shi Huang with a shake of his hand!
One, he was fulfilling his mission to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, doing his last effort for this matter, and two, this small disturbance would not lead to the end of the banquet, Yu Shu was interrupted this time, there would still be the possibility of eating the poisoned dish next time, and only if Qin Shi Huang was assassinated would this possibility be completely eliminated!
Here we go! The cold light in Li Linfei's eyes flashed, and at the same time as General Jin struck a concealed weapon at Qin Shi Huang, the empty wine cup in Li Linfei's hand followed the charge, and the whole man even shouted explosively, "Protect His Majesty!"
Immediately afterwards, Li Linfei acted like a loyal servant and pounced directly towards General Jin and the others.
However, he had just reached the halfway point when he was dragged back by Gao Jianli's yell behind him, and the loud sound of several zither-building smashes on the dragon chair.
"How dare you, sinner?" With a roar from him, and a foot that landed on the back of Gao Jianli's neck retracted, Gao Jianli's collar bone was also shattered by the kick, leaving him to leave this world that was so filthy and unpleasant for him without the slightest feeling or pain.
It was better to die without pain than to be stabbed through the heart by Qin Shi Huang.
The banquet ended with a tiger's head and a snake's tail, while Li Linfei looked at the back of Yushu, who had left behind Qin Shi Huang, and pondered with a faintly contorted chin.
"General Jin, really a seed of infatuation, it is possible to make use of it!"
The fact that General Jin is a rare and good man, and that he can do anything for Yushu without regard to the bottom line, as long as he has Yushu, then he has everything that General Jin has, as long as it is not something that endangers Yushu, then he can be assured of General Jin's loyalty.
Not for anything else, for Yushu's sake too it is absolutely 100% loyalty! And is it really hard to master Yushu? For others it might be, but for Li Linfei it couldn't be easier!
"It seems that I really have to go to this Tuam!"
Only a fallen General Jin would have the only thing left in his eyes but Yushu, and only then would he be pure, pure enough to care about nothing for Yushu, to be a pure sword, a sword with no preference for good or evil, good or evil, black or white!
But before that, there was a trip to the Huns to be made first.
Chapter 722
"Damn it! Abomination! How dare these Xiongnu seize the territory of the Rong Di, and even dare to march their troops south to besiege the northern border? Uncle, I order you to command 150,000 troops and march north to give those damned Xiongnu a good show!"
Li Linfei's 50,000 elites who had survived a hundred battles, and the 50,000 troops sent by Meng Tian and Wang Li to assist Li Linfei in transporting prisoners of war and finances, amounted to 150,000 men stationed outside Xianyang City.
Even if Li Linfei had the slightest intention to rebel, he would have been able to take off his own head and sit on his own chair in no time!
So Li Linfei and the 150,000 troops were the bones of Qin Shi Huang's throat during this period.
"No! My general will take orders!" What could Li Linfei say? What's more, this was what he wanted, staying in Xianyang would not be conducive to his mastering the army and preparing for his reign after the death of Qin Shi Huang.
And the rest of the story has little to do with Xianyang, as it focuses on the conquest of the Xiongnu, the construction of the imperial tomb, the Emperor's tour of the east, the appearance of the elixir of immortality, the capture of the elixir from the sand dunes and the battle between Chu and Han.
There is a little bit of trivia about the city of Xianyang, but not much! So not to mention that Qin Shi Huang wanted to send him out, even if he didn't, he was planning to get Zhao Gao to put some slander in Qin Shi Huang's ear so that he could send himself out of Xianyang.
"Very well, the military situation is urgent and cannot be delayed, so Uncle Guo will go straight out of the city and lead the army to depart! I will order General Meng Yi to assist us, and I will also order General Wang Li to adjust the border and take over the 1,000 miles of territory he has conquered!"
"As soon as General Wang Li's troops arrive, Uncle Guo should also go and take over the burden left behind by General Wang Li's transfer and work hard to garrison the border and prepare for Hu!"
Li Linfei naturally understood what Emperor Qin Shi Huang had in mind, so he nodded and turned to leave.
Li Linfei returned with 150,000 troops, and the three uncles and nephews of the Xiang clan, as well as the general Zhang Han, who had been sent by Qin Shi Huang to scatter the power of the uncles and nephews and to prevent the descendants of Xiang Yan of Chu from gaining too much military power.
After he became the garrison general of Xianyang, he sent for Fan Kuai and Peng Yue, who had been promoted by him, to be his lieutenants, and divided his army into five columns to attack the Xiongnu.
With the bravery of Xiang Yu, the veteranship of Xiang Liang, the obedience of Xiang Zhuang, the steadiness of Zhang Han, the elite soldiers of Li Lin Fei, and the two squads of forty elite personal guards that each of the five large armies had, they beheaded and opened the city gates.
With the assistance of Meng Yi leading the attack on the flanks, Li Linfei's army swept through like a typhoon all the way, just as it had done when it had conquered this thousand-mile territory of Rong Di.
By the time Wang Li's army was ready to take over the 1,000 miles of territory, he was surprised to find that in just over a month or less than two months, Li Linfei had already led his troops to the Xiongnu capital, expanding the 1,300 miles of territory to 3,000 miles, more than doubling it!
As a result, the Mongolian army, which had been assisting in the attack, had to become a rear guard, garrisoning the 3,000 miles of Rongdi and Xiongnu territory that Li Linfei had conquered, and the elite frontier army was doing the work of a lowly county soldier!
The Qin emperor, who was informed, withdrew 200,000 people from the Great Wall and sent them all over to serve as the people of the 3,000 miles of territory and to help guard the vast new territory!
How many people were there in a Xiongnu city? How many men and horses were there? It could be argued that there were many, but not as many as the 250,000 troops that Li Linfei had collected along the way, plus the remnants of the surrendered Xiongnu and Rong Di soldiers.
As one of the very few cities of the powerful Xiongnu, and the only one of its kind, it could be said to be heavily fortified with high walls and thick gates, but with hundreds of oversized explosive packs made from the earth explosives Li Linfei had exchanged from the system.
But after hundreds of oversized explosive packs made of earth explosives that Li Linfei had exchanged from the system blew up the city gates and a whole section of the city walls, the so-called capital city was of no use at all and was directly killed by Li Linfei's troops late one dark and windy night.
The King of Xiongnu and his good but not very good-looking concubines, sisters, daughters and daughters-in-law were personally escorted to Xianyang by Li Linfei as a gift to Qin Shi Huang.
At that moment, Zhao Gao, who had received a secret message from Li Linfei, came to Qin Shi Huang's side after some hesitation and prepared to make a slanderous statement: "Your Majesty, I have something to tell you that I don't know if I should tell you!
"Go ahead!"
"Your Majesty, the uncle will be returning to Xianyang in a few days, and I am worried."
Qin Shi Huang was stunned, "Worried? What are you worried about?"
"Your Majesty, as you know, I have been friends with the uncle for a long time, so I should not have said this, but I am thinking of Your Majesty, so I have to say something."
After first stating his position, Zhao Gao stammered a little, "Your Majesty, you still remember that at the birthday banquet, someone had actually attempted to assassinate Your Majesty before Gao Jianli did so, right?"
Qin Shi Huang nodded: "Of course I know this, if it wasn't for you, a lackey, who discovered the information and guessed that it was poisoned, and almost let those thieves go, later it was you who designed to draw out those traitors who tried to kill me, but unfortunately the one who was drawn out was actually the Queen of Tu'an. "
"How dare I claim credit for my work for Your Majesty!"
Zhao Gao hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I am not talking about the matter of them poisoning."
Qin Shi Huang was stunned, not this? Then what else? Wasn't it the poisoning of Queen Tu'an and Gao Jianli's whirling of the zither that were the two assassinations? How could there be a third time?
"Has Your Majesty forgotten? Before Gao Jianli assassinated His Majesty, someone had sent a concealed weapon at His Majesty, and it was Uncle Guo who saved His Majesty by throwing the wine cup in his hand and deflecting it."
Chapter 723
Qin Shi Huang only remembered after Zhao Gao reminded him of this.
"That's right, there is such a thing ...... What are you trying to say by saying this?"
Zhao Gao stopped massaging Qin Shi Huang's bones and turned over to kneel down in front of the case: "Your Majesty, the person who threw the concealed weapon at you, if there is no mistake, should be the General Tu An surnamed Jin who ran away before, he is nowhere to be found for now, let me talk about the State Uncle and General Meng Yi Meng and a few other generals who are highly skilled and have exceptional martial arts skills! "
"They? What happened to them?" Qin Shi Huang was even more puzzled, and was even more unsure of what Zhao Gao was trying to say by going around in such a big circle.
Zhao Gao was also bitter, how could he remind Qin Shi Huang of what had happened at that time without going around in such a big circle?
After all, it had been more than a month since the incident, and so many things had happened recently that Qin Shi Huang had already forgotten all such details!
Without reminding him of these details, how could he mobilise his inner suspicion and fear, and thus achieve Li Linfei's request to transfer him out of Xianyang?
"Your Majesty, at that time, the force of the State Uncle's wine cup was unbelievably strong, and after knocking away the concealed weapon, it also went straight into the master on the side, so to speak, and it still remains there today, and I did not notice it by chance until yesterday, and I could not help but break out in a cold sweat at that time."
"Although nowadays His Majesty rules that no weapons are allowed to be brought to court, but the wine glass can be nailed into the pillar after hitting a flying concealed weapon, then the jade pendant and gold order that comes with it, the brass buckle on the belt and the hairpin on the head and so on too many things."
"In the hands of people such as the uncle of the state and the great general Meng Yi, it may not be impossible to turn them into fierce weapons that can pierce through human flesh and blood!"
Qin Shi Huang froze, and then a cold sweat broke out behind his back, but then said with a frown of some doubt, "This ...... State Uncle has been loyal to himself, and people such as Aiqing Meng and Aiqing Wang have been generals in my Great Qin for three or even more generations, and have always been loyal and have served my Great Qin How could they possibly do harm to me!"
Despite these words, Qin Shi Huang, who was by nature suspicious and almost certainly the emperor with the most experience of being assassinated in history, was already wary of all those who were highly skilled in martial arts, including his own generals.
"Your Majesty, you know the relationship between me and Uncle Guo, it is impossible for me to plant false accusations against him, but I am thinking of Your Majesty, so even if Uncle Guo finds out and beats him up, or even if he holds a grudge against me and cuts off relations, I will still be the villain to ensure that Your Majesty is safe!"
Zhao Gao said as he bowed fiercely, expressing his loyalty a million times before continuing.
"Your Majesty, think about it, the State Uncle is loyal to you today and will not betray, but after all, he is a disciple of the Xiang family of Chu, and there is no fear of one thing but one thing."
"Moreover, if one day even if Uncle Guo did not betray Your Majesty, in case he was controlled by someone who used some method to assassinate Your Majesty, with his power, I am afraid that it would be unthinkable then!"
Here Zhao Gao added, "Not only the State Uncle, but also other people, after all, no one can guarantee that there are no demonic and evil spells in the world, or any strange and mysterious drugs that can control people's behaviour or even their minds, making them do things they don't even want to do! So I feel that, regardless of whether or not this possibility will arise, it is better to eliminate this danger from the root!"
Qin Shi Huang's eyes widened, and then he nodded his head, "Good! Pass the decree that in future, all officials must be three feet away from me when attending court, do you think three feet is far enough?"
Zhao Gao was stunned, not expecting Qin Shi Huang to ask him this question, but then he reflected, "Your Majesty, for me, three feet is more than enough, but for experts like State Uncle and General Meng Yi, I'm afraid even ten feet is not enough!"
"Therefore, I think it would be best if people like the State Uncle or General Meng Yi, who are highly skilled in martial arts, should not appear in the court!"
This suggestion was to the liking of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and he actually wanted to fight, but there was a problem: "You are right, but the only three generals who are at the rank of superior general are Guo Wu, Meng Yi and Wang Li, and no matter who they are in Xianyang, they are the top military generals in Xianyang, so how is it possible to keep them out of the court? "
Zhao Gao narrowed his eyes slightly, he didn't expect that Qin Shi Huang's reaction was really all right by Li Lin Fei, this is really a cold-blooded and heartless emperor, it seems that Hu Hai is better, although he is a bit rotten and only knows to eat, drink and play all day, but he is affectionate and righteous, at least he trusts and relies on himself enough, not many times better than Qin Shi Huang and that Fusu.
Your Majesty, you can't blame me for that!
Thinking of this, Zhao Gao said where Li Linfei had prepared for him to go: "Your Majesty, before the army was at war with the Xiongnu, because of the avoidance of war on two fronts, the assassination of Your Majesty by the Queen of Tu'an was kept secret and no one knew about it at all."
"This time when the State Uncle returns, why not let the State Uncle order a holy decree and bring a team of elite soldiers to eliminate Tu'an."
"On the one hand, it will keep the State Uncle away from the court, and on the other hand, the place where Tu'an borders with the Great Qin is originally, the section of the frontier where the State Uncle has his hands tied, so it is more than reasonable for the State Uncle to send an army."
"There is also the fact that the State Uncle and the Li Fei Niang brother and sister, but whether there is a connection with Tu'an is not easy to say, this time the army can also test the State Uncle a bit, but also can borrow the identity of the State Uncle."
"After the pattern has been eliminated, it will be possible to bring the Empress Li back from the cold palace, and the ministers who know about this matter will have nothing to say, so it is a good move!"
"Good, let's do as Ai Qing says!"