Qin Lei's face was stagnant and cursed in his heart: Why did I have such a 25-year-old nephew?

"Uncle, he is your uncle..." Seeing that Qin Lei did not respond, Bo Shang Saiyang repeated silently. If Ma Ai hadn't given him a stern look, he would have said it for the third time.

Qin Lei narrowed his eyes and looked at the old man and asked in a deep voice: "Do you know who I am?" The old man shook his head and said: "I have been away from Beijing for more than ten years, but I don't recognize a noble person like the prince." As he said that, he suddenly said: "You are a prince at your age, and you must be the dragon son of today."

Qin Lei nodded, admitted his identity, and said coldly: "The Gu Wang is the fifth son of His Majesty Zhaowu, and Prince Longwei." The old man looked at Qin Lei with emotion on his face, and then knelt down slowly. After knocking twice, he stood up, but he was performing a great worship ceremony between the royal clans.

Qin Lei did not let him get up and said in a clear voice: "The Gu Wang also has another identity, who is the master of the Zongzheng Mansion. Naturally, he has read the genealogy and has some impression of the thirty-three people in the royal Xuan generation, but he doesn't remember someone named "Jia".

After hearing this, the older prisoners began to feel sad, and the younger ones were furious and shouted: "We are also the blood of the Qin family, why should we delete us from the genealogy?"

Qin Lei looked at these people with excitement, not like making false statements, and his heart moved slightly and said in a deep voice to the old man standing: "You said you are from the royal family, which one do you belong?"

The old man stood up straight and said proudly: "A branch of the Tian family! I am the cousin of the late emperor and the current emperor's cousin." As he said that, he pointed to the prisoners kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "These are all royal relatives who were persecuted seventeen years ago!"

Qin Lei said "Oh" and four words popped up in his heart, "The Rebellion of the Five Kings". Seventeen years ago, the five brothers of Emperor Zhaowu, who was still the King of True, were the five relatives of Emperor Fu, King De, King Wu, King Xu, and King Ning. Because the late emperor suddenly died in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, he did not establish a crown prince or left a will. For the sake of the golden chair, he fought and almost overthrew the Qin Dynasty. Later, the aristocratic families of the Qin Dynasty joined forces to quell the rebellion, and the power of several princes disappeared and they were forced to commit suicide. The Qin royal family lost all the elites in this turmoil. If the Queen Mother Wenzhuang had not appeared out of nowhere, ninety percent would have changed the dynasty. Even now, the power that fell behind was not completely retracted, and there were still three voices speaking at the same time in the Qin Dynasty.

The five princes who had already met the late emperor left behind a large number of close subordinates. These people naturally had to bear the anger of the aristocratic families that suffered heavy losses. If it were not for the protection of the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang, they would have been killed. Even so, the children, wives and subordinates of the Five Kings were also killed, and only those close relatives of the royal family who had little to do with their lives were escaped.

It seems that these people were survivors of that year. Qin Lei said in his heart, but he still said calmly: "Since he is a clan, why did he live here? Let me tell you in detail."

When the old man heard this, he said with a grief and anger: "The great corpse is righteous. Seventeen years ago, people from the nine major families killed our five princes at Fengbu Wharf, with a total of more than 17,000 people, dyeing the water of Xiaoqing River red for a whole seven days and seven nights." In one sentence, everyone present brought into the bloody storm of that day.

The field suddenly became quiet. Apart from the occasional sniff of war horses, only the old man's hoarse and desolate voice echoed: "Those beasts are not satisfied, and they have used their usual method of connecting and framing, slandering our royal family, and want to take the opportunity to clean up our Qin royal family. If the Queen Mother had not had great magical powers, even we clan relatives who had not participated in the fight for the throne at all would not survive."

As he spoke, the old man's eyes were red. He wiped the corners of his eyes with the dirty rag on his shoulders and said with hissing: "Although he was able to live a secretly life, those beasts regarded us as 'remnants' and put us in another book. We were not allowed to lead Zhou Ji from the clan's house, nor were we allowed to make any living, nor were we allowed to leave the capital, but we were to starve to death. The prince can ask them, who had never starved to death, and who had not been swept by those beasts!" As he told me like crying, the prisoners on the ground were already crying.

Qin Lei had already believed it in his heart and asked softly: "What's next?"

Qin Xuanqi sighed and said, "We can't survive in Beijing, and we are about to be forced to death. It's still Prince Jia who pointed us a way out. He said that the Jingshan military camp of our clan's soldiers was idle. It was neither out of the capital nor far away from Zhongdu. It was surrounded by mountains and rivers and the land was fertile. Just work hard to dig out food from the soil, and it would not be possible to support our wives, children, and children. So more than 100 families really moved here from Beijing."

Qin Lei asked in a low voice: "How are you doing?"

Qin Xuanqi smiled bitterly and said, "I can't do anything in the first year. Fortunately, Prince Jia moved some food from the imperial village to provide assistance, so he barely passed. After that, life got better and better. He never starved to death. After more than ten years, three or four hundred new dolls were added..." He sighed and said, "But now there is nothing but people. I don't know how to survive this winter..."

Qin Lei looked around, looked at the garbage dump, and said embarrassedly, "The Lonely King burned your home." He had already believed the old man's words. If he could do his best, he would help these people.

But the old man Xiao Suo shook his head and said, "But he can't blame the prince," and said, "When you came here yesterday, what do you think?"

Qin Lei carefully used the words and said in a non-stimulating way: "It seems like he had just been attacked by a bandit."

Unexpectedly, the old man nodded and said, "Your Majesty, we have indeed suffered a disaster here!" He said proudly, "If the prince had come here a few days ago, the scenery he saw was completely different. At that time, our Jingshan Village houses were like a lot of chickens and dogs, and they were in the fields and farming, and they were yellow and hungry, and they were happy, which was no less than Mr. Wuliu's Peach Blossom Land."

"Ball!" Boshang Saiyang finally couldn't help but shout, "The old man is so ashamed. This is also considered a peach blossom land? It's too irresistible, right?" Although the others dared not be as arrogant as him, they lowered their voices and chuckled. It seemed that no one believed it.

The prisoners who had been released by Qin Lei's order seemed to have been greatly insulted, and they all described the scenes of the past to Qin Lei and the others at the top of their voices. Qin Lei quickly raised his hand and called to stop, and smiled at everyone, "Who doesn't think that their hometown is good, I believe you are."

Qin Ba, who was covered in bruises and covered his left eye, said angrily: "You prince still doesn't believe it. You can go and ask the old prince, he has lived here all summer!"

"Which prince?" Qin Lei looked at Qin Xuanqi and asked in a low voice. But he would not be confused with the man.

"Our benefactor of our entire Jingshan Village, Prince Jia." The old man said in a solemn voice.

Qin Lei's mind flashed through the old prince's picture of the loofah painted by the old prince. At that time, he thought it was the old prince who considered him, but he didn't expect that because the old prince had spent a summer farming life here, he was touched with the local atmosphere and was inspired by the pen, so he drew several large loofahs.

There is also the first of the three requirements of the empress dowager's decree: treat the royal family well. Qin Lei has always felt that it overlaps with the second patiently reorganizing the army. In Qin Lei's understanding, it is not simple and crude, but it is just treat the royal family well, but there is no need to talk about it separately. But who is the old empress dowager? It is the best hero in the world. It is more meaningful than putting a corpse, so how can it be useless? Therefore, Qin Lei has been puzzled. Today, it seems that this first is to let himself treat these people well! The second refers to the bear bags in Beijing.

Thinking of this, Qin Lei nodded to the old man and said, "The Lonely King believes it." He said in a deep voice, "Why did it look like that again? The person who attacked the Lonely King?"

Qin Xuanqi suddenly had a flash of thought in his heart and said to himself: The time for changing his destiny has come. He was blessed to the heart and shouted, "The sin deserves death," and kneeled on the ground. He seemed to be the leader of these people. Seeing him like this, others also knelt down, and even Qin Ba lay on the ground reluctantly.

Qin Lei narrowed his eyes and looked at these people without stopping them. Then he heard Qin Xuanqi say respectfully: "Even if we give us ten thousand courages, we dare not attack the prince's team, there is a misunderstanding. The prince recommends that our Jingshan Village was robbed on the night five days ago. Those people were also wearing black clothes, so they were mistaken by the children. Please forgive me if you ask the prince."

"Get up and talk." Qin Lei nodded and said. When he entered the village yesterday, he did find traces of military disasters in the village.

Qin Xuanqi and hundreds of men kowtowed to Qin Lei twice. Qin Lei gave way to him before they stood up and spoke again.

When they got up again, Qin Lei seemed to say to himself: "The capital, the capital of the capital, the capital of the wisest capital, just saying that the 200,000 imperial guards are very strict, it is enough to prevent the Gyeonggi area from closing their doors at night. Where can there be a large bandits?" It is not possible for three or five hundred people to rob such a large village with strong self-defense ability to deal with it.

Before Qin Ba could get angry, he heard Qin Lei say this and said angrily: "Ordinary thieves cannot enter the capital, but the guards of the capital are unobstructed."

Bo Shang Saiyang fussed: "You mean the imperial guards?"

Qin Xuanqi took over the conversation and said slightly, "Yes, it is the Polu Army among the eight imperial guards!" Qin Ba clenched his fists and said angrily: "Polu, they are the Polu, so who will defeat them?"

If they talk about other troops, it would be fine if Qin Lei listened to it. After all, the empress dowager only told him to treat these people well, not to ask them to avenge them. But the Polu Army was different. Just a few months ago, Qin Lei's team was driven into a desert and fled, and more than 300 brothers were left in their hands.

In Qin Lei's words, this beam is too big, and it cannot be exposed without a ten-twenty-fold price. Therefore, when he heard the word "Polu Army", the sleepy guards suddenly felt energetic, and their eyes were green and listened to Qin Xuanqi's words: "Late in the night five days ago, the dogs in the village suddenly started barking. After a while, the tribe members who were watching outside the village rang the gong." Fearing that Qin Lei would not understand, he explained: "Because we were afraid that the adults in the capital would be thinking about it, we paid great attention from the beginning and dug tunnels under the village."

Bo Shang Saiyang heard this and said happily: "It seems that he is safe and sound."

Qin Xuanqi sighed and said, "If we practice diligently, we should do this, but the peaceful days of these years have numbed us. Many people were just shopping for the fine and soft food, but before they could run to the entrance of the tunnel, they were driven into the village by the bandits and rushed into the village to block the disaster." They were also somewhat grateful, "Of course, if it weren't for this tunnel that took more than ten years of hard work in our village, they would have been slaughtered. They relied on this tunnel to deal with the bandits on the ground for two days, perhaps because they were afraid that the wind would leak out, and when we could not do anything to us, they would withdraw. When we came out of the tunnel, they would ruin it like that."

As he said that, he bowed: "I didn't expect that the authentic Tao we are proud of was like a native chicken and a dog in front of the prince. He admired him so much, and also thanked the prince for not killing him and leaving behind the despicable lives of us poor people."

Qin Lei shook his head slightly and smiled, "No need to thank you, you will know from now on. The Gu King is a very kind person." Shi Yong, Ma Ai, and the guards all rolled their eyes in their hearts and said, "If you are kind, the tens of thousands of dead souls in Maicheng will die again if they are angry."

But Qin Xuanxia and the others, who were not familiar with the details, did not feel any discomfort except that they felt that the prince was not humble at all, and they still expressed their gratitude in fear.

Qin Lei happily accepted their gratitude. It took him a long time to remember his question and asked Qin Xuanqi: "How do you know that it is the Polu Army?"

"When I was in my prime, I worked in the Ministry of War and knew all the main combat troops of the Qin Dynasty. Although these people tried their best to hide their bodies, they could not hide their eyes." Qin Xuanqi said very surely.

Qin Lei nodded, not wanting to delve into it. He thought that he would not bother the second master, so he would keep the account on the Polu Army. Now that he had figured out the whole story, Qin Lei had the leisure to ask, "Where are your old, weak, women and children?" These four or five hundred people, from a young man of twelve or three, to a young man with more than sixty years of age like Qin Xuanyi, who was still able to eat, had everything, but there were no women, children, and old people walking on three legs.

"When the prince said, I am worried that the bandits will come again, so I sent them all to hide in the Jingshan Mountains, where there was a cave that the mansion soldiers dug out back then, which was quite secret." Qin Xuanqi was indeed the leader of these people. He continued: "We men stay here, one is to collect relatives, and the other is to wait until they are completely safe and clean up the village again... It is better to have winter."

After hearing this, Bo Shang Saiyang curled his lips and said, "The old man is bragging again. Before we came, we were dirty and smelly. Where have we cleaned it?"

Qin Xuanqi knew that his status was second only to Qin Lei, so he did not dare to neglect it and explained seriously: "In two days, if the bandits never come again, we will start to clean up." Speaking of this, he said sadly: "To be honest, this house is not a worry. At worst, they can spend the winter in the cave. But all the food was stolen. Not to mention overwintering, the food is out of stock now."

Upon hearing the old uncle say this, Qin Ba nodded and proved: "I haven't eaten for two days."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Bo Shang Saiyang complained: "It's apart later. Come with me and keep your fill."

Hearing the word "living", Qin Ba's eyes glowed green, licked his lips, but pointed at his fellow villagers and said in a muffled voice: "I won't go with you, I have to stay here, so I can't let them be bullied."

Qin Lei couldn't help but smile, preventing Bo Shang Saiyang from continuing to get along with him, and asked Qin Xuanqi: "What are the next plans?"

Qin Xuanqi shook his head in confusion, knelt down and said, "Please give me some advice and save our two thousand clans."

Qin Lei thought to himself, I have to care if you don’t say it, who asked the Empress Dowager to explain it? But he said, “That’s it…” After pausing for a while, he saw that Qin Xuanyi and the others were about to break his neck, and then he pondered: “To be honest, the Zongzheng Mansion’s troops have been reorganized, so the Jingshan Camp is also going to be rebuilt.”

With a buzzing sound, the young and old men of Qin on the ground looked gray. Now they were not even their home. The world was so big that there was no place for them to stand without standing. They couldn't help but be dejected, as if they were lost. Only Qin Xuanqi did not think so. He felt that if this was the case, the young prince had no need to talk too much and ordered the expulsion directly, and there was no need to waste any more words.

Thinking of this, Qin Xuanqi bowed and said, "Please give me mercy."

Looking at the poor relatives who were kneeling all over the ground, Qin Lei smiled and said, "Rebuilding a military camp of tens of thousands of people is a huge project, so the Lone King hopes that you can stay and work, so at least you will be fine for winter."

Qin Xuanqi thought to himself, no matter what else, stick to you first, and then bowed and said, "Thank you, Prince!"
Chapter completed!