In the fifty-sixth year of King Qin Zhaoxiang's reign, King Zhaoxiang of Qin Ying Ji passed away. King An Guo Ying Zhu came to the throne as King Xiaowen of Qin, and Ying Zichu officially became the crown prince. Taking the new king's accession to the throne as an opportunity, the hostile relationship between Qin and Zhao was reconciled as a sign of reconciliation.
In an act of reconciliation, the State of Zhao sent Zhao Ji and Ying Zheng mother and son back to the State of Qin. Nine-year-old Ying Zheng set foot on the land of the State of Qin for the first time. King Qin Xiaowen was already in his fifties when he ascended the throne, and was in weak health. He officially ascended the throne.
He died in three days. Afterwards, Ying Zichu ascended the throne and became King Zhuangxiang of Qin. Lü Buwei was appointed prime minister, and he was granted the title of Marquis Wenxin. He settled in Luoyang for 100,000 households. Zhao Ji was named queen.
King Qin Zhuangxiang died after reigning for three years, and his eldest son Ying Zheng, who was thirteen years old, succeeded to the throne. After Ying Zheng succeeded to the throne, he named his mother Zhao Ji the queen mother, and Lu Buwei was the prime minister. King Qin Ying Zheng was still underage, so he handed over the government to the ministers.
Zhao Ji became the Queen Mother. The newly widowed Queen Mother was lonely in the palace. Zhao Ji was romantic and dissolute by nature, and her old relationship with Lu Buwei rekindled. Lu Buwei often went in and out of the palace and had an affair with the Queen Mother.
However, politicians who act as lovers of the Queen Mother face huge risks of being ruined. King Qin Yingzheng gradually grew up, and Lu Buwei himself knew that his personal relationship with Zhao Ji was harmful but not beneficial, and he had to get out of it as soon as possible. In order to avoid disaster
, Lu Buwei decided to continue to support the Queen Mother Zhao Ji and Qin King Ying Zheng politically as always, and resolutely cut off the relationship with the Queen Mother as a lover in life. After all, Lu Buwei is Lu Buwei. He is well versed in the world and is tactful. He is worried about suddenly severing the relationship with the Queen Mother as a lover.
It might cause an accident, so he considered finding a substitute who could take his place as the Queen Mother's lover. The person he found was Lao Ai.
Lao Ai was extremely capable in housekeeping matters. Lu Buwei deliberately mentioned Lao Ai in front of the Queen Mother from time to time, which aroused the Queen Mother's interest, so he asked Lu Buwei to send Lao Ai to him. Lu Buwei then tried to convict and punish Lao Ai.
After being castrated, he was sent to the palace of the Empress Dowager as a eunuch. He also instigated the empress dowager to bribe the officials who presided over the punishment, and just plucked Lao Ai's beard, and sent him to the palace as a eunuch. The empress dowager got Lao Ai, and after using him, he became a big man.
For excitement and love. Historical records record that the Queen Mother was "absolutely in love" with Lao Ai and doted on her very much. The Queen Mother was immersed in love with Lao Ai and soon became pregnant. Unofficial history records that Zhao Ji traveled with Lao Ai once
At that time, the two of them stayed in the carriage for 5 days without thinking about food and drink, enjoying physical pleasure without leaving home. The Queen Mother's lingering voice lasted for 5 days, and even the soldiers accompanying her sighed:
"The beauty of a woman is very difficult to satisfy. When it comes to the most lustful woman, it must be the Queen Mother." When the Queen Mother came out of the carriage, her face was as radiant as her youth, while Lao Ai, who was beside her, had the opposite look on her face.
The haggard figure, thin and white-haired, could not help but surprise the soldiers.
In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the world, the Queen Mother used divination due to her physical discomfort and got the result that she should avoid her residence, so she left Xianyang and moved to the palace in Yongcheng. Yongcheng is in the present Baoji, hundreds of miles away from Xianyang, and is the Qin Dynasty.
In the old capital of the country, the Queen Mother moved to Yongcheng with Lao Ai, and built a paradise-like love nest here. Her private life was not only free and laissez-faire, but also almost unscrupulous and forgetful. Between her and Lao Ai, there was a lot of love between her and Lao Ai.
She gave birth to two sons in succession.
Lao Ai, who was favored by the Queen Mother, was inseparable from her. With the Queen Mother's connivance, Lao Ai could freely use the palaces, carriages, horses, clothes, gardens and hunting grounds of the Qin royal family. There were thousands of child servants serving Lao Ai.
There were many people, and there were more than a thousand guests and people who went to Lao Ai to seek official positions. All matters of the Queen Mother, no matter how big or small, were left to Lao Ai to handle and decide. Furthermore, the area west of the Fen River in Taiyuan County was awarded to Lao Ai as a feudal state.
.Just because of the empress dowager's personal favor, he was granted the title of Changxinhou, with Shanyang (southeast of today's Jiaozuo, Henan) as his residence, and Hexi and Taiyuan counties as his land.
With the help of the Queen Mother, Lao Ai soon formed a political force second only to the Prime Minister Lu Buwei, and competed with Lu Buwei. In the Qin State, from the government to the private sector, from officials to common people, they were generally divided into two factions, or they were on Lao Ai's side.
, or stand on Lu Buwei’s side.
Lao Ai, a newly powerful political force, attracted the attention of both the government and the public. Lao Ai was favored by the Queen Mother and indulged in extravagance in the palace. She inevitably got carried away. She claimed to be the "false father" of Qin King Ying Zheng. Lao Ai once had an affair with a courtier in the palace.
They drank and had fun together, played games, and got into a quarrel. The drunk Lao Ai opened her eyes wide and yelled at the other party: "I am the false father of the King of Qin. How dare you, son of a man, be arrogant with me!"
The meaning of the words is: "I am the stepfather of King Qin Yingzheng
, who are you, a poor man? You dare to fight with me!" The man who was scolded by Lao Ai quickly ran away and reported the matter to King Yingzheng of Qin.
King Yingzheng of Qin sent people to investigate openly, and many people reported that Lao Ai had an affair with the Queen Mother, had two sons, and conspired with the Queen Mother: "The king will die, and the son will be the queen." This means Lao Ai said to the Queen Mother: "
When King Qin dies, let our children succeed him."
In April of the ninth year of Qin King Yingzheng's reign, Yingzheng came to Yongcheng to hold a crown ceremony. Lao Ai took advantage of King Qin Yingzheng's stay in Yongcheng, stole the royal seal of King Qin and the seal of the Queen Mother, transferred the county soldiers, and the guards and soldiers to attack Qinian.
Palace. Yingzheng ordered the Prime Minister Changpingjun, and Changwenjun led the soldiers of Xianyang to quell the rebellion. The two armies fought in Xianyang. The King of Qin issued an order: "Anyone who has made military exploits will be rewarded with a high title, and those who are eunuchs who participate in the battle will also be given a first-level title." Number of rebels.
Hundreds of people were killed, Lao Ai's army was defeated, and he and his best friends fled in panic.
The King of Qin issued an order to the whole country: "Whoever captures Lao Ai alive will be given a million dollars, and whoever kills Lao Ai will be given half a million dollars." Lao Ai and his buddies were wiped out in one fell swoop.
Twenty people, including Wei Jie, Nei Shi Si, Zuo Ge Jie, Zhong Dafu, Ling Qi, etc., were the best friends. The guests who followed Lao Ai sacrificed their lives. Those who committed minor crimes were the salary earners for serving the ancestral temple - ghost salary; those who committed serious crimes were four.
More than a thousand people seized the title and moved to Shu, where they served for three years. The Queen Mother and Lao Ai's two sons were killed together. The Queen Mother was imprisoned in Yongcheng. Ying Zheng made it clear that he would sever the mother-son relationship with the Queen Mother and never see him again.
, and explicitly ordered the courtiers to "slaughter and kill anyone who dared to advise the Queen Mother on the affairs of the Queen Mother, and use thistles on their backs." As a result, twenty-seven of the ministers who came to remonstrate were brutally executed, and their bodies were hung on the palace wall for public display.
As for the twenty-eighth remonstrator Mao Jiao, he moved Qin King Ying Zheng to take his mother Zhao Ji back to Xianyang on the grounds that "the King of Qin wants to unify the world, he must put filial piety first". Zhao Ji was finally able to enjoy her old age in peace.
Lu Buwei was implicated due to the Lao Ai rebellion, and was deposed from the position of prime minister and demoted to Henan. After Lu Buwei arrived in Henan, there were still thousands of guests to greet him, which made Ying Zheng very disgusted. Soon Lu Buwei was demoted to Shu. Lu Buwei took over
After receiving the decree, there were great contradictions. If the truth was told, King Yingzheng of Qin was violent and arrogant by nature, and it would be difficult for him to survive. Seeing that the achievements he had worked hard for for decades were bankrupt, Lu Buwei drank poison and committed suicide in despair.
"Lin Kun, if this is the tomb of Zhao Ji, is it obviously inconsistent with the historical data?" Zhang Liqun questioned, "In the 19th year of Qin Shihuang, Zhao Ji passed away. Ying Zheng pursued his mother Zhao Ji as the 'Emperor Queen Mother', and she was the same as King Qin Zhuangxiang.
Buried together in Zhiyang, how come her tomb is in Handan?"
"Mr. Zhang, I think you are a fan of the authorities. Think about it, even the notorious Marquis Changxin in history, Lao Ai, deserves a mausoleum of this size. How come Zhao Ji, the majestic Queen Mother of the Qin Empire, does not have a mausoleum? History is a victory.
It was written by the author, but none of us can tell what kind of person the real Lao Ai is, and what kind of person the real Zhao Ji is."
Zhang Liqun nodded and said: "Now it seems that this is the only explanation."
"Actually, I have always had doubts about the identity of Zhao Ji. Even in the volume of "Historical Records·Biography of Lu Buwei", the previous and later records are contradictory. First, it is said that 'Lü Buwei took the Handan concubines who were good at dancing and living in the house.'
, and later it was said, "Zhao wanted to kill Zi Chu's wife, but Zi Chu's wife Zhao Hao's daughter was also hidden, so the mother and son survived." Here Zhao Ji became the daughter of a wealthy family in the Zhao Kingdom."
"Then what do you think the truth is?" Zhang Liqun asked.
"I didn't guess the truth. Without evidence, everything is empty talk." I shook my head, "But what I'm worried about now is-"
I set my sights on the leader and them.
And they are also looking at us at this time.
"You mean..." Zhang Liqun turned pale at first, "They are planning to attack us?"
Hu Bing's men have long been disarmed, and if they fight head-on, they have no chance of winning. However, I can already read murderous intent in the eyes of the leader and the others.
Soon enough, I suddenly stood up and said, "You are not from the Hongyun Society at all!"
The leader and the others obviously did not expect that I would say that, and were stunned at the same time. After a while, the leader stood up and said coldly: "When did you see it?"
"You exposed yourself."
"Oh? Really? Just because I can't read Qin Zhuan?"
"That's not true, you said it
The words "Qin Emperor's Mausoleum" come out, this is not normal!"
The leader turned his head and looked at the men sitting on the ground, and said with a playful smile: "Originally, I planned to keep your life, but who would have thought that you are so anxious to seek death, then you can't blame me.
Already."
"You are not the real mastermind. There must be someone else!" I said bluntly, "Since you are targeting us, why not come out and meet!"
The air suddenly became quiet.
Been waiting for a long time.
Suddenly, in the distance of the tomb passage, there was a crisp sound of high heels.
"Um...woman?"
What kind of woman would wear high heels to the tomb.
"Young Marshal Touching the Gold, he is indeed worthy of his reputation." A charming voice came. I didn't see the person, but I heard it first, "It feels so oppressive."
Finally, I saw the person clearly, and I was as surprised as if I had eaten an egg.
"Aren't you—the eldest lady of the Qiu family?"
"Miss!" The headmaster and others shouted in unison, showing great respect.
"Qiu Louyan?" Hu Bing said in surprise.
"Oh, isn't this Boss Hu? Why have you started doing reverse fighting business?" Qiu Louyan sneered.
"How did you get here?" Hu Bing asked.
"You can come, why can't I come?" Qiu Louyan did not pay much attention to Hu Bing, but stared at me, "Don't you want to see me? I am here now, what are you going to do?"
"We are all fish on your chopping board now, and we can only be caught with nothing to show for it."
"This is not what you are saying!" Qiu Louyan suddenly approached me, "I just want to see if you are as powerful as the rumors say."
"What the eldest lady means is..."
Qiu Louyan said nothing, but stretched out three fingers.
"What do you mean?" It's really hard to guess what a woman is thinking.
"Last time we met in a hurry, there was still a lot left unsaid." Qiu Louyan said with a smile, "Actually, I have always wanted to have a good communication with you. I heard that you have good skills and have injured one of my men. Why don't you
In this way, if you can defeat my three men today, you can leave unscathed."
"Leave? What if I don't leave?"
"Haha, it's okay. In short, as long as you win, you can do whatever you want. We won't make it difficult for you."
"Are you just trying to get revenge?"
"That's not true, I just think you are special." Qiu Louyan looked me over, "If you hadn't injured my person, maybe we could still be friends."
From the "relaxation" that Qiu Louyan showed without caring about every word, to be precise, it should be called unbridled, I knew that she was a formidable opponent.
"Friends? I just can't imagine being friends with someone who puts a gun to my head."
Qiu Louyan waved her hand, signaling her men to put down their guns, "This is sincere enough."
"Miss Qiu, I think I was surprised enough today. You were able to catch me all without my noticing, which shows your ability. But I don't understand something. What is your motive for doing this? For revenge.
, or for the Qin Emperor’s Mausoleum?”
Qiu Louyan thought for a while and said with a smile: "Lin Kun, you have stopped me with this question. I don't know what I am here for today. However, I can explain it in another way. In fact, I am asking you
They don't care at all about hurting Ajun. They are just a few watchdogs of my Qiu family, and death is not a pity. So, saying they are here to seek revenge may be a bit too much."
"Is that for the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum?" Hu Bingbing snorted.
"That's not true. I don't know anything about this business at all. It's not my style to get involved in this industry for no reason. What's more, taking people's jobs is like killing their parents. I will not do such things that are harmful to the rules of the world.
"
"So?" I continued to ask.
Chapter completed!