Chapter 6: Lu Buwei's Test
"Mo Li, now that Loulan is no longer in danger, you shouldn't confine yourself to this city of Loulan."

Jiang Huang's words startled the woman in sacrificial clothes. After she came to her senses, she said, "It's time to take a look at the world."

"In the land of Baiyue, there are many tribes that worship their ancestor Chiyou. I should go and take a look."

"Then let's go together." Jiang Huang stretched and said with a smile: "You leave Loulan for a while and avoid some people's eyes."

"In this world, there are always some stubborn people who will not let go of any clues in pursuit of the so-called secrets."

"As the chief priest of Loulan, in the eyes of some people, you are an opportunity for them to struggle in their unwillingness."

"Yeah!" Mo Li nodded slightly. This time the Soldier Demon God was destroyed because all parties confirmed that it had nothing to do with the secret being pursued. However, some people who are about to go crazy will always stubbornly believe that they are right.

"You stay here and wait for me. I will tell the king some things and then we will leave."

After Mo Li finished speaking, he walked away. Jiang Huang glanced at the layout of the place and felt a little dazed.

"The sealed land of Loulan, the Yuyuan seal of Shushan, oh, oh, oh, how many secrets did you hide back then?"

With a murmur, Jiang Huang's brows quickly relaxed. She circulated her internal energy, clasped her hands together, and a special rhythm emerged, enveloping everything here.

When the rhythm faded away, Jiang Huang smiled and murmured, "Leave my mark, those crazy people will never bother Mo Li again."

"You are too deliberate." The voice came, Jiang Huang turned around, and when she saw the person coming, she frowned and said: "You don't think there is really any secret hidden here, do you?"

The man had a gentle smile on his face, but Jiang Huang did not dare to be careless. Only after seeing this man's methods in person did she know how cold and bloodthirsty the heart was under this gentle body.

The man walked in, looked around, and chuckled, "Little Phoenix, I'm not interested in Mo Li, there's no need for you to react like this."

"Now that the Soldier Demon God has been destroyed, the matter here has been settled."

Hearing this, Jiang Huang breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Thank you."

The man smiled, looked around again, and then turned and walked away, saying, "Little Phoenix, Donghuang Taiyi of the Yin-Yang School has made great progress in his astrological laws. With his current level of cultivation, he will definitely find something very interesting."

"That guy is very obsessed with the way to immortality. Don't let him use your kid as a chess piece, otherwise I will have a headache about how to deal with him."

"After all, we still have some friendship between us."

Before he finished speaking, the person had disappeared, and Jiang Huang's mouth twitched slightly.

She was threatened!

The Yin-Yang Family has already decided to enter Qin, and his son is the ruler of the Black Ice Platform, so it is natural that he will have intersections with the Yin-Yang Family in the future.

Donghuang Taiyi, that old fox, is very secretive. Over the years, countless people have tried to test his methods.

The result is that Donghuang Taiyi became more mysterious.

"Forget it, forget it. I don't want to think about it anymore." Jiang Huang shook her head and suppressed her thoughts. Ying Zifei's current martial arts skills made her, as a mother, feel more at ease.

When your strength reaches a certain level, some calculations become a joke.

……

In Xianyang City, after a period of negotiations between various parties, the marriage of King Ying Zheng of Qin was finally settled.

The Chu faction exchanged its current interests for future rise, and Queen Dowager Xia Ji also reached a tacit understanding of the deal with Queen Dowager Huayang, which added some help to Cheng Jiao.

Lu Buwei did not suffer any loss. He took this opportunity to consolidate some power and become more powerful.

Where there are winners, there are losers; that's the way politics works.

After the matter was settled, the envoys headed by Changping Jun left Xianyang and went to the State of Chu.

In a room in the Prime Minister's Mansion, incense was wafting from a copper burner. Lu Buwei was flipping through a scroll, seeming to have realized something.

There was a knock on the door, Lu Buwei responded, the door opened, and the person came in. After closing the door, he bowed respectfully.

"Master Xiangguo, we have already investigated and found out that the force in the palace belongs to the king, and is called the Shadow Secret Guard."

Lü Buwei frowned when he heard this. Before he could ask, the man reported: "This force was cut out by the Black Ice Platform and split into two. The one in charge of the King is the Shadow Guard, and the one in charge of the clan elder Ying Qing and others is called the Zong Ying Guard."

"The Shadow Secret Guards have been purged. The people behind the operation are very mysterious and no trace has been found."

Lü Buwei tapped the scroll in his hand with his fingers, thought for a while, and then chuckled: "Ying Zifei of the Black Ice Terrace, you have been hiding for six years, do you want to stand out?"

Compared with the impure use of Luowang by the Qin State, the power of Heibingtai is the loyal force of the Qin Wang clan. The Qin kings of all generations have relied heavily on it.

No matter how powerful the Black Ice Platform is, the King of Qin will not be afraid of it, because there is no need to be afraid of it.

Every generation of the ruler of the Black Ice Platform must inherit the title of Marquis of Zhen'an, enter the ancestral temple, and swear an oath under the sword of Duke Mu that suppresses Qin.

Every generation of Qin kings may be wary of the expansion of other internal factions, but they will never doubt the ruler of the Black Ice Platform.

The oath sworn in the ancestral temple can reach the heavens above, supervise the clan members in the middle, and gain the trust of the people below.

Anyone who violates this rule will be despised by the world and will have no place to hide.

That is why the Black Ice Terrace is always an important trump card in the hands of the King of Qin. The last Black Ice Terrace ruler, Ying Mo, was also feared by Lü Buwei.

After the turmoil six years ago, Ying Mo handed over power, and the twelve-year-old Ying Zifei succeeded to the title of Marquis of Zhen'an.

After six years of silence, there is finally some movement.

I just don’t know whether this action was Ying Zifei’s intention or the idea of ​​the young King of Qin in the Qin Palace.

As the Art of War says: Know yourself and know your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat.

Lu Buwei knew that his current power was already showing signs of threatening the royal power. Although he had never thought of replacing it, being in this position, he could no longer give in between the power of the prime minister and the power of the king.

Although Lu Buwei was greedy for power, he had greater ambitions for success and fame.

If he wants to achieve his ambition of success and fame, he needs to control greater power.

Therefore, he chose to suppress King Ying Zheng of Qin. He needed power and time to fulfill his ambitions.

This time, King Ying Zheng of Qin used his marriage to reach a deal with the Chu clan. This might also be because Lu Buwei's power as prime minister had made King Ying Zheng of Qin feel uneasy.

"Is the action on the Black Ice Platform another order from your king?" Lu Buwei murmured, knowing that he needed to look at the matter more accurately.

He had the ability and means to eliminate some of the tactics used by King Ying Zheng of Qin, but the result could only be inevitable turmoil.

And turmoil was something that Lu Buwei would not allow to happen. Internal turmoil would only distract Lu Buwei's attention from planning the Qin army's eastward expansion.

After thinking for a while, Lü Buwei said to the man: "Send someone to spread the word in Xianyang City secretly, saying that Queen Mother Zhao Ji received the will of the late king, saying that I have made great contributions and intends to let King Ying Zheng of Qin address me as "Zhongfu".

With a gleam in his eyes, Lu Buwei wanted to see how big a stir this news would cause.

He supported the late king Ying Yiren in his bid for the throne. When the late king passed away, in order to stabilize the political situation, he asked the crown prince Ying Zheng to address him, Lu Buwei, with respect as "Zhongfu".

Lu Buwei knew what the late king was thinking, which was simply to have him support the Qin King Ying Zheng who ascended the throne and keep him in his position.

It means both entrusting someone with something and being on guard against something.

After all, once he, Lu Buwei, was respectfully addressed as "Zhongfu" by King Ying Zheng of Qin, and had any other thoughts in the future, he, Lu Buwei, would be disgraced and despised by the people of the world.

At that time, Lu Buwei refused because the political situation was unstable and various factions did not want Lu Buwei to be the only one in power.

If King Ying Zheng of Qin had respectfully addressed him as "Zhongfu" at that time, Lu Buwei would have become the target of public criticism.

Things are different now than in the past. This time, he wants to see how big the storm will be.

……

Xianyang City was Lu Buwei's home ground. Within three days, after the news spread, it became a hot topic.

Those who relied on Lu Buwei's power encouraged and publicized Lu Buwei's achievements in supporting two generations of Qin kings and stabilizing the Qin State.

Those who did not want Lu Buwei's power to grow further also began to take action, targeting the Queen Mother Zhao Ji in the palace.

The forces of the six countries in Xianyang City were eager to see chaos within Qin, so they took the opportunity to spread rumors about the close relationship between Queen Mother Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei. They also fanned the flames by saying that King Ying Zheng of Qin was not a descendant of the previous king of Qin and that everything was Lu Buwei's plan to steal the country.

No matter how outrageous it was, the city of Xianyang was in turmoil again.

When one is in the deep palace, the pot will come from the sky.

Although Queen Mother Zhao Ji did not have keen political wisdom, the rumors outside the palace made her angry and afraid.

Such slander against her was a threat to the legitimacy of her son, Ying Zheng.

But when she, Lu Buwei and the former king Ying Yiren were in Zhao State, the connection between them made it easy for others to have more outrageous associations.

As Lu Buwei allowed the rumors to become more and more outrageous, other factions also wanted to make Lu Buwei lose face, so they chose to let it go.

In the Qin Palace, King Ying Zheng did not show much emotional change. He was held hostage in Zhao since childhood, and the most outrageous rumors were curses against him. The people of Zhao used this method to vent their anger and unwillingness.

The Battle of Changping broke the backbone of the State of Zhao, and the hatred and resentment therein have not dissipated much to this day.

When Ying Zheng was in Zhao State, he became the punching bag of the people of Zhao, because those people could only spread rumors with words.

After returning to Qin, there were still people who spread rumors to discredit the legitimacy of his bloodline.

As for the reason, of course it was his arrival that made some people feel threatened.

The struggle for the throne has always been bloody, and the power and interests behind the throne are equally bloody and naked.

Being trapped in it time and time again has made his character extremely strong.

Every time there is noise, there are many things hidden behind it.

And what is the secret behind this time?

Some people are thinking, some are waiting, and some are watching the fun.

(End of this chapter)