Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

"In life?"

Mo Jun was surprised.

The news of Lu Buwei's death has now spread throughout most of Xianyang, and it is naturally impossible for Mr. Mo not to know about it.

But what surprised him was that his relationship with Lu Buwei was not a good one. To put it bluntly, Lu Buwei's descent into this situation is definitely inescapably related to Mr. Mo.

If we say that Ying Zheng was the one who handed the ‘knife of suicide’ to Lu Buwei.

Then Mr. Mo is definitely the craftsman who forged the knife, and he not only forged the knife, but even quenched the poison on the blade.

Under such circumstances, Lu Buwei actually left something specially for Mr. Mo before his death. It is obviously difficult for people not to be suspicious.

"grown ups!"

Xiong Da, Hei Yu, and Jian Jiuyuan came to Mr. Mo at the same time and stretched out their hands to hold down the bamboo slips. Although they didn't say much, the meaning of the three of them was already obvious.

Although Mr. Mo felt that it was unlikely that Lu Buwei would engage in such a 'little trick', for the sake of safety, he handed the bamboo slips into Jian Jiuyuan's hands and told him: "Be careful!"

In fact, if there is really any mechanism or poisonous smoke hidden in this bamboo slip, it would be the safest for Mr. Mo to open it among everyone present.

half a year ago.

Mr. Mo has already practiced "Song of No War" to the highest level of the ninth level. Now he is practicing defense. Even if he resists the explosion of "fire and brimstone (gunpowder)", he can remain unscathed.

Coupled with the fact that he has [Life Crystal] as his trump card, there is no poison in the world that can kill Mr. Mo.

However, Mr. Mo's status is now different from what it used to be.

No matter how high his martial arts skills were, no one else would let him take such a risk.

Even though he is still the governor of Nanjun, as a retainer and retainer, he has never allowed his lord to take the lead.

The rest of the people scattered around.

Only Jian Jiuyuan and Yao Gui were left. Yao Gui took out a silk scarf and covered his face, then carefully opened the bamboo slips with a wooden stick.

Jian Jiuyuan, who was beside him, held the hilt of the sword with one hand, concentrating and getting ready to draw the sword at any time.

But luckily, nothing happened in the end.

After the bamboo slip was opened, a yellow-brown map made of some kind of animal skin was revealed inside.

Nothing else.

Yao Gui checked it a little more and made sure there was no problem before handing the bamboo slips and the map to Mr. Mo.

But when Mr. Mo saw the contents recorded on the bamboo slips and the animal skin map, his eyes suddenly froze.

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Next few days.

Mo Jun's house receives congratulatory gifts from all parties almost every day.

Most of them do it out of etiquette and friendship, but only a few people do it to apologize.

After all, in the land of Bashu, many people subconsciously ignored Lord Mo because they were afraid of the power of Lu Buwei and Chu's foreign relatives.

As a result, it takes five days to the east of the river and five days to the west of the river.

In the blink of an eye.

Mo Jun not only became the most favored minister of the King of Qin at that time, he was worshiped as Jiuqing and was titled "Shengping Jun".

And after returning to Xianyang, a group of people suffered a super critical blow of "Lu Buwei's death".

With the death of Lu Buwei, the powerful Ying Zheng completely lost his last scruples, no longer concealed his ambitions, and began to frantically cleanse the hostile forces in the Qin court.

In just three days.

Already, two Jiuqing and thirty-two scholar-bureaucrats have been dismissed from office.

They were replaced by officials who had been secretly cultivated by Ying Zheng in the past. These people, like Mr. Mo, had been recruited by Ying Zheng early on, and had been hidden in the court and everywhere for so many years.

It's just that they didn't bring as many unexpected surprises to Ying Zheng as Mo Jun did.

For a while.

The entire Qin court was turbulent and turbulent.

Many old nobles and officials are in danger.

After all, no one can guarantee that they are clean from the power struggle between Lao Ai, Lu Buwei, Chang Pingjun, and Ying Zheng until now.

And if you want to survive such a storm, you can only take a boat of sufficient weight.

Nowadays, there are only a few large ships in the entire Qin Dynasty court.

Among the old forces.

The Qi family, the Meng family, and the Wang family of the Chu State can all be considered relatively stable ships.

However, anyone in the Qin Dynasty's court today can see that although the ship of the Chu Foreign Qi lineage is luxurious and noble, it is already on the cusp of the storm.

After the forces of Lao Ai and Lu Buwei were defeated one after another, the next target of King Qin Yingzheng must be the relatives of Chu's foreign relatives.

Now the king of Qin has achieved great success.

It is simply impossible to stop the stormy waves that Ying Zheng is about to set off with the help of Chu's foreign relatives alone.

The final result is nothing more than two.

First, resist desperately, and then the ship is destroyed and everyone is killed.

Second, if you voluntarily surrender, the person may survive, but at least half of the ship will be destroyed.

At this time, boarding a ship belonging to Chu's foreign relatives was obviously not a smart choice.

As for the remaining Meng clan and Wang clan, they are also representative forces in the old aristocracy, and their rich heritage is not much inferior to that of Lao Ai and Lu Buwei.

But precisely because the foundation is so deep, even though the ship is big, there are not many free seats on it.

Nowadays, even if someone wants to join the Meng clan and the Wang clan, others may not be willing to accept them.

The old forces won't work.

Then naturally there are only the new forces promoted by King Qin after he came to power this time.

The new force also has three large ships.

One is Gai Nie.

As the chief guard and swordsmanship teacher of the King of Qin, when Ying Zheng was still weak, he had already chosen to join his subordinate Genie. Not only did he come from a famous Guigu family, but he was also deeply trusted by Ying Zheng.

Although this ship is small, it has already docked at the shore. If you can get on this ship, you will definitely be safe.

However, precisely because Genie's ship was too close to the land, it was inconvenient to protect others.

The second is a young man named "Li Si".

During this purge, this young man who had been unknown in the Qin court suddenly emerged and was promoted to the position of "Dian Ke" in charge of foreign affairs and national affairs.

He is the only emerging nobleman above the imperial court who has been directly promoted to the rank of 'Nine Ministers'.

Li Si's ship is still a bit crude, but people with a discerning eye can see that this ship has great potential in the future, so there are not a few people who choose to join Li Si's disciples.

But in comparison.

Mo Jun's third big ship is the one that most people want to board.

After all, his big ship is not only big and stable enough, but the most important thing is that there are many vacancies on the ship. If you board Mo Jun's ship at this time, you can not only survive the storm smoothly and bring about the storm to dissipate, but also have the possibility of going further. .

So a few days after Mr. Mo returned home.

In addition to sending congratulatory gifts.

Almost every day, there are at least dozens or even hundreds of people who want to join him and become a disciple of Mo Mansion.

And Mr. Mo did not refuse. After all, the big ship under his feet was indeed a little too empty now. With the current manpower of Mo Mansion, it was difficult to even control the navigation of the ship.

However, he did not take all of them under his command. After all, Lord Mo had just ascended to a high position, and it was okay to be a little high-profile, but if he was too high-profile, it would be a matter of death.

So it took half a month.

Mo Jun selected about thirty or so disciples sporadically, and planned to find opportunities to insert them into various institutions of the Qin State as his own power.

It happened that Ying Zheng was carrying out a major purge in Qin during this period, and there would inevitably be a large number of vacancies.

As for the loyalty of these temporarily accepted customers, Mr. Mo had no idea at all.

This is the characteristic of the 'recommendation system'. Anyone who is recommended by Mr. Mo will naturally belong to a "community of interests" with Mr. Mo. It can be said that from the very beginning, the ‘customer system’ and the ‘recommendation system’ have been complementary to each other.

As for the real diehards.

Mo Jun planned to spend some time cultivating it himself.

This is also the purpose of bringing back the thirty children from Nanjun. As long as these children rescued from the 'meat pool' are carefully cultivated, the possibility of loyalty problems is extremely low, and even if it is a 'net', they will not There may be spies planted among these children.

Although Mr. Mo doesn't need much loyalty now, it doesn't mean that he won't need it in the future.

As his ship gets bigger and bigger in the future, the use of personal talents will be infinitely weakened, and loyalty will become even more important by then.

It is somewhat similar to some large companies in later generations. Once a unique operating system is formed in the later period, the company can continue to operate regardless of the lack of anyone.

To put it bluntly.

Now, if Mr. Mo has installed more than 30 disciples, if they do well in the future, they can continue to work.

But if some people have some thoughts that they shouldn't have, then their current purpose is to temporarily occupy the 'pit', that's all.

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Yingzheng's purge lasted throughout the winter.

After all, the Chu foreign relatives represented by Lord Changping could not survive this winter and finally chose to surrender.

As for Lu Buwei's remaining forces, except for a small number of nobles and officials who promptly surrendered to Li Si's command, the rest of his retainers either surrendered to Ying Zheng or were expelled and suppressed.

In addition, the 'messenger' Zhanri died at the same time as the 'leader' Lu Buwei. For a time, Luo Wang was also in a leaderless situation and could only stay dormant temporarily.

With the first snow melting.

In a blink of an eye, it’s the beginning of spring again.

On the surface, Xianyang seems to be no different from last year, it is still the same Xianyang.

However, internally, compared to last year, the entire power of Xianyang has taken on a completely new look.

Inside Zhangtai Palace.

Civil and military officials lined up on both sides. Ying Zheng was wearing a black royal robe and a beaded crown, sitting high on the throne.

Ying Zheng, who has taken all the military and political power of the Qin State, is now more powerful. Compared with the previous times when the four forces in the court were competing, Ying Zheng now makes many ministers lower their heads subconsciously just by sitting there. .

After a brief silence, a majestic voice was slowly heard coming out of Ying Zheng's mouth:

"Mo Qing, how are you preparing for the spring planting?"

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