Chapter 187 Chapter 4 Hanging Gates of Gold

On the same day that Lord Changping became Prime Minister of Zuo, Prince Dan led his people back to Yan Kingdom, and Xiang Shaolong sent Liu Chao and Pu Bu to escort them on horseback, lest Lu Buwei use any further tricks. After bidding farewell to Prince Dan and others, Xiang Shaolong left the city and returned to the pasture to bury Zhao Ya.Because there was a funeral at home, Yili did not attend Lu Gong's funeral. It was ten days after everything was done.Xiao Pan sent people three times to urge him to return to the city, Xiang Shaolong gradually recovered from his grief at this time, and decided to return to the city tomorrow morning.

It has been snowing heavily since dusk, Xiang Shaolong and Ji Yanran paid homage to Zhao Ya and returned home side by side. Ji Yanran held his hand tightly, and said softly: "When you go back to the city today, you'd better go and see Sister Qing first, otherwise she will be very upset!" Xiang Shaolong was stunned and said, "Have you seen her?" Ji Yanran nodded and said, "Yes! She also knew about Mrs. Ya's death, otherwise she would not have forgiven you." Xiang Shaolong said distressedly: "Didn't you tell me not to touch your sister Qing? Why do you seem to encourage me to find her now?"

Ji Yanran sighed quietly: "Maybe it's because of my respect and love for her! I think she has become less and less self-control towards you. Otherwise, she wouldn't have condescended to honor you the next day after you came back." Came to see you. On the surface, of course she said that she just came to see me, but when she found out that you went to the court meeting, she immediately became listless, alas! I don't know what to say." At this moment, as soon as they stepped into the backyard, a figure flashed, and Shan Rou stopped in front of the two of them. The two were so frightened that they let go of their tightly held hands.

Shanrou pinched Ji Yanran's face with her hand, and said with a charming smile, "Beauty! I want to borrow your husband for a while!" Unexpectedly, Ji Yanran would play tricks on Shanrou, she was angry and funny, and said angrily: "Lend it as you please! Do I, Ji Yanran, care about him?" She went away with a charming smile. Shanrou took the initiative to take Xiang Shaolong's hand, went to the pavilion in the garden, turned around and hugged him tightly, and sighed, "Xiang Shaolong! I'm leaving!" Xiang Shaolong lost his voice: "What?" Shanrou pushed him away, turned her delicate body around, and said angrily: "It's so clearly said, can't you hear me? I'm leaving!"

Xiang Shaolong moved forward and put his arms around her small waist, and said in a deep voice, "Where is Elder Sister Rou going?" Shan Rou sighed; shook her head and said, "Don't ask me how you are? Anyway, I'm going back to Qi Kingdom tomorrow. Maybe I'll come to you again one day in the future." Xiang Shaolong recalled what she said when he was in Chu State. Although she had denied it half-truthfully and half-falsely afterwards, judging from the current situation, it might be true.Thinking that she was going to fall into the arms of another man for some reason, she couldn't help but feel very discouraged, but she was helpless for a long time, and was speechless for a while.

Shanrou said in a low voice: "Why don't you talk anymore, maybe you are annoyed in your heart!" Xiang Shaolong let go of the hand that was holding her, and said with a wry smile: "I don't have the right to annoy you, Big Sister Rou can do whatever she likes! How can I, Xiang Shaolong interfere?" Shanrou turned around like a whirlwind, wrapping his hands around his neck, showing deep emotion in his beautiful eyes, and said with unprecedented tenderness: "Let Zhizhi serve you on behalf of Shanrou, but tonight, Shanrou belongs to you Shaolong is alone, and only listens to your dispatches and orders, and at the same time, I want you to remember that Shanrou will never forget Xiang Shaolong, and only hates that Shanrou once made a promise to others, and the details have actually been told to you long ago."

Xiang Shaolong looked at the white snow dancing in the sky outside the pavilion, and thought of Zhao Ya's hard life. The pain in his heart covered up his resentment for Shan Rou's departure, and he nodded, "I see, Sister Rou, don't worry, do what you want things! Life will never go well, I, Xiang Shaolong, have no choice but to accept my fate." Without saying a word, Shanrou fell into his arms, finally giving Xiang Shaolong the first time in history to see the tears rolling in her beautiful eyes. ◇◇◇◇◇◇ When she woke up the next morning, Shan Rou had quietly gone. Xiang Shaolong forced himself to put aside his thoughts about her, and got up to practice his sword.

Ji Yanran excitedly took a gun to confront him, Wu Tingfang, sister Tian Zhen and Xiang Baoer were all applauding and cheering happily. Talented girl Ji's marksmanship is really good, when she used it, Ren Xiang Shaolong tried his best, but still couldn't get into her spear, put his sword back and said with a smile: "I'm willing to bow down. Fortunately, I still have other people owe me The flying dragon gun, I will go to the Drunken Wind Tower to get it back from Wu Fu in the next two days, and then I will learn from the talented girl." Ji Yanran smiled and said: "Family has family rules, if you want to spend the night with you for your wife, you must shoot down the gun in his hand, Ting Fang and others are witnesses."

Wu Tingfang and others clapped their hands and applauded, as if they were afraid that the world would not be chaotic. Xiang Shaolong smiled maliciously: "If Ji's talented girl asks herself if she can resist her husband's provocative methods, then just brag about it!" Ji Yanranxia burned her jade cheeks and said angrily: "If Xiang Shaolong is such a despicable person, even if I surrender physically, I will never be convinced." Xiang Shaolong knew that she had good intentions, so he used it to motivate himself to work hard, and said solemnly: "Don't worry! I'm just joking! Talented girl, please give me three years, and I will be able to subdue you."

Ji Yanran's almond-shaped eyes widened, and she lost her voice, "Three years?" Xiang Shaolong laughed and moved forward, hugged her into his arms, and comforted him: "Three days is too long for me, how can I be willing to let a talented woman be bound by herself, and stay widowed for three years, ha..." At this time Jing Shan came to report, Wu Yingyuan came back. When Xiang Shaolong was overjoyed, Wu Tingfang rushed out to greet him. In the lobby of the main residence, Wu Yingyuan, who is in high spirits, is comforting Wu Tingfang, while Tao Fang reports to him what happened recently.

After some commotion, Wu Yingyuan picked up Xiang Baoer and sat down to talk with Xiang Shaolong and Tao Fang. Wu Tingfang took the initiative to massage Naifu's tired shoulder muscles, full of warm affection. After Wu Yingyuan praised Xiang Shaolong for a few words, he said with a smile: "I went to the northern border today and saw the place Wu Zhuo chose. It really is a place with good geomantic omen. The world is a beautiful place with lush water and grass. Now Wu Zhuo built We set up a large ranch and recruited some weak ethnic groups who were oppressed by the Huns to come back, and the momentum is strong, but we need to deploy more manpower, otherwise I am afraid that we will not be able to cope with the Huns." Xiang Shaolong said: "That's exactly what I mean, because Wang Jian will be transferred back to Xianyang soon, without his support, everything will depend on us." Wu Yingyuan said: "I discussed with Xiao Zhuo, at least two thousand people should be transferred to him. Is there any problem?" Xiang Shaolong said: "There is absolutely no problem, it's settled like this." Wu Yingyuan let go of his worries, turned to Tao Fang and said, "Mr. Tao, you are in charge of making arrangements. I want to gradually evacuate the people of the Wu nationality from the Qin territory. It is indeed the best place to live. We don't have to look at other people's faces in the future. .” After discussing some details, Xiang Shaolong returned to Xianyang with his daughters and Tie Wei. ◇◇◇◇◇◇ After returning to the city, the first thing Xiang Shaolong did was to enter the palace to meet Xiao Pan. Xiao Pan was overjoyed to see the leader Shaolong arrived, and saw him in the study as usual, after sitting down, he immediately said: "Lian Po has lost his official position." Even though he had calculated it early, Xiang Shaolong still had a sad feeling that Zhao Guo was ruled by Guo Kai and Pang Nuan from now on, but what about Li Mu's fate? Xiao Panxian was very afraid of Lian Po, and said with relief: "Without Lian Po, if the Zhao people lose half of their country, if even Li Mu is driven away, the Zhao people will be finished." Xiang Shaolong knew that he hated the Zhao people deeply, and he couldn't change it, so he said in a deep voice, "Did the Zhao people kill Lian Po?" Xiao Pan said indifferently: "Lian Po is very scheming, seeing that the situation is not right, he immediately led his people to flee to Daliang. I heard that he was ill with anger. Alas, he is really too old, and he will never regain his former courage." Xiang Shaolong's heart was heavy when he heard this. Xiao Pan sighed: "I only hate Li Mu but defeated the Xiongnu in Yanmen. It seems that he still has a good life. As long as Li Mu is around one day, we will never want to perish Zhao. Now we have to ask Han Wei to do the surgery." When Xiang Shaolong thought of Han Chuang, Han Feizi and Long Yangjun, his old friends, his mood became even more depressed. Of course he was most concerned about Lord Longyang; he said: "If the people of Wei use Lian Po, I'm afraid it will not be easy to attack Wei." Xiaopan misunderstood what he meant, and said with a low smile: "Master, don't worry, this is called one moment and another moment. At the beginning of the year, Lian Po led his troops to attack Wei, and took Xingyang from the Wei people. King Anli of Wei hated him. To the bone, this time he is going to Daliang, it is very polite not to kill him to drink, how can he be used?" When Xiang Shaolong was speechless, Xiaopan changed the topic and said: "Now Lu Buwei hired Zheng Guolai, a Korean, to build a canal for our Daqin. Go eastward and enter Beiluoshui. This has cost a lot of manpower and material resources, so we are temporarily unable to move eastward on a large scale. We can only use force against the Koreans. Meng Ao is now intensively recruiting recruits to strengthen his strength. But I have Another idea, I hope that the master will personally lead the troops to go out, if he can make military achievements, Meng Ao and Wang He can be suppressed." Xiang Shaolong was startled secretly, and hurriedly said: "It's not the time yet, if I leave, maybe Lu Buwei will come up with some tricks, at least we have to wait for Lord Changping to get a firm foothold." Xiao Pan sighed, and felt that Xiang Shaolong's words were very reasonable, so he didn't insist anymore.Xuan became excited again and said: "Thinking about the morning when I sang to my master and made Lu Buwei and others unable to lift their heads, it was really brilliant." Xiang Shaolong said: "Lu Buwei will not be convinced, what kind of tricks have you played in the past few days?" Xiao Pan smiled wryly and said: "His methods are really hard to guard against. On the second day after you returned to the pasture, Lu Zei hung a thousand gold coins on the gate of Xianyang City, and even boasted that if anyone can increase or decrease his mother's Those who write the word "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" will be rewarded with a thousand gold. This makes everyone rush to study the "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" he posted. The master also knows that this ghost book is just a tool for him to seize my kingship, right? People are annoyed." Xiang Shaolong was dumbfounded when he heard that, this traitor really knows how to sell advertisements, in this way, he could control the thinking of Qin people, and at the same time greatly damage the centralized monarchy system since Shang Yang's reform.He comes from the 21st century, and he understands the power of advocating ideas and doctrines better than Xiao Pan. This trick can't be solved by using a knife or a gun, and I couldn't help but think of my beloved talented girl Ji, she stood up and said: "Don't panic, Chu Jun, I'll go around first, and I will tell Chu Jun how to deal with it when I come back. " Xiao Pan was overjoyed and said, "I knew that Master would have a way to deal with it. Hurry up, I'll wait for your good news here." Xiang Shaolong was actually holding the attitude of asking tentatively, as for whether the intelligent and talented woman could have the answer, he was really not half sure, but now seeing Qin Shihuang full of expectations for the future, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree to go.Stepping out of the study, thinking of Li Si, he secretly thought that to deal with the spread of "Lu Buwei Doctrine", this person naturally has more ways than himself, so he went to the government office to find him. Li Si was burying his head in his files, when he saw Xiang Shaolong coming, he happily welcomed him into the room. Xiang Shaolong smiled and said, "What are you busy with? Are you busy with Mr. Changping's business?" Li Sila sat down properly, and said with a blushing face, "I just finished his work this morning, but now I'm busy with other things." Xiang Shaolong wondered: "Why does brother Li seem a little embarrassed to say it?" Li Si said in a low voice: "Shaolong, don't laugh at me. I have been studying Shang Yang's reforms for the past six months, and found that there are still many loopholes and loopholes in the official system, so I worked hard to draft a more ideal system. If it can be carried out, great rule will surely be achieved. Even if the world is unified in the future, it can be handled.” Xiang Shaolong said happily: "Tell me quickly and listen." Li Si's eyes lit up immediately, and he said with great energy: "First of all, it is the question of the left and right prime ministers. Nowadays, it is difficult to distinguish between the overlapping powers. Whoever has the most human rights can take care of the affairs of other families. Like Lu Buwei, he only loves to take care of military affairs. If he is limited to a certain range, it will be difficult for him to be as unscrupulous as he is now, and it will also solve the problem of power ministers harming the country." Xiang Shaolong patted the table and said: "I understand, brother Li's intention is to fight against "Lu Shi Chun Qiu"?" Li Si nodded and said: "That's right. It's a pity that Li has limited knowledge and can only start with the political system, but he still hasn't been able to create a sect to counteract the spirit of the Lu family formed by Lu Buwei. He is a generation of outstanding people.” Xiang Shaolong said: "Brother Li, let's talk about your method first." Li Sixin said: "My method is simple and easy to implement. It is to establish a system of three lords and nine ministers. The so-called "three lords" means that only one prime minister is left to be the head of a hundred officials and take charge of government affairs. Then change the left prime minister to be a Taiwei, who is in charge of military affairs , and then set up a censor in addition to these two positions to be responsible for the correspondence documents and supervisors for the prince. Xiang Shaolong was moved by it, and thought to himself that he had heard a lot about the three lords and nine ministers, so it turned out that it was from Li Si's super brain, no wonder Li Si can be famous forever.At the same time, I can also see Li Si's selfishness. This censor is clearly tailor-made for him.But thinking about the fact that people are not for themselves, and heaven and earth are destroyed, I feel relieved. Li Si continued: "The so-called Jiuqing are mostly the official positions of our Great Qin Dynasty, but the division of power is more clear. The three princes are only responsible for assisting the prince to manage the state affairs, and the specific work in all aspects is shared by the various ministers. For example, rewards are in charge of ancestral temple etiquette, and there are officials such as Taile, Taizhu, Dazai, Taishi, Taipu, Taiyi, Tailingcheng, etc.; other Langzhongling, Weiwei, Taipu, Tingwei, Dianke , Zongzheng, Zhisu Neishi, Shaofu and other Eight Ministers are also the same. Like the current three systems of Imperial Guard, Duwei, and Duqi, after the restructuring, they will all be under the command of Wei Wei, so that the current systems will not compete with each other It's covered." Of course Xiang Shaolong understood Li Si's love for him, in the end he wanted to recommend this plan to Xiao Pan. He was also happy to be a favor that would benefit Xiao Pan but not harm him, nodded and said: "Brother Li, just prepare better, and when I enter the palace again, I will speak to the Chu Jun with Brother Li. " Li Si said happily: "Brother Xiang is indeed Li Si's good friend and confidant. If the prince accepts it, it will not be in vain for my years of hard work." Xiang Shaolong patted him on the shoulder and went happily.I thought to myself that I could have a head on my neck to guarantee that this will happen, otherwise the Chinese in the 21st century would not be familiar with the term Sangong Jiuqing.