The younger brother of the First Emperor

Chapter 77: The entire Qin court wants to attack Zhao!
The first year of Qin Wangzhu’s reign, December, fourth day.

Zhao Di, the deputy envoy of Qin State to Zhao State, arrived in Xianyang.

The first year of Qin Wangzhu’s reign, December, fifth day.

The Crown Prince Qin Zichu, who was the regent of Qin State, convened a grand court meeting in the front hall of Xin Palace.

The high platform in front of the hall.

The queen sits on the left and the prince kneels on the right.

The small chair between the two of them was replaced with a brocade mat.

The prince Cheng Jiao above him was also replaced by prince Zheng.

Ying Zheng was a little nervous when he attended the court for the first time, but he was no longer nervous after the ministers entered the hall one by one.

He had met four or five out of ten of these ministers, and they had all taught him in the Guanzheng Qinxue Hall and were his teachers.

The opening ceremony of the grand court meeting remained the same as before.

You speak, and I speak too, trying to see whose voice is louder. The noisy court is even louder than a hawker market.

Since the death of the previous king, the crown prince has been regent and the queen has been assisting in government affairs, and the queen has been the one mediating all this.

Today, the usually gentle prince got angry for once.

"Noisy!"

Everyone stopped talking one after another and waited with solemn expressions.

Those who could come to this court were all shrewd people. They smelled danger from the prince's icy face and angry words.

"Zhao Di, come out!" The prince pointed at the court official Zhao Di and said in a deep voice, "Say what Zhao Guo said again!"

The Chief Justice was standing in the middle and back of the court, wearing an official robe with a black ribbon and a bronze seal hanging around his waist.

"The King of Zhao said, 'My envoy died in your Qin territory, and my son was held hostage in your Qin territory and died in your Qin territory. Now I will kill one of your Qin envoys, Li Chong, to avenge the envoys. I will send troops to Hangu Pass in the future to destroy your Qin territory and commemorate my son.'"

Li Chong was a senior minister of the Qin State, with an official rank of two thousand stones and the highest salary.

Being a senior minister in a country means being the highest-ranking official. The prime minister and the court judge are all senior ministers.

Although the position of the Xiangbang was one level higher than that of the Tingwei, in fact, both of them received a salary of 2,000 dan, which was theoretically the same level.

The senior minister Li Chong was killed while on a diplomatic mission to a foreign country, and the Qin court was in an uproar.

Regardless of whether the relationship with Li Chong is good or bad, the ministers in the court are highly unanimous in their views at this moment.

send troops!

Attack Zhao!

Shi Cang, the Minister of Finance who was in charge of Qin's money and grain, stood up and said:
"Give me three days, and I can raise food and fodder for an army of 500,000 men."

The veteran generals Bie Gong, Meng Ao, and Wang He all requested to fight and were willing to become generals.

Generals Huan Xi, Yang Duanhe, Fan Yuqi and others requested to fight and were willing to serve as deputy generals.

The Battle of Changping by the State of Qin crippled the State of Zhao, which was about to become the leader of the world, and shocked all the other states. The people of Qin looked down upon the world.

Although the Qin people lost the Battle of Handan to the coalition of five nations, their warlike spirit grew stronger.

The Zhao envoys were almost wiped out, that's ok.

It's okay if the hostage of Zhao State was killed by the prince of Qin State.

Zhao State killed our Qin State envoys. No! Go to Zhao State!

Although it was not suitable to go to war at this time, this war had to be fought to maintain Qin's position as the overlord of the world.

After listening to the individual speeches, Crown Prince Qin Zichu made the final decision:

“I will lead the troops in this battle myself!
"Shi Cang, Biao Gong, Zhao Di...after the court session, they came to the Council Hall.

"Dismiss the dynasty!"

The ministers were in an uproar.

There has never been a case of a monarch of the Qin State going on an expedition.

Although the current crown prince is not a king, he has always been in charge of royal affairs and is almost as good as a king in the eyes of his ministers.

The prince, who has always been modest, self-disciplined and diligent, but has never been on the battlefield and has no practical combat experience, wants to go to the battlefield himself. Isn't this nonsense? In the Battle of Changping, wasn't the lesson of Zhao State exchanging Zhao Kuo for Lian Po painful enough?

They did not leave after the court was dismissed, but jumped up and made loud remonstrations.

But if they didn't leave, they couldn't stop the prince from leaving.

Crown Prince Qin Zichu bowed to Queen Huayang and left with his eldest son Ying Zheng.

The eldest son Zheng's first court session ended in a state of blood boiling.

After returning to the Guanzheng Qinxue Hall, he could not calm down for a long time and leaned against the window looking at the Council Hall next to it.

Attack Zhao? Attack Zhao!
He had not expected that the time for revenge would come so soon.

What he didn't expect was that when facing another powerful country, all the civil and military officials in the Qin court actually advocated an attack.

It was as if this was not a war, but digging a hole in Zhao State, burying some soil, and counting one, two, three, four, and five.

The teachers who came after him didn't seem to be in the mood to teach.

Standing by the window with the eldest son, he tested him on what he had learned in the past while looking at the Council Hall.

Teachers and students observe politics together.

Veteran general Bie Gong, veteran general Meng Ao, veteran general Wang He, the grain official Shi Cang, prime minister Wei Zhe, prime minister's chief secretary Lu Buwei, and the chief justice Zhao Di... walked in.

Half an hour later, people came out one after another.

First came the veteran generals Bie Gong, Meng Ao, and Wang He, then came the grain official Shi Cang, and then the prime minister Wei Zhe...

The sun is bad at noon.

In the council hall, only Qin Zichu, Lu Buwei and Zhao Di were left.

Qin Zichu asked Zhao Di to tell Lu Buwei everything about Zhao's trip and the result.

As soon as Zhao Di arrived in Xianyang yesterday, he went to see his lord Lu Buwei and told him everything.

At this time, pretending not to say anything, he still said seriously:

"…The King of Zhao said that he would send General Li Mu to deliberately defeat the Crown Prince, and was willing to build momentum for the Crown Prince and support him just as King Wuling of Zhao supported King Zhaoxiang. After the war, Qin and Zhao signed a friendly alliance to not invade each other.

"Yan agreed to send troops to attack Zhao while the Zhao army was fighting the prince..."

night.

Crown Prince Qin Zichu paid a visit to the King of Qin and asked for the tiger talisman.

The King of Qin gave it to him.

The first year of Qin Wangzhu’s reign, December, seventh day.

The royal physician ordered that Qin Wangzhu's pulse be examined once every seven days. Today was the day again, and Prince Chengjiao accompanied the Qin Wang.

The imperial physician was named Li Yue, with white hair and a white beard.

His father, Li Xi (pronounced xi), was the chief physician during the reign of King Wu of Qin.

King Wu of Qin was ill and Li Xi was unable to cure him, so King Wu summoned famous doctors from all over the world to treat him, and Bian Que was one of them.

Bian Que, whose real name was Qin Yueren, cured King Wu of Qin's illness. Li Xi was jealous that Bian Que's medical skills were better than his own, so he killed him and obtained Bian Que's medical book.

Li Yue combined the knowledge of both his father and the legendary doctor Bian Que. His medical skills were extremely advanced, and Prince Cheng Jiao trusted him deeply.

As soon as Li Yue took three fingers of his right hand off Qin Wangzhu's wrist, Prince Chengjiao couldn't wait to ask:

"Divine doctor, how long can my father live?"

The little pharmacist beside Li Yue turned pale upon hearing this, and the medicine box in his hands fell to the ground with a "click".

The imperial physician Li Yue patted the little medicine boy's head comfortingly, bowed to Qin Wangzhu and apologized:

"I have never seen the great king's majesty before. I apologize for my disrespect."

The little medicine boy was about to cry. He knelt on the ground and cried:
"Wuqie knows he was wrong, Wuqie knows he was wrong, Wuqie didn't mean it, don't dig out Wuqie's eyes."

Qin Wangzhu, who had a faint smile on his face and didn't care, immediately looked strange and stole a glance at his grandson.

Seeing his grandson urging Li Yue to ask about his physical condition, he felt warm in his heart and relieved at the same time.

(End of this chapter)