"In this way, Li Xin transformed himself from a defeated general and an abandoned son into a famous general of the generation."

After what seemed like a long time, Heifu finally finished telling Li Xin's story.

He stood up and looked at the west and said: "No matter what happens to Li Xin in the future, he should have a place in the Jingbian Temple because of his achievements in driving away the Huns, destroying the Yuezhi, opening up Hexi, and connecting the Western Regions!"

"It is the ambition of the First Emperor, and also the ambition of Li Xin and I, to turn all Liuhe into the land of Great Qin. Fortunately, I have not accomplished nothing in the past eight years. He waded through the quicksand in the west and crossed Daxia in the north, while I

There is the East China Sea to the east and the north to the south, so it is evenly divided."

Han Xin nodded: "I just wonder where General Li Xin is now?"

Heifu knew this old colleague very well: "Li kept his promise and respected the First Emperor. Even if he heard about the Central Plains, based on my understanding of him, I will not find the so-called Queen Mother of the West until I go to the end of the sky and the end of the earth."

, I’m afraid he won’t look back. General Li may go further than I imagined!”

After Hei Fu finished telling Li Xin's story, he said to Han Xin: "The reason why I mentioned Li Xin's old story is to tell you that suffering a small setback when you were young is not a bad thing. The key is to know your shame and then be brave, and you will gain wisdom from every experience."

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Han Xin quickly bowed down and said, "Han Xin knows his crime."

Heifu waved his hand: "How can you be guilty? I only asked you to attack Yingchuan and Nanyang, but you also cut off the food road to Luyang and Wuguan. This is far beyond my expectation. If you change anyone in the army, even if you are

I can't do better either. It's just the fault. The opponent you met is Wang Ben..."

He said earnestly: "Han Xin, you are a handsome man and an unparalleled scholar in the country, but don't underestimate the people of the world, especially Wang Ben! The Wang family and his son are the great heroes of Qin Shihuang's victory over the six countries. They are not simple! With the

When playing against him, you need to be cautious and cautious, as if you are careless, you may make the same mistake again."

"Han Xin, save it!"

Han Xin gritted his teeth and said: "I only hope that the emperor will give Han Xin another chance, so that Han Xin can compete with Wang Ben in Nanyang, and it will be determined that Wuzhonghou defeats his army and seizes the county!"

Heifu shook his head: "This winter, the main battlefield is in Hanzhong and Nanyang. I don't plan to make any big moves."

"Then Han Xin is willing to go to Hanzhong!" Han Xin expected that the tens of thousands of people who intercepted him on Danshui River were sent by Wang Ben to help Hanzhong and stop the Northern Expedition. If he could defeat them, it would be avenging his previous humiliation.

However, Heifu deliberately suppressed Han Xin: "There is a Dongmen Leopard in Hanzhong. He has captured Shangyong, Zhao Tuo, and Wu Chenying can quickly annihilate Feng Jie. The three armies will hunt Nan Zheng."

Han Xin was a little disappointed, feeling that Marquis Wu Zhong still trusted those old troops more.

Unexpectedly, Hei Fu said: "You don't have to be in a hurry to go on another expedition. From last year to now, there has been almost no rest. Let's take a rest. I have one more thing to discuss with you."

Han Xin was still obedient in front of Hei Fu. He lowered his head and said, "Just obey the military orders of the Lord and Lord."

"This matter is different. It is your lifelong event."

Heifu smiled and said: "My brother Wei Zhong is serving as the captain of the field in Jiangling. I heard that you are young and promising, a young talent, and single and unmarried, so I want to marry my legitimate daughter to you and let me be his matchmaker..."

"Han Xin, I have watched my niece grow up, just like my legitimate daughter. She is eighteen years old, looks good, and was raised by my wife herself. Are you willing to have this marriage?"

…

Han Xin came from a humble background, his parents were both dead, and he never thought about getting married when he was young. After becoming a general, he was busy with the military and had no time to think about it.

On the contrary, when he entered Jiangling, many local clans came to get close to him and wanted to marry this rising star, but they were all rejected by Han Xin.

Now that he had suffered a defeat, instead of complaining and scolding him, Hei Fu decided to make the decision to marry his niece to him. Han Xin was so surprised, how could he not agree!?

Hei Fu was very satisfied: "Next month, I will arrange for you to go to Jiangling to meet her, and then let the fortune teller count the days, and take advantage of the winter truce to get this happy event done!"

He patted Han Xin affectionately and said, "From now on, you will also be my nephew."

"The kindness of the king will never be forgotten!"

The depression of not being able to send generals to war in a short period of time has long been forgotten in the back of his mind. Now Han Xin only feels that he is indeed unique in the heart of Wu Zhonghou...

After Han Xin left happily, Hei Fu looked at the young man's retreating shadow and whispered:

"This time, I have bound you..."

However, Han Xin is also considered a talented person. Although he does not get along with his colleagues, he is also a person who remembers his gratitude. Especially since his niece married him, he does not have to serve his parents-in-law, which is not bad.

On that day, Heifu stayed up all night again. In addition to military dispatch, food and fodder expenses, reward money expenses, and the land rent of each county, he paid all the land rents. After handling the endless government and military affairs, he walked out, and it was already dark.

Shine.

Taking care of a quarter of the world, he already had so many things to do. Hei Fu somewhat understood why Qin Shi Huang's body collapsed from exhaustion before he was even fifty.

He beat his sore shoulders and said enviously:

"Li Xin, Li Xin."

"If possible."

"I really want to change my relationship with you. We can go all the way to the west in a leisurely way without having to worry about the paperwork and the situation, and we don't have to watch the sky collapse and the earth collapse."

"But it doesn't work..."

He sighed: "I personally took part in the unification of the world, and I know how difficult it is."

For some reason, Hei Fu always had a premonition that the black dog and white horse who were equally famous in the past would probably be under three springs when they meet again...

"You and I each have our own mission."

"Some people go to open up new territories and carve out foreign lands."

"Someone has to stay and clean up the mess left by Emperor Qin Shihuang!"

…

In the late tenth month of Mengdong, the first year of the Second World War, in the hinterland of Guanzhong, under the tall Li Mountain and on the loess plain, under the buildings of hundreds of thousands of people, a new city rose from the ground.

The layout of this city is very similar to Xianyang. It is more than five miles in circumference. There are two layers of city walls inside and outside. There are tall gates on all sides of the city wall, which are shaped like the three gates of the emperor's capital. But inside the city wall, there is not a main hall, but a palace.

An unfathomable underground palace!

This is the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuang.

According to the ritual system, the emperor was buried on the seventh day and buried in the seventh month. Hu Hai, Li Si, Zhao Gao and others did not want to keep the secret and did not announce the funeral. They actually said that the first emperor died in Xianyang after a patrol at the end of March and heard about the rebellion of Heifu.

Therefore, Qin Shihuang's coffin had been buried as early as April, before Hu Hai succeeded to the throne.

There were more than 100,000 people in the funeral procession that day. In the front was the guard of honor, with five rows of people holding the coffins, with eight people in each row. In the middle was the coffin, and there were more than 2,000 people just pulling the coffin. The funeral procession was huge and stretched for more than ten people.

It took three full days of walking from Xianyang to Lishan to place the stacked coffins of the First Emperor in the repaired tomb chamber of the underground palace, and then sealed the inner gate of the tomb passage.

From then on, only legends remain about the mysterious underground palace in Neixian Gate: it is said that it was deep and wide, dug under three springs, and then poured with copper liquid to strengthen the foundation.

The tomb was built with palace pavilions and places for officials to meet, and was filled with rare treasures. In order to prevent theft, the tomb was equipped with clever hidden arrows. The curved roof of the tomb was decorated with precious stones and pearls, symbolizing celestial bodies and stars.

; Below is the geographical situation of Baichuan, Wuyue and Kyushu, infused with mercury, symbolizing the endless flow of rivers and seas. There are gold phoenixes and pheasants floating on it, and "everlasting lamps" made of whale oil from the East China Sea are lit around it...

As for the Inner Xian Gate, there are the Zhongxian Gate and the Outer Xian Gate, which are built layer by layer toward the outside.

The amount of the project was so huge that in order not to damage the feng shui of Lishan Mountain, one hundred thousand prisoners were quarried dozens or even hundreds of miles away. Dozens of people were exhausted to death every day, fell to death, or were crushed by large rocks.

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Hundreds of thousands of stones were gradually transported to the tomb area by oxen and horses. The stonemasons here were making stone bricks with a clanking sound, and their bodies were covered with a layer of white ash. The pottery workers who fired the pottery figurines also changed people and kept burning the furnace day and night.

Continuously, the colorful terracotta warriors and horses are fired one after another.

With the hard work of hundreds of thousands of people, the underground palace, city walls, terracotta warriors and horses, burial pits, etc. were completed one after another before the official funeral in late October. Although there was no reward for completing it ahead of schedule, at least it spared the new emperor from punishment.

During a formal funeral, the pomp should never be inferior to that of a funeral. Although the rebellion in the east and south became more and more intense, in order to show his filial piety, Hu Hai still rejected Li Si and others' suggestion of "keeping the funeral simple" and held a grand ceremony.

He almost spent the last of the young man's money and brought all the civil and military officials to attend. After a huge and complicated ceremony, he concluded the funeral.

Seeing that the ceremony was over, the Second Emperor and his relatives left the Lishan Mausoleum. The three thousand skilled craftsmen responsible for the construction of the core of the underground palace breathed a sigh of relief and felt that they could finally go home - they had been working here for more than half a year.

He was placed under centralized guarding by the army, all contact with the outside world was closed, and no letters were allowed to flow out.

But these three thousand people were happily packing their things when they were told by the official supervising the work: "Before closing the outer gate, we need to check the organs in the underground palace one last time!"

Everyone then reluctantly returned to the dark underground, groped around, and after confirming that everything was correct, they wanted to return to the ground. However, they were shocked to find that what was waiting for them at Waixian Gate was a group of fully armed crossbowmen, and a cold-looking man.

Young eunuch...

"This is……"

The wise man guessed the reason, and cried loudly: "What crime have we committed?"

"You are not guilty."

The young eunuch smiled: "It's just that he knows too much!"

He waved his hand, and the indignant voices of the craftsmen were broken by the crisp ejection of the crossbow machine. The officer mechanically wound the string, took aim, pulled the trigger, and emptied the quiver, and cartloads of crossbow arrows were sent over again...

The corridor was long and straight, and the craftsmen had nowhere to escape. Many people fell in a pool of blood, and many more were nailed to the wall by crossbow arrows.

In the underground palace, screams continued continuously. After a long time, when no one moaned anymore, the heavy outer door slowly fell down, blocking the last beam of light from outside, but it could not block the light that slowly flowed out from the gap at the bottom.

Blood!

There are three thousand Tibetan craftsmen, from gray-haired old men to apprentices who have just worked with their masters. As long as those who participated in the core construction of the underground palace, no one will come back!

Lang Guan, who was ordered to act cautiously, asked the young eunuch: "My lord, don't you need to check whether someone faked his death?"

"No need."

The eunuch was in his early twenties, with thin lips, fair face and beardless eyes, and sinister eyes. His name was Zhang Ao. He was the son of a thief from the Wei State who was sent to Guanzhong before unification. After being castrated, he worked as a horse feeder in the palace and was later in charge of carriages.

Zhao Gao of Ma discovered and promoted him, and now he has become his confidant.
To be continued...