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Qin Shihuang's complexion became more and more strange: "This courtier has some meanings. As you said, he is really not a loyal minister, but he is definitely not a traitor... Well, I just heard the meaning in your words. It seems that there are many kinds of courtiers. , is not limited to loyal ministers and treacherous ministers, but everyone wants to be a loyal minister, at least wants to say that he is a loyal minister in front of the truth, why do you just dismiss the name loyal minister?"
Without waiting for Li Linfei to answer, Qin Shihuang suddenly turned his head to look at Zhao Gao: "Zhao Gao, I know that you and the uncle of the country are very close. I wonder if you are also the courtier that the uncle of the country said?"
"Your Majesty, I know that it is absolutely impossible for anyone to think that I am a loyal minister, but as Uncle Guo said, I would never dare to be a traitor, so... I am a sycophant! I am willing to be a sycophant!" Zhao Gao said.
Chapter 7 Fifteen
Qin Shihuang was stunned for a moment, Li Si and Meng Tian who had just asked others to find out the ins and outs were also stunned.
What happened today, why did one, two, and now the third take the wrong medicine?
People can't wait to pat their chests and say that they are good, right, and correct, that they are loyal ministers, that they only have the country in their hearts, and they have absolutely no selfishness.
Why did these two guys turn around like a convulsion today, and what makes them even more unacceptable is that Qin Shihuang is not only not angry at all, but is very interested and even likes such an answer?
"Oh? Then can you tell me why you want to be a sycophant? How do you understand a sycophant?"
Zhao Gao kowtowed to Qin Shihuang: "Your Majesty, treacherous ministers only have themselves in their hearts, and they don't care about the country and Your Majesty at all. I would rather die than do it! And loyal ministers, don't say whether those so-called loyal ministers accept a eunuch as a minister, just say How much of the loyal ministers you say today is true and how much is false?"
"And among those truly loyal ministers, how many are just talking about the country and His Majesty, which may be right, but actually don't care whether it is useful or not, whether it is really beneficial to the country and His Majesty!"
"As Uncle Guo said, they care more about what others think of them. Such a loyal minister, Your Majesty, even though I am a castrated eunuch, I don't care about it!"
"Therefore, the minister and the uncle of the country are willing to be a treacherous villain in the eyes of others, willing to be a treacherous minister who has selfish desires, but absolutely puts your majesty and the country first! Because the treacherous minister is based on his own interests, and he is not the same as The country does more harm than good."
"The foundation of loyal ministers is to leave a name in history and be admired by all people. For these, they can abandon everything. However, ministers and uncles are courtiers. Everything about courtiers is Your Majesty, and then the country!"
"In the eyes of loyal ministers, the country is above everything else, including His Majesty, but they don't care that this country is His Majesty's country at all. They often like moral kidnapping."
"But in the eyes of the courtiers, His Majesty is above all else. We can be greedy, cheat for personal gain, and even break the law, but we will never infringe on His Majesty's interests, because in our eyes, we include ourselves and the entire country. , are all His Majesty's, and naturally His Majesty is the root of everything."
"It's like a horse. Usually we want to eat some good fodder. Even if there is a special stable boy serving it, it would be great to have an egg every day. But when the owner needs it, he will ride the horse and whip it. Even if there are thousands of troops on the opposite side, you will never rush in without the slightest hesitation and fight with your master in the thousands of troops!"
Zhao Gao's words made most of the people, especially those so-called loyal ministers, such as Meng Tian and others feel ashamed, and they couldn't even accept and agree with it at all.
But Qin Shihuang laughed and patted Li Linfei on the shoulder, then lightly kicked Zhao Gao over: "You slave can talk! Get up and beat me on the shoulder!"
Zhao Gao responded with a smile, then got up and got up from the ground, waited for Qin Shihuang to sit back on the throne, and beat him on the shoulders.
"Uncle Guo, tell me what you think of the courtiers!"
Li Linfei nodded and said, "Yes, Your Majesty!"
"The general believes that there are not only two types of courtiers: treacherous ministers and loyal ministers. There is absolutely no one, anything, or anything in the world that is absolutely pure and single, and so are courtiers!"
"Couriers should not be simply divided into loyal and treacherous ministers. Courtiers should be composed of good ministers, competent ministers, dry ministers, virtuous ministers, treacherous ministers, loyal ministers, flattering ministers, foolish ministers, straight ministers, honest ministers, etc."
"And every kind of courtier is not absolute, they are just the most important status, it does not mean that there can only be this one, there will be other more or less, good or bad qualities, That is to say, no one is perfect, this is the principle of heaven and earth.”
"A country and a king do not need and cannot have only one kind of courtiers! As the saying goes, the ruler is short and the inch is long! Complementary and synergistic can be omnipotent."
"As for the ministers, except for the treacherous ministers who harm the country and the people and collude with foreign enemies, no matter what kind of ministers they are, they should be based on their status as ministers, not on those names!"
"So no matter what kind of courtier you are, you must first be His Majesty's courtiers, and then you can talk about others. However, some people have reversed this relationship! Forgot that there is a king first, and then there are ministers of the king! He is the assistant of the king! Not the assistant of the mountains and rivers!"
Qin Shihuang frowned, closed his eyes slightly, and savored it carefully for a long time: "Well, well, such a statement is shocking to the world, but it has something to say, and it is true! Come, pass on my order. This time, the three of us, the monarch and the minister, will You can record it in the history books and order people to pass it on to the world, so that everyone in the world knows!"
After finishing speaking, Qin Shihuang turned his attention to Meng Tian: "Aiqing, you came at a good time. This time, I have decided that the uncle of the country will lead the army to conquer Rong and Di. Except for the elite 3000 people in his headquarters, who are imprisoned in various prisons." In addition to the 7000 people in Juxian Hall, you still need to transfer 5 people from your Meng family army, no, [-] people, I wonder if Ai Qing has any difficulties?"
Meng Tian was taken aback, he didn't expect that he just wanted to take this opportunity to fish out Yi Xiaochuan, but Li Linfei fished out the entire Juxian Hall!
But why?If he really had the Juxian Hall in his heart, why did he personally lead soldiers to surround the Juxian Hall and capture all the people in the Juxian Hall?
"I have no objection, but I just want to ask my uncle to mobilize [-] troops from three places. Are you afraid of confusion and chaos? In addition, I don't know what kind of soldiers the uncle wants for the [-] troops, and the number of each? "
There are many kinds of soldiers and horses. Cavalry, chariot soldiers, infantry, and archers. There are several types of infantry. There are swords, spears, and shields in terms of weapons, and cloth armor in terms of armor. , leather armor and iron armor, that's why Meng Tian asked Li Linfei what kind of soldiers and horses he wanted.
After all, Li Linfei originally only needed to mobilize 3 people, and Qin Shihuang increased it to 5 people, but it wasn't all the Meng's army, so he naturally wanted to ask for clarification so that he could make arrangements.
"Fifty thousand soldiers and horses are all long-armed soldiers!"
The matter was settled like this, and then Li Linfei took an imperial decree from Qin Shihuang and sent people to various prisons to bring the scattered members of the Juxian Hall who were imprisoned in various places to Xianyang to wait for the meeting on the way to Rongdi.
He himself went to the largest prison in Xianyang with Zhao Gao, who had nothing important to do after the next court, to welcome the released Xiang Liang and other core members of the Juxian Hall.
Chapter 7 Destruction of Rongdi (1)
Zhao Gao and Li Linfei came to the cell where Uncle Xiang Liang's nephew was being held.
There is nothing bad about it except for the dim light, and it has never been locked, or in other words, all the cells in this prison are unlocked.
They are relatively clean, and they are completely allowed to come and go freely, as long as they don't leave the prison. Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu are also provided with good food and wine every day.
As for those who left the prison, that was a prison escape, breaking the agreement with Li Linfei, and violating the rules of the game, so don't blame him for being ungrateful.
At that time, the two thousand crossbowmen stationed outside the prison and the three thousand ordinary archers will be more than happy to teach them how to be human in their next life!
"Master, Brother Yu!" Xiang Liang put down the book in his hand and walked over with a smile.
"Lin Fei, come to see me as a teacher again?"
Li Linfei shook his head and then knelt down to Xiang Liang: "Master, this disciple is not filial, I just found a chance to pick you and Brother Yu away today! By the way, where is Brother Yu?"
Xiang Liang was taken aback: "What do you mean by that?"
Li Linfei looked at Xiang Liang: "It's literally, I'm here today to welcome Master and Brother Yu to leave here!"
Zhao Gao, who was helping Li Linfei with a piece of clothing in his hands, laughed, "Mr. Xiang, Lin Fei and I have come here specially to pick you up today."
"Look, what the two of us are holding is the new clothes that his wife, Lu Zhi, and my sister, Xiaoyue, tailor-made for your uncle and nephew, are waiting for you two." Go home!"
Xiang Liang looked at Li Linfei up and down: "Yu'er and I can leave now, but what about Xiao Chuan? And the other brothers from Juxian Hall?"
"Mr. Xiang, you don't know that Lin Fei took the risk of being beheaded in the imperial study today to make up His Majesty, so he took the opportunity to take the initiative to ask for orders to conquer Rong Di, who was on the sidelines, to save you and his entire family. Everyone in Xiantang has been rescued!"
Xiang Liang was taken aback for a moment, then nodded in satisfaction, and smiled with great satisfaction: "Okay! Okay! Lin Fei, you really didn't disappoint my teacher, and you really did what you said at the beginning!"
While speaking, he helped Li Linfei up from the ground, reached out and took the clothes held in Li Linfei's hands, shook them off and looked at them: "Hmm! Did you do a good job! Are you a teacher?"
Li Linfei nodded: "That's right, after you came here after being wronged, Master, I went back and asked Zhier to sew this dress for you."
"Okay, okay, come on, help me put it on for the teacher! Then we went to find Xiao Chuan, just in time, Yu'er went to drink with him, and should be at his place now."
Then, under the leadership of Xiang Liang, Li Linfei opened the prison doors one by one, released all the core members of the Juxian Hall, and bowed down one by one to make amends. In Juxian Hall, a group of people drank and celebrated.
Then in the early morning of the next day, Xiang Liang led the crowd to join Li Linfei's [-] elite headquarters outside Xianyang City, and under the personal leadership of Qin Shihuang, they swore to set off.
After marching all the way, they joined the former Juxiantang Department held in other prisons, and the [-] meng family commander Ge Bing led by Vice General Pang, who later transferred the military power to Yi Xiaochuan. Li Linfei commanded the [-] troops. The army came to the border that was invaded by Rongdi.