Chapter 20 Zhao Dead II
Three days after the breaking of Handan City, the resistance forces in the city were swept away by the Qin army, so the Qin army immediately held a huge entry ceremony for Qin Wangzheng!
Among the ancient servants' kingly music, the first one was the three thousand tiger soldiers, with black helmets and black armor, and even the flag was black, embroidered with the big "Qin" and the royal totem of white dragons and colorful phoenixes. The majesty and murderous aura revealed the power of the king!
Behind them were hundreds of doctors holding axes. They rode a white horse, wearing black armor and yellow robes, guarding the gorgeous imperial carriages that the Qin King Zheng and the Queen were riding. Fusu and Wuxin and other personal guards were closely accompanied by the carriage!
Behind the imperial carriage are thousands of Tiger Ben Imperial Guards. The long team stretched out for four or five miles long, and they were steadily stalking towards Handan City with the solid earth!
At the gate of the city, the necks of King Qian of Zhao and the royal family of Zhao State were like black ropes that symbolize surrender, and they were approaching the arrival of King Zheng of Qin. Unexpectedly, when King Zheng of Qin passed by the city gate, he should get off the car according to the old etiquette to express his condolences to these surrendered ministers. However, King Zheng of Qin closed his eyes and said nothing. So Zhao Gao, the imperial carriage, understood it in a heart-warming manner, and drove forward quickly with a cold face! This treatment was incomparable to the enthusiasm of the day before yesterday, and immediately made King Qian feel a deep shame. However, now the country has lost its military power, and he has to endure this anger deeply. Although King Qian of Zhao was a little regretful in his heart, he had already come to this point and had no regrets to take medicine!
Seeing this scene, Fusu frowned and lowered his voice by the side of the car and said to the King of Qin: "Father, the State of Zhao has just surrendered, and he should appease the surrendered ministers. Why not treat King of Zhao better?"
King Zheng of Qin in the car looked at Fusu condescendingly, his face was cold and cold, and he said lightly: "Wang'er, remember: If you want true dignity in this world, you have to rely on your own strength to earn it. Those who are humble are not worthy of dignity. I am deeply interested in giving him some dignity to the incompetent person like Zhao. Not only that, I also have to move all the palaces of Zhao State to Qin State, and the labors used are not Zhao people, but only these incompetent Zhao nobles! I want them to taste the sufferings of the civilians to punish their excessive debauchery."
The queen was shocked when she heard this, "Master, will this be a little too much?" Qin Wangzheng sneered and said, "Excessive? This is just the first step. The second step is to let all those who bullied me and my mother in the past year die for me!" The murderous words immediately made Fusu's back feel cold, and even the queen, who had always been gentle, change her face.
The queen, who was a little annoyed, advised the King of Qin, "King, those are old things, why should the King take them to heart again?" The King of Qin always listened to the Queen's words on weekdays, but in this matter he refuted the Queen mercilessly and said coldly: "As long as you offend me and my mother, all those who offend me will die. This matter cannot be changed, otherwise it will be difficult to eliminate my hatred!" Seeing that the King of Qin is so indifferent and determined, the Queen and Fusu could only exchange their eyes quickly and smiled bitterly helplessly.
After entering Handan, King Zheng of Qin refused to move into the licentious and luxurious Zhao Palace. Only the former residence of the Zhao general Lian Po was temporarily settled in the palace. Then he made two decrees without saying a word: First, the empress dowager of Qin gave a lot of gifts to his old friends in his previous boudoir, and hoped that the old friends in Handan would quickly go to the Qin Palace to receive a reward; Second, King Zheng of Qin summoned his old friends when he was young, and wanted to give them a heavy reward and title. Those who saw the imperial edict quickly went to the Qin Palace to see the emperor!
As soon as the two edicts were released, Handan suddenly caused a sensation. The noble ladies of Zhao who had slandered and bullied the Qin King Zheng and his son in the past year believed it and rushed to the Qin King's palace to see the emperor, hoping to be rich and honored. The Qin soldiers followed the Qin King's order and were allowed to enter but not leave. In just half a day, they gathered as many as 700 people.
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In a main hall of the palace, more than 300 middle-aged ladies were sitting cross-legged on the ground in groups, enjoying the rich and delicious food and wine, waiting for the summons and rewards of the King of Qin with a look of hope.
Because they were idle, the ladies gathered together according to their daily friendship, and excitedly guessed how generous the rewards were for the King of Qin's summoning later. Thinking of the excitement, the faces of these middle-aged ladies were so smiling that their muscles were almost cramped, and their faces were slapped and their faces were falling off!
For a moment, the hall was as noisy as a vegetable market, full of slangs of mercy!
Just as the ladies were very lively, suddenly, a large number of heavy and powerful footsteps and clanging sounds of armor friction came from the gate of the hall. A large number of Qin soldiers rushed into the hall, surrounding more than 300 ladies. The sharp weapons emitted a cold light and a grand murderous aura.
The noble ladies who were ignorant of life and death were suddenly startled and looked very frightened. After they came to their senses, they couldn't help but take out their usual arrogance and shouted, "What do you dogs want to do? We are all distinguished guests of the King of Qin and the old friends of the Queen Mother. Do you want to die?"
The leading Qin army captain heard this and sneered with a ferocious expression: "According to the order of the king, you bastards have all insulted the king and the queen mother in the past year. They deserve to be killed. I will be punished by you and others. But don't worry, the king will leave you with a whole body in his old love!"
As soon as these words were said, these usually arrogant ladies were stunned. They sat on the ground with trembling all over, crying and shouting: "Good luck, please! I know you are wrong. You have a lot of them. Please spare us a cheap life!" The ugly crying and silenced suddenly made the Qin soldiers look contemptuous.
The Qin army captain sneered and said, "You are too late to repent. Take action! No one is left!" "Here!" The Qin army rushed forward like a wolf or a tiger when they heard that the order was sent forward. They served one of them, and strangled all the more than 300 noble ladies in the hall with white silk.
In just a moment, more than 300 dead bodies with purple faces and blood bleed in seven orifices were immediately covered in the hall. The painful, terrifying and regretful expression made people sigh in their hearts: If I had known today, why would it be the first one!
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At the same time, in addition to the help of Handan, more than 300 noble men of Zhao were surrounded by Qin soldiers and rushed into dozens of large pits. Qin soldiers began to fill the soil one after another, intending to bury these Zhao people alive. Although these noble men of Zhao fought hard to escape, they were all killed by Qin soldiers!
After a while, the struggles of the Zhao people gradually stopped, and the pits were quickly filled by the Qin army in the brigade. More than 300 noble men of Zhao State died in the pit, and no one was able to escape!
A group of old pikes flew over their heads, shaking and whistling, creating a sad atmosphere.
With a satisfied expression, King Zheng of Qin looked at Fusu with a shocked expression beside him, and said with a displeasure: "Wang'er, you should not be merciful in dealing with the enemy at all, otherwise one day you will regret your mistakes. Do you think your father is just avenging your personal revenge? In fact, it is far more than that: I am now killing these Zhao nobles in the name of war and personal anger. People in the world will not oppose them, and people in the Zhao people will not be in chaos. In this way, when my Qin implements the new policy in Zhao, the resistance will be much smaller. If I don't wait until my Qin implements the new policy, I encounter a large number of resistance from the old nobles of Zhao and kill more in large quantities, things will probably be difficult to deal with! You are still young and don't understand this kind of emperor's technique, and you will slowly understand it in the future!"
Fusu was shocked when he heard this and said to himself: "It turns out that my father killed these former enemies just for personal anger. Unexpectedly, he actually used this guise to clear the obstacles to governing the country in the future. My father's scheming is really terrible!" Fusu nodded with admiration and said: "Thank you for your advice, my son will receive the teachings!"
Among all the scholars, the King of Qin also valued Fusu the most. Seeing that Fusu understood his profound meaning, he couldn't help but comfort him: "Just understand, go and go back to the city. Your mother must be still angry with me. Please help me persuade her!" Fusu smiled in his heart: "So, you are still a little afraid of the queen!"
Chapter completed!