Chapter 810 Men Are All Virtuous
Xianyang Palace, Zichen Palace.
Qin Shihuang sat on the big chair in the center, with four important officials whom he relied most on both sides.
When Chen Xu followed the palace servant in, the five people were not sure what to talk about, but the atmosphere seemed to be relatively relaxed. After hearing the palace servant's report, five pairs of eyes fell on him almost at the same time. The eyes full of emotions made Chen Xu unable to help but sway slightly for a few times.
There are all the big men of Daqin sitting in this room. If you throw a grenade in it...
Chen Xu shook his face and shook his head hard to drive out this incredible idea.
He was very surprised why he suddenly had such a bizarre idea that he had never had before.
"My dear, please sit down... and give tea to the young master!" Qin Shihuang stood up with a smile on his face to greet the order.
If he knew what Chen Xu was thinking just now, he would probably throw the teacup in his hand to the ground with a clang, and then five hundred swords and axemen came out from both sides to chop Chen Xu into meat sauce.
Chen Xu quickly bowed and thanked the emperor, and then saluted and greeted the four big bosses next to him.
Although he fought with Li Si and his wife to the death, this etiquette must not be left behind in front of the emperor.
"I wonder what instructions did Your Majesty ask to summon me to the palace?" Chen Xu asked after sitting down.
This is not a court, but a small discussion meeting between the emperor, so he is not particularly particular about the etiquette of the monarch and ministers. Chen Xu was also very casual, and the emperor was used to his behavior, so he smiled without any offense: "I was discussing with the two prime ministers, censors and General Meng about the arrangements to send envoys to Yuezhi. When talking about the last time my beloved interrogation of the son, I was very curious and specially summoned my beloved to discuss it together, which may be able to get some inspiration!"
Chen Xu then realized it and said with a smile: "Where is Your Majesty curious? I will try my best to solve your doubts!"
"I have asked the officials of the Dianke Office. My dear has never contacted the Yan family, and I have never seen Toutan Shanyu, nor have I heard that my dearly relatives have contact with any Huns. Why is my dearly clear about Toutan's family affairs? I almost no one in the Qin Dynasty knows about Toutan's eldest son, and even I, the civil and military officials in the court, even I, have no knowledge of..."
Chen Xu couldn't help but glance at Meng Tian, but Meng Tian looked serious and believed that she was really sitting there as if she didn't see it.
"I naturally calculated it!" Chen Xu replied calmly.
"Well, this is the only way to make sense!" Qin Shihuang did not doubt and nodded slightly.
"Then the matter of Maodun and the Yan family's adultery is also a calculation!" Meng Yi also asked with his beard.
"That's not, Maodun and the Yan family were speculated by me!" Chen Xu said with a smile.
"Guess! How to guess? Both the Marquis of Qinghe and Morton, the Shishi, have never met each other, so why can you see adultery at a glance?" the emperor asked curiously.
Look, all the men in the world are so virtuous, and they seem to be particularly interested in this messy gossip news. The emperor of the ages is also unlucky. Meng Tian asked in great interest last time, but Chen Xu did not answer, but now the emperor asked, so he naturally could not make excuses.
"Your Majesty, although this kind of thing seems incredible, the internal reasons are not complicated. You can roughly calculate it through two things. Besides, I was not sure at that time. I just wanted to test the Yan family through this sentence. I didn't arrive first, but I guessed it..."
"Your best say how did you guess?" The emperor couldn't help but feel curious.
"First, this Yan family was not Maodun's biological mother. It can be seen from their age that Touman was over 40 years old. As the King of the Huns, he should have married and had children early. Maodun, as the eldest son, should be at least nearly twenty years old now, but the Yan family is only twenty-three or four years old..."
"This is reasonable. General Meng had already entered the palace last time and said about the interrogation of the Yan family. Maodun was from the Great Yan family of Touman!" Qin Shihuang nodded.
"Since Maodun was not born by the Yan clan, I calculated that Maodun was the eldest son of Touman, and barbarian tribes like the Huns still adopted the marriage system. If Touman died, many concubines in Touman's harem, including the Yan clan, would become Maodun's women. This is still the method of intermarriage inherited from the Xia and Shang dynasties. There are countless incest between brothers, sisters, fathers, wives and daughters. It is definitely different from the Zhou rituals inherited by my Qin Dynasty. Therefore, the Hun royal family will inevitably be extremely chaotic. Concubine Touman is the prince of Touman.
There are many, and the Yan family was just a concubine before, young and beautiful, and Maodun was young and brave. In this chaotic situation, it was reasonable for Maodun to force the Yan family to take advantage of the fact that the headman did not pay attention to it. As the prince, Maodun must inherit the throne in the future. The Yan family might not resist too much. Anyway, they will become Maodun's woman in the future. It's just a matter of time. If you hook up with the prince earlier, you may get better treatment in the future..."
"Well, it's not bad. My dear, this speculation is indeed very reasonable. Maodun is young and powerful, and the Yan family is beautiful and lonely. The two are indeed likely to hook up and commit adultery!" The emperor nodded repeatedly.
"Actually, the first item is not particularly sure, but the second item is my more confident guess!" Chen Xu continued to say after taking a sip of hot tea.
"Qinghe Hou tells you quickly, so what about the second one?" At this time, even the mature and stern Feng Quji couldn't help but urge him.
"Haha, why is Feng Xiang so excited about the adultery of the Huns? Could it be that he is also attracted by the beautiful Yan family!" Chen Xu put down the teacup and joked.
"Don't change the topic of Qinghe Hou. I am old now and I have long disliked the bed. How could I covet the Yan family? What I hate the most are these Xiongnu and Donghu barbarians. When I was in Zhao State, I was harassed by the Xiongnu!" Feng Quji smiled and twisted his beard and shook his head.
"Hey~, Feng Xiang is getting stronger, why are you old?" The emperor shook his head and expressed disagreement.
Feng Quji did not answer the emperor's topic, but picked up the teacup and took a sip and said indifferently: "There are six people in Zichen Palace, and only the ones Qinghe Hou are the youngest, full of energy. I have half my feet into the ground. How can I compare? Qinghe Hou should tell me quickly? What is the second guess?"
Chen Xu was too lazy to talk about these things about men and women with a group of old men and a few middle-aged uncles. As the saying goes, three men don’t talk about tyrants, and today the sun will not set, so I will continue to pull it down. I guess the emperor will not be able to help but go with prostitutes, and the leader of prostitutes must be his father-in-law Meng Yi.
"As the eldest son and the prince, Maodun has nothing to do with the prince. From her identity, it should be the result she most hoped to see. Therefore, from ordinary reason, she must hope that Maodun will die sooner, and Maodun will be killed after I get the Qin Dynasty to eliminate future troubles, but the prince did not reveal Maodun's whereabouts after he interrogated several times. This is the biggest doubt. With my first speculation before,
The biggest possibility is that the son of Maudun and Maodun had an affair, and even devoted themselves to it. Only then would she deny Maodun's whereabouts and desperately conceal her life to protect Maodun's life. Based on this, I said that she and Maodun had committed adultery. However, I did not expect that the youngest son of Touman was actually Maodun's species. This further confirmed that this incident was not magical. It was just that the clues were carefully considered through the attitude of Yan. General Meng's interrogation was fruitless, but he just did not pay attention to details..."
Chen Xu analyzed the second one, and several bigwigs in Zichen Hall looked at Chen Xu together, their eyes full of different emotions.
After a long time, Feng Quji nodded: "Qinghe Hou was considerate and rigorous inferences. The reason was indeed not complicated, but he only needed extremely keen power to observe words and expressions. I admire him very much!"
"Qinghe Hou explained a few words to me to resolve my doubts, which convinced me!" Meng Tian finally figured out the process of Chen Xu's interrogation at that time.
"My dear thoughts and the reasoning is strict and orderly, which really makes people convinced. Today I specially invited me to the palace. First, I will explain the confusion of the Lord's family to me and several of them. At the same time, I also want to hear my Lord's advice and see how to arrange for the envoy to be sent to the Yuezhi to investigate the situation inside the Yuezhi!" Qin Shihuang spoke at last.
"Qinghe Marquis, we have been discussing with His Majesty for a long time, and there is some debate about the mission to Yuezhi, so I suggest asking Qinghe Marquis to come and discuss strategies together!" Feng Quji's face became a little serious.
"I wonder why Your Majesty and you all argue?" Chen Xu bowed to the emperor and asked.
"Our Qin State was a prince of the Great Zhou. Although it originated from the border of the Western Rong and lived and fought with the Qiang Rong for hundreds of years, it was said that the Central Plains were worshipped by the gods of the Central Plains. Naturally, the Central Plains were orthodox. The rest of the Hungarians, Hus, Qiangs and Rong did not obey the kingdom of the Central Plains, and they did not speak with each other. Therefore, they had never had etiquette between the princes of the kingdom, nor had they ever had any envoys to communicate with each other. The matter of communicating the envoys was proposed by my beloved ministers. I also believed it deeply. The two prime ministers, the censors and the General Meng also recognized this matter, but there were still huge differences in how to select envoys and how to communicate with the Yuezhi royal court. Li Xiang proposed to send a large army to escort the envoys to the Yuezhi.
Chapter completed!