When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 283 Yingzheng Burns Secret Letter

"Collaborate with the enemy and betray the country?"

For a moment, the atmosphere in the courtroom became more and more tense following Zhang Ji's words.

Although there are still many courtiers in the court who are not completely surrendered to Ying Zheng, but one bottom line remains unchanged.

That is, the interests of Qin cannot be damaged.

These dignitaries who have the confidence not to submit to Yingzheng for the time being are all native nobles of the Qin State, and their interests are naturally deeply bound to the Qin State.

And if Qin's interests are damaged, their interests will also be damaged.

The most furious was naturally Ying Zheng.

In this feudal era where the family is the world, for a monarch, the country is the family, and naturally he cannot tolerate traitors.

"Who is collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country?"

Ying Zheng's eyes turned cold in an instant, and the temperature in the entire hall seemed to have dropped a bit, making the already serious court hall even more dignified.

Zhang Ji smiled lightly, and his eyes looked around as if he was real, especially the person who stood up to impeach him. His sharp eyes seemed to be able to see through the void to see the so-called collaborators and traitors.

Those who were swept by his gaze either showed guilt or fear, and lowered their heads to avoid his gaze.

These people are not all collaborators and traitors, but it is inevitable to have contacts with people from various countries in Shandong and exchange gifts. If Zhang Ji uses this as an excuse to frame them as political enemies, in order to win the government's favor for Zhang Ji , coupled with the means of snares, maybe they will really be labeled as collaborators and traitors.

No matter which country it is, collaborators and traitors will inevitably be tortured by Che Li, and clan punishment is also inevitable, it is nothing more than a question of how many clans to punish.

Of course, many people still held their heads high and did not shy away from looking at Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji bowed to Yingzheng and said, "According to Luowang's detailed investigation, on the third day of this month, at midnight, the secret envoy of Chu State met with Yushi Zhang An at his home, accepted a hundred gold as a bribe, and promised to stop the king's personal conquest."

"The minister is angry at him for treason and helping the thief. The king has lost his manners. Please ask the king to come down."

After Zhang Ji's voice fell, Zhang An, who was pinned to the ground by two Yulin guards, trembled, his face ashen.

How could Zhang Ji know about such a secret matter, only he and Chu State's secret envoy were in the house at that time, and there was no third person?

"Is there any evidence?"

Ying Zheng shouted in a deep voice.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the secret envoys of the State of Chu have been lurking in Xianyang City for a long time, using their identities as merchants as a cover to carry out spies. Luo Wang secretly monitored these people as early as a year ago, and these people only contacted each other once a month. information exchange between the two parties, which has been documented.”

Ying Zheng took a deep breath, tried to keep his face calm, and said in a low voice, "Someone present it."

Outside the hall, two servants walked quickly into the hall with a wooden box in their arms, and placed the wooden box in front of Ying Zheng.

The wooden box fell to the ground and made a dull sound, which showed how heavy the wooden box was.

"Bamboo slips?"

Ying Zheng opened the wooden box, glanced at the rolls of bamboo slips inside, and was taken aback for a moment.

Nowadays, paper, which is almost universal in Qin, is not used to seeing so many bamboo slips all of a sudden.

"Your Majesty, a year ago, I was still studying the ink scriptures and hadn't developed paper yet."

Ying Zheng understood it, and immediately flipped through Zhang Ji's box of information.

Inside the wooden box, there are mostly bamboo slips, but the content in the second half of the year is mostly paper, which is green sandalwood paper wrapped in waterproof and fireproof kraft paper.

And the one at the top is about Zhang An, the censor.

Ying Zheng picked up the piece of green sandalwood paper and browsed it carefully. Sure enough, as Zhang Ji said, this information did record the transaction between the secret envoy of Chu State and Zhang An, the censor.

This is a self-report similar to an account book. The entire text is narrated in the tone of a secret envoy of the Chu State, recording how the secret envoy of the Chu State who was in charge of contacting Zhang An understood, approached, and bribed the censor Zhang An, as well as the secret conversation between the two. Time, place, frequency.

In fact, the secret envoy of the Chu State was arrested secretly by the net just after bribing Zhang An that day, and through torture to extract a confession, he found out the gathering place of the secret envoys of the Chu State and killed the group of secret envoys of the Chu State.

The reason why they did not go to great lengths to arrest those courtiers who recorded secret contacts with the secret envoys of Chu State was only to collect the actual treasonous acts of these people after accepting bribes.

"Pull this person down, the car will be torn apart, and the family will be punished!"

Ying Zheng's face was extremely cold, he directly threw the information in his hand on the ground, and ordered indifferently.

The two Habayashi guards who were escorting Zhang An took orders, dragging the shivering Zhang An to leave the hall.

"My lord, please spare me!"

Zhang An's face was pale, and he tried to salute and beg for mercy, but was held down by the two guards behind him, and dragged all the way to the outside of the hall, and his shouts did not bring any mercy from Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng turned his attention to the remaining courtiers, and said indifferently: "Who else is colluding with other countries?"

Ying Zheng's voice was very soft, but it was as loud as thunder in everyone's ears.

For a moment, many officials were silent, and they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Ying Zheng.

Because they knew in their hearts that the current Yingzheng was on the verge of rage, and if he was not careful, he would be implicated as a traitor and executed.

Moreover, Ying Zheng obviously didn't ask them that.

"Here is the list, please read it, Your Majesty."

"Censor Qi Ti, Zuo Ye Iron Officer Xu Qi..."

One name after another was spit out from Ying Zheng's mouth, and Ying Zheng's eyes turned following the figures of the courtiers who were being read out, with a murderous intent in his eyes.

The courtier whose name was being read suddenly felt chills all over, and a terrifying breath swept through the hall.

All eyes were on the list in Ying Zheng's hands. Although they couldn't see whose name was written on the list, judging from the thickness of the list, there were quite a few courtiers involved.

Moreover, there are many secret letters between people and secret envoys of Chu State in the wooden box. If Ying Zheng saw it...

But Ying Zheng only read four more names after Zhang An, and stopped reading.

"These four people, pull out the car, and the clan will punish them."

Ying Zheng snorted coldly and put the list into the wooden box.

Obviously, there is no way that there are only such a few names on this list, but Ying Zheng does not intend to continue reading.Instead, he asked a Habayashi guard to put the wooden box outside the gate of the palace, and asked the old eunuch Ling to fetch a torch.

"Sir, are all the collaborating intelligence captured from the secret envoy of Chu State here?"

Ying Zheng held a torch and looked at the wooden box.

Zhang Ji nodded: "All the enemy intelligence intercepted from Chu State's secret envoys are here, without any omission."

"it is good."

Ying Zheng turned around and walked outside the palace gate. Under the surprised eyes of everyone, he threw the torch into the wooden box.

The fire was ignited as the high temperature burned the bamboo slips and paper, and the firelight reflected Ying Zheng's cold and resolute side face, and there was no hesitation on that resolute face like a chiseled knife.

"Except for these five people who have colluded with the countries of Shandong in the past, I will not be held accountable any more. But if anyone else is found to be collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, then don't blame the law of the country for being ruthless, and I don't blame the widow for being ruthless!"

"Three days later, the widow will lead the Yubayashi army to march in person. Who else will object?"

Ying Zheng glanced at the courtiers below with a dignified look, his eyes were as sharp as a blade, making people afraid to look directly at them.

"The minister seconded the proposal, and is willing to follow the king's royal driving to conquer."

"The ministers and others seconded the proposal, and are willing to follow the king's personal expedition."

All the ministers agreed one after another, whether it was sincere or false, but they were always right.

After all, Ying Zheng had just sentenced five people to Che Cie and Clan Judgment today, which can be said to be in full swing, and no one dared to rebel.

Coupled with Ying Zheng's kindness and bearing, he also convinced many people.

For a while, many people felt emotional, no wonder Lu Buwei was willing to give up his power because he was under one man and over ten thousand people.

"Let's go."

Seeing that no one objected to his personal conquest, Ying Zheng stopped talking to the officials, waved his hand, and left the hall.

Zhang Ji followed with winking eyes, and followed Ying Zheng into the harem. After making sure that there were no foreign ministers behind, he turned and looked at Zhang Ji.

"This is indeed the only copy of the information intercepted from the secret envoy of Chu State." Zhang Ji said with a half-smile.

Ying Zheng couldn't help laughing, and patted Zhang Ji's shoulder with a smile: "Hahahaha, sir, you are really bad."

"If there is something good at the top, the bottom will follow. This minister is just guessing at the king's thoughts and acting."

The corners of Zhang Ji's mouth curled up slightly, and he took the scapegoat off his head and returned it to Ying Zheng.

The monarchs and ministers looked at each other, they couldn't hold back, and laughed loudly at the same time.

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