Time Travel: The First Female Imperial Teacher of the Qin Dynasty

The three men pushed each other away, and finally pushed Meng Yi out. The latter swallowed his saliva and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Zhang Han has recently withdrawn a large amount of gold from the treasury."

Ying Zheng frowned: "Why does he need so much money?"

Meng Yi answered cautiously: "He said he wanted to reform the Shaofu."

"Renovation of the Shaofu?" Ying Zheng was puzzled. "He needs so much money?"

"He has already withdrawn 30,000 taels of gold. At this rate, I'm afraid he will need more in the future," Meng Yi replied.

Ying Zheng was puzzled: "What on earth does he want to do with so much gold?"

Wang Ben also spoke up: "Unless he is building a gold mine, it would not be consumed so quickly."

"Don't you have a good relationship with Zhang Han?" Ying Zheng looked at Wang Ben, "You didn't ask him?"

"I asked, and he said it's confidential for now."

"Meng Yi, tell me the truth, did he ask you to bring me any message?" Ying Zheng looked at Meng Yi.

When Meng Yi heard this, his face changed, then returned to normal, and he said helplessly: "Let me tell you something about Zhang Han. He said that he was very happy, and the Shaofu was also undergoing tremendous changes."

Ying Zheng's face suddenly turned dark. The Shaofu was arguably the most useless department in the Qin Dynasty, but now it was said that tremendous changes had taken place.

"What does he want to do?"

Feng Jie added: "Your Majesty, Zhang Han also said that the number of people in the Shaofu must be increased tenfold, and the area also needs to be increased tenfold."

"He plans to turn the Shaofu into a city?" Ying Zheng sneered, "Then how much is he prepared to spend?"

"He said he needed 100,000 taels of gold."

Ying Zheng was so angry that his face turned blue. This was obviously a trick Zhang Han used to evade him. He snorted coldly: "Does he think I dare not punish him? Come, arrest Zhang Han..."

Seeing this, Feng Jie immediately spoke up to stop him: "Your Majesty, calm down."

Ying Zheng looked at Feng Jie coldly: "What? You want to plead for him?"

"Your Majesty has misunderstood." Feng Jie shook his head, "I just thought that the 100,000 taels of gold had not yet been given to Zhang Han. Perhaps he just said it casually."

"Just casually? He could say this number casually?"

At this time, Meng Yi whispered: "Your Majesty, Ms. Lin once said that the Shaofu is very important. The future development of our Great Qin cannot be separated from the support of the Shaofu."

"Did she really say that?" Ying Zheng frowned.

"It's true."

Ying Zheng suddenly calmed down. He had always kept Lin's words in mind, because every word she said would come true. Since she said that the Shaofu was very important, then he must not let anything go wrong with the Shaofu.

"Did she ever say what the Shaofu should do?" Ying Zheng looked at Meng Yi.

"That's not the case." Meng Yi shook his head, "But as far as I know, the Shaofu has imposed martial law and no outsiders are allowed to enter."

Ying Zheng stroked his chin and thought: "Could it be that something huge has really happened to the Shaofu?"

"I don't know about this, but Zhang Han said that the Shaofu is carrying out a huge reform and he promised that he would not disappoint Your Majesty."

"Okay, then I will go to the Shaofu to see what he has accomplished." Ying Zheng decided immediately, and then looked at Feng Jie, "Feng Jie, if Zhang Han cannot give me a satisfactory answer, you should prepare a cell and send him to the frontier."

"Yes!" Feng Jie nodded.

Just as Ying Zheng was about to go to the Shaofu, urgent news came from outside the hall.

"Report!" A hurried voice came from outside the hall.

"Come in!" Ying Zheng's expression froze. Something big must have happened, otherwise he wouldn't be so anxious.

A guard quickly ran into the hall and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, a big incident has happened in Baiyue. Please take a look at it immediately."

Ying Zheng took the urgent report and became more and more frightened the more he read it:

"Li Xin is back?" Meng Yi was a little surprised. "Didn't he go to Baiyue?"

"Yes, he brought back something very important. Now, for some reason, he cannot enter the city. I will go and see it myself." Ying Zheng stood up and walked out of the palace. "Xia Wuqi, you come with me."

"Yes!" Xia Wuqi hurriedly followed.

Ying Zheng and his entourage soon arrived outside the city and saw Li Xin leading hundreds of exhausted soldiers, escorting several carriages.

When Li Xin saw Ying Zheng coming, he hurriedly bowed and said, "I pay my respects to your majesty."

"General Li, you have worked hard." Ying Zheng nodded, "You have come a long way, so there is no need to be polite."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Xin bowed.

"Is what you brought back really as reported in the emergency report?"

"Your Majesty, please look." Li Xin stepped forward and pulled open a black curtain. Under the black curtain, several specially made iron boxes appeared in front of Ying Zheng, and rustling sounds continued to come from inside.

Li Xin said, "Your Majesty, I spent a lot of effort to get the things in here."

Ying Zheng looked at the iron box and felt a little uneasy: "What's in it?"

"Inside are the Scorpion King, the Snake King, and the Red Fire Ant Queen. Each one is extremely poisonous."

Xia Wuqie took a step forward and looked at the iron box, then his face changed drastically: "Your Majesty, any kind of poison in here is extremely toxic and there is no medicine to cure it."

"You mean, if a person is bitten, there is no hope for recovery?"

"That's right." Xia Wuqi nodded solemnly.

Ying Zheng looked at Li Xin and asked, "What are you going to do with these things?"

"I plan to send them directly to the Xiongnu and let them have a taste of our power."

Ying Zheng pondered for a moment, then turned to look at Wang Ben: "Okay, I agree! Wang Ben, you will immediately transport military pay and food to the Great Wall. Remember, you must be careful."

"Your Majesty, rest assured. I will complete the task." Wang Ben bowed.

Ying Zheng looked at Li Xin and took out a bamboo slip from his bosom and handed it to him: "This is the plan I recorded to attack the Xiongnu. You hand it over to Meng Tian in person and make sure it is safe."

"Yes!" Li Xin took the bamboo slips and put them carefully in his arms.

"Okay, you are tired too, go down and rest." Ying Zheng patted Li Xin's shoulder.

"Yes!" Li Xin bowed and left immediately.

Ying Zheng took a look at the iron box and a smile appeared on his lips. He took a king venomous snake from the carriage, intending to give Lin Anlan a surprise.

When everyone saw his actions, they looked at each other in bewilderment.

Ying Zheng rode in a carriage alone, while Meng Yi and Xia Wuqie rode in another carriage.

Xia Wuqi was somewhat puzzled: "What is your majesty planning to do?"

Meng Yi smiled mysteriously: "Didn't you see it?"

"Did you figure it out? Tell me quickly." Xia Wuqie was a little excited.

"Your Majesty must be giving Mr. Lin a surprise." Meng Yi replied.

"Surprise?" Xia Wuqie was a little confused. He didn't know why bringing a poisonous snake would be a surprise.

Meng Yi smiled and said, "It's normal that you don't understand. After all, you haven't experienced this yet."

"It seems that you are very familiar with these things. Tell me about them quickly." Xia Wuqi was very interested.

"It can only be understood but not expressed in words." Meng Yi smiled and kept the secret.

Xia Wuqie was so angry that he glared at the former and said, "Forget it."

Inside the carriage, Ying Zheng looked at the Viper King in front of him with a smile on his face.

"Girl, what expression would you have when you saw the surprise in front of you?"

Soon, the carriage arrived at Lin Anlan's residence. Ying Zheng got off the carriage and shouted:

"Girl, come out to greet me."