Wandering the Heavens

Looking at the Shaqiu Palace at night, Yu Xian asked Xiaoyue to wait there while he went in to see Emperor Qin for the last time.

"I think I am going to die soon. I even had a hallucination and saw Mr. Yu here."

The candlelight had gone out, and there was no palace maid or eunuch in the room. The Emperor of Qin was lying on the bed, gasping for breath, and in a trance he seemed to see Yu Xian's face.

"Your Majesty, this is not an illusion. I am here to say goodbye to you." Yu Xian said calmly as he looked at the Emperor Qin in front of him.

"It's not an illusion! Sir, can you tell me what Zhao Gao and Li Si are doing?" asked the Qin Emperor.

"Zhao Gao is instigating Li Si to support Prince Hu Hai as emperor, and he also plans to forge an imperial edict to order Prince Fusu to commit suicide." Yu Xian told him about Zhao Gao and Li Si's plan.

"Li Si will not agree to him." The Qin Emperor comforted himself.

"Your Majesty, Li Si is a member of the Legalist School, and is disliked by the Confucian Prince Fusu. What's more, General Meng Tian is no longer with us, Meng Yi is unreliable, and Prince Fusu has no one around him. Given Li Si's temperament, he will agree to Zhao Gao's proposal." Yu Xian really didn't want to be so cruel to a dying man.

"I never thought that they would bite back at me. Fusu, my child! Sir, may I ask you a favor!" The Qin Emperor seemed to see the scene of Fusu drawing his sword and committing suicide with tears in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, please tell me. I will do whatever I can." Yu Xian knew what he was going to do.

"I have a jade pendant on my body, which was carved by Fusu himself and given to me when he was young. Sir, please take it as a token of trust, and ask Fusu to live well, not for the Qin Dynasty, not for me, but only for himself. There is also the Tai'a sword on that shelf. I am afraid that the children in Xianyang City will also be killed, so please take it away as well and do your best to save them." The Qin Emperor finally faced the reality. He forced himself to take out a brocade bag from his arms and handed it to Yu Xian.

"I will definitely do it!" Yu Xian held the brocade bag handed over by the Qin Emperor in both hands. It must contain the jade pendant carved by Fusu himself.

"I'll leave Fusu to you, sir. I'm unwilling to accept this. I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to travel to every city in Daqin and tell the people that I am the master of this world. I want to conquer every piece of land illuminated by the sun and watch the black dragon flag planted in every city conquered by the soldiers of Daqin. But now I'm dying, dying... The children can't calm those guys who are ready to make a move. Daqin... My Daqin..." The Qin Emperor muttered to himself.

These words finally have a little bit of Qin Shihuang's style.

"Sir, please go away! I have unified the world and am feared by all. I don't want to be seen in such a miserable state! The way you lie here waiting to die is just like King Wuling of Zhao. What a coincidence! King Wuling of Zhao also died here in loneliness and despair. Is this the fate of my Ying clan?" The Qin Emperor was completely out of his mind.

"Your Majesty, I'll take my leave!" Yu Xian bowed and left the palace.

He did not bother Zhao Gao and Li Si. The fall of the Qin Dynasty was inevitable. No matter whether it was Fusu or Hu Hai, the foundation of its rule was too weak. It was a miracle that the Qin Emperor managed to hold on for more than ten years with his personal prestige. The only difference was that Fusu's rise to power might not have involved such a large-scale war, and the dynasty might have been changed in a palace coup.

Yu Xian turned his head and looked at the palace from afar again. The sand dune palace under the starlight was so peaceful, but it was only peaceful at this moment. A great leader died alone at this time, and the next year there would be war.

Zhao Gao and Li Si were truly daring. They blocked and concealed the news of the Qin Emperor's death, forged a will to pass on the throne, and even forged an imperial edict ordering Fusu to commit suicide.

When the messenger who was delivering the imperial edict traveled day and night to Shangjun to announce it, he met Prince Gao who was carrying the coffin back to Xianyang. He learned that Prince Fusu had died suddenly of a serious illness a few days ago.

The envoy wanted to open the coffin for inspection but angered the public and was almost killed on the spot. When Zhao Gao and his party returned to Xianyang with the Qin Emperor's body, Prince Fusu had already been buried.

The Mausoleum of Mount Li was not yet completed, so Zhang Han, the Minister of the Imperial Household, had to transfer all the resources of the Afang Palace to complete the renovation of the Mausoleum of Mount Li as soon as possible. During this period, Zhao Gao and Li Si, in order to conceal their actions in Shaqiu, could not wait to carry the coffin of the Qin Emperor into the imperial mausoleum. In order to avenge Yi Xiaochuan's past ridicule and humiliation, they forced the bedridden Concubine Li to be buried alive with him.

After all this was completed, Hu Hai ascended the throne as the Second Emperor. Thinking of the tricks behind his throne, he, at the instigation of Zhao Gao, began to massacre his brothers and sisters.

However, something unexpected happened before things even started. The prince, princess and their children disappeared in Xianyang. It was still a period of mourning, and Xianyang was under the control of Zhao Gao, but more than a hundred people disappeared completely.

This caused panic among Hu Hai and others. In their opinion, the spirit of the Qin Emperor in heaven could not bear to see their brothers killing each other, so he took them away to protect them.

Since the Qin Emperor could take his children away, he could naturally settle accounts with Zhao Gao, Li Si and others.

As the days passed, the news of Concubine Li's burial alive reached Yi Xiaochuan's ears. He, who had been living in a daze, finally woke up. In just two years, Meng Tian died, Yu Shu's parents died, and now Yu Shu was forced to be buried alive.

Yi Xiaochuan, who was furious, calmed down after the initial frenzy. He planned to wait until the Qin Dynasty was in flames, and then lead his army to attack Xianyang in the name of serving the king, and kill Zhao Gao to avenge Yu Shu.

At the Mausoleum of Mount Li, Shaofu Zhang Han looked at the crowd of hundreds of people in front of him and reluctantly signed a document to return to his hometown after completing his labor service.

"Mr. Xiao, I can only do this much. Whether the rest of the road will be a blessing or a curse depends on you!" Zhang Han sighed deeply as he looked at the clan members who had lived a life of luxury in the past.

"Don't worry, Shaofu. My master has already arranged a way out. In addition, my master asked me to bring a message to Shaofu. If these hundreds of thousands of people are in a situation where they can't be returned, I hope you will let them go home." Xiao He took the document and told Zhang Han what Lu Su asked him to say.

"Your master?" Zhang Han was very confused.

"Don't worry, Master Shaofu. The return of these people is the last will of the First Emperor, and my master is carrying out the order. As for that sentence, my master specifically told me, and Xiao He doesn't know what it means." Xiao He told the truth.

With the Tai'a sword in hand, Zhang Han could only do as Xiao He said. As one of the Nine Ministers, he naturally knew the inside story of Hu Hai's succession to the throne. He also knew how much the mysterious master Xiao He paid to rescue the descendants of the First Emperor. He would rather believe that this was a secret plan left by His Majesty the First Emperor.

"Zhang Han has remembered your master's kindness. It's getting late, Officer Xiao, you should leave, otherwise it will be difficult to walk after dark. I hope you can return home soon." Zhang Han began to drive people away.

"Shaofu, goodbye!"

After Xiao He finished speaking, he and the Embroidered Uniform Guards escorted these people out of the Mausoleum of Mount Li and headed eastward. Leaving with them were more than a dozen other teams that had also completed their labor service, except that the team Xiao He led included both men, women, and children.