After receiving the letter, Fusu politely rejected Meng Tian's request to accompany him, and still asked Meng Tian to focus on the supervision of the Great Wall and resist the Huns. After a lot of persuasion, he led his guards to ride towards Xianyang City.

Meng Tian, ​​who was left with only a sad face, hurriedly wrote a letter to take a shortcut to return to Xianyang. Although Fusu was indeed a bit helpless, fortunately, his brother Meng Yi was still in the Xianyang Palace.

At this moment, the three strong contenders of the Great Qin throne were all in a very delicate situation, and the initiator of this situation was undoubtedly the supreme ruler of the Great Qin, the First Emperor.

Now the First Emperor did not review bamboo slips in his hall as usual when the sky was not dark. Instead, he lay loose on the couch, his face was very tired, and there were guards at the end of the bed. All this shows that the emperor of the ages seemed to be in poor health.

But what no one knows is that under this ill-diseased appearance, the eyes of Emperor Qin Shi’s eyes hidden in the dark were very bright, as bright as when he made a plan many years ago and sent troops to conquer six extremely powerful countries.

What he recalled in his heart was that for a whole month after Ying Gao left, he threw the elixir given to him by Meng Sheng to the hunting dog he raised in the palace every day. Finally, nearly a month later, he realized that the hunting dog was not as quick as before when he was preying on the hunting dog. Since he stopped using the elixir, his body, which had been heavier day by day, had improved slightly.

After that, the First Emperor asked Meng Sheng to increase the supply of his elixir on the grounds that his physical condition was not good. Meng Sheng even agreed happily. Seeing that the hunting dog he raised was getting worse day by day after increasing the dosage, the First Emperor did not be confused now, even if he was half confused, he knew what was going on.

He never expected that he had used such great power to destroy the six kingdoms, causing blood to flow into rivers in the Central Plains to stop those little ones who wanted to make him die.

He couldn't help but start to reflect on whether he was as sensible and decisive as he was when he was young in the years after the unification. He took it for granted that he regarded Yan Le as a treacherous minister, but what was the result?

For a moment, it was really hard to judge how many treacherous people were around him. Meng Sheng, who seemed to be impeccable, was indeed a traitor and evil person, and he actually intended to kill his life. However, Emperor First Emperor was not stupid. He knew that Meng Sheng, a lonely man, lurking in the Xianyang Palace year after year, must have been instructed by someone outside.

Therefore, he did not act unfairly on Meng Sheng, but spread a news through the guards and the left prime minister Li Si whom he trusted most, who was over 70 years old.

In the court the next day, the First Emperor did not arrive as promised. Instead, Li Si, who had no experience with other officials, directly announced that the First Emperor was ill these days and would not attend court for the time being.

A month has passed since he was not in court. What Ying Gao and Fusu didn't know was that there were already messages flying all over the city of Xianyang, and there was no idea where the news came from. Du said that Emperor Shi had already positioned his youngest son Hu Hai as the crown prince. Once Emperor Shi had an accident, Hu Hai would immediately succeed to the throne.

Just when the news was no longer controlled, Li Si came again and told everyone that half a month later, the First Emperor would personally decide the crown prince of the Qin Dynasty.

As soon as the news came out, the Qin Dynasty was in a turmoil. Even if no one spread it this time, everyone could not help but guess whether there was really something wrong with the First Emperor's body.

The First Emperor had not come to the court for more than a month. Although according to Li Si, the First Emperor had no energy on his body and had to be bedridden, there were very few people who believed him.

A few days after the news broke, although there was a slightly chaotic scene in Xianyang City, Zhao Gao locked himself in his mansion, neither going out nor seeing guests.

It was not until three days left before the First Emperor announced the candidate for the crown prince that an old acquaintance finally arrived at Zhao Gao's mansion.

"How was the arrangement of what Zhuer and others have?"

"The CRRC Mansion is sober. The young master Gao didn't know what medicine he took. After leaving Chen County, he continued to move eastward. It seemed that he was heading towards Sishui County. Although he didn't know the reason, it was good news for us. It was just..."

"Um?"

"It's just that Fusu led a group of guards back to Xianyang. Although we were willing to stop him, Meng Tian personally led 20,000 elite troops to protect him. In less than a day, he would probably arrive in Xianyang City."

"Hmph! Fusu is stupid and not worthy of evidence. On the contrary, Young Master Gao is not allowed to come this time. It is great. You are ready to prepare. Once the matter in Xianyang Palace is completed, you will immediately arrest Young Master Gao!"

"Then the Xianyang Palace... Without the Xianyang Order, can the CRRC Mansion Order still control it?" The man was naturally the shopkeeper of the Xianyang City Tavern. He was obviously a little confused about Zhao Gao doing nothing in the mansion, so he couldn't help but ask more questions.

"I will tell you what I have arranged in the palace when I am done. As for Yan Le, the king of the king had just claimed to be sick and was beheaded in the market to exorcise evil spirits..."

"This... the CRRC Mansion's order is mourning, I'll leave the city!" This man said to himself that your daughter has become a widow. No wonder you have never had any good looks. So after reporting on the situation, he hurriedly found an excuse to go out of the city.

After the shopkeeper of the wine shop left, Zhao Gao touched his sleeves and took out a narrow bamboo slip inside, with a line of words written in a very small seal script: Add the dosage of elixirs and plan in three days. I hope to make plans early.

Looking at this line of small words, a bloodthirsty cold light flashed in Zhao Gao's eyes. He knew that in three days, no matter who comes back, he would have to close the net. His current ace is nothing but someone else, but Hu Hai who obeys his increasingly persuasive words.

However, Zhao Gao missed another person this time. Needless to say, it was Ying Gao who had been taking shortcuts with 180 people. Even if Ying Gao was confident in the First Emperor, he didn't believe that this matter could completely hide Zhao Gao.

Because Hu Hai is still within the scope of consideration of the First Emperor's crown prince, even if the First Emperor is fine, Ying Gao knew that he had to ask him to set the crown prince this time.

For Ying Gao himself, it doesn't matter whether he is the crown prince or not.

What is the crown prince? It’s just that your father said you can. If Liu Bang and Xiang Yu get up one by one, but you can’t stand it, then I’m sorry, no matter who it is, you will hand over the power to me.

But one thing is that Hu Hai cannot be the crown prince, Zhao Gao must die this time!
Chapter completed!