Chapter Twenty-Five: Wei Liao

  When Hu Hai heard Wang Li's plea for forgiveness, he had already woken up from his frustration. Immediately afterwards, he heard all the generals speak in unison to plead for Wang Li, and seeing Wang Li and Meng Li and other imperial guards generals like this, Hu Hai was so angry that he couldn't help but cry and laugh at the same time.

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  Jin walked two steps and grabbed Wang Li's arm, saying: "Everyone, what are you doing? Quickly calm down, quickly calm down."

  "When did I ever say that I wanted to punish General Wang Li?" Hu Hai helped Wang Li up.

  Wang Li and others also saw from Hu Hai's actions and words that he did not mean to blame himself, and they hastily thanked him and stood up.

  After Wang Yi and other generals stood up, Hu Hai said: "I did not blame Wang Ai for speaking frankly and advising me. I was just blaming myself for thinking of such a move that would mislead the country and the people. Fortunately, Wang Ai spoke out and awakened me, otherwise I would be the eternal sinner of our great Qin."

  King Li saw Hu Hai's self-reproach and, relieved at heart, hastily consoled him: "Your Majesty need not reproach yourself. Although Your Majesty's plan has many flaws, it is indeed a good plan. As long as we can perfect the shortcomings that we have just discussed, our great Qin empire will be as stable as Mount Tai!"

  Meng Li and others repeatedly nodded in agreement.

  "Is this plan really feasible?"

  "Feasible!"

  Wang Li and others said in unison.

  "How can this plan be improved?"

  "This..."

  Wang Li and others stood up, not knowing how to answer, because they really couldn't think of a way to improve such a flawed plan. Leading troops in battle was their strong point, but other things were somewhat lacking.

  "Your Majesty, forgive us for our incompetence!"

  King Wei and others who had been hesitating for half a day blushed and said.

  Huhai was stunned for a while after hearing the replies of Wang Li and other generals, then he waved his hand listlessly and said: "What else can be said? This matter is dropped!"

  King Wang Ji saw Hu Hai's gloomy face and couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, the ministers below are incompetent, but perhaps the two Chancellors, General Meng Tian, Meng Yi, and Wei Liao have a way to solve this."

  After listening to Wang Li's words, Hu Hai was stunned for a moment, and then his mind became active. He really wanted to know whether this strategy was feasible or not. The shortcomings raised by Wang Li and others had already made Hu Hai somewhat doubt himself.

  Li Si may have been aware of the historical reasons or because Li Si grasped his only weakness at the time, Hu Hai was very repelled, so Hu Hai directly struck him off from the list of people recommended by Wang Li.

  Another prime minister, Hu Hai had no idea who this gentleman was, but he couldn't ask Wang Li and others, that would be too embarrassing for himself. So, in order to save his own little face, Hu Hai simply blacklisted this nameless prime minister as well.

  Meng Tian and Meng Yi haven't returned yet, so there's no way to ask them now. In that case, the only choice left in front of me is Wei Liao.

  This was previously mentioned by Wang Li and highly praised, for the great merit of destroying six countries for Qin, but for some reason, he wanted to escape from Xianyang and hide in the world, let Hu Hai always want to see.

  Because in his poor memory of the history of the Qin Dynasty, there was no trace of this person at all, which made Hu Hai feel more expectant about Wei Liao after being depressed.

  "Go, follow me to Wei's residence!" Hu Hai waved his hand and said.

  Wang Li and others were stunned, the reason why they didn't let Hu Hai go find Wei Liao was that they were afraid this old man had a grudge and wouldn't give the emperor face, so Wang Li specially brought up several candidates for Hu Hai to choose from, but put Wei Liao, the most important person, last.

  In Wang Yi's view, the two prime ministers who were always loyal and had great talents must be Hu Hai's first choice. So he put Li Si and Feng Quji, the two prime ministers, in the first place for Hu Hai to choose from.

  But what he didn't expect was that Hu Hai naturally disliked Li Si, and as for the other Feng Jie, the old prime minister, he had no idea who he was. In the situation where Meng Tian and Meng Yi hadn't returned to Xianyang yet, Hu Hai could only choose Wei Liao, who was deliberately placed last.

  "Your Majesty..."

  "King Ai Qing needn't say more, I have made up my mind. You all follow me to see Wei Liao."

  Huhai cut off Wang Li's words with an iron tone and turned around to walk out of the main hall first.

  Wang Li and others saw that Hu Hai had completely ignored their advice and left on his own, so they reluctantly hurried to catch up with him.

  "Your Majesty is arriving at the residence of the Duke of Guo!" The eunuch on duty shouted loudly.

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  Wei Liao, from Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan), surname lost in history, name Liao, known as a high-ranking disciple of Guiguzi. In the 10th year of King Zheng's reign (237 BC), Wei Liao entered Qin to persuade and was appointed as the national commander-in-chief, hence the world called him Wei Liao. A famous military strategist.

  When Qin unified the country, in order to avoid the six states uniting against Qin, he bought off high-ranking officials of the six states with diplomatic means, which was what he proposed.

  Ying Zheng highly appreciated Wei Liao's intelligence and even treated him equally in terms of clothing and food, always being very humble when meeting him. However, Wei Liao did not have a high opinion of Ying Zheng.

  It is said that Gongsun Qing was good at physiognomy, and his evaluation of Qin Shi Huang was "bee nose long eyes, bird chest, jackal voice, less kindness but tiger wolf heart".

  After the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the country, Wei Liao repeatedly wanted to escape from Xianyang and retreat from the world to write books. However, because Qin Shi Huang was afraid that Wei Liao would turn around and help the remnants of the six states to restore their thrones, he used the name of granting a grand mansion to imprison him in Xianyang.

  Wei Liao wrote "Wei Liaozi", which, along with "Sunzi", "Wuzi" and "Simafa", was known as the "Seven Military Classics of the Song Dynasty". Today, 24 chapters of "Wei Liaozi" are preserved, totaling nearly 10,000 words.

  At this time, Wei Liao, who was already over 70 years old, had a head full of white hair, but his face was still ruddy and his eyes were bright and piercing, with a robust body that showed no signs of decline.

  When Hu Hai arrived outside the mansion of Wei Lü, Wei Lü was sitting upright in the main hall listening to his subordinates report on a series of events that had occurred after Hu Hai returned to Xianyang.

  "Yes, sir, it's like that," said the servant.

  He lightly tapped his hand on the case in front of him and pondered for a moment before saying, "Have you ever seen Zhao Gaizhong's skull?"

  "Return to the lord, I personally saw that all the heads of Zhao Gao and his family members were hung in the vegetable market by Zhang Shao's soldiers." It seemed like he recalled that bloody scene again, and a look of horror flashed across his face, turning pale.

  "You can go now and get your reward from the account room." Wei Lian said with a faint wave of his hand.

  "Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir!" The servant was overjoyed and thanked him profusely as he bowed and backed out of the door.

  Inside the main hall, only Wei Liao was left. The news he brought wasn't much, except that Zhao Gao had been killed by Hu Hai and his nine clans were exterminated, and there were disturbances in the counties of Si Shui and others, but no other useful information was obtained.

  An old man sat in contemplation for a while, then leaned his straight body softly against the soft couch, closed his eyes and muttered to himself: "Old, old." His face was filled with deep desolation.

  Just then, the servant who had just withdrawn stumbled into the hall, panting and saying: "G...g...great...sir..."

  Wei Lian heard this and opened his eyes, saying in a deep voice: "What's the matter with such panic? Speak slowly, what's the point of being flustered?"

  The subordinate heard Wei Liao's words and hastily knelt down on the ground, saying: "G...Great Sir, the Emperor has arrived." Although still a bit stuttering, fortunately, he managed to get the words out clearly.

  "Your Majesty? Which Your Majesty?" Wei Liao asked back, seemingly not reacting.

  "The Second Emperor has arrived to pay his respects to Your Excellency."

  This person was obviously stimulated by the rough outline of the painting and said fluently.

  Bang

  Wei Lian heard the words of the lower person, turned over and got up, in a hurry, his feet were kicked on the case, and the case was kicked to the ground.

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