Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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Lu Buwei must save himself, and he can only save himself.

Lu Buwei entered the palace, waiting for King Qin Chu to summon him.

When Qin Wangchu heard the news of Lu Buwei's arrival, he also had a look of surprise on his face: "Why is he here?"

An eunuch next to Qin Wangchu apologized and said with a smile: "Wu Chengjun came this time and said he wanted to celebrate the king's birthday."

"Happy Birthday?" Qin Wangchu was taken aback for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses.

Today is really Qin Wangchu's birthday.

But as an adult, and it's not a big birthday like fifty or sixty, Qin Wangchu didn't say anything to the outside world.

But Lu Buwei knew about it.

After all, when he was in Handan, Qin Wangchu often used various excuses to come to Lu Buwei for food and drink, one of which was the reason for his birthday, and Lu Buwei clearly remembered it in his heart.

Qin Wangchu hesitated for a while, and finally said: "No, let him go back."

After all, Cai Ze did not cover it. Although his investigation did not make much progress on Lu Buwei, he made a certain breakthrough from another aspect.

This aspect is the leader of Hu Yiwei, the Xianyang branch of Zhao State.

When he learned that Lu Buwei was likely to have some kind of connection with Zhao Guohu Yiwei, Qin Wangchu was very angry.

But fortunately Qin Wangchu is not an impulsive person. He listened to Cai Ze's report in a calm manner, and then found the same evidence as before. This evidence still cannot prove that Lu Buwei had an affair with Zhao Guoren.

So King Chu of Qin once again chose to reject Cai Ze's request to arrest Lu Buwei immediately, but further relaxed his authority, allowing Cai Ze to interrogate any official in the Qin Dynasty.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the so-called "any official" actually refers to officials from Lu Buwei's faction, especially those officials who were not involved in the previous investigation. Lu Buwei's confidantes.

Several important assistants of Lu Buwei in Qin's political arena began to suffer.

To this day, when Xianyang Commander Zhao Teng was also taken away by Cai Ze, Lu Buwei finally could not remain silent and chose to enter the palace to seek an audience.

But the current King of Qin Chu has obviously fallen into great doubts about Lu Buwei, so after only a moment of hesitation, King Chu of Qin refused Lu Buwei's request to see him without hesitation.

After hearing the news, the chief eunuch standing next to Qin Wangchu hesitated obviously.

Qin Wangchu was originally in a very bad mood because of being oppressed by Zhao Guo's soldiers, and now seeing this personal eunuch like this, he was naturally quite displeased, and immediately frowned and said: "Why, now I don't know what to say. Is it not working well?"

Qin Wangchu's words were very serious, and he immediately knelt down on the ground in fright, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, I don't mean that, I just think of the people who came to Xianyang City recently. Some rumors, I don’t know if we should tell the king or not.”

Qin Wangchu snorted and said, "But it doesn't matter."

Since Hou's death, King Chu of Qin has divided the huge intelligence organization under Hou's control into several parts, and the chief eunuch in front of him is in charge of the Guanzhong part in Qin State.

I saw the chief eunuch said: "Since Gang Chengjun investigated Wu Chengjun, many ministers have changed their positions and switched to Wu Chengjun's side. And after the king ordered Gang Chengjun to investigate Wu Chengjun's subordinates at will, almost everyone Some people have already drawn a clear boundary with Wu Chengjun, and now Wu Chengjun is almost alone."

"Really?" Qin Wangchu snorted, feeling a little happy in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Even so, it's Lu Buwei's own fault!"

The chief eunuch smiled and said: "I also think so. It's just that when I think about it, I always feel that something is wrong."

Qin Wangchu glanced at the chief eunuch in front of him, and said, "What's wrong?"

The chief eunuch said: "I am thinking, if this Wu Chengjun is really a spy of the Zhao country, then no matter what, he must develop some offline, so that they will follow Wu Chengjun to defect to the Zhao country, right? But this Gang Chengjun has been investigating for several months, but he can't even find out one of Wu Chengjun's Zhao Guo spies, I always feel that this matter is a little delicate."

Qin Wangchu glared at the head eunuch in front of him viciously, and said in a deep voice, "Didn't you assist Cai Ze in the investigation of this matter, and now you are here to say such things to the widow again?"

The chief eunuch was sweating on his forehead, and hurriedly said: "My lord, Mingjian, I have been keeping my filial piety for my ancestors for the past few months. How can I have time to go out and take care of these things? Mr. Gang Cheng is in charge of all the investigations. It’s only been a few days since I started to come into contact with these things.”

Only then did Qin Wangchu realize that he had indeed ordered these eunuchs to serve Hou as Xiao's sons for six months.

Although it is said that there are younger generations, it is normal for eunuchs to keep filial piety for eunuchs.

Thinking of this, the anger in Qin Wangchu's heart dissipated slightly, and said in a deep voice: "So you mean that this investigation is tricky?"

The chief eunuch said softly: "I dare not say it. I just think that if I became a spy in Zhao, then under the current situation, I should have run away long ago, and I shouldn't have stayed in Xianyang waiting to die."

"The widow hasn't thought about killing him yet!" Qin Wangchu snorted heavily, and finally said: "In that case, let Lu Buwei come in, and the widow wants to see what tricks he wants to play!"

After a while, Lu Buwei finally appeared in front of Qin Wangchu.

As soon as he appeared, Lu Buwei knelt down to King Qin Chu at once: "My subject, Lu Buwei, sees the King!"

Qin Wangchu let out a hey, looked at Lu Buwei expressionlessly, and said, "I heard that you want to celebrate my birthday?"

Lu Buwei nodded and said, "Your Majesty, this is why I came here."

Speaking of this, Lu Buwei raised a small box in his hand high, obviously the items in the box were Lu Buwei's "birthday gift" this time.

"Bring it up." Qin Wang Chu said.

The chief eunuch presented the box, and Qin Wangchu opened it, only to find that it turned out to be a bronze sword in the box.

Qin Wangchu picked up the bronze sword and pulled it out of the sheath with a clang. He saw that the whole body of the sword was shining brightly, as if a layer of white light shone faintly in it.

Just looking at it gives people a feeling that the hairs are standing on end.

"Good sword." Qin Wangchu couldn't help admiring.

Lu Buwei hurriedly said: "The name of this sword is Longyuan. It was forged by Ou Zhizi, the master swordsmith, for King Goujian of Yue. It was obtained by chance by a minister, and it is specially presented to the king. I hope that the king can use this sword to defeat Zhao in the east and revive the Great Qin. With great prestige, it has created an unprecedented Great Qin Dynasty!"

After hearing Lu Buwei's flattery, Qin Wangchu's face looked much better.

In fact, Qin Wangchu liked two things the most, one was a sword and the other was a woman.

So when he got this legendary sword that was said to be the famous sword worn by King Goujian of Yue, Qin Wangchu naturally felt much happier, and when he saw Lu Buwei again, he didn't seem to be so annoying.

What Qin Wangchu didn't realize was that when he was concentrating on admiring the sword in his hand, the chief eunuch standing behind him happened to exchange a tacit look with Lu Buwei.

For so many years, Lu Buwei has insisted on making good friends with the eunuchs in the harem, and finally achieved results at such a critical moment.

And Gang Chengjun Cai Ze didn't know that his failure did not come from other aspects, but only because Cai Ze had always been honest with the eunuchs and looked down on the eunuchs at all.

The change in Qin Wangchu's expression was completely noticed by Lu Buwei, so naturally he was even more ingratiating, relying on his superb flattering skills, and pulled Qin Wangchu to recall the time when the two were in Handan, and finally inspired With Qin Wangchu's old love in his heart, coupled with the timely opening of the head eunuch's compliments, Qin Wangchu finally turned his anger into joy.

Later that day, a decree came out from the Qin Palace, which for the first time stopped Cai Ze's investigation of Lu Buwei in a very formal way.

Chapter 957 It's Better to Fight Zhaoren (First Update)

"What are you doing, Your Majesty?" Cai Ze was shocked when he learned of Qin Wangchu's order.

No one knows better than Cai Ze how critical and rare the current situation is. Although Lu Buwei has been doing his best to resist Cai Ze's offensive, Cai Ze thinks that he has already laid out the situation, and he is still doing it step by step. The kind that could completely overwhelm Lu Buwei and his confidants at any time.

However, Qin Wangchu's warrant directly released several of Lu Buwei's confidantes who were imprisoned in the prison by Cai Ze. This will undoubtedly give everyone a very strong hint that Lu Buwei's One catastrophe has passed.

Once such a feeling appears, everything changes.