Chapter 264: Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze comes into being
"Lord Zuo Xiang!"
As he rolled and crawled, his prison uniform was stained with a lot of filth, including rat droppings and the vomit of Bao Bailingzhi, who couldn't stand the smell on his first day.
"Lord Zuo Xiang, please, put me on the second floor!"
He lifted up the torn clothes between his waist and abdomen, allowing Li Si to see the scars between his waist and abdomen, which were marks of bites by rodents.
Plop~
Bao Bailingzhi knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Si repeatedly.
"Lord Zuo Xiang, please find me a doctor. I am willing to give him a hundred gold coins."
"Dr. Bao Bai should go and find a doctor himself."
Bao Bailingzhi kowtowed faster and faster, crying, "I am old and weak, and I was bitten by rats and contracted the plague. Please forgive me for my offensive words in the court, and save my life."
"Dr. Bao Bai has misunderstood." Li Si said with a smile, "I am here to let Dr. Bao Bai out."
Bao Bailingzhi suddenly looked up, his dirty old face full of surprise.
"Really?"
"Then is it still fake?"
Li Si picked up the food box from the jailer behind him, put it on the ground and opened it - there was fish, meat, and wine.
The aroma should not be smelt in the first floor of Xianyang Prison which was filled with strange smells, but Bao Bailingzhi's eyes lit up and he sniffed wildly, as if he could actually smell the aroma of wine and meat.
Li Si passed the meal into the cell through the reserved hole, and Bao Bailingzhi picked up the chopsticks and started eating.
"After Dr. Bao Bai goes out, don't say that it was Si who arrested you." Li Si said with a little concern.
Bao Bailingzhi was eating rice and meat in big mouthfuls. He choked after taking three big mouthfuls and quickly poured a sip of wine into his mouth.
"Don't worry, Left Prime Minister. I have never been to Xianyang Prison." Bao Bailingzhi patted his chest, and the stench became stronger .
"That's good."
"Do you know why the Left Prime Minister changed his mind?" Bao Bailingzhi asked carefully.
"It was the order of Lord Chang'an. Lord Chang'an ordered Si to come and see Dr. Bao Bai and release him if he is still alive.
"It's actually Lord Chang'an." Bao Bailingzhi said to himself in surprise, stuffing food into his confused mouth, "I am alive and well."
When all the meat was eaten and only half of the fish was left, Bao Bailing's mind was overwhelmed by drowsiness, which he could hardly resist.
The bowl in his hand fell with a clang, and Bao Bailingzhi fell to the ground, with some uneaten food spilling out of his open mouth.
"Dunk his head in a barrel."
"only."
The jailer opened the cell door, covered his nose with one hand, and dragged Bao Bailingzhi to the wooden barrel used for defecation and urination in the corner with the other hand.
Grab Bao Bailingzhi's white hair, immerse his head in the wooden barrel, and get his shoulders stuck on the barrel.
Li Si stood in front of the prison door for a quarter of an hour, his eyes fixed on Bao Bailingzhi whose head was stuck in the wooden barrel. Bao Bailingzhi showed no signs of struggle from beginning to end.
On the second day, Bao Bailingzhi accidentally drowned in Xianyang Prison. The Supreme Court notified the Bao family to come and pick up Bao Bailingzhi's body.
Before the curfew that night, Gang Chengjun's mansion was crowded with people.
The night was pitch black, but the lights in Gang Chengjun's mansion were bright.
"When does Lord Gangcheng plan to take action? Do you have to wait until that brat's Qin sword is placed on our necks?" Meng Jiakun, the head of the Meng family, said with a sullen look, staring at the embarrassed old man.
"A gentleman's promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Why has Mr. Gang Cheng stayed indoors these days?" Xi Shu, the head of the Xi family, questioned the old man.
"If Mr. Gangcheng is really in trouble, he should have just not agreed at the banquet a few days ago. Such behavior is really not good." Bai Fei, the head of the Bai family, condemned repeatedly.
The three great families took the lead, and many other families behind them also echoed in their words. For a moment, the crowd was noisy, and the bitterness on the old man's face became more and more obvious.
"You gentlemen, you are not asking Ze to lead the charge to attack Chang'an Jun, you are gathering all the people to attack Ze." When the heads of the noble families were tired of talking and the rain of saliva turned from heavy rain to light rain, the old man seized the opportunity and said, "Today, Bao Bailing's body is still picked up by his family. Tomorrow, Ze's whole family will be beheaded, and I don't know who will pick up the body."
Meng Jiakun looked stern and said, "Gang Chengjun was joking."
"Are you kidding?" The old man sighed, "Gan Shangqing was a young hero, he was appointed Prime Minister at the age of nine, and His Majesty was very fond of him. But Gan Shangqing was captured by that bastard and thrown into prison in Xianyang. Would that bastard still care about capturing me?"
Bai Fei stepped forward and patted the old man's shoulders, saying, "How can my nephew Gan be compared with Lord Gang Cheng? Everyone in Qin knows Lord Gang Cheng's name."
The old man's name was Cai Ze, his title was Gangcheng Jun, and he was a veteran of four dynasties.
He served as prime minister during the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, and his last official position was as an envoy to the State of Yan on behalf of the First Emperor.
Cai Ze's title, Gangcheng Jun, was different from Ying Chengjiao's honorary title of Chang'an Jun.
Cai Ze's fief was Gangcheng, the former land of Yan State, so he was called Gangcheng Jun.
Just like Wei Yang was called Shang Jun because his fief was called Shang.
According to common sense, Cai Zeli, who served as prime minister as early as the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, should have become a pillar of the Qin State like Meng Ao and Wang Zhi.
But in fact, Cai Ze did not have much say in the Qin State, which was closely related to Cai Ze's personal character. He liked to live in seclusion.
Cai Ze firmly believes that when water is full, it will overflow, and when the moon is full, it will wane.
As soon as they sense the slightest risk, they will run away.
After Fan Ju, the prime minister of Qin, resigned, Cai Ze took over. During his tenure, he did not seek to make any achievements but only to avoid mistakes.
The old man could only mention one political achievement - he alienated the relationship between King Anxi of Wei and Lord Xinling, thus depriving Wei of the capital to attack Qin.
As the prime minister of the most powerful country in the world, with such great power in his hands, the old man is extremely cautious.
He served as prime minister for only a few months before someone slandered him and he became disgusted with him. He resigned from the position on the pretext of illness and went home to live in seclusion.
His political enemies at the time mocked him for his ability to preserve himself in troubled times, but he did not take it as a challenge. Instead, he praised it as a virtue.
The Cai family, centered around Cai Ze who served as prime minister, was far less prominent than the Meng family of the same period and could only be considered a middle-class family.
Under the leadership of the surviving Cai Ze, the Cai family has always followed the crowd , never standing out or making any splash, and has always been behind the Gan family.
Speaking of the old man's fame, it was indeed quite great. There was no official higher than the prime minister in the Qin State, and every prime minister was very famous.
But in terms of prestige, it is almost nothing, otherwise the old man would not have been blocked at home and forced to stay at home by these aristocratic families.
Cai Ze stood up first, shouting that he dared not trouble the head of the Bai family, after Bai Fei withdrew his hand and stood aside.
He sighed and said, "I know my own limitations, and you are just trying to test the waters."
All the family heads immediately laughed and said, "No, no," "Mr. Gangcheng is joking," and "We never thought of that."
There were few upper-class men in the Qin State who had not been to the tower, and no one knew what secrets were said in such a place of comfort after drinking too much.
If Ying Chengjiao could capture Gan Luo with solid evidence, he could also capture almost everyone present with solid evidence.
So far, there has been no movement from Gan Luo in Xianyang Prison, and Ying Chengjiao was also captured by the First Emperor and imprisoned in Xianyang Prison.
The heads of the major families originally thought that since the First Emperor had intervened to mediate, Ying Chengjiao would stop.
Gan Luo strongly provoked Ying Chengjiao during the wax festival, but the heads of the noble families did not react. They thought they were safe.
But Lu Xu's death made them realize that Ying Chengjiao did not want to stop targeting the aristocratic families.
Everyone knew that Ying Chengjiao had some dirty information about them, and no one wanted to be in Gan Luo's position and be the first to be caught by Ying Chengjiao and thrown into Xianyang Prison.
But everyone really needs such a person to block Ying Chengjiao's firepower in front. This person's weight cannot be too low, otherwise the aristocratic families will dare to force them.
Gangcheng Jun Cai Ze came into being at the right time.
