Chapter 275: Betting on Both Sides, Then One Side Will Always Win
The extremely heated atmosphere paused.
The fingers stuck in the mud stopped for a moment.
The smiles on everyone's faces stopped.
In an occasion where many aristocratic families gathered, the three words "Chang'an Jun" uttered by Cai Ze had great magic.
All the heads of the noble families rolled their eyes and looked at the old man carefully, trying to see why the old man said such words at this time.
Things like attracting attention are not what this old man should do.
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
Soon, Xishu's long laugh broke the silence.
The head of the Xi family slapped his thigh and laughed so hard that he fell backwards, his movements were extremely exaggerated.
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
“Hahahahahahahahahahahaha !”
Soon, when talking about the Qin State's Xi Family, the Meng Family must be mentioned, and the Bai Family also took action.
Meng Jiakun, the head of the Meng family, and Bai Fei, the head of the Bai family, who were sitting at the table, laughed so loudly that they knocked over three bronze wine jars and overturned five plates of delicious food.
The soup flows on the exquisite table, and the delicious delicacies are served in porcelain plates and wine bottles. After they come out, they are mixed into a mess and lose their own value.
“Hahahahahahahahahaha…”
The smiles on the faces of the heads of the noble families regained their vitality.
Sometimes he looks up to the sky and laughs so loudly that his hair shakes, sometimes he lowers his head and chuckles so that his shoulders shake, or he shakes his head and laughs, using the head on his neck as a rattle.
The atmosphere, which was extremely warm just now, reached its climax.
The fingers stuck in the muddy path pulled mercilessly and quickly. The beautiful concubine felt her flesh being torn and bleeding. A look of intense pain appeared on her face, and a wail like a dying bird or beast came out of her mouth.
This wailing made the already hearty laughter even more hearty.
They observed the painful expression of the beautiful concubine, and a strong sense of pleasure emanated from their whole bodies, which was even greater than the pleasure brought by riding horses just now.
The old man's voice seemed weak amid the noisy noise, and few people could hear what he was saying.
The old man had a look of deep sorrow on his face, and he pointed from the nearest Xishu point to Bai Fei and Meng Jiakun who were standing beside the messy table in the distance.
"I have gone through so much trouble to get Lord Chang'an to agree to let you go. Can't you wait ten days? You three little brats are incapable of accomplishing anything, but are always capable of causing trouble. You are not worthy of being my advisor. Instead, you should be my advisor.
"I am issuing orders as the leader of a noble family. The actions of the Meng, Xi, and Bai families have nothing to do with us. You three families should just wait to bear the wrath of Lord Chang'an! Gentlemen, follow Ze."
The old man shouted the last five words with all his might.
But he is old, how loud can he be?
As mentioned before, only the five or six people closest to the old man could hear clearly what he said.
No more than ten people heard the last five words.
While the old man was speaking, the various noises around him did not diminish in the slightest .
Even Cai Dui, who thought he knew nothing, noticed it. No one in the audience paid attention to what his father was saying.
This made Cai Dui, who had just wanted to stand with everyone and consume the pig in the jar, look gloomy.
If Cai Ze hadn't pulled him back at the last minute, he would have stood up and rushed in to pull his father away.
This was the most angry behavior of Cai Dui, who had learned half of the word "负". He almost never had conflicts with others.
The blue sky and warm white jade on the ground reflected Cai Ze's anger vividly.
The old man's slightly stiff white hair was mixed with the lifelike lotus stamens on the ground, and it was hard to tell whether it was the white lotus in full bloom or the white hair standing on end.
However, the heads of the noble families who could clearly see the anger on the old man's face did not restrain themselves at all.
Because of the old man's temperament and the way he behaves, he rarely shows too strong emotional fluctuations in front of outsiders.
Everyone thought that this old guy would get angry one day, and they laughed even more happily.
Oh, it seems the old guy said something, but that doesn't matter.
The old man turned and left, walking alone, his back looking desolate, and no one followed him, the head of a noble family.
Xishu, who was closest to him, tried to persuade the old man to stay, but the old man pushed him away without any mercy.
Cai Dui sat at the table and took a deep breath. He did not leave with the old man because the old man signaled him to stay with his eyes.
Xishu did not try to stop the old man from leaving. The laughter and joyful commotion in the room never stopped.
After the old man disappeared in the hall, Xishu walked to Cai Dui and invited him to come closer and look at the pig in the jar.
"Brother Cai, don't forget to apologize to Gang Chengjun on behalf of Shu when you go back tomorrow. That bastard is not the type to let it go easily. Gang Chengjun should not be deceived by that bastard."
Cai Dui forced a smile and wanted to sternly refuse or rebuke Xishu, but the words couldn't come out of his mouth. He had never been so upset when he asked someone about his feelings.
When Xishu saw the expression on Cai Dui's face, he looked down on him even more.
Cai Dui did not leave with Cai Ze, which meant that he did not agree with his father's ideas and did not want to go along with the other aristocratic families.
In this case, even if you feel unhappy about your father being forced to leave, you should not show your emotions outwardly and have no scheming.
Xishu wanted to keep Cai Dui to be his shield.
Without the Cai family as a target to attract fire, the three families would have to bear the brunt of facing Ying Chengjiao. How could they amass wealth, concentrate power, and win the hearts of the people?
"The method of holding the pig in the jar is one of the many training methods of my Xi family. I would like to thank you for not giving it up. I will give it to you." Xi Shu said loudly.
"The Zhao family is willing to stand together with the three great families."
Guan Que was ahead of countless , and some of them surrendered.
If there is one, there will be two.
"The Zhang family doesn't have much money left, so I hope to lend it to the three families."
The head of the Zhang family tore off the clothes of his beautiful concubine and said with a lewd smile.
When the beautiful concubine was covered with a few tattered strips of cloth, her body was shining with not only wine but also sweat, and her delicate body, which was sitting astride a large urn, was opened by everyone.
Obscene laughter, cries of surrender, and the wails of a beautiful concubine mixed together.
There are thirteen or fourteen out of ten family heads who are willing to lend money to the three major families and surrender to the three major families. Most of them are small families, and the largest one is the Baili family.
Meng Jiakun, Xishu and Bai Fei were very satisfied with this result. They did not want to try to achieve everything at once.
Gan Luo was arrested and imprisoned in Xianyang Prison, but he did not die in Xianyang Prison.
The Gan family has supported the aristocratic families for so many years. It is impossible for the three major aristocratic families to be attracted by just a banquet and a pig in a jar.
But this is a good start, and there is nothing that time can't erase.
When these families who followed the three major families made money, and many families could not get any money because Gan Luo was in prison in Xianyang, so the Gan family stopped the business of selling used weapons.
That is the time when the three great families will hold their second banquet.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen!"
With just a few words, Xishu quieted the noisy hall. Everyone stared at him, waiting for what he would say next.
"I haven't finished demonstrating this jar pig to you yet. Next, I'm going to let you know how to deal with this jar pig when it doesn't obey."
The beautiful slave concubine known as the Jar Pig already had numerous scratches all over her body. Upon hearing Xi Shu's words, she screamed, her face full of fear, and her legs tightly clamped around the edge of the jar.
None of the people around him showed any sympathy for him; all of them looked at him in a teasing, excited, and anticipatory manner.
"Go down."
Each of them pushed the beautiful concubine excitedly, trying to push her into the big jar.
The beautiful concubine screamed and threw herself on the edge of the jar, crying.
"No! Please, sir, have mercy! I don't want to be boiled!"
Some red threads appeared where she sat, but she couldn't care less at this point.
The toes of both his feet were curled up, and his thighs and calves were tightly clamped around the edge of the jar, for fear of falling in.
Everyone saw her with tears in her eyes, looking pitiful, crying and begging for mercy.
Not only was there no trace of sympathy, but the light of desire in his eyes was burning strong.
"It is a great honor for you, a pig in a jar, to be able to help you all. Go down."
Xishu grabbed one of the beautiful concubine's arms with an evil smile. The family heads with the most evil looks on their faces and in their eyes grabbed the beautiful concubine's bare back, fat buttocks, plump limbs, and tearful head.
"No, please have mercy on me, please have mercy on me, I can do anything..."
As the beautiful concubine kept begging for mercy, her delicate body was pushed into the large jar by several big men and slid down the wall of the jar.
A servant filled half of the large jar with water.
A servant stood on the edge of the jar and stared at the beautiful concubine. Whenever the beautiful concubine cried and shouted and tried to climb out of the jar, the servant would forcefully push her back into the water.
A servant brought some dry firewood and placed it at the bottom of the large jar and waited for orders.
Two servants brought a huge, transparent lid made of unknown material and placed it on the jar breathlessly. There was a fist-sized hole on the transparent lid.
The beautiful concubine slapped the transparent lid with despair on her face. The sound circulated in the big jar, became louder, and came out from the hole.
"The pig knows everything, please have mercy on me, sir..."
Xishu, Meng Jiakun, Bai Fei and a number of family heads looked at the pig in the jar through the transparent lid, with its eyes full of pleading. They all found it very novel.
It was as if what they were looking at were not humans, but animals, livestock that could provide them with entertainment.
Concubines are not human beings.
"In order to let you see all the performance of the pig in the jar, I specially asked a skilled craftsman to make a transparent lid."
It's a pity that the colored glaze is in the hands of that boy, otherwise it would be much more intuitive to make the lid with colored glaze.
Xishu sighed with some regret and waved his hands.
The servant on standby received the order and lit the fire under the large urn.
The flame was initially as big as a fist and spread rapidly on the dried firewood at an extremely fast speed, and soon it could no longer be called a flame.
"The pig knows everything... please have mercy, sir..."
The beautiful concubine stretched her hand out from the fist-sized hole and waved her plump arms like lotus roots desperately.
Xishu reached out and held the hand of the beautiful concubine who was trying to grab it, seeing the hope in the beautiful concubine's eyes.
He said with interest: "Look, everyone, this jar pig still has the strength to stretch out its hand. This is the first stage of boiling the jar pig. When the water temperature in the jar rises, the jar pig is boiled red all over, lying in the hole and breathing heavily, which is the second stage of boiling the jar pig.
"When the water in the jar rolls, the pig inside will also roll and scream. The sound is more pleasant than the begging for mercy of the six countries' armies. This is the third stage of cooking the pig. In order to let you see it clearly, Shu picked the best pig."
The eyes of the people watching around the big jar lit up. Some of them grabbed the beautiful concubine's arm and pulled it out through the hole.
He laughed heartily at the sight of the beautiful concubine's distorted and painful face pasted on the transparent lid.
Someone kicked away the servant who was adding firewood, picked up a handful of dry firewood and threw it into the bottom of the jar.
The sudden increase in fire burned his face so much that it hurt, but it couldn't burn the smile on his face.
Cai Dui, who was very close to the big jar, felt cold all over, his crotch was soft, and there was not a single romantic thought in his mind, as he had never seen such a scene before.
He looked at the beautiful slave concubine with big breasts and thick buttocks struggling desperately, stretching her hands out to try to grab something but failing to catch anything.
Listen to the beautiful concubine screaming because the water temperature is too high.
It went from being extremely sharp at first, like the collision of sharp weapons, to becoming hoarse like the cry of an old crow in just a dozen breaths.
At this moment, Cai Dui deeply regretted why he stayed...
Inside the hall, there were still many people who did not leave their seats.
"It's against the harmony of nature."
"Does it have to be this way?"
"It's like boiling a pig in a jar, but it's actually a warning to us. If we don't obey, we will end up like the pig in the jar."
"Compared with Shang Qing, Meng, Xi, and Bai, their eating habits are really ugly."
“…”
Amid the whispers of the crowd, amid the screams of the crying pigs in the jar.
When the raging flames can purify all the sins in the world, change their stance, burn the pity, consume the suffering, and encourage the evil thoughts of human nature.
Cai Dui, who felt deeply uncomfortable, did not stand up.
The heads of the major families, who were sitting at the desk with frowns on their faces, did not stand up.
Those who missed Gan Luo and hoped that he could escape from Xianyang Prison as soon as possible also did not stand up.
Concubines are slaves, and slaves are not human beings.
Their master has absolute power over life, death, giving and taking over.
Even if the First Emperor himself came, he would not be able to punish the three great families, because everything they did was legal.
Qin law only concerns one’s actions and not one’s heart.
The Qin State emphasized laws rather than morality.
Meng Jiakun, Bai Fei and Xishu clapped their hands after the performance of boiling the pig alive in a jar.
A group of concubines who looked almost the same as the previous beautiful concubines, still wearing only white transparent clothes, with big breasts, fat buttocks, and deformed pelvises entered the hall.
With formal smiles, they saw a large urn with a blazing fire at the bottom the first thing they saw when they entered the hall.
The smile on her face became more charming, and a look of fear flashed in her eyes.
"Enjoy yourselves, if there is a pig in the jar that you don't like, just throw it into the jar."
The three of them said this together and left with a smile.
"Thank you for the treat!"
"Go! Go into the big jar!"
"Well, well, well, the winding path is as famous as it is said to lead to a secluded place."
“…”
The three of them were very satisfied with today's banquet.
1. Gather the heads of the noble families in the new tower, and use the fact that the tower is deserted to put pressure on the First Emperor, forcing him to suppress Ying Chengjiao.
Second, show your skills in front of all the noble families, first show your kindness in the way of training the pig in the jar, then show your power in the way of boiling the pig in the jar alive. Use the carrot and stick method to win over all the family heads and return to the top of the noble families.
Although the major families have not expressed their opinions yet, it is already good enough that 30% to 40% of the families changed their allegiance at the first banquet. After all, the three of them are planning to hold the second and third banquets.
…
Xianyang City.
In the twilight, under the moonlight.
Under the protection of the city defense forces, the old man slowly walked towards his home with his hands behind his back, his head lowered and a blank expression on his face.
The old man's intention of leaving his son behind and returning home alone was simple: if he bet on both sides, one side would always win.
