Chapter 286: What I’m Best At Is Killing People
Thick blood.
Piles of corpses.
It was placed in front of the gate of the Supreme Court, making all the officials in the court pale.
They looked at the mess of red and white things, smelled the pungent fishy smell, and everyone was terrified and unable to control themselves.
Most of them came from aristocratic families, and all the middle and low-level officials in every government office came from aristocratic families.
The three oldest and most powerful families of Meng, Xi and Bai died tragically in front of them. They couldn't accept it...
Apart from political struggles, the nobles had never suffered such large-scale casualties because of Qin laws.
Shang Yang executed the members of the three great aristocratic families by the river according to Qin law, and the river water turned completely red. But in essence, it was a struggle for power between Qin Xiaogong and the aristocratic families.
If the aristocratic families had honestly cooperated with Shang Yang's reforms and allowed Qin Xiaogong to centralize power smoothly, Meng Xibai could have continued to live a comfortable life.
There was no political struggle involved in this killing; Ying Chengjiao simply wanted to kill people.
Not only the officials of the Supreme Court who came from aristocratic families, but even the soldiers who had fought on the battlefield were all filled with panic, their faces turning pale as they looked at the scene before them.
Logically, this scene should not scare them. The scene on a real battlefield is far more terrifying than what is happening in front of the Supreme Court.
What made them feel strange was not the tragedy itself, but the identity of these people.
The three great families of Meng, Xi and Bai have extremely high status in the Qin State. Although these palace soldiers look down on these good-for-nothings, they are still envious of them in their hearts.
They also hope to live a life of luxury and have meat for every meal. The three major families are the direction of the soldiers' efforts and their ideal future.
The impact of Ying Chengjiao's killing of Meng Xibai and the three major families has begun to unfold, but this is far from enough and is not even a .
When the entire upper echelons of Xianyang City know about this matter, there will be a real uproar, and an unprecedented tsunami will hit the Qin State.
Bang!
Wang Wu, the big knife, chopped down the closed door of the Supreme Court Mansion for Ying Chengjiao. The soldiers did not hear the order of Supreme Court Li Si.
Silently, gratefully, and making way.
"General, please."
Wang Wu, the big knife, stretched out his hand flatteringly.
"Wang Xi, gather all the veterans and go to Chang'an Junfu. You are no longer needed here."
Ying Chengjiao gave the order in a deep voice before walking back into the gate of the Supreme Court.
These old soldiers can no longer stay in Xianyang. My brother will not tolerate them...
"only!"
The veteran reorganized the team and first asked Liuzi to lead a few veterans in relatively good health to find those veterans who did not come today.
The veterans rescued by Ying Chengjiao were not limited to the ones present at hand. There were many others who did not come because they received the news late or did not receive the news at all.
These old soldiers abandoned by the Qin State are Ying Chengjiao's most valuable assets.
After watching Liuzi and several veterans leave, the veteran general gathered the remaining veterans, arranged them in military formation, and led these veterans who had fought for the Qin State and marched towards Chang'an Junfu.
They don't know where the road ahead leads, and they don't care, they just follow the general.
In their eyes, the First Emperor was far inferior to the general.
The First Emperor didn't care about their food and drink. He just gave them a place to live in Xianyang and called them heroes.
Turning into the Xianyang Prison, the Qin sword in Ying Chengjiao's hand was dripping with blood all the way.
He went straight down to the second floor of Xianyang Prison, found the cell where Gan Luo was, took out the key and opened the cell door.
After entering, he saw the head of the Xi family, Xi Shu, holding his son Xifang's head against his heart, like Xishi holding her heart.
It’s just that the beauty of Xi Shi can make the fish in the pond sink, while Xishu can only turn beautiful women into skeletons.
Bai Fei, the head of the Bai family, was curled up on the ground, his face covered with bruises, and he looked seriously injured.
Meng Jiakun, the head of the Meng family, sat with Gan Luo. There was a piece of flesh missing on his face, and he had the most hideous look among the three.
Gan Luo, the leader of the aristocratic family, lay on the bed with his legs crossed. He looked very relaxed and at ease, without any of the bitter and vengeful looks of the other three men.
When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. Xishu looked at Ying Chengxie who had returned and was furious.
"I want you to be turned into a pig in a jar! I want you to die in a cauldron! I want to boil you to avenge my son!"
He roared like a ghost.
Ying Chengjiao had a blank expression on his face. He moved his feet like a ghost and raised his sword to cut off Xishu's head.
Before Xishu could close his mouth or utter any vicious words, his head had already fallen on the head of his son Xifang.
The heads of both father and son rolled down together, and they rolled happily on the red carpet formed by the blood spurting from Xishu's neck.
"What are you bragging about?"
Ying Chengjiao said softly.
This sudden sword strike was beyond the expectations of everyone present.
Gan Luo was originally lying on his back with his head tilted, looking sideways at Ying Chengjiao, but suddenly he stood up straight, with his mouth open, unable to utter a word, his face full of horror.
Bai Fei screamed and shouted, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!" His legs kicked on the hay on the ground and he shrank to the side of the prison wall, covered in Xishu's blood.
Meng Jiakun's face changed drastically. Such a huge change in expression made the part of his face where the skin was missing feel extremely painful, but he seemed not to feel it.
He dodged and rushed towards the cell door behind Ying Chengjiao, which had just been opened but not yet closed. His speed was extremely fast, even faster than that of the brave Qin army soldiers.
If this bastard dares to kill Xishu, he can kill me! Faster! Faster! Faster! Faster!
Swish~
Qin's sword fell.
Meng Jiakun's head flew high, but his body ran at a very fast speed due to inertia during his lifetime.
The next second he rushed out of the prison door to fulfill his last wish, and the next second he hit the wall with a dull bang because he had no head to command him and he didn't know how to turn.
"Why are you in such a hurry to die?"
Ying Chengjiao muttered.
Gan Luo walked up to Bai Fei, the last head of Meng Xibai's family, in an incredulous and extremely unfamiliar manner, as if he was seeing another person.
"Cheng Jiao, no, Lord Chang'an! Please let me go, please let me go! I treated you well when you were a child! As long as you let me go, I will give you whatever you want!
"No, you can't take my life. Apart from my life, I can give you everything! Don't you like beauty? I'll give you the skinny horse of the Bai family and the pig in the jar!
"My mother, my wife, my concubine, my daughter, as long as Lord Chang'an likes them, I can take whatever I want! I only ask Lord Chang'an to let me live, let me live!"
Bai Fei had a crazy look on his face, with a confused look in his eyes. He hugged Ying Chengjiao's thigh, shook his head, and begged with tears and sobs.
He doesn't want to die, he really doesn't want to die!
This time, Gan Luo did not say that Bai Fei was shameful, nor did he ask Bai Fei to have aristocratic integrity.
In the face of real life and death, those who can remain calm are rare.
"Uncle Bai." Ying Chengjiao leaned forward to help Bai Fei up, and said softly, "You don't have any big ambitions, Chengjiao knows that. You are different from Uncle Shu and Uncle Meng, you were brought along as a bystander."
With the help of Ying Chengjiao, Bai Fei stood up straight, hope and joy in his eyes, and nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, yes, that's right, that's right, Lord Chang'an is wise!"
"When I was a child, you played with me and didn't care about the affairs of the Bai family. At that time, I told Grandfather Bai that if the Bai family wanted to prosper, Uncle Bai should be the head of the family."
Even though Bai Fei was extremely frightened, his heart couldn't help but tremble.
The position of my master was decided by Chang'an Jun alone? How... is this possible...
Gan Luo, who had an extremely embarrassed expression on his face, suddenly had a hint of understanding in his eyes. The words he heard today solved a small mystery in his mind.
Luo felt that Bai Fei was not qualified to be the head of the family. Both his brother Bai Si and his younger brother Bai Ji were much stronger than him.
He is a man with high aspirations but poor skills, and he has no strengths at all, yet he was allowed to take the position of the head of the family. It turns out that you were the one who said that...
When Bai Fei was young, he was a complete playboy and had a lot of fun. He had no idea how powerful Ying Chengjiao was.
Gan Luo understood, however, that the strong support from all the families was no joke.
"Uncle Bai once said that women are like jade and should be carefully played with. How can we treat them like animals and waste them? Do you remember this sentence?"
Bai Fei had long forgotten that he had said this, but when Ying Chengjiao asked him about it, how could he dare to say no? He kept answering that he remembered, he remembered.
"Uncle Bai, remember why we should continue to train the slave concubines and send them to the towers in Guanzhong? Cheng Jiao told Uncle Bai a long time ago that if someone does not treat a slave concubine as a human being, I will not treat him as a human being either.
"Cheng Jiao promised that if Uncle Bai gave up the skinny horse, he would give the Bai family top-quality glass every year to thank Uncle Bai for his help. I explained the reason and gave the benefits, but why did Uncle Bai ignore it?"
Bai Fei burst into tears and said, "That Meng Jiakun, the Western art says that the wealth of outsiders is ultimately given by outsiders, and the lifeblood is in the hands of outsiders. It's extremely stupid. Even if his wealth is a hundred times higher than the family business, what can he do? The family will be destroyed.
"I was so foolish that I thought what they said made a lot of sense. Today I know that what Chang'an Jun said is good advice. After I fly back home, I will keep my promise and never let the Bai family get involved in the affairs of the building and take away Chang'an Jun's wealth."
Bai Fei didn't mention another reason - he had no say in the Bai family for a long time, and when he suddenly took the position of the head of the family, he was unable to convince everyone and did not dare to put forward suggestions that went against the Bai family.
"My way of making money, my way of making money, Uncle Bai still thinks this is my way of making money?"
Ying Chengjiao's anger suddenly rose.
Bai Fei was confused.
Chang'an Jun often stayed overnight in the Xianyang tower. Didn't he want to extend his hands to all the towers across the Qin State?
Gan Luo, who was appointed prime minister at a young age, was also suspicious. He could not understand why his childhood brother cared so much about those concubines and was so blinded by lust.
"As expected, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. I can't convince you at all. Without facing a great turmoil that destroys the world, without experiencing the end of the world where you will die if you don't change, you will never understand.
"Without the Jingkang Shame, there would be no Manjianghong. Without the Eight-Nation Alliance crossing the ocean, there would be no Xinhai Revolution. Without the bone-chilling cold, the plum blossoms would not have their subtle fragrance.
"The world is not in chaos, the people's hearts cannot be gathered, and the thoughts cannot be changed. If you can't gather, then don't gather; if you can't change, then don't change. The path of the predecessors cannot be followed, so I will blaze a new path to prove my thoughts!"
Ying Chengjiao tightly grasped the Qin sword, and the determination in his eyes today became even more profound.
If you can’t explain it, just do it!
He mentioned Qin Jian.
"No, no, spare my life, spare my life, I will not compete with Chang'an Jun..."
Bai Fei was terrified, his back pressed against the wall, his ten fingers scratching the wall, leaving bloody marks.
Swish~
Heads rolled off.
Blood gushed out like a fountain.
A weak body loses the support of thoughts and the nourishment of blood.
It slowly slid down the wall and fell to the ground like a puddle of mud.
The heads of the three great families, Meng, Xi and Bai, who controlled the source of concubines in all the towers in Guanzhong except the one in Xianyang, died.
Ying Chengjiao turned around and walked in front of Gan Luo, threw away the Qin sword in his hand, and sat next to Gan Luo.
He whispered, "Brother Luo, do you regret it?"
Before going out last time, Gan Luo said that he would never stand on Ying Chengjiao's side.
Ying Chengjiao said that Gan Luo could regret it at any time before he gave away his life.
Gan Luo calmed himself down and a forced sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"You killed the Meng, Xi, and Bai family heads, so you think you can cover the sky with one hand? The three great families are standing firm not only because of the power of their family heads, but also because of the three great families..."
Ying Chengjiao waved his hand and interrupted Gan Luo's words.
"Why are you testing me? You just want to ask me whether I killed the three great families? They are all dead. Maybe there are some that the Court of Justice didn't catch. Don't worry, they will all die before sunset today. Just like you said, what I am best at is killing people."
Gan Luo clenched his five fingers.
"You are deceiving me. You dare not do this. No one in the world dares to do this, not even Your Majesty. You are provoking the panic of the noble families and arousing the anger of the nobles!"
Ying Chengjiao chuckled.
"There's no point in lying to you. Killing three people or killing three great families is the same to me."
His expression softened.
"Brother Luo, stop wasting time. Do you regret it?"
Gan Luo had a gloomy face and asked the two questions that concerned him most.
"If I don't regret it, what will you do? Kill me and be done with it?"
Ying Chengjiao nodded, then shook his head.
“Half correct.”
“…Which half?”
"You will die, but if you die, the matter will not be resolved. The Gan family will be removed from Xianyang like the three great families of Meng, Xi and Bai."
"How dare you, you little brat!"
Gan Luo stood up suddenly and pointed at Ying Chengjiao with an angry look on his face.
"You are a man with a hidden disease and you are lustful. You cannot bear to see a beautiful concubine being tortured. My Gan family has never encountered such a thing in all these years. You can kill the three great families, but why do you want to kill my Gan family?"
Gan Luo is not afraid of death and is willing to die for the noble families. He has said this more than once.
But Gan Luo was not a saint. His main concern was to ensure the continuation and prosperity of the Gan family.
If the Gan family died with him, Gan Luo, he would never tolerate it. This was his obsession.
"It really makes me feel relieved. Brother Luo hasn't communicated with me in these years, but it turns out that he still misses me deep in his heart."
Ying Chengjiao smiled and nodded.
"Stop talking nonsense! Don't try to silence me with the excuse that it violates Qin's laws. What Luo sells are unusable weapons discarded by the Qin army. Most of them can be turned into farm tools, and a few can be turned into weapons, which will not disturb the world."
"You are not a pedantic person. You should know that this matter will be done sooner or later by someone else. Your Majesty can't hide anything in Xianyang, and Your Majesty has acquiesced to this matter. Tell Luo, if you want to exterminate my entire Gan family, there must be a reason!"
Based on Gan Luo's understanding of Ying Chengjiao, this most powerful villain in Xianyang City has always had a set of Qin laws restricting himself in his actions.
Gan Luo didn't know the complete content of Qin Law in Ying Chengjiao's mind, but he knew a few of the rules, such as not acting on impulse and killing people to vent his anger.
"You ask why."
Ying Chengjiao narrowed his eyes and chuckled.
"It's not what I want."
