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Chapter 267 266. Changing scheming minds
Zhao Zheng walked back and forth, with a hesitant expression, and looked up into the distance from time to time.Not far from him was the residence of Prime Minister Zhao.It was not until the gate saw off the guests that the housekeeper standing in front of the side door, that is, the housekeeper in the Warring States Period, saw Zhao Zheng come over.

"It turns out it's Gong Zizheng. Since you're here, why don't you go in." Zhao Ping is Pingyuan Jun's confidant, so he naturally knows many of Zhao Sheng's secrets.

Although he despises the lustful young master of Qin in front of him, he understands more about Lord Pingyuan's concern and important plans for Zhao Zheng.His words and attitude were very respectful, giving Zhao Zheng the greatest and best face.

When Zhao Zheng saw Zhao Ping coming, his eyes lit up and he said: "It turns out that I am the housekeeper, and I have something to do to visit Mr. Pingyuan. But it is still early, and I don't know if Mr. Pingyuan has time to see me."

What can happen is that there is no money. Without money, naturally you can't visit the women's garden.Zhao Ping snorted repeatedly in his heart, but still maintained a comfortable smile on his face. He waved his hand and led Zhao Zheng directly into the house through the side door.

At this time, the State of Zhao was preparing to go to war with the State of Yan. As the prime minister in charge of the court, Zhao Sheng was naturally very busy.Arranging Zhao Zheng to wait in the side hall, Zhao Ping found Zhao Sheng, who was still busy, and said, "Your Majesty, the hostage from Qin has come to see you."

After getting away from the busy memorial, Zhao Sheng heard Zhao Ping's words clearly and immediately felt a headache.Since Zhao Zheng was six years old, Zhao Sheng has taken him to the Women's Garden, the place where fireworks were held during the Warring States Period.

As long as it was delicious and fun, Zhao Sheng took Zhao Zheng to play it all.He also told him that as long as he wanted to play, he could come to Pingyuan Jun's Mansion to get money at any time.I just didn't expect that in just two years, Zhao Zheng would not only be able to play and eat, but his expenses would also increase. In the past two years, he had invested nearly ten thousand gold.

Zhao Sheng remembered clearly that he had just given Zhao Zheng a hundred gold three days ago, but he did not expect that he would come to ask for money again today.This is not training a dandy. To Zhao Sheng, Zhao Zheng is now a deadly "debt collector".

"Hey, forget it!" Even though it was extremely heartbreaking, he still had to swallow the bitter pill that Zhao Sheng had cultivated: "Bring him here."

After Zhao Ping took the order and left, Zhao Zheng came over soon and said in a very humble and polite manner: "Zhao Zheng pays homage to your Majesty!"

Different from the honorific title of the prime minister of Qin State, the prime ministers of Zhao State are all given the title of king.Zhao Zheng, who often took money from Zhao Sheng, became bloated due to his obsession with wine, sex and wealth.He kept scratching his head and sometimes moved his steps slightly, his face looked very hesitant.

Zhao Sheng put down the carving knife in his hand and looked at the thin and weak Zhao Zheng in front of him, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart about Ji Ruyu's cruelty and ruthlessness three years ago.

However, in just two years, people can be completely crippled. Confucianism's methods are really powerful: "Is Gongzizheng short of money again?"

Zhao Zheng nodded sheepishly, then looked at Zhao Sheng with a somewhat frightened expression and expectant eyes: "A newcomer with both talent and appearance has recently arrived in the Nuyuan, and Zhao Zheng really wants to go and see it. But a few days ago, Jun came The hundred gold I just gave you has already been lost to Huachang.”

"Okay!" Zhao Sheng did not refuse when he heard this and waved his hand to Zhao Ping to take the money.Ignoring Zhao Zheng's joy of getting another hundred gold, Zhao Sheng said seriously and seriously: "This hundred gold should be enough for Gong Zizheng to use for more than ten days. If Gong Zizheng comes again during this period, Pingyuan Lord's Mansion will not have any extra money. ."

Zhao Zheng, who had received a hundred gold coins, looked directly at the money bag, unable to understand Zhao Sheng's words.Zhao Sheng also knew that those words were a joke, so he waved his hand in disgust and asked Zhao Ping to take Zhao Zheng away, and he fell into a state of constant busyness again.

No one noticed that Zhao Zheng turned around and left. His eyes were no longer as submissive and weak as before, and his lowered eyes were filled with endless wisdom.Even if it was just a moment of contact, he, who is proficient in mental games and methods of controlling people's hearts, has already discovered at least three pieces of information about Pingyuan Lord's Mansion.

It’s interesting. I didn’t expect that Zhao Sheng’s methods were so decisive. He was worthy of the teacher’s conclusion when he commented on the “Four Young Masters of the Warring States Period”!

As soon as Zhao Zheng stepped out of the side door of Pingyuan Jun's Mansion, he met Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan, the young masters of Zhao State who were wandering out of the palace.Because of the feud between Qin and Zhao, Zhao Yi and Zhao Yan had known about Zhao Zheng's existence for a long time, and they used their relationship and status to bully Zhao Zheng.

Zhao Zheng has the ability to take revenge but cannot take revenge. You must know that Zhao Zheng's martial arts talent is not bad, and in the end he can only sue Lord Pingyuan with inferior means.After Zhao Sheng taught him a lesson several times and was scolded by the current King of Zhao, Zhao Yi and Zhao Yan restrained themselves a little.

He is also a prince of the royal family, so why does Zhao Zheng, as a lowly hostage, have a more comfortable life than they, the princes of the Zhao Kingdom?Not only do you not have to study reading and lettering every day, you can even spend the whole day drinking and hanging out and staying in the Women's Garden.

When they saw Zhao Zheng coming out of Lord Pingyuan's house, they knew that he must have taken money from Lord Pingyuan, and the two of them immediately stood in front of him.Zhao Zheng hurriedly stuffed the money bag into his arms, his face full of anxiety and fear, and said with a cowardly look: "Zhao Zheng has seen Young Master Yi and Young Master Yan."

"Little bastard, take out the money quickly, I've seen it." Compared to Zhao Yan, who has a more calm personality, Zhao Yan seems a bit flamboyant, and he has a domineering attitude and wants to grab money whenever he opens his mouth.

Although Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan liked to bully Zhao Zheng, on the one hand they wanted to show their dignity, but on the other hand they were jealous.Compared with their busy study every day, Zhao Zheng's daily comfortable life is more like the son of Zhao State.

Although Zhao Zheng looked very scared and kept retreating and dodging, he protected the hundred gold on his chest very well.

Seeing Zhao Zheng being so ignorant, Zhao Yan immediately became angry and glared and waved, telling the soldiers who were protecting their brothers to leave the palace to take action.Fortunately, these soldiers knew how to measure, and the force that seemed to be fierce just looked dangerous, but in fact it fell lightly on Zhao Zheng, and the attack also avoided the vital points of Zhao Zheng's body.

This was Pingyuan Lord's mansion. Soon Zhao Sheng heard the news and rushed out of the mansion to angrily scold Zhao Yi and Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan suffered an unreasonable disaster, and he clearly started to curse Zhao Yan.He will be reprimanded if he even gets involved, and he will probably be punished when he returns to the palace.When the two brothers apologized and left, Zhao Yan stared angrily at Zhao Zheng, who was already bruised and swollen and sloppy. It was obvious that the matter was not over yet.

Zhao Zheng was beaten openly at the door of the mansion, which made Zhao Sheng feel very uncomfortable.Especially because of Zhao Zheng's relationship, Zhao State not only recuperated and restored its national strength in recent years, but also successively took away seven cities that originally belonged to Zhao State within three years.

Zhao Sheng, who felt guilty in his heart, asked Zhao Ping to give a thousand pieces of gold to Zhao Zheng. It was Zhao Sheng who expressed his apology to Zhao Zheng on behalf of Zhao Yan and Zhao Yan.What Zhao Sheng never expected was that Zhao Zheng, who had received the daughter of gold, had no scruples and ran towards the Women's Garden with his injured body at this moment.

After hearing Zhao Ping's report, Zhao Sheng, who was stunned, could only shake his head and smile bitterly.He was so greedy and lustful that this young master of the Qin Kingdom was basically crippled by him.

If he returns to the country to inherit the throne of King Qin, how can the tiger and wolf Qin country survive?

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Many people saw Zhao Zheng, who was only eight years old, even though he was dirty and his face was bruised, he rushed into the Women's Garden with Jin in his arms eagerly.Judging from the way he was familiar with the place, it was obvious that he came here frequently, and even walked straight to the prostitute's room without stopping.

Suning, the new prostitute in the Women's Court, was a spy trained by Heibingtai of the Qin State since she was a child. She has only recently been quietly lurking in Handan.Suning, who was still resting, stood up immediately when he heard the sound of the door being pushed.When he saw that the visitor was Gong Zizheng, he was about to salute.

Zhao Zheng hurriedly helped her up and said, "Let me tell you, you can write right away."

Although there was black ink during the Warring States Period, there was no paper. If you wanted to write, you could only carve characters on bamboo slips with a carving knife.The spies used silk, which was very expensive to use, but it was convenient for transmitting and hiding messages.

As the secret agents of Black Ice Platform, they have their own system of words and pictures, which will not be easily decrypted even if they are intercepted.

Zhao Zheng entered Pingyuan Jun's Mansion and saw the map marked with traces and the military chess engraved with mountains and rivers and military strength. He already saw three pieces of information that Zhao Jun was about to start a war against Yan.

Zhao Zheng's description is very simple, and it is obvious from it that his ability to express himself in words is very high.It is not as described by the outside world and passed down by word of mouth. It is just a state where he has just learned how to read and digit, and can't even understand the most important "Shang Jun Law" of Qin State.

The intelligence passed by Zhao Zheng is three. Zhao will attack Yan in two groups. Zhao will use new troops for this battle.In addition, the food and grass that Zhao Guo started to fight would be transported through Yishui.

The information conveyed by Zhao Zheng was very simple and could only be roughly described.As for detailed information, we must rely on other forces, or spies within the Qin State to gather information.

Even Zhao Sheng would not have thought of Zhao Zheng, who had never been taken seriously by him.Just through the traces marked on the map and military chess, we can roughly deduce the three most important war intelligence of Zhao State.

What's more important is that Zhao Zheng is only eight years old today.

Even though he was the fourth son of the Warring States Period and had presided over the state affairs of Zhao State for many years, he was not as smart and intelligent as Zhao Zheng when he was eight years old.

After looking at Junma's information, Zhao Zheng said to Suning: "Send the news over immediately and I'll go see the teacher."

Suning opened the mechanism message under the bed, the wall opened and a secret passage appeared, and two men and women who looked very similar to Zhao Zheng and Suning walked out.The two of them pretended to be Zhao Zheng and Suning, but the real person entered the dark secret passage.

Judging from the terrain outside, the Women's Garden seems to be far away from the teahouse where Ji Ruyu is, but in fact the distance is only 15 meters through the secret passage.It's just that the two houses stand back to each other, with their gates facing different streets.

That is the feeling of deception brought about by vision, which is also the result of the careful selection of Heibingtai.

Zhao Zheng, who had just entered the backyard of the teahouse, naturally saw the teacher who was still in a coma, and his two sisters, Feiyan and Feiyue, who were taking care of him.

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