On the very day Li Lin was rescued, Han Xin, after several days of reconnaissance, also decided to take action.
That night, all was silent.
Magistrate Lü Ying, who should have been asleep, was somewhat uneasy. He sat in the guest room, lit a candle, looked at the starry sky outside the door, and couldn't help but sigh.
Although he was deeply rooted in Julu and had even served as a minor official in the old state, he was a well-known and powerful family in the area.
But the current world situation is no longer the era of the seven kingdoms vying for supremacy.
In the past, rulers could tolerate and restrain these landlords and powerful families in order to dominate the world, and even indulge them, just to ensure that they would firmly maintain their rule.
The Four Lords of the Warring States period were nothing more than powerful nobles who were even greater than him.
"Dad, what's wrong with you tonight? Why aren't you asleep yet?"
"Oh, it's Ling'er. Why are you up in the middle of the night?"
"Father, I had to pee urgently, so I had to get up in the middle of the night. If I still had to pee, I just peed into the chamber pot!"
This question from Lü Ying.
It instantly brought back painful memories for him.
"Hey, take it easy. Every man gets over that hurdle eventually. An empty groin might even save you from endless troubles!"
"Father, please don't make fun of me. These days, if I don't squat down to pee, it will split and make a mess everywhere!"
His expression was somewhat melancholy. He used to be a handsome and dashing young master, but now he had lost all his former charm. All that remained of him was a desire to survive like a walking corpse.
"Alas, Ling'er, I understand your pain, but I really can't touch Zhang Liang. He is the man the Prime Minister needs. If we castrate him and anger the Prime Minister, our Lü family will be wiped out of Julu!"
"Father, what's wrong with the Prime Minister? Even the King of Zhao didn't dare to do anything to you back then, so what do you have to fear from this mere Prime Minister of Qin?"
"Alas, child, you don't understand. The edict issued by Prime Minister Li at the beginning of his term was to strengthen the court's supervision of local areas and prevent our local power from becoming too strong. Now, if I openly confront him head-on, it would be like an old man hanging himself, courting death!"
Lü Ying was not a foolish or arrogant person.
He was well aware of his current situation, so he dared to rebuke Han Xin and give Long Er and Long San a hard time, but he didn't dare to openly castrate Zhang Liang, who was imprisoned in the jail.
He wasn't unaware that castrating Zhang Liang meant a complete break with Li Lin.
At that time,
They died without a burial place.
However, if Han Xin and others were reprimanded, the most that would be issued by the higher authorities would be a reprimanding edict, which would be ineffective and would not elicit any thunderous anger.
Even if it exists.
If he were executed for this reason, other local powerful families would surely feel a sense of shared fate and might even rebel.
As a result, he can't sleep now.
He's considering it.
How can we achieve the best of both worlds, so as not to offend Li Lin while ensuring that Zhang Liang suffers the same harm as his son?
“Father, you’ve grown old and become timid! Your son has now received a secret order from King Huai of Chu. They have agreed to raise an army in Dazexiang a month from now and jointly overthrow the tyrannical Qin rule!”
"Oh? King Huai of Chu?"
Lü Ying's eyes widened. Wasn't King Huai of Chu a complete idiot? And had he been tricked to death by the Qin people long ago because of his stupidity? His secret orders? How could he have foreseen things that had happened so many years ago?
"Father, it's not the King Huai of Chu you're thinking of, but the King of Chu who was recently elected by the people of Chu. He's still called King Huai of Chu in memory of the former King Huai!"
"Could it be that His Majesty's edict has displeased the people of Chu?"
"Indeed, this is an excellent opportunity! The people have suffered under Qin for too long. If His Highness Prince Huai were to rise up and initiate the uprising, the people of the six states would surely welcome the righteous army with food and drink and fight against the tyrannical Qin together!"
"Fine, you're right. Now that the treacherous minister Li Lin is in power, he's trying to strip us of our power and let those peasants gain so-called rights as natural persons. How utterly ridiculous! They were born lowly, what right do they have to be equal to us?"
"Father, you're right! Let's heed the King of Chu's call!"
"Very well, men, come with me to the prison! I want to personally watch Zhang Liang be tortured!"
Lü Ying didn't have any good strategies to prepare for the full-scale implementation of Li Lin's reforms.
At that time.
Censors from various departments, such as supervising censors and patrol censors, had to be continuously dispatched from Xianyang.
If people in various places harbor resentment towards their local officials, they should report it to the authorities.
Wouldn't that result in heavy casualties?
As a result, people in counties and prefectures across the country are now living in fear and racking their brains for solutions.
Lu Ying happened to run right into the line of fire of this reform-driven, powerful nation. If he didn't rebel, he could only watch helplessly as his official position was stripped away in the future.
Inside the prison.
The air was bitterly cold.
Zhang Liang, dressed in thin summer clothes, was covered in whip marks all over his body.
At this moment, he was on the verge of death.
Lying in prison.
Still sleepy.
"Quickly, open the prison for me and drag out the murderer Zhang Liang!"
"Snap!"
The cell door was opened, and several fierce-looking jailers, wielding clamps, forcibly dragged the sleeping Zhang Liang out, pressing him to the ground.
"Behave yourself!"
"You better behave yourself!"
"Heh, kid, you've got some guts, huh? Still looking down at me like that. Believe me or not, I'll go all out and make you wish you were dead."
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