Hundreds of soldiers escorted them out of Xianyang Palace, intending to bury them alive.
Along the way, these Confucian scholars were terrified. They were all intellectuals, and had never seen such a scene before. Some of them even wet their pants in fear!
Outside Xianyang, thousands of soldiers had already dug pits and were waiting. When they saw the Confucian scholars being brought here, the soldiers grinned maliciously, like wolves eyeing lambs.
"General, what should we do?"
A soldier leaned close to Meng Tian's ear and asked.
"Throw them into the pit and bury them!" Meng Tian replied calmly.
"Here you go!"
The soldiers immediately dragged the Confucian scholars and threw them into the pit.
Upon witnessing this scene, the Confucian scholars cried out in sorrow.
They were Confucian disciples, and had never encountered such treatment before. Pointing at Meng Tian, they cursed, "We are Confucian disciples! If you dare to lay a finger on us, you will be crushed to pieces and never recover!"
"Ha ha!"
Upon hearing this, the soldiers burst into laughter.
"A bunch of ignorant bookworms!"
"They have completely disgraced Confucius!"
"His Majesty is benevolent and kind to his officials, but you are not grateful and instead have become even more tyrannical. You deserve to die!" Meng Tian said coldly.
Meng Tian waved his hand, and the surrounding soldiers buried all four hundred and sixty Confucian scholars alive!
"ah!"
"Help!"
"Let us go, we'll never cause trouble again!"
"Your Majesty, please spare us! We will never dare to speak recklessly again."
A pitiful scream rang out from the pit, but Meng Tian showed no pity and simply looked at them indifferently.
These Confucian scholars have completely degenerated into corrupt parasites. They are of little use to be kept alive. It is better to get rid of them as soon as possible to avoid causing trouble!
As for the Confucian anger and revenge, Meng Tian didn't take it to heart at all.
He is a general who has survived countless life-and-death situations, having walked through mountains of knives and seas of fire. Why would he be afraid of the revenge of these Confucian scholars?
These Confucian scholars are nothing more than clowns; they can't cause much trouble.
......
Meanwhile, on the other side...
Li Si was sitting in his study, resting with his eyes closed. Suddenly, there was a rapid knocking on the door.
"Come in!"
The door opened, and a servant rushed in, his brow beaded with sweat.
"Prime Minister, something terrible has happened! His Majesty has dispatched General Meng Tian to capture all the Confucian disciples outside Xianyang Palace and bury them all alive!"
"What!"
Li Si suddenly stood up, his eyes widened, his pupils contracted, and he showed a look of shock.
"Is the news confirmed?" he asked in a deep voice.
"It should be true. It's a message from the Black Ice Guard, so it can't be false!" the servant quickly said.
"Okay, you can go now!"
After leaving with his servants, Li Si couldn't help but feel a little excited!
He originally intended to teach the Confucian scholars a lesson, but he never expected His Majesty to be so ruthless as to have all these Confucian scholars killed!
It seems that Zhao Gao was behind it all. He simply told these Confucian scholars that Ying Zheng wanted to kill Chunyu Yue, in order to make them stage a coup and anger Ying Zheng. That was all.
Those insults directed at Ying Zheng and Lu Li were probably secretly arranged by Zhao Gao.
"Hiss~ This Zhao Gao is truly ruthless, no less so than Lu Li back then!"
Li Si had personally witnessed Lu Li's methods back then, and Zhao Gao had indeed learned Lu Li's true skills.
He acted decisively and ruthlessly, without any hesitation, and this time he really tricked the Confucianists.
But Li Si also understood that Zhao Gao's actions were entirely due to Chunyu Yue's disrespectful remarks to Lu Li!
"Chunyu Yue, Chunyu Yue, you truly have no regard for death!"
Li Si almost burst out laughing. Why did you have to oppose Lu Li's investiture? Wasn't that just courting death?
This not only offended the Black Ice Guard, but more importantly, it offended His Majesty!
The Confucian school was also very unlucky to have encountered someone like Chunyu Yue.
Although the Black Ice Guard is not as terrifying as it was when Lu Li was in charge, it is still everywhere in Xianyang City.
The massacre of Confucian scholars by Ying Zheng shocked the entire court and shook the entire country!
When all the Confucian scholars in the world learned of this, they all rose up in anger and prepared to go to Xianyang to denounce Ying Zheng.
The matter caused a great uproar, but it was suppressed in just three days.
However, Ying Zheng surprisingly pardoned Chunyu Yue because Fusu pleaded for Chunyu Yue's life one last time before leaving with Meng Tian.
For the sake of his son Fusu, Ying Zheng finally agreed and did not kill Chunyu Yue, but demoted him to a commoner.
Upon learning of this, Zhao Gao was filled with resentment and secretly dispatched men from the Black Ice Guard to track Chunyu Yue and orchestrate a flawless poisoning assassination.
Chunyu Yue died at home, making it appear as if he had committed suicide by poisoning himself.
When Lu Li learned of all this, he gasped in shock.
Could it be that the burning of books and burying of scholars alive in history was actually for Qin Shi Huang's own benefit? How is that possible?
He gradually realized that the wheels of history seemed to have not changed, and the burying of scholars alive still happened.
Although Lu Li didn't have a good impression of Confucianism either, Ying Zheng's actions had already offended all the Confucian scholars in the world.
It seems that this is why Ying Zheng was portrayed so negatively in later generations!
Especially during the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Han dismissed all other schools of thought and exclusively promoted Confucianism, which further exacerbated the negative perception of Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng.
However, Lu Li was also somewhat worried about Fusu following Meng Tian to guard the Great Wall.
Fusu still went with Meng Tian. Everything is exactly as it was in history, without any changes at all!
Could it be that Chu Jiu will truly become like Zhao Gao in the future? Poisoning Meng Tian and Fusu, and allowing Hu Hai to succeed to the throne?
But he's still alive, how could Chu Jiu dare?
“Master, Chunyu Yue… is dead!” Chu Liu said from the side.
"Hmm? Didn't His Majesty already pardon him? How did he die?" Lu Li asked.
"He committed suicide by poisoning himself at home!"
Suicide by poison? That's impossible. If he wanted to commit suicide, he would have done so while he was in prison. Why wait until he was released to commit suicide by poison?
Someone must have been sabotaging this. Only the Black Ice Guard could have done it so secretly!
"Master, do you suspect that Chu Jiu did it?" Chu Liu asked.
Before Lu Li could answer, Lu Fusheng said, "That Chunyu Yue deserves to die! If it really was Chu Jiu who did it, I should thank him properly."
Chunyu Yue not only slandered Lu Li, but those Confucian scholars also joined in cursing Lu Li, which was truly infuriating!
Lu Li sighed. He had already guessed that Chunyu Yue's death was probably related to Chu Jiu.
But Chu Jiu was also doing it for him.
Cut the weeds and wipe them out completely. Since it has already been done, there is no way to leave them a way out. Chu Jiu has truly learned the essence of this.
"I have a bad feeling about this. I'll have to go to Xianyang in a few days!"
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