Chapter 373

"King...?"

After speaking these words, Xiaoyaozi clearly swallowed his saliva!

"This... this... is it true?"

Wei Pao patted his chest: "Nobles always keep their word; how could there be any falsehood?"

Others quickly chimed in: "Yes, we are nobles!"

"If nobles break their word, they will be ridiculed!"

"And we fear being ridiculed the most!"

They all spoke thus; Xiaoyaozi was practically weeping with emotion. He panted heavily for a long time, and finally, he clenched his fist fiercely and said:

"I am not a man without faith or righteousness!"

"But I treated Facing Ying Su with utter sincerity, yet Facing Ying Su never had any trust in me!"

"I killed Li Yuanba back then; he will surely not spare me!"

"So now, even if I say something, it does not count as betraying him?"

Wei Pao said: "Of course it does not count. We each take what we need. Moreover, this is not only not betrayal, but removing a harm for the state!"

"Look at what he has done since ascending to power! The people suffer, the common folk cannot survive. Now Xiang Yu leads four hundred thousand men to rebel against him, and we, the merit of founding Qin, also rebel against him!"

"The Great Qin today, under his rule, is tottering; it is not far from the fall of the nation!"

"If you can switch sides, you are a hero of profound righteousness; even Jing Ke, who assassinated Qin, is far inferior to you!"

"Jing Ke?"

Upon hearing these words, Xiaoyaozi could not help but swallow his saliva!

Jing Ke was someone countless martial artists admired!

But now, Wei Pao says that even Jing Ke is not as good as him?

These words almost made Xiaoyaozi dizzy!

He took a deep breath for a long time, and finally spoke: "Facing Ying Su's victory report contains both truth and falsehood; it is true that Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu escaped with thirty thousand men!"

"But... his army's casualties were devastating; a single avalanche swallowed more than ninety thousand of them!"

"Countless experts around him died; Qiao Feng, Lu Lu Zhishen, Lu Bu, and Cao Zhengchun were all swallowed by the heavy snow!"

"Li Yuanba and Li Cunxiao also did not escape death!"

"The reason Facing Ying Su did not return immediately was not that he did not want to, but that he dared not; he also knows his current situation, so he must stay on the grassland to temporarily recuperate his strength!"

"Later, he will have Zhuge Liang and Li Si secretly dispatch one hundred thousand men to escort him back!"

"Let Zhuge Liang and Li Si secretly dispatch one hundred thousand men to escort him back?"

After these words were spoken, everyone's eyes lit up brightly!

Everyone could not help but swallow their saliva: "You... you are telling the truth?"

Xiaoyaozi nodded and said: "Of course it is true; there is a secret letter as proof!"

As he spoke, he directly reached into his robe and then took out the letter from his chest!

"He asked me to deliver this to Li Si! It is just that I have not yet had the chance to hand it over to him!"

While speaking, Xiaoyaozi handed the secret letter over to the crowd!

The appearance of this object made the large crowd ecstatic; in an instant, everyone was excited!

Wei Pao was even more extremely eager to tear open this secret letter!

But... before he could tear it open, he was stopped by Seeing Ying Zheng!

Because there was a wax-seal formation on it!

Above the letter, there was also Seeing Ying Zheng's private seal and words written in his own hand!

Once torn open, it cannot be restored!

And Li Si would become suspicious!

But this did not stump the crowd!

Among the crowd, an expert used a blade as thin as a cicada's wing to slowly pry open the wax-seal formation.

Finally, the content on that paper appeared before everyone's eyes!

"Li Si, have Liang finds a way to bring one hundred thousand men to the grassland to protect the throne!"

"This matter must be kept secret; no one must know, not even Seeing Ying Zheng!"

The content on the letter was very short!

But... this brief content made everyone's eyes shine, making everyone extremely excited!

What does this mean?

This means that Facing Ying Su's strength is truly greatly diminished now!

It also represents an opportunity!

At that moment, almost everyone was excited!

But someone shouted:

"Wait!"

"Hmm?"

The crowd did not quite understand!

Young Master Gao said: "Such an important secret letter; why did Facing Ying Su not send a trusted confidant, but instead let you bring it back to Xianyang City?"

Xiaoyaozi sighed and said: "He wanted to send a trusted confidant, but... all the trusted confidants suitable for delivering messages are dead. Around him are only Zhang Liang, Wang Jian, and a few others. He feared that if these people entered Yan Sect Pass, they would not be able to get out, so he could only send someone unimportant like me!"

"Furthermore, he promised me that once he successfully returns to Xianyang, he will make me a Marquis, and allow Qierangdao Sect to flourish, making Qierangdao Sect the number one great Men Sect, and Daoism the only great family in the Great Qin!"

"Abolish the hundred schools, and honor only Daoism!"

"Abolish the hundred schools and honor only the Daoist school?"

The moment the words left his lips, everyone was stunned; Ying Su truly had such audacity!

At the same time, some sneered coldly!

The Daoist school?

Can the Daoist school govern a state?

If we speak of the way of governing, the Confucian school should be promoted first, and the Legalist school promoted further!

Because Confucianism emphasizes moral education, first establishing correct moral views for the world, and then using laws to correct them!

Although the Legalist school speaks only of law, not of morality or human sentiment, and is somewhat rigid, it can clearly strengthen a nation during wartime!

The Daoist school?

What sort of thing is the Daoist school?

Governing by doing nothing?

The ruler manages nothing?

The imperial court manages nothing?

Then what is the ruler for?

Then what is the imperial court for?

Simply ridiculous!

This Ying Su indeed does not know how to govern!

Everyone's hearts sneered continuously!

However, at this moment, no one cared about these matters!

Right now, what everyone cared about was the event!

And based on Xiao Yaozi's verbal account, plus this secret letter!

Finally, they looked at each other, and all felt that everything was reasonable!

After all, having suffered such a great disaster, it is normal not to send trusted confidants!

If Xiao Yaozi cannot return, then he cannot return; anyway, he is of no great use!

But if people like Zhang Liang and Wang Jian cannot return, great trouble will arise!

"Good! You go first, obey our orders, and when the fiefdoms are distributed in the future, there will certainly be a share for you!"

Wei Pao spoke, and then, after some kind words of comfort, Xiao Yaozi finally left!

And at this very moment, everyone was excited; everyone could not help but shout, "Act! Act!"

However, when it came to this moment, Wei Pao was no longer in a hurry: "Xiao Yaozi's word alone is not enough to trust lightly; to ensure absolute safety, find a few more people!"

"There are over three hundred of them; these three hundred are all cowards who fear death. Even if Ying Su were a god, he might make Xiao Yaozi loyal to him, but he could not possibly make so many people all loyal to him!"