Chapter 80

Three years later, Wang Wang Jian's army of six hundred thousand finally attacked.

Even if his grandfather Xiang Yan was a god of war, he couldn't withstand Wang Wang Jian's army of six hundred thousand!

In this battle, his grandfather Xiang Yan, who was pinned with high hopes by all the Chu people, died in battle!

Of the one hundred thousand troops, not a single one survived!

When he learned that his grandfather Xiang Yan and his father had died on the battlefield, and heard that heroic statement left by Xiang Xiang Nangong, "Even if Chu has only three households left, it will surely destroy Qin," Xiang Yu's bloodline awakened directly.

On the night the Chu state's city gates were broken, at only eight years old, he held a sharp sword and wanted to leave the city to fight Wang Wang Jian's army to the death!

Later, he was forcibly dragged back by his uncle Xiang Xiang Lianggong, who took him and fled the Chu state!

Although he didn't die, for so many years, he had been thinking day and night about how to destroy the Great Qin, how to eliminate Ying Zheng, how to avenge his grandfather Xiang Yan and his father, and how to take back the Chu land from the hands of the Great Qin!

For so many years, almost all the Chu people had been shouting that heroic statement left by Xiang Xiang Nangong!

"Even if Chu has only three households left, it will surely destroy Qin!"

This meant that even if the Chu state had only three clans left, it could still destroy the Great Qin!

And Xiang Yu took this statement as his belief.

He was thinking about how to destroy Qin every moment!

And now, Xiang Xiang Lianggong actually told him that the time had come and they could raise an army!

"Really?"

"Really?"

Xiang Yu's eyes were full of madness!

His father and grandfather had all died on the battlefield!

Even his mother had died on the day the city was broken!

The shame of his country being destroyed and the hatred of his relatives dying had made him live very depressingly all these years!

He spent almost every moment in pain!

In his heart, there was only one obsession!

Destroy Qin!

Revenge!

Even when he saw Ying Zheng on his inspection tour back then, his first thought was to draw his sword and kill Ying Zheng!

If it hadn't been for Xiang Liang's obstruction, he would have rushed into the inspection team and assassinated Ying Zheng just like that!

And even though he was stopped, he stared at Ying Zheng and said with immense hatred: "In the future, I will surely replace him!"

For so many years, Xiang Xiang Lianggong had never seen him smile!

And at this moment, Xiang Xiang Lianggong's words made his long-suppressed heart explode!

It had been more than ten years since his country was destroyed; more than ten years, and he finally showed a smile!

Xiang Xiang Lianggong, seeing this scene, couldn't help but laugh out loud!

Finally, he patted Xiang Yu's head and nodded: "That's right, we can raise an army!"

"And all of this, in the final analysis, must be credited to Ying Zheng's good son!"

"Ying Su, more than two months ago, he took Li Li Yuanba alone and killed his way into Xianyanggong, and relying on Li Li Yuanba alone, he killed fifty thousand of the Xianyanggong garrison troops!"

"Later, he even forced Ying Zheng to abdicate and yield the throne on the spot!"

"And speaking of Ying Su, how should I put it, this person does have ideas, and in terms of governing ability, he is much more outstanding than Ying Zheng!"

"He knew that Ying Zheng used manpower excessively to build the Great Wall, the Epang Palace, and the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, and that endless anger had already accumulated in the hearts of the commoners!"

"Therefore, in order to resolve the people's grievances, on the day he ascended the throne, he issued a decree for a general amnesty and exempted all commoners from taxes for three years!"

"Although there were treacherous nobles who obstructed it and created some 'Filial State Decree' to deceive the commoners, this move truly resolved many of the people's grievances!"

"Because of this move, it directly overturned our plan to rebel after Ying Zheng's death!"

"Originally, I thought we still needed to wait, wait for the grievances to accumulate again, wait for them to accumulate deeper, and then raise an army!"

"For this, I even formulated a series of plans to sabotage Ying Su's general amnesty and let the grievances boil over again!"

"This way, we could use the people's grievances to raise an army and rebel!"

"But... this boy is too impatient!"

"Where he is stronger than Ying Zheng is that he knows the grievances have accumulated too deeply and must be resolved immediately, but he is too impatient, so impatient that in order to resolve the grievances, he actually started to exploit the nobles! Suppress the nobles!"

"Making the nobles pay taxes!"

"How stupid!"

"What a stupid move!"

"Although this move resolved the people's grievances, it triggered dissatisfaction among all the nobles in the world!"

"Currently, in Nanyang Commandery, Nan Commandery, Jiujiang Commandery, Sishui Commandery, Julu Commandery, and other places, nobles have already started gathering troops!"

"The banner they are flying is to march on Xianyang City, eliminate the unfilial son, and welcome the First Emperor back!"

"But... how many people with ulterior motives are among them, no one can say for sure!"

"Marching into Xianyang City—whether it is to welcome the First Emperor back or whether they themselves want to be the emperor, no one can say for sure!"

"However, the purpose of the vast majority of the nobles this time is very clear!"

"They want to kill Ying Su, and even force the First Emperor Ying Zheng to re-enfeoff the world, recreating the six states, or even a hundred states!"

"Yu'er, a good opportunity!"

"For us, this is a good opportunity. We will kill our way into Xianyang City; if we are lucky, we can replace Ying Zheng!"

"Even if we are not lucky, we can still restore the Chu state!"

"A good opportunity!"

"This is truly a good opportunity!"

"Tomorrow, I will take you to discuss with those nobles, let you become the general of the Kuaiji Commandery's private army, and you will lead the Kuaiji Commandery's private army to kill our way into Xianyang!"

At that moment, Xiang Liang was very excited and agitated!

And Xiang Yu was indifferent to everything he said.

All he could remember and hear was just one sentence: raise an army, kill Ying Zheng, destroy Qin, and restore the Chu state!

He was very excited; at that moment, he gripped the long sword in his hand tightly.

Just waiting for tomorrow to come!

In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived!

Still in Kuaiji Commandery!

In front of the Kuaiji Commandery government office.

Here, a vast number of nobles had gathered!

Even the Kuaiji Commandery Governor was among these people!

Wait... wasn't he an official of the imperial court?

How did he get mixed up with these people?

Hehe, although he was an official of the imperial court, he was first and foremost a noble!

Similarly, in this era, it was even worse than the end of the Tang Dynasty!

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, no matter how chaotic it was, in the imperial court, only seventy percent of the officials were nobles!

Even if the children of humble families and commoners were dissatisfied, they could still slip into the imperial court to some extent!

But in this era!

Ten out of ten!

All the officials of the imperial court were nobles!

All officials were recommended by nobles to each other!

To put it bluntly, if you weren't a noble, you didn't even have the qualifications to be an official!

During the Shang Yang reforms, this situation was greatly improved!

Because Shang Yang gave the commoners the opportunity to kill the enemy and build merit, thereby entering the imperial court!

But... ever since the six states were destroyed and the world was unified, there was no chance!

Commoners would never have this opportunity again!

Power is something that only two types of people possess!

One, descendants of the royal family!

Two, descendants of the nobility!

If you are not of the royal family or the nobility, don't even think about being an official!