Chapter 92

And in the blink of an eye, Chong Xin began reporting to him:

"It's been investigated!"

"Wang Lan is eighteen this year, the same age as Your Majesty. As Wang Jian's youngest granddaughter, she has been doted on by Wang Jian since childhood!"

"This has cultivated a clever, quirky personality with a somewhat scatterbrained nature!"

"And this young lady is very interested in everything from eating, drinking, to having fun!"

"But... the thing she is most interested in is indeed the Mohist school!"

"She loves Mohist teachings and also enjoys studying Mohist mechanical arts!"

"Originally, she wanted to take the Mohist Master as her teacher!"

"But due to the feud between the Mohists and the Qin State, the Master refused to take her as a disciple!"

"But even so, nothing could stop this young lady's love for the Mohists. She bought a huge pile of Mohist books, read them at home, then researched Mohist mechanical arts on her own. She even achieved some small success, actually figuring out the Mohist mechanical beasts!"

"And she even made a mechanical cat at home by herself!"

"What?"

"A mechanical beast?"

"She made a mechanical cat?"

The moment the words left his mouth, Facing Ying Su was shocked to the extreme.

He looked at Chong Xin with an expression of utter disbelief: "Is this true?"

He asked.

Even now, he felt boundless shock!

Mechanical beasts!

Anyone who has seen "The Legend of Qin" would know what mechanical beasts are!

Those are things that even modern technology might not be able to produce!

But... she actually made one?

And she did it all by herself, tinkering away?

Facing Ying Su was truly so shocked his scalp went numb!

At this moment, he almost couldn't believe it!

After all, mechanical beasts!

They are the core secret of the Mohists.

And a little girl just tinkered one out?

If this is true, then... Wang Lan is absolutely a genius in this field!

Chong Xin knelt down and said, "It is absolutely true. Chong Xin dares not falsify anything in the slightest!"

As he spoke, he was about to kneel before Facing Ying Su!

But Facing Ying Su said nothing.

At this very moment, his eyes were shining!

Through Wang Lan, he saw so, so many valuable things!

Wang Jian's ten thousand points were just one of them!

Wang Jian's influence in the army was the second!

Before, Facing Ying Su's interest in Wang Lan was only for these two things!

But now... mechanical beasts!

He was utterly obsessed with mechanical beasts!

Yes!

Just imagine, if Wang Lan could produce ten thousand mechanical beasts and use them to fight wars, what need would there be for soldiers?

The combat power of these ten thousand mechanical beasts would be no less than a million-strong army!

No!

Even a million-strong army could not compare to ten thousand mechanical beasts!

Facing Ying Su's eyes shone. At this moment, without any delay, he spoke directly to Chong Xin:

"Let's go!"

"Now, immediately to the Wang family!"

"Wait... go to the Armory first, take out one of the muskets Cai Lun and the others produced, and also take one revolver!"

"And some Xuan paper..."

"Also, summon Han Xin!"

"Go to the Wang family together!"

Facing Ying Su gave his orders.

At this moment, he was determined to secure the Wang family!

Putting aside Wang Jian's influence and the ten thousand points, just the mechanical beasts Wang Lan knows how to make are enough to make him covetous!

And this time, he must capture Wang Jian!

Facing Ying Su vowed silently in his heart!

At that moment, he set off!

Great Qin!

Inside Xianyang City!

In the residence of General Wang Jian!

During this period, Wang Jian was deeply worried!

Worried about what?

Of course, it was the land tax issue that had been making such a huge commotion recently!

Though called a land tax, anyone in the entire Great Qin who wasn't a fool could see that Ying Su's move was specifically targeting the nobility!

And their Wang family, though they had already paid the tax, and regardless of whether Huang Chao was willing or not, had directly and forcibly submitted two hundred and fifty thousand shi of grain!

They had paid up all the harvest from the Wang family's fifteen thousand mu of land for the entire year.

But... Wang Jian was still worried, still anxious!

Did paying this year's tax mean everything would be peaceful and safe?

Of course not; paying this year's tax only meant there would be no trouble this year, but what about next year?

In the future, would the Wang family have to pay taxes every single year?

Would they have to pay taxes of at least over one hundred thousand shi of grain every year?

Of course, paying taxes itself was not really a big deal.

Don't look at how harshly they are paying now; this is just the beginning. If Ying Su is not a fool, he will inevitably reduce this kind of tax in the future.

Or perhaps, he will reduce it in another way!

Otherwise, the Great Qin will have no nobles left.

And a country without nobles... Wang Jian dared not imagine it at all!

Now, what truly troubled Wang Jian was the issue of choosing a side.

Regarding the matter of all the nobles outside Xianyang City gathering private armies to welcome the First Emperor, of course, he had heard about it.

This matter had caused such a huge uproar; it would be too difficult not to know about it.

But the question was, what about himself?

What should he do?

Should he side with the First Emperor? Or side with the New Emperor?

With four hundred thousand troops entering Xianyang City, should he intervene or not?

Intervene?

Undoubtedly, this act would directly place him on the opposite side of all the nobles!

Not intervene?

Not intervening is not impossible!

After all, at present, neither the New Emperor nor the First Emperor had called out to him!

If he did not intervene, it would be completely justifiable!

But the problem was, once Ying Su won this battle, there was no doubt that Ying Su's prestige in the Great Qin would be raised by several times.