[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-great-qin-starting-with-earthly-and-heavenly-pow":3,"chapter-great-qin-starting-with-earthly-and-heavenly-pow-great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-140":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Great Qin: Starting with the Heavenly Stars and Earthly Fiends, the Peerless Immortal Master!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2190609,3759,"Chapter 140","great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-140",140,"\u003Cp>\"Hot, so hot!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This damn weather, I don’t know when it will end!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In Xinzheng, it was unbearably hot. Last year, many people experienced an extremely hot summer, but fortunately, it rained in the end. But this year was much hotter than last year, which made many people curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because of the hot weather, there were very few pedestrians on the streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Wealthy families, because they had ice cellars and stored ice collected in winter, could take it out to cool off at this time. Poor families, however, could only endure it, hiding in their houses and waving palm-leaf fans, hoping to bring some coolness. Unfortunately, even the wind brought by the fans was warm and did not make people feel much better.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the Zilan Pavilion, the members of Quicksand gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although Nongyu had brought ice and placed it in the room to reduce the heat, everyone had a look of worry and heaviness on their faces, not feeling the slightest bit relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They could use ice to cool off, but for the vast Han, how could they resolve this drought?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the past, when facing man-made disasters, they could use their own means and wisdom to resolve them, but natural disasters were ruthless and had a huge impact. Even the confident Han Fei and Wei Zhuang felt a deep sense of powerlessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Looking at it now, there was a reason why the King of Han favored that person back then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>While everyone was silent, Wei Zhuang spoke abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although he did not say the name, everyone knew who he was talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Who else could it be?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Su Xuan!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Back then, Su Xuan became famous because he summoned wind and rain to resolve the drought in Han. Although Wei Zhuang, Han Fei, and others guessed that the so-called summoning of wind and rain was just a coincidence—that Su Xuan used certain means to determine the weather, such as knowing it would definitely rain in a few days—\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But as the drought continued today and not a single drop of rain had fallen, Han Fei and the others suddenly missed the time when Su Xuan was there.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Regardless of whether Su Xuan’s summoning of wind and rain was a hoax, at the very least, Su Xuan had indeed summoned rain and solved the drought in Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Now I only hope that this severe drought can end soon!\" Han Fei said in a deep voice, his expression somewhat worried. \"If it continues for another period of time, it will not be a good thing for Han.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Last year, because of two consecutive months of drought, the autumn harvest was not a good one. If this happened again this year, it would be a very heavy blow to Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It would not be an exaggeration to say that the people were living in misery!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The only good news now is that the Guanzhong area of Qin is also in a severe drought, so they should not have the heart to take the opportunity to attack Han.\" Zhang Liang said a piece of news that was fortunate in misfortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Han was located in a land of four battles, close to Zhao, Wei, Chu, and Qin, and the greatest threat among them was clearly Qin.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially since the Qin King, Ying Zheng, had come to Xinzheng last year and had an encounter with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although the time spent together was pleasant, it was only when they were in Xinzheng. Han Fei and the others knew clearly that when Ying Zheng returned to Qin and they met again, they would be enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially since Ying Zheng had revealed unprecedented ambition in front of them at that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If Ying Zheng remained trapped in a cage after returning to his country, that would be one thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But according to what Han Fei and the others knew, after Ying Zheng returned to his country, he first executed the rebellious Marquis of Changxin, Lao Ai, and then dismissed Lu Lu Buwei from his position as Chancellor on the grounds that he was involved in Lao Ai’s rebellion.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now, Ying Zheng had no more constraints by his side, which meant that Ying Zheng might start to realize the ambition he had spoken of earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And if Ying Zheng wanted to unify the world with Qin, the first to bear the brunt would be... Han!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Zifang, do not really take this as good news.\" Zinu spoke, interrupting Zhang Liang’s optimism. \"I have just received news that the Zheng Zheng Guoqu in Qin has been completed. With this canal, the water of the Jing River can be diverted to irrigate the entire Guanzhong. In other words, the impact of this year’s drought on Qin is not as great as imagined.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Zheng Zheng Guoqu?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Zhang Liang was very unfamiliar with this name.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Han Fei was knowledgeable and talented, and he knew what the Zheng Zheng Guoqu was. He introduced it to Zhang Liang: \"This canal was built by the water engineer Zheng Guo, who was sent by King Huanhui of Han to Qin in the early years of Ying Zheng’s reign to consume Qin’s national strength. The matter of Zheng Guo exhausting Qin was once exposed, and Qin questioned Han, but for some unknown reason, Qin did not give up on building the Zheng Zheng Guoqu.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This can only explain one thing, and that is that Zheng Guo betrayed Han and chose to build the canal for Qin with all his heart and strength.\" Wei Zhuang said in a low voice, stating the cruel reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Han Fei then popularized the truth about the Zheng Zheng Guoqu for everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Upon learning that the Zheng Zheng Guoqu was a canal that cost Qin a lot of manpower and material resources and took nearly ten years to build, and that after it was built, it could irrigate more than 400,000 hectares of saline land,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Everyone’s expressions were somewhat ugly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even without the drought this year, the completion of the Zheng Zheng Guoqu meant that if there was no drought in Qin next year, it would usher in a year of bumper harvest. With Qin’s abundant grain and Ying Zheng’s ambition, along with Qin’s many past misdeeds, they would certainly raise an army, and Han would be the first to bear the brunt and would absolutely not be able to escape the chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Han Fei and the others discussed for a long time in the Zilan Pavilion, but they could never find a way to resolve this drought.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, there would be no Su Xuan to summon wind and rain in Han now.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And what made them even more anxious was that the price of grain had risen.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It rose three times a day.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The drought continued, which would affect the autumn harvest. Coupled with the fact that last year’s autumn harvest was not a bumper year, the grain inventory was not very large, so the grain price this year was high. Now that the grain price had risen again, it meant that those poor families would not be able to eat, which would lead to countless families being broken and becoming refugees.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This is not a good thing!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Han Fei muttered to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He thought the rise in grain prices was only temporary, but as time went on, the grain prices not only failed to rise but, on the contrary, became higher and higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Han Fei finally realized that behind the rise in grain prices, someone was secretly manipulating everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>General’s Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After Ji Ji Wuye died, his son Ji Ji Yihu inherited everything from Ji Ji Wuye.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, Ji Ji Yihu was smiling triumphantly because he had made a fortune from this drought.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Sir, good means!\" He looked at the Raincoat Guest in front of him and praised him secretly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>0 ········Seeking flowers···· ···\u003C\u002Fp>",1304,"2026-06-17T04:20:16.697Z","2026-06-17T08:59:55.704Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","8870e3ab84262a60876c8d27b01741ada588375c34c1ff6e28d7ff5969f170b2","great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-141","great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-139",617,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-cover.jpg"]