Chapter 149: Success in One Battle

"The light of billions of stars is not as bright as a single day; the words of the pillars of heaven are not as good as a single virtuous person in the country!"

"What do you think of the title Great Virtuous Teacher?"

Under the scorching sun, Su Xuan brought Han Fei and Wei Zhuang and asked them.

After personally taking action to intercept the grain Han Fei borrowed from Wei Guo, he did not kill Han Fei and Wei Zhuang. Of course, he did not let them go back, but brought them to wander around Han Guo.

Originally, Wei Zhuang saw that Su Xuan was not on guard against him and Han Fei, and thought there was an opportunity to take advantage of, such as taking Han Fei and escaping.

But later, he found he was wrong.

Su Xuan didn't know what method he used to seal all the internal energy in his body.

At the moment, he was like an ordinary person. Even with the help of those combat consciousnesses, he could still find some opportunities, but after losing his internal energy, the difficulty of escaping in front of someone like Su Xuan was extremely high.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Han Fei did not evaluate whether the title 'Great Virtuous Teacher' was good or bad. He frowned and asked Su Xuan.

"Along the way, I have taken you through many places where disasters occurred. Haven't you already seen it? Tell me your thoughts!" Su Xuan looked at Han Fei, a strange smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Han Fei and Wei Zhuang were silent. After a long time, Han Fei said in a deep voice: "Qin Guo provides relief to disaster victims, distributes grain to disaster victims, and helps them rebuild their homes. This is a good thing."

"But I don't believe that Qin Guo would come to provide relief to the people of Han Guo for no reason. What is your purpose?"

Han Fei went to Wei Guo to borrow grain, formally realizing that this drought might trigger a food crisis, which would lead to many people being displaced and families broken. In order to resolve the domestic crisis, he went to borrow grain.

As a result, he did not expect that the borrowed grain was intercepted by Su Xuan halfway.

He thought that after losing this grain, the country would be devastated.

As a result, Qin Guo's actions exceeded Han Fei's expectations again.

It was not a strange thing for Qin Guo to take the opportunity to attack Han Guo. After all, Han Guo was in chaos, and it was understandable for Qin Guo to take advantage of it.

However, after capturing the territory of Han Guo, those Qin soldiers not only did not actively plunder the civilians, but on the contrary, actively provided relief to them. The Qin officials who came here later also treated them as if they were their own people, providing disaster relief.

Even Han Fei had to admit that these Qin officials did better in disaster relief than the local officials of Han Guo. They were experienced, acted extremely strictly, never did extra things, but considered everything very thoroughly.

In the whole world, only the officials of Qin Guo could do this.

Because since Shang Yang's reforms, Qin Guo had been trained by Shang Yang into a huge war chariot. Even the daily life of ordinary people was regulated and restricted by law, let alone those Qin officials.

However, the more this was the case, the more vigilant Han Fei became. Qin Guo had always been profit-driven; doing this kind of thing was not well-intentioned!

"Of course, Qin Guo would not provide relief to Han Guo for no reason, but what if it is providing relief to Qin Guo's own people?" Su Xuan looked at Han Fei and said calmly: "When this area is occupied by Qin Guo, it is already the territory of Qin Guo, and the people within the territory are also the people of Qin Guo!"

"Didn't you notice that when they got the grain, they smiled so happily?"

"Being a person of Han Guo and being a person of Qin Guo, for the lower-class people, there is actually no difference. What they seek is just to survive."

Han Fei's expression changed suddenly. He finally realized Qin Guo's purpose.

"Qin Guo intends to destroy Han Guo and eliminate the resistance of the people of Han Guo!"

"Did you guess it?" Su Xuan said, "Unfortunately, it's too late!"

"At the moment, you can't do anything. You can only watch Han Guo perish like this!"

The cold words came from Su Xuan's mouth and fell into Han Fei's ears.

Han Fei and Wei Zhuang were both shocked. They originally thought that this time Qin Guo was taking advantage of Han Guo's crisis to plunder like in previous years. Unexpectedly, Qin Guo's purpose was to destroy Han Guo from the beginning.

Han Guo would be destroyed by Qin Guo; Han Fei had never thought of such a thing.

Although Han Guo was weak and Qin Guo was strong, this gap was not unbridgeable.

Qin Guo was strong because of Shang Yang's reforms. If Han Guo's reforms were carried out thoroughly, it could also become stronger step by step.

Although Han Guo did not have much land, it still had one advantage, which was that Han Guo had enough people. If they followed the example of Qin Guo's Shang Yang reforms back then and trained these people to be soldiers, even if they faced Qin Guo, they could fight against it.

Han Fei thought very beautifully, and it was precisely because he thought very beautifully that he dared to speak wildly, saying that he wanted ninety-nine of the world of the seven states.

However, at the moment, he found he was wrong.

Qin Guo did not intend to give Han Guo any time to develop and grow, and was prepared to destroy Han Guo in one battle.

After knowing Qin Guo's purpose, Han Fei's mood was very bad. He could only force himself to be tough and said: "Qin Guo wants to destroy Han Guo, it is not as easy as you think. Han Guo still has the power to fight!"

"Yes, it only has the power to fight." Su Xuan replied, "And this battle is already over."

"You probably don't know yet, the 100, 00 border troops of Han Guo have already been routed. Even if your Crown Prince raised a large batch of grain from wealthy merchants and nobles through robbery and plunder, even if the grain was sufficient, they were not the opponents of the Qin army. Now, they are being hunted down by Wang Xuan Jian's army, and many remnants are retreating toward Xinzheng."

"In addition, even Xinzheng is not as safe as you think."

Su Xuan told Han Fei the latest military report.

Han Fei and Wei Zhuang were shocked. They thought of a possibility.

Yes!

Xinzheng is indeed not as safe as imagined.

Because that is... the headquarters of the Nightfall.

Since the Nightfall, under Su Xuan's instigation, incited Ji Ji Yihu to manipulate grain prices, causing grain prices in Han Guo to skyrocket, leading to the people's misery, then, this time Qin Guo intends to destroy Han, how could the Nightfall stand by?

I am afraid that when he and Wei Zhuang left Xinzheng to go to Wei Guo to borrow grain, the Nightfall had already made new moves.

— Author's Notes —

PS: Thanks to book friend Beitang Yeyu for the reward!