Chapter 214

"Mr. Su has great means!"

Learning that Su Xuan had become the Sect Master of the Yin-Yang School, Seeing Ying Zheng couldn't help but praise him.

Su Xuan said it was "by chance," but according to Seeing Ying Zheng's understanding of Su Xuan, it was absolutely not as simple as imagined.

"Regarding the Yin-Yang School, I have also heard a little. Since Zou Yan, they have declined. Although they came to the Qin Guo, they have always been obscure. I didn't expect them to be hiding in Lishan."

Before this, Seeing Ying Zheng lived in the palace for a long time. Although he knew some things about the world, because of the two Lao Ai and Lu Buwei, he was still greatly restricted. The Hundred Schools of Thought were still too far away from him. What he wanted to do most was to grasp the power of the government first. Of course, if talents from the Hundred Schools of Thought took the initiative to defect to him, he wouldn't mind using them heavily.

Just like Li Si, who came from the school of the Confucian Xun Zi, and Gainie, who was a student of the Ghost Valley vertical and horizontal school, both came from famous schools of the Hundred Schools of Thought.

"Lishan is a branch of the Qin Ling Mountains. They chose to use Lishan as the base of the Yin-Yang School to contend with another school in Nanshan."

"Mr. Su is talking about... the Daoists?"

The Daoists used Nanshan as their ancestral land and had stayed there for who knows how many years.

It can be traced back to the Daoist ancestor Lao Dan, who traveled west through Hangu Pass and was blocked by Guan Yinzi Yin Xi, who was also one of the ten heroes of the world. Later, in Nanshan, he preached to Yin Xi and passed down the five thousand words of the "Dao De Jing." The Daoist school started from this, and Yin Xi was called the True Person of the Beginning of Literature.

The so-called ten heroes of the world refer to ten heroic figures with great influence in the world in ancient times.

In Lu Buwei's "Lu Shichunqiu," it was described: Lao Dan values softness, Confucius values benevolence, Mo Di values impartiality, Guan Yin values purity, Lie Zi values emptiness, Chen Pian values equality, Yang Sheng values self, Sun Bin values power, Wang Liao values precedence, and Er Liang values following. These ten people are all heroes of the world.

And it is worth mentioning that among the ten heroes of the world, half of them are from the Daoist school.

Daoist ancestor Lao Dan, True Person of the Beginning of Literature Guan Yinzi, Lie Zi Lie Yukou, and Chen Pian were once famous at the Jixia Academy and were masters of the Daoist Huang-Lao school. Yang Sheng was Yang Zhu, who was also a master who left behind a great reputation in the Daoist school in the past. The school of thought he founded, at its peak, once had the saying, "The words of the world do not return to Yang, they return to Mo," which shows its great influence.

The others came from the Confucian, Mohist, and Military schools respectively.

Of course, because "Lu Shichunqiu" is a book compiled with Daoist thought as the main body, it excessively promotes the Daoist school, but this also indirectly shows how prosperous the Daoist school was among the Hundred Schools of Thought.

"Unfortunately, even though the Daoist school is divided into Heaven and Man, they still prefer to hide in the deep mountains rather than come out to be used by me." Seeing Ying Zheng sighed.

Since three hundred years ago, because of different philosophies, the Daoist school split into the Heaven and Man sects, and the influence of the Daoist school in the world was not as great as before. But even so, it was still a top-notch school among the Hundred Schools of Thought.

More importantly, for so many years, they had been living in seclusion on the main peak of Nanshan, not far from Xianyang City. Although successive Qin Kings had always treated the Daoist school with courtesy and respected it, unfortunately, the Daoist school had always had a lukewarm attitude toward entering the world to assist the Qin Guo.

"The Daoist school emphasizes quietness and non-action and does not want to ask about the mundane world, which is not strange." Su Xuan commented slightly on the Daoist school.

"That's true!"

Seeing Ying Zheng nodded slightly. Although he promoted the Legalist school, he also knew something about the habits of the Daoist people.

No longer thinking about the Daoist school, returning to the question of the Yin-Yang School, Seeing Ying Zheng said to Su Xuan, "Mr. Su, please continue to tell me about the Yin-Yang School!"

After learning that Su Xuan had subdued the Yin-Yang School, he was truly quite interested.

Especially, according to Su Xuan, the Yin-Yang School hid in Lishan to contend with the Daoist school in Nanshan, which was also in the Qin Ling branch. Since they had this idea, presumably the strength of the Yin-Yang School could not be underestimated.

Su Xuan then told Seeing Ying Zheng about the Yin-Yang School. Among them, most of the things Seeing Ying Zheng wanted to know could be easily found, such as the fact that the Yin-Yang School had attached itself to Lu Buwei after entering Qin and had once been guests under Lu Buwei.

But there were some things that even Seeing Ying Zheng did not know.

"I didn't expect that Gan Luo was not dead and even joined the Yin-Yang School!"

Xinghun, who followed Donghuang Taiyi out of the Yin-Yang School, did not know that shortly after Su Xuan took control of the Yin-Yang School, he leaked his background in front of Seeing Ying Zheng.

After knowing this, Seeing Ying Zheng's expression was quite complex.

Gan Luo, a name that was both familiar and strange to him, had once made great contributions to the Qin Guo, but also attempted to assassinate him. No matter what reasons Gan Luo had, when he attempted to assassinate him, only death awaited Gan Luo.

As a result, he didn't expect that Gan Luo had never died.

Su Xuan even revealed that the Gan Luo who assassinated him back then was actually a puppet.

"It's really unexpected." Seeing Ying Zheng sighed, and then associated it with some things, his voice slightly cold, "The Yin-Yang School secretly hid Gan Luo and even assisted Gan Luo in assassinating me. What is their intention?"

Su Xuan said lightly, "The Yin-Yang School does indeed have ambition."

Even though he was the current Sect Master of the Yin-Yang School, Su Xuan did not hesitate to evaluate the Yin-Yang School, "From the time the Yin-Yang School defected to Lu Buwei, they wanted to use Lu Buwei's power to achieve their ambition. But gradually, they realized that Lu Buwei could not give them what they wanted, so they began to focus on the Qin King."

"Oh?"

Seeing Ying Zheng was a bit curious.

"When in Yongcheng, the masters of the Yin-Yang School were actually hiding in the dark, preparing to assist the Qin King to gain the Qin King's favor."

Su Xuan did not intend to hide many things and directly stated the purpose of the Yin-Yang School.

After learning that the Yin-Yang School had long had the intention of attaching itself to him, Seeing Ying Zheng was not excited. On the contrary, he became suspicious. To take, one must first give. If he didn't know that the Yin-Yang School had secretly hidden Gan Luo and helped Gan Luo assassinate him, he wouldn't mind accepting the Yin-Yang School's goodwill and defection.

But after knowing these things, upon learning that the Yin-Yang School intended to defect to him, Seeing Ying Zheng's first reaction was that the Yin-Yang School had other ambitions.

"Mr. Su, don't keep me in suspense. What exactly does the Yin-Yang School want to get from me?"

"Has the Qin King ever heard of the Seven Luminaries of the Azure Dragon?"