Chapter 290

In Lord Lord Changping's mansion.

Upon learning that Su Xuan was unharmed and had gone to the palace, Lord Lord Changping had been in a state of panic.

He never expected that the six great elders of the Nongjia would fail.

At present, there was no news of the six great elders. If they had only failed to hunt down Su Xuan and escaped, that would be fine; the fear was that something had happened to them and they had all been captured by Su Xuan.

Before this, Lord Lord Changping had never considered this possibility.

After all, the track record of the six great elders was too fierce. Even Bai Qi had been killed by them, and after hiding in the Six Sages Tomb and cultivating for many years, their strength had reached a pinnacle.

But now, with Su Xuan unharmed and the site of the ambush in ruins, it proved that they had indeed fought a battle.

Lord Lord Changping gradually considered this possibility.

"To what extent has your strength reached?"

Lord Lord Changping's body could not help but tremble. He realized that he seemed to have underestimated Su Xuan all along. In the Battle of Daliang, Su Xuan broke a city with one sword and became famous throughout the world. Lord Lord Changping had seen Su Xuan's strength from that intelligence report, but he had dismissed it, believing that the six great elders of the Nongjia could still kill Su Xuan if they joined forces.

But now, he realized he was wrong.

After the ambush, Su Xuan was unharmed, and the six great elders had all disappeared. Whether they had escaped or been captured, it proved that this ambush had failed.

At the same time, Lord Lord Changping had to start considering his own situation.

After all, the poisoned wine that Su Xuan drank was the one he had given him.

Since Su Xuan could calmly escape from the ambush of the six great elders, he might well have discovered the problem with the wine.

Given the relationship between Su Xuan and Ying Zheng, once Su Xuan discovered the problem, it was equivalent to Ying Zheng also discovering his problem.

Lord Lord Changping had to consider his own escape route.

If there was truly no place for him in Qin, he had to be able to escape from Qin.

Because of Su Xuan's ambush, plus the earlier secret meeting between Lord Lord Changping and the Chu Grand General Xiang Yan, Ying Zheng had already realized the threat posed by Lord Lord Changping. Before this, because Qin had not yet conquered Chu, he was not in a hurry to take action against Lord Lord Changping. Although Lord Lord Changping had made some small moves, at least he did not dare to do so openly.

But now it was different.

Qin had already destroyed four states, leaving only Chu and Qi. The next target was Chu.

Although he did not know why Lord Lord Changping cared so much about Chu and could give up everything in Qin for it, Ying Zheng did not care. After several incidents, his tolerance for Lord Lord Changping was zero.

In order to better destroy Chu and avoid new complications, Lord Lord Changping, the treacherous official buried in the Qin court, had to be eradicated.

But just before Ying Zheng was about to take action against Lord Lord Changping, another incident occurred.

A rebellion had broken out in Nanyang!

Nanyang Commandery was formed after Qin destroyed Han and took all of Han's Nanyang territory, combined with the territory plundered from Chu back then. No one expected that a rebellion would break out in Nanyang Commandery at this time.

According to the military report, it was the people of the destroyed state of Han who were unwilling to accept the fall of Han and thus started the rebellion.

But in Ying Zheng's eyes, this military report had another meaning.

If it were a rebellion by the people of other states, it would be one thing; after all, when destroying the other states, many innocent people were affected. But Han was different. Qin had conquered Han for the purpose of disaster relief, and among the four states of Shandong that had been destroyed, Han was the most stable.

The reason why the rebellion occurred in Nanyang Commandery...

Ying Zheng quickly guessed the reason: it was because this place was close to Chu. If they were to attack Chu, a large portion of the grain and fodder would need to be transported from Nanyang Commandery. If problems arose in Nanyang during Qin's campaign against Chu, the supply lines of the Qin army at the front would be directly cut off.

A rebellion breaking out in Nanyang for no reason was clearly planned by someone behind the scenes.

As for who was planning all this, Ying Zheng quickly had an answer.

After the Nanyang rebellion broke out, during the court session, when many ministers were discussing strategies to quell the rebellion, Lord Lord Changping volunteered to go and quell it.

Lord Lord Changping was a high-ranking official in Qin. After Lu Lu Buwei fell, in order to weaken the power of the Chancellor, Ying Zheng reinstated the system of Left and Right Chancellors. To be precise, Qin had always had the Left and Right Chancellor system, but because Lu Lu Buwei's power was too great and he was revered in the court, there was a period where he was called Chancellor but was effectively the Prime Minister.

Lord Lord Changping was the Left Chancellor of Qin, while the Right Chancellor was the veteran official Wang Wan!

In Qin, the right was revered. Historically, Lord Lord Changping even rose from Left Chancellor to Right Chancellor, which showed how much Ying Zheng valued him. But in this life, although Ying Zheng still appointed Lord Lord Changping as Chancellor, because he knew Lord Lord Changping had problems, he did not continue to promote him. Although Lord Lord Changping still held the title of Left Chancellor, in his heart, Ying Zheng had already sentenced him to death.

Hearing Lord Lord Changping volunteer to go and quell the rebellion, many ministers praised him one after another.

And Ying Zheng also had the answer in his heart: the Nanyang rebellion was indeed Lord Lord Changping's doing.

"Is it because of Mr. Su that you felt the danger and decided to take the opportunity to remove yourself from the court and go to Nanyang to act as an outside contact for Chu?"

Combining this with the earlier visit of Xiang Yan to Qin to meet Lord Lord Changping, Ying Zheng secretly guessed Lord Lord Changping's purpose.

Then, facing the "loyal" Lord Lord Changping, he gave a direct response: "Not permitted."

He did not agree to Lord Lord Changping's proposal to go to Nanyang to quell the rebellion.

In Lord Lord Changping's calculations, even if Ying Zheng realized he might have some problems, in the face of a major issue like the Nanyang rebellion, Ying Zheng would definitely agree to his proposal and let him go to Nanyang. He never expected that Ying Zheng would refuse.

This caused the faint, confident smile that had appeared on his lips to freeze instantly.

The court session ended.

Ying Zheng chose someone else to go to Nanyang to quell the rebellion.

Lord Lord Changping deeply felt that things were slipping out of his control.

That day, he received a letter.

The person who wrote the letter was Su Xuan.

In the letter, Su Xuan did not have too many polite words, only saying that since Lord Lord Changping had invited him to drink that day, to show courtesy, he also had a gift to send to Lord Lord Changping.

Honestly, after seeing the contents of the letter, he did not really want to attend. After all, he had previously given Su Xuan poisoned wine and sent people to ambush him. The fact that Su Xuan had not come to find him for so long was problematic in itself.

But after thinking about it, he ultimately chose to attend.

— Author's Notes —

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