Chapter 426

Gainie could not accept such a fact.

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Now, there were some opportunities placed before him.

The so-called opportunity referred to the matter Su Xuan mentioned regarding the Qin State preparing to use troops against foreign tribes beyond the borders; at the same time, changing the Net and taking control of the Net was also an opportunity.

Although the Net organization had always been hidden in the shadows, over the years, it had invisibly swayed the winds and clouds of the world.

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After staying in Xianyang for a while, Zhao Gao finally set off, heading toward Jiuyuan Commandery.

The further he left Xianyang and the closer he got to Jiuyuan Commandery, the more desolate the scenery he saw along the way became, and the sparser the human habitation grew.

Zhao Gao had never been to Jiuyuan Commandery, but through intelligence and what he saw along the way, he could roughly guess what kind of situation Jiuyuan Commandery was in, estimating it to be even more desolate than what he had seen along the road.

"I will definitely return!"

Zhao Gao said in the depths of his heart. He firmly believed in this; Jiuyuan Commandery would not be the end of his life, only a place of transition. He would return sooner or later to take back everything that belonged to him. Before that, the Net could just be temporarily deposited in their hands.

At the same time, he was also very curious about how Gainie would control the Net.

Although he had left the Net, he still set quite a few obstacles for Gainie.

He dared not hint at the higher-level assassins of the Net, but for the bottom-level assassins, he did not have so many scruples.

It is easy to avoid the King of Hell, but difficult to deal with the little devils.

All the monsters and demons are little devils.

If Gainie wants to control the Net, he needs someone to listen to his words.

On the way to Jiuyuan Commandery, Zhao Gao had always thought this way.

Gainie cannot control the Net.

Even if he is no longer the master of the Net, the Net still moves because of him.

Until he received a letter.

The letter was written on paper. Since the introduction of paper, the Mohists had made improvements based on the original paper. Now, the cost of paper was becoming lower and lower, while the quality was getting better and better. Even the Mohists had developed mechanical beasts for papermaking, directly mechanizing the production of paper. This undoubtedly saved even labor costs. The efficiency of the machinery was extremely high, making the output of paper increase with each passing day.

After the Qin State unified the world, paper also received more powerful dissemination. Now, it had almost completely replaced bamboo slips and wooden slips. Similarly, with the prevalence of paper, expensive writing materials like silk, except for relatively important documents like imperial edicts, were basically no longer used by anyone.

Still the same saying, silk is too expensive.

After opening the letter and seeing the content on it, Zhao Gao was suddenly furious.

"How dare he, how does he dare?"

Zhao Gao never expected that Gainie would do such a thing.

After Gainie became the controller of the Net, he used his influence within the Net to cause trouble for Gainie. He originally thought Gainie would be helpless, but he never expected that after taking control of the Net, Gainie would immediately carry out drastic reforms on the Net.

The Net was full of filth and corruption, and there were basically no good people.

In the past, when Zhao Gao controlled the Net, he didn't care about this at all. As long as that person was useful and had value, he wouldn't care what that person had done, and would directly recruit him into the Net organization.

It was also because the Net provided a place of refuge for many criminals wanted by countries around the world that these people were willing to work for him.

It can be said that although the Net was the Net of the Qin State, it was not the Net of Ying Zheng. If Zhao Gao were viewed as a figure like the Four Lords of the Warring States, then those members of the Net were the retainers under his command.

Zhao Gao worked for the Qin State. After receiving Ying Zheng's orders, he could command the retainers under his command—that is, the people of the Net—to do things for Ying Zheng. But these people's true object of allegiance was actually Zhao Gao, not Zhao Gao's superior, Ying Zheng.

In the past, Zhao Gao used this method to constantly hollow out the Net.

But he never expected that his past style of recruiting Net members without asking about their past would leave a handle for Gainie to purge the Net organization.

These people recruited by Zhao Gao into the Net organization were not good people. Expecting them to be law-abiding was impossible, so Gainie found a reason.

The members of the Net are also citizens of the Qin State; how can they be outside the law?

In the past, Shang Yang's reforms advocated that the law does not favor the noble!

Even princes and nobles cannot escape the sanctions of the law, so what does a mere Net count for?

In this world, only the Qin Emperor can ignore the law.

Even many princes must be punished if they break the law.

Gainie did not settle old scores with the people of the Net. He took the unification of the world as the boundary. After the unification of the world, those members of the Net who had violated the law were, without exception, all punished according to the laws of the Qin State.

The Qin law was harsh, and the people of the Net were themselves a group of lawless fanatics. They were used to acting recklessly, relying on their status as members of the Net. In the past, Zhao Gao protected them, but Gainie would not indulge them.

Because it was difficult for him to command the people of the Net, he brought in the Shadow Secret Guards as reinforcements to directly liquidate the Net. Those who had not violated the law were fine, but those who had violated the law, especially those with heinous natures, were directly killed on the spot.

It was not that there were no people in the Net who resisted, but their resistance was ultimately in vain.

One must know that this is within the territory of the Qin State. As the Net of the Qin State, if one intends to resist the Qin State, only death awaits them.

Gainie's sword is also not a joke.

In a short period of time, it is unknown how many people in the Net organization were liquidated, and the remaining people also became insecure.

Many people finally realized one thing.

The current master of the Net is no longer Zhao Gao, but Gainie. Gainie will not provide them with protection like Zhao Gao did.

For a time, everyone in the Net became insecure.

In the past, the Net gave them, these sinners, a place to stay.

When the Net also started to settle old scores, it seemed as if there was no place for them in the whole world.

Those who intended to resist were directly killed.

And the remaining people also became fearful.

In this battle, Gainie finally confirmed his identity as the master of the Net, and the Net also successfully transitioned from the era of Zhao Gao to the era of Gainie.

Inside the carriage, after Zhao Gao saw the beginning and end of the matter.

His body could not help but tremble, and the paper in his hand was torn into countless pieces by him. But even if this letter was torn into pieces, it could not change the established fact.

Zhao Gao wanted to contact the secret agents in the Net again to cause some trouble for Gainie.

But after this thought arose, he calmed down again.

At this time, if he dared to let people cause trouble for Gainie, given the decisive and murderous attitude Gainie had shown, those people would undoubtedly die.

Therefore, rather than letting them go to their deaths, it would be better to let them continue to lie dormant.

"I will return! I will return to take back everything!"

Zhao Gao could only continue to mutter to himself, using words to give himself confidence and to hypnotize himself.

Time passed leisurely. As Zhao Gao successfully arrived at Jiuyuan City, looking at the desolate city and the desolate land, his belief in wanting to return became even firmer.

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Qin State.

In the State Preceptor's Mansion, Su Xuan was still cultivating with peace of mind.

During this period, Ying Zheng did not summon him to the palace to explain the way of cultivation, mainly because Ying Zheng really had no time to cultivate during this period. The world had just been unified, and he was truly too busy.

Fortunately, his strength had reached the Grandmaster realm, which could barely be considered an expert in the Jianghu. This gave Ying Zheng extremely abundant energy, and he also gradually realized the benefits of cultivation.

The unification of the world brought him such great benefits.

He also became more and more yearning for the matter of conquering the whole world.

Of course, he also understood that even if he wanted to conquer the world, it must be within the allowance of the people's strength. Perhaps it was because the process of unifying the world was too smooth, or perhaps because his strength had reached the Grandmaster realm, according to Su Xuan, as long as there were no accidents, he could live several decades longer than ordinary people. Ying Zheng felt that there was plenty of time and was not impatient.

Compared to conquering the world, at the moment, the most important thing was to handle the many trivial matters after the unification of the world.

In the State Preceptor's Mansion, on this day, Su Xuan met Concubine Yan.