Chapter 466

In the residence of Lord Changping.

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

He had never expected that the six great elders of the Agricultural School would fail.

At present, there was no news of the six great elders of the Agricultural School. If they had merely failed to hunt 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 Changping had never considered this possibility.

After all, the combat record of the six great elders of the Agricultural School was truly too fierce; even Bai Qi back then had been killed by them. Afterward, they hid in the Six Sages Tomb and cultivated for many years, and their strength had reached a pinnacle.

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

Lord Changping gradually considered this possibility.

"To what level has your strength actually reached?"

Lord Changping's body could not help but tremble. He discovered that he seemed to have always underestimated Su Xuan. In the Battle of Daliang, Su Xuan broke a city with a single sword and became famous throughout the world. Lord Changping had seen Su Xuan's strength from that intelligence report, but he had dismissed it, convinced that the six great elders of the Agricultural School, joining forces, would still be able to kill Su Xuan.

But now, he discovered 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 Changping also had to start considering for himself.

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

Since Su Xuan was able to escape calmly from the ambush of the six great elders of the Agricultural School, it was not impossible that he had discovered the problem with the wine.

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

Lord Changping had to consider his own retreat.

If there was truly no place for him in the Qin Guo, he must also be able to escape from the Qin Guo.

…

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

But now it was different.

The Qin Guo had successively destroyed four states, leaving only the Chu State and the Qi State; the next target was the Chu State.

Although he did not know why Lord Changping cared so much about the Chu State, and for the sake of the Chu State, could abandon everything in the Qin Guo, Seeing Ying Zheng did not care. After several incidents, he had zero tolerance for Lord Changping.

In order to better destroy the Chu State and to prevent new variables, Lord Changping, this treacherous sycophant buried in the Qin court, must be eradicated.

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

In the land of Nanyang, a rebellion had broken out!

Nanyang Commandery was a commandery formed by the Qin Guo after destroying the Han State, taking all of the Han State's Nanyang land, and combining it with the territory plundered from the Chu State back then. No one expected that at this time, a rebellion would break out in Nanyang Commandery.

According to the military report, it was those people of the Han State whose country had already been destroyed who were unwilling to accept the destruction of the Han State, and thus started the rebellion.

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

If it were a rebellion by the people of other states, that would be one thing; after all, when destroying the other states, many innocent people were more or less affected. But the Han State was different; the Qin Guo had originally conquered the Han State for the purpose of disaster relief. Among the four states of Shandong that had already been destroyed, the Han State was also the most stable.

The reason why the rebellion broke out in Nanyang Commandery…

Seeing Ying Zheng soon guessed the reason, simply because… this place was close to the Chu State. 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 the Qin Guo's campaign against Chu, the rear path of the Qin army on the front line would be directly cut off.

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

As for who was planning all this, Seeing Ying Zheng soon had the answer.

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