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Chapter 478

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"Called recuperating, but actually under house arrest. Lord Changping, what exactly did you do?"

Han Fei was very clever. Combining the fact that there was a circle of strange guards around Lord Changping's residence and that they prevented anyone from visiting Lord Changping, he immediately guessed some clues.

Lord Changping might not be ill.

Seeing Ying Zheng's edict stating that Lord Changping was seriously ill was just an excuse. I'm afraid the real reason was the first half of the edict: Lord Changping violated the national law.

Since Han Fei entered the Qin Guo as an official, he had been an official in the same court as Lord Changping for many years. He had some understanding of Xiong Qi's character; he was indeed a clever person.

Han Fei was very curious about what exactly Lord Changping Xiong Qi had done.

Others were equally curious.

A childish voice sounded in front of Han Fei, "Grand Tutor, why does Father not allow me to visit my uncle?"

This voice pulled Han Fei back to reality. Han Fei lowered his head and looked at the young man in front of him.

The young man was named "Fu Su", the eldest son of the Qin Guo. His mother was a princess of the Chu State. Although Lord Changping's mother was the daughter of King Zhaowang of Qin, in terms of seniority in the Qin Guo, he was a generation higher than Seeing Ying Zheng. But after Seeing Ying Zheng married his half-sister, according to the Chu State side, the seniority of the two was pulled to the same generation.

Lord Changping was precisely Fu Su's maternal uncle.

After Seeing Ying Zheng issued that edict and dismissed Lord Changping's position, many people tried to visit Lord Changping, including Fu Su. Unfortunately, even though he was the eldest son, he still encountered obstruction.

Afterward, when Seeing Ying Zheng learned of this, he even found Fu Su and scolded him.

Seeing Ying Zheng still remembered the gaze he looked at him with after his father scolded him; the gaze was full of complexity.

Han Fei sighed in his heart, 'How could the King of Qin not allow you to visit Lord Changping? This is clearly protecting you! If Lord Changping really has problems, you should indeed not have too much contact with him!'

'Even if the King of Qin doesn't care about these things, sometimes, even the King of Qin cannot stop the mouths of the people. Walking too close to Lord Changping will lead you into an unfavorable situation!'

Han Fei did not tell these words directly to Fu Su.

He did not answer Fu Su's question but continued to tell Fu Su about the theories of the Legalist School, "The reasons why an enlightened ruler establishes merit and achieves fame are four: first, the timing of heaven; second, the hearts of the people; third, skills; and fourth, power and position. Without the timing of heaven, even ten Yaos cannot make a grain grow in winter; going against the hearts of the people, even Ben and Yu cannot exhaust human effort. Therefore, obtaining the timing of heaven means it grows naturally without effort; obtaining the hearts of the people means they encourage themselves without being urged; relying on skills means they are fast without being rushed; obtaining power and position means fame is achieved without being pushed. Like the flow of water, like the floating of a boat. Guarding the natural way, executing inexhaustible orders, therefore it is called an enlightened ruler…"

Fu Su listened to Han Fei's lecture, put away those messy thoughts, and listened carefully.

After the eldest son Fu Su was born, Seeing Ying Zheng pampered Fu Su unusually.

In order to let Fu Su become a qualified successor, after Han Fei entered the Qin Guo, he immediately appointed Han Fei to be Fu Su's teacher. Han Fei's Legalist theories were the theories of emperors. If Fu Su could learn them seriously, becoming a qualified successor would be a matter of course.

It was also because he was instilled with Legalist learning by Han Fei since he was young that the Fu Su of this world was somewhat different from the Fu Su of the original world. Although Han Fei came from the Confucian School, because of his teaching, Fu Su did not blindly promote the Confucian set as in history.

…

In the Zhangtai Palace, after temporarily dealing with Lord Changping's affairs.

Seeing Ying Zheng asked Su Xuan another question, "Does Mr. Su know where the Agricultural School is hiding?"

Su Xuan nodded.

"To destroy the Agricultural School this time, how many troops does Mr. Su need?" Seeing Ying Zheng asked Su Xuan again.

Although he had said in front of Lord Changping that he wanted to destroy the Chu State he cared about, the matter of destroying Chu could not be too rushed, and even more so, could not be done on impulse.

However, the matter of destroying the Agricultural School that Su Xuan mentioned in front of Tian Guang could indeed be put into reality.

The Agricultural School was used by Tian Guang and Lord Changping, helping them do many things, and was their greatest help.

Such a jianghu sect, sitting on tens of thousands of disciples, if they were willing to be used by the Qin Guo, that would be fine, but they were unwilling to be used by the Qin Guo. Keeping them was truly a huge hidden danger.

After Su Xuan said that sentence, Seeing Ying Zheng also made up his mind that he must solve this trouble of the Agricultural School.

Su Xuan shook his head.

Seeing Ying Zheng was puzzled, "What does Mr. Su mean by this?"

Su Xuan said, "My meaning is, without a single soldier, relying solely on my Yin-Yang School, we can destroy the Agricultural School!"

Hearing this, Seeing Ying Zheng was stunned and asked again, "Without using a large army, is it really possible? As far as I know, the Agricultural School claims to have 100,000 disciples externally. Although there are not actually 100,000, there are still tens of thousands."

It was also after using the Luo Wang organization to investigate the Agricultural School in detail that Seeing Ying Zheng discovered that, unknowingly, the Agricultural School had developed to such a scale. More importantly, the Agricultural School developed under the funding of Lord Changping.

Where did Lord Changping get the money?

Wasn't it from the Qin Guo?

In other words, Lord Changping used the Qin Guo's money to raise a private army of tens of thousands of people.

At present, the Agricultural School only helped Lord Changping do some hidden things. If they waited until the world was in chaos, I'm afraid that with a wave of Lord Changping's arm, these tens of thousands of Agricultural School disciples would rise up one after another and become a rebel army.

Su Xuan explained, "Although the Agricultural School has tens of thousands of disciples, most of these tens of thousands of disciples are just ordinary people who had to join the Agricultural School because of the war. Their demands are also very simple, which is to be able to survive. The true core disciples of the Agricultural School are still concentrated in the six halls. It is only necessary to eliminate them, and the entire Agricultural School will collapse on its own because it falls into a situation of having no leader!"

"Relying solely on the power of the Yin-Yang School is already enough to deal with the Agricultural School!"

Out of trust in Su Xuan, after Su Xuan finished these words, Seeing Ying Zheng did not say much more but respected Su Xuan's opinion. Of course, although he did not mention the Agricultural School's large number of people and power, he still admonished Su Xuan, "If the Yin-Yang School cannot solve the Agricultural School, Mr. Su can send me a letter at any time. I will order the army to attack and flatten the Agricultural School!"

"Although it is not yet the time to destroy the state, sending troops to destroy the Agricultural School is still no problem!"

Su Xuan nodded and gladly accepted Seeing Ying Zheng's kindness.

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