Chapter 689: The Secrets of the Canglong Seven Constellations

On the way to Jiuyuan Commandery, Zhao Gao had been thinking this all along.

Gai Nie cannot control the Luo Wang.

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

Until he received a letter.

The letter was written on paper. Ever since paper was introduced, the Mohist School had made further improvements based on the original paper. Now, the cost of paper is becoming lower and lower, while the quality is getting better and better. Even the Mohist School has developed mechanical beasts for papermaking, directly mechanizing paper production. This undoubtedly saves even labor costs, and the efficiency of the machinery is extremely high, causing paper production to increase day by day.

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

Still the same saying: silk is too expensive.

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

"How dare he, how does he dare?"

Zhao Gao had never imagined that Gai Nie would do such a thing.

After Gai Nie became the controller of the Luo Wang, he used his influence within the Luo Wang to cause trouble for Gai Nie. He originally thought Gai Nie would be helpless, but he never expected that after Gai Nie took control of the Luo Wang, he would immediately carry out drastic reforms.

The Luo Wang is full of filth and corruption; there are basically no good people in it.

In the past, when Zhao Gao controlled the Luo Wang, 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 them into the Luo Wang organization.

It was also because the Luo Wang provided a place of refuge for many wanted criminals from various countries that these people were willing to serve him.

It can be said that although the Luo Wang is the Luo Wang of the Qin Guo, it is not the Luo Wang of Ying Zheng. If Zhao Gao is viewed as a figure like the Four Lords of the Warring States, then those members of the Luo Wang are his retainers.

Zhao Gao served the Qin Guo. After receiving orders from Ying Zheng, he could command his retainers—that is, the people of the Luo Wang—to do things for Ying Zheng. But the true object of these people's loyalty was actually Zhao Gao, not Zhao Gao's superior, Ying Zheng.

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

But he never imagined that his past style of recruiting Luo Wang members without asking about their past would provide Gai Nie with a handle to purge the Luo Wang organization.

These people recruited into the Luo Wang organization by Zhao Gao were not good people; expecting them to be law-abiding was impossible. Thus, Gai Nie found a reason.

The members of the Luo Wang are also citizens of the Qin Guo; how can they exist outside the law?

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

Even royal descendants and nobles cannot escape the sanctions of the law; what does a mere Luo Wang count for?

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

Even many young masters who break the law must be punished.

Gai Nie did not settle scores after the fact with the people of the Luo Wang. He used the unification of the world as a boundary. After the world was unified, those members of the Luo Wang who had broken the law were, without exception, all punished according to the laws of the Qin Guo.

The laws of Qin are strict, and the people of the Luo Wang were themselves a group of lawless fanatics. They were accustomed to acting recklessly, relying on their Luo Wang status. In the past, Zhao Gao protected them, but Gai Nie would not indulge them.

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

It was not that no Luo Wang members resisted, but their resistance was ultimately in vain.

One must know that this is within the territory of the Qin Guo. As the Luo Wang of the Qin Guo, intending to resist the Qin Guo, only death awaits them.

Gai Nie's sword is also not a joke.

In a short period of time, no one knows how many people in the Luo Wang organization were liquidated, and the remaining people also became fearful for their own safety.

Many people finally realized one thing.

The current master of the Luo Wang is no longer Zhao Gao, but Gai Nie. Gai Nie will not provide them with protection like Zhao Gao did.

For a time, everyone in the Luo Wang became fearful for their own safety.

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

Once the Luo Wang also began to settle scores after the fact, it seemed as if there was no place for them to stay in the whole world.

Those who intended to resist were all killed directly.

And the remaining people also became terrified.

Gai Nie, in this battle, finally confirmed his identity as the master of the Luo Wang, and the Luo Wang also successfully transitioned from the era of Zhao Gao to the era of Gai Nie.

Inside the carriage, after Zhao Gao saw the full story of the matter.

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

Zhao Gao wanted to contact the secret agents within the Luo Wang again to cause some trouble for Gai Nie.

But after this thought arose, he calmed down again.

At this time, if he dared to let people cause trouble for Gai Nie, given the decisive and murderous attitude Gai Nie had revealed, those people would surely die.

Therefore, rather than letting them die, it would be better to let them continue to lie low.

"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 slowly. 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.

Qin Guo.

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

During this period, Ying Zheng had not summoned him to the palace to explain the Dao 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 world of martial arts. This gave Ying Zheng extremely abundant energy, and he also gradually realized the benefits of cultivation.

The unification of the world had brought him such great benefits.

He was also increasingly yearning to conquer the entire world.

Of course, he also understood that even if he wanted to conquer the world, it had to be within the limits of the people's strength. Perhaps 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 no accidents happened, he could live several decades longer than ordinary people—Ying Zheng felt he had plenty of time and was not impatient.

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

Inside the State Preceptor's Mansion, on this day, Su Xuan met Yanfei.