Chapter 397: Returning to Xianyang Again

"Brother Su, the General wishes to see you."

Half a year later, Su Fan and Wang Zhan finally returned to Xianyang City. After leaving Sanghai Cheng, Su Fan and Wang Zhan first went south, then from Ba Shu, they returned to Xianyang City.

This journey covered a distance of at least one hundred thousand li.

Fortunately, the Chidao of the Great Qin were well-constructed, and the army did not encounter any major difficulties while advancing.

Every place Su Fan arrived at, the local area would be thrown into chaos; after all, there were always those unwilling to lose their interests who wanted to take risks, but the final outcome was never pleasant, and they became the "chickens" in Su Fan's "killing the chicken to warn the monkey."

In these six months of traveling, they had traversed most of the Great Qin's territory, and the promotion of the Agriculture Department had also become much easier.

Locally, even if there were those who feigned compliance while acting in opposition, they could no longer block the Great Trend.

It could be said that the Qi of Luck of the Great Qin was increasing day by day; a few people saw this clearly, and some were secretly anxious.

Yet they had no way to stop it, because they were fundamentally powerless to intervene.

The matter of the Great Qin previously ambushing the Three Flowers Realm deities of the Divine Court had long since leaked; any force with power exceeding the Profound Mystery Realm had similar intelligence.

Therefore, even though they saw Su Fan leading Wang Zhan and the army to various places to forcibly implement new agricultural techniques, they could only watch, not daring to make the slightest rash move.

Who knew if the power of the Great Qin still stood behind Su Fan? No one dared to test it lightly.

The Divine Court had paid the price of one Three Flowers Realm expert and three Five Qi Realm experts for this; the Divine Court was wealthy and powerful and might not care, but they certainly did not dare.

Thus, for the past six months, Su Fan had been relatively peaceful, and as for the local clans, they were naturally like eggs hitting a rock, completely unable to stop him.

Under the Great Qin Empire, there were indeed nobles—Xianyang City had plenty of them—yet they did not possess the extensive rights that the nobles of the other Six States had.

The nobles of the former Six States were like small kingdoms within their own fiefs; their military and political powers reached their peak, comparable to small imperial courts.

But the nobles of the Great Qin, even if they had fiefs, had their power greatly weakened.

As for the local gentry, there was even less to say; even if they kept a few retainers, they were only courting death when facing an army.

Therefore, the resistance Su Fan encountered over these six months was truly weak enough to be negligible.

In many cases, there was no need to mobilize the army; they were wiped out by the local government offices.

This was also the reason they returned in only half a year; after killing enough "chickens," those "monkeys" all became obedient and dared not resist or argue.

Upon returning to Xianyang City, Su Fan was summoned by Ying Zheng immediately. The two did not talk much; Su Fan only spoke of his observations along the way, while Ying Zheng told Su Fan the news about bringing back the remains of the Kunwu deity to refine into a Golden Man.

Clearly, Su Fan had also won Ying Zheng's trust, and more and more core information began to be revealed to Su Fan.

The Great Qin had gained another Three Flowers Realm combatant; this was a good thing for the Great Qin Empire, and it could also be considered a good thing for Su Fan.

He helped the Great Qin improve, and the Great Qin's Qi of Luck would provide feedback to the Great Qin itself or even to Humanity, and the improvement of the Great Qin's own strength could also provide feedback to him.

Returning to the outskirts of Xianyang City, Su Fan saw the Luck Divine Dragon above Xianyang City expand its body once again.

It had increased by at least thirty percent compared to when he left.

This figure was extraordinarily terrifying, indicating that in this short time of less than a year, the Great Qin's Qi of Luck had increased by another thirty percent.

The population of the Great Qin could increase rapidly in the next few years because with the increase in food, the common people at the bottom would have enough to eat and would not need to worry about being unable to support their families.

They would inevitably breed offspring frantically; previously, they could not support their families, so every household dared not easily have children.

Now it was different; having a house full of children and grandchildren had always been the most beautiful wish of the Huaxia people since ancient times.

What did population mean? It meant powerful strength.

When the Hundred Tribes contended in the past, why was the Human Race able to stand out in the end? Besides the grand strategies of the Three Sovereigns and the extraordinary nature of the Human Sages, it was also because the reproductive power of the Human Race was more formidable than that of the Hundred Tribes.

Although human warriors were not the most powerful, they were like wild grass, never-ending no matter how much they were cut.

The population of the Human Race back then was indeed higher than it was now; today, the total population of the Great Qin was probably no more than one billion, not even comparable to the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Especially during the time of Zhou Wang, when the Human Race was at its peak, the Eight Hundred Feudal Lords combined had a population exceeding ten billion.

The scope covered by the Human Race was even wider; there were tribes living even within the Black Water.

Today, the Baiyue Tribe that had submitted to the Great Qin was very few; many of the Baiyue Tribe were descendants of those Eight Hundred Feudal Lords.

Back then, Zhou Wang could still command the feudal lords, but the Great Qin could not do so.

Because the current power of the Great Qin could not reach that far.

However, as the National Destiny of the Great Qin continued to strengthen, the land of Baiyue would sooner or later return to the embrace of the Great Qin.

And all of this was inseparable from Su Fan.

Therefore, when Su Fan left Zhangtai Palace, an imperial decree arrived, and Su Fan's noble rank was raised by two levels again.

This speed of promotion also frightened many people; of course, the true feudal lords of Xianyang City had nothing to say, as many knew that the other party was able to reach his current status entirely through his own merits.

In terms of merit, Su Fan was definitely the number one person in the Great Qin Empire after the unification of the world.

Some people proficient in the art of Qi of Luck could also perceive the changes in the Great Qin's Qi of Luck.

As for the promotion, Su Fan was not surprised; when he was communicating with Ying Zheng, the latter had already revealed his intentions.

Su Fan was not overly happy about the promotion; of course, with the increase in noble rank, his connection with the Great Qin's Luck Divine Dragon became deeper, and the feedback he received was also greater.

On this point, Su Fan was indeed quite happy.

Not long after, Wang Zhan came to visit, and this was the first thing he said.

"The old General Wang wants to see me?"

Su Fan was somewhat curious as to why Wang Jian would suddenly want to see him.

After all, ever since Wang Jian retired, he had lived in seclusion and rarely met with the officials of the Great Qin.

Su Fan knew that Wang Jian did this to put Ying Zheng at ease; in fact, given Ying Zheng's magnanimity, Wang Jian did not need to do that at all.

Ying Zheng was not afraid of these things; he did not worry at all that Wang Jian would rebel, and even if Wang Jian or the Wang clan rebelled, they could not succeed.

Because in the Great Qin army and in the eyes of the Lao Qin, Ying Zheng was the only true King; although many people admired and believed in Wang Jian,

if he dared to rebel, it was feared that not many troops would follow him, even those he had personally promoted.

It could be said that the Great Qin's army was the most loyal to the Great Qin; it was truly too difficult for a general to build his own private army.

Wang Jian avoiding suspicion was actually for the Imperial Court to see, to prevent the Wang clan from being too prominent and attracting the dissatisfaction of some people.