Chapter 20 Changping Jun and Tian Guang
The New Year has passed, and although the wind is biting cold, the convoy of envoys hired by the Qin State on behalf of King Ying Zheng of Qin has already set off for the Chu State.

This time, it was Changping Jun who led the huge convoy. After leaving the Qin border, they entered the Chu State.

The State of Chu had already sent people to welcome him. After entering the city and resting, Lord Changping knelt in the room, waiting for the arrival of the guest.

The door was opened and then closed very gently. The visitor saw Changping Jun and bowed to him with great courtesy.

"Don't be so polite. It's been five years since we last met."

Changping Jun stood up, reached out to help the man up, and pulled him to the side to kneel down.

"Yes, before I knew it, five years had passed."

The visitor also sighed, looked at Changping Jun and smiled, saying: "Your Majesty is blessed and is getting stronger and stronger."

The two recalled their past interactions, and when they calmed down, Changping Jun said, "I shouldn't have contacted you at this time, but the situation in Qin has changed. For the sake of Chu and the people of the world."

"I need your strength, the strength of the farmers."

The visitor bowed respectfully and said firmly: "Tian Guang, the chivalrous leader of the peasant family, is at your service."

Changping Jun helped him up and said in a calm tone: "I am not driving you. We are on the same path together. For the sake of Chu and the people of the world."

Hearing this, Tian Guang trembled, and another week passed.

After Changping Jun knelt down again, Tian Guang calmed down and reported: "Your Majesty, since you ordered me to start investigating the Black Ice Platform controlled by Ying Zifei, until today, with the power of my farming family, I have only found a few traces."

"The only thing we can be sure of now is that some members of the Mohist School were secretly rounded up by the Black Ice Platform and are nowhere to be found."

"In addition to the Mo family, many people from my farming family also disappeared. I guess those people were also gathered by Ying Zifei's people."

Hearing this, Changping Jun frowned and said in confusion: "The appearance of paper has the shadow of Gongshujia and some disciples of Mohist school, this has been confirmed."

"The people who were rounded up by the farmers are martial arts masters?"

Tian Guang shook his head and replied: "I checked step by step and got a rough list, then I found that these people have one thing in common."

"He is good at planting and has many wonderful ideas that are hard to get people to accept."

"Some people's fantastic ideas are regarded as crazy talk and fantasy by many farmers."

"Their disappearance did not attract attention until I received the order from the Lord."

Changping Jun rubbed his forehead. The six years of silence at the Black Ice Stage gave Ying Zifei too much time to solve the problem.

The Black Ice Platform is too mysterious nowadays, so mysterious that apart from their responsibility as an intelligence network, outsiders have no idea what else they are running.

"Is there any other information?" He wanted to get more information about a mysterious and difficult opponent.

"No, it will take time to investigate the matter of the Black Ice Platform." Tian Guang sighed and said, "Ying Zifei defeated Dongjun of the Yin-Yang Family in one battle. There are many forces that want to kill him. However, judging from my estimation of his strength, it will take careful deployment to kill him."

"Apart from his own strength, he can mobilize too many people and resources."

Changping Jun nodded, agreeing with Tian Guang's judgment. He smiled bitterly and sighed: "As far as I know, he holds a copy of the Qin King's handwritten letter and a military token. If necessary, he can mobilize the Qin army of no more than 10,000 troops at will."

"The King of Qin trusts him so much?" Tian Guang was shocked. This was the right to mobilize the army at will.

"There is no more trust like this." Changping Jun added: "That kind of trust is not the trust that the King of Qin has for the ruler of the Black Ice Platform, but more like a trust of like-minded people."

"King Ying Zheng of Qin did not regard him as a subject, and always referred to him as 'brother' in conversation."

Tian Guang was shocked again, thinking of something, and asked: "So your Majesty suspects that the gradual stability of Qin's internal affairs is driven by Ying Zifei?"

"Yes!" Changping Jun nodded, his eyes sparkling, and he said leisurely: "He gives me the feeling of a fierce tiger. When he hides in the forest, he is not powerful, but as long as he makes the slightest move, he will kill me with one strike."

"Although his attention is not on the court at all, he still gives me a very dangerous feeling."

Hearing this, Tian Guang's thoughts raced, and soon he thought of something, so he said: "Your Majesty, I may have found a direction to find more traces of Ying Zifei."

"Oh?" Changping Jun was a little surprised. Tian Guang nodded and smiled slightly, saying, "Your Majesty just reminded me that Ying Zifei's attention is not in the court at all."

"Your Majesty, do you still remember the secret chaos that occurred when the previous King of Qin, Ying Yiren, ascended the throne?"

Changping Jun nodded, and Tian Guang continued: "The various schools of thought, the courts of various countries, and the hidden forces of all parties have actually been in the game for a long time."

"During that riot, besides someone wanting to kill Ying Zifei, someone else also wanted to steal a very mysterious thing."

"I think Ying Zifei is already in the game, and his attention must be in this direction."

Changping Jun's expression became much more solemn, and he hurriedly reminded Tian Guang: "Don't take the initiative to touch those mysterious forces in order to investigate Ying Zifei."

"Tian Guang, many people have died after coming into contact with those mysterious forces. There must be some of their people among the farmers. Don't act rashly."

As a prince of the Chu royal family, Lord Changping knew too well how muddy the waters of this world were.

In the past, the elders of the royal family of the Chu State repeatedly warned people not to be interested in certain things, otherwise "sudden death" would be the most painful way to die.

Upon hearing this, Tian Guang nodded hurriedly. As the current leader of the Nong family, he naturally knew some secrets from the Nong family's inheritance over generations.

"Your Majesty, I didn't think enough."

Changping Jun waved his hand slightly and sighed: "Just keep it in mind. Back then, Ying Mo, the ruler of the Black Ice Platform, was so powerful, but he was forced to disappear. Isn't he angry?"

"Those people are too mysterious. When King Wu of Qin entered the royal family of Zhou and wanted to take the throne, there were also shadows of those people behind him." "And later, when Qin seized the Nine Cauldrons and transported them, there was a battle at Sishui, and the ground was littered with corpses."

"Under the heavy protection of the Qin army, one of the Nine Cauldrons was lost. This is enough to show their ability."

Tian Guang also sighed and nodded. When one of the Nine Cauldrons was lost, the whole world said that the Qin State did not have enough merit and luck, so it returned without the Nine Cauldrons.

However, how many people know the real secret? Even the battle of Sishui was covered up, and everyone just said that a tripod fell into the Sishui and disappeared.

The two of them quickly dropped the topic and turned their attention back to the deployment envisioned by Changping Jun.

The candlelight flickered, Tian Guang had already left, Changping Jun walked out of the room and came to the courtyard.

The wind was freezing cold and he couldn't help but tighten his robe.

"It's time to push for a coalition alliance to attack Qin again."

As he thought this in his mind, he felt his blood flowing and he felt a little warmer.

If Qin's national strength exceeds its limit, it will be a disaster for all countries.

Since it is temporarily impossible to stop the Qin State's national strength from within, the only way is to find a way from the outside.

And the best way is to unite and attack Qin!

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient!" Changping Jun reminded himself that in order to push the coalition to attack Qin, he had to do it secretly and not let Lu Buwei notice.

More importantly, Qin has only invested part of its manpower and material resources in canal construction now. It must wait until Qin's canal construction plan reaches the middle stage, and then Qin will have to continue to choose to invest more manpower and material resources.

The best time for the coalition to attack Qin would be when Qin had consumed a great deal of manpower and material resources in building the canal and had no intention of giving up.

The breeze was cool, stirring Changping Jun's thoughts. The light in his eyes dimmed and he turned back to the house.

……

The marriage between Qin and Chu was so grand that people from both countries celebrated it.

"The movement you wanted has come." In the VIP room on the third floor of the restaurant, Lu Buwei, drinking fine wine, sat casually and leisurely like an ordinary drinker.

Ying Zifei raised his eyebrows, not understanding what Lü Buwei meant. Lü Buwei chuckled and said, "Someone used the right method and the right words to convince me to send out Jing Wei, one of Luowang's top assassins, to lurk beside Xinling Jun Wei Wuji and wait for the right opportunity."

"Are you in a hurry?" Ying Zifei also laughed, poured wine for Lu Buwei, and said with a chuckle: "The top assassin is lurking, tut tut tut, isn't it a waste?"

The two clinked their glasses and drank the wine in the glasses. Lü Buwei smiled and said, "The right reasons convinced me, so I agreed."

"What's the reason?" Ying Zifei asked curiously.

"Qin's edge is too threatening. The nobles and powerful families in the six countries feel like they have a thorn in their backs."

"At this time of change, we should prevent the rise of coalition forces. Xinling Jun Wei Wuji has great prestige. We should prevent him from forming coalition forces again, just as we did in the past."

Lü Buwei said, laughing: "How about this reason? As the Prime Minister of Qin, will I refuse it?"

Ying Zifei laughed and praised: "It is difficult for a non-talented person to find such a reason."

"So this is the retainer of the Prime Minister?"

Lü Buwei did not say the name, but said: "I want to use people. Although we are temporary allies, I will not be your helper."

"Stingy!" Ying Zifei curled his lips, then smiled and said, "The Prime Minister is very powerful, and his three thousand followers are as powerful as the sun."

"I heard that the recruitment office in Xianyang City is almost full of people with the surname Lu."

Lu Buwei: ...

This kid is really a bastard. I'm just trying to put him in a bad light.

"I won't hand him over to you. I don't want to get involved in your affairs."

Lü Buwei's expression became serious, and he said firmly: "I will cooperate with you only if I think it's worth it. Otherwise, it's best for you and I not to interfere with each other."

"Then I'll listen to the Prime Minister." Ying Zifei did not continue to force Lu Buwei. Some things should be stopped in time.

After drinking three jars of wine, Lu Buwei left drunkenly. It was a day off, and he felt much more relaxed.

Ying Zifei continued to drink in the restaurant until the masked Si Snake arrived.

"My Lord, we didn't finish the strangulation. Two of them escaped."

After taking a sip of wine, Ying Zifei said with a sigh: "With your ability, you can actually escape with two people. Haha, you really have a profound foundation."

Ying Zifei waved his hand and said, "Go back and recuperate. After the king's wedding is complete, we should leave Xianyang City."

"promise"

The snake responded and quickly disappeared into the house.

Ying Zifei poured another glass of wine and drank it, chuckling and muttering: "Why should I follow the path you arranged? I'm sure you will understand if I'm a little willful."

(End of this chapter)