Qin State, Dangjun, Suiyang City.

As the former capital of the Chu State, the scale of Suiyang City has always been good, after falling into the hands of the Qin State, it has become the forefront of the Qin State against the Chu State, and its importance has not decreased because of the relocation of the capital of the Chu State, on the contrary, under the support of the strong national strength of the Qin State, the entire Suiyang City has become a military fortress, where the ordnance, grain and grass of the Great Liang are hoarded.

It can be said that after the Qin army captured Han and Wei, the output of the two places never entered Xianyang, but was transferred to Suiyang as a resource support for Qin's annihilation of Chu.

Although Han Wei was known for being weak among the Seven Kingdoms, it was not barren, on the contrary, its resources were so rich that only the Guanzhong region of Qin with Xianyang as the core could be used for a long time.

And in places like Suiyang, there is more than one Qin State, for example, the output of Yan Zhao has been sent to Diqiu City in Dongjun, and the output of Nanjun, Runan, Hanzhong, and even Shu County has been sent to Jiangling City in Nanjun.

In Suiyang City, Xiong Qi, the right prime minister of Qin, Changping Jun, saw a person in the study.

In the study room, which covers a large area but is not spacious, Xiong Qi sent all his subordinates back, because the identity of the person in front of him was sensitive, and because he could probably guess what the other party wanted to say.

"Congratulations to Changpingjun for making another great contribution." The person who spoke was a young man, dressed as a standard Confucian disciple, but between the eyebrows, there was no gentleness of a Confucian disciple, but an indescribable fierceness, his surname was Zhang Mingliang, and his friends preferred to call him the ovary.

He is a former high-ranking official in South Korea, and his family is also a well-known family in South Korea, in addition to the royal family, the Zhang family is the leading family in South Korea, and the fifth generation of the Han family has achieved the status of the Zhang family in South Korea.

But now that South Korea is gone, the Zhang family naturally has no former glory, but Zhang Liang doesn't care about these, the Zhang family is nothing in the rise and fall of the world and the long history of South Korea, and now he wants to do more important things, one that is impossible in the eyes of ordinary people, but he wants to do it.

He wants to go against the trend of the world, he wants to enter the world and write the legend that belongs to Zhang Liang.

"What's the deal?" Xiong Qi, who has not been in a good mood recently, asked.

"The Qin State is about to raise troops to destroy Chu, and Changping Jun, you sit in Suiyang with the respect of the right prime minister of Qin State, and soon, Suiyang will become the rear of the Qin army to destroy Chu. Zhang Liang said with a smile, he used to be very naïve, believing that his friend Han Fei could save South Korea, but now, he is not so naïve.

Now Zhang Liang knows very well that ideals only exist in bamboo slips, and the situation in reality is more cruel and complex than recorded in the book, and in order to achieve the impossible, he must use means that ordinary people can't imagine, even if some of them may be despicable.

"You're right." Xiong Qi replied, but the gloom in the depths of his eyes deepened.

For the state of Chu, Xiong Qi actually has no concept, although his father is the first king of the state of Chu, but he has not had much contact with his father, back then, he just remembered, his father fled from the state of Qin because of the change of the throne of the state of Chu, since he escaped, naturally he could not bring his family, so he was left in the state of Qin, stayed in Xianyang.

In the rest of his life, his father, who had become the king of Chu, never took him and his mother back.

Xiong Qi still remembers the loneliness of his mother when she died.

In Xiong Qi's life in the past few decades, he had no impression of the Chu State except for half of the Chu State bloodline on his body, on the contrary, it was the Qin State that gave him everything.

Since Xiong Qi was a child, he has been in contact with Qin people, he speaks the official language of Qin, learns the small seal of Qin, and his relatives and friends are also Qin, even if there is a powerful political force behind him called the Chu family, but the people in the Chu family are all Qin people.

Even the Empress Dowager Xuan, who was born in the Chu State and grew up in the Chu State, after becoming the woman in charge of the highest power in the Qin State, has never been soft in the use of troops against the Chu State.

Therefore, Xiong Qi has never had any burden on the fact that he has half of the blood of the Chu State but works for the Qin State, and even helps the Qin State deal with the Chu State.

Because the state of Chu is too far away from him, so far away that he has no concept at all, but the state of Qin is different, the country of Qin is the place where he lives, full of bits and pieces of his life.

However, now all this has changed, the former Chu State is so far away that it never existed much in his concept, but now, the Chu State is really in front of him.

Especially after coming to Suiyang, the former Chu people he saw, the Chu language he heard, and the shadow of Chu slowly appeared in front of his eyes.

Once, Xiong Qi did not have the slightest doubt about the great cause of Qin State to unify the world, since Zhou Tianzi lost his authority, the world has been in turmoil for 500 years, wars have continued, and countless people have died in the flames of war.

It's just that Qin has become the most powerful country in the world, so it naturally took over this task, if Chu can become the first power in the world and has enough strength to take over this task, even if Chu wants to destroy Qin, Xiong Qi will not have any opinion.

But these only exist in the illusory cognition in Xiong Qi's mind, and they all only exist in the concept.

After coming to Suiyang, Xiong Qi saw the real Chu State, and the reality was different from what he had concepted.

When an old man who sang Chu songs in a wine shop was shackled by the officials of the Qin State on the charge of missing his homeland and disturbing the order of the Qin State, Xiong Qi saw that the reality was different from what he imagined.

After coming to the State of Chu, Xiong Qi saw that the former scholars of the State of Chu who had grown up needed to work hard again to learn the small seal of the State of Qin, and he saw that some of the original scholars of the State of Chu resigned directly from their positions in order not to write the small seal of the State of Qin, and finally even starved to death on the streets.

He saw a mother rip off her son's clothes and change them to Qin clothes during her son's crying.

When he saw someone drunk, he did not dare to shout in the street, but had to put his head in the ditches on both sides of the street and weep bitterly.

He saw that the Chu people gathered at a festival in the state of Chu were dispersed and captured by the Qin army.

The state of Chu, which had been illusory in his mind, appeared in front of him in a way that Xiong Qi could not have imagined, impacting his world and his cognition in an almost brutal way.

If the unification of the Qin State is to eliminate the language of the Chu State, the written language of the Chu State, the elimination of the tradition that has lasted for thousands of years in the Chu State, and turn people from people into puppets under the laws of Qin, and into slaves of the King of Qin, then is such unification still worth it?

In the future, Xiong Qi has not really seen the benefits of reunification, but Xiong Qi has seen the cruelty in it.

Xiong Qi knew that he was still a person after all, a person standing in the world, his wisdom and his vision were not enough for him to see things farther, but in front of his eyes, he saw that what the Qin State wanted was not the world, but the world into the Qin State.

In the midst of contradictions and struggles, Zhang Liang appeared in front of him, and even appeared in front of him with an attitude that Xiong Qi did not want to face.

Zhang Liang's words seemed to be congratulating, congratulating him on his upcoming greater meritorious service to the Qin State, but it sounded so harsh to Changping Jun.

"It seems that it is also a credit to arrest Ling now, the son-in-law of the Zhang family in South Korea is still worth a lot." At this time, although Xiong Qi was full of emotions, his cultivation and the city government would not make him show any cowardice in front of Zhang Liang.

"If Changpingjun likes my head, what if I give it to you, I believe that when the time comes, the fathers and villagers of Chu will also give Changpingjun more such heads, and then Changpingjun can point to the white bones in front of him and say to Qin Wangzheng, king, these are chaotic ministers and thieves, and the ministers will kill them for the king." Zhang Liang smiled slightly.

"In the troubled times, this is the inevitable price, for more than 500 years, even the former co-ruler of the world, King Zhou You, will inevitably have the disaster of the country's destruction and death, who can escape." Xiong Qi said indifferently.

"Yes, I'm waiting to look at Zhou Tianzi back then, or laughing at his stupidity, or complaining about his indisputability, but how many people will pity those Zhou people, where are the Zhou people now, their ancestors' hard work has only become the material we are talking about." Zhang Liang's expression showed a little sadness.

"Therefore, the return of the world to Qin is not only a humane trend, but also a trip to heaven." Xiong Qidao.

"Changpingjun, the way of heaven is too high, the world is too far, I am a layman, I can't see it yet, but please Changpingjun remember, when you look at the rolling corpses, those corpses are also looking at you, when you see those corpses, you will really be indifferent? They are the same people as you. Zhang Liang said.

……

When Zhang Liang met Xiong Qi in Suiyang City, Yang Ming also met a person who had a deep relationship with Xiong Qi in Xianyang, Xiong Qi's daughter and Yang Ming's righteous daughter Qi Lian.

"Why does my father-in-law look at me like that?" Qi Lian knelt in front of Yang Ming, his bright and innocent eyes full of innocence and confusion.

"How am I looking at you?" Yang Ming asked.

"My father-in-law looked at me as if I had seen the stray cats and dogs on the street, and he just felt very pitiful for them." Qi Lian said, she is delicate.

"But Lian'er is not pitiful." Qi Lian added.

"Yes, you're not pitiful at all, but cute." Yang Ming joked.

Is Mi Lian pitiful? It's also pitiful, but when it comes to real pity, she doesn't seem to be pitiful.

(End of chapter)