There is a county dozens of miles north of Xianyang.
Because it is adjacent to Jingshui River, although it is a county seat, it has water transportation and the population of surrounding towns is concentrated, making it quite prosperous.
Inside the city, there is a courtyard with two entrances.
A middle-aged man in his forties was having dinner in the house, which consisted of steamed yellow rice and two plates of pickled vegetables.
The man ate with gusto, and thrust out his chopsticks quickly and accurately, with a strange sense of rhythm.
The chopsticks at this time should actually be called chopsticks.
In this world, it was Confucianism who first advocated eating with chopsticks, thinking it was a kind of progress, and eating with hands was indecent.
The man was dressed in merchant attire, with a thin face and sharp eyes, appearing calm and wise.
Next to him is a woman of the same age, with a simple and unpretentious temperament and a smooth figure.
Both of them were from Zhao, and they were secretly hiding in Da Qin as husband and wife, with the purpose of gathering information.
In a short while, the woman finished eating first and whispered: "There is news from the city. It is confirmed that Qin Chu has left Xianyang and is heading east. He said he is going to patrol the border."
"Yeah." The man ate with his head down, without any reaction.
The woman looked at him and said, "Should we further investigate Qin Chu's whereabouts?"
"What do you want to do?"
The middle-aged man finally stopped eating, raised his head, and looked at the woman.
"It's rare for Prince Qin to leave the city, so this may be an opportunity." The woman said.
"You want to know his traces and assassinate him?" The man's eyes darkened.
The woman raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "I am not that stupid to assassinate him, but to spread his whereabouts. There are many people who want to deal with him. Others will kill him. Whether they succeed or not is up to us.
It doesn't matter."
"Do you think your calculations are very clever?"
The man muttered: "When we entered the Qin Dynasty, we used to stay dormant in Xianyang and investigate the news nearby. Why now we don't even dare to live in Xianyang for a long time and want to move to this county?
Don’t you know the reason?
Why do you want to plot against Chu Qin?"
The woman argued: "You don't have to fight him head-on to kill him. There are many ways to assassinate him, including poisoning and secret attacks. There are always opportunities. There will always be someone who can do it."
Fuck you, the middle-aged man said:
"At the level of Qin Chu, he can already predict his own misfortune. He is so easy to be assassinated. He has been killed by others. How can he wait for you to plot against him?"
"Then just watch the Qin people scheme against me, Zhao..." the woman said.
"This is nothing for you to worry about."
The middle-aged man waved his hand, stood up and entered the house.
There was pen and ink on the table in the room. He thought about it and drew on a bamboo slip.
He poured the power of his body into the tip of his pen and concentrated on writing. After a moment, a butterfly flew out from the bamboo slip, flying through the air as if it was alive.
At this time, the woman came in from the door. The man looked at the mana butterfly that came out of the scroll and said lightly:
"I have been in the army for many years, and I have been practicing military skills in my country, Zhao, but my achievements have not been high.
I came here to lurk in Qin. Not long ago, Lu Buwei gave a lecture, and people couldn't help but listen. I heard from a distance in the crowd that he was teaching the method of combining the art of miscellaneous paintings with magical power.
After thinking about it for a few days after I came back, my strength actually made breakthroughs.
The people of Qin encourage hundreds of schools of thought to practice, and the saints personally spread the way of practice, but I, a person from Zhao, want to learn the true meaning of practice in Qin. Isn't it ironic?"
The woman fell silent, and after a while she said: "During Chu Qin's trip, is there really nothing we can use to deal with him?"
"What are saints? They are ancient sages. They are in harmony with the fate of heaven and earth. Who can challenge them?"
The man said: "Maybe someone can do it, but we definitely can't afford to offend him. Don't think about it anymore."
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Zhao Huai left the city after noon, and, accompanied by his guards, headed east at lightning speed.
The last time he raided the Xiongnu palace, he carefully selected and mobilized a total of 2,000 elite soldiers from the Qin army, and now they became his personal troops.
During the raid on the Huns, one-third of the damage was lost, but it has been replenished since returning.
Each of these two thousand soldiers wore secret armor and held secret weapons.
Its combat capability is even greater than that of the original Black Bird Guards of the Great Qin Forbidden Army.
After the team left the city, they quickly approached the eastern front.
Since the Justice Beast likes to be a father, Zhao Huaizhong rides a huge fiery red horse this time, which is also a mount kept by the Crown Prince's Palace, named Red Cloud Beast.
There are naturally five elements of fire texture under its feet. When running, it is like a ball of flame burning, which is extremely powerful.
The red cloud beast rarely appears, and it behaves very actively, running with all its strength, getting faster and faster.
Blackbirds also fly in the air to follow.
In the evening, the team approached the eastern border.
After attacking Wei for two consecutive years, Great Qin's eastern border has been greatly pushed southward. Anyi, which originally belonged to the Wei people, has become an important eastern town of Great Qin.
Anyi was originally the old capital of the Wei people. It was a famous city in ancient times, and its prosperity was only slightly lower than Xianyang.
When Zhao Huaizhong came to patrol the border, Meng Ao had already led his generals to wait outside the city.
Because the border patrol needed to observe the military might, in addition to dozens of generals, there were more than 50,000 Qin troops who came to greet Zhao Huaizhong.
The moment they saw Zhao Huaizhong, all the Qin troops stepped forward at the same time, pushing their shields forward like mountains moving sideways, pointing their swords at the sky, and shouted in unison: "Great Qin, Great Qin, Great Qin."
Tens of thousands of people stood in unison and shouted like thunder.
Another Qin army struck the shield with a long sword, making a low and murderous sound, like a war drum, which made people's blood boil.
Zhao Huaizhong slowed down his horse, waved his arms to the Qin army and said, "Thank you for your hard work, generals."
For a long time, the Qin army did not hear the signal "Your Majesty, thank you for your hard work".
Zhao Huaizhong's border patrol lasted nearly a month.
Departing from Xianyang in late June, we first went to the east line, then all the way north, along the border, almost crossing the entire northern border of Qin, and finally arrived at the westernmost border defense area of Qin.
Worried about monsters, the Qin Dynasty accumulated heavy troops on the western front.
Zhao Huaizhong also ordered Ye Yufu to set up secret sentries and set up checkpoints within three hundred miles of the national border to the west, deploying defenses layer by layer.
He came to inspect and saw that the Qin army was distinguished and their troops were sharp, so he felt a little relieved.
After arriving at the Western Front, Zhao Huaizhong once went out of the city for a night patrol and went five hundred miles west of the Qin territory. What he saw along the way was mostly barbaric lands where strange beasts were rampant.
Based on his practice at this time, after traveling more than five hundred miles, he could vaguely sense that there was a demonic aura in the sky further to the west, as if it was another world.
Even though he is a congenital saint, he still has waves of heart palpitations in that direction.
Zhao Huaizhong stood there for a long time before returning to Qin territory.
After that, he headed south along the western route, and finally returned to Xianyang from the southern route.
The whole process spared most of the Qin Kingdom.
If it weren't for Ma Kuaishou, he might not be able to come back in another month.
When we returned to Xianyang, it was already mid-July and the summer heat was scorching.
In the evening of that day, Zhao Huaizhong returned to the Crown Prince's Mansion and ended his days of running around. He wanted to go to sleep early, but suddenly he felt something in his heart, so he put on his clothes and came to the study.
I saw an emerald-green bamboo slip in the night sky outside the study, flying from the sky like a sharp sword and breaking through the window.
There are words on the bamboo slips, which are messages sent by Zou Yan through the air.
Zhao Huaizhong received it: "Finally there is news."
During this period, he still had frequent contact with the two old saints. During this period, the Kunlun Mirror twice showed light spots corresponding to the star sequence.
After Zhao Huaizhong copied it, he gave it to the two old saints.
Zou Yan has deduced some things based on the Kunlun Mirror's accumulated results.
The bamboo slips given to Zhao Huaizhong pointed out that the number of stars should be the movement pattern of the secret palace of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Precisely because it corresponds to the number of stars, the Secret Palace of Yin and Shang was able to borrow the power of the stars in the sky and combine it with the energy of the earth's veins to operate during the long historical period.
Appearing and disappearing all over the world.
"According to the results given by Zou Sheng, stars such as Xihe and Tianqin have moved to the closest star positions in Central Earth in recent days.
Under the influence of Qi, the Secret Palace of Yin and Shang may be born again, and its location... is in Chu!" Zhao Huaizhong thought.
Ps: Let me explain to you, I seem to have overturned.
This chapter was 4,600 words when it was written, so I didn’t update it this afternoon. I wanted to update it to a longer chapter, but when I was editing it, I felt it was very awkward, so I cut out most of the content... I’ve been looking for opportunities to write more these days, so I cut it out.