Chapter 677
"What did you just say?" At first, Xiang Liang nodded his head as he stroked his beard, after all, Li Linfei was a good talent, better than his disciple, Yi Xiaochuan.
He is more mature and stable in nature, not only is he not so ditzy, but he also does not have the kind-heartedness of Yi Xiaochuan's saintly bitch, so it can be said that he is a good heir that can not be found.
The fact that the relationship with Yi Xiaochuan is there, Xiang Liang has actually moved to accept the apprentice, but before Li Linfei remembered to look for Yi Xiaochuan, so he did not mention this.
Therefore, at this time when Li Linfei asked to be his disciple, Xiang Liang had already agreed to it in his heart, but he still needed to be a bit more reserved, so he asked that question.
Who would have thought that in the end, he would have heard from Li Linfei's mouth a sentence that would have shocked him, or rather all the people here!
"I say that chaos is coming!" Li Linfei naturally knew what Xiang Liang and the others were surprised by.
"How dare you say that chaos is coming?" A few people had just thought they had heard wrong, but now they were only left in shock.
"Without saying anything else, let's just say in all fairness that Emperor Qin was indeed the best in literature and martial arts in a thousand years, but he had one fatal flaw, that is, he was too ambitious and too hasty."
"Whether it is his unification of the six kingdoms, or the book with the same text and the car with the same track, including the current construction of straight roads all over the world as well as the Great Wall and so on, for the entire Yanhuang nation, the entire Central Plains, there are a hundred benefits but not a single harm, so to speak, enough to pass on for thousands of years to benefit the whole world."
Xiang Yu's face was furious and he was about to stand up and drink, after all, he was a Chu man, and after the great Chu general Xiang Yan, it was impossible for him to accept this statement of Li Linfei.
But Xiang Liang grabbed his arm at the side, although he was in the same mood as Xiang Yu, but just now Li Linfei opened his speech by saying that in all fairness, regardless of the heart of national hatred of the descendants of these six kingdoms, the whole Central Plains and the descendants of Yan Huang alone, what Li Linfei said was indeed correct.
"Continue!" After Xiang Liang stopped Xiang Yu, he said to Li Linfei in a deep voice, obviously having accepted these remarks of Li Linfei.
"But the Qin Emperor did not consider whether the country and the people could bear such huge expenses and wear and tear, especially the aspect of corvée."
"Whether it was the construction of the Straight Road, the Great Wall or the imperial tomb and so on, the corvée required was in the hundreds of thousands of millions, if he had extended the process ten times, then whether it was the money and food supplies or the pressure on the people or the corvée levied, there would not be much pressure on the Great Qin, which is now unified over the seven kingdoms."
"But it was the Qin Emperor who was so pleased with himself and so hasty that he caused most of the corvée work, especially the corvée work to build the Great Wall and the imperial tombs, to not return alive; he was the one who only knew what to do but did not know how to do it."
"What's more, he doesn't know what it means to say that water can carry a boat and also overturn it, if he can't make changes, then in say eight or ten more years' time, it will cause the Great Qin to fall apart and collapse overnight because of this!"
"I didn't expect you to not only be a good martial arts practitioner, but also to have such insight, good, I'll take you as a disciple!"
Li Linfei smiled and performed the obeisance, and then stayed here to learn swordplay from Xiang Liang and spearplay from Xiang Yu, and also practiced riding and swordplay non-stop every day! One has to ask, since Xiang Liang could not beat Li Linfei even now, what else could he teach Guo Dong in kung fu? And he gave up this part of the Tu'an storyline for this matter.
Quite rightly, Li Linfei hadn't actually learned anything too useful up until the day he left here, and although he had gained something, it was just about as good as it could have been.
Xiang Yu's spear technique was more about his own bravery and natural strength, the moves were not subtle, and when put to Li Linfei's use the weapon was left with the basic concept of a set of moves.
Although Xiang Liang's swordplay is subtle, it is just that, not to mention the most subtle in those higher worlds, even in this mythical world, and it follows the path of skill, which is not in line with Guo Dong's brutal and direct approach.
But yet that doesn't mean they are useless! First of all, this era is not yet as diverse as the weapons of the later world, there are basically only a few types of swords, guns, spears and gores, etc. It is still useful to learn the art of guns and swords, and even more so to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger when needed.
You can hide your true strengths, so that your enemy is not aware of them and you can easily win by surprise. Secondly and most importantly, the reason why Guo Dong learned these was to find an identity for himself.
Whether it was to enter the imperial court of the Qin Dynasty, or to fight for the Central Plains in the future, or even to join the camp of the Western Chu, one always needed an identity, an entry point.
He came to learn from his master, not for martial arts, but to build a close relationship with the Xiang family, and to get a high status as the heir of the Xiang family in Chu, so that he could be a big help for the future.
The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things.
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"Master, I want to leave Huiji!" This day Li Linfei suddenly found Xiang Liang.
"Why?" Xiang Liang was stunned, Li Linfei could be said to have made great progress in learning his art from him over the past year or so, at least in his opinion, the key thing was that in this year or so, Li Linfei had never said anything like he wanted to leave, how come he suddenly told himself he wanted to leave Huijie in a few days?
"Are you going back to Pei County to accompany Pheasant to visit her family?" Xiang Liang looked at Lu Phe by Li Linfei's side and suddenly understood.
"No!" Who had thought that Li Linfei shook his head.
Then with a clasp of his fist, he said, "Master, I have recently gotten two pieces of news, one about Xiao Chuan and one about the Qin Emperor."
Hmm? Xiang Liang and the uncle and nephew of Xiang Yu at the side had only just run up with the anger that had risen because Li Linfei had said that he was leaving and was still accompanying Lu Phe to his mother's home.
Hearing Guo Dong's subsequent remark they suddenly paused, "What did you say?"
"Xiaochuan? You have news of Xiao Chuan?"
Chapter 678
Li Linfei nodded and said, "I haven't stopped prying for news of Xiao Chuan over the past year, Xiao Chuan said he had returned home, but I knew that our hometown was somewhat special, it was easy to come out and basically impossible to go back, so I knew full well that he had gone on a trip to Wushan Mountain."
"In the end, however, I didn't go to Mount Tangwu to look for him, because I knew that he was destined to make a trip to Mount Tangwu for nothing, there would be some clues there, but it was absolutely impossible for him to return to our hometown."
Li Linfei's words reminded Xiang Liang involuntarily of how Yi Xiaochuan had fallen from the sky accompanied by a thunderstorm at the execution ground.
And Xiang Yu also involuntarily remembered the time when Yi Xiaochuan was shot from his back into his front heart by a sharp arrow and was seriously injured to the point of death, only to recover early the next morning without even a scar.
Combined with Li Linfei's words, the two men immediately seemed to understand the origin of these miraculous features of Yi Xiaochuan, although it was only their self-righteous brainstorming.
"Because I know his nature somewhat, I knew that he would definitely make a trip to the capital city of Xianyang for a visit, so I also went to Xianyang with Lu Pian before and left someone there to continue to inquire about his whereabouts, and it was only a few days ago that I finally got news of him sent to me."
Here Li Linfei paused for a moment, then continued, "Previously Yi Xiaochuan had a so-called befriended elder brother who came from a gangster background, a pavilion commander in Pei County, who was ordered to escort a team of corvée workers to Xianyang more than two years ago, Xiaochuan was following him to leave Pei County at that time, and ended up contracting the plague halfway, as I have mentioned before."
"But it wasn't until a few days ago that the ears I left in Xianyang sent me a letter I learned that Xiaochuan had indeed travelled to Xianyang with another friend from our hometown, his fiancée's elder brother, after a fruitless trip to Tangwu Mountain, and happened to meet his so-called befriended elder brother."
"And the other party happened to have two corvée workers who didn't know what to do, so they got Xiaochuan and the others drunk and pretended to be corvée workers, one was relegated to an official slave and is nowhere to be found, while Xiaochuan was sent to the North to build the Great Wall, and then was captured by a small country called Tu'an."
What was really useful was the news that Li Linfei had received yesterday from the system that the state of Tu'an had bowed down and offered Princess Yushu to Qin Shi Huang as a concubine, and that Qin Shi Huang was so pleased that he had sent his general Meng Tian to greet her.
This is the reason why Li Linfei decided to leave. He could give up the plot of the Tu'an Kingdom, after all, there was not much space there, only three or two days of the main story, and the rest was just a passing comment, Li Linfei even if he gave up this part of the plot, there would not be anything.
But the rest of the plot he couldn't miss at all! In particular, when Yu Shu arrived at the border between the two countries, Meng Tian appeared, then they fell off the cliff, rested in the cave to recover from their injuries, until they returned to Xianyang.
This episode is a classic, not to mention not too long, but it takes up a very high percentage of the plot, perhaps even more than the entire dozen or so episodes after the death of Qin Shi Huang!
After all, this is the world of mythology, not the world of the late Qin Dynasty when Chu and Han were at war!
"So you are going to the country of Tu'an to look for Xiaochuan?" When Li Linfei said this, how could Xiang Liang not understand what he was thinking? The bit of anger in his heart was instantly gone.
Li Linfei nodded, but then shook his head, "More than that, I also got the news that Princess Yushu of the Tu'an Kingdom has been offered to the Qin Emperor as a concubine, and the Qin Emperor has already sent his great general Meng Tian to greet her, with Yi Xiaochuan's ability and nature, I have no doubt that he has formed a deep bond with that princess."
"And with his nature, he will definitely not stand by and watch a young beauty, as an item marry that awful old man, the Qin Emperor, not to mention an acquaintance of his, so he will definitely step in to stop it."
Speaking of this Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu, even including Lu Phenchen beside him, were all nodding with great empathy; given Yi Xiaochuan's nature, these things were bound to happen.
"So I am going to rush to the border of Tu'an and Great Qin to help Xiaochuan, if Xiaochuan doesn't show up, I can also hijack that Princess Yushu so that she can help me find Xiaochuan's whereabouts, or it would be a good choice to sabotage this peacemaking between Great Qin and Tu'an."
The first thing I can do is to take advantage of this opportunity to make friends with the future imperial concubine and General Meng Tian, and then use it as an opportunity to enter the Qin court. I can then take advantage of this opportunity to enter the Qin dynasty."
"What? You're going to be a lapdog for the Qin Emperor!" At the end of Li Linfei's words, Xiang Yu suddenly burst into a rage and interrupted Guo Dong's words.
"Yu'er! Sit down!" Xiang Liang also shouted furiously, but instead of reprimanding Li Linfei like Xiang Yu, he reprimanded Xiang Yu instead.
"Uncle." Xiang Yu was about to retort, but his words were interrupted by another bellow from Xiang Liang just as they came out.
"I told you to sit down! Listen to Little Fei continue! Don't you still believe in Little Fei's character? What's more, if Little Fei can say it openly and honestly in front of us, then that means he is definitely not what you think!"
Listening to Xiang Liang's words, Li Linfei nodded, "That's right, what Master said is right! If I were as greedy for glory and wealth as you think and wanted to be an official, the easiest thing would be to offer that car of mine to the Qin Emperor as soon as possible, with that precious car of mine, it wouldn't be hard to change a county governor, right? The most important thing is to tell you in an open and honest manner. Brother Yu, brains, right, are a good thing, but unfortunately you don't have them!"
When Xiang Yu heard this and was about to get up and fight Li Linfei to the death, Li Linfei hurriedly opened his mouth and said what he intended to do.
"First of all, this would be the best and easiest way to gather forces, whether it is to cover everyone or to gather military power."
"If it is really feasible, it is exactly equivalent to using the Qin Emperor's money, food, troops and fodder to feed our troops to build his rebellion and take over his kingdom!"
This first point made Xiang Yu's movements stop, and after exchanging a glance with Xiang Liang they looked at Li Linfei somewhat incredulously, something they hadn't really thought of!
"The second thing is that we can find opportunities to enlist people's hearts, or to make a name for ourselves and shake the sands, or to be praised by all the people and save them from the fire, so that if the Great Qin falls apart later, we can immediately pull up a team and have the support of the people of the world. In the end, we can also push from it and speed up the destruction of the Great Qin!"