When Xiang Shaolong and his party returned to Xianyang, except for Fang Zheng, who still looked leisurely and contented, everyone else had serious expressions. Especially Xiang Shaolong, even though Fang Zheng and his generals had reminded him about it at the beginning.

Lu Buwei had bad intentions, but Xiang Shaolong still obtained the evidence in his own way - after escaping from the red pine forest, he went to Henglong Ridge to meet up with the previously separated team as originally agreed.

If Fang Zheng and others' guess is correct and Lu Buwei is really the traitor, then when Xiang Shaolong goes to Henglong Ridge, the person he encounters will definitely not be one of his own.

This has proven to be the case.

Although Xiang Shaolong had been warned early and successfully killed the enemies disguised as companions, being betrayed by Lu Buwei still made him worried and he didn't know how to deal with it.

On the way back to Xianyang, Li Si quietly came to Xiang Shaolong and asked in a low voice.

"Brother Xiang, how much do you know about Mr. Fang Zheng?"

"You mean Mr. Fang?"

Faced with Li Si's inquiry, Xiang Shaolong was somewhat surprised, but he quickly and enthusiastically introduced it.

"This Young Master Fang is very impressive, and to be honest, I, Xiang Shaolong, almost died several times, but he was the one who saved me all the time..."

Having said this, Xiang Shaolong recalled carefully and realized that the other party had saved him many times. The first time he came to this world was when he helped Tao Fang's horse team resist the horse thieves, and then when he took Zhao Qian on a mission.

The tens of thousands of horse thieves he encountered when he was in Wei State, and when he fled with Zhao Qian, plus this time... it can be said that the other party has saved him four times.

"Brother Xiang, do you think this person is trustworthy?"

"Of course I can trust Young Master Fang... What do you think of Brother Li?"

Xiang Shaolong was quite surprised to hear the meaning in Li Si's words, while Li Si nodded and looked at Fang Zheng sitting on the white deer.

"If this person really has a good relationship with you, Brother Xiang, I want to persuade him to join the Qin Kingdom. This person's intelligence and martial arts are top-notch. If we can get his help, Lu Buwei will not be a problem at all."

"You said that you would invite Mr. Fang... This is unlikely. I feel that he doesn't seem to care about this kind of thing. Maybe Brother Li, you don't know that the kings of the six countries have sent people to invite him to the palace for interviews before.

As a result, Mr. Fang kicked him out without any courtesy..."

Although Li Si said so, Xiang Shaolong thought about it carefully and did not think that Fang Zheng had such thoughts. In fact, sometimes he was quite envious of Fang Zheng's life of leisurely clouds and wild cranes. Unfortunately, he made one wrong step and the next, and now he is here.

At this point, Xiang Shaolong has to bear more than just his own fate.

"Those are the Six Kingdoms, but they are not our Qin Kingdom."

Li Si shook his head.

"As you can see from the battle in the red pine forest, this man can withstand the power of ten thousand troops. If he is by his side, there is nothing to worry about."

"Then how are you going to win over him?"

Xiang Shaolong also became curious at this moment. To be honest, he also hoped that Fang Zheng could stay and help him deal with Lu Buwei, but Fang Zheng was really coming and going, and Xiang Shaolong was embarrassed to speak. But if others have such thoughts

, then Xiang Shaolong is quite interested.

Hearing Xiang Shaolong's question, Li Si pondered for a moment.

"Generally speaking, winning over foreign ministers is nothing more than status, power, money, and beautiful women..."

"I think Mr. Fang has no interest in status and power."

Xiang Shaolong shook his head. If Fang Zheng was really interested in this, he would have stopped living the life of idle clouds and wild cranes long ago.

"Where's the money beauty?"

"Master Fang likes to kill horse thieves everywhere and sell war horses to various countries... I think he will not be short of money. As for beauties... I heard from Qian'er that Ji Cainv seems to have fallen in love with him."

Xiang Shaolong is no longer the same person as he was when he first time traveled. You must know that war horses are precious resources in any country. And Fang Zheng's method is to kill without blood, and he only kills people without killing war horses. He also has a unique way to control horses.

With this technique, after a whistle, hundreds of thousands of war horses followed obediently, much more obedient than a truly well-trained army.

So every time Fang Zheng goes out for a walk, he is equivalent to bringing home a thousand taels of gold. The purchasing power of gold these days is naturally very high, and it doesn't look like Fang Zheng has any power or an army to support. He can do most of it alone.

Together with Ji Yanran and at most a group of slaves, this amount of money is enough for them to live a comfortable life.

And all of this is because of Fang Zheng's extraordinary strength. Thinking of this, Xiang Shaolong also cheered up and decided to practice the swordsmanship skills that Fang Zheng left for him after going back. Just see that Fang Zheng can do whatever he wants.

If you come and leave when you want, but you are in crisis, you will know how big the gap between the two parties is.

In fact, Xiang Shaolong didn't know that Fang Zheng could hardly find any horse thieves that could be used to "subsidize his family's income". The reason was very simple. Originally, those big horse thieves were basically troops from other countries pretending to be horse thieves to disrupt the enemy's supplies.

They were involved in transportation and commerce. In the end, they were all killed by Fang Zheng, but they actually sold the war horses back to them.

This made the Six Nations so angry that they vomited blood. You said not to buy it? War horses are military supplies after all. If you don't buy them back, they will sell them to the enemy country, which will only strengthen the other country's strength. But you have to buy it back...I

Why should I spend money to buy my own things!!!

So after several attempts, the six countries basically gave up on this harmful practice. Now, except for some small groups of horse thieves who couldn't see the situation clearly, the large number of horse thieves like Gray Hu before had almost disappeared from the borders of the six countries.

After all, no one's cavalry was blown by the strong wind.

When they arrived outside Xianyang City, they saw Lu Buwei personally bringing his family to welcome him. Fang Zheng was not in the mood to see the conciliatory politeness between Lu Buwei and Xiang Shaolong, so he said hello and left straight away to go sightseeing in Xianyang City.

Compared with the capitals of other countries, Xianyang is extremely prosperous. This does not mean how luxuriously the capital is built, but that the streets are very lively with people coming and going. From this, we can also see the rise and fall of a country. Before Founder

I have also been to Handan and Daliang. In terms of status and history, these two ancient cities are much higher than Xianyang. However, there are few people on the streets. The reason is naturally that the Six Kingdoms fought for many years and everyone was killed.

Where is there any prosperity and excitement?

It can be seen from this that it is indeed not a fluke that Qin State was able to unify the world.

"Master Fang, please stay!"

Just when Fang Zheng was riding a white deer to go shopping, he heard a shout from behind him. He turned around and saw a man chasing after him on horseback. When he got to Fang Zheng, he immediately got off his horse and respectfully handed over an invitation.

The post was handed over.

"I am Lu Meng, a general of Prime Minister Lu's family. Prime Minister Lu knows Mr. Fang's name, so he specially invited Mr. Fang to a dinner at the Lu Mansion to discuss the ways of governing the country. I wonder if Mr. Fang has time?"

"Lu Buwei?"

Looking at the invitation in front of him, Fang Zheng snorted softly.

"Lu Buwei is a businessman. What qualifications do you have to talk about the governance of the country? Fang is not interested in him at all. You can leave."

"But……………"

"roll."

Fang Zheng glanced at him silently, and the other person's complexion suddenly changed, and he broke out in cold sweat. He didn't dare to say another word, and immediately turned around and left.

Fang Zheng had never thought highly of Lu Buwei. Fang Zheng also read his so-called "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" and indeed "benefited a lot" from it.

For example, "The world is not the world of one person, but the world of the world." This sentence alone makes sense, but if you combine it with other words in this book, it doesn't make sense, such as "Punishing violence and

If you are not selfish, you can bestow honors on the wise men in the world, so you can be called the king uncle. If you let the king's ruler punish violent people for selfish reasons, then you cannot be the king uncle."

There is nothing wrong with these words in themselves, but it is very problematic if Lu Buwei compiles them into a book. You see, he first said, "The world is not the world of one person, but the world of everyone." Then he came again.

One sentence: "Kill the tyrant without occupying his land, and grant the land to the virtuous. Only then can you achieve the goal of becoming a king."

Oops, then we have to ask, who is that virtuous person? If you want to say that the people of the world belong to the world, do you mean that only the virtuous people selected by the people of the world are worthy of the world? So how do you choose the people of the world?

You must know that this was ancient times, not modern times with developed Internet. It is okay for people like Han Fei and others to write books and establish opinions, but if you want to influence the public, you are basically blind. If you really want the world to choose virtuous people, then at least

We have to let the world know that such a person exists.

And all of this... costs money.

So the question becomes, which one makes more money, a real scholar or a businessman?

Is this still a problem?

To put it bluntly, Lu's Spring and Autumn Period is actually the earliest theory of liberal democracy. It can be seen that capitalists have been a virtuous person for thousands of years. Under the banner of petitioning for the people, it is actually for themselves. In fact, this is very confusing.

, because capitalists control commercial circulation, which has the deepest relationship with ordinary people. If you talk about the various policies above the court, ordinary people will not feel the same. But if you talk about the firewood, rice, oil, salt, food, clothing, housing and transportation at home, this has nothing to do with businessmen.

Inseparable relationship.

Therefore, it is natural for businessmen to win over the people at the bottom to fight against the regime to obtain benefits.

Thanks to Qin Shihuang's great talent and strategy, Lu Buwei was killed, which laid down the basic ideological guidelines for China in the future to emphasize agriculture and suppress business. Otherwise, China might be like Europe, where Rome fell apart and was completely finished.

Capitalists always pretend to be petitioning for the people, but at any time, the interests of the capitalists and the interests of the people at the bottom are in conflict with each other. Of course, they can, like Lu Buwei, recruit wise men and gather the opinions of various families to write

Things like "Lu's Spring and Autumn" are used to confuse the public, but the facts prove that no matter how rich your capital is, Qin Shihuang will cut you off. No matter how much you brag about freedom and democracy, it will be of no use to the world's virtuous people.

It's considered good luck if you don't have a whole family raped and executed by the nine implicated clans. If I send you on your way with a glass of poisonous wine, what else can you be dissatisfied about?

No matter what era, the capitalists are the original sin, and it is absolutely right to blame them if something goes wrong.

"Wow!!"

Just when Fang Zheng was distracted and thinking, suddenly, there was a commotion among the market crowd in front of him. Then Fang Zheng saw several big men chasing a young man, punching and kicking him, and knocking him to the ground. Beside him, a young man

The beautiful girl cried and tried to stop the villains, but was pushed to the ground instead.

Hey, why is it like this again?

Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng shook his head and sighed. He had seen similar things countless times. There was really a lack of entertainment in ancient times. In modern times, you can still stay at home and watch new shows and play games, but

In this era, people's entertainment is basically related to beauties singing and dancing, so the conflicts generated are naturally so many that even the number of routines in online articles is not enough...

But if you see it, you still have to take care of it, right?

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng also lightly patted the white deer under him, and then saw a flash of white shadow. The next moment, the white deer suddenly jumped up from the crowd and landed heavily between the two groups of people, knocking them away.
Chapter completed!