Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 690 About to meet up
  When he heard Ying Zheng calling him, Gai Nie, who had been standing with his eyes closed as if he was asleep and had not heard the conversation between Ying Zheng and Donghuang Taiyi just now, finally opened his eyes.

Although he tried his best to stay clear of the plans of Ying Zheng and the Yin Yang family, since Ying Zheng asked him, he would not be vague and perfunctory, and replied in a deep voice:
  "I feel that if I deal with it this way, I'm afraid the Imperial Master will not accept it when he comes back."

Ying Zheng nodded slightly and did not refute this. He just asked, "Do you think Mr. Gai will get better results by waiting for him to come back or calling him back now?"

"This...maybe not." Gai Nie hesitated and replied uncertainly.

Although Gu Xun usually looks normal, his attitude towards life is even friendly - although he only targets people he is willing to be friendly to, he is full of pride in his bones and is unwilling to accept being manipulated by others.

Gai Nie saw many people like this - his current master Ying Zheng, his junior brother Wei Zhuang, and even himself were all like this, but he was usually humble and restrained.

This type of people will never take a step back when facing something they care about.

For example, the great cause that Ying Zheng pursues, Wei Zhuang's persistent victory, or the kind of world that he himself longs for.

As for Gu Xun, in Gai Nie's opinion, the simplest thing he cares about is people.

But just because of this, whether you choose to strike first and then show off, or choose to talk things through, it may be difficult to get a result that satisfies both parties.

All in all, a dilemma.

The reason why Gai Nie favored Gu Xun in his initial answer was because he, like Gu Xun, strongly disagreed with Ying Zheng's pursuit of immortality.

He even rejects such nonsense even more than Gu Xun.

Because of this, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Ying Zheng should not have a quarrel with Gu Xun for Dongjun.

Ying Zheng knew what Gai Nie was thinking and didn't ask any more questions.

As for whether he will give up his previous plan?

Obviously impossible.

He is the king of Qin, and he will naturally try to take into account the emotions of people who are useful to him, but only as much as possible without affecting him.

Gu Xun was indeed useful to him, but that was it.

Not to mention Gu Xun, even those capable ministers and generals who opened up territory for Qin and made great achievements in battle, they had to make concessions to him, the King of Qin, on this matter.

Again, the king's power is supreme.

Seeing that Ying Zheng was silent, Gai Nie sighed secretly in his heart, and his figure gradually disappeared again.

He felt that if this matter continued to develop, it might not go as Ying Zheng intended.

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After Donghuang Taiyi rushed back to the Nine Palaces of the Divine Capital from Zhangtai Palace, he also received an urgent letter from the Moon God and found out what the situation was.

He was naturally disappointed that Yueshen and others failed to capture Concubine Yan on the spot, but he did not get too hung up on unnecessary emotions and immediately began to arrange the next actions.

Mainly divided into two parts:
  One is to arrange for people to keep an eye on Yan Dan and judge based on the results of the next actions. If the plan cannot be restarted in a short period of time, first find a way to give Yan Dan a reasonable 'result' - for example, Feiyan failed He escaped from the encirclement and suppression of the Yin Yang family and died - thus temporarily ending the current plan and waiting for the next step.

Secondly, of course, extra manpower was sent to capture Concubine Yan as quickly as possible.

In this regard, the Yin and Yang family, which has already received Ying Zheng's reply, can additionally rely on the power of the net. Logically speaking, Concubine Yan alone cannot escape for long.

After making detailed plans and arrangements, Donghuang Taiyi dispatched most of the remaining disciples to reinforce Yueshen and others.

At present, the Yin Yang family no longer has high-level combat power, only ordinary disciples.

Concubine Yan defected, Yueshen took Shao Siming, and Mrs. Xiang pursued her. Now Xiangjun is responsible for secretly monitoring Yandan's movements. Yunzhongjun is just an alchemy machine and can't help much with other matters. As for Da Siming... Gu Xun came here once before. Da Siming was upset because of the last assassination in the Yellow River. In addition, Da Siming was injured because he needed to act to deceive Yan Dan. He was temporarily paralyzed in bed. He probably didn't have a baby. It will not return to normal levels in three or two months.

After discovering that Donghuang Taiyi had no one available for him for the time being, his thoughts couldn't help but wander - the vacant Star Soul position should almost have an owner.

This thought only floated for a moment, and he put it aside temporarily. The most concerning thing at the moment was Concubine Yan's affairs.

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More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

The news of Yan Dan's escape and return to the country has spread, but due to limited channels of communication and the fact that the Qin State is not in a hurry to hold the Yan State accountable for this matter, the spread is not very fast and is mainly still spreading within the Qin State.

As for the Six Kingdoms of Shandong and even the Kingdom of Yan, only the senior officials in power know about it.

When this kind of thing happened, the other five countries naturally settled down and waited to watch the show, but King Yan was shocked and angry, not understanding what kind of monster his good prince was.

Because the Yan Dan people have not returned yet, the Qin State has not held anyone accountable, and the details are still half-understood. King Yan Xi did not respond, but silently pretended not to know, planning to wait for Yan Dan to return to the country to discuss.

The day after Yan Dan escaped, Gu Xun received a secret letter from Mo Ya, learned everything and got a satisfactory result.

He wrote two replies to Mo Crow, one was not for him, and the other was not...

These two letters were what he wanted Mo Ya to pass on to others. As for Mo Ya himself, he did not need him to give instructions on what to do and how to do it. He believed that Mo Ya was more experienced than him.

At the same time as him, Zhang Han also received a secret letter from Ying Zheng, which instructed him to strengthen monitoring of Gu Xun and report their movements to Xianyang more frequently.

Because they wanted to hide it from Gu Xun, both Luo Weng and the Yin Yang family tried their best to cover up the noise they had made, and Zhang Han was unable to know what kind of inside story was hidden in it.

However, he could guess from the surface exposure of Yan Dan's private escape back to China that the inside story was very deep and he probably couldn't grasp it.

As the leader of an espionage unit, he is keen on valuable intelligence, but he also knows that it is best not to know some things, so he should just do his job honestly.

Although Gu Xun didn't notice any changes in Zhang Han's attitude or behavior, he knew in his heart that Ying Zheng must have some arrangements for him.

But it doesn't matter, Zhang Han can only do that over and over again, and nothing can be changed.

After that, Gu Xun sped up on his way. Although it couldn't be called rushing, at least it wasn't crawling.

More than ten days passed by in a blink of an eye. Gu Xun and Zhang Han also successfully traveled south via the old road, crossed the Bao River and arrived at Nanzheng City, the seat of Hanzhong County.

At the same time, under the dual pursuit of Luo Wang and the Yin Yang family, Concubine Yan crossed a section of the Qinling Mountains where Taiyi Mountain is located and approached the location of Nanzheng City.

　The four major passes in northern Sichuan are Jiameng, Qipan, Jianmen (Jiange) and Baishui.

　　Among them, Qipanguan Pass is considered the first pass. It is the closest to the Qin side and is the beginning of Shiniu Road. The second is Baishui Pass, which is almost in the middle of Shiniu Road. Finally, there are Jiameng Pass and Jianmen Pass. The places are very close together, located at the end of Shiniu Road.

　　However, it is clearly recorded in historical materials that there were man-made passes in the pre-Qin Dynasty, probably only Jiameng Pass.

　　Qipan and Baishui were probably built during the Qin and Han Dynasties, but the road to Shu is inherently difficult. Even if the city is not built, it can still be regarded as a natural pass.

　　As for Jianmen Pass, it should have been called Jiange before the Tang Dynasty. It was directly known as the best natural pass in the world. It is really the kind of place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack without needing anything.

　　It was not until the Three Kingdoms period that Zhuge Liang officially built the Jiange Tower here.

　　Therefore, in this article, there is only one pass into Shu, Jiameng Pass.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)