When Xiang Shaolong and his party returned to Xianyang, except for Fang Zheng who was still relaxed, everyone else had a serious look on their faces. Especially Xiang Shaolong, although Fang Zheng and his family members had reminded him of Lü Buwei's ill intentions at the beginning, Xiang Shaolong still got evidence in his own way - after escaping from the red pine forest, he went to Henglong Ridge as originally agreed to meet up with the previously dispersed team.

If Fang Zheng and others guessed correctly and Lu Buwei was really the traitor, then when Xiang Shaolong went to Henglong Ridge, the people he met would definitely not be his own people.

This turned out to be true.

Although Xiang Shaolong had been warned early and successfully killed the enemy who was disguised as his companion, he was still worried about being betrayed by Lu Buwei and 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 question, Xiang Shaolong was somewhat surprised, but he quickly and enthusiastically introduced himself.

"This Mr. Fang is very capable. To be honest, I, Xiang Shaolong, almost lost my life several times, and it was he who saved me..."

At this point, Xiang Shaolong recalled carefully, and then he realized that the other party had saved him many times. The first time was when he had just arrived in this world and helped Tao Fang's cavalry to resist the horse thieves, and then when he encountered tens of thousands of horse thieves when he was on a diplomatic mission to Wei State with Zhao Qian, 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 trust Master Fang... What do you think, Brother Li?"

Xiang Shaolong was quite surprised to hear the hidden meaning in Li Si's words, while Li Si nodded and looked at Fang Zheng who was 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 State. This person is first-rate in both intelligence and martial arts. If I can get his help, Lu Buwei will not be a problem at all."

"You said you wanted to invite Master Fang... That's unlikely. I feel like he doesn't care about this kind of thing. Maybe you don't know, Brother Li, that the kings of the six countries had sent people to invite him to the palace for a meeting, but they were kicked out by Master Fang without any courtesy..."

Although Li Si said so, Xiang Shaolong thought about it carefully and didn't think Fang Zheng had such an idea. In fact, sometimes he envied Fang Zheng's free and easy life, but unfortunately, one wrong step led to another, and now Xiang Shaolong had to bear more than just his own fate.

"Those are the six kingdoms, but they are not our Qin."

Li Si shook his head.

"From the battle in the Red Pine Forest, we know that this man can defeat ten thousand troops by himself. If he is by my side, we won't have to worry about anything."

"So how do you plan to win him over?"

Xiang Shaolong was also 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 so erratic that Xiang Shaolong was too embarrassed to ask. But if other people had such an idea, Xiang Shaolong would still be quite interested.

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

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

"I don't think Mr. Fang has any interest in status or power."

Xiang Shaolong shook his head. If Fang Zheng was really interested in this, he would not have lived such an idle life long ago.

"Where's the money beauty?"

"Master Fang likes to kill horse thieves everywhere and sell war horses to various countries... I don't think he is short of money. As for beautiful women... I heard Qian'er say that Miss Ji seems to have fallen in love with him."

Xiang Shaolong is no longer the same person he was when he first crossed over. You have to know that war horses are a precious resource in any country. Fang Zheng's method is to kill people without shedding blood, and only kill people but not war horses. He also has a unique horse-controlling technique. With a whistle, hundreds of war horses will follow him obediently, more obedient than a truly well-trained army.

Therefore, every time Fang Zheng went out for a stroll, it was equivalent to bringing home a thousand taels of gold. The purchasing power of gold was naturally very high in those days. Moreover, Fang Zheng did not look like he had any power or army to support. With him alone, at most Ji Yanran and a group of servants, this amount of money was enough for them to live a comfortable life.

All of this was due to Fang Zheng's extraordinary strength. Thinking of this, Xiang Shaolong also cheered up and decided to practice the sword skills Fang Zheng left for him after returning. Just look at how big the gap between the two sides is, just by looking at Fang Zheng being able to come and go as he pleases, while he is in danger everywhere.

In fact, Xiang Shaolong didn't know that Fang Zheng could hardly find any horse thieves to "subsidize the family" now. The reason was very simple. The large groups of horse thieves were basically the armies of other countries pretending to be horse thieves to disrupt the enemy's material transportation and trade. As a result, Fang Zheng killed them all and even sold the war horses back to them.

This made the six countries so angry that they vomited blood. You said you didn't want to buy it. War horses are military supplies after all. If you don't buy them back and they sell them to the enemy country, it will strengthen the enemy's strength. But you want to buy them back... Why should I spend money to buy my own things!!!

So after several times, the six countries basically gave up this practice that harmed others and did not benefit themselves. At this time, except for some small groups of horse thieves who could not see the situation clearly, large numbers of horse thieves like Huihu before had almost disappeared on the borders of the six countries.

After all, no one's cavalry comes from the wind.

When they arrived outside the city of Xianyang, they saw Lu Buwei personally bringing his family to greet them. Fang Zheng was in no mood to watch the false politeness between Lu Buwei and Xiang Shaolong, so he just said hello and left to visit Xianyang city.

Compared to other capitals, Xianyang was unusually prosperous. This was not because the capital was built in a luxurious way, but because the streets were bustling with people. This also showed the rise and fall of a country. Fang Zheng had been to Handan and Daliang before. These two ancient cities were much higher than Xianyang in terms of status and history, but the streets were sparsely populated. The reason was naturally that the six countries had been fighting for years, and all the people had been killed. How could there be any prosperity and bustle?

From this we can see that it was no fluke that the Qin State was able to unify the world.

"Mr. Fang, please stay!"

Just as Fang Zheng was riding his white deer around the street, he heard a shout from behind. Turning around, he saw a man riding a horse chasing him from behind. When he arrived in front of Fang Zheng, he immediately dismounted and respectfully handed him an invitation.

"My name is Lu Meng, and I am a general of Prime Minister Lu. Prime Minister Lu has known Mr. Fang for a long time, so he specially invited Mr. Fang to a dinner at Lu's mansion to discuss the way to govern the country. I wonder if Mr. Fang has time?"

"Lü Buwei?"

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

"Lü Buwei is just a businessman. What qualifications does he have to talk about how to govern a country? I have no interest in him at all. You can leave now."

"But……"

"roll."

Fang Zheng glanced at him silently, and the other party's face suddenly changed drastically. He broke out in a cold sweat and dared not say another word. He immediately turned around and left.

Fang Zheng had never looked down on Lü Buwei. He also read his so-called "Lüshi Chunqiu" and benefited a lot from it.

For example, "The world does not belong to one person, but to all people." This sentence alone makes sense, but it doesn't make sense if you combine it with other sentences in the book, such as "Punish the tyrants without being partial, and enfeoff the wise men of the world, so you can be a king. If the king punishes the tyrants and is partial, he can no longer be a king."

There is nothing wrong with these words in themselves, but when Lü Buwei compiled them into a book, it became very problematic. You see, he first said, "The world does not belong to one person, but to everyone." Then he added, "Kill the tyrant and do not occupy his land, but give the land to virtuous people, so that you can achieve the cause of kingship and hegemony."

Oh, then we have to ask, who is that virtuous person? If you say that the world belongs to all people in the world, does that mean that only virtuous people who are chosen by all people in the world are worthy of ruling the world? Then how do we choose people in the world?

You have to know that it was ancient times, not the modern era with advanced internet. It was fine for people like Han Fei to write books and make statements, but it was basically impossible for them to influence the public. If you really want to let the world choose the most virtuous person in the world, then at least let the world know that such a person exists.

And all of this... costs money.

So the question is, who has more money, a real scholar or a businessman?

Is this still a problem?

To put it bluntly, Lüshi Chunqiu is actually the earliest theory of liberal democracy. It can be seen that capitalists have indeed been the same for thousands of years. They petition for the people under the banner of petitioning for themselves. In fact, this is very confusing, because capitalists control commercial circulation, which is the most closely related to ordinary people. You talk about the various policies in the court, and ordinary people will not feel the same. But if you talk about the daily necessities of life, food, clothing, housing and transportation, these are inseparable from businessmen.

Therefore, it is natural for businessmen to win over the grassroots people to fight against the regime in order to gain benefits.

Thanks to the great talent and strategy of Qin Shihuang, he killed Lu Buwei and laid the basic ideological guiding principle of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce for the future of China. Otherwise, China might have been like Europe, which was completely destroyed after Rome was divided into pieces.

Capitalists always pretend to petition for the people, but at any time, the interests of capitalists and the interests of the grassroots people are in conflict with each other. They can certainly recruit wise men like Lü Buwei, collect opinions from various schools of thought and write things like "Lüshi Chunqiu" to confuse the public, but facts have proved that no matter how rich your capital is, Qin Shihuang will kill you, and no matter how much you brag about freedom and democracy, it will be useless.

You're lucky if your entire family isn't executed, but what's the point of being dissatisfied if you're sent to death with a cup of poisoned wine?

Regardless of the era, capitalists are the original sinners, and it is absolutely right to drag them out to take the blame when problems arise.

“Wow!!”

Just as Fang Zheng was distracted and thinking, suddenly, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd in front of him. Then Fang Zheng saw several big men chasing a young man and punching and kicking him, knocking him to the ground. Next to him, a young and beautiful girl cried and tried to stop the group of evil men, but was pushed to the ground by them.

Hey, why is this again?

Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng shook his head and sighed. He had seen similar things countless times. In ancient times, there was too little entertainment. In modern times, you can stay at home and watch new shows or play games, but in this era, people's entertainment is basically related to beautiful women singing and dancing. Therefore, the conflicts that arise are naturally more numerous than the number of routines in online novels combined...

But since you’ve seen it, you’ve got to do something about it, right?

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng gently patted the white deer under him, and then he saw a white shadow flash. The next moment, the white deer suddenly leaped up from the crowd and landed heavily between the two groups, separating them.