History will not stagnate just because a few people die.

This is true whether he is an emperor, a treacherous minister, a hero, or a peerless beauty.

Time will always pass.

as always.

Fang Zheng stood in front of the hillside, looking at the tombstone in front of him, silent.

As in history, Qin Shihuang died suddenly in the sand dunes during his tour.

In fact, the same was true for those people Fang Zheng had seen before. Xiang Shaolong and others had already died, and Qin Shihuang was no exception. No one could escape the shackles of time. Except for the Time Dragon, everyone would move forward under the torrent of time and then reach his destination.

It's about time.

Fang Zheng reached out and placed a flower in front of the tombstone, looking at the name on it. Strictly speaking, this was the first time Fang Zheng truly felt the difference between gods and mortals. Time dragons will not die, while mortals will only grow old. Although Fang Zheng had been mentally prepared for this, he did not expect that his first experience would be here...

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Goddess of Order gave me a trial.

As an immortal, as an immortal, time-transcending dragon, Fang Zheng will have to face this reality one day. Perhaps only a very few people can be with him forever, such as Tilia, Hecate, Nymph, and Yui. They are all considered half immortals. The King of the Crimson World is not affected by lifespan, and the same is obviously true for artificial angels and electronic elves. But it's hard to say for others, especially people like Kuroneko, Asuna, and Eriri... Maybe one day, Fang Zheng will stand in front of their tombstones like he is now, and send them his condolences and blessings.

Well...but considering Black Cat's personality, she might transform herself into a lich or a vampire...after all, there is no cure for the chuunibyou that is deeply rooted in her bones.

We have to keep an eye on this. It's okay for vampires, but if the black cat wants to transform himself into a lich, Fang Zheng must stop it.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng shook his head and laughed.

Originally, Fang Zheng thought that the death of a loved one would make him extremely heartbroken. Just like in many fairy tales, due to the difference in lifespan, many immortals are indifferent to the world, in order to escape the pain of watching the people around them pass away. However, in fact, Fang Zheng was not like that. Although he was also very sad about the death of his loved one, he unexpectedly did not feel as if his heart was dead.

After all, those novels were written by mortals, who also have a limited lifespan. But from the perspective of a race with a longer lifespan, it is a different picture. In fact, everyone will experience some separations in their life journey, such as grandparents and parents. From the perspective of age, it is natural that the young will send off the old. But this does not mean that you will be sad and painful forever, and never recover.

Moreover, it is not uncommon for elderly people who have lost their partners to find new spouses in their later years and spend the rest of their lives together.

For Fang Zheng, life is like a train. Some people will get on the train and move forward with him, and then get off at the station and say goodbye to him. This is of course hard to let go, and even sad. But the train will continue to move forward, and sooner or later new companions will get on the train again. In this way, the end of one journey is connected to the beginning of another journey.

After thinking this through, Fang Zheng felt much more comfortable.

"grown ups!"

Just then, a voice sounded. Fang Zheng turned around and looked behind him, only to see one of his students standing there.

"It's time for the lecture."

"Well...I'll be there now."

Fang Zheng smiled slightly and nodded.

Although Qin Shi Huang's sudden death happened a few years earlier than Fang Zheng's memory, the specific events were not much different. In the first year of the reign of Qin Er Shi, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang started the Daze Township Uprising, which marked the beginning of the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty. After that, many heroes emerged and various monsters and demons appeared one after another.

However, among them, the rebel army led by Fang Zheng was the most bizarre one.

Unlike Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's "Are there any kings, princes, generals or ministers of different species?" or those armies that carried out the Six Kingdoms Restoration Movement and tried to return to the Warring States Period, Fang Zheng had a deep understanding of what kind of army was a combat-effective army. Therefore, the first thing he valued in his uprising army was ideological education.

Different from the theories of this era such as "The King of Qin is a tyrant, we overthrow him and become emperor ourselves", Fang Zheng analyzed the current situation to his subordinates in the rebel army from an ideological level and clarified the goals of the rebel army.

First of all, the goal of the uprising was to overthrow the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, but why did the Qin Dynasty have tyranny? Fang Zheng explained this question to his students and subordinates in great detail, the source of the Qin Dynasty tyranny, why the current situation occurred, and why Qin Shihuang could let the people of the world suffer without blinking an eye.

Secondly, what is the nature of the rebels?

At present, the goals of these rebel armies at the end of the Qin Dynasty are actually very simple, crude and direct. To put it bluntly, they want to conquer their own territory, occupy the land, proclaim themselves king, and enjoy those good things themselves.

This is the origin of the saying “Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers born into a certain family?”

The army of this era was just such a collection of interests. Everyone gathered under those generals just to live a better life - but this goal was very general, for example, what is a better life? Is it like those landlords and officials?

An army without the people has nothing of the people.

This is also the principle and ideological goal of Founder Education.

Fang Zheng was not worried that these ideas were too advanced - in fact, these ideas were actually universal in any era. You have to know that when the Chinese revolution took place, the social atmosphere in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China was actually not much different from that in the late Qin Dynasty, and was even a little more feudal and conservative.

There was one thing that bothered Fang Zheng, that is, there must be a clear goal. The revolution in the late Qing Dynasty was due to the powerful ships and guns of foreign countries, which made people unwilling to be oppressed and humiliated by the powers for a hundred years and united to seek change. However, in this era, let alone the Eight-Nation Alliance, it is probably doubtful whether there is civilization on the Japanese island. Where can you find a clear goal to gather the power of the masses and unite as one?

Fortunately, the so-called god opponent is not as good as a pig teammate. The Six Kingdoms Restoration Movement that emerged with the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising gave Fang Zheng a good goal. Based on this, he explained to his students that only a prosperous, strong and prosperous country can maintain peace in the world. Qin Shihuang had great achievements and great faults. However, only by unifying the world can the current situation of constant wars among the six countries and the displacement of people be completely eliminated.

At that time, Fang Zheng was really thankful that there were still these idiots...

Besides this, Fang Zheng's uprising army had one thing that other uprising armies could not compare to, that is, there were a large number of students from Xiaoyao Palace serving as officials in the Qin Dynasty. Although most of these people were young and had no connections, so they were doing basic work in the local area, but because of this, once Fang Zheng started the uprising, these students would almost immediately follow. There was even a case where, except for the highest official appointed by the higher authorities, all other officials in a city were from Xiaoyao Palace... This basically meant that the whole city would be ruined if there was no one.

Because of this, Fang Zheng's uprising army expanded much slower than other uprising armies. After all, wherever he went, he had to occupy the territory first, and then send people to explain to the local people, including the purpose of the uprising, why they were fighting, etc. All of this took a lot of time, and it was also necessary to use some examples to improve the confidence of other officers and soldiers. Because of this, when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising army happily fought to Hangu Pass, Fang Zheng was still in a corner, and it seemed that he was not as powerful as other uprising armies that were blooming everywhere.

In fact, Chen Sheng had also sent people to invite Fang Zheng to join, but people with different ideals could not work together. Seeing Chen Sheng's gesture of enfeoffment everywhere, Fang Zheng could guess what he was thinking, and naturally rejected him directly on the grounds of insufficient strength. He knew very well that although Chen Sheng's uprising army was in full swing and seemed to be able to completely attack Xianyang and seize the world in one fell swoop, the uncontrolled expansion in the early stage was also the main reason for Chen Sheng's defeat.

The reason why so many people responded to Chen Sheng was entirely because "the world has suffered from Qin for a long time", but everyone's goals and ideas were different. Some people wanted to overthrow the Qin Dynasty and become the boss themselves, some wanted to restore their homeland, and some were just trying to take advantage of the situation to get some benefits.

It is no wonder that such a ragtag army with no ideals and simply a large number of people failed six months after Chen Sheng's uprising and proclaimed himself king, allowing Xiang Yu and Liu Bang to take advantage of it.

Oh, as for Liu Bang...this person no longer exists.

So Fang Zheng slowly expanded his power while climbing the technology tree and productivity - after all, technology is the primary productive force, and productivity and production relations are the decisive factors that determine the form of war.

As the saying goes, civilization is indeed a time-consuming artifact.

Just when Fang Zheng was obsessed with climbing the technology tree, a piece of news came, disrupting Fang Zheng's originally peaceful days of climbing the technology tree.

In December of the third year of the reign of Qin II, Xiang Yu led the Chu army to Julu, and won nine battles in a row with a desperate momentum, thus defeating the Qin army.

After receiving this news, Fang Zheng knew that the time for him to take action had come.

After all, there is no Liu Bang in this world anymore.

Then, I can only rely on myself to be Xiang Yu's opponent.

This is not because Fang Zheng wants to "follow the historical trend", but because the conflict between him and Xiang Yu is almost unsolvable. Xiang Yu's Chu State respected the nobles the most. In fact, after the defeat of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the exiled nobles of the six states were the main force against Qin. However, Fang Zheng's uprising army wanted to uproot the entire aristocracy and completely eliminate it.

Especially the old nobles of the six countries, they have always hoped to restore the feudal system, but Fang Zheng will never allow this.

It can be seen from this that confrontation between the two sides is inevitable.

So as soon as he received the news, Fang Zheng immediately issued an order, asking the rebel army to take advantage of the fact that the Qin army was being held back by Xiang Yu and go straight into Guanzhong and march towards Xianyang!