"Not only that, we must continue the Household Registration System. Especially those hiding deep in the mountains and forests—we must find every last one of them."
"If that fails, set the mountains on fire!"
That was right. In order to find the Reincarnated Persons, Qin Shi Huang was even capable of setting vast stretches of mountains ablaze.
One could imagine the terrible ecological disaster it would cause if this were done from south to north.
How had Guanzhong become abandoned? Its forests had been cut down year after year until nothing remained.
But Qin Shi Huang did not care about that.
He only wanted to find the Reincarnated Persons and seek immortality.
Meanwhile.
Wang Dafan also sensed that Qin Shi Huang had intensified his efforts.
He knew very well that his opponent was the ruler operating in the open.
He wielded the greatest power.
Now, Wang Dafan somewhat regretted not seizing the throne back then.
A moment of laziness, a moment of comfort, and it had resulted in such a massive disaster! He had to become emperor.
An emperor who kept reincarnating, with worldly power firmly in his grasp.
Simply running away was not enough.
No one understood better than him how terrifying humanity's capacity for extermination could be.
He possessed no supernatural power whatsoever.
He had to rely on eloquence, intelligence, wealth, and conviction to fool one person after another into serving him.
The efficiency was far too low.
Qin Shi Huang, meanwhile, could mobilize tens of millions of people, along with tens of thousands of highly efficient bureaucrats.
Compared to his opponent, his only advantages were that he could start over many times.
And that he operated from the shadows.
Though he regretted it somewhat, he was not terribly panicked.
Because he knew that even if he