An Era-Changing Upheaval

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"Your Majesty! Zhangchu State has fallen, and Great Qin, the Xiang Clan, Liu Bang, Peng Yue, and the other powers have lost their elite forces. Their cities and territories now stand empty. Why don't we seize the chance to march out and claim the Central Plains?"

Once the thought struck him, Han Xin hesitated briefly, then decided to put it directly to the Huan King.

"Ah..."

The commanders, only just recovering from Jian Shang's strange decision, were stunned all over again.

First was Han Xin's form of address. He spoke as a subject, signaling that he had submitted to the Huan King and become one of Huan Kingdom's ministers.

Then there was his claim that every power in the Central Plains had lost its elite forces. The generals could scarcely grasp it. Hadn't they rushed south because the Great Qin Faction's allied army was hunting them down? How had its elite forces suddenly been wiped out?

"Leaving aside Eastern Yi, Western Rong, Southern Man, Northern Di, Lingnan, and the other borderlands, Great Qin Empire's former territory alone comprised forty-eight commanderies. Huan Kingdom holds only Lingnan and Hengshan Commandery. Even Hidden Dragon Commandery was carved out of Hengshan Commandery. How could we swallow the boundless expanse of the Divine Land?"

Jian Shang shook his head with a rueful smile. After a moment's thought, he answered, "More importantly, we have little time left. If we launch a great war, neither we nor the other powers will have time to grow or recover. It would be