Pan Long only learned of the Giant Whale Gang's response later.
After visiting the Qiaonan Branch, he left Qiaonan Town. Then he resumed his identity as Pan Long and followed the Heaven-Reaching River east.
Reading ten thousand books was no match for traveling ten thousand miles. He planned to spend some time crossing the Nine Provinces and seeing conditions in each region for himself before deciding how to rebel against the Great Xia Dynasty.
Rebellion was a business that could cost him his head. He could not go into it unprepared, or even inadequately prepared. Zhu Yuanzhang had been so poor that rebellion was his only way out, and he had ultimately succeeded and become emperor. But he was the lucky one sifted from countless failures, hardly an example to follow.
The examples worth studying were people like Li Shimin, who had prepared thoroughly beforehand. Once he made his move, he faced obstacles, but by and large, he had not needed heaven to bless him with several rolls of six-six-six in a row.
Of course, thorough preparation did not guarantee success. During the Qin-Dynasty Uprising, Xiang Yu had been the best prepared, yet he lost to Liu Bang, who had prepared for only a year or two. Still, Xiang Yu had gotten far further than Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who had acted hastily with no preparation at all.
Clearly, preparation was useful. The more, the better.
Pan Long did not know how much time he would have to prepare, but he would not mind spending twenty or thirty years on this rebellion, or even longer.
He could live a long time anyway. As long as no one killed him, two or three hundred years probably would not be a problem.
If he spent a few decades traveling the land,