All the heavens begin with the love in the courtyard.

In Xianyang Palace, Gao Yao sat on a high seat, looking at a report from a eunuch below, his brows furrowed tightly.

"My Lord Physician, there is no time to lose! Xiang Yu has started an uprising in Wuzhong, Liu Bang in Pei County, Ying Bu, Qin Jia, Chen Ying, and Li Shang in Wei, and the former nobles of the six states are also gathering together. There are dozens of rebel armies within the Qin territory..."

The eunuch, looking anxious, continued to chatter on and on. Gao Yao, finally annoyed, rebuked him with a stern face.

"Alright! I got it, now get out!"

The eunuch lowered his head, sighed, and left the gatehouse.

Gao Yao slumped into a chair, staring blankly out the door.

After Hu Hai ascended the throne, he basically handed over the power in the palace to Gao Yao, and even the memorials were reviewed by Gao Yao.

But Gao Yao, a modern semi-literate man, doesn't understand politics. However, even though he doesn't understand, he won't easily give up the power he holds, because it's something he's worked hard to obtain.

Gao Yao didn't understand politics, but Prime Minister Li Si did. After Hu Hai ascended the throne, Li Si was at the height of his power. However, two tigers cannot share the same mountain. Li Si wanted to control the government, but Gao Yao would not allow it.

But what could he do if he didn't agree? Gao Yao was just a eunuch. Although he could control the Xianyang Palace, that was all he could achieve. Although he could review memorials, his decrees could not even leave Xianyang City.

The two sides have been vying for power for nearly a year. Li Si, as the head of all officials, and with his son Li You in charge of the 300,000-strong Meng family army, firmly holds the military and political power of the Qin Dynasty.

This was something Gao Yao could not tolerate. Although he only controlled the affairs of Xianyang Palace, that was enough for him.

Because he also controlled a powerful weapon.

That was Hu Hai, the emperor of the Qin Dynasty.

Hu Hai was a useless person, a complete useless person, a useless person promoted by Gao Yao. He could make Hu Hai call a deer a horse, so he could also make Hu Hai issue an imperial edict.

Gao Yao was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to completely destroy Li Si, and that opportunity soon arrived.

Li Si is indeed a talented man. Although uprisings are breaking out everywhere, the main force of the Qin army is still intact. As long as we fight steadily, the elimination of the uprisings will be just around the corner.

However, he was the prime minister, not the emperor. Many decrees were delayed due to Gao Yao's interference, which often caused major incidents of military delays.

As the prime minister, Li Si was already in the same boat as the Qin Dynasty, and naturally he did not want to sink with the ship.

The Qin Dynasty is still rotting from the roots, and he must bring it back to life.

Over the past year, Li Si had also tasted the sweetness of power. Hu Hai was incompetent and tyrannical, and Zhao Gao often spoke ill of him to Hu Hai, which Li Si was already aware of.

Li Si was also very worried about this matter, thinking about how to please Hu Hai. Just as he was thinking, he suddenly had an inspiration, picked up a brush, and wrote down the words "the art of supervision and accountability".

He then wrote several hundred words in one go.

Li Si knew that Hu Hai was incompetent, yet also complacent and ignorant. Since that was the case, he decided to flatter him.

The general idea behind the "Supervision and Responsibility Method" is that all power belongs to the emperor, who can simply enjoy his life while the people are governed through harsh punishments.

If the common people are disobedient, then punish them and make them live a life of "no mercy for those who have been punished," so that they live in unease, fear, and suspicion, and dare not have any rebellious thoughts or actions. Then the world will be peaceful forever.

Li Si thought to himself that his plan would surely please Hu Hai, so he submitted it to the emperor without hesitation.

When Hu Hai saw this method of supervision and accountability, he thought it made sense. The common people should be strictly controlled. To put it simply, they are well-fed and like to make trouble. Since they like to make trouble, let them not be well-fed until they are satisfied.

Therefore, Hu Hai did not hesitate to issue Li Si's proposal as a decree.

Upon seeing the edict in the palace, Gao Yao was overjoyed, for the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

In the following days, reports of uprisings broke out all over the country and reached Hu Hai's eyes.

Gao Yao would also whisper in Hu Hai's ear from time to time.

"Your Majesty, ever since Li Si's methods of supervision and accountability were promulgated throughout the country, uprisings have been frequent. Now there are more than thirty uprisings within the Qin territory. Your Majesty, Li Si harbors evil intentions and deserves to be punished!"

Hu Hai was stunned by the sudden surge of rebels, and after being misled by Gao Yao, he immediately shifted all the blame onto Li Si.

Gao Yao would also remind Hu Hai from time to time that Li Si's son, Li You, still controlled 300,000 former Meng family troops. If Li Si and his son joined forces, they could overthrow the Qin Dynasty in an instant.

Upon hearing this, Hu Hai felt a chill run down his spine and immediately issued a secret edict to exterminate Li Si's entire clan!

Upon receiving the secret edict, Gao Yao's lips curled into a smile, and he immediately began leading his men to confiscate the property.

He first took control of Li Si's entire family in Xianyang, then issued a recall order, sending Li You back to Xianyang alone.

With a two-pronged approach, Li Si's entire family, young and old, was captured in one fell swoop.

Afterwards, in Xianyang, in front of thousands of Xianyang citizens, Li Si was first tattooed on his face, then his nose was cut off, then his hands and feet were chopped off, then he was whipped unconscious with a rattan cane soaked in salt water, then cut in half at the waist, until his head was chopped off and then minced into meat paste.

Gao Yao personally served as the executioner, and as he watched his political enemy being chopped into a pile of minced meat, a perverse sense of satisfaction welled up inside him.

After Li Si was eliminated, Gao Yao became the only true and unparalleled Grand Eunuch in the Qin Dynasty, wielding absolute power and becoming the last powerful minister of the Qin Dynasty.

Unfortunately, Gao Yao was good at scheming, but completely clueless about managing government affairs. The number of rebel armies within the Qin territory kept growing, eventually spiraling out of control.

The following year, Xiang Yu led 80,000 elite troops and, with a decisive and resolute attack, defeated Wang Li and Zhang Han's 400,000-strong army at Julu.

Wang Li was captured, and Zhang Han's 200,000 Qin soldiers surrendered to Xiang Yu. As a result, the last main force of the Qin Dynasty was defeated, its backbone was broken, and the Qin Dynasty entered the final countdown to its demise.

In the same year, Han Chunming led an army of 300,000 men, plus auxiliary troops, for a total of 500,000 men, into the pass through Yanmen Pass. They swept through the Qin Dynasty, capturing 23 cities and marching on Xianyang.

When Han Chunming entered Guanzhong, Xiang Yu and other feudal lords had just begun the Battle of Julu. After the Battle of Julu was over, Han Chunming's army was less than 300 li away from Julu.

After the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu and other feudal lords decided to strike at the heart of the enemy, enter through Hangu Pass, and launch a full-scale attack on Xianyang.

But to their utter surprise, an army they had never heard of suddenly appeared from behind them.

When the feudal lords inquired about the origins of the Dragon Kingdom, they were greatly surprised. They never expected that in the past few years, the Western Regions and the northern grasslands had been unified by a country called the Dragon Kingdom.

Although there were few means of transportation in this era, and they didn't know how big the Western Regions and the northern grasslands were, they had heard of the Donghu, Xiongnu, and Yuezhi. But now they were surprised to hear that all these tribal states had been unified by the Dragon Kingdom.

This sudden and powerful enemy shocked all the rebel armies. Now they faced two choices: continue to enter the pass and storm Xianyang City, or unite to resist the foreign enemy.

Of course, they had a third option: to surrender to the Dragon Kingdom.

This option was naturally not within their consideration.

This suddenly appearing dragon kingdom was seen by all the feudal lords as a barbarian foreign tribe, not on the same side as the Central Plains. They would never agree to negotiate with it.

Han Chunming had no intention of negotiating with these feudal lords. To him, most of them were former nobles of the six states, and they were all potential threats. They relied on their families' centuries-old history and were always thinking about restoring their kingdoms.

This approach won't work in Dragon Kingdom. Han Chunming's policy is that all land under heaven belongs to the king, and all people within the realm are his subjects, regardless of race or country; in the future, everyone will be a Dragon Kingdom citizen.

The future Dragon Kingdom will be a superpower, the only superpower on Earth, and will not allow any petty people to attempt to restore the kingdom.

Since I'm immortal, I might as well go all out in this world. I might as well concentrate my efforts on development, break out of Earth, break out of the Milky Way...

Well, these are all things Han Chunming occasionally fantasizes about, but with his current strength, these dreams are gradually coming true.

After the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu's reputation surpassed that of all the other feudal lords, and he had already become the leader of many of the rebel armies.

Xiang Yu finally made a decision to prepare to meet the Long Kingdom army head-on. He ordered all the feudal lords to begin preparing to ambush the Long Kingdom army in the area where the Long Kingdom was advancing.

The faces of the Dragon Kingdom's army were indeed somewhat different from those of the people of the Central Plains; most of them had dark complexions, and some even had features of Eastern and Western Europe.

Han Chunming never underestimated these rebel armies, whether they were Xiang Yu or Liu Bang, many of whose subordinates became famous figures in later generations.

Although his army was far superior to the rebel forces of these feudal lords in terms of weaponry, Han Chunming did not want to suffer an unexpected defeat.

Therefore, Han Chunming attached great importance to scouts. His spies in Qin had been working for many years, and there were quite a few spies from Longguo among the rebel army.

Han Chunming was well aware of Xiang Yu's ambush strategy, and he wasn't angry. Since the other side wanted to play the ambush game, he would play along.

With telescopes and the unparalleled skill of the Western Region cavalry, the rebel armies of the feudal lords failed in their ambushes several times.

Faced with overwhelming military strength, this group of rebels was like a rabble. Most of them only had a small number of cavalry, and their mobility was no match for the Dragon Kingdom's army.

Through enticement and persuasion, a month later, the 500,000-strong Dragon Kingdom army gradually formed an encirclement, slowly surrounding the rebel armies of various lords around Julu.

The Dragon Kingdom's army surrounded but did not annihilate the rebel armies of various lords, forcing them all to come together, and he prepared to launch a grand sweep.

After a month of probing, Xiang Yu and the other lords finally discovered that the opposing Dragon Kingdom army was ridiculously strong. Even a 10,000-strong rebel army could not stop their thousand-man cavalry charge. Their steel swords and horses were like a torrent of steel, impossible to stop.

At this moment, Xiang Yu roared like a frightened lion in his own camp. He drew his long sword and stabbed a general who had failed to ambush the Dragon Kingdom's army to death. The other generals below the tent looked at him with a mixture of fear and evasion.

Since his uncle Xiang Liang was killed by Zhang Han in Dingtao last year, Xiang Yu's violent temper has been unchecked, and he has become increasingly rampant.

Without his uncle's constraints, Xiang Yu relied on the belief that a desperate army would surely win, becoming more courageous with each setback, until he defeated 400,000 Qin soldiers at the Battle of Julu.

The general he had just killed was a surrendered general of the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu had no good temper with the surrendered Qin soldiers. Even if he treated them normally, he would either beat or scold them. He had a very bad attitude towards those Qin soldiers who surrendered.

Most of the soldiers in these rebel armies had served in the Qin Dynasty and harbored deep hatred for its soldiers. Naturally, they showed no kindness to their defeated foes.

Xiang Yu suffered the same fate. Over the past month, he had sent tens of thousands of surrendered soldiers to ambush the Long Kingdom's army, but all of them ended in complete defeat. Of the 200,000 surrendered troops, less than 150,000 remained.

Although Xiang Yu intended to wear down these surrendered soldiers and also wanted to test the strength of the Dragon Kingdom's army, he found that he could not find out anything and even gave the enemy tens of thousands of heads.

Due to the encirclement by the Dragon Kingdom's army, the rebel coalition quickly found itself in a predicament of insufficient logistics, forcing the rebels to engage in a decisive battle.

The combined armies of the various feudal lords now number nearly 500,000, not counting the 200,000 Qin soldiers who surrendered. The food and drink of 700,000 people will soon wear down this group of feudal lords' rebel armies.

This was precisely Han Chunming's idea. He wanted to force these rebel armies into a decisive battle and annihilate their entire strength in Julu. As far as he was concerned, these rebellious lords had no reason to exist.

After eliminating the rebel army, they went to Xianyang to completely destroy the Qin Dynasty, and then the matter was settled.

What Han Chunming didn't know was that among these feudal lords, Liu Bang had already fled first.

As early as the end of the Battle of Julu, Liu Bang, on Zhang Liang's advice, led his army away and launched a direct attack on Wuguan from the rear, entering the Qin capital region in a blitzkrieg manner.

Liu Bang's power was not the strongest among the many warlords. His army was a mess, with various factions. In just two years since he started his rebellion, he had grown his army from a few hundred men to nearly 100,000.

However, most of his troops were recruited from various places and were not very strong. But Liu Bang was too cunning. Faced with a powerful enemy, the Dragon Kingdom, whom he had never heard of before, Liu Bang chose to avoid it and marched directly towards Xianyang from the rear.

The various warlords fought against the Dragon Kingdom, and it didn't matter to Liu Bang who won or lost.

After following Zhang Liang's instructions, he decided to strike first and seize Xianyang City. Once inside, regardless of whether he could hold it, he would at least make a fortune and get the jackpot first.

At this moment, Gao Yao in Xianyang City also fell into a final frenzy. After Wuguan Pass was breached, Liu Bang's army had no resistance and would soon march on Xianyang.

Meanwhile, Gao Yao, who harbored a grudge against Liu Bang, was filled with despair. The Qin Dynasty was doomed to perish. Qin Er Shi, that incompetent Hu Hai, had already been driven to suicide by him, and now he had installed Qin San Shi, Qin Ziying, on the throne.

But all of this was of no use. Gao Yao had heard some basic historical knowledge from Yi Xiaochuan and knew that Liu Bang would be the next emperor. At this moment, Gao Yao had two choices: either surrender to Liu Bang or take advantage of the last few days to run away.

Gao Yao was caught in a painful dilemma, as if everything had returned to square one.

When Han Chunming in Julu heard that Liu Bang's army had already entered Wuguan, he was immediately displeased. Without waiting any longer, he ordered the entire army to attack, preparing to completely annihilate the rebel army.

A group of rebels dressed in coarse linen clothes faced a steel torrent that had already entered the steam age. Almost without any suspense, the feudal lords were driven to the brink of despair, some surrendering and others committing suicide.

The final battle was between Han Chunming and Xiang Yu. After Xiang Yu's main force was annihilated, Xiang Yu and his personal guards were surrounded by a river.

When Han Chunming appeared clad in golden armor, Xiang Yu's heart sank completely.

Han Chunming laughed heartily, rode his horse up to Xiang Yu, and said with a loud laugh.

"Xiang Yu, it's been a long time! I wonder how Xiaoyue is doing!"

Xiang Yu sighed, gave a bitter smile, raised his Overlord Spear, and pointed it at Han Chunming.