The Great Qin had not slackened its vigilance, and instead shifted from overt military campaigns to long-term espionage work.
Catching mice.
To discerning eyes, this was a deliberately preserved contingency plan.
It was not quite about nurturing a threat for self-importance, but through continuous, innocuous conflicts, it definitely served the purpose of identifying and recruiting talent.
Rumors from the Jianghu circulated assassination lists of the rebels.
Meng Fang slid from the top three, gradually falling out of the top ten, the top thirty...
And as new talents emerged continuously, replacing old hatreds with new grudges, combined with the difficulty of hunting Meng Fang,
his name on the assassination list kept dropping, slowly out of the top hundred...
Thirty-five years of unification.
