Wandering the Heavens

"Or is it because there are too many enemies?" Yue Xiu Ze didn't believe this excuse.

"I have to consider some people," Yu Xian explained.

"I hope that day won't be too far away." Yue Xiu Ze took back his sword and presented it to Yu Xian: "I lost this duel."

"I know you are proud, but there is no need for this." Yu Xian said and disappeared from the stage.

Lin Chen, who was on the roof of the teahouse, quickly stood up and drew his sword, because this fake Xia Jiang was coming for him.

Yu Xian did a beautiful somersault and used the Flying Dragon in the Sky to approach Lin Chen. Lin Chen heard the faint dragon roar coming from the palm wind, and without thinking, he flew towards Yu Xian.

Long sword versus bare hands, the advantage is mine!

For the people standing on the ground watching the fun, it all happened too fast. By the time they reacted, the two were about to touch each other in mid-air.

However, something even more incredible happened. Lin Chen's sword move missed the target. At the moment when the tip of the sword was about to pierce Yu Xian's right palm, the dragon roar disappeared, and Yu Xian's figure turned into a rain of petals that slowly fell from the sky.

Everyone felt like they were watching a magic trick, and Lin Chen, who had already landed on the ring, was hurt by the palm wind that made a dragon's roar.

"It turns out to be Master Lin. Yue Xiu Ze is honored to meet you."

They are all from the Langya List, so we are all familiar with each other.

"Commander Yue, are you going to continue setting up the arena?" Lin Chen quickly changed the subject.

"It's no longer necessary." Yue Xiu Ze put away his sword and left the scene with Yu Wen Nian.

Lin Chen looked left and right, but found nothing and left the ring. When he returned to Su's house, he saw Mei Changsu's ugly face and Li Gang squatting beside him, admitting his mistake.

"Lost again?" Lin Chen teased while sitting opposite.

"It's not that I lost him, it's that I don't even know how he left. Li Gang said that he disappeared in front of you?" Mei Changsu glanced at Li Gang.

"That's right, my sword was about to pierce his palm, but at that moment, my eyes blurred and his whole body turned into countless petals that fell. I was dumbfounded, you know? Langya Pavilion is known to know everything about the world, but I have never seen a palm technique that can emit a dragon's roar when performed. And the energy is released outward." Lin Chen was still frightened when talking about the previous duel.

"Haha, the external energy and dragon roar, he's just pretending to be mysterious. I guess he has a mechanism hidden on his body. Li Gang said that he didn't speak at all, but used ventriloquy to communicate with Yue Xiu Ze. I guess the dragon roar was just his trick. Why should I be afraid of someone who doesn't even dare to reveal his true face?" Mei Changsu was very disdainful of Lin Chen's statement.

"But it is a fact that you lost him."

Mei Changsu's face turned even darker. If you don't know how to speak, then don't speak.

"You look even happier than before!" Lin Chen added another stab.

"How can I be happy with a mouth like yours?" Mei Changsu's expression finally looked better, and he sighed helplessly.

"What are you going to do next?" Lin Chen sighed.

"Just continue to fight for the throne according to the deduced plan. He can't block my way. Martial arts prowess and political schemes are two different things. But what about the Langya List?" Mei Changsu could only put the matter of the mysterious man aside.

"It's a small matter. The number one on the Langya master list is a mysterious man. The number one above Yue Xiu Ze will drop one place." Lin Chen expressed his judgment.

Not to mention Mei Changsu and Lin Chen's respective plans. What happened in the ring that day quickly spread to the ears of those well-fed people in Jinling. A living person turned into petals and scattered all over the ground in front of everyone. Xuan Jing Division and Jiang Zuo League each picked up a bunch of petals and went back to investigate, but there was still no progress.

It would have been fine if the Jiangzuo League acted in secret, but the Xuan Jing Division relied on its special status to search all the flower gardens, big and small, in Jinling, and even the imperial palace, but still found nothing.

However, this incident was just an anecdote and soon lost its popularity. In mid-July, before the funeral was over, memorials were sent to Jinling one after another. Many places in Liang State had not seen any rain since the end of last year, and spring ploughing had been abandoned. At the same time, a large number of locust eggs were found in the wild. When the memorials were sent to Jinling, the locust plague had already taken shape.

Xiao Xuan had received a memorial from the Imperial Observatory in March saying that there might be a drought this year, but he didn't expect the scale to be so large!

The current situation is not favorable to Shen Zhui. Since he took office in the Ministry of Revenue, he has not been interested in the former crown prince Xiao Jingxuan and Prince Yu Xiao Jinghuan. In order to consolidate their power and win over court officials, they have often reached out to the Ministry of Revenue. Xiao Jingxuan and Lou Zhijing set up a private gun shop to make extra money, and Prince Yu was even worse, he actually embezzled disaster relief money and supplies.

Although both of them gave out some money for resettling refugees in the last private gun factory explosion, it was just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount they embezzled.

This year's disaster made Shen Zhui even more worried. He couldn't let Prince Yu be in charge of the disaster relief, otherwise, no one knew how many people would die, and it might lead to civil unrest or rebellion, and he would be a sinner of Liang State.

But Prince Yu was very aggressive, and he kept making all kinds of small moves, whether in court or in private, just to get the job of disaster relief.

Yu Xian had Qin Prajna admonish Prince Yu for his actions, but Prince Yu ignored him. He had lost the support of important officials in the court and urgently needed to win over a group of people to his side, which required a lot of money. He wanted to take advantage of this disaster relief opportunity to make some money. Let the people suffer, and the court will bear the blame.

Yu Xian naturally would not let the people of Liang rebel. In an era when the aristocratic families were in power, the chances of a peasant uprising being successful were extremely small and it was impossible for them to succeed. He also could not let them die because of his own plans. Bringing chaos to the world and causing innocent people to suffer are two different things.

In the end, it was Yan Que who stepped forward to prompt Shen Zhui to recommend Prince Jing to preside over disaster relief affairs to Xiao Xuan.

Prince Jing was quite generous and sold some valuable items in his palace for money and food after receiving the task. With Mei Changsu's help, Xiao Xuan heard about this matter and ordered the palace to cut down on expenses and send the surplus to Prince Jing for disaster relief. When the court officials and noble families in Jinling saw the emperor and Prince Jing doing this, they followed suit and donated money and food.

Mu Nihuang also donated a sum of money and food. Due to the special situation of the Mu Palace, she couldn't give out a lot of money and food. Her brother was leading the army outside, and her sister was hoarding a lot of money and food in the capital. What would people with ulterior motives think?

When Prince Yu saw the whole Jinling's spirit of disaster relief, he couldn't help but feel regretful for not listening to Qin Prajna. Now he was in a dilemma and had to grit his teeth and donate money and supplies.

The money was divided into two parts. One part was given to Shen Zhui to buy food from the State of Chu to ensure that the people could survive the winter until next year. The other part was given to Prince Jing to take to various places to provide disaster relief.

But in this situation, Prince Yu couldn't help but lend a hand. In addition to recommending Prince Jing to preside over the disaster relief, Shen Zhui also brought in the Xuan Jing Division to serve as supervisor.

The prefect of Yuezhou withheld the relief money and hired an escort company to take it to Jinling to give it to Prince Yu, because the government was turbulent recently and many powerful ministers were dismissed. Everyone has the ambition to make progress, and the positions vacated by these ministers naturally need to be filled. Prince Yu is in the limelight and is courteous to the wise and humble, so he is naturally the object of flattery by some local officials with strong ambitions.

Unlike Prince Jing, who always feels like everyone owes him money and always talks about morality but never the laws of the court.

The escort team that brought gifts to Prince Yu was robbed on the way, and the letters on the staff of the Yuezhou prefect were searched and the news quickly spread throughout Yuezhou. After the clerks of the Xuan Jing Si and the accompanying censor found out the truth of the case, they put the Yuezhou prefect in jail, and the memorial was urgently delivered to the desk of Xiao Xuan in Jinling through the Xuan Jing Si channel.