After the incident in Wengcheng was over, Mu Chan and the eldest prince were going to take Kang Nan back to the capital.

General Mu and the imperial concubine were going to go south to help the second and third princes stabilize the people's hearts and deal with those people in the martial arts world.

So they had no choice but to separate here. On the night before leaving, General Mu talked to his son with some emotion.

"Mu Chan, I know you've always wanted to join the cabinet, and I forced you to learn martial arts. Now that His Majesty has great trust in our Mu family, you can be confident and take up an official position without worrying about people saying our family wants to control the government."

Mu Chan smiled. He knew that the Mu family could be what it is today thanks to that little divine beast. Given his always vigilant nature, he still had to remind his father.

"Father, you must be modest and prudent. Even though His Majesty has great confidence in our family, we must still act like loyal subjects, so as not to give others a reason to criticize us and cause His Majesty trouble."

This son has always been vigilant. General Mu didn't say much, but he couldn't understand why he was a military man and acted impulsively and rashly. His mother was also a military general and spoke in a rash manner.

How could she give birth to a son who is so calm and reserved, and so well-read that it gives him a headache just reading about it? How could he endure it?

"Sometimes I really wonder if I gave birth to the wrong child. You don't look like a member of the Mu family. You look more like your mother's ex-lover's family!"

Mu Chan looked helpless and couldn't help but remind his father.

"Father and son are about to return to Beijing. Mother went to visit my uncle's family and should be back soon. I will be able to see her soon."

When General Mu heard this, he glared and immediately used his crutch to scare his son.

"Go back, kid. Don't talk nonsense and make false accusations, or I'll beat you!"

After a noisy night, at dawn, Mu Chan and the eldest prince set out to return to the capital, while General Mu and the imperial concubine continued to head south with Yao Guangyue.

The second prince was really having a headache at this time. The eldest prince had been thinking about his second brother's resourcefulness and wanted to write him a letter, but he didn't know that his second brother had no time to reply.

Although the disaster was successfully controlled and the plague did not spread, the large premium on medicinal materials some time ago caused many drug dealers to purchase large quantities of Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua at high prices.

Then the price of medicinal materials was resolved, and those medicine dealers lost a lot of money. In order to recover the loss, they all raised the prices of other medicinal materials at the same time.

The union of these merchants is also a big trouble for the imperial court. What's even more terrible is that the leader among the merchants is actually half a gangster.

Previously, in order to force Wan Yuanye to take out medicinal materials, the Third Prince's soldiers surrounded Wanhe Mountain, causing the local Kang family to feel a great sense of crisis.

It just so happens that the Kang family is not only the largest merchant in the local area, but their ancestors were also imperial merchants and they have many connections in the capital.

Because his sons and nephews were unfilial, he angered the powerful people in the capital, so he hid here and made friends with many people in the martial arts world.

Whether viewed from a businessman's perspective or from the perspective of a man of the world, the Third Prince's previous behavior was too impulsive.

So the Kang family united a large number of merchants and decided to boycott the imperial court.

Now that the disaster has passed, the most important thing is to help local people resume their lives.

But this requires support from all sides. It cannot just be the court allocating money. Someone needs to provide the wood to build the house.

The disaster relief work is considered complete only when people from all walks of life work together to prepare arable land for recuperation and find a good way out for the people.

So now without the help of these local merchants, the second prince and the third prince are really unable to move forward.

The river diversion has flooded a large number of houses and farmland, and it is now impossible to send people back.

"Brother, where will the people live? Where will they get farmland? How will they build houses? How can we solve these problems? My dear brother! Aren't you the smartest? It's been so long since the disaster, and if you don't come up with a solution, the people will have nothing to eat!"

The second prince also had a headache. During this period, they had spoken nice words to those merchants, made promises, and done everything.

But these people just refused to take action, so what could he do? He couldn't really send troops to surrender these people, could he?

"This is so infuriating! I'd just lead the troops and surround them!"

"Don't be impulsive. If you oppress the people like this and word gets back to the capital and the people around you impeach you, will you lose your throne?"

The third prince was also furious. He waved his hand and made a harsh statement.

"At worst, I can just give up my throne and fight them to the death. A bunch of merchants dare to go against the government. I'm tired of them!"

The second prince was so angry that he stepped forward, pulled the third prince over and pressed him down on his seat.

"Shut up! Do you think your father is a tyrant? A thousand-mile dam can be breached by a single ant hole. You can suppress one merchant, but if this leads to discontent among merchants in other places, who will come to our aid if the court is truly in danger?"

The second and third princes here were worried, and Qin Xuezhen's life was not easy either.

First, the medical mission was not completed, then the mission to win over Xiaochun was not completed, and now even the mission to subdue the Iron Cavalry Army failed again. Qin Xuezhen suffered triple punishment.

Because she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of Tangxi City, Qin Xuezhen specially found a remote place.

At this time, she was electrocuted to the point of incontinence, foaming at the mouth, and her eyes rolled back. When I looked at her, smoke was still coming out of her body, and I could almost smell the smell of barbecue.

"System, you bastard! You didn't even ask me if I was willing to carry out your mission, but you forced all these things on me. Now you want to punish me, you bastard!"

Qin Xuezhen endured the punishment while cursing loudly.

However, what she didn't know was that Tang Xicheng was standing not far away listening to her say this.

That day, Qin Xuezhen was like a god descending from heaven, helping him escape successfully from hundreds of troops. At that time, he discovered that what this woman had was far beyond his imagination.

So he had always wanted to find out, and today he had the opportunity.

When he arrived here, he saw Qin Xuezhen, who looked as if struck by lightning. Her face was black, smoke was coming out of her head, and her hair was about to explode.

After listening carefully, she realized that she was punished because the Iron Cavalry Army was not brought under her command and was instead annihilated.

And from her intermittent words, it can be inferred that the so-called system in Qin Xuezhen's body should be here to help her.