"You! You! What's your attitude? Be careful! I'll report you, Princess Yongkang, to His Majesty!"
Ji Wan and Jiang Jian had just left the city gates in their carriage when they saw this. Upon hearing this, she calmly said, "Oh? The Fanzhou Governor is here on orders from His Majesty?"
The slightly plump official raised his chin proudly upon seeing this, and did not even get out of the carriage. He sat inside the carriage, scanning Ji Wan with his eyes, and finally nodded reluctantly as a salute.
"Princess Yongkang, please kneel and accept my order! I have to return to report! You cannot bear the responsibility for any delay."
"Hahahaha, this is so funny." Ji Wan couldn't help it. He turned around and looked at Yang Guan, laughing at him without any hesitation.
"How come I didn't know when a dog like you became the Crown Prince's subordinate? I didn't see you being so arrogant when I visited Qingshi Province before!"
The Fanzhou governor was so angry at Ji Wan's rude rebuke that his chest heaved even more. His already plump figure became even fatter, and his small eyes glared at Ji Wan fiercely.
"Princess Yongkang! Since you are so ungrateful, don't blame me for reporting to His Majesty that you disobeyed His Majesty's order and refused to accept the invitation."
After saying this, the man contemptuously lowered the curtain of the carriage, and the coachman led the horses and turned around.
As the carriage went further and further away, Jiang Jian's face became more and more anxious. Just when he was about to suggest to Ji Wan that they get rid of the man directly to prevent future troubles, he heard his own princess speak slowly.
"Do you think I am the kind of person who would allow him to go back to Fanzhou to report to the prince?" he asked indifferently.
"Yes!" Yang Guan understood Ji Wan's meaning, waved his hand, and led a team of soldiers to quickly ride on tall horses to chase the governor of Fanzhou.
"I still have to receive an imperial edict." Ji Wan pouted, feeling very troubled. If it wasn't for not wanting to bear the reputation of a traitor, who would be willing to bow to the prince!
Late October was a time of intense sandstorms. Qingshi Prefecture sat on the border with the grasslands of Northern Rong. While there were mountains and forests and the Yongcang River to block the wind and sand, Northern Rong had plenty of grasslands. With its vast territory and sparse population, the sandstorms were naturally more severe.
Ji Wan stood at the city gate for a quarter of an hour, feeling that he had been buried by the sand blown by the strong wind, and he could hardly open his eyes.
Ji Wan narrowed his eyes when he saw with his own eyes the young eunuch behind Yang Guan throwing the gagged and tightly tied Fanzhou governor off his horse.
"Your Highness Princess Yongkang, please accept the order." Yang Guan's voice was shrill.
Ji Wan lifted her skirt and knelt down towards the east.
After receiving the imperial edict read out by Yang Guan, she was helped up by the eunuch beside her. The content of the imperial edict was roughly that because the crown prince had ascended the throne, Ji Wan needed to immediately set off to return to the capital to attend the celebration banquet and report on her work.
"Go back to the capital? Your Highness, absolutely not. You are walking like a sheep into a tiger's mouth!" Cui Min was standing in the middle of the reception room of the county magistrate's mansion at this time, his tone becoming a little more impatient.
If he really returned to the royal capital, who knows what would be waiting for Ji Wan!
The newly promoted strategist Cao Ke used his abilities to exchange a piece of land from Ji Wan for the people he protected, which was the Slave Street in Tongcheng.
Ji Wan allowed the refugees who fled the famine to rent the newly built houses there at a low price for the first year. If they wanted to buy a house after living there for three months, only this group of refugees could buy it at the lowest price.
At this time, he also stood up and followed Cui Min to express his opposition, disagreeing with Ji Wan returning to the capital.
"What Rucheng said makes sense..."
Ji Wan had no intention of returning to the royal capital, but since the imperial edict had already been issued to Qingshi Province, he naturally had to let the advisors know about it.
"I don't want to go back and suffer that humiliation."
After saying that, Ji Wan added another sentence secretly.
"The letter my mother and I received yesterday said there were many refugees on the roads, and people were suffering everywhere. A group of people were spreading nonsense, saying that the crown prince's ascension to the throne was an ominous sign, and that uprisings were occurring in many places."
Yang Guan took the opportunity to say, "Your Highness, these refugees are truly abominable! As His Majesty's biological sister, you naturally have to share His Majesty's worries..."
This is only half said, and the rest will naturally be continued by the advisors.
Cui Min also instantly understood Ji Wan's meaning, and then pretended to be righteous and echoed: "Brother Yang is right. Your Highness, we must naturally share His Majesty's worries."
Seeing that things were developing as expected, Ji Wan was satisfied and said pretentiously, "But...but I heard that the largest number of rebels are from Fanzhou..."
Now that things have come to this, who among us still doesn’t understand?
Pan Zhuo, Cao Ke, and Yan Peinan looked at each other, and then said in unison: "Your Highness, please share His Majesty's worries!"
Jin Lie was a man of great stature, yet possessed a keen eye for detail. Despite his rough nature, he possessed a wealth of inner thoughts. He knew someone had to take the initiative today, so he stood up and said, "Your Highness, I will personally go to Fanzhou to quell the rebels!"
"Good! Jin Lie! It's a blessing for the entire Donglin to have you under my command!"
Gu Huafeng glanced in the direction of Yan Peinan, and their eyes suddenly met. Yan Peinan turned his head first, and if you listened carefully, you could hear a barely perceptible hum.
"I am willing to go too."
Gu Huafeng knew that he had let Yan Peinan down, so ever since Yan Peinan started working for Ji Wan, he had been avoiding seeing each other. But they all had the same boss and lived under the same roof, so it wasn't easy to avoid seeing each other.
"Haha, good, good, good!" Ji Wan said three good words in a row, "Then bring that rebel spy from Fanzhou to the front line!"
The spy she was talking about was the governor of Fanzhou, the one who came with his nose in the air today to deliver the imperial edict.
In the royal capital, inside the imperial palace.
The prince, oh no, Emperor Ji Qin held the late emperor's concubine Shu Taifei in his left hand, held the recently conferred beauty in his right hand, and held the grapes that his beloved concubine had just peeled in his mouth.
Wang Changshou was handling affairs on behalf of the crown prince, holding memorials.
Unable to bear the sight of the scene in the palace, the second princess Ji Zhi, who was born to the same mother as the emperor, frowned.
"Royal brother, have the people over there replied to your letter? What exactly happened?"
The fifth prince has been killed by someone arranged by the queen mother, and now only the fourth princess Ji Wan and the third prince Ji Ze are left.
Only by getting rid of these two can my brother secure his position as emperor...
His intimacy with the beauty was interrupted, and Ji Qin impatiently dealt with her: "Go ask my mother about the matter of Ji Wan's bastard. She knows more than I do.
All I know is that that loser Ji Ze is not far from death.
Besides, with her Third and Fourth Uncles around, what kind of splash could a mortal like her make? And with Master Geng being such a powerful cultivator, how could a lame Ji Wan escape? And who knows where that bitch Xiling Mingyue has gone…"
After hearing this, Ji Zhi felt a little relieved. What her brother said was right. No matter how many immortal cultivators Ji Wan had around her, no matter how many magic skills she had.
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