428 Facing the Blade to Dissolve the Situation (1/2)

Along with the cold scoff, Xuan Shu suddenly walked behind Zong Shou. His knife-like gaze sweeping all around.

Luoshi instantly held his breath whilst Xie An furrowed his brows. After scoffing, they took a few steps back.

Forcing back the 2 of them, Xuan Shu didn't give Zong Shou a good expression, his face was extremely ugly.

When Zong Shou saw that he felt like it was a huge waste. Xuan Shu was a huge bother.

On the side of Zhao Yanran, she said deep in thought, ”You did that on purpose?”

Zong Shou smiled, not acknowledging but also not denying it. Just as he was prepared to enter meditation once more, a red glow suddenly flew down from above. After circling for a while it headed right towards Xuan Yunlan.

”It finally came!”

Zong Shou's eyes instantly lit up. Not waiting for that red swift bird to land by her side, he reached out to grab, holding the bird in his hand.

But he saw that the bamboo tube below was quite heavy. It was obvious that there was so much information that it brought over. Which was why they didn't use the faster message talisman but used this red swift bird instead.

Inside it, there were a total of ten over pieces of silk paper that had many closely packed words. Zong Shou lit a flame to take a look.

The 1st was regarding the landscape nearby to Helian Iron mountain. With just a look, Zong Shou's eyes lit up.

”This Helian Iron Mountain was 30 miles away from Dali Riverside? Looking at the landscape, it should be 120 feet below sea level…”

When the 2 ladies heard that, they both exchanged glances. So what if it was near Dali Riverside? So what if it was below sea level? They didn't know why Zong Shou would feel so excited.

Following which Zong Shou exclaimed, ”We have already bought over the complex official of Helian Iron Mountain?”

He knew that the so called complex official referred to the official in charge of safety and making arrests. The complex official of an iron mountain had a heavy responsibility—they were in charge of all the troops within the entire mountain.

He couldn't believe that the common people's path could bring such a person over.

”It is useless!”

Zhao Yanran shook her head helplessly, ”This person had many matters that our common people path found out. We controlled him 2 years ago. However, it isn't of much use so Tailing Sect won't care at all. Before we came, the master told me that it is easy to save the people. What was tough was to flee. As long as we common people path act, those Tailing Sect people will chase us all the way.”

When Zong Shou heard that, he was unsurprised. He also didn't have a depressed expression. Following which he flipped the next few papers which were information regarding Tailing Sect and that Han King as well as their recent actions.

”...2 months later Han King will be moved back to the capital?”

”I have also heard about this matter!”

The person who answered was Xuan Yunlan. After all the foundations of Qingyin Sect were in the central continent, as such they were much clearer about things here.

”That emperor of Great Shang for some reason had never decided on a crown prince, sending all the of age princes to take charge of the land. This Han King was supported by Tailing, Hanshan, and Daoming Sect. These few days he was doing so well, many successive wars in the western region. It was said that the court admired him and wanted to move him to the core area to take charge of the ministry of justice…”

Zong Shou smiled—this ministry of justice wasn't a good role to do.

Based on the records he had on the silk paper, it revealed the real reason that Han King was 'promoted' to enter the capital.

With the support of a few large sects, he had a few large wars with the western region.

However, he didn't make much progress and wasn't able to wipe out a country—he couldn't even occupy a land. Each time he mobilized troops it would reach 4 million. These weren't the normal nobodies of Donglin cloud continent but true elites. Even Gantian Mountain had only 400 thousand of such troops that could be discussed in the same vein.

In the end, not only did they suffer heavy casualties, the number of military resources they used up was in the tens of millions.

Even with how rich the central dynasty was, they couldn't afford it. A year ago someone sent up a letter to complain that he was focusing too much on the military which affected the finances of the people.

This was why rather than say that the Great Shang dynasty's important officials had high hopes for him, it was more of a demotion in actuality—to first place this Han King out of contention.

Following which Xuan Yunlan said, ”This Yuan Jiuchen's promotion is to take over Han King's provincial military governor position. This person is the top, right-hand man of the Han King, so only by passing the troops to him could the Han King be at ease to enter the capital…”

Right-hand man? That might not be the case!

Zong Shou continued to flip and not long later he saw a copy about the Liao King. This was one of the younger ones out of the princes, he was ranked 9th.

His experiences were normal and uninteresting, like that of a normal prince, not normal but also not very outstanding. After he was sent to the north to take charge of the Liao land, he seemed quite intelligent, organizing the troops and amassing their strength. It caused the barbaric tribes of the north to be unwilling to go down south. His results were much more beautiful than what the Han King had experienced.

A moment later, Zong Shou's gaze was focused on a line of words.

...Yuanchen 6th year 3rd month, the 9th prince was out touring the mountains. On the way back he lost his way and only returned 10 days later.

Taking a close look for a moment, like he wanted to magnify those normal-looking words and take an even closer look.

A long while later did Zong Shou heave a sigh.

The history books of the future didn't lie. There was such a matter.