Chapter 1061 - Delicious Xueer (2/2)

“He really is an arrogant Ruler!”

After thinking about it, Zong Shou and Jiezhou were really similar.

They both focused on military, and during their years in power, they started wars all over. Pretty much each year there would be war. They were both really talented and were Martial Path geniuses. They were also quite perverted and lustful.

“The Jiuchi Palace? He’s just the ruler of a barbarian land, owning merely ten states and actually dared to recreate Jiezhou’s wine pond and meat forest? If one day he becomes the Ruler of the Central Cloud Continent, what would he do?”

This time, it was one of the six Venerables present who talked, he was Liu Li, also called Xuebao, one of the Saint Scholars of the Confucian Faction. After the Cloud Desolate Era, he was one of the closest to the End Realm.

He subconsciously forgot about Zong Shou’s seventy-six worlds outside in the outer region.

A cold glow appeared in his eyes. “My Confucian Faction will not allow this kid to exist and sow chaos in the Cloud World!”

He glanced to Yinyu, one side was humble and disciplined, while the other was luxurious and immoral. One side ruled well while the other was really strict to officials and even made people powerful, giving them the chance to become officials.

The difference between these two Rulers were so obvious.

People like Yinyu were indefinitely close to the ideal Confucian Ruler, a wise lord.

Unfortunately, the time wasn’t right yet and it wasn’t his destiny…

Fate was just like that, the Great Shang was about to end, so what could they do?

Although the Confucian Faction were loyal to their ruler, but they couldn’t block the waves caused by the Taoist Faction and Demon Sect.

However, if they were able to conquer the rich Donglin Cloud Continent, there might be a chance for the Great Shang to extend their rule and have a chance of rising back up.

At this point, Yinyu’s face was green. He gripped his hands tightly under the table, green veins popping out. His fingernails etched into his hands, only then was he able to prevent himself from blowing up in front of everyone.

How preposterous! How preposterous! They deserved to be killed!

His gaze glanced across the documents on the table, his chest was about to explode from rage.

They came from all around, telling them that the granaries were running out.

He had never asked about the grain storage of the country and never knew that it had reached such levels.

Before the war, he didn’t notice it but once it started, only a month later did all this explode out.

On the surface, the grains that could support the eighteen million troops for two years were actually taken by the officials and guards themselves, they sold them.

They said that they had stored it for too long and it had already rotted.

The various merchants, aristocrats, and families, worked together to amass grain, he couldn’t purchase even if he wanted to.

The treasury, for some reason, lost tens of millions of Mind Stones.

D*mn corrupted worms! How did they dare to do this?

This was the first time he felt that his dozens of years of rule were totally useless. He went too far in trying to recruit the people.

If he knew that this was going to happen, he would have cared more and less about his name even if he just killed some of them.

If not for this time when the army conquering the south not succeeding in a month, and the grain being a problem. They were going to hide it from him forever.

What a “Use the Reason of the Heavens To Wipe Out Temptation”! Even though they spread it for thousands of years, but how many Confucians could actually do it? Which one of those corrupt officials didn’t read those scriptures?

Zuoxin, who worked for Great Shang, also had his own temptations.

He suppressed the rage in his chest as he thought back to the luxuries within Zong Shou’s palace. Only then did he feel slightly better.

Yinyu as a ruler was totally different from Zong Shou.

“Officials. This Zong Shou is still so arrogant and flagrant. Even if we all know this, it won’t affect the situation. Now that the Great Shang lacks grain, even if we try to save him, we can only last for half a month. What do we do then? What we need is a way to break this.”

The situation was much worse than the three months that Zhang Huai had predicted.

Zuoxin was stunned, his face filled with guilt as he said, “It’s my fault, I was unable to notice the corruption of the local officials, our granaries had really reached such an extent.”

Yinyu shook his head and waved his hand. “This is the problem of the Great Shang, it was like this a thousand years ago. Selling grain became really common and has nothing to do with you. I failed my job…”

Zuoxin was more and more grateful. “After this battle, I will investigate the problem and I will heavily weed out all the corrupted officials.”

Everyone looked towards Feiyin and all the other generals.

Within the reading room, in terms of cultivation, they were much stronger than Feiyin. However, in terms of troops ability, they would depend on this person.

“Kong Yao is really careful when using troops, she even sneak attacked many times. She never leaves the enemy a chance to attack her. I’m really useless, to crush her in a month and a half is impossible.”

Feiyin was really dejected. During these few days, he was already anxious. Unlike before when she looked down on Kong Yao.

“However, she needs a good ruler to show off her ability. Who she serves is an unruly and preposterous one.”