Chapter 555: Longyang Princess as Sweet Rain

"It's not..."

"Zheng, Zheng... save some, save some!"

Along this journey, Liu Dahao's heart was aching to death.

This was a massive amount of gold and silver!

Just like that, it was being tossed away by Liu Zheng handful by handful.

How could Liu Dahao, a man who started as a merchant, stand it? Thinking back to those years, when he was accumulating his own family fortune, it was so hard, racking his brains. He saved and saved, only then saving enough silver to buy a title.

And this Liu Zheng?

It had only been three days...

Millions of taels of silver, just tossed away by him like that!

"What are you worrying blindly for?"

Feng Sanniang grabbed Liu Dahao and glared at him: "Look at your lack of ambition! Is this money you earned? This is our son's own capability, what does it have to do with you?"

"I, I, I..."

Liu Dahao wore a miserable expression.

Although he was now a Western Regions Commissioner and a Prefectural Governor, deep down, he was still a merchant.

"Zheng, Zheng!"

At this moment, Liu Zheng saw a group of beggars in a dilapidated temple who were barely clothed and starving, so he had the main force stop. He and Xie Chan went over together, offering all sorts of comfort and encouragement.

In these past few days, Xie Chan had truly become famous in the Longyan Dynasty.

An angel in white.

Dressed in white, graceful as an immortal.

Wherever she went, it was like a spring breeze.

All of Longyan was spreading the word that a fairy had descended to earth. She had descended with the grace of Heaven. Wherever she went, she brought the sweet rain sent by the heavens.

Liu Zheng had also been having fun these past few days.

He felt as if he were carrying out another "god-making" campaign in the heart of the Longyan Dynasty, just like the one with Aluba. And this time, it was much easier than it had been in Liangshan. In Liangshan, he still had to rack his brains and put on all sorts of supernatural displays.

And now?

It was just throwing money!

As for Xie Chan, she had also shed her former heroic and spirited demeanor, wearing a warm smile, giving out money, grain, and good clothes wherever she went.

Then, following Liu Zheng's arrangement, she waved her small fist and smiled at this group of children.

"Work hard!"

"Work hard!"

"Be strong!"

"Be strong!"

"Strive!"

"Strive!"

She would say a word, and these beggar children would follow with a word.

Another thirty thousand taels of silver were tossed out.

"Are you happy?"

Liu Zheng looked at Xie Chan with a smile.

Xie Chan, still flushed with excitement, glanced at Liu Zheng and gave a soft smile: "I don't know how you thought of this. But I am really happy. I didn't expect that in the Great Yan Dynasty, there would still be so many poor families."

"Isn't it said to be a Celestial Empire?"

Xie Chan was actually a bit confused.

They were getting closer and closer to Jinghua, yet she could still see these people struggling on the poverty line. Especially those ignorant people, and especially these children who couldn't afford to eat. The situation here was as different as heaven and earth compared to Liangzhou.

Liu Zheng chuckled: "As long as class concepts are not eliminated, common prosperity is just a delusion. So-called moral education, what is moral education?"

He said indifferently: "Moral education is ignorance; liberating thought is the King's Way. To be conservative and self-isolated is to fall behind and be beaten. Isn't this exactly what the Emperor's birthday is about? Those barbarians clearly have ulterior motives and have come to apply pressure. They see that your Longyan Dynasty is easy to bully, so they bully you to death!"

"If the Longyan Dynasty were that strong from the inside out, who would dare to come?"

"Who would dare to challenge us?"

Liu Zheng mounted his horse and laughed: "National self-confidence should be the people's self-confidence; national self-strengthening should be the people's self-strengthening; national self-respect should be the people's self-respect!"

"Princess, when everyone under heaven can afford to eat, wear clothes, read books, and live in houses just like us!"

"That will be the time of Longyan's revival!"

"That will be when the Huaxia nation truly becomes a Celestial Empire!"

Xie Chan looked at the high-spirited Liu Zheng, her eyes filled with infatuation.

When she heard the title "Princess," a flash of shyness crossed her face, and she chided coquettishly: "Liu Zheng, you're asking for a beating!"

She also mounted her horse and galloped away quickly.

This man and woman looked like a pair of immortal heroes, making people very envious.

"Smart people!"

Prince Yong watched from behind, chuckling.

Grand Eunuch Zhou, however, looked helpless: "Prince Yong, must you make things so complicated? This, this, the Third Prince's body is not yet cold, and this Princess has already been pushed out by you all..."

Upon hearing this, Prince Yong immediately objected, saying with a straight face: "Lao Zhou, what kind of talk is that? Pushed out?"

"Don't you think, Lao Zhou, that this is the choice of history?"

"Longyang Princess and Prefectural Governor Liu are a match made in heaven."

"They have stumbled all the way here, escaping death several times."

"I, on the contrary, believe everything is just right; it is as if Longyang Princess is sweet dew, and the hearts of the people can bear witness!"

"As for what happens after..."

"Why not leave it to Heaven's will?"

The Prince of Yong laughed heartily.

Grand Eunuch Zhou stood there, stunned like a wooden chicken, lost in deep thought.

Creating momentum.

Prefectural Governor Liu has begun creating momentum again.

Eastern Palace.

The expression on the face of Crown Prince Xie Fang turned gloomy.

"A step too late, still a step too late..."

Just when he learned that Prefectural Governor Liu had not died at Yang'an Pass, and had even ended up killing Xie Ling, he immediately sent men rushing to Yang'an Pass, wanting to repair the relationship with Prefectural Governor Liu. The goal was naturally to have the Liangzhou faction, represented by Prefectural Governor Liu, continue to support him.

Alas...

A step too late!

By the time his envoy arrived, Prefectural Governor Liu's money-scattering campaign had already begun. Regarding the envoy he sent, Liu Zheng only offered a few insincere, polite words about continuing to maintain the friendly relationship between both sides and continuing to deepen cooperation on many matters, and so on. But the sense of estrangement and distance between the lines already made Xie Fang feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Think of a Method!"

"All of you, damn it, think of a Method for this Palace!"

Xie Fang looked at this group of strategists who were out of ideas and roared: "Aren't you all very clever? Are you not supposed to have every contingency planned? Why have you all gone mute at a time like this? Hmm? It's only been a few days, and the reputation of this Longyang Princess is about to surpass this Palace! There are already rumors that many people in Jinghua are already secretly making contact with Prefectural Governor Liu. Tell me what to do, what to do!"

He was about to be angered to death.

Back then, he had said he wanted to go to Yang'an Pass to reinforce Liu Zheng, hadn't he?

Even if he didn't go with the main force, he could have sent a small unit of elites.

It was all these strategists and advisors who insisted he borrow a knife to kill someone!

And now look!

He didn't kill Prefectural Governor Liu, but instead trapped himself.

That white-haired strategist stroked his beard and said: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, please be calm. I, on the contrary, believe that Prefectural Governor Liu creating such momentum is actually lifting a rock only to drop it on his own feet. The harder he tries to build momentum for Longyang Princess, the more obvious his ambition becomes."

"Does Your Highness think, how will the Emperor view this?"

The crowd looked at each other in dismay.

Xie Fang's eyes lit up: "Teacher means..."

That white-haired old man had a flash of brilliance in his eyes: "Since Prefectural Governor Liu insists on elevating Longyang Princess..."

"Then why not..."

"We also go with the flow and use a tactic of 'killing with kindness', how about that?"

The group of people felt their spirits lift.