Chapter 281: The Legendary Ji You

There are many sentences that respond to requests.

"No" represents refusal, "Yes" represents agreement and permission, and no matter what kind of answer, it can clearly indicate a stance.

But that "Forget it," falling into people's ears in the wind and snow, seemed particularly strange.

Because although what this sentence represents is also refusal, it seems to have more helplessness than "No."

Go eat? Forget it, the matter isn't finished yet.

Go to a flower house? Forget it, I'm already married.

Simply put, this "Forget it" is a refusal that is quite helpless after agreement.

At this time, among the people watching the changes in the situation on both sides of the Nishan divine path, many people suddenly turned and left at this moment, walking through the wind and snow toward the distance.

Along the thick accumulated snow, a series of footprints began to scatter in all directions.

Some went to the Prince's Mansion, some to the Immortal Inspection Bureau, some to the Imperial Palace, some to the aristocratic families in the capital, and some to the inns.

At this time, in the inner garden of Prince Chong's mansion, a group of servants were carrying ladders, walking and stopping under the eaves, climbing up and down, picking ice icicles from the eaves so as not to hurt the master's family.

And while they were busy, Prince Chong was drinking tea around the stove in the hall and reading secret letters delivered by officials close to him.

"Jiang Rong is meticulous, his choice is indeed not bad."

"The Prince praises me too much, it's just a pity that those old fogies in the Immortal Inspection Bureau are truly hateful, putting on a loyal appearance and obstructing multiple times, and I don't know when the Emperor will make a decision."

"The matter of decision should be soon..."

Prince Chong held the secret letter in his hand and couldn't help but mutter.

After the Immortal Inspection Bureau left the capital for disaster relief, the pro-immortal faction in the court, according to his instructions, kept putting pressure on his young Emperor nephew on many occasions, greatly seizing power.

The pro-emperor new policy faction in the court used to be at odds with him, but at this juncture, they were a bit afraid to speak out.

And the opponent's forbearance was entirely because the Immortal Viewing Assembly was successfully held some time ago, attracting countless immortals to stand for him.

Sour scholars are like this; when they speak, they wish they could dismantle this heaven and earth, but once something happens, their weakness is exposed.

In fact, this is also thanks to this snow disaster; after all, the Immortal Inspection Bureau was sent out for disaster relief, and no one could resist them at this time.

However, what Prince Chong couldn't forget was the collection of tax offerings.

It's just a pity that every time he mentioned this matter, the lame old minister Wang Mingchang, who had been an envoy to the Snow Region, had to hit his head against the main hall to show his ambition, making the matter unable to advance.

So Prince Chong changed his thinking and recommended his confidant Jiang Rong to participate in the expansion of the army.

Expanding the army itself didn't have much oil to fish, but the military pay behind the Zhenbei Army was a big cake, especially as the army expanded, this big cake was spread wider and wider.

The Qingyun world has a heavy tax of sixty percent, half given to the Immortal Sect, and only thirty percent of the other half enters the national treasury, while the remaining seventy percent is all used to raise the army; it can be said that it is fat and flowing with oil.

And this time, no one opposed his recommendation.

Why?

Because along with his recommendation, some officials close to the Immortal Sect and aristocratic families also impeached the Immortal Inspection Bureau, saying that they had the name of Immortal Inspection but dared to cut off the transportation of spirit stones, angering the immortals, and their hearts should be punished.

The imperial power of Great Xia is declining; for these years, they have been playing the role of a tool for the Immortal Sect to collect tax offerings and maintain stability at the border.

Even the Emperor couldn't withstand the pressure of such things, and his face began to become uglier and uglier.

But no one expected that Prince Chong's face would also be ugly.

Because he didn't hope from the bottom of his heart that intervening in the army expansion would be linked to the cutting off of spirit stones.

Army expansion only involves internal strife in the court, but after being linked to the cutting off of spirit stones, it involves too much.

Moreover, he also involved the most unfathomable and most mind-boggling person.

He sat on the grand master's chair, turning the first secret letter in his hand over and over, having read it for a whole afternoon.

And sitting next to him was his daughter, Princess Changle, who was flipping through a sword manual but also stayed on the first page.

Several young officials who came to deliver secret letters were waiting in the hall at this time, looking at this scene, and couldn't help but look at each other.

In their view, the crime of cutting off spirit stones was so great that the Immortal Inspection Bureau must not be able to hold on; they didn't understand why the Prince and the Princess would be so anxious.

Just at this moment, a servant returned through the snow: "Prince, Elder Peng of the Heavenly Academy appeared on behalf of Elder Fang."

Prince Chong put down the secret letter: "What did he say?"

"Elder Fang said, forget it..."

Zhao Yunyue's eyelashes trembled, and after a long while, she suddenly heard the sound of standing up.

She came back to her senses, raised her head to look, and found that Prince Chong was walking toward the side room.

"Where is Father going?" ===== CHAPTER 282 =====