Inside the Imperial Study, Yan Feng was, for some reason, fretful as he confronted the mountain of after-court reports on his desk.Today in the court, many of the submitted reports were signed jointly by external local officials and high-ranking officials in the court to impeach Bulwark Grand General Chiyun Yuexuan.The reports listed a slew of bad deeds performed by Chiyun Yuexuan. According to them, he relied on his favored older sister’s name to arrogantly disregard the law and discipline, demanding exorbitant bribes from local officials as well as well-known squires. Those who didn’t comply were all met with cruel persecutions; anyone who displayed the slightest sign of discontent were killed in front of the others per his order. Unable to stand this, many court-appointed local officials committed suicide, which then aroused cries of complaints in the several districts surrounding Fuling Pass. The civilians jointly petitioned to condemn him, but Chiyun Yuexuan broug

Qi Shangming entered the Imperial Study, on pins and needles as he poured Yan Feng a cup of tea. “Your Majesty, getting angry all the time is not a solution. How about sending Miss Murong to Imperial Noble Consort’s place and mellow her out? This could be a good thing.”Yan Feng didn’t respond.Qi Shangming continued to explain, “Noble Consort Chiyun might be narrow-minded, but she’s still a highly educated and reasonable daughter from a respectable family; she won’t harm Miss Murong. Not to say, if Your Majesty misses Miss Murong, you can go to Minghui Palace to visit her. It’s not like you can’t meet again.”Yan Feng remained silent.The next day, Yan Feng had people bring Murong Zhining and Cai Sang to Minghui Palace. Chiyun Ping had a side chamber tidied up for the two girls to stay in.Chiyun Ping wasn’t in a hurry to deal with Murong Zhining, afraid that she’d break the vases while hitting the rat. She knew very well Murong Zhining’s position in Y

Chiyun Yuexuan couldn’t care less about those accusations, he had his own explanation on this: Several months ago, several counties in the south of Huayan were met with one of the most severe floods in the last one hundred years. Amongst them, the most dire were Yuliang and Yanshan County. Chiyun Yuexuan was stationed at Fuling Pass, only a county away from Yuliang, so he immediately brought a troop to go assist upon hearing of the grave situation there. Since the area under his authority still had quite an abundant food stock, Chiyun Yuexuan decided to extract a portion for the refugees of Yuliang. On his way to supervise the cavalcade towards Yuliang, he received reports from his scouts that the Imperial Court had delivered a great amount of support silver to the disaster areas.Chiyun Yuexuan was a short way from Yuliang when he could see that something was off. It was chaotic as numerous people were taking their children to run for refuge, the bodies of those who died from

The sons of the noble families supported Chiyun Yuexuan to the east yard, the main courtyard of the General Estate. A short while later, Murong Zhining could see through the crack that they had again arranged food and wine in the courtyard and continued drinking noisily. There was even music and the vague figures of women waving their sleeves as they danced. Murong Zhining shook her head and smiled bitterly, These noble juniors only know to eat, drink, and have fun.Chiyun Yuexuan accompanied the three playboys to drink in the east courtyard. The estate had its own musicians and dancers to help them enjoy themselves. Chiyun Yuexuan seemed depressed as he sat there drinking alone, drowning in his own thoughts. In the disaster relief regarding Yuliang and Yanshan, he was fine if his contribution wasn’t recognized, but they actually ratted on him for the crime he didn’t commit, forcing him to yield the Commander’s Seal and give up the rights to military leadership. This was a gre

The woman looked to be around thirty years old and was the wife of the local official who Chiyun Yuexuan threw out the window. The woman was called Mrs. Wang, and her husband was Fang Sheng, an official registrar of Yulian County. This small position, something that the pair of husband and wife had exhausted their family savings to buy, was only local-appointed and couldn’t be considered a court official in any way.Fang Sheng was a trusted confidant of the county magistrate and often helped the magistrate carry out utterly unethical things. At the same time, he also had administered the list of officials taking part in the embezzlement of the relief silver.One time, Fang Sheng got drunk at home and complained about how vicious and greedy the magistrate was. He mentioned to Mrs. Wang about the court sending relief, saying that when the silver arrived at Yuliang County, the majority had been withdrawn layer after layer and was less than one-tenth left. The county magistr