Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower - Chapter 2675 - 2678: What Happened?

As Long Qian Xing walked out of Nan Hua’s room, he thought about his last conversation with Song Chuan.

It seemed that they were discussing about the future development of Cheng City. The river trade has been implemented and there were more businessmen coming over to Cheng City.

With them here, the economy in Cheng City will be better.

But it was not enough.

Long Qian Xing knew very well that Fei Yang Kingdom seemed to be prosperous but in fact, they lacked many things. It was just that these things were not very obvious in Cheng City because of various reasons.

One of them was naturally the influence of the Long and the Nan Family.

These two families were the powerful family in Fei Yang Kingdom and this has been that way for a long time. Even before Emperor Yang Zhou sat on that throne, the two family had been controlling many things in this city.

The previous emperor… well, Emperor Yang Zhou’s grandfather and not his father, had tacitly agreed to let them develop here along with the Shangguan Family.

But now, only two families were left.

And from their marriage, the voice in Cheng City had turned into one.

‘Presumably, this is one of the reasons why he didn’t choose to stay here. In fact, he could have stopped it a long time ago but since he didn’t, he should have agreed to it tacitly.’

Long Qian Xing knew very well that Emperor Yang Zhou is still an emperor.

Being born and raised in the Imperial Family, he had learned about the methods of dividing people and to restrict their power so that the most powerful one should only be the Imperial Family. A ruler had to be strong and knew how to use and control his subordinates.

If he let his subordinates be too powerful to the point that he couldn’t control them, then he would be putting his own life on the line.

And this is a behavior that he couldn’t and shouldn’t do in the slightest bit.

Emperor Yang Zhou understood this.

And it was also because of this that Long Qian Xing knew that if he had become an official, he would have been restricted. He chose to become a general so that he could have more room for development.

But…

‘This is already the limit.’

Long Qian Xing sighed.

Thankfully, Emperor Yang Zhou didn’t have any plan to stay in Cheng City for the rest of his life and instead moved the capital city away. With him moving the capital city away, even if Long Qian Xing had some ideas, it would be harder to realize.

Besides, there were other families that had started to develop here.

It was also because of this balance that Emperor Yang Zhou allowed Long Qian Xing to mess around and didn’t make trouble to him.

But this was already the limit.

He wouldn’t be able to tolerate it if Long Qian Xing were to get more power or anything like that. Because if Long Qian Xing were to gain more power and so on, he might have the chance to cause disruption in the now united kingdom.

Emperor Yang Zhou had worked for so many years to unite the entire land, how could he possibly let his entire hard work go into waste?

It’s impossible.

So even if he was close to Long Qian Xing, he still had to keep Long Qian Xing in check.

It was also because of this that Long Qian Xing didn’t participate much in Song Chuan’s planning before and let this man go on his own device. The Long Family was already rich enough and even if this business was profitable, they couldn’t eat it.

Long Qian Xing simply gave it up.

The people in this era was not that rich and if he truly wanted to earn more profit, it would be better to take action when the economy had recovered more. Right now, the benefit that they could obtain from doing this kind of missions was simply too low, which was almost non existent.

At least, for the rich Nan Family and the Long Family, it was negligible.

There was not much profit from this matter, so Long Qian Xing didn’t plan to participate in the beginning.

But since Song Chuan had already arrived and planned to talk with him, he could only listen to his friend’s words.

It was really tiring.

When Long Qian Xing arrived at the living room, he saw Song Chuan was sitting while his son, Song Yi Nan, was drinking the tea. The two of them looked very peaceful and calm.

“Young Master Long.” Song Chuan nodded when he saw Long Qian Xing.

“General Xing,” Song Yi Nan also greeted but differently. After all, his father is a direct subordinate of Long Qian Xing even if this was not made public while he was Nan Hua’s student.

The two of them have completely different relationship with Long Qian Xing.

“Song Chuan… did something happen with the business?” Long Qian Xing asked as he took a seat.

“No, it’s not the problem in my side but the problem from other areas.” Song Chuan sighed helplessly. “There’s a famine on the west area of Fei Yang Kingdom and I have only found out from the merchants who came from the west this time.”

Famine.

Hearing this word, Long Qian Xing’s eyes narrowed slightly.

If he was not wrong, there was already a famine happened some time ago that caused trouble for Fei Yang Kingdom. But since he’s a general and not an official, Long Qian Xing didn’t directly participate in the problem and only heard that the matter seemed to be somewhat resolved.

“What happened exactly?” Long Qian Xing asked directly.

“The dry season and also bandits destroyed the crops in the early autumn. It’s already the harvest time and I didn’t know about it because it’s not in my jurisdiction,” Song Chuan explained.

He’s only the governor of Cheng City, so he had limited amount of information for other areas.