Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

Emperor Zhou didn’t care too much about this matter.

There were many other things that he had to pay attention to.

One of them was naturally the matter of the officials in Ying City. After Ying City was established as Fei Yang Kingdom’s Capital City, there were more and more people who came here in hope they could grab a position.

Unfortunately, Emperor Zhou would not use just random people.

And there were only a few people from other kingdoms whom he decided to reuse in Ying City.

“How’s Minister Hao’s arrangement?” Emperor Zhou asked.

Minister Hao was one of the few people whom Emperor Zhou still used from Qi Xi Kingdom. After moving to Ying City, Emperor Zhou handed over his work to the others.

“Your Majesty, Minister Hao worked diligently,” Prime Minister Lan replied.

Emperor Zhou nodded and didn’t ask about it anymore.

For now, the most important thing was for them to arrange the construction matter. Some people who were good at building had to be called to the north to help with it.

This wouldn’t be an easy job.

Unfortunately, before Emperor Zhou could focus on working, there was a commotion and a eunuch ran in.

“Your Majesty, Minister Xiao is here to see you.”

Emperor Zhou took a deep breath when he heard this and felt some headache. The contribution of the Xiao Family was clear for them to see and the sharp movements that they made some time ago also made Emperor Zhou amazed.

But at the same time, he became wary.

The Xiao Family was a family with long history in Fei Yang Kingdom and if they were to make a move so suddenly, he was afraid that there would be many other people who were also doing the same in their Xiao Family.

Because Emperor Zhou knew that these noble families had their deep calculation.

“I’m busy. Unless there’s an emergency, I wouldn’t see him,” Emperor Zhou said unhurriedly.

Even though the Xiao Family is powerful, but Emperor Zhou controlled the amount of power that the Xiao Family had. The officials under the Xiao Family might be involved in several ministries, but they were only in high position at one ministry.

In the other ministry, there were other people who had higher position and would not let the Xiao Family ate them easily.

Being the emperor, Emperor Zhou knew very well that he was playing a game of power, where he had to make sure the people below him would keep check with each other and none of them could possibly threaten him.

It was not easy.

But Emperor Zhou had done it ever since he was young, maintaining the stable yet also somewhat fragile court.

“The Xiao Family is getting too ahead of themselves.” Prime Minister Xian frowned as he watched the eunuch left.

After Fei Yang Kingdom defeated Shi Long Kingdom, the Xiao Family had started to show their fangs. Right now, he had heard that there were some discords within the family, but some people were trying to gain more power.

There were also a few women whom they put into the harem.

Thankfully, Emperor Zhou was not a person who was easily swayed by other people’s words. He was still rational and would not make decision easily just based on these women’s words.

Otherwise, the court would have long been in chaos.

“They’re still working for Fei Yang Kingdom.” Prime Minister Lan shook his head. “Besides, they might have some important matter to report this time?”

Important matter?

Prime Minister Xian shook his head and then focused on his work.

The two prime ministers had different opinions when it came to these nobles under the Imperial Family.

For Prime Minister Lan, they just need to restrain these people to a certain degree through making sure that no one family was too powerful. Otherwise, it would be hard for them to keep check on them.

For Prime Minister Xian, he would rather punish these ministers when they were behaving too arrogantly directly rather than using others. After all, only if they realized that they were facing the Emperor would they know that their calculations were useless.

Who among them could be more powerful than Emperor Zhou?

But in the end, Emperor Zhou didn’t deal with these ministers too hard.

The main reason was simply because Fei Yang Kingdom still lacked people who could become ministers. If he destroyed too many noble families, there wouldn’t be anyone who could work for him.

So Emperor Zhou could only be patient.

But if they still jumped around in a few more years…

It was estimated that they would be cleaned up.

…

<Long Distance away, Xia Mountain Foot, Yu Jin’s Place>

The village where Yu Jin was staying has undergone another expansion. When Nan Hua came to this village a few months ago, the size was considerably smaller.

But now, there were more and more houses being built and land opened up for farming.

It seemed that Yu Jin has plan to make this village into a city or even bigger than that. Moreover, they were located not far from the river and if they could create some specialties, it could be used for trading in the future.

“Yu Jin does have some real skills.” Long Qian Xing nodded when he saw this. He had to admit that Yu Jin’s ability to lead her people was indeed real and not just a show from the mountain tribe.

“She has several elders helping her for management matters,” Nan Hua reminded.

Unlike Long Qian Xing who had never stepped into the Mountain Tribe’s area, Nan Hua had gone there and naturally saw that Yu Jin completely hated the management matters. Without the elders helping her from time to time, there was no way Yu Jin would be able to manage the city well like this.

After all, that sworn sister of hers was too lazy.

Long Qian Xing: “…” I should have thought about it.

Old Master Nan laughed when he heard his granddaughter’s words.

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