Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

"Governor Nian, you must be joking. Are the funds in the officials not enough?" First Master Jun immediately asked. He has been able to get everything done according to how he wanted over the past few years.

So when he faced something like this that would threaten his money, he felt immense rejection.

He didn't want to lose his money!

"First Master Jun is joking. There are a lot of projects that His Majesty had arranged for us to do," Governor Nian replied with a smile. "In order to make the returning soldiers live better, the nobles should do their part, isn't it? The previous time, there has been a lot of criticism because the soldiers who returned from the war against Shi Long Kingdom were not treated well and many people were punished."

First Master Jun's face was cold.

This was the truth.

And this was mainly because of Shangguan Xian's incident.

When Emperor Yang Zhou found out that the family members of these soldiers were caught and then treated as hostage, he was furious. Afterwards, he heard that in some cities, the returning soldiers who were injured were not compensated properly, so many officials were kicked down.

Not only the officials, the so called nobles in those cities were also fined heavily and had to pay a lot to compensate these soldiers.

This incident was one of the reasons why the number of officials in Fei Yang Kingdom was not enough.

Otherwise, there was no way there would be so many Imperial Examination.

Nan Hua herself didn't pay much attention to this matter because she didn't think it was necessary for her to do so. But she knew that Emperor Yang Zhou had to keep recruiting more and more people.

This might be because many of them were kicked down because of their misbehavior.

To be honest, Governor Nian had already separated fund for the soldiers, but since Jun Shi Lian asked him to do this, then he could only pretend that the money was not enough. Anyway, he was not the one who had to pay.

"That has nothing to do with me…"

"Last time, a noble who refused to raise money was demoted to commoner." One of the nobles chuckled. "Are you sure that you want to be the only one who didn't agree, First Master Jun?"

First Master Jun was stunned and then glared at this man. The two of them were in the same business and many of their stores were competing with each other.

So when this person spoke, First Master Jun was not suspicious.

This was not the first time they fought against each other.

"You must be joking. When did I say that I'm the only one who didn't agree?" First Master Jun snorted. "I'm just thinking that Governor Nian should have arranged the funds better…"

"Governor Nian is doing very well," another noble interjected. "Isn't it because there are many areas that keep being destroyed lately that the money is not enough?"

First Master Jun: "…"

The pot is back to him.

In the past few weeks, First Master Jun has been making trouble to Governor Nian because he wanted Governor Nian to let his son become an official directly. But the procedure was not like that and even other officials were unwilling.

Emperor Yang Zhou was very strict in implementing the law he has promulgated over the years.

And with Prime Minister Xian beside him, there were many new laws being made every year that made it difficult for them to use the loopholes. These people who managed to become officials with great difficulty naturally didn't want to lose it through such an obvious and stupid way.

They wanted money.

But not at the cost of their own reputation, family, and position.

The laws were not so strict many years ago but now…

Hehehe.

They better not try to do anything stupid.

First Master Jun was annoyed and used the carrot and stick technique. He kept on making trouble and smashed a few public facility, giving Governor Nian a headache about how to deal with him.

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But these nobles wouldn't know how much the real repair cost is because Governor Nian would never show it to them.

"You may also publicize how much you care for the people," Governor Nian added when he saw these nobles were about to fight head on. "I'm sure the people in the city will like you more if they know that you help with them even if it's only a little bit."

These nobles looked at Governor Nian and nodded their head.

Many people in this era valued reputation and family reputation was even harder to get. After all, most information dissemination could only be done through mouth to mouth, which take a long time to do.

Besides, they had talked about this before and these nobles were basically playing an act.

From the very beginning, they would agree.

After all, the amount they had to pay would be subsidized by Governor Nian. They only need to pay a smaller amount.

When they thought that First Master Jun had to pay a lot of money while they only needed to pay less than half… they naturally felt very good. They could get the reputation but didn't have to pay as much.

It was a no loss business for them.

"You… I'll tell the Nan Family that you're making trouble!" First Master Jun yelled in anger when he saw the others were about to agree.

He didn't want to lose money!

Jun Shi Lian was standing outside the room, pretending to be a guard and wore proper armor. The boxes he took were carefully hidden not far from him.

And when he listened to First Master Jun's words, his eyes condensed into anger.

How dare he?

It was only now Jun Shi Lian realized how his father managed to build his business very quickly and obtained a lot of money in the past few years.

He was using the fact that his sister married into the Nan Family.