I have the best bloodline

Otherwise, we should pick some to take home and invite our aunt and Princess Wuxi to try them.

"I'll come back and visit again when I have time!"

Su Yan withdrew her gaze from the distance and quickened her pace to catch up with her companions who were walking ahead.

The crowd did not deliberately spread the word or solicit the "umbrella of ten thousand people" that the officials desired when they left the city.

None of the group were interested in the imperial court. The "Umbrella of Ten Thousand People," which was extremely important to the officials, was at most a souvenir to the rest of the group. It was not worth it to require the city to shut down for about half a day to collect it.

It was precisely because no one was preoccupied with the court that Su Yan and his group were able to wholeheartedly work for the benefit of the people, without taking credit for the achievements that belonged to everyone and trying to curry favor with the officials.

Now that the academy's spring outing has ended, everyone naturally left on foot, just like when they first arrived.

"Huh? Why is there a monkey up there?"

Half a day after Su Yan and his group left, when the government office opened in the early morning, the yamen runners began their work. As usual, following the rules set by Su Yan and his group, they first went to the streets to patrol and supervise cleanliness, and persuaded the vendors who were occupying the road to stop.

Then, the two families, having an irreconcilable conflict, went to the government office, hurling insults at each other, intending to ask the respected officials to judge the matter and to use the laws of Xia Yu and the local laws for punishment.

As it turned out, the position of the county magistrate in the flower office was not occupied by the four gentlemen we usually saw, nor by the savior physician in the back hall, but by a clever monkey dressed in a county magistrate's robe and wearing a tall hat, sitting in the magistrate's seat and reciting the law with a serious expression.

"squeak?"

The clever monkey slammed the gavel and loudly inquired who was below and what business they had in this important government office.

Both households were completely dumbfounded, staring blankly at the clever monkey sitting in the county magistrate's seat.

"Master Su? Where is Master Jun?! Good heavens! The monkey has started reciting the law! The masters have vanished!"

Monkey: "."

Don't ask me, how would I know those things? I'm just a working monkey with a monthly salary of three spirit stones.

So, what exactly is the matter between you two?

........................

Leaving aside the fact that the people of Flower City discovered that all the officials of the Flower Bureau had disappeared, and the subsequent series of mourning events that followed.

Su Yan and his friends arrived at the top floor of Luohe Residence before noon on August 17th, as instructed by Grand Tutor Jin. They were ready to report on all the details of the academy's spring outing and submit their daily homework written over the past six months.

Something feels off here.

Su Yan, familiar with the way, headed to the elevator, intending to take it to the top floor of Luohe Residence. There, he saw a large group of disheveled beggars.

Su Yan wasn't discriminating against beggars; he just felt that these people in front of him looked somewhat familiar, and he could also sense that they all possessed spiritual power and their cultivation had reached a level above the Foundation Establishment stage.

"?!"

While Su Yan was observing the group of beggars across from him, the group of beggars sitting next to the elevator also noticed the well-dressed Su Yan and his group.

A female beggar with messy hair, twigs stuck in her head, and skin tanned and cracked by the scorching sun, was stunned when she saw Princess Luanming. Then, with tears welling up in her eyes, she changed from squatting to rushing forward and throwing herself at Princess Luanming.

"Waaaaah, Sister Junxia, ​​I'm so miserable!"

Stop, stop, stop!

When Princess Luanming saw that the newcomer was not only slovenly but also reeked of a strange odor, she quickly waved her hand and stopped the female beggar who was about to pounce on her. The group would be meeting Grand Tutor Jin later, and it was not appropriate for them to go over dirty.

"You are Hu Ruoying? What's going on here? Why are you all covered in dirt and squatting in front of Luoheju instead of going up to her?"

Princess Luanming carefully examined the woman, but couldn't place her. Only by activating her spiritual vision could she recognize the disheveled beggar as an acquaintance she had met a few times in Xia Yu City.

Hu Ruoying is a member of Yongle Academy and also a member of the middle and upper grade group who participated in the academy's spring outing.

“Without spirit stones, we can’t go up,” Hu Ruoying said, her voice choked with emotion.

"What's going on here?" Princess Luanming asked, slightly puzzled.

According to the information she knew, the students who participated in the spring outing were to take up their posts as magistrates in various outlying counties of the Red King's fiefdom.

How did Hu Ruoying end up being called a beggar?

"Waaaaah, our city has fallen! It was swept away by the demons! I almost got captured and taken to the mountains by them!"

Hu Ruoying tearfully recounted all the grievances she had suffered over the past six months to Princess Luanming.

Like Su Yan, Hu Ruoying and her group were also airdropped by Grand Tutor Jin to serve as county magistrates in a remote city.

The closer a city is to the edge, the more chaotic it becomes. The Red King also relies on absolute force to suppress the local bullies and implements extreme high-pressure rule to force out troublemakers, and then makes an example of them.

But Hu Ruoying and her ilk knew nothing of this. They went to take up their posts as county magistrates with great enthusiasm, full of ambition and ready to make a big splash and boost the local economy.

They then encountered a similar situation to Su Yan: the government did not have much power, and the majority of local economic income and land were in the hands of landlords.

Hu Ruoying and her group angered the landlords, who gave them a vivid lesson from the locals. The landlords almost used them as a tool to kill someone and frame the local demons for everything.

Yihe City was utterly destroyed by the demonic cultivators of the demon race.

Although Grand Tutor Jin intervened afterward, Hu Ruoying and her group were still eliminated, their cultivation sealed by Grand Tutor Jin and thrown into the wilderness as punishment.

After more than half a year of wandering, he finally received a recall notice from Grand Tutor Jin.

Hu Ruoying and her group ran crying to the Red King's Mansion, and then arrived at the gate of Luohe Residence. However, because they did not have spirit stones to pay the fee, the gatekeepers would not let them take the elevator. They could only squat in front of the elevator, hoping that the students from the academy could give them a ride to the roof.

But the students who came here one after another were either beggars like themselves, or well-dressed but penniless wretches who couldn't afford a single copper coin.

"Let's go! Don't waste any more time."

After hearing Hu Ruoying's explanation, Su Yan's forehead was covered in black lines.

The Red King's fiefdom... how should I put it? The creatures on lands not directly under the Red King's control all felt a deep-seated fear of the cruel and greedy Red King, lest they find themselves facing the Red King's army to confiscate their property and behead them if they did anything inappropriate.

Although the cities are different, they are all ruled by the same Red King, so the landlords in Hu Ruoying's city must also be extremely afraid of the Red King.

Then the problem is coming.

What exactly did Hu Ruoying and her group do to force the landlords to risk their lives to kill them? No, it shouldn't be killing them, but rather selling the men to be rabbits and sending the women to the demon race to be... you know.

Su Yan couldn't understand it at all. What kind of deep-seated hatred could Hu Ruoying and the local bullies have that could cause the story to develop like this?

"What did you do?"

"Well, after taking office, we learned that the reason for the underdeveloped commerce here was poor public security, so we began to vigorously rectify the city and the surrounding area's security."

Once inside the elevator, Su Yan couldn't help but ask Hu Ruoying and her group about their experiences. She learned some very unexpected information and then fell silent.

Is he going to start fixing public order as soon as he takes office?

Good heavens. You've offended almost every local dark demon sect!

Do you really think that the border regions all follow the laws of Yu the Great?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 366 Differential Treatment

"Actually, we're not doing too badly."

When Hu Ruoying noticed that Su Yan and his group were looking at her with strange expressions, their eyes seemingly containing surprise, pity, and speechlessness, she weakly began to defend herself and her group:

"We were just beggars for half a year, sleeping in the wilderness and unable to enter any cities. Not long ago, another group of classmates had a much worse experience. Apparently, they were trying to overthrow the local clan, but were instead forked by a local immortal and fed to a giant bird on the sacrificial altar."

"There are still a few classmates who have fallen into prostitution and are now playing musical instruments and singing."

As Hu Ruoying spoke, she became smug. Although her group looked dirty, compared to her classmates who had been forced into brothels and worked day and night to earn money to supplement the government's finances through music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, their lives were like those of gods.

The difficulties encountered were completely different depending on the county where they took office.

Some were dominated by powerful clans, where even a powerful dragon could not withstand the might of a local snake. Other counties were so poor that they could not even pay the salaries of their officials. The land was desolate, and the people wore rags on their clothes and had to gnaw on tree bark and weeds to get by.

The group of classmates that Hu Ruoying mentioned were the ones who were assigned to this desolate city. The people were basically surviving on the porridge distributed by the Red King's Mansion, and they were all emaciated and had no strength left to build the city.

The newly appointed students had no choice but to take carriages to neighboring cities in the early morning. Some sang, some painted, and some told fortunes, working frantically to subsidize their respective cities and hoping to help them get through the most difficult period.

A group of young noblemen from the Xia Dynasty were thrown into a border city by Grand Tutor Jin and given a hard time.

"And you? Look how elegantly you all look, Sister Junxia. The city you're in must be quite wealthy, right?" Hu Ruoying asked Su Yan and her group.

"You could say we're wealthy?" Princess Luanming's face showed a subtle expression as she said, "Our experiences haven't been as rich as yours. We've only had one simple war, a ten-warrior tribe passing by, and our city destroyed twice."

In Flower City, where Su Yan took office, there weren't many messy or troublesome things happening. He was basically on the run, and then seized power when the situation changed drastically, gradually squeezing out and dividing the clan's power.

Hu Ruoying: "?!"

………………

"squeak"

The elevator stopped at the top floor of Luohe Residence. Su Yan took out a spirit stone from his storage ring and threw it to the maid who was controlling the elevator. He then went up the stairs of the top-floor restaurant to the sky garden above the Luohe Residence platform.

The once empty courtyard was now filled with students who had returned from their studies, thanks to Grand Tutor Jin's private booking.

As soon as Su Yan stepped out of the gate, he saw the students who had arrived earlier. Grand Tutor Jin was sitting in a rocking chair with his legs crossed, flipping through the homework that the students had handed in, with a bright smile on his face.

"The Dean"

Su Yan approached Grand Tutor Jin and handed in the homework books of himself and his group.

"hehe."

Grand Tutor Jin waved his hand, refusing the homework book that Su Yan presented to him, and said with a smile:

"I've heard about your experiences. Now there's only one question: how much tribute have you prepared?"

Grand Tutor Jin had heard about Su Yan's actions in Flower City even back in Xia Yu City.

After seeing the Crimson King trapped inside the iceberg, Su Yan, that little fox, poked his little foot out and teased him a bit. Once he was sure the Crimson King wouldn't jump out to attack him, he led the Flower City clan to the Southern Frontier to buy up all the valuable land resources there and establish a dumping guild.

After the Red King's head was unsealed, he cursed Su Yan more than once after learning about Su Yan's actions, and wrote letters to Grand Tutor Jin, asking him to control his student!

What kind of damned troublemakers are these!

Taking advantage of my inability to move, they actually formed a group and ran into my house to steal my things! Is there no law left? Why can't the laws of Xia Yu govern these unruly people?!

The Red King was so angry that his chest ached, but because his body was still trapped inside the iceberg, he couldn't get out at all. He could only frantically send telepathic messages and write letters to Grand Tutor Jin, asking him to come and retrieve all the unruly people he had thrown into his territory!

It would be one thing if Su Yan were the one robbing; they wouldn't be able to take everything with them when they returned to Xia Yu City. But it's a different story if it falls into the hands of the unruly people of Flower City. Once they get the land deeds, they will be protected by the laws of Xia Yu, and the Crimson King wouldn't dare to risk offending them by directly robbing them.

"This number"

Su Yan glanced around and held up two fingers, waving them in front of the dean: "If we really want to raise tribute to His Majesty the Emperor of No Life, we can definitely raise about 200,000 spirit stones in a week."

In the Xia Yu system, to get promoted, simply working diligently was not enough; one needed to know how to plunder the wealth of merchants to help the poor in the court. The tribute and gifts paid at the end of each year directly affected the Ministry of Personnel's decision on the promotion of county magistrates in various regions the following year.

Those with ability can get promoted quickly, while those without ability may never get promoted even if they work themselves to death.