The Grand General and Jade Courtesan

Chapter 10

Liu Family Estate: Liu Qingge's Office

The general sighs as he makes his way to his desk where a mountain of invitations and gifts from those disgusting assholes is waiting for him

Oh great so it wasn't only the imperial family that was trying to rub on his good side

Now he had an entire army of bootlickers waiting for the Liu family to bestow their favor upon them

He wonders how much money these bastards had to extort to afford such luxurious gifts that last time Liu Qingge could remember that barely half of the noblemen could barely afford thanks to the poor economy

He would prefer that instead of putting all their time and money into bribing him that they would actually use all of it to help rebuild their own territories that were being driven down under

Honestly, he wonders how in the hell the common people were able to restrain themselves from raiding their lords' estates and go beating the inch out of their lives

Although with the way things were going the general estimates that it would really be only a matter of time before they did

The rumors of the dowager empress's ominous birthday party have reached throughout the entire kingdom even to the very borders

People were talking right and left about how the royal family had finally been cursed by the heavens after enraging them with their debauchery over all these years meaning that they were forsaken by the very heavens that had granted them the power to rule over these lands

Then more malicious rumors of how the royal family had also cursed the entire Western Kingdom along with them

So long as the Yue Clan kept on standing there would be no hope for the future

The people were calling for the dethronement and purge of the Yue Clan in order to calm the heaven's wrath

Some had gone as far as to demand that the entire imperial court be purified of their evil sins

Many of the nobles and officials who were in fear of their life made their escape out of the kingdom

The majority of them had been the ones who had once been fiercely loyal to the Yue Clan

Loyal his ass those asshats had only been interested in what they could get by sucking up to the emperor's feet

The very few nobles and officials that have remained were those of the neutral faction who refused to abandon their people no matter the costs

But even then some of them were being pulled toward the Southern Empire's offer

Those who were close to the general or members of the Liu Clan had taken the offer once they heard of the general's plan to transition to the Southern Empire

They had initially been hesitating but hearing that the great honorable general had put his trust and faith upon the royal advisor/ southern crown prince finally convinced them to move

Liu Qingge didn't know how well his people would take to the news of their transition and expected the worse only to be left completely shocked at the cheering crowd

His people were incredibly happy and joyous at the news that they would no longer have to live under the tyranny of the Yue imperial family and actually live under a just and wise ruler that their general had placed his trust upon

Shen Jiu chuckled if it had been any other person they probably wouldn't have been able to garner so much support as the general had

The trust and faith that the general had worked hard to build up all these years were truly not in vain as proven by the cheering crowd