The seven major military factions, except for the Iron Dragons used for traveling on seas that he was not too familiar with - he had clashed with all of them. He had victories, but also suffered many losses, thus for their strengths and weaknesses - he knew them like the palm of his hand.

Chang Geng listened to it all as if he was starving. Gu Yun was like a mountain to him - for him to look up to every day and find his direction forward, and with every step, trying to suppress the inappropriate thoughts he harbored in his heart.

However, Gu Yun did not consider this to be teaching.

He had especially invited a teacher and a martial arts instructor to teach Chang Geng. Every morning, whether it was giving Chang Geng pointers on fighting the iron puppet or talking about whatever subjects he had in his knowledge - in Gu Yun’s opinion, it was only him making some free time to play with Chang Geng.

After a long period of observation, Gu Yun did not think that Chang Geng was suitable to walk the same path he did, Chang Geng always bore a gentle and restrained demeanor in front of him. Even though he could be somewhat stubborn at times, overall, he was still a sensible person.

Gu Yun thought that when the boy grew up, he should be a righteous and noble character, not a killer general that both demons and gods would not dare to come close to.

Just like that, the end of the year had arrived.

In the first year of the new Emperor's enthronement, the Emperor changed his title to Long An, and announced that there would be amnesty for the entire country.

The country, of course, also included the barbarian prince, Jia Lai Yinghuo, who was currently imprisoned in the capital.

The Emperor had patiently suppressed this matter for more than two months and had finally used this roundabout method to express his opinion. The old Wolf King's condition of increasing their tribute by ten percent each year was simply too tempting, yet he did not want to disrespect Gu Yun directly at the same time, thus the matter was set aside after each and every discussion. The letters from both the Ministry of Revenue and the Marquis of Order were both delayed up until the festival to appease the Heaven - now they could finally see the result of this long and drawn out debate.

The capital guard forces lined up on both sides, Shen Yi ushered his horse and went straight to Gu Yun's side - who donned a Light Armor suit - then stopped.

Gu Yun looked at him then slowly turned his horse to walk back, Shen Yi quickly followed after him and whispered: "Grand Marshal, I see that this time His Majesty has firmly decided to ‘release the tiger back to its mountain’. What should we do?”