Gu Yun: "I will kneel here for a while until His Majesty's anger cools down. You are the one who serves by his side, don't let him think too much."

He vaguely hinted, but Zhu Little Feet would naturally understand. The old eunuch heaved a sigh: "When Marquis quarreled with His Majesty, if you still remembered to be this mindful, you would not have had to catch this northwest wind."

With Zhu Little Feet gone, Gu Yun exhaled out white air. In a state of boredom, he carefully thought about what Chang Geng had said to him at Hu Guo Temple — the Eastern Sea disaster, and the southwest riot, perhaps both were not accidental.

Slowly, Gu Yun managed to form a faint connection.

Wei Wang placed his troops in the Eastern Sea and intended to use naval warfare as a breakthrough.

Gu Yun captured the Eastern Sea rebel army at that time, not costing him a single soldier. Compared with the wave that was subsequently launched, this matter could be said to resemble 'a small head but heavy feet'.

The entirety of the court had boiled up because of this; Jiangnan Navy was thoroughly cleaned from top to bottom. The Emperor once exhausted Ling Shu Institute's resources, intending to build up one branch of Dragons, causing the military expenses of forces on all four sides to be cut down even further.

The more significant impact was that the Eastern Sea disaster directly gave birth to the 'Zhang Ling Law', to restrict the common folk Mechanics, and the Drumming Order, to gather the national military power — the latter directly aimed at Gu Yun himself. Thinking about it now, in retrospect, Emperor Long An did not raise him any trouble for no reason; perhaps, his actions in Jiangnan that time did not go unnoticed by the Emperor.

The introduction of the Drumming Order immediately intensified the contradiction between garrisons everywhere and the court, and it was the source for the case of Fu Zhi Cheng.

Gu Yun was present at the southwest, directly inside this trap. Thus, he had a clearer feel for the hand that had stirred up this muddy water — someone had deliberately provoked the contradiction between the mountain bandits and Fu Zhi Cheng, then made use of that moronic Kuai Lan Tu to intensify it, choosing the right moment to lit the detonator, letting it explode in front of Gu Yun. Tying the mountain bandits and Fu Zhi Cheng together as a gift through the hands of the Black Iron Camp, packaged and given to the Emperor in the capital.

What would the Emperor think of this?

He would be horrified to find that although he restricted the circulation of Ziliujin inside the country, there still existed sources from overseas.

Gu Yun suddenly remembered, he and Shen Yi had spent a long time in Lou Lan, from investigation to gathering information, they had done it all, yet they had never been able to find this legendary 'Lou Lan Treasure'.