Last year, a large number of officials along the canal were pulled down by Yan Wang. Every big family was busy planting their people inside. The governor of Liangjiang was Officer Lu's brother-in-law. This generation of the Lu family was not very outstanding, but they had the advantage of being in-laws with the entire court. Consort Lu was the birth mother of the first son of the Emperor, they had a deep foundation. But Fang Qin would never have expected that they would be this bold!

In the Great Liang Dynasty, when the Emperor was far away, it was common to either conceal or to exaggerate a disaster situation in case of catastrophe. The first reason was for the sake of the official's own reputation and achievements, the second was for the sake of deceiving the country and to take a little bit more of the resources sent out for disaster relief.

At present, the country was poor and weak, the Lu family assumed that they would not manage to get any scraps and feared that the epidemic would be serious enough to implicate them. In addition, they thought of themselves as smart. In fear that the Emperor would be too worried about the people's livelihood and would end up following the wishes of the businessmen, the news of the plague was deliberately withheld.

Fang Qin immediately understood everything in this mess. He angrily glared at that surname Lu, wishing he could grit his teeth until they bled. Why didn't they think that paper could not contain the fire? Yan Wang unexpectedly patrolled the canal coast last year, hadn’t it only been a few months since then? The head of the last man in charge hadn't even rotted into a skeleton yet!

Emperor Long An himself was industrious, thrifty, and hardworking. What he despised the most was corruption. Yan Wang was also an oddball who did not form any party or harbor selfish intentions. The Lu family truly was trying to find death under the eyes of those two people.

If failure was only inches away, it would all be because of the hindering of these people who thought of themselves as smart!

Li Feng said angrily, "Subject Jiang, quickly elaborate on this!"

Chang Geng unhurriedly went out of the line and said, "Your Majesty, your brother likes to copy sutras and rituals of Buddhas in leisure time, I have a very good personal relationship with Master Liao Ran. When Master Liao Ran resigned from the post of Hu Guo Temple, he went south to Jiangbei to help settle the refugees. Because he has no status and position, it was inconvenient to disturb the local officials, thus he only went around, preaching Buddha's teachings and raising some donation money from the local rich families to relieve the urgent need.