In the quiet, tree-shaded Marshal's Mansion, in the rear garden.
Armed guards stood ramrod-straight, guarding vital points in every corner.
Marshal Chen Youguang was a marshal in name, but in truth, the troops under his command had not yet reached that rank.
Across all of Dayue, he was merely one of the smallest warlords. Yet because of certain special connections and personal ties, he had managed to gain a firm foothold.
He was close to Xiao Rong, one of the major warlords, and he himself belonged to one branch of Dayue's Yun faction warlords. Thus, the other small and medium warlords around him gave him some face, and there were few conflicts.
The Yun faction warlords referred to several military students who had once studied under Allied Forces Marshal Song Chengtiao together in Yunzhou.
After the alliance against foreign enemies scattered, these military students gradually formed several warlord factions of varying strength.
And after Song Chengtiao died of illness, the Yun faction warlords lost their restraints and developed ever more rapidly, gradually evolving into one of the strongest power blocs in Dayue.
Chen Youguang was only fifty years old. His face was resolute, his complexion dark and yellowish, and he looked somewhat scholarly and frail.
Yet his eyes carried a blade-like sharpness.
In this era, any supreme official who could stand shoulder to shoulder with demons and rule a city of hundreds of thousands, whether strong or not, would never lack courage.
He had married Yun Si of the Nine Demon Society as his wife. It was not that he did not know Yun Si was a demon; the two of them truly loved each other.
In fact, Ningzhou's regulations restricting the hunting of demons had also come from the couple.
Yun Si had personally drafted and arranged the details