"Oh!"
"Interesting!"
"Send someone to keep an eye on him."
Hearing the words "Divine Wind Steed," Xia Mingqing's interest was piqued.
Anyone capable of riding such a horse was certainly no insignificant figure.
After speaking, Xia Mingqing turned to the woman before him again.
"Right. Send someone to notify Lu Haodong. Tell him this prince wishes to see him and have him come here in secret."
The Lu Haodong Xia Mingqing spoke of was Qingling Prefecture's Blackbird Guard Mystic Envoy, and one of the men who had pledged allegiance to him long ago.
Throughout Peace Prefecture, Xia Mingqing had bought over the Blackbird Guard Mystic Envoys of nearly every prefecture.
Thus, most of Peace Prefecture was under Xia Mingqing's control.
Yet there were two prefectural cities that remained beyond his grasp.
Mirror Platform Prefecture and White Path Prefecture!
Xia Mingqing knew the backgrounds of the Blackbird Guard Mystic Envoys in those two Prefectures very well.
They were simply not people he could control.
That was because Mo Ronghua and Li Chengfeng belonged to those two families.
The Mo Family and the Li Family, two of the Eight Great Families!
Therefore, Xia Mingqing had not chosen to buy over Mo Ronghua and Li Chengfeng.
Instead, Xia Mingqing found other methods and planted several officials loyal to himself directly within Mirror Platform Prefecture and White Path Prefecture.
In particular, Wu Hao, the Prefectural Governor of Mirror Platform Prefecture, and Luo Jinghe, the Vice Prefect of White Path Prefecture, were both his men.
But now, Luo Jinghe, the Vice Prefect of White Path Prefecture, had actually died—and at the hands of an unknown nobody.
According to the information the Prefectural Governor of White Path Prefecture had reported to the provincial governor, Luo Jinghe had died at the hands of He Yan, the Blackbird