Governor-General of Liangzhou's Mansion.
Cave dwelling in the back mountain.
"Master."
It was still before dawn, and the sky remained gray and murky.
Siqin called out carefully.
"Lord Su Can is looking for you. He says it is something urgent."
"I know."
Chen Sanshi slowly opened his eyes, put away the spirit pearl, and left the cave dwelling.
When he reached the manor gates, he saw Xia Cong waiting for a long time. The moment Xia Cong saw him, he hurried forward and reported, "Master, something terrible has happened. Villagers outside Liangzhou City are causing trouble—they are planning a rebellion."
"A rebellion?"
Chen Sanshi asked, "Because of spirit grain?"
The land of Northern Liang.
Usually produced two crops a year. After the autumn harvest came autumn plowing, and wheat would also be planted in fall. The land was never left barren for so long. This concerned whether there would be surplus grain the following year, whether people could eat their fill. These past two years, the spirit grain issue had caused no shortage of disturbances.
"Yes..."
Su Can explained, "According to the Imperial Court's decree, after this autumn's harvest and during autumn planting, every mu of farmland must be planted with another half-tenth of spirit grain. But the common people refused to cooperate no matter what. They even threw away the seeds distributed by the Imperial Court.
"So Lord Wu, the Prefect of Liangzhou, personally went to persuade them. During the process, his subordinates beat Qingping Village's village chief to death. The villagers then blocked him there, and he has been unable to return all night. Only a constable came back to report that the villagers were preparing to kill an Imperial Official and rebel.
"A moment ago, General Pan of the Great Halberd Camp led two thousand troops to