"A banquet? An Shigeng certainly knew how to enjoy himself."
Looking at the invitation in his hand, Shen Fei could not help but chuckle. From An Yunshan, he had learned quite a bit about An Shigeng. This man was an absurdly wealthy second-generation heir. An Yunshan granted practically every request he made. In the film, even after he died, An Yunshan used strange arts to revive him, though he ended up becoming a tree man.
With the An family's wealth and military power behind him, there were only a handful of people in the capital whom he could not afford to disregard.
He was determined to take the An family. Their wealth was one factor, but more importantly, there was grain. Their family controlled half the grain in the capital, something that should never have been possible, yet here it was a fact.
By relying on warehouse fires, the An family had seized all the government grain for themselves. Coupled with the rule that punishments did not extend to officials, the only unfortunate ones were the low-ranking clerks guarding the granaries.
There was something particularly amusing about this era: whenever grain stores were audited, they inevitably caught fire. Those fires always came at just the right time. In an instant, every account was settled. The grain burned away, and so did the account books.
At most, someone would be charged with dereliction of duty.
At the An residence, the guests had been exchanging greetings and pleasantries, but when they saw Shen Fei arrive with a group of Imperial Guards, everyone immediately fell silent. Quite a few quickly moved aside, unwilling to enter the Imperial Guards' line of sight. These days, the Imperial Guards, who had once been beneath everyone's notice, had become the center of attention.
The officials of the