Ju Shou felt as if he had been immersed in the killing intent Wang Xuan released. His chest felt tight, his vision darkened, and a suffocating sensation kept washing over him, making him feel as though he were about to die.
Liu Bei gave Wang Xuan a deep look before lightly coughing. "All right, Zaizhi, stop frightening people."
"Hahaha." Wang Xuan retracted his killing intent as easily as he had released it. Looking at Ju Shou, who was still gasping for breath, he smiled. "Don't be afraid. I was only joking."
"Do I look like the kind of person who enjoys killing?"
The nerve of him, lying through his teeth like that. At that moment, even Liu Bei felt that Wang Xuan was utterly shameless!
"All right, let's get to the main point. We've suddenly occupied more than three commanderies' worth of territory. Isn't it somewhat inappropriate to continue keeping the seat of government in Linzi?" Liu Bei skipped over the topic and began discussing something else. The atmosphere throughout the hall relaxed as well.
"Linzi is no longer suitable. The other places are too far away, making communication extremely inconvenient. I wonder what you think of Ye City, my lord?"
"Zaizhi, what do you say?" Liu Bei turned his gaze toward Wang Xuan.
"Ye City won't do. It's too small." Wang Xuan rejected it outright.
Everyone was rendered speechless. Ye City was already one of the few great cities in the Han Empire. But when they thought about Linzi after Qingzhou developed—and then considered the future—it did indeed seem somewhat small.
"Just find a place with convenient transportation and sufficiently broad territory. Building a new city from scratch isn't that troublesome. As for Ye City, it can serve as the temporary seat of government until the new city