Prince of Great Liang had already decided to go to Hanzhong Prefecture to turtle up and develop, while Du Hesheng, the governor sent by the Imperial Court, had arrived at Yijun Prefecture.
Inside the city of Yijun Prefecture, Du Hesheng's governor's honor guard came in a grand, surging procession to the front of the government office.
Zhou Lan stood before the main gate of the government office with the generals under her command to welcome him.
The honor guard stopped, and Du Hesheng stepped down from an eight-man sedan chair.
Zhou Lan frowned at the sight.
Damn it, what time was it already? This Du Hesheng was still putting on this sort of show.
Traveling with such a great beating of gongs and drums, was Du Hesheng not afraid of running into bandits halfway?
Most hateful of all was that traveling like this required the use of a large number of laborers and yamen runners. That eight-man sedan chair, those servants and runners calling out before and crowding behind, all required the expenditure of a large amount of money and grain.
Just from this first impression, Zhou Lan already had a very poor opinion of this governor whom she had yet to meet.
"Greetings, Governor!"
But he was still the governor, after all. When Zhou Lan and the others saw him, they naturally had to show some respect.
Du Hesheng was tall and broad, and he did indeed look somewhat imposing. He was roughly in his early fifties this year, and his somewhat graying hair was combed with not a strand out of place.
He wore a black gauze cap and a crimson official robe, carrying an extraordinary air about him.
Behind him, two attendants held imperial command pennants in both hands. With the emperor's mandate upon him, this further