After Cui Hongtao left, Yang Zhengshan went to Yu Tonghai's study.
In the study, Yu Tonghai and Sun Cheng were bent over the desk, writing down what they had seen and heard in the Lisheng Dynasty. In truth, they had not gone deep into the Lisheng Dynasty. They had only stopped for a time in Qunshan Prefecture City at the southernmost end of the Lisheng Dynasty, and the information they had learned had all been gathered from inside Qunshan Prefecture City.
Yang Zhengshan flipped through what they had written, deep in thought.
From what the two had seen and heard, it could be seen that the state of the people's livelihood in the Lisheng Dynasty was not good. The commoners inside Qunshan Prefecture City were in poor condition both mentally and physically, likely the result of long-term hunger.
That was normal too. According to what Sun Cheng had said before, the rebel army of the Lisheng Dynasty had erupted four years ago, which meant this civil war had already lasted four years.
A war lasting four years was enough to plunge the entire Lisheng Dynasty into hunger and poverty.
After all, the Lisheng Dynasty's territory was not large, roughly equivalent to one province of Da Rong, and not even as large as the Liaodong region.
The Liaodong region referred to Liaoyuan Province, Pingyuan Province, and more than half of Shanhe Province. The Liaodong region alone was more than twice as large as the Lisheng Dynasty.
A mere province-sized land, yet a civil war had lasted four years there. The result could well be imagined.
Yang Zhengshan thought about it, then sat down beside them as well. He took a blank document and began writing.
He had to submit a memorial about this matter to the Old Emperor. Since it involved