Dragon Brilliance Empire, Golden Radiance Territory.
Facing this vast territory that now belonged to him, Chen Rui could not help but feel a little emotional as he recalled struggling to survive in Darkmoon Territory when he had first crossed over.
But he soon had no time for sentiment, because Samuel came hurrying over with a grave expression to make his report.
Not a single White Crystal Coin had been left in the entire Golden Radiance Territory's reserves, nor had a single grain of food.
All the managers in key positions had been withdrawn.
While Garfield had been in power, he had secured Golden Radiance Territory the qualifications to host a branch venue for the Human World Trade Conference. Now, less than two months remained before the conference began, and many venue construction projects were already in their final stages. This should have been good news, but how could Garfield possibly make things easy for Chen Rui? Under the pretext that structural faults required reconstruction, he demolished several key buildings, took away a number of essential engineering personnel, and left behind a massive backlog of unpaid wages for the laborers.
Garfield had also secretly instructed several troublesome families to use certain deliberately planted weaknesses as excuses to stir up trouble and make demands.
Naturally, these were all "gifts" deliberately left behind by the former Second Prince Garfield for his "imperial younger brother." If the three-day "handover" period had not been so short, Chen Rui had no doubt that fellow would have torn the entire Golden Radiance Territory down into ruins.
Garfield's reasoning sounded perfectly righteous: these supplies and personnel were the fruits of seven years of his painstaking management of the territory. Now that he was handing over the territory, it was only natural for him to take away his