Jiang Wang had no intention of carrying around a so-called "talisman" of unknown origin.
The mysterious Fortune Teller was someone he still couldn't see through or understand at all. He didn't know whether the man meant him well or ill, and he had no confidence in matching wits with such a powerful stranger.
All things considered, caution was best.
If he couldn't afford to provoke someone, he could always afford to avoid them.
He met Lin Youxie outside the town gate, and the two of them flew to Zhaoheng City.
After Huang Yixing's death, the person temporarily managing Hengyang Prefecture's affairs was Gao Shaoling, Pacification Commissioner of Chiwei Prefecture.
Many officials in the Hengyang Prefecture Office had been promoted by Huang Yixing himself, and a large number of them were former Yang State officials. The Qi Court had not interfered, truly granting him the authority a Pacification Commissioner ought to have. This alone showed how confident the Qi Court was in the situation in Yang Land.
The former minister Yan Ping had plotted to unite the realm and destroy the state; the Slaughterer, Chongxuan Chuliang, had shattered his plans in a single battle. Yang Land really had been ripe for the taking. Since its incorporation into the realm, it had never stirred up any trouble.
Only this time, the Qi Court had not let Hengyang Prefecture's officials temporarily take over the Pacification Commissioner's post. Instead, it had appointed the nearby Pacification Commissioner of Chiwei Prefecture, Gao Shaoling, to oversee it. The significance of this was intriguing.
The fact that Gao Shaoling, rather than Tian Antai, who governed the neighboring prefecture, had been chosen was clearly influenced by Marquis of Gaochang's punishment before the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
The affairs of the realm were all intertwined. One stone fell into the water,