Chapter 543 - Deal

Chapter 543 - Deal

Everyone around Li Huowang hesitated at his words.

While they were more than happy to help Ji Xiang deal with Li Huowang, it didn't mean that they were willing to dive into the muddy waters of politics.

“You!” Fo Yulu was furious, but she didn’t do anything in the end. The higher-ups of the Surveillance Bureau were cautious and had never gotten involved with the palace.

There wasn’t any punishment for getting involved with the palace; their career would most likely stay stagnant afterward. It was a difficult pill to swallow for everyone here.

Fo Yulu was no longer threatening him, but Li Huowang realized that they were still wary of him.

However, Li Huowang now had the initiative.

An hour later, they decided to disperse.

“Don’t you even dare think about running away! You'll be under surveillance from now on! I'm going to kill you on the day the prince becomes the emperor! Let’s go!”

Fo Yulu stomped her way out of Li Huowang's residence.

Hong Da was about to leave as well.

However, Li Huowang said, “Brother Hong, it's been a while since we saw each other, and you're leaving already? How about we have some drinks? My treat.”

Li Huowang understood that it was easy to force her to leave right now, but he still needed to find a way to deal with the problem permanently.

A big table of food was placed in the first room of the Yangquan Inn. Li Huowang filled the cups with wine.

“Come, let me toast three cups to Brother Hong.”

Upon holding one of the cups, Li Huowang stared into the content of the cup and inwardly muttered, This is water! This is water!

Li Huowang smiled and said nothing. If Shai Zi hadn't forced him, he wouldn't have come back to Shangjing.

“It’s too late for that. Having said that, what have you been up to recently?”

“Hoh, what else? There have been so many missions to do ever since the Dharma Sect rose up. Thankfully, the rewards are pretty good, so I’ve been running here and there for the past few months. If it wasn’t because of you, I would still be outside getting rid of the Dharma Sect.”

“Have they really grown so much? Can't the Surveillance Bureau just deal with them outright?” Li Huowang asked nervously as he glanced at Qiu Chibao.

Hong Da ate a chunk of chicken and said in a stupor, “It’s probably fine now that Si Qi’s Surveillance Bureau has decided to join us. We now have more people to work with.”

“Si Qi’s Surveillance Bureau has joined us?” Li Huowang was surprised to hear that.

“Hehe, you don't know that Si Qi has fallen?”

Li Huowang woke up from his stupor. He arrived at the Liang Kingdom via Si Qi. It was a tiny place, but Li Huowang didn't expect it to fall.

He recalled the Abbess and the Righteous Monastery residing in Si Qi. “How did it fall? Weren’t they at peace?”

“Who said that? They’ve been at war for a long time now. The Liang Kingdom has been stable for the past few years while the other nations have been fighting each other for so long. We just don't know the details due to the distance.”

“But why did the new imperial family get rid of the Surveillance Bureau? Aren't Surveillance Bureaus necessary?”

The Surveillance Bureau was there to deal with Natural Disasters. As long as they weren’t idiots, they ought to know that a Surveillance Bureau was necessary.

Without anyone dealing with Natural Disasters, a kingdom would fall like paper mache; their strength didn't matter at all.

Hong Da shook his head and drank another cup of wine. “I don’t know anything about that. If I knew more about the details, I wouldn't be here right now. Anyway, times are tough, and everyone is at war with each other.”

Li Huowang felt restless after knowing that Si Qi had fallen and the new imperial family did not want the Surveillance Bureau. He felt a sense of foreboding at the revelation. He glanced at Qiu Chibao and saw that she was trying to eat a piece of the chicken. Are these changes related to the Qi Kingdom somehow? I hope that whatever happened to the Qi Kingdom won't happen to the Liang Kingdom.