Zhuang Lexian was a little confused when he saw Huang Yuchen's confident look. He also looked back at the giant, not knowing what Huang Yuchen was selling.

"I'll just ask you to go to the giant." Huang Yuchen narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhuang Lexian, then stuffed the scroll of imperial edict in his hand into Zhuang Lexian's arms, and said, "Go and find Fan Liao, show him the imperial edict, and then I'll write another one for you and show him together."

Zhuang Lexian took the imperial scroll, looked puzzled, and asked, "Are you different? Are you afraid that he will attack the people in Chikang City?"

"Fan Liao must have gone to surrender to others." Huang Yuchen said: "No matter who he surrenders to, this imperial edict is for the people he surrenders to see."

Zhuang Lexian immediately showed a sudden enlightenment on his face, then looked at Huang Yuchen and said, "Why are you so bad? Who did you learn from?"

Huang Yuchen smiled faintly and didn't reply. Huang Yuchen really didn't know how to answer these things because no one had ever taught him.

After a while, he saw a group of people coming from the city lord's mansion from afar. Huang Yuchen immediately went out to check, but saw Pang Qi gathering in front of the city lord's mansion with many tools of various sizes in his hands. When he saw Huang Yuchen coming out, everyone immediately saluted.

"I've met the prince."

"Old Pang, you are..." Huang Yuchen looked at the residents standing with a broom and shovel in his hands, and was a little confused.

"No one has lived in the city lord's mansion for a long time." Pang Qi smiled at Huang Yuchen and said, "The prince must not live in the house every day. I will take some people to clean the courtyard for the adults, and it will be completed soon."

Huang Yuchen was about to refuse, but Pang Qi bowed to him and took the people in, without giving Huang Yuchen a chance to speak. Huang Yuchen stood outside and watched a group of people entering the city lord's mansion, a warm feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

"The people of Imperial City are really simple in their hearts." Huang Yuchen said in his heart.

If he is a cunning person, he would never bring people in before Huang Yuchen replied. This can easily cause dissatisfaction among those in power and lead to a series of discords. But Pang Qi seemed to have never thought about this direction at all, and Huang Yuchen also believed that his purpose was very simple, just to clean the city lord's mansion for himself.

This made Huang Yuchen find a long-lost feeling of being cared for. This feeling has not appeared for a long time.

Huang Yuchen sighed softly. At this moment, a crowd came out from inside. Wang Junliang came out first and whispered to Huang Yuchen: "Sir, Mr. Pang brings someone to clean up the courtyard for you. I'm afraid it will take several hours to finish it. Should I evacuate my guards first to avoid scaring these blind dates?"

Huang Yuchen nodded and ordered in his heart that forty survivors immediately came out of the martial arts field neatly, and wherever they passed, they felt a sense of coldness. The people who saw them all rose from the bottom of their hearts.

He ordered the survivors to patrol near the city lord's mansion, and Huang Yuchen took everyone straight back to the previous courtyard.

Jiying, Zhuang Lexian, Yin Cai, Wang Junliang, Huang Yuchen and Giant filled the originally small courtyard, especially Giant. His tall figure could not enter the main house, and in the end everyone could only move a stool and sit in the yard.

Fortunately, everyone has cultivation. Although the weather is cold, it does not hinder everyone.

"You really can't live in such a small place behind you." Zhuang Lexian looked around and said to Huang Yuchen: "There are so many people, especially big men, who can't even get into the house."

Huang Yuchen looked at the giant sitting directly on the ground. He sat taller than the door frame. He couldn't help but sigh secretly, thinking: It would be too eye-catching to take the giant out in the future and may have some unexpected effects.

Huang Yuchen did not take Zhuang Lexian's stubbornness, but looked at Wang Junliang and asked, "You have been in Chikang City for a long time, do you know where Fan Liao might be going?"

Without thinking, Wang Junliang spoke directly: "Two hundred miles away, Mingyuan City, Shi Fei."

"Why are you so sure?" Zhuang Lexian asked.

"Near Chikang City, I have experienced a battle before." Wang Junliang said softly: "The two waves of forces are dominated by, one is Shi Fei from Mingyuan City, and the other is a general from the Xiwang Mansion, with unknown names."

"The battle lasted for two days and two nights and took place in the suburbs. Therefore, the people in the city only heard about the battle, but not many people had seen it. The purpose of this battle was the territory of Chihong Mountain, a hundred miles acreage. In the end, the Western Prince's Mansion was not lower than Mingyuan City and retreated."

"Sir, the details of the surrounding villages and towns you discovered happened before and after this battle." Wang Junliang looked at Huang Yuchen and said, "Fan Liao is not very smart and has a cowardly personality. If he wants him to stay in Chikang City and enjoy peace, he can still be kind to all the people, but if he really goes to fight to kill the enemy, it will kill him."

"So after Mingyuan City won the victory, it did not directly send troops to attack Chikang City, but frequently sent letters to Fan Liao to surrender to Mingyuan City. Just as you suddenly appeared near Chihong Mountain, Fan Liao felt afraid, so he brought all the soldiers out of the city."

When Huang Yuchen heard this, he felt that Wang Junliang was talking about something, and asked, "According to what you said, Fan Liao did not have the intention to rebel, nor did he have the reality of rebellion, but why did he run away from the city? Isn't this confirming the crime of rebellion?"

"Compared with you, he believes in the strength of Mingyuan City more." Wang Junliang said: "Mingyuan City is the largest city in the entire province, and it is also a place where people and wealth gather. It is rumored that the city master flew 30,000 mercenaries and had sufficient food and supplies. Not only did he control Mingyuan City, but he also took several nearby small cities into his pocket, with a faint trend of swallowing mountains and rivers. Recently, he was defeated by the Western King's Mansion, which was even more powerful."

"Compared with you, you suddenly appeared near Chihong Mountain, with only three or five people following you. Although you are a royal relative, you have no real strength. Your power is still a bit insufficient than Fan Liao. How could he choose to surrender to you?"

"Also, his abandonment of Chi Kangcheng left was also leaving a way out for himself. He was unwilling to fight with the master, and he was even more unwilling to offend Shi Fei, so he chose this way."

"Ha, this person is interesting. In the face of such a big deal, he actually sat up and became old." Zhuang Lexian said coldly: "Such a person is a fence-bearer. Whoever insists on him will not have any combat power. Those children of Chikang City who leave with him will probably suffer."

Wang Junliang's statement has no big flaws, and he can barely make up for it. If Fan Liao was really like this, Huang Yuchen could understand his cooking, but as Zhuang Lexian said, no one would allow the existence of a fence-bearer in the face of such a big deal.

"As far as you know, where is the current power of the Western Prince's Mansion spreading?" Huang Yuchen asked again.

Wang Junliang did not say anything, but took out a picture from his arms and spread it on the small table in front of everyone. Huang Yuchen looked at it intently. This picture was the topographic map near Chihong Mountain, with large and small circles marked on it. It seemed that Wang Junliang had a lot of research on it.

"These black ink dots are all cities occupied by the Western Prince's Mansion." Wang Junliang pointed to the points on the map, which were about seven or eight, mainly concentrated in the northwest direction, and that direction was also the direction of the wild jungle and Siteng Sand.

It seems that the Xiwang Mansion is moving forward smoothly, and it has completely occupied seven or eight cities. These cities are relatively concentrated and cover a large area. If there is no interference, it is likely to continue to expand. If the power of the Xiwang Mansion continues to expand, it may cause a series of reactions, which may be even more difficult to deal with at that time.

"Near Chihong Mountain, there are three relatively strong forces now." Wang Junliang continued: "One is the Xiwang Mansion that occupies the northwest direction, the other is the Mingyuan City Shifei near the east, and the other is the northern Chihong Mountain powerhouse. I don't know who their leader is yet, but judging from the current situation, this force is enough to compete with Mingyuan City and Xiwang Mansion, so I need special attention."

Huang Yuchen looked at the simpler map in front of him, and the distribution of the forces on it was clear at a glance. The nearby Chihong Mountain had already divided into three stronger forces. If he went deeper into the hinterland of the empire, he still didn't know what chaos would be like.

"Are these three forces?" Zhuang Lexian looked at the map and asked, "There is no other place worth mentioning near Chihong Mountain?"

Wang Junliang shook his head and said, "There is a remote area near Chihong Mountain. As far as I know, it is gone. It took a lot of effort to collect this information alone. A large part of it has no direct evidence, and I inferred it myself."

As he said that, Wang Junliang pointed to the seven or eight cities belonging to the Xiwang Mansion and said, "Because the battle between Xiwang Mansion and Mingyuan City occurred nearby, I guess that the journey has been opened by the Xiwang Mansion. Based on my experience, if he did not occupy these cities, the soldiers would not have appeared rashly in Chihong Mountain."

Huang Yuchen looked at the map in front of him and fell into deep thought.

It is not easy for Wang Junliang to make such a strategic analysis. After all, Chikang City is a small border town. Although it is the largest city in Chihong Mountain, it is incomparable to the big cities in the hinterland of the plains, and the circulation of information is also very inconvenient.

However, from his analysis alone, the chaos in the Qitian Empire has reached a worrying level, and it is no longer just a simple rebellious act.

For example, Shi Fei from Mingyuan City must have been through struggle for his overlord, not because he is the lord of Mingyuan City, others will take the initiative to rely on it.

Now the Qitian Royal Family is weak, and everyone below wants to get a share of the pie, especially the royal family of previous countries is mixed in, making the entire situation even more confusing.
Chapter completed!