Lin Qingtian hurried back to the Imperial Capital three days after the stone turtle was born. By the time he returned, the words on the turtle's back had already spread. Not only the capital area of the Han Empire, but also other states and counties near the capital area knew about it. Moreover, this sensational news was still spreading rapidly in all directions, and no one could control or block it.
In the past few days, the printing workshop of the Han Empire Times newspaper has been busy every day, because the 300,000 copies of this issue were sold out early, so the printing workshop has been working at full capacity every day to print more copies. A total of 700,000 copies have been printed, but it seems that it cannot meet the market demand.
In Fang Beidou's words, in the past few days, almost all the people in the capital area have gone crazy. Those who usually don't read newspapers couldn't help but buy one. As for the merchants, travelers, and even escort agencies who came to the capital area from other places, when they saw the "Han Empire Times", they bought a lot of them and prepared to take them back.
The news that the Imperial Capital, the center of the Han Empire, might encounter a catastrophe in a year and turn everyone within a thousand miles into a dead place was like a huge rock thrown into a calm pond, causing huge ripples that spread in all directions.
If the words engraved on the back of the stone turtle are false, then this matter may be a trick played by the White Lotus Sect. If the words engraved on the back of the stone turtle are true, then the relocation of the capital of the Han Empire is inevitable...
For all countries, relocating the capital is a major event related to the national destiny, especially for a country like the Han Empire. There are hundreds of thousands of dignitaries in the entire imperial capital. With so many people moving the capital, where to move and how to move are all big problems, which will involve interests and problems from all aspects. After the capital is moved, in addition to these dignitaries, there will be an even larger number of ordinary people in the capital area. If these people want to leave the capital area, where can they be arranged? The housing and food problems of these people are big problems. If they are not solved well, they can also cause chaos.
In history, countries that moved their capitals had to prepare for several years, more than ten years, or even decades before moving their capitals. However, if the Han Empire moved its capital this time, it would only take a little over a year at most...
A few days after the stone turtle was born, the price of grain near the capital began to rise quietly...
In the real estate brokerages in the Imperial Capital, the number of people who come to sell their houses and shops has increased dramatically every day. The housing and land prices in the Imperial Capital, which have been extremely expensive for hundreds of years, have suddenly shown signs of loosening...
On the official road outside the Imperial Capital, the number of convoys and horse teams carrying various gifts and baggage and leaving the Imperial Capital with their families gradually increased. As a result, the business of several escort agencies in the Imperial Capital suddenly became booming...
For some people, whether the words engraved on the back of the stone turtle are true or not can only be judged in May. However, many people living in the Imperial Capital do not want to wait until May and have already started to take action. Many of the foxes and rats in the Imperial Capital have become restless all of a sudden, as if they have smelled the opportunity to make a fortune in this earth-shaking change...
In the prison of the Ministry of Justice, many people were arrested every day for various reasons, and the prison was overcrowded for a while...
In such an atmosphere, the entire capital area was in panic and undercurrents were surging.
Yan Liqiang, the instigator, has been living a low-key, Sha Gen-like life these days. During the day, he would wander around the Imperial Capital City, and at night, he would go to the yard of the newspaper office and honestly guard the yard where old newspapers were piled up. He lived a reclusive life and was as low-key as possible.
The yard has become more relaxed these days. The latest issues of newspapers are in short supply, so there are no unsold goods delivered. As for the old newspapers, the number of people coming to purchase them has suddenly decreased in the past two days, to less than one-third of the previous number. Yan Liqiang, who is in charge of this yard and warehouse, has more free time.
As for the news about Lin Qingtian's return to Imperial Capital City, Fang Beidou delivered it personally every day.
There has been some confusion in the court these days. The ministers in the court are arguing about the possible calamity. The emperor thinks that preparations should be made early, while the prime minister thinks that it is unnecessary. Anyway, no matter what one side proposes, the other side can always find a reason to oppose it...
Under such circumstances, Lin Qingtian, as the prime minister of the empire, still went out early and came back late every day, firmly controlling the government.
Yan Liqiang saw the situation in the imperial capital city completely, and his heart was calm, without the slightest guilt, because compared with the devastating disaster when the real calamity came a year later, everything now was just a drizzle. No matter what, more people would survive. He didn't care about the situation in the court, because there was no point in caring. In the final analysis, it was just a matter of who had the bigger fist.
On March 17, a caravan carrying woolen cloth from Ganzhou arrived at the Imperial Capital…
On the evening of March 18, when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Fang Beidou once again appeared in Yan Liqiang's courtyard, holding a long wooden box in his hand.
"This was sent from Ganzhou!" Fang Beidou handed the wooden box directly to Yan Liqiang.
Yan Liqiang opened the wooden box, and inside was a bow bag. He pulled open the bag, and his hundred-stone horn python bow lay quietly inside.
Yan Liqiang took the horn python bow out of the bow bag, held it in his hand, checked it, and nodded with satisfaction.
"I still think it's too dangerous!" Fang Beidou sighed, "There are only a handful of people like Lin Qingtian in the entire Han Empire, and his cultivation is unfathomable. It's too risky for you to go!"
"How do you know that you can't kill him if you don't try? If he's so easy to kill, it won't be my turn to do it. And if I can't kill him now, it will be even harder to kill him in the future!" Yan Liqiang said, and then pulled open the compartment under the wooden box. In the interlayer of the wooden box, there were ten metal rune arrows flashing with black light. These ten rune arrows looked a little different from the rune arrow Yan Liqiang seized from the Shatu people. Not only were the arrow shafts two inches longer than the Shatu people's rune arrows, the arrowheads of the entire rune arrows also changed from simple diamonds to sharp crossed triangles. At the connection between the arrow and the arrow shaft, there was also a dark red beast core crystal inlaid. The runes on the entire arrow flowed, and it looked murderous and full of a strange beauty. It was many times more advanced than the Shatu people's rune arrows he had obtained at the beginning...
Looking at the ten arrows, Fang Beidou took a breath of cold air. As the saying goes, even if you haven't eaten pork, you have seen pigs walk. He naturally knew that these arrows were the work of a rune master. Just by looking at their appearance, he knew that they had such terrifying power. He stared at Yan Liqiang's face as if he had just met him for the first time. After a long while, he swallowed his saliva and asked with some difficulty, "This... Is this a rune arrow?"
"Well, this is called the God-Slaying Arrow..." Yan Liqiang carefully picked up an arrow, looked at it carefully, and said softly, "If this doesn't kill Lin Qingtian, then he is lucky..."
"When are you going to take action?"
"Tomorrow!"
(End of this chapter)