In the governor's office, several officials held official seals in their hands, their minds wandering high in the sky, overlooking the riverside outside the city.
Yan Xiao, the prefect of Baling, asked: "Sir, when you were the prefect of Yuhai Prefecture, you knew more about aquatic creatures than I do. Why did the Dongting Jiao King take advantage of the opportunity to attack?"
Dong Wencong smiled slightly and said, "The attitude of the four sea dragons towards Fang Xusheng is not clear. Although the East Sea supports Fang Xusheng, the North Sea Dragon Saint and the West Sea Dragon Saint have not issued a sacred edict. Only the West Sea Dragon Saint has issued a sacred edict. The Jiaolong Palace is close to the West Sea Dragon Palace and controls the Yangtze River. It must have received a signal from the West Sea Dragon Palace to attack Fang Xusheng. After all, the Jiaolong Palace is very close to the East Sea Dragon Palace and dares not offend the East Sea Dragon Palace. There was also a failure. The Qingjiang Jiao King was severely injured by Fang Xusheng and Jianmei Gong successively. Therefore, this time is by no means a full-scale war, but just a test of Fang Xusheng's strength. Let a Jiao King come forward. He is neither a great Jiao King nor a Jiao Saint. Even if something happens, the Jiaolong Palace can bear it."
"I see." Yan Xiao nodded slightly.
"However, the Dongting Jiao King obstructed the leap over the Dragon Gate, not only to test Fang Xusheng's true strength, but also to weaken his power. We humans have disciples of saints, disciples of emperors, and various teachers, and the dragon clan also has similar teachers. All aquatic fish that cross the shadow of the Dragon Gate will be considered to have received the favor of Fang Xusheng from now on, and will never be able to harm Fang Xusheng. In the future, Fang Xusheng can accept a large number of elite aquatic creatures in the Yangtze River, which is equivalent to snatching waters from the Jiaolong Palace. How can the Jiaolong Palace let it go? Unfortunately, Fang Xusheng has learned from ancient and modern times, and his talents are through the ages. He knows the laws of the dragon clan like the back of his hand. It seems that even if Fang Xusheng kills the Dongting Jiao King, the Jiaolong Palace will not be able to fight back openly. The Dongting Jiao King can only bow his head and admit his mistake, otherwise his life will be in danger. The Jiaolong Palace has always liked to bet on many parties."
"Dong Zhoumu is still very knowledgeable!"
The officials standing by praised him one after another.
"Compared to Fang Xusheng, he is far inferior, but... I always feel that this Dongting Jiao King will be more unlucky."
On the Yueyang Tower, Fang Yun looked down at the Dongting Dragon King who was lowering his head, and suddenly waved his hand towards the river. Then a drop of blood wrapped in light golden light flew out from his fingertips and into the river.
The vast Yangtze River was suddenly calm, as if a palm from heaven had descended to smooth out the vast blue waves.
Then, a dragon's roar suddenly came from the far east, traveling with the help of water. In an instant, it spread to all corners of the world and all rivers.
The people along the river bank heard it clearly, felt a great pressure from the dragon's roar, and lowered their heads slightly.
In addition to those water monster fish that jumped over the Dragon Gate frantically, the aquatic soldiers of Dongting Lake, including the Dongting Jiao King, also bowed their heads.
Only Fang Yun still stood with his head held high.
Afterwards, two streams of water erupted obliquely upward from both sides of the exit of Dongting Lake, like a dragon spitting water. A huge water column with a diameter of ten feet continued to rise. Finally, the two water columns met in the air thousands of feet high and condensed into a huge hollow water gate.
At the top of the water gate, there was a star painted on it. The Dongting Jiao King had to pay homage to it again, as it represented the border of the fiefdom of a Star Dragon Lord.
A second huge sluice gate appeared on the Yangtze River a hundred miles away. The thick water columns that made up the sluice gate rose from the south bank and fell into the north bank, forming the second border line of Star Dragon Lord.
Wherever there is water in Shengyuan Continent, waves appear on the water surface. All the waves are in the shape of conchs and the conch waves make sounds. That is the decree of Ao Yu, the Dragon Saint of the East China Sea, announcing that the water area between the two water gates is the temporary fief of Wenxing Longjue Fang Yun, for a period of three thousand years.
Dongting Jiao Wang lowered his head helplessly, not daring to look up. The Dragon Saint of the East Sea used the laws of the ancient dragon clan and worked with Wenxing Longjue to select a temporary fiefdom. Even if the Yangtze River waters belonged to Jiaolong Palace, Jiaolong Palace could do nothing. After all, the Four Seas Dragon Palace was inherited by the ancient dragon clan, and each Dragon Palace was a place left over from that time. However, the Jiaolong Palace in the Yangtze River was only built in imitation of the ancient Jiaolong Palace, with no substance. The Four Seas Dragon Palace was willing to hand over the Yangtze River to Jiao Saint for management, mainly because the dragon clan liked the ocean more.
The people of Baling City were stunned for a moment, and then cheered loudly, especially some old Xiangzhou people, who burst into tears.
The people of Xiangzhou were very unfortunate. After being taken away by the Qing Kingdom, they suffered humiliation and had no dignity at all. Also, because they were close to the Yangtze River, they often dealt with the Jiaolong Palace and were also oppressed.
In recent years, whenever Xiangzhou had a conflict with Jiaolong Palace, Qing State would punish Xiangzhou to calm things down. On the other hand, Jiangzhou, across the Yangtze River, although not as good as Xiangzhou in many aspects, the people of Jiangzhou dared to fight and had the support of Jing State when something happened. Once they fell out with Jiaolong Palace, everyone would work together to fight.
There has been no exception from the founding of Jing State until Jiang Hechuan was in charge of Jiangzhou.
Especially in recent years, there has been a Li Wenying who did not take the initiative to provoke the Jiaolong Palace. However, once the water monsters of the Jiaolong Palace harmed the people of Jiangzhou, Li Wenying would definitely massacre the Yangtze River water monsters. He always killed them first and then negotiated with the Jiaolong Palace.
When he was still a scholar, Fang Yun teamed up with the officers and soldiers of Dayuan Prefecture to kill a turtle monster with the blood of a dragon. If this happened in Xiangzhou, it would be a calamity. It was unknown how much treasures and specialties would have to be paid as compensation to gain the forgiveness of the Jiaolong Palace. However, in Jiangzhou, Li Wenying not only did not compensate or negotiate, but he killed the water monster first to retaliate against the Jiaolong Palace. Afterwards, the Jiaolong Palace did not say a word, as if nothing had happened.
In Jiangzhou, most ordinary monsters attack humans, but the water monsters of the Yangtze River rarely cause trouble. The higher their status and the smarter they are, the less they dare to provoke the people of Jiangzhou. But in Xiangzhou, the smarter the water monsters are, the more they like to go ashore to extort money, because they know that Jingguo cannot control Xiangzhou, and Qingguo does not treat the people of Xiangzhou as human beings, so they go ashore to rob from time to time. Some monster generals and monster lords even pretend to be river gods and exploit the people.
Most of the people living along the river hate the water monster.
These old Xiangzhou people cried bitterly when they saw that the waters within a hundred miles of Baling City had become the fiefdom of their own governor. They did not understand the righteousness of the country and family. They only knew that whoever could protect them from being bullied by foreigners was a good official and worthy of support!
The people of Baling City looked at the huge dragon king that was more than ten meters long not far away, and straightened their bodies unconsciously.
The voice of thunderous tongue rang out over Baling City: "For many years, the officials of Xiangzhou have deceived themselves and others, saying that they would first stabilize the country, close their eyes and ears, and steal the bell while covering their ears. But when Governor Fang took office, this first fire did not burn the people of Xiangzhou, did not burn the human race, but burned the aquatic race first, rectified the two states, and established order. He should be a role model for all the officials of Xiangzhou. I admire him very much! With such a governor, Xiangzhou will surely prosper!"
Ninety percent of the people in Baling knew that the person who was speaking was Wei Dongshan, a famous university scholar in Xiangzhou. He witnessed the two changes of ownership of Xiangzhou and was a well-deserved literary leader in Xiangzhou.
Countless people from Baling nodded slightly. Wei Dongshan expressed what many people were thinking. No matter how Fang Yun was, as long as he was able to suppress the water tribe and solve the major problem in Xiangzhou, he would be a hero that everyone must respect.
.(To be continued.){ )