Chapter 403: The Strange One in the City

Liuzhou, Huiyang City.

The highest-ranking official here, the governor, and his subordinates have now been replaced by managers trained by the Privy Council. Although the replaced officials are not very willing, any resistance is futile in the face of the long-planned flood of the Privy Council.

The only ones left are those clerks and miscellaneous staff who are not registered by the court. Because of their low positions, they are almost not affected by this major change in the officialdom, but the benefits they have gained are also few.

Even if the government office still retains its original appearance, the people and things inside are completely different.

The "command post" for the operation against Jinxia City is now located in the governor's mansion in Huiyang City.

Since the second prince and most of the core alchemists still need to stay in the capital to stabilize the situation, the burden of establishing a "command post" on the front line naturally fell to Fei Nian.

But the original plan was not like this.

The initial arrangement of the General Office was to place the command post in Shenzhou, preferably in a big city like Anshen or Baisha, which was only two to three days away from Jinxia, ​​so that it would be convenient for monitoring Jinxia and for subsequent marches and battles.

However, after a winter, the situation in Shenzhou had changed dramatically.

To be honest, Fei Nian, who received the intelligence halfway, could be described as being caught off guard - the local officials of Anshen and Baisha were still there, but they either surrendered to the third princess or went to prison, and the people in power in the city had completely changed.

If it was just like this, it would be fine. As long as these people still had real power, the Privy Council would not be afraid of not being able to pull them back. The problem was that most of the towns in Shenzhou had an additional agency called the Affairs Bureau. It was these agencies that took away all the power of the government office.

The spies sent out must have been trying to use various means to invade the Affairs Bureau, but this process was obviously much slower than winning over old officials.

In desperation, Fei Nian had to improvise and set up the command post in Huiyang City, Liuzhou.

This makes the turnover of intelligence about twice as slow as planned. The spies have already started their actions, but he has not waited for the second round of intelligence.

What is most clear now is that Ning Wanjun's actions are much more active than they expected. She took advantage of the snow season of less than two months to take over the entire territory of Shenzhou. Except for some towns near the edge that were not controlled, all other areas have been owned by the princess. As for how Ning Wanjun took over the two strong cities of Anshen and Baisha, there are various statements, but the word "dragon" appears in almost all intelligence.

Olina Okan!

This is the only dragon that can appear in Shenzhou.

It must be said that inviting Xia Fan to Jingji was a bad move. If he hadn't come, Ning Wanjun would have only one listener at most. And when he came to Jingji, he brought back Olina and Yan Qing. Now it seems that Olina has surrendered to the Third Princess, and Yan Qing is still unknown... If the latter also betrays the General Mansion, the princess will have an extra Qingjian and a dragon demon between the Guardian and the Qingjian.

But this is not what Fei Nian is most worried about.

Olina is from Xiji, and represents the power of the Saint Wing Islands. If this group of overseas people use Jinxia as a springboard to infiltrate Qiguo, the Seven Stars' counterattack plan will certainly suffer a major setback.

The mainland must not be allowed to be touched by outsiders!

"Lord Fei, new intelligence from Shenzhou has been delivered." At this time, a subordinate reported.

Is it finally here?

Fei Nian said without hesitation, "Send it to the lobby immediately, let the Recording Department's Summarization Group classify it, and send the valuable ones to my desk."

"Yes!"

The intelligence collected from Shenzhou is varied, and the recording methods vary greatly, some of which are even a piece of bark. He can't handle such a large amount of information alone, and must first hand it over to the Recording Department professionals for initial screening, and then he will read and organize it and send it to the capital.

Fei Nian had just sat down when a piece of intelligence was delivered to his desk.

"Sir, you'd better take a look at this first--" an eighth-grade Taoist priest from the induction group said in surprise.

"Oh? It was selected so quickly?" He picked up the intelligence and frowned immediately. The handwriting on it was clear and compactly arranged. It was clearly printed. There were also a few big words on the title-"Shenjin Weekly". What's going on? Did someone send a book printed in Jinxia City? But it's not worthy of the name of a book, after all, it's only a few thin pages of paper...

"Sir Fei, I have an important piece of intelligence here!"

"Sir, I have it too!"

More people handed over "intelligence", and they were all the same thing.

Obviously, many spies took a fancy to the same news, but they did not relay the news, but chose to send Jinxia's printed products directly!

Don't they know that the most important thing about intelligence is timeliness? And printed things are always--

Fei Nian was stunned when he saw half of it.

It seems that what was recorded on the paper happened just half a month ago. But what is this about? Fighting against the invading fleet of the Kingdom of Natatin; saving the distressed elves of the World Island; a real dragon appeared in Jinxia City and became the biggest contributor to the victory of this battle?

So "Weekly Report" is a story?

There is a real dragon... Where in the world is there a monster that can control the wind and rain?

But this portrait is quite realistic.

And the details in the story...

Wait, Fei Nian suddenly realized that something was wrong. For a huge ship like Shuzhou, these spies should be able to easily verify it. And Dong Mao, who worked in the Recording Department, guaranteed that these people were professional spies loyal to the Privy Council and should not ignore the authenticity of the information.

And so many people chose to send the weekly report back, which can only prove one thing, that the things mentioned above are definitely not a story.

Isn't Jinxia City a salt city?

When can we set foot in the sea and fight a naval battle with the Kingdom of the West?

Unfortunately, the paper did not describe this part in detail, only some words that seemed quite vague and mysterious, such as "using advanced weapons developed by the Machinery Bureau", "continuous combat in complex sea conditions", "using special equipment to win thousands of miles away".

To be honest, Fei Nian was quite excited when he saw Jinxia defeating the overseas invaders. Unfortunately, the part about taking in elves and cooperating with dragon monsters later made him frown deeply.

"Xia Fan... do you know what you are doing..."

He couldn't help but whispered. Once the demons start to gain momentum, it is easy to find a stable way to continue. The advantage of their natural magic makes them naturally stronger than ordinary people who sense qi in competition. The fact that the top leaders of the countries in the Western Extremes have all been controlled by demons is the best proof - he is not completely ignorant of this, is he really unconcerned about the possible consequences?

"Sir, there is a second issue of the weekly report here!"

"What? Bring it here and let me see it!"

Fei Nian spread out the newspaper, and there was indeed a second issue marked behind the headline. So the weekly report means a report once a week?

And the content of this edition made him fall into strong self-doubt.

He can understand the Spring Festival celebration.

But what is a concert?

A public and grand performance, the one on stage is either a woman or a demon?

Ning Wanjun also publicly preached in such a formal occasion, indicating that Jinxia City is willing to treat demons equally?

Fei Nian suddenly had an illusion... as if this city had little to do with Daqi, but was an alien in the world?