A Yunqin Empire Civil Sector Imperial Taxman[1], major sixth rank, was in charge of a province’s taxation. Even though he wasn’t the Civil Sector official with the greatest authority in a province, for merchants, the authority he possessed was already shockingly great. There had never been an instance of this type of official fearing a great shopkeeper, it was always a great shopkeeper doing everything they could to curry favor with the official.

Liu Xuanwei was a part of Liu Family’s branch family, an uncle of Liu Ziyu. Before the summer solstice, he was transferred over to Jadewater Province, taking on this role as Imperial Taxman. Jadewater Province had just been established, the population few, the amount of taxes also greatly reduced, so there wouldn’t be much ill-gotten gains for many years. Liu Family’s true purpose for sending him here was naturally to deal with Auspicious Virtue who once again silently assembled shocking arrangements.

In this situation where they already possessed some conclusive proof, Liu Family originally didn’t have to go through so much trouble. However, in the repeated dealings with Auspicious Virtue, Liu Family instead repeatedly suffered losses. The people Liu Family sent out to investigate in the Dragon Snake Border Army, no matter how great their strength or how much power was used, none of them returned. This made it hard for Liu Family to gauge just how much power was within Chen Feirong’s hands.

Moreover, the most crucial thing was that Liu Family wanted to use Chen Feirong, not to completely end her. After all,...