Everyone's attention was shifted to Marquis Xia.

Wan Tiansheng was relieved to see that. This was good. Marquis Xia...was naturally here to be the fall guy. Of course, Marquis Xia wasn't really as bad as these people made him out to be.

The Great Xia government had been spending more than they earned for a long time. Xia Longwu did not care about the economy and was only focused on cultivation and war. Without Marquis Xia, the treasury would have emptied out five years ago.

As far as Wan Tiansheng was concerned, Marquis Xia was more suited to be the prefect than Xia Longwu. Marquis Xia was the reason Great Xia had been able to remain standing for so long. Naturally, not many people were aware of that. 

They only knew that Marquis Xia was an unreliable and stingy person. Many believed that if it wasn't for the fact that Marquis Xia's father was the Great Xia King, he would have been beaten to death in some dark alley long ago.

Ignoring the crowd, Wan Tiansheng said some placating words before saying, "Since Marquis Xia is now the acting prefect, things will be rather tight for everyone this year. He told me that the treasury...