Cloudy days are coming, temperatures are starting to drop, and the good weather during Kneeling Day is about to slip away from the chill that roars from the north, and a new year is upon us.

Most of the year in the Ruifeng Continent, the temperature is relatively suitable, the rain is also abundant, there are few droughts, which is conducive to farming, as long as it is watered on time and carefully cultivated, the crops grow very well, and the bumper harvest is accustomed to for the hard-working boxers.

The most common flame in a beacon is the green fire. The kingdom was rich in agricultural products, and the granaries of most of the provinces were full of grain, and the rich grain was sold to other countries. When the granaries of many farmers were full, they began to grow more profitable crops, and they imported all kinds of exotic fruits and vegetables from other countries to produce fresh and strange seasonings, which they sold to the aristocracy who liked to try them. Plantation after plantation was built, trading markets were always crowded, dock districts in port cities were always busy, and the Cabinet was busy opening up more shipping routes and setting up larger maritime guards.

More and more aliens have entered the kingdom to inhabit the kingdom, such as the islanders of the Immaculate Sea, the swamp people of the deep plains, the mixed descendants of the mountain people of the high mountain regions, and even the Eta people on the other side of the Inkiramo Mountains in the west will cross the Azure Strait and land in the Xianglong Kingdom, and some of them have become part of the boxers by intermarrying with the boxers and learning the customs of the boxers. But the monks of the Iron Fist Temple did not like this change, and they openly opposed too much assimilation, believing that the boxers would gradually lose their traditions under this general trend of integration, and that in the long run, the pure qualities of the boxers would no longer exist.

Tie Huan agrees with this. It is said that this view also exists in the cabinet, and the late Minister of State Xia Yang is the one in the cabinet who most agrees with the views of the monks. It was at Xia Yang's suggestion that Long Shaode agreed to return all of the Floating Cloud Forest to the management of the Iron Fist Temple, which had been owned by the Iron Fist Temple many years ago.

If the temple had received more support and help from an enlightened cabinet, the Cult would not have been in such a state of turmoil as it is now: paganism had sprung up, and some boxers had begun to have other beliefs. This will weaken the power of the dragon god and its teachings. Whatever dogma the dragon god conveys to the monks, it must be based on pure faith.

Although the kingdom did not explicitly prohibit monks from participating in politics in the legal code, in the past 300 years, successive dragon monarchs have not arranged for monks to hold a half-official position in the imperial court. Historically, the royal court once set up the position of "national teacher" to guide the growth of the royal family's descendants and stabilize the royal family's faith. At certain points in history, the authority of the National Masters reached the extreme, and they were considered members of the cabinet and could enter the Hall of the Seven Sons to participate in confidential discussions at the highest decision-making levels of the kingdom. After the palace rebellion more than 300 years ago, Long Jun abolished the position of national teacher and executed the monks involved, but the Iron Fist Temple was not further punished. For many years afterward, the monks were careful not to get involved in political battles. The Iron Fist Temple even explicitly forbade its members from participating in politics and discussing politics, despite their concern that the traditions of the boxers were slowly dying.

Kongoji holds the same anxieties.

The Grand Elder of the Kongo Temple strolled along the Great Dragon Avenue, and since arriving in the royal capital, he had spent a lot of time roaming the streets. The monks of Kongoji Temple rarely visited the dragon, and the political center of the kingdom was alien and distant to them. He took off his monk's robe, wore a simple robe, walked through the bustling and noisy Baihua Street, meditated in the ancient and quiet Yulong Garden, hired a flat boat to witness the scenery on both sides of the Lance River, and looked at the extreme place where the immaculate sea meets the sky on the high ground by the sea. He even haunted the taverns of the docklands, watched geisha dance, listened to bards, applauded acrobats and magicians, and rubbed shoulders with ragged beggars and prostitutes in patches of clothing—all of whom had very little in common. The stealthy pickpocket could not succeed in him, and he was not annoyed, but only smiled. He has seen so many guilty people who don't know, or who know but don't care that they were born guilty, who have forgotten the teachings of their ancestors, who have made great strides on the wrong path.

As he imagined, the South had been sinking for a long time. Further south, what about the Giant Hammer and the East Lake? The Iron Fist Temple seems to have a lot of believers, but it seems that it is difficult to guide such a large number of people. In the capital of the Giant Hammer Province, in Yuanjing City, did the Great Elder of Tongming make the Awakening Temple better? What he had heard was not the case.

He shuttled through the crowd with confusion. There is a lot of people, but he is always alone. He came here alone, without any disciples, just as the Three Great Sect Ancestors did a thousand years ago. Missionary work is a lonely affair, and so is faith. And in the turbid world, maintaining the purity of faith and the orthodoxy of doctrine is even more human. But that's the purpose of his existence, and that's the purpose of his journey south.

Our God has seen the sins of the world, and on the day of the dragon's face, he will pronounce his judgment on it. No one can escape the Vision.

On this day, the Grand Elder of Kongo Temple, together with the bustling flow of people in the royal capital, witnessed another confession: the royal guards posted the notice issued by the cabinet at the city gates, Shenmu Square, the dock area, the commercial district, the temple area, and the slum area. The shocking content instantly spread throughout Dragon City.

The content of this announcement is no less than an earthquake - the eldest princess Long Dailan is accused of adultery, fornication with Yu Jian, the chief guard of the Dragon Monarch, and pregnancy, which seriously damages the image and reputation of the royal family, and also causes serious harm to Jinju Province and the Qin family. According to the provisions of the Code, members of the royal family who seriously harm the interests of the royal family and the kingdom will be deprived of their status, qualifications and all authority conferred by blood, demoted to commoners, and the cabinet will punish them for their crimes.

And Yu Jian, the chief guard of the former king, was guilty of treason that could not be atoned, and the leader of the blood-drinking camp of the fornicating barbarians Agaza, in addition to fornicating with the eldest princess, he was also suspected of poisoning the first king, and drew his sword on the spot in the sacred Seven Sons Hall, killing Qiu De, the master of the national craftsman.

The specific punishment of the eldest princess has not yet been decided, and Yu Jian has been sentenced to death, and will be executed in the execution square on December 28, one day after the announcement is issued, as an example.

At the end of the announcement, it was also mentioned that the cabinet would soon announce the new dragon monarch and the date of his enthronement.

There is no doubt that the eldest princess is the loser in this power struggle. Tie Huan's already gloomy mood was clouded again. He didn't know the Dragon Monarch's chief guard, but he knew Long Dailan.

After marrying into the Golden Castle, the eldest daughter of the kingdom showed all the good qualities that her father and the country required of her. Frequenting the slums and never avoiding towns with high mortality rates due to epidemics, she was well-behaved, approachable, and unpretentious, giving medicine, food, and clothing to boxers who were on the verge of death. Having difficulty in raising children, she adopted an orphan in a slum and even promoted the establishment of the Garden of Divine Grace, which was used to adopt and care for orphans and abandoned children. Qin Wei, the governor of Jinju Province, generously approved the budget and praised the move.

For three years, she had gained great prestige in the Golden Castle, and the common people of the north compared her to the princess of the previous kingdom, Long Nian'en, and praised the kindness of the Long family. How could such a model of a boxer commit the kind of shitty crime described in the circular?

He felt deeply that this was an ominous omen. Strange phenomena are frequent, and it is the chaos of the country. The sages have already made it clear.

And the crack is even more unknown. Of course, if the crime stated in the notice is true, there is sufficient justification for the torture.

Faith is the foundation of the Kingdom's existence. Without the Spirit Dragon, there would be no possibility of the existence of the Xianglong Kingdom, and it would be impossible for the Boxers to take root and spread in all directions on the Golden Great Plains. The spirit dragon supports the rulers of the mortal world, and the belief of the boxers in the dragon god is the fundamental reason for the long-term stability of the kingdom. If the boxers don't oppose the spirit dragon, they won't rebel. Therefore, the crime of killing a king has never been done before in the thousand-year history of the kingdom.

The killing of kings is terrible, but what is even more worrying is that the kingdom may be in turmoil.

Long Dailan is not only the eldest princess of the kingdom, but also the daughter-in-law of the Qin family, and her father-in-law Qin Wei is a staunch supporter of the former king and the leader of the Northern Alliance. Once King questioned the announcement, a sharp confrontation would inevitably begin. Before the cabinet issued this notice, it did not inform Jinbao that Mu Rong and Qin Boke were both in the royal capital.

This kind of inappropriate behavior will definitely irritate the Qin family and the Golden Castle, and the proud Qin Wei will not be indifferent. And behind this announcement, everyone can see that the struggle within the royal family for the heir is very fierce.

What he had seen and heard in the past few days made him realize that not only in Jinbao, but also among the people of the royal capital, Long Dailan also enjoyed a high reputation, and Yu Jian had always been regarded as the closest courtier of the previous king, and the serious accusations announced by the cabinet would inevitably make the entire dragon city a boiling soup pot.

Soon after the announcement was issued, in just over an hour, Tie Huan witnessed countless people gathering on the Dragon Avenue, and they spontaneously formed a procession to surround the Shenmu Square outside the palace, openly demanding to see the eldest princess and hear the eldest princess's confession with their own ears.

The eldest princess should be proud of this. Nioh's people trusted and loved her so much. He could not imagine how disappointed and sad the people would be once the cabinet proved that everything was true.

The cabinet quickly responded, and Zheng Kuan personally replied in Shenmu Square. Since the eldest princess was not suitable to appear in public for the sake of her guilt, her personal maid Yingshu was also a direct witness to her crimes, and she stated the eldest princess's heinous crimes to the public. The fact that the eldest princess was infertile for three years is an ironclad fact, the sudden pregnancy more than three months ago and the time when Yu Jian arrived in Jinbao completely coincided, and there was a personal maid to testify about her private meeting, all of which is indeed irrefutable.