The County Yamen? Sending someone to invite me?
Hearing this, Ji Xiu paused. He counted the days on his fingers, then let out a soft "hmm."
That's right.
By his count, more than half a month had passed since the great disaster.
According to Zhao Jiu, aside from collecting taxes, the Prefecture City usually paid no mind to poor, mountainous counties like this.
And yet...
This time, Huang the Seventh Young Master had caused a huge mess. Although he was just the catalyst, the incident had caused all of Anning County to suffer a massive setback. It would be years before the county could contribute any meaningful revenue.
Zhao Jiu obviously couldn't cover up a shortfall of this magnitude, so he had no choice but to report the entire sequence of events to see how Jiangyin Prefecture planned to handle it.
'But what does that have to do with me?'
'Shouldn't this be Lord Zhao the County Magistrate's headache?'
