mains inhabited. The registered population of the province has decreased by more than half. This is just one example."“The entire Xishan Province's officialdom can be said to be rotten to the core. Wh...Chapter 1164: Speak While Kneeling >

Before the person arrives, their voice reaches first.

Li Chen looked up in the direction of the voice. He saw a middle-aged man in silk clothes, glittering with jewels and adorned with gold, silver, and jade, walking out of the rice shop.

This man was thin, but he liked to adorn himself with extravagant decorations, making him look like a clothes rack strutting around with a pile of jewels on it.

This man had a sneer on his face, standing at the door of the rice shop and sizing up Li Chen. "Judging by your accent, you're also from Beijing"of Shuntian Prefecture. Take a road south to Tianjin Wei, and then follow the Bohai Bay eastward. Along the way, you pass through Qingzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture, and fina...