Chapter 340 - 215: An Old Friend Visits, A Farewell
In the twenty-third year of the great Daxia era, in the summer, the air sultry and humid with rainfall.
[Heavenly Marrow a thousand years]
[Imperial Elixir thirty years]
The spiritual medicine gradually became scarce, and the opportunity for becoming an immortal neared its end.
The imperial court found it increasingly difficult to mine spiritual medicine. Gu Wen himself had spent several hundred years searching to no avail. To avoid harming the populace, he had written a letter to Jiang Jucai a few days earlier, after a gap of three years.
Therefore, due to the search for spiritual medicine, nearly a million people lost their jobs. In Nanshui, crowds of commoners formed groups to go to the capital and demand an explanation. Fights, unemployment, and chaos emerged one after another, especially severe in Lin Chuan.
A million dock-workers depended on this industry for their livelihood. It was an established industry that had been thriving for decades since the previous dynasties.
But now the spiritual medicine no longer grew. The foundation they depended on for survival vanished, and the industry’s disappearance was beyond Gu Wen’s need. The transportation route from Lin Chuan to Bianjing alone had consumed one-third of the national treasury in silver taels.
All Gu Wen could do was to burst the bubble in advance.
Rain drizzled from the sky, water dripping steadily from the eaves. Standing in front of the desk, Gu Wen moved a basin with his foot, ensuring the drops fell precisely into it.