I Can Control My Ancestors

Chapter 384 - 3: Building the Grand Canal and Expanding Luoyang, Arrogance and Excess

However, many things have a limit.

When this limit is about to be reached, everything will erupt.

Yang Guang did not care about any of this at all.

Under his iron-fisted rule, the entire court became nothing more than a means to flatter him.

Everything seems irreversible.

The labor and leisure from all quarters became like a heavy shackle, returning the people of Kyushu to a time even harder than during the war.

Excavating canals; constructing Longzhou State; building Luoyang.

Each of these projects required an astonishing amount of manpower.

Several million;

was just a short-term figure.

Merely to build and renovate Luoyang and the West Garden required about two million workers each month.

Yet what Yang Guang wanted was not that simple.

Since his ascension, he has been collecting rare treasures from all over, while also searching for the beauties of the world, and even demanding that each locality send a batch of beautiful women to the palace every year.

Apart from this.

He successively led various kings, officials, concubines, and maids on excursions, reaching as many as twenty thousand people each time.

In the areas they passed, food had to be contributed from within a five-hundred-li radius.

The whole world was full of lamentation and wailing.

In such circumstances, Gu Yu finally returned to Julu.

This journey.

For him, it truly meant that he had traveled ten thousand miles, witnessing the warmth and coldness of human nature and the rise and fall of the world.

Compared to before.

His entire state had changed significantly, especially his eyes, which seemed to be able to see through everything.

For him, the return journey was not easy.

At first, he would still do his best to help some commoners.

But in the end, he could save one person, but not the world.

Gu Can was now very old, already at the brink of life and death.

His whole life, like the patriarchs of the previous generations of the Gu Clan.

For the sake of the family, he gave up everything.

However, seeing Gu Yu, his most hopeful eldest son, return was still a great blessing for Gu Can.

Julu, Gu Mansion.

"My son!"

As soon as Gu Yu stepped into the mansion, Gu Can came directly to greet him. Seeing Gu Yu’s tanned skin, his eyes immediately turned red: "You are...."

"I am fine, father."

"Having a bit darker skin is no bad thing, just like our ancestor Marquis Wencheng, who served the world."

Gu Yu said with a smile.

Then he took a deep breath, and without any hesitation, knelt directly at Gu Can’s feet: "I am not filial, have not returned home for many years, and failed to care for you by your side."

"My son...."

Before Gu Yu could finish, Gu Can interrupted him directly: "Why say such things!"

"Your return is already enough for me."

His eyes reddened even more, as he gazed intently at Gu Yu: "My son.... my Gu Clan’s sons..."

Gu Can’s voice suddenly choked slightly.

For the Gu Clan.

This was indeed the first time since their rise that they faced such a situation, the attitude of Yang Guang towards the Gu Clan made everyone feel the crisis of clan extermination.

This man is a madman!

The prestige that the Gu Clan always relied on couldn’t help them.

Even if the people of Julu were to fight desperately to protect them.

But this was the Gu Clan’s secret weapon, and to rely on these people alone to resist the entire court was undoubtedly a delusional dream.

Gu Can had been worrying about this matter for a long time.

"Father, I know." Gu Yu said earnestly.

How could he not know?

"Son, my Gu Clan..." Gu Can’s emotions became increasingly agitated, his body trembling continuously.

He did not want the Gu Clan’s foundation to be destroyed in his hands.

Gu Yu stood up and continuously comforted Gu Can.

Gu Can had indeed been holding back for too long.

His brothers had long passed away with the passage of time, as for the younger sons, they couldn’t discuss the important matters of the family with him.

But Gu Yu was different.

Gu Yu carried the hopes of all of them.

It was only after a long time, under Gu Yu’s constant comfort, that Gu Can gradually calmed down.

He remembered the blood letter Gu Zhe had sent back that year.

He immediately took Gu Yu to see it.

Nowadays, that blood letter was still in the hands of Gu Zhe’s guard, named Xue San, who had lived in the Gu Clan since his ancestors, receiving their grace for generations.

Since returning to Julu, his disposition had changed greatly.

Even towards Gu Can, he rarely spoke, and even when he heard the news of Gu Zhe’s death, he said nothing.

From beginning to end, he never returned home, remaining protected in the Gu Mansion, like a madman, constantly practicing his martial arts.

Until he saw Gu Yu.

Only then did his expression finally change, and he directly took out Gu Zhe’s blood letter.

The content was very simple.

It was about the abnormality in the palace the day Yang Jian died.

This news was completely suppressed by Yang Guang, known to very few.

Gu Yu, looking at the contents, a hint of sadness flashed in his eyes, he understood Gu Zhe’s intention.

To instigate chaos—no destruction, no construction!

This news, once leaked, would give many reasonable excuses.

This was the Gu Clan’s flexible moral bottom line!

To achieve their aims, by any means necessary.

Gu Yu’s expression was cold as frost, as he carelessly glanced at the blood-soaked letter and then tossed it back to Xue San.

The dark red bloodstains snaked across the plain white paper, the air seemed to carry a faint smell of iron and rust.

"Young master!" Xue San hurriedly stepped forward, his robe stirring up a gust of wind, staring at Gu Yu’s fading figure, his throat seemed to choke on something, struggling to utter these three words.

Gu Yu’s footsteps paused, but he did not turn back.

"I—" Xue San clenched his fist abruptly, his knuckles turning white, his eyes filled with unwillingness and resolve.

"I know." Gu Yu finally slowly turned around, his gaze as calm as a still water surface, yet upon meeting the flame in Xue San’s eyes, it rippled,

"Be patient a little longer, for hope lies in living."....

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