At the same time, the Imperial Court's tripled heavy tax finally came crashing down on the Li Clan.

The Li Clan possessed quite a lot of farmland, but with the taxes now tripled, and the Clan Elders selfishly hiding their own assets and refusing to pay out of their own pockets, the entire burden was pushed onto the ordinary clan relatives of each branch.

For a time, the entire old Li Clan estate was plunged into panic and chaos.

As a frontier Ten-Man Commander with Military Merit to his name, Li Xuancang was, by law, entitled to shield his clan and secure tax reductions for them.