Significant events in the Northern Region were easy to investigate, so it took Yun An less than a day to complete the inquiry assigned by Hua Yan, and he also attached the discovered dossier.
After Hua Yan read through it, she found that a concealed incident involving the breaching of the Heilong River levee had occurred decades ago, when the former emperor was still the Crown Prince. The Imperial Court had received no information about it; many people had perished, though the disaster had not been as severe as the current calamity in the Northern Region, only flooding one county.
Then, for the next several decades, it seemed miraculously that no other major incidents had occurred, except for this year's breaching of the Heilong River levee and the increased taxation in the Northern Region.
