Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 195: Making Wedding Dresses (Thanks to Brother Jian V for the -point reward)
The various cultivators in Shandugang fell apart from then on. Even if some of them really didn't want to go back and be the lackeys of Master Kang, they would not choose to join forces with Zheng Xibei again.

This Senior Brother Zheng is not very good at speaking, nor does he dare to fight. He doesn't look like someone who can accomplish anything, nor does he look like someone who can seek refuge.

Master Kang had long known that these casual cultivators' respect for Uncle Li was real, but their love for the spirit stones was also real.

If you want to win people's hearts, it is not enough to just talk about feelings, nor is it enough to just talk about spirit stones.

If they really want to use their power to suppress others, most of these independent cultivators will certainly leave Zheng Xibei, but they may not be without resentment.

If you really lure people with spiritual stones, you will attract a group of profit-seeking people, and it will be difficult to use them with confidence.

It was different now. Pei Yi held Uncle Li's spirit tablet and helped Master Kang to perform a play. The monks in Shandugang also got a chance to step down. "Everyone joined Master Kang just to repay their master's kindness."

Not only can he appear to be loyal and righteous, he can also get a lot of spirit stones. Not to mention, he can also have the opportunity to truly become Master Li's disciple. If this is really possible, he won't have to be a lonely ghost who is despised by others anymore.

In this way, all the cultivators in Shandugang got their spiritual stones and their thoughts were clear, so naturally they had no resentment.

Zheng Xipi no longer had the capital to struggle, or rather, if he had known that Master Kang had so much capital, he might not have struggled at all.

I don't have any spiritual stones, nor the courage to fight head-on, and I don't even have Uncle Li's spirit tablet. What is the point of fighting?

The pirate leader, who was used to living on the edge of a knife, was unusually upright. He ripped off his brand new hair crown and Taoist robe and threw them on the ground to show that he was convinced.

He also thought that he couldn't be the head of the sect anymore, and Lingjian Villa would come to attack him soon, so he was afraid that he couldn't stay in Ji County any longer.

Zheng Xipi then bowed to Kang Dabao again and said, "Master Kang, I wonder if I, who is in the late stage of Qi training, can also become an external affairs disciple?!"

Kang Dabao had never thought that Zheng Xipi was such a bachelor, so he looked up to him.

He nodded and said, "Fellow Daoist Zheng, you know your mistakes and can correct them. As a foreign affairs disciple, of course I can do it. But I heard that you still have troubles to take care of at Lingjian Villa. Fellow Daoist Zheng needs to take care of them first."

"Got it. I'll skin that bastard alive when I get back to explain myself. But Lingjian Villa may not be willing to let it go. I'd like to ask Sect Leader Kang to mediate."

Kang Dabao naturally agreed, and stayed in Shandugang, Ji County for another three days.

During this period, not only did the lawsuit between Zheng Xibei and Lingjian Villa come to an end with Kang Dabao's mediation, but the head of the Kang family, with the help of Chu Huer, verified the identities of all the cultivators in Shandugang one by one.

The purpose of this recruitment is to set up an anti-theft office. This will be used to compete with Xu Yingshi in the name of Sima Gong, so we can't accept just anyone.

He could follow Zheng Xipi's troops back to Chongming Market, but he didn't think highly of the pirates under him, Kang Dazhang. It would be fine if they all had mixed spiritual powers, but they were all bloody.

If these people were used, Master Kang might be involved in some unnecessary consequences. He hated this kind of trouble the most.

In response to these people, Kang Dabao asked Zheng Xipi to dismiss them himself, which was able to put an end to the scourge for the people of Ji County in a short period of time.

The work was finally done. On the way back, Yuan Jin drove the spirit boat and carried thirty or forty people to Chongming Market.

This flying boat was taken out of Ying Bi's storage bag by Taoist Heilu. He had little use for it, so he gave it to Master Kang for exclusive use.

This is a genuine second-tier spiritual weapon flying boat, a good item that even most of the true foundation-building cultivators covet, and it makes the eyes of the cultivators in Shandugang who are boarding the flying boat for the first time shine with astonishment.

Many people were secretly saying that this was worthy of being the foundation-building sect where Master Li came from, with a profound heritage, which was truly desirable.

Master Kang felt so distressed that his heart was bleeding. They, as young Qi-cultivating cultivators, had weak spiritual power and could not control this second-level spiritual flying boat, so they had to use spiritual stones to burn it.

This second-level spiritual flying boat is fast, but it costs about seventy or eighty spirit stones just to go to Chongming Market, which is really expensive.

Everything was planned for the future. In order to intimidate these wild cultivators and make them calm down, Master Kang had no choice but to do this bold move.

When the flying boat landed in Chongming Market, the fellow practitioners invited by Xie Liusheng from the Yushan Fellow Cultivators Association and the bandits led by the Shao brothers and sisters had all arrived.

At this time, not only was Master Kang looking at the three teams, but they were also observing each other.

The largest number of cultivators came from Shandugang, but their strengths were quite mixed. There were rare late-stage cultivators like Chu Huer, as well as down-and-out old cultivators who were only at the second level of Qi training.

The number of bandits who came with the Shao brothers and sisters was slightly smaller, and their cultivation levels were more uneven. Although these bandits were capable of fighting, most of them had low cultivation levels. Without the Shao brothers and sisters and the Feng brothers to support them, it would be totally unbearable to watch.

Fortunately, they had spent most of their first half of their lives as bandits who collected money on the road, and had not committed many murders. Although their skills were not very good, they were still useful.

Strictly speaking, among the three teams, the fellow practitioners that Xie Liusheng found from the Yushan Fellow Practitioners Association are the strongest.

This is because although Yin Shangong established this force in order to earn funds for Qin Sufu, he also taught these rootless and independent practitioners in the fellow practitioners' association in his early years.

Those who were invited by Xie Liusheng this time were all the best among them. Most of them were because after Qin Sufu defected to the state court, he lost power and influence due to the seizure of power by several elders, so they thought of running to the place of Master Kang to try to live.

In a small city's anti-theft station, not only Kang Shiwei and Xu Jiawei were going to compete, but even Kang Dabao's team was divided into three factions.

Differentiation and checks and balances, appropriateness of distance and proximity, and both kindness and severity.
Unconsciously, Master Kang had become quite adept at using these tactics. It was hard to say whether it was good or bad for a cultivator to be mixed with too many of these political schemes.

Recruiting these people is only the first step. How to identify and use these independent cultivators who have come to join us, and how to integrate them into a team, is a big art.

Kang Dabao first picked out those who had learned the hundreds of arts of cultivation, and among this group of people, the largest number were from Shandugang.

However, most of them have low attainments. Only Sun Buer, a man with gray beard, can occasionally brew low-grade spirit wine. As for the others, it is difficult for them to make a living with these skills.

The head of Kangda could only choose generals from among the dwarfs, and he pinched his nose and selected the people with the best skills in each area.

He did not intend to put these people into the Anti-Theft Bureau to do life-threatening work. Instead, he planned to put them all in the newly opened Chongming Building, give them some food, and see if he could train them.

These people all have some basic skills, so it shouldn't be difficult to train them. If there are one or two of them who are capable of being trained, it would be a great success.

All the cultivators who were not selected felt as if they had lost their parents. Even for most of the robber cultivators and bandit cultivators, if they could have the opportunity to practice in peace, most of them would change their ways.

The days of living on the edge of a knife are far from as pleasant as outsiders imagine. Perhaps a close friend of yours who was drinking and chatting with you in the last breath may have his head chopped off in front of you in the next breath.

Although it is easy to obtain spiritual stones and magic tools by robbing others, it also carries the risk of being contaminated by karma, getting injured, or even dying.

Many times, the little things that are obtained with great effort may not be enough to hire an alchemist to treat the injury.

As I said, what practitioners seek is longevity and freedom, not fighting. The latter is only a means to earn resources on the road to longevity, not the goal.

Most of the people recruited by Master Kang from these three forces, including leaders like Xie Liusheng and the Shao brothers and sisters, did not have the ability to cultivate the hundreds of arts, and could not live a peaceful life. They could only eat the meal of risking their lives in battle.

Kang Dabao was very familiar with organizing the team because of his experience in the battle to conquer Wuxiangmen, so it was not a big task.

At last count, the three forces had a total of fifty-nine people. Excluding the eight monks who were selected to specialize in practicing the hundred arts of cultivation, there were still fifty-one people left, and they were organized into a team as usual.

Among them there are three people in the late stage of Qi training, Chu Huer is at the eighth level, the second son of the Feng family and Zheng Xipi are both at the seventh level, and all of them are Fire Chiefs.

Among the forty people in the middle stage of Qi training, Shao Wei and Xie Liusheng were also chosen as fire leaders. As for the eight people in the early stage of Qi training, the distribution of each fire was disrupted so as not to affect the balance of strength of each fire.

Headmaster Kang still has a lot of things to do, and he cannot devote all his energy to training the team every day, so he lets Yuan Jin take over as the acting head of the team.

Yuan Jin was different from Jiang Qing. He was not much older than Kang Dabao. When Master He taught Kang Dabao about military matters, he did not miss him. Yuan Jin had some basic military skills. Shao Meng was a little dissatisfied when she saw Yuan Jin. It was not until the second son of the Feng family was instigated by her to fight with Yuan Jin and was almost fainted by the latter's tiger stick that she calmed down.

This is exactly why Kang Dabao wanted Yuan Jin to be the agent of the team.

Don't look at the fact that Yuan Jin's cultivation level is only at the sixth level of Qi training, but except for Jiang Qing, no one in Chongming Sect, even the head of the sect, Kang Da, dares to say that they can definitely defeat him. It will be no problem for him to subdue this group of independent cultivators who like to speak with their fists.

Time passed quickly. On May 25th of the 427th year of Qianfeng in the David Immortal Dynasty, Deng Baichuan said that the temporary Sima would come to Chongming Market to inspect the military preparations.

Xu Yingshi, with a beaming look on his face, stood in the middle of the parade ground with fifty men. In order to recruit these people, he had put in a lot of effort as he was unfamiliar with the place.

Fortunately, the brand of the Xu family in Dai County was very useful. Even though Xu Yingshi was a descendant of a branch of the Xu family who was almost not included in the family tree, he was enough to convince this small family in a remote area.

Not to mention, Xu Yingshi was not even forty years old, but he had already reached the ninth level of Qi training. With such aptitude, he might not be able to become an Ice Leaf or not, but he was almost certain to build a foundation.

Because of this capital, Xu Yingshi was able to recruit many second-generation elites from foundation-building families to follow him around all day long. Even if each family sent a few Qi-training experts to support him, it would be enough for Xu Yingshi to form a team.

Because of this, Xu Yingshi's team is composed of cultivators above the fifth level of Qi training.

A cultivator of this level of cultivation is qualified to be a family elder in many small families nearby. Moreover, they are all courageous and resolute men, so they are not easy to find.

Therefore, their overall strength is indeed much stronger than the team that Master Kang had taken great pains to assemble.

Fortunately, Kang Dabao and Yuan Jin have put in a lot of effort these days, and they have the Shao brothers and sisters and the Feng brothers, who have been in battle, as their backbone. Chu Huer and Zheng Xipi are even more determined to perform well.

This team had not been trained for nearly as long as Xu Yingshi's team, but they had also practiced the combined attack formation quite well.

At this time, Master Kang placed the white bear tooth flag that Sima Fei had bestowed upon him in the middle and handed it to Chu Huer, a short but strong man with striking yellow hair, to hold with both hands, looking very majestic.

This time, they even surpassed Xu Yingshi's bare team.

A hundred monks waited in the training ground from dawn till noon, when Sima Gunjia finally arrived riding a black falcon.

"My Lord suddenly summoned me to attend the military meeting, so I am a little late. Please forgive me. Not bad, not bad. The two lieutenants are indeed the pillars of the country. In a short period of time, they have trained the troops of the Anti-theft Bureau to be so strong."

Compared to Sima Fei who always liked to speak hurtful words, Sima Gunjia was undoubtedly a kind and gentle elder. As soon as he landed and was greeted by the cultivators, he smiled and began to praise them.

"Sima, you are too kind." Kang Dabao had just said a few polite words to Xu Yingshi. He thought he would have to review the troops again.

Unexpectedly, Sima Gun just took a quick look, gave each cultivator present a reward of five spirit stones, and then told his subordinates to disband the team.

"Why not compete anymore?" The ambitious Xu Yingshi was a little anxious. He had made up his mind to show off in front of Sima Gun in the parade ground today so as to suppress the arrogance of the head of Kangda. Why not compete anymore?
Deng Baichuan and Sect Leader Kang were equally confused, but neither of them was as anxious as Xu Yingshi. They just waited patiently for Sima Gun's instructions.

"Xu Jiawei, Sima has changed his opinion of you for your hard work in recent days, so you will be promoted to the magistrate of Jin County from today. Pack up and leave. There is no chief officer there now, so don't waste time."

Xu Yingshi's face immediately became uncertain. If the news had not been delivered by Sima Gun himself, he would have probably burst into curses.

Deng Baichuan, who was standing by, was a little surprised. He looked at the head of Kangda with a different look than usual. "Does Sima Fei really regard him as his son-in-law?"

Sect Leader Kang also heard it clearly and thought to himself, "Sima Fei is just going to dump Xu Yingshi after he's done using him. He doesn't even want to pretend anymore?!"

Everyone present knew that Jin County was a remote and remote place that was even poorer and more remote than Pingrong County.

Seeing that the market was about to open, and the team that Xu Yingshi had just recruited to compete with Kang Dabao for power had just been established, Xu Yingshi was transferred from the position of the acting lieutenant of the market to the position of the county magistrate of Jin County.
It may be a bit harsh to say that this kind of behavior is like killing the donkey after it has done its job, but it is no exaggeration to say that it is like destroying the bridge after crossing it.

"May I ask the sir, Jin County is poor and the county temple is in a difficult situation. Can you allow the officials to take some of the manpower from the anti-theft office in the market?"

What surprised Master Kang was that Xu Yingshi did not give up on himself because of such harsh treatment. Instead, he showed a calm demeanor that was rarely seen in normal times.

He changed his temper so suddenly that even Sima Gunjia looked at him with a higher regard.

"It seems that I am not the only one who has made progress over the years!" Kang Dabao felt an alarm bell ringing in his heart. Before this, he had always regarded Xu Yingshi as a capable and violent person like Feng He.

I thought my skills were enough to kill the latter, but now I think I am a little too proud.

"They were recruited by you, the magistrate of Jin County, so why should you ask for permission? As long as they are willing to go to Jin County with you, you can pick ten people to take away." Sima Gunjia said with a smile.

"Then I will go first and leave after selecting the right person. I will not dare to disappoint the two Simas' trust!" Xu Yingshi did not even look at Master Kang. He just bowed to Sima Gun and left the hall.

"Heh." Sima Gun looked at Xu Yingshi's departing back, as if thinking about something. Then he shook his head and didn't take it to heart anymore.

At this time, only Sima Gun, Kang and Deng were in the hall. Sima Gun smiled and pointed at Kang Dabao and said, "Sima has taken the spiritual stones from the blue silver vein. He is very happy and praised you for being filial. He sent me to help you with a small favor."

"These are things that we younger generations should do. It's not worth mentioning." Although the head of Kangda said it was not worth mentioning, in the eyes of Sima Fei and the Fei family, the income from the blue silver vein was even less worth mentioning.

But since coming to Shannan Road, the Fei family has married off so many concubines and even married off one of their legitimate daughters. But it was only the head of the Kang family who was enlightened by the Black Shoe Taoist and knew how to show respect.

Although there are many other sons-in-law who are much better than Kang Dabao in talent, family background, appearance, and conduct, they all only know how to ask the daughter of the Fei family to go back to her parents' home to plunder and cry poor to eat at the rich man's house.

Comparing the two, the kindness of Master Kang is even more precious.

Sima Fei suddenly felt that Kang Dabao's round face was quite pleasing to the eye, so he specially called Sima Gunjia to come and take a look.

If Sima Fei is already pleasing to his eyes, then Sima Gunjia must be even more pleasing to his eyes, he just opened his mouth and said.

"Okay, from now on, Baichuan, you will be the fake lieutenant. As for the vacant chief accountant position, Dabao, you can choose another junior brother to take it. And as for the bad commander of the anti-theft office, the state government originally said that it would reduce redundant personnel and would not allow the appointment of more.

But anyway, they are all from our family, and the state government is big and powerful, so it doesn't matter. Dabao, you can choose another junior brother to do it. Although they are all outside officials, they are also conferred by the Earl, and they can receive annual salary every year. "

Deng Baichuan was a little dumbfounded by what the fake Sima said. How different could the newly built Chongming Market be from the Chongming Market built by Chongming Zong himself? Wasn't he surnamed Kang again?

Didn’t the master tell me before he sent me here that one of the purposes was to restrain and monitor Kang Dabao?

Didn't he give me instructions before? He said that he had to make sure that the leader of the Kang family would not be led too far astray by the powerful foundation-building masters like the Black Shoe Taoist who were not under the control of the state court, so as to prevent him from straying too far from the track planned for him by the state court?
Now, there are only five positions in Chongmingfang City, and Kang Dabao's side has lost three of them. In addition, Xu Yingshi, who was originally used to check and balance him, was also transferred away by Gun Jia Sima.
So, I have become a minority?! Deng Baichuan suddenly felt a little depressed. Can those in power do whatever they want?

As a result, many of his previous arrangements came to nothing. Kang Dabao just showed his filial piety casually, and Sima Fei was almost giving the whole market to him?
"Isn't this too willful?" Deng Baichuan, who came from a small family, felt a little distressed.

But at this time, Sima Gunjia spoke again: "Let's stop talking nonsense and talk about business. Baichuan, how is the task I asked you to do going?"

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