Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 277 Two or Three Things in Xiqi

Inside Xiqi City.

Bo Yikao stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, and a drizzle was falling outside the window.

Since King Zhou ascended the throne, the weather in the north has been getting colder. Although Xiqi did not fight a major war this year, Ji Fa continued to lead his troops to plunder the people and cattle and sheep of the Xirong people, but Xiqi's harvest this year was still not very good.

Xiqi maintains a standing force of over 400,000 troops, and faces a huge food shortage. In previous years, it could trade with Nandu, and use the remaining food to make wine and boost the morale of the military and civilians. But this is no longer the case this year.

On the contrary, the climate in the south is quite good. Now a large number of refugees from the north are pouring into the south, the speed of land reclamation has greatly increased, and the grain yield per mu is the best in the world.

"Alas," Bo Yikao sighed. The relationship between Nandu and Xiqi had nearly broken down because of Hong Jin. This was only superficial. He had heard from his father Ji Chang that the deeper reason was that the other side had soldiers and generals, territory, and food, and had already developed ambitions. Would it be a mistake to just surrender to Xiqi?

The relationship between Han State and Nandu still needs to be re-established.
Bo Yikao stood straight.

Whether it is the crown prince or the prince, it is actually not easy. This position is a target, and all the arrows will hit him.

Only when a person is in good health can his mood be good. Only when he is in a good mood can his character be resilient and he have enough physical strength to handle various affairs.

His previous weak body seriously affected Bo Yikao's judgment. He seemed a little rough when handling daily official business, and was not as gentle as before to his subordinates. Now that his angina pectoris was cured by Guangchengzi's elixir and his body returned to normal, he had enough calm mind to think about the current problems.

Internal and external troubles.

The second brother is Ji Fa, and the third brother is Ji Xian.
In the past two years, his health has been getting worse and worse. As if intentionally or unintentionally, he has handed over many of his powers to his two older brothers. He also hopes that once he is gone, someone will be able to inherit the Xiqi family business.

Now that his heart is beating strongly and his body is healthy, he no longer thinks so.

The second brother had great military achievements and had a large number of supporters in the army. The third brother was good at socializing and won over many court officials. But Bo Yikao was not weak either. His status as the crown prince naturally gave him a large number of allies. His fourth brother Ji Dan supported him. Ji Dan even proposed new ritual and legal systems such as the distinction between the monarch and his subjects and the primogeniture system. He believed that one of the foundations for Zhou to replace Shang was to respect "ritual."

Bo Yikao was originally vague about these systems. He hoped that after his death, no matter whether it was legitimate or illegitimate, as long as someone could preserve the Ji family's foundation, it would be fine. Now, of course, he supported all of them.

A large number of his younger brothers supported him, and Ji Chang's "Four Friends", Nangong Shi, San Yisheng, Hong Yao, and Tai Dian also supported him as the crown prince.

Bo Yikao was now confident that he could lead Xiqi to replace the Shang Dynasty.

the other side.

Ji Fa roughly figured out the relationship between himself and Jiang Ziya.

As fellow disciples of the Chan sect, they were natural allies. Jiang Ziya was highly regarded by Ji Chang. Among Ji Chang's four friends, except Nangong Shi, the other three old ministers deliberately kept their distance from Ji Fa. Now the relationship between Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya was getting warmer.

Every now and then, Ji Fa would visit Jiang Ziya's house with gifts, and he would call Ma "Auntie" all the time.

This greatly satisfied Ma's vanity, and she would whisper in his ear every now and then. Jiang Ziya still valued his wife, and the balance in his heart involuntarily tilted towards Ji Fa.

"Master has been in the sect for many years, and I have observed that the other three generations of disciples all respect him very much. Why not invite a few virtuous people to come and help Xiqi?"

While the disciples of the Chan sect have not left yet, Jifa wants to recruit more people from the Chan sect to help him.

Are they respecting me? Jiang Ziya actually didn't understand why the disciples of the Chan Sect kept mentioning him. In all honesty, he had been cultivating the Dao in Kunlun Mountain for forty years, and he had never met many third-generation disciples of the Chan Sect.

We've never met before, and now you're suddenly saying you respect me? I don't know what I respect about you. "I can't guarantee success, but I can give it a try."

Jiang Ziya also felt that he was outnumbered and that the help Wu Ji and Longxuhu could provide was too little.

He chatted with the three generations of disciples of the Chan sect one by one.

Wei Hu felt that he still had a lot to learn and was now in a great calamity, where he might die at any moment. He politely declined the offer but said that if he had the chance in the future, he would definitely come under his uncle's command and obey his orders.

We need to wait and see about Jin Zha, Mu Zha, and Huang Tianhua. Their parents and brothers are all in Nandu. What's going on now? Will Nandu and Xiqi start fighting later? Father and son killing each other is too filial.

They dared not speak or ask.

Not to mention them, the third generation disciples, even Guangchengzi, Manjusri and Samantabhadra couldn't figure out the current relationship between Xiqi and Nandu. They were afraid that they would accidentally get involved in the saint's layout. If they owed the saint cause and effect, they would be in big trouble. Let's not talk about it, just muddle through!

Anyway, we don’t need the three of you to establish Zhou and destroy Shang.

Only when Nandu invests can the three brothers follow suit.

He also politely declined Jiang Ziya's invitation.

Jiang Ziya and Yang Jian chatted for a while, and Yang Jian took the opportunity to say, "Master, you are so kind. Yang Jian is willing to serve you! I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"

Jiang Ziya was very happy and said yes repeatedly.

He was very short of manpower. He had seen Yang Jian's abilities when he fought with Deng Chanyu in Yuxu Palace. To be honest, he was many times stronger than his uncle. He was ecstatic to be able to come to Xiqi to help.

However, Yang Jian has never been associated with words like "gentle" and "approachable" in his life. He has a stern face every day and seems to speak politely, but the arrogance in his bones cannot be concealed at all. How to arrange a position for him requires Jiang Ziya to think carefully. He cannot offend his colleagues and must make full use of Yang Jian's abilities.

Jiang Ziya became more and more important in Xiqi, which made one person extremely unhappy, that was Shen Gongbao.

Yuanshi Tianzun bestowed upon him an elixir that cured his spiritual damage and stopped his stuttering. Shen Gongbao came down the mountain in the name of assisting Jiang Ziya, and also wanted to get a piece of the pie in the Conferred God event.

The other immortals of the orthodox teaching avoided the Investiture of the Gods, but Shen Gongbao was unaware of the truth. He thought that Yuanshi Tianzun loved Jiang Ziya, so he gave him the Investiture of the Gods, and thought it was a good job.

When Wen Zhong beat Jiang Ziya to death with a whip, he cheered secretly. But when the man was rescued by the White Crane Boy, he felt that Yuanshi Tianzun was biased.

Shen Gongbao's mentality became more and more extreme.

Now that the matter of the Seven Absolute Formation has been resolved, the immortals of the Xuanmen sect have left one after another.

He came to Xiqi City.

After observing for a while, they found Ji Xian, who had just been granted the title of "Marquis Guan", who was Guan Shuxian, the third son of King Wen in history and the half-brother of King Wu Ji Fa.

"I am Shen Gongbao, a Qi-refining master from Mount Kunlun. I am honored to meet Guan Hou."

(End of this chapter)