The Great Seminary

Chapter 78 Accidentally Met
In a blink of an eye, it was afternoon.

After presiding over the ceremony, Sang Gui and Song Huawen came to visit Zhang Gui and reported to him how successful the nationwide "chicken soup" campaign was.

Zhang Gui, soaking in boiling water, grabbed the molten ore and rubbed it against his body.

While grinning, he said:
"I actually had a feeling that this military training might have the effect of rallying people's hearts.

I just didn’t expect the result to be even better than I expected.

It seems I was too conservative.

In addition, through the first large-scale refining of Stone Corpse Warriors, I found that I could also bestow some other divine abilities on the Stone Corpse Warriors through rituals.

It's the giant transformation.

I feel like it would be very useful in a war.

Duke Song was a man of letters, so there was little point in making such a patch.

But the next time Sang Gui is promoted to a Hundred Stone Corpse Warrior, he will have an additional ability.

There is also the 'Shadow Water Spirit Bi' in the palace opposite, which can already be used initially.

In the future, each serving officer will have the benefit of practicing Taoist techniques in front of the "Shadow Water Spirit Bi" for ten hours every week.

The same applies to civil officials.

As for Mr. Song and Sang Gui, you two are special cases. You can practice whenever you want, with no time limit.

In addition, all citizens who have successfully entered the Tao can also enjoy the benefits of practicing at "Yingshui Lingbi" whenever they want.

This is not a privilege.

Guiyang Palace is my residence, which means it is my private property.

'Yingshui Lingbi' is in Guiyang Palace, so it is naturally private property.

I have given limited opening to some citizens with special statuses because I am kind-hearted.

It is open to you for life because of our personal friendship."

Song Huawen and Sang Gui were naturally moved to tears when they heard this.

The Zhenlong group, a makeshift group, first had a place to establish a country;

Then came cities and pie-in-the-sky food sources;
After that, there was a sound bureaucracy and a population that was highly obedient and had a high level of cultural literacy for the era.

Now the last shortcoming, national cohesion and people's confidence in the country and their personal future, has finally been made up.

Of course, calling it an empire is still a joke.

But if we say that it is a small island country in Wainoyang, it deserves the title.

At this point, Zhang Gui's real-life version of "Age of Empires" game had achieved initial success.

Feeling secretly proud in his heart, he continued to talk about his arrangements for the next major policy strategy of the True Dragon Kingdom.

After completing his training in Shencong, he teleported back to the Mushroom Valley in the deep mountains of Dongshengzhou.

From the perspective of the mysterious realm, this place is also the territory ruled by Zhang Gui and can be influenced by his "regional divine power".

So I immediately felt something was wrong.

Although the Giant Snake Head Island is extremely sparsely populated, there are still many overseas ports and towns sparsely distributed on the giant island of more than 100,000 miles.

In addition, many of the human settlements on the island are currently used for commercial purposes and have a constant flow of people.

It is very normal for the population to be a few hundred more today and a thousand less tomorrow.

Even if Zhang Gui sensed it, he wouldn't care.

But Mushroom Valley has become deserted since he plundered Wangbei Village.

Suddenly, more people appeared. Not to mention several, even half of them were obviously abnormal.

At this time, the visitor also discovered Zhang Gui's existence.

A sword light broke through the air and turned into a human figure falling in front of him.

And this person is Rong Yexiang from the Rong family in Shuanghu.

Rong Anshan and Rong Anqiu pretended to be dead and fainted because they didn't get any clues.

He could only doubly torture those entourage members who had gone to Siyang Prefecture with Rong Anshan and Rong Anqiu during the New Year's holiday. Finally, through torture, he obtained an incredible answer.

Rong Anshan and Rong Anqiu brought more than a hundred servants, village guards, personal servants, and maids, and left Wangbei Village to go to Siyang County to celebrate the New Year, not for the convenience of making connections.

Instead, he spent more than ten days in a brothel, drinking and carousing.

This result shocked Rong Yexiang, who felt that he had discovered the weakness of Rong Anshan, the dandy young man.

But he still did not act rashly.

Instead, he went to the Siyang County Government to report the case to the government office. The Rong family in Shuanghu had just bought a farm that was robbed by criminals, causing heavy losses.

In the past, such incidents of "imperial merchants" being robbed occurred only within the territory of the "Ming Song Dynasty", whether in the northern border or the southern country.

From the provincial level to the town and county level, no one is not working hard.

But this time it was completely the opposite.

Even though it can be seen that the head of the yamen appointed by the court wants to do his best.

But the clerks, yamen runners and officials of the eighth and ninth ranks below were all like spinning tops, unable to move or spin.

This is like a person's body. Although the brain is the leader of the six yang, it can command the whole body.

But it wants to do something, but there is nothing it can do if other parts of its body do not cooperate.

Rong Yexiang, with his brain and experience, actually knew that the robbery of Wangbei Village was related to the overall arrangement of his family's establishment in the South and its transformation from a merchant family to an aristocratic family.

The purchase of a large area of ​​land from the Zhang family of Pingyang violated the taboo of the local tyrants of Ping Siping County and even the entire East Yuehai Province from the very beginning.

The official appointed by the imperial court as the chief official still has some autonomy.

However, many of the local officials, clerks, and yamen runners of the eighth and ninth ranks were descendants of branches of local wealthy families.

Even if not, if you want to live a comfortable and nourishing life, you must have a close connection with them.

Now that this matter, which has been making many southern Xinjiang families feel humiliated, has suffered a setback, how can they possibly make an effort to sort it out?

Instead, it will hinder the Shuanghu Rong family and make things even more difficult.

But knowing this was enough, Rong Yexiang did not expect to be commented on by the Shuanghu Rong Family Think Tank:

"The power of the aristocratic families in the East Guangdong Sea Province is the weakest, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of in Siping County."

The title of "Imperial Merchant" becomes so worthless when it clashes with local families.

So much so that a constable from the county government who went to Wangbei Village to investigate a case openly told Rong Yexiang.

"The disappearance of a farm steward, slaves, or livestock is completely different from the theft or robbery of property while traveling as a merchant.

How could tens of thousands of slaves, who had hands and feet and were all young and strong, be kidnapped?

Maybe they couldn't stand the abuse from their masters, so they ran away and became rioters.

This is not something our local government should be responsible for.

We should contact the military or local militia to search for them and take precautions."

This sounds quite reasonable at first glance.

However, the local government was unwilling to handle the robbery cases themselves and asked the victims to go to the military government.

Once Rong Yexiang, the person in charge of this matter in the Rong family, takes the challenge, it will most likely become a situation where the local government and the military government pass the buck to each other.

It will undoubtedly be worse then.

In this situation, Rong Yexiang can only work hard on his own.

He took action with his subordinates who were willing to follow him and use the most stupid method to track down the enemy bit by bit starting from Wangbei Village.

Even if tens of thousands of people moved after a long time and after several rains and snowstorms, it would be impossible for there to be no traces at all.

After two days of sleepless and hard work, they finally found several wheel tracks leading to the Xuanling Mountains.

Continuing the pursuit, we arrived at a mushroom valley deep in the mountains.

I happened to meet Zhang Gui.

(End of this chapter)