Chapter Ninety-Six: Recruiting the Old Ministry
On the coastline of the East China Sea in the north, a flat boat travels in an offshore position, all the way south, along the way, you can see the prosperity of coastal ports, behind the ports, towering high-rise buildings, showing the prosperity of these coastal cities.
"Looking at the prosperity of these coastal cities, I sometimes really have the illusion that our ten years of war in the north are just a dream!"
On the boat, Wu Er looked at the prosperous cities behind the coastline, and sighed for a while: "The people living in these cities probably really think that this world has always been so peaceful and prosperous!"
Wu Er looked at these prosperous times, and his eyes were not full of envy for the prosperous life of drunken life and dreams, but showed sadness that ordinary people could not understand.
Wu Fan saw this sadness, and he could understand this sadness.
Perhaps the people of these inland and coastal cities have never thought about it or heard of it in their entire lives, and the northern kingdom has never been at peace in the past ten years.
People have the impression that the northern country has always been in peace and stability, except for the Kyoto Assassin War five years ago, there has never been a foreign invasion in the northern country, and it is always peaceful.
But what they don't know is that the North has never been peaceful!
In that desolate northern border, in the Heavenly Tomb Mountains at the junction of the Northern Kingdom and the Extreme Northern Snow Country, the war has never stopped, since Wu Fan became a warrior, he has participated in countless battles there, killing countless enemies and collecting countless bones of his comrades.
There, every moment, there is a battle of blood and fire, every day and night, there are countless warriors fighting to protect their hometown, but they may not have the opportunity to return to their hometown again in this life.
These are the fundamentals of the prosperity of the northern kingdom and the prosperity of martial arts.
And what Wu Fan and Wu Er saw and heard in Jiangbei and Nanjiang, such as the Ye family in Jiangbei and the five wealthy families, such as the rich businessmen and wealthy families, were extravagant and depraved, and greedy and excessive.
The wanton destruction of the soldiers' cemetery, the destruction of the veteran soldier Wang Tiezhu and the villagers of Xiaoyuan Village, and Ye Tianyun's persecution of folk daughters and cruel habits...... The rich have fallen!
It seems that everyone has forgotten the warriors who fought bloodily on the northern border.
Of course, Wu Fan and Wu Er in the past, as well as those soldiers in the north, didn't care about this.
The military of the northern country has never taken credit or admiration, they just silently guard the border and protect the homes that belong to everyone behind them.
They used to be the most powerful people in this vast land, and they were also the ones who sacrificed the most, and they were also the ones who obtained the most martial arts resources.
Therefore, they have no complaints, no regrets, and as warriors, they should be outside the territory of the enemy.
Once, the world's warriors were proud of serving in the army, and the strongest people in the world were all from the military, and the more prosperous the martial arts, the stronger the military strength of the northern country.
But later Wu Fan found that the recruits received in the Northern Army every year were getting worse and worse, and their families were getting poorer and poorer.
This shows that the way of the world has changed, and the warriors of the world are no longer proud of serving in the army, and the rich families no longer send their children to join the army to make meritorious contributions.
Under the prosperity and prosperity, what has been achieved is the degenerate wealthy family and the martial arts business alliance that gathers the world's warriors for their own use.
Seeing the sadness in Wu Er's eyes, Wu Fan looked at the prosperity of this prosperous world again, as if he saw the gradual rancid stench under this glamorous and beautiful city.
A cold light flashed in his eyes, and his voice was cold and firm: "The cold wind in the north has stopped for the time being, now, it's time for some of them who are lying on the bodies of tens of millions of soldiers and hundreds of millions of people to suck blood, and feel the cold wind from Beijing!"
After drifting in the sea for a day and a night, they came to a bustling port city on the east coast, Haizhu City.
After landing, Wu Fan soon learned the news that a Five Realms Grandmaster of the Zhao family in Nanjiang had returned, that the Zhao family had regained firm control of Nanjiang, and that it had been extremely difficult to suppress the newly revived Heavenly Dao Martial Arts.
"Zhao Ping once threatened to the Zhao family in the clan that Nanjiang City will always be the city of the Zhao family, whether it is the Grandmaster of the Five Realms or the strongest person in the Northern Kingdom, they do not belong here, they will leave after all, and their eyes will not stay in Nanjiang forever.
Only the Zhao family will always be rooted in Nanjiang and will always be the first wealthy family in Nanjiang.
This city is the city of the Zhao family, and those low-level martial artists and veteran soldiers gathered in the Heavenly Dao Martial Arts Hall are just livestock that his Zhao family can kill at any time!"
After landing on the shore, Wu Er collected useful information that happened in various places in the northern country as soon as possible, and when he came back, his face was ugly, and he reported the news that happened in Nanjiang City to Wu Fan as soon as possible.
At that time, Wu Fan, who had defeated Huangfu Shenyi, was in no mood to deal with the Martial Arts Alliance and the Zhao family in detail.
He originally thought that the Martial Arts Business Alliance and the Zhao family would be interested in understanding how they would deal with themselves in Nanjiang City in the future.
But now it seems that the Martial Arts Business Alliance is very decisive, completely withdrawing all forces from Nanjiang, even if a large amount of assets are lost, they can bear to cut their flesh.
However, the Nanjiang Zhao family, after only being silent and low-key for two days, after the return of the third uncle ancestor of its five realms, could not bear the huge assets left behind after the withdrawal of the Martial Arts Business Alliance, and began to compete with the Heavenly Dao Martial Arts.
With the support of Wu Fan, the Tiandao Martial Arts Hall obtained a start-up capital and resources, obtained the territory of a street in Nancheng, and used this as a foundation to find and gather veterans who were willing to join and had an innocent background, which was a thriving scene.
Moreover, due to the agreement between Huangfu Shenyi and Wu Fan, after Huangfu Shenyi was defeated, the Martial Arts Business Alliance withdrew from Nanjiang, and the assets left behind naturally belonged to Wu Fan.
And it is impossible for Wu Fan to personally manage this asset, and the Heavenly Dao Martial Arts Pavilion is the only person in Nanjiang City who is qualified to accept and manage this asset.
Now, the Zhao family jumped out, on the grounds that the Zhao family and the Martial Arts Business Alliance had cooperated closely, and the Zhao family had a certain equity in the assets of the Martial Arts Business Alliance, the lion opened his mouth and declared that the assets left by the Martial Arts Business Alliance were disposed of by the Zhao family.
The Zhao family dared to do this, it was nothing more than bullying the fledgling Heavenly Dao Martial Pavilion, and the newly revived Heavenly Dao Martial Arts Pavilion could not compete with the profound Zhao family at all.
Not to mention that the Zhao family now already has a third uncle ancestor who has reached the Five Realms.
In their opinion, even if Mu Sheng returned to Nanjiang one day, he would not start a war with a hundred-year-old wealthy clan with more than one Five Realms Grandmaster because of this trivial matter.
Even if Mu Sheng pursues it, as long as the Zhao family pays a certain price and bows his head to give a step, Mu Sheng still has to walk down the steps of the Zhao family.
"The wealthy businessman mentality, believing that everything has a price to trade. ”
Wu Fan commented on the Zhao family's approach, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "But, there are some things that cannot be traded, and this city does not belong to the Zhao family!"
Wu Fan took out the God of War Order that he had once shown, handed it to Wu Er, and instructed:
"With this token, gather all the veterans of Nanjiang and its nearby five cities and ten cities, destroy the Zhao family, and kill the five realms!
Let them take back their own city, their own position!
Let the world's wealthy families easily dare not speak of nobility!"