Chapter Seventy-Eight: Walking
"On weekdays, Senior Brother Feng waits for me, and today I will wait for Senior Brother Feng."
Zhang Feng looked at the curious Senior Brother Feng and replied jokingly.
Because to be honest, I don't know how to answer him.
After all, I was also on a whim just now, and I learned that a guest was coming.
But the specifics are unclear.
It seems that the cultivation time is still short, only ten days, and I have not realized the deep meaning of a whim.
Or maybe their strength is too low and they haven't fully mastered it.
Zhang Feng thought about it, and as soon as the thought flashed, he looked at Senior Brother Feng who was stepping up the mountain.
There was no curiosity about his visit.
It's all because the news about his genius in the sect has spread in the inner gate.
And during the 10 days of his retreat, many inner disciples who came with gifts also came, but they were all turned away by themselves.
They weren't angry either, knowing that genius cultivation was important, so they didn't bother much.
Including Senior Brother Feng also came once a few days ago.
But Zhang Feng didn't have a sudden whim that day, so he turned him away.
"Zhang Daoyou.." At this time, Senior Brother Feng saw Zhang Feng greeting him, as if he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle, and he couldn't tell what it tasted like.
He still thinks back to a few months ago, he brought Zhang Feng to the sect, and personally entrusted the relationship, wanting to find a good place for Zhang Feng, such as coming back to be an official.
But now the identity has changed.
He is still an inner disciple, but Zhang Feng is a genius in the Xuandao Sect!
It is even rumored that Zhang Feng now enjoys the treatment of 'sect master and elder'!
On an equal footing with the Sect Elders and the Elders!
In such an identity, he naturally spoke a little tangled, cautious, and didn't know what to say.
Zhang Feng saw that Senior Brother Feng looked like he was in trouble, but he smiled and invited him to sit down, and pushed him a cup of tea, "Senior Brother Feng, please tell me something." ”
"I.." Senior Brother Feng was half-sitting on the stone bench, holding the teacup in both hands, and his face was indeed embarrassed to speak.
"Senior Brother Feng is kind to me." Zhang Feng is a square tea, "Before I joined the sect, I was taken care of by Senior Brother Feng. Now that I have joined the sect, is Senior Brother Feng alienated from me? Or am I Zhang Feng the kind of person who is treacherous? ”
"No.. It's not.." Senior Brother Feng's face was anxious, but because Zhang Feng was still such a heroic appearance, he felt a little more at ease.
At the same time, he pondered for a while, organized the language, and then returned a toast, and said embarrassedly,
"The lifespan of a monk is about three hundred years old. And the city lord of Qi City, who is a small foundation builder, is two hundred and eighty years old this year. So.. So he's about to abdicate.."
As soon as Senior Brother Feng spoke, although he was still embarrassed, his words became much smoother, "But his position is a fragrant bun..."
Many inner disciples of the sect who have no hope of being promoted to the realm are staring, including me...
We all want to retire in the sect instead of holding virtual power. It is better to become an ambassador of the outside frontier, master a city, a hundred towns, and a billion people.
This is the real power, the power of life and death!
Glory and future generations are all trivial..
But now there are twenty-three senior brothers and forty-six town lords, and they are all in a position... They and I are both city lords."
When Senior Brother Feng said this, his purpose was self-evident.
It was he who wanted to fight for this position, and then begged Zhang Feng here, hoping that Zhang Feng, who was on an equal footing with the sect master elders, would help him speak.
He thinks he has such leadership qualities, and he needs a 'senior senior' to help him speak.
Otherwise, if there is no person with a 'strong relationship' to talk about it, go and tell the elders of the steward's hall to hear the news.
Then if others find a strong relationship, they may compare him to him and become the city lord.
Anyway, everyone's qualifications are about the same, and everyone should be the same.
But if he went to say it himself, to give gifts, to lobby the elders as a disciple of the inner gate.
It is very likely that the elder of the stewardship hall shook his face, and then seven or eight law enforcement disciples rushed up and drove him out.
After all, a city lord is in charge of at least a billion people and thousands of miles of land.
How can it be relied on by relationships?
As for qualifications, whether Senior Brother Feng has leadership skills.
When Zhang Feng was chatting with the Elder Lian, he had asked Senior Brother Feng who had brought him into the sect at the beginning.
Knowing that he has qualifications.
Including the sect and his life account.
It was roughly Senior Brother Feng who started at the age of ten and became an outer disciple.
At the age of thirty, he practiced qi and served as a deacon of the outer gate.
After three years as a deacon, he spent ten years traveling to the small half of the Wind Continent and broke through to the foundation.
At the age of forty-eight, he entered the inner door and traveled abroad.
At the age of sixty-three, he had no hope of building a foundation, so he began his career as an official, first went to Qicheng as a gatekeeper and dealt with the local bandits.
At the age of seventy-six, he made a few moves, and in a small town outside Qi City, he became the head of a county, improved the land and canals, and made the harvest there every year, and this method was also extended to the entire Fengzhou.
At the age of eighty, he killed a foundation-building evil cultivator for the sect and guarded more than 1,000 people in a village, but he was also seriously injured.
At the age of ninety-two, it is only now that he has gone to Xunxian County, where he first came to this world, and is ready to travel there, and become the 'lord of a town' in that area, in charge of thirty-two counties.
With his qualifications, compared to the rest of the inner disciples, he can be regarded as the superior of the way of being an official.
Definitely be the lord of the city!
It's a pity that there are at least forty or fifty such people, as Senior Brother Feng said.
Zhang Feng thought about it, and felt that if Senior Brother Feng had nothing to do with it, and he didn't have any political resources to help him, it seemed that he would be the master of a town.
Or go back to the sect to retire, and then hang back to the outer deacon.
But if you can hang up to the position of the city lord of Qi City before you are 100 years old.
Then he doesn't have to return to the sect, but can work until he is two hundred and eighty years old, just like the previous city lord.
To be the 'Emperor' for nearly 200 years! ’
Thinking of this, Zhang Feng felt that based on Senior Brother Feng's qualifications, he should be able to take office. will not disappoint the 100,000 people of Qicheng.
Senior Brother Feng was rubbing the teacup, nervous.
Because even if Zhang Feng promised to help him, this matter is not necessarily.
After all, he is the lord of a city.
It's not a one-man story.
Even if the sect master has a candidate, several elders have to discuss it together.
"I'll ask.."
In a quiet atmosphere, Zhang Feng suddenly put down the teacup.
Senior Brother Feng then stood up, and hurriedly hugged his fists and thanked him, "Thank you Zhang Daoyou, thank you Zhang Daoyou."
Zhang Feng waved his hand, "This is not necessarily. ”
The words fell.
Zhang Feng knew that this matter was likely to be finalized quickly, so he took his leave and walked towards the steward's hall.
One step of more than twenty zhang, and it disappeared from Senior Brother Feng's field of vision in a short time.
Also on the other side.
Inside the main hall of the mountain in the steward's hall.
The elder steward, who looked to be about seventy years old, was reading the self-recommendation letters of applying for the city lord of Qi City one by one.
Outside the hall, there were still twenty-eight law enforcement disciples.
They looked ahead and stopped anyone who wanted to enter the temple.
And in these three days, they have driven out no less than twenty disciples.
Among them was the third son of the law enforcement elder.
He also wanted to speak for a person, but he was ruthlessly driven out.
But also at this time.
Zhang Feng walked down the mountain, more than 20 zhang in one step, and came to the outside of the hall in a short time.
"I've met a few fellow Daoists." Zhang Feng saw that there were people on duty outside the hall, so he hugged his fists before entering the hall.
"See Zhang Daoyou." They smiled at Zhang Feng and saluted back, and when Zhang Feng entered the hall, they still looked ahead, blocking anyone who wanted to enter the hall.
After Zhang Feng entered the hall, he looked at the elder steward.
When he put down the letter in his heart, Zhang Feng spoke: "There is something to trouble the elder in charge." ”
I had talked to the Elder Steward and knew that he was a kind man.
He is also a person who does not beat around the bush when he speaks.
So to say anything, direct is best.
"Oh?" When the elder saw Zhang Feng, he was leading the seat next to him, and said curiously: "What is the matter that Zhang Daoyou came over in person?" ”
"Has the City Lord of Qi City decided?" Zhang Feng went straight to the point, "I have a candidate, Feng Guangyan, I wonder if the elder has seen his self-recommendation, and I wonder if he can take office?" ”
"Feng Guangyan of the inner gate?" The elder muttered, suddenly laughed, and took out the third-to-last letter from the more than twenty letters on the table that were 'Preparing for the City Master Selection', and Senior Brother Feng's self-recommendation, "This person's qualifications are acceptable, and I and the sect master have this intention."
The elder said, it was clear that after Zhang Feng opened his mouth, the matter was fully decided.
In addition, Feng Guangyan's ability is really good, so he might as well sell Zhang Feng to save face.
Sometimes things are just that, it's simple.
For Senior Brother Feng, no matter how much he tried to liven up, in the end, he broke his leg in the relationship, and after begging someone, there was no result.
Zhang Feng decided on such a string of doors.
There are also people in the court who are good officials.
For those of high status, appointing a city lord is a matter of words, or a little thing.
In other words, in the sect, there may not be a Tianjiao like Zhang Feng in a city.
But such a Tianjiao can definitely win one city, a hundred cities, and even the entire Fengzhou.
When Zhang Feng saw that the matter was done, he did not hinder the elders' government affairs, and got up to say goodbye.
The elder then got up, sent Zhang Feng outside the hall, and said with a smile: "Don't delay Zhang Daoyou's cultivation." Next time, if there are these trivial things, Zhang Daoyou doesn't have to come over in person, just find a disciple to pass on to me. Don't, don't, don't delay Zhang Daoyou's practice. ”
"Thank you, Elder." Zhang Feng hugged his fists and thanked him.
"Eh~ Zhang Daoyou, what's so polite about this?" The elder waved his hand, a city, a small thing.
"Zhang Daoyou.." When the law enforcement disciples saw Zhang Feng leaving, they also said goodbye with a smile.
Zhang Feng returned the salute one by one, said goodbye, and prepared to go back to his own peak, explaining to Senior Brother Feng that it was done.
Wait for a leisurely return.
Zhang Feng returned to the bottom of the mountain from the south, and when he looked sideways at Senior Brother Feng, who was looking at the mountain peak in the west, he also called, "Senior Brother Feng." ”
After he turned around anxiously in search of the voice.
Zhang Feng climbed the mountain peak, and directly smiled and hugged his fists and said, "Now you should call the city lord Feng." ”
"Zhang Daoyou is saying..?" Senior Brother Feng's face was excited, and he suddenly changed to a big gift, wanting to bow down.
Zhang Feng stepped forward, put his arm on his shoulder, and didn't let him bow down, "It's just a trivial matter, and it doesn't deserve a big gift from Senior Brother Feng." ”
After the words fell, Zhang Feng waved his hand and walked towards the stone table of the mountain peak.
Senior Brother Feng shook his head and looked at Zhang Feng's back as he went to the stone table, "Zhang Daoyou really helped me with great kindness!" I.."
"It's supposed to be a complement to each other." Zhang Feng walked to the table and made tea, "Senior Brother Feng is not far away, flying across the white clouds and taking me into the sect. I walked ten miles to the peak today to send Senior Brother Feng to the emperor of a thousand miles. ”
Zhang Feng turned around and picked up the teacup, and handed out a salute in the air, "Such kindness, it should be so, friendship should be like this, you and I are so kind, why do you need to be polite?" ”