The Great Xia Dynasty had many ancient surnames, the oldest of which can even be traced back to three thousand years ago.

These surnames were undoubtedly very noble in the land of Great Xia, and in addition to the surnames of the twenty-two priests, they also included the surname Jiang of the previous dynasty, the surname Xia of the current state of Great Xia, and the surname Wei of the lord of Hedong County.

These ancient surnames have evolved over the years into many other surnames. For example, the surname Wei evolved into the surnames Wei and Wei.

Therefore, Wei Heng, the lord of the Kawashita County, and Wei Chen, the lord of Hedong County, are actually descendants of the same ancestor.

Since Wei was a prominent lord of the previous dynasty, he was naturally not like his distant relative Wei, who had never ignored the Wen family before, and only used the Wen family's brains when he had something to ask for. Hedong Junguo has always had a good relationship with the Wen family, and there will be a large number of gifts to the Wen Temple every year.

Because the Wei family has been a prominent lord since ancient times, has a good relationship with the Wenshen family, and is relatively orthodox in thought, the Wei family in Hedong County only has its own family temple, which worships its own ancestors, not the so-called family gods.

In the eyes of the Wei family, the behavior of the Wei family who privately respects their ancestors as gods is a typical nouveau riche behavior, and they are very disrespectful to the gods, so the relationship between the Wei family and the Wei family has always been bad.

But half a year ago, the old lord of Xiachuan actually used his territory to dedicate himself to worship the young priest of the Wen family as a master, but it made him depressed.

Priests, the descendants of these gods are much more noble than other surnames, and they are the most powerful extraordinary people, except for their own family members, there are almost no outsiders who can learn these psychic arts.

This made him how willing, and the situation he was currently facing at home made him even more annoying.

The conflict in the family is about his two sons, the eldest of whom is gentle but weak. The youngest son is intelligent, very clever, and very popular among his retainers. This made many retainers prefer to turn their backs on the practice of hereditary primiture, and support the succession of younger sons.

The lord of the country himself must be unhappy, the two sons are his bloodline, let the younger son inherit the family business, what about the eldest son?

But if the eldest son succeeds in his career, the younger son has nowhere to go. So he was very entangled in the matter.

Until now.

"Are you saying that Priest Wen is going to accept disciples again?"

The messenger of the Wen family nodded solemnly.

"Yes, the lord said that he would treat the surrounding princes equally, so he decided to accept a few more disciples, and now the head of the family is already a fifth-order priest."

"Fifth Order! God, isn't that the highest rank among the priests of Great Xia? ”

"It should be."

"Thank you very much for informing me."

Wei Chen then instructed the retainers standing below.

"Fetch me some carriage fares for the messenger, and send off the guests for me."

"Then I will take my leave." The envoy bowed and bowed, and was accompanied by the Wei retainers on the side and left.

After Wei Chen sent the envoy away from his retainers, he turned his head to look at his family elder and asked.

"What do you think about this matter?"

"Rare opportunity, Lord, isn't this just the right solution to your troubles, and asking your little highness to go down to learn the priesthood is a good thing that kills three birds with one stone!" ”

Wei Chen felt the same way.

"That's right, it not only solves the dispute between the next head of the family, but also ensures Wu'er's future, and can also make our Wei family a priest! It couldn't have been better. There is also a fourth, I don't know if you can see it? ”

"You mean the territory that borders the three counties?"

"That's right! , and gave the whole piece of land to the Wen family. Have you seen that the Wen family obviously wants to have a plan, otherwise what would they want the land for? This is not just right now, give it to the Wen family so quickly, and we will lose two restless strong neighbors. ”

"Although we in Hedong are the smallest counties in our territory, only 510,000 square kilometers, we have a large population. Therefore, handing over that 8,400 square kilometers of land, along with the 14,000 households above, to the Wen family is not a big loss for us. ”

Hedong County is located in the southeast of the Wen family, and the land to the north is a narrow strip of land, which encloses the Wen family in the middle along with Kawashita-gun, but is surrounded by Kawashi-gun, Hanyang-gun, and Hanyin-gun to the northeast corner of Hedong County.

And the lords of Hanyang County and Hanyin County are all lords with a strong desire for aggression in their bones, and they are all members of the twelve princes of the Great Prince, so the old Wei family is naturally unwilling to be neighbors with such a lord.

Therefore, if this land is dedicated to the Wen family, these two counties will be directly crossed out from the list of neighbors of the old Wei family.

On the afternoon of the sixth day, the elder of the Wei family, accompanied by the Second Highness of Hedong County, brought Wei Chen's handwritten letter to the Wen family's mansion to meet Wen Jiming.

When Wei Chen's letter was presented, Wen Jiming was directly stunned by the old Wei family's cake!

Although Wen Jiming could see Wei Chen's careful thinking, this was more than 8,000 square kilometers of land after all, which was the size of two Chistanpur territories. Not to mention the fact that there are 14,000 households on it. These people are real.

When Wen Jiming finished reading the letter from the lord of Hedong, he raised his head and looked at Wei Wu, the second son of the old Wei family, the child is not yet ten years old, very smart, and his appearance is also very handsome. Wen Jiming said kindly to the old man of the Wei family who accompanied him.

"We're going to have a mentoring ceremony tomorrow, and I'm very satisfied. The elder of the Wei family, please take your Royal Highness first, go down and rest, it's hard work. ”

After they left, Aristock, who was watching from the sidelines, directly affirmed.

"The kid is very qualified, and you can see from his eyes that he is very smart. I can teach him some puppetry, puppetry, and puppetry. He's well suited to learn that. ”

Oh, this is a promising little researcher? Wen Jiming became even more satisfied after listening to Aristock's words.

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It's June, and summer is coming.

The climate of the Five Counties is similar to that of Sichuan and Hubei in China, and most of the land here is cultivated with wheat and barley.

Since he caught up with the summer harvest just a few days after getting the territory, all the Wenfu personnel, including Wen Jiming, were very busy during this time.

Since the arrival of Wen Jiming's second disciple Wei Wu last month, so far, the other three princes have not shown the intention of letting their children be Wen Jiming's disciples, which has disappointed Wen Jiming. I don't know if they don't care at all, or if the contribution of more than 8,000 square kilometers of the old Wei family scared them.

Wei Wu himself is just like Aristock said, this child who is less than ten years old is very smart, and diligent and studious, he has actually started in half a month, and now there is a small white mark on his forehead.

As for Wei Wu's senior brother Lao Wei Heng, he also came a few days ago to learn new secrets from Wen Jiming.

At the beginning, Wen Jiming could still spend an hour a day teaching these two disciples, but as soon as Xia Harvest began, he no longer had time to teach the two of them.

When Aristock found out that the two had nothing to do all day, he simply asked them to help him build the water-powered mill before the summer harvest was completed.

The Great Sword Master also trained the samurai of the Bunfu in military formations and two-handed weapons on a daily basis.

Everyone's life was tense and busy, until one day, the elder of the Wei family came to Wen Jiming's territory again, and with him came an unexpected guest, a secret envoy sent by the Eighth Prince of Great Xia.