The office style of the government of Jiuyu is completely different from the earth, the office area of the entire Laishui Mansion is an open two-story courtyard, the front is a transparent glass wall, there is no wall in the middle, you can see everyone at a glance, the biggest advantage of this office method is that it is open and transparent, officials can see the work of their subordinates at any time, and the official's every move also allows everyone to see it, at least it can avoid a lot of favoritism and fraud on the surface, and it is easy to be found if you want to be lazy. [Ran^Text^Library] []

The lord of the mansion, Mian Kun, was sitting in the main hall on the second floor, with a large desk full of papers, and a subordinate was standing in front of him reporting something. Mian Kun belongs to the royal family direct officials, because Laishui Mansion has a developed brewing industry and trade, rich taxes, and plays a pivotal role in Jiuyu's economic status, so the royal family directly dispatches the lord of the mansion, which is equivalent to a municipality directly under the central government of China. Mian Kun has been in office in Laishui for less than a year, although his status is the highest level official in Laishui Mansion, but it is still in the stage of cultivating his own power; Laishui Mansion has three major real power figures, the lord of the house, the military governor and the director of the general department of the patrol city, the military governor is the supreme commander of the garrison, and does not participate in local government affairs, and the lord and the director of the government have always belonged to the two factions of the royal family, Hora Shan has been operating in Laishui for more than 10 years, is a deep-rooted tiger, the previous lord of the mansion was defeated by Hora Shan in the open and secret struggle, and he grabbed the handle and squeezed out of Laishui.

Since Mian Kun took office, he has been keeping his head in obscurity, maintaining harmony with the City Patrol Division on the surface, and only slowly cultivating his own power in secret, and Huo Lashan has not shown excessive rampant, all power struggles are suppressed in the dark, and the two sides are at peace on the surface.

Seeing Qi Xiaoyang coming down from the back of the turtle and horse with two large jars of wine, Mian Kun's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart that this kid has a lot of strength. Mrs. Kua is tall and powerful, and it is normal for an adult man to pick a burden of about 200 catties, but Qi Xiaoyang looks like a teenager, and he looks easy to carry more than 200 catties, which is impressive. Mian Kun motioned for the reporting staff to stop, got up and walked into the courtyard.

"Little one, put things down first. You don't have a lot of strength, how old are you, where do you live?" Mian Kun beckoned Qi Xiaoyang to put down his burden and asked kindly.

Qi Xiaoyang sensed that the middle-aged official with a pink face and black beard in front of him was a spirit refiner with a consummation of the spirit level, and his realm should be similar to that of Huo Lashan of the City Patrol Division, but he was much kinder to people, and when he heard the young man who brought him over introduce that this was the mansion master, he hurriedly put the burden on the edge of the steps, stroked his chest with one hand and saluted: "I have seen Lord Mian, I am ten years old, I have been wandering outside since I was a child, and I can't remember where my home is. ”

Mian Kun exclaimed: "It turned out to be an orphan!

"This is when I was wandering, an old man taught me the technique, and I made it myself. Qi Xiaoyang casually made up a lie, and he didn't dare to reveal his identity easily.

Mian Kun stretched out his thumb and said: "Good technology! Look at you are still so young, winemaking is a hard job, are you willing to go to Laiwang to be a master, and you don't need to do it yourself, the conditions, you can mention, I will try to satisfy you." ”

Qi Xiaoyang shook his head and replied: "Thank you for your kindness, but the old man who taught me said that this technology is not allowed for me to pass on, and this brewing method cannot be mass-produced, so please understand!"

Mian Kun nodded in disappointment and said: "Since this is the case, I don't embarrass you, you try to brew as much as possible in the future, send me half of each batch of wine, and I will give you a jar of 1,000 gold at the price, you can also come to me if you have any problems, how about it?"

Qi Xiaoyang's heart became lively, and he was worried that he had no backer in Laishui, if the lord of the mansion could take care of one or two, he would be able to save a lot of trouble in the future, so he hurriedly responded: "No problem, I can send two altars a month, and the price is only five hundred gold, I just want to ask the lord of the mansion for a favor, I don't know if it will work?"

Mian Kun smiled: "You kid has seen a lot of opportunities, say, what do you want me to help with?"

"I want to enter the Laishui Martial Arts School, can you say hello to them?" Qi Xiaoyang took the opportunity to make a request.

Mian Kun waved his hand and laughed: "Hahahaha, silly boy, I thought it was something, where do I need my help, just rely on your good strength, it is no problem to enter the wrestler class through the formal selection, and when the time comes, they will rush to ask for you, I don't know how your soul power is, if you can reach the second level or above qualification, it will be easy to enter the elite class." ”

Qi Xiaoyang was puzzled: "Is there such a difference between the wrestler class and the martial arts school?"

Mian Kunqi said: "Why don't you even know this? In this way, you go to pay for the wine first, I don't take advantage of your children, and I will give you the price of 1,000 gold, and I will find someone to introduce you to the martial arts school." After that, he turned around and left.

Qi Xiaoyang followed the person who brought him to get the two thousand gin money, and only then did he know in his heart that this crown lord and Hora Shan were indeed two people. At this time, another official wearing an official uniform came over and took Qi Xiaoyang to the reception area to sit down, this person was the director of the Department of Education in Laishui, and explained in detail to Qi Xiaoyang the education system of Jiuyu Country according to Mian Kun's instructions.

It turns out that not only the Nine Feathers, but the entire Quafstar is a martial world, and seventy percent of the officials are served by samurai, so every state, government, and county has an official-run martial arts school, and the samurai are divided into wrestlers and soul warriors, and the wrestlers are mainly based on cultivating physical strength, mainly people with good physical qualifications and poor soul qualifications, and soul warriors major in soul power, which is what is said on the earth as mental power, and there are many soul power and physical strength at the same time, although physical strength is subject to soul power, but in the case of similar soul power, the side with physical strength advantage is the winner. Lux and soul warriors are divided into nine stars, due to the limitation of talent, ninety percent of the samurai are physical strength, can only serve as soldiers or low-level officers, local petty officials, and soul warriors can be over-the-top to control the wrestlers at the low level, and the advantage of entering the middle and advanced stages above four stars is greater, and a four-star soul warrior can make a seven-star high-level wrestler have no power to resist, so the middle and senior officials in the army and local places are filled by soul warriors.

Laishui is the direct jurisdiction of the Jiuyu royal family, so the level of the martial arts school is the same as that of the martial arts schools in the major states, but the scale is much smaller, the Lux class is ten, the quota is five hundred, the soul class, the quota is fifty, the elite class is one, the quota is fifteen; 。

What made Qi Xiaoyang strange was that the director of the Department of Governance didn't mention spirit refining, and he didn't know if it was because there was no such concept in Jiuyu's system, or because of other reasons, he was afraid that there was something taboo in it, Qi Xiaoyang couldn't help but ask this question.

When he came to the Ninth School, when Qi Xiaoyang saw Teacher Vasai again, he already had some disgust with this person, because according to the conditions he showed, there was no obstacle to entering the martial arts school's wrestler class, but when Teacher Huixin brought him to the preparatory class, this person pretended to make a gesture, obviously to let Huixin lead him to a favor, this hypocritical behavior made Qi Xiaoyang very annoying, and he was going to give him two tubes of feather wine, but he also put it in the wine jar and no longer took it out.

After two rest days, Qi Xiaoyang filled the two cellars with grain, and the day of the trial competition also arrived. The selection competition is carried out in the big martial arts field of Laishui Mansion, this day the martial arts arena is crowded with people, lively and extraordinary, tens of thousands of people come, of course, most of them are people who watch the excitement and the parents of students, the seven counties under Laishui Mansion plus the nine literary schools in the city, a total of more than 4,000 students compete for 565 places.

The wide martial arts arena is divided into three competition areas, and physical strength, agility and soul power are grouped separately, and there are only five hundred left in this round, that is, those who can enter the Laishui Martial Arts School, and it is estimated that there are still sixty-five places left by the school for internal control. Qi Xiaoyang's first two items are naturally excellent and easy to pass, but the soul power level is a mess, he originally thought that the soul power test is still the kind of box with feathers, he plans to use the spirit yuan to cheat, so that the feathers move is pediatrics, who knows that the test equipment is much more advanced, it is more than two meters long with a strip made of metal, and the grooves on it are inlaid with nine jade-like objects of different colors, corresponding to nine sections of soul power, when the test person enters soul power into the test hole of the metal platform, it will emit corresponding light according to the strength of the soul power。

Most of the students who participated in the competition failed in the soul power test, and Qi Xiaoyang's group had a total of fifty people, only one of them had a second-stage qualification of soul power that glowed yellow, and a first-stage qualification that glowed white, and no one else could get any light. When it was Qi Xiaoyang's turn, he didn't know the luminous principle of this thing at all, so naturally he couldn't cheat, and elimination was inevitable.

However, this test is not without gain, when Qi Xiaoyang entered his soul power, although the jade rod that showed a qualification did not emit white light, but a faint gray-white halo appeared, although such a qualification did not enter the examiner's eyes, Qi Xiaoyang himself did not see it that way, it turned out that he didn't even have a single star of soul power!