Chapter Forty-Eight: The City of Dusk (Second Update, Asking for Votes)
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Haiyang City is a small city, and the city walls are not high or short, and the overall appearance is ordinary. But the walls are very new, not only the walls, but everything in the city is new. After all, every few years it has to be breached and razed to the ground. If you build it again, you can't build it new.
There were more than 100,000 people in the city, all of whom were criminals and the families of convicts. Coupled with the remoteness of the city, few merchants are willing to come to the city to sell anything.
Without merchant travelers, it will naturally not be prosperous. The front of the city gate was sparsely deserted, with only a few guards guarding the town, listless.
"Tick, tick. β
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came from afar, and the guards were shaken and immediately looked north.
I saw a team in front of me slowly coming. When the guards saw this team, they immediately felt extremely dazzling.
Because this team not only has guards wearing armor and sitting on tall wildebeests, but also has an incomparably gorgeous frame, which makes people know at a glance that they are either rich or expensive.
At the same time, the guard also knew that the person he was waiting for had arrived, so he quietly sent a guard to turn around and go to the county office.
The team that the guards saw was naturally the frame of the crown prince who came from afar. After traveling thousands of miles, trekking through mountains and rivers, it is finally time to reach the sea dusk.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the city of sea dusk has arrived. At the front of the team, Hua Ping looked up at the gate of Haidusk not far away, reached out and patted the head of the sharp-horned tiger under his crotch, reduced his speed, came to the side of the frame, and whispered to Zhou Jian in the frame.
In the frame, Zhou Jian was closing his eyes to recuperate, and Zhao Feng'er was cultivating Tuna. After hearing Hanahei's voice, the two of them opened their eyes in unison.
"Hmm. β
Zhou Jian answered, lifted the curtain and walked out. Before I could see the castle, there was a salty smell coming to my nose, which was the smell of the sea.
This made Zhou Jian, who lived in the north all the year round, a little uncomfortable, and frowned.
"Whew. After exhaling a few breaths, Zhou Jian got used to it a little, and then looked up at Haidu.
Nice, brand new city. This is his vassal state. The moment he saw the sea dusk, a feeling of affection sprouted in Zhou Jian's heart. Without him, because this city is the starting point of the road he is going to take.
I felt something, a heart to compete for the world, and the momentum brought by it suddenly emanated from Zhou Jian's body.
In the carriage, Zhao Fenger did not go out with Zhou Jian. Instead, he sat on his knees, supporting his white chin with one hand, and a pair of wonderful eyes looked at Zhou Jian's back carefully, feeling that Brother Jian at this moment had suddenly become a lot more arrogant.
As he spoke, the team came to the city gate, and the guards naturally did not dare to stop it, allowing the team to enter the city.
Zhou Jian also went back to the car, knelt down, and began to ponder. The information about the general direction of the sea dusk city, about the strangeness of the monster beast attacking the city, about the danger. Zhao Feng'er told him that he also had information on the subtleties of nature.
For example, Zhou Jian knew that the county order in the city was called Wei Xiang, and the garrison captain was called Xu He. The two of them are one writer and one martial arts, and they jointly control the sea sunset.
In addition, because of the geographical advantage, Haiyang has a large number of scattered cultivators, hunting monsters and materials near the sea. The trade of ordinary people in the city is very deserted, but the trade between monks is very popular.
In the same way, because of the entanglement of scattered cultivation, large and small organizations and small sects have been formed.
Scattered cultivation or something, Zhou Jian has no plans to care about it for the time being. The key is this county order, as well as the garrison captain.
Since he wants to control Haidu, he must win over these two people, and if he can't win them over, he will get rid of them. Of course, Zhou Jian still wants to win over, after all, people are local snakes, and there are benefits.
As a result, Zhou Jian's mind couldn't help but have the information of these two people. The Zhou Dynasty was a completely different dynasty from what he remembered.
This is a monk's paradise, even if you are an official, you are a monk. Just like the hussar generals in the court, Deng Mad and Ming Yuan were all monks in the foundation building period, and they were powerful.
And the standard for selecting officials in the Zhou Dynasty is also the level of cultivation. For casual cultivation, it is unlikely that he will devote himself to the Xianmen, because the Xianmen is focused on inheritance. I will not accept disciples who will bring art investment teachers at will. The government is different, it can be said that it is a wide open door.
In order to be blessed, some casual cultivators are willing to enter the government. Anyway, that's how the Zhou Dynasty chooses officials.
After the selection of officials, they can decide for themselves whether they want to be civil officials or military officials. However, once decided, he will be a civilian official or military attache for the rest of his life. We can no longer cross the hurdle of civil and military affairs.
This way of selecting officials is ridiculous in Zhou Jian's opinion. Being a military attache may be related to the level of cultivation, but what is important about being a civil official is the ability and wisdom to deal with things. It's really child's play to judge by the level of cultivation in this way.
However, this method of selecting officials does exist. According to the information Zhou Jian received from Zhao Feng'er, this Wei Xiang and Xu He each had the cultivation of the tenth layer of the Qi training period, and it was through this way of selecting officials that they became civil and military officials. And came to the place of Haidu.
Haidu, every few years, it has to be attacked by demon beasts, and it is really a place that can't be rotten anymore. For Wei Xiang and Xu He, serving in this place is estimated to be very breathless.
If he promises benefits, I'm afraid he will be able to win over one or two. Zhou Jian thought in his heart.
The buildings in the city are not only new, but also patchwork. The two civil and military yamen, the county order yamen, and the garrison school lieutenant yamen, are located in the center of the city.
The county government is also very new, with a vermilion gate and a white marble staircase.
At this moment, the gate of the county government was open, and there was a row of officials standing outside the door, and the officials looked up to the east from time to time, waiting for the nobles they were going to greet.
Contrary to the situation in front of the county office, there were two people sitting in the hall of the county office, their expressions were a little gloomy, and the atmosphere was dull, not like the atmosphere of welcoming people.
One of them was a middle-aged man, dressed in an official uniform, kneeling at the top of the list, it was Wei Xiang, the commander of Haiyang County.
The other person was burly, dressed in armor, sitting below, this person was Xu He, the captain of the Haiyang County garrison.
The information of these two people Zhou Jian is indeed very detailed, but unlike Zhou Jian's thoughts, these two people do not welcome Zhou Jian to reach Haidu.
They have been entrenched in the city for a long time, and they have just been planning big things recently. Zhou Jian's arrival may affect their major events.
"This Haidun City has always been the corner of the Great Zhou Kingdom, even the Qingsong Mansion has forgotten about Haidu, why did the imperial court suddenly send the crown prince over. β
Xu He frowned deeply and wondered.
"I've heard of the crown prince, I heard that he has been out of favor for a long time, and this time he came to Haidu, I'm afraid there is some conspiracy. β
Wei Xiang also frowned and sighed.
"Did you obstruct our plan?" Xu He said with narrowed eyes, the killing machine flashed away, but he was bold and planned to get rid of the crown prince of the dynasty.
"Don't mess around, it's also the crown prince anyway. We can't kill them at will, otherwise the three sects will be furious, and even if we take refuge in the background, it will be difficult to parry. β
Wei Xiang's heart jumped when he saw this, and hurriedly stopped.
"This official is really a bird, taking care of this and that. served in Haidu, and he poured eight lifetimes of mold. But luckily, we have a good backer this time. If this big thing is done. What the crown prince, what the three sects, we don't have to be afraid anymore. Although Xu He became a military attachΓ©, he was still very arrogant and indignant.
However, the meaning of his words is a little different, this time not only to seek great things, but also to take refuge in the backer.
"Exactly, as long as the big thing happens. We don't have to suffer from this bird's anger, we can hang up the crown and go away. β
Wei Xiang nodded approvingly, with a look of longing. Speaking of this major event, the eyes of the two of them were fiery, and they only felt that their chests were full of anger and their blood was boiling.
Little Zhou Jian was naturally left behind by them.