Chapter 202: The Loave is the Ladder of Human Progress
Huo Yuhao just pinched the list in one hand and the teacup in the other, and looked at Jing Hongchen with fixed eyes.
"If you want to ask, there are more channels to know, and millions of people can't hide secrets."
Hearing this, Jing Hongchen's hand couldn't help but rub the teacup, not to mention anything else, just those students in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy who had their own backgrounds were already a huge source of high-level information.
Tsk, this is really a lot of ideas as soon as people grow up, and they can't control it.
Thinking about it, Jing Hongchen couldn't help but laugh to himself.
Huo Yuhao frowned: "Why is the hall master laughing?" β
Jing Hongchen put the teacup back on the coffee table, stretched out his hand and pointed at Huo Yuhao and nodded.
"I laugh at you for eating radishes salty and worrying about it, you don't care too much, you think a lot."
"Don't say it's you, even if it's me, at most I only have a part of the right to know and less of the right to speak in this kind of matter, and I don't have the right to veto whether I am dragged into the water by the prince and those bastards, after all, Mingdetang can only serve as a production department in this kind of matter. I can only sit and watch, can you still stand up and stand in their way? β
Huo Yuhao let out a long sigh when he heard this, and couldn't help but shake his head.
It's not bad, his current right to speak essentially comes from Jing Hongchen and even Kong Deming's attention and expectations, although it seems that the future is promising, but the potential is far from being realized into strength, he can't use the promissory note as cash, and others won't recognize it.
Being promoted and cultivated in a fixed system can certainly enjoy the benefits of "early harvest treatment", but when the leader himself has nothing to do, he will naturally be blind.
"A husband can't be without power for a day......" Looking at Huo Yuhao's acquiescence, Jing Hongchen said with an expression of "I know I have hit a wall now", and said with a smile.
"Most people are involved in power, which is generally divided into top-down and bottom-up. The former refers to those whose power comes from the distribution and appointment of superiors, and is basically abolished when they leave the title, and most of them are officials who have no foundation in the court. β
"And the latter from the bottom up...... They generally have their own base and supporters, and they have their own foundations. Even if those honors, titles, and positions are taken away, they have the ability to make a comeback soon. β
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, knocked down the teacup and asked, "The latter, like you?" Because although the attack on Mingdetang deprived you of your title of duke, it had no effect on you at all. As long as you are alive, who will be the leader of the Mingde Hall and the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Master Academy? β
Jing Hongchen said with a smile: "Not bad! β
Huo Yuhao: ......
I'm just flattering you, how can you take it seriously?
The Duke's title doesn't affect you because your power and status don't come from that title in the first place!
When Xu Tianran took up your hall master and dean positions and sent them to Heaven Dou City for retirement, I didn't see any researchers bring their own dry food and continue to follow you!
Could it be that you really think that the researchers worship you because you are very charismatic?
Puxin man, really down.
After all, human beings are social animals, and no one can be completely exempt from the influence of the "division of social positions", but there is a certain difference in degree.
On the Douluo Continent, that is, the degree of influence of cultivation and position on individuals is different, and Jing Hongchen's own status is very dependent on the "resource allocation authority granted by the organization", which is the key that really distinguishes him from ordinary ninth-level soul masters.
There are generally two kinds of people who don't care subjectively and don't rely on their positions objectively: Kong Deming, Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao and Moon En are uncrowned kings who have reached the extreme in a certain field and are willing to be followed by countless people without official recognition.
and the casual cultivation that never relied on the resources of the organization to climb the ice and lie in the snow all the way up...... Uh, or Wild Soul Master.
"Yuhao, I say this, do you understand your current situation? Essentially, you are a valued member of the Centennial Church...... It is impossible to surpass me in the right to speak, in fact, it is far from Xuan Ziwen, which is the inevitable trouble of undertaking from top to bottom. β
Jing Hongchen said unhurriedly, Huo Yuhao nodded silently, but then sighed softly:
"But the transition to a bottom-up ...... with strong roots Tsk, either one's ability to reach the level of a ninth-level soul master can have a full right to speak, or one must have the ability to open up a new and important field on his own, which is all slowly honed out by time and luck. β
Jing Hongchen refilled the teacup, shook his head and said:
"But you're different, Elder Kong and I expect you to not only challenge the youngest ninth-level soul master, but also become someone who has the ability to open up a new path and have other basic disks independent of Mingde Hall...... It's a pity that the kind of person who started a sect and established a sect, otherwise he would just go through my old path again. β
"Back then, Kong Lao didn't pay as much attention to me as you did, so my expectations for you are by no means limited to my current level."
"Even if you didn't understand our minds before, after today's situation where you are unable to do anything despite opposition, you should know that you are in a hurry, right?"
"Luckily, you're on a much better track record than we had expected at the beginning, and even now give us hope of being able to start our own business."
Huo Yuhao pondered for a moment, tilted his head and asked, "You mean the soul thing?" β
"Yes, although it is inseparable from Emperor Tian's guidance and the inspiration he took the opportunity to get from Shrek, this kind of luck is enviable, but the fact is that this thing was really made by you, and in the final analysis, it is also thanks to your own strength. You know the potential of its future, and it may even be more important than Mingdetang and Shrek combined. β
Huo Yuhao: "Falsely praised...... Forget it, in fact, I also think this thing does have the potential to change the world. β
What do you mean by the soul......
No strength, it's all luck.
He doesn't understand the fantasy side of undead magic, all he can do is put forward the relevant ideas in advance, and the back is all Yi Laodai.
From a conscience point of view, it is suspected that some students are suspected of academic misconduct by snatching their supervisors' papers......
Jing Hongchen picked up the teacup again, took a sip, and said with emotion: "These things they have done...... It doesn't seem to be any harm to the empire, and maybe it can expand its territory. You can also see from the prince's attitude today that His Majesty has no objection. β
And Kong Lao ...... Unless some resolution seemed to be clearly detrimental to the interests of the royal family, he would not be quick to express his opinion. β
Huo Yuhao nodded, since even Jing Hongchen said that he was powerless, what else could he do except accept the reality, he would not be incompetent and angry, and the boomerang did not hit his head for the time being......
"Work hard to run your business, if every soul master uses souls in the future, then your right to speak is not even worse than that of Kong Lao, just like his old man, one sentence is ten thousand!"
"If you are not satisfied with today's situation, then try to make Xu Tianran not listen to you in the future!" Jing Hongchen skillfully continued to draw cakes.
Huo Yuhao nodded with a "sigh", for a person like Xu Tianran, if he wants him to respect your opinion, what should you do?
Either you have the ability to smash the jobs of countless people, or there are countless people who follow you to beg for food.
"I know, when I start a business in the future, I can go out and work alone...... At that time, Xiao Hongchen will be able to vacate a pit space to take over Mingdetang. Huo Yuhao took a sip of tea and squinted his eyes and teased.
The muscles on Jing Hongchen's face couldn't help but tense, and when he saw Huo Yuhao's eyes without the slightest seriousness, he scolded with a "cut" voice: "What nonsense, can I still send him a bowl of rice to eat?" β
Huo Yuhao put down the teacup gently, he actually didn't care so much about whether he could take over the leadership of Mingdetang, at most he cared a little about the distribution of property......
In the long run, the vitality of institutions such as the Spirit Tower is indeed much stronger than that of the Mingde Hall, which is a monopoly institution in the true sense; And what you need to watch out for is that maybe you accidentally start a business, and you will collapse in the middle of the road, be taken away, beheaded, marry a daughter, and accept as a dog.
Tsk, whether it is taking the route of personal force or the route of millions of workers, the saying that a husband cannot be without power for a day is not wrong, seeing that Xu Tianran is engaged in a shocking plan comparable to the god king's 10,000-year plan in front of him, but there is no room for protest, and he can only be a member of Mingdetang, and he knows that it is a pit and has to jump in, which makes Huo Yuhao very irritable.
Of course, the phrase "a husband should not be without power for a day" is sometimes used in conjunction with other proverbs, such as ......
"Why is the big husband without a wife!"
"A good man starts a business first and then starts a family!"
In the surrounding royal palace with five steps, one sentry and ten steps and one post, Xu Tianran laughed heartily and patted the arm of the young man in front of him with a worried face.
This is one of the important people who smuggled from the western Xinjiang with a group of big people, and his identity is the only son of a certain high-ranking general.
When Xu Tianran asked him what concerns he had in the Heavenly Soul Empire and personally helped him solve them, this old man proposed to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that he had a ...... Doll parent, the kind that played from childhood to adulthood, and later his person was taken to Tiandou City as the original branch of the royal family, waiting for the two to get married when they reached their age.
If the current situation continues, once there is chaos in Western Xinjiang, as a rebellious minister and thief, this family business will definitely be blown up, even if there is a chance to explain that his whole family was forced in the future, it is useless, which emperor will forgive the rebellious party for this reason...... Maybe the two will be separated forever.
In the face of this old man's request to bring his fiancΓ©e back from Heaven Dou City before making big news, His Royal Highness Nature's answer was...... "Why don't you have a wife?"
Xu Tianran's expression was quite natural and generous, looking at the originally ruddy face in front of him who was a little pale under the light, Xu Tianran generously promised:
"Neither the Empire nor the Imperial Palace will treat those who help us do our best! Not to mention a distant branch of the imperial family, as long as you obey the instructions given to you by the empire, and when you capture Heaven Dou City in the future, even the county lord of the Heavenly Soul Empire can be the master and allow you two to be concubines! β
The pale-faced young man and the "representatives of the people's opinion" who had been arranged by the overnight petition some time ago looked at each other one by one.
Attack...... Capture Heaven Dou City?
Okay, no! Didn't the other day agree to complete the independent cause of Western Xinjiang and return the freedom and wealth of their whole family?
In the territory they have been operating for thousands of years, maybe they are not very frightened, but if they want to use their skulls to fight the regular army of the Heavenly Soul Empire...... That's really killing the whole family!
"Your Highness, I have no ambitions, I know how many catties and taels I have, I don't dare to expect the county lord or anything, I just want to wait for you to complete your great cause and go home to live a small life......"
Looking at the appearance of the young man in front of him for fear of offending him, Xu Tianran patted the other party's arm, and said with hatred:
"How is this going to work, how is this enough? You are comfortable living a small life in your life, but did your parents agree? In the future, when your children are born and look at the industry of their own generation that is not as good as the generation, will they not dislike you for being incompetent? Do you love her so much and don't plan to have children? β
"This palace has long said that those who serve this palace wholeheartedly will never be treated badly!"
This...... Is there any relationship between these two things?
The young man looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, but Xu Tianran clapped his hands, and then the woman in black standing beside him pulled out a scroll from her sleeve robe.
Many "representatives of public opinion" couldn't help but tremble when they saw the current actions of the woman who had not said a word before-this sister is a ruthless person, and when she visited her home in the middle of the night a few days ago, she could kill the Soul Emperor and even the Soul Saint like a chicken, so that people couldn't think of how to fight except for suicide.
It is a large, wide, unfolded scroll that takes up space on the entire conference table.
The woman in black stood aside after spreading out the scroll, and Xu Tianran looked at the people present and took off her mask, and the princely generals led by the Duke of Anxi waved her sleeves and said proudly:
"Your appeal, I have reported to my father, and the Ming capital has decided to make additional investments to support your righteous actions!"
"Your righteous deeds of resisting the exploitation of the Heavenly Soul Empire will surely go down in history, and today this palace will represent your father and the emperor to witness everyone form a blood alliance here and swear to achieve great deeds!"
Xu Tianran's voice fell, and the woman in black took out a set of pen and ink and ink from the storage ring.
"Please!"
Everyone present looked at Duke Anxi in unison, who made him the highest position here?
Xu Tianran couldn't help but force everyone to sign and press their handprints to show their loyalty, and this kind of work of being pulled into the water of course had to be played by him, the leader, to play a role in personal demonstration.
Duke Anxi's hair has turned half white in the past few days, and he has to dye his hair black before leaving, so that he can't see anything abnormal.
The Duke smiled bitterly, first scribbling his name on the scroll, then taking the ink and pressing his thumb deep into it.
Looking at Xu Tianran's very satisfied and encouraging look in his eyes, Duke Anxi gritted his teeth and asked, "Your Highness...... Let me have one thing to ask for. β
"Your Excellency, please speak."
"Can you meet the little girl in the next place...... Her child had never been so far away from home for so long, and my wife and I missed it so much. β
Xu Tianran looked at the woman in black beside him with a surprised face: "Deputy Sect Master, there is such a thing?" β
Feng Ling chuckled and arched his hand: "Your Highness doesn't know, the war is expected to be a disaster together, in order to reassure the duke, we will take his daughter to Mingdu to live temporarily to avoid accidents in the western Xinjiang." β
"When everyone's great cause is completed, it is natural to invite the duke's daughter to go home and reunite with her family."
"I see! Would it be convenient to invite her to meet with the Duke in two days, so that the Duke could be at ease? β
"The prince has an order, and he has no choice."
Xu Tianran smiled and nodded at Duke Anxi, who hurriedly pressed his handprint on the name of the scroll with joy, and kept chanting "Thank you, Prince".
With the Duke of Anxi taking the lead, the invited representatives of the public also completed the process of signing and sealing.
Although they still had great doubts in their hearts, wanting to see if the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Master Group was capable of supporting them, so as not to be suppressed by the Heavenly Soul Empire's army, it was obvious that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's anxious state did not allow them to hesitate repeatedly.
Anyway, they have all been brought to this ghost place, and it won't be long before the royal family will find out that the whereabouts of the guards they sent are unknown, and there is no turning back......
Looking at the scroll full of names and handprints, Xu Tianran was very satisfied and manipulated the wheelchair forward.
"In the future, everyone will be comrades-in-arms who share the glory and disgrace with wealth and wealth, and I hope that you will unite and make money!"
"Although the last wish of this palace is to send you a splash of wealth and prosperity, and return the people of Xijiang to peace and prosperity, but after all, the road ahead is difficult, and a name is needed to unite people's hearts before the founding of the country...... Well, this palace thinks it might as well be called the 'Free Western Xinjiang Movement' for the time being! β
Xu Tianran looked around, but at this time he fell into a somewhat embarrassing cold field, and before the public opinion representatives who reacted applauded desperately, Xu Tianran waved his hand with some interest.
"That's it, it's just a name that will be replaced in a short time, you just need to know it, you don't need to bother about it."
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In the mixed emotions of apprehension, anxiety, and even excitement among the representatives of public opinion in the Western Frontier, the Sun and Moon Empire's soul master group finally showed some skills on the second day.
Although the agenda of this day did not include field subjects, there were "defending the city" and "besieging the city" that the representatives of the public opinion were most concerned about.
Seeing that the human-shaped hard gelatin targets placed under the city wall turned into countless debris one after another under the baptism of various soul guide instruments to defend the city, the representatives of the people's opinion finally gained a little psychological comfort.
At least, at least, as long as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince keeps his promise and sends a fresh force to help them defend it, the defense of the city should be able to drag on for a while......
When it was the turn of the siege subject, the Sun and Moon Empire's soul master group set up a firing position on the flat ground not far from the audience, and constantly suppressed it with fire on the head of the city wall at a relative altitude of 80 meters and a height of 20 meters on the city wall.
The demonstration effect will naturally not be unexpected, the city wall is specially added to the interior during construction, not only the outer surface is easy to be blown up to avoid the embarrassment caused by drill mistakes, but the interior is filled with a variety of construction waste materials used to enhance the performance effect......
When a cloud of flying sand and rocks covered most of the city's head of the smoke spread, the military attachΓ©s of the three kingdoms looked very unsightly.
Anyone can defend the city, and they asked themselves that with all kinds of equipment prepared, the effect achieved was only better than that of the soul masters of the Sun and Moon Empire.
But when attacking the city, the distance between the firing position and the city wall cannot be faked, and they can also distinguish whether the basic skills of the fixed soul guide shell are to increase the range by reducing the charge.
In the siege exercise just now, the Sun and Moon Empire obviously used fixed-loading soul guide shells with normal charges, but the distance between their firing position and the head of the city with a relative height of 100 meters was quite worrying.
Their own family knows their own affairs, and they know the range of those defensive equipment in the capital of the Three Kingdoms, and the effective erection distance of the launch positions displayed by the Sun and Moon Empire today is quite close to the defensive range of their capital!
Who knows if these soul master groups still have hidden and unrevealed backs? Who would dare to bet?
It seems that the report to the country needs to be written with more content......
In the midst of the applause and cheers in the audience, Ning Tian held up the binoculars, and his face looked even more ugly than those military attachΓ©s.
The "hundred-meter-high city wall" has a special meaning in the Douluo Continent, and being able to effectively suppress the defenders of the city wall at this height basically means that "no city cannot be attacked".
There is nothing mysterious about the tactics of these soul master regiments, the infantry rushes forward and the artillery bombards, and the artillery bombards the infantry and rushes.
The problem is that when these two skills are honed to an extremely proficient level, with sufficient logistics, they are almost the existence of heavy swords without edge and great ingenuity in this era.
As long as the three kingdoms can come up with a superior number of custom-installed soul guide shells, they can easily counteract, but this is the most inexplicable fate, they have long been eaten and do not have the production capacity at all.
If you can't rely on the reciprocal countermeasures of the soul master group, you have to pin your hopes on the Title Douluo......
Ning Tian could see it very clearly, those soul masters had obviously gone through a simple ranging before firing the cannonballs at the head of the city, and then took out a ruler and tinkered with it, and then adjusted the knob of the base of the launcher, and the cannonballs fired out were almost empty.
The Nine Treasure Glazed Glass Sect didn't have such a strong desire to attack, but it was quite eager for defensive means that could be countered.
The huge wealth inherited for more than 10,000 years is not for people to be slaughtered as fat sheep. Before wealth grows, value preservation is the first priority.
After a day's drill, Ning Tian returned to his residence with the team with a heavy heart. She was lucky enough to be assigned a slightly remote private room.
After using the dinner that was delivered, and was thinking about how to summarize what he had seen and heard today and report it to his parents, Ning Tian, who was writing the case, heard a knock on the door behind him.
Walking to the door to untie the anti-theft door chain, Ning Tian, who found that the door was blank, just asked "which one" with hindsight, and felt a slight movement beside him.
The light changed quickly and strangely, and Huo Yuhao, who was wearing the uniform of a researcher in Mingdetang, appeared beside Ning Tian and said casually: "I"!
"How are you, how are you ......" Ning Tian's eyes widened, and he couldn't organize his language a little messily.
Huo Yuhao sat at the head of the bed without seeing anything out of the place, hugged his head and said, "What, I don't hide it, you really want to be found out that I, a member of the Mingde Hall, appeared at your door, and entered your room and didn't know what I was talking about?" β
"You're also a person who is in cahoots with me now, so you can't be so unvigilant, right?"
"Tsk, don't stare at me with the eyes of a bad guy, I will be invisible, didn't you see this thing last time in the arena?"
Seeing that Huo Yuhao sat down with a big grin without the slightest sense of the guest, and there were still words in his mouth, Ning Tian took a deep breath to calm down the somewhat elevated heart rate, and hurriedly locked the door again.
"Even if you look for me, you should look at the occasion! Don't you know what this place is? β
Huo Yuhao chuckled, didn't answer this question, and asked, "How did you look at those two subjects today?" β
"It feels average."
Huo Yuhao, who was quite sensitive to emotional changes under the blessing of spiritual power, could see that she was obviously lying casually, and still maintained a slightly underwhelming chuckle on her face:
"Want to either?"
Ning Tian, who had just sat back in the chair, was speechless, and then asked after a pause, "Do you want to ...... What do you want? β
Huo Yuhao pillowed his left hand behind his head, waved his right hand, and several pieces of military equipment that had been unveiled in the past two days emerged from the storage ring one after another, deliberately keeping a certain interval so that Ning Tian could see it clearly.
"Anything, the things that appear in this exercise, as long as you can accept the offer, Mingdetang dares to sell anything - don't think about things like ninth-level custom soul guide shells, we can't use that thing to blow up for people to see, and we only accept bulk purchases."
Ning Tian glanced at the various equipment on the ground a few times with burning eyes, and then looked at Huo Yuhao again, who had come uninvited.
"You shouldn't ask me about this kind of thing, I won't be in contact with follow-up business after establishing contact, this is discipline."
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but sneer.
Discipline? It's quite formal.
"Don't think about throwing it to others, it's because the thread that your Nine Treasure Liuli Sect originally connected people was broken that I had to talk to you directly. Do you think I'm willing to look for you personally? β
When Ning Tian heard this, his eyes immediately became a little more surprised and worried: "Broken? You swept our people in by clearing out the spies? β
Huo Yuhao shook his head: "No, the people on your side can't afford to play, and when you ask for something, you dare to open your mouth, but after listening to the offer, you will disappear and throw the pot to your own young master, which is really not responsible." β
"Hmm...... Co-author: You really don't know that there is a deal on both sides that has collapsed? And you still stuff stuff stuff into my inbox every week? β
"That's a normal human courtesy as a person, you don't want to confuse it with the sect!"
After Ning Tian finished speaking, he pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but clench his fists lightly and said, "These are really...... Anything goes? Money is not an issue. β
"Nonsense, money is not a problem for Mingdetang, and these are not things that can be bought with money alone."
Huo Yuhao waved his hand, and several silent soul guides flew to the corner of the room, completely blocking the sound in the room from the outside world.
"Here is just you and me, there will be no third person to know, we are all honest, exchange intentions to match the contract, and repair the relationship between the two parties by the way."
"Mingdetang is sincere, and the previous transactions have already been fully demonstrated. If I can't talk to you personally...... Rest assured, no one in the entire Sun and Moon Empire will dare to sell you those things that cross the line, and we are still confident in this control. β
(End of chapter)