Of course, this is only the troops allocated by the imperial court, and the imperial court pays for food and salary. If you have the money and can afford it, and you want to hire more personal guards, usually no one will take care of it. But the number should not be too much - a certain prince said that his family has a big business, and a hundred-man team allocated by the imperial court is not enough, and it is enough to hire an extra thirty or fifty guards. But if there are hundreds of private soldiers in the capital at once, the six doors will definitely come and ask what you want to do.

Unless the emperor has a special decree to allow a certain prince to expand his military force on his own, the number of private soldiers must not exceed 100, which is a common practice and a rule.

Sheng Yangjun didn't have any big ambitions before, so naturally there was no need to spend more money on this, and it was enough to have a team of 100 people to guard the palace. But now he wants to fight for the feud and expand the territory to the outside world, and the more masters he has, the better.

With these body refining resources provided to him by Huang Chang, both the Jianghu warriors and the warriors in the army are willing to join the army, but the total number is still limited, at most two hundred people - this is the upper limit of the private armed forces in the pickaxe capital during the Chengping period, or the right that Shengyang Jun has as the prince of the Ji family. Officials with foreign surnames, even if they become generals and prime ministers, are not allowed to build a private army without the permission of the emperor, otherwise they will be regarded as suspected of rebellion.

As for businessmen and the like, not to mention, even if it is a wealthy businessman with a family of hundreds of millions of dollars, if there is no official support at home, he is only a "citizen" in this pickaxe capital.

Of course, the military is not the strongest violent group in this world. A cultivator with extraordinary strength is the true controller of this world, and an innate martial artist can barely touch the edge. But the strength of the Great Zhou court in this regard is not weak, at least in the pickaxe capital, the Ji royal family has the most powerful extraordinary power - with the protection of the Heaven and Earth Altar Array, the Ancestral Temple, and the treasure of the country and the sword of the Son of Heaven, even if the Jindan strong man hits the door, they can resist for a long time.

Ho Jing is the "sect" of the Ji family of Xiuxian family, which is recognized by the world. There are no other immortal cultivation forces in the pickaxe capital except for the Ji family, and even the West Kunlun Lower Courtyard is located in the dragon head plain outside the pickaxe capital, which is not only a support for the Ji family, but also a respect for them.

Of course, the immortal cultivation forces of the Great Zhou Dynasty are definitely not only the Ji family, except for those princes and sects scattered all over the Great Zhou. Gathered around Hokyo, there are not a few small and medium-sized families that exist as the wings of the Ji family. However, most of them are concentrated in Fengyi next to the capital of Ho, which is separated from Hojing by a stream of water, and it is also a place where spiritual energy gathers.

The defense of the pickaxe capital is actually very strict, and the strength of the qi refining cultivators is limited, and there are no restrictions on entering the pickaxe capital, but if you want to enter the city above the Fa Yuan period, you have to greet the Ji clan in advance.

And this is also the rule that is common in most countries in the world at that time - the Fa Yuan Immortal Master has the power to destroy the country, and it is impossible to casually put it into the core area of the capital. In fact, the general strong people in the late stage of qi refining, and even a few mid-stage masters who have powerful treasures and are strong and famous, are often famous in the military governments of various countries. Unless you deliberately conceal your tracks, you will be noticed wherever you go.

Ordinary states and counties, it doesn't matter if you go through the state and the government, but if you run to the capital of the people recklessly, then there will be a master affiliated with the government to come over to "say hello". Of course, the means are usually very flexible, and most of the time it is a polite reception with good food and drink. But it's often the case with slightly stronger people, and it's both a friendship and a warning – welcome guests, but don't make trouble here.

After revealing that he had the combat power of a high-grade magic weapon, Huang Chang was actually almost close to this line - if he didn't have the status of a disciple of Xi Kunlun, and he had a close relationship with Shengyangjun, and he had also cooperated with the Six Gates, it would not be easy to enter and exit the pickaxe capital casually. At least every time you enter and exit the city gates, the people of the six gates must come to take a look, and the attitude is definitely polite and kind, but this in itself represents a kind of information that you are under our supervision at all times.

——Immortal cultivators often live in seclusion in the wilderness, and do not like to run to crowded places, which is also one of the reasons.

Of course, now, Huang Chang is already regarded as safe and reliable on the side of the six gates, and he is very casual in and out of the pickaxe capital city and Shengyangjun's mansion, and Shengyangjun even gave him all the military talismans for mobilizing the soldiers of the mansion - completely treating him as a son-in-law.

Therefore, Huang Chang now has a concurrent position in the Shengyang Junfu - together with Li Zhai, he is responsible for the training and selection of the generals of the royal palace.

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After receiving the support of a large number of spiritual resources, the latter finally got his wish and rushed to the four heavens and entered the mid-stage realm of qi refining. Now is the time to be full of ambition and high spirits—even in the pickaxe capital, monks above the four heavens can be regarded as quite a strong force. In addition to the many masters hidden in the palace, there are really few monks and monks above the four heavens in the rest of the royal families.

Moreover, entering the Four Heavens means that his path of cultivating immortals can be further improved in the future. The levels on the road of cultivating immortals are like this-after rushing through the fourth layer, then as long as you cultivate step by step in the future, the fifth layer of qi refining will be able to reach sooner or later, and the sixth layer of qi refining is also quite promising under the accumulation, and the next level is the late stage, you can try your luck again.

But if you can't pass through this first pass, then it is normal to be stuck in the early stage of the realm for the rest of your life, and there are many poor people in the rivers and lakes who have stumbled down like this. When you get older in the future, you will be even more hopeless, and the road of cultivating immortals in this life will come to an end.

Li Zhai had delayed for a few years before, and now he was in his mid-forties, which was not too late. With a little more effort, and with good luck, there is still hope that he will be able to advance to the late stage before he is sixty or seventy years old and his qi and blood completely decline—for a casual cultivator who has no family support, no sect protection, and completely relies on his own efforts to move forward on the rugged immortal road in the human world, it is already extremely lucky to reach the late stage of qi refining in this life.

Many of the founders of the Immortal Cultivation Family are actually at this level, and if the descendants are good enough, under the protection and support of the elders, it is possible to achieve further improvement. The transformation from a mortal family to a family of immortal cultivators is rarely successful in one or two generations.

Of course, Li Zhai also knew very well where his luck came from, and he had already sworn in his heart that he would serve Shengyangjun for the rest of his life. And Huang Chang's gratitude and admiration are also extremely sincere.

Now the two are jointly responsible for the strengthening and selection of the government guards, although Shengyangjun's statement is just for Huang Chang to do him a favor, and Huang Chang also said that he can't be stationed in Hojing, so he only plays a cooperative role, and this matter will still be dominated by Li Zhai after all. But Li Zhai knew in his heart that he should be the one who acted as an assistant, no matter in terms of actual combat experience or military prestige.