In the next few days, Huang Chang stayed in the Water Spirit Palace, and while instructing Huang Xu and Luo Chun to get started, he also took the opportunity to sort out the newly practiced water practice exercises.

Huang Chang now finally understood why Master said that he would return to Kunlun Mountain sooner or later—it was really not easy to find a good spiritual place for cultivation in the mortal world. Huang Chang went down the mountain for more than half a year, that is, when he participated in the autumn hunt of the Ji clan and found the spiritual spring in the Hidden Spring Valley, he found a place with abundant spiritual energy, but it was far from being comparable with Kunlun Mountain.

In addition, he can only meditate and breathe in Baonan City, which can only restore his mana. For him, who was already accustomed to Kunlun Mountain, he really couldn't raise the interest of cultivation in the mortal world.

Such a desolation and laziness, of course, the realm cannot be raised, but there is considerable progress in those places where deduction and reflection are needed, as well as actual combat comprehension, but many problems and doubts accumulated over a long period of time also need to be carefully experienced in cultivation. For an authentic qi refiner like him, if he doesn't meditate, he doesn't enter meditation, and if he doesn't borrow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body, his cultivation is incomplete after all.

There is no such condition in Baoguo, and now that he has arrived at Ji Ruo's side, the water spirit land of the Eight Classics is already one of the best in the mortal world, and it is just right to practice in depth, and the previous assumptions and calculations are rehearsed one by one to support the evidence.

Ji Ruo was very happy to help Huang Chang, she not only gave up her own dedicated practice quiet room, but also carefully arranged Huang Chang's daily life like a little housewife, so that he only needed to rest and practice every day, which made Huang Chang a little uncomfortable, but looking at Ji Ruo's enthusiastic appearance, it was not good to disobey her kindness, so she had to accept it with peace of mind.

However, Huang Chang came to Hojing this time, after all, it was not just to make up for the cultivation gap, he still had a lot of things to do. You can't just stay at the Shengyang Monarch's Mansion and the Water Spirit Palace. In addition to supervising others and his own practice, he also took a lot of time to take Chen Shi, Huang Xu and others to visit around the capital city to expand his contacts.

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On this day, the most famous merchant in the capital, the Splendid Pavilion, began its monthly auction again. The Ji royal family itself is one of the big wealthy owners behind the Splendid Pavilion, and Huang Chang easily got an invitation to take a few of his brothers and relatives to meet the world.

The auction itself is not important, Huang Chang basically doesn't like anything here. And Huang Xu, Chen Shi, Xue Yong and the others saw the amount of more than 10,000 taels at every turn, or even dozens of hundreds of spirit stones, they were only dumbfounded, and they didn't dare to buy it at all. However, Huang Chang brought them here mainly to feel the business atmosphere of the pickaxe capital, as well as the management methods of the top merchant pavilion - the way he set for the rise of the Huang family is also to take the business route, and it is very important to learn from the advanced experience of his peers.

And the banquet after the auction is what he values the most, and if Shengyangjun wants to make a difference in the future battle for the opening of the territory, a large amount of money and property support is indispensable. Relying on the financial resources of the Shengyang Junfu itself is certainly not enough, even if it is based on the principle of risk sharing, the introduction of external investment is inevitable.

——This is a matter of course for Huang Chang from a society where capital is king. But it is not popular in today's Great Zhou Dynasty. The people here still uphold the idea of "there is a difference between the noble and the low", even if there is a few stinky money, are they worthy of participating in the major affairs of our Ji royal family?

Even Sheng Yangjun himself couldn't accept this idea at first. However, Huang Chang and he carefully analyzed the pros and cons - compared to his two main opponents: Yu Yuanjun is a wealthy family, and his mother family is the only daughter of a wealthy merchant of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and the wealth accumulated by the entire family for several generations has been gathered on him alone.

But Yu Yuanjun himself is only a mortal, and in the Great Zhou Dynasty, a country still ruled by a family of immortal cultivators, he can only be regarded as having money but no power, so he hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to open up a feudal country, even if all his wealth is spent on it.

Therefore, Yu Yuanjun does not need to rely on external forces, and his own financial resources are enough to support his actions.

And another competitor, Hao Lingjun's mother's family, is also very promising, it is the daughter of a prince and king who is similar to the Bao Guo family, and his own family is also a famous prince, which is quite powerful. In this way, Haolingjun can get the help of his grandfather's family and his wife's family in his future actions, and the money may not be very much, but those two parties are immortal cultivators, and their strength is very strong.

In contrast, Shengyangjun is far behind in this regard - although his mother family is also a famous family, he is a descendant of a mortal family, and he has no immortal family strength to rely on. In terms of wealth, people have their own descendants, and it is okay to give some assistance in front of relatives, but after all, it is impossible to take it all out to help you.

Speaking of the wife's family, the two wives before and after Shengyangjun, including Ji Ruo's mother and his current princess, are both daughters of civil officials in the imperial court, with a very shallow foundation, and they may be able to get the support and support of some protégés in terms of officialdom and public opinion, but it is unrealistic to say how much real money can be funded.

Shengyangjun's biggest reliance is that he has a daughter who worships Kunlun Mountain, and a son-in-law who comes with it. But there are not many people in the Ji family in Kunlun, and it is impossible for Kunlun to openly support only one of him. Ji Ruo and Huang Chang could only assist him with their own strength at most, and could not involve the sect behind them.

"So, Marquis, if we want to stand out in this competition, we must bring in external resources. Including manpower, financial resources, and military force, and many other aspects, the strength from all can be gathered to offset the advantages of the two princes, and even win the battle. ”

Huang Chang said this to Sheng Yangjun at the time, but after thinking about it for a long time, the latter still hesitated:

What the virtuous nephew said is certainly very reasonable. It's just that our family's internal affairs have to rely on outsiders, and it is inevitable that we will be ridiculed...... I'm on the Fengyi side, and around the capital of Ho, there are still a few villa villas. Some are left over from the mother's concubine family, and some are given by the emperor...... If you sell it, you should be able to support the expenses for a long time. ”

But Huang Chang immediately shook his head:

"The prince must not do this idea - this kind of thing has always been only the icing on the cake, and there is no reason to send charcoal in the snow. If you use your own property, it's easy for others to lose confidence in you – you're forced to sell your land, and it's definitely quite embarrassing. Confidence is the most important asset, and the more comfortable you are, the easier it is to gain the trust of others. ”

"Those who have become great things since ancient times are not informal. Gathering the strength of everyone to achieve a career is a clever move, how can it be said to be ashamed. Spending a lot of money and wealth and getting nothing in the end is a joke. ”

Under Huang Chang's persuasion, Sheng Yangjun finally made up his mind and nodded:

"If this is the case, then leave everything to the virtuous nephew. ”