World Online

by Srtyi

Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to 0.

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Chapter 281- The War Is Over

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Editor: Jun

Just as Zhuo Kuo led his troops to attack Ying Bao's camp, Baiqi similarly dispatched his troops to attack Gu Pass.

Two hundred thousand troops surrounded the south side of Gu Pass.

With the help of the sets of three-bow arcuballistas that Ouyang Shuo and Mulan Yue brought, numerous step arrows were shot into the walls. This allowed the Qin soldiers to climb up and attack like a flood.

Zhao Zhuang's forces tried their best to retaliate, as numerous rolling wood and giant rocks pelted down from above the wall, crushing wave after wave of soldiers. The fire defense line formed by the alchemical fire oil cabinets burned the enemy. When their bodies fell to the ground, they instantly fell apart.

Apart from that, the Zhao army used their height advantage to rain down arrows.

The Qin army was also fearless. They used the corpses to fill up the moat and ate away at the defensive resources that the Zhao had. Under the city wall, the bodies of the Qin soldiers piled up to 2 meters high.

The soldiers stepped on the bodies and continued to climb upward.

The attack of the vanguard team became the last straw that crushed the Zhao Zhuang forces.

Gu Pass had finally fallen. The remaining soldiers inside had no other place to go. Hence, they raised their hands and surrendered.

The fall of Gu Pass meant that the Battle of Changping had entered its final stages.

Upon learning that Gu Pass was lost, the Zhao army, which was attacking the Ying Bao camp, no longer had the motivation to attack. Looks of despair filled their faces.

After a little struggle, shortly after Zhao Zhuang surrendered, Zhao Kuo surrendered too.

Based on Zhao Kuo's personality, he would rather die than surrender; furthermore, based on what Di Chen and the rest said, the Qin army would kill off troops that surrendered and wouldn't let them survive.

Only, history had already changed. Zhao Kuo would follow Chun Shenjun to step onto another journey and into another world to continue his fight against Baiqi.

At this point, the war was officially over. The Zhao camp had no way to fight back, and the battle notification sounded.

Maybe Gaia couldn't bear to see 200 thousand Zhao soldiers being slaughtered, thus ending the battle when they surrendered.

"Battle report: the Battle of Changping is officially over. Now based on player's contribution and their use in the battle, calculating bonus battle contribution points."

In this battle, Ouyang Shuo wasn't the only shining light. Di Chen, Zhan Lang, and Chun Shenjun had all affected the proceedings and played a huge role. As such they all gained high amounts of points.

A system notification resounded by Ouyang Shuo's ear.

"System Notification: Player Qiyue Wuyi, player representative of Qin Country, the Shanhai City cavalry that he led had huge contributions, and he thought of the method to break the chariot circle formation. Awarded bonus 20 thousand battle contribution points."

Compared to the two battles before, Gaia's evaluation of his performance had largely dipped and even his points was at its lowest yet.

Even so, based on the killings of the 10 thousand cavalry, his battle contribution points were still at the top of the leaderboard.

Rank- Name- Battle Contribution Points

1st: Qiyue Wuyi- 350 thousand

2nd: Di Chen- 150 thousand

3rd: Bai Hua- 120 thousand

4th: Zhan Lang- 100 thousand

5th: Feng Qiuhuang- 85 thousand

6th: Chun Shenjun- 55 thousand

7th: Xunlong Dianxue- 50 thousand

8th: Mulan Yue- 45 thousand

9th: Xiong Ba- 30 thousand

10th: Feng Qingyang- 25 thousand

Expectedly, the leaderboard was taken up by the Shanhai Alliance and Yanhuang Alliance. Apart from Ouyang Shuo being the untouchable first, the rest were inseparable.

With such results, although the Yanhuang Alliance lost, there was still glory in it.

Di Chen, Chun Shenjun and the others ranked up to 1st class earl and had finally cleared the obstacle to become a grade 3 ciy. The next would be to make preparations to upgrade to a prefecture.

Regretfully, Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang couldn't rank up to 3rd class Marquis. Both of them had to wait until the next battle before they could rank up.

As the lord's class increased, the number of troops they could bring increased too, making the main way to earn battle contribution points slaughter on the battlefield instead of quests and bonus points.

Taking this battle as an example, Shanhai City had 20 times the troops of a normal lord, and 10 times that of Di Chen and the others. Hence, their ability to get points weren't on the same level.

Therefore, although they took the initiative and spent time planning and scheming, they couldn't compare with Ouyang Shuo in terms of battle contribution points.

With pros, there were definitely cons too.

With such a huge army, one had to pay a high price too. After the battle, of Shanhai City's 10 thousand elite cavalry, only 6500 remained. The rest all died on the battlefield of Changping.

Not only Ouyang Shuo, but the other lord's forces had heavy casualties. Out of the 70 thousand player troops from both sides, less than 30 thousand survived.

Ouyang Shuo roughly remembered that during the year-end celebration, Gaia would do a small scale update, which would involve changes to the battles.

The lords used up large amounts of gold and troops. If they only earned merit points, it wouldn't be worth it. Hence, Gaia would release more tempting prizes to motivate lords to participate.

Ouyang Shuo earned 39 thousand merit points and now he had reached a total of 129500 merit points, ranking up to rank 2 Marquis, and he was a lot closer to the 204800 merit points required to rank up to rank 1 Marquis.

The ranking up didn't make Ouyang Shuo satisfied. What he cared about were the rewards that the Qin gave out.

During the Battle of Zhuolu, he had obtained the and the ; during the Battle of Muye, he gained the incense pills and the Shangdian. The latter boosted one's strength while the former increased the territory strength.

As usual, Bai Hua and the others went back to the main map while Ouyang Shuo went to the Wang Ling Camp to wait for his reward.

An official brought the reward from the Qing King, a jade pendant.

Name: Dragon and Phoenix pendant (platinum rank)

Type: Jewelry

Specialty: Deterrence (Raise the prestige of the wearer), Implication (Helps the cultivation of the wearer)

Evaluation: Dragon and Phoenix, represents peace and prosperity and also a high status. It shows a good sign and represents well wishes.

The specialty description was simple, and as for how it worked, Ouyang Shuo had to find out himself.

A pendant was naturally good. Unfortunately, it was still far from what he expected. He thanked the official and wore the pendant.

Ouyang Shuo came to say goodbye to Baiqi.

He seemed like he was specifically waiting for him. "Did you get your reward?"

"Yes, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Great, lets go!" Baiqi said casually.

Ouyang Shuo didn't react and stammered, "W-we?"

"Yes? You don't welcome me?"

Baiqi's words were like a huge pie that smacked him on the head.

Ouyang Shuo couldn't understand. He didn't trigger the recruiting mission, so why would Baiqi be willing to follow him?

If he didn't know the reason, he wouldn't be at ease.

"I don't understand."

As if he expected that Ouyang Shuo would ask that, he said, "My god told me that Lianpo and Zhao Kuo had went to the player world. The Qin no longer need me, so I want to go to the player world too. You are first rate, be it talent or territorial power, so you're obviously the best choice."

Ouyang Shuo understood; so it was the work of Gaia. If it was as he expected, recruiting him was the hidden reward.

How could it be just a jade pendant?

What Gaia told Baiqi probably didn't stop with Zhao Kuo. In history, after the Battle of Changping, Baiqi was killed by the Qing King, so that was another reason.

"Wu An lord, please!" Ouyang Shuo said solemnly.

Baiqi shook his head, "There's no more Wu An Lord, I am Baiqi." Following which, he took the lead and walked out.

After that, Ouyang Shuo led the troops back to the main map.

On the way back, he checked Baiqi's stats.

Name: Baiqi (God rank)

Title: Asura

Dynasty: Warring States (Qin)

Identity: Shanhai City General

Occupation: Special rank general

Loyalty: 75

Command: 98

Force: 90

Intelligence: 85

Politics: 45

Specialty: Annihilation in war: Raise troops morale by 40%; Hot pursuit: Raise troops movement speed by 30%; Field fortification: Raise troops Defence by 20%; Adapting to the enemy: Raise troops killing ability by 25%

Cultivation Method: Killing Sword sword technique

Equipment: Heavy type Qin Sword

Evaluation: The best of the 4 famous generals during the warring states, good with machines and mechanics, great courage, a cut above the rest, great at adapting, produces miracles, shocks the world, the best war god.

Compared to Shi Wanshui and Er'Lai, Baiqi's stats were terrifying. His command, force and intelligence were all first rate, and the only thing he lacked was politics.

His character specialties were an all-round buff for his troops.

Amazing, Baiqi!

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Chapter 282- Philosopher Debate

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Editor: Jun

When Ouyang Shuo returned to the main map, it was already the afternoon of the 19th. The moment he walked out of the teleportation formation, a system notification sounded out in his ear.

"System notification: The Battle of Changping had officially ended, the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period's main historical people will automatically join the game. Players, please reach for them yourselves."

In these periods, the number of famous people were numerous, and something big was about to happen.

"System notification: Jiang Ziya lives in seclusion in Shanhai City. Officially triggering storyline quest. Philosophers automatically join the game. For specifics, the players may log onto the official websites to find out."

The moment the notification went out, the players went into an uproar.

The most vibrant and glorious moment of that time period had started. The attention it gained from the players made the fighting between the Yanhuang Alliance and Shanhai Alliance pale in comparison.

The Yanhuang Alliance also escaped and wasn't dissed and insulted by the players.

The players all rushed onto the website to check out the specific quest requirements.

The storyline quest, the other type of quest apart from battle quests, had finally showed itself.

Like the battle quests, the storyline ones were also triggered. When a certain dynasty's historical person joined the game, historical personnel that the lord had recruited might trigger the storyline quest.

For the storyline quest to be triggered, 3 requirements must be fulfilled at the same time.

Firstly, the historical person must be recruited by the lord. For example, when the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period's people entered the game, and players then went to recruit those historical people, they wouldn't trigger any quest.

Secondly was when the dynasty that the storyline quest appeared in wanted to join the game. For example Jiang Shang had lived in Shanhai City since the Battle of Muye. Until the battle of Changping ended, and when the Apring and Autumn and Warring States periods entered the game was the storyline triggered.

Thirdly, the historical person must have the ability to trigger the storyline quest. This meant that the person had to be important such that he played a part in that storyline quest.

Hence, to trigger the storyline quest, it was pure luck and hard to come by. Alternatively, the moment it was triggered, the rewards were plentiful and it was something everyone yearned for.

The storyline quest was split into solo storyline, camp storyline, and map storyline. Each one was self explanatory for which players could participate.

The type of quest would be decided by the part the player played as well as his influence on the storyline.

The philosopher-type quest that Jiang Shang triggered was the biggest scale map storyline quest.

In the last life, Jiang Shang wasn't recruited by any lord, so the storyline quests that others triggered were only camp quests and didn't expand to the whole map.

In Ouyang Shuo's ear, another system notification resounded

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, your resident Jiang Shang has triggered the quest, will you accept the A rank branch quest?"

Reappear philosopher debate: the huge debate during the Warring States Period was a great wonder in Chinese history. It was the competitiveness of that period that gave birth to the base of Chinese civilization, and made it the peak of human culture.

Requirements: Reproduce the grandeur and the school of thought of those times with at least organize one huge debate with huge influence; out of the 10 school of thoughts, at least 3 must join your territory within 1 year. The territory will obtain the title: Culture Shrine

Ouyang Shuo was rewarded for triggering the quest with a side quest. Although it didn't look simple and had strict requirements, Ouyang Shuo accepted without hesitation.

"System Notification: Player Qiyue Wuyi accepted the Rank A branch quest. As the main area of the philosopher debate, Shanhai City's attractiveness toward famous people increased by 50%"

The moment the notification went out, the number of envious people were plentiful.

This was when the players reacted. When they were paying attention, they missed out a point—Jiang Shang lived in Shanhai City.

Thinking about that, the country channel was in an uproar. The lords who participated in the Battle of Muye knew that Qiyue Wuyi was in the Shang Dynasty camp, so how would Jiang Shang, who was in the Zhou Dynasty camp, run to Shanhai City?

News, shocking news!

The rumours and nosiness of the players spread like wildfire, and some rash players even left messages in the country channel to go toward Shanhai City to visit Jiang Shang.

Ouyang Shuo didn't have time to bother about the players as he arranged for the troops to return to their own camps. The compensation for the dead and replacement soldiers was handled by the Military Affairs Department.

At an earlier period of time, the city east and city west camps were clearing out raiders and helping the construction of the official road by clearing obstacles. Out of every batch of prisoners, the Military Affairs Department will choose the elite and send to the reserve force. As for the money earned, they were used to pay for the teleportation fees for the battle of Changping so little remained.

The elite raiders were normally cavalry. The independent regiment also used this chance to make the 3 thousand men Organization into the standard 2.5 thousand men.

The Military Affairs Department sent the remaining prisoners to Yongye Town, Guangshui Town and Yishui City. As the number of prisoners was huge, Yongye Town and Guangshui Town successfully upgraded to city grade.

After dealing with military matters, Ouyang Shuo personally brought Baiqi back to the Lord's Manor.

Returning to the main map, Baiqi became young again, around 30 years of age, back to his prime.

Ouyang Shuo's arrival surprised the directors and secretaries, who were working in the Lord's Manor. Ouyang Shuo took the opportunity to introduce Baiqi to them, officially helping him blend into the Shanhai City system.

Following which, Ouyang Shuo brought Baiqi into his book room, where both of them had a chance to have a deep conversation.

Not talking about other things, after the Battle of Changping, their roles swapped around, and they needed some time to adjust. Luckily, Ouyang Shuo wasn't a shameless person and was respectful toward Baiqi.

Ouyang Shuo introduced everything about Shanhai City to Baiqi, including the surrounding situation and the military, such that Baiqi could assimilate into the role.

Hearing about the new camp in the western suburbs, Baiqi was very interested and wanted to go take a look.

After the Battle of Changping ended, the teaching team would return from Jianye and continue to train the new soldiers.

Ouyang Shuo had reason to believe that with Baiqi's help, the selection for the special forces will fit in better with the cold weapons era.

Baiqi being willing to move into the new soldier camp helped solved one of Ouyang Shuo's big problems, which was the position he wanted to give him. The current military didn't have any vacancies. Based on what he planned, he wanted to wait until the territory was a grade 1 prefecture before making plans.

After discussing, Ouyang Shuo called Zisu and asked her to bring Baiqi to choose a mansion in the official residence region, also sending him 2 maidservants to serve him.

Ever since the Housekeeping Division was set up, Zisu had recruited a batch of maidservants and sent them to personnel of rank secretary and above. Based on the standards set by the division, secretaries would have 1 maidservant, while directors would have 2. As for the generals like Shi Wanshui, they would be treated like directors.

Apart from taking care of their daily lives and serving them, they also had the responsibility of supervision.

Shanhai City didn't have a safety unit, so Ouyang Shuo did so just in case. Of course, the people he was guarding against were the aboriginal people.

As for Fan Zhongyan, Shi Wanshui, and other such historical people, naturally the maidservants just served them and nothing else.

After settling everything, Ouyang Shuo finally had time to go onto the website and search the details.

Based on the introduction by Gaia, after the initiating of the quest, the key people and their disciples from the various philosophical school of thoughts would appear in the wild and travel various territories in a way that lords couldn't understand. With their standards, they would choose a suitable place to live in and build their sects and schools.

Be it whatever personal standards, the territory would have to fulfil 3 basic criterias:

At least one representative of a school chooses to live in the territory.

There's a place for that school that acts as the base.

The school must recruit at least 10 disciples to show its influence.

Hence, one could imagine how hard it was for Ouyang Shuo to solve the branch quest. Luckily, he still had time so he could take it slow. This was in addition to Shanhai City being the home ground for the debate, thus making it more attractive.

As some schools had more than one representative figure, the system rule would be first come first serve. This also meant that one school could only choose one territory.

Of course, if a school had different branches, it could set up different offices. For example, in history there was Legalism, which was split up into three factions.

The difference between the philosophers debate in history was that Gaia made all the various factions and schools appear at the same time. With that, the representative of the Mohists, Mo Zi, could cross time and have a debate with the Confucianism representative Kong Zi. People of different times of the same school could also have a discussion like Meng Zi could learn about the meaning of Confucianism from Kong Zi. Wasn't this interesting?

This was the charm of the game.

Not only that, as more dynasties entered the game, various schools and factions as well as secret legacies would appear.

The brightest moments in Chinese history were going to appear in the game!

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Chapter 283- Upgrade Quest

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The scale of the storyline quest was huge and it also took up a lot of time, so Ouyang Shuo didn't know where to start. He could only take it step by step. The only thing he could do now was to order the Construction Division to open a patio in Xinan University to be the place for the philosopher debate.

What Ouyang Shuo cared most about was to upgrade the territory. He opened the interface for the territory and applied for the upgrade. A notification resounded in his ear, which was checking for the basic requirements.

"System notification: Checking if Shanhai City meets upgrade requirements..."

"Requirement 1: Population reached the 100 thousand upper limit, requirement met!"

"Requirement 2: All basic structures are built, requirements met!"

"Requirement 3: Lord rank is at least a 3rd class Marquis, requirement met!"

"Requirement 4: Politics, economy, culture and military all not less than 65, requirements met!"

"Requirement 5: Core affiliate territories have at least reached grade 1 city, requirement met!"

Compared to the city grade, the upgrade requirements to a prefecture had requirements regarding the three affiliate territories. It was as if it was reminding the lords that at the prefecture grade, one shouldn't neglect the building of affiliate territories.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for meeting all requirements, will you apply to upgrade?"

"Apply!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for successfully applying, assigning upgrade quests."

"Quest 1 [Recruitment: Need at least one historical person who is willing to work for your territory."

"Quest 2 [Organization moves in: At least one NPC Chamber of Commerce is willing to move into the territory and help the economy."

"Quest 3 [Culture Festival: Hold a culture festival with a certain influence.

"Quest 4 [Army Group Trial: An army group needs to go through a trial to prove its strength."

"System notification: Out of the 4 quests, one needed to complete 2 to upgrade; the more quests completed, the bigger the rewards."

Out of the 4 upgrade quests, they all made considerations out of all 4 aspects of the territory.

This was enough to show the difference between a city and a prefecture.

As the system mentioned, each lord when upgrading would face a different set of quests. Overall, their difficulties would be around the same level.

The upgrade quests didn't have a time limit or a punishment for failure. If one couldn't complete it, then they territory would be unable to upgrade, and one couldn't reapply.

This. This was the greatest punishment.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo gathered Fan Zhongyan, Cui Yingyu and Baiqi to divide up the upgrade quests. Fan Zhongyan was in charge of leading the Administration Department to prepare for the culture festival; Yingyu would be in charge of contacting the Cui Chamber of Commerce and discuss about them creating a branch; Baiqi would be the overall commander and would be in charge of the army group's trial.

What was the most uncertain was the [recruitment] quest. Ouyang Shuo could only inform the various offices in the system imperial cities and ask them to search and recruit.

After that discussion, everyone stood up and left.

Before Yingyu left, she looked at Ouyang Shuo with a weird expression. "Big brother, why do I feel that your entire temperament changed?"

"Really?"

"Ya, you have more prestige. When I first saw you, I was shocked."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, knowing that the Dragon and Phoenix pendant was working. The two specialties of the pendant were starting to show themselves.

Last night, when he was cultivating, he could feel that under the stimulation of the pendant, the Chi in his body had improved. In just a few days he could break through to the 5th layer. Based on what was recorded, if one broke through to the 6th, he would have good fortune.

After Yingyu left, Ouyang Shuo started to deal with the administrative matters that were piling up.

Bai Nanpu had already arranged the letters based on priority and placed them on his table.

The first letter he picked up was from Gushan County Magistrate, Lei Fan. In the letter, he mentioned that things went well contacting the central mountain tribes. When the new year came, more of them would come down.

Apart from that, Lei Fan mentioned that the mountain barbarians in the north were different. It was going to be winter but some tribes went deeper into the mountains for unknown reasons.

Lei Fan guessed that there was a huge change deep in the mountains. He arranged spies to go in to investigate. As this was a huge matter, he reported it to Ouyang Shuo for him to settle.

Ouyang Shuo frowned. The mountain barbarian tribes were important soldiers, and there wasn't any room for mistakes. He ordered the Military Intelligence Division to investigate and for Tian Wenjing to help out.

Putting down the worry of the mountain barbarians, Ouyang Shuo continued.

Now the letter in his hand was from the Four Seas bank treasurer, Meng Zhida. In it, he mentioned his suggestion for Shanhai City to use paper currency.

In olden china, during the South Song era, they used paper currency. Hence, it wasn't considered an advanced thing. To use that in the game, one needed to fulfil two requirements.

Firstly, one needed a facility to produce and print the money. The territory must at least have a paper workshop and printing workshop. The paper could also be bought from outside, but the printing must be done by the territory. Apart from that, a professional must do it, designing and ensuring anti-forgery.

Secondly, one needed to set up a credit system. If the paper note wasn't recognized, it was just a useless piece of paper without any value.

And to create this credit system, one needed to create a perfect reserve system. With Shanhai City as an example, if one wanted to use paper notes, the best choice would be the Four Seas bank. So, every 100 gold note would correlate with a 100 gold coins stored in the bank.

During the South Song Period, as the court mass-produced notes but didn't have enough reserve gold, it made the notes lose value and become useless.

As for notes, it wasn't that Ouyang Shuo didn't have any plans. It was just that he wanted to do so in the latter stages of the game and now was just too early.

If it was a suggestion from others, Ouyang Shuo would naturally ignore it. But Meng Zhida was different. He was a professional talent in finance and was very careful. Since he made such a decision, this meant he had his thoughts as to why.

Ouyang Shuo gathered his thoughts and raised his head. "Men!"

"Yes!" Bai Nanpu walked in.

"Call the Four Seas bank treasurer Meng Zhida." Ouyang Shuo paused for a while. "And Cui Yingyu, to discuss something!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Yingyu was right beside Ouyang Shuo so she reached quickly, "Big brother, you're looking for me?"

"Do you know about the Four Seas bank and the bank note thing?"

"Yes, Treasurer Meng raised the issue with me."

"What are your thoughts?"

Yingyu frowned. "When he reported to me, I thought banknotes and silver tickets were the same thing. He explained that it was a totally different concept. In truth, to such new things, I don't know much, but it seems fine."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Although Yingyu was improving her knowledge about modern finances, if it was related to money and goods, she was still lacking.

No wonder Meng Zhida sent the letter to Ouyang Shuo. It was probably what Yingyu asked him to do.

While the two of them were discussing, Meng Zhida rushed in hurriedly. When he saw the letter in Ouyang Shuo's hand, he roughly knew what was going on.

"Uncle Meng, in principle, I agree with the banknotes, but as for the time, can we push it back?" When Ouyang Shuo discussed matters, he was always straight to the point.

"I think that to use banknotes, this is the best time."

"Oh? Please elaborate." Ouyang Shuo didn't expect for him to be so certain and that made him very interested.

"There are four reasons. Firstly, as the economy starts to prosper, the trade volume increases; between merchants, one has to bring large amounts of gold, so it's hard to bring and very inconvenient."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. NPCs didn't have storage bags; a gold coin was 20 grams, so 1000 gold was 20 kilograms, needing a professional to carry it.

Hence to solve this problem, people in the olden days decided to use banknotes.

"Secondly, as the affiliate territories upgrade to city level, inter-territory trade would prosper. For example, the seafood and salt from Beihai County would go from Youyi river and Qiushui river to sell in Tianfeng City; the trees from Yongye City would be sold in Beihai City. All this is pushing for the birth of banknotes.

Meng Zhida's words made Ouyang Shuo silent. The information he revealed was enough to raise his alertness. The trade in the territory was something he as a lord didn't pay attention to. Seems like the military action recently had taken away a lot of his time and energy. If it were before, such a situation will definitely not occur.

Luckily with the arrival of Baiqi, the general could release Ouyang Shuo from military matters.

"Thirdly, the Four Seas bank has a lot of gold, which is sufficient to print banknotes."

During the first 10 days of the 10th month, Ouyang Shuo injected 40 thousand gold into the main branch, which was what gave Meng Zhida the confidence to suggest this.

"Fourthly, it takes a long time to prepare. Naturally, it's better if we start the plan it early." Meng Zhida listed out the four big reasons.

Ouyang Shuo nodded; he was totally convinced. "Uncle Meng's words have opened my eyes. Since that's so, let's do it! Describe your specific plans."

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Chapter 284- Currency and Taxation

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After he gained Ouyang Shuo's approval, Meng Zhida started to describe his plan.

What was most important was to set up a banknote printing bureau in the main branch of Four Seas bank to be in charge of the printing of banknotes.

The planned banknotes included 10 gold, 20 gold, 50 gold and 100 gold. There would be no copper or silver banknotes, and no numbers less than 10 gold.

Based on Meng Zhida's thoughts, the banknotes would be a higher class currency and be mainly used for the buying and selling of goods. As for the daily expenses, they would still be done with copper, silver, and gold coins.

What Ouyang Shuo needed to do was to purchase the and the , paper workshop and printing workshop blueprints.

Luckily, Yingyu had to discuss with the Cui Chamber of Commerce about setting up a branch in Shanhai City, so Ouyang Shuo just passed her the responsibility of acquisition all to her. He also asked her to recruit some experienced artisans through the Cui Chamber of Commerce.

Making use of this opportunity, Yingyu raised the topic about changing the finances and taxes. "As the economy grows past its infancy and starts to prosper, the tax rate set up during the start of privatisation isn't suitable. The Financial Department feels that the time has come for us to raise taxes."

Ouyang Shuo remained silent. When he had set the tax rate to be 1/30, his goal was to motivate craftsmen and commerce to nurture the economy.

This proved that his original idea was right. Under the low tax and low interest rate loans from the Four Seas bank, privatisation had been blooming, and the territory tax returns had been increasing by the day.

However as Yingyu had mentioned, since their goal had already been reached, to adjust the tax rate to a normal level was needed. If not, as the territory's economy bloomed, the finances of the territory wouldn't benefit. Increasing the tax rates and financial profits wasn't to earn more gold, but to give them the funds to do better projects and for the public benefit.

"What level does the Financial Department feel that the tax rates should be adjusted to?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"5%."

"5%? This is the final answer of the Financial Department?"

"No, the most suitable rate would be 1/15, only..." Yingyu was a bit hesitant.

"Just that what?"

"The Financial Department is afraid that if we raise it so quickly, the people will be unhappy."

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "The tax rate is an important part of the administration. We can't keep changing it and have to maintain it at a stable level. Since we need to change it, we must do it once and for all. There will probably be a little pressure, but we still have to get over it."

"Understood." With Ouyang Shuo's support, Yingyu would have more backing to push for this. "Apart from taxes, there's also the income of the affiliate territories. The Financial Department feels that the affiliate territories should give us 70% of their tax, and then the lord's manor will assign and deal with it."

Ouyang Shuo frowned. Financial matters wasn't an independent body, and must be done together with administrative matters.

"Let the Financial Department consider the economy advisor's views, and give me a full tax change report. After the territory upgrades, then we will discuss the exact measures." Ouyang Shuo postponed the suggestion from the Financial Department.

"Ok!" Cui Yingyu was a little demoralized.

Over the next few days, Shanhai City started to get busy for their upgrade quests.

The first one to have progress was the 2nd quest. After Shanhai City and the Cui Chamber of Commerce discussed, they agreed to set up a branch and buy up Shanhai City products: seafood and salt from Beihai City, tea and herbs from Qiushui City, fur and skin from Friendship City, wood from Gushan City, etc.

At the same time, the Cui Chamber of Commerce also set up a shop in Shanhai City selling rare items like china, spices, jade decorations, etc.

The setting up of the Chamber of Commerce would be able to stimulate exports and also increase the sources of imports, improving the sales structure and improving the economy.

Apart from that, the Cui Family bank was also attracted to Shanhai City to compete with the Four Seas Bank. If the loans from the Four Seas Bank were for daily life, then the Cui Family bank were purely for investment.

Be it the pottery factory or the Xila Lake pearl culturing base, they all became the investment targets of the Cui Family bank.

All these workshops that were invested in all welcomed a huge change.

Toward these outside investments, Ouyang Shuo accepted all of them. Of course, the industries and businesses controlled by the Financial Department were not included.

For the next step, Ouyang Shuo planned to put down the minefields and the logging camps and list them as investable items, leaving the Material Reserves Department with strategic resources like copper, iron and gold mines.

All this was done to shape the economy of the territory.

What the Cui Chamber of Commerce brought over wasn't only products and funds, but also large amounts of artisans and craftsmen. In the business street, they built up a grand restaurant- Shanhai Garden.

The Shanhai Garden combined food, lodging, and entertainment all into one. The tens of chefs brought various delicacies from around the land; the hired actors to perform every day.

No wonder one of the shareholders of the Sangu Restaurant, Qing'er kept shouting, "The Wolves are here!"

To this kind of competition, naturally Ouyang Shuo wouldn't interfere; whether or not the restaurant could survive depended on the ability of Gu Sanniang.

With the help of the Chamber of Commerce, it was like an injection of freshwater into the Shanhai City's economy, so naturally Ouyang Shuo was very optimistic.

On the third quest [Culture festival, the Administration Department also made some progress.

Fan Zhongyan and Xu Shuda's opinion was to hold a grand Mazu Temple Fair. During the lantern festival, Ouyang Shuo did have such a thought, but because of certain restrictions, he couldn't do so.

As times changed, the Shanhai City of today naturally wasn't what Shanhai Town from before could compare to. It already had the ability to hold a festival, and with the addition of the Cui Chamber of Commerce, it further strengthened the base of Shanhai City.

One of the requirements of the quest was that the festival had to have a certain level of influence.

Since it needed to have influence, those that attempted the Mazu Temple Fair couldn't be restricted to Shanhai City commoners, and must have some outside visitors.

Ouyang Shuo first thought about the allies in Shanhai Alliance. But thinking about it again, they were all players and were not high in numbers, so they wouldn't have influence.

In the end, Xu Shuda had an idea. He suggested to spread the news that Mazu Temple had appeared in Shanhai City to the whole of Quanzhou to attract the priests, merchants, and civilians to attend.

Ouyang Shuo smacked his own head and felt that he was stupid.

Wasn't it that in real life, Fujian was the place where Mazu Culture originated from? If the aboriginals from Quanzhou knew that the Mazu Statue appeared in Shanhai City, they would definitely visit.

Ouyang Shuo immediately informed the office in Quanzhou.

To achieve a greater effect, Xu Shuda even exaggerated the origins of the Mazu Temple and wrote a descriptive essay, pasting it at the door of the offices.

Mazu held an important position in the hearts of all Fujian people. The moment the news went out, it attracted a lot of attention. At first they didn't believe it, only after people teleported and see it did they accept it.

Hence, the news spread all over Quanzhou, and there were huge amounts of merchants, priests and commoners coming into Shanhai City.

Some staunch believers even immediately migrated over.

The development of the situation far exceeded Ouyang Shuo's expectations. Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to shift a portion of the population to Yongye City and Guangshui City.

Some rash people didn't wait for Shanhai City to make some space for them, directly moving to the affiliate territories.

A large portion of the believers were attracted to Beihai City. As amongst these believers, a large portion were fishermen, and when they learned of such a place, they were delighted.

Not talking about faith, in the Quanzhou region, as there were too many fishermen and the problem of overfishing, how could they compete with Beihai Bay, such an unopened location?

Every day after that, thousands of aboriginal people would choose to move to Shanhai City. The city was unable to pay for their teleportation costs, so they could only do so themselves. Even so, that couldn't stop their determination and faith.

Later on, there were even cases of an entire fishing village moving to Beihai City.

The City Magistrate of Beihai City, Gu Xiuwen was obviously elated. He activated all the departments and divisions to do a good job in arranging accommodation for the aboriginal people.

Based on the report, there were around 10 thousand people who shifted to Beihai City. These aboriginals weren't like the refugees and had assets and families with them.

Beihai City once again had obtained some good luck.

Apart from Beihai City, Friendship City and Qiushui City both had 5-6 thousand people migrate in. As for Shanhai City, the number of migrants broke 20 thousand and was increasing non stop.

This also meant that there were 20 thousand excess people who were shifted to Yongye, Guangshui City, which caused both of them to break the upper limit of 20 thousand and upgrade to grade 2 cities.

Forty thousand migrants to Shanhai City was considered large, but to Quanzhou, it meant nothing.

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Chapter 285- Baiqi Reorganizes the Army

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As time went on, the migrant wave attracted by the Mazu Temple had slowly changed from commoners to the gentry level and merchant groups.

Shanhai City had a pleasant environment, good city planning, great law and order, a thick merchant atmosphere, and cultural development, attracting their eyes.

Xinan University, Yellow Emperor Temple, Recruitment hall, Shangding, etc. attracted a lot of attention.

Only then did they noticed that out in the wilderness was actually such an advanced place.

Shanhai City also had a thirst for talent, so they were both a good fit with one another.

It was like the floodgates were opened, and a large number of gentry and merchants chose to live in Shanhai City. Amongst them were people from humble backgrounds, and were also men of literature and writing, with many talented men amongst them.

Because of the presence of Jiang Shang, Xinan University was very attractive to men of literature and writing. Hence, they mostly chose to become officials.

The merchants started to open shops in Shanhai City; some even focused on the Mazu Temple business, selling incense related products and earning a huge amount.

After inspecting Shanhai City and especially after seeing the Cui Chamber of Commerce doing so well, some Chamber of Commerces in Quanzhou also started considering opening branches in Shanhai City.

The huge swarm of people brought a lot of business for the newly opened Shanhai Garden, to the envy of everyone.

With such a great opportunity, Ouyang Shuo immediately informed the Business Division Secretary Xu Zhenchang to prepare a recruitment meeting to introduce the investment plans and business environment in Shanhai City.

The Administration Department also worked together with the Household Registration Division, and started a talent recruitment to recruit talents into the various departments and and divisions.

The Mazu Temple had achieved far greater a result than the recruitment that the Cui Chamber of Commerce had in Dali, making Ouyang Shuo delighted.

The situation in front of him reflected an old statement: if you wish for something it won't come. If you don't wish for something it might appear out of nowhere.

The huge amount of talents helped build a solid foundation for when Shanhai City upgraded to the prefecture grade.

Ouyang Shuo had been worrying about the lack of talents if the territory upgraded, but now with the migrants, it has been totally solved.

As for the Mazu Temple fair, under the support of the Chamber of Commerces from Quanzhou, it was a huge scale.

The huge influence of Mazu even shocked the Quanzhou Court. They specially sent officials to send a huge signboard which read 'Mazu Temple.'

With that, the Mazu religion spread like wildfire.

What made Ouyang Shuo happier was that after the blessing of all the incense, the Mazu Temple had be upgraded.

"System notification: Mazu Statue has been blessed by the incense and officially unsealed, returning back to normal. The stats of the Mazu Temple have greatly increased."

At this point, the Mazu Statue gave out a gentle shine which one could see from far away. Such a divine scene made all the believers who traveled from far to see it emotional and nearly tear up.

The migrant wave which had calmed down once again reached a peak. Quanzhou civilians believed that it was their sincerity that touched Mazu, and she sent them a sign to bless her believers.

Ouyang Shuo took the time to take a look at the new stats; what he saw pleased him.

Name: Mazu Temple

Type: Hidden class building

Function: Spread the faith of Mazu and raise happiness of residents by 30%, raises reputation of territory by 10%

Specialty: Sea God blessing (Navy ships have increased 40% Defence against storms), wind and waves (raise ships' sailing capability by 30%)

Evaluation: Mazu, with the southeast sea as core, spreads the Sea God faith.

The unsealed Mazu Temple had a huge increase in function. Not only that, it had also gained a 2nd specialty.

With these two specialties, it would be much easier for the Shanhai City's sailors to rule the seas.

With the unsealing of the Mazu Temple, this temple fair ended on a wonderful full stop. Mazu Temple also became a huge bridge between Quanzhou City and Shanhai City.

Although the festival had ended, the effects of it didn't end there.

Although the peak of the migration had passed, there were still hundreds of Quanzhou aboriginal people who would rush to Shanhai City either to pray or migrate.

As Quanzhou started to find out more about Shanhai City, the migrant groups changed from believers to people who came here to try and make a living.

The situation that was happening at Shanhai City was something that all lords were jealous of. Some hurled insults while others congratulated him; there was a vast mix.

Ouyang Shuo naturally didn't bother about the outside comments. After the Mazu Temple fair ended, Ouyang Shuo handed over the recruitment of Chamber of Commerces and the migration over to the Financial Department and Administration Department.

The talents that were recruited were temporarily given jobs by Fan Zhongyan, waiting for when the territory had upgraded to a prefecture before giving them a permanent position.

From city to prefecture, it was a breakthrough in the entire system and core of the territory. In terms of administrative structure, naturally there would be a revolution. Ouyang Shuo had already started considering the related changes in his mind.

After the festival, Ouyang Shuo started to turn to the 4th quest.

The army group trial needed a corp to pass a military trial. Shanhai City only had 1 division, so they had nothing to hesitate on and just made the 1st division take the trial.

The problem was that after checking the related settings for the trial, Ouyang Shuo hesitated.

Based on the system settings, a division and above could undergo the trial, and if they succeeded, they would get a unique specialty and be rewarded a military flag.

The crux of the problem was that after the trial, the members of the division that underwent the trial apart from the casualties couldn't be moved. If they did, the specialty would lose its effect.

This setting was to prevent some lords from cheating, using the elites in the territory to help military groups complete the trial.

The 1st division was just a temporary plan. It was split into three camps in the west, north and east of the city, and were ruled separately so they would definitely be split apart in the future.

The quest meant that Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to reorganize the military. He passed this mission to Baiqi for him to have total control, and for Ge Hongliang to assist him.

Baiqi's role was still undecided, and Ouyang Shuo just gave him a temporary title of overall commander, giving him the power to command the army of Shanhai City.

Ever since he came to Shanhai City, apart from staying in the west suburb camp, he went to the other three camps and inspected all the military groups.

After a week of inspections, Baiqi finally brought out his plan.

In the Lord's Manor reading room, there were only Ouyang Shuo, Baiqi, and Ge Hongliang, showing how important this meeting was.

Baiqi didn't directly describe his plan but described the problems he was facing. "Based on my investigation, the Shanhai City army has a few main problems:

"Firstly, the soldier types aren't balanced; we have too many cavalry and too little infantry. Of the 1st divisions, including the Guards regiment and the independent regiment, out of the 7 regiments, 5 are cavalry regiments, not including the light armored cavalry regiments in the 1st and 3rd regiment. The cavalry take up 70-80%.

"Secondly, we don't put enough emphasis on scouting and logistics. Not only does each regiment not have a scout and army cook, even the 1st division does not have such roles, which is really mind boggling.

"The Military Intelligence Division is responsible for peacetime scouting. Wartime scouting should be the responsibility of the participating forces. Military grain pills can't totally replace food and grains, so an army cook is absolutely necessary.

"Thirdly, the mix of light armored, heavy armored, cavalry, and infantry. With the 1st and 4th regiments in the city west camp as an example, there's the slow moving heavy armored mountain barbarian infantry and the fast moving light armored cavalry. The entire speed of the troops will be burdened by the slow moving mountain barbarians, and losing the advantage of the light armored cavalry.

"Fourthly, the types of soldiers are too little. The entire division only has cavalry and sword shield soldiers. Lancers, as well as bowmen, crossbowmen, spearmen, etc are all non-existent."

Baiqi's analysis made Ouyang Shuo feel very embarrassed and ashamed. Originally, he was quite pleased with his organization, but it was actually full of mistakes.

Ouyang Shuo stood up solemnly and bowed toward Baiqi. "Thank you for your help!"

Ge Hongliang was also blushing. As the Military Affairs director, he didn't manage to help the lord perfect the military system; it could be said that he failed at his job.

However, he couldn't be blamed as he was at most an advisor of a regiment. How could he handle such a huge army?

Apart from Ge Hongliang, only the three historical generals could assist Ouyang Shuo.

Shi Wanshui was, out of the three, the best at military matters, but as he was rash, he would only care about fighting wars and not about such small matters.

Er'Lai, needless to say, was from the Shang Dynasty when military planning was in its infancy. He was also a fierce general, so he wouldn't know much about all these fine details.

Luo Shixin had also just joined the army. His experience was little, so he wouldn't voice up his opinions.

Hence, it caused such a situation where Ouyang Shuo, who was totally inept at such a thing, had to organize the military and expand it to its current scale.

Thinking back, it wasn't easy.

Only when Baiqi arrived did the weakness of the Shanhai City army become exposed.

Ouyang Shuo was happy deep down that the Shanhai City army didn't expand to a scale that couldn't be salvaged and that Baiqi had come just in time.

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Chapter 286- Rising From the Ashes

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After discussing the weaknesses of the army, Baiqi simply described the strengths of the army. "Although the army has many problems, we have good equipment and great generals, so that's a plus point."

Ouyang Shuo froze, his depressed heart had a slight happiness.

After analysing the pros and cons, Baiqi started to throw out his organization plan. "We need to solve the problem that the three camps aren't under the same command, but they're all part of the same division. I suggest the 1st division to be split into 3 divisions, each camp having one. As for the current manpower problem, we could prioritize one division first to join the army group trial and the other two divisions will be slowly expanded."

Ouyang Shuo nodded; Baiqi's thinking was similar to Ouyang Shuo's thoughts when he formed the 1st regiment.

Every time the military was organized, it would cause a lot of panic. Hence, each reorganization must be planned in advance, especially such large-scale planning.

"The 1st division will be in the city west camp. Shi Wanshui is good at both infantry and cavalry, and is a remarkable general. Hence, the 1st division will be a light armored cavalry and infantry mixed division. There will be sword shield soldiers, spearmen, bowmen, crossbowmen, and light armored cavalry. The sword shield soldiers wouldn't be the heavy armored mountain barbarians and instead focus on light armor to raise the mobility of the division."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Baiqi changed the lancers to spearmen and added the crossbowmen that he gave up on. In the allocation of soldier types, it seemed more logical.

"The 2nd division will be housed in the city north camp. It would be a purely cavalry division so it doesn't need changes. As a cavalry division, it would have 2 heavy armored regiments and 2 light armored regiments, as well as one archer regiment."

Baiqi didn't choose whom to lead the city north camp, and even though Ouyang Shuo gave him the power, for such heavy personnel arrangements, he would just leave it to Ouyang Shuo.

The city north camp leader Lin Yi was just an intermediate ranked general, and couldn't lead an entire division. Ouyang Shuo had a suitable general in mind for the job.

"The 3rd division was camped in the city east camp. The current commander, Er'Lai, is a purely fierce general who isn't good at cavalry warfare. Hence, the 3rd division could be an infantry division with two heavy armored mountain barbarian infantry regiments, 2 spearman regiments, and a Mo knife soldier regiment."

The Mo knife was a long knife amongst the Tang blades, wielded by infantry and weighing 8 kilograms. It was 7 inches long, made of iron, and the handle was 4 inches long. It was mainly used against cavalry, and was really powerful.

The Mo knife was another Tang Dynasty weapon that the weapon workshop was working on recently and the army hadn't been equipment with it. He didn't expect Baiqi to know about it, and even included it in his plans. He was certainly special.

Up to this point, Ouyang Shuo totally understood Baiqi's plans. "General's thought is to focus on building the 2nd division?"

"That's right. Combining the 4th regiment, the city north camp's 2nd regiment, as well as the independent regiment, and the 5th regiment of the city east camp, as long as we build one more heavy armored cavalry regiment, we could form a division already."

Baiqi didn't raise the topic about the Guards regiment, as that was Ouyang Shuo's personal army, and hence it was excluded from the 3 divisions.

Apart from that, the 1st regiment in the city west camp would use 2 heavy armored mountain barbarian infantry units to change for the archer and light armored cavalry units from the 3rd regiment to complete the reorganization.

After discussing the structures of the three divisions, Baiqi continued, "Each division must also have 1000 men. Five hundred would form up the personal Guards unit of the major general; the remaining 500 would form a scouting squadron, medical squadron, engineering squadron and two Chef squadrons. If in the future we have the ability, we still need to prepare spies, officials, clerks and other support staff."

Baiqi's army plan had basically solved the 4 problems he had raised. The last thing he mentioned had directly targeted the weakness of the current army.

Xinan University was only in charge of producing civil servants. As for military officials, they couldn't do anything. As for the militarists, without them the wars will be in a mess, and they couldn't be considered a passable army.

At the current moment, they could only take it a step by a time.

Ouyang Shuo envied Zhan Lang who didn't need to bother about such matters.

Ouyang Shuo calculated. For the three divisions to be in place, they needed 25.5 thousand more people including 1500 logistics men, which needed the Military Intelligence Division, God machine camp unit, Medical Department, and the Combat Logistics Division to settle together.

Not mentioning the others, purely class change fees would be 15 thousand gold, and with the equipment and other things, it was a scary amount. Much less the expenditure and their salary.

Although the costs of running it were huge, thinking about it, the moment the organization was in place, Shanhai City would have had a rebirth and a beautiful change.

"Good, let's follow your plan." Ouyang Shuo smacked the table and looked at Ge Hongliang. "Director Ge, how many members are there in the reserve force?"

"After the Battle of Changping, each division had been filled up with members, so around 5000 remain."

Ouyang Shuo kept quiet. The last round of expansion and the battle had already used up most of the reserve force. For them to have 5000 left wasn't easy.

However, this was not even a fifth of the people they needed. If they recruited new soldiers, not only would it need a long training time, but their combat power wouldn't be high either.

Seeing that the Marquis didn't speak, Baiqi and Ge Hongliang could only look on silently.

After a while, Ouyang Shuo regained his senses; he had made up his mind. "The military organization can't wait. However hard the problem is, we must solve it. I have 3 requirements. As for the specifics of the reorganization, I'll hand them to the both of you, you must ensure it's finished by the end of the year."

"Yes my lord!"

"Firstly, the 3rd division, the 2 heavy armored infantry regiments, and the Mo knife soldier regiments must all be mountain barbarian soldiers. The lack of manpower will be solved by Tian Wenjing and Leifan.

The Mo knife soldiers needed a lot of strength, so naturally the mountain barbarians would be a good fit. With Gushan City, Ouyang Shuo believed that to gather 5000 troops wouldn't be a problem.

"Secondly, the reorganization of the city protection units and city protection regiments. Shanhai City, Qiushui City and Friendship City, these 3 city protection regiments. Yishui City, Yongye City and Guangshui City, these three city protection units, as well as the 2 city protection units of Tianfeng City. A total of 10 thousand soldiers will all be added to the 3 divisions. With the reserve forces, a large scale recruitment would do the trick about the remaining 3000 shortfall."

Ouyang Shuo had cleared out all the city protection in an instant. He believed that with the 3 divisions, no one could attack Shanhai City.

"Thirdly, after the city protection unit and city protection regiments are reorganized, apart from Shanhai City, Qiushui City and Friendship City, the rest will recruit a city defense reserve force to be in charge of city defenses. As for the city defense regiments of Shanhai City, Qiushui City and Friendship City, they will be done after the territory upgrades to prefecture."

Building a city defense unit at Beihai City had meaning. The Beihai Naval fleet currently had two roles as sailors and protectors of the city. This reorganization didn't affect the navy, so any big changes to the navy would wait until after the new year.

"Yes, my lord!" Baiqi's eyes brightened. With such an organization to take down, the entire Lianzhou wasn't a far-fetched idea.

After they completed their discussion, what was next was personnel arrangements.

"Director Ge, pass down my orders!"

"Yes!"

"Shi Wanshui will be the major general of the 1st division in the city west camp; Luo Shixin will be the major general of the 2nd division at the city north camp; Er'Lai will be the major general of the 3rd regiment in the city east camp."

Ouyang Shuo first settled the major generals, and next would be the colonels of the regiments. Expectedly, Shihu, Shibao, Zhao Yan, Li Mingliang, Heiqi, and Jiang Kai were all appointed.

Guo Liang, Su Wang, and Liao Kai weren't appointed, but were appointed majors of the major general's personal Guards unit. Guo Liang was with Shi Wanshui, Su Wang with

Luo Shixin, and Liao Kai with Er'Lai.

The various city protection unit and regiment leaders all kept their jobs. After all, they were still needed to build up the defense squads. The only exception was Zhang Daniu and Hu Yobiao, who became the colonels of the 2 spearmen regiments of the 3rd division.

Out of the 3 city protection regiment colonels, only Zhao Sihu remained at his old job.

Taking the chance, Ouyang Shuo appointed Baiqi as general and overall commander. Such a huge role made the usually cold Baiqi emotional as he bowed. "Thank you, my lord!"

Ouyang Shuo nodded and smiled. "I hope that the 3 divisions can be reborn under your hands and become an elite army." He paused for a while before continuing. "Arrange the 2nd division to take the trial. The earlier you finish the earlier the territory can upgrade."

"Understood!"

After the discussion, Baiqi and Ge Hongliang left. In the upcoming month, there was much for them to do.

The next day, the reorganization and role changes were announced by the Military Affairs Department and caused a huge discussion.

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Chapter 287- The truth is out

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After the military reorganization, the entire Shanhai City military started to move.

The forces gathered up at the places where they were suppose to be; the generals went to receive their forces. Under the leadership of Baiqi, everything proceeded orderly and there wasn't a hint of chaos.

Shanhai City's many generals pretty much all joined in the Battle of Changping. As such, they had huge respect for Baiqi. Hence with him as the general, no one was unhappy.

The equipment made by the 4 military workshops were shipped to the 3 main camps. Ever since the large scale acquisition of resources, the Armory Division and Bow and Crossbow Division had started to produce large amounts of bows and armors.

Sent together with the equipment were large amounts of grain. It was quickly going to be winter and war would stop. This was the best time to train the troops, and naturally one needed to accumulate enough grain.

As the animal husbandry industry started to develop, the goods in the military, apart from grain, had large amounts of fish and meat. A large amount of goats and pigs were sent to each camp and reared. Among the fish, apart from seafood coming from Beihai City, there was a wide variety of freshwater fish from Xila Lake.

Apart from that, the Combat Logistics Division sent officials to go to the various tribes to buy Qingfu horses. The 3 divisions lacked around 5-6 thousand horses.

Ouyang Shuo temporarily didn't want to make use of the Qingfu horses which were bred by the Jifeng Valley horse stables. During the winter, the livelihood of the various tribes would become very tough, and hence they would be willing to exchange horses for food.

The equipment that was replaced by the troops filled up the arsenal. Little aunt Lin Jing brought her mercenary team members to and fro for about 20 trips before being able to clear it out. It was estimated that all this equipment could be sold for 30 thousand gold, and was more than enough to settle the class change fees.

The price would be the elite equipment that the 4 workshops produced. To date they hadn't sold any, and all the equipment produced was used internally. Hence, he was always teased by his allies.

The profits for the military industry would only come next year.

The extra gold from the sales were used by Ouyang Shuo to buy grain, buying tens of millions units and storing it in the granary in the west suburbs, solving the grain shortage.

Just as Shanhai City was reorganizing their army, an unusual change was happening in the wild lands.

Tian Qi Tribe, Kehan Tent

Kehan was looking weird and his face was unsettled. "Are you sure you saw it clearly?" Mengke's body wasn't as before. Even so, no one dared to be impudent in front of him.

"That person, even if he was turned to dust, I would recognize him." The one who replied was a tall male with a face covered with a beard. When he spoke, his eyes were filled with hatred.

On closer look, this man was the original west region's commander Lakhshen. Who would have expected that he was released by Mengke and had even went to complete a mission and report to Mengke.

The person Lakhshen recognized was Lin Yi, the man who designed and planned the wildfire operation and killed the young generals of the west region. Before that, the city north camp was south of the city protection river, and as such it was hard to see Lin Yi's face.

After the city north camp took over the Tianfeng tribe area, Lin Yi's face wasn't a mystery anymore. If it weren't that his troops were made to join in the Battle of Changping, he would have been exposed even earlier.

This could be blamed on the carelessness of Ouyang Shuo who didn't expect Lakhshen to see the light of day.

In truth, not long after he was locked up, he was secretly released by Mengke. Mengke gave him a secret mission which was to check who attacked the west region of the town.

If he didn't investigate this, Mengke was unable to rest easy.

Lakhshen was misled by Ouyang Shuo and went to check mainly on the raiders and west side tribes. However he didn't expect that the enemy would come from the south.

Until the Shanhai City army took down Tianfeng tribe and established their position on the wild lands, this attracted his attention. He investigated and saw Lin Yi, the guy that destroyed his life.

Hence, the truth was revealed.

"So you mean the reason our Tianqi Tribe is in such a state is all because of them?" Mengke said coldly. He didn't show any hatred, making him even more cold.

"Not only that, I think that the chaos and killing of the mid-sized tribes were done by them. Their goal was to aid in the destruction of the Tianfeng tribe. Probably even the destruction of the Tianling tribe had something to do with them. They are a pack of hungry wolves that had their eyes set on our tribe." After a crisis, Lakhshen became more calm, only that he felt more devious and evil.

"Have you found out about their military strength?"

"Very strong. With their organization, just their two cavalry regiments have 5000 people, the same as our north region." Talking about this, Lakhshen was a little dejected. "Not only that, they seem to be reorganizing their army. Although I couldn't find anything more, their numbers will only increase. The horses they use are all our Qingfu horses, and their equipment is far better than ours."

Mengke's turned black. "So with our tribe, we can't beat them?"

Lakhshen noticed his expression and shivered. It seemed like he remembered how the west region was destroyed. Lakhshen shook his head, trying to toss aside the random thoughts in his head, saying carefully, "Although I don't want to admit it, it's true. Apart from the city north camp, they also have troops inside Friendship City."

"Hen, we can't do it but don't tell me we can't do it even if we consolidate all the power of the tribes in the wild lands?" Mengke was really decisive, immediately thinking about getting help.

"But would the mid-sized tribes agree?" Lakhshen was doubtful, now was different from last time, as the 7 remaining tribes were guarding against Tianqi tribe.

Lakshen also heard that the Shanhai City people were going around buying Qingfu horses, and the tribes all welcomed them. Those guys were bought over by their grain, tea, and salt.

Mengke seem to have seen through Lakhshen's heart. "You ah, don't look down on those tribes. They might look like they are getting close to Shanhai City, but that's because they don't know their true colors. Once we tell them the intelligence we gathered, I assure you, they will agree. After all, who wants to be like Tianfeng tribe? Them competing with us is an internal battle, now Shanhai City is our common enemy. " What Mengke didn't want to tell Lakhshen was that he wanted to use this chance to make Tianqi tribe the core leader of the wild lands.

"Mengke is smart!" Lakhshen had to admit that it terms of reading people, he wasn't on the same level as Mengke.

Mengke waved him off. "Getting help is only our 2nd option. Most importantly, we need to have a strong army. Such a long time has passed, and I think it's time we rebuild the west region forces. Lakhshen, i hope you won't let me down again."

Lakhshen was emotional beyond words. At this point, he was conflicted, emotional, joyous, grateful, regretful, etc.

He could only respectfully kowtow three times and swore, "I will be loyal to the death to you, to repay your kindness!"

Mengke nodded; this was what he wanted. Recently, there was some unrest amongst the nobles of the tribes, so rebuilding the west region would naturally be given to someone that was totally loyal to him.

Everything was controlled in his hands.

What happened in the wild lands, Ouyang Shuo knew nothing about it.

Now, he was gathering all the directors and secretaries to coordinate the reorganization of the military. Ouyang Shuo met Song San, Wang Yuanfeng, Old Qian, and Zhao Youfang to discuss logistical matters.

The Military Affairs Division was in charge of the scouting squadron. With the help of the Rattlesnake mercenary group, the skill levels of the spies were totally different from previous days.

Scouts were split between infantry and cavalry scouts, both having different scouting missions.

The god machine unit was in charge of forming the engineer squadron, which included artisans in the territory, crossbowmen, and people who used the scaling ladder and other siege weapons.

With a major like Wang Yuanfeng who was familiar with all large-scale machinery and mechanics, Ouyang Shuo was at ease.

The Medical Department was in charge of the medical squadron. When the department was set up, deputy director old Qian had developed a medical squadron which was directly sent to the 3 divisions.

The Combat Logistics Division was in charge of forming the cooking squadron. They had to hire chefs from outside to undergo military training before being able to form up the cooking squadron.

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Chapter 288- Division Trial

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During the 11th month, the Three Flowers Wine factory had profits of 4000 gold. Including the returns from the Beimu Saltpans, Langshan Minefields, and tax returns, the financial income was 28 thousand gold.

Ouyang Shuo kept 7000, increasing the amount in his storage bag to 110 thousand. he passed the remaining 21 thousand gold to the Financial Department to assign, in which the military expenditure took up a huge amount.

As it was close to the end of the year, many of the huge projects in Shanhai City had ended. The 3 bridges joining up Shanhai City, Qiushui City and Friendship City had been completed.

The official residence area, government department area, and commoner residence area were all nearly completed. Even though the population broke 60 thousand, it only took up 1/4 of the residence area.

The building of the two official roads were also near to completion. The road connecting Qiushui City to Friendship City would be completed within a week. The Tianhai Road to the west would be finished in the new year.

The hardest one was the Tianfeng City wall project. With the current speed, it needed to be dragged until next year.

In the 12th month, the Meritorious Service Division under the Administration Department would start its year-end assessment which would affect their bonuses and their positions. This was the biggest event in the administrative system.

As this was a matter of heavy importance, Fan Zhongyan personally chaired the assessment.

The biggest Chamber of Commerce in Qianshou, the Quanji Chamber of Commerce, had officially set up a branch in Shanhai City, and the migrant wave caused by the Mazu Temple had calmed down.

The philosopher debate quest hadn't had any progress. Shanhai City had not seen or noticed any philosopher visit.

Similarly, the various offices in the system imperial capitals weren't going very well. Ten days had passed, and they hadn't even seen a single historical person, not to mention trying to recruit them.

Gaia 1st year 12th month 1st day

Shanhai City's 2nd division had been built and officially set up.

The 2nd division was star studded. Apart from major general Luo Shixin, the colonels were Lin Yi, Sun Tengjiao, Shao Bu, Heiqi and Sun Chuanlin. They were undoubtedly the top in the Shanhai City army.

They also had a specialty, which was they were young.

Apart from the newly built heavy armored cavalry which was formed from the city protection units and regiments, the remainder of the 5 cavalry regiments were experienced and were the elite of the Shanhai City army.

Hence, the moment they formed, the 2nd division had high combat power and was the greatest out of the 3 divisions.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo arranged the 2nd division to go for the trial. Only the generals in the division could join in, so Ouyang Shuo and Baiqi couldn't.

City North Camp, drill ground.

The 13500 soldiers of the 2nd division formed up; Ouyang Shuo activated the interface and initiated the trial, instantly causing a notification to resound in his ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for activating the army group trial, it will be split into division and legion trials, please choose the type!"

"I choose division trial!"

"System notification: choice selected, automatically deducting 5000 gold, will you immediately start?"

"Start!"

Instantly a teleportation gate appeared in the drill ground; it exuded a mysterious feeling.

The testing ground was like a battle quest space with different time settings. During the process, dead soldiers could be revived for free, and those that were revived would be downgraded to a grade 1 normal soldier.

In theory that was no limit in the number of times you could go for the trial. As long as you had money you could start it.

Luo Shixin brought the 5 colonels and walked to Ouyang Shuo. "Marquis!"

"Go!" Ouyang Shuo didn't say much as he trusted these soldiers.

"Yes lord!" Luo Shixin bowed, walking nonchalantly towards the teleportation gate.

Following closely behind him, the various troops followed their colonels through the teleportation gate.

When he went past the gate, what appeared in front of Luo Shixin was a vast grassland.

Looking across, aside from grass, it was still grass and nothing else.

Even so, Luo Shixin didn't put down his guard. He ordered the troops to get into formation to get ready for battle at any time.

As expected, when the last soldier walked through, the teleportation gate disappeared. At the same time, an announcement was made. "Division trial has officially started, lasting to the end would mean you passed!"

As the words were said, numerous wolves appeared in the once empty grass lands, estimated to be no less than 100 thousand of them.

Luo Shixin couldn't believe it; he had never seen so many hungry wolves before. Don't tell me that they would all rush towards them and attack them?

Before he could think, the wolves grouped up and surrounded them, charging towards them.

"Attack!" Luo Shixin was a fierce general who was courageous. He ordered the archer cavalry regiment and the 4 cavalry regiments to attack in 4 directions. As for the bow cavalry regiment, under the protection of the guards unit, they would aim at the wolves.

"Kill!" Lin Yi took the lead and led the first regiment towards the north.

Sun Tengjiao followed closely behind and led the 2nd regiment towards the east. Heiqi attacked the south and Shao Bu attacked the west. The 4 cavalry regiments were like a whirlwind, sweeping the wolves.

When they came into contact, the generals witnessed that these wolves were different. Not only were they fearless, they also had tactics, shocking them.

The vicious wolves were extremely crafty, focusing on the horses. If it wasn't that the 2nd regiment were using the flexible and quick Qingfu horses, there would have been heavy casualties.

Facing 10 times more wolves, the soldiers were riled up. How could they let only wolves sh*t and pee on them?

The 1st and 2nd regiments were heavy armored cavalry, they lacked speed, however as their horses were protected, the wolves did little to them.

Their main weapon was the lance. Unfortunately, it was too heavy and wasn't suitable for battle with the quick wolves. The soldiers placed it into their storage and took out the Tang blades by their side.

As the knives flashed across, the wolf heads fell to the ground.

Lin Yi and Sun Tengjiao gave up on the usual tactics, not charging orderly but instead using a squadron as a group to form up and slaughter wolves.

On the other hand, the 3rd and 4th regiment were light armored cavalry and their main weapon was the Tang blade. They were flexible and could make many changes, randomly moving in and out in the battlefield.

Hence, the tactic that Heiqi and Shao Bu used was to charge together and charge to and fro.

The 5th regiment was in the middle, providing cover fire and attacking from range.

Luo Shixin led his guards unit to sit in the center of the battlefield and didn't choose to attack. The Guards unit was his reserve force to only use when it reached the crucial moment.

The 500 soldiers were the elite chosen from the 4th regiment of the 1st division that Luo Shixin had led. Hence, they had a good understanding of one another.

As the major general, Luo Shixin knew that his role wasn't to slaughter but to make changes to the army based on the situation.

The situation made him frown as it wasn't looking good.

Although the wolf pack had heavy casualties, they seem to be endless. Hence, the cavalry were in a desperate situation and struggled to keep up.

Furthermore, within the four regiments they were fighting for themselves and even competing, making the situation even worse.

Luo Shixin was clear that the 5 colonels were all different, but were also all young and competitive. Thus, they didn't like to lose.

Out of the 5 men, Lin Yi was the most traditional and the one with the most experience. He went from a sergeant all the way to colonel. He had gained much military credits and helped kill many bandits, helping the lord conquer the land.

Luo Shixin was moved to the city north camp and took over Lin Yi, not knowing what he was feeling deep down. Although he was confident, be it skills or leadership, Lin Yi wasn't his match. But he couldn't stop him from having any other thoughts in his heart.

After all, ever since following Ouyang Shuo, Luo Shixin hadn't showed any skill.

Sun Tengjiao was from a refugee camp and followed them to join Shanhai City alongside Ge Hongliang and Xu Zhenchang. The three of them formed a iron triangle and had deep backgrounds.

When he battle started, Sun Tengjiao and been competing against Lin Yi. When he first arrived, he was always below Lin Yi, now both being colonels, how would he not want to prove himself?

Heiqi was a general of the raiders, and after passing an assessment, was finally put to use. Hence, he wanted to prove himself. After all, before surrendering there were more than 1000 men below him.

Shao Bu was a fallen general from the nomadic tribes. The people from the grasslands were competitive, so this was needless to say. Even though he was considered calmer, under the influence of everyone it was hard not to be riled up.

The most stable one was Sun Chuanlin. He was a general from Dali who wasn't happy with bowing down to the rich and famous and left Dali to join Shanhai City.

The tough experience made him cautious and low profile, and he didn't want to compete with others. He only wanted to thank Ouyang Shuo's good grace on the battlefield.

Thinking about this, Luo Shixin's head started to hurt.

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Chapter 289- Murderous Surroundings

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Luo Shixin was very clear that his first test as major general would be how to unite these 5 young generals by his side.

Probably this division trial would be a good opportunity.

In a blink of an eye, the situation on the battlefield changed.

The 2nd regiment was overconfident and unknowingly they were surrounded by the pack of wolves. As the soldiers were in a squadron as units, the sudden increase in wolves increased the pressure and casualties started to happen.

Luo Shixin waved his flag and ordered the 5th regiment to assist the 2nd regiment in order to save them. When Sun Chuanlin received the order, he ordered his troops to aim and shoot at the wolves on the west side.

The flurry of arrows resulted in heavy casualties for the wolves, allowing Sun Tengjiao to lead his troops to break out. As the second regiment returned back to the camp, they had sustained some casualties.

The medical squadron instantly rushed up to do some simple treatment on the wounded soldiers.

Seeing the actions of the wolves, Luo Shixin was certain that behind them there had to be a leader commanding. If not, it was impossible for them to retreat and advance at such opportune moments and even know tactics like surrounding the enemy.

The key to defeating them would be to find the leader.

Only that when one looked out, it was just a sea of grey and everything looked the same. In his eyes, each wolf looked about the same so how could he recognize which one was the lead wolf?

Luo Shixin started to change his thought process. The leader was a commander, so if he was like it, where would he hide?

With this question, Luo Shixin focused and tracked the movement of the wolf packs.

Hundreds of thousands of wolves surrounded the troops and engaged in a slaughter with the army. In the sky, wolf head after wolf head dropped down like it was raining wolf heads.

Their plan to surround the second regiment had failed, so the wolf pack had a new movement.

Their new target was the 1st regiment.

Similar to the 2nd regiment, the 1st regiment fought in squadrons. Luckily, Lin Yi was more experienced than Sun Tengjiao and didn't dare to advance rashly.

Even so, as the first regiment was heavy armored cavalry, it wasn't good at long battles, and long battles had a heavy burden on the bodies of the war horses. slowly the soldiers started to show signs of fatigue and their attacks slowed.

The wolf pack was really alert and upon sensing the enemy's weakness, they attacked. The other wolves on the three fronts also slowly gathered towards the north.

Luo Shixin laughed coldly, "Finally caught you."

He ordered the 2nd and 4th regiments to cut in from the east and west while the 5th regiment was to remain where they were. Luo Shixin led out his Guards unit and charged towards the north.

The Guards unit were dying for some action, and hearing the major general order them, they were like a group of wild horses that were released, charging relentlessly, killing any wolf in their way.

Luo Shixin led the way. He wanted to show off his skills in front of the generals, using the Bintie overlord spear to its limit. With a sweep, the head of a wolf was broken apart.

The generals were shocked, one must know that the skull was the hardest part of the body and he had just swept out at them.

Luo Shixin's spear technique was amazing, and with his god given strength he was just like an overlord. The other generals were nothing in front of him.

A Luo Shixin that tried hard was really terrifying. The wolf pack upon seeing him strut his stuff, a hundred of them surrounded him. Luo Shixin was unfazed and swept left and right, clearing out half of them.

Even so, the wolf pack was fearless and the next wave charged forwards. It seemed like behind them was something really important that they had to risk their lives to protect.

Seeing such a situation, Luo Shixin was more confident and he resolutely charged forward. The large wolf army couldn't stop him as he used the spear in his hand and burst apart head after head; the scene was very majestic.

Seeing their general being so godly, the soldiers all looked on in awe.

At this point, the morale of the soldiers had reached its highest point. A group of young men with their blood boiling, under the leadership of Luo Shixin, charged out of the encirclement.

Luo Shixin took the lead, and when he killed off the last batch of wolves, what he saw shocked him.

Behind them was the leader who looked exceptionally big, standing there motionlessly. This wolf, apart from being a little bigger, had no other unique points.

What was special was the little white wolf that laid on its head.

The wolf was the size of a cat, its fur was white without a single grey hair. What was special was its eyes, which were exceptionally quick at moving. A normal person's eyes wouldn't be as eye catching as those and filled with so much spirituality.

"Major general, is their commander the little pup?" The major of the Guards unit, Suwang, couldn't believe it.

"Heh, that's right. Think about it, which normal wolf would have eyes like that?" If it were before, Luo Shixin would not believe that there were spiritual beasts. Until he came to Shanhai City and saw the Nian Beasts, the world was filled with mysteries.

"So we kill it?" Suwang couldn't bear to.

"No." Luo Shixin shook his head. "This spiritual beast is very rare. Let's capture it and give it to the marquis. I'm sure 3rd miss would really like it."

"Hehe, major general. When did you start sucking up to the marquis?" Suwang teased.

"Tsk tsk tsk!" Luo Shixin was embarrassed. "Go take it down; if it escapes, you're at fault."

"Yes!" Suwang regained his focus and led the Guards unit to surround the white wolf.

At this moment, the wolf pack went insane and rushed towards the north. Luo Shixin was now sure that the little white wolf was the commander.

Seeing that victory was in their eyes, the generals gave it their all to match up with the sudden frenzy of the wolves.

Suwang although looked like he was joking all the time, but when he worked, he did it diligently and carefully, catching the little white Wolf quickly. The little thing was smart and not strong. It's combat power was similar to that of normal pups.

It was the mount of the little white wolf that died a terrible death in the hands of the Guards.

After being captured, the little wolf wasn't afraid, curiously looking at Luo Shixin and the others.

Luo Shixin picked it up from Suwang and grabbed it by its neck, dangling it in mid-air. "Little guy, I know you can understand me. Ask the wolf pack to retreat and don't make unnecessary sacrifices.

The little brat fixed Luo Shixin with a look, using its claws to scratch its little head before turning around and calling out to the wolf pack, "Ao wu~"

"Puchi!" Luo Shixin tried his best to hold in his laughter.

Such a cute sound was totally different from the position the little fellow held. What was key was its cry wasn't loud so Luo Shixin was worried whether the wolf pack could hear it.

What happened next stunned Luo Shixin and the others.

The wolf pack that had been fighting for their lives instantly stopped, looking toward the direction of the little white wolf before turning around and leaving.

In a moment, the wolf pack left like a flood, disappearing as quickly as it came.

Luo Shixin heaved a sigh of relief; he finally did it. What confused him was that there weren't any notifications, and that the teleportation gate didn't appear.

He didn't dare be careless and ordered the troops to set up defensive positions to wait for the next wave.

As expected, before the 2nd division could react, a huge change happened in the grasslands.

In the east, south, and west, fire started. As the wind blew, the fire started to spread and turned the grassland into a sea of fire.

Such a scene was what the soldiers had never seen before, throwing the forces into an uproar. However, Luo Shixin was calm and ordered the troops to compact their defenses and go towards the north where there wasn't fire.

Just at that moment, from the safest north direction, the rumbling of horses galloping could be heard.

Luo Shixin snickered; he knew that things wouldn't have been so simple. He ordered the troops to not panic and take the chance that the fire hadn't spread to form up properly.

In a short while, a black line from the north appeared. It was tens of thousands of grassland cavalry. Then cavalry followed the sound of whistles and surrounded the warriors of the 2nd division.

Luo Shixin laughed coldly. The 2nd division had no way out, and if they wanted to live, they had to break through.

He placed the 1st and 2nd regiments as the main force, the 3rd and 4th as the two wings, and the 5th regiment at the front line. Once they finished reorganizing, they instantly charged forward.

"Kill!" Once again Luo Shixin led the soldiers of the Guards unit and charged in front.

The rumbling of horse hooves exploded in the grasslands like a shocking tsunami.

The two groups of cavalry under the encampment of the fire had no choice but to give it their all.

The first to contact the enemy was the 5th regiment. Both sides had an archery battle. Compared to the grassland cavalry, the 5th regiment was weaker. Luckily, they had prepared crossbow machines.

The crossbow machine that the Bow and Crossbow Division had designed for the cavalry was light, fast, and easy to load. What it sacrificed was the range. Even so, the crossbow machine had a longer range than a bow.

The arrow rain met in mid air; both sides wanted to kill their enemy.

Luo Shixin's decisiveness to make the 2nd division take the initiative was what the grassland cavalry didn't expect, hence, they couldn't react in time.

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Chapter 290- Back Against the Wall

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Braving the arrow rain, Luo Shixin led the guards unit and led the charge into the enemy formation.

If one compared the grassland cavalry to wolves, then Luo Shixin was a lion, casually killing amongst the wolf pack. No one was a match for his spear.

His strength caused all the grassland cavalry to shiver in fear.

However they weren't beginners, and how could they allow such a small group to do what they wanted? Thus, they reorganized the army to surround the guards unit.

The soldiers of the unit weren't as strong as Luo Shixin, and instantly entered a tough battle.

Not only that, the grassland cavalry held the numerical advantage. In the battle of archery, they controlled the 5th regiment. Even the 3rd and 4th regiments which were at the wings were hurt by the arrow rain.

However, things changed quickly.

Just as the 5th regiment rushed in front and separated to the two sides, the 3rd and 4th regiments also followed behind and attacked the wings of the enemy.

The spreading out of the 5th regiment allowed the real main characters to enter.

The 1st and 2nd regiment grouped up and charged together. They grabbed their horse lances and with an unprecedented aura, galloped on.

For the invincible heavy armoured cavalry under the sun, their Mingguang armor reflected the golden light. They were like soldiers from heaven.

Facing such elite troops, the grassland cavalry had finally reached a point where their equipment was weaker.

The arrow rain, upon hitting the armor, just slipped off and did no damage. Five thousand heavy armored cavalry charged forwards right into their formation from start to finish, opening a bloody path.

In a moment, the grassland cavalry formation was in chaos and couldn't block the 2nd division. The various regiments also didn't care much about fighting and made escaping the encampment their main goal.

The grassland cavalry could only look on as the 2nd regiment broke through and gather behind them.

The battle had been overturned.

Just as both sides were fighting neck and neck, the fire had spread, and it was like a fire dragon, heading toward the grassland cavalry in the north.

The thick smoke covered the entire battlefield.

"Major General, do we have to block them? Let them burn to death." Sun Tengjiao suggested.

"No." Luo Shixin instantly rejected the idea. "Blocking them will not only will make them give their all, they will have the exact same mentality that we had. If all goes wrong, both sides will have heavy casualties."

"Then what should we do? We can't just let them out, right?" Sun Tengjiao was unsatisfied.

"They want to leave? Not that easy." Luo Shixin laughed coldly. "Organize the troops to leave a path in the middle, such that they can only leave from there. We will kill them from the sides."

"That's a great idea!" The generals were delighted.

Luo Shixin's plan not only gave them hope and made them not have the determination to risk everything; they could effectively kill them, killing two birds with one stone.

Lin Yi looked at Luo Shixin, his eyes had a complicated look to it. In this battle, Luo Shixin had used his personal strength and leadership to earn everyone's respect.

This time, he had made Lin Yi accept his defeat.

Maybe Luo Shixin noticed Lin Yi's expression, maybe he didn't. He didn't have the slightest of reactions as he continued to reorganize the troops to give the grassland cavalry a surprise.

Even ants wanted to live, much less humans.

Seeing the fire spreading to their sides, the grassland cavalry were already ready to risk it all, who would have thought that the enemy would leave a path? Although they knew that the enemy was scheming, under life threatening circumstances, they couldn't think well and rushed down the path in order to survive.

That path was the path to life but also the path to death.

Not talking about the 2nd division which was continuously shooting arrows, the grassland cavalry were fighting within themselves to try to escape. With the tens of thousands of men fighting for that road to survival, the scene was very gruesome and intense.

When they passed halfway through, Luo Shixin raised his flag. Instantly the 1st and 2nd regiments closed the path shut and blocked their way out, wanting to burn them alive.

The arrow rain formed a line of death where any one who dared to cross it would be killed instantly. There were one or two lucky ones who were able to rush to the front of the 2nd division, but they didn't make much of a difference.

The huge fire didn't care about their screams as it spread around with determination. The cavalry that were trapped were either shot by the archers in front or burned by the fire from behind.

Those who managed to escape had wanted to save them, but why would Luo Shixin give them the chance. The 3rd and 4th regiments had rushed across. If they were able to save their own lives, they should feel happy already.

After wiping out the half of the cavalry that were blocked, just as Luo Shixin wanted to chase the victory and kill the other half, a notification sounded out. "Division trial has ended, trial passed!"

Along with the words, the fire in the grasslands stopped, and even the corpses of the grassland cavalry disappeared. At the same time, the soldiers of the 2nd division who died were also revived.

The miraculous scene was like a dream. Only the little white wolf that laid in Luo Shixin's hands was proof that everything that happened was real.

In this battle, the 2nd division paid a price of 2000 men and passed the trial.

A teleportation gate appeared in the grasslands.

"Go, let's return!" Luo Shixin ordered the troops to leave while he was the last to go through.

The massacre in the grassland took less than half an hour in the main map. Just as the 2nd division teleported back, Ouyang Shuo who was waiting heard a system notification.

"System notification: Congratulations Player Qiyue Wuyi, Shanhai City 2nd division successfully passed the division trial. Rewarded one army flag, one commander flag. Player, please take a look!"

A white light shone across and two flags appeared in his hand.

Gaia was amazing; the design of the army flag was based on the flag that Ouyang Shuo designed for the vanguard unit: the blue was split into two by gold, above the blue was a volcano, in front of which was a Tang blade and horse lance, which were crossed.

As for the commander flag, it was a smaller version of the picture on the upper lefthand corner, and the middle of the flag had a red background with a large 'Luo' on it.

The design of the commander flag meant that they had passed the trial, and not only could they not change the soldiers, they also couldn't change the commander or the trial would be invalid.

As the division specialty was given through the flag, without it the speciality would not be active.

[Army Flag] (2nd Division): After gearing up, raise troops morale by 50%

[Commander Flag] (2nd Division): After gearing up, raise troops combat power by 20%.

The specialties of the army flag were all the same while one of the commander flag depended on the general.

Taking the opportunity, Ouyang Shuo held a flag ceremony to hand over the two flags over to Luo Shixin.

From today onward, these 2 flags would represent the honor of the 2nd division.

There was a flagbearer assigned where he was in charge of carrying the flag.

At this point, out of the 4 upgrade quests, Shanhai City had already finished 3 and was left with the 1st quest. As long as Ouyang Shuo wanted to, he could make Shanhai City upgrade to a grade 1 prefecture.

Of course he wasn't satisfied. Anyways, in the game he was the only lord which was Marquis rank, so no one would be able to compete with him.

Maybe things would change for the better.

After presenting the flags, Luo Shixin gave the little white wolf to Ouyang Shuo.

"What's this?" Upon receiving it, Ouyang Shuo asked doubtfully.

Luo Shixin gave a simply description of the battle. "This little white wolf is special, so I brought it to give to you."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and laughed. "You are too kind!" He took a look at its stats.

Name: White Wolf (Spirit Beast)

Level: --

Skill: Telepathy (Can communicate with all wolf types), Charm (can use its appearance to charm the enemy)

Combat Power: --

Evaluation: In legends, white wolves were the royalty amongst wolves, they were the descendants of the wolf god and as such have a high position and prestige, the ruler of all wolves.

It's called the leader of all wolves? This little fellow has a huge background.

What was more weird was that its level and combat power were both unknown, probably because it was still in its infancy.

Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate and used the wild animal taming skill on it. After failing a few times, he barely succeeded.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for taming White Wolf, awarded reputation points 500!"

As expected, it didn't become a territory protector beast like the Nian Beasts. This meant that it was a little weaker than them. After all, the Nian Beasts did have the bloodline of the Qilin.

After everything was settled, Ouyang Shuo brought White Wolf and returned to Shanhai City.

Xianyang, Shanhai County office.

On this day, outside the office stood a father and daughter pair. The father was over 50 years old, and his aura meant that he was a high official. The girl wasn't young and was a middle-aged woman, looking very elegant.

"Father, is this the place?"

"That's right!"

"That's great!" The lady was delighted; her happiness was indescribable.

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Chapter 291- World's First Prefecture

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On the same day, a system notification sounded around the earth.

"World Notification: Congratulations American region player Jake Dawson for becoming the 2nd Marquis ranked lord, awarded the title of Free Lord, awarded reputation points 15 thousand points, the imperial city you are in will give you your specific rewards."

After Ouyang Shuo, the world finally had a second lord that ranked up to Marquis. This meant that the battle for the first prefecture wasn't going to be a solo by Ouyang Shuo.

Shanhai City not upgrading to date gave Jake Dawson and his Free City a chance.

If he didn't care about the degree of completion and upgraded with 2 quests, he could possibly get ahead of Shanhai City and become the 'World's First Prefecture'.

Ouyang Shuo wasn't sure whether or not Jake Dawson would not care about anything and just go for the glory. After all, during the city grade, he lost the opportunity from a winning position hence he would be more rash and wouldn't want to lose again.

Ouyang Shuo hogging the world's first position had made the western lords unhappy, and they wanted to regain it and not let Ouyang Shuo's east be a one man show.

If Jake Dawson was able to take the World's First Prefecture, all their dark clouds would fade away.

In a moment, Ouyang Shuo was conflicted between two choices.

Should he chase for perfection or solidify his position of being the world's first.

Towards this point, the Shanhai Alliance was also split.

Gong Chengshi, Wufu and Songwen all supported keeping the glory, as this could would raise the prestige of the Shanhai Alliance in both China and the world.

Most importantly was that both the world's first town and city were taken by Ouyang Shuo. If he didn't become the first prefecture, rumours and arguments would start.

The world was like this. When you claimed glory for your country, they would worship you and praise you; the moment you lose that honor they would criticize you and drown you.

Song Wen and the others, although their views had a little selfishness in it, they had logic.

Bai Hua, Feng Qiuhuang and Xunlong Dianxue supported completing all the quests as honor was fake. Getting the rewards was what really mattered, and that was the smarter choice.

After all, Shanhai City had already shocked the world and getting another world's first wouldn't make much of a difference.

Both of them debated back and forth, making Ouyang Shuo even more conflicted.

Honestly speaking, Ouyang Shuo wanted to achieve the triple crown. But rationally, he agreed with Bai Hua.

In the last life, he hadn't heard of any lords completing all four quests and achieving a 100% completion rate. Thinking back to the village creation quest at the start, the rewards were amazing; it even had a chance of being a unique reward.

The only thing was that the recruiting of historical people quest had too many uncertainties.

Ouyang Shuo firmly believed that with the specialty and fame of the territory, and being the background of the philosopher debate, they could definitely attract historical people.

The key being time.

Ouyang Shuo made the choice to ignore Jake Dawson and complete his own quest. Just as he was about to give up on the glory, the system pulled another joke on him.

On Gaia First year 12th month 5th day, two days after Jake Dawson was given the title of Free Lord, Wei Ran and his daughter Wei Lan arrived in Shanhai City.

Who was Wei Ran? A senior statesman for the Qin, given a position four times, the father-in-law of Baiqi. Hearing that Baiqi had come to Shanhai City, they specially came over. He wanted to become famous in Shanhai City and also wanted to help reunite his daughter and Baiqi.

Historical people under the support of Gaia, each had their own message system. If not, the players all having their territories in the wilderness, without correct intel, how could these historical people choose where to live?

The fame of the territory showed its magic in this system. The more famous the territory, the faster the news could spread to the ears of the historical personnel.

Wei Ran was a person with power, and after the Battle of Changping, he was added to the game. He had been going around getting news and getting ready to choose a good place to call home.

Hearing that Baiqi was well treated and given power in Shanhai City, Wei Ran decided to move here. Taking into account his daughter, there was no reason for him not to.

Name: Wei Ran (King rank)

Title: Rang Lord

Dynasty: Warring States (Qin)

Identity: Shanhai City civil servant

Occupation: Civil Servant

Loyalty: 75 points

Command: 50

Force: 48

Intelligence: 72

Politics: 75

Specialty: Well-rounded (Raise territory order by 25%), Keen eye (raise talent scouting of territory by 10%), Evaluate the situation (Raise efficiency by 15%)

Evaluation: The Rang Lord is intelligent and highly adaptable. He worked for the Queen Mother while supporting the King. Given four official positions and helped to block up Xinjiang. Helped in the destruction of the Chu and the Wei.

Wei Ran's arrival delighted Ouyang Shuo, sweeping up the gloominess.

The scene in which Baiqi and Wei Lan reunited wasn't as emotional as one expected. Baiqi was quite cold blooded, and even though he had reunited with his wife, he didn't lose his usual calm.

But upon careful inspection, one could notice a thread of warmth in Baiqi's eyes.

Under the arrangement by Zisu, Wei Ran moved into the official residence area and lived right next to Baiqi. As for his position, he wanted to wait till the territory upgraded before arranging it.

Also, there were 3-4 good talents from the Mazu Temple induced migration wave who were under the orders of Ouyang Shuo. The Administration Department gave them specific jobs.

After dealing with everything, Ouyang Shuo rushed to the meeting hall to upgrade the territory.

As Ouyang Shuo opened the territory interface and clicked on upgrade, a system notification sounded out in his ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi, completed all 4 quests. Will you upgrade?"

"Yes!"

The territory stone steele rose up from the ground, and a golden light shot up, bursting apart in mid air. The golden lustre spread out in all directions before disappearing.

"System notifications: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for upgrading to grade 1 prefecture. City grade manor will automatically upgrade to prefecture grade!"

At the prefecture grade, there weren't any basic building that could be provided by the system.

Following which was a flurry of system notifications.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for being the first lord in the Chinese region to upgrade to grade 1 prefecture, rewarded 4400 merit points!"The merit point reward was double that of the city stage. To Ouyang Shuo's rank, however, it was just a small bonus.

As the notification went out, the Chinese region flew into an uproar, as all players were witnessing another glorious moment.

As expected, shortly after the system notification, a global notification sounded.

"World notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for becoming the first lord to upgrade to grade 1 prefecture, rewarded 8000 merit points, 10 thousand reputation points, and given the title of World's First Prefecture."World notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for completing all four quests and achieving a 100% completion rate. Rewarded special building- collection house!"At this point, Ouyang Shuo had managed to obtain his triple crown and had became the undisputed overlord.

As the world notification went out, the world was silent.

The western world was dead silent; Ouyang Shuo's strength made them breathless. No one cared about the secret building and all their eyes were on his triple crown.

Jake Dawson sent on the global channel, "Qiyue Wuyi, congratulations!" To be able to become a lord, even if one lost, one must have the tolerance to concede defeat.

"Thank you!" Ouyang Shuo replied.

Settling all the random stuff, Ouyang Shuo finally had time to take a look at the stats.

【Territory】: Shanhai Territory

【Lord】: Lianzhou Lord Qiyue Wuyi (2nd class Marquis )

【Title】: The World's First Prefecture (Increase town fame by 50%)

【Title】: Home of martial arts (Raise residents' body capabilities by 20%)

【Governed Area 】: Shanhai city (grade 1 prefecture)

【Population】: 100 thousand/ 500 thousand

【Refugee Spawn Rate】: 500 * (1 50%) = 750 / day

【Territory area】: 50000 square kilometers

【Territory Specialty】:

50% Refugee attraction rate, 25% Special talented people attraction rate, 50% Crop production rate, 25% Productivity of workers, 20% Experience earned by troops, 10% Chances of talented people in the territory to advance a level

【Political】: 75/100 (Affecting the administrative efficiency and morale)

【Economic】: 68/100 (Affecting the trading prosperity and tax)

【Cultural】: 70/100 (Affecting the education development and quality of residents)

【Military】: 78/100 (Affecting the military strength and stability)

【Affliate Counties】: Beihai City, Qiushui City, Friendship City...

【Finanical Institutions】: Four Seas Bank

【Territory Chamber of Commerce 】: Cui Chamber of Commerce, Quanji Chamber of Commerce

【Territory Specialties】: Lianzhou three flower wine, colored silk, white tea

【Special Building】: Collection House

【Hidden Building】: Mazu Temple, Recruitment Hall, Yellow Emperor Temple

Basic buildings list:

Wengcheng: the main defensive facility of a city, building a semi-circle small city to guard the gate. Building requirements: 50 thousand units of green bricks, 10 thousand units of stones. Building time: 20 days.

Painting Academy: A place that's in charge of painting, in charge of evaluating as well as developing painters and paintings. Building requirements: advanced painter, painting academy building blueprints, 10 thousand units of wood, 10 thousand units of green bricks, 8000 units of stones. Building time: 15 days.

Distribution Center: The region were resources and goods are gathered and distributed from. Building requirements: 20 thousand units of wood, 40 thousand units of green brick, 20 thousand units of stone. Building time: 15 days.

Compared to the city grade, the prefecture grade territory interface had some changes.

Firstly, the separation of the territory and the governed area was no longer discussed together. This would make the governing of the prefecture more complicated as more emphasis would be placed on the affiliate territories.

The governance area was the city where the Lord's Manor was situated.

With Shanhai territory as an example, apart from Shanhai City, it had 8 affiliate counties. Adding this together was far larger than the scale of Shanhai City. Hence, it wouldn't be suitable if one used Shanhai City to describe the land.

As the territory continued to expand, this would become more and more obvious.

Secondly, adding affiliate cities, financial institutions, as well as territory Chamber of Commerces into the stats page, which meant that the managing of the territory had reached a new level.

A grade 1 prefecture population upper limit was 5 times that of before, and now reached 500 thousand. Even with the strength of the territory specialty, to reach the upper limit needed 1.5 years.

What did this mean? This meant that for the territory to develop, he needed to steal from others.

Hence that was the reason why Ouyang Shuo tried to raise 'poisonous insects', such that the Lianzhou Basin could have enough of a population to upgrade.

As the population limit increased, there was also the territory area, and now it took up nearly 1/5 of the Lianzhou Basin. This meant that Yongye City, Guangshui City, Yishui City and Gushan City were now part of the area.

After becoming a prefecture, the basic building numbers had dropped and now just numbere three. Out of the three buildings, the Wengcheng was an essential facility for the outer wall.

The Painting Academy was simple. It was like the chess courtyard, and could be directly built inside Xinan University. The only requirement would be that you needed to spend 2000 gold to buy a blueprint.

Of course, one also needed an advanced painter. This was easy, as out of the migrants from Quanzhou, there was already a painter.

The last building, the Distribution Center, represented Shanhai City as a self-sufficient city, radiating toward the surrounding counties.

Lastly was the system reward. The collection house.

Ouyang Shuo built it in the inner portions of Xinan University to be the library of the university. As for its stats, Ouyang Shuo didn't have time to take a look.

No matter what, for it to be taken out as a reward by the system meant that it wasn't simple.

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Chapter 292- Prefecture System

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As the territory upgraded, the Lianzhou Lord's Manor also underwent a huge change.

The Lord's Manor was now 5 times larger and had the real feel of a Lord's Manor. The courtyard group, which was now 5 times larger, had a main gate, side door, covering walls, festooned doors were plenty, veranda, stone path, hallways etc, backseat room, side rooms, wing-room, lateral courts, etc.

As the size increased, the number of courtyards increased, making Ouyang Shuo a little dizzy.

With the festooned door as the divider, the Lianzhou Lord manor was separated into inner and outer. The outer region had the main hall, culture hall and martial hall as the core. Their functions were the same as the previous courtyard.

Ouyang Shuo specially built a beautiful courtyard in the outer region as his reading room which would act as his future office, so he didn't need to squeeze in with the directors and secretaries.

In the inner region, apart from living quarters, there was a special drill ground for him to train his martial arts.

In the martial hall, apart from the Guards regiment, there was a small courtyard to act as Baiqi's office. As the overall general, if Baiqi wasn't in the barracks, he would be dealing with military affairs.

After upgrading, the function of the Lord's Manor was overall becoming more and more perfect.

After upgrading, the territory was going to have a whole new military and administrative revolution.

Military-wise, with the appointment of Baiqi as well as the building of the 3 divisions, there wouldn't be huge changes in a short time. At most it, would be the creation of city protection regiment as well as the special forces.

The key would be the administrative reorganization.

That afternoon, Ouyang Shuo invited Fan Zhongyan, Tian Wenjing and Cui Yingyu for a meeting.

The meeting location was in Ouyang Shuo's meeting room. The secretary Bai Nanpu brought the three directors tea before leaving the reading room and waiting outside. He knew that this meeting was unusual.

What made Bai Nanpu uncertain was that out of the 5 directors, Ge Hongliang and Chang Shen Zhui weren't invited. If one said that Ge Hongliang was only part of military affairs, and as such wasn't invited, then why wasn't Shen Zhui invited?

Was he going to be shut out? Bai Nanpu had a shiver down his spine and didn't dare to think about it.

What Ouyang Shuo didn't know was that his actions had many interpretations by the secretaries. Even if he knew, he wouldn't have the time and energy to bother about it. What he cared about was the administrative system.

"About the current administrative system, say your thoughts!"

Fan Zhongyan had made all his mental preparations. They knew that every time the territory had upgraded a tier, the lord would make huge changes. The only difference was that he didn't throw out his plan and wanted to hear their thoughts.

The Marquis wanted them to speak, hence they had to say their thoughts. They also must make sense. If not, how would it be fitting of their position?

Fan Zhongyan took the lead. "I feel that reorganizing the administrative structure, we need to separate the Lianzhou Lord's Manor from Shanhai City. Hence, it will emphasize the prestige of the Lianzhou lord, and made the subordinate-boss relationship clear."

Before, Shanhai City and the Lianzhou Lord's Manor were part of the same body. After upgrading, Shanhai City was only the governed area, so it wasn't right to mix the two up.

"If we separate Lianzhou Lord's Manor from Shanhai City, what will the relationship be between Shanhai City and the subsidiary territories?" Ouyang Shuo didn't agree or disagree, just throwing out a question.

"Since we want to separate, we must separate completely. The thing about the subsidiary territories must also be changed. I suggest that we have 3 systems: the prefecture, Lord's Manor, and the city to make clear the relationships."

Ouyang Shuo eyes brightened as he said eagerly, "Please be more specific!"

"The entire Shanhai Territory can be considered a prefecture, so we should temporarily call it Shanhai Prefecture. The Lianzhou Lord's Manor controls the power over the military and administrations of Shanhai Prefecture. In the west, with Tianfeng City as the center, set up the Tianfeng House. It would be in charge of Tianfeng, Yongye, and Guangshui City. In the middle with Shanhai City as the center, we could set up the Shanhai House or Jingzhao House, being in charge of Shanhai City, Qiushui City and Friendship City. In the east, Yishui and Gushan could set up a house temporarily."

"What about Beihai City?" Yingyu asked.

"Beihai City is located outside of the Lianzhou Basin, and its geography is special so we can give it its own House."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "I largely agree with Xiwen's plan, but I have three points to improve on. Firstly, the next strategic movement of the territory would be to take over the entire Lianzhou Basin. Hence when we reorganize, we must use the entire Lianzhou Basin as the blueprint and make the whole basin the Lianzhou Prefecture. Secondly, although Tianfeng City will be where the Tianfeng House is built, it should be called Tianfeng City to standardize everything. Thirdly, a prefecture shouldn't have so many houses. Four is the most suitable. The future Lianzhou Basin will set up 5 in four directions and the center. Hence, Beihai County can be renamed as Beihai City, and currently under the jurisdiction of the Lianzhou Lords manor, they won't have their own house.

"Marquis is a genius! As for the name of Shanhai House, what will you name it?"

"Just name it Shanhai House!" Ouyang Shuo wasn't aiming too far.

"Yes, my lord."

After Fan Zhongyan finished, Tian Wenjing stood up. "Regarding the Shanhai House, I have an idea."

"Oh?" Ouyang Shuo knew that Tian Wenjing rarely spoke, but the moment he did meant that he had a great idea.

"Shanhai City, Qiushui City and Friendship City all defend the south of the Lianzhou Basin and are all very close to one another. Also, with the bridge joining the three of them, instead of calling them three cities, why not consider them one giant city? Hence I suggest to get rid of Qiushui City and Friendship City and combine all three, calling it Shanhai City. With this mega city, only then could it fit the bill of being the main city of our territory." Tian Wenjing's idea was expectedly shocking.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Tian Wenjing's idea was similar to what he thought of when he planned the two subsidiary territories. Only this giant city could be good enough to act as the capital of the country that they were building.

"Good, we will follow your idea."

The three of them worked together and basically solved the organization problems of the territory. What was left was naturally handled by the Administration Department.

Ouyang Shuo thought about it and felt that it wasn't enough. "Apart from reorganizing the prefecture, we must also reorganize the Lianzhou Lord's Manor."

Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing exchanged glances, a shiver running down their spine. They immediately linked this issue to the reason why Shenzhui wasn't present.

As expected, Ouyang Shuo was about to get rid of the Material Reserve Department. "After upgrading to a prefecture, there isn't a need for the Material Reserves Department to exist. I have decided to disband the department. The Saltpan Division as well as Beimu Saltpans will be now under Beihai City, and a portion of their profits will be given to the Financial Department. As for the Resource Division and Transport Division, we will have other plans for them."

Ouyang Shuo being able to let go of his highest profit making tool, the Beimu Saltpans, showed his confidence. The times, when it single handedly supported the finances of the territory were long gone.

"The Resource Division will be disbanded, the logging camp and quarry will be under their respective location Houses, the mines will be under the Combat Logistics Division; the granary and Langshan Mine fields will be under the Industry Division. The other resources will be left to the merchants, and we won't bother about them."

"The transport division is disbanded. The Jifeng Horse Stables will now be under the Combat Logistics Division; the transport line and harbor will be under the Industry Division, only this time we will allow investments by merchants."

Ouyang Shuo's arrangement not only simplified the structure but also relaxed the control of the territory on its economy, increasing room for investment.

The Hequanji Chamber of Commerce and Cui Chamber of Commerce entering was a good opportunity.

At this point, the territory had the Administration Department, Internal Affairs Department, and Financial Department as its core. The Financial Department had been strengthened in this round of reorganization.

After settling the organizational structure, what was next was the appointments of key personnel.

The prefect of Shanhai House was already decided by Ouyang Shuo to be Wei Ran; there was nothing to be discussed about that. What needed to be planned was where Zhao Dexian and Zhou Haichen were going.

The prefect of Tianfeng House was a hot topic. The current City Magistrate Zhao Dewang would definitely not be able to handle it, so he needed to choose another talent.

There was also the appointments of Shen Zhui and the others after the disbanding of the Material Reserves Department.

"For the prefect of Tianfeng House, whom do you all suggest?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

Fan Zhongyan and the rest looked at one another. Such an appointment was very sensitive, and they didn't want to join in.

"Just say it. Say anything!" Ouyang Shuo wasn't going to let them off.

"What about Shen Zhui?" Tian Wenjing tested the waters, Shen Zhui could be considered half a disciple, and since he was relieved of his duties, he wanted to find a good job for him.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "Shen Zhui still needs some training, I'll let him become the City Magistrate of Yongye City!" Although Ouyang Shuo had high hopes for Shenzhui, he didn't want to stunt his growth.

Fan Zhongyan looked at Yingyu. "I suggest Yishui City's City Magistrate Cui Shousi." Fan Zhongyan's suggestion was quite interesting. Everyone knew that he was Cui Yingyu's brother.

If this plan was accepted, the Cui family's brother and sister would both be at high positions, and together with the branch of the Cui Chamber of Commerce, the Cui Family would have a lot of influence in the territory.

The meaning within was really special.

Cui Yingyu looked up, remaining motionless.

Ouyang Shuo laughed, seemingly not noticing the mystery within. "City Magistrate Cui has been doing well. It's quite suitable for him to become the prefect of the Tianfeng House; it's settled!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Hence, everything was set and what was left were the remaining personnel and official arrangements.

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Chapter 293- Jiang Shang Comes Out

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The next day, the Lianzhou Lord's Manor sent out an official document to announce the related personnel changes.

Wei Ran was appointed the Shanhai House prefect and in charge of the central region; Cui Shousi was in charge of the Tianfeng House, guarding the western region; Gu Xiuwen was now the Beihai City city protector, in charge of the sea around it.

The promotion of Cui Shousi shocked the Cui Family. The homebred officials were paid more attention to than Wei Ran and Baiqi. This set of father and son-in-law duo would have huge influence in the military and administrative matters of the territory.

The original Material Reserves Department director Shen Zhui was moved to become the Yongye City's City Magistrate, the current Qiushui City magistrate Zhao Dexian was appointed Guangshui City City Magistrate and the original Friendship City's city magistrate Zhou Haichen was now the Yishui City's city magistrate.

Out of the three cities, Yishui City had the most potential as it had used the token. Cui Shousi's promotion was living proof. Added to the fact that it was guarding the east, it was a crucial strategic point.

Hence, out of the 3 city magistrates, Zhou Haichen had the brightest future. During the time when he was Friendship City's city magistrate, he had faced many threats from the nomads as such his sense for danger was very strong. This was one of the reasons Ouyang Shuo chose him, and the other being that he had underwent a proper education. His future was limitless.

In the old Material Reserves Department, the Resource Division Secretary Du Xiaolan was appointed the Industry Division Secretary; the Transport Division Secretary Zheng Shanpao was now the manager of the Jifeng Valley Horse stables; the deputy director of the department, Yuan Shaoping, would now only be the manager of the Langshan Minefields.

Zheng Shanpao and Yuan Shaoping were two officials who got promoted based on their talents and skills in a specific area. Hence, it was difficult for them to climb any higher. For them to focus on their specific field was putting their talent to good use.

As for Du Xiaolan's appointment, administration director Fan Zhongyan had a few qualms.

Du Xiaolan and the Taxation Division Secretary Qian Lifei were both Cui Yingyu's students, and if both of them worked in the Financial Department, they would be suggestions of foul play, so Fan Zhongyan opposed it.

Ouyang Shuo believed that Cui Yingyu knew what was right and wrong, and hence opposed his suggestion.

On the morning of the 6th day of the 12th month, Ouyang Shuo summoned Shanhai House prefect Cui Ran to discuss the town hall. As it affected the power segregation between the Lianzhou lord manor and Shanhai House, Fan Zhongyan and the other 2 directors joined too.

The merged Shanhai City now had three regions, the Shanhai region, the Qiushui region and the Friendship region.

Shanhai House town hall would be set up in the Shanhai region, which was the main region of Shanhai City. The administrative system which were left in the original Qiushui City and Friendship City would be changed into a region-grade administrative system, the same as a city-grade system.

After setting up the Shanhai House, some responsibilities and power belonging to the Lianzhou Lord's Manor had to be put down.

Firstly would be the authority over the buildings in Shanhai City. The overall planning of Shanhai City would be handed over to the Construction Division; for the specific plans and buildings, Shanhai House would be in charge.

Secondly, the authority over the culture and education of Shanhai City. Xinan University and Yellow Emperor Temple would be under the direct jurisdiction of the Lianzhou Lord's Manor; the private school, school, and temple would all be under Shanhai House.

Thirdly, the authority over the migrants would be under Shanhai House. The respective welfare would be borne by the finances of Shanhai House; the Household Registration Division would be in charge of tabulating the population numbers and details.

Fourthly, the law and order of Shanhai City. The Guards in the core region of Shanhai region would be from the Guards regiment; the outer defences would be by the City Protection Division; the order in the city would be under the Law and Order Division; Shanhai House would be in charge of the remaining areas.

Fifth, the tax in Shanhai City. The tax earned by Shanhai City would be given to Shanhai House, and they would turn over a certain portion of it. The industries under the Financial Department would still remain under the jurisdiction of the Industry Division.

What followed next was a series of personnel changes.

As the Lianzhou Lord's Manor placed down a lot of authority, as such a portion of the administrative workers and officials would be sent to Shanhai House to improve its organizational structure. The migrants from Quanzhou were pretty much all sent over to Shanhai House.

Ouyang Shuo didn't ask about the specific personnel arrangements, which would be decided by the 3 directors and the prefect. With Wei Ran's ability, Ouyang Shuo was sure that he could settle the situations quickly.

In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo went toward Xinan University to check out the system reward collection house. It was near the moon lake, and not far from it was the newly-built Philosopher Forum Courtyard.

Name: Collection House

Type: Special building

Function: Read old books and manuals, all of which can be found here.

Specialty: Increase territory culture index by 15%

Description: This was a specific building to collect books, it has all the old books and manuals from people to read and check out.

Something dawned on Ouyang Shuo. Wasn't this the same as the modern day university library? It was also the best library in the whole Chinese region with all the books and old manuals.

Its value couldn't be measured.

With Ouyang Shuo's understanding of the game, the books inside the collection house were probably all the secret manuals and books that Gaia found while it was searching for information.

It wasn't hard to imagine how much attraction the book collection house would be to philosophers, and it would be an important way to improve the education levels of Xinan University.

The next step would be to choose a landlord.

Ouyang Shuo immediately thought of one guy who would be the most suitable, which was Jiang Shang living on Fallen Star Island. Ever since he visited Jiang Shang the first time, Ouyang Shuo had never been to Fallen Star Island.

Even so, Jiang Shang's every move was under Ouyang Shuo's control.

The servant that Jiang Shang sent to serve him, apart from caring for his daily life, was to act as eyes and ears and report back whatever he said to Bai Nanpu. After Bai Nanpu organized it, he sent it out in a letter format to Ouyang Shuo.

After living in hiding on Fallen Star Island, Jiang Shang hadn't taken a step out of the island. He would either be fishing by the lake or reading on the rocks.

As the book collection in the territory was limited, Ouyang Shuo could only take out the books and the secret manuals from his reading room and give them to Jiang Shang. After all, the number of books was limited, and Jiang Shang had already read numerous books before.

Ouyang Shuo was confident that Jiang Shang wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of the book collection house.

Coming onto the Fallen Star Island again, Ouyang Shuo was feeling totally different.

He had lost hope of asking Jiangsheng to become an official in Shanhai territory. As long as he was willing to make use of his influence to recruit talents in Shanhai Territory, it would be good.

That's right, Ouyang Shuo considered Jiang Shang as bait.

Jiang Shang was sitting on the rock and reading. Upon seeing Ouyang Shuo, he wasn't as cold as last time and said, "Why did the Marquis come here?"

"Do you know that the Moon Lake has a book collection house?" Ouyang Shuo didn't beat around the bush as he knew that when talking to such smart people, other than saying what he wanted to say, the rest of the conversation was just fake.

"Book collection house?" Jiang Shang didn't step foot outside Fallen Star Island, so obviously he wouldn't know.

"That's right, it's a building that has all the books and manuals in history."

"Are you bluffing me?" Jiang Shang didn't believe him.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "I wouldn't dare to. You can take a look yourself."

A tinge of excitement flashed across his eyes, followed by a flash of doubt. "Your tricks can't bluff me off of Fallen Star Island. In this world, how can there be such a building?"

"You don't need to test me. I didn't come here to ask you to take up a position. I just want you to be the landlord of the building."

The temptations of the books were enormous.

Jiang Shang was ready to take the risk. "Okay, I'll believe you and follow you up. If it's really as you said, I will be willing to be the landlord."

Ouyang Shuo nodded.

Jiang Shang didn't even pack anything, following closely behind Ouyang Shuo and onto the raft.

Arriving at the book collection house, Jiang Shang started to believe. When he saw the amount of scriptures, he was captivated.

"How's the collection here?"

"It's huge!" Jiang Shang muttered. "Marquis don't worry, I won't go against my words."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and left on his own.

From today onwards the book collection house would have a mysterious old man with a terrifying background.

Walking out from the book collection house, Ouyang Shuo arrived at the Architectural College.

On the way there, he bumped into Sun Xiaoyue.

"Ouyang, when did you have time to come here?" Sun Xiaoyue teased, her eyes flashed a little bit of excitement and emotion.

Ever since she came here, Ouyang Shuo was either at battle or touring around. A large portion of his time was in the Lord's Manor and discussing matters.

"I'm here to take a look and walk around!"

"Wow my lord, you're so free to walk around. Just say, maybe I am able to help you with it." Sun Xiaoyue was speechless at the man in front of her.

Ouyang Shuo's skin was very thick as he talked as if nothing had happened. "Is old Li here? I've something to ask him about."

"Is it about the Shanhai City planning?"

"Smart!"

"Well of course! Let's go, I'll bring you there!" She turned around, Ouyang Shuo following behind her back.

"Actually regarding that, the college had started preliminary designs; we just aren't sure if it's similar to what you planned." On the way, Sun Xiaoyue started to talk about the city planning.

Ouyang Shuo nodded.

At the office of Old Li, Ouyang Shuo met him and described the plan about combining the 3 regions and forming Shanhai City.

"Wow, it seems like we need to redo the planning!"

"Thank you for your help Old Li!" Ouyang Shuo was a bit embarrassed and ashamed.

"Aiyo, to be able to be a part of such huge design is my good fortune." Old Li was very emotional and was very motivated to complete this.

"Then I can't wait to see what you produce!"

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Chapter 294- Eliminated in the First Round

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Based on Old Li's opinion, the overall plan could only be out after the new year.

Ouyang Shuo pondered. "Could you design the city wall first?"

"Why is that so?" Old Li didn't understand.

"The city wall is the core of the planning. It takes the most time and effort, and it'll definitely need the help of the civilians and commoners. There are four months until the spring sowing, so I hope to be able to complete the city wall before that."

"Okay." Old Li nodded, pleased. He commended Ouyang Shuo's care and concern for his people.

"I'll gather the students to rush day and night to take out the city wall plans within a week."

Ouyang Shuo thanked him. "Thank you for your hard work!"

The two of them discussed the requirements and specifics of the wall, and unknowingly outside, the sun had set. Only then did Ouyang Shuo turn around and leave the office.

"I'll send you!" Sun Xiaoyue chased out.

The two of them walked on the small walkway, both not making a sound and neither wanting to break this peace and quiet.

"Ouyang!" Before saying goodbye, Sun Xiaoyue said.

"What?"

"Never mind, it's nothing!" Sun Xiaoyue was demoralized. She hurriedly left, her footsteps seemingly rushed and panicky.

Ouyang Shuo looked at her back, softly sighing, a feeling of melancholy overwhelming him.

When he returned to the Lord's Manor, he was just in time for dinner.

In the courtyard, Bing'er had already come back from school and was playing with Little White. Little White was the little white wolf that Luo Shixin had given to him and was really close to Bing'er, even following her to school.

Ouyang Shuo suspected whether Bing'er had some talent to even be able to get so close with spirit beasts. No matter if it were the Nian Beasts or Blackfang, none of them were an exception.

"Brother, you are back!" Bing'er ran over. During this period of time, her timetable was filled to the brim.

The little brat seemed to have gotten through her rebellious phase and was now very well behaved, making Ouyang Shuo pleased.

"En." The brother and sister talked as they walked together into the side hall for their meal.

After upgrading to a prefecture, Ouyang Shuo had kept up with this busy schedule. Every day, he would be meeting with wave after wave of officials and generals to discuss military and administrative matters.

The matters of a prefecture were vast and messy.

Although Ouyang Shuo had already set down the basis and handed over the administrative matters to the three departments, there were still some parts in which he needed to personally make decisions.

The officials that were appointed elsewhere would purposely rush over to Lianzhou lord's manor to say goodbye to Ouyang Shuo before accepting their new roles.

To all these important officials who were helping to rule a part of the territory, Ouyang Shuo naturally couldn't treat them lightly. He would personally greet each one of them to keep their loyalty and to let them know that their lord cared about them.

Luckily, as he cultivated the Yellow Emperor Internal Cultivation Technique, Ouyang Shuo was more energetic. After the meetings in the morning, he would stay in the reading room at night to read books and jot down notes to plan for the development of the territory.

Ouyang Shuo's business made all the maidservants and ladies in the lord's manor feel heartbroken for him. Song Jia even purposely came back from the sect to tell Zisu to prepare supper every night and deliver it to the reading room.

12th month 9th day

Ouyang Shuo called Baiqi and Zhao Sihu in for a meeting.

The Shanhai City's city protection regiment had been reorganized into one of the three divisions, leaving Zhao Sihu with no job. These few days, he just coordinated with the Military Affairs Department over conscription, and upon hearing that Ouyang Shuo wanted to see him, he hurried over.

During the battle of E'Shi Ridge, Zhao Sihu's performance was exceptional, impressing Ouyang Shuo, and he had even specially rewarded him the Wuhu Knife Technique secret manual.

Two months had passed, and Zhao Sihu had already gained a basic understanding, his body exuding an aura of a fierce tiger.

"How is it; is the conscription going smoothly?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"It's going okay, there has been more people wanting to join the army. The teens in our territory also have very good bodies and most people who came could meet the standard." Zhao Sihu was really excited.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. The various specialties of Shanhai Territory had started to show themselves.

After the greetings, Ouyang Shuo started to get into the main topic. "I have two reasons for calling you all here."

"Please speak!"

To speak the truth, about the position of the city protection regiment, Zhao Sihu wasn't confident about it and didn't know what Ouyang Shuo was thinking in regards to it. To be able to be of use to the marquis, he was already happy enough.

"Firstly would be the Shanhai City's city protection squad. My idea would be to create a City Protection Division within half a year. What do the both of you think?"

Zhao Sihu wasn't involved, so it wasn't right for him to voice his opinions, but deep down inside he was silently delighted. He didn't expect that even after disbanding the 3 city protection regiments, his lord would pull such a move.

Baiqi nodded. "With the scale of the future Shanhai City, a City Protection Division is needed."

Just as Baiqi said this, Shanhai City was the heart of the territory, and it must be defended. Although Ouyang Shuo didn't think that anyone would be able to attack Shanhai City, it was better to be safe than sorry.

If not, how would one allow the residents to live in peace?

Ouyang Shuo wasn't a person who chased short-term goals, and he wouldn't expand the army without thinking about the consequences. Him setting the half year deadline was so that it could be done slowly and not cause any strain on the territory.

After the three cities merged, every day there would be 1310 migrants spawning. In a month he could get 40 thousand men. As the city merger was the wish of Ouyang Shuo, he didn't gain any recognition from the system. Hence, when calculating the population of the city, the 3 were still calculated separately.

"Although the City Protection Division is to start from scratch, I don't wish for it's fighting ability and military culture and standards to be weaker than that of the other three divisions. As for their training, I'll leave it to you two."

Even with Zhao Sihu's courage, upon hearing the Marquis's requirements, he was facing a little difficulty.

Everyone knew that for a new army to form combat strength, apart from training hard, practical fighting and battles were important. The territory had three divisions in the three dangerous directions, so no matter what, the city protection division wouldn't be able to join the fight.

"Why, do you have difficulties?"

Zhao Sihu gritted his teeth. "I'm a brutish person, so I'll speak the truth. If we are talking about training, I'm not afraid; but in terms of practical battles, I'm afraid we might affect your plans."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and turned to Baiqi, "General, do you have any solution?"

"The only way is for the city protection division to split up into regiments and take turns to go to the various camps for battle."

"Great, that settles it. As for the building of the division, general will command it, while Zhao Sihu, you will execute."

Baiqi had became Ouyang Shuo's right hand man, so most of the military matters were passed to him. Hence, the Military Affairs Department under his bright light seemed to lose its luster and become an assisting unit.

Such a general like Baiqi wasn't suitable for handling the Military Affairs Department, as the battlefield was his home. The reason for setting up the department was because Ouyang Shuo wanted it to control the generals and form a balance. If not, the military generals could become a wild horse and go out of control.

Unfortunately, as they lacked a super talent, the Military Affairs Department had always been in a half-dead state, which made him very disappointed.

As the territory continued to expand, Ouyang Shuo didn't have the energy to personally participate in the building of troops, and could only pass the responsibilities to the generals.

The cons were that his control of the military had lessened. Luckily, the major generals of the 3 divisions were picked up and trained by him, so there wouldn't be many problems in the short term.

Ouyang Shuo tossed aside his thoughts and said, "The barracks of the City Protection Division will be moved outside the city. The barracks in the core region will be left for the Guards regiment."

Zhao Sihu nodded; he had expected this to happen. The City Protection Division and Guards regiment had different jobs, one internal and one external, so handing the core area over to the Guards regiment was going to happen sooner or later.

The Lianzhou Lord's Manor and Shanhai House split up duties for law and order, which was already planned.

The Guards regiment was the other trump card Ouyang Shuo had to control the military. As long as this elite unit was in his hands, he had the strength to challenge anyone.

Once the various divisions settled down, it would be time to expand the Guards regiment.

Gaia first year 12th month 10th day, west suburbs new soldier camp

Out of 3250 soldiers, apart from those that died in the Battle of Changping, 2470 elites remained. They were going to face their first round of tests, which included a 5 kg weight run, a 400-meter obstacle run, and 40 push-ups.

During the training period, the soldiers had practiced this multiple times and were familiar with it. The key of the test would be whether the soldiers would be able to meet the standards.

Based on information, the soldiers that joined were all rank 8 elite soldiers and above. War elite soldiers took up 10% and could be said to be the strongest elites.

Ouyang Shuo was witnessing the entire process with Baiqi beside him.

Based on the teaching squadron captain Viper, Baiqi entering the camp gave them motivation and a lot of new ideas. The standards of the exam were modified after his suggestions.

After a day of tests, only 1845 soldiers passed with a total failing rate of 25%.

Those who failed returned back to their original units.

After entering, the new soldier unit's job was done and it was disbanded. The soldiers that passed would be sent to new camps where they would undergo the next stage of their devilish training.

Being enlightened by the modern learning style of the new soldier camp, Baiqi had personally set up a new training schedule and plan, as well as an exercise regime to be ready to be pushed out to the entire army.

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Chapter 295- A Friend From Afar

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Among the hundred thousand mountains in the north, at the intersection between Lingnan and Guangxi, was a land known as Wuzhou.

Half a year ago, Wuzhou was empty, and suddenly a mysterious tribe appeared. Under the tribe leader, they cleared out raiders, building a fortress and started farming and growing mulberry trees.

The leader was an amazing person, having a high prestige amongst the mountain barbarians. As the stronghold was built, the mountain barbarians around them all heard about the news and came to visit to see this mysterious leader.

The hundreds of mountain barbarian tribes who lived in the hundred thousand mountains thus felt that they had a new home, and they all moved to the Wuzhou Fortress without hesitation.

As time passed, 55 of the mountain barbarians tribes actually moved over, and even the biggest tribe with over 10 thousand men moved.

Last month, this migration started to spread to the southern region.

As the large numbers of mountain barbarians moved, it became a huge city. On the city walls were many black Phoenix flags exposed, their wings flying in the wind.

It was close to winter, the wild grass was all withered yellow, the birds stopped migrating, and the wilderness was a silent image.

Lianzhou Basin was located south of Guangxi and had the monsoon climate, but it wasn't affected by the winter. Entering the 12th month, the temperature was still maintained at 20 odd celsius.

Lianzhou Basin looked like it was all calm, but large things were taking place.

The Military Intelligence Division reported that the grassland tribes had stopped fighting and had signs of collaborating.

Under the orders of Baiqi, they appeared on the grasslands for training and to scare the tribes, also to try and pull the tribes closer to them.

The western region of the Tian Qi tribe had been rebuilt, and adding their east region along with Kehan's Guards, they had 12 thousand men, the same as the 2nd division.

Out of the 7 mid-sized tribes, each would have no less than 3000, adding this together would mean over 20 thousand men.

Before battles, the grassland tribes could also hold a recruitment, with the tradition that every nomad tribe had soldiers double the size of the military.

If the grassland tribes worked together, the 2nd division wouldn't be able to defend against that.

The Broken Blade County to the east were also making moves.

Because of the limitations of his rank, Broken Blade County was unable to upgrade to a grade 3 city. The strength of Shanhai territory had made Ba Dao unable to sleep at night. To protect his territory, he could only take risks and go for short term rewards.

He colluded with the Yanhuang Alliance and crazily built up subsidiary territories. Apart from 3 1st tier subsidiary territories, even the nine 2nd tier subsidiary territories were built, slowly growing towards a city.

The most direct benefit would be the enormous population growth to build an army. With the soldiers from the mountain barbarians tribes as well as the gold from the gold mines, Broken Blade County had already reach a division's strength and could compete against Shanhai City.

If one said that Ba Dao was stepping on steel thread, then Ouyang Shuo was playing with fire.

The current situation had everything to do with Ouyang Shuo. After taking down Tianfeng City, he had the chance to take down Broken Blade County, only that he didn't want his poisonous insect plan to die, and hence allowed the city to survive.

If he didn't put a stop to it, it could be rearing a dangerous tiger.

What made Ouyang Shuo most worried were the hundred thousand mountains.

The huge mountain barbarians tribes were moving deep into the mountains. The Military Intelligence Division director Leng Qian had personally brought troops into the mountains to investigate, but still hadn't returned.

Ouyang Shuo had a feeling that deep within the mountains, there was an enemy staring at him.

As huge changes occured in Lianzhou Basin, an old man quietly entered Shanhai City.

He was 50 with a round face, and his brows formed a 'ba' word; he dressed very simply, a rough cloth shirt with a green scarf.

After entering the city, he excitedly walked around the city and looked at the vibrant business street. Seeing the residents so happy and everything so orderly, he couldn't help but nod his head.

Following which, he walked into the Xinan University and upon seeing a boy, asked, "I heard that there's a book collection house, may I know where it is?"

The young man was a student in the economy college, seeing that the man was that of the olden culture, he didn't dare to be slow and said, "It's at the Moon Lake, I'll bring you there!"

Ouyang Shuo had said that the book collection hall would be open to everyone. Hence, such people like the old men who visited were quite common.

"Thank you!"

The young man brought him into the book collection hall before turning around and leaving.

When he walked in, he was very emotional and excited.

He wasn't a normal person, but the war sage Sun Wu. The descendants all knew him as Sunzi. He, Kongzi, and Laozi were the 3 brightest stars during the end of the Spring Autumn time period.

Sun Wu and Jiang Shang had a deep connection.

Firstly, Jiang Shang was known as the ancestor of the philosophy of war. Sunzi, on the other hand, was the representative figure of the philosophy of war.

Secondly, Jiang Shang was the creator of the Qi country and Sun Wu was from the Qi.

All things considered, both of them had a huge connection. Hence, after knowing that Jiang Shang became the landlord, Sun Wu immediately made use of the secret system to come to Shanhai City for a visit.

Strictly speaking, Sun Wu could be considered half a hermit.

Before he was 30, Sun Wu wasn't famous, and when he was a hermit, he wrote the Art of War. After this, he became a general in the Wu country, and in 30 odd years he had won battle after battle. He retired and then became a hermit again to edit and hang his works.

His whole life was filled with legends and stories.

The master of philosophy Jiang Shang and the war sage Sun Wu, two saints had crossed time and met.

"Student greets Taigong!" Sun Wu gave a student greeting.

Jiang Shang used a famous quote from , defining their relationship, "A friend who came from afar, there's no need for such things!"

The two of them met and had unknowingly started talking about the philosophy of war, until the dead of night.

Unknowingly it was sunset.

Jiang Shang turned his head and looked outside. The red sunlight covered half the sky, and he said emotionally, "To have such meeting in my life, it's enough."

"It is mutual!" Sun Wu was also pleased.

"So now, would you be willing to allow me to visit your island?"

"I don't mind, it's whether you want to."

Both of them laughed, Like two old friends meeting up, everything was an available topic.

Following Jiang Shang up to Fallen Star Island, Sun Wu admired the lake and commented in awe, "Such a place is the best to be a hermit; you are so blessed."

Jiang Shang shook his head, looking a little melancholy, "The Lianzhou marquis planned this."

"Oh?" Sun Wu looked surprised. "The Shanhai Territory is very famous, when I entered and looked around, it seemed that everything was true. Taigong being a hermit here, what thoughts do you have about this Lianzhou lord?"

"Why, you want to come out to work here?"

"No." Sun Wu shook his head. "I've no intentions to join the army; I want to be like you and be a hermit. If you don't mind, I'm willing to move to this island and read books and write military manuals. I heard the book collection house has tens of thousands scrolls. I want to get inspiration from them."

"Such a talent living in a small island, isn't it a waste?"

"Aren't you the same?"

"I'm different from you. I have a knot with the Lianzhou Marquis that hasn't been released, hence I'm not coming out. Even so, I've accepted the job of landlord!" Jiang Shang said honestly.

Sun Wu kept silent and after contemplating. Then, he said resolutely, "I'm still willing to follow my heart, leading troops on the battlefield isn't my goal; spreading the art of war is my life goal."

Jiang Shang nodded. "As it suits you, such things couldn't be forced. I think that tomorrow the Lianzhou Marquis will come visit you and invite you to be a general for him."

"It's okay. I have my plans."

"He is quite cumbersome and is a special person, so don't reject him upfront."

Sun Wu's eyes froze. He hadn't expected that Jiang Shang would have such high praise for this lord. "Hearing your words, I would really like to take a look."

"He won't let you down. Additionally, Baiqi had already became the general, pushing out an interesting training system. I'm sure you will be interested in it."

As expected from Jiangsheng, not going out but still being able to know everything.

As they talked, both men talked about tactics until late into the night.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo received a secret report from Fallen Star Island about a visitor around 50, wearing a robe who had a long conversation with Jiangsheng.

Ouyang Shuo got emotional after looking at the report. If it was as he expected, after the activation of the philosopher debate, to be able to talk so much with Jiangsheng had to be a special person.

"Men!"

"Hai!"

"Call general Baiqi here!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Ouyang Shuo was ready to bring Baiqi to go visit this mysterious man in hopes that such a person and role model like Baiqi could show the strength of Shanhai territory and increase his persuasiveness.

"Marquis!" Baiqi rushed here.

"Follow me to the book collection house."

"Oh? Someone came?" Baiqi's thoughts were sharp and he immediately guessed the reason.

Baiqi was considered one of the representative figures of the military. When Jiang Shang became the landlord, he took time to visit Baiqi. The two of them had a conversation about tactics and had an intense discourse.

"That's right."

"I would like to go and see who it is."

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Chapter 296- The Night Before the Reshuffling

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Moon Lake, Book collection hall

Jiang Shang and Sun Wu had a long conversation, and both of them had developed a close relationship. Seeing Ouyang Shuo and Baiqi visit, they both looked at each other and smiled.

"Greetings, Taigong!"

Jiang Shang nodded his head, pointing at Sun Wu next to him and saying, "This is Sun Wu."

Ouyang Shuo his heart trembled. "Greetings, war saint!" Baiqi, who was filling behind Ouyang Shuo, bowed immediately upon seeing that the person was the master philosopher of war, Sunzi.

Sunzi tilted slightly to the side. "I suddenly come to visit and made you come personally, sorry for the inconvenience."

"The gates of Shanhai City are always opened to any talent in the world." Ouyang Shuo continued. "You have came from afar, I've prepared a mansion in the official residence area for you; I hope you will accept it."

"I accept your good intentions. Unfortunately I've already retired and have no plans to return, I just want to be a hermit and live together with Taigong on the Fallen Star Island. I hope you accept it." Sun Wu rejected him.

Ouyang Shuo sighed in his heart. "We do not force anyone, and everyone must all be willing. Since you want to be a hermit, I won't interfere; I just feel a little regretful."

This magnanimity was something Ouyang Shuo had.

Ouyang Shuo's answer wasn't what he had expected, instantly winning his good favor. "Thank you lord for allowing me!"

"Don't mind me asking, are you being a hermit to correct and change ?"

"That's right!" Sun Wu replied honestly.

"You changing and improving the philosophy of war, is it to pass it on to the next generation?"

"That's right!" Sun Wu's eyes froze.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and suddenly his direction changed. "What do you think of our University?"

"Your views are advanced and teach both knowledge and values." A glimpse of suspicion appeared in his eyes.

"Since that is so, there's an even better place for you to live at!"

"Please speak!"

"Beside Xinan University is another empty space, we were preparing to build another university there. To rule this land, one needed be well rounded. Xinan University is a place of knowledge, but the other university would be a general cradle."

"The marquis is a genius!" Sun Wu didn't understand and asked, "What does that have to do with my living arrangements?"

Ouyang Shuo explained, "The planned university would be called the Army Military Academy and its the education institution in training army generals, and also where martial arts is taught at. The academy will be split into infantry, cavalry, engineer and supplies, with 3 classes A,B and C.

"Classes A and B will focus on military discipline like metaphysics, fortification, weapons, military science, hygiene and so on. They will also learn the military process like the "Dian", "Fan" and "Ling". The C class will learn the basic disciplines and basic military processes like chinese, ethics, painting, equipment, arithmetic, history, infantry exercises, array orders and so on. Then they will be split up into their specific subjects."

As Ouyang Shuo finished, Sun Wu didn't say a word; even Jiang Shang and Baiqi were totally absorbed.

Especially Baiqi who was in charge of conscripting and building the 3 divisions. He knew that what the army lacked was generals. If they were able to build such a military academy, it would be a huge achievement.

Sun Wu kept silent. This was because most of what he wrote in the Art of War was included in the teaching program and this was a perfect place for him to spread his teachings.

Not only that, he could make use of this academy to perfect his book and teachings.

Jiang Shang looked at Ouyang Shuo with a complicated expression before turning to Sun Wu, "Just as the marquis has said, the Army Military Academy is perfect for you to be a hermit at."

"Not only that, I promise that the moment the academy is completed, I'll build another building and move all the military and war related books and secret manuals over." Ouyang Shuo threw down another bait.

Sun Wu laughed. "The marquis is expectedly amazing. I'll admit it, I've been convinced."

Ouyang Shuo was delighted, and instantly a notification sounded out in his ear.

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for convincing saint rank historical person Sun Wu to live in Shanhai Territory, rewarded 3000 merit points, 15 thousand reputation points."

Following which was another one.

"System notification: War Saint Sun Wu has decided to move to Shanhai territory triggering [Ancient Philosophers]-philosophy of war extension, people believing in the philosophy of war will start to appear in the wilderness!"

The moment the notification sounded, the world was in an uproar.

The quiet country channel instantly started buzzing.

"Brother Wuyi, accept me!"

"Such an amazing life need no explanation, brother Wuyi is a beast!"

"Why is all the good things taken by Qiyue Wuyi, I, Zhao Ritian, can't accept it!"

"Brother Wuyi fan club is recruiting, please contact sister Ruhua"

"Ruhua, why are you here, go home and take your medicine!"

"Brother Wuyi support group is recruiting please contact sister Furong"

"Ugh, I've vomited."

"All of you wait and see, after Sun Wu, Wuqi is mine, old Wang's!"

"Old Wang!!"

"Brother Wuyi, you have convinced little sister, I request a night!"The adventure mode players didn't care much and hence just added in to the fun. Ouyang Shuo had became the brightest star in the Chinese region, so everyone one was used to him pulling off such magic once in a while.

The lords on the other hand, weren't feeling good.

If one said which branch of the philosophies lord players emphasized, it was the philosophy of war.

The people it represented not only included Sun Wu, and Sima Rangju, but during the Warring States Period included Wuqi, WeiLiao, Zhao She, Baiqi, and even Zhang Liang and Han Xin.

Not one would have imagined that the brightest star in the philosophy of war- war saint Sun Wu would live in Shanhai Territory so early on. Obviously the players would be unhappy and feel that it was unfair.

If others knew that Baiqi was a general in Shanhai Territory, it would probably rile up another storm.

Apart from jealousy, the lords were excited. The system notification made it clear that the philosophers of war appeared in the wilderness.

Jingdu Region, Handan County.

Di Chen sighed, the joy of recruiting Lianpo had disappeared. He muttered, "Qiyue Wuyi, you are really an opponent that draws hate. However I won't lose to you, the good stuff is yet to come. This is what makes it interesting isn't it?"

Standing beside him, apart from the advisor Juedai Fenghua, was the sect leader of Jianqi Zongheng- Yijian Xilai.

After a few rounds of discussion, Handan County had finally started cooperating with Jianqi Zongheng.

Xiangyang Region, Pill Sun City.

Chun Shenjun was in the back garden of the lord's manor welcoming a special guest. He was the guild leader of 18 horsemen of Yanyun- Yanzi Lisan.

Out of the 10 biggest guilds, the territory belonging to their guild was the biggest and all their members were generals. As the adventure mode players continued to level up and equipment started to improve, their combat power couldn't be underestimated.

Adventure mode players had gotten past the infancy period and started to step onto the big stage.

A new round of reshuffling was happening quietly.

Just like the cooperation between Shanhai City and Snow-war Rose Mercenary group, the guild and the territory helping one another could strengthen both of them.

Lords with vision like Di Chen and Chun Shenjun took the opportunity; for those who were slower who waited for adventure mode players to show their strength, the cake would have mostly been eaten.

The strong could make their strength rise before things changed and cause the times to change; the weak ones follow the changing tide and get pushed along.

Chun Shenjun's vision was special.

His family was based in commerce; their powerful members all had to do with commerce. In terms of military or administrative matters, he couldn't compete with Di Chen and Zhan Lang, probably even not Xiong Ba.

Hence, he had chosen the 18 horsemen of Yanyun to cover his weaknesses.

Similarly, they had a high demand for equipment because of their occupation, and working with the rich Pill Sun City was a good idea.

When Yanzi Lisan heard the system notification, he teased. "That lord is really restless!"

"This kind of restlessness who doesn't wait!" Chun Shenjun mocked himself.

In the Battle of Changping, he had finally managed to recruit Zhao Kuo. However, he was weaker than Lianpo whom Di Chen recruited. For Qiyue Wuyi to pull that off made him even more demoralized.

Jianye Region, Blood Red County

In front of a Zhan Lang was a middle-aged general who looked fierce.

The middle-aged general, upon hearing the system notification laughed. "War Saint Sun Wu? I really want to take a look."

"An old antique from thousands of years ago, how could he compare to you?" Zhan Lang was confident. In terms of commanding, his teacher was better than any general in history.

"We can't say that." The middle-aged general shook his hand. "The Art of War is able to lead modern wars, why is that so? Especially in the cold weapons wars, we can't look down on these historical generals."

"Teacher is too humble. I feel that the military trained with modern science and methods is stronger than the old army." Zhan Lang insisted.

The middle-aged general slightly shook his head. If you don't believe me, so be it.

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Chapter 297 - Hongmen Feast

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Ouyang Shuo didn't know what was happening and stirring outside, so he peacefully checked out Sun Wu's stats.

Name: Sun Wu (Saint rank)

Title: War Saint

Dynasty: Spring Autumn (Qi)

Identity: Shanhai City Army Military Academy Principal

Occupation: Special General

Loyalty: 65

Command: 100

Force: 75

Intelligence: 95

Politics: 80

Specialty: --

Book: Art of War

Evaluation: Sun Zi was a person from the Qi country, he was named Wu, helped the King of Wu write pages about the philosophy of war. Any army personnel from the olden times believed in the theories and teachings of Sun Wu. He was good at turning wars into his favor and surviving when the war was against him. His offensive and defensive strategies during war time numbered in the hundreds.

After checking out Sun Wu's stats, Ouyang Shuo was both delighted and worried.

As expected from a Saint rank historical person, his stats were terrifying. Out of his four stats, he didn't have one weakness and his command stat was maxed out.

Unfortunately, he had chosen to live in Shanhai City and wasn't willing to be a general, hence he wasn't considered to be recruited. Thus, his loyalty stat was low, and his specialty wasn't activated which couldn't help buff the territory.

After Sun Wu agreed, Ouyang Shuo immediately set up the Army Military Academy Preparation Committee who was in charge of the building of the academy.

The entire preparation process was split into two parts, one was the hardware and one was the software.

The hardware was obviously the facilities inside the academy. As they had experience with Xinan University, Ouyang Shuo didn't worry and passed on the job to the Construction Division and Architectural College.

The only difficulty was that the building of the academy clashed with the construction of the outer wall. Ouyang Shuo could only bear the weight and told the Construction Division to place the academy as the priority.

The software was more complicated. They needed a teacher squad. For the whole military academy to be held together by one Sun Wu was definitely impossible and he needed a strong teaching staff.

The Army Military Academy had 4 subjects, infantry, cavalry, engineering and supplies. Each subject needed a subject head. Each course also needed lecturers.

Sun Wu took up the role of principal of the Army Military Academy and temporarily acted as the infantry subject head, in charge of teaching them about weapons and discipline. The major of the god machine unit Wang Feng would be removed and would be the subject head of engineering to teach basic mechanics.

With Wang Feng leaving the god machine unit, Ouyang Shuo just disbanded it and passed all the members into the City Protection Division.

The core members of Fallen Moon Guild- mapographer Jiu Duanxian would be the teacher for topography; the deputy director of the medical department Old Qian would teach hygiene.

Chinese, ethics, arithmetic and history would be held at Xinan University. Infantry drills and military service teachers would be chosen from the members who were eliminated from the special forces trial. They had underwent strict and regimental training in both areas during their time in the west suburb camp.

The empty two subject head slots and many teachers could only be recruited from outside, as Ouyang Shuo couldn't shift too many generals to work in the academy.

Ouyang Shuo informed the many offices at the various system capitals and ordered them to spread the news that War Saint Sun Wu had set up an Army Military Academy in Shanhai City, hence attracting talents.

Apart from that, Sun Wu also made us of his influence to gather and invite many philosophers of war to the Army Military Academy through the special channel. After all, his main goal wasn't to help develop talent for Shanhai Territory but to spread the philosophy of war.

Apart from the teaching stuff, the student discipline, schedule and timetables, Ouyang Shuo left all the authority to Sun Wu.

The setting up of the Army Military Academy touched Jiangshang, when he talked to Sun Wu, he would raise up some of his views and suggestions.

With Jiangshang and Sun Wu, the two heavyweights, Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't butt in.

On the other hand, Ouyang Shuo contacted the guild leader of Rattlesnake Mercenary Group, Black Mamba, and invited him to send members to take up jobs at the academy.

When he received Ouyang Shuo's invitation, he was amazed. As expected from the Chinese region's number one lord, even before forming the special forces, he managed to make an academy.

Black Mamba was very intrigued with Ouyang Shuo's suggestion. Not mentioning what he said about pay, just for Sun Wu, many would be willing to work at the academy.

The Shanhai City and Rattlesnake Mercenary Group cooperation had started to reach the honeymoon stage.

With that, based on the deep pool of manpower and wealth of Shanhai City, they managed to set up the Army Military Academy.Ouyang Shuo didn't care about the remaining work, and left it all to the preparation team.

Ouyang Shuo's eyes had turned to the other lords in the Lianzhou Basin.

With the setting up of the Tianfeng House, the 20 odd lords in the western side of Lianzhou Basin were in an awkward position.

The area under the Tianfeng House, the north to the middle wilderness, east towards Guangshui City, south towards Yongye forest, and the west towards Xila Lake covered the entire western portion of Lianzhou Basin.

In truth, more than half of the area under Tianfeng House wasn't part of Shanhai City territory. The land between Tianfeng City, Yongye City and Guangshui City were taken by the 20 odd lords.

Hence, Ouyang Shuo wanted to steal their area.

Under Ouyang Shuo's instructions, the 1st division, which was in the city west camp, held raider clearing operations within the territory of Tianfeng House, announcing that the area was under the control of Shanhai Territory.

On the other hand, the 1st division didn't bother about the players in the area, which was really weird.

All of the sudden, the lords were in a terrible situation.

If they fought, they couldn't win; if they ran, they had to give up the base that they fought so hard for.

The weird actions of the 1st division gave these lords hope, maybe the Lianzhou Marquis was nice and wasn't planning to attack them?

They were clear that that was just hopeful thinking and they couldn't count on it.

The 1st division didn't attack these territories, but only those which fell under the territory of Shanhai Territory.

Hence, once Shanhai City upgraded, that would be when they would be destroyed.

The situation the lords were in, Ouyang Shuo knew about it.

Once the 1st division was fully completed, he planned to totally solve the problem of the western player territories.

Based on the opinion of Shi Wanshui, naturally they wanted to wipe them all out to prevent future problems.

Ouyang Shuo couldn't randomly give up his plan of rearing poisonous insects. One must know that the upper limit of a grade 1 prefecture was 500 thousand. Purely relying on the spawning rate wasn't going to cut it.

Fur grows on the goat. Weren't these player territories the best farming spots for population?

After setting up the Tianfeng House, however, Ouyang Shuo couldn't bear for these territories to have their own army, and if he didn't bother about them, they would be a ticking time bomb.

The sneak attack from Yongye Town was a warning to Ouyang Shuo. In the end, they were lords, and no lord would wait to die. They would definitely try to fight back.

All things considered, Ouyang Shuo thought of a plan.

On the 12th day of the 12th month, the 23 lords in the western region received an invitation from Qiyue Wuyi for them to go to Shanhai City on the 15th for a meeting.

The invitation also mentioned that if the lord didn't turn up, It would mean disrespecting the Lianzhou Lord, and the 1st division would personally visit them.

This powerful and forceful invitation stirred up waves in the western region.

The lords panicked and didn't know what Ouyang Shuo wanted.

In their eyes, this was a Hongmen Feast.

What made them helpless was that even though they knew it was bait, they had to attend or the 1st division threat would wipe them out.

Some lords were more at ease. The way they saw it, rather than live in limbo, they might as well just settle everything; even if they would have to die, they would accept it rather than panicking and feeling nervous every day.

Some lords were furious and revealed the contents of the invitation on the forums.

The players in the Chinese region got into a frenzy.

A few days ago, Shanhai City had made news. One didn't expect that a few days later there was another one.

"Lianzhou Marquis brandishes his sword on Lianzhou, his ambitions to be the overlord is showing!"

"Because of Qiyue Wuyi's shameless acts, he's not worth to be the representative of the Chinese region!"

"Lianzhou Lord suppresses the other lords, showing his overlord spirit."

"China wants people to use values to gain respect, but Qiyue Wuyi uses force. He isn't a real man!"

"Qiyue Wuyi is despicable, if you have the balls why not fight the people from other countries!"

"The strong eat the weak, its the law of the jungle. Qiyue Wuyi, we support you!"Apart from such comments, some players even posted posts on the forums about the meaning behind the invitation. Amongst them, Bai Xiaosheng's post was the deepest and pretty much covered everything.

He said that as the only prefecture grade territory in the world, Qiyue Wuyi who could have just destroyed all of them, but decided to solve the problem by discussion.

He predicted that some changes might have occurred after the territory upgraded to prefecture. A possibility would be an increase in the population's upper limit. If not, Qiyue Wuyi wouldn't have wasted such effort.

He even predicted that after the grain crisis, population would be the thing lords fight over, and that a chaotic war period was going to begin.

His predictions started a wave and gained a lot of traction on the forums. Some adventure mode players even predicted that their time has arrived.

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Chapter 298- The Merger of Three Cities

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To the discussion and debate on the forums, Ouyang Shuo just laughed it off.

Ouyang Shuo not caring didn't mean that others didn't too. Even the Shanhai Alliance members who were frightened by Bai Xiaosheng's prediction abilities immediately sought out Ouyang Shuo.

Out of the Shanhai Alliance, Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang were the most anxious. Their territories had already upgraded to grade 3 cities, and were working towards grade 1 prefectures.

Ouyang Shuo naturally wouldn't hide anything and told them everything from the upgrade mission and the changes to the city to let them make preparations.

After Ouyang Shuo finished, the alliance channel was dead silent. They didn't expect that the upgrade quest would be so difficult and for the changes to the territory to be so huge.

Out of the 4 quests, even though Ouyang Shuo completed them seemingly easily, it would be impossible to complete even 1 for other territories. The recruitment of historical people, the impossible task of asking a chamber of commerce to move in, completing the culture festival, all these wouldn't have been possible without Cui Yingyu and the Mazu Temple.

The last division trial seemed the easiest but it wasn't. Even the strongest division in Shanhai City, the 2nd division, had difficulties completing it, let alone for other territories.

In conclusion, the other territories didn't have the depth of strength that Shanhai City had.

Luckily, apart from Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang, the others were far away from upgrading to prefecture so they had a long time to prepare for it.

Taking a thousand steps back, as long as one completed two quests, the could upgrade so they shouldn't be too hard on themselves.

Dali Region, Consonance City

The four flowers gathered in their back garden to digest the news that they had just heard.

Bai Hua sighed. "The prefecture upgrade quest really makes one feel despair!"

"What are you scared about, we will solve it when we get there." Hong Ying said confidently.

"Although the upgrade quest is random, it wouldn't be too far off. The 4 quests of Shanhai City have huge value, so we can make specific preparations." Tsing Yi said.

"That's right!"

"Recruiting historical people and the Chamber of Commerce, we can leave those to Qingfeng Pavillion. They are familiar with Dali, so it wouldn't be too hard for them to get close to a Chamber of Commerce."

"En, I'll write a letter to my brother later." Tsing Yi's analysis gave a little bit of confidence to Bai Hua.

"Giving the army group trial to Zhang Liao shouldn't be a big problem. The last culture festival would need the four of us to plan."

After Tsing Yi's analysis, for Consonance City to complete at least two quests wasn't too difficult.

"Great!" Luo Zilan laughed walking over and rubbing Tsing Yi's head. "What's this little brat's head made of, why is she so smart? Such a hard problem, after a few words from her becomes easy instantly."

"Sister!" Tsing Yi muttered, instantly changing from a cold rational girl into a cute next door neighbour.

Luoyang Region, Fallen Phoenix City

Compared to Tsing Yi's easy analysis, Feng Qiuhuang had it a lot harder.

After leaving her family, she finally understood how much pressure was on her, making her unable to breathe.

If it wasn't that she was resilient and didn't want to lose, she probably wouldn't have been able to hold on.

In a blink of an eye, 4 months had passed since that day.

Fallen Phoenix City, under her charge, had underwent a huge change.

The bad part in all the good things was that her position was overtaken by Consonance City.

In the Battle of Changping, she made use of her insider information to convince Wang He, winning something back for herself.

Recruiting Wang He meant that the military was not the weakness of the territory anymore, and she could focus solely on administrative matters.

Apart from that, with Wang He, Fallen Phoenix City could play a bigger part in the next battle.

Although she didn't know much about military matters, she was confident in administrative matters. From youth, she had watched, learned, and experienced a lot.

Even so; facing the upgrade quest, she wasn't confident.

She wanted to compete with Bai Hua in this race to upgrade. It wasn't that she didn't like Bai Hua, it was just that them two were the best women players, so she didn't want to lose.

"I've no choice, I must make use of that hidden piece!" Feng Qiuhuang muttered.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo was in his reading room and listening to the report regarding the city wall.

The new design by Old Li had changed what Ouyang Shuo had originally planned and instead used an entire outer wall to block up Shanhai Region, Qiushui Region, and Friendship Region to form a huge city.

Between the 3 cities there definitely was a distance, around 10-15 kilometers, which Ouyang Shuo specifically left to be a strategic area. Now all this was included within the wall.

The outer wall was north of the 2nd wall at the Shanhai Region, east of the north side of the Friendship Region wall and on the same line as that of the Qiushui Region wall.

In such a way, the entire wall stretched 25 kilometers from east to west, 30 kilometers from north to south and took up 750 square kilometers.

This was 75 times larger than what Ouyang Shuo had planned for Shanhai City.

As it must be connected to the current city walls, the outer wall was 12 meters high and 6 meters wide, totally different to that of the design of Tianfeng City.

"This is too crazy!"

"If we don't plan it like this, merging the 3 cities would be a lie. In the hearts of the people, if they aren't protected by the same wall, how could they be said to live in the same city?" Old Li insisted.

"However, did you consider that based on your plan, the city is indeed one, it also takes up enough space, but the defensive ability has been weakened? How could such narrow walls fit with the stature of our future capital? Not only that, based on the design, the current core region has became the corner of the city. The moment an enemy attacks, they could easily reach the Lord's Manor." Ouyang Shuo was a little emotional.

"Ouyang, relax." Sun Xiaoyue calmed down the situation and explained, "Actually, we have already taken into account your worries when designing."

"How so?" Ouyang Shuo tried his best to calm himself down.

"If we wanted to talk about the defensive ability to the city, the future Shanhai City is definitely not strong and is just barely passable. However, a city's defense should be evaluated based on its environment. Think about it, the Lianzhou Basin is already ours. With the geography of the place, we only need to take note of Zhennan Pass, and everything is settled. Hence, why would Shanhai City's defense matter? If the enemy really broke through Zhennan Pass, we just need to make the walls thicker."

"But."

"And also," Sun Xiaoyue didn't give Ouyang Shuo any chance to counter and continued, "As for the core region ending up in a corner, it's only your old thinking. Think about it. Which modern city has its core right at the middle?"

Thinking about it, what Sun Xiaoyue said made sense. With the uniqueness of Lianzhou Basin, Ouyang Shuo really didn't think that anyone could reach Shanhai City. If anyone could, then they would probably lose anyways.

Ouyang Shuo didn't expect Sun Xiaoyue, that brat, to have such a sharp mind.

"Xiaoyue, you make sense." Ouyang Shuo didn't insist on his views or try to regain any face.

"Of course!"

"Ok, we will work as planned. How much do you all estimate the load to be?"

"Don't worry, the workload isn't as much as you expected." Sun Xiaoyue calmed him down first. "The outer city wall has three sides, a total of 85 kilometers long. Not including the 3 city walls currently built, only 69 kilometers are needed and it's only 4 times that of the second wall of Shanhai Region."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. "What about the Wengcheng? Did you factor that in?"

"Of course. Based on the design, we will have at least 20 gates and 11-12 main gates. Each main gate needs to have a Wengcheng. Apart from that, we need to build a watergate where the rivers meet the city gates. Additionally, we will need 7-8 more bridges to increase the connection and convenience between cities."

Ouyang Shuo listened until his hair and skin was numb and waved it off. "Okay okay, you just go over this stuff with the Construction Division. Then, go to the Financial Department for funds and the Administration Department for manpower. We must finish this before the spring sowing."

Such a huge project was going to use so much gold. Ouyang Shuo actually wanted to leave a portion of the 12th month's profits for the system auction, but it seemed like it wasn't going to happen.

One mustn't forget that apart from the city wall, there was also an Army Military Academy waiting to be built.

"Me, me?" Sun Xiaoyue said with uncertainty and nervousness. Such a big project was hard to coordinate and she didn't have much confidence.

"Yes, you, the leader of this city wall protect." Ouyang Shuo needed to pass this project to someone he could trust. Furthermore she was very lazy usually, so he needed to give her more to do.

"What, you didn't ask for my opinion and just gave me work." Sun Xiaoyue grumbled.

"Why, you aren't willing to help me?"

"I'll help, who is afraid of who?" Sun Xiaoyue wasn't one to be triggered.

"Ok then, that's settled."

After discussing the city wall, Ouyang Shuo took the chance to discuss with Old Li about the planning problems of Shanhai City.

However, this was bigger than the city wall by thousands of times. Just the design would need construction, architecture, planning, administration, waterworks, etc., and many professionals to work together for it to be completed.

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Chapter 299- Releasing Military Control with a Glass of Wine

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Gaia first year 12th month 15th day, Shanhai County.

The 23 military lords in the western region of the Lianzhou Basin all gathered in Shanhai County for a meeting.

None of them dared to miss it.

Ouyang Shuo personally received every one of them.

The meeting location was arranged to be the main hall.

As it was a meeting between lords, Ouyang Shuo didn't arrange Fan Zhongyan to receive them.

The many lord territories were basically hovering around grade 3 town, and only a few of them managed to upgrade to a grade 1 city. Seeing the vibrancy and brilliance of Shanhai County, they were shocked.

When they walked into the Lianzhou Lord's Manor and saw such a majestic residence, they felt even more demoralized. Compared to the Lianzhou Lord's Manor, their manor was a broken thatched cottage.

This was when they truly felt the gap between their territories and Shanhai territory.

For many of them, this was the first time they walked out of their own territory. When they were inside, they felt like a king and were arrogant. They were thinking so what if Shanhai County upgraded to prefecture, they are both lords, how different could it be?

Seeing the prosperity of the city, now they finally knew that they were frogs in a well.

The main hall was already neatly arranged with maidservants bringing tea and fruits.

After the Lianzhou Lord's Manor expanded, under the instructions of Ouyang Shuo, Zisu hired another batch of maidservants to ensure that the manor ran normally.

The huge Lord's Manor needed 10 people to just clean it.

As he didn't want the atmosphere to be too formal, he invited troupes to dance and sing.

Truthfully, this was also the first time Ouyang Shuo saw such performances, and they were actually beautiful and captivating.

Such a scene had made all the lords stunned; this was the real life of a lord, their small land was nothing compared to this.

Ouyang Shuo sat on the lord's seat and raised his wine glass, looking around and smiling. "All of you came from afar, so sorry if I didn't welcome all of you well. Here's to all of you!"

Everyone raised up the wine glasses in their hands.

No matter what everyone thought in their heart, the place was noisy and warm.

Along with the performances, the lords all started chatting. They had so much fun that they forgot the reason why they came, like they were just here for a banquet.

Ouyang Shuo walked around the main hall and talked to each one of the lords.

Some of them treated him warmly, while some were cold.

Unknowingly, an hour had passed.

Seeing that it was about time, he waved the troupe to stop performing and the hall became silent. Luckily, one couldn't get drunk in the game. If not, it wouldn't have been easy to calm down the atmosphere.

The lords all felt a shiver in their hearts, knowing that the real show was about to begin.

Ouyang Shuo sat back and looked around. "I invited all of you here, apart from getting to know one another, to plan for the future of Lianzhou Basin."

Some rash lords immediately said, "For what purpose have you invited us here for? You can just directly tell us; there's no need to be around the bush." His words lacked politeness and respect.

"Ok, then I'll speak directly. Shanhai Territory set up the Tianfeng House, and naturally, it can't be removed. The problem between Tianfeng House and your territories can be solved only if you agree a few conditions. I promise that your territories will be untouched until it falls under the territory of Shanhai Territory."

The lords shivered. The line that Ouyang Shuo drew for them made them really uncomfortable.

"Haha the Lianzhou marquis really knows how to joke. With the speed of Shanhai Territory, it will be sooner rather than later when we are taken over. So whatever you suggest won't solve the root problem."

"That's right!" someone agreed, "What's the point with a moment of peace? We aren't ostriches who pretend that everything is okay."

"But what if I can promise benefits for you after your territory is conquered?"

"If our territories are conquered by you, what benefits will there be?"

"How can you ensure our interests?"

In a moment, the main hall was in an uproar.

Everyone had their say and threw out their displeasure, everyone got very emotional.

"Everyone quiet down and listen to me." He waited for the hall to be silent before saying, "Why not wait until I say my idea before you decide, okay?"

"Ok then tell us; how you can promise that we get benefits?"

Seeing that their fate of being conquered couldn't be changed, some smart lords started to request for profits and benefits, and didn't make noise for no reason.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, "Everyone plays Earth Online for two reasons. One is they like the game and enjoy it; the second is that they want to gain something, and in the second evaluation by Gaia raise their permission level. Am I right to say that?"

"That's right, but when our territory is conquered, everything will be wasted. What achievement value is there to speak of?"

"That's right!"

"Wrong." Ouyang Shuo resolutely shook his head.

"Wrong?"

"Yes you are wrong about that. The evaluation for achievement value is not based solely on territory. The Chinese region has over 10 thousand lords. In the end, how many of them can survive? Those who get conquered or destroyed, are they really going to get 0 achievement value? Definitely not. The achievement value is based on territory, wealth, occupation level and the like. Hence even if your territory is conquered, it doesn't mean you lose everything."

All the lords basically agreed with what Ouyang Shuo had said.

"Lianzhou Marquis, speak! What will you promise?" One of the lords called Xiaomi said.

She was one of the few female lords.

"Ok." Ouyang Shuo nodded. "As long as you agree to my conditions, I promise that after I conquer your territory I'll allow you to live in Shanhai Territory. Apart from that, all your fortune you've gained till now will be your personal assets. With that, you can use this money to either develop in the imperial city or be merchants in Shanhai Territory. It's all your own choice."

"Speaking the truth, I believe all of you know that running a territory is risky, and the war between lords is very cruel. Out of hundreds of lords, only a few can survive. Hence, why not become merchants? You can earn large profits."

After Ouyang Shuo finished, the main hall was totally silent.

What he needed to say, he had already said. He had taken out enough sincerity, what was left was to see what decision they would make.

"Can you clearly state your conditions?" Xiaomi asked.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and smiled. "Of course. Actually it's simple, I have two conditions. Firstly, your armies will be reorganized by Shanhai County, and you can't recruit new soldiers. The defenses of the region will be under the 1st division. Secondly, your organization structure would follow Shanhai territory's standard. Of course, we won't interfere with whomever you appoint. The two points above will be in place until your territories are conquered. After it's conquered, you all can either live in Shanhai County or other places."

"Lianzhou Marquis, don't you think you are bullying us?" After hearing his terms, some people were unhappy.

"That's right, we aren't that weak, and you can't just do anything you want with us."

"And also, how can you ensure that you'll keep your promise?"

"If you don't believe me, we can sign a contract." Ouyang Shuo answered.

"That's the best!"

"How's that good, a bunch of soft eggs with no backbone."

"You!" Being insulted like that, the lord was furious.

Ouyang Shuo focused. He found out the guy who had insulted the other lord had been trying to stir things up like he was bent on creating problems.

His face instantly became cold, looking toward him. "I don't care if you are under orders from others, or you are doing it yourself. I now officially tell you that your territory won't be protected by us. Wait to be conquered!"

"You!" That guy's face turned red like he was stabbed.

"Men!"

"Please make this lord leave Shanhai Territory." Ouyang Shuo pointed to that guy.

"Yes, my lord!" The guards carried out the lord whose face was now ashen white. He didn't expect that Ouyang Shuo would be angry so quickly and not give him a chance.

Ouyang Shuo was actually considered magnanimous, allowing him to leave through the teleportation formation. If not, he would be wandering in the wilderness.

"Qiyue Wuyi, don't be too arrogant. There will be people taking care of you." That lord said viciously before he left, venting his frustration.

Ouyang Shuo didn't even look at him and instead looked at the other lords. "Have you all decided?"

That act of killing one to make the rest fear you worked on the other lords.

The lords all agreed to sign the contract.

After signing, they all say goodbye and left.

Ouyang Shuo immediately used the Feng Bird to give the orders to Shi Wanshui to bring the 1st division to bring the soldiers from the territories to Shanhai County.

As for that lord, they directly conquered his territory and the prisoners were naturally sent back to Shanhai County.

It was calculated that the 23 territories had a total of 12500 men. Of course, their combat power was weak and were using the equipment from the class change.

For the new army, apart from the missing members in the 3 divisions, the rest were sent to the new City Protection Division, speeding up the building process.

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Chapter 300- Useless People

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The contract that Ouyang Shuo signed with the various lords were quickly exposed on the forums.

Naturally, on the forums, it was a bloodbath.

Adventure mode players were there for the fun while lord gamemode players were there to learn new tricks.

Upon seeing the details of the contract, light bulbs lit up in their heads. They extracted the essence of it and copied.

The contract that Ouyang Shuo had made that focused on peace was termed by lord players as the Lianzhou model, and instantly swept through the Chinese region.

The Lianzhou model's meaning totally destroyed the current territories who were not doing anything. From the current military methods to using military with the addition of administrative and diplomatic elements. The three elements would push the current wars to a new level.

If one wanted to pinpoint it, it would be the same as farming population.

And to succeed using the Lianzhou model, one needed to fulfill two criterias.

Firstly, without a strong military everything else was useless.

Secondly, one must keep a firm grip on the territories that signed the contract; if not, they might fight back.

Even so, there were many territories which fulfilled the conditions. The ones included were not limited to the Yanhuang Alliance and Shanhai Alliance. As long as one was in the top 100, they had the ability.

All of the sudden, the big lords were grinding their knives while the smaller lords cowered in fear.

The Lianzhou model signified that the territorial war was entering its second phase: the big fish eating the small fish. The precious little shrimps had all died out and were extinct.

Ouyang Shuo, the butterfly that had traveled through time, had once again caused another storm. The territory warfare starting early had once again pushed the game toward an unknown progression.

As the strategy worked in the west, Ouyang Shuo started to turn his attention to the east.

The situation in the east was more complicated because of the presence of Broken Blade County. Hence, their influence and control of the east wasn't as strong as it was in the west.

Even so, Ouyang Shuo didn't give up.

He sent the same invitation over to the 25 territories in the east.

Even Ba Dao in Broken Blade County had received his invitation.

When Ba Dao received the invitation from the messenger, he was furious, immediately tearing the invitation apart. "Qiyue Wuyi, I'm not done with you!"

Ouyang Shuo definitely didn't expect Ba Dao to come, but he did it just for fun. When he thought about the expression Ba Dao would have when he received it, he felt delighted.

Although he didn't want to touch Broken Blade County, this chess piece, Ouyang Shuo also wouldn't let it develop as it wished. He wanted to stop it and cut off its wings, destroying its surrounding barriers.

As Broken Blade County didn't come, the effects of the 2nd banquet weren't as good as the 1st.

Out of the 25 lords, only 19 attended; the remaining 6 formed a small group with Ba Dao as the core, determined to compete with Shanhai City until the end.

On the surface, Ouyang Shuo's expression didn't change, signing the contract with the 19 lords and sending the 3rd division to reorganize the troops.

After the lords left, Ouyang Shuo coldly laughed. "Useless people!"

On the same day, the 2nd division, which was at the city north camp received Ouyang Shuo's orders to destroy the 5 territories other than Broken Blade County.

Those that follow me will prosper, while the others will perish.

When Luo Shixin received the orders, he immediately rallied the troops.

As this was a long distance sneak attack, Luo Shixin left the 1st and 2nd regiment to defend the camp, while he led the rest along the Qiushui river and cutting in from the east of the Lianzhou Basin.

Before leaving, Lin Yi and Sun Tengjiao both came into Luo Shixin's tent.

"Major General, don't. We don't have wars to fight often, so don't leave our second regiment here."

"That's right, the 1st regiment also wants to join in."

"Nonsense!" Luo Shixin had already established prestige in the 2nd regiment and thinking about it, he felt that he should still explain. "In this mission, the marquis wants it to be fast and accurate. You are heavy armored cavalry and aren't suitable."

"Although we are heavy armored cavalry, we aren't slower than the light armored cavalry."

"Yes, such extra weight is nothing to the Qingfu horses."

"No!" Luo Shixin rejected it once again. "If we all leave, who will defend the camp? The nomads on the north side are staring at us. We can't let our guards down."

"Ok!" Lin Yi knew the importance and replied.

"Don't be so draggy. Following the marquis. Do you think there won't be any wars?" Luo Shixin walked out of the camp, gathering the troops and got ready to leave.

The 2nd division rushed out, reaching their destination the same afternoon.

Seeing that it was still early, Luo Shixin decided that they didn't need to wait until tomorrow to start their attack.

Eight thousand cavalry were like a whirlwind and swept across. Before the enemy could react, they had already entered the Lord's Manor and conquered it.

In less than two hours, they had taken down 3 territories.

The last two territories were closer to Broken Blade County and had already heard the news, requesting for help.

The two lords were regretful. They shouldn't have been greedy and been tempted by Ba Dao. Now, they didn't get anything and their whole city was going to be lost.

When Ba Dao received the call for help, he was conflicted.

If he saved them, with the one division strength of Broken Blade County, he really didn't have confidence to fight against the 8,000 elite of Shanhai City.

If he didn't save them, he would lose peoples' trust. Most importantly, the moment both of them were gone, Broken Blade County would be a solo city.

As he was confident that Shanhai City wouldn't do anything to him, Ba Dao didn't make preparations for an all out war with Shanhai City. He also didn't seek help from Yanhuang Alliance.

As the thing had already happened, it was already too late to ask for help. War wasn't a child's game.

Finally, he hardened his heart: losing friends was better than he himself dying, the two of them had it coming!

At this point, Luo Shixin had totally enclosed the two territories and was purposely not attacking to try to bait Ba Dao to come help.

Although the marquis sent the order not to enter the territory of Broken Blade County, if Ba Dao came over to help, destroying them wouldn't be going against orders.

Unfortunately, he had overestimated Ba Dao.

Half an hour passed and there was no movement within the city walls. Luo Shixin rode on the horse and laughed, shaking his head in disappointment. "What a coward." He waved his hands and ordered the troops to attack.

The two lords within the city scolded out, as they were crushed.

Hence, in the entire Lianzhou Basin, there was only Broken Blade County left.

Ouyang Shuo was one big step closer to conquering the whole of Lianzhou Basin.

Holding hatred toward Ba Dao, both of them revived inside the Dali Reincarnation Hall.

They were fuming as they walked out. "Ba Dao, that thing actually left us to die. We trusted him so much."

"And also Yanhuang Alliance, dog sh*t. A bunch of rubbish actually scared of Qiyue Wuyi."

"I'm going to expose them on the forums, if I don't ruin his reputation I'm not a human!"

"Even if I don't act, Ba Dao wouldn't last for long, Qiyue Wuyi will destroy him."

"I don't care; I have to do something to vent my anger!"

"You're right. Let's go on the forums and rant!"

A ruckus was started just like that.

Their posts attracted a bunch of mocking and didn't stir any waves.

"Heh, throwing eggs at stone, you deserve it!"

"Which bird is Ba Dao? I don't know him!"

"Ba Dao? Xiang Ba? I can't tell the difference..."

"Two fools, getting played and still want to throw their face on the forums!"

"I'm feeling anxious for their intelligence!!"

"Anyone who goes against brother Wuyi is a bad person!"

"To be a good person you need to know your limits!"

"You can be a lord with such intelligence? Go home and raise your kids!!"Looking at the comments on the forums, the two ex-lords vomited blood and had no face to live anymore. They could only live in secret in Dali and not reveal themselves until the game ended.

After the battle, Luo Shixin captured the prisoners and sent them back to Shanhai City.

As it was already dark, they could only return back the next day.

On the other hand, the 19 lords that cooperated with the 3rd division had heard about what happened to the five territories. They felt delighted that they weren't greedy and hadn't accepted Ba Dao's invitation.

Ouyang Shuo's lightning quick actions had left a deep impression on the lords, and they didn't dare to do anything funny.

The next day, under the orders of Baiqi, the city east camp moved to the border of Broken Blade County and made use of the 5 conquered territories to build a defence line to monitor the every move of the enemy.

Seeing the enemy set up camp right in front of him, he was furious.

In the east region, including the prisoners captured, there were a total of 13,200 men. All of the soldiers not only filled up the 3 divisions and the City Protection Division, there was an extra 10 thousand.

Under Baiqi's suggestion, Ouyang Shuo sent the order to direct the extra troops to the city protection squad of each city.

The prefecture grade governed area had a Garrison Division; the House grade governed area would have a city protection regiment; the city grade area would have a city protection unit.

The city protection squads would be under the Military Affairs Department, but the grain and salary would be from the respective territory's finances. The newly built City Protection Division would belong to the Shanhai House city protection squad, and Shanhai City would be in charge of its grain and salary.

Based on the organization, Tianfeng House and Beihai City each had a city protection regiment. Yishui, Gushan, Yongye, and Guangshui cities would each have a city protection unit.

After filling up the various city protection squads, the remaining 3000 would be reserve forces.

The reserve forces which were originally recruited were now really reserves. They only needed to join the city defence squad trainings and didn't need to move into the camp.

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Chapter 301- Western Region Development Operation

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After the Battle of Changping, Ouyang Shuo was at the forefront of the news.

As the news that the War Saint Sun Wu had set up the Army Military Academy spread, many people who believed in the philosophy of war had travelled to the various offices of Shanhai City in the imperial cities and rushed to Shanhai City.

Those people were basically no names and the formed the base of the philosophy of war, filling up the positions of teachers and lecturers in the academy.

The other representative figures didn't appear.

On the forums, there was one guy who said that Wei Liao did in fact visit his territory, but he didn't choose to stay. Who knew if that claim was true or false?

As this news spread, Dali and Yongquan, the two system imperial cities that had a close relationship with Shanhai Territory, once again had a small influx of migrants.

A high number of generals who weren't satisfied with their positions all chose to come to Shanhai Territory.

Although this batch of generals were all basic ones, they were trained and came out of academies after all. They also had vast experience, so they were an invaluable asset.

They were the real cornerstones of the army.

Baiqi sent them to the three divisions and the City Protection Division to once again increase the combat strength of the military. The negative effects from expansion had basically all been relieved.

Shanhai City's army had both strength and talent. Apart from Zhan Lang, no one could compare to them.

Because of the influx of troops from the east and west territories, the City Protection Division was completed six months earlier than expected.

Although the City Protection Division belonged under the city protection squad, because it had the responsibility of supporting the missions of the main camp, they were actually formed based on the premise that they were going to participate in battles.

The only thing that made Ouyang Shuo feel regretful was that the City Protection Division lacked a major general who could support the whole group.

To make things easier, he could only allow Baiqi to temporarily be the major general; Zhao Sihu whom Ouyang Shuo felt had high potential was the deputy and would be in charge of the daily job of the City Protection Division.

Based on the new layout of Shanhai City, due to the intersections of the canals within the city apart from the usual arrangements of the City Protection Division, there was also an individual navy unit which was in charge of monitoring the river passages.

As the military development quickened, the field army, city protection and reserve forces were pretty much completed.

In regards to the future field army, apart from directly choosing from the prisoners of war, another way would be to directly choose from the various city protection squads before filling the gap up with reserve force troops.

After perfecting the three-tier army system and successfully preventing the territories from expanding their army, because of the rookies, the combat strength of the new army had dropped tremendously.

On the side of the navy, after taking over Moon Island, Ouyang Shuo instructed Pei Donglai to increase recruitment of the navy reserve force to make preparations for the expansion of the navy in the coming year.

Especially sailors, the barracks didn't have a class change for sailors, so they could only develop them step by step.

The Moon Island Naval Base was smoothly completed under the assistance of Beihai City. Apart from a navy unit, there were also 5000 commoners from Beihai City.

These commoners were basically the family members of the sailors. As such they were highly trustworthy.

The role of the navy unit there was to map the surrounding area, making it easier for future exploration missions.

Apart from that, investigating the neighboring water bandits was one of their important missions.

From the Beihai Bay treasure map, one could deduce that the strong water bandit organizations numbered in the hundreds of thousands and couldn't be underestimated.

Sailing wasn't something Baiqi was familiar with, so temporarily, they could only rely on Pei Donglai.

All in all, the Shanhai military was growing at a fast pace.

When reorganizing the army, the territory administrative system didn't slack off and also made huge changes.

The sweeping operations in the east and west sides brought in 30 thousand in population for Shanhai City, not even 1/10 of the population upper limit.

With both Wei Ran and Cui Shousi taking up the positions in the two houses, the organization structures had basically been completed and had started working.

The splitting up of duties between Lianzhou Lord's Manor and Shanhai House had already been completed and hundreds of officials were shifted from Lianzhou Lord's Manor to Shanhai House.

At the same time, the 200 odd students who graduated from Xinan University were sent to the various counties to work to gain experience after undergoing the administrative assessment.

Some of the top ones were chosen by the various secretaries and departments and sent directly into the core area.

Making use of this chance, Bai Nanpu's secretary room was expanded as well. The clerks and secretaries apart from helping Ouyang Shuo deal with letters, the three directors all had a personal secretary.

After half a year of training, all of the administrative personnel had underwent training at the university, all around 1-3 months.

Starting from next year, the people that the university recruited were students from the various private schools or colleges as well as from society.

The officials and personnel in the administrative system would not be enrolled into the university.

The teaching program was also official split into two, either a year or half a year. The year-long program was for those from the private school or the school; the half a year one was for the students who were from society.

Whichever course was taken, as long as one reached the time limit and passed the assessment, they could smoothly graduate.

At this point, Xinan University had walked onto the right path.

As there was a huge reorganization and many officials were shifted around, for the annually administrative assessment, Administration director Fan Zhongyan chose a calm method.

Apart from the immoral officials who were sacked, the rest were shifted over to the various Houses to deal with.

Near to the end of the month, the Tianhai Road was completed.

The completion of the Tianhai Road connected Tianfeng City and Shanhai City, representing that the west region had been officially merged with Shanhai Territory.

The raiders in the west have been practically all cleared out, giving the development of the region some safety.

Making use of this chance, Ouyang Shuo started to fully develop the west region.

The Lianzhou Lord's manor was in charge of the plan on a whole while Shanhai House and Tianfeng House were in charge of the specifics, building numerous agriculture settlements along Tianhai Road.

The newly added refugees would all be sent to these settlements.

The purpose of these settlements was also set to be used to reclaim land and plant crops.

The land to the west shouldn't be wasted. Apart from keeping the hills, forests and special areas intact, the rest of the land was reclaimed for farming.

Based on the geography of that area, it would either be planting crops like potatoes and corn, or fruits and tea gardens, or mulberry trees and cotton.

All in all, he was going all out in developing agriculture.

Although Ouyang Shuo had been pushing for the commerce and handicraft industries to stimulate the economy since the start of the territory, he wasn't stupid and recognized that in olden society, agriculture was the basis of a country and would always be number one.

The unique land area and geography of the Lianzhou prefecture made it a perfect place for that.

Based on Ouyang Shuo's planning, the future Lianzhou Basin, apart from being the main base of the territory, would be the agricultural core to provide food and agricultural products to let the military expand, providing powerful logistical support.

Ouyang Shuo's idea made the Financial Department, Agricultural Division, and Household Registration Division all instantly busy.

Luckily, they had agricultural professionals in tow.

To really succeed in this western region development operation, it wasn't an easy matter.

The first would be the enormous costs. Be it for buying farming tools, seeds, cows or the irrigation facilities, each needed huge financial input.

Apart from that was the revolutionized agriculture techniques like plowing, the waterwheel, and nurseries to raise the quality of the product.

Of course, the most important aspect was agricultural planning, which area was suitable for what crops.

Such matters weren't things Ouyang Shuo could settle alone. No matter how good he was, these jobs could only be done with the help of many officials and professionals.

At most, he would only take on the role of a coordinator.

The time where Ouyang Shuo controlled everything and micromanaged all aspects had already passed.

The western region development operation had brought with it the upgrade of certain industries. With this, the area of the mulberry gardens had an explosion in growth.

Ouyang Shuo passed on the colored silkworm growing to the various Houses. As for the specific arrangements, the textile association would be in charge.

Not only that, but be in Chamber of Commerce or individuals, all of them could grow their own colored silkworms.

Hearing that the Lord's manor was going to make such changes, the managers of the Chamber of Commerce were delighted and immediately invested huge amounts to rent land to grow mulberry trees and silkworms.

As successful merchants, they could see the commercial value of the colored silk.

There wasn't any free lunch in the world.

If the Chamber of Commerce wanted to learn the technique of breeding the colored silkworms, they needed to pay for it. They also needed to promise not to reveal it to a third party.

After a few rounds of negotiations, the final fee was set at 5000 gold.

Hence, the gold which the Chamber of Commerce paid for the technique was enough for the early stage investments for the development of the west region, a win-win situation.

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Chapter 302- Mountain Rain is Coming

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Gaia first year 12th month 25th day

A system notification sounded throughout the Chinese region.

"System notification: to celebrate the game's first anniversary, the system will hold the 2nd system auction on Gaia 2nd year 1st month 1st day at 10 AM. There will be many rare items on auction, so please look forward to it! Friendly reminder: please prepare enough funds, or else you will go home empty handed."

When the notification went out, the lords started to rub their palms in glee.

During the first system auction, Ouyang Shuo had stolen the spotlight and single handedly bought five of the ten items.

The effect of the auction had showed itself through the three battles.

Only because of the weapon and armor creation manuals was Shanhai County's army able to be so strong and achieve so many battle contribution points through killing.

As time passed, although there was a grain crises, those territories with a foundation of support and strength had already walked out of that and had accumulated thousands or maybe tens of thousands of gold.

Hence, the 2nd system auction would be a more intense battle.

Ouyang Shuo similarly did not want to miss out!

Just yesterday, the Financial Department had calculated the financial situation of the 12th month.

After the prefecture changes were pushed out, the financial tax plans, after being altered by professionals and checked by Ouyang Shuo, were pushed out.

Based on the new plan, the county grade taxes would be given to the House; the House ( including independent cities) would give a portion to the prefecture, directly to the Lord's Manor.

The types of taxes were different, and the percentages for them to hand over was different too.

Similarly, the income tax was pushed up to 1/15, double from the previous tax.

In the 12th month, Shanhai House handed over 15,500 gold, Tianfeng House 7500 gold, Beihai City 14,500 gold (including profits from Beimu Saltpans), Yishui County 3500 gold, and Gushan County 1000 gold for a total of 42,000 gold.

The Industry Division handed over 8,500 gold from the Langshan Minefields, Three Flower Wine Factory 7,500 gold, the mulberry gardens and other industries handed over 4000 gold, a total of 20,000.

In total, it added up to 62,000 gold.

The expenditure of the Lianzhou Lords manor mainly included the military expenditure, the administrative expenditure, as well as financial transfer payments. The military expenditure was the highest amount, including the salaries of the 3 divisions, the Guards protection regiment, Beihai Naval fleet, as well as other fees for a total of 27,500 gold.

The administrative expenditure mainly included the divisions and departments, the four military workshop, the cave military factory, Xinan University, and the Army Military Academy that was currently being built, for a total of 4,500 gold.

The military workshop and military factory held the highest amounts. Of course, once these equipment was sold to the outside, it wouldn't be a financial burden but a place of profit.

As for financial transfers, it included 40,000 for the official roads, 3,500 for the Tianfeng City city wall, 5000 for Shanhai City city wall, 2000 for the Army Military Academy, 1,500 for the migration of Gushan County for a total of 16,000 gold.

Once he totaled the expenditures, it cost him 48,000 gold.

Everything considered, the territory had a 15,000 gold profit in the 12th month.

Be it tax handed over or financial transfer payments, all was done through the various branches of the Four Seas bank, with the Auditing Division in charge of monitoring everything.

With Yingyu coordinating everything, the Four Seas bank banknote printing bureau was set up. The paper workshop and the printing workshop were built directly opposite to the main branch and managed personally by Meng Zhida.

Of course, they were still a period of time away from pushing out banknotes.

As he had to pay the costs for the division trial, Ouyang Shuo now had 105,000 coin in his bag. Hence, he stored away all the remaining profits for the 12th month.

He had a total of 120,000 gold, which he would bring in for the auction.

At the border of the hundred thousand mountains, a young male used a branch as a walking stick and climbed up the mountain path.

He hobbled a long distance. His hair was messy, there was even some bird sh*t on his face; his face was a little tan, and his eyes were sunken.

He was like a traveler who was tired and hungry.

Looking closely, his shirt was broken and through the holes in it, one could see his injuries, the blood seeping onto the shirt. Some wounds had already closed up while others formed pus after being infected.

Those scars weren't only wounds from falling; some were clearly left by sharp daggers.

All this showed that this man wasn't a simple traveler.

His mental strength was strong, and the hunger and pain couldn't waver him as he pushed on.

Walking into the morning sun, he finally walked out of the mountain, his face finally breaking into a smile. His tightened muscles finally relaxed. He wanted to continue forward but his body didn't listen and he fell into the ground.

The hunger and fatigue hit him as he instantly fainted.

"Hey, wake up! Wake up!" The soldiers who was patrolling found the fainted man.

"He has fainted!"

"Check him, maybe he has a insignia or something. He came from the mountains, that's unusual."

"Hai!" The soldier searched his body, finding an iron tablet.

"There really is one!"

"Let me see." The leader took over the tablet, he froze, "This is the Military Intelligence Division tablet."

"Military Intelligence Division?"

"Quick, he must be a spy sent to investigate the mountains. Send him to the hospital, I'll go inform the lord."

"Hai!"

When Leng Qian woke up, it was already night time.

Due to his job habit, he looked around and found that he was in a hospital. Not only was he wearing clean clothing but his wounds were tended to.

"Seems like I was saved!" Leng Qian heaved a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a doctor walked in and seeing him awake, smiled. "You're awake? Great, I'll bring you some food."

Hearing him say that, Leng Qian was indeed really hungry; his stomach was growling as he hadn't eaten in three days. "Thank you."

"There's no need to. You were sent here by the city protection unit, and the county magistrate even came to visit you." The doctor walked out of the room and went to prepare supper.

Ouyang Shuo heaved a sigh of relief once again. He remembered he had fainted at the border of the mountain. It seemed like the patrolling soldiers of Gushan County had saved him.

The hundred thousand mountain was a treacherous place; it wasn't a place for outsiders to enter.

A month ago, he brought 10 elite spies in to investigate. Only he alone survived, and even the Feng Bird with him had died.

Just as Leng Qian was thinking, the door opened again.

This time, apart from the doctor, there was also the county magistrate, Lei Fan.

The doctor placed down the food box and left the room, closing it shut. As for what Lei Fan wanted to say, he didn't care, nor did he dare to care.

Lei Fan had seen Leng Qian, and before he entered the mountain, they also talked to one another. He was the first to find out about the unusual mountain barbarians and had been waiting for news for the Military Intelligence Division.

What made him feel weird was that there was no news from them after they entered, like they had vanished, making him feel panicked and anxious.

What the two talked about wasn't as confidential as the doctor had thought.

Ever since the territory was built, the military and administration were separated. Hence, even though Lei Fan was the county magistrate, he didn't have the authority to ask.

Lei Fan was just here to care for him. He knew that Leng Qian was not only one of the three heavyweights of the Military Intelligence Division, but also an individual the marquis had high hopes for him. His future was very bright.

After Lei Fan left, Leng Qian ate his food, and after regaining his strength, he left the hospital.

Gushan County was close to the hundred thousand mountains, and was at the border of the territory; to make it easier to collect information, the Military Intelligence Division had a contact point in the county.

The place was very secret and even Gushan County didn't know about it.

After Leng Qian left, the first thing he did was rush there.

"Leader!" Upon seeing Leng Qian, the spy was pleasantly surprised.

Leng Qian waved him off and said, "Don't say or ask anything. Just prepare two of the fastest horses. I need to rush back to the main camp in the morning to see the marquis."

"Yes!" The spy had undergone good training and immediately turned around to prepare.

Leng Qian nodded. He found the Feng Bird in the contact point and reported to the Military Intelligence Division.

If nothing went wrong, they would receive the news at latest tomorrow morning.

Ever since they had gotten the Feng Birds from Xuanniao Tribe, the Military Intelligence Division had started to breed them on a large scale, forming a perfect information network.

If it hadn't been for the fact that the Feng Bird that they brought had been killed by the enemy, there wouldn't be no news from them for a month.

After arranging everything, Leng Qian went to his room to rest.

The next morning, he left sneakily and returned to Shanhai City.

Just as he set out, the Military Intelligence Division received the news he sent. When the secretary Song San heard it, he immediately rushed to the Lord's Manor to report.

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Chapter 303- Chiyou City

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When Song San entered the Lord's Manor, Ouyang Shuo was doing his morning practice.

Ever since his yellow emperor internal cultivation technique broke through to the 5th layer, his physique had experienced a large improvement. Be in strength, speed, vision, hearing, they all increased a grade.

His internal cultivation could be considered to have some small achievements.

Under the help of the strong internal strength, the Yang Family spear technique and Bajiquan also improved quickly. Especially with the Yang Family spear technique along with the Tianmo spear, Ouyang Shuo was like fish taking to water, improving at speeds visible to the naked eye.

Imbuing internal strength, the black spear head glowed golden, catching the eye.

As one's strength increased, Ouyang Shuo's temperament also changed slightly. His body had the aura of a lord, making one scared even when he wasn't angry; he had the murderous air of a general.

The two different auras mixing together formed an elegant demeanor unique to Ouyang Shuo.

The two-faced shura from the last life seemed to have returned.

The only difference was he was now at a higher position and he had loftier goals.

After completing his training, only then did he notice Song San and asked, "What's up?"

"My Lord, Leng Qian has safely returned to Gushan County. He is now rushing back."

"Great!" Ouyang Shuo heaved a sigh of relief. "Wait for me in the reading room, I'll be there shortly."

"Yes, my lord." Song San left.

Ouyang Shuo returned to the main courtyard and changed his clothes. He had a simple meal before he hurried to the reading room.

"Okay, speak. What exactly happened?"

"Based on the intel from Leng Qian, he investigated the reason for the mountain barbarians migrating. All the mountain barbarians went to a place in Wuzhou known as Chiyou City."

"Chiyou City?" Ouyang Shuo was astonished.

"That's right, it's located at Wuzhou; they are the Jiuli Tribe who appeared after the Battle of Zhuolu." Song San had participated in the battle so he knew about that part of history.

Although Shi Wanshui had killed Chiyou, but as the head of the camp, he would be immediately revived after the battle and lead the Jiuli tribe that appeared in the wilderness.

Only, didn't Gaia say that the Yellow Emperor tribe, Fire Emperor tribe, and the Jiuli tribes were hermit tribes? Why would the Jiuli tribe make such a huge appearance, and recruit so openly?

If one said that the one doing the recruiting was Chiyou, everything would make a lot of sense.

Close to the end of the battle, Chiyou led his tribe to the Xiongli Valley. That night, he arranged four of his brothers to lead a group of them down south to escape into the forests.

These people were the future Miao Race and Man Race.

Hence, Chiyou could be considered to be the ancestors of the mountain barbarians. His appearance would definitely make all of them bow to him and make him their leader.

"When Leng Qian returns, ask him to find me immediately." Ouyang Shuo was very solemn.

"Understood." Song San left, leaving Ouyang Shuo alone in the reading room to ponder.

Leng Qian whipped the horse, making it increase its speed. That afternoon, he reached Shanhai City. When he returned, he immediately reported to the Lord's Manor.

Ouyang Shuo brought Baiqi and Tian Wenjing together for a meeting.

Leng Qian started by reporting the intelligence that he had obtained. "I followed them in secret, walking north all the way, taking half a month to walk out of the mountain. Chiyou City was built at the foot and took up 60 square kilometers. They have reclaimed a lot of farmland. Hence, when mountain barbarians moved over, they didn't need to worry about not having food in the winter. The city wall had many flags, the same that the Jiuli tribe had during the Battle of Zhuolu. This was when I brought the spies to sneak into the city to investigate."

"What I didn't expect was for there not to be a single Chinese refugee. We weren't able to investigate deeply and were spotted. Hence, we could only run. The brothers who followed me died trying to cover me."

As he said up to this point, Leng Qian almost lost control of his emotions, as his eyes teared up. Those spies were the elites of the intelligence division, following him through life and death. Although they were subordinates, they were more like brothers.

Ouyang Shuo understood his feelings. To defend the territory, many men and brothers had died.

Leng Qian paused, calming himself down before continuing. "In the Chiyou tribe, there's a special spirit bird called the Ling Bird, similar to the one drawn in their tribe insignia. This bird is even better than the Feng Bird. After I escaped, the Ling Bird chased me. This Ling Bird killed the Feng Bird."

Although Leng Qian described it very simply, everyone could imagine how dangerous it was. All his brothers died and his Feng Bird had died too. He had to survive to bring the intel back.

On the way back, Leng Qian was attacked many times and escaped time after time. In the wilderness, there were numerous times where he woke up in shock.

Even so, Leng Qian didn't give up and made use of his reverse tracking and jungle experience to evade them. In the end, he walked out of the hundred thousand mountain even under circumstances where he lacked food.

When Ouyang Shuo saw that his eyes were bloodshot and that his body wasn't back to its best shape, he said warmly. "You've done well, go and rest! The Military Affairs Department will pay the deceased soldiers twice the standard remuneration and help their families."

"Thank you, lord!" Leng Quan tried his best to hold in his sadness and pain. Then, he left.

"How do you see it?" Ouyang Shuo asked Baiqi and Tian Wenjing for their views.

Tian Wenjing was the official who dealt with the mountain barbarians, so for such a thing to happen meant that he had failed his job. Now, what he had to consider was how to salvage the situation.

He thought silently before saying, "Chiyou's influence on the mountain barbarians can't be further emphasized. No matter how we deal with the relationship with the Chiyou City, what's more important is the barbarian powers within our territory."

Ouyang Shuo froze and said, "Continue!"

"Those living in the territory, be it soldiers or their families, the settlements in the east suburbs, the ones around the minefields and those few tribes still living in the mountains as well as in Gushan County. There are many unstable elements within them, and they might be tempted by Chiyou, so we must be wary. Especially Gushan County, everyone there is a barbarian, and they are close to the hundred thousand mountains, so they are the most dangerous."

"How should we defend against them?"

"Firstly, the mountain barbarians soldiers. Forming our heavy armored infantry is the trump card of our territory. If something happens, the outcome will be very bad. I think we should move all their family to Shanhai City."

Ouyang Shuo nodded and looked at Baiqi. "General, you should visit the 3rd division when you are free."

"Don't worry."

"Secondly, the settlements east of Shanhai City. Those few tribes are those that entered the earliest and have been through a lot, pretty much assimilating into our community. Hence, we don't need to do much, just needing to slightly monitor them."

"Thirdly, those living around the minefield and up in the mountains. With Xuanniao tribe as the core, the sons of the tribes are mostly in the military and are living a good life. No matter what, they have to move down the mountain. If not, they are a ticking time bomb which could explode at any moment. As for the settlement area, I suggest the west suburbs. It's convenient that the west region is developing and needs manpower. At the same time, the Langshan protection unit needs a change of personnel."

"Fourthly, Gushan County. It is purely run by mountain barbarians and haven't had a deep connection to the territory. Hence, they are the easiest to tempt. We need to move the entire county to the east region and arrange a military to supervise them."

Ouyang Shuo agreed with these few points.

When Tian Wenjing said the last one, Ouyang Shuo frowned. "That can't work. Not saying whether or not they will betray us, but if we do that, the mountain barbarians won't trust us. Not only that, it will make the other mountain barbarians feel that their race isn't treated the same as others."

"But..."

"You don't need to say anymore. I've decided that the policy with Gushan County will not be changed."

"Yes, my lord!" Tian Wenjing sighed.

"Don't worry. I'll ask Lei Fan to come over and have a deep conversation. With my understanding of him, he isn't a guy who is short sighted. He knows that staying here is far better than going to Chiyou City. If not, he wouldn't have reported the mountain barbarian activity in the first place."

"The marquis is smart!"

"As for convincing the mountain barbarians to move down the mountains, I need you to do so personally. The key would be the witch in the Xuanniao tribe. Bring a gift and visit her personally. As for Chiyou City, you can tell her about it. She is a smart person and will understand." Although he had just seen her once, he had a deep impression of her.

"Yes, my lord!"

Ouyang Shuo looked at Baiqi. "Military-wise, we need to prepare. The 3000 soldiers in the reserve squad would be of use now. Form a protection unit and replace the current people at Langshan. For the remaining 2,500 people, form an independent regiment belonging to the city east camp to defend Gushan County."

Ouyang Shuo believed that even if Chiyou looked down on him, he would choose this time to attack. For such an arrogant person, strengthening his power was the most important aspect.

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Chapter 304- The Update That Wasn't Supposed to Happen

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After the discussions were completed, Shanhai City became noisy once again.

Tian Wenjing personally went to the Xuanniao tribe to see the witch, explaining to her the pros and cons, and asking her to come out and ask the tribes to go down the mountain.

If whichever tribe insisted on their tribal traditions and weren't willing, Shanhai City could only use violence.

No one could stop Shanhai City from removing all problems and threats.

Baiqi chose a unit and entered the Langshan minefields. He personally brought the independent regiment and sent them toward Gushan County, arranging them to patrol the border and also pay attention to the 3rd division.

The next day, the Gushan County's County Magistrate hurried to Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo spent an entire morning talking to Lei Fan. As for the specifics, no one knew; one only knew that when he left the Lord's Manor, Lei Fan had a lot on his mind, instantly leaving for Gushan County.

A whole flurry of actions made everyone unable to react.

On the 27th day of the 12th month, Lei Fan returned to Gushan County, immediately forming 15 thousand mountain barbarian migrants and migrating to the west suburbs of Shanhai City, building a settlement there.

This batch of mountain barbarians were the relatives of those in the army.

The same day, Baiqi led the independent regiment and reached the Gushan County barracks.

Baiqi looked at the connecting area between Gushan County and the hundred thousand mountains, and started to build moats, sentries, hidden posts, and more, pushing the defensive line deep within the mountains.

If there was any movement inside the mountains, it wouldn't be able to hide from the hidden posts.

On the 29th day of the 12th month, the mountain tribes left the mountains and went toward the west region under the actions of Tian Wenjing, helping the western development.

Ouyang Shuo was at the Lianzhou Lord's Manor and personally went to meet the Xuanniao tribe witch.

Half a year had passed, and her body was getting weaker and weaker and needed support as she walked.

Even so, her intelligence earned Ouyang Shuo's respect. As they discussed, Ouyang Shuo found that he was learning more from her.

Her knowledge and expertise taught Ouyang Shuo a lot and made him gain much.

The high grade treatment that the witch received stirred up a storm amongst the mountain barbarians.

Ouyang Shuo's actions showed that he cared a lot about the mountain barbarians and treated them as one of theirs, not despising or being biased against them.

His action also sparked a tiny bit of problem.

The original Tianfeng tribe leader Dariachi represented the grassland tribe to request that their people be treated the same.

Ouyang Shuo promised that as long as the grassland tribes came over, they wouldn't despise or look down on them and give them good treatment.

Amongst the noise, the 12th month came to its end.

Gaia first year, 12th month, 30th day

A system notification sounded throughout Earth.

"World Notification: To date, Earth Online has run for a year and the game will have one new update, effective immediately. As for the specifics, players please check them out on the official website."

The players didn't feel much and only Ouyang Shuo froze. In his memory, during his last life, there wasn't any update at this point. His presence had started to influence the game's progression.

Ouyang Shuo immediately went to the official website and checked out the updates.

Compared to the first update, this was simpler and was in bits and pieces, like it was fixing the game.

(1) Adding a potential setting: NPC will now have A, B, C and D potentials. The higher their potential, the easier for them to break bottlenecks.

Of course historical people wouldn't be included.

Based on the stats Gaia gave, there would be 0.05% A, 4.95% B, 35% C and 60% D. The exact numbers would be affected by the territory specialty and would either increase or decrease.

Those with A potential would be the advanced generals, grandmaster grade talents, and the wealth of the territory.

Based on that stat, out of 2000 refugees, one would be A potential.

The pushing out of the potential stat was good for the lord, lessening his burden and making his choices much easier. Although potential couldn't represent everything, it was a good indicator.

(2) Removing the setting that lord players can't leave their territory: Lord players are now like adventure mode players and can move to the various imperial cities through the teleportation formation.

Similarly, players who lived in the territories have regained their freedom and can teleport as they wished.

The second system auction will be held at the biggest auction house in Jingdou, not a separate space, giving the lords a chance to communicate.

Toward this setting, Ouyang Shuo was shocked.

If he didn't recall wrongly, in the last life until he was reborn, the lord players couldn't leave the territory. Why would such a thing change after just a year? he really didn't know.

(3): Changing the cost of teleportation: Battle maps no longer have teleportation costs: player teleportation, be it within territories or to imperial cities, will all cost 1 gold and the players themselves have to pay.

When players used the teleportation portal, half of the cost would be given to the territory.

As for the battle map not collecting fees, it made him heave a sigh of relief. Based on his current rank, he could bring 30 thousand troops, so teleportation alone would cost him 30 thousand gold.

Gaia was being nice once again and helping the players. If whichever lord decide to open up their territory to players, purely teleportation would result in a sizeable income source.

The 2nd and 3rd updates helped to increase interaction.

To lord players, it would increase the difficulty of managing player groups, increasing the demand of the lord's ability.

(4) The nine imperial cities will have a toll tax, half of the Super auction platform at 5%.

Increasing the toll tax was in truth encouraging players to open their trade routes and avoid the trading platform, bringing their items directly to the imperial city to sell.

Opening up trade routes in the wilderness was something that they needed to do sooner or later. The future Super auction platform would become obsolete.

(5) Removing the setting that players won't get experience from the battle map.

Not being able to obtain experience, especially soldiers unable to upgrade, had been the biggest problem for lords.

(6) Addition of a rage point setting: General specialties need enough rage points before it can activate.

The rage setting was a nerf to the historical generals. The specialties on the generals weren't a permanent buff and now was only a temporarily active skill.

Ouyang Shuo guessed that this setting probably targeted him. Which lord in the last life could recruit so many historical generals in just a year?

(7) Regarding special raider camps: In the wilderness, new special raider camps would appear which are all above 10 thousand people.

The advanced raider camps in the wilderness weren't the opponents for lords. To increase the game difficulty, Gaia had a devious idea to add a special raider camp.

(8) Increasing hidden occupations: Be it adventure mode players or work occupation players, they all have unique legacy professions which are the so-called hidden professions.

Gaia didn't reveal the specific professions, leaving everything to players to find out for themselves. Gaia specifically said that during the auction, there would be a hidden profession scroll on auction.

A rock started a thousand-layer wave. The adventure mode players who didn't bother about the auctions were now looking forward to it.

What needed to be made clear was that NPCs could also take up the legacy professions.

(9) Increasing secret regions: In the wilderness, random secret regions will appear for players to explore. The moment they are entered and explored, they would disappear permanently.

Exploring secret regions would have a chance to obtain a godly weapon or a secret manual; everything was possible.

Apart from the secret regions that spawned in the wilderness, there was also a tool called a 'secret region map' that could create a temporary secret region and allow one to enter and explore without competition.

This was another setting for adventure mode players, meaning that they were slowly starting to be paid attention to by Gaia.

(10) Increased chances of adventure quests: in the imperial city or wilderness, one could trigger an adventure quest.

When players created their characters and chose their location, if one chose random, they can activate the adventure system. Unfortunately, when the players entered they were weak and even if they activated the adventure quest, they would die because of their lack of strength.

Now was different. Players had grown and had the ability to complete the quest.

In conclusion, from today onward, the lives of adventure mode players would be more vibrant and interesting .

All of a sudden, be it the forums or the global channel, adventure mode players hogged all areas.

"Wuwuwu, it's finally our turn!"

"The wheels of history goes forwards, finally time for a new bunch of people to take center stage!"

"Qiyue Wuyi I will fight with you for glory!"

...Even though he had not done anything, people took shots at Ouyang Shuo...

"With adventure mode in my hand and the secret manuals I have, I'll be invincible!"

"The god Gaia had finally remembered us!"Ouyang Shuo didn't bother about the happiness of the adventure mode players. What he cared about were the effects this would have on the territory and his plans.

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Chapter 305- Information Piece- Rising Up

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Just as Ouyang Shuo was deep in thought, another wave started.

That afternoon, another system notification sounded.

"World notification: To date, Earth Online has run for a year, so the game will publish its first information piece [Rising Up]. For specific details, players please go online to the website to check it out."

Gaia had released one thing after another, which made people love them but hate them too.

[Rising Up] referred to the peasant uprisings in each country, like Spartacus, Sicily Slave Uprising, Scotland Uprising, Germany Farmer War, and the like.

Of course, the country that had the most peasant uprisings was China. The ones in China were the most frequent and the cruelest, directly or indirectly overthrowing a few kings and dynasties.

In the game, Gaia picked out the most representative peasant uprising figures and made them appear in the wilderness and raise wave after wave of uprisings to target the various lords.

Those that joined in the uprising army were not only the refugees, bandits, and raiders. Even robbers could turn robbery into serving justice for the heavens.

If the territory's public sentiment didn't reach the standards, or their taxes wee too high or commoners didn't get enough food, it could cause commoners and residents to join the uprising and overthrow the lord's rule.

Not only that, the peasant uprising would also affect a large amount of refugees, affecting the spawning rate of the refugees and migrants. If the law and order in a territory didn't reach satisfactory standards, it might not spawn anyone.

Gaia obviously didn't want the lords to relax and kept setting up problems and opponents for them.

During the first year, it was wild monsters, raiders, and bandits. The second year was the special raider camps and the peasant uprising. In the future, there would definitely be greater issues.

As the territories grew stronger, Gaia would arrange even stronger opponents.

The 2nd year of Gaia would be a totally chaotic year.

Those who were able to survive would rise from the ashes; those who couldn't would have to leave.

Whatever happened would have its advantages and disadvantages.

If the territory could lead the army to destroy the peasant uprising army, not only would they get a large population increase, but they could also earn a large amount of merit points and raise their rank.

The weak being food for the strong was obvious at this point.

The strong would get stronger, and the weak would get weaker. The strong would survive; the world was just so cruel.

It wasn't hard to imagine that for territories that were alone, apart from the top presences such as Shanhai Territory, it was hard to survive the peasant uprising. Forming up alliances would be their way to solve the problem.

In the future, large and small scale alliances would form.

The Shanhai Alliance and the Yanhuang Alliance, the two huge giants of the Chinese region, had once again became the focal point of lord gamemode players.

If one could join one of the two alliances, even if they couldn't live without any problems, they would have a fighting chance.

Unfortunately, be it Shanhai Alliance or Yanhuang Alliance, neither would lower their standards and recruit new members.

One would rather lack people than have useless and untrustworthy individuals. This is something that wouldn't change.

This period of time was also the best time for groups and overlords to rise up.

All the territories within the top 100 territories were filled with ambitious players. Although they didn't have as much of an influence as Ouyang Shuo, to build a regional alliance was still possible.

Especially with the new Lianzhou Model, this was further simplified.

In the span of a few days, there was a huge change.

Now, it wasn't that the big territories were forcing the small ones into signing the contracts. It was the small ones forcing the large ones to protect them. If not, they couldn't survive.

If Ouyang Shuo hadn't remembered wrongly, in his last life, not more than 500 territories hadremained. If they didn't upgrade to a prefecture before three years, they were basically all wiped out.

His appearance totally changed the style of the Chinese Region, breaking the rule of the Six Tyrants of Handan.

Ouyang Shuo couldn't predict how the future would change.

Ouyang Shuo shook it off and continued to search for more details about the information piece.

As the Chinese region had the most uprisings, Gaia chose four of the most famous peasant uprisings, throwing all of them into the wilderness.

Uprising Name: Chensheng Wuchuang Uprising

Uprising Time: End of Qin

Uprising Leader: Chensheng, Wuchuang

Uprising Location: Zhongyuan

Uprising Evaluation: The first large scale peasant uprising in Chinese history.

Uprising Name: Huangjin Uprising

Uprising Time: End of East Han

Uprising Leader: Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang

Uprising Location: North

Uprising Evaluation: The largest scale religious organization peasant uprising in Chinese history.

Uprising Name: Huangchao Peasant Uprising

Uprising Time: End of Tang

Uprising Leader: Huangchao

Uprising Location: Southeast

Uprising Evaluation: a long, large scale and highly influential peasant uprising

Uprising Name: Taiping Country uprising

Uprising Time: Qing Dynasty

Uprising Leader: Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Li Xiucheng

Uprising Location: Southwest

Uprising Evaluation: The largest scale peasant uprising in Chinese history.

The situation in the game was totally different from the environment of the peasant uprisings.

Hence, Gaia placed these four groups into four big regions, basically covering the whole region. As for those regions that weren't affected like Qiongzhou Island and Yizhou Island, they were considered lucky and escaped it.

Gaia didn't try to uphold absolute fairness in the game, as luck was a type of strength.

It was that phrase: there are advantages and disadvantages. There was nothing that was absolute.

The two islands didn't belong to any imperial city and were out at sea.

In Gaia's settings, the two islands belonged to the wilderness region. Wild beasts roamed on it, and it was really dangerous. There were even chances of ancient beasts appearing there.

Apart from that, there were large amounts of indigenous people who hunted to survive. If one thought about it, for them to survive in a place where large amounts of primitive beasts thrived, it showed the strength of these indigenous tribes.

The above two elements made it hard for players to survive there too. If not, Ouyang Shuo would have chosen one of those islands and not the Lianzhou Basin.

The island was an out of this world paradise and also a jail.

Of the four uprising groups, the one that Ouyang Shuo paid attention to was the Taiping Country movement. This was because the place where this movement started was Guangxi Xunzhou Jintian Village.

Xunzhou was located on the north side of the Lianzhou Basin, located right outside Zhennan Pass. As for Wuzhou where Chiyou City was located at, it was the east side of Xunzhou.

This meant that if Ouyang Shuo wanted to enter Guangxi, he had to deal with the Taiping Country.

The Taiping Country Organization was secretive. They had many officials in their inner Organization and was the strongest Organization amongst the four groups.

With the strength of Shanhai Territory, they absolutely couldn't contend against Taiping Country.

Luckily, the explosion of the uprising needed a long preparation time and wasn't something that would happen instantly.

At the start, the core members of the uprising would appear in the wilderness and recruit people before building a base, expanding outward, and taking over more territories.

Their final goal would be to build up a powerful country.

Hence, the uprising groups could be considered a lord group with a bug technique.

When they arrived, they already had the backbone of their system and had the strong skill of gathering refugees.

Ouyang Shuo prayed for the territories which were around the uprisings. They would be the first victims and couldn't block the strong uprising army.

In the last life, Ouyang Shuo remembered that some unlucky lords surrendered to the uprising group and managed to live as half an official.

Some lords actually made it and were really successful.

In truth, the settings in Gaia were very free.

After Gaia implanted the uprising groups into the wilderness, they wouldn't interfere in the game.

This meant that if these uprising groups were really strong or the lords were really lousy, then these uprising groups could really survive until the end.

Gaia definitely wouldn't remove the last information piece when the next one appeared.

They definitely wouldn't!

If the lords in a country worked together and couldn't beat the uprising group, it meant that it would be game over for all the lords.

In the end, the system imperial city had to send out troops to invade the uprising group to clean it out.

After which, the players could redo the village creation mission, obtaining the village creation token, building their villages and starting from scratch.

In such a way, when the country war started, this country would be easily slaughtered by other countries.

Hence, for lords to surrender to the uprising groups was a good way out.

If one could get a high position in it and even earn merit points from it, they could be able to become a founding hero and obtain land and a rank.

When the game ended, the calculated achievement value would be the same as owning a territory.

In such a way, this gave a way out for the unlucky lords and sent the game into a more complicated scene.

To lords, this was a huge challenge.

If not, why would lords player survive in the wilderness to the end?

To this, Ouyang Shuo could only laugh bitterly. What he could only do was to quickly unify the Lianzhou Basin and make a stable base for the territory.

As for the others, he could only solve them as they came.

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Chapter 306-Assassination

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Gaia 2nd year, 1st month 1st day, Jingdou

No matter how grand the news of the information piece was yesterday, it was something for the future. What players cared about most now was still the 2nd system auction.

Walking on the bustling streets of Jingdou, Ouyang Shuo couldn't help but be awed. Compared to the imperial city, his small land was nothing; it wasn't even close to being on the same level.

On the wide streets, people swarmed and carts and chariots were plenty. The shops on both sides were all two floors high and built with green bricks and red tiles. The amount of products were plenty and it was indescribably prosperous.

Besides Ouyang Shuo were Song Jia and Bing'er.

Compared to the bustling modern city, the olden one gave off a different charm.

"Brother, sugar-coated haws!"

Coming to Jingdou, her true colors were revealed. The little brat was holding a sugar man and also stared at the sugar-coated haws in the shop.

Ouyang Shuo had not followed Bing'er around, and he was feeling guilty in her heart.

To let her be happy, he would just let her do as she wished.

"Boss, give me a sugar-coated haw!" Ouyang Shuo passed him a silver coin.

"No, two sticks!" Song Jia suddenly said.

The two beauties, each one holding a stick of sugar-coated haws, slowly strolled on the streets and ate it deliciously.

Danger suddenly struck.

An ordinary-looking man standing behind Ouyang Shuo suddenly took out a sword.

As the sharp blade came out of the sheath, the blade shone in the light.

The blade stabbed straight toward Ouyang Shuo's heart.

Ouyang Shuo was astonished, goosebumps appearing over his body.

Feeling the killing intent from behind, Ouyang Shuo didn't have time to think and side stepped to try and dodge. The sharp blade stabbed into his chest and fresh blood flowed.

Ouyang Shuo jumped away and instantly opened the distance between the two.

Turning around, he saw a young swordsman. He charged closer and the sword in his hand was covered with blood.

"Wuyi!"

Song Jia who was walking in front shrieked, she pulled out her Qingfeng Sword and rushed forward.

Ouyang Shuo didn't turn around and kept focus. "Don't come over, protect Bing'er!"

Song Jia froze and instantly stopped, pulling Bing'er's hand and protecting her by her side, looking worriedly at Ouyang Shuo. She could feel that the sword skills of this assassin were special.

The assassin didn't give Ouyang Shuo a chance, leaping forward once again.

Ouyang Shuo looked stern. He totally didn't have the chance to take the Tianmo Spear from his storage bag. If he got distracted, there was a high chance he would be killed.

Luckily, apart from his spear technique, his bajiquan was good too.

The sword shone across, Ouyang Shuo push it to the side before trying to steal the sharp blade from his hand.

The assassin wasn't a novice, and saw that the opponent was better than he expected, totally different from the intel he had received. He didn't dare to be overconfident and went all out, not giving Ouyang Shuo a chance.

In a short moment, both of Ouyang Shuo's hands were covered with blood, and had several sword cuts.

If Ouyang Shuo wasn't resilient, he would have been screaming out in pain.

Gaia had a 50% reduction in pain reception.

Bajiquan was good at close combat. As the assassin was quick and sharp, he immediately opened up the distance. The sword light flashed across incessantly, leaving either deep or small wounds on Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo was helpless. Without a weapon in hand, he couldn't do anything. In addition, the sword that the assassin stabbed into his chest at the beginning, he had no time to deal with it and nonstop blood flow.

The huge loss of blood made his strength drop profusely, and he couldn't focus anymore.

If this continued, he would definitely bleed out.

To an assassin, the best method now would be to continue wasting time and strength.

Unfortunately, one mustn't forget that this was the most bustling street in Jingdou.

An assassination on these streets instantly caused an uproar and everyone panicked.

Not long after, the experts in charge of the safety of Jingdou would arrive.

At that time, everything would be too late.

Just at that moment, from the 2nd floor of a shop, a sharp arrow accurately shot Ouyang Shuo's thigh. The huge impact caused him to stumble forward and nearly kneel on the ground.

"Wuyi!"

Song Jia cried out. She was heartbroken and wanted to rush forward.

However, she couldn't. Since there was someone firing arrows, it meant that the enemy had accomplices. She had to protect Bing'er's safety. She knew how important that little brat was to Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo knew that if this continued, he would definitely die and might even drag down Song Jia and Bing'er.

He could only take a gamble.

Ouyang Shuo purposely stumbled forward and knelt on the ground.

When the assassin saw such a good chance, he came forward and went straight for the kill.

Ouyang Shuo kept his head down as a cruel smile flashed across his face. Just as the sharp sword stabbed forward, he turned to the side and the sword stabbed into his lower rib.

A sharp pain spread from that region.

Ouyang Shuo gritted his teeth, as beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He used strength, locking the sword in his ribs and not allowing the enemy to break loose.

The assassin wanted to pull his sword out and stab again but found that he couldn't. Instantly, a he had a bad feeling.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Making use of the chance, a white light shone across and the Tianmo Spear appeared in his hand.

Holding onto the Tianmo Spear, Ouyang Shuo's aura changed and he was like an overlord.

The spear appeared and stabbed straight at the enemy. Although it looked normal, the blow was impossible to dodge.

The assassin was shocked, immediately letting go of the sword and barely avoiding the spear.

His attack failed, and seeing that the experts were arriving, the assassin was furious and embarrassed. He didn't expect that he, a peak level expert of the adventure gamemode players, would actually fail to kill a lord.

"Lianzhou lord really surprises people!"

As the assassin backed off, in his hand appeared another sword.

"Who are you?" Ouyang Shuo bore the pain, as he coldly looked at the enemy.

"You don't need to try to buy time. We are doing this for money and helping to solve another's problem!"

Ouyang Shuo frowned, feeling that this statement was familiar. "You are Blood Sword?"

"You, how do you know?" The assassin freaked out and couldn't keep calm anymore. It was like the greatest secret in his heart had suddenly been revealed.

Blood Sword, the most mysterious assassin Organization in china in his last life.

Their style was what the assassin had said: Take money to help solve problems.

The moment they accepted a mission, they wouldn't rest until they completed it.

No matter who it was, be it a lord or a sect leader, they were all within their assassination scope. At their peak, they even announced that there was no one they couldn't kill.

Previously Blood Sword was still secretly building up strength, so outside people had no knowledge of their existence.

Counting the time, it was about when Blood Sword had announced themselves to the world.

What Ouyang Shuo didn't expect was that he actually became the first target of Blood Sword.

Blood Sword wanted to make use of the assassination of such a well-known target to instantly get famous.

How would he have expected that his highly secretive identity would be revealed.

It was so shocking that he didn't know what to do.

"You guys are really Blood Sword." A cold smile flashed across Ouyang Shuo's face.

"Are you trying to bluff me?" The assassin's face turned red. "That's not right; how do you know our name?"

"Since you tried to kill me, you must get ready for my revenge." Ouyang Shuo didn't know where their main base was located, as their members were all part time and even the inner circle didn't know about the identities of the others.

"Such big words!"

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. With the Tianmo Spear as a support, he steadied himself. His wounds were still bleeding and seeping onto his clothes.

Even so, no one dared to underestimate him.

When the assassin saw that his identity was exposed, it made Ouyang Shuo seem more inscrutable.

The assassin was wary of him and wanted to find out whether or not he was lying.

With such a delay, the experts were about to arrive. The assassin didn't dare to take the risk and chose to leave. The moment one was captured by them, they wouldn't even manage to revive.

"The Lianzhou lord is indeed special, so let's meet next time!"

As he said this, he retreated and instantly disappeared within the hoard of people.

As expected from the Blood Sword, they were swift and didn't drag things out.

As the assassin left, this meant the end of the assassination attempt.

As long as Ouyang Shuo didn't die, this meant that he would continue to face their assassination attempts.

They had many styles and methods, but they were best at silent killing. Their plan today was to make themselves famous and known. Hence, they chose to kill openly.

After he left, Ouyang Shuo finally couldn't hold on any longer.

"Cough!" Ouyang Shuo's body couldn't take it anymore, as he coughed out a mouthful of blood.

"Wuyi!"

"Brother!"

Song Jia and Bing'er ran across to support Ouyang Shuo.

"Wuyi, are you okay!"

"I'm fine!"

When he had fought, Bing'er was really well-behaved, not making a sound and not crying out.

After the storm passed, she couldn't hold it anymore and looking at the blood stains on her brother. Tears started forming in her eyes. "Brother, is it painful?"

Ouyang Shuo reached out and rubbed her head, consoling her. When his hand was in the air, only then did he realize it was stained with blood.

"Baby, brother is fine!"

Just at this moment, the experts had arrived.

"Marquis!" The leader walked in front of Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo nodded as he described the appearance of the assassin. "I hope your men can give me an answer!"

He was a lord. After he was almost assassinated in Jingdou, he had the power to command and order them.

The constable said solemnly, "Lord, don't worry."

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Chapter 307- Who's the Mastermind?

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The Jingdou Auction House sat at the middle portion of the busiest commerce street, and everyone was already swarming through the doors. Be it lords of territories, leaders of guilds or sects, or even lone travellers, they all appeared.

Unprecedented.

Making use of the chance, before the anniversary auction began, the Jingdou Auction House held a large-scale auction as sort of a warm up event.

The items auctioned off were plentiful.

Although they weren't as rare as those that would be on the anniversary auction, they were still excellent products. All items above gold rank, basically high-end player goods.

The anniversary auction wasn't something that any player could obtain an item in. As such, most of the players at the scene were just there to take a look. Hence, this auction helped cater to their needs, making it unexpectedly popular.

At the door of the auction house, a group of players gathered up, seemingly anxious.

"Why hasn't the boss arrived? The auction is about to begin. Did something happen?"

"Stop jinxing it!"

"Why doesn't Gaia just make a long distance communication function?'

"Okay, okay, let's have a little patience guys, let's wait a while longer!"

"Guys, do you think that the boss forgot about the time as he was shopping with sister-in-law? Hoes over bros!"

"Little lion, how dare you talk bad about the boss. We will tell on you."

"Ah?" Gong Chengshi forced out a smile. "Haha, Xunlong you won't do that right? Haha, we are all good brothers, good brothers."

"Five treats at Qingfeng Garden!"

"Ha? Isn't that too harsh?"

Qingfeng Garden was the biggest brothel in Jingdou. It cost a few hundred gold each time.

"So, no deal?"

"Deal!" Gong Chengshi silently cried, as he had asked for it.

Feng Qiuhuang heard the two of them getting out of hand and scolded, "You two uncultured swines!"

"Feng Sis (what people in china call like escorts or like bar ladies) , we are very pure people!"

"What did you call me?" Feng Qiuhuang instantly raged.

Xunlong Dianxue looked at Gong Chengshi who was just looking for it and started gloating.

Gong Chengshi immediately felt like dying. He couldn't control his mouth. He tried to suck up and say, "Sister Fengwu, I'm wrong, I'm really wrong, really!"

Feng Qiuhuang stared at him and didn't bother anymore, turning around and going toward Bai Hua.

The members of the Shanhai Alliance stood at the door of the auction house, attracting a lot of attention; not only were they famous, but Bai Hua and Feng Qiuhuang were both absolute beauties.

The assassination attempt that happened on the commerce street seemed to have no effect, like a drop of rain in the sea. It was like nothing had occurred.

Under the company of Song Jia, he went to a hospital and had his wounds dealt with before rushing to the auction house. No matter what, this was something that he couldn't miss.

As for the constables' investigation, Ouyang Shuo didn't hold too high hopes.

As long as the assassins left Jingdou, they were practically free men.

Of course, the constables would draw up wanted posters and arrest warrants based on the Ouyang Shuo's description and send it to all the imperial cities. However, the actual effect would depend on Ouyang Shuo's influence.

Obviously, his current status wasn't enough to make the other imperial cities act.

Ouyang Shuo cared about the identity of the mastermind more. The perpetrator behind whole thing who wanted him to die.

As a lord, level wasn't important. Reviving once wouldn't have a huge effect on him.

The crux of the problem was that if he died, he needed to spend half a day in the Reincarnation Hall. Hence, if Ouyang Shuo had died, he would have missed out on the auction.

The mastermind had really planned it well.

Ouyang Shuo's arrival attracted a huge commotion. All the bandages made him look like half a dumpling, and if someone wasn't familiar with him, they definitely wouldn't recognize him.

"Boss, Boss?" Gong Chengshi ran over.

"Yes, it's me."

Gong Chengshi had the look one had when they looked at their cute pet, making Ouyang Shuo speechless.

"Boss, did you go peep at a a girl bathing? What happened?" Gong Chengshi didn't give Ouyang Shuo a chance to explain himself.

If Ouyang Shuo could move about, he would've beaten Gong Chengshi up.

"Little Shuo, what happened?" Little Aunt and Xie Siyun walked over.

The others also surrounded him.

"I'll explain it to you guys in detail after the auction ends. Let's enter first."

The Jingdou auction house specially prepared suites for the ten biggest territories and the ten biggest guilds. The members of Shanhai Alliance all went into Ouyang Shuo's suite.

As they walked by, Sha Pojun suddenly exited from his suite.

His eyes were sharp, and he instantly recognized Ouyang Shuo, teasing, "Well isn't it the great lord Qiyue Wuyi? How did you become like this? Don't tell me? Haha."

Ouyang Shuo didn't care about him and just walked toward his own suite.

"Hen!" Sha Pojun returned back into his suite.

Ouyang Shuo's suite was the number one suite in the auction house and was more than enough for all the members of the alliance.

After settling down, Song Jia asked, "Wuyi, could it have been Sha Pojun?"

As the representative of the grey powers, he had relationships with such organizations.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "It doesn't look like it's him."

Sha Pojun didn't have the motive to do so. He hated Ouyang Shuo, but he had limited funds and couldn't do much during the auction. As such, he didn't need to kill Ouyang Shuo and prevent him from coming.

A dog that bites wouldn't bark, Ouyang Shuo suspected that it was Chun Shenjun.

During the first system auction, Chun Shenjun was very confident. In the end, Ouyang Shuo played him, leaving him empty handed. During this auction, he would have definitely prepared well and been more wary of Ouyang Shuo's presence.

"What are the both of you talking about? Little Shuo, what's with your injuries?"

Since Little Aunt asked, Ouyang Shuo decided to tell everyone about the assassination attempt.

In an instant, the suite was in an uproar.

"Despicable!"

"Jerk!"

"Such an asshole!"

Xie Siyun frowned. "Why didn't we have any news before?"

The others wanted to continue. However, the auction started at this very moment.

Compared to the first system auction, there were more items in the 2nd one, a total of 108. The top 10 items would all be left until last.

As there were too many items, the auction style would be different from the first.

The auction would be split into two parts. The first would be a silent auction. Players could all bid within an hour time limit; they could only bid once for each item and couldn't change their bids.

After the bidding ended, the highest bid would win the item.

Ouyang Shuo picked up a manual that described the items of the auction.

In the list, there were actually various scrolls, tokens, treasures and even weapon crafting manuals. There were also equipment, pills, skill books and cultivation techniques that adventure gamemode players loved.

A whole load of different items.

Each item was at the dark gold level, and there were even one or two platinum ranked items.

As for the last few items, they were all kept a secret and weren't revealed.

Out of the members of the Shanhai Alliance, apart from Ouyang Shuo, Bai Hua, Feng Qiuhuang and Snow-War Rose Mercenary Group, the rest had limited funds and didn't care about the last 10 items.

Ouyang Shuo picked up a book and bid 2000 gold. After that, he didn't act. His goal was the 10 items.

Quickly, an hour had passed and he smoothly obtained the book.

The others all had some gains. Bai Hua got a Shield Making Technique Manual and Feng Qiuhuang got a Heavy Sword Crafting Manual.

Only Gong Chengshi got nothing, as he had bid too little on the item that he wanted.

"Who asked you to be stingy!" Xunlong Dianxue gloated.

Gong Chengshi was on the verge of tears.

The 2nd stage of the auction was the fun part.

The best auctioneer in Jingdou Auction House walked onto the stage. Behind the auctioneer, there were 10 people with trays covered with red cloth.

After the simple speech, the auction immediately began.

"Now, for the first item!"

The first beautiful model walked to the front and opened the cloth, revealing a token.

The auctioneer introduced. "This is a silver village creation token. Base price 10 thousand gold, buyout 30 thousand gold. Please place your bids."

As expected, the first item was already so enticing.

If it was a year ago, this rare token would be sold for a sky high price.

Unfortunately, a year had passed and the powers had already formed up. Even with a silver village creation token, one wouldn't be able to establish himself in the wilderness.

The key was even with funds, the rank was one that stopped one from upgrading.

Ouyang Shuo was moved, instantly making the decision. What seemed useless to others was like a god weapon in his eyes.

"11 thousand gold!" Someone tested the water.

After the bid, no one followed. It was unexpectedly cold.

The sudden situation caught the auctioneer off guard, "11 thousand gold, 11 thousand gold, are there any other bids?" In her eyes, was a glimpse of pleading.

If the village creation token was auctioned off like this, she definitely wouldn't be able to keep her job.

"15 thousand gold!" Ouyang Shuo placed his bid.

Wah~~~

All the players looked toward the first suite like fools. Everyone knew who sat inside, the strongest lord in the China region- Qiyue Wuyi.

One can afford to be willful if he's rich.

If he had only slightly raised the bid, someone else might have tried to fight him, but Ouyang Shuo had directly spent 15,000 gold.

No one else could act as rich as Ouyang Shuo and casually throw out such a high amount.

Just like this, the first item landed in his pocket.

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Chapter 308- Dark Horse

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"Little Shuo, if you feel you have too much money, you can lend it to me. Must you be so stupid?"

The many people in the first suite definitely didn't understand Ouyang Shuo's actions, but to say it out so directly, only Lin Jing could do so.

"Sigh," Ouyang Shuo had to explain, "Little Aunt, I didn't recklessly spend money. This village creation token is worth it."

"Explain yourself. If you don't make sense, I'm going to beat you up!" Lin Jing was a swordswoman and her combat strength and damage output were obviously very high.

'The token is prepared for Bing'er for her to build a territory."

"Are you kidding me? Bing'er is still a kid; how can she be a lord?"

Bing'er, who was sitting in the suite, curiously lifted her head when her brother mentioned her.

"Let me finish!"

Facing such an anxious senior, Ouyang Shuo was helpless.

"Speak!"

"Bing'er can't manage it, but I can. I'm her guardian so based on the system setting, I can help her manage things until she reaches the legal age," Ouyang Shuo explained.

"There's such a setting. Why don't I know it?"

"You aren't a lord; of course, you wouldn't know about it," Ouyang Shuo muttered softly.

"Wuyi, I also didn't know about this. Did any of youl know about it?" Bai Hua looked at the both of them bickering, so she wanted to help resolve the situation.

Xunlong Dianxue and the others all shook their heads, " Nope."

"Isn't there another term on the lord's interface? It's written clearly there. All of you, did you even read it carefully?"

"Wow boss, we really worship you. This terms and conditions are so long and stupid, a total of 20 pages. You actually finished reading it!" Gong Chengshi teased.

"Worship 1"

"2"

"3""That's enough," Ouyang Shuo facepalmed.

Why did everyone start playing a fool.

Amidst the laughter, the auctioneer started to auction off the second item.

The item on the second tray was revealed, it was an old scroll.

The auctioneer said, "This book is the Suozi Armor Crafting Manual. The base price is 11 thousand and the buyout is 35 thousand. Please make your bids."

The Suozi Armor was a common armor—cavalry, infantry, or even archers could all equip it.

In terms of defense, the Suozi Armor was average. However, it was still naturally better than the system-generated armor. Hence, there was a serious competition for it.

"12 thousand!"

"13 thousand!"

"14 Thousand!""20 thousand!"

"22 thousand!:"

"23 thousand!"

The price continued to climb upward, and it quickly reached 25 thousand. The people who were left were Zhan Lang and Chun Shenjun.

Amongst the Shanhai Alliance, Ouyang Shuo had the Buren Armor and the Mingguang Armor, while Feng Qiuhuang had the Tiefutu Armor. Hence, they didn't particularly need the Suozi Armor.

On the other hand, the Yanhuang Alliance were the ones who badly needed it.

In the end, Zhan Lang won the Suozi Armor with a bid of 28 thousand.

It wasn't that Ouyang Shuo didn't think about going in. After all, who would mind more armor varieties? Moreover, the Suozi armor also had some uses. Only, this was the 2nd item and he only had around 100 thousand, so it was better to play safer.

The speed of the auction started to slowly peak.

"Now, on to the third item of the auction. "The auctioneer pointed to the third tray. "Ming Dynasty Warship Building Manual, starting bid 15 thousand gold, buyout 45 thousand. Please make your bids."

"Ah!" Ouyang Shuo breathed in a breath of cold air, unable to control the excitement in his heart.

The thing he needed finally came out.

Before the ocean trading and exploration of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty Warship technology was basically the highest level in China.

At that time, it could also be considered the best in the world.

Better yet, this was a collective manual, similar to what Ouyang Shuo had obtained in the 1st auction.

Getting it would mean wielding the warship building technology of a dynasty and even an era.

No one could remain calm.

Out of the top 10 territories in the China region, apart from Ouyang Shuo, only Ba Wang and Xunlong Dianxue were close to the ocean.

If one considered the river flow and that the map was 10 times larger, the intersections of waterways and rivers, especially in the south were numerous and warships were definitely needed.

One could imagine how a war would break out for this manual.

In less than 10 minutes, the price was raised up to 28 thousand gold.

The poor Xunlong Dianxue had no choice but to give up. He still owed the Four Seas bank money. Hence, he could only watch on.

Luckily for him, he had a strong ally.

"Boss, is it time to act?"

Ouyang Shuo was calm and didn't rashly join in.

"Wait a while longer!"

"Still?" Xunlong Dianxue didn't believe that Ouyang Shuo would give up on this.

Just at this moment, the pace of the bidding picked up.

"30 thousand!"

"33 thousand!"

"35 thousand!"At last, Ouyang Shuo couldn't stay calm, this was of absolute importance to the territory and was even more important than his life.

"38 thousand!" Ouyang Shuo bid once again.

Basically, this price was the limit of what the players could handle.

After Ouyang Shuo placed the bid, only Xiong Ba remained.

Xiong Ba was in his own suite and said out toward Ouyang Shuo, "Brother Wuyi really is rich, enough to make people feel despondent."

"39 thousand!" Ouyang Shuo made a final gamble.

"40 thousand!"

Ouyang Shuo was firm and the moment Xiong Ba ended his words, he raised the bid. If Xiong Ba bid once more, he would buy out the item.

The whole place was in an uproar. A single item for 40 thousand gold was seemingly unbelievable.

"Brother Wuyi, mad respect." Xiong Ba raised both hands and surrendered.

In the end, Ouyang Shuo won it with 40 thousand gold.

The sound of the hammer made everyone turn around.

Di Chen, on the other hand, was relieved. "If this continues, Qiyue Wuyi definitely wouldn't be able to compete with us for that item."

Juedai Fenghua wasn't so sure and said calmly, "Did you forget about the first system auction?"

Di Chen froze. "It's different, Qiyue Wuyi has already spent 50 thousand. No matter how rich he is, he wouldn't have much left."

"I really don't know how he has so much money. In theory, he has just upgraded and needs loads of money. How would he have so much free cash?" Di Chen couldn't understand.

Juedai Fenghua didn't say anything, showing that she she was confused too.

"Do you think he used up the money to build the territory?"

"Do you think he's a person that rushes for short term gain?"

"No!"

The sudden silence made one uncomfortable.

Chun Shenjun had a weird expression on his face. "Such a strong assassin also didn't manage to kill you, you are really lucky."

"I hope you won't be my tripping stone, or else…"

Chun Shenjun was as cold as a snake looking at its prey.

After a short break, the auction continued.

"Now. we will begin on the 4th item." The auctioneer held up a scroll and said, "After using this, one can immediately class change to the hidden occupation—Chi Cultivator, starting bid 12 thousand gold. Buyout would be 35 thousand gold. Please make your bids."

The moment the voice ended, the adventure gamemode players were immediately thrown into a state of uproar.

Chi Cultivator. It sounded like an incredible hidden occupation.

"18 thousand gold!"

"20 thousand gold!"

"22 thousand gold!""26 thousand gold!"

The blood of the adventure mode players' was boiling, and they increased the bid 2000 by 2000.

Ouyang Shuo was impressed. There were so many rich people in the guilds.

The bids continued and even the first suite wasn't an exception.

Xie Siyun, who was a priest, was similar to a Chi Cultivator.

"30 thousand gold!" Xie Siyun bid for a second time.

Seeing that the price was reaching the buyout, the bidding slowed.

In the end, it was a battle between the top 10 guilds.

Apart from the guilds formed purely of work occupation players, the rest wouldn't easily give it up. Even if they couldn't use it, they could still give it to their core members.

Just as the guild leaders were competing, a bid was suddenly thrown out in the public area.

"35 thousand gold!"

The one that raised the tablet was a random player.

The atmosphere instantly frozed; the sudden silence was frightening.

In an instant, the pause was broken and the players caused a commotion.

Be it the players in the suites or those in the public area, they all looked at the dark horse with their mouths agape, wanting to see who in the world he was.

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Chapter 309- Hidden Aristocratic Family

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The dark horse player was wearing a hood, and no one could see his appearance, making him look really mysterious. The minds of the leaders of the various guilds were like a thousand alpacas had ran across, they wanted to cry but no tears came out.

After raising the tablet, that player immediately left the public area. Then, they got up and exited the auction house.

Obviously, they had come for the class change scroll.

The 4th item had ended just like this. This dark horse player would become the biggest mystery during the second system auction.

Ouyang Shuo hadn't remembered that there was such a mysterious buyer in his last life.

Based on his conjecture, the person was either a solo player or he had completed some hidden quest and obtained a huge prize; or he was from a hidden aristocratic family. Only these two possibilities would explain why he had so much gold.

And he looked more like the latter.

For a normal solo player, even if he had gold, he wouldn't know what item would be up on the auction.

Was it that those mysterious aristocratic families finally couldn't stand the boredom and were coming out to play?

Thinking of this point, Ouyang Shuo had a weird expression on his face.

His rebirth had really changed many things.

To bring things into perspective, before Ouyang Shuo's identity was revealed, he was also thought to be a child of the aristocratic families. One could see how strong and mysterious they were.

Of the hidden aristocratic families, their numbers and members were unknown, whether they were good or bad were unknown, and they were like a fog that hung over the game.

Of course, hidden didn't mean they were hermits.

They were possibly your colleague, or some grandpa playing chess in the garden, or even the butcher or tailor.

Everything was possible.

As more and more powers took time to enter the field, the game was becoming more and more interesting.

The 2nd year of Gaia was destined to not be simple.

The auction continued.

"Now, let's begin the auction of the 5th item."

The auctioneer pointed to the item on the tray and said, "This is The Shanwen Armor making technical manual. Starting bid is 13 thousand gold, buyout is 40 thousand gold. Please make your bids."

Compared to the Song Dynasty Buren Armor, the Tang Dynasty Shanwen Armor was more pure. As the armor pieces were mostly in a 'Shan' shape, hence the name.

The Shanwen Armor was formed with three armor pieces, the typical Chinese model. The outer armor was beautiful and it fit the body, was easy to fix, and overall had a strong defensive ability, but as the crafting process was complicated, the cost was high, so it was mostly for generals and commanders.

Apart from Ouyang Shuo, no one was moved.

"14 thousand gold!"

"15 thousand gold!""17 thousand gold!"

"30 thousand gold!" Di Chen suddenly raised his tablet.

The auction pace was totally broken. His call had instantly brought the bidding price close to the buyout and showed he was determined to get it.

Di Chen wanted to use this method to obtain the item for the lowest price.

In the Shanhai Alliance, apart from Ouyang Shuo, only Bai Hua had the gold to continue.

The Yanhuang Alliance, Chun Shenjun, and Xiong Ba had the funds. However, oddly, neither of them didn't raise their tablets, seemingly having an understanding with Di Chen.

"31 thousand!" Bai Hua raised up her tablet.

Di Chen's eyes focused, he shouted without hesitation," 35 thousand gold!"

The huge jumps in bidding placed a lot of pressure on Bai Hua. She had only brought 40 thousand gold and had already spent a portion during the first round.

If she wanted to continue, she had to borrow money from Ouyang Shuo and with Di Chen's determination, he would choose to buyout the item.

After Bai Hua discussed with Tsing Yi, they chose to give up. One reason was that the price was too high, and secondly was that Shanhai City Army had already had the ability to sell armor. Hence, they didn't need to rush to make armor for themselves.

Suddenly, Ouyang Shuo suddenly whispered something in Bai Hua's ear.

Bai Hua was stunned and looked at him, speechless. She raised her tablet again, "36 thousand gold!"

Di Chen suite.

"Now what? Do we buy it out?" Di Chen asked.

Juedai Fenghua frowned. "Baihua probably has Qiyue Wuyi's support and wants to push us to the end, to be safe, we should buy it out."

Di Chen sighed, "That's the only way. If it wasn't that we had prepared well, we might have failed again this time." He still felt heart pained that he had spent 10 thousand more than expected.

40 thousand gold wasn't a small number and to prepare that sum, Handan County had lived frugally these past few months, and they pushed back many projects to be able to raise up the gold.

Di Chen tried so hard, but in the end, he still had no choice but to buy it out.

As usual, after the 5th item was auctioned, there would be a break.

During the break, the members of the Shanhai Alliance were curious about what Ouyang Shuo had said to Bai Hua. Based on the situation, she was ready to give up, so why did she suddenly continue?

Ouyang Shuo said calmly, "I told her to just bid. If she really won it, I'd pay the rest. Let's con Di Chen for a sum."

"Haha, boss, well done!"

"Wuyi, you are really too evil. How can you con someone like this? Next time remember to include me..."

"..." Ouyang Shuo was speechless.

"If Di Chen knew the truth, he would cry out in pain, wouldn't he?"

"Haha!" Everyone burst out laughing.

"And Bai Hua, the ice goddess, actually did bad with our boss. I really didn't expect that!"

"I'm innocent..." Bai Hua tried to defend herself.

"Stop bluffing us big sister, you're an evil person too!" Tsing Yi exposed Bai Hua.

"Haha!" Everyone burst out laughing again.

"Stupid brat, watch how I take care of you later." Bai Hua's embarrassment turned into rage.

"Aiya, save my life. Big sister wants to kill me, save me ah..."

Everyone looked on from the side, no one wanted to help her.

"Sigh, all of you are betrayers!"

"Sister Tsing Yi, you asked for it, we can't help you!" Gong Chengshi helped fan the flames.

"Brother Shi, I will remember you!"

"Ah, I didn't do anything." Gong Chengshi had a face full of innocence.

"You deserve it!"

Hearing the laughter coming out from the adjacent room, Di Chen shivered. He had the feeling like he was played by Ouyang Shuo.

No, it couldn't be, Di Chen consoled himself.

No matter what, he had reached his goal and successfully won the item he wanted.

With the Shanwen Armor, Handan County could form an elite infantry. With Lianpo as the General, the Handan County Army would welcome a huge change.

The Huangjin Uprising in the north would be his opportunity to rise.

After the break, the second half started immediately.

The auctioneer re-entered the stage to host the auction. During the first half of the auction, apart from the first item, the rest were sold for high prices, making her feel confident.

"'Now, we will begin the auction of the 6th item." The auctioneer pointed at an old manual and said, "This mysterious region exploration scroll has a starting price of 10 thousand, and the buyout is 30 thousand. Please place your bids."

This was the dream prize of the adventure mode players.

Different from the class change scroll, the value of this was harder to predict as it only gave players a chance to explore the mysterious region.

As for after tearing the scroll, whether the person would be able to explore the mysterious region, or what they could get from it, there weren't any promises.

If one was lucky, one could get a godly secret manual or a God weapon; if one was unlucky, he could get crafting materials or gold rank equipment.

Everything was unknown.

Of course, the system wouldn't be too dumb.

Passing the mysterious region, one could at least get a dark gold rank equipment.

Even so, the great powers circled it like eagles.

This was because high grade equipment and secret manuals were hard to get from monsters and missions. Especially in regards to cultivation techniques and secret manuals, King rank and above were hard to get.

The mysterious region gave one a chance, a possibility.

If one could take down the 1st mysterious region, it would cause a rise in the reputation of the guild.

Lords like Ouyang Shuo didn't have much interest, as only players could enter the mysterious region and soldiers and generals couldn't.

Hence, it was hard for lords to form a strong team.

"11 thousand gold!"

"12 thousand gold!""18 thousand gold!"

"19 thousand gold!"

The bidding price continued to rise. Not only were the top 10 guilds bidding, but even second rate guilds and small squads were going for it.

"21 thousand gold!"

"22 thousand gold!"The bidding price continued to rise, and it seemed like it was getting close to the buyout.

At this point, the players looking on were hoping and waiting to see if there would be another dark horse.

"30 thousand gold!"

Yet another buyout.

However this time it wasn't a dark horse but the leader of the first guild, Blood Romance.

He was worried that something might happen and preferred to just buy out, showing the strength of the 1st ranked adventure mode player.

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Chapter 310- Godly Changing Point

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"Now, time for the 7th item." The auctioneer pointed at the 7th tray and introduced, "This is a merger token. After use, one can merge the subsidiary territory village creation token with a current city. Thus, one doesn't need to rebuild from scratch. The starting bid is 5000 and the buyout is 20 thousand gold, please make your bids."

Ouyang Shuo didn't expect to see a second merger token.

Thinking about that, in the first merger token, there was still a spot that he hadn't used.

Since these type of things were beneficial to Ouyang Shuo, he decided to obtain it even if he had to buy it out.

Ouyang Shuo understanding it didn't mean that others would. In the eyes of the other lords, the 2nd grade territory had 9 more spaces to use, so why would they need a merger token?

It was another unwelcomed product.

Ouyang Shuo didn't bid, as he didn't want to seem too eager. The others didn't bid, as they couldn't evaluate the worth of the token.

Zhan Lang and Di Chen had pretty much spent all their gold so they couldn't contest. Chun Shenjun and Xiong Ba wanted to hold their gold.

"6000 gold!" Someone from the public area bid.

With a 'Shua' sound, everyone turned and looked at him, thinking that they were witnessing a birth of another dark horse.

Suddenly becoming the focus of attention made that player filled with glee.

A minute has passed, and then, another...

As time slowly passed and no one outbid him, that player started to get anxious. As he thought about the consequences, his face grew ashen white.

He was just a small lord who wanted to get the spotlight and didn't want to obtain the token that he didn't even know the use for.

6,000 gold was all of his assets.

His expression naturally couldn't be hidden away from the eyes of the other players.

This was when the players realized that this wasn't a dark horse but a dumb horse.

The place grew raucous, as they laughed at that lord.

"6000 gold, are there any others that would like to bid?" The auctioneer was helpless, these fellows really couldn't see the value of it. "6000 gold once!"

That player's face was devoid of blood and his limbs were cold.

"6000 gold twice!"

The player had a face filled with despair.

Ouyang Shuo looked at the scene in amusement before slowly raising up the tablet.

Seeing that there was hope of it being a hot product, the auctioneer said excitedly, " 7000 gold! The first suite bids 7000 gold, are there any others that would like to bid?"

"Phew!" That player was relieved, and he laid on the chair like he had been revived. He looked gratefully at Ouyang Shuo and swore that he would find a chance to thank him.

The other players felt that Ouyang Shuo bid was to help out the other guy and praised him for his actions. Those people that wanted to try it out and bid also stopped wanting to contest.

Ouyang Shuo wouldn't stupidly clear the air, and with a cheap price of 7000, he obtained the token. Toward that player who was just trying to be famous, he was grateful.

If it wasn't for him, this merger token wouldn't have been at such a price.

Obtaining it, Ouyang Shuo still had 54,000 gold left, enough for one more item.

The cold reaction toward the merger token gave the auctioneer a headache. He loved but hated Ouyang Shuo as the two unpopular items were obtained by him. Such a lucky guy.

Then, the 8th item was revealed; it was actually a treasure sword.

Before the auctioneer introduced it, the adventure mode players became noisy. The second system auction actually had three items so far that were prepared for them.

"Now for the 8th item." The auctioneer pointed at the sword. "This is a god sword and is 5th on the top 10 sword list, crafted by Ou Zhizi and Ganjiang, the two grandmaster swordsmiths, the starting bid is 20 thousand and buyout is 60 thousand. Please place your bids."

The Qixing Longyuan was a really pure sword.

Legend said that Ou Zhizi and Ganjiang, to craft this sword, had chiseled the mountain and used the mountain stream water to form the Beidou Qixing beside the smithy furnace. After the sword was formed, looking down on the blade was like looking down from them mountain into the deep abyss, like there was a dragon's den. Hence, it was called Longyuan.

The god weapon, the first god weapon in the China region had actually appeared in the auction.

The players' eyes were red like a rabbit's and wished they could just rush forward and keep the sword.

No matter the lords or the adventure gamemode players, everyone was moved.

Hence, the atmosphere of the auction had reached its peak.

To the adventure gamemode players, they didn't care about the last item and only had the Qixing Longyuan in their eyes.

Unfortunately, the sky high price was something 99.9% of them couldn't afford.

Blood Romance's face was white and it was too late to regret. He regretted that he had spent the money at the front.

"Little Shuo I want this sword!"

Lin Jing took one glance at it and fell in love with the sword.

"Then bid!" Ouyang Shuo felt weird. He himself also wanted it. Even though his sword skills were lousy, it was good to add to his collection for a sense of achievement.

This was a god weapon, a god weapon he had dreamed of in his last life.

"I don't enough money!" Lin Jing said in embarrassment.

For this auction, they had prepared 45,000. After they used 5,000 in the first round, they only had 40,000 gold left.

In the short time that they were talking, the price had went up to 30 thousand.

The people with the real strength hadn't acted yet. They were clear that the intense battle hadn't started and they were borrowing gold from their allies.

"How do you know If I have money? I spent so much at the start." Ouyang Shuo asked.

"You definitely have it!"

Shanhai City earning loads of money from reselling grain was something that Ouyang Shuo didn't hide from her. She definitely had an estimate of Ouyang Shuo's financial strength.

Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to lend her 20 thousand gold.

"Remember to return it!"

"Hen, stingy." Lin Jing now had enough to buyout the item, so she was very confident.

"Cough!" Ouyang Shuo looked at his elder which was around his age.

This was 20 thousand gold. It wasn't 2 hundred or 2 thousand.

When Lin Jing got the money, she didn't bother about Ouyang Shuo and instead discussed with Xie Siyun.

"Should we just buy it out?" Facing the item that she liked, she lost her calmness.

Xie Siyun thought about it. "Let's wait for a while, if we can save some money, we should." Using such a huge amount of money to buy something that only Lin Jing could use meant that they had to explain to the entire guild, it wasn't as simple as they thought.

Hence, they had to save what they could.

"32 thousand gold!"

"33 thousand gold!"

"35 thousand gold!"

"37 thousand gold!"

The price continued to climb with no signs of stopping.

"40 thousand gold!"

Finally the bid came to a point where the players bidding slowed down. To be able to last until now, thet were the real crocodiles. The cruel massacre had just began.

At this point, Yijian Xilai suddenly called out, "Let's not delay any longer! 45,000 gold!"

It was obvious that Yijian Xilai had already raised up the funds and wasn't going to give the others a chance. In such a short time, not everyone could raise up so much gold.

The 45 thousand gold bid had pushed the bidding to another levels.

"46 thousand gold!" The guild leader of 18 horsemen of Yanyun Yanzi Lisan closely followed.

Yijian Xilai froze, he didn't expect Yanzi Lisan to actually have the money.

Apart from the two of them, there wasn't a third person.

The two of them fought neck and neck; the victor wasn't determined yet.

1st suite.

"Should we follow?" Lin Jing was a little nervous.

"Wait for a while longer, I think that they are at their limits!" Li Siyun was as calm as normal.

"Okay, okay!" Lin Jing didn't want to wait.

She held the red tablet tightly in her hand, getting ready to raise it.

"47 thousand gold!" Yijian Xilai raised the bid.

"48 thousand gold!" Yanzi Lisan shouted.

The two of them started to fight one another and one didn't know how much gold the other brought.

"49 thousand gold!"

"50 thousand gold!"

The other players who were looking on nearly couldn't breathe, 50 thousand gold, such a huge number!

Lin Jing was so nervous that she was about to break the tablet, if it wasn't for Xie Siyun, she would have just bought it out.

A god weapon like the Qixing Longyuan was the ultimate dream of a swordsman and with it, one wouldn't wish for anything more.

"52 thousand gold!"

Yijian Xilai threw in all his gold.

Yanzi Lisan's face was ashen white, and he wasn't as calm as before. In truth, 50,000 gold was all he had. His heart wasn't as calm as his expression and he was just acting for Yijian Xilai.

He didn't expect that it would be of no use.

Seeing Yanzi Lisan's expression, Yijian Xilai was delighted.

"Haha, the Qixing Longyuan is mine!" Yijian Xilai couldn't help but laugh.

Yijian Xilai was a pure swordsman and was addicted to sword arts. That was why he agreed with Di Chen's conditions and managed to gather a sum.

The players looked toward him with envy and jealousy.

In the first suite, Xie Siyun softly said," Bid!"

"53 thousand gold!" Lin Jing instantly placed her bid.

"Hong~~" in an instance the place was in an uproar.

One wouldn't expect that in the end, a dark horse would appear.

No, no, it wasn't a dark horse but a wolf waiting in the dark.

Yijian Xilai's delighted expression had suddenly froze. He looked back at the first suite in disbelief and his face turned red.

This moment, he had lost all his face.

The auctioneer didn't bother about him and continued, "53 thousand once!"

"53 thousand twice! Are there anymore bids?"

"53 thousand thrice!"

"Peng!" As the auctioneer slammed the hammer, "Congratulations Snow Rose for getting the 8th item."

When Yijian Xilai regained his composure and looked at the mocking expression of the players beside him, he gave a deadly stare toward the first suite.

Snow-War Rose Mercenary group, I'm not done with you!

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Chapter 311- Ten Famous Swords

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"Haha, Yijian Xilai, you have lost so much face."

As the huge show ended, Yanzi Lisan had already calmed himself down, and seeing Yijian Xilai getting KO'ed, he mocked him.

The old phrase: The favor of heavens will go around, retribution will definitely make one unhappy.

Yijian Xilai was furious and didn't have the face to stay, directly leaving the auction house.

In the end, with a sky high price of 53,000 gold, Lin Jing had successfully won the bid.

She had also made an enemy of Yijian Xilai with no chance of reconciliation; with his character, he would definitely find a way to take his revenge.

The stats of the Qixing Longyuan was so strong that it made the members of the Shanhai Alliance drool.

Name: Qixing Longyuan

Hardness: 88

Sharpness:90

Toughness: 85

Specialty: unique, can't be dropped, can't be traded. Blade Breaker (if the hardness of the sword is lower, chance to directly break the sword.)

Killing skill: Beidou Qixing (summoning the power of the seven stars forming the Beidou sword formation which was like the horns of the goat, an unseen attack which can't be blocked.)

Compared to a platinum rank weapon, the stats of a god weapon were incomparable; apart from the usual stats, the specialty meant that the user could not drop or trade the weapon, so one didn't need to be afraid of the god weapon being stolen.

Apart from that, the god weapon had another stat that gained the envy of many.

The strength of the killing skill had to do with the user's internal strength. The stronger it was, the stronger the killing skill. Basically when it was used, all of the internal strength of the user would be used up.

Hence, if Lin Jing wanted to use the god weapon to its best effect, she needed an emperor level or above cultivation method. Unfortunately, those were only obtained by luck.

Looking at the stats, Lin Jing even wanted to join the Dongli Sword sect and cultivate.

In the game, to prevent cultivation methods from being stolen, there was a strict restriction on teaching and passing down techniques. Even core disciples could only cultivate around 80% of the real skill.

Furthermore, when players join a sect, they must be bonded to it. With her position and identity, joining the Dongli Sword Sect was impossible.

Of course, what was most important about the god weapon was the hidden setting.

Based on the setting, the god weapon could be recreated in the real world, and it would be free. As for platinum ranked equipment, not only would there be a chance of failure, one must also use some achievement points.

With the god weapon in hand, one can rule the world.

If not, why would one say that having a god weapon was the dream of all adventure gamemode players?

The moment Lin Jing got the sword, her eyes had never left it as she looked at it in awe.

Just as she picked it up, a system notification sounded out.

"System notification: Congratulations Player Snow Rose for obtaining god weapon, officially triggering series quest, ten famous swords appear in the wilderness!"

The moment the notification sounded out, there was another uproar.

The players in the auction house had personally witnessed how popular a top 10 sword was. To be able to get one, even if one didn't use it for himself, he could be able to sell it and survive happily for many years.

Getting rich overnight was no longer a dream.

Even the Shanhai Alliance members were excited. They had seen the strength of the stats of a god weapon and their desire for one was this much greater than that of normal players.

The presence of the god weapon had surpassed occupations, and every player wanted one.

Especially to swordsmen, the god weapon was a lethal poison. Hong Ying, who saw the stats of the Qixing Longyuan, was now bugging Bai Hua, making her speechless.

Even Song Jia, who had the Qingfeng Sword, desired the Qixing Longyuan. If the one who was in the auction wasn't Lin Jing, she would have asked Ouyang Shuo to buy it. Now, seeing the quest being announced, her eyes brightened and she swore that she would get one.

Seeing the huge commotion of the players, Ouyang Shuo shook his head.

The ten famous swords were: the Xuanyuan Sword, Zhan Lu sword, Chixiao Sword, Qin Ah Sword, Qixing Longyuan Sword, Ganjiang Sword, Moya Sword, Yuzhang Sword, Cunjun Sword and the Chengyin Sword.

The Xuanyuan sword was in the hand of the Yellow Emperor. As such, it was nearly impossible for players to get it. Zhanlu sword was in Yuefei's hand, so it wouldn't appear yet; Chixiao Sword was in Liu Bang's hand and temporarily wouldn't appear.

Hence, the players only had a chance to come into contact with 6 god weapons.

In his last life, someone had triggered the quest, and it wasn't as easy as one expected.

Five years in the last life, only 4 of the god swords appeared, which showed how hard the quest was.

Ouyang Shuo was really interested in the Chixiao sword, but that was the sword of an emperor.

Who knew if he would have fate with it in this life.

Compared to the ten famous swords, what interested Ouyang Shuo most was the swordsmith Ou Zhizi.

One must know that out of the 10, half were made by him. Adding his son-in-law Ganjiang and daughter Moyà, they made all 10.

Ou Zhizi was the only saint rank swordsmith, and based on the era, he was already born. If not, the system wouldn't have taken the Qixing Longyuan out to sell.

If he could find Ou Zhizi and have suitable materials, god weapons would be easy to come by.

Of course, to be able to attract Ou Zhizi, one must be a home of swordsmithing. In Ouyang Shuo's memory, Lianzhou Basin did not have such a place.

In the last life, Ou Zhizi chose a spot and focused on crafting swords.

In this life, Ouyang Shuo wanted to try to be able to find this master first.

After the system notification, the auction was nearing its end. The last two auction items were about to be revealed.

"Now, onto the 9th item." The auctioneer pointed to the old book on the tray and said, "This is a gunpowder making technical manual. Starting price 10 thousand, buyout is 30 thousand. Please place your bids."

Gunpowder wasn't a rare product in the wilderness. There would be more or less some sources. But to produce gunpowder on a large-scale, one needed a specific technical manual.

To other territories, gunpowder was a support item, but to the Shanhai City Navy, it was an important skill and was of great help to the research institute.

Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate and before the others could react, he bought it out.

Before they reacted, the 9th item was already sold.

The auctioneer was really amazed by Ouyang Shuo's lack of hesitation.

"Now, onto the 10th item." The auctioneer pointed at an old book on the tray, "This is the siege weapon crafting technical manual, starting price 15 thousand gold, buyout 45 thousand, please make your bids."

There were many types of olden siege weapons like scaling ladder, catapult, siege chariot, siege towers, ballista and the like.

An additional type of siege weapon was always good. Till date, Shanhai City could only make the scaling ladder.

Ouyang Shuo counted the gold he had in his storage bag, with the 7,000 that Little Aunt returned to him, he had 43,000 gold before he bought the 9th item.

He only had 13 thousand left after buying out the last item, not even meeting the starting price.

This was probably the goal of Chun Shenjun, thinking about the assassination on the streets, Ouyang Shuo was extremely cold; he wouldn't let Chun Shenjun get away with it.

"Bai Hua are you interested in getting this?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

"Of course." Bai Hua nodded, she frowned," but I only have 35 thousand."

"I'll lend 10 thousand to you, but you have to get it; we can't let it fall into the hands of Yanhuang Alliance."

"Wuyi, why don't you take it?" Bai Hua felt weird.

"No money.""Damn, I thought boss had an endless supply of money. I didn't think there would be a day!"

Ouyang Shuo's mouth twitched, as he stared at Gong Chengshi.

Like a cold wind swept by, Gong Chengshi's heart shivered; he instantly kept quiet.

"Ok. I'll borrow from you and pay you back through the bank!" Bai Hua agreed in return to allow the Four Seas Bank to open a branch in Consonance County.

Ouyang Shuo nodded, so much easier to talk to smart people.

4th suite, Chun Shenjun was there.

He yawned and muttered, "Is it finally going to start?"

That's right. From the start, his goal was the 10th item and he had prepared 50,000 gold enough to buy it out.

Chun Shenjun was looking on from the side. Qiyue Wuyi had already won 4 items. No matter what, he wouldn't have enough money. As for others, he didn't even consider them.

He was now just ready to get it at the lowest price, the bidding was just a dumb situation.

The bidding process happened just as he had expected.

"16 thousand gold!"

"17 thousand gold!""21 thousand gold!"

"22 thousand gold!""30 thousand gold!"

Reaching 30 thousand gold, it pretty much stopped moving.

Chun Shenjun saw that the time was right, so he was ready to bid.

Suddenly, Bai Hua raised up the red tablet.

The auctioneer was elated and loudly announced, "Congratulations to Bai Hua in the 1st suite, buying out the item. This auction has ended. Thank you for your patronage!"

Chun Shenjun's expression was the same as Yijian Xilai's, totally frozen.

"Haha~~"

From the first suite, there was uncontrolled laughter.

The scheming and well prepared Chun Shenjun had once again left the auction empty handed.

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Chapter 312- Fangmo Duduan

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Amongst the uproar, the curtains on the second system auction were drawn.

Out of the 10 items, Ouyang Shuo had 4, taking the silver village creation token, Ming Dynasty Warship Making Manual, merger token and the Gunpowder Making technical manual.

Apart from that, Lin Jing took the Qixing Longyuan, and Bai Hua took the Siege Weapon Crafting technical manual.

Shanhai Alliance had once again taken up most of the items in the auction.

Di Chen took the Shanwen Armor Making Technical Manual, Zhan Lang took down the Suozi Armor Making Technical Manual, Blood Romance took the mysterious region exploration scroll, and the mysterious player took the Chi Cultivator hidden occupation class change scroll.

After this auction, the Yanhuang Alliance would have a leap in their armor levels. As for the sad outcomes of Yijian Xilai and Chun Shenjun, no one would empathize.

The highest bidder won, it was obviously like that.

Ouyang Shuo brought 120,000 gold to the auction. In the end, he was left with 3000 gold. In the auction next year, who knew how intense it would get?

After the auction ended, Ouyang Shuo immediately returned to his territory. As for the assassination in Jingdou, Ouyang Shuo would wait until he completed all the stuff he had at hand before he had any free time to tackle that matter.

No matter who the mastermind was, Ouyang Shuo was going to take revenge on Blood Sword. Since they made him their target to announce their presence to the world, they had to be prepared for him to go all out for revenge.

Returning to the territory, Ouyang Shuo passed the Ming Dynasty Warship Making Manual over to the Beihai Shipyard and the Gunpowder Making technical manual over to the Research Institute No. 7.

With these two technical manuals, the Beihai Naval fleet would have a huge upgrade.

The merger token was used to merge with the 3 black iron village creation tokens from Qiushui County. Hence, inside Ouyang Shuo's storage bag were 4 more village creation tokens.

As for that village creation token that he obtained, he would deal with it after he has dealt with all matters at hand.

As for the location of the village, Ouyang Shuo had it planned.

After dealing with some matters, it was already late at night. Only then did Ouyang Shuo return to the lord's manor.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo directly headed to the Recruitment Hall to recruit a historical figure.

The Recruitment Hall had a year cooldown, making Ouyang Shuo feel heart-pained but happy at the same time.

As for the monthly recruitment of a special talent, it was nothing much to the territory. Among the refugees that spawned every day, there would be at least a high ranked talent.

The anniversary update increased the settings of the aboriginal people, and there was a new setting where the lord could use to check the different type of talents in his territory.

Ouyang Shuo only paid attention to the A class talents.

As expected, Cui Yingyu, Cui Shousi, Gu Xiuwen, Zhou Haichen, Zhao Sihu, Wang Feng, Sun Tengjiao, and the like were there. A few of the core members of the backbone were all of the A class.

As for those like Zhao Dewang, Zhao Youfang, Qian Lifei, Du Xiaolan, they only had class B potential. Zhang Daniu, Songsan, Zheng Shanpao, and the like had class C potential.

Overall, the leaders and talents in Shanhai Territory could be considered to be plentiful.

Ouyang Shuo pushed open the gate of the Recruitment Hall and walked beside the teleportation formation, placing his palm into the wooden tablet that caved in. A system notification sounded out.

"System Notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for activating Recruitment Hall, you have one chance to recruit historical personnel and one chance to recruit special talent, would you recruit?"

"Recruit Historical Talent!"

"System notification: Congratulations player Qiyue Wuyi for recruiting emperor rank historical person-Du Ruhui, deducting 100 gold."

A white light shone across and a middle-aged scholar walked out of the teleportation portal, "Keming greets lord!"

Du Ruhui, it was actually Du Ruhui!

Wasn't this the talent that Ouyang Shuo had always wanted? Thinking non-stop about something has its rewards.

Ouyang Shuo immediately rushed to help him up. Then, he said sincerely, "Sir, please get up!"

As one of the important advisors under Li Shimin during the Sui and Tang dynasty, they were able to run the camp well and gain the envy and praise of many.

During the years of the dynasty, Du Ruhui was the right hand men and also a high ranked military official.

The Du Ruhui in front of him was at his peak period. The only worry was probably his body and health. In history, he was sick during the fourth year of the dynasty and passed away, only 46 years old when he died.

When he walked out of the teleportation formation, he couldn't help but cough, his body was slightly slouched and his health wasn't that good.

A look of worry flashed across Ouyang Shuo's face.

As he brought him out of the Recruitment Hall, Ouyang Shuo took a look at his stats.

Name: Du Ruhui (Emperor Rank)

Dynasty: Sui and Tang

Identity: Shanhai city resident

Occupation: Civil Servant

loyalty: 75

Command: 75

Force: 40

Intelligence: 75

Politics: 85

Specialty: Quick thinking (Raise efficiency of territory by 20%), Vision (Raise the success rate of plans by 25%), Capable enough to be a prime minister (Raise handling level of the territory by 10%)

Evaluation: Number 3 mong the Lingyan Pavillion 24 officials. Smart, capable to be a prime minister, great analyst, morally upright inside and outside. Thinks for the future, able to plan for the country and help the country take over and rule; well read in culture and classics, radiates morals and is a good example.

Compared to Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui's reputation was a bit weaker, and it had something to do with him dying early. In terms of ability, the two of them were equal.

One was good at drafting out plans while the other was good at making decisions, they were known as the Fangmou Duduan.

Du Ruhui's appearance gave Ouyang Shuo a huge confidence boost.

Ouyang Shuo led him into his reading room and personally explained the situation to him.

Du Ruhui quickly got into character. He wasn't just a listener. At times, he would ask some questions, which Ouyang Shuo answered one by one.

In less than an hour, both of them were in a deep conversation.

"Keming, I'm thinkin of letting you lead the Military Affairs Department; do you have any opinions?" Ouyang Shuo asked.

Du Ruhui nodded; he had something on his mind.

During the conversation, Du Ruhui noticed that the lord had some worry about the imbalance in the military. The Military Affairs Department was unable to form prestige and status and couldn't form a balance with Baiqi who was the overall general; even the 3 divisions might not be tamed by them, which was undoubtedly a dangerous signal.

Leading the Military Affairs Department was a huge challenge.

Not mentioning the famous General Baiqi, even Shi Wanshui, Er'Lai and Luo Shixin were all excellent talents and to put them in their place and make them listen to you to form up a balance wasn't an easy thing to do.

As for how the current director Ge Hongliang felt, Du Ruhui didn't think about it. He knew that since the marquis had made such a decision, he would deal with everything and didn't need an official like him to worry.

What Du Ruhui didn't expect was for things to be so interesting the moment he arrived.

"Lord, don't worry. I won't let you down," Du Ruhui replied.

Ouyang Shuo nodded. This was Du Ruhui; he was direct and wouldn't drag things out in his dealings.

Following this, both of them had a deep conversation about military affairs.

The reason why the Military Affairs Department wasn't as it sounded, apart from Ge Hongliang's ability being limited, was that the internal structure was widely spread.

The four divisions under it, mainly the Military Intelligence Division, the War Logistics Division, the Armory Division, and the Bow and Arrow Division. Out of those four, the Military Intelligence Division was in charge of intel while the rest were focused on logistical support.

Out of the four, there actually wasn't a division that was in charge of directing and commanding. No wonder the generals would think that the Military Affairs Department was just a supporting unit.

Ouyang Shuo wanted to make use of the reshuffling of the Military Affairs Director to reorganize the structure of the department.

Du Ruhui had led the army. Hence, he was highly familiar with army related military affairs. His many ideas and views brightened Ouyang Shuo's eyes, and he learned a lot.

In a morning, both of them basically nailed down the new structure of the Military Affairs Department.

On that afternoon, Ouyang Shuo invited General Baiqi and the director and officials from the Military Affairs Department for a meeting.

In the main meeting hall, Ouyang Shuo sat on the upper platform, Du Ruhui sat on the first seat on the right. Baiqi sat on the 1st seat on the left.

Following which was Ge Hongliang and the four secretaries.

Seeing Du Ruhui, Ge Hongliang had a bad premonition.

During this period of time, as Baiqi took up the job, Ge Hongliang had a hard time. He was basically usurped by Baiqi and became a director with no power.

Such days were pretty much torture to Ge Hongliang.

Du Ruhui's arrival pretty much meant that a big change was going to happen.

Ouyang Shuo noticed his expression, and a thought flashed across his mind. He could have asked Ge Hongliang to enter his room and personally tell him the news, but he didn't do so.

He wanted to see how Ge Hongliang would react to such a tough situation, would he still be loyal?

This was a test for Ge Hongliang.

As the territory continued to expand, interest disputes started to be more common and factions started to form.

A year of training made Ouyang Shuo more calm and he had thoughts on how to defend against such situations.

The blood and fire training had made Ouyang Shuo cold and resolute.

As time passed, Ouyang Shuo became more and more serious and fierce. Now Qing'er and the others wouldn't dare to play a farce in front of him. Even Fan Zhongyan and the others had more respect for him.

The road to become an emperor, how would it be easy and smooth?

If one got more, one would lose more too. In the end, that person would become a lonely.

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