May 13th, Jiangnan County, Dongzhou Lunwu Building.
Although there is a word "lou" here, it is actually a building complex consisting of a main building about six stories high and two three-story pavilions on the east and west.
In the past, the central main building was the busiest place, with a huge flow of people at the gate.
The atmosphere here today is extremely depressing, and there is a dead silence.
Most of the houses in the building were empty and looked extremely deserted.
Even if there are people working in the building, their expressions are silent, their movements are gentle, and they try not to speak or make any noise.
On the fifth and sixth floors, the doors and windows of the courtroom and residence of Wang Chaoyang, the owner of the Dongzhou Lunwu Building and a fourth-grade scholar of divine mechanics, were closed.
The editors and scribes in Lunwu Building try to work elsewhere.
They walked carefully and quietly, intentionally or unintentionally avoiding the main building in the center.
In the entire Lunwu Building, only Xie Zhenqing was calm.
She was standing on the third floor of the East Building, looking at the six-story main building with a bit of pride and sarcasm.
"Tell the people below that there is no need to do this, just let them work normally. They are all crowded in the East and West Buildings, or bringing their official work home. What do you mean? Who are they doing this for?"
Xie Zhenqing was actually very happy about the scene before her.
She knew that these lower-level compilations and documents were pretentious and were specially made for her to show that they were incompatible with the dynasty's positive power.
However, if this situation continues for a long time, the efficiency of Dongzhou Nonwu Building will be greatly reduced.
The problem is that Xie Zhenqing has been ordered by the Minister of Rites to take full control of the daily affairs of Dongzhou Lunwu Tower.
So she couldn't let it go.
If something happens to Dongzhou Nonwu Tower in the future, this will only hit her.
"I obey my orders."
Behind Xie Zhenqing, Dong Linshan laughed dumbly: "But Master, if you want to say that everyone is just pretending, it's not necessarily true. This time, something big happened to our Dongzhou Lunwu Tower. Not only did we make a fool of ourselves in the world, but we were also raped by the Ministry of Rites.
The minister reprimanded him verbally, and everyone was really fed up with the new Lunwu Building Master and did not want to work with him, let alone get close to him."
Dong Linshan was transferred to Dongzhou Lunwu Building by Xie Zhenqing nine days ago.
Dong Linshan was originally very hesitant.
As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than an ox queen.
It has been less than half a year since he became the master of Lunwu Building in Xiushui County, and he has not enjoyed enough of being the master of this building.
Moreover, the internal fighting in Dongzhou Lunwu Building is fierce, and it is obviously a big pit.
However, a few days ago, the situation in Dongzhou changed drastically. Xie Zhenqing was quite sincere and valued his old subordinate, and was ready to entrust him with important tasks as his deputy.
After Dong Linshan thought for a moment, he followed the current and ran over.
Hearing this, Xie Zhenqing gave a cold smile: "What's the use of being bored at this time? I said at that time, we might as well wait a little longer to see how things change. In the end, there were several people standing in front of me all over the building.
side?
Wang Chaoyang couldn't wait to publish the supplement, what's the result now? Less than ten days after the supplement was released, the Dongzhou Prosecutor's Office canceled the wanted order against Chu Xisheng."
Dong Linshan thought that this matter was really screwed up. Who would have thought that just ten days later, the Iron Banner Gang would transform into volunteers who helped the imperial court put down the rebellion?
So Sikong Chan, the prefect of Xiushui County, and numerous Xiushui gentry were all treated as traitors and executed by the court?
This makes Dongzhou Lunwu Building a joke in the entire Dongzhou Wulin.
Not only did all the teahouses and taverns in the eight prefectures of Dongzhou discuss this matter with the supplement published by Ronwulou, the joke also spread outside the prefecture.
The Ministry of Rites and the Lunwu General Building were even more furious.
It was not enough to be humiliated once because of Chu Xisheng, but he had to be humiliated a second time, which greatly damaged the credibility and prestige of Lunwu Tower.
And Xie Zhenqing, this time it was because he was heartbroken that he was transferred from Xiushui.
At that time, most people in the building turned against Xie Zhenqing.
Dong Linshan sighed secretly: "Master, we have prepared the new supplement and it will be printed later. Master, would you like to take a look at it again?"
"No need, let them print and publish it as soon as possible,"
Xie Zhenqing waved her hand and thought that this supplement was presided over by her, and all the articles were finalized by her herself. What else is there to read now?
"This is my attempt to bring order to the Lunwu Tower. The sooner we release it, the better. Otherwise, it will only make people outside laugh."
The key is that it is only May 13th, and there is still one month before the next issue of "On the Martial God Machine" is released.
They had to issue another supplement to eliminate the impact.
This is all Wang Chaoyang's fault.
At this time, her expression became condensed again: "Have there been any changes between the Iron Banner Gang and Chu Xisheng recently? How is the situation in Xiushui and Xunyang counties?"
"The Iron Flag Gang is constantly changing."
Dong Linshan looked indifferent: "Chu Xisheng is taking drastic measures to rectify the Iron Banner Gang. He merged the 'Xishan Hall' into the main helm, and also expanded the scale of the 'Iron Flag' and 'Xuanfeng' second halls, and added the 'Shen'
Shetang' and 'Chongzhoutang'.
Each hall has been expanded to 2,000 people, a total of 10,000. The members are all elites with high-level cultivation. It is said that there are more than 4,000 people with eighth-level cultivation. The Iron Flag Gang is still spending money freely, collecting medicines for supply.
They practice the secret method of the royal way.
It is expected that in the near future, the Iron Flag Gang's chief helmsman will have a direct force of more than 10,000 people, with combat power that can directly catch up with the border troops. Together with the members of the outer hall gang, the number will be close to 17,000, enough to overwhelm Dongzhou.
Water and land, become the first-class gang in Dongzhou!"
Xie Zhenqing's eyebrows frowned slightly,
The size of the Iron Banner Gang is actually nothing. There are many forces in the world that are far more powerful than the Iron Banner Gang.
Especially in the northern and Heluo prefectures, there are often tens of thousands of people.
The problem is that the Iron Banner Gang not only has a record of repeated defeats by the army, but also has extremely powerful mobilization capabilities in Xiushui County, which makes her a little sensitive.
If something happens to Xiushui in the future, the Iron Banner Gang will have no problem mobilizing 200,000 people, but it is likely to become a serious local problem.
Although Xie Zhenqing had a great affection for Chu Xisheng, he would not forget his duties because of this.
Lunwulou is one of the eyes and ears of the imperial court and has the responsibility of monitoring the world.
Just in case, we still have to remind the court.
"Chu Xisheng also made adjustments to the structure of the Iron Banner Gang. He made slight adjustments to the internal affairs hall, inspection hall, execution hall, and auditorium, and added a 'Duzhi Hall' to manage property and a 'Water Hall'
, means to make money like flowing water, and use it to manage many of its industries and ship owners and merchants.
This is to divide the power of the "Internal Affairs Hall" and organize the various rights and responsibilities within the gang, so as to make the internal operation of the Iron Flag Gang more reasonable. It is said that many ship owners of the Iron Flag Gang are very happy. This "Shui Tang" branch is spread all over Xunyang and
The second county can help them collect information, exchange information, and strive for more business."
Dong Linshan's voice condensed again at this time: "In addition, Chu Xisheng changed all the outer halls except Xiushui, Xunyang, and Gushi into 'fentuo', with the status under the hall entrance, and the altar
From the above, it can be seen that the Chu banner leader has great ambitions."
When Xie Zhenqing heard this, he also nodded slightly with a serious expression: "He is less than sixteen years old and is already the leader of a banner. It is strange that he has no ambition."
Chu Xisheng changed many outer halls to "separate rudders", obviously to facilitate the merging of halls in the future.
This indeed exposed Chu Xisheng’s ambition.
Only when the Iron Banner Gang's power extends to several counties, will it be necessary to merge the halls so that they can be governed more easily.
However, these things will have no impact on the supplement they will release next.
"Then there is the Seventeenth Chain Dock. The Iron Flag Gang is chasing them fiercely. As of today, the Iron Flag Gang has cleared all the rudders of the Seventeenth Chain Dock and is already wiping out the remnants."
When Dong Linshan said this, he frowned slightly: "The strange thing is that the combat power displayed by Tie Xiaosheng and the Eight-Armed Vajra Sword Bu Yancheng was a bit beyond expectations."
"beyond expectation?"
Xie Zhenqing was slightly surprised: "How far is it? Are there any specific examples?"
"That's not true. Neither of them have met a decent opponent."
Dong Linshan smiled bitterly: "However, they were invincible when they attacked the Seventeenth Lianwuwu. I think these two people still need to focus on it. Also, this time the Iron Banner Gang fought in Xunyang, their grassroots combat power was also very strong.
It’s very eye-catching, their Xishan Hall, Iron Flag Hall and Xuanfeng Hall seem to have a lot of masters emerging. They are strong in battle and need to be paid attention to.”
Xie Zhenqing raised his eyebrows slightly: "Did you join the Iron Flag Gang recently?"
According to where she was, although Ren Daoxing had escaped far away at this time, the Seventeenth Link Station was not a soft persimmon.
Many forces in Dongzhou have secretly supported some people and want to try out the Iron Banner Gang through the Seventeenth Chain Dock.
Dong Linshan shook his head slightly: "No, they are all old people from the Iron Banner Gang and Xishan Hall."
This made him very strange. These people were ordinary people before, but now they suddenly appeared. They had repeatedly made meritorious deeds in the battle with the Seventeenth Chain Pier.
Xie Zhenqing thought for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"It's not surprising. This should be because the Iron Flag Gang provides secret medicine to the gang members on a large scale. Isn't there a rumor in the world recently? The Iron Flag Gang is now known as the 'Debt Gang'. Now anyone in the Iron Flag Gang who has some cultivation level,
They all owed money to the gang because they bought the secret medicine on credit from the gang.
They also took the five blood source diagram pillars of the Shen family, Shangguan family and other families as their own, and used them to cultivate the bloodline talents of the disciples. Speaking of Chu Xisheng, he is quite grand, and he is not afraid of Hongfei after these people come forward.
Ming Ming, find another job."
Dong Linshan nodded slightly and thought that this was the only possibility.
Many children from poor families are actually very talented, but they just don’t have the money to buy the secret medicine and don’t have the opportunity to use the blood source pillar. Therefore, their talents cannot be stimulated throughout their lives, and they sink to the bottom and cannot stand out.
And now, the Iron Banner Gang has provided them with this channel.
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Just as Dongzhou Lunwu Tower was about to release a new supplement, Chu Xisheng was also preparing for his trip north.
A few days ago, he found Wu Meiniang to inquire about the situation, and then decided to take the flying treasure ship of Sanping layman to the north together with Ye Zhiqiu.
In recent months, Wuxiang Shenzong has indeed not had any flying treasure ships passing through Dongzhou.
There are other forces, but they want money and are not safe.
It is said that there is at least 10,000 taels of magic silver per person.
If they didn't take an empty boat, they would have to go north through the canal until Qingzhou and then take the land route, which would take three or four months.
There was no way to practice martial arts during this journey, and it would take him several months.
There is also a sea route, but pirates are plundering and monsters are rampant at sea, which is much more dangerous than taking the canal.
And there is no monsoon now, so it still takes two months to reach Youzhou.
Chu Xisheng made up his mind and began to make vigorous preparations.
Mainly busy with the affairs of the Iron Banner Gang.
Chu Xisheng expected that in the next few years, he would have to stay in the north and visit the south without any problems.
Therefore, both the Iron Banner Gang and Xishan Hall need to make proper arrangements.
The current situation of the Iron Flag Gang is quite troublesome for him.
First of all, his foundation, Xishan Hall, is not stable.
Two or five boys are just too many.
These people were still unwilling to follow him to the Wuxiang Shen Sect for further study, and were obsessed with finding clues to the Ni Shen Banner and Lie Wang's treasure in Xiushui County.
And the old man has not gone, the new man has arrived.
According to Wu Meiniang's news, the Six Doors and Jinyiwei have paid more attention to the Iron Banner Gang recently, and there have been frequent internal personnel transfers.
It happened that the Iron Banner Gang was expanding rapidly and recruiting a lot of people. I don't know how many spies had sneaked in.
Chu Xisheng had no choice but to be ruthless and sent all his so-called 'brothers' to various places to serve as altar leaders, or even as masters of the rudder.
For example, Xiang Kui was promoted to the leader of the 'Tielin Temple' and took charge of Tielin Town.
There is a medium-sized iron mine there, surrounded by 10,000 acres of fertile land, enough to support more than 120 gang members, and thousands of miners as reinforcements.
Xiang Kui himself seems a little unhappy. He feels that he is far away from Xishan Hall and Xiushui County, and it is inconvenient to continue to investigate the whereabouts of the Nishen Banner.
However, Chu Xisheng transferred him in the name of 'Gao Sheng', leaving Xiang Kui speechless.
Carrying Chu Xisheng's deep trust, he left Xishan and went to Tielin Town to serve as the altar leader.
Chu Xisheng was worried that Li Shenshan and Wei Yang would not be able to take care of him, so he specially swiped two 'Ye Zhiqiu template cards (50% off version)' for them to use.
The price of Ye Zhiqiu's 50% off template card is as high as 16 blood points, second only to Lu Luanli.
Chu Xisheng actually disliked Ye Zhiqiu's template card.
This senior sister of his was obviously a late bloomer.
At least so far, Ye Zhiqiu has not shown too many surprises in terms of martial arts, except for his superior combat power.
Instead of Qin Muge's template card, wouldn't Lu Luanli's template card be good?
It's just that his luck has been very ugly recently. It can also be said that the system is weak and ineffective. Chu Xisheng has not been able to swipe the template cards of the two.
However, Ye Zhiqiu's template card was still much stronger than he imagined.
Chu Xisheng deliberately tested the skills of Wei Yang and Li Shenshan afterwards, and found that their combat power had been enhanced by 40 to 50%, and they had truly reached the peak level of the sixth grade.
Chu Xisheng was one against two, and it actually took him sixty rounds to defeat them.
Afterwards, he didn't think it was enough, so he specially gave them two 'Pure Yang (Level 3) Talent Cards' to make up for the lack of potential in advancing to the sixth level in advance.
It is expected that within half a year, these two people's cultivation will be promoted again, and their combat power will be comparable to Long Heng's, and they will be of great use by then.
Then the Iron Flag Gang’s general helmsman is also a big problem.
In the past, Tie Xiaosheng's strength and talent were enough to support the Iron Flag Gang, and with the help of the eight-armed Vajra Sword Bu Yancheng, it was not a big problem.
But now the Iron Banner Gang's power spans two counties and is already the first-class power in Dongzhou.
If there is no master who can compete with Iron Maniac, it would still be a bit weak.
And this time when he goes north to the Wuxiang Mountain, he will take away almost all the 'mysterious masters', which will inevitably cause the Iron Banner Gang's combat strength to be greatly reduced.
It just so happened that Chu Xisheng used the ‘Iron Madman Template Strengthening Card (Level 2)’
The exchange price is actually three times that of the previous level, requiring 90 blood points.
Chu Xisheng gritted his teeth, replaced this strengthening card, and used it on Tie Xiaosheng.
His current blood point reserve is as high as '4121'
Ever since Xishan Hall raised its flag and the Iron Banner Gang won consecutive victories, Chu Xisheng has been receiving a huge amount of blood points every day.
The imperial court's wanted list and the supplementary publication of Lunwulou increased its momentum.
It was not until these two days that Chu Xisheng's daily income of blood points gradually dropped to about 30 a day.
This huge amount of blood points has no place to use. Currently, it can only lie on the character panel and cannot be spent.
Chu Xisheng believed that the blood points that could not be spent were dead and of no use.
Since these blood points cannot be used on oneself, why not use some to improve subordinates? It can also enhance his strength.
Therefore, since the Xiushui County counterinsurgency battle, whenever Chu Xisheng swiped the template card, he would use it for his subordinates.
It's a pity that the system is not very powerful recently. The character cards of Qin Muge and Lu Luanli are missing. So the 'Tie Xiaosheng template card', 'Buyancheng template card', 'Weiyang template card', and 'Li Shenshan template card' are
Keep popping up.
Chu Xisheng doesn't mind it either, and will buy these template cards as soon as they are swiped.
The talent templates of these few are naturally not worth mentioning in the eyes of people at the level of Lu Luanli and Chu Yunyun.
But among ordinary people, he is still very outstanding, enough for a martial artist with an average family background to enter the fifth or even fourth rank.
The key is that they are also very cheap. The 'Tie Xiaosheng Template Card' only costs nine blood points, which is only more than half of Tie Kuangman's.
The Buyan City template card is the most expensive among these third-rate template cards, with up to thirteen blood points, only inferior to Iron Madman.
Chu Xisheng was quite surprised.
He discovered that whether he could draw the corresponding template cards and character cards in his martial arts treasure house was entirely related to the degree of intimacy.
Only those who have a close relationship with him will have corresponding template cards appear in the martial arts treasure house.
The problem is that he has only known Bu Yancheng for more than a month.
Although Chu Xisheng has a good sense of this person, at present, his friendship is only based on money.
After careful consideration, he used a 'Sorrow (Level 3) Talent Card' for this person.
Chu Xisheng thought that this guy might be a licker, but whether this guy was worthy of his continued investment would have to be observed for a while.
Later, he discovered that Bu Yancheng had become more diligent in his work. He chased the remnants of the Seventeenth Link in Xunyang and fought fiercely. He took the lead in the battle and was not afraid of death.
Until the day before leaving, Chu Xisheng had already exchanged three Buyancheng template cards, six Tiexiaosheng template cards, nineteen Weiyang cards and twenty-two Li Shenshan cards from the martial arts treasure house, and only spent a total of two hundred
Multiple blood points.
Chu Xisheng had to spend a lot of time in Xishan Hall, Iron Flag Hall and Xuanfeng Hall to carefully select dozens of people under the age of 20 who were loyal, reliable, hard-working, and dared to fight.
Chu Xisheng threw out all these template cards and suddenly felt at ease.
At this time, the Iron Banner Gang had Tie Xiaosheng and Bu Yancheng supporting the gate, and many masters under the leadership of Li Shenshan served as the backbone, which was enough to guarantee the Iron Banner Gang's hegemony in Xunyang and Xiushui counties.
As long as the Iron Banner Gang and Xishan Hall are stable, they can continuously provide him and Chu Yunyun with a large amount of money.
When these people grow up, the future Iron Banner Gang will definitely surprise people.
And just when Chu Xisheng was finalizing everything in the gang, he received two copies of the main ingredients of the seventh-grade secret medicine from Jian Zangfeng.
This chapter has been completed!