After the retreat in the late Tang Dynasty, the Tang family ushered in tremendous development.
With the cultivation techniques left behind in the late Tang Dynasty, the people of the Tang family quickly achieved breakthroughs in cultivation. Among them, Tang Ming, the person with the strongest cultivation in the late Tang Dynasty, had a breakthrough in cultivation to the golden elixir stage.
Although it is only a breakthrough in a big realm, it also means that the Tang family can be promoted from a ninth-grade family to an eighth-grade family.
Of course, if the Tang family wants to become a true eighth-grade family, in addition to the cultivation requirements of the Tang family, there is also another condition that needs to be met before it can be called an eighth-grade family.
A noble family can be called a noble family not only after reaching the level of cultivation.
Otherwise, many strong casual cultivators can represent a family by themselves, but that is impossible. If you want to become the world, cultivation is just a requirement.
The most important thing about a family is the territory and resources it controls. Without these, it would not be a family.
It is the territory and resources that the family controls that enable the family to continuously cultivate strong men. Therefore, as long as they do not encounter major changes or are killed by foreign enemies, as time goes by, the family will only become more and more powerful.
Powerful.
Therefore, no aristocratic family can be underestimated, especially those that have been established for a long time and still exist.
Such a family either has a territory that can protect itself, or it has the power to protect itself when surrounded by countless powerful people.
At this time, the Tang family was only a ninth-grade family. Even though Tang Ming of the Tang family had broken through to the Golden Core stage, the territory controlled by the Tang family was still only a township, so it belonged to the ninth-grade township family.
If the Tang family wants to become a higher-level eighth-grade family, in addition to the birth of strong men with cultivation levels above the Golden Core stage among the Tang family, they must also control a county-level territory.
Therefore, what the Tang family has to do now is to control a county-level territory in order to be upgraded to an eighth-grade family.
"Has the head of the family not left seclusion yet?"
Tang Feng, the third elder of the Tang family asked.
There are a total of nine elders in the Tang family. Each of these elders is a strong person in the foundation building stage. They are the greatest heritage of the Tang family.
The group of elders formed by them even has the qualifications to remove the head of the Tang family.
Of course, if the head of the Tang family is dismissed, it only means that the head of the Tang family is no longer qualified and is not supported by all the elders.
Such a family head is either angry and unpopular, or his control over the family is reduced to the extreme. Either way, it means that this person is not suitable to be the head of the family.
All in all, if that happens, then it would be a good thing for the Tang family to remove such a family head.
After all, an incompetent or unpopular family head is not a good thing for the Tang family. It is impossible for such a family head to lead the Tang family to develop and grow.
Therefore, the head of the family must be supported by all the elders, at least most of the elders.
The eldest elder of the Tang family is named Tang. He is the second grandfather of the late Tang Dynasty and a member of his grandfather's generation. The branch of the late Tang family belongs to the family head line, and the others are all elder lines.
The Tang family is divided into the head line, elder line, direct line, side branches, etc. The small Tang family is rarely complicated.
At this time, each elder of the Tang family received the teachings from the late Tang Dynasty. After a period of retreat, their strength increased greatly. Among them, the eldest elder Tang Ming's cultivation level broke through to the golden elixir stage.
And because of the accumulation and accumulation, as soon as I break through, my cultivation level will reach the middle stage of the Golden Core stage, and I will almost be able to break through to the late stage of the Golden stage.
The other eight elders also made great breakthroughs in their cultivation level one by one. Among them, the highest cultivation level broke through two small realms and directly reached the peak of the foundation building stage.
There are also those who have only broken through a small realm, and their cultivation has only reached the middle of the foundation building period.
But even if the current strength is compared to the Tang family before, it can be said to be earth-shaking, so the people of the Tang family have begun to swell.
They feel that their strength has greatly increased, and they want to obtain the qualifications of an eighth-grade family.
Only by becoming an eighth-grade family can they obtain more resources and their cultivation can advance by leaps and bounds again.
If they have enough resources at this time, it will not be impossible for them to further improve their cultivation by then. Therefore, they are looking forward to coming out of seclusion at the end of Tang Dynasty.
They hope that the late Tang Dynasty will lead their Tang family to rise.
Of course, this is also because of the prestige gained by teaching martial arts in the late Tang Dynasty.
Among the exercises passed down in the late Tang Dynasty, there were not only cultivation methods, but also cultivation methods that could improve talents. For the Tang family, the transfer of exercises in the late Tang Dynasty was an opportunity for the rise of the Tang family.
Therefore, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the prestige of the first generation head of the Tang family had been surpassed, and even the prestige of the head of the family who led the Tang family to become a famous family.
Therefore, they did not act rashly and prepared to ask for instructions from the end of Tang Dynasty.
In response to this, Tang Mo also sensed that in less than a month, his cultivation had reached the level of the late Golden Elixir.
At the end of Tang Dynasty, he didn't pay much attention to these elders' requests for instructions and let the elders take care of it.
So, the Tang family, who had consulted for instructions at the end of the Tang Dynasty, began to take action.
If the Tang family wants to become an eighth-grade aristocratic family, there are only two ways to go at this time. One way is to find a county that is not occupied by an eighth-grade aristocratic family and become the controller of that county.
But then, the Tang family is an outsider and needs to spend a lot of time cleaning up the forces in the new territory, so it is very troublesome. It is easy first and then difficult.
The other one is to directly attack the nearby county, defeat or destroy the eighth-grade family occupying the nearby county, and then naturally occupy the county and become an eighth-grade family.
This is something that is difficult first and easy later.
Because the prestige created in this way will be more beneficial to the Tang family in ruling their own territory.
If it hadn't been for the late Tang Dynasty, even if someone from the Tang family broke through, they would have chosen the first option. This is also the choice of most aristocratic families.
But with the existence of the late Tang Dynasty and the spread of martial arts in the late Tang Dynasty, the Tang family chose the second option.
Therefore, the Tang family quickly took action.
There are three nearest counties near the Tang family, namely Xu County, Zhang County, and Li County, which are controlled by three eighth-rank aristocratic families, namely the Xu family, the Zhang family, and the Li family.
After understanding, the Tang family finally decided to take action against the Xu family.
The reason why I chose the Xu family instead of the Zhang family or the Li family is because the Xu family has the weakest backing.
The Zhang family and the Li family are both aristocratic families that are countless times more powerful than the Tang family. The two Zhang families and Li families in front of us are just real aristocratic families founded by the children of the Zhang family and the Li family.
Therefore, before they have enough confidence, the Tang family is not prepared to provoke these two families for the time being, so they can only take action against the Xu family.
The Xu family is a newly established eighth-grade family, which is the best time to deal with it, and its backer is not strong, so it is just right for the Tang family.
As a result, the Tang family began to mobilize troops and generals to attack the Xu family.
No one could have imagined that the Tang family would suddenly attack the Xu family. Just like this, the Xu family was caught off guard. By the time the Xu family reacted, the Xu family had already suffered heavy losses.
At this time, the Tang family destroyed most of the Xu family's peripheral forces and led the army into Xu County, the heart of the Xu family. The war was about to break out.