Chapter 769 Yongzhou Chen Family
Yongzhou Mansion.
Chen Mansion.
“It’s been a year. I assigned this task a year ago, but until now, I still don’t even know how many leaders there are in Zhide Shishi, what their cultivation levels are, or even whether they are male or female. ?”
The old man standing in front of the hall, wearing a purple-red imperial robe, with an angry beard like a lion, is the head of the Chen family, the governor of Yongzhou, Yongning Bo Chen Bojiu.
Although he received an official position and salary from the imperial court, in reality, Yongzhou was the private domain of the Chen family.
In the entire Dasheng Dynasty, except for the three capitals and eighty-one states directly under the jurisdiction of the state, the remaining state capitals were like this. They were the private domain of local families and a state within a state.
Even the tax revenue is kept for himself. He only needs to pay a salary to the court every year and call himself a vassal.
So any unrest within the territory will be handled by the family in charge. If the court intervenes without authorization, it will be considered an infringement of the private territory.
Such a change as "the most virtuous world" only began to take shape about two years ago.
But by granting the practice method for free, such an unprecedented novelty spread quickly like a virus.
Even ordinary people who have a family and a career and will not go to study will talk about this matter inadvertently.
At the beginning, the Chen family did not take this seriously.
I just thought it was a small family or a monk who had just established a foundation, who did this in order to recruit slaves.
Yongzhou is big enough and has enough mortals. Sometimes the Chen family is also happy to see some run-down families settling in Yongzhou.
Because for the Chen family, these small and medium-sized families will not threaten their status, but will be easier to control.
Just like receiving donations, you can even collect more taxes than before.
After all, there are some wild places near mountainous areas with sparsely populated areas and scattered everywhere, with no fixed settlements. It's too troublesome to scrape some oil and water from them.
Before this, the Chen family had to go into the mountains regularly to hunt in order to collect the head tax.
But after the Chen Mansion supported several branches of his family to establish their own families in that mountainous area, it became easier to worry about. All he had to do was collect his salary on time and wait for the money to be counted.
As far as the Chen Mansion is concerned, even if it is not a family surnamed Chen, as long as these small families do not extend their hands and feet into the rich land in central Yongzhou and receive gifts on time, the Chen Mansion will be happy to see the results.
But just when Chen Fujing was waiting for the head of the "Zhi Deshi" family to take the initiative to visit him with a big gift like everyone else.
Things did not proceed according to the usual track. Just when the Chen family was confused, a branch disciple who luckily escaped came here to ask for help.
The Chen family knew that this "Supreme Virtue World" was just like its weird name, and acted like a madman.
Not only did they carry away the entire village of mortals, but the monk family that governed that place, without exception, suffered a very bloody and cruel purge.
Almost no one was spared!
When the Chen family realized that the situation was not what they thought, a total of eleven families near Dong Jiangshan had been uprooted.
The entire Donjiangshan area has since been completely disconnected from the state capital and out of the control of Yongzhou Prefecture.
It was only then that Yongning Bo and Chen Bojiu, who were in retreat, were really alarmed.
After understanding the whole situation, Chen Bojiu did not act haphazardly. Instead, he sent people in advance, intending to disguise himself as a mortal student, sneak into Don Jiangshan, and first check for specific information and intelligence.
The lurking people are all direct descendants of the Chen family, an elite team.
But a whole year has passed, and not even a shred of news has been sent back to this team that Chen Bojiu had high hopes for.
丼江山 is like a bottomless whirlpool, ruthlessly swallowing up anyone who wants to pry into its existence.
How could Chen Bojiu not be angry with such a result.
However, the people kneeling in the hall were also juniors whom he valued highly. Chen Bojiu did not say much. After scolding him, he said calmly: "Don't worry about the matter of Zhideshi for now. , I have my own arrangements.”
"On the contrary, it's the war in Dongzhou. You guys need to pay close attention to it. It stands to reason that after the savages in the north break through one state, they will choose to go back to recuperate. But this time, they are uncharacteristic and have broken through two states in succession. If Dongzhou breaks through again, , our Yongzhou Prefecture is about to face the front of the barbarian soldiers."
"The governor of Dongzhou and I have made an agreement that the two states will help each other. Now is the day when the lips are dying and the teeth are cold. You guys will go there with some elixirs. Support, and then stay under his command at his disposal. "The people kneeling in the hall all respectfully accepted orders.
Although Dongzhou is not a good place to go, the prairie barbarians eat people and slaughter the city, and are extremely vicious, but they always know what they are facing.
Compared with the unknown horrors of "The World of Virtue", it is still a good place to go.
Just when a few people were rejoicing in their hearts, although the mission was not performed well this time, they still managed to escape.
A figure hurriedly rushed in. It was Chen Bojiu's fifth-generation great-great-grandson, Chen Qingya.
Seeing his unsatisfactory look, Chen Bojiu couldn't help but frowned, and scolded him: "How unbecoming you are in a panic."
"Old ancestor, no. No. Okay." Chen Qingya said in a panic when he saw Chen Bojiu.
“What happened?”
"Brother, brother's head has been delivered to the door!"
"You evil beast, what are you talking about?!" Chen Bojiu's eyes widened instantly, and even his breathing became faster.
Chen Qingya was about to cry but said without tears: "It's true, brother, I'm leaving it in the front yard right now!"
Chen Bojiu didn't care about anything else and immediately fled to the front yard. When he saw that familiar face, even with his sinister body, he was trembling slightly uncontrollably. He couldn't believe it and didn't want to believe the facts in front of him.
Chen Bojiu has lived for a thousand years, and has countless descendants. He has seen many lives and deaths. He has only given birth to as many as a thousand sons and daughters, most of whom are older than him. Die.
Therefore, even if a direct blood relative dies, he will not have any emotional fluctuations. As for the descendants a few generations later, if they are not outstandingly talented and looking for someone to love them, they will be no different from strangers to him.
But this great grandson is the descendant for whom he has high hopes.
Because he had shown extremely high cultivation aptitude since he was a child, he was quickly brought to teach by Chen Bojiu.
It can be said that although Chen Bojiu is his grandfather, he is actually more like his father.
In a family of practitioners, this situation is very common. After all, blood relatives and ancestors a few generations later are strangers.
If you grow up like this, you will naturally have no emotions at all, so in order to ensure the stable inheritance of the family.
No matter how many generations later, as long as the bloodline shows excellent qualifications, it will be adopted by the clan leader or elder. In this way, the relationship can be re-established and the barriers that have been passed down for generations or even dozens of generations can be broken. .
Just like Chen Qingkong and Chen Qingya, they are the two most talented people of their generation.
Both were taught by Chen Bojiu personally, and now they have become the pillars of the Chen family, stabilizing the whole family.
And Chen Qingkong is one of the few great monks in the Chen family who is about to break through to the Yinshen level. .
In Chen Bojiu's view, whether the Chen family can break through the shackles and take another step forward depends on whether the great-great-grandson can break through the Yangshen.
But the successor he appointed was now placed in front of him alone, how could he accept it.
Even if his biological son died, he had never been so sad.
But Chen Bojiu was, after all, the great Yin Shen monk in charge of a state, and he quickly suppressed his grief-stricken mood.
He asked in a cold tone: "How did Qingkong die?"
Chen Qingya grimaced and shook his head: "It was the servant who was cleaning the yard who found the eldest brother in a corner of the mansion."
"But I don't know who did it. I think the eldest brother should be in the corner of the mansion." There was a death outside, and the thieves threw the eldest brother into the courtyard. There is an ancestor in the mansion, so it is unlikely that the eldest brother was killed in the mansion. "
Chen Bojiu asked again: "Has Qingkong left the city recently. ?”
Hearing this question, Chen Qingya seemed to have thought of something. He patted his head and suddenly said: “Brother told me a few months ago that this year is another year for hunting in the mountains. Maybe he is himself. We went hunting in Dongjiang Mountain again!”
Chen Bojiu looked at the remaining head of Chen Qingkong and wondered what he was thinking. After a long time, he uttered a few words from his mouth.
"Together with mountains and rivers, to the world of virtue!"