Chapter 97 – Ling Zhou

Ling Zhou was a very special state and county.

It was eight hundred miles north of the capital, which wasn’t too far away, only that there were many mountains on the way, making it inconvenient to travel, causing it to take a few days to travel. If you fly in a rage, you’ll be there in an hour …… Of course, the average strong person can’t fly for so long, Xue Qingqiu’s level is about almost possible.

So this wasn’t a barbarian border at all, but an inland area. Originally, it was a territory where the Mind Sect and Nature Sect competed, but the land here was barren and there were no mineral resources, and there were not many advantages except that the mountains were beautiful and looked very spiritual. Later, under the mediation of the imperial court, both sects withdrew from this chicken-ribbed land.

Because there is no super sect rudder stationed, this place has become a lot of jianghu scattered people choose to set up the door of the place. All kinds of second and third-rate and even not even the best sects, clans, martial arts halls are everywhere, at first it is just the martial arts style is very strong, the people’s wind is tough, but later the devil’s door sects also to drill, it is a bit tasteless.

The devil’s door has always been quite miserable, the lair is generally in the wilderness underground dark place, can not be easily exposed, the core technique is hidden even many elders do not know where. But in the city always have to have some nest, the special nature of the spirit of the state makes everyone coincidentally are here to establish a nest, inadvertently became a demonic colony, more than the capital of the magic door.

At first it was not stationed, it was a place to roam. When the imperial court came to besiege them, they dispersed in a flurry; when the wind passed, they sprang up again.

The funny thing is, the devil was annihilated and ran away, the righteous sects and bad stationing, the mind of the Sect stationed, the natural door is not happy, the natural door stationed, the mind of the Sect is not happy. After a few times of tug-of-war, it became an enclave again, an infinite cycle. Finally simply let this group of maggots in the magic gathering here, anyway, here is a nest, the roots are not in this, the annihilation is not much meaning.

So the magic door slowly really entrenched, from here on this place has become very magical. For example, outside the trafficking of salt and so on, or stolen goods ah what, all to here dumping out, is the most black smuggling, selling stolen goods, counterfeiting and so on black hearted base. Another example, in the capital that kind of civilization and have Xiahou Di eyeing the place, that kind of street murder situation and life and death black boxing match is very difficult to exist, but here on the very prevalent.

Well, Xiahou Di for the capital culture is indeed played a vital role, Xue Mu scolded is not objective.

But don’t think that this is a bloody dark capital, in fact by smuggling trade these things stimulate instead is very prosperous and prosperous, very rich. Local large and small sects, martial arts style is extremely flourishing, which is ranked in the righteousness of not a few, mixed fish and dragons, righteousness and magic coexist. So here the jianghu flavor is very strong, everyone in accordance with the rules of the jianghu to do things, and can even be regarded as the world jianghu miniature version.

The court has the government here to govern the people’s livelihood, Department Six has a rudder, responsible for the daily security, but also responsible for doing some of the martial arts ah contract ah these aspects of the notary ruling. Both the righteous and the devil are here to give face to the government, we do need such a notary party in many cases, so as to avoid the three days of all the martial arts is not a matter of fact.

Lingzhou is a county, under the jurisdiction of eight counties, the capital is called Lingzhou City, the city is often by a person who does not know martial arts pure governance of people’s livelihood, in the position of absolute neutrality does not favor any side. Of course, the lord of the city are often in the various clans under the eyes of the blue oil trembling, the so-called neutrality of the basic can not be done, will eventually become the dog of a certain clan, and then the court changed again, and so on and so forth. The kind of big brother city lord who can have the wrist to play balance and power play between various parties has not appeared in the past thousand years, and this is indeed a difficult problem that non-saints can’t do.

The Star Moon Sect’s lair in Spirit State also has a history of several hundred years, at first it was a small lair under the cover of a store selling rouge and water powder on the surface, called Rouge Zhai. When Xue Qingqiu stepped into the Cave Void, others easily did not dare to go to war, and could not hide so much, and could choose a suitable city to reside in, Xue Qingqiu chose Lingzhou. With the Patriarch’s long-term presence in Lingzhou Rouge Zhai gradually expanded its operations, turning into a centralized workshop of green houses, rouge and powder, jewelry and hairpin accessories, damask and silk, which was bustling with activity and turned into Rouge Place. Many people do not know that this is the Star and Moon Sect resident, just as a lively marketplace it ……

Of course, Xue Qingqiu didn’t expect to hide it from people at a certain level, so she didn’t shy away from saying “I’m in the Spirit State” to Xiahou Di, and Ji Qingyuan knew that she was in the Spirit State, so she made a magical appointment.

The current situation is very delicate, because the Star and Moon Sect turned clear, was knighted, even the Lord of Lingzhou City is the Star and Moon Sect’s Grand Master, Rouge Square is afraid to have been able to openly change a plaque hung on the “Star and Moon Sect”, and then the entire Lingzhou City for themselves, learn the eight sects ruled the side.

This shows how creative Ji Qingyuan’s appointment is. At least can see is all the jianghu power here balance will be instantly destroyed, the Star Moon Sect may be the most serious isolation of the same way, as well as the extreme rejection of the righteous way, triggering the group of heroes and attack is not impossible.

“Whew…… “Xue Mu leaned back on a recliner in the backyard of the City Lord’s Mansion, a volume of dossiers covering his face as he stretched tiredly.

The various types of volumes that the City Lord needed to understand alone had taken him several days to read before he could finish them, and his eyes were sore from reading them. He wasn’t here to farm, for advising farming, mulberrying, developing technological trees, civil lawsuits, these things he had no interest at all and was not an expert at all, reading these things was really a headache.

The good thing is that Lingzhou has naturally formed a system over the past thousand years, and the official system is perfect, and the powers are clearly defined. As long as you don’t want to take power, don’t mind the civil affairs power being hollowed out, to put it bluntly is a pig that can stamp to do the lord of the city, the livelihood of the people here won’t have any changes, the silver that goes to the state treasury won’t be less than a penny.

What’s more, Xue Mu is not yet the county governor of Lingzhou, he is only in charge of Lingzhou City, and there is still a superior in charge of the big things up there, Ji Qingyuan will not let him monopolize the power so easily.

In other words, Xue Mu is actually in charge of the rivers and lakes, and the construction of the city has nothing to do with him. His own intentions are also the same, Ji Qingyuan’s intentions are also the same, only to see the end of the will go with the intention of who.

So the Department of Six here is very important ah …… Department of Six at the beck and call, then there is seven or eight points of the bottom of the air.

Lingzhou counties of the Department of Six constable is iron, Lingzhou city of the constable is copper, Lingzhou county chief arrest is silver …… Xue Mu pocket has a gold medal ……

It’s true that a capital official out of a place is superior, and the novice village’s hellishly difficult start has finally paid off.

“I really thank Xiahou Di ……,” Xue Mu mumbled with his face covered in scrolls.

“Hehe ……” came a light laugh from his side, Meng Lan was fanning him at his side and laughed, “Gongzi has arrived in Spirit State, and you’re actually thinking about Chief Constable Xiahou? Beware of someone getting jealous oh……”

Meng Lan arrived in Spirit State one day earlier than Xue Mu, and she did only one thing: she played half a song outside the City Lord’s Mansion and drifted away.

Although the world’s rivers and lakes all avoid the capital, that’s because of the Unviolable Formation, the fact is that the capital is the capital after all, the most prosperous place in the world, the absolute center of politics and economy, anything that happens in the capital is the world’s weathervane. Although the “Absolute Colors of Jiangshan” has not yet been printed, the name of Meng Lan’s zither fairy has long been spread to Lingzhou after so many days of circulation.

A song to stop the war, this with extreme legend of the zither fairy by word of mouth has long been rumored to change the way, the most exaggerated version is already Xuan Zhe heard the sound of the zither tears of frustration, Mo Xuexin cried out in pain, the two great cave virtual handshake and peace, the emperor heard of ten thousand taels of gold for the zither fairy a song and could not get.

Spirit State people also do not know the piano fairy is the Star and Moon Sect demoness, also only thought it was what mysterious jianghu loose fairy to come, each expect to death.

As a result, Meng Lan strutted in front of the City Lord’s Mansion and was recognized, and the entrance to the City Lord’s Mansion was surrounded by people in the blink of an eye, with everyone vying for a chance to see it, making it look like a food market. In a clamor, Meng Lan sighed softly and slipped away before she finished playing.

How is the sound of the piano, not a few people heard clearly, but on the contrary, they blame each other, are the other side of the quality, so that the piano fairy no purity, disappointment and go, so that we do not have to listen to the sound of the immortal. More bragging, said he heard clearly, really heard the tears cloud, invisible and help Meng Lan hard blow a pass, did not hear the belief, but also fell foot regret.

You argue with me, almost in front of the main house made a show of all martial arts, and finally the whole army of Department Six was barely suppressed. Meng Lan is not in Lingzhou, but has already turned Lingzhou upside down.

This was City Lord Xue’s outpost of his term of office, and it was so different right out of the gate that even the enforcer, Meng Lan, didn’t know exactly what he was trying to do.