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Chapter 288 Nanling Zhao Family
Nanling is the largest city in the southwest of Great Xia.

The Nanling Temple is the largest temple in the southwest, the Nanling Astromancer Association is the largest Astromancer Association in the southwest, the Nanling yamen is the largest yamen in the southwest, and the county palace located in the center of Nanling represents the largest aristocratic family in the southwest—— Nanling Zhao.

Since the Nanling Zhao family established its foothold here 100 years ago, the buildings of the Prince's Palace have not changed much. The only changes are the plaque in front of the Zhumen and the ups and downs of the clan members.

The Zhao family kept building other courtyards inside and outside the city, but for this mansion, they only repaired it, never demolished it.The Nanling County King himself will live in the County King's Mansion in the city most of the time.That's why there is a saying in Nanling that to see whether a member of the Zhao family is valued or not, one needs to know whether he lives in another courtyard or the county prince's mansion.

On weekdays, the vermilion gates of the county prince's mansion are all open.According to unknown ancestors, this shows the open-mindedness of the Zhao family.

But today, until noon, the servants nervously opened the door.The entire county palace is in a busy state, because the main family is preparing to travel.

As the largest aristocratic family in Nanling, His Excellency the Prince of the County must be full of pomp.The butlers were busy running, the stewards loaded various gifts and ceremonial items into the carriage, the master tried to take good care of the horses and the stewards, and finally the arrogant girls, when they came out from behind the second gate, they seemed to see Nu Sheng A first-class imperial envoy.

In the splendid courtyard of the Zhao Mansion, the King of Nanling held the invitation card, looked left and right, up and down, muttering to himself, and there was only one sentence: "It turned out to be a three-star warlock."

There are four people from the second generation of the Zhao family in Nanling, and they all sat in the hall without saying a word.

It was rumored that Zhao Quanxiang, the eldest grandson of the Zhao family in Nanling, died under Cheng Jinzhou's bomb.In the Zhao family, at least the King of Nanling believed the rumors, especially after the Northern Han army's invasion ended, he specially sent people to the battlefield to collect those explosives, and asked an astromancer to examine them.Although he never said anything, the ambiguous attitude of the Zhao family in Nanling and the cold treatment of Cheng Jinzhou all explained Zhao Junwang's thoughts.

However, it is impossible not to go at the invitation of the fourth-level star warlock.Especially the content of the celebration made Zhao Zuxiang even more discouraged.

"Take the manpower and play by ear." Zhao Zuxiang said, and threw the invitation on the ground, not wanting to look at it again.

Also in Shaonan, a big city in the southwest, the night has turned into a sea of ​​joy. Like all government-organized activities, gentlemen and ladies on the street showed enthusiastic smiles, twisted untrained dance steps, and shook their hands. A red flag made of cheap cloth.

In a peaceful atmosphere, both Cheng Yun'an and Cheng Yunxiang rushed back to Shaonan.The second generation of the Cheng family will set off from here together to go to De'an.

Although according to etiquette, one should not celebrate grandly for the juniors.But after Cheng Jinzhou became a three-star warlock, even the most pedantic teachings would not bring it up.

In this world where everything prospers and everyone suffers, it is such an honor for a family to have a three-star warlock. The most important thing is that he can live for at least 200 years.

As for De'an, the celebration was even more like a new year's festival.

This emerging city, which has never had a curfew, celebrated for Cheng Jinzhou and himself with violent firecrackers, countless fine wines, and consumption in the entertainment industry.

Beautiful fireworks are constantly blowing up in the sky, and free drinks and porridge can be seen everywhere on the streets.Charitable businessmen have never been so charitable for a moment.

The only way to get businessmen all over the country to do charity is to make more money.

What attracted the merchants this time was the notice posted by Cheng Jinzhou on the city gate: The county has invited iron-making merchants from all over the country to set up factories in De'an with large sums of money, providing free land, tax exemption within five years, and being accepted into the Maritime Merchant Alliance.

Among the few simple sentences, the last two lines are the most praised by businessmen.The Maritime Merchant Alliance is a semi-monopoly trading group. If it is combined with the five-year tax exemption, even the members of the Maritime Merchant Alliance will be very excited.

More and more people gathered in the backyard of the county government.Those with female relatives will be received by Liu Qingshuang and Weng Xilian.The banquets held for two consecutive days are usually very free, without doing too many things, and it is mostly pure communication.

Due to the hasty start, it was mainly local gentlemen from De'an who participated the night before, and Cheng Jinzhou didn't even have to come out for a long time.But as the next day progressed, more and more nobles began to appear.

Cheng Jinzhou couldn't imagine why there were so many nobles in two or three cities.

The King of Nanling County is the noble with the highest title. In addition, there are more than a dozen earls, dozens of viscounts and hundreds of barons.Although there are no aristocratic and wealthy families like the capital in the southwest, there are as many small families that have been passed down for hundreds of years.

In the afternoon, the greetings from groups of nobles almost made Cheng Jinzhou dizzy.

Even when the king of Nanling County came before him, he didn't even look at him seriously.

Your Majesty the County Prince seemed to be a good-tempered man, and could not see the arrogance of the nobles at all. He smiled at Cheng Jinzhou and walked into the county government office, where he had a star warlock apprentice to look after him.Naturally, the county magistrate and others cannot put together such a high-level banquet.

Fortunately, Cheng's father and Cheng's mother came to De'an soon, and many nobles could be received by them, instead of Cheng Jinzhou sticking at the door.

At the time of sunset, the Dawn-class airship, whose whole body was painted black, appeared in the sky above De'an City.

The world of singing and dancing, as if the pause button was pressed, suddenly stopped. It was not until three star warlocks appeared on the airship that the welcome music sounded again.

Cheng Jinzhou didn't need to look to know that there were more fourth-level star warlocks.

If there are too many fourth-level star warlocks in one place, the star line will be significantly disturbed.When Star Warlock Jiang Huang and Star Warlock Li Xianfeng were together, he could clearly feel the fluctuation of the star line, and with the appearance of three more fourth-level star warlocks, the star line was almost shaking.

If it is an apprentice astrologist whose star line is too weak, I am afraid that the star line may break now.

After standing for a whole day, Cheng Jinzhou was really sleepy, he barely raised his head to look up, and before making a gesture of welcome, he hastily bowed his head and yawned.

The three fourth-level star warlocks from Xingzhou were a little embarrassed.Tai Ting whispered: "Why don't you issue the badge to him now."

The other two had no objections, so the sky began to appear brilliant.

Mr. Sun goes to get off work and goes to bed on time every day, which is what people are used to and understand.Suddenly someone disturbed the situation, and immediately someone made a sound of admiration.

The colorful lights dangling in the sky are really beautiful.

Cheng Jinzhou felt even more sleepy.Modern people have movies and TV, and have never seen any kind of grand event.The performance of pretending to be a rainbow really couldn't lift his spirits.

The three Tai Ting people were even more energetic.

Kong Wei also let out a little musical whining sound, which made the light in the sky more rhythmic.

"Star Warlock Association, thank you Mr. Cheng Jinzhou for your help in recent years. As the contribution points reach 1000, on behalf of the Star Warlock Committee, we design a new badge for Mr. Cheng Jinzhou..." The voices of the three Star Warlocks were not loud, But what he said was breathtaking.

Jiang Huang looked at Cheng Jinzhou, and couldn't help recalling his glorious years.

That year, I seemed to be 50 years old, but I was teased by the warlock Guo Jingxing as a "young man".

Looking at Cheng Jinzhou now, he is clearly a young man who is still growing up.

Star warlocks don't really advocate cumbersome consciousness, so Tai Ting flew down quickly, and personally put on Cheng Jinzhou a first-level three-star warlock badge with a yellow base, and said: "When you have original contribution points, You are always welcome to use Sin Chew."

"If you need anything, come to us at any time." Kong Wei said cryptically.Many three-star warlocks do not get original contribution points. The usual way is to barely pass an article before their life is about to end, but the number is often limited by the number of times the special star array is used, so not everyone Warlocks with three stars can get extended life.

Cheng Jinzhou thanked him without knowing the situation at all.The only thing he knew was that Jiang Huang star warlock wanted him to meet three fourth-level star warlocks, and he didn't know anything else.

Sleepy smiles and tired figures all showed a certain identity in front of the three members of the Star Warlock Committee.

If it was an ordinary star warlock, how would he dare to be so presumptuous in front of a fourth-level star warlock.

With his mouth full of meat, Lu Xu walked over from the other end of the courtyard and said, "A lot of people are staring at you. What happened?"

"Oh, they are three fourth-level star warlocks." Cheng Jinzhou puffed up his chest, trying to let Lu Xu see his badge clearly.

When he was with Liu Kuang, he was oppressed by his senior brother, so sometimes Lu Xu would take it seriously.After following Cheng Jinzhou, he became a low-intelligence talent with no pressure at all. He didn't pay attention to what he said, and said: "The father of Zhao Quanchen who was killed by you, and his grandfather, are their family. looking at you."

Cheng Jinzhou turned his head abruptly, meeting the eyes of King Nanling.

It was a pair of angry and jealous eyes, from the person who used to be the highest in Nanling.

Tai Ting glanced at it and asked, "Want to help?"

"Oh, no, thank you." Cheng Jinzhou shook his head again and again.

Looking back, His Excellency the Prince of the County had already turned and left.Cheng Jinzhou recalled the gaze he saw just now, and felt a little shuddering.

We should no longer have a tacit understanding of peace with the Zhao family.Cheng Jinzhou thought to himself, turned around and called Shi Mo, and said, "You can find a way to find out how much real estate there is under the name of the Prince of Nanling County."

To weaken the enemy is to strengthen oneself.Cheng Jinzhou has a good reason: The Cheng family will be the largest family in the southwest, and the Zhao family must make concessions.In addition, they must have enough land for cultivation.

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Beyond the word count: it’s a bit late to add more

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