Already one-third of the high-ranking officials serving in the imperial capital work secretly for various clans, and nearly one-third of the city lords of dozens of cities have been bribed by their clans.
Although the leader of the Wen Kingdom knew it in his heart, he did not dare to touch these people easily, and his whole body would be affected by a single move. Once these people are moved, those clans will inevitably unite against Wen Guo. In terms of the current overall strength of Wen State, it is still not possible to start a war with several large sects at the same time.
In order to improve this situation, Wen Guo came up with a way, which was to select people from the casual cultivators or small clans in each city, and then Wen Guo began to train them. There is a capital competition every five years, and the top ten each time will receive training resources from Wen State. In return for Wen Guo, these people need to stand by Wen Guo when Wen Guo is in danger.
In fact, Wen Guo's approach also has drawbacks. First, some powerful clans will bribe some city lords to place their children in the competition list; second, Wen Guo's move is equivalent to a huge gamble. In Wen Guo's case, When faced with crisis, it is unknown how many people who have received favors from Wen Guo will be willing to help Wen Guo. However, this is no other solution that Wen Guo can think of. He can only do his best to obey fate and make a huge gamble on human nature.
The reason why Wen Guo focused on selecting people among casual cultivators and small families was that these people lacked cultivation resources. Even if they did not help Wen Guo in the end, they would not be a source of trouble.
Of course, some powerful clans clearly understood Wen Guo's intention, but they didn't take it seriously. After all, there were only a few people who could withstand the test of human nature. And they didn't do nothing. Arranging for the children of their sect family to participate in the competition to gain benefits from Wen Guo was their action. Wen Guo also knew this clearly, but everyone tacitly understood each other and wanted to maintain this stable situation first.
In fact, for some casual cultivators and genius monsters from small clans who were sponsored by Wen Guo, some of them would eventually be won over by various clans. And those who are unwilling to accept it and are too evil may suddenly disappear from this world one day without even finding their bodies. Wen Guo had no choice but to protect those geniuses and monsters from being harmed.
Wen Guo is also gradually improving some of the rules of the imperial capital competition, trying to avoid allowing more children of large families to take advantage of this opportunity to reap the benefits of Wen Guo.
For example, starting from this year, the competition has added a rule: the competition stage is the life and death stage. Once on the competition stage, victory and defeat are determined, and life and death are determined. Unless the winning party is willing to let the losing party survive, the winner will only be the last person standing on the stage.
There seems to be nothing special about this rule, but it actually has a hidden secret. For some children of large families, in fact, they don't really care about Wen Guo's resources. The main purpose of participating in the competition is to occupy one more spot and let Wen Guo win over one person.
Compared with some casual cultivators, the children of large clans are more afraid of death, because it is not worth risking their lives for resources that they don't care much about. The helmsmen of large families will not allow their overly evil geniuses to compete in martial arts. In this way, the chances of those casual cultivators and those from small clans to win will be greatly increased. Wen Guo also noticed this and added this rule.
Wen Guo also has his own academy, but this academy has basically been completely infiltrated, which is equivalent to raising enemies for Wen Guo himself. Wen Guo has actually given up hope in this academy, giving a symbolic amount of training resources every year and no longer spending a lot of money. Pay the price to cultivate.
Over time, the number of talents in the Wen Kingdom gradually withered. Except for the royal family members of the Wen Kingdom and some loyal and good people, the rest of the people may be cronies of the major clans.
In order to encourage the city lords of major cities to discover useful talents, Wen Guo not only rewarded the victorious contestants in each competition, but also received generous rewards for the city lords they represented, which could be used as expenses for the city lord's palace. , or as the cost of the city lord's government building the place under its jurisdiction.
It has been many times in a row that no one from Lianfeng City has broken into the top ten of the competition. The city lord's palace needs to pay a certain amount of crystal stones to the treasury every year. The main sources of crystal stones include entrance fees to the city, rental fees for various shops in the city, etc. If a city is too backward, then most of the people in it must be in poverty, and the income of the city lord's mansion will be relatively less, and there may be cases where the income is not enough to turn over.
Therefore, the city lords of each city are trying their best to build the city under their jurisdiction more beautiful and powerful, so as to attract more people to spend money and increase the income source of the city lord's mansion. And Dabi is undoubtedly the fastest income channel.
The Grand Competition also has requirements for those who participate in the competition. As long as they are under fifteen years old, including fifteen years old, no matter what level they are in, they can participate. Even if you reach the rank of emperor or emperor at the age of fifteen, you can still participate in the competition. But this is almost impossible. Before the age of fifteen, the only person who could reach the realm of kings for thousands of years was Yan Ruyu with an ethereal physique, and that was with a lot of cultivation resources.
There are five places for each city to participate in the competition. Chen Yi started to recruit them a year ago, but so far, there are only four people who are barely qualified. Liu Wei's appearance made Chen Yi see At last hope.
After Liu Wei learned these things, he took a deep breath and felt like he had a headache.
If he agrees to compete in martial arts, he will definitely end up becoming enemies of some powerful clans and getting involved in the disputes between Wen State and various clans. As for the life-and-death competition, he is not afraid at all. He has strong confidence in himself.
If he didn't agree to the martial arts competition, then the city lord's palace would definitely not help him find the real murderer. He didn't know how many years he would have to wait for revenge, and he didn't want to wait any longer. As the saying goes, a gentleman's revenge is never too late, but Liu Wei likes to take revenge on the same day.
We'll talk about the rest later. First find the real culprit and take revenge. We can't let the bad guys continue to be at large.
Done!
I will not offend anyone unless they offend me. If someone offends me, I will punish them.
So what if I am the enemy of the whole world, I, Liu Wei, should not be afraid of power, and I will kill anyone who infringes with my sword!
Buzz!
A sword cry suddenly resounded from Liu Wei's body, and then rushed out of his body, echoing throughout the entire hall.
boom!
Immediately afterwards, Liu Wei's sword energy rolled around his body, and his aura surged at this moment!
Chen Yi stared blankly at Liu Wei who suddenly made a breakthrough in front of him, feeling extremely shocked.
"Listen to me, can the grudges between Wen Guo and the major clans be overcome? How come cultivation is just like playing." This is Chen Yi's psychological feeling at this moment. But after thinking about it, he became happy again.
The stronger this boy is, the better the ranking he can get.
A quarter of an hour later, the sword intent all over Liu Wei's body finally converged into the Dantian sword body in his body, and his aura stabilized.
"The heart of the sword is unyielding, the will of the sword is unyielding, and the way of swordsmanship has reached the realm of swordsmanship. Congratulations, little friend!" Chen Yi said with a smile. Although he does not practice other ways and only cultivates his own realm, he still has some understanding of the way of swordsmanship. After all, it is said that swordsmanship is the first of thousands of ways.
"I have to thank the City Lord. If I hadn't listened to what the City Lord said, I wouldn't have understood it so quickly." Liu Wei said seriously.
"No, it's because you are so talented and so smart that you can understand something just by relying on some of the stories I'm telling you!" Chen Yi said this from the bottom of his heart.
"I promised the city lord that I am willing to help the city lord participate in this imperial capital competition!" Liu Wei said loudly.
"My little friend, think carefully. Your life is at risk if you go into the ring. Even the person behind you may not be able to save you!" Chen Yi said. He had to say something ugly first. If the kid died in the ring and the person behind him came to trouble him, then he would die. Even though he is in the emperor's realm, he is still as weak as an ant in front of the emperor, unable to catch a slap.
"The city lord can rest assured. If I am killed in this kind of competition, the person behind me will never kill me again, because it is too humiliating for his people and he will not avenge me. Liu Wei said with a smile. He knew that Chen Yi was not concerned about his life or death, but was worried that if he died, Lao Wang would come to trouble him, the initiator.
"Then I would like to thank you in advance. If you can be among the top ten, you will not only be rewarded by Wen Guo, but also rewarded by my city lord's palace!" Chen Yi had a bright smile on his face. said.
The top ten should be stable this time. After being angry for so many years, Chen Yi can finally feel proud and proud, and will no longer be ridiculed by the city lords of other cities.
"I don't want the reward from the City Lord's Mansion, as long as the City Lord does his best to help me track down the murderer." Liu Wei said. In fact, he didn't care whether it was the reward given by Wen Guo or the city lord's mansion. That little thing was not even as good as his own.
"Come here!" Chen Yi shouted towards the outside of the hall.
A guard quickly ran in, knelt down on one knee and asked, "What are the orders from the city lord?"
"Call Chief Qian Zhongfan of the Inspectorate to come over!" Chen Yi said to the guard.
"Yes." The guard replied and quickly retreated.
"Don't worry, little friend, I'll arrange for someone to investigate right away!" Chen Yi said to Liu Wei.
"So, I really want to thank the city lord." Liu Wei said with a fist to Chen Yi.
At this time, a man in a blue robe came into the hall, with a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a dignified appearance. Judging from the aura on his body, he was in the realm of a king.
"I wonder what the city lord ordered when he summoned his subordinates?" the man asked Chen Yi, cupping his fists and saluting.
"From now on, you will personally lead people to investigate the genocide of the Liu family in the south of the city. Ask this little friend some details." Chen Yi said to him.
