"This is a matter that has been discussed by all the cultivators in the city. I hope that the seniors will reluctantly accept the ceremony!" Xie Ba bowed again.
"City Lord, please sit down and receive the ceremony!" More than a thousand cultivators in the audience shouted in unison.
"Alas, Meng has no choice but to do it because of your support." Qing Xuzi sighed, and then sat down again.
"Subordinates, please see the Lord of the City!" All the cultivators knelt down and paid homage.
Even Xie Ba and the other six people also bowed to Qing Xuzi.
"You don't have to be polite, please get up!" Qing Xuzi said with both hands.
"Thank you, Lord City Lord." Everyone then stood up.
However, in some people's hearts, they are not as humble as they appear.
They belong to various factions, and naturally there are sects that cannot deal with Tongzhou Trading Company. Most of these people are merchants from Jiemeng City.
"Everyone, Meng is busy with important matters and has no time to stay in Jiemeng. Therefore, he needs a decision-making team to jointly take charge of major events in the city. What I mean is to form an elders' council, whose members are temporarily composed of the four commanders, Chief Jiang Sheng, and Zhou Daoyou. Commander Xie assumed the position of great elder, and temporarily assumed the responsibility of city lord when Meng was away.
Of course, in the future, the number of elders will be increased as appropriate. They will be selected among those who have contributed the most and made the greatest contributions to Jiemeng City. The city lord's palace will formulate separate selection rules. As long as the amulet and standards are met, anyone can be elected to the elders' council. I don't know, everyone. What do you think? "
"I will obey the city lord's order!" Everyone in the audience did not dare to obey.
Zhou Yang was stunned again. He was actually pulled into the Presbyterian Church in Jiemeng City, but he was just passing by and had to return to Dingbei City.
This appointment caught him off guard, but it was not easy to offend Qing Xuzi at this time, so he had to remain silent for the time being.
Of course, it's not that he doesn't want to be an elder of a city, but he's just not ready yet.
With the position of elder, you can develop your own Yangtian Pavilion in Jiemeng City, and you can also take advantage of the opportunity to expand your power, which can be said to be both fame and fortune.
But he has always been wary of Qing Xuzi. This old fox is quite scheming and good at calculations. He is by no means his opponent at the moment.
By bringing Jiang Sheng from the Tongzhou Merchant Alliance into the Presbyterian Council, we can see some of his intentions. His purpose is to gradually control the Presbyterian Council and eventually control the entire city of Jiemeng.
The reason why too many people from the Merchant Alliance were not brought in was probably because they were new to the world and their hearts were divided. Doing so would be too conspicuous and would arouse the dissatisfaction of many forces and the attention of the Heavenly Army Alliance.
Judging from this, Zhou Yang also figured it out. After all, he was from the far north of Hezhou, and he was a fellow villager. That's why he tried his best to recruit himself into the Presbyterian Church, because he wanted to stand in the same boat with him, and even the whole family. He turned to Tongzhou Trading Company.
And his last sentence, whoever contributes the most to Jiemeng City and makes the greatest contribution will be elected to the Presbyterian Council.
So it is not up to him alone to decide how to assess the credit.
In this way, it won't take long for him to attract more people who are inclined to the Tongzhou Merchant Alliance to join the Presbyterian Council, thus taking full control of the Presbyterian Council and Jiemeng City.
It is indeed an old fox!
"Okay, then it's settled. Next, Elder Jiang will talk about the Tongzhou Merchant Alliance's aid in building Jiemeng." Qing Xuzi said again.
"Thank you City Lord for your consideration, and thank you all for your love. I am entering Jie Meng for the first time, and I hope you will take care of me. This time I came to this high-end attached city, and I was ordered by the Tongzhou Merchant Alliance to bring one billion spiritual stones and valuable The materials of one billion spirit stones came to aid the construction of Jiemeng City..."
Jiang Shengyu was astonished. He actually brought a fortune worth two billion spiritual stones. The Tongzhou Merchant Alliance was really generous. It seemed that they really wanted to make a big bet in Jiemeng City.
Next, Jiang Sheng talked about some thoughts on rebuilding the city, but he always stood from the standpoint of Jiemeng City, as if everything was for Jiemeng's sake. This person entered the role of elder very quickly.
"Well, what Elder Jiang said is true. To rebuild the world, only two billion spirit stones are not enough. Not only to rebuild the destroyed buildings, city wall formations, etc., but also the huge scale of this battle loss.
Just the consumption of the spiritual light cannon was about to empty out the treasury. Therefore, the merchants in Jiemeng City must also come up with some spiritual stones and materials. Only by working together can we rebuild Jiemeng, regain its vitality, and allow you to earn a lot of spiritual stones again. This is what we The responsibility of everyone present.
I believe that with your efforts and your witness, Jiemeng City will be more prosperous, more prosperous, and more glorious than before! Okay, next, the great elder will talk about a few more specific matters. "Qing Xuzi added.
Xie Ba also talked about some details of the donation.
"Do you still want to donate spiritual stones and materials?"
"Whoever's shop is destroyed will rebuild it. You have to clean up the snow on your own. The city lord's palace only builds the city wall and public parts, so why do you let us dig out the spiritual stones?"
"Yes, two billion spiritual stones plus the treasury inventory should be enough to repair the city wall. We have suffered such heavy losses, and if we spend more on it, wouldn't it be a bit..."
Some merchants were a little dissatisfied and began to whisper again.
"If you don't agree, you can raise it to the city lord! If the city lord has said it, you can speak freely and express your opinions." Someone else said this.
"I don't dare to tell you."
"Yes, if you don't dare say it, then go ahead and execute it!"
"But..." The merchants all had grim faces, as if a family member had died.
In the next agenda, Commander Yao Daren continued to talk about some labor issues, which aroused discussions among the merchants.
Finally, there is the matter of rewarding those who have made meritorious deeds, and this is what Zhou Yang is most concerned about.
Before the war broke out, many people escaped through the teleportation array, including some merchants. The shop stalls they left behind became prizes.
There are also cultivators who died in the war, as well as the properties left by merchants, etc. These parts have also become prizes.
The actions of the City Lord's Mansion were very fast. The general manager of the manor had already calculated these things clearly and even made the distribution plan.
Zhou Yang's eight million spirit stones cannot be taken back, but what he got back in exchange was twenty shop fronts in the central area, a mansion assigned to him, and a piece of land awarded to him.
The site is outside the central city, but it's not too far away. It covers about two streets, but it was severely damaged and needs to be rebuilt by itself.
However, this already made Zhou Yang feel happy. Just twenty shops in the central bustling area could not be bought back for ten to eight million yuan, and there was also a mansion and a large amount of land.
This time I really made a lot of money!
After Qing Xuzi left, the meeting lasted for another three hours before it dispersed.
Some were happy and some were sad. For example, the four commanders and the leaders of the city guards were all happy from ear to ear.
The merchants who did not participate in the war were bleeding heavily one by one. Not only did they have to rebuild their industries, they also had to donate a large amount of spiritual stone materials. However, they could only accept it hard, otherwise they would be expelled from Jiemeng City.
Merchants who personally participated in the war or sent people to participate in the war were forced to donate, but they were compensated with a lot of territory.
Of course, it is a site that needs to be rebuilt, but it is much better than other merchants.
It was getting late, so Zhou Yang returned directly to the inn.
He did not bother to continue to heal his wounds, but impatiently checked all the seized storage bags because he was short of spiritual stones and lacked a large number of spiritual stones to rebuild the two streets.
With no other way to obtain it, Zhou Yang could only hope for these trophies.
Murong Yue, Mu San, Mu Wu and others also handed their storage bags to Zhou Yang.
The first thing Zhou Yang checked was the high-end storage bag of the fake Dan bandit leader.
He is truly worthy of being a bandit leader. Only masters of the golden elixir can use high-end goods, and he actually has them. Not to mention the materials, this storage bag alone is worth two to three million spiritual stones.
The contents of the high-end storage bag did not disappoint him. There were five fourth-grade spiritual stones, five hundred third-grade spiritual stones, and eighty thousand second-grade spiritual stones.
According to the official price, the spiritual stones alone are worth more than 26 million. As for various elixirs, materials, ores, magical tools, talismans, etc., they are worth at least 30 million spiritual stones.
How many cultivators must have been robbed to amass such wealth!
What surprised Zhou Yang even more was that the storage bag actually had a magic weapon!
Magic weapons can only be refined by a golden elixir-level weapon refiner. Even the most common and rubbish ones require nearly 20 million spiritual stones.
Including other storage bags, the total price is about 90 million spiritual stones.
Yes, it's really good. It seems that if you want to rob, you have to rob the thieves. They are all very rich and it is worth the risk.
He is not planning to sell elixirs and other items, and he has more people under his command, so he needs a lot of elixirs to improve his cultivation.
Especially Team 36, the overall strength is still very weak at present. With these pills, he is confident that Tie Hu, Pu Zheng and Hu Zhiran will be greatly strengthened in a short period of time.
Although more than 90 million spirit stones are a lot, the land allocated to him only covers the area of two streets. If they are all rebuilt, it will obviously not be enough. But that’s all, we can build as much as we can.
Besides, the Yangtian store in Suiling City receives a large amount of spiritual stones every day, and some can be transferred over time.
"Father, Jiemeng City actually survived, it's really abominable!" Just as Zhou Yang was thinking about it secretly, the face of the young man in purple in the lord's palace of Feixian City looked very ugly.
"Father, you can't blame those ruthless bandits for being useless. Qing Xuzi is the biggest variable. He has actually reached the middle stage of Jindan. He has the support of the Tongzhou Merchant Alliance behind him. It's strange that those ruthless bandits are undefeated!" A young man in purple clothes said. The middle-aged man with a similar appearance said in a deep voice.
He is the eldest son of Gui Luan, the lord of Feixian City, Gui Bao.
This person looks rough and rough, and seems to only know how to fight and kill, but judging from his words and deeds, he is by no means as simple as he appears.
"Yu'er, when something happens, you should learn from your elder brother, use your brain more, calm down and think more about why, what to do, and what the consequences will be, etc. This is the sign of a mature cultivator, do you understand? ?" Gui Luan, the white-haired city lord, said seriously.
"I understand, father." Gui Yu agreed, but he was very dissatisfied in his heart. Everything my elder brother said was right, and everything I said was wrong. Why!
