One hundred thousand troops
When he first heard this, Mr. Ming Jing was shocked. This was the first time he heard such a bold and reckless person dare to ask for 100,000 troops in front of him.
In fact, when he was the crown prince, he was cultivating confidants and promoting talents in the army. He had discussed with Master Yulou and Yuxuzi back then, intending to let Chu Chen, who had inherited the military strategist heritage, join the army to gain experience and become the commander of an army, leading troops to fight. .
However, Chu Chenzhi was not here, so he did not force it.
At this time, old things were brought up again, which surprised Mr. Ming Jing.
Not to mention, Chu Chen did not intend to command an army of 100,000, but "supported 100,000 troops."
There is a "world of difference" between the two. Those who command one hundred thousand soldiers are the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and are supervised by the Immortal Court of the Celestial Empire. However, those who command "one hundred thousand soldiers" are to support their own private soldiers.
With a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and it is a borderland, there is definitely the ambition of a separate party.
If ordinary kings and ministers heard this, they would immediately become furious and furious.
However, Mr. Ming Jing was obviously not an ordinary emperor, and he also knew Chu Chen. After being slightly surprised, he looked at Chu Chen, guessed something, and said:
"Ling Xiao, do you want to raise a hundred thousand ghost soldiers and generals?"
Mr. Ming Jing knew Chu Chen quite well and knew that he had learned the Guigu military art and had extraordinary attainments in refining weapons and generals, and that he had extraordinary military and horse powers.
"Sir is wise!"
Chu Chen cupped his hands and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
Raising ghost soldiers and generals is two different things from separatist rule and privately holding heavy troops.
Ghosts are not things from the world, they cannot affect the destiny of the country, and cannot shake the rule and destiny of the Dachang Dynasty.
In fact, the Immortal Court of the Celestial Dynasty does not prohibit mages from raising soldiers and horses. To a certain extent, it encourages monks who are good at soldiers and horses to raise soldiers and horses, train Yin soldiers and Yin generals, supplement the strength of the Celestial Dynasty, and reduce the power of Yin Cao, the city god in the Yang world. pressure.
For example, when Chu Chen was in Xin'an County, Guangping County, the local city god encouraged him to raise more soldiers and horses, wishing that he could recruit hundreds of soldiers and horses at one go.
But, recruiting 100,000 soldiers and horses in one go is another matter.
Not to mention 100,000 soldiers and horses, even if you raise 10,000 soldiers and horses privately, you still need permission from the Celestial Court. Raising them privately is "intentional evil" and the problem is huge.
Of course, this matter is not without precedent.
Some of the top immortal sects and private soldiers in the top divine palaces also support tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Yin soldiers.
For example, the military holy land "Shuilian Cave, the main branch of Guigu" has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under its command. Combined with the soldiers and horses of the major branches, the number of soldiers and horses has already exceeded one hundred thousand.
Another example is the Five Mountains Divine Mansion. It is not uncommon for the top three or above god mansions in various places to have tens of thousands or even one hundred thousand soldiers.
In other words, Chu Chen's "request" did not set a precedent. Many top sects and top forces had precedents of raising 100,000 soldiers and horses.
The only difference is that his family has deep foundation and strong power, and the Celestial Court has granted permission, while Chu Chen and Lingshan Sect are far behind in this aspect.
This is why Chu Chen said it was an "unkind invitation".
As expected, when Mr. Ming Jing saw this request, he smiled and shook his head:
"This matter is not that simple and difficult to handle."
Chu Chen was stunned.
Although Mr. Ming Jing did not agree, he did not refuse him flatly.
"It's difficult to handle" doesn't mean it can't be handled.
This made him see hope, he felt happy and bowed his hands:
"Please give me some advice, sir."
"If the secret true story of the Great Sun Tathagata you presented is true, you are allowed to raise 100,000 soldiers and horses, so why not!"
At this point, Mr. Ming Jing changed the topic and said:
"It's just that, although I am the Son of Heaven and the Supreme Being in the world, I can't settle major military matters with a single word. There is considerable resistance from all sides. Don't have too much hope."
"Thank you sir for making it happen!"
Chu Chen was overjoyed.
He naturally knows the dilemma of Mr. Ming Jing. Those top sects and forces with "a hundred thousand soldiers" are all created by various historical factors. He offered the secret inheritance of the Buddha. The weight is enough, but whether it can succeed is another matter. , there is considerable resistance in all aspects.
This is the difficulty of Chu Chen’s “request”.
However, now that Mr. Ming Jing has spoken, things are different.
Mr. Ming Jing kept saying that he could not "determine it with one word", but he had been in charge of Dabao for more than ten years, and his control over the court had been firmly established. As the emperor, he had always kept his word and followed the law.
As long as he agrees, it will basically be done.
Of course, no one in a position of authority would agree with everything.
On the one hand, it leaves room to avoid embarrassing situations when an accident occurs. On the other hand, it shows the difficulty of the matter and better wins people's hearts.
"No need to be polite."
Mr. Ming Jing burst into tears when he saw Chu Chen being grateful. At this moment, he might have thought of something and added:
"Ling Xiao, first of all, you can raise 100,000 soldiers and horses. However, in the future, the soldiers and horses cannot be transferred to the Lingshan Sect. This power of raising soldiers cannot be passed on to future generations. It can only be owned by you. Do you have it?" objection!"
Chu Chen nodded slightly, feeling quite happy.
The "qualification" he wants to raise a hundred thousand soldiers and horses is to protect the Cave Heaven Paradise. He does not want to be like some top forces and pass it down from generation to generation for thousands of years.
If you do not inherit the "right to transport troops", you will face much less resistance.
After all, he will ascend sooner or later, leaving no hidden dangers. In this exchange, the Celestial Court will not suffer.
"I have no objection."
"Great kindness!"
Lingshan Sect, Qingchen Cave Mansion.
"Wonderful!"
Chu Chen played with the [Golden Dragon Token] in his hand, with a look of joy on his face.
This time, he traveled tens of thousands of miles to the imperial capital, met with Mr. Ming Jing, and gained a lot.
He exchanged the "Secret and True Transmission of the Great Sun Tathagata" for the "qualification" to raise a hundred thousand troops. His first step in raising a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers to guard the Paradise of Cave Heaven was successful. Next, he could start recruiting and raising troops.
It's hard to say whether this business will make a profit or lose if it's done by others, but if it falls on Chu Chen, it's definitely a gain.
A heavenly paradise and an opportunity to become an immortal were worthy of everything he had.
In addition, in addition to the "Secret and True Transmission of the Great Sun Tathagata", the ten magic weapons that Chu Chen seized from the [Dajajang Temple] were also "sold as stolen goods" to the Xianting Treasure House.
Mr. Ming Jing summoned the director of Xianting Treasure House and asked the two to negotiate.
After some bargaining, Chu Chen packaged and sold all ten Buddhist Tantric magic weapons to Xianting at a price of 20 million jade coins and ten copies of Five Elements Rare Treasures.
He made a small loss in this transaction. The transaction price was only 50% of the market price. Moreover, the Xianting Treasure House was not paid in one lump sum, but in five years, in batches of jade coins and heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
However, Chu Chen was very happy to conclude the deal.
After all, this treasure is not easy to "sell as stolen goods". The Xianting Treasure House can be eaten in one bite. Even if the price is seriously discounted, he is happy to save trouble.
"Accidentally, I got into the limelight again."
Chu Chen reviewed the situation and couldn't help but feel a little emotional and vaguely expectant.
This time, he "demonstrated his merits" in front of Mr. Ming Jing by destroying the [Dajajang Temple] and showed his Taoist and magical powers. Although Mr. Ming Jing didn't say anything, he still looked at him differently in the subsequent conversation.
In addition, he later requested to recruit 100,000 troops, which to some extent also revealed the information about his rapid improvement in military skills.
He was originally "Jane in the Emperor's Heart", and now his sharpness and strength are gradually revealed, which is extremely beneficial to his subsequent promotion.
The matter of promotion in Xianting is a minor transfer in three years and a major transfer in five years.
Before I knew it, more than two years had passed.
Chu Chen is still very hopeful to be transferred to the third-level immortal position in the future. He is a dignified elder of the central elder of the Immortal Court. It is unreasonable to "idle" the latent cultivator.
He already had great hopes for promotion to the State Dao Yuan and the State Supervisory Yuan. Now that he has shown his strength, Mr. Ming Jing must be more bold in recruiting people.
"The governor of the state and the minister of the Demon Academy don't dare to think about it. It would be quite good to be able to serve as the mountain chief and the state inspector in a state."
Chu Chen couldn't help but secretly look forward to it.
He currently has 8,900 meritorious deeds, which is still far from reaching 10,000 meritorious deeds and practicing Lei Ancestor's top thunder magic power.
If you can hold a serious immortal position, it will be much easier to achieve the goal of ten thousand meritorious deeds.
Chu Chen spent the next two days counting the spoils and harvests, immersed in little surprises every day.
As the saying goes, having fun alone is not as good as having fun together.
Master Xu Ping vetoed Chu Chen's donation to the sect to support the Lingshan Sect, but Chu Chen did not really live alone.
He currently plans to raise tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. It is indeed a time when he is short of money and treasures. However, he is short of big money, not small money.
While taking stock of the treasures, he would wander around the Lingshan Sect from time to time, and he would be very generous and reward Lingshan Sect disciples with large sums of money.
As long as the disciples of the Lingshan Sect perform well and have potential, he will reward them generously, and he will also reward them if they make some progress.
Regardless of whether they are disciples of Old Lingshan or New Lingshan, they will all be treated equally and receive rewards.
After a few days, the entire Lingshan Sect disciples were more or less rewarded by Chu Chen, which greatly increased his prestige as the "young master", and everyone praised the young master for his magnanimity.
Of course, in addition to the disciples of the Lingshan Sect, Chu Chen also did not forget to respect his master, his uncles, his master, his uncles, and others.
This time, Master Xu Ping did not refuse Chu Chen’s filial piety.
After all the rewards and filial piety, Chu Chen spent millions of jade coins, which was nothing more than drizzle to him now.
Chu Chen finally took stock of his harvest and added up the various treasures, including the magic weapon sold at a discount to Xianting Treasures. His net worth soared to 140 million jade coins.
This is an astonishing amount of wealth. Most of the great immortal sects cannot get such an astonishing amount by selling things.
However, if this money is used to recruit soldiers and horses, it will be nothing.
Especially high-level soldiers and horses are extremely valuable.
Previously, Chu Chen had used the [Dixin Seal] to go to the underworld of Yin Cao to pay homage to the incarnation of Emperor Guan Sheng in Yin Cao Fengdu [Marshal Fengdu Langlingguan]. He recruited more than 2,000 elite soldiers from Mr. Guan and spent more than 10 million jade. money.
Recruiting fourth-grade soldiers and horses costs 10,000 jade coins each, and recruiting 100,000 soldiers and horses costs one billion jade coins.
The amount of money Chu Chen had in hand seemed like a drop in the bucket. He couldn't even afford to recruit, let alone support him.
Even for fifth-grade soldiers and horses, it would cost five thousand jade, and he couldn't afford to recruit them.
Of course, Chu Chen had no intention of becoming fat in one go.
One hundred thousand third-grade and fourth-grade heavenly soldiers cost too much, and he couldn't even think about it. Even for fifth-grade soldiers and horses, he was still under some pressure. The best case scenario was to recruit sixth-grade soldiers and horses.
Last time, he learned that sixth-grade soldiers and horses can be recruited for only two thousand jade. The cost is much less, and he can afford to recruit them.
After all, the soldiers and horses recruited are not fixed in shape. If they are trained well in the future, they will hopefully be promoted.
In the past, Chu Chen urgently needed to improve his strength and did not want to be distracted by refining his troops, so he directly recruited fourth-grade soldiers and horses. Now, he has the time to slowly figure it out, and recruiting sixth-grade troops and horses is the best choice.
In addition, Chu Chen did not plan to recruit 100,000 troops at once.
He himself has three thousand elite soldiers, and also has the [Tianxin General Summoning System], which can currently summon six thousand soldiers and horses temporarily, and can summon up to twelve thousand soldiers and horses in the future, which can be regarded as a boost.
In other words, he only needed to recruit 85,000 troops.
As for the first phase of recruiting soldiers and horses, he only planned to recruit 40,000 soldiers and horses first, leaving a sum of money on hand, which would be used to support the soldiers and horses in the future, so as to avoid too much pressure and wait and see one step at a time.
After Chu Chen carefully thought about it, he felt more and more that things were interesting, and his mood suddenly became brighter.
Speaking of which, [Qingchen Cave Sky] was certainly created by great opportunity, but somehow it put tremendous pressure on him and Qingying, not to mention crushing them, at least it made the two of them slightly breathless.
In the past, no matter what problems the two faced, they relied on Long Jun and Xianting. They had a backer and didn't have much to worry about.
But now, these pressures can only be borne by themselves. Telling Long Jun and Longling Empress about the matter will not help. The two of them can guard the [Diyuan Cave Heaven], but they cannot guard the [Qing Dynasty] tens of thousands of miles away. Chendongtian].
If the two elders intervened forcefully, something unexpected might happen as a result.
Therefore, Chu Chen and Qingying chose to bear the burden on their own. In order to share the pressure, Qingying herself chose to go out to practice in the hope of breaking through.
Another two days passed.
Mr. Ming Jing's secret decree did not go beyond Chu Chen's expectations, it came as expected, and even came earlier than he imagined.
"Right now, everything is ready. All we have to do is wait for the east wind and the response from Fengdu Hell."
After receiving the imperial edict from the Immortal Court envoy, Chu Chen couldn't help but feel very good.
One hundred thousand banners kill Yama!
If he holds a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and is accomplished in Taoism and cultivation, not to mention killing Yama and guarding the blessed land of Dongtian, then there will be absolutely no problem.
"Dong dong dong!"
"Congratulations, senior brother, congratulations, senior brother!"
The little kid was very good at observing people's emotions, and he could tell that his senior brother was really happy. Although he didn't understand what happened, he still came out to congratulate him immediately.
Moreover, this time the little devil looked pitiful and almost burst into tears:
"Senior Brother, you have rewarded all the disciples of Lingshan Sect, but you have not rewarded me."
"Hahaha!"
Seeing the little ghost's aggrieved look, Chu Chen felt better and better. He did not reward the little ghost, which was a lesson to him.
However, he was not a stingy person. Now that the heat was almost over, he immediately nodded slightly, took out a cloth bag from his sleeve, and threw it to the little devil:
"Okay, senior brother, how could I forget you? This is the top-notch spiritual incense collected by [Dajajang Temple]. I'll reward you with it."
"Thank you, senior brother!"
The little kid was overjoyed: "Hehehe~ I knew that senior brother loved me and would never forget me."
At this moment, the little devil was completely satisfied, and the grievances in his heart disappeared without a trace. He cupped his hands and said auspicious words:
"Senior brother, you are so generous. If you are so generous, everything will go well and everything will go as you wish."
"You little brat!"
Chu Chen smiled helplessly and ignored the little devil.
There was no other reason. He was vaguely aware of it, and he took it out from the Immortal Mansion of the Bracelet, and the [Earth Letter Seal] appeared in his hand.
"There is news from Fengdu Hell."
Chu Chen couldn't help but look forward to it, and his heart sank.
After a while, the smile on his face disappeared, and then he looked depressed, and his eyes fell on the little ghost boy.
The kid was stunned for a moment: "Brother, look at what I'm doing. I haven't made any mistakes recently."
Chu Chen shook his head and asked, "Did you just wish me all the best?"
The kid nodded.
"You crow mouth!"
Little devil: "o((⊙﹏⊙))o"
(End of chapter)
