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Nanling is the largest city in southwest Daxia.

The Nanling Holy Church is the largest church in the Southwest, the Nanling Star Warlock Association is the largest Star Warlock Association in the Southwest, the Yamen of Nanling is the largest Yamen in the Southwest, and the Prince's Mansion located in the center of Nanling represents the largest aristocratic family in the Southwest—— The Zhao family of Nanling.

Since the Nanling Zhao family established its foothold here a hundred 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 continued to build courtyards inside and outside the city, but they would only repair this mansion and never demolish it. The Prince of Nanling himself would also live in the Prince's Mansion in the city most of the time. Therefore, there is a saying in Nanling that whether a member of the Zhao family is valued or not depends on whether he lives in another courtyard or in the prince's palace.

On weekdays, the vermilion door of the county prince's mansion is always open. According to an unknown ancestor, this shows the Zhao family's magnanimity.

But today, it was not until noon that 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 County Prince, must be well-groomed. The housekeepers were busy running around, the stewards loaded various gifts and ceremonial items into the carriage, the master tried to take good care of the horses and stewards, and finally the arrogant girls. When they walked out from behind the second door, they seemed to see Nu Sheng. First-class imperial envoy.

In the splendid courtyard of the Zhao Mansion, the Prince of Nanling County held an invitation and looked left and right, looking up and down. There was only one sentence he muttered to himself: "It turns out to be a three-star warlock."

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

Rumor has it that Zhao Quanhui, the eldest grandson of the Zhao family in Nanling, died under Cheng Jinzhou's bomb. In the Zhao family, at least Nanling County Prince himself believed the rumors, especially after the invasion of the Northern Han Dynasty ended. He specially sent people to collect the explosives on the battlefield and asked a star warlock to examine them. Although he never said anything, the ambiguous attitude of the Nanling Zhao family and the cold treatment of Cheng Jinzhou all explained the thoughts of Prince Zhao.

However, it was impossible not to go if invited by a fourth-level star warlock. Especially the content of the celebration made Zhao Zuxiang even more discouraged.

"Bring people with you and act according to the opportunity." Zhao Zuxiang said, then threw the invitation on the ground, not wanting to look at it again.

Shaonan, also a large city in the southwest, has turned into a sea of ​​joy at night. Like all government-organized activities, the gentlemen and ladies on the street showed enthusiastic smiles, twisted their untrained dance steps, and swayed. Red flag made from cheap fabric.

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, there should not be a grand celebration for juniors. But after Cheng Jinzhou became a three-star warlock, even the most pedantic teachings would not bring it up.

In this world where everyone is prosperous and everyone suffers loss, it is such a glorious thing 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, he celebrated like a New Year's Eve.

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

Beautiful fireworks are constantly exploding in the sky, and free drinks and porridge can be seen everywhere on the streets. Businessmen who do charity have never been so charitable for a moment.

The only way to get businessmen with businesses 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 office. For those with female relatives, Liu Qingshuang and Weng Xilian will be responsible for receiving them. The banquets held for two consecutive days are usually very free, and there is no need to do too much, and it is mostly just communication.

Since it started in a hurry, it was mainly attended by local gentlemen from De'an the night before, and Cheng Jinzhou didn't even have to come out for long. But as the next day came, more and more nobles began to show up.

Cheng Jinzhou could not imagine why there were so many nobles in two or three cities.

The Prince of Nanling County is the noble with the highest title. In addition, there are more than ten earls, dozens of viscounts and hundreds of barons. Although there are no aristocratic families in the southwest like the capital, there are numerous small families that have been inherited for centuries.

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

Even when the Prince of Nanling County came in front of him, he didn't even look at her 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 without Cheng Jinzhou standing at the door.

At sunset, the Dawn-class airship, which was painted in pitch black, appeared in the sky above De'an City.

The peaceful world of singing and dancing seemed to have been pressed on the pause button and suddenly stopped. It was not until the three star warlocks appeared on the airship that the welcoming music sounded again.

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

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

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

After standing there for a day, Cheng Jinzhou was really sleepy. He reluctantly raised his head and looked up. He hurriedly lowered his head and yawned without even making a single gesture of welcome.

The three level four star warlocks from Xingzhou were a little embarrassed. Tai Ting whispered: "Why don't we issue a badge to him now?"

The other two people had no objections, so a brilliant glow began to appear in the sky.

People are used to and understand that Father Sun gets off work and goes to bed on time every day. Suddenly someone disrupted the situation, and someone immediately made a sound of admiration.

The colorful lights are dangling in the sky, it's really beautiful.

Cheng Jinzhou felt even sleepier. Modern people, with movies and TV, have never seen such a grand event. The performance of pretending to be a rainbow really couldn't cheer him up.

The three Tai Ting people were even more energetic.

Kong Wei also lets out a little musical whine to make 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 1,000, 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 but recall his glorious years.

That year, I seemed to be 50 years old, but I was teased by the then Warlock Guo Jingxing for being a "young man".

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

Star warlocks don’t value tediousness. Tai Ting quickly flew down and personally brought a first-level three-star warlock badge with a yellow base to Cheng Jinzhou, and said: “When you have original contribution points, You are always welcome to come to Xingzhou to use it.”

"If you need anything, come to us anytime." Kong Wei said cryptically. Many three-star warlocks cannot get original contribution points. The usual method is to barely pass an article before the end of their life. However, the number is often limited by the number of uses of the special star array, so not everyone can All three-star warlocks gain extended life.

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

The sleepy smile and tired figure all reveal an identity in front of the three members of the Star Warlock Committee.

How could an ordinary Star Warlock 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 around Liu Kuang, Lu Xu would sometimes take it seriously when he was oppressed by his senior brother. After following Cheng Jinzhou, he turned into a low-intelligence talent without any pressure at all. He didn't pay attention to what he said and said: "Zhao Quanfu's father and his grandfather who were killed by you are their family. It seems that they are together." Look at you."

Cheng Jinzhou turned his head sharply and met the eyes of Prince Nanling.

Those were a pair of angry and jealous eyes, coming from the person who once had the highest status in Nanling.

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

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

Looking back, His Excellency the County Prince had already turned around and left. Cheng Jinzhou felt a little shuddering as he recalled what he had just seen.

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 your enemy is to strengthen yourself. Cheng Jinzhou had a good reason: the Cheng family would become the largest family in the southwest, and the Zhao family must give in. In addition, they must have enough land for cultivation.

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Other than the word count: It’s a bit late to add an update.

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