Why do I have so many masters?-Chapter 556 - 195: Once Immortals Calculated Fortunes (5200 words, 2 in 1)_3

Yuchi Jie had personally killed men, and it was in close combat.

It seemed he played the part of a wastrel, but was truly concealing his talent.

Wang Anfeng withdrew his gaze and turned to continue walking forward at a leisurely pace.

Below, in the courtyard, Yuchi Jie was threatened by Lao Lu and had no choice but to abandon his big plans for the brothel, left to merely stand around, admiring the view in the early spring courtyard.

Jing Feng City, located in the northern lands of Great Qin, was still comparatively cold, and naturally, there wasn't much to see in the yard.

However, the scenery in Guangping County in the southern part of Great Qin was already quite appealing. The willow trees had new buds, and early spring flowers bloomed in an intensely splendid and vibrant manner, filling the onlookers with joy.

At a roadside stall, an old man dressed in cotton clothes held a bowl of noodles, eating with great relish, more delectable than anyone else's. As he ate, he bit into green onions, and after finishing, he wiped his mouth and exhaled a breath, his face full of contentment.

He fished out five worn smooth Copper Coins from his bosom and laid them out on the table.

Then he sat there for a while before finally getting up, slowly walking back amid the greetings from the store owner.

Within a hundred meters around, at least seven people stood up, protectively encircling the old man at the center.

The old man truly found this arrangement disagreeable, but there was nothing he could do, the son was grown, and he could not overrule him, so he had to let his son arrange for his protection. Yet, internally, he strongly disapproved.

He had once conquered a county for Great Qin.

It was now a county of Great Qin.

When he rode proudly on his horse, these fellows hadn't even entered the jianghu.

In those days, Great Qin expanded from fifty-one counties to seventy-two counties. It seemed like twenty-one extra counties were added, but the size of each county was not the same. There were many twists and complications back then.

The war that annihilated nations.

Great Qin had completely absorbed five countries. Master of Divine Martial, Wang Tiance, submitted a proposal at court, recommending the division of counties to conform with the energies of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend, and to correspond numerically with Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands.

Back then, Tiance, as the Great Marshal, his military achievements were so outstanding they had reached a peak. Moreover, this was to be proclaimed to heaven, with officials echoing the sentiment, and The Emperor did not refuse, and thus the command was issued naturally.

The specifics were handled personally by Wang Tiance of the Divine Martial Mansion.

The more than twenty smaller counties directly adjacent to various original counties of Great Qin were absorbed, whereas the larger counties from the former nations were divided, the largest into three and the smallest even merged, the numbers slightly changed, tallying up to fifty-seven.

In each county of Great Qin, vassals were enfeoffed, county chiefs, Prefectural Governors, and First-Rank Pillar Country Generals.

The grandeur of these ennoblements was rarely seen throughout history.

The treasuries of the nations conquered by Great Qin were depleted in a blink, with the secret treasures of the royal families lost by seven parts out of ten. There were subtle rumors that Wang Tiance's merits were so great they deceived the sovereign, aiming to use the ennoblement to possess the world's treasures, while the Imperial Censorate's officials petitioned daily.

Using their official identity, the secret impeachment documents against Wang Tiance were reportedly held in wooden frames.

The Emperor back then, now the Supreme Former Emperor, had directly sent this basket of petitions to the Tiance Mansion.

The Imperial Court fell silent.

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Yet there were whispers and rumors secretly circulating that the prestige of Wang Tiance was so immense that even The Emperor's petitions were sent to him.

Indeed, fit for a Great Marshal.

Then, what happened next no one knew, but a year later, throughout the scholar gentry of the land, Wang Tiance's reputation suddenly plummeted. Almost every day, scholars of frightening renown wrote moral articles, harshly denigrating the previously exalted Tiance Marshal.

The man still couldn't be bothered to respond.

Moreover, after the fall of the major states, local noble clans, in order to secure their footing in the new imperial court, for those royal treasures which held special significance to them, or either voluntarily or forcibly, fought against each other.

Three years later.

The Divine Martial Mansion had already disbanded, scattered throughout the world. Wang Tiance had died, the throne had changed, and the current Emperor used the last strategy presented by the previous Master of Divine Martial, and with the spies he had previously positioned, reunited the remaining counties, reducing the Great Qin from one hundred and eight counties to seventy-two.

The remaining noble families from the other five nations, after two rounds of internal strife, with seven to eight out of ten elites gone, can hardly stir up any troubles anymore—clearly a ploy of extinction, grand and upright, yet it forced these noble families to comply unwillingly.

It eliminated the hidden dangers after the Great Qin annexed other nations, at least securing twenty years of peace for the Great Qin within three years.

He realized upon reflection that when the Emperor had sent all the petitions to the Divine Martial Mansion, it wasn't trust but rather a knife aiming straight for the heart, first pushing the entire Tiance Mansion to the forefront of public opinion.

It also served as a warning to the Great Marshal, by leveraging these noble families to pressure him.

Fortunately, back then the Great Marshal was too lazy by nature, and he couldn't be bothered to read the pile of petitions. That winter, due to the cold, he directly burnt the exquisite Yunxuan paper to warm up, using the saved Silver Coin to treat everyone to drinks.

Sounds of horse hooves approached from ahead, and a horse of excellent quality, the Morning Cloud Jade Lion, came galloping, stopping directly ten steps in front of the old man.

The young man on the horse rolled off, threw the reins to an attendant beside him, and hurried forward, raising his hand to support the old man while slightly complaining,

"Old man, did you sneak out again?"

"There's everything you could want to eat or drink back at the mansion..."

Yuchi Wen chuckled.

The young man before him was his eldest grandson. When he was born, Yuchi Wen was just a middling scholar who had not yet achieved prominence, following a man in white all over the world, drinking and eating together, meals often consisting of noodles, spicy peppers, and spring onions, a habit developed during those times.

Now, he held a very high official rank, and this eldest grandson had grown up within the noble clan atmosphere, his appearance and demeanor far more stately than his own in the past.

Not at all like a descendant of a poor scholar.

The old man muttered to himself.

Of course, he was even fonder of his third grandson, Yuchi Jie, but he didn't know how the situation was after he headed to the Northern Lands. Thinking of the divination he reluctantly made, he sighed in his heart; he didn't have very profound martial arts skills, and he was no longer young.

He still hoped to see the third great fortune soon.

"Grandfather?"

The young man beside him looked at Yuchi Wen curiously, wondering what he was thinking.

The old man raised his eyes, casually patted the young man on the head, his expression unchanged, but he chuckled and said,

"Everything at home? That's utter nonsense."

"The girls in the brothel certainly don't have..."

PS: Offering up 5,200 words in two parts today... a bit late, please forgive me (bows)

PS2: Thanks to Distant Gentleman Qianshang for the fifty thousand starting coins, much appreciated...