"Your jade slip has finished recording. You have nothing to do now. Take this jade slip to find the deputy palace master, who is on the left side of the main hall. He will arrange a job for you." As Old Ding said this, he split the jade slip in his hand into two and handed one of them to Wang Xiaohai.

Wang Xiaohai took it in surprise and looked at the jade slip carefully in his hand.

"Don't look at it. This jade slip is called a four-part slip. The content written on it will be integrated into the jade slip. Even if it breaks into four pieces, you can still get the desired information from any piece." Elder Ding said, "This is why our information has been preserved for tens of millions of years without much loss. Even if a piece is accidentally broken, as long as more than a quarter of the fragments remain, we can fully decipher it, transcribe it, and preserve it again."

"How was such a magical jade slip made?" Wang Xiaohai asked.

"This is a secret of the Manufacturing Bureau and cannot be leaked easily." Old Ding and Captain Qin said at the same time.

Wang Xiaohai didn't care. He didn't need to make money by making four-cent jade slips anyway. If he needed money, he could just go to the national treasury and get it. It saved time and effort. It was such an easy thing. There was no need to spend time and effort learning how to make jade slips. The money in the national treasury of each country was his money. However, he was now helping the Beixing Palace and couldn't embezzle money!

"Mr. Ding, can't Wang Xiaohai work in my team?" Captain Qin Lu asked the general manager, Mr. Ding.

"Isn't your team full of ten people?" Elder Ding asked. "You want him to serve as a tribute in the country you govern? What a waste of talent! You have a thousand countries, and I remember that there are 352 countries that don't have tributes, and yet nothing has happened. They pay the taxes they should every year. How many more taels of silver can you collect by sending Wang Xiaohai to one of them? You're wasting his talent, like driving a carriage to pull a mosquito leg. What a waste!"

Captain Qin Lu was speechless. Their team nine was indeed full.

"Deputy Palace Master?" Wang Xiaohai asked.

"Several deputy palace masters, like you, are geniuses who have undergone special awakenings, and they are now at the limit of their awakening." Elder Ding said, "You will understand when you go there. You should know that most people will directly become worshippers and have no chance to do other tasks."

It seems that for the awakeners in the North Continent, the priest is the lowest profession. If nothing unexpected happens, a priest may stay in a country for hundreds of years until he dies of old age. Without the holy spring water, he cannot be promoted to the demigod, and there is no hope of promotion. Most priests can only eat and wait for death in the palace every day. Therefore, for all priests, choosing a country is the most important thing. If you are unlucky and choose a small country, you can only wait for the priests in the medium-sized country to die before you have the opportunity to submit your resume and compete for the position.

That’s right, just submit your resume!

Not all awakeners are personally brought to the Baiyu Palace by the captain or deputy captain to register. Instead, law enforcement officers notify the newly awakened to come to the Baiyu Palace to register on their own. After being arranged by the Personnel Hall to any of the ten teams, the captain will then assign the country to be served.

There are more than 10,000 countries in the North Continent. As a captain, you usually only know the big and larger countries in your jurisdiction. You only remember the names of medium-sized and small countries, or even the names you may not remember. Every ten people just need to send a team member to the small country to collect taxes. However, since the small countries have no tributes, are in chaos and war, and even the political power has not been established, most of the time the team members who go there cannot collect tax silver, because they cannot waste time robbing every household. In medium and large countries, these were originally done by dynasties or empires, and the tributes supervised and checked the amount of silver. Therefore, small countries that could not collect the accounts could only be treated as bad debts. The team members or deputy captains could either ask the big countries to make up for it, or wait until next year to double the collection. Anyway, the captain only looked at the total amount, and it was enough as long as the total amount of silver handed in was correct.

Therefore, after the awakened ones were assigned as tributes, the big countries became much more stable, but the small countries were in trouble. No matter how good your economy is, you have to pay the same amount of money. Countries without tributes become targets of plunder. The tributes cannot fight each other, but can only instruct the emperor to start a war and plunder the wealth of countries without tributes. When the law enforcement team members come to collect taxes, the countries without tributes cannot pay the taxes. Either their homes are searched by the team members, or the team members collect more from the neighboring countries with tributes to make up for it. Therefore, the pressure on the team members is no easier than being a tribute. Some tributes are stronger than the team members, and they will no longer pay attention to the team members' requests after paying enough money. Anyway, the rules are like this. It's useless to report to the top, and the other party has not defaulted.

Therefore, the position of a national stabilizing patron saint is more popular than that of a law enforcement officer. This position is usually filled by retired law enforcement officers from the upper realms. A patron saint's term is fifty years, and after performing well, they have the opportunity to become a patron saint in a large or larger nation. Of course, this presupposes that the patron saint of a large nation dies. In this case, the captain will conduct an open recruitment of awakened individuals under his jurisdiction. Large nations will recruit openly, medium-sized ones will be assigned by deputy captains, and small nations can be selected at will, as long as they register with the captain. However, the selection should be based on their ability. The size of the country selected for registration is proportional to the amount of tax paid. Of course, when recruiting patron saints in large nations, patron saints are given priority. After all, those who have worked for the captain for decades are definitely the first to be considered. This is one of the unspoken rules that has been passed down.

Wang Xiaohai shook hands with Captain Qin Lu in front of the Personnel Hall and then parted ways. He walked towards the hall of Deputy Palace Master Sun, who was in charge of personnel and finance, while Captain Qin Lu returned to his own Qin Hall on Baiyu Mountain.

When the emperor of a medium-sized or large country dies unexpectedly, the captain and vice-captain usually go to investigate. After all, such countries have offerings, and a problem that even offerings can't solve is definitely a big problem! Fortunately, Captain Qin went this time. If the vice-captain had gone with others, he would probably have fought with Wang Xiaohai.

Qin Lu thought of his relative Zhong Tieshi and felt a little disappointed. This guy was just a lazy person. He couldn't get anything done and always backed down when faced with difficulties. If he wasn't related to him, he wouldn't be able to stay in a medium-sized country like Zhuangguo with his level of ability.

The door in front of Deputy Palace Master Sun's hall was open, and there were several unawakened warriors cleaning. Wang Xiaohai was stunned. He thought that all the people in Baiyu Palace were awakened. But when he thought about it, the awakened ones were all priests or team leaders. Who would be willing to sweep the floor?

"Who are you?" A young man who was cleaning stopped and looked at Wang Xiaohai, "Is there something you need from Palace Master Sun?" When they called Deputy Palace Master Sun, they were used to omitting the word "deputy".

"Old Ding asked me to come and see Palace Master Sun to arrange a new task." Wang Xiaohai raised the jade slip in his hand and looked into Deputy Palace Master Sun's palace - it was rich and magnificent, with antiques and treasures placed casually on the table.

If he wasn't a member of Baiyu Palace now, he really planned to rob this deputy palace master's hall, probably to exchange for a lot of dimensional coins, but this would harm Lin Yiyi, so Wang Xiaohai had to endure it.

"Old Ding introduced you?" The young man's eyes lit up. "You are a newly born genius of the second awakening! One hasn't appeared in Beixingzhou for over a hundred years. The last special awakening was by Palace Master Sun one hundred and twenty years ago."

"How many deputy palace masters are there? Are they all at the awakening limit?" Wang Xiaohai asked curiously.

"There are three deputy palace masters, all of whom are at their limit and are waiting for the divine spring water." The young man replied, "Only geniuses of the second awakening, after working in Baiyu Palace for fifty years, will be appointed as deputy palace masters by the palace master."

The young man immediately exposed the secret of Bai Yugong, the deputy palace master.