"I dare not. This gift is specially given to you, Senior. As for your guidance and advice, I am deeply grateful for your guidance. I dare not expect more..."
Xue Cheng was very humble in his words and deeds, and his attitude was very friendly.
Zhang Mingtu listened and waved his hand to stop him. If he continued to listen, Xue Cheng would definitely say more words of praise, but Zhang Mingtu didn't want to listen anymore.
He was quite curious about those gifts, but he never even glanced at them from beginning to end, and just said lightly.
"Your opponent is in Jiujiang County."
"What?"
Xue Cheng was shocked.
He originally thought that the demon was still hiding in Jianyi or Longxing Prefecture, but he never imagined that it would be in Jiujiang County.
He put in a lot of effort and his family used a lot of favors to get him transferred to Jiujiang County. Before that, this matter was kept extremely secret.
Apart from the person in the family who was responsible for handling this matter, perhaps only his competitors knew about it. He never imagined that the place he had been transferred to with so much difficulty might actually be the other party's lair.
At this moment, he wanted to die, and he had no intention of suspecting Zhang Mingtu at all.
The advice the mysterious Iron-Masked Man gave him on several occasions was quite effective, simple and clear.
He didn't think that the Iron-masked Man would plot against him. Didn't he see that even though he gave him a treasured gift and even put it in a storage bag, the senior opposite him didn't even look at it?
He is obviously an extremely top-notch figure. If he had not carried out a very covert mission and could not be discovered by others, the credit for destroying the underground demon in Jianyi would never have fallen on Xue Cheng.
Moreover, this senior was quite kind-hearted. Because the incident was not handled properly, he took the initiative to come and remind him to avoid his death.
Zhang Mingtu knew a lot about the situation of the Jiujiang County base, but he was quite hesitant at this time, not knowing whether he should tell Xue Cheng the full details of the Jiujiang County.
If Xue Cheng is told everything, and Xue Cheng takes the Jiujiang County base to an extreme, it is very likely that the whole incident will become extreme again.
In the south of the Yangtze River, many wealthy families began to raise demons on their own initiative.
This led to Ruihai's voluntary resignation and return home.
The whole incident was quite terrible.
But will everything be fine if I don’t tell?
Zhang Mingtu didn't think that would be the case. Even if demons were not raised openly, many demons would still exist.
In the past, taking Jianyi as an example, the floods and water disasters that occurred there might have been demons within the city that fanned the flames.
Then they would take advantage of the floods to eat some people. This was the case in Jianyi, and it would also be the case in the more extensive Jiangnan area with a more developed water system. It was pretty much the same.
Demons have always been eating people, but they used to do it secretly. After this incident was exposed, they may eat them openly.
The real problem lies not with demons but with human hearts.
Zhang Mingtu couldn't help but think of the investigation that was quite ironic and even contrary to common sense.
After the public raising of demons, there were many small floods and water disasters in various places. However, because the wealthy families took the initiative to openly distribute food, more people survived and the overall population increased.
The world is never in chaos because of demons, but because of the people who control the demons.
"This matter..."
Zhang Mingtu felt that the situation was difficult, but he also felt that there was a way out.
"In fact, I don't need to fight against everyone. I can just unite a group of people and defeat another group."
There are many people who want demon blood, scales and armor, including wealthy families and the imperial court.
But this does not mean that they are born on the same page.
On the contrary, the imperial court and many wealthy families in the Jiangnan region also had great resentment.
I have always hoped to better govern the Jiangnan region.
"If the fact that people in the demon base can raise demons is not known by the imperial court first, but by the wealthy families first..."
A flash of lightning seemed to flash through Zhang Mingtu's mind. If the wealthy family knew about it first, then things might have gone in a different direction.
The wealthy and powerful in Jiangnan would try their best to conceal their wealth, let alone such a huge development opportunity.
The population they controlled was much larger than that controlled by the imperial court. If they knew how to do it simply, they would just use some slaves who were insignificant in their eyes, and the remaining population could be used to feed demons.
They would be very happy if they could cultivate a monster with good strength.
They will definitely work together to block this news and then develop it secretly.
If someone later reveals the weapons and armor stockpiled by the Jiangnan wealthy families and related demonic incidents, and spreads them further and more publicly, it will definitely cause public outrage.
Moreover, such behavior of the Jiangnan nobles is basically the same as rebellion, and they will lose the support of the people and lose the righteousness. No matter what they think secretly, at least in name no one will stand with them.
Faced with such a situation, the imperial court would definitely take advantage of the situation and sweep through the Jiangnan area.
Perhaps all the wealthy families in Jiangnan will not be killed, but they will definitely bleed heavily, so a large degree of compromise is appropriate.
“No way…”
Halfway through his thought, Zhang Mingtu shook his head again.
He knew very well what the current situation in Daxia was like, which was filled with too many compromises and concessions.
In the end, a large number of Jiangnan nobles will die, but incidents like raising demons will not stop. Once Pandora's box is opened, no one will close it again.
Ultimately, it’s not the fault of the Jiangnan nobles, nor the imperial court, but rather the fact that high-level practitioners do not treat ordinary people as human beings.
Many people are willing to give it a try as they can obtain extremely rare and difficult-to-obtain cultivation resources by using some humble and insignificant existences in their eyes.
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