"What should we do next?" Wu Hong asked.
"Next? Haha...next, of course, is to expand our power. After reconciling with Jin Mao, we can openly approach Jin Chen and the other two and exchange them for war lieutenant-level healing medicine. Xiaohong, your injury will hopefully be healed."
Wu Hong's eyes flashed with emotion, but he didn't say anything. The two brothers had depended on each other for so long, there was no need to express gratitude.
"In addition, we need to train Zheng Yuan and find other Tiandao mercenaries."
"The Heavenly Dao Mercenaries are the trend!"
"Only by having more and stronger Tiandao mercenaries can we accomplish our goals!"
"This time, we won't play tricks. We'll use open tactics and go with the flow! This time, we'll definitely succeed!"
"Yeah." Looking at his elder brother who was finally full of energy again, he nodded heavily.
After Wu Zheng reassured Wu Hong, he thought to himself, "Even if there are hidden dangers, I can't worry about them! We'll talk about them when the time comes. As long as we can achieve our goal of destroying the corpse demons and recovering lost territory, that's all! There's always a way out! I believe that there will always be a way out for us and our world!"
…
Jin Mao returned home, recalling every word he had spoken with Wu Zheng and analyzing the unspoken meanings.
Jin Mao had to admit that talking with Wu Zheng was like drinking fine wine, which was joyful and intoxicating.
"No wonder Wu Zheng has the favor of both the Lord and the Young Master. Wu Zheng's conversational skills are truly formidable!"
"Besides, the Wu family has a long history of family learning! All the heads of the family have been military advisors. Unlike our Jin family, they all started out as generals."
Although there are many nobles, most of them are generals, but few are commanders. The Jin family is the only family in the Gu family territory that has a legacy of generals and commanders.
At the noble level, it's not just about training, but also about inheriting various warrior-related things.
"Because of a lack of foundation, my generation cannot become a lord. We can only follow the path of those who have held power in history."
In this world, warriors are respected and the strong prey on the weak. The heads of lord or royal families often choose the strongest warrior in their family.
Since the warriors are strong, even if they become lords, they will spend a lot of time practicing. This is why the King of War established institutions such as parliaments, choosing one or more people in power to control their own territories on his behalf.
As for the lord, all he needs to do is stay strong and have a powerful army.
Therefore, people in power are not uncommon in history.
"The Gu family has been demoted to nobility, and the alchemy and weapon refining workshops they controlled have been confiscated. Now they are effectively under my control. I have also collected rubbings of various secret techniques. This is the greatest accumulation of the lord's family."
With these, he could be self-sufficient and provide medicine and weapons for his territory.
I believe the Wu family definitely had a share of this. Other families also got some, more or less, as their family heritage and foundation.
"Having these doesn't mean we'll be strong right away. We still need to digest them. The current alchemy workshop and weapon refining workshop are all staffed by Gu's clansmen or trusted members. They can only be used, not trusted. We still need to train our own people to replace the original ones before we can fully control the two workshops."
Even if other families have them and cultivate them, they dare not sell them to others because, according to tradition, only lords can run workshops. If other families run them, it is tantamount to treason and the whole family will be exterminated.
Of course, if one were to secretly refine medicines and weapons that aided cultivation in one's own residence and use them only within the family, the lord would not be so unkind as to directly execute the entire clan.
The original Jin family had a legacy in this area, and had their own weapon refiners and pharmacists, but they were unable to escape during the battle of the Corpse Demon Disaster.
The people we are training nowadays cannot be trained at all due to the lack of materials.
"Now, however, it can be cultivated."
Now, Jin Mao is in power, and he is the ruler of the virtual lord. He can use the resources of the entire water village to train his family's weapon refiners and alchemists.
Even if other families knew about this, no one would say anything. After all, this was a tradition that had been passed down for thousands of years. The Jin family was now effectively a lord family. Training new weapon refiners and alchemists was something they wouldn't do if they weren't from the Jin family!
He thought about how to develop the territory, how to control the nobles and subjects, and how to develop the family for a long time before falling asleep.
Striving for one's ideals and developing and strengthening one's family are not contradictory.
Whether it is Gu's father, their lord, Jin Mao, or Wu Zheng, they all put the development of the family and the realization of their ideals together. They are one and the same and inseparable.
Therefore, before his death, Gu's father could have self-destructed to save the family and give it a glimmer of hope. Wu Zheng could have plotted against the Gu family for his ideals, betrayed his master, expanded the family, and wanted to take over.
The same is true for Jinmao. In the process of realizing his ideals, will he develop and expand his family? Or even the family is the main body, and realizing the ideal is the goal after developing the family.
I don’t know what other worlds are like, but this world is like this.
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Under the night sky, Fang Yuan stood on the roof, looking at his father Jin who was deep in thought in the study, his eyes deep.
Jin Mao and Wu Zheng, two warriors who had never experienced battle, had no idea how powerful and sharp the perception was compared to that of a lieutenant-level archer.
Last night, on his way back, Jin Mao, overcome by emotion, lost control and again showed hostility towards Fang Yuan several times. Once or twice, Fang Yuan might have dismissed it as an illusion, but how could Fang Yuan ignore such frequent hostility?
So, Fang Yuan kept an eye on Jin Mao all night long. From Jin Mao's secret meeting with Wu Zheng to his mumbling after returning, Fang Yuan listened to every detail.
To be honest, the information he learned tonight surprised Fang Yuan.
With the background of Fang Yuan's declining warrior family, he really didn't realize that the Tiandao Mercenary System came from another world, nor did he know that the corpse demon also came from another world.
Fortunately, the archer's skills included a method of calming the mind, so he did not lose his composure and be exposed due to his agitated emotions.
However, even now, Fang Yuan's heart is still not at peace!
Fang Yuan had always believed that he was loyal to a powerful warrior, perhaps even a legendary God of War! Only a legendary God of War could possess such vast powers, ignoring his cultivation talent and quickly advancing to the rank of War Lieutenant. Moreover, his solid foundation would not affect his future advancement.
He was grateful for having such a powerful lord, and at the same time he constantly motivated himself to practice and complete the system tasks with all his heart.
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