Chapter 9: The Idiot's Trouble [Mechanical Civilization System] is now online...
In a panic, Iberly subconsciously stretched out his hand, as if to grab Liu Ziye's clothes.
However, before he could touch it at all, he felt a sharp pain on his wrist!
Iberly cried out in pain. This sudden change shocked everyone in the room.
Inside and outside Qingsong Hall, there were government soldiers and yamen runners waiting for instructions. At this moment, they all gathered together and blocked Qingsong Hall tightly.
Du Hui also stood up and stood in front of Liu Ziye. Xiying and Jin Jie, along with several other private guards who had followed them into Qingsong Hall, surrounded Liu Ziye.
Iberly looked over with great pain, only to realize that the person who had just attacked him was a private guard of the young Marquis of Xiguan.
Jin Jie still held his hand on the hilt of the sword. Just when Iberly stretched out his hand to pull Xiguan Hou's robe, he swung the hilt of the sword to block it.
He naturally knew how hard to strike and would never hurt anyone.
It’s just that the Iberian people’s bodies cannot bear pain.
The situation was tense for a while, but Liu Ziye and Du Hui did not take it seriously.
Liu Ziye just stopped moving, stood in the middle of the crowd, and looked at Iberly who was just a few feet away, with an expression of obvious questioning.
Du Hui's face darkened as he said, "Sir Governor, don't you know the young marquis's status? How can I tolerate your disrespectful and blasphemous behavior?"
Iberi spun around very quickly, hastily rolling up his sleeves, not daring to show any sign of pain. He immediately ordered all the guards and yamen runners to retreat, repeatedly proclaiming to the concerned officials that he was fine, and finally managed to calm the situation for the time being.
Then he humbly apologized to Liu Ziye, "I was reckless. Please forgive me, young marquis! We agreed today that my governor's mansion was hosting a banquet to celebrate your conferment of the title. How could I let you leave without enjoying yourself? Besides, you are absolutely right. I have been under the jurisdiction of the Prince of Xiguan and Xiguan County for six years. Now that the Prince of Xiguan has passed away, I am still saddened by the past."
"However, it would be difficult to repay all the money owed to the palace in the past years, including the fief and salary, all at once. How about you give me some time, young marquis? I will definitely send it all to you then!"
"Within seven days."
Liu Ziye knew that even if the treasury of the Xiguan County Governor's Mansion could not provide the full amount at once, the private treasury of the residence of the most business-savvy Governor Yi would definitely be able to fill it!
In this situation, facing this young marquis who could turn hostile at any time, Iberly knew that he had no patience for bartering. If he lost his temper and got carried away, he might really destroy himself and himself, and he would not be able to bear it!
He could only suppress the bleeding in his heart, and kept a calm expression on his face: "Seven days, just seven days!"
Liu Ziye smiled and said to Du Hui, "Mr. Du, did you hear that? I'll have to trouble you to help us sort out everything in our house in the next few days."
Du Hui was in high spirits and bowed solemnly, "Young Marquis, rest assured. I will definitely live up to your trust!"
"bite--"
"Congratulations to the host for obtaining 20 points of strength."
"bite--"
"Congratulations, host, for obtaining one hundred merit points."
"bite--"
"It has been detected that the host has redeemed life points for more than fifteen days, and the total remaining points are more than one hundred points. The system will unlock the primary reward system for you. The host can freely choose the rewards they want to redeem based on their own points."
"In one day, a total of 285 points have been obtained. The host's speed of gaining points has surpassed 99.99% of previous hosts. This is an excellent performance!"
"Host, please note that your accumulated points so far are 150 points for Imperial Merit, 85 points for Imperial Power, and only 10 points for Imperial Morality. While carrying out your mission, please strive to maintain a balance between the three types of points. If any one of them, such as Morality, remains too low, the growth of your Pure Power and Merit points will be limited."
"Host, please keep up the good work and complete the mission as soon as possible!"
A series of system reports shook Liu Ziye's mind. The information about points being credited undoubtedly made her happy, but it was obvious that as her progress in obtaining points progressed, the system was gradually unlocking more rules.
With a full harvest, Liu Ziye told everyone else in the mansion to enjoy it well, and he took Xiying, Jin Jie and others back to the Marquis' Mansion.
Du Hui immediately started to check the bills with the officials of the governor's office.
In the original world line, Iberly was a man who eventually became a person who could stir up trouble in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty with his strength. He was indeed an extraordinary person.
In the era of the Great Zhou Dynasty, where family background was paramount, he rose from humble beginnings and spent forty years planning to finally secure the position of prefectural governor. Although this position was merely a tool for the emperor to monitor the King of Xiguan, he didn't care and excelled at it. Seizing opportunities to report secret messages directly to the emperor, he earned a reputation as a shrewd and well-informed informant in Yanjing, cultivating connections within the capital that he had previously lacked.
However, Iberly once knew the former prince of Xiguan Palace as well as he could.
This man never hides his actions. If he has something, he wants to make a fuss about it so that the whole county knows about it.
He is really a big fool with nothing but good looks!
He only needed to truthfully record and report the actions of this young marquis, without having to devote any further attention to him. His attention to this young marquis was not as much as that paid to the officials and stewards of the palace.
After all, worrying about a sow climbing a tree is worse than worrying about the prince of Xiguan having some conspiracy.
Who could have imagined that such a "fool" would suddenly attack one day and leave him powerless to resist.
I was careless...I was really careless!
In ancient times, those who managed to catch their breath by pretending to be crazy or stupid would eventually become the emperor or the most powerful official.
Who says that this Prince of Xiguan, whose reputation as a fool spread throughout the Great Zhou, did not endure humiliation and started to behave like this at such a young age?
He even pretended for many years, deceiving countless people inside and outside the government!
If this young marquis really has such a mind...
Apart from collusion with foreign tribes, what other evidence does this young marquis have in his hands?
Thinking of this, Iberly felt a chill down his spine.
It was late at night and the dew was heavy. Iberly got up, put on a windbreaker to keep warm, and returned to his desk.
He muttered to himself, "If the former Xiguan Prince was always pretending for so many years, then why did he stop pretending today?"
"Is it really as Pan Yi said? Knowing the old prince is dead, without his last shield, and with his life coming to an end, he simply let himself go completely?"
In the dim yellow candlelight, Iberly seemed to recall those eyes that seemed to be smiling, with a handsome look at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, but with a shadow in them that pierced through people's hearts like a knife...
And that whole face that looks exactly like Emperor Kangxi's, making it hard to tell whether he is male or female.
I've seen it so many times before, but none of them were as shocking as today!
“Boom—”
The night sky, which was bright and sparsely populated just a moment ago, suddenly became as dark as ink. The trees in the courtyard swayed and the wind and rain blew violently.
Iberly shook his head.
"That's absolutely not the case."
There must be something extraordinary happening somewhere that he can't see, quietly changing.
Outside the room, a servant from the Governor's Mansion came in and reported, "Sir Governor, the head of the Fu clan, Fu Mingyi, has arrived again and is waiting for you in the Governor's Mansion's guest hall."
Iberly suffered heavy losses today, and his mood was already bad, and he was immersed in deep thoughts.
He immediately said impatiently: "Is this Fu Mingyi going to stop?!"
"He thinks our Governor's Mansion is his backyard, and he can come whenever he wants and see me whenever he wants? But the soldiers and servants of the Governor's Mansion of the Great Zhou Dynasty are all his private servants, and he spends all his time looking for his own son who ran away?"
"I don't have time to see him. You can decide how to tell him!"
The yamen runners had already anticipated this situation, and immediately responded with a series of yeses and retreated.
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On the night of the so-called celebratory banquet at the Governor's Mansion, Liu Ziye asked Governor Yi to open the Governor's Mansion treasury and count the first batch of surpluses from previous years.
Du Hui, the commander-in-chief, led the well-fed and well-drinking people back to the Marquisate with a bang. The dark clouds that had hung over the heads of everyone in the Xiguan Marquisate for months suddenly cleared up.
The old housekeeper, who had no interest in drinking and had returned home early, was so shocked when he saw eight carts full of gold and silver utensils, silk, grain, oil, charcoal, copper and iron that he had to hold on to the wall to barely stand.
While everyone in the Marquis' Mansion was immersed in the joy of inspecting the goods, Liu Ziye asked Ah Huan to serve her a pot of hot tea, and then sat alone in the room to click on her points and the material reward unlocking options that had newly popped up in the system.
She used sixty of the points she earned to redeem life points, plus the initial ten days, minus the one day consumed today.
The current health value can last for fifteen days and one night.
The points account now shows that there are 235 points remaining.
Don't move!
Don't be impulsive!
You can earn more points in the future. Starting from tomorrow, you will definitely earn more points, enough to make you live a hundred years!
Liu Ziye roared in his heart.
It took a huge amount of endurance for her to resist the urge to exchange all 235 points for life points in one go, and turned her fixed gaze to the new interface window that appeared as her points accumulated.
The item reward module, which was originally a gray area, now has an actionable prompt popped up.
Liu Ziye clicked on the interface, and the first thing that happened was a system prompt sound——
"The material reward module of the Emperor Cultivation System, the [Mechanical Civilization System], has been launched. Based on the host's points, the Mechanical Civilization System has unlocked the [Primary Mechanical Universe]. Considering the host's mission execution stage, the options currently available to the host are as follows—"
Liu Ziye chewed on the words "mechanical civilization system" and "primary mechanical universe", and turned his attention to the floating, tangible reward items.
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