In the White Tiger Complex, Youzhou City, Youzhou Province...
With a golden invitation card in hand, Dianke hurriedly passed through the winding corridors and parlor in the provincial governor's mansion and finally came to the Crape Myrtle Palace where the provincial governor received guests.
"Is the provincial governor receiving guests?" Dianke asked the guard outside the Crape Myrtle Palace in a low voice.
The guard whispered something in Dianke's ear. Dianke took a deep breath and quietly waited outside the Crape Myrtle Hall, quietly waiting to be summoned …
All the people whom the provincial governor met at this moment were important enough for him to wait here, whether in Huaiyuan Palace or in Youzhou Province.
In August, crape myrtle was in full bloom in the parlor outside the Crape Myrtle Palace. Bees and butterflies were circling around it, making it colorful and fragrant. As the provincial governor liked crape myrtle and felt that crape myrtle was rich but not charming, he planted a lot of crape myrtle in this parlor of the White Tiger Complex 3 years ago. As a result, this parlor was renamed as Crape Myrtle Palace and became the place where the provincial governor received his trusted subordinates.
In the provincial governor's mansion of Youzhou Province, the significance of being received by the provincial governor in Bright Palace or Crape Myrtle Palace was utterly different.
After governing Youzhou Province for 4 years, Zhang Taixuan had already established his authority as the provincial governor across Youzhou Province by means of kindness and coercion. Huaiyuan Palace had also solidified its position as the No. 1 clan in Youzhou Province. Some rules in the provincial governor's mansion had been spread over Youzhou City unconsciously and were talked about by people.
Since Zhang Tie wrote the "Epitaph of a Despicable One", Huaiyuan Palace and Zhang Clan had been living a smooth life. Even some people who didn't want to see Huaiyuan Palace living a smooth life became much more docile these years. They didn't find any trouble for Huaiyuan Palace anymore in case of being the target of the public.
At least in Youzhou Province and Northeast Military Region, almost everybody thought that Zhang Tie was framed, not to mention other places.
On the one hand, Huaiyuan Palace held the power in Youzhou Province; on the other hand, the head of Huaiyuan Palace had to flee for his life despite being wronged. Therefore, Huaiyuan Palace really rooted in Taixia Country and Youzhou Province and opened up its living space.
Inside the Crape Myrtle Hall, the windows were bright and clean. Outside the estranged pear lattice window, a gentle breeze blew and a faint fragrance floated. A beautiful Crape Myrtle stretched out its branches outside the window, as if it wanted to stretch out from the lattice window, adding a touch of light to the room …
It was scorching hot outside the house, but it was cool and refreshing inside the house. There were four tin-copper toads with ice cubes in their stomachs in the four corners of the house. They opened their mouths and breathed in the cool air, cooling off the heat inside the house …
Zhang Taixuan was sitting behind a long table, sipping tea with someone.
The person sitting opposite to Zhang Taixuan was Zhang Yang, Zhang Tie's elder brother. Over the past 4 years, Zhang Yang looked steadier as he had entered the golden development period of a man. He had reached a new peak in physical strength, spiritual energy and ability.
Zhang Yan was wearing a black robe embroidered with golden pythons. The beard at the side of his lips was even darker and denser. His eyes flickered with brilliance, exuding a heroic spirit. Even though he was sitting opposite to the provincial governor and the clan head, he was neither servile nor overbearing and had his own style of bearing.
Now, even across the Northeast Military Region of Taixia Country, everyone knew that Zhang Yang, the owner of Jinwu Business Group, was the richest family in Youzhou Province or Northeast Military Region, not to mention in Youzhou Province. The all-purpose medicament produced by Zhang Clan was more like gold bars than medicament. Additionally, they could produce gold bars constantly like running water. Of course, such a clan was rich.
In Taixia Country, there was a term that described rich people — — making tons of gold every day. However, this term was inferior to that of Zhang Clan's Jinwu Business Group. As for Jinwu Business Group, it was absolutely making tons of gold every day.
Now, the number of all-purpose medicament carried away by the airships queuing up in Jinwu City was equal to two times the weight of gold. Therefore, it was not exaggerated at all that Jinwu Business Group could make tons of gold every day.
Two years ago, Jinwu Business Group, which promoted to the most senior client of Golden Roc Bank, had already enjoyed the service of two knight bodyguards for free. Due to the special relationship between Jinwu Business Group and Heavens Fortune Sect, Heavens Fortune Sect also assigned a knight powerhouse to reside in Zhang Clan as the guard commander of Zhang Clan. Last year, Jinwu Business Group purchased an airboat from Heavens Fortune Sect at a great cost. Zhang Yang became the second person who owned an airboat in Youzhou Province after Zhang Taixuan.
This year, according to Zhang Taixuan's knowledge, Zhang Yang had made a trip to Chaosang Subcontinent by airboat one month ago and recruited two more knights from Chaosang Subcontinent and many powerhouses below knight level.
Now, Zhang Yang had 5 knight powerhouses working for him, which was almost equal to the number of elders of Huaiyuan Palace.
At this moment, Zhang Yang had just returned from Chaosang Subcontinent. During the period when Zhang Yang was in Chaosang Subcontinent, of course, Zhang Taixuan knew what happened in Chaosang Subcontinent as the provincial governor of Youzhou Province which was close to Chaosang Subcontinent.
"Did you do that in Immortal Wind Country?" Zhang Taixuan asked calmly as he slightly blew the teacup in his mouth.
"The emperor of Immortal Wind Country is old and muddle-headed; the crown prince is tyrannical and immoral. I helped them change a prince to the throne …" Zhang Yang said calmly as he slightly blew the teacup in his hand and had a sip.
Previously, Zhang Taixuan knew that Jinwu Business Group had been operating in Chaosang Subcontinent for a long time; however, he had not imagined that it could reach such a critical situation. Zhang Taixuan then raised his eyes and threw a serious glance at Zhang Yang. After Zhang Tie's accident, this young man in front of him had become more patient, persistent and vicious.
Due to the turmoil in Immortal Wind Country, Wind Capital, the capital of Immortal Wind Country almost became ruins. Over 300,000 soldiers and civilians were killed or injured. All the forces and troops on the side of the crown prince were uprooted. However, Zhang Yang just played it down.
"Chaosang Subcontinent is right at the gate of Taixia Country. The countries on the subcontinent have connections with major clans in Taixia Country. To put it bluntly, most of the royal households and dignitaries in Chaosang Subcontinent are just watchdogs and interest agents of major clans in Taixia Country. Immortal Wind Country is on the back of Tang Clan in Yanzhou Province …" Zhang Taixuan reminded Zhang Taixuan.
"As long as there's interest, nothing can't be exchanged!" Zhang Yang replied with a smile as he put down his teacup, "An elder of Tang Clan went to Immortal Wind Country with me. The No. 1 knight on the side of the crown prince of Immortal Wind Country was killed by the elder of Tang Clan …"
'Even an elder of Tang Clan went there?' Zhang Taixuan let out a sigh, "Is it worth it?"
"Immortal Wind Country is just a small country. It's not worth mentioning. Additionally, it doesn't have any powerhouses and precious resources in the country. However, I'm interested in its ability to train blood-dare-to-die fighters. They might be useful in the future. As long as they're not afraid of death and could advance one after another, they could do something. Just take it as a business. It's normal for them to make a profit or lose a loss … "
"Hidden forces are surging across Taixia Country. We have to be careful!" Zhang Taixuan said calmly.
"The news that Emperor Xuanyuan is missing has spread across Taixia Country from the Earth-elements Realm. Even the kids on the street have known about it. Huaiyuan Palace needs to make a plan as soon as possible!" Zhang Yang said as a shrewd light flashed across his eyes.
After throwing a glance at Zhang Yang, Zhang Taixuan nodded. After being silent for a few seconds, he said, "It seems that we need to build a high-level Class A city in Yanghe Prefecture. With a Class A city, people would be reassured!"
"If Huaiyuan Palace wants to build a Class A city, Jinwu Business Group will bear half of the cost!" Zhang Yang put it straightforwardly, which meant hundreds of millions of gold coins.
"What does Jinwu Business Group need?"
"Should we clear the alchemist's bombs that our clan stored before …"
Zhang Taixuan nodded, "The marriage of Zhu Clan in Yanzhou Province …"
"Let them send the woman here!" Zhang Yang didn't even ask who was the woman; because it didn't matter at all. Zhu Clan was a major clan in Yanzhou Province. As long as the woman sent to Huaiyuan Palace was not ugly, it didn't matter.
After saying that, the two people exchanged a glance with each other and nodded at the same time. After that, they became silent …
After drinking a cup of tea, Zhang Yang stood up and bade farewell to Zhang Taixuan. Zhang Taixuan then saw him off at the gate of Crape Myrtle Palace …
Watching Zhang Yang walking out in a dignified manner, all the guards outside Crape Myrtle Palace and the guest in the provincial governor's mansion bowed towards Zhang Yang respectfully.
The current Jinwu Business Group was much more powerful than yesterday's. Over these years, with the establishment of Jinwu City and the expansion of Jinwu Business Group, Zhang Yang's status and position in Zhang Clan of Huaiyuan Palace could even match that of the clan elders.
Touching his finger ring, Zhang Taixuan watched Zhang Yang's back disappearing in the brilliant crape myrtle flowers before moving his eyes onto the guest in the provincial governor's mansion, "What's the matter?"
As an earth knight, he had already heard the conversation between the guest and the guard. Therefore, he knew that the guest had something to report to Zhang Taixuan.
The guest strode forward as he bent over and presented the golden invitation card to Zhang Taixuan by two hands. After throwing a glance at the eye-catching golden invitation card, Zhang Taixuan had squinted his eyes …
Because there was the qi and image of the virtual image of the earth knight on the golden leaf, which was a ferocious and grim fiery dragon with two wings.
In the knight's world, it meant that the one who sent this golden invitation card was a noble earth knight.
After opening the golden invitation card, Zhang Taixuan found only one sentence:
— — August 18th, Xuantian City at the foot of Yangui Mountain in Fire Dragon Bounty Territory, the opening ceremony of Iron-Dragon Sect. I sincerely invite all the distinguished figures of Huaiyuan Palace to witness it.
The signature was: Fire Dragon Hermit, the owner of Fire Dragon Bounty Territory.
"What a fierce dragon crossing the river …" After reading the golden invitation card for two times, Zhang Taixuan felt the weight of the golden invitation card. After being silent for a short while, he turned around and told the guest, "Invite the elders of Huaiyuan Palace to White Tiger Complex for a discussion …"
…
On the same day, many major clans in Youzhou Province, Tongzhou Province and Yanzhou Province which were adjacent to Fire Dragon Bounty Territory in Northeast Military Region of Taixia Country received such a golden invitation card.
When Zhang Yan returned home, he also received a … (To be continued.)
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