By the time Ouyang Shuo returned to the Main Plane, it was already the afternoon of the 19th. The moment he walked out of the Teleportation Channel, he heard a system announcement.
"System Announcement: The Battle of Changping has officially ended. Key historical figures from the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period have been added to the game. Please explore on your own."
The Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period had countless famous generals and generals, and a great show was about to begin.
"System Announcement: Hundred Schools of Thought Jiang Shang has secluded himself in Shanhai County, officially triggering the storyline quest [Hundred Schools of Thought Contend]. The Hundred Schools of Thought have been added to the game. Please log on to the official website for more details."
The announcement caused an uproar among the players.
The Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period was about to begin. How could the players not be excited? The attention it attracted instantly diluted the competition between the Yan Huang Alliance and Shanhai Alliance.
Fortunately, the Yan Huang Alliance had escaped this calamity, and were not condemned by the players.
The players logged on to the official website to check the specific quest requirements.
Storyline missions, another major mission system apart from military missions, had finally unveiled its mysterious veil.
Just like battle quests, storyline quests were also triggered quests. When a certain dynasty was added to the game, historical figures that players had previously subdued could trigger storyline quests.
To trigger storyline quests, three conditions had to be met.
First, historical figures had to be subdued by Lord players. For example, after the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period were added to the game, players who subdued historical figures of that period would not trigger storyline quests.
Second, the dynasty in which the historical quest took place had to be added to the game. For example, Jiang Shang had secluded himself in Shanhai County after the Battle of Muye. It was not until the end of the Battle of Changping that the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period were added to the game that the storyline [Hundred Schools of Thought Contend] was triggered.
Third, historical figures had to have the ability to trigger storyline quests. This meant that only those historical figures who played a central role in key historical events could trigger storyline quests.
Therefore, the triggering of storyline quests was extremely rare and fortuitous. Correspondingly, once the quest was triggered, the rewards for completing the quest would be extremely generous.
Storyline quests were split into single player quests, faction quests, and map quests. Single player quests could only be completed by the territory that triggered the quest; faction quests could be completed by the alliance where the territory was triggered; and map quests, as the name suggested, were open to all players.
The types of quests were defined by the historical figures and the influence of the storyline. The Hundred Schools Contend quest triggered by Jiang Shang was a storyline quest with the largest scope.
In his past life, Jiang Shang had not been subdued by any player. Thus, the [Hundred Schools Contend] triggered by the other Lords in his past life was only a faction storyline. It did not extend to the entire map.
The sound of the system notification once again sounded out in Ouyang Shuo's ears.
"System Notification: Congratulations player Don't Say You Don't Have Clothes, your territory's resident Jiang Shang has triggered the quest [Hundred Schools of Thought Contend]. Do you wish to accept the A-rank quest [Hundred Schools of Thought Contend]?"
[Mission Name]: Reproduce the Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (Level A)
[Mission Background]: The Warring States Period was a great spectacle in the history of Chinese civilization. It was also a way of survival competition in that great era. It cultivated the most robust foundation of Chinese civilization and made that era the immortal peak in the history of human civilization.
[Mission Requirements]: Recreate the grand occasion of Jixia Academy's gathering of sects in the past. Hold at least one Great Contention Debate with far-reaching influence. At least three out of the Nine Paths and Ten Schools must be stationed in the territory.
[Completion Time]: Within a year
[Mission Reward]: The territory will receive the title of "Cultural Holy Land"
The branch mission that Ouyang Shuo received belonged to the person who triggered it. Although the mission seemed to not be simple and its requirements were extremely harsh, Ouyang Shuo still chose to accept it without the slightest hesitation.
"System Announcement: Player Don't Say You Have No Clothes has accepted the A-rank side quest [Reappearance of the Hundred Schools Contend]. Shanhai County has automatically become the home of the Hundred Schools Contend. Its fame will spread far and wide, and its attractiveness to various sects will increase by 50%."
As soon as the announcement was made, countless Lord class players would die of envy.
Only now did the players realize that while they were paying attention to [Hundred Schools of Thought Contend], they had neglected a detail, and that was Jiang Shang's seclusion in Shanhai County.
Thinking of this, there was another uproar on the national channel. The lords who had participated in the Battle of Muye were even more dumbfounded. They clearly remembered that Say Wuyi had chosen to side with the Shang Dynasty. How come Jiang Shang, who was on the side of the Zhou Dynasty, had gone to Shanhai County to live in seclusion?!
Gossip, shocking gossip!
The fire of gossip among the players was burning. Some of the more impatient players even left messages on the national channel, saying that they were ready to go to Shanhai County and pay their respects to the Grandmasters of the Hundred Families.
Ouyang Shuo didn't have time to pay attention to the gossip of the players. He arranged for each division to return to their respective encampments. As for the replenishment of soldiers and compensation for the deceased soldiers, he left it to the Military Administration to handle.
Previously, the Eastern Barracks and Western Barracks had been suppressing bandits and clearing obstacles for the construction of the official road. Every time they captured a group of roving bandits, the Military Administration would select elites from among them and add them to the reserves. As for the funds that the two barracks had turned in to suppress the bandits, after paying for the teleportation fees for the Battle of Changping, there wasn't much left.
The elite roving bandits were usually cavalrymen, so they had plenty of soldiers. The Independent Brigade also took this opportunity to return from its original 3,000 soldiers to the standard 2,500 soldiers.
The remaining captives selected by the Military Administration were settled in the nearby Evernight Town, Guangshui Town, and Yishui County. Due to the large number of captives, Evernight Town and Guangshui Town had been successfully promoted to county level.
After dealing with the military affairs, Ouyang Shuo personally brought Bai Qi back to the Marquis Mansion of Lianzhou.
After returning to the Main Plane, Bai Qi suddenly became much younger. From an old general, he had become a middle-aged general in his thirties, returning to his peak state.
Ouyang Shuo's arrival alarmed the various division chiefs in the Marquis Mansion. Ouyang Shuo took the opportunity to introduce Bai Qi to everyone, officially integrating him into the Shanhai County system.
Later, Ouyang Shuo brought Bai Qi to the study, and the two of them had a real chance to talk.
Not to mention anything else, the two of them had already swapped roles before and after the Battle of Changping, and they still needed to adapt and adjust. Fortunately, Ouyang Shuo wasn't an arrogant person, and he respected Bai Qi very much.
Ouyang Shuo gave a detailed introduction of the situation in Shanhai County, including the situation around the territory and the construction of the army, so that Bai Qi could smoothly adapt to his role.
After hearing about the recruit camp in the western suburbs, Bai Qi's interest was greatly aroused, and he expressed his desire to go and take a look.
Ouyang Shuo nodded. The Battle of Changping had ended, and the instructors would return to Shanhai County from Jianye the next day to continue the recruit training that had been delayed due to the war in the grassland.
Ouyang Shuo had reason to believe that with Bai Qi's help, the selection of the special forces would be more in line with the characteristics of ancient cold weapons, and they would be able to better combine the two.
Bai Qi's willingness to live in the recruit camp solved one of Ouyang Shuo's problems, and that was the arrangement of Bai Qi's position. There were no vacancies in the active military departments of Shanhai County. According to his plan, he would only make arrangements after the territory was promoted to a first-class county city, and it just so happened that he needed a period of time.
After the discussion, Ouyang Shuo called Zi Su over, and asked her to bring Bai Qi to the official district to choose a house. At the same time, he arranged for two maids to take care of Bai Qi's daily life.
After the establishment of the Internal Affairs Department, under Ouyang Shuo's instructions, the head of the Internal Affairs Department, Zi Su, specially recruited and trained a group of maids, and the Marquis's Mansion assigned them to the officials of the division chief rank and above. According to the standards set by the Internal Affairs Department, the division chief would be assigned one maid, and the division chief would be assigned two. Shi Wansui and the other generals would be assigned according to the standard of division chief.
In addition to taking care of the daily life of the civil and military officials, the maids also had the responsibility of monitoring them.
Shanhai County had yet to establish a security department like the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and Ouyang Shuo did this as a precaution. Of course, the people he was guarding against were mainly the native officials.
As for historical figures like Fan Zhongyan and Shi Wansui, they were really responsible for taking care of the daily life.
After everything was settled, Ouyang Shuo had the time to log into the official website to check the details of the [Hundred Schools of Thought] mission.
According to Gaia's introduction, after the storyline mission was activated, the representatives of the Hundred Schools of Thought and their disciples would appear in the wilderness. In a way that the feudal lord could not understand, they would freely roam the various players' territories, either openly or secretly. According to their own standards, they would choose a suitable territory to settle in and establish their sect headquarters.
Regardless of the standards, to settle in a territory, a sect had to satisfy three basic conditions:
[1] At least one representative of the sect must choose to settle in the territory (they can choose not to become an official).
[2] Have a public dojo of the sect as the sect headquarters.
[3] The sect must recruit at least ten disciples in the territory to prove their influence in the territory.
One could imagine how difficult the A-rank side mission that Ouyang Shuo had received was. Thankfully, there was still time, so he could take it slow. Furthermore, Shanhai County had the home advantage, so it was more attractive than other territories.
This was because some sects had more than one representative, and the system's criteria was first come, first served. At the same time, it also meant that a sect could only choose one territory to settle in.
Of course, if a sect had different branches, it was possible to establish multiple sect headquarters at the same time. For example, in history, the school of Legalism was divided into three factions: "Force", "Technique", and "Governance".
It was different from the Hundred Schools of Thought contending in history. Gaia had arranged for the representatives of the various schools of thought to appear together. This way, the representative of the Mohist school, Mozi, could cross time and space to debate with the representative of the Confucian school, Confucius. People of the same sect from different eras could also communicate across space. For example, Mencius finally had the chance to ask Confucius about the true meaning of Confucianism. Wasn't it interesting?
This was the charm of the game.
Not only that, as the various dynasties and generations joined the game, the representatives of the various sects and sects, as well as their hidden legacies, would appear on the stage of history.
The glorious moment of the Chinese civilization would appear in the game! (To be continued.)
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