Chapter 184 - Chapter 184: Squeeze (1)
Chapter 184: Squeeze (1)
Translator: Daoist6fubtiW
As he spoke, he took out two boxes of spirit stone coins from his storage bag.
Compared to the box that had just been carried into the hall, these two boxes were like the difference between a child and an adult.
He opened the box.
Inside were stacks of neatly stacked currency.
These notes looked like the currency of his previous life, and Chen Daoxuan couldn’t help but feel a sense of familiarity.
This world finally began to change a little with his arrival.
Even though these changes were only limited to the Sea-viewing Immortal City in Guang ‘an Prefecture.
However, he believed that as the power under his command expanded, this change would slowly cover the entire Guang ‘an Prefecture and even the entire Cangzhou.
“I believe some of you have already seen these notes.”
Chen Daoxuan took out nine one-hundred-yuan notes and distributed them to the nine soldiers.
Although Lei Zhen had heard that the Seaview Immortal City was going to use a brand new currency in the future, this was the first time he had seen it in detail.
For a moment.
He couldn’t help but feel curious.
He looked at the note in his hand carefully and realized that the back of the note was a screenshot of the entire Guang ‘an Prefecture. The front of the note was an overall picture of Seaview Immortal City.
It looked majestic and had a visual impact.
In addition, the number 100 was written in the middle of the left side of the note.
Thinking about it, this was the 100-face spirit stone coin that his master had mentioned.
Seeing that everyone was silent.
“My idea is to let the soldiers receive this brand new currency as military pay.”
This time.
Everyone started whispering.
“Commander, will this cause a mutiny among the soldiers?” Zhou Mucheng stood up and frowned.”
Wei Lidao nodded and said,” That’s right, Commander. After all, everyone only cares about spirit stones. A late Qi Refinement soldier gets 500 spirit stones a year, a middle Qi Refinement soldier gets 300 spirit stones, and an early Qi Refinement soldier gets 100 spirit stones.
But now, a late Qi Condensation soldier can only take five notes, and an early
Qi Condensation soldier can only take one. This…”
Wei Lidao was speechless.
A single Qi Condensation soldier might be weak, but the entire western sector had a hundred thousand Qi Condensation soldiers, and a thousand Foundation Establishment officers. Once they started to cause trouble, even if Chen Daoxuan was as powerful as a Zifu Disciple, he might not be able to suppress them.
Chen Daoxuan waved his hand and said,” Tell the soldiers below that there are too many spirit stones and it will be troublesome to distribute them. Everyone can use the notes in their hands to go to the largest Changping Central Bank in the central district of the Sea-viewing Immortal City and exchange the notes for spirit stones.
Of course, if you didn’t want to exchange for it, you could use your spirit stone coins to purchase goods from any shop in Guang ‘an Prefecture.”
“This…”
Everyone looked at each other. Wei Lidao was rather puzzled.” Commander, why do you have to do this?”
“Just tell the soldiers below that.”
Chen Daoxuan waved his hand.
Other than Chen Daoxuan, the commander, there were already seven people in the upper echelons of the Western Defense Region who had been recruited by Chen Daoxuan to become the Chen Clan’s Honored Guests.
Of the remaining three, Xia Hong had been crippled. Although Zhou Mucheng had the position of Military Governor, his relationship with Chen Daoxuan was the most complicated, so it was impossible for him to stand up against him.
As for Wei Lidao, he was trembling when he spoke.
Obviously, he was also afraid of Chen Daoxuan to the bone.
At the beginning.
Everyone still felt that Chen Daoxuan was easy to talk to. They had been together for nearly a year, but they had never seen him act like a new official.
They didn’t expect Chen Daoxuan’s fire to burn so late and so fiercely. In a single exchange, he crippled a commander of the alliance army.
Not to mention that Xia Hong’s corruption was not framed by others.
It was obvious that he had attacked Chen Daoxuan in public.
Just based on this behavior, it was a death sentence no matter what.
This was also the reason why Wei Lidao said he was stupid.
If he didn’t attack Chen Daoxuan in public, there was still a possibility of refuting the matter of embezzling spirit stones. Whether it was the oath of the Great Dao or the Truth Questioning Mirror, they could wash away his injustice.
Even if he couldn’t completely clear his name, he would at most be dismissed from the military, but he definitely didn’t deserve to die.
But he was too anxious, so he attacked Shangguan, and the biggest evidence fell into Chen Daoxuan’s hands.
At this time, no matter who tried to convict him, he would not be able to escape death.
This was also the reason why Wei Li was afraid of Chen Daoxuan. In his eyes, although Chen Daoxuan was young, he was ruthless.
What was even more terrifying was that this person’s strength was tyrannical.
Whether it was methods or strength, Chen Daoxuan did not lack them. How could he dare to go against Chen Daoxuan again?
He had raised his doubts just now because he was worried that Chen Daoxuan might cause more trouble if he forcefully pushed the spirit stone coins in the army. At that time, Chen Daoxuan might not be in trouble as a commander.
However, they were the captains who issued specific orders. They might have to throw one or two out to stabilize the morale of the army.
And he, Wei Lidao, was the one most likely to be thrown out to appease the anger of the soldiers.
Because of his personal relationship with Chen Daoxuan, he was inferior to Zhou Mucheng.
In terms of speed, he wasn’t as fast as Lei Zhen and the other rogue cultivators.
He could only be the scapegoat.
But now, Chen Daoxuan had explained that he could take the spirit stone coins to the Central Bank of Changping to exchange for spirit stones.
Wei Lidao’s anxious heart finally relaxed.
This move was nothing more than changing the distribution location of the West Defense Region Alliance Army to the Sea Viewing Immortal City’s Changping Central Bank.
It was just a little troublesome for the soldiers.
However, for such a small matter, how could the Qi Condensation soldiers dare to bare their teeth at the Foundation Establishment level?
The next day.
In the allied army camp in the western defense zone.
Batches of soldiers lined up in front of the pay distribution area.
Looking down from the sky.
In front of the six military pay distribution points, there were six long lines.
“What the hell? Aren’t they giving out spirit stones? Why did you send me a piece of paper?”
A hot-tempered soldier took five hundred spirit stone coins in his hand and immediately exploded.
“What are you shouting about? Did you have an idea?
The person in front of him who was responsible for distributing military pay was an early Foundation Establishment cultivator. At this moment, the aura of a Foundation Establishment cultivator was pressing down on the body of this late Qi Refinement soldier, almost pressing him down.
The troublemaker immediately calmed down.
He cupped his hands at the officer who distributed the military pay and said,”Sir, please forgive me. This subordinate did not mean to do so.”
Seeing that the soldier’s emotions had stabilized, the Foundation Building cultivator who was distributing the military pay nodded slightly and pointed at the notice not far away.”You can read. Go and see for yourself.”
After saying that.
He no longer paid any attention to this late-stage Aura Refining soldier and began to pay the soldiers behind him.
Nie Zhong was a loose cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refinement in Guang ‘an Prefecture.
At the start, he was a ling plant farmer on many ling veins of the Zhou family.
In other words.
He was also a tenant of the Zhou family, but he was a tenant who planted ling fields for the Zhou family.
Speaking of which, the amount of Spiritual Stones that Nie Zhong earned in a year might not even be as much as those itinerant cultivators who drove mortals to farm.
Later on.
The Yang family took the lead to establish Guang ‘an Immortal Alliance and built a large number of spirit veins on the islands within a radius of ten thousand miles around Golden Crow Island.
He also invited many cultivators from the outside world to open up ling fields on these islands and plant spirit herbs.
This made Nie Zhong, who had long been unable to withstand the Zhou family’s oppression, extremely excited.
He quickly packed his things and ran to the Guang ‘an Immortal Alliance’s territory.
It was a pity.
A year or two later, a zombie tide broke out on Lotus Island.
The destruction of the Zhao Clan in Guang ‘an Prefecture had caused all the itinerant cultivators in Guang’ an Prefecture to feel deeply concerned. Nie Zhong, a mere cultivator in the Advanced Stage of the Aura Refining Stage, was naturally extremely afraid.
During that period of time, he would even cultivate at night and would be suspicious. He was afraid that the island he was on would be like the Zhao family and be invaded by evil things.
Fortunately, the Zhou family took the lead to form the Guang ‘an Prefecture Coalition Army and designated five major defense zones to protect the stability of the entire Guang’ an Prefecture.
At this moment, those panic-stricken itinerant cultivators finally had a backbone.
Nie Zhong was one of them.
Nie Zhong had immediately joined the Guang ‘an Prefecture’s alliance army. In his opinion, the Guang’ an Prefecture’s alliance army was undoubtedly the safest, because there were Zifu Disciples in the alliance army.
They were small fry in the Refinement Stage, so they naturally felt very safe.
The only pity was that he was not assigned to the middle defense area.
This was because the central defense zone was where the Zhou family was located. With the Zhou family’s strength, it was undoubtedly the safest place in the entire Guang ‘an Prefecture.
However, it was good to be assigned to the western defense zone. Although the western defense zone was weak, it was not without advantages.
The western defense zone was the furthest from the eastern defense zone, so the possibility of being attacked by the zombie tide on Lotus Island was the lowest.
In addition, the Chen family in the western defense zone was also cultivating spirit veins on the islands near Redwood Island for itinerant cultivators to open up spirit fields and grow spirit herbs.
This time.
Nie Zhong’s mind was completely settled.
He had already made good plans for the future. He would first serve in the Western Defense Region Alliance Army. When his service was over, he should have accumulated a considerable amount of spirit stones.
At that time.
He went to the ling veins around Redwood Island to rent land to cultivate ling fields. With his skills as a ling plant farmer, opening up ling fields was a piece of cake for him.
As far as he knew, the spiritual veins cultivated by the Chen family around Hongshan Island were not only of the second grade.
Moreover, the rental fee was much lower than that of the Guang ‘an Immortal Alliance and the Zhou Clan.
In this way, he could calculate.
In the future, not only would he be able to open up ling fields, but he would also have enough spirit stones to grow more valuable spirit herbs.
Just as he was full of hope for the outside world and was about to receive his first military pay in his life, he realized that he had only received five notes!
What paper money?
These were five pieces of talisman paper!
Although he didn’t know what materials these five pieces of talisman paper were made of, Nie Zhong, who used to deal with ling plants all day long, was still sensitive enough to smell the scent of ling plants on these talisman papers.
He used five talismans to try to take a year’s worth of his hard work.
At this moment.
Nie Zhong’s anger and humiliation from being oppressed by a big family all these years exploded.
However, before he could be firm for a few seconds, under the pressure of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he instantly cowered.
Embarrassed, Nie Zhong followed the instructions of the Foundation Building official and looked at the explanation on the notice. He understood what the use of the notes in his hand was.
“To be able to exchange spirit stones at the Changping Central Bank of Seaview Immortal City? He could even directly spend in the shops of the Seaview Immortal City? Really?”
Nie Zhong muttered.
“Hurry up, all hurry up, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late, all late.”
“Yes, these big shots must have come up with this kind of paper money because they don’t have enough spirit stones to pay the army.”
“Hurry up! Let’s hurry over!”