Chapter 65: Governor of Nansha
first, could they still guarantee their loyalty to Zhuang GuoWhile beast attacks are common occurrences, the secrets behind them run deep. Jiang Wang has yet to unravel the truth, and even asking Cho...Zhang Cuihua is inherently very strong-willed and would certainly not be willing to just rest.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
After discussion and taking full consideration of Zhang Cuijia's personal opinion, Jiang Wang arranged her to work at Desheng Trading Company, starting as an ordinary clerk to gain experience.
Let me know if you'd like me to translate anything else!
He originally intended to let Zhang Cuihua gain experience and grow in Desheng Merchant Firm, then have her return to the Hou Mansion as the second housekeeper.
From then on, Xie Ping was in charge of welcoming and seeing off guests, as well as handling external affairs for the Hou residence.
Zhang Cuìhuá is in charge of the inner affairs of the Hou Mansion.
Let me know if you have other text you'd like me to translate!
Generally, big families have several stewards.
>
The Wuanhou Mansion is now one of the most prominent households in Linzi City. If not for Jiang Wang's few social connections, Xie Ping would have been worn out long ago.
Of course, if Zhang Cuihua is happy working at the trading company, it doesn't matter if she continues to develop her career there. She can follow her own heart.
As for the newly-recruited apprentice Chu Yao, Jiang Wang had also given it serious consideration.
Since he had brought Zhang Cuihua and Chu Yao to Linzi, he truly intended to treat them sincerely, rather than just for his own psychological comfort.
Given his current status and power, he could spend a fortune, give away mansions, and with a single command, have the Lord of Tiannan City elevate Chu Yao to the status of a celestial being, taking care of her and her son for life.
All of these are easy, and no one can say anything about it.
But he chose the most elaborate way.
Chu Mi wished until his death that the person he met back then was a fearless young master who could casually reveal his trump card, summon two or three masters to wreak havoc, and escape with him. Unfortunately, the person he met was just like him, a young man who could only gamble his life.
But Chu Yao might be able to realize his wish.
The extraordinary journey cannot be achieved overnight.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
Even with the use of the Kai Mai Dan, success in opening the meridians is not guaranteed.
It takes both innate talent and diligent training to cultivate one's physique. For instance, Zhang Cuifang had once ingested a Meridian-Opening Pill but failed to achieve transcendence.
Chu Yao is nine years old this year. It's not too late for her to start practicing.
Jiang An'an opened her meridians early and was sent to Lingxiao Pavilion very early, receiving the most professional training under the personal supervision of the contemporary true person, Ye Lingxiao. And now she hasn't even established a small Zhou Tian yet.
All of the wishful realms and mental images do not arise out of thin air; they require a certain level of understanding.
So Jiang Anan's main task now is still studying and practicing calligraphy, accumulating knowledge.
Of course, Chu Yao also needs to read books first, and practice martial arts to hone her body.
Reading is a good solution.
All academies in Linzi besides the Jixia Academy are open to your selection.
But before that, Jiang Wang decided to take Chu Yao on a trip first, so he could broaden his horizons. Then he'd let the child decide for himself what he liked and what he wanted to learn.
Of course, the goal is to reach Summerland.
The swallow and the lonely little one, one arrived in Linzi at noon, and the other in the afternoon.
...While it was still early morning, Chong Xuan Zun gracefully went to the house and took away Chong Xuan Sheng.
Later, Jiang Wang told Fourteen that he wasn't awake and hadn't intentionally refused to help A Pang.
Then he casually took a bullock cart and left Linzi with the people.
The ox was a divine ox given to Helan Yunyun by someone, and the carriage was a specially made favorite car of Chong Xuan Sheng. It is spacious enough to accommodate ten or so people without any problems.
Setting off for Chi Tan, only three companions will accompany me: Lian Que, Du Gu Xiao, and Chu Yao.
A war between Qi and Xia utterly destroyed the Xia dynasty. The thousand-mile route from Qi to Xia was completely opened up. Although neighboring countries did not conquer each other's territories, they all sent envoys to submit and pay homage. After that, all rulers were referred to as "lords," and no one dared to call themselves "emperor" except for the ruler of Qi.
Of course, they still retain their ancestral temples and... beast lairs.
>
The State of Qi didn't actually demand that other states submit to it. Apart from the state of Zhao, which was determined to be subservient, states like Chang, Yi, Xu, and Rong were highly autonomous. Furthermore, the state of Shen, supported by the Eastern King Valley, could even be said to exist independently outside the hegemonic system in the eastern regions. During Qi's wars, it wasn't obligated to contribute troops.
It's only that Xia Guo, with such a small area, to secure its rule after conquering it, keeping the roads open is crucial. The King of Qi accepted the submissions from all the nations along the way, but he didn't interfere much in those small countries.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like translated!
This way is actually the most cost-effective way to maintain hegemonic influence. All you need to do is ensure the existing network of Dan bodies is secure.
During the Warring States period, the "campaign trail" has been expanded. This road that runs from Qi to Xia and is lined with banners along the way is also known as the "Qi-Zha Dao".
>
Legally speaking, no matter which country it passes through or which power it traverses, this road inherently belongs to the State of Qi and can be called Qi soil.
Along the way, all the countries publicly acknowledged this in their letters of tribute.
Therefore, the current Qi State's complete territory is actually connected by a straight road that runs through the land of Qi and the land of Xia. It is like a yoke, diagonally spanning the two southeastern regions.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
This oxcart had no driver. Jiang Wang told it to follow the straight road beneath its feet, and it understood. It pulled the cart along steadily.
In the spacious carriage, Ouyang Xia was diligently practicing her cultivation with her eyes closed.
Let me know if you have other text you'd like translated!
After achieving the divine ascension, the divine seal bestowed upon Jiang Wangcheng provided her with a powerful feedback, causing her cultivation speed to skyrocket. Although she was still far from comparing to true geniuses, she had surpassed her previous struggles considerably.
She knew better than anyone the effort Jiang Wang put in. She was also very demanding of herself, never willing to relax. Even when there was almost no progress visible in the past, she persevered tirelessly. Let alone now that her progress is rapid, both her major cycles and divine seals are continuously supporting her.
She cherished the feeling of controlling her own destiny and found joy in her practice.
But to be able to practice alongside Jiang Wang, sitting so close to him, was simply like being in paradise.
Then, Lian Que took out a pile of bottles and jars from his treasure trove of belongings. He carefully retrieved various medicinal herbs and began washing and tending to his sword with them.
The level of a weaponsmith's cultivation is greatly influenced by the weapons they forge. The more renowned the weapon, the greater the benefit it provides to the weaponsmith's practice. This bears a resemblance to the path of officialdom in many ways.
The official road incorporates a hundred schools of thought, perhaps it also referred to the casting of weapons.
Amongst the weaponry forged by Lian Que, the most renowned was undoubtedly the Sword of Longing. His care and affection for this blade rivaled that for Jiang Wang's sword. While the Killing Nail was also his creation, it lacked fame, with only Bu Zhou Feng known to the world, while the Killing Nail remained in obscurity.
When will the longing replace the ranking of "Fu Jun Sha Jiang" on Qi's famed weapons list He, with his frugal and large army-building, at least deserves a day of meteoric rise.
In short, everyone is busy doing their own thing.
Besides running back and forth in the train car dozens of times, there was also Chu Yao.
This is a simple example of how to use HTML tags within text.
The
tag creates a paragraph. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
Perhaps running around is his way of "focusing".
This is an example of how to translate text within HTML tags. Please note that I will only translate the text content and leave the HTML tags as they are.Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
He's only this big, and when he was very young, his father carried him out of the village.
But he was too young at the time, and he no longer remembered what it was like. He also didn't remember what his father looked like.
His naive and limited memories were confined to the town of Wa-Yao.
A gloomy sky, bricks and tiles piled into small mountains, kids running around bare-bottomed, and their loving mothers.
This time, it's not just leaving the county, but also going abroad, even leaving the East Region and heading to the South Region!
He was watching everything outside the window, feeling incredibly novel. Sometimes he would talk to the cows, sometimes he would talk to the sky, and every now and then he would run back to ask Jiang Wang some strange questions.
Jiang Wang practiced while responding to others sporadically.
After just one day, the lanky and thin Chu Yao was already completely at ease, showing a bit of his father's cunning. Of course, with a belly full of questions, he only dared to ask Jiang Wang.
That older sister named "Xiao Xiao" although she seemed very friendly, he subconsciously didn't dare to get close. As for Uncle Lian...he looked really scary, just like someone who would eat children.
If he didn't have his master by his side, he would have run far away a long time ago.
"Master, Master, this white ox is so well-behaved! Have you given it a name" Chu Yao's slender eyes held a hint of excitement.
I guess he's a real name genius too.
It's a pity he came late.
Jiang Wang raised his eyelids without moving them: “I’m awake.”
"What's your name" Chu Yao asked curiously.
"It's called 'White Ox'."
Here's the translation, keeping the HTML tags:
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like translated!
...
Cao Jie led the attack against Xia Guo. The other generals who accompanied him were Li Zhengyan, Chongxuan Chuliang, Chen Fu, and Xie Huai'an.
Here's the translation, keeping HTML tags intact:
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like translated!
But after the war, everyone rested.
Those who relocated to the summer lands were the Winter Silence Army, who had withdrawn from the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons to rest.
>
Of course, the one who commanded the army of Xia was Shi Mingcheng, the generalissimo of the Nine Divisions.
Unable to seize the opportunity to fight Xi Xia, Xiu Yuan, who had been kept on the cold bench for nearly two years by the emperor, was finally sent to the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons with his Prisoner's Army.
>
Although Shi Mingcheng was in Xia land, he wasn't actually in charge. The position of "Grand General of the Southern Summer of the Great Qi Empire" allowed him to carry out the will of the emperor of Great Qi and nominally oversee all affairs in Xia land, but true authority rested elsewhere.
Instead, it was Chao Yidu Su Guan Ying.
Su Guan Ying was the only woman in the Zheng**ang, and in Qidi she had long been known to be on par with Qi Xiaoxiao.
In terms of martial arts, there is Qi Xiao; in terms of literature, there is Su Guanying.
A master with words, a master with the blade.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
Neither Shi Mingcheng nor Su Guanying was very familiar to Jiang Wang.
In the past, Shi Mingcheng had, under imperial decree, journeyed with Wen Yan Yu to search for him in the Wuyan mountain range. This difficult and arduous quest could be considered a testament to some shared kinship.
As for Su Guan Ying, there was no previous interaction.
Before Jiang Wang was granted the title of Marquis, the two parties were not on the same level. Even when they were both in Linzi, they saw different worlds.
His interactions with other officials and commanders of the nine divisions were mostly coincidental, and they usually began through introductions by younger generations.
When the Qi Xia War ended, he became a marquis after a single battle and was able to attend meetings of the Political Affairs Hall. He was often called upon by the emperor to stand as punishment, giving him the opportunity to discuss matters with high-ranking officials of the empire, but Su Guan Ying had already been stationed in Xia for a long time.
Now the entire Xia land garrison was made up of 100,000 soldiers of the Winter Silence Army as the main force, supplemented by 200,000 county troops transferred from Qi land, and another 500,000 newly recruited Xia people.
Each prefecture would only retain its local garrison for maintaining order, and all other Xia troops would be disbanded and demobilized.
The massive military expenditure cuts will be entirely redirected towards construction.
The entire summer land has officially entered a period of rest and recuperation.
Throughout the entire Qi Xia War, the Xia court first abandoned Fengjie, then gave up the entire eastern front. Finally, An Le Bo Si came up with a scheme that caused chaos and brought about destruction (the ostensible culprit was King Wu Si Jiao). As a result, the Xia nation's thousand years of accumulated public support was almost completely lost overnight.
Summer people genuinely loved their country and the ruler, readily responding to calls during the defense of the state. However, they were deeply hurt by the summer court's actions.
There are scarcely any people left who remember the surname "Si," and when I think of them, my teeth clench in sorrow.
And almost all of Xia Guo's pillars, marquesses, and dukes were killed. The two powerful armies, Shen Wu and Zhen Guo, were completely decimated. Hundreds of thousands of Mansion troops were driven back and slaughtered on Xia Guo's soil, abandoning this place and that…
Besides, the former King of Daxia Min and the current Shangqing Yu Liyang of Qi State mediated in the middle.
The post-war rule of Qi over Xiadi was actually quite relaxed. All the difficulties had already been cleared in the war beforehand.
Cao Jie had waged a thorough war of extermination.
The emperor issued an order to extensively repair Emperor Xiaoxiang's mausoleum and personally wrote an inscription, calling him "the emperor of a thousand generations." He bestowed upon him the title of Marquis of Anle, hereditary and passed down through the Si family. He conferred upon him the divine name "Nanxiangjun," venerating him as the guardian deity of Xia land, and provided incense and encouraged the people of Xia to worship him.
He also pardoned all the civil and military officials of Xia Fang, saying, “There is no guilt in guarding one's land.”
The tax was waived for ten years in order to give the land a chance to rest and the people to recover.
Such a tolerant policy, not to mention winning over the hearts of the people, greatly dissolved the resistance of the people in Xiadi.
“By deterrence, by force, and by leniency,” Su Guan Ying’s twelve-character strategy for the Southern Borders has ensured that since the end of the war, there have been almost no major uprisings in the Xia territories.
Of course, small-scale rebellions always rise and fall, it's common.
While Su Guan's governing philosophy emphasized a "pool of spring water" – a few ripples were just evidence of vitality.
This is what she tacitly allowed, even condoned.
She scrutinized the entire Nanjiang region within these small, harmless fluctuations. Through repeated processes of calming the waves, she strengthened the Xiadi people's sense of identity and divided "them" from "us".
Compared to governing Xiadi, dealing with the relationship between Chu was actually more difficult.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
Upon entering Nanyu, the Ba Guo had already become a neighboring state.
Let me know if you have more text you'd like me to translate!
But Qi only sent two real people to guard Xiadi, which was a sign of unwillingness to fight. Qi did not intend to make a sound in the south and had no intention of challenging Chu's dominance in the south. Therefore, things are relatively peaceful at present.
Chi Tan is located two hundred miles west of Guiyi City. It's an ancient and mysterious place.
The Emperor enfeoffed Wǔ'ān Hóu with Chītán as his territory, because Wǔ'ān Hóu had quelled the calamity. In the past, during the reign of Dàyàn, the place was under the control of the Lián clan to suppress the calamity.
Millennia have passed, and the former glory of the Yan Lian clan is now just a memory. The Chi Tan remains, a cold and desolate pool.
After Jiang Wang was granted the title of marquis, although he had not yet arrived in Xia land, construction of his residence there had already begun. It is worth mentioning that the construction workers were not conscripted; for all reconstruction work within Nanxia, the Nanxia Viceroy's Mansion paid them.
"It refers to 'substituting work for relief'."
Including the construction of city walls, irrigation systems, and other infrastructure, was itself an act of healing from the wounds of war. When the common people had work and food and clothing, they were less likely to rebel. Large-scale projects under unified command could also help people in Xia's territories quickly adapt to the rule of the centralized government.
It had only been half a year since Jiang Wang last visited Xiatian. The scene of burning flames illuminating the sky and mountains shattered beyond recognition seemed like something from long ago.
Carts from Linzi were swaggering through the market, and wherever they went, a scene of hustle and bustle could be seen. The common people encountered along the way didn't say they welcomed them, but there was rarely any hostility either.
This is a line of text. Please provide me with the content you want to translate, and I will be happy to help!
Su Guan'ying's governing ability is evident.
>
During the prosperous reign of Emperor Da Qi, those who could hold positions in the Hall of Government Affairs and the Hall of Military Affairs were no ordinary people.
After the war, this was Jiang Wang's first time coming to his own territory, and it would be impolite not to say hello to the governor of Nansha.
He let the qilin and those with him precede him to Chi Tan, while he alone took a bull carriage and entered Guyi, going straight to the Southern Xia Governor's Mansion.
Facing such a feudal lord who controlled the landholdings of three thousand households, the Governor's Office certainly wouldn't neglect him.
Su Guan'ying even directly postponed a department meeting, personally coming to entertain Jiang Wang.
Catching sight of the crimson-purple governor's robes from afar, Jiang Wang hurried forward: "How dare I trouble Governor Su with my presence"
In terms of actual power, Su Guan'ying, the governor who oversees a vast territory spanning tens of thousands of miles in Qi State, is arguably the most influential provincial official in the entire country.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
Before they met, Jiang Wang had imagined Su Guan Ying to be someone as dashing and imposing as Jiang Wuyou, looking down upon the world with a confident air. But after meeting her, she realized that Su Guan Ying was actually quite gentle. With delicate eyebrows, soft eyes, and slender features, she emanated a sense of grace and refinement.
He didn't appear powerful or imposing, but rather seemed delicate and graceful like a willow in the wind.
However, the moment she opened her mouth, that fragile feeling vanished instantly. She remained soft, yet like clouds floating high in the sky, a presence people had to look up to.
Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!
"Marquis Wuan has been stationed in the Southern Border for months, yet he hasn't returned. This commander had prepared exquisite tea long ago, but it boiled over and over again in vain, leaving only the lingering fragrance in the cup. How disheartening!" She seemed to smile but not smile, standing within the courtyard, as if she were beyond this world.
>
“Ginger [person’s name] was terrified.” Jiang Wang’s posture became even lower: “I am helpless, facing setbacks everywhere. I have long heard of Supervisor Su’s name, and today, I am fortunate to meet you!”
Su Guan'ying smiled faintly and only turned sideways to say, "Please!"
----Aside----
Thanks to the book friend "Mountain River Thousands of Blooms" for becoming the chief supporter of this book! It is the 347th alliance for Red Heart Patroling Heaven.Although the Netherworld has no sun, it still has day and night. Day is a vast expanse of white, and night is a vast expanse of darkness.>Inner court cultivators could not withstand the influence of t...