Chapter 102: East City Situation (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote for the monthly ticket and recommend the ticket)
“Brother, how is my nephew? Is he serious?”

In the backyard of the Nanchengsi Yamen, He Gongfu strode in and asked loudly as soon as he saw He Gongxiu.

“No danger to life.”

He Gongxiu’s face was gloomy. He shook his head at his brother and said, “But if you want to recover completely, it will take at least two or three months.”

“Asshole, who did this? I’m going to chop him up!”

He Gongfu was furious and turned around to leave.

He Guangshao is twenty years old, which is the time when his cultivation is making rapid progress. Recuperating from his injuries for several months will definitely affect his progress in breaking through to the blood exchange stage.

Moreover, this kind of serious injury consumes a lot of energy and blood. It would take an unknown amount of time to replenish the energy and blood. All in all, the time it takes for him to break through the blood exchange stage would be delayed by at least a year.

In just one year, the impact has been huge!
“stop!”

He Gongxiu shouted in a deep voice, “Who are you looking for? What’s your reason for looking for him?”

“We fought one-on-one, in a fair competition. Guang Shao was not as skilled as the other person and was injured. Now you are going to find someone else. Do you think the He family has lost face enough?”

He Gongxiu suppressed his anger and said coldly.

“Then we’ll just suffer in silence?”

He Gongfu said angrily, “When has our He family ever suffered such a loss?”

“This matter will not be let go like this.”

He Gongxiu’s eyes flashed with a venomous and cold gaze, “You dare to hurt my son like this, Su Mu must die, no one can save him!”

He never imagined that an insignificant little ant, which he thought he could easily crush to death, would cause such a big trouble.

Bao Tong is also a waste!

“Su Mu, is that Su Mu?”

He Gongfu frowned, “The new Sima of the East City Division?”

“It’s him. He wants to step on my He family to get to the top. He really has a good plan!”

He Gongxiu sneered.

He had just received the news that Su Mu became the Sima of Dongcheng Division, when someone came to report that He Guangshao was seriously injured by Su Mu.

The new official started with three things, and the first one was against the He family?

Want to establish his authority by injuring his son, so as to smoothly take over the position of Sima of Dongcheng Si?
“This kid seems to have gotten close to the Luo family. No wonder he dares to ignore our He family.”

He Gongfu snorted coldly, “Brother, how about I kill him secretly?”

“The kid surnamed Su has got on the good side of the Luo family, and he is also a member of the Taiping Division. If you take action, it will be very troublesome if someone targets you.”

He Gongxiu’s eyes flickered as he said coldly, “Dongcheng, isn’t he going to be the Sima of the Dongcheng Division? Then let him die as the Sima of the Dongcheng Division.”

“Brother, are you saying…”

He Gongfu’s brain is not enough.

“Dongcheng is much more chaotic than Nancheng. Even a Sima died in Nancheng, so what’s so strange about a Sima dying in Dongcheng?

The Qingcha Sect and Ronghua Society in East City have been very active recently, so I will add fuel to the fire for them!”

He Gongxiu said coldly.

…………

“Qingcha Sect?”

Su Mu showed a thoughtful look on his face, and said slowly, “Is the power very strong?”

“It’s big.”

Yu Xiujiang nodded and said seriously, “In the Qingcha Sect, one needs to offer three cups of tea to the leader to join, hence the name.

They preached about the afterlife, saying that as long as one paid money to the leader, one would enjoy wealth and glory in the afterlife, and many poor people were deceived into joining the religion.

Su Mu frowned. This kind of gang was much more difficult to deal with than ordinary gangs.

Those believers who have been brainwashed are just like demons, without any rationality at all.

“How could Tojoji tolerate their development?”

Su Mu asked with a frown.

“Dongchengsi has no other options.”

Yu Xiujiang sighed and said, “At first they were just preaching secretly, but when the Dongcheng Division found out, they were already very powerful.

Moreover, the leader of the Qingcha Sect is a martial artist who has reached the fourth level of body tempering, and there are many masters in the sect. The East City Division has no way to deal with them. “

“The followers of the Qingcha Sect are mainly the lower-class people. The Ronghua Society is different. The Ronghua Society is an organization that brings together all the rich and famous people in the entire East City. Their strength is stronger than that of the Qingcha Sect.”

Yu Xiujiang continued, “In addition to these two larger forces, there are dozens of small gangs in East City, and all kinds of relationships are intertwined. When Sima Xu was there, he could only barely keep East City from being in chaos. As for governance, he was powerless.”

Yu Xiujiang is from the Luo family, and Xu Guang, the former Sima of the Dongcheng Division, is also from the Luo family. Therefore, when Su Mu took over the position of Sima of the Dongcheng Division, there was no resistance from within the Dongcheng Division.

However, the situation in Dongcheng is complicated, and it is not easy to accomplish something in Dongcheng.

Yu Xiujiang went to South City specifically to find Su Mu in order to inform Su Mu of these situations in advance, so that Su Mu would not rashly take up the post without understanding the situation in East City. If there was a conflict with the Qingcha Sect and Ronghua Society, it would not end well.

“Sima, please forgive me for being frank.”

Yu Xiujiang lowered his voice and said seriously, “You are a dragon, there is no need to roll around in the mud. You came to the East City Division just to gild yourself, there is no need to conflict with these people.”

Su Mu glanced at Yu Xiujiang, wondering whether he was on his side or on the side of the Qingcha Sect and Ronghua Society.

Yu Xiujiang was calm and composed. He had inquired about Su Mu’s news before coming here and knew that Su Mu was a well-known figure in South City.

In his opinion, Su Mu would definitely join the Taiping Division in the future, and the Sima of the Dongcheng Division was just a formality.

If he is ambitious and rashly takes action against the Qingcha Sect and the Ronghua Society, the only one who will be in trouble will be the Dongcheng Division.

If anything happens, Su Mu can just walk away, but they still have to clean up the mess.

In Yu Xiujiang’s opinion, it would be best for Su Mu to govern by doing nothing and not interfere with the original order of Dongcheng. In a few months, he would be promoted smoothly and Dongcheng would be able to settle down in peace.

“Did Luo Anning ask you to say these words?”

Su Mu said calmly.

“No, I haven’t met Miss Luo.”

Yu Xiujiang was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, “These are my own sincere words.”

“That’s very well said. Don’t say it again. It’s better to keep what’s in your heart.”

Su Mu said lightly.

Yu Xiujiang: “…”

He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

“You came just in time.”

Su Mu said, “Just now I accidentally injured He Guangshao, the Sima of the South City Division. You should go to visit him as the Sima of the East City Division. Remember to buy some gifts and don’t lose the etiquette of the East City Division.”

Yu Xiujiang’s eyes widened. He injured Sima of Nancheng? He Guangshao of the He family?

Where do you get such courage?

He suddenly understood that this new Sima did not get to this position because of Miss Luo’s relationship, but because of his own abilities.

He even dared to attack He Guangshao, the Sima of Nancheng Division and a direct descendant of the He family. Things are about to change in Dongcheng.

Yu Xiujiang said to himself that he dared not to persuade Su Mu anymore. He bowed and left in a hurry.

After Yu Xiujiang left, Su Mu immediately called up the system panel.

[Name: Su Mu]

[Identity: Ghostwriter/Taiping Division White-clothed/Dongcheng Division Sima (Seventh Rank)]

[Points: 580 points]

[Realm: The third realm of body tempering (skin tempering extreme realm, flesh tempering extreme realm)]

[Kung Fu: Tianlong Eight Sounds Muscle Tempering Method (Great Accomplishment)…] [Martial Arts: Mountain-Splitting Blade Technique (Not Entry Level/+), Kanshui Artistic Conception (Minor Accomplishment), Xunfeng Artistic Conception (Minor Accomplishment), Archery (Entry Level/+)]

Seeing the changes on the system panel clearly, Su Mu couldn’t help but smile.

Seventh grade!
He jumped from the ninth rank to the seventh rank, a promotion of two levels in a row, all thanks to Luo Anning.

I have been playing the role of ghostwriter without sleep for the past few days, but I have only accumulated 580 points.

Without the status of a head constable, the speed at which points accumulated was so slow that Su Mu could not tolerate it.

Accustomed to earning hundreds of points every day, he really couldn’t accept earning just a few dozen points a day.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but few people can endure going from extravagance to frugality.

Now, my status is back, and I have even been promoted two levels.

In terms of rank, Sima is already on the same level as Taiping Duwei, and is also in charge of hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city area.

Although he is not as honorable as the Taiping Duwei, his actual power is much greater than that of the Taiping Duwei.

Of course, the real power of the Taiping Duwei does not lie in how many people he controls, but in his ability to execute first and report later.

“The number of points is related to the rank and actual position. A seventh-rank, powerful Sima must have at least 200 basic points a day.”

Su Mu thought in his heart.

It takes four thousand points to complete the Tianlong Eight Sounds Tendon Tempering Method from great success to perfection.

It takes ten points to get started with the Kaishan Sword Technique, one hundred points to get from entry to minor success, three hundred points to major success, and one thousand points to perfection. The total is one thousand four hundred points.

If you want to comprehend the artistic conception of Genshan, you must at least practice three or four sword techniques of the Genshan lineage. It is impossible to do so without 5,000 points.

If you want to improve your artistic conception or temper your bones, you will need more points.

It’s really not possible to not find a way to earn more points.

“With the status of a seventh-rank Sima, my Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds Tendon Tempering Technique should be complete in a month at most.

Then you can practice the bone tempering method.

Even if I spend a year to perfect the Bone Tempering Technique, by that time, I will only be just over nineteen years old.

Before I turn twenty, I will definitely reach the blood exchange stage, and there will definitely be a place for me as the Taiping Commander.”

Su Mu was full of confidence.

Logically speaking, he was already a seventh-rank Sima at the age of eighteen, so he could have avoided going to the Taiping Division and taken the normal path in officialdom.

However, Su Mu knew in his heart that it was not easy to get into the officialdom.

Even though he was already a seventh-rank Sima at the age of eighteen, if he continued to work hard in officialdom, he might not be able to be promoted to the fourth rank by the age of thirty.

Not to mention the truly high-ranking officials above the fourth rank.

That can’t be achieved just by being able to fight.

Although Su Mu knew a little about the ways of the world, he did not think he had any special talent in this area. According to normal means, he would be lucky if he could reach the fourth rank in his lifetime.

This can only be achieved after going through countless intrigues.

But the Taiping Division is different.

The Taiping Division only looks at strength and merit.

Moreover, the upper limit of the Taiping Division is extremely high. As long as it is strong enough, the fourth-rank pacification envoy can be in its grasp.

Even above the pacification envoy, there is a third-rank commander.

If you go further, it is not impossible to be granted a title of nobility.

One is a rugged road with a low ceiling, and the other is a broad road with almost no upper limit. Is there any need to tell you which one to choose?

Haven’t you seen that the second generation of powerful people like Luo Anning and He Guangshao are trying their best to join the Taiping Division?

You can doubt the character of these second-generation powerful people, but you cannot doubt their vision.

Why would they do something that has no benefit?
Don’t they know how dangerous the Taiping Division is?

Because the harvest was big enough, they were able to ignore the danger from the Taiping Division.

With such a path in front of him, how could Su Mu give up?

Even though he could no longer hold a local official position after officially becoming the Taiping Commandery Commandant, Su Mu felt that the temporary loss was acceptable compared to the future gains.

Of course, it’s a little early to say this now.

If he wants to officially become the Taiping Duwei and have the word “Taiping” embroidered on his brocade and black shirt on his chest and back, he has to wait until he breaks through to the blood exchange realm.

He still has a long way to go.

“I have to do my job. Since I am the Sima of the East City Division, I must get the full performance of the Sima.”

Su Mu sat at the table and thought seriously.

He is not a great hero who serves his country and his people, but if anyone dares to stop him from earning points, don’t blame him for his drastic measures.

…………

In the inner city, in a room full of flowers.

A young woman frowned slightly, a hint of worry showing on her beautiful face.

“Why did he go to East City?”

“I heard that he was promoted from a police captain to a Sima.”

The maid chirped in reply.

“Why go to East City when there are so many places to go?”

Xiang Xiaoyuan whispered with a worried look on his face.

If all of your admirers saw this scene, they would be heartbroken.

This is clearly the look a girl would have when she is in love.

“Everyone, why don’t we go to East City? Sima and the captain are worlds apart.”

The maid asked in confusion.

“You do not understand.”

Xiang Xiaoyuan shook his head and asked, “Did you deliver the invitation I asked you to deliver?”

“I did send it, but Captain Su—no, Sima Su—still refused.”

The maid said, “Everyone, we have invited him so many times. Since he is so unromantic, why should we invite him again?”

“You do not understand.”

Towards the small garden.

I ask because I don’t understand. You can tell me.

The little maidservant muttered in her heart, wondering if Captain Su was a man at all. How many people wanted to be our lover but failed, and now everyone has taken the initiative to invite you, and you haven’t come yet.

Do you know what you missed?

“I am tired today, so I won’t entertain guests.”

Xiang Xiaoyuan hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said, “I’m going to sleep for a while. Don’t let anyone disturb me. You can go out too.”

The little maidservant didn’t think it was strange. After the weather turned cold, everyone became much lazier than before and had to sleep for five hours every day.

She left the room and closed the door carefully.

The night is getting darker.

Inside the Anxiang Pavilion, a figure quietly climbed over the wall and quickly headed towards the outer city.

The figure was as light as a weightless feather, and moved swiftly and agilely without attracting anyone’s attention. He easily climbed over the inner city wall along the route taken by the “knights” in the inner city.

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