Chapter 7 Xue Bei with 'high emotional intelligence'
the next day.
The Barak River flows slowly, and Mr. Zhao also flows slowly in the warm water and the girl's tenderness.
"Sir, people from the Shrek Supervisory Group are here." A servant reported outside the door.
"it is good."
Mr. Zhao stood up and pushed the girl away. The servants at his service wiped off the water marks on his body and put on a brand new and decent clothes.
Mr. Zhao's father is the city lord, and he comes from a wealthy family. Although his own cultivation talent is average, it is enough for him to inherit the position of city lord.
What Mr. Zhao likes most in his life is to enjoy and find excitement. Mr. Zhao's favorite enjoyment is to ride on his family's cruise ship on the Barak River.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, drag, drag, drag, drag..."
The hoarse boatman's call came from outside, it was the trackers on the Barak River.
Hundreds of boats compete on the Barak River, and a lot of timber, agricultural and sideline products, and daily necessities are transported in and out by boats. Trackers play a key role here.
The trackers were naked, bent, carrying stiff ropes on their backs, and limping forward. Mr. Zhao's cruise ship stood on the river, with its cabin and railings painted with new paint like snow.
Mr. Zhao's leather boots clicked as he stepped on the spacious and gorgeous oak stairs, as if stepping on the strong and shiny back of a tracker.
"Indecent."
Mr. Zhao glanced at the trackers by the river and smiled contemptuously. He thought it was an eyesore and scolded:
"Drive them all away! What will the commissioners of the Shrek Supervisory Group think of these people here? Is our Wushan City a very poor city?"
……
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"Wushan City is not poor."
Just by seeing the busy trackers on the Barak River, Xue Beiguang knew how many goods were transported in and out of Wushan City in a day. With such a large flow of traffic, as long as the owner of Wushan City was not a fool, he should be very rich.
"Is City Master Zhao of Wushan City managing it well?" Qian Renxue asked from the sea of spirit.
"Well, although it was for my own benefit, I did do a lot of practical things."
Xue Bei nodded. In an environment where aristocratic officials in the empire were generally indifferent, City Lord Zhao could be said to be 'capable and good' in developing Wushan City.
"It's just that I still don't change my stubbornness..."
Started two and a half years ago,
There are rumors about evil soul masters in Wushan City. For example, some children will disappear in Wushan City and so on.
At first, no one cared about it. Missing children, how normal they are on the mainland, were picked up and eaten by wild dogs, drowned by the water of the Barak River, and abducted...
City Lord Zhao thought this was a trivial matter.
Are the missing children caused by the evil soul master?
Even if there are evil soul masters in every city in Douluo Continent.
More importantly, if there really was an evil soul master...didn't the old men in Doucheng blame him that day?
Is this okay?
As a hereditary official, the most important thing is not to seek merit but to have no faults. As long as there are no faults, the Emperor Tianhun cannot deprive himself of his title.
So City Lord Zhao chose to hide it.
As long as you can't see it, it doesn't matter.
And at the beginning of this year, the evil soul master finally showed his chicken feet in Wushan City:
A dead man whose blood had been sucked was found, and it was determined that he was killed by the evil soul master.
Logically speaking, the City Lord's Mansion should attach great importance to this matter about the evil soul master, but... the City Lord's Mansion chose to conceal it.
When Xue Bei saw this, his heart was not disturbed at all.
This operation of City Lord Zhao can only be said to be the excellent tradition of Douluo Continent.
It's just that City Lord Zhao thought that nothing would happen if he kept it a secret, but it turned out that the evil soul master had reincarnated. Last month, the evil soul master directly entered the City Lord's Mansion and seriously injured City Lord Zhao himself. City Lord Zhao could not survive and died.
I can’t hide it now!
So the Shrek Supervisory Team received the news, and Xue Bei arrived.
"What we want to see now is the only son of City Lord Zhao, Young Master Zhao."
As Xue Bei spoke, he frowned when he saw a group of people disembarking from the white cruise ship and beginning to drive away the trackers.
What's going on with Mr. Zhao?
"The city lord has an order, drive them away!" The arrogant people who got off the boat drove the trackers away with great force.
Qian Renxue heard the servants say that the city lord had an order, and thought that the city lord Zhao was not dead, so she asked: "The city lord has an order? The city lord Zhao is not dead?"
"It's not City Lord Zhao, it's Young Master Zhao."
Xue Bei replied.
The city lords of the Tianhun Empire are hereditary. This tradition originated from the Tiandou Empire back then.
The Tiandou Empire's control over local areas was very weak, which led to various kingdoms and principalities becoming independent. Even the Star Luo Empire was a rebel in the past.
In the era when the Wuhun Empire was established, those kingdoms and principalities also became independent again and merged into the Wuhun Empire.
then……
The Wuhun Empire was destroyed by Poseidon Tang San.
The problem of excessive local power that had troubled the Tiandou Empire for many years was eliminated altogether, and the Tiandou Empire finally maintained its centralized power.
Xue Bei feels that the shortcomings are comparable to the complete unification of India under British colonization.
but,
At that time, Emperor Xue Beng never thought of pursuing victory to continue to gather local power and make reforms. The most fundamental institutional problems of the Tiandou Empire were still unresolved.
So shortly after the death of Emperor Xue Beng, the Heaven Dou Empire once again fell into the trap of strong branches and weak trunks, until... the second Tian Dou civil strife broke out.
Compared with the first civil strife in which the royal family was at war with each other, the second civil strife was initiated by the local prince.
The Grand Duke entangled the local powerful vassal forces and attacked Tiandou City, calling it the 'Qing Jun Side'.
The Xue family's royal family fled in embarrassment, and later gathered troops to barely maintain their territory in Lingdou City. This was what became the Douling Empire, and the rebellious Grand Duke occupied Tiandou City and established the Tianhun Empire.
Logically speaking, this kind of empire was built by a group of powerful vassals who rebelled. The emperor was afraid that his subordinates would imitate him and rebel, so he should definitely cut down the vassals... But the Tianhun Empire was still the same as the Douling Empire, a hereditary system. set.
It is estimated that Emperor Tianhun was afraid that his subordinates would try to "Qingjun's side" again because of the reduction of vassal status.
Ten thousand years ago, the Noting City where Tang San studied was a hereditary city lord, and Mr. Xiao was the young city lord. Ten thousand years later, Wushan City was still a hereditary city lord, and Mr. Zhao was the young city lord.
Dou Ling Empire is also like a bird.
According to Xue Bei, if this continues, the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Douling Empire will split again sooner or later.
Seeing someone approaching to greet him, Xue Bei put away his inner curse and announced his name:
"Shrek Supervisory Team, Xue Bei."
"Master Xue, please come with me."
The servants led Xue Bei onto the white cruise ship.
The polished oak staircase was wide and gorgeous, with elegant grooves on the railings. Xue Bei admired the floral decorations on the columns and bollards as he walked.
Arriving at the pilot room, Mr. Zhao was already ready to greet him and greeted Xue Bei eagerly.
Xue Bei also said hello to Mr. Zhao and observed him at the same time.
Mr. Zhao was dressed in white, with a red silk tie, and a ring with a huge ruby on his hand.
A very cool person.
This was Xue Bei's first impression of Mr. Zhao.
"Master Shrek is here, and the problem of the evil soul master should be solved. I also hope that Commissioner Xue can find the evil soul master as soon as possible and bring him to justice." Mr. Zhao's face was filled with a fake smile.
"It is our responsibility to eliminate the evil soul master."
Xue Bei was very uncomfortable with this kind of fake smile, and then looked around again, as if he was looking for something.
"Master Zhao?"
"Ok?"
Xue Bei said seriously: "I want to see your father's body."
"..." Mr. Zhao.