Chapter 2482: Chapter 97: Can It Serve a Thousand Autumns of Endeavor?_3

Yet with every word and deed of his, every lift of his eyes, every furrow of his brow, he already possessed a soul-seizing majesty. What he wore, where he sat, who was beside him—none of that really mattered.

This was the very dignity of a Hegemony Country, the nobility of kings and marquises!

Huang Su left without saying a word.

When he came, he was in fine clothes on a furious steed, a thousand riders rolling like thunder; when he went, he was dusty and disheveled, men dispirited and flags askew, as if he had just lost a battle somewhere.

Xiang Qian shook his head, casually tossed Chu Yao into the carriage, and sat down beside Jiang Wang.

Chu Yao, skinny as a monkey, glanced at his own master. Seeing that his master had no particular reaction, he merely leaned back in the inner side, with anger in his heart but not daring to voice it.

The Liang Army withdrew, and the Qi Army Cavalry also scattered again, escorting the carriage and retinue.

The two old friends sat side by side at the driver’s seat, and did not say much to each other.

Xiang Qian quietly tilted his head back to gaze at the sky.

Jiang Wang, on the other hand, beckoned to the Capital Commandant who had been the first to draw his blade at Huang Su. When the man approached and saluted, Jiang Wang asked, "What is your name?"

The young Capital Commandant who had dared to raise his head against a thousand troops actually felt nervous before the mild-tempered Marquis Wu’an. He steadied himself before saying, "This lowly one is Yu Xintian, a man of Yugu Prefecture... Yugu Commandery. I have been in the army for six years now. This spring I returned to Qi, and I currently serve as a Capital Commandant in Shaokang Prefecture’s forces, under orders to come to Jin’an Commandery to hunt down the remaining scum of Equality Country."

After the People of Qi took over the Xia Territory, in order to more gently transform the Xia people, they did not carry out too many drastic reforms. In both military and government, everything was done step by step. Under the Old Summer military system, this Capital Commandant was an officer commanding three hundred men.

"No need to be nervous. Yugu Prefecture or Yugu Commandery, it’s all the same. The Governor Mansion has only just started restructuring, even I often say it wrong." Jiang Wang said with a faint smile, "The name Xintian has quite a bit of style."

Yu Xintian said somewhat embarrassedly, "Because I was born with a handle, my grandpa said that in the future I could open up wasteland and add new fields for the family, so they called me ’New Field’."

"Interested in joining my Laoshan Iron Cavalry?"

"Ah... of course, of course! I dream of serving under you!"

"Then start as a Deputy Commander, in charge of five hundred men. How about that?"

Yu Xintian half-kneeled on the ground: "I am willing to serve the Marquis!"

There were only two thousand men in the Laoshan Iron Cavalry in total right now, and in one stroke he was to command a quarter of them. To speak a bit inflatedly, he had already become Marquis Wu’an’s trusted choice in the Xia Territory—how could that not make him wild with joy?

"I’ll give you your first task." Jiang Wang’s tone was casual yet intimate: "Write down the names of all the brothers traveling with us. Later, go to the Marquis Mansion and draw funds. Reward each man with ten taels of silver as commendation for their courage. In addition, when the Laoshan Iron Cavalry expands recruitment in the future, under the same conditions, they will have priority entry."

Ever since Jiang Wang attained Transcendence outside Huanzhen Temple, worldly gold and silver had no longer been important to him. The currency of the Supernatural World was simple and direct, using Dao Yuan Stone as the standard, supplemented by things like the Channel-opening Pill. There were also currencies like phantom crystals and Life Soul Stone that circulated only in particular regions. It was almost a separate system from mundane gold and silver, with very little overlap.

But because the Supernatural World was built on the foundation of the mundane world, it was impossible to be completely detached.

For the vast common folk, gold, silver, and copper were always the most important currencies. For certain special Taoism, it was also Copper Coin that carried the greatest human energy.

Strictly speaking, about ninety to a hundred and ten taels of full pure gold could buy one Dao Yuan Stone. Of course, this could only happen if one had access to Transcendent channels. This was the only point of intersection between the two currency systems.

Jiang Wang had long since ceased to need to worry about gold and silver, and could certainly fling more Silver Tael around at will. But both reward and punishment had to be measured; excess was as bad as deficiency.

The Summer Country’s Jinguo Ring Money was in the process of being gradually replaced by Qi Knife Coin. This in itself was also one of the processes by which national power coalesced.

Benefiting from the abundance of resources in the Supernatural World, even though a great war had just been fought, prices in the Xia Territory quickly stabilized. At present, two Qi Knife Coin could buy a white steamed bun. For an ordinary household, a day’s living expenses would not exceed a hundred Qi Knife Coin.

These ten taels of silver were equivalent to ten thousand Ring Money; for ordinary Soldiers it would not make them rich overnight, but it was definitely a pleasant surprise.

"This subordinate receives the order!"

Yu Xintian happily spurred his horse to the rear, and before long, bursts of cheering rose up. Sometimes happiness really was a simple thing. Yet such a simple thing was something many people could not obtain.

Listening to the heartfelt laughter of those soldiers, clearly very close, yet somehow seeming very far away.

Xiang Qian half reclined against the carriage, staring blankly at the sky: "Time really flies."

Jiang Wang turned his head. Beyond that bristling stubble, he actually saw winding tracks of tears.

Xiang Qian was shedding tears, yet his voice was still that same weak and listless calm as he asked, "Jiang Qingyang, do you want to see my sword?"

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