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Chapter 98 Exchanging pieces is unwise; Zuo Jing will not take it! [6th update, please subscribe! Please vote!]

"My assassins are beyond your imagination!"

Zuo Jing was very perceptive and immediately sensed the court's counterattack—

Ministry of War, Ministry of Justice, Imperial Guards, Garrison Commands, Court of Judicial Review, Censorate, Embroidered Robe Bureau, Imperial City Bureau, Peace and Security Bureau, Demon Suppression Bureau, Dragon Guard Manor.

All departments and agencies, and all major law enforcement agencies, mobilized all the experts they could muster.

The state apparatus.

Ten years of accumulation.

The experts they cultivated far surpassed those of the mere Shangyang Lei family by more than a hundred times!
Even the Lei family has more than forty experts with fourth-stage strength amplification.

The number of people from all three families and clans is no less than this.

With its vast territory encompassing two capitals and thirteen provinces, the imperial court could easily recruit countless experts.

hundred times?
more than!

Zuo Jing couldn't count them all, but he noticed that countless experts were patrolling the area, whether in Xiayang City, the various prefectures of Jiujiang, or Shengjing City, or even outside the Emperor's Western Garden.

A fourth-order dog is worse than a dog.

Five steps are everywhere.

Only at the sixth level can it shake.

Among them were many experts wearing armor made of special materials, not all of which were the 'Tungsten Blood Armor' that Zuo Jing had come into contact with, but also other treasured armor made of unknown materials.

The true nature of the imperial court was revealed in a few scattered fragments.

This was actually another purpose behind Zuo Jing's burning of the Forbidden City, excavation of the imperial tombs, and splashing of dragon bones: he wanted to provoke the emperor and see how much strength, expertise, and trump cards the royal family and the court truly possessed.

Now!
He met him today.

"Great!"

Zuo Jing was alarmed.

He was well aware that he currently had more than 10,000 assassins, which seemed like a lot, and that 55 new assassins were being added every day, constantly increasing the number.

However, low-level assassins rely solely on their courage and fearlessness, but they lack martial arts skills and their attacks are chaotic and disorganized. Often, even twenty or thirty low-level assassins might not be able to kill a single agile fourth-level master.

As for the fourth-tier expert clad in tungsten blood armor, wow, he's practically invincible. It's unimaginable how many assassins it would take to defeat such a fully armed fourth-tier expert.

Even considering the most ideal scenario—

"Twenty for one".

"I have a little over 13,000, but less than 14,000. Let's say 14,000. At most, I can exchange them for 700 fourth-tier death warriors of the imperial court."

For Zuo Jing, it meant squandering his entire fortune.

But for the imperial court, it wasn't even a serious blow.

Such an exchange is extremely unwise, and Zuo Jing will not take it.

"To compete with such a powerful imperial court, one must use some wisdom."

Zuo Jing decided to take a roundabout approach, letting go of Jiujiang and Shengjing for now, and instead targeting the hundreds of thousands of corrupt members of the imperial clan scattered throughout the provinces of the Great Yan: "Hundreds of thousands of imperial clan members, there are plenty to kill!"

This is not indiscriminate killing.

The assassins were scattered throughout the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and they had heard about the deeds of the imperial family members in each province. If you were to casually organize them, you would find a thick stack that was as tall as two people.

Too numerous to recount.

When discussing the imperial clan of the Great Yan Dynasty, one must mention its system of enfeoffment within the clan—

Except for the crown prince, all other sons of the emperor were granted the title of prince.
One of the prince's sons inherits the title of prince, while the others are granted the title of duke.

One of the prince's sons inherited the title of prince, while the others were granted the title of general who protects the country.

After that, he was successively appointed as Assistant General, General of the State, Lieutenant General of the State, Lieutenant General of the State, Lieutenant General of the State, and Lieutenant General of the State. The title of Lieutenant General of the State could be inherited permanently.

Among the women of the imperial clan, the emperor's eldest daughter was granted the title of Grand Princess, while the others were all called princesses. The husbands of princesses were granted the title of Imperial Son-in-Law Commandant.
The prince's daughter was granted the title of Princess, and the princess's husband was granted the title of Imperial Attendant.
The daughter of a prince was granted the title of county princess, and the husband of a county princess was granted the title of ceremonial attendant. Subsequent women were granted the titles of county lady, county lady, and township lady in that order, and their husbands were all granted the title of ceremonial attendant. The title of township lady could be inherited indefinitely.

"The royal family of the Great Yan has been receiving annual stipends for generations without being given official positions or duties. They are very close relatives. The princes' residences, clothing, and military cavalry are second only to the emperor, and dukes, marquises, and ministers all have to bow down and pay homage to them."

royal.

imperial clan.

The benefits were already extremely generous.

The treatment of each rank was different. The salary of a prince was 10,000 shi of rice per year, that of a duke was 2,000 shi, that of a general who guarded the country was 1,000 shi, and that of the lowest rank of lieutenant of the state was 200 shi.
Princesses and their husbands received 2,000 shi of grain, princesses of the county and their attendants received 800 shi, and the lowest-ranking princesses of the township and their attendants received 200 shi.

Regardless of gender, all descendants of the Great Yan royal family received a minimum of 200 shi of rice per year.

Compared to the royal family, the salaries of officials in the Great Yan were extremely stingy. For example, a first-rank official of the Three Dukes level received an annual salary of 1,044 shi of rice, which was less than one-ninth of that of a prince.

A county magistrate of the seventh rank receives an annual salary of ninety shi of rice, less than half that of the lowest-ranking member of the imperial family, the Fengguo Zhongwei or Xiangjun. To the Great Yan imperial family, only the Murong clan are considered one of their own; everyone else is an outsider!

Of course, we should feed our own family members well and take good care of them!

However, human greed prevails, and even with such generous treatment, some members of the royal family were still not satisfied.

Using their royal status, they colluded with merchants to monopolize various industries such as salt, mines, rivers, lakes, and forests, extending their reach into every lucrative field and taking whatever they could get.

Prince Jing and Prince Lu owned as many as 4 hectares of farmland in the two lakes and other places.

Fuwangzhuang has 2 hectares of farmland.

The estates of Prince Gui, Prince Hui, and Prince Rui each comprised 3 hectares.

Prince Ji owns 700,000 to 800,000 mu of land in Xishan, and 40% of the farmland in Zhangsha and Shanhua counties also belongs to him.

Half of the land in the entire Beihe province belongs to the various princely residences.

……

not only that.

Although the Great Yan Dynasty stipulated that the royal family should not interfere in local government affairs, many members of the royal family relied on their status as sons and grandsons of the emperor to bully local officials.

Zuo Jing possesses a bodyguard and reviews the records of various provincial bodyguards detailing the crimes committed by members of the imperial family in different regions.

The Assistant General of the Prince of Dai's Palace was dissatisfied with the county magistrate's punishment of his servant, and beat the magistrate in public.

The Prince of Hedong and others from the Prince of Jin's mansion routinely entered prefectures and counties without permission, verbally abusing and assaulting local officials.

Zongyi, the steward of the Prince of Ninghua's mansion, assaulted Liu Wangzhi, the Left Provincial Governor.

If they treat officials with such rudeness and arrogance, one can only imagine how these members of the royal family treat ordinary people.

Many members of the royal family were licentious and debauched, and it was common for them to forcibly abduct women from the common people, who dared not speak out against it.

Murong Zailun, the Prince of Hui of Dongshan Yuzhou, often abducted beautiful women who passed by, and threw those who refused to submit to tigers.

Murong Qili, a mountain dweller, seized countless wives and daughters from the people of Wugang Prefecture.

……

“Those who deserve to be executed number in the thousands.”

"Killing ten a day, it can last at least three months."

Zuo Jing was quite curious to see how the dog emperor in Shengjing would take care of him after he slaughtered members of the imperial family in various places, including princes!

Are there many skilled individuals in the imperial court?

That's alright.

The territory of the Great Yan was also vast.

Zuo Jing can deploy 55 assassins every day wherever the assassins are located. Today he commits a crime in the four northern provinces, tomorrow in the six southern provinces, and the day after in the three northwestern provinces.

No matter how many experts the imperial court has, they can only follow behind him and eat his dust.

"Exhausted from running around!"

"Let's see how long you can keep going."

That's all for now.

While causing trouble, they waited for the remnant jade to reach level ten, to see if there would be any other changes to the level ten assassins after the upgrade, given the increased number of assassins refreshed daily.

"Level 6, random skill."

"Level 7, Blood Burning Talent."

"Level 8, Lone Wolf Specialty."

"Level 9, Warrior's Aura."

To date, the abilities gained by high-level assassins at levels six, seven, eight, and nine are all quite substantial.

When it's going to happen, it will happen.

Individual soldiers are available.

There are groups that need to be formed.

"grade ten."

What will happen?

Zuo Jing is looking forward to it.

……

(End of this chapter)