Chapter 483

In Cai Qiu's Treasure Pavilion, the selling price of the Burning Bone Pill is 490,000 taels, the top-grade Bone-Shedding Pill is 200,000, and the Bone-Washing Pill is 250,000.

And this batch of pills that Jiang Xinfan brought back cost 750,000 taels for the Burning Bone Pill, 300,000 taels for the top-grade Bone-Shedding Pill, and 370,000 taels for the Bone-Washing Pill.

Therefore, buying these pills from the Frost Ash Society is about 50% more expensive than the normal channels.

This is not hard to understand. After all, it is an abnormal channel, and the people who dare to take them out to sell to you are also taking risks. Only a 50% premium is probably because they see that Hearing Ji Hong and Jiang Xinfan are internal personnel of the Frost Ash Society.

With the pills replenished, Xia Hong naturally started a new round of seclusion.

The Bone-Washing Pill, combined with the Twelve Blood Meridian Art, can serve two purposes: one is to wash away impurities in the meridians, and the other is to improve the efficiency of blood and Qi circulation.

The former can purify and dredge the meridians, releasing the body's potential, thereby slightly improving strength; while the latter can directly improve cultivation speed.

Without a breakthrough in Xianyang-level cultivation, if Xia Hong wants to improve his strength, he can only pin his hopes on it, and he also has to rely on it to shorten the time to break through to the late stage of Xianyang.

"Buying them all the time is not a solution. Once I return to Xia City, it will be easy to figure out the formula. The only pity is that the cultivation conditions for the Twelve Blood Meridian Art are too harsh. One must have a top-grade battle body aptitude with a base strength of more than 5 jun when breaking through to the Yuhan level to be qualified to practice it. Without the foundation for comprehensive promotion, otherwise..."

Muyin Town's Blood Ginseng Pill can be considered a castrated version of the Bone-Washing Pill. Great Xia has already mastered the method of refining it. Not to mention promoting it to everyone in Great Xia, as long as the cultivation requirements can be lowered to the ordinary top-grade battle body aptitude, the effect on Great Xia would also be extremely terrifying.

Thinking of this, Xia Hong looked at the Enlightenment Lotus Platform beneath him and whispered: "It's still too busy to be outside all the time. After returning to Xia City, I will use the Enlightenment Lotus Platform's cultivation technique and martial arts deduction function to focus on studying the Twelve Blood Meridian Art. It would be best to come up with a castrated version that can lower the cultivation requirements. This way, it can be promoted to the maximum extent, and the effect will be just as great!"

Great Xia's biggest shortcoming at present is that its rise time is too short, only a mere fifteen years. It is estimated that it is difficult to find a similar one in town-level camps.

On one hand, this is certainly something to be proud of, after all, it has become strong enough to dominate one side in such a short time; but on the other hand, this also represents Great Xia's lack of foundation. It is not difficult to be king and hegemon in the small, blocked places of the Jiuzhen in the Southern Foothills, but when it comes to a region like Moaochuan, encountering vassal-level forces with long-standing traditions, the defects of congenital deficiency immediately appear.

Releasing the body's potential to slightly improve strength, and accelerating the speed of blood and Qi circulation to improve cultivation efficiency—these two functions can not only cover all cultivation realms but also benefit one for a lifetime. Once it can really be promoted comprehensively, it will be possible to maximize the compensation for the insurmountable time gap between Great Xia and the vassal states, and even other forces with more long-standing traditions.

"75 jun, the strength can finally move a little bit, but it seems there is not much room for improvement. Every little bit helps. The main thing is to accelerate my cultivation speed and break through to the late stage of Xianyang as soon as possible..."

After pondering for a moment, Xia Hong closed his eyes and started his cultivation directly.

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Like the Jiuzhen region, the Four Vassals of Moaochuan are basically the same in terms of overall institutional design and detailed local job arrangements.

Within the vassal state, the regional lord is naturally the greatest; below the regional lord are the two Yi; the Ling Yi is in charge of the military, managing all military affairs within the vassal state, including all military commanders and generals under the Military Department, who are nominally under his command; the Tai Yi leads the government, managing the six departments of Military, Jurisdiction, Criminal, Personnel, Civil, and Finance. Theoretically, the ministers of the six departments all have to listen to the Tai Yi's orders.

Of course, these are the top-level structures of the vassal state.

The vassal state's territory is hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. These people at the top control the overall direction, and the specific affairs of the cities below naturally still have to be managed by the next-level local departments.

And this next-level local department refers to the six departments of each commandery and city.

So it is very interesting that the names of the core administrative departments of the Four Vassals of Moaochuan and the local subordinate institutions are exactly the opposite of Great Xia.

Great Xia has the Eight Departments of Xia City and the Eight Local Offices;

While the Four Vassals have the Six Departments of the Zhencheng and the Six Local Departments.

Speaking of the Six Departments, one has to mention the relationship between the Commandery Governor and the Six Departments.

The Commandery Governor is the head of a commandery, usually held by the son of the regional lord. Even if it is not the son of the regional lord, it is the person with the strongest strength and the most powerful background in the entire vassal state besides the regional lord.

For such people, their status is only a line away from the regional lord. It is already exaggerated enough for them to govern a commandery. If they were to govern the local Six Departments, there would almost be no superior-subordinate relationship between the commandery city and the town city.

To prevent the local area from becoming too powerful, the measures taken by the Four Vassals are the same, which is to weaken the power of the Commandery Governor. Except for special periods, the Commandery Governor only has supervisory power over the Six Departments and no governing power.

In other words, the heads of the Six Departments only need to be responsible to their superiors in the town city, and their daily affairs are also based on the orders of their superiors in the town city, including their removal and promotion, which are all the responsibility of the town city. The Commandery Governor cannot intervene at all.

Of course, the Commandery Governor's supervisory power is not just for show. They can check the accounts of the Six Departments at will and investigate the situation of the staff of the Six Departments. As long as they find problems, they can go straight to the two Yi, or even before the regional lord.

In this way, the relationship between the two sides is very subtle. There are factors of superior and subordinate, but it cannot be considered a complete superior-subordinate relationship.

Such an institutional design is clearly to prevent the local area from becoming too powerful. How could those in high positions not see this?

So, in order to prevent suspicion from superiors, the heads of the Six Departments and the Commandery Governor will tacitly keep a certain distance and dare not get too close.

The Commandery Governor's office and the Six Departments usually do not interfere with each other. Only when encountering special situations, when there are orders from the regional lord or the two Yi, will the two sides work together.

But having said that, although the Commandery Governor does not govern the Six Departments, they are not without any power in the commandery city. For example, the vast majority of the commandery guards and town guards in a commandery are held in the hands of the Commandery Governor.

The Commandery Governor's greatest responsibility is to guard the territory. Naturally, they cannot be without troops. Therefore, these commandery guards and town guards only listen to the orders of the Commandery Governor alone when there are no military orders from the regional lord, the Ling Yi, or the Military Department, and they are basically considered the Commandery Governor's personal armed forces.

The Commandery Governor cannot lead these troops personally, but they have no right to transfer people from the Military Department to manage them, so the Commandery Governor's office has set up three military advisor positions. The military advisors not only have to assist the Commandery Governor in handling various affairs but also help lead the troops, which is properly considered the Commandery Governor's trusted aides.

Chen Cang is also one of the Four Vassals, and the situation is naturally the same!

Yan Ling has three major military advisors. According to the order of their appointment, they are Zhao Yixin, Chen Tianhong, and Yang Zun.

Chen Tianhong comes from the Longxing Chen clan. Given the subtle relationship between the Chen and Chu clans, it is said that it is difficult for him to become the trusted aide of Commandery Governor Chu Tianxu, but there are no absolutes in the world. Chen Tianhong not only became the military advisor of Yan Ling Commandery but is also the one closest to the Commandery Governor among the three major military advisors.

"Not to mention Yang Zun, a person from the Jiuzhen, who is an outsider to Chen Cang. Becoming a military advisor is most likely for cultivation resources, and it is understandable that he is not very close to Chu Tianxu;

But Zhao Yixin is Chu Tianxu's personal closed-door disciple, and this relationship is unusual. Chen Tianhong is even closer to Chu Tianxu than him, which can only show that this person is one of the few people in the Longxing Chen clan who has completely let go of the prejudice of family status, does not want to fight internally, and hopes that Chen Cang can unite as one and continue to develop and grow..."

Chen Cang Year 291, November 25th, nighttime.

The main building of the Chen residence, Hearing Ji Hong is waiting at the door, waiting for Chen Tianhong's summons.

In all fairness, after Chen Tianhong took him as a closed-door disciple, he was indeed very good to him. Whether it was daily cultivation resources or his treatment in the residence over the past few years, there was almost no difference from the most outstanding Chen clan disciples in the residence.