Chapter 709: Sitting in Command

The guy in the wind saw that it was unfavorable but didn't continue to attack, but instead retreated. However, the Japanese pirates with lower martial arts probably just reacted, two of them slashed and stabbed with knives, and another one held a cross-shaped spear and stabbed. The cooperation of these three was tacit, and it seemed that they had been fighting together for a long time.

Bai Lang grabbed with his left hand, and the two knives were directly pinched in his palm, twisted into scrap metal in the sound that made people's teeth ache. And the tip of the cross-shaped spear that stabbed over was firmly blocked by the palm of Bai Lang's right hand. "Invulnerable to knives and guns!" The group of Japanese pirates must have been shouting this. Bai Lang's Thirteen Tai Bao Golden Bell Shield was originally such a hard and domineering divine skill, and after returning to the Innate realm, it was even more indestructible.

At least the few crooked melons and cracked dates before him couldn't even think about it.

These three idiots were stunned for a moment. Bai Lang grinned, his left and right hands both flicked and grabbed. With a grab and a slap from his left hand, one person's bones were broken and tendons were severed, while the other was slapped by a palm, and his head was slapped into his stomach. As for his right hand, he grabbed the cross-shaped spear and dragged it. The unlucky guy staggered over, and Bai Lang's right fist punched a big hole in that guy very casually.

Afterward, Bai Lang punched and kicked. Except for the ninja who played with the wind who slipped away quickly, the others were either dead or injured and were all left behind by Bai Lang. "Ha, an army of a thousand? This matter is probably troublesome." Bai Lang knew that Japanese pirates and sea merchants were two sides of the same coin. He didn't know how many people in Zhejiang were colluding with them to make a fortune.

These thousand or so Japanese pirates would have people actively providing supplies, and some would actively contact them to do business. Anyway, this was the business of the Zhejiang officialdom. Bai Lang could naturally rely on his supreme martial arts to kill them all cleanly. If he did this, his path as a civil official would probably go astray—although this guy didn't care much anyway.

The reason he didn't make a move was entirely because he felt a bit strange. Because he seemed to feel that Feng Qingyang or Linghu Chong seemed to be nearby? This ghostly feeling made Bai Lang feel uncomfortable. His achievements were enough—with his duties as a civil official, he didn't need to go to the front line to kill the enemy. What he needed to do was to allocate grain, military supplies, and guard station soldiers, and urge them to fight.

He didn't have the power to formulate combat plans and order local guard station military generals to fight—he was logistics and supervision, but he lacked the power of command. The Japanese pirates continued south into Fujian, and there were not many troops left in Zhejiang, and Bai Lang was too lazy to engage in things outside his responsibilities—the Jiajing Emperor and Cabinet Minister Yan really couldn't lift his spirits.

And Bai Lang could only protect the people in this area. He had been in this position for half a year. "The family property has increased a lot." Bai Lang casually counted the bribes he received and felt that being an official in the Great Ming was really happy, but there was a small problem—I heard that the Japanese pirates colluded with the Demon Cult? There were even figures of orthodox disciples among them?

Former Saintess Ren Yingying said that she had long since stopped mixing with the Demon Cult. After following Bai Lang, she had no more contact with the people of the Divine Cult—Bai Lang was such a man who could do most things by himself, and he didn't even make a move on the maids. Then, wouldn't it be better for this former Saintess to study music? This was far more comfortable than being a Saintess of the Divine Cult.

Bai Lang still didn't have a wife, which made everyone dissatisfied—it wasn't that he was a widower who hadn't remarried, and this high official was still young, only twenty-something years old. First of all, Ren Yingying definitely had no qualifications. Even if this girl wanted to, she knew she had no qualifications. At most, she could be a concubine like Blue Phoenix, and maybe not even a good concubine.

Who let their background be bad? Ren Woxing mixed in the Demon Cult and became the former sect leader. Unless he was whitewashed and accepted the recruitment to become an official—even then, he would definitely be despised by civil officials with orthodox backgrounds. And Bai Lang's wife would definitely be from a scholarly family, and the family would have to have produced a few Jinshi and Juren.

There really was one. This person was actually a big shot in the Cabinet—a certain big shot surnamed Xu also found Bai Lang's teacher as an intermediary, saying he wanted to marry his granddaughter to Bai Lang. Since the big shot said so, Bai Lang naturally had no problem—wasn't he also a big shot? A big shot at the Innate expert level. Before him was Wang Yangming, and after him... this guy was only twenty-something, where did the "after him" come from? At least for now, he couldn't see a second Innate expert so young.

Wang Yangming had old injuries, and he achieved the Innate realm very late, so he couldn't live past a hundred years old. And the Innate experts in the inner court were originally incomplete bodies, and their lifespan didn't increase after achieving the Innate realm. So there were only three experts in the imperial court, the inner court also happened to have three, and there were two among the Daoist officials who served the Emperor. This was all the experts the imperial court had.

Among the guard stations in various places, there were military generals close to the Innate realm in the Nine Frontiers elite troops. It was said that there seemed to be an Innate expert among the southwestern chieftains, and it was unknown if there were any outside the Great Wall. In the Jianghu, it was feared that only Dongfang Bubai was exposed now.

Since Bai Lang agreed to Miss Xu—of course, Bai Lang also said that if Miss Xu wasn't beautiful, it wouldn't work. This person was unconventional and directly said that big breasts, a round butt, and a beautiful appearance were the most important things, and as for being well-read and sensible, it didn't matter. The Junior Cabinet Minister immediately took him as a confidant, but it was a pity that even with the arrogance of the Junior Cabinet Minister, he didn't dare to recruit people like Bai Lang as his minions.

Bai Lang had met the Junior Cabinet Minister, and they had met more than once in the capital. Bai Lang was tall, big, and fierce, while the Junior Cabinet Minister was blind in one eye and a fat man, which was really a bit self-deprecating. Although the Junior Cabinet Minister liked the male style, the problem was that he liked the male style that was like a woman, and of course, he didn't dare to face the fierce-looking Bai official with raised eyebrows and tiger whiskers.

This time, Bai Lang married a wife while serving as the Zhejiang Left Councilor and Defense Commissioner of Wenzhou and Chuzhou, and he actually received a congratulatory gift from the Junior Cabinet Minister in the capital. As for his classmates, there were even more—he married the direct granddaughter of Cabinet Minister Xu, and he himself was a fourth-rank minister at a young age, and he was also a peerless fierce general and an Innate expert. In the future, a position as Minister of War, Minister of Justice, or Minister of Rites would be absolutely no problem.

At this time, of course, they had to burn the hot stove. Classmates from all over the world sent gifts one after another, and local and foreign officials and merchants who wanted to climb up also sent congratulatory gifts—this official position was just that, and he could accept it for the sake of Cabinet Minister Xu. But what kind of thing was this merchant? He also dared to send gifts to Bai Lang, the Zhejiang Left Councilor and Defense Commissioner of Wenzhou and Chuzhou? "It's fine! Don't refuse anyone!" Bai Lang showed his true colors as a corrupt official.

This guy's acceptance of gifts was reasonable and reasonable. It was just that he didn't accept gifts and didn't do things when people asked him to do things normally, and he was as clean as water. It was just that after the filial piety, it was very normal to open one eye and close one eye. These were all shares of the big shots, and Bai Lang was only a Defense Commissioner, so his power was ultimately limited. The guard stations in Zhejiang in the southeast were rotten, which was not something Bai Lang could reverse alone.

Bai Lang was ready to throw this kind of troublesome thing to Uncle Qi, while Yu Long was exerting his strength in Fujian... And Zhejiang was relatively peaceful, precisely because of the presence of this Innate expert—even the Japanese pirates already knew that the Great Ming's super expert was sitting in the Ningbo and Wenzhou areas, and he was a role that was really not easy to deal with.

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