Chapter 63

The official of the commandery city yamen finished his errand and left leisurely.

The deputy general on duty at the Siyang Commandery Military Prefecture began to question Zhang Gui and ordered the clerk to record it in the file.

Then the ranked instructor of the military prefecture went to the training ground to test Zhang Gui's martial power value.

Then the military staff officer tested his art of war, battle array, and policy discussion.

Although it was just going through the motions, there were too many items, so it took a while to get a full grade.

Seeing that the time was late, the deputy general accelerated his actions and directly wrote an official document to rate Zhang Gui as:

A military talent who "although young and eager for quick success, is both civil and martial and can be used."

The staff of the military prefecture's main general took this evaluation away, and when he came back, it already had the prefecture master's seal.

Waiting for everything to be filed and sealed.

Zhang Gui turned from a reserve military officer waiting to be selected into:

"Eighth-rank Bandit-Suppressing Colonel of the Siyang Commandery Military Prefecture, Dongyue Sea Province, Ming Song Empire, Governor of Military and Civil Affairs of 'Zhihai Fort'" Governor-Colonel.

Everything settled down.

Zhang Gui felt that since they worked during the New Year, and a group of people were busy for half a day for his matter, he should treat them to a big meal.

Moreover, he was only sixteen years old now, and he was already an eighth-rank seal-holding military officer, which was worth something no matter what.

The military prefecture deputy general might not look down on him, but instructors and staff officers should want to hook up with a connection.

Plus, the matter was finished just in time for the evening, and it would seem arrogant to just disperse.

What's more, he couldn't be a commander of a lever in the future, taking the Ministry of War's appointment letter to take office at the military fort.

He had to have military prefecture officials accompany him to fill the scene.

So Zhang Gui twisted and turned to express his meaning, but he didn't expect to be rejected by everyone.

This surprised him quite a bit, thinking that others were being polite, so he insisted again and again.

In the end, it was the military prefecture instructor who tested Zhang Gui who felt that although he was a "ready-made" wealthy family child, he was not a straw-bag playboy.

Now that he was sincerely treating them to a meal, he enlightened him:

"Governor Zhang, you should also know that you and us in the military prefecture are not on the same path.

We are one family with the military town, and where you are going is a military fort.

The seal-holder of the same rank as you in the military town is called a 'Great Star Chief.'

You are called a Governor.

We are all 'rotating officials,' this year in the Southern Kingdom military prefecture, next year we might go to a military town in the Northern Frontier thousands of miles away.

You are a local official.

You will likely stay in Siyang Commandery for the rest of your life, being the Bandit-Suppressing Colonel holding the seal of 'Zhihai Fort' until you die.

To put it bluntly.

This Zhihai Fort militia was originally funded by several great clans near Pingyang Commandery City to guard against pirates.

A hundred years ago when the fort was first established, because it was near the sea, there were many pirates, so the 'Zhihai Fort' seal-holding Governor was quite popular.

Your families had to take turns being it.

Now it has long become a cold yamen.

This term fell to the Pingyang Zhang Family, letting you fill the vacancy.

At your age, for the next hundred years, 'Zhihai Fort' will be surnamed Zhang.

It's just a pity that the talent of entering the Dao at sixteen is trapped in a cold place of barren mountains and wild ports.

If the Zhehai Tao Family had a young disciple who entered the Dao ten years ago and was willing to give up his future like you to fill the vacancy of 'Zhihai Fort.'

Then... sigh, I won't say it, I won't say it.

In short, we are not on the same path, so it's better not to pull each other."

Zhang Gui actually understood what the instructor said.

It's just that before, as an outsider, he thought that although there was an essential difference between militia soldiers and regular soldiers.

But although the soldiers were clearly divided, the officials were not so different in status.

As a result, he didn't expect that he was only equivalent to the large "Security Director" of his previous life.

According to the unspoken rules, even the smallest officials in the regular army didn't want to pull with him.

Naturally, Zhang Gui didn't force it.

But accidentally falling to the bottom of the contempt chain and being treated as a donkey's liver and lungs by others.

Anyone would feel unhappy in their heart.

Plus, after understanding the inside story, he vaguely felt that he had been pitted, which was even more annoying.

Zhang Gui directly changed into the eighth-rank naval colonel tiger shark embroidered official robe issued by the military prefecture, put away the dark pattern waist token and the appointment letter.

He took the march map of Siyang Commandery, which was also distributed, in his hand, and walked out of the prefecture gate without saying a word while looking at it.

The sky was completely dark.

He didn't stay in Siyang Commandery City for the night, identified the direction of "Zhihai Fort."

He left the city and left the wide and safe commandery road, entering the fields under the name of the commandery city's powerful families.

In the freezing weather, the good irrigated land could only grow some oats.

No one was guarding it.

He flew smoothly for a long time, gradually entering the barren and poor wilderness.

Feeling that he had left the radiation of civilization, Zhang Gui urged the main divine cluster body to become a semi-metallic state.

Round eyes, giant mouth shape.

The vertical and horizontal technique urged by the power of qi and blood, combined with the divine cluster "Swift Legs," immediately doubled his speed.

He set off at the fifth quarter of the Mao hour and stopped at the first quarter of the Chen hour.

From six to seven in the evening, less than an hour, he had traveled more than three hundred miles.

Arrived at "Zhihai Fort."

Since it was a naval fort, it was naturally close to a good port.

But there were only two old hundred-material, or two-hundred-ton, warships docked at nearly twenty deep-water berths.

The area of the fort was not small.

It was more than thirty thousand mu in length and breadth.

In addition to barracks and training grounds, there was also a large area of cultivated land.

It's just that it was close to the sea, and the land was severely sandy.

It could only grow melons in summer and potatoes in winter.

Around the fort, there were black stone walls built with mountain rocks taken from nearby.

On both sides of the three-zhang-wide fort gate, there were square arrow towers also built with mountain rocks.

And the "mountain" of this mountain rock was the Xuanzhi Mountain that Zhang Gui was very familiar with.

At this time, the fort gate was naturally tightly closed.

But there was no firelight for deterrence on the arrow tower, and there was no sentry on the lookout, which was not right.

And Zhang Gui originally intended that if he couldn't bend people with power, he would shock them with force.

Such loose military discipline was more to his liking.

Seeing him grin, he took off his clothes and rarely gathered the power of the three treasures of "body, heart, and spirit" with all his strength.

The eight major main divine clusters linked and derived the chain primordial ability, the complete state of the "Black God Explosive Warlord All Methods."

While turning into a semi-metallic state, steam curled around his pores, and new arms grew out of his side ribs.

The top of his head sprayed black pulp, turning into a fleshy fungus blanket on the ground, and several giant fleshy limbs stretched out from the ground on the blanket.

Without a running start, he directly pressed against the fort gate, and Zhang Gui pushed forward with force.

The giant arms extending from the black blanket under his feet also pushed hard against the fort gate, pushing hard.

Two doors, totaling three zhang wide and three zhang high.

The giant door, made of hard wood as thick as an adult's waist, soaked in tung oil for three months, and mortise and tenon joined, made a strange "creak..." sound because it couldn't bear the force.

Exerting all his strength, exerting, and exerting again.

His qi and blood, gang qi, and primordial spirit were stirred to the limit.

The main divine cluster "Water-Fire Harmony" changed first, flashing and linking with "Burning Metal, Great Growth," giving birth to countless clusters of hair.

Afterward, the remaining main divine clusters "Swallow Crow, Drink River, Hundred Herbs Life Mandate" and finally the "Tai Sui Enter Spirit" in his brain also participated.

Giving birth to a new divine cluster, Chief Breaks Heaven!

Once this divine cluster appeared, under the evaporation and expansion of the gang qi in his body, Zhang Gui's body broke through the innate constraints and kept getting bigger.

The curling steam gushing from his pores slowly disappeared.

By the time he was three zhang, three feet, and three inches tall, his huge body was enough to contain the gang qi steam after full explosion.

And it was just good, just strong!

The gate of Zhihai Fort began to bend gradually.

Before it could be broken, the eighteen thick iron bolts connecting the fort gate to the stone wall collapsed first.

The giant door flew out ten zhang away and fell to the ground with a bang!

(End of chapter)