290: Chapter 290 Reoccupying Two Prefectures

Seeing Emperor Jingren in this state, Director General Zhuge Rongrong was also incredibly disappointed in her heart.

Although she didn't dare to oppose a Hunyuan Martial Saint either,

for a grand emperor to be paralyzed with fear just upon hearing that Chen Hu was a Hunyuan Martial Saint was truly...

Thus, she spoke up, "Your Majesty, Chen Hu has promised that if he takes the world in the future, he will not completely wipe out the imperial family!"

Hearing this, Emperor Jingren immediately recovered some of his strength: "That's good, that's good!"

If any other rebel had said this, he certainly wouldn't have believed it.

But this rebel, Chen Hu, was a Hunyuan Martial Saint.

If such a powerful figure went back on his word, he would likely become the laughingstock of the world.

"Sigh!"

Seeing Emperor Jingren's behavior, Director General Zhuge Rongrong sighed once more. Today's Emperor Jingren was just an old man barely clinging to life, completely lacking the world-conquering aura of an emperor.

On the other side.

Luo Ningshuang had already fallen asleep.

With a thought, Chen Hu pulled up the System panel.

Scanning the number of underlings, it had already grown to 33.68 million.

Correspondingly, his underling points had also increased by 33.68 million, reaching 88.55 million.

He was only a little over ten million away from reaching one hundred million.

Once the underling points refreshed tomorrow night, he would be able to raise his immortal cultivation to the Golden Core Realm.

At the same time.

In a karst cave deep in an old forest in the mountains, over five hundred miles away from Daoming County in Tulong Prefecture.

After absorbing a large amount of blood qi,

Zhou Yan felt that his magic power had already reached the Great Perfection state.

He could now attempt to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

Thinking of how many living beings in this world were still waiting for him to refine, Zhou Yan felt a surge of excitement in his heart.

Zhou Yan felt a surge of excitement in his heart.

"I must make a Breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm as soon as possible. That way, the speed at which I refine living beings will also increase significantly!"

The next moment, Zhou Yan directly absorbed the Blood-Sucking Bead into his body.

He began his charge toward the Golden Core Realm.

The next morning.

Luo Ningshuang had just finished eating when she hurriedly left for the Brocade Guard station.

Since the Brocade Guard had just been established, there were too many matters, big and small, to handle.

Moreover, Chen Hu had also captured Yulong Prefecture.

She also needed to extend the Brocade Guard's influence over there.

Meanwhile, Chen Hu prepared to capture Chenchi Prefecture today.

The territory of Chenchi Prefecture was much larger than Yulong Prefecture, and even larger than Linjiang Prefecture.

It had one Prefecture City and six county cities.

He estimated that the news of his capture of Yulong Prefecture had already reached Chenchi Prefecture.

Those officials were probably busy transferring their assets by now.

After all, in the eyes of those officials, he was no good guy.

After all, he had raided and confiscated the properties of every single official, big and small, in Yulong Prefecture, and those with severe crimes were directly decapitated.

Therefore,

Chen Hu also planned to change his strategy.

He would no longer capture the Prefecture City first and then conquer the county cities.

He planned to do it all at once.

In any case, he had more than enough troops.

The next moment,

Chen Hu cast Near and Far, vanishing from Zhenlong City.

When he reappeared, he was already over ten miles outside the Prefecture City of Chenchi Prefecture.

With a wave of his hand, three thousand Black Armor Cavalry appeared.

Next, Chen Hu purchased three Tier 4 generals to lead these three thousand Tier 5 Black Armor Cavalry.

At the same time, he also purchased over a hundred Puppet civil officials. Once the Black Armor Cavalry captured Chenchi Prefecture, they would stabilize the citizens within Chenchi and preside over the confiscation of the officials' assets.

Having completed the deployment,

Chen Hu vanished again.

When he reappeared, he had arrived outside the county city of Xiling County, which was under the jurisdiction of Chenchi Prefecture.

With another wave of his hand, he summoned 2,000 Tier 5 Black Armor Cavalry.

He also purchased two Tier 4 generals and 80 Puppet civil officials to deploy.

After ordering them to capture Xiling County, he vanished once more.

In the time that followed,

Chen Hu repeated the process, deploying a total of 15,000 Tier 5 Black Armor Cavalry across Chenchi Prefecture.

After completing the deployment in Chenchi Prefecture, Chen Hu cast Near and Far again to arrive outside Dalin Prefecture City.

Using the exact same method,

he deployed three thousand Tier 5 Black Armor Cavalry outside the Prefecture City, and two thousand Black Armor Cavalry at each county city.

However, Dalin Prefecture only had five county cities.

Thus, the total deployed force was only 12,000.

After finishing the deployment of forces in Dalin Prefecture, Chen Hu cast Near and Far to head back and check on Chenchi Prefecture.

The one Prefecture City and six county cities had all been smoothly captured.

As for the officials, not a single one escaped; all of them were arrested.

The Puppet civil officials were leading teams to raid and confiscate these officials' residences.

Chen Hu went to the government office.

He brewed himself a pot of spiritual tea.

And waited for the results of the raids.

At the same time, he thought to himself that from ancient times to the present, he was probably the only one who had rebelled so easily.

Over four hours later,

the raid results for the officials of Chenchi Prefecture were reported to Chen Hu.

But to Chen Hu's surprise,

the Chief Constable of Chenchi Prefecture, Wang Yang, was actually an honest and clean official.

Not only did this guy not take bribes,

but he also donated his own salary to the families of Constables who had died in the line of duty or were living in hardship.

Because of this, he was very poor.

Even though he was already in his forties, he hadn't even married a wife.

Furthermore, he was also extremely disappointed in the imperial court.

After the Fierce Tiger Army marched into Chenchi Prefecture, he directly ordered all Constables to give up resisting.

"Bring this Wang Yang to me!"

Chen Hu ordered.

Soon, soldiers brought Wang Yang before Chen Hu.

Though this guy was a Bone Refining Realm Martial Artist and only in his early forties, he looked as old as a sixty-year-old.

Activating the Eye of Insight,

the other party's identity and cultivation information were directly presented in Chen Hu's mind.

What surprised Chen Hu even more was that this Wang Yang's loyalty was very high, actually reaching 88 points.

"Why did you order the Constables to give up resisting?"

Chen Hu looked at him and asked.

Wang Yang said, "Because General Chen is willing to champion the cause of the people!"

After Chen Hu captured two Prefecture Cities in succession, his reputation had long since spread to Chenchi Prefecture, along with reports of his actions.

Many people were whispering in private, hoping General Chen would march over sooner.

Because once General Chen arrived, taxes and grain would be refunded, and everyone would be able to survive.

"You are quite right!"

Chen Hu smiled. "Then, are you willing to work for me?"

"Your subordinate Wang Yang pays respects to General Chen!"

Wang Yang immediately knelt to the ground.

Seeing this, Chen Hu couldn't help but think with a bit of dark humor: 'Does this count as my domineering aura making people bow down in submission at first sight?'

"Rise!"

Chen Hu lifted Wang Yang up from a distance. "You will still be the Chief Constable of the Prefecture City in the future. Oh, and this bottle of Medicinal Pills and these banknotes are your reward!"

The Medicinal Pills were those used for the Bone Refining Realm.

The banknotes amounted to a full one hundred thousand taels.

Receiving the Medicinal Pills, Wang Yang became even more excited. "Thank you, General Chen! Your subordinate is willing to die for you!"

And at this moment, Wang Yang's loyalty directly climbed to 99 points.

"Come here, let me heal your internal injuries!"

Chen Hu said again.

This Wang Yang hadn't married in his forties; first, because he was poor, and second, because his 'little brother' had suffered a severe injury in his youth, rendering him a eunuch.

As Wang Yang drew near, Chen Hu reached out and grabbed his arm, activating his healing Divine Ability.

After a long while, Chen Hu withdrew his hand and smiled. "How do you feel?"

"General Chen, you are my second parent! Even if you ask your subordinate to die in the future, your subordinate won't even bat an eye!"

Feeling his 'little brother'—which had shown no signs of life for many years—suddenly revive, Wang Yang was so excited he almost burst into tears.

Similarly, his loyalty to Chen Hu directly reached 100 points.