Chapter 621: Family Rule

This man's name is Su Jing, and he is also a warrior from the Su family. Although he is now a general guarding the imperial county city, he can never get rid of the Su family's mark on him.

Although Zuo Feng does not understand this situation, anyone from the Xuanwu Empire knows it to some extent. The reason why the Xuanwu Empire's highest family is said to be in the highest position in the empire is because these families have students and former officials all over the empire.

Although most of the high-level officials in the Xuanwu Empire are appointed by the empire, where do the appointed people come from sometimes? It is impossible that they are rootless and baseless people who appear out of thin air. These people who are either appointed or promoted by the empire basically come from various families.

This is the essential difference between the Xuanwu Empire and the Ye Lin Empire, that is, there are huge differences in the empire's system.

In the Ye Lin Empire, Zuo Feng's hometown, the warriors at the bottom can rely on their own strength and ability to deal with things, and in the process of constantly improving their cultivation and strength, they can improve their identity and status little by little. For example, the commanders under An Xiong were appointed by the county governor, but they were originally ordinary warriors. They were rewarded and appointed for their meritorious service to the empire and were able to obtain the position of commander.

The commander's continuous efforts to improve his cultivation will also earn him the opportunity to change his identity and become a city lord. The city lord can also continuously train his subordinates. Although these trained people cannot promote their subordinates to commanders in the city, they can recommend their subordinates to other city lords or even other county governors.

This not only improves your personal connections, but also allows these trained talents to earn opportunities for the city lord to challenge the county governor by participating in the spiral tower trial. This is like a chain of talent training, which allows the empire to save a lot of money and energy, and can also continuously train more outstanding talents for the empire.

This wine was a method thought out by an imperial leader of the previous generations of the Ye Lin Empire. This method also allowed the Ye Lin Empire to continuously climb to a higher position in a short period of time.

But there are always pros and cons in the world. In terms of profit, the empire naturally did not spend too much money to obtain a large number of talents. However, these people were not trained by the empire, so they did not have much sense of belonging to the empire. Instead, they were more keen to cultivate their own confidants.

Originally, the empire's idea was to use this method to make all those in power on this interest chain, and let the empire prosper on the basis of mutual competition. However, this method made many people obsessed with cultivating their own subordinates, and put the expansion of their own relationship chain second, and they enjoyed competing for the positions of city lord and county governor.

At the beginning, An Xiong was not such a greedy person. He also climbed up step by step in this environment, so when faced with Zuo Feng's request and his own interests, he chose to give up Zuo Feng and his family without hesitation.

But Zuo Feng did not know these. He was a child who grew up in a remote mountain village and did not understand the upper-level operation of Ye Lin. So he couldn't understand, let alone forgive An Xiong's actions at that time. If he knew more, he probably wouldn't blame him too much. I'm afraid that most of the city lords in Ye Lin would end up being not much different from him when faced with An Xiong's choice.

On the other hand, the Xuanwu Empire is indeed based on each family, and uses the power of the family to train children to hold important positions in various aspects of the empire. For example, Su Jing in front of him is a warrior of the Su family. He was one of the batch trained by Su Lan at the beginning. Although they are not considered master and apprentice, Su Jing is also quite popular among Su Lan's many trainers.

Among the many warriors trained by the Su family, there are also different levels. Among them, some with slightly worse qualifications will be arranged to the bottom of the family and do some of the most superficial work. Although there is no worry about their lives, of course, they can't get any wealth and power.

And people with upper-middle qualifications can be arranged to various cities and fortresses in the empire through family relationships, and obtain higher rights through their own continued efforts. Of course, in this process, unless they make unforgivable mistakes, the family will continue to provide help in various aspects.

Those with higher qualifications have another opportunity. They have the opportunity to obtain higher resources and power, but they will also face higher risks. For example, the Su family will select a group of young people for training every three years, and the number is about 400.

Among them, 50 to 70 people are too mediocre in qualifications, and they will be arranged to various industries of the family to help the family with various work. It sounds very good, but in fact, they will be a chores for life. Even if they don't starve to death, they can only maintain the food and clothing of the family.

Among the other more than 300 people, about 270 to 80 people will be sent to various marshals for training. Some of them may be personally guided by the marshals, but that is just a little teaching. Most people are only taught and instructed by the marshals.

This Su Jing is a warrior trained by the Su family in this way, and it is exactly a warrior trained by Su Lan. At the beginning, Su Jing's qualifications were still acceptable. Although not the highest level, it was still good among the group of people at that time, so Su Lan once personally instructed his cultivation.

There are less than fifty people, and of course they are all extremely talented. They were separated from the beginning and assigned by the family to a secret place for cultivation. These young people can get the best resources of the family, including skills, martial arts, and various medicinal materials. It can be said that everything is available.

However, after enjoying these convenient conditions, these people finally have to face a life-and-death test. Because only one or two of them can survive in the end, and of course none of the survivors are mediocre.

These young people who are left after the family has fully cultivated have actually become the backbone of the family. After that, they will accept various tasks from the family. They have to constantly experience in this process, and naturally some people will die in this process, but those who can survive in the end are all elites among the elites.

With the continuous accumulation and strengthening of cultivation, and the continuous tempering of mind and wisdom, these people will eventually reach the level of the Marshal, just like Marshal Su Lan at this time.

Su Lan is certainly not so kind that she will rescue someone in trouble. It was because the man who was attacked by the monster and whose life was hanging by a thread was a warrior of their Su family, and Su Jing, who had some connection with him, that he would boldly save him.

When Su Jing was sent to Linshan County, he was actually just a city guard in the town below. Over the years, he has continuously improved his cultivation through continuous efforts, and has also gained merits in the continuous fighting with monsters, which has earned him the title of the city guard of the county city today.

Although there are a total of eight city gates here, and each city gate has three guards, this identity is enough to make many warriors envious. Because as long as they work harder, they will have the opportunity to be sent to a town to become the city lord, and at that time the family will be closer to it.

The original Tushan City Lord Lin was actually a warrior of the Lin family. It was only because there were inextricable connections between the Lin family and the Cheng family that he spared no effort to help Cheng Tianhao in the selection. Of course, when we were in Tushan Town, it was because the mayor had some relationship with the Cheng family and the Medicine Sect that we were able to invite many masters of the Medicine Sect to participate in the competition.

This is the Xuanwu Empire. In fact, the systems of the Xuanwu Empire and the Yelin Empire were very similar. Because in the earlier period, the continent basically imitated the Ancient Wilderness Empire, with the sect as the main force and the family as the auxiliary force, and held the reins of the entire empire.

It was only later that because of the different specific conditions of each empire, and the selfishness of the lord who controlled the overall situation at that time, they wanted to control the empire in the end in the hands of a family or a lineage, so many changes happened now.

The Xuanwu Empire's way of controlling the empire by family can make the entire empire come together because of the family and jointly resist foreign invasion. However, because of the selfishness of each family, many problems arose in the empire in the end.

For example, the matter of Xinjun City at that time, although it seemed that the people involved were very complicated, it not only involved several small families, but also involved forces outside the empire. But these seemingly incomprehensible combinations, in the eyes of Su Yan of the Su family, seemed to understand the strangeness of them, which was also inextricably linked to the struggles between the major families of the empire.

So it is more correct to say that the Xuanwu Empire is in the hands of countless families rather than in the hands of the empire.

In addition to the Ye Lin Empire and the Xuanwu Empire, there are two super empires, namely the Prairie Country far away in the Far East Prairie and the Fengtian Dynasty in the south.

One of these two places is a nomadic empire dominated by tribes and chiefs, and the other is the Fengtian Dynasty with strict hierarchical divisions and the monarchy above everything else.

Not to mention that Zuo Feng has never been to these two places, he has only heard a little bit about them, and he is not clear about the customs and customs of these two places, or even the operation of the state machinery.

However, since Zuo Feng wants to get Anya's antidote, he has to participate in the highest level of struggle in the Xuanwu Empire. If he wants to find his sister, he has to understand the fundamentals of other empires. If he does not understand the operation of these empires clearly, he will not be able to solve other problems.

So coming to Linshan County City was the beginning of everything, and also the beginning of his time in Linshan County.