This was a truly difficult start!
Inside the Upper Xun Celestial Master Pavilion, Wang Chen flipped through the thick case files, the feeling of having stepped into a pit growing ever stronger.
Daying City had eight Celestial Master Pavilions, named after the Eight Trigrams of Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and Dui. The one Wang Chen had taken over was the Xun Pavilion.
Although it was a branch under the General Celestial Master Prefecture, the Upper Xun Celestial Master Pavilion was quite large. Not only did it occupy a grand residence with three courtyards front to back, it also contained a nine-story tower and employed several hundred guards and servants.
Wang Chen set the case files on the desk aside and studied the female cultivator standing by attentively with interest. "Steward Xi, I've only just arrived and know nothing about Daying City. I'll have to trouble you to lend me your help in the future."
This female cultivator had a full, voluptuous figure and a mature air, with strikingly beautiful features. Only the butterfly-like markings at the corners of her eyes somewhat marred her exquisite makeup, yet also lent her an unusual charm.
Xi Manyun, a steward of the Upper Xun Celestial Master Pavilion.
The Upper Xun Celestial Master Pavilion had twelve stewards in total, and Xi Manyun was merely one of them.
Yet after Wang Chen had taken office, she was the only one among the twelve stewards who had proactively come to pay him a visit.
That was highly unusual.
The Xun District under the Upper Xun Celestial Master Pavilion's jurisdiction was divided into Seven Districts and Thirty-Nine Streets, with more than fifty thousand households in total.
At five people per household, that meant nearly three hundred thousand people under its rule!
Even the county town