"Town Guardian."
After returning to Northern Mountain, mundane affairs naturally piled up.
Chen Ping'an sat in the office and listened to all the reports from Northern Mountain Pass, then sent everyone away to their respective posts.
Northern Mountain Pass guarded the Black Nether Mountain Range and the Northern Mountain branch range, with the Eighteen Garrison Cities under its jurisdiction. Every day, people traveled to and from the mountains, powerful rogue cultivators moved about, and forces from all sides intersected there. For the Pacification Bureau stationed at Northern Mountain Pass, this was also an enormous test.
There was also the regularly held Deliberation Council of the various forces, and so on.
If things were ordinary, with Chen Ping'an's cultivation schedule, he likely would not have had so much time to attend to everything at once.
But.
Sometimes, there were always more methods than problems.
If he had no intention of monopolizing power, there were many matters that could be delegated downward. Handling affairs that way would likely be far more effortless.
With capable subordinates coordinating matters from within as well, what Chen Ping'an needed to do more of was still make decisions and set the general direction.
If he trusted the people below him, then even the matter of decision-making could be greatly reduced.
Wasn't that precisely how a number one figure was meant to be used?
Though no small amount of official business had accumulated over the days, with Chen Ping'an's efficiency, he dealt with it properly very quickly.
Chen Ping'an reached out slightly, extending his hand toward the long table before him.
On the long table lay quite a few documents and secret booklets, all of them recent current affairs and news.
Among them were naturally major recent happenings in the surrounding realms.
Among them, naturally, was the matter