"Young Master Lu, this is the court's reward."
In the Lu Residence's main courtyard, Huang Ruoxing sat in the guest seat. Below him sat Chu Jin, the Pacification Commissioner of Yizhou's Demon Suppression Division, along with Lin Zhengfei, a Chief Envoy from the Directorate of Astronomy.
Because he had provided crucial top-secret intelligence, enabling the court to severely wound the Dark Sun Demon Lord and turn a great crisis into a lesser threat, Lu Zheng's contribution had been immense. Thus, after Spirit Martial King and the others had expended considerable effort dealing with the Demon Cave Secret Realm in Lianzhou Prefecture, they assessed everyone's merits and finalized the rewards and punishments for this incident.
Lu Zheng's reward had been the hardest to determine.
After all, Lu Zheng was not a court official. He was not even a talented scholar, merely an Outer Sect Layman of White Cloud Temple. By rights, he should primarily have received honorary recognition and material rewards.
But Spirit Martial King and the others knew that Si Lingxi stood behind Lu Zheng. Moreover, they believed these important pieces of intelligence had most likely come from her. Si Lingxi had merely passed the information to Lu Zheng so that he could earn a favor from the Great Jing court.
Therefore, this was effectively an expression of gratitude toward Si Lingxi.
Lu Zheng's reward had to satisfy Si Lingxi.
How should they reward him? Several court bigwigs with authority had discussed it for half a day, studied Lu Zheng's background, and finally settled on a plan.
One hundred thousand strings of gold and silver, ten pairs of white jade discs, and ten jars of pearls.
One estate in southeastern Yizhou Prefecture, with a thousand mu of fertile farmland.
A plaque personally inscribed by the Emperor Jing with the words