Jia South Territory!
Zhong Tian left halfway through his lecture on the Dao, but since he had arranged to lecture again a year later, not many people left. This had been part of the plan from the beginning. With everyone staying, Shen Gongbao found it easier to recruit them.
Zhong Tian lectured on the Dao five times, and Shen Gongbao visited every one of the gathered experts.
Perhaps many people were unwilling to join Da Zheng, unwilling to give up their freedom. However, Shen Gongbao's attitude of treating worthy men with humility made many of them feel uneasy. Once, twice, three times... He visited them again and again, listened to their Dao, and then asked them for help. With a figure as renowned as Shen Gongbao personally inviting them several times, even a stone man would have felt embarrassed to keep refusing.
Therefore, although Shen Gongbao stripped them layer by layer after every lecture, the number of people he recruited continued to grow.
Shen Gongbao visited everyone one by one.
Elsewhere, at the gathering place of Da Zheng's important ministers.
"Mister Shui Jing, there are more than twenty Ancestor Immortals in the Jia North Territory. Will they come charging over?" Liu Wushuang asked with a frown.
Liu Wushuang was the Brocade-Clad Guard Chief Commander of the Imperial Guard Command. With the Empress coming, he naturally had to protect her safety. Of course, even if all three Empresses joined forces, Liu Wushuang could never catch up to them on horseback. But if they suffered even the slightest injury, it would still mean he had failed in his duty!
"Don't worry. They aren't fools. Once Zhuangzi leaves, they'll be a sheet of loose sand. Besides, we have our people among them. Even if they had the courage, they wouldn't dare." Mister Shui