The Celestial Dragons Turned Out to Be Me
Seeing the Artifact Forging Master accept his proposal and use the vocabulary he was familiar with, Yang Ning felt a unique sense of satisfaction.
This is a move that will go down in history, and I made the decision!
According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this skips the stages of physiological, safety, social, and esteem needs and goes straight to self-actualization!
After Yang Ning finished discussing the issue of professional evaluation, the Artifact Forging Master in charge of building the headquarters pulled him over again.
"How should we build our headquarters?" The speaker was Wan Ning, who led a department called the Heavenly Craft Department, which specialized in building mountain peaks for inner disciple. He was Qi Refining Fourth Level.
"Aren't you the one in charge of building mountains? Why are you asking me this?" Even if he hadn't come, Yang Ning would have found an opportunity to offer suggestions, but he still wanted to be humble.
"Can the association headquarters be the same as the inner disciple' mountain peak?" Wan Ning asked expectantly.
The main reason was that Yang Ning's explanation of the professional evaluation was so insightful that Wan Ning subconsciously felt that Yang Ning might also have some unique ideas about the construction of the headquarters.
Their Heavenly Craft Department, whose mountain designs are constantly being dictated by inner disciple, naturally doesn't develop a condescending attitude and is very good at humbly accepting others' opinions.
"Since it's a headquarters for the Artifact Forging Master Association, it should naturally reflect the characteristics of us Artifact Forging Master!" Yang Ning thought for a moment, "Use the most advanced technology, the boldest design, and leave room for future inventions to be tested."
"The Artifact Forging Master Association has nine departments, so one building is enough. But the Artifact Forging Master School needs to be much larger; it can't be any smaller than the Ascension Academy!"
"Furthermore, researchers will build a research institute here, and Deep Blue Information will build a factory here. In the future, the large student population and researchers' families will be a huge number, so the headquarters area cannot be small!"
Wan Ning nodded as if he understood, then stroked his chin. "Is this building a headquarters? It's building a city!"
And
"Doesn't the description of this headquarters you gave sound a lot like Seacloud City?"
Yang Ning was taken aback, then nodded. "It really is!"
Actually, he was referencing Silicon Valley, a high-tech city that arose because of universities. However, Seacloud City is also a city that rose because of schools, and it is indeed very similar to Silicon Valley.
"In other words, I'm not just building a headquarters, but a city!" Wan Ning nodded, understanding.
"Is this difficult?" Yang Ning asked. "Won't they refuse to approve the land or something?"
"Land approval?" Wan Ning blinked. "What land approval? There's land everywhere!"
"Um, I mean, if you want to use a piece of land, don't you need to discuss it with the sect first?" Yang Ning asked.
"No need for that. Let alone a city, even if there were a hundred or a thousand, Taiheng has plenty of land!" Wan Ning waved his hand casually. "And whether it's by the sea, by a river, on a mountain, in the desert, or in a forest, you can build it wherever you want!"
"There's no need to go to such lengths. Just find a flat plain with convenient transportation," Yang Ning said. "But who will own the city after it's built?"
"It must be our association!" Wan Ning asked, puzzled. "Is there a problem?"
"I mean, who are the officials in the city?"
"We're only responsible for construction!" Wan Ning said. "As for who will be the officials, shouldn't that be decided by you?"
Is that how you say "uh"?
Yang Ning felt as if he had overlooked something.
After handing over the planning and architectural drawings to Wan Ning, Yang Ning hurriedly found Li Yuan. After another casual chat, Yang Ning understood many things.
It's not so much that I understand, but my perspective has shifted somewhat.
Firstly, in Taiheng, land is the least valuable thing because Taiheng has a small population but occupies a large area.
The Four Regions of Taiheng cover a total area of 100 million square kilometers, but the total population is less than 200 million.
The area occupied by the Taiheng Sect is several times larger than that of the Four Regions, but this area includes the area within various small worlds and Law Treasure.
Even the bare area of the Taiheng Sect is 200 million square kilometers.
This vast area was confined within the Taiheng Sect's mountain gate by an array. Apart from hundreds of thousands of Outer Disciples, several thousand inner disciple, and an unknown number of the Spiritual Law Realm elders, there was hardly anyone else there; it was all dense forest!
Secondly, the people in the Taiheng Sect's territory are divided into the following levels: Spiritual Law Realm cultivators > Qi Refining Stage cultivators > Body Refinement Realm cultivators > others.
In terms of status, they belong to the Taiheng Sect> other cultivation forces > other mortal forces.
What does that mean?
This means that the hierarchy and status concepts that Yang Ning used in his previous life and in the Yue Kingdom are not applicable in the cultivation world; here, might makes right!
The Taiheng Sect is the most powerful force in the Four Regions of Taiheng, so people who come from Taiheng have the highest status!
His status formal disciple of the Ascension Academy was enough to suppress a large number of merchant guilds, Lineage, and even many countries.
When visiting certain dynasties, even the emperor would personally greet them with his wife. Even if he wanted to make some excessive demands, such as having the princess serve him in bed, these Wang Ye dare to resist!
Of course, he usually doesn't need to mention it; the king will send the princess to him on his own. However, even a cultivator at the Body Refinement Realm might not be interested in a mortal princess.
The primary goal of cultivators in the Taiheng Sect is to achieve immortality; nothing else matters. Therefore, no one cares about officials or city management authority. Who has the time to be a mayor?
As long as you manage this area well and prevent a popular uprising that would cause the loss of good fortune, that's enough!
As for whether such loose management will lead to the expansion of the kingdoms under its control and the growth of their ambitions, that remains to be seen.
This is simply impossible, because all the Spirit Vein of the entire Taiheng region have been moved into the Taiheng Sect. The Spiritual Qi outside is extremely thin and insufficient to give birth to Qi Refining cultivators.
A country without Qi Refining cultivators is easily destroyed!
As for who will be the mayor of the new city and what rules and regulations should be implemented, since it is a city built by the Artifact Forging Master Association itself, they can decide for themselves, Taiheng Sect lazy to care.
These Artifact Forging Master know nothing about city management, so if Yang Ning wanted to manage it himself, no one would really argue with him!
"That much power??" Yang Ning was somewhat taken aback, and then immediately asked Deep Blue to retrieve the data to study what kind of power the students of the Ascension Academy in Seacloud City possessed.
"Students of the Ascension Academy have no responsibilities or obligations to Seacloud City!" Deep Blue said. "There are no written books or laws explaining these things, but we can indirectly see how much power the disciples of the Ascension Academy wield!"
"Speak!"
"Firstly, forty-one years ago, Wang Gao, a disciple of the Ascension Academy, along with several other disciples, gang-raped and murdered a woman surnamed Yang, a resident of Seacloud City."
"And then what happened?"
"No results!"
Secondly, thirty-three years ago, Lin Jiu, a disciple of the Ascension Academy, sent a letter to all the merchant guilds in Seacloud City, offering him a beautiful woman.
"Um, and then what?"
"All the chambers of commerce offered their services. Because there were so many chambers and time was of the essence, some chambers couldn't find any beautiful women, so they even offered their wives and daughters..."
"Uh..." Yang Ning was taken aback. "I remember some chambers of commerce are backed by disciples of the Ascension Academy or the Taiheng Sect, right?"
"So what if it is? Lin Jiu's surname is Lin, and she's just a woman. Why should we create such a filthy relationship with Lin Jiu over this?"
Yang Ning understood. Women had a low status in this era; even Su Shi gave away his concubine.
"Thirdly, this incident occurred twenty-four years ago. Liu Cheng, a disciple of the Ascension Academy, discovered that the jade pendant his mother had given him was missing after visiting the flower market. He then wrote to the Haiyun Army, ordering them to conduct a city-wide search!"
"Haiyun Army obeys?"
"I heard! And it was the Great Commander of the Haiyun Army personally leading the team!"
They act recklessly, committing murder and arson, taking whatever beautiful women they want, and even calling in the army for the smallest things!
This isn't a disciple of the Ascension Academy, this is Celestial Dragons!
And this Haiyun Army!
Yang Ning then remembered that his bacteriophage was also in the sea, and he had almost scouted out the surrounding sea conditions.
There are Sea Monster outside, but their numbers are definitely small, and their cultivation levels are not high. One or two Qi Refining Stage cultivators would be enough to suppress them. Why would we need a Great Commander, four Small Commander, five Qi Refining Qi Refining Stage, and two hundred thousand soldiers to guard them?
This isn't about fighting Sea Monster; it's about protecting the disciples of the Ascension Academy!
Oh no, the Celestial Dragons are me?!