"A million qing... such a lavish gesture..." Tang Wen was stunned. He had spent over a year working away in the Chu Kingdom, and his islands combined amounted to only around ten thousand qing.
Yet they were giving him a million qing in one go. What did that even mean?
Even all the land in Linghai Province put together probably did not amount to that much, did it?
It seemed this position of Eleventh Elder was quite a bargain, too. He was not losing out.
He was just preparing to establish a medicinal herb plantation. A pillow had arrived just as he was getting sleepy.
"Reporting to the city lord, I think Cloudmist City would be suitable," Zhou Quan said.
"Where is Cloudmist City?" Tang Wen hurriedly asked. If it was too far away, his medicinal herb plans would be difficult to carry out. His whip would be too short to reach.
"Not far. Only a few hundred thousand li from Black Tortoise City," Grand Elder Wan Fuyuan said with a dry chuckle.
"A few hundred thousand li? What would I want it for, that far away?" Tang Wen almost choked with anger.
"Heh, that place didn't originally belong to Black Tortoise City.
"It was under another city's jurisdiction, but later they ceded it to Black Tortoise City as compensation.
"Although that land would belong to you, everything around it belongs to someone else.
"When you operate on someone else's turf, you have to take their wishes into account.
"I hear the city lord there is hard to please. He's a fierce fellow, not gentle like our city lord," Xifang Heluo said.
"Could we switch to somewhere else? Somewhere near Black Tortoise City, for instance. That would make traveling back and forth easier for me," Tang Wen said.
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