Mortal Mage

Feather Guard-Hundred Households

"If we talk about the most powerful person in the court, it is naturally the Minister of War, Li Xucheng. It is said that Li Xucheng was promoted by the Crown Prince. No one in the court dares to offend him. Unless there is an accident, most of the candidates who received the invitation should go to Li Xucheng's house."

The servant smiled and said, "As for Lord Wang, everyone in Taihe City knows that although he is the Minister of Revenue, he has no power in the court. You can just..."

He suddenly fell silent, scratched his cheek lightly, and stopped talking.

Some things, no matter how widely spread they are, are not something that a common citizen like him can discuss. He is only responsible for delivering the news, and there is no need to create trouble.

"Ok?"

Zhang Mingxuan saw that the boy had something to say but didn't, and looked puzzled.

The Minister of Revenue is still a Minister after all, how could he have no power in the court?

The servant had an embarrassed look on his face. He knew that Zhang Mingxuan was in a different place to take the exam and didn't know about the affairs of Taihe City, but this was not something that an ordinary citizen like him could discuss. "Sir, I don't know much else. I just hope that you will accept the invitation from the Ministry of War." He replied awkwardly, then bowed and left. "Sir, go to bed early."

"That's all. Thank you."

Zhang Mingxuan returned to his room, paced back and forth, and weighed the options in his mind.

He has been in this world for eighteen years and has experienced too much sadness and pain.

Since he was eight years old, he gradually discovered that in this world, using conventional physics to solve problems would not work at all. He began to doubt this world. Either this world was blocked by higher-dimensional creatures, or this world was a world of cultivating immortals, or at least a world of immortal heroes.

Over the years, he gradually ruled out the possibility that this world was blocked from physics by higher-dimensional creatures.

Since then, he has always suspected that this world is a world of cultivating immortals.

Occasionally he heard about immortals practicing Taoism, but they were all vague or groundless rumors, and he gained little from them.

Moreover, he had never seen any monsters, demons, or great people in this world in his eighteen years.

Zhang Mingxuan would also take time to visit famous mountains and rivers, Taoist temples and monasteries, trying to understand the practice of cultivation and immortality, but he had not gained anything over the years.

In the following years, he concluded that this was just an ordinary planetary continent. The road under his feet was round and the planet revolved around a star. Perhaps it was because the physics of the blue planet was subject to differences in other variables in the universe at this spatial scale, and the resources he had were insufficient, making it difficult to achieve advanced academic results.

After passing the imperial examination, you will have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of this country.

"But this Ministry of War..."

Zhang Mingxuan was in the room, stroking his chin and muttering to himself.

According to his understanding, the civil servants of the Taicang Empire's Ministry of War were going to go to the battlefield.

"It's absolutely impossible for me to go to the battlefield." Zhang Mingxuan paced around the room with two invitations in his hands, his mind in a mess; "What's the point of fighting in the cold weapon era?"

He threw the invitation from the Ministry of War aside.

After making up his mind, Zhang Mingxuan fell asleep peacefully.

-

There is a main street outside the Taihe Palace, divided into East Street and West Street.

Wang Shangshu's residence was on East Street, where many peddlers gathered, selling rice, flour, grain, oil, snacks, fruits, vegetables, wine and meat.

West Street is mostly lined with high-end shops such as restaurants, inns, singing houses, and theaters, and the buildings are very luxurious.

Three or five flag officers of the Feathered Guard, dressed in bright red official uniforms, were patrolling and on duty in the market town.

-

Zhang Mingxuan sat in the main hall in front of Shangshu Wang's house. The invitation said that a banquet was prepared, but the room was indeed empty without even a dining table.

What made him even more depressed was that it seemed that he was the only one who accepted the invitation from the Ministry of Revenue, and no one else came.

After he was led to the main hall in the front yard by the mansion's doorman, no one paid any attention to him and he was not even offered tea.

"They said they invited me to dinner, but judging from the situation, I guess the food is gone. It seems like we are here to discuss business."

He hadn't eaten any breakfast or lunch, saving his stomach for the delicacies that the Minister would prepare.