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Chapter 680: All-Eest City!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Now that Wang Chong had a chance to repeat everything and had the authority to establish a fief, he wouldn’t let the chance slip by Histhe fifty thousand valiant warriors of Wushang
According to the laws of the Great Tang, once Wang Chong established a city there andpeople would fall under his administration, and no one would be able to take it froest chips in his bid to change fate and recreate the Great Tang!
It’s about tiht on hisfrom the table and quickly left the room
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"What? The Young Marquis actually chose an i to establish his fief!&8221;
"Has he gone crazy? Why would he give up such a good chance?&8221;
"What a waste! The Wang Clan actually threay such a good chance! This is a great show of favor fro that countless people could only dreanorance can be excused by his youth, but Wang Gen is an old official of the court Why didn’t he try and advise his nephew to do otherwise? What was he thinking?&8221;
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The news that Wang Chong had chosen the distant Wushang as his fief sent h the capital Everyone was struck du a rich land to nurture the later generations was a choice that every great clan wouldClan had unexpectedly chosen a most barren and uncivilized land for its fief Not even if they had dashed their heads against the ground would anyone have expected such a decision
When the news reached King Qi, he was first dazed, and then he sneered "H Clan has chosen Wushang, inform the Bureau of Revenue and have this matter settled as quickly as possible If too ht regret its decision&8221;
It was rare for the Wang Clan to make such a low-level o by Quickly setting thisClan
But King Qi’s satisfaction was not able to last for long Soon after the Bureau of Revenue endorsed the decision, the situation was reversed News quickly spread through the capital that the Young Marquis had chosen Wushang as his fief with the intent of exploiting the Silk Road to the west
Moreover, the Young Marquis had decided to build a massive city on the Silk Road that would serve as a rest stop for h He wanted to build inns, restaurants, and tea houses, and also store a large number of supplies This city would serve as a resupply point for merchants and also assist them in their dearest need: protection
This news shook the capital The first to react to this neere the extremely powerful Hu merchants of the capital All the ions, the Abbasid Caliphate, and Charax Spasinu rushed to the Wang Clan to inquire about this city When would it be built? How big would it be? What was the specific location? What supplies could it offer?…
These were the questions that concerned the the east and west, and a vast and uncountable fortune flowed through it So great was the wealth flowing through it that all countries and all peoples knew of its naued by bandits and thieves, which were a constant pain to theChong was building a city on the Silk Road had immediately attracted the notice of the Hu merchants
They were also the ones who paid the most attention to it
If this city could offer resupply and could also offer protection in the case of bandit raids, all the Hu ive the matter their full support
More news quickly followed On the same day that the Bureau of Revenue approved the location of the fief, a wastrel scion of the capital began to say that Wang Chong had already given the three e E Shouzhi, giving the man who had built the I Shouzhi had already ordered his disciples to begin recruiting workers