Talisman Reincarnation - All My Clones Are Dao Ancestors-Chapter 97: The Stone Lotus County

It was finally Mu Yan’s turn after the three people in front of him completed their business.

During the whole time, he looked left and right to see an opening for a faster reception.

Unfortunately, he had already taken the one with the least people. In the end, the reception next to him, with also three people in front, had barely handled one person. During that time, his receptionist handled three.

"Greetings esteemed eunuch, how may I help you?" the receptionist asked when he saw Mu Yan.

While there was no distinction in rank between people, there was still bias towards people who work in the same field as you.

Ignoring all else, these eunuchs were basically service workers just like them.

"Greetings. I have just been assigned two Royal Descendants and I wanted to discuss their Assignment to the Royal Office, if possible."

"The Royal Office Assignment?" the receptionist was curious, "This assignment is usually done directly by us, isn’t it? Does the eunuch have a special wish? We... we can’t delay the assignment..."

"No, why would I wish to delay it! Serving the dynasty is the duty of all eunuchs and even more so of the Royal Descendants who are being fed with the taxes of all the imperial citizens!

I only wish to discuss the specific assignment."

"If it’s just that, then it’s indeed possible. Let me inform the Royal Assignment Committee and ask them for a meeting with you."

After saying that, the receptionist tapped on the jade plate in front of him.

The Royal Assignment Committee regulated everything from assigning the royals to eunuchs to leading the royals to offices. Only after the royals entered the offices would they formally leave their jurisdiction and instead be under the authority of the Imperial Office.

A few moments later, the receptionist looked up to Mu Yan and asked, "May I ask for your name, esteemed Royal Eunuch?"

"I am Junior Royal Eunuch Mu Yan."

The receptionist tapped a few more times before looking over, his face a bit perplexed.

"I have been told that you can freely choose the Royal Office to be assigned to as long as it’s empty."

"Hmm, do you have a map perhaps?" Mu Yan didn’t think deeply of it. Maybe the committee had this regulation anyways, or maybe he had left a good impression. The reason didn’t matter, what mattered was to do the work.

"Where is it..." the receptionist muttered as he looked through the scrolls on the shelf behind him.

A moment later, he finally took out a scroll and went back to the reception, unfurling it for Mu Yan to see.

The scroll was a whole map of the Ning Dynasty!

Spreading from the centre of the central region to the mountains of the southern region, the dynasty was huge!

Fu Xian looked at it at the same time as Mu Yan did – instantly, he took out a large uncut piece of paper and copied the map while Mu Yan was looking at it.

There were many lines and dots.

"These golden dots are the places where there is a Royal Office, and the grey ones are the places where there isn’t one."

Mu Yan nodded and looked all around.

His instinct led him to look at the southeastern border region.

There was a river flowing from east to south. Consisting of three intertwining and extending streams, it was called the Southern Three Streams River, flowing from north east to the south.

Crossing several empires and kingdoms, it finally entered the Ning Dynasty and became a lake. This lake was the border province of the Ning Dynasty, called the Cloud Lake Province!

There were several prefectures in this province – among which three prefectures bordered the territories of other kingdoms right away. Each of these prefectures controlled one of the streams of the Southern Three Streams River.

One of these was the River Lotus Prefecture, a prefecture controlling one of the three streams at the border.

The three streams intertwine and divide. Sometimes they are close, sometimes they are far.

In one section of these, two streams are extremely close, nearly touching.

There was a small county town in this section, called the Stone Lotus County.

A mountain was on this section in the shape of a lotus, from which the name ’Stone Lotus County’ came.

There was a pass going through the mountain with a large opening in the centre. This was where the County Town of Stone Lotus was, enclosed and yet open to the skies. This pass also connected the lower and middle stream with abundant water spiritual power and yet still strong earth spiritual power.

Looking at the map from above, Mu Yan saw the lotus shape of the mountain. It was like a drifting lotus on a river, truly breathtaking.

He also saw that behind the lotus, there was basically no more land.

Looking at the receptionist, he asked curiously, "Why is there only a single mountain here? And yet it’s a county!"

"Oh no, esteemed eunuch, this is only the appearance. In fact, the Stone Lotus County doesn’t only encompass the stone mountain but also the section of the two streams below and above.

There are in fact many fishers’ villages all around the mountain. They live on the mountain and fish in the river."

"This position seems excellent then. With a great pass and a connection to the two streams that connect the outside and inside, why hasn’t it been taken before?"

"It’s not that no one took it..." the receptionist read the logs while explaining. After all, he didn’t know everything and could only reply based on the information written down.

"There have been quite a few Royal Descendants who chose this place.

But this place has both military and governance hurdles.

Many water beasts flow from above into this region, requiring a strong general to defend this section.

Although at this section, the lower and middle streams are very small while the upper stream contains more than 90% of the river water, this section is still quite dangerous. Sometimes, even fourth-stage sea beasts enter it.

The Martial Royal Descendants up to now have proven to be useless in the face of these enemies, so they have been sent back.

As for the governance issues... well, the distribution of benefits, the maritime trade and the populace of mortals in this region have always been an issue. Being sidelined by the local families, they never managed to do anything. In the end, they were sent away for various reasons."

"Hmm..." Mu Yan felt that it was quite troublesome, but a voice in his head told him that this would be the right choice.

A thought spread across his mind: when the royals enter the city, all nobles pay their respects! As long as he went there, there would surely be people who side with him. He only needed to make sure to regulate this group and sideline the other group, gradually gaining advantage.

When his two children reached the third rank, he could fully control this county!

"Alright, I’ll choose this county!"