Chapter 17 - Imperial City
The Imperial City was mainly composed of the Imperial Palace and the Long's ancestral land. The Long's ancestral land was the place where the generations of the royal Long family lived.
There were only fifty thousand people in the Imperial City, but these fifty thousand people were the core strength of the entire Long's. Anyone who joined the army would have to reach the Dou Ling class at the very least, and only those with a different surname could join the Imperial Guard Army after being selected and assessed by all the members of the Long's. Not only did they have to battle formation and cooperate with the Dou Technique, they also had to wear Level 6 Armor and Six Equipment, which could increase the combat power of the unit by several fold. The commander in chief of this force was the emperor. No one was allowed to deploy any of the troops. They only listened to the emperor's orders; they were the main forces guarding the imperial city.
Only after going through several years of hellish training did they have the qualification to become one of the "Dragon Guards". The lowest cultivation level of these people had to be at the first level of Arena, otherwise the Dragon Guards wouldn't accept them, and these people would directly listen to the emperor's orders, but their duties were different from the other imperial guards, their main responsibility was to inspect the movements of all forces in the entire Empire. Under normal circumstances, these people's identities would be hidden in the dark, and their identities would be extremely confidential. The Dragon Guards held supreme authority in the entire Empire. Not only did they have the right to supervise all the minor matters in the country, they also had the power to kill and kill all the big and small aristocrats in the Empire. It was rumored that their leader was a Saint-rank expert, that the ten captains were all experts of nine star Dou Zun and that the one hundred captains were also experts of a one star Dou Zun. This kind of core combat strength was a sharp knife the Imperial Family wielded in the Empire.
The Long's had already formed a large living area in the Long's ancestral land, which was divided into the inner city and outer city. The people living in the inner city were the direct descendants of the Long's, while the people living in the outer city were the disciples of the Long's's side branches. It was possible for direct descendents of the Long's to cultivate the clan's low-rank earth-step cultivation technique "Tyrant Dragon Technique", but for Imperial disciples, they could only cultivate the high-grade Profound Rank cultivation technique "Heavenly Dragon Technique", both of them were relatively famous cultivation techniques in the Long's, and when they reached the nine star Dou Zun realm, they could enter the clan's secret realm to practice the Sacred level cultivation technique, becoming a saint and become elders of the clan's secret realm. But for the disciples of the side branches, no matter how good their cultivation was, no matter how talented they were, they would not be able to enter the clan's secret realm. But the entire clan had already formed a set of management system. Other than the clan leader, there was a Council of Elders composed of forty-eight elders, which had constructed the highest management and daily management authority of the Long's clan.
The Long's family had a complete cultivation system and promotion system, the disciples in the family had to be trained by the family since they were young, and those with outstanding results could join the imperial guards through the family selection once a year, with a result of less than 5000 disciples who had attained the Dou Ling level. There were also 5000 members of the imperial guards who would withdraw from the imperial guards, and for various reasons, they would be separated to serve in various high ranking positions throughout the empire, through this cruel competition, the Long's had always maintained the new blood of the imperial guards and the dragon guard, ensuring that they could maintain their strongest fighting strength at any time.
The palace took up an area of ten thousand acres, and was mainly divided into thirty-six palaces and eighteen palaces.
Thirty-six Palaces: Guanzu, Cheng Gan Palace, Yi Kun Palace, Yongfu Palace, Qilin Palace, Yongshou Palace, Yongchun Palace, Gaiyan Palace, Yicheng Palace, Ice Spring Palace, Illusory Butterfly Palace, Everlasting Music Palace, Ruofeng Palace, Phoenix Palace, Flowing Flower Palace, Chen You Palace, Yong Hua Palace, Fan Hua Palace, Zhong Sing Palace, Hua Palace, Hua Yang Palace, Qu Fu Palace, Hua Xiang Palace, Luan Palace, Ming Palace of Orchid Luan, Chang Xin Palace, Chang Yan Palace.
18 halls: throne room, Yao Guang Palace, Tai He Hall, Ming Se Hall, Southern Lavender Hall, Qingzhui Hall, Tongxin Hall, Qingxin Hall, Jiang Yun Hall, Purple Dream Hall, Congealing Frost Hall, Lan Ling Hall, Ji Yue Hall, Jiao Fang Palace, Qingyan Hall, Xi Luan Hall, Yao Xian Hall, Xun.
In addition to the emperor, the imperial palace also had the empress, imperial concubines, concubines and more than three thousand people, all of which were stationed with five thousand imperial guards, as well as palace maids, eunuchs and servants, and more than ten thousand people.
Long Zhan was currently in the Eternal Fortune Palace, and he had not officially signed up for it yet, but he had already begun to take charge of the country's affairs. When he was the previous crown prince, he had been present in the country for many years, and regarding these sort of matters, he felt nothing strange or unfamiliar about it. He had to show his sharp claws to those who would help him to get on his throne, and he had to be determined to get rid of those people, or else there would be a hidden danger for him. But he had to control this situation well as soon as he got on the throne, or else it would cause the people in the capital to panic, so he could not take a policy of bloodshed yet, and could only settle the score with those people after the fall.
He sat on the soft bed, and when he was thinking about the person who had contributed the most to his position, he suddenly thought of his own younger brother, Long Xuan. If Long Xuan did not hand over a king level cultivator as a guard for this major event, perhaps he would have lost to the Third Prince, and that guard named Long Feng had actually died for the sake of killing him sent by the Third Prince. In the end, even the corpse could not be found, and Long Zhan had always felt that he owed Long Feng. But when he thought about how Long Xuan was still in his feudal fiefdom, Long Zhan decided to let him return to the capital, and let him leave this barren Howl Province as soon as possible. After returning to the capital, he could ensure his lifetime of wealth and fortune.
He immediately ordered the day eunuch on duty to write the imperial edict and have someone bring Long Xuan back to the capital from Howl Province. At the same time, he also ordered the day eunuch on duty to increase the quota for King Xuan's Mansion's daily usage.