Green Mountain

Yulin Army Commander’s Mansion.

Long covered buildings formed into the shape of the character "门" encircle the training field, with the left side housing stables, keeping the war horses of the Yulin Army; on the right is the government office, along with the storage area for military equipment.

Above the government office hangs a plaque with the golden characters "Loyalty and Diligence in Military Preparations." The couplet on the front reads, "Devising strategies with a three-foot sword," and "Serving the king with all one’s heart," though no one knows which flatterer wrote it, but the calligraphy isn’t bad.

Inside the office, Chen Ji sits behind the desk recording with a brush: "Duobao, tuition fee fifteen taels; Zhou Chong, tuition fee eight taels; Zhou Li, tuition fee five taels..."

With a slap, Qi Zhenzhuo hits the back of Zhou Li’s head: "Zhou Chong is because his family is strict, what’s your reason? You’re only paying five taels to learn real skills?"

Zhou Li replied helplessly: "Lord, my Zhou family can’t compare to your Qi family, my monthly salary is only ten taels."

"You haven’t been to the Eight Great Hutongs any less!" Qi Zhenzhuo said to Chen Ji: "Master, mark him for ten taels!"

Chen Ji smiled gently and said, "No need, if everyone has to give all their silver for tuition fees, how can they live?"

Saying that, he wrote in the account book: "Zhou Li, nine taels."

Chen Ji flipped through the account book and silently calculated: The Yulin Army returning from Guyuan, excluding him, totals thirty-seven people, collecting a total of five hundred seventy taels of tuition monthly.

If at this speed, in two years, they could save enough for a stripe, and in eight more years, they could enter the Seeking Dao Realm. A Grand Official at twenty-six years old in the Seeking Dao Realm would be enough to establish oneself.