Bai Shao was also startled. His face turned pale and he instinctively took a small step back in fear, shrinking his head and quickly explaining.
"Brother, listen to me. This is a special case. Clear Sky City was attacked by a monster and suffered heavy losses. And it's really not our fault. That monster is too strong. No one can defeat it..."
"Shut up! Listen to me..."
Bai Lin scolded angrily.
Then when he was about to scold Bai Shao.
Bai Mucheng, who was standing aside, spoke lightly, interrupting Bai Lin's scolding.
"Father, I don't think Uncle Bai can be blamed for this. He did try his best. I've seen the battle in Clear Sky City. That monster was definitely not something they could handle. It's reasonable that they need some assistance since it caused so much damage."
"Brother, really don't blame me!"
City Lord Bai Shao swallowed and said with some fear.
When Bai Lin heard this, his anger gradually subsided. He snorted coldly and spoke.
"Since Mu Cheng said so, let's forget it this time. I will allocate some money to you."
"Big brother, besides the money, can you allocate another unit of the Clear Sky Army to me? The Clear Sky City troops suffered heavy losses in this conflict with the monsters, and my daughter almost died in the battle."
After hearing Bai Lin's agreement, Bai Shao was delighted at first and then asked for it.
"What? You want more troops?"
Bai Lin's suppressed anger was instantly ignited again. He almost stood up and hit Bai Shao a few times.
At this time, Bai Mucheng, who was standing by, was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry after hearing this, and quickly spoke up to smooth things over.
"Father, I don't think this request is too much. It is indeed a special case."
Bai Lin's face turned pale, he glared at Bai Shao fiercely, then spoke.
"Okay, I'll allocate another unit of the Sky Clear Army to you. But listen to me, I've exempted you from taxes, given you the money, and allocated you troops. If you can't manage Sky Clear City well, you'll have to quit!"
"Thank you, brother. I will manage Clear Sky City well."
Lord Bai Shao said with a sense of relief.
At this moment, Bai Lin suddenly thought of something and spoke.
"Oh, I remembered something. I'll just allocate a wave of troops to you. It exceeds the upper limit of the number of troops you can have. How about this? I'll promote your daughter Bai Lanxin's colonel rank to major general. That should be enough."
"I'll thank you, big brother, on behalf of my daughter!"
City Lord Bai Shao quickly thanked Bai Lin.
"Okay, if you have anything else to say, go down now."
Bai Lin coldly ordered them to leave.
"It's alright, I'll take my leave now."
City Lord Bai Shao nodded his head hurriedly and was about to turn around and leave. But suddenly he stopped and spoke as if he had just remembered something.
"Brother, there is one more thing."
Bang~
The teacup that Bai Lin had just reached out to pick up fell directly to the ground.
At this moment, Bai Lin's patience had reached its limit. If Bai Mucheng hadn't been standing next to him, he would have probably lost his temper.
"If you have something to say, say it now. If you have to fart, fart now!"
"It's like this. The four dogs you keep outside the city have been too restless recently. They've been doing things that are unbearable to watch and have caused public outrage. I'm worried that they'll cause trouble for you and have a bad impact on the Bai family."
City Lord Bai Shao said hurriedly.
When Bai Lin heard this, he frowned slightly and then spoke.
"I see. I'll have someone beat them up."
"Okay, I'll take my leave now."
Bai Shao said this and bowed to Bai Lin and Bai Mucheng, then stepped out humbly.
In fact, although Bai Shao calls Bai Lin "big brother", they are not biological brothers, nor are they cousins.
The Bai family is one of the eight cabinets of the Red Alliance, and Vice President Bai Mucheng is the official representative of the Bai family.
Clear Sky City was originally an independent kingdom, and the first head of the Bai Family was the emperor of the original Clear Sky City. After the Red Alliance was established, the head of the kingdom brought members of the royal family to the parliament to take up positions and established the Bai Family.
As for City Lord Bai Shao, his ancestors were brothers of the Emperor. They separated and stayed in Clear Sky City alone, established the City Lord’s Mansion to manage Clear Sky City for the Bai family, and were responsible for supplying resources and manpower.
Special rules were set at the time of the division. In order to maintain a close relationship between the Bai family and the Lord of Clear Sky City, the heirs of the Lord of Clear Sky City would be trained and studied together with the descendants of the Bai family in their childhood and would address each other as brothers.
After Bai Lin pondered for a few seconds, he turned and said to Bai Mucheng.
"When you return to the parliament in the afternoon, please take care of Bai Lanxin's military affairs. As for those four dogs, I'll ask Bai Sui to warn them. They keep giving me a lot of worry every day."
"Okay, by the way, father has something to tell you."
Bai Mucheng nodded slightly, then spoke seriously.
"What is it?"
"I recently got some information through some special channels. The other seven families are constantly opening up new land in the other world. They have also identified a main world and mobilized a large number of people and resources to go there. On the surface, they say that this is to speed up the progress of the new land, but in fact, some families are just using this as an excuse. They want to occupy the other world and establish themselves as kings."
"Humph, there's nothing strange about that. It would be abnormal if they didn't do that."
"What do you mean?"
"Don't worry about it. The Speaker of the Parliament already knew about it. Everyone wants freedom and wants to have fun, but you have to have the ability to do so."
Bai Lin replied nonchalantly.
"Understood."
Bai Mucheng nodded in response.
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Two o'clock in the afternoon.
The City of Sunken Stars, the Hall of Holy Words.
In the solemn hall, congressmen took their seats one by one, and everyone talked to each other in low voices.
Just then, Long Yan walked in wearing a bright red parliamentary robe and a white faceless mechanical mask, followed by a vice-president of the parliament.
The Holy Word Hall, which was originally filled with whispers, suddenly became quiet.
After Long Yan and many vice-presidents took their seats, Long Yan groaned and spoke.
"Thank you all for attending the meeting. The meeting will begin now."
At this time, Vice Speaker Wang Heng stood up, coughed and said.
"The latest report has been compiled. Please review it, Speaker of the Parliament."
"Well, hand it over."
Long Yan responded calmly.
Then the representatives of the eight major families and the military stood up and submitted reports to the chairman of the Longyan Council.
Council Speaker Long Yan then looked through the report submitted to him.
These reports record in detail the revenue from land reclamation handed in by the Eight Great Families and the military. Part of these revenues will be used to arm the Red Alliance’s troops, and part will be used to update the mall of the Tianming Workers APP.
However, when Long Yan looked at the list on the report, his eyes flickered.
In fact, he knew exactly what benefits the eight major families and the military had gained, because all of them had been passed back through secret channels long ago.
After looking at the quantity and quality of these reports, Council Chairman Long Yan was very dissatisfied.