Minister Jiang Zuo
"My lords, it has been quite a hard journey all the way from the Imperial City to the Beast Emperor Pavilion. Please come and sit in the living room of my Beast Emperor Pavilion headquarters, and we can sit and talk."
Ye Fan understood the implication of Kong Jianqing's words and smiled.
He led the adults into the unfinished Beast King Pavilion Manor and came to the headquarters building on a hill in the center of the manor.
The headquarters building of Beast Emperor Pavilion has been completed and can accommodate guests.
The Pavilion Master Gu Xinyue and the Great Elder Huayuan, as well as more than a dozen senior elders and captains of the Beast Emperor Pavilion such as Le Jing, Han Ziyi, Captain Ye Jinlong, etc., were already at the entrance of the headquarters building, waiting for Zixuan with excitement and anticipation. The special envoy of the Imperial City, Kong Jianqing, a bachelor of the cabinet, and others.
Ye Fan had already planned to leave the cultivation of the Mammoth Corps to the Beast Emperor Pavilion, so he did not keep the matter of the Mammoths a secret from the top brass of the Beast Emperor Pavilion. This matter has become a major secret matter in the Beast King Pavilion.
Ye Fan resurrecting the mammoth is certainly something he can do alone.
However, his plan to leave the task of cultivating a mammoth corps to the Beast Emperor Pavilion brought great hope to everyone at the Beast Emperor Pavilion.
The imperial court will definitely need to give the Beast Emperor Pavilion a large training fee, and the Beast Emperor Pavilion can take advantage of the situation to make its name in the imperial city, so that the Beast Emperor Pavilion can gain a firm foothold and develop in the imperial city.
Without such a resounding golden name as the exclusive operation of mammoths, how could the Beast Emperor Pavilion compete with those powerful beast-taming dealers in the imperial city who had been operating for thousands or tens of thousands of years.
And the reason why Ye Fan did this was entirely because of Gu Xinyue. If not, the Beast Emperor Pavilion would not be able to intervene in this matter.
Of course, all this still requires the consent of the Zixuan Dynasty.
Today, Ye Fan, on behalf of the Beast Emperor Pavilion, negotiated with Kong Jianqing, the special envoy of the imperial court, to finalize a specific contract for the training of the Mammoth Corps.
Under the guidance of Ye Fan, Princess Ji Rouyu, Bachelor of the Kong Jianqing Cabinet, General Xia Houyue, Minister Jiang Yi Zuo, Minister Chai Song, and other royal family members and ministers came to the headquarters building of the Beast King Pavilion.
Gu Xinyue was shocked when she saw that in addition to Kong Jianqing, there were many unknown court ministers coming together. She looked at Mark, but Mark didn't say anything. She couldn't figure out the situation for a moment and didn't ask any more questions.
"Everyone in the Beast Emperor's Pavilion, please pay your respects to the princess and all your lords!"
The other Great Elder Huayuan and others in the Beast Emperor Pavilion were shocked when they saw a group of majestic and dignified royal relatives and ministers arriving from the imperial court. They did not dare to neglect and saluted respectfully.
"No gift!"
Ji Rouyu walked into the living room of the building and said calmly.
Xia Houyue entered the headquarters of Beast King Pavilion and looked around, his eyes full of contempt and disgust.
This Beast Emperor Pavilion headquarters is made of rough materials, and it looks like it was built by ordinary craftsmen. It has no elegance and beauty that is typical of the manor buildings of aristocratic families with profound heritage. It looks like a bunch of standard bumpkins from the inside out.
The guests of honor took their seats.
Ye Fan and the three Martial Kings of the Beast King Pavilion, Gu Xinyue and Huayuan Elder, sat on one side. Le Jing, Han Ziyi, Ye Jinlong and other Wuhou captains had lower status and could only stand behind them.
The five kings of Wu, including Princess Ji Rouyu, Kong Jianqing, Xia Houyue, Jiang Yi, and Chai Song, were sitting on the other side.
The maids made tea for the princess and the ladies.
The rest of the large group of retinues and palace guards stood guard outside the headquarters building from a distance to prevent other people from approaching and eavesdropping on the adults discussing the military affairs of the Zixuan Dynasty.
Xia Houyue, Jiang Yi, Chai Song and others looked at each other and exchanged glances in a tacit understanding.
The Xiahou family, the Jiang family, and the Chai family are one of the ten top martial sage families in the Zixuan Dynasty. They are close to the Ji family and have huge power in the Zixuan court. In Zixuan Imperial City The territory is also dotted with huge family industries.
It can be said that they represent the three giant families.
There are huge benefits in preparing the Mammoth Corps.
The allocation from the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Zixuan Dynasty alone is as high as 100 million yuan stones. This is only the initial investment of a hundred small mammoths. In the later period, the scale of the Corps expanded, and the investment increased tenfold and hundreds of times, continuously.
As long as they can control the cultivation of mammoths, they can get a large share of the pie and obtain tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions in the future.
Leaving aside the income from the imperial court's formation of corps, private beast masters also had a high desire for the powerful mammoth as a beast.
After meeting the court's demand for forming a mammoth corps and allowing private transactions, the beast masters of the Zixuan Dynasty and the eight hundred princes and citizens will definitely be excited and crazy, and will be willing to spend huge prices to purchase mammoths. A beast master with the blood of the Beast King.
Monopolizing the mammoth breeding business and selling it to the public would be an unimaginable amount of wealth. It was so rich that martial saints like them could enjoy it endlessly for generations.
When they learned of the confidential news that the imperial court was required to form the Mammoth Corps, the major aristocratic families launched an all-out private lobbying campaign, and finally persuaded His Majesty the Emperor to let the five departments of the royal family, cabinet, household, war, and rites join forces and each faction Organize it together.
The royal family represents the interests of the huge Ji family. The huge Ji family is the largest family in the Zixuan Dynasty.
The cabinet is directly responsible to His Majesty the Emperor and can be interviewed at any time. It also represents the Emperor's personal will. Anyone who goes against the cabinet is going against Emperor Zixuan.
The six ministries, including the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Rites, represented the interests of the imperial court. But because most of the official positions in the imperial court have actually been occupied by the children of many aristocratic families, they actually represent the interests of various aristocratic families.
His Majesty ordered Kong Jianqing's cabinet bachelor, Ji Rouyu, and three of their ministers to prepare for the Mammoth Corps together. The five of them decided on the major and minor matters of organizing the Mammoth Corps.
But in fact, as long as the three of them join forces, they can decide all the major and minor matters in preparing the Mammoth Corps. When the time comes, all it takes is a share of the royal family and the cabinet.
Of the three martial kings dispatched by the Beast King Pavilion, only Ye Fan can speak.
How could a mere Beast Emperor Pavilion compete with their Zixuan Imperial Court?
In the hall, the atmosphere was solemn.
Everyone knows that there will soon be a fierce and heated negotiation between representatives of the Zixuan Imperial Court and the Beast King Pavilion, breaking out here.
As a cabinet scholar, Kong Jianqing is a close minister of His Majesty and knows all about the royal family.
Of course he knew that the Xiahou, Jiang, Chai and other powerful families suddenly stepped in. They must have taken a fancy to the fat piece of meat that was planning to build the Mammoth Corps, and they would not let it go without taking a bite. The most likely possibility is to take away the right to cultivate mammoths from the hands of the Beast King Pavilion, thus forcing Ye Fan to fall out and hinder the preparation of a new corps.
This made him extremely angry, but he was helpless.
But what he was most concerned about was the successful preparation of the Mammoth Corps, and he did not want to confront the three powerful families. Everyone in the court said seriously, "The five of us represent the five departments of the court, plus Brother Ye, the deputy head of the Beast Emperor Pavilion." Identity, representing the Beast King Pavilion, is basically a six-party participant in the preparation of the Mammoth Corps. Everyone is working for the court and His Majesty, so we might as well get straight to the point and talk about how to prepare the Mammoth Corps. Your Majesty has ordered me to prepare this matter, Then let me start by throwing some bricks and mortar together. The preparation of the Mammoth Corps is a major event that will be of great benefit to the Zixuan Dynasty and our Shenwu Human Race. Even if it is difficult and difficult, it must be done at any cost! Your Majesty is absolutely not willing to do it. Disappointed to see this matter failed."
He glanced at everyone and emphasized his tone.
Kong Jianqing put his own future on the establishment of the Mammoth Corps and promised His Majesty that it would be accomplished. Naturally, he could not allow this matter to die midway. He directly brought out the will of Emperor Zixuan and warned everyone present in advance.
This is a negotiation, but don't screw it up.
Otherwise, if he reports it to His Majesty, everyone will look bad and it will be difficult to explain.
Ye Fan looked indifferent and said nothing, just listening to Kong Jianqing and other five royal relatives and ministers express their opinions.
When Gu Xinyue, Great Elder Huayuan and other members of the Beast Emperor Pavilion heard Kong Jianqing's warning, a towering mountain weighed on their hearts.
As the co-owner of the Dongzhou human race in the Shenwu Continent, the Zixuan Dynasty is such a behemoth. Compared with the imperial court, the Beast Emperor Pavilion is not even an ant, at most it is an invisible speck of dust.
The Beast King Pavilion's desire to obtain the right to cultivate the Mammoth Corps would be much more difficult than they imagined, and the hope was extremely slim.
After Kong Jianqing finished speaking, everyone in the hall fell into silence, obviously thinking about how to respond. If anyone deliberately "made trouble" and was brought before His Majesty by Kong Jianqing, I'm afraid it would be difficult for them to explain.
"What do you think, princess?"
Kong Jianqing couldn't help but look at Ji Rouyu, hoping to get her clear support and put pressure on everyone so as not to make any mistakes during the negotiations and sabotage the preparation of the Mammoth Corps.
Ji Rouyu smiled faintly, "My father ordered me to supervise the preparation of the new regiment, and try to make sure there are no mistakes. As for the details of the preparation, you adults are better at it, so it is up to you to make the decision."
The light words did not reveal any position or attitude.
Of course, if anyone really doesn't take her seriously. It was easy for her to pick out a few flaws like sesame seeds and mung beans.
The three ministers Xia Houyue, Jiang Yi and Chai Song looked at each other.
Finally, it was Jiang Yi, the left minister of the Ministry of Revenue who was in charge of the imperial court's financial power, who spoke first. He glanced at the three senior officials of the Beast King Pavilion and said coldly: "Of course I have no objection to Mr. Kong's opinion. Preparing for the establishment of the Mammoth Corps , is currently the top priority of the dynasty. The newly built Mammoth Corps will be an important weapon of the dynasty. Of course, this corps must be trained by the most powerful and experienced beast masters in the dynasty in order to be worthy of trust. The Beast Emperor Pavilion is nothing but It is a small businessman and does not have the strength to cultivate a huge mammoth corps. It is child's play and nonsense to hand over the important weapons of the imperial court to an uncivilized small businessman. The requirements of the Ministry of Revenue are very simple, from Find a few trustworthy and powerful beast masters in the imperial city to train the Mammoth Corps. Otherwise, the Ministry of Revenue will not support this childish plan!"
As for which beast control dealers in the Zixuan Dynasty are trustworthy?
The Jiang family, the Xiahou family, and the Chai family all have large animal control merchants under their names. The Ji family and the Kong family also have animal control merchants under their names, so they all share this big business together. Why take advantage of the Beast Emperor Pavilion who appeared out of nowhere.
Jiang Yi smiled, with a hint of casual arrogance and contempt on his elegant face, and glanced at Ye Fan, Gu Xinyue, Hua Yuan and other senior members of the Beast King Pavilion.
Ye Fan from the Beast Emperor Pavilion does have the ability to resurrect mammoth stone eggs. If it weren't for Ye Fan's unique mastery of resurrecting mammoth stone eggs, he wouldn't even bother to set foot in the Beast Emperor's Pavilion.
But so what, the value of Beast King Pavilion is only this.
There are as many geniuses as dogs at the foot of the imperial city. They are not worth a lot of money. How can they fight with the five of them?
He holds the power of appropriation from the Ministry of Revenue, and has the power to influence everything in the dynasty, and few people in the entire imperial city are willing to fawn over him. I don't believe that the little Beast Emperor Pavilion and a few Martial Kings can find the palm of his hand.
It's enough for him to act alone.
He wanted to see if Ye Fan and Xiao Xiaozhuangge were obedient or if they wanted to struggle.