Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 1458: Chapter 64: Development of the Wang Family in Various Aspects_3

Anyone could see that his constitution had begun to decline, and he was inevitably entering the twilight years of his life.

The lifespan of a cultivator at the Purple Abode Realm reaches eight hundred years, which seems lengthy, but no matter how long, it is still finite. When one’s lifespan is reached, even the most gloriously infinite powerhouse will inevitably age and die, and no one can escape it.

It’s just that the higher the level of cultivation, the later the aging comes.

Master Danding mentioned the opportunity he had in the past to take his disciples to Beizhou because his own lifespan was coming to an end; if he did not go now, he might never have the chance again.

With the arrival of Master Danding, everyone who was set to journey to Beizhou was now fully assembled.

The Wang family’s steam-powered ironclad ships did not delay in the port for long. After replenishing the ship’s supplies, they set off once again, heading northward.

On the day the steam-powered ironclad ships set sail,

A figure appeared amidst the crowd on the dock.

The figure was dressed in a uniform from the Wang family’s Artifact Refining Company, and on his chest, he wore the badge of a Senior Refiner issued by the Special Professional Guild. It was none other than Dongfang Yuxi, who had finally come to a realization.

Standing among the crowd, he gazed at the colossal ironclad ships from afar, never managing to make up his mind to approach, merely raising his hand to salute in the direction of the ironclad ships with utmost solemnity as they left the harbor.

He knew that although he had now joined the Wang family’s Artifact Refining Company and his family had emerged from difficult times, with the future looking brighter, the gap between him and Wang Shouye would continue to widen from this day forth, as vast as the difference between clouds and mud.

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Time passed. Unbeknownst to many, several months had gone by since Wang Shouye and others had embarked on their journey to Beizhou.

October.

The winter wheat had already been sown.

The world was now enveloped in the yellowish hue of early winter.

However, for Guard City, besides autumn harvest, there would be one exceptionally significant event every October—the “Gaokao.”

After one hundred and seventy years of exploration and development, the education system of Guard City had gradually become perfected and matured.

Children usually began enlightenment at the age of six. After two years of pre-school education, they would enter the extensive elementary education academy system and, after three years of study and assessment, could proceed to the secondary education academies.

Having studied five years at the secondary education academies, they could undertake higher education examinations.

With elementary and secondary education now being almost universally accessible among the younger generations, higher education became a significant divide and the “litmus test” of a decade of hard study.

Within the Wang family’s school, there was a building tens of floors high, named “Yusuo Building,” after the name of the second generation’s eldest legitimate son of the Changning Wang family, Wang Yusuo.

Old Ancestor Yusuo possessed decent talents when he was young, but his early attempt at impacting the Spiritual Platform Stage failed, causing damage to his Spiritual Platform and rendering him without hope for reaching that realm for life.

If this had happened in today’s era, Wang Shouzhe would definitely have ways to restore and nourish Old Ancestor Yusuo’s Spiritual Platform, but for the Wang family of that time, it was an unsolvable problem.

Therefore, Old Ancestor Yusuo devoted himself wholeheartedly to the establishment of the clan school, and it was due to his efforts that a solid foundation for the family school was laid. Thus, when the Wang Family School grew and required a massive educational development and management organization, it was named after Old Ancestor Yusuo.

By the way, Old Ancestor Yusuo was Longyan Old Ancestor’s biological father.

Today’s Yusuo Building had already become the absolute core of Guard City’s educational world.

All those densely distributed “village schools” and “town schools,” as well as the ever-expanding secondary education academies in the larger towns, and those famous higher education academies, were all planned within Yusuo Building before being constructed and developed.

To put it simply, the Yusuo Building was like the Ministry of Education within the Wang’s Jurisdiction.

The Wang family has always spared no effort in their investment in the field of education.

At this moment.

Wang Shouzhe was sitting in the office on the top floor of Yusuo Building, listening to the current situation regarding education and candidates. Of course, he was not sitting in the main seat but was joining Master Jiang in guarding the seriously and earnestly expressive Emperor Longchang.

Below the three of them, a woman who appeared about twenty-five or twenty-six years old and possessed a serious yet handsome appearance was reporting to them.

“Your Majesty, Master Jiang, Father. The number of candidates from our Guard City participating in the ‘Gaokao’ this time has reached 83,519, of which 20,310 are borrowing students from the surrounding guard cities and the entire Longzuo County.”

“Among the borrowing students, those from Southern Six Guards are the most numerous, with fewer as one moves further away. The other counties have borrowing students numbering in the hundreds each, but Return to Dragon City has 19,513 people, most of whom are from the prominent families, and some even from the Imperial Household, reportedly all arranged personally by Your Majesty.”

Wang Shouzhe revealed a smile and said, “It seems, Your Majesty, that during your prolonged stay with our family, you have come to highly recognize our family’s education.”

“Is that your merit?” Emperor Longchang rolled his eyes and glared at Wang Shouzhe, saying, “That’s the result of Li Jue’s years of hard work in developing education.”

Quite obviously, although months had passed, he had far from let go of his indignation at being driven out of Stay Immortal Valley by Wang Shouzhe, and the order forbidding mahjong.

“Your Majesty, what you said…” Wang Shouzhe said calmly, “Li Jue is my biological daughter. Her current success also owes thanks to the education I provided back then.”

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