823 Fortune Teller (1/2)

Chapter 823 – Fortune Teller

3rd month, 1st day, afternoon, Shanhai City.

Within the Wenhua Palace of the Nanjiang Governor-General House, Ouyang Shuo had gathered Cabinet Grand Secretary Jiangshang, Xiao He, Wei Yang, Fan Li, and Du Ruhui to discuss matters.

The matter of their discussion was the Capital City upgrade quests.

After learning that Shanhai City was about to upgrade to Capital City, these five important officials all felt emotional. The moment Shanhai City upgraded to Capital City, it meant that the establishment of the country was imminent.

Hence, no matter how difficult the quests were, they needed to work wholeheartedly.

In the morning when he left the main hall, Ouyang Shuo's quest interface showed detailed information about the three quests.

The Imperial Court examination quest was set in the middle of the 3rd month but the exact date was not shown. There was a high chance the officials would sneak over or silently arrive in Shanhai City.

Ouyang Shuo had already instructed the Shanhai Guards to strengthen their monitoring during this half a month. The moment they noticed any suspicious people, they needed to immediately report it to prevent the secret visit from succeeding.

More importantly, Ouyang Shuo instructed, ”From this moment on, Shanhai City will make preparations to be evaluated. Only then can we not give them a chance to find fault with us.”

Xiao He and the others were all extremely experienced officials, so they obviously knew what would happen when the Dali Imperial Court officials came over to Shanhai City. All of them were solemn and treated the matter seriously.

”We still have a little time, so let's conduct a self-evaluation and improvement phase.” Ouyang Shuo looked at Jiang Shang, ”Five days later, Grand Secretary Jiang Shang will organize an independent evaluation group to conduct a mock evaluation of Shanhai City.”

Ouyang Shuo took how modern day societies treated superior evaluations and brought it into the game.

”Yes Monarch!”

After Jiang Shang agreed to be the Cabinet Grand Secretary, he had taken up the role really quickly.

Apart from the Imperial Court examination, the 36 industries quest gave Ouyang Shuo a headache.

The quest interface clearly showed, ”36 industries quest: 35/36 completed. Friendly Reminder: Shanhai City temporarily has no witchcraft industry.”

What does the witchcraft industry do?

After asking people in the know, Ouyang Shuo found out that the so-called witchcraft industry referred to fortune tellers. The mountain barbarian tribes had witches that could perform divinations but they were not recognized by Gaia.

That made the matter truly difficult.

Based on the quest rules, the moment one accepted the quest, Shanhai City was not allowed to go to the system imperial cities to recruit talents. Hence, this fortune teller could only be found through the refugees or through a full territory search. Ouyang Shuo chose to target both, recruiting from all over the prefecture to see if there were any fortune tellers.

Worst comes to worst, Ouyang Shuo could only hope that he could recruit a fortune teller from the Recruitment Hall.

However, such a chance was too low, and he only had one chance a month. As a result, the hope was not too high.

Ouyang Shuo disliked uncertainty the most. The fortune teller's appearance was something he could not control, which made it tough for Shanhai City to upgrade to Capital City.

As for the last quest, Ouyang Shuo handed it over to Du Ruhui.

During the two hour meeting, Ouyang Shuo gave all five of them jobs to do and also made a detailed analysis of the upgrade quests.

Now, Ouyang Shuo needed to patiently wait.

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During dinner, Song Jia raised a topic with Ouyang Shuo.

”Wuyi, the Jiangshan Beauty film has been completed and is now in post-production. Wu Pingcheng thinks that it can be published by the end of 4th month at the latest.”

Ouyang Shuo drank a mouthful of soup, ”That's great.” This was two months faster than the last life, probably because of the support of the Mountain and Sea Entertainment Holdings.

”When the time to promote the movie comes, you need to help us out.” Song Jia had a reason for telling Ouyang Shuo that.

Ouyang Shuo agreed without hesitation, ”No problem. In a few days, I'll write an article in the Quick Daily News to evaluate the entertainment industry, and I'll bring up the movie in the article.”

Song Jia smiled, ”That's great, if you open your mouth, it's better than any promotion.”

Ouyang Shuo was the strongest Lord in the wilderness, and he possessed excellent foresight. The article he wrote would obviously cause a lot of discussion in the wilderness.

Who knows, perhaps the entertainment industry explosion would be revealed right there. The Mountain and Sea Entertainment Holdings could use this to set sail.

Song Jia continued, ”Also, one more thing, the movie Huo Qubing is being shot, and if we are quick, we can release it early in the 6th month.”