Zhuge Liang's Journey to Dominate the World: Starting from Another World

Then An Lushan instructed his other guards: "Pass down the order to immediately strengthen the defenses of the three prefectures, especially the border. They must be thoroughly checked, and no suspicious person should be let go. At the same time, send people to secretly monitor every move of Wolong Manor. I need to know Zhuge Liang's next move."

Upon hearing this, the group felt a chill run down their spines and quickly agreed to leave to make arrangements.

They knew that the young master was truly enraged this time. The rise of Zhuge Liang was undoubtedly a huge threat to the three states of An, and war might break out at any moment.

Meanwhile, inside Wolong Manor, Gu Zhenzi, Elder Qingyang, and Li Guangling had all gathered at the manor to discuss their next move.

Today, the financial resources of Wolong Manor and the strength of Kongming himself are evident to all.

Both Gu Zhenzi and Elder Qingyang had fought against Kongming. Although they didn't tell the outside world, they were very clear about it in their hearts. Elder Qingyang, in particular, understood how terrifying Kongming's strength was!

This unwittingly created a group of interests centered around Zhuge Liang.

Once everything was settled, Kongming got up to see the guests off, without revealing anything about his own actions to them.

"Come out!"

After Gu Zhenzi and Elder Qingyang left, Kongming said with a surprised expression.

A moment later, a person emerged from the back hall, looking rather drab.

It turned out that it was that old fellow Qu Qianchou who came uninvited. Seeing that Qingyang and Gu Zhenzi were there, he hid in the forest and didn't dare to come out for a while.

It was Zhao Yun who discovered him and brought him into the manor.

Qu Qianchou looked at Kongming, his eyes filled with resentment.

"General Qu, what brings you to my Wolong Manor instead of staying at Fengling Pass?" Kongming said jokingly, waving his feather fan.

"Zhuge the Demon, you've caused me so much suffering!" Qu Qianchou said with a face full of resentment.

Before Kongming returned, he was incredibly powerful and influential, with the Jade Cauldron Sect fully supporting him, and the entire mortal realm of Jade Continent following his lead.

However, after Kongming returned, all the good days finally came to an end.

Not only were all his troops incorporated into Li Guangling's forces, but the Jade Cauldron Sect didn't even offer an explanation, which almost caused him internal injuries from holding it in.

So he immediately went to Wolong Manor to seek justice from Kongming.

Seeing his father-in-law speaking to Kongming in such a manner, Li Guangling's palms were sweating. He quickly spoke up to stop him, saying, "Your Excellency, you must not be so rude!"

Qu Qianchou glanced at Li Guangling, his anger rising. "You bastard, it's easy for you to talk when you're not the one suffering. You've reaped all the benefits, and what have I ended up with?"

"Hahaha... General Qu, you are mistaken. The Prince is your son-in-law, family. Why talk about 'yours' and 'mine'?"

Kongming gently waved his feather fan, completely unconcerned about Qu Qianchou's form of address.

After all, Qu Qianchou had shown Zhao Yun great kindness and favor, and Zhao Yun was a man of great loyalty and righteousness. No matter how ruthless Kongming was, he wouldn't do anything to him.

Upon hearing this, Qu Qianchou immediately objected, "You brat Zhuge, you tricked me into marrying off my daughter and asking me to connect you with the Jade Cauldron Sect. I've been fooled for eight lifetimes! Now I have nothing left, what are you going to do about it?"

Qu Qianchou said through gritted teeth.

"What can we do? Tell your son-in-law to work harder and give you a grandson next year, so you can go back and take care of him!"

How could Kongming not know that this old fellow had a bellyful of grievances, yet dared not go to the Jade Cauldron Sect to seek justice, and instead relied on his connection with Li Guangling to come and cause trouble at his Wolong Manor? Did he think Kongming was still the same coward he used to be?

"You...you...Zhuge brat, you've gone too far!"

Qu Qianchou was so enraged by Kongming's words that he trembled all over and wanted to draw his sword to kill Kongming!

Seeing this, Zhao Yun hurriedly stepped in to stop him. After all, Qu Qianchou had treated him well, and if Qu Qianchou really made a move, there would probably be no room for maneuver!

"General Qu, let the Prime Minister finish speaking. I believe he will give you a satisfactory explanation!" Zhao Yun advised.

"Silver Dragon, you heard it too! This demon wants me to go home and take care of my grandson. This is intolerable!" Qu Qianchou said, his face flushed.

Zhao Yun couldn't help but chuckle upon hearing this, then turned to look at Kongming.

Kongming knew, of course, that Zhao Yun wanted to plead for Qu Qianchou.

In fact, Kongming had initially planned to compensate Qu Qianchou in some way, since he had used Qu Qianchou as a stepping stone to gain his current place of refuge.

But you can't give it too easily, otherwise this old bastard will keep bothering you forever.

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Kongming cleared his throat and said with a serious expression, "Old Qu, when you seized Li Guangling's military power, did you ever think that this day would come? If I were in the right mood, I would have killed you outright. I only spared you because of Zilong and the Prince. And yet you dare to come here and cause trouble!"

"This...this...this is not something I can decide!" Qu Qianchou immediately deflated upon hearing this. Kongming is not what he used to be, and he knows his own limitations.

"Alright! I'll compensate you with 20 million gold coins in one go. If you dare to utter another word, I'll cut you down!"

Kongming changed the subject and made the final decision.

"General Qu, the Prime Minister has already done more than enough. If it were anyone else, he probably would have ordered their execution long ago!"

Zhao Yun glanced at Qu Qianchou and offered words of comfort.

"Ganglie! Pay up! Get them out of here!"

Kongming ignored Qu Qianchou and spoke to Zhu Ganglie.

"Uh! I... I don't have any money on me!"

To everyone's surprise, Pigsy spread his hands and was about to leave.

"You stand still!" Kongming shouted.

"I...I really don't have any money on me...all the money is in the secret room..."

Kongming was speechless. This guy had at least tens of millions of yuan in private savings on him. He was quite a big shot now. He had planned to make this guy pay up, but who knew that this guy was smarter than a monkey. As soon as he heard about the payment, he ran away.

Kongming had no choice but to drag the guy towards the secret chamber. Seeing this, Zhao Yun was afraid that Zhu Ganglie would be punished by Kongming for embezzling public funds, so he hurriedly followed.

Beside the secret chamber, Kongming inserted a hexagonal object into the slot.

To everyone's surprise, the door to the secret room remained completely still.

Kongming was puzzled. He tried several times, but the result was the same. He turned to Zhu Bajie and Zhao Yun and asked, "What's going on?"

"Uh...I don't know!"

Zhu Ganglie covered his face with his sleeve and said with a crooked mouth.

"If you don't know, then there's something fishy going on. Now open it!" Kongming shouted.

"Do you think this money grows on trees?! I'm not opening it!"

As Zhu Bajie spoke, he unconsciously moved closer to Zhao Yun.

"So it really was you who tampered with it, you've gotten really bold! You won't even let me into the vault anymore?"

Kongming said, both amused and annoyed.

"Hey... if I don't keep a close eye on you, you spendthrift, you'll be broke in no time... Ouch... I'll drive... I'll drive, okay?!"

Before Zhu Bajie could finish speaking, Kongming grabbed his ear, lifted him up, and started swinging him around in circles...

After everything was settled, Kongming prepared to head to the three prefectures of Anshi as planned...