The Director of the Military Affairs Department is indeed a high-ranking official, so high that this village chief might never meet him face to face in his lifetime. Even if he does meet him, it's likely only from afar during some celebration.
But he knows there are people with higher positions than this director!
"Our Linhu Village has finally produced a genius, but who is it that's plotting against our Lin Chen, trying to uproot our entire village?" Zhao Canghe's face was filled with anger. "Lord He, Scholar Jiang was from our village, and he specifically instructed that if there were any promising youths in the village, they should inform him. I thought Lin Chen was too young for martial arts, so I didn't inform Scholar Jiang. But now that someone is targeting Lin Chen, it's as if they're targeting the entire Linhu Village."
