In the study, Chen Dao picked up a stack of official documents and placed them in front of Yue Jinshan.
"Lao Yue, there have been eleven fires in granaries of various sizes in various places this month. Is that too much?"
Yue Jinshan said nothing and read all the official documents carefully. When Chen arrived, he waited patiently without any intention of urging.
After reading all the official documents, Yue Jinshan said: "There were seven fires in the granary in Bianning County, only two were related to the frontline troops, and the other two were not Yue's subordinates."
"You are the admiral of Ningxi Mansion, aren't all your subordinates here?"
"Since Mr. Chen said so, Yue will change a few generals tomorrow and ask Mr. Chen to follow along with the official document."
Chen Dao said helplessly: "Old Yue, you are still lacking some skills. Let me tell you clearly, your nephew is guarding Bianning County. I heard that General Xiaoyue is so domineering in military affairs that the county is not allowed to do anything.
The guard can't intervene. Among the seven granaries, there are at least four military warehouses. Doesn't General Yue have anything to say?"
Yue Jinshan looked as usual and said calmly: "Which army does not have several granary fires in any year? These just happen to happen this month, it is purely coincidental."
Chen Dao took a sip of tea and asked, "If I don't think it's a coincidence, I must investigate it."
Yue Jinshan finally showed an expression and sneered: "Sir Governor, do you really want to investigate?"
"There are more than a dozen granary fires a month, and there has to be an explanation."
Yue Jinshan sneered: "Well, let me ask you, the 50,000 border troops that Yue brought from the north are all well integrated, can they be considered elites?"
"The general's troops are among the best in the world, and this is recognized by both the government and the public."
"A sergeant in the Blood Fusion Realm goes into battle during war and practices casting in his spare time. He must have meat, milk and eggs every day, otherwise he will need at least ten kilograms of military rations. Isn't this excessive?"
Chen Dao nodded: "The requirements for casting a body are several times that of ordinary people. The spiritual energy here is lacking and there is no replenishment. This number is normal."
"Since it's normal, then the three-month military rations allocated by the imperial court are only three kilograms per person per day in Yue's hands. Mr. Chen, do you want me to change the three-month prevention period into one month, or should I change the fifty thousand
A person becomes fifteen thousand?”
"General Yue has been in the army for many years, so he naturally has a solution."
"There is a solution, but it's inevitable that you'll get some black ashes from the fire on your hands."
Chen Dao pondered: "But there are generals who are not stained with ashes."
Yue Jinshan sneered: "Mr. Chen, you said that these generals Yue also knows, there are only two types. One type is not stained with ashes but stained with the blood of the soldiers. Go to their camp and have a look. If you can get half of the soldiers, I will lose. The other type
Well, one of them happens to be the same year as you, Mr. Chen. He was born in the Four Saints Academy, and he is a prolific writer. He combines literature with martial arts. He is known as a Confucian general, and he is considered a model in the Qing Dynasty."
Chen Dao, who has always been very reserved, frowned slightly.
Yue Jinshan said unceremoniously: "Mr. Chen, who is the same age as me, is famous all over the world for being neither greedy nor greedy, never taking shortcuts, and having the breeze in his sleeves. The court gave him a pound and a half, and he actually gave him a pound and a half. But ordinary people work hard every day and pay a pound a day."
Even half of it is not enough. His soldiers only eat one and a half kilograms a day, and they are not as thin as monkeys? He has the nerve to say that this is hurting their minds and starving their bodies! He guards several counties in the interior and leads tens of thousands of soldiers.
If he becomes a monkey, nothing will happen to him. What if he is assigned to guard the border?"
Chen Dao coughed slightly and said: "General Yue..."
Yue Jinshan pretended not to hear and sneered: "If you, the same year as me, were sitting in my position, Mr. Chen, you would have to wear armor every night to fall asleep, wouldn't you? For his fifty thousand monkeys, I only paid two thousand
If you are an elite, you can kill him until he cannot find Bei!"
"Let's get back to business."
"The Qingli Confucian general is admired by all the people in the world. I, Yue, say a few more words, isn't it also to spread his reputation?"
Chen Dao sighed and said: "General Yue, please stop saying a few words. The fact that 30% of the army rations allocated by the imperial court are in your hands is already the result of my hard work. No matter how hard my husband of the same age works, he will never
Only 15%."
Yue Jinshan snorted and said reluctantly: "What I mean is that Mr. Chen should understand that if you want to do something, your hands must be stained with ashes. If you don't stain your hands with blood or ashes, it's like that of your same age. There are many such people.
, the Western Jin Dynasty will be over sooner or later."
Chen Dao touched his forehead and sighed: "General Yue...forget it, there are too many fires in the granary, and they must be dealt with, otherwise no one will be able to account for them. How about this, General Yue picks two, and I will deal with them, how about it?"
Yue Jinshan frowned, but still took out two official documents and put them in front of Chen Dao, saying: "These two guys are not my people, they just want to fish in troubled waters and make a fortune for themselves."
Chen Dao put the two official documents on the other side of the desk and said slowly: "The legal system of the imperial court was formed over many years and cannot be changed easily. Under this legal system, whether it is ashes or blood, everyone will inevitably have something on their hands.
.But if you touch something, you have broken the law. If someone wants to investigate, it is right. But who should be investigated and who should not be investigated is my own business.
Just like I want to investigate the fire incident, but I had a very pleasant conversation with General Yue today, so General Yue will decide the candidate. But next time, I am afraid I will be the one to choose."
Yue Jinshan snorted, stood up and left. After going out, he slammed the door shut, causing the whole study to shake. Large amounts of dust fell from the roof, and the smoke filled the air for a while.
But three inches of Chen Dao's body was filled with fresh air, and dust could not get into his body. The sunlight penetrated the dust and fell on him, making him graceful and otherworldly. In this turbid world, he was like a white lotus.
Chen Dao picked up another official document and read it carefully. This official document was from Yuan Qingyan, the governor of Ningxi County. He said that he had received the news that Qingming was short of food and that there might be some action in the near future. He asked the city to send more troops to strictly block it.
Not a grain of food is allowed to flow into Qingming. At the same time, the refugees can be driven to go to Qingming to increase the burden.
Chen Dao shook his head secretly. There were more than a dozen fires in granaries, and more than a million kilograms of military rations were missing. Looking at the entire Broken Realm, who else could eat so much food?
However, Yuan Qingyan was in a corner and did not know this. So after Chen Dao pondered for a while, he approved the official document and sent it to each department for execution.
Wei Yuan returned with a full load, and as soon as he entered the realm, he was grabbed by Yu Zhizhuo.
"Senior nephew Wei Yuan, I still need your help in the mine."
Ore vein? Wei Yuan’s ears stood up.
It can be said that mineral veins are the most important thing after food. Although Wei Yuan can use Qing Ming's power to explore the earth veins, he can only see a hundred feet at most, and Wei Yuan knows nothing about the distribution of mineral veins, and those rocks in his spiritual consciousness are too long.
They are exactly the same. How can he know which stone contains what?
Yu Zhizhuo's invitation showed that he had made an important discovery. Naturally, Wei Yuan would not refuse. He asked someone to take over the resettlement of the looted materials, and then flew away with Yu Zhizhuo.
The two flew to the north, where there were many rolling hills and mountains.
On the way, Yu Zhizhuo said: "I haven't gained much from surveying the earth veins in the past few days, but I found a special rock formation in the northern mountainous area. As long as I penetrate the rock layer, there will probably be something. Let me tell you about the earth veins first.
common sense."
Regardless of whether Wei Yuan wanted to listen or not, Yu Zhizhuo started talking non-stop, starting from the transformation of yin and yang from chaos, describing how various types of innate supreme vitality mixed and evolved, how they repel each other and how they attract each other, and how all kinds of things were produced.
There are at least thousands of combination changes. This is still the original change. When the three things are born, the changes will be thousands times thousands, and they are still simple.
It wasn't until he flew to the edge of the field, drilled into a mine that had been opened, went tens of feet underground, and stood in front of a rock section that Yu Zhizhuo talked about the third change, and there were more than a million different changes that followed.
There's still time to talk.
In front of Wei Yuan is a green stone wall. The rock formation is extremely delicate, like a piece of uncut jade. The rock face is about three feet wide and one foot high. It is full of traces of axes and chops. There are more than a dozen Taoist monks in front of the stone wall. A few.
One is Yu Zhizhuo's junior fellow apprentice, and the rest are Taoist helpers transferred from the realm.
In a few days, this mine tunnel can be dug to a depth of tens of feet, and more than one mine tunnel has been dug. Tiangongdian really has experience in exploring mineral veins.
Yu Zhizhuo said: "This stone wall is actually part of an entire rock formation. You might be surprised if you penetrate this rock formation. However, it is extremely tough and is extremely difficult to dig."
Yu Zhizhuo waved his hand and threw out a sword energy, which actually only cut three feet into the rock surface. He fired several swords, but only dug out a piece of rock the size of a tabletop. A monk who had just started Taoism carried a specially made ore
The pickaxe walked up, swung it hard, and then only cut off a piece the size of a fist.
Wei Yuan had a vague feeling in his heart.
Yu Zhizhuo stepped aside and said: "I think the rapid water blade technique used by my nephew that day was extremely powerful and extremely durable, so it is suitable for digging here. Please take action and dig a ten-foot-long tunnel diagonally downward."
Hole."
From Yu Zhizhuo down, all the Tiangong Hall disciples stood up and looked at Wei Yuan eagerly, with expectant expressions on their faces.
Wei Yuan's face was expressionless and his heart was filled with despair. He opened his posture, and a halo suddenly appeared, illuminating the entire underground. Then a bright stream of water shot onto the rock wall. After being cut and worn by countless water blades, the rock surface was indeed visible to the naked eye.
A big hole appeared at a rapid speed, getting deeper and deeper.
"Stop!" Yu Zhizhuo looked at it for a while and decisively stopped.
Wei Yuan stopped in confusion. In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, a hole the size of a water tank and half a foot deep had appeared on the rock surface. On the ground, there was a layer of extremely fine rock sand, like blue flour.
.
Yu Zhizhuo said: "Earth overcomes water, and water blades are still a little bit worse at cutting rocks. But water also generates gold. As long as you replace the water blades in Taoism with gold blades, the efficiency will be greatly improved. I have one here
The improved Golden Blade Technique has been improved step by step by generations of predecessors, and now the Taoist structure has approached perfection. I will pass on this Golden Blade Technique to you now, and you can just add it to the Taoist structure of the Rapid Water Blade Technique.
You can add a few more.”
After a while, Wei Yuan once again shot out a torrent of golden light, and the speed of cutting and excavation was greatly increased. He still had enough energy to expand the hole to make it easier for the monks to enter and exit. The hole the size of a water tank could only be drilled into, and then climbed out backwards. Now Wei Yuan
Yuan opened the cave wide so that people could crawl on their knees and turn around in the cave.
After the exploration cave is opened, the Tiangong Temple monks can drill into it and use their spiritual consciousness to scan the surrounding vein structure. After finding the veins, they can then open up the mining channel ore surface. This is also the basic prospecting mode.
Although he successfully dug the cave, Wei Yuan felt indescribably depressed, and he didn't know why.
He had nowhere to relieve his depression. Immortal energy suddenly filled the area several feet around him, and a torrent of light red petals shot out, instantly deepening the cave by twenty feet!
Yu Zhizhuo's eyes shone, and he almost threw himself on Wei Yuan, praising: "My nephew is so good! It's really the style of the immortal family, is there anything else?"
Wei Yuan's face was expressionless: "No! There's no need for it!"
He just took advantage of the Fairy Laurel Tree's unpreparedness to release this water blade technique that was full of the breath of the fairy tree. At this moment, the Fairy Laurel Tree already felt humiliated and was scolding Wei Yuan with seven sword energies.
However, despite Yu Zhizhuo's hard work, Xiao's righteousness and inducement, Wei Yuan was dragged to another mining area. This is the real mineral vein.
That night, the Taoist magic roared all night long, and Wei Yuan stretched thousands of feet underground, using the golden light water blade technique to cure all dissatisfaction, and dug away millions of kilograms of ore, causing Yu Zhizhuo to exclaim over and over again, 'The blue is better than the blue'.
After finishing the work, a sensible disciple from Tiangong Hall brought up a money bag, which wiped away Wei Yuan's fatigue and depression.
Chapter completed!