The Western Region is a lawless land, and horse bandits have always been rampant.
A seemingly ordinary caravan set out from Yuyang Mansion in the State of Zhao and traveled thousands of miles for half a month. On the way, it encountered four times of roadblocks and interrogations by officers and soldiers, and three attempts to confiscate the entire convoy's goods. It also encountered six robberies by horse bandits.
, a melee involving several horse bandits, government troops, and a mysterious caravan, and after such hardships, they successfully arrived at Qingming.
There are not many people in the caravan who can hear secrets, so in the eyes of most members, this is a legendary journey. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes and experienced it with your own eyes, who would have known that the horse bandits in the Broken City were actually
How could there be so many of them, so well-trained, so well-equipped, so well-coordinated, and so well-versed in the art of war?
Moreover, the horse bandits in the Western Regions have peculiar tastes and weird hobbies. When there are officers and soldiers, horse bandits will inevitably appear, and then there will be a three-party melee. The caravans follow the principle of self-preservation and only seek to protect themselves and do not participate in the battle as much as possible. As long as they retreat
, the officers, soldiers and horse bandits were busy fighting on their own and had little time to pay attention to them.
In the first battle they encountered, the horse bandits beat the officers and soldiers to flight, so forget it. However, the horse bandits that appeared later became more fierce and better equipped each time, and they were particularly ferocious against the officers and soldiers. Especially the two groups before and after wearing masks.
They were extremely fierce. They beat the caravan guards and officers and soldiers to pieces when they came up. Then they stripped the officers and soldiers into naked pigs and drove away with their clothes, armor and weapons, leaving only a bunch of naked men shivering in the wind.
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The second time the masked horse bandits showed up, they simply took away all the naked men.
The caravan guards all thought they were in a dream. How could the horse bandits capture the entire battalion of officers and soldiers?
Fortunately, we later encountered two small groups of horse bandits and fought two battles, which more or less restored the caravan's traditional impression of horse bandits.
But before they entered the Broken Realm, they encountered another Zhao caravan. There was obviously something wrong with this caravan. There were only a few large cars, but there were hundreds of guards, and everyone was equipped with two horses. This
It doesn't look like a caravan, it's clearly an elite cavalry army.
Wherever there is a caravan, there must be officers and soldiers of the Western Jin Dynasty. As expected, the officers and soldiers appeared like ghosts. They came up and shouted that they would confiscate all the property of the caravan, including the carriages and horses. As a result, the caravan unceremoniously attacked the officers and soldiers.
A complete mess.
It’s not surprising that the Western Jin army was defeated, they seemed to have never won before.
But then a group of horse bandits appeared. The number of these horse bandits was equivalent to that of the mysterious caravan of Zhao State, but there were dozens of Daoji inside! After a melee, the mysterious caravan of Zhao State was actually defeated by the horse bandits.
Image of defeat.
At this time, the masked horse bandits suddenly appeared and immediately attacked the horse bandits present. Although the masked horse bandits were smaller in number, there were actually hundreds of Daoji in the team!
The melee was so dark that Zhao's mysterious caravan finally managed to escape and fled along the way. The Yuyang Mansion caravan was so frightened that they slipped past the battlefield and sped away, not daring to look at the situation.
This battle fully demonstrated the ferocity of the horse bandits in the Western Regions. Even if Zhao's elite troops arrived here, they would probably only serve as officers and soldiers, not horse bandits.
The Yuyang Mansion caravan has a total of thirty special carts, with a total of five hundred drivers and guards. Because they were too frightened, they traveled day and night at a very fast speed. As long as it was not a big river or a cliff, they would be forced to climb up and down the terrain.
Crossing over without any detours, we finally arrived at Qingming without any danger.
The caravan brought 50,000 pieces of cloth, a large number of low-level spiritual plants, mainly tea trees and amethyst grape vines that can make wine, and several kilograms of hardware essence. The so-called hardware essence is actually a variety of rare metals
The general name of metal. By adding them to iron and copper, you can obtain a variety of gold and iron materials with different properties. This batch of hardware essence can be used to prepare at least 500,000 kilograms of high-quality gold and iron.
When the caravan left, they took away a total of three thousand sets of breastplates, the price of which was also twenty taels of silver a pair. As they entered and exited, the caravan left more than twenty thousand taels of silver.
However, Cui Shutong, as the governor of the town, monopolizes the military and political power of the government. This batch of armor can be directly equipped with his own troops, eliminating countless intermediate links. However, although the intermediate links are saved, the expenditure on Zhao's books will still be large, saving money.
All the expenses for the trip went into Cui Shutong's pocket.
After the caravan left, Wei Yuan immediately organized manpower and opened another 10,000 acres of fields and 3,000 acres of sloping fields. The sloping fields were specially used to grow amethyst grapes.
With cloth, people in the realm finally don't have to work hard to patch up. If there is no cloth anymore, even the Daoji monks will have to expose their flesh. Recently, Wei Yuan always strips the officers and soldiers naked when they rob them. In fact,
Also to get some sets of clothes.
Two caravans were welcomed in a month. As a result, they lost 5,000 sets of breastplates and made a net profit of 100,000 immortal silver.
After seeing off the Zhao caravan, Wei Yuan went to Yu Zhizhuo to discuss how to expand the production capacity of breastplates.
Now the realm can produce a hundred sets of breastplates a day, which is equivalent to having 1,500 skilled craftsmen. But this is not enough. The two caravans not only ate all the new breastplates this month, but also took away
Got a lot of inventory.
If this continues, Qing Ming himself will be useless.
Yu Zhizhuo was also worried about this matter. When Wei Yuan found him, he was drawing a new type of furnace. This furnace was shaped like a giant cauldron and could hold 10,000 kilograms of prepared fine materials at a time and produce four thousand kilograms of molten iron. This was the only difference.
The four-elephant wind formation attached to the furnace requires four Taoist monks to operate, and it is best to be a fire-element Taoist monk, which can shorten the smelting time by one-third.
But now there are not many cultivators of the Fire Element Dao in the realm, only a few dozen.
Fire Dao Foundation? Wei Yuan was thoughtful and had an immortal sword in his hand.
At this time, there are nearly a thousand monks mining and smelting in the forge, more than 700 monks operating iron forging machines, and then there are some craftsmen in the traditional sense, less than a hundred people. In addition to making chests, the nearly two thousand people in the forge
In addition to armor, steel pipe guns, cast warheads, weapons and agricultural tools are also made, which is already very efficient. According to traditional standards, at least three thousand craftsmen would be required to make the same things.
Wei Yuan and Yu Zhizhuo discussed it for a whole afternoon, perfecting the details of the new furnace, and then he went to the monk training camp located next to the school field. When the casting is completed, or close to it, monks who hope to achieve Taoism will gather here to do it.
The final training is to sprint the road base.
There are now more than 400 people in the training camp. The quality of this batch of monks is quite good. They are basically captured by the army. The latest batch is from Xu Li's troops, and there are dozens of Xu Li's soldiers in them.
Ji Liuli has seen it personally and found that these soldiers are quite good and can almost be made into Taoist foundations. Otherwise, they would not become Xu Li's soldiers.
Wei Yuan estimated that among this group of more than 400 people, there could be about a hundred or so Daoji.
Seeing Wei Yuan coming to the training camp in person, all the monks were excited and a little nervous. Most of them were not planning to surrender, but here they used the Tao to seduce them! Except for those geniuses who can join the sect
, who can refuse Dao Ji?
In fact, they felt that they were just confused at first, but Wei Yuan acted too quickly and directly dragged them to rob the officers and soldiers, and some of them participated more than once. Once the surrender certificate was handed over, they knew that they could not go back.
Wei Yuan ordered people to call all the monks together, and then hundreds of fairy swords appeared in front of everyone, with flames faintly shining on the sword blades.
Wei Yuan said: "The foundation of Taoism is ever-changing, but there are not no shortcuts. These fairy swords in front of you are simplified versions of the Great Sun. Everyone will come to get one in a while. I will pass on another secret to you, which will help
You understand the wonder of the Immortal Sword’s Dao Foundation. When you gather the Dao Foundation seven days later, you should move closer to this Immortal Sword as much as possible, and the road will be much easier.”
Some of the monks were excited, but some showed disdain.
The seven days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was the monthly foundation casting time again. After the three routine warm-ups, the power of Jiamu Shengxuan enveloped the entire audience, including Ji Liuli, Wei Yuan, Zhenhe Zhenren, Sun Yu, Yu Zhizhuo, etc.
Everyone was present and provided step-by-step guidance.
In just a moment, the vitality of heaven and earth poured down from the sky in the school grounds, and fire-burning fairy swords rose into the sky one after another, creating a spectacular moment.
Seeing such a grand scene of cultivating immortals, Wei Yuan was filled with emotion. These people were originally hopeless on the path to immortality, but now one of the four of them was able to forge the Taoist foundation. The senior who originally forged the Qingming Immortal Stone had incredible magical powers.
Awesome!
It's a pity that Xiaoyu couldn't see the beautiful scenery of so many fairy swords rising into the sky.
At nightfall, the eight monks who had initially stabilized the Taoist foundation came to the forge. They sat cross-legged around the two newly built furnaces, each taking their positions. Four freshly made fairy swords appeared and were inserted into the furnace.
The fire was spurred out from the furnace mouth for several feet.
This group of 400 monks finally made eighty-three immortal swords, the Pseudo Sun. There were more than 30 people who failed to make the Pseudo Sun and turned into a fire sword. With Wei Yuan's face, he couldn't call it an immortal sword.
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But Huojian can also be regarded as a Taoist, but it is only half a point inferior to Siyu.
There were more than forty people who were arrogant and wanted to forge their own Taoist base. In the end, only six people succeeded, and the success rate was far lower than those who concentrated on comprehending the Immortal Sword and Pseudo Sun.
This group of people cannot cast the foundation, so they are not qualified to run the furnace and can only shovel the slag.
As soon as he came out of the forging workshop, Wei Yuan saw a monk rushing towards him and said: "An envoy from the Western Jin Dynasty just came, saying that there is a reward for the realm lord, and the imperial envoy will arrive tomorrow!"
Wei Yuan was startled and said: "Where is the messenger? Take me there."
A moment later, Wei Yuan saw the envoy of the Western Jin Dynasty in the small town of Zhike. The envoy came quickly with only two followers and ten guards, in order to greet Wei Yuan in advance to avoid being in a hurry and losing etiquette when he arrived.
After asking the envoy, Wei Yuan was also surprised. The imperial envoy who came this time was actually Zhao Tong, the eunuch of the palace!
This person is an absolute confidant of King Jin. He is a great monk in the late Dharma phase. It is said that his Taoist skills are strange and unpredictable, and he is a very powerful person.
This reward came suddenly, Wei Yuan suddenly thought of Concubine Yuan, and had some vague guesses in his heart.
After receiving the news, Wei Yuan took the time to rectify the area, sealing off all the places that were not accessible to outsiders, and then concentrated on waiting for the imperial envoy to arrive.
At noon on the second day, two thousand Yulin troops of the Western Jin Dynasty with red sleeves and black armor entered the realm. They had bright armor, shining weapons, neat steps, bright military spirit, and excellent appearance. At this time, there were already monks from the realm.
He led them all the way to Zhike Town.
Wei Yuan has already led everyone to wait here.
Two thousand Yulin troops spread out on both wings, and eight bronze-bodied warriors carried a large sedan chair until they walked in front of Wei Yuan before getting off the sedan chair. Two internal officials with red eyebrows and white teeth rushed over and raised the curtain of the sedan chair. They
They all have Taoist cultivation, their movements are gentle and delicate, and their movements are synchronized. The sedan curtains rise unhurriedly, like clouds rolling and relaxing.
Two more internal officials placed incense burners in front of the sedan, and the clear smoke instantly dispersed the foul smell around them.
At this moment, Fang stretched out a soap boot dotted with pearls from the sedan chair, gently landed on the ground, and then threw out a light red skirt. On the skirt was a green silk official belt with a piece of beautiful jade on it, which was very aura.
A man appeared in the sedan, with white pink lips and bean-like eyebrows. He smiled happily when he saw Wei Yuan. He pointed at Wei Yuan and said, "We in Jin Dynasty lack talents like you!"
Chapter completed!