Chapter 129: The Growing Power of the Child
In fact, what Jiang Yan did not cause any waves, but a few death row inmates committed suicide, and after the patrol jailer reported it, the higher authorities only gave an instruction to collect the corpses and leave the case, and then did not react.
Among them, there are also Jiang Yan's prisoners, whose identities are very simple and ordinary, and the prisoners who are really involved will not be imprisoned in ordinary yamen cells, but will be held in special high-level prisons with strict defense, and that kind of prison will be guarded by martial arts masters and Taoist formations, even if it is a small flying insect, don't want to sneak in easily.
After this was done, Jiang Yan went to the Si Municipal Government of Shengyun City again, which was the place where the official management of commerce and trade, Jiang Yan applied for the registration of a place to open a store there, and after thinking about the signboard casually, he decided on the name of 'Red Jade Building'.
This step of applying for registration is necessary, opening a store on someone's territory, and a small-scale business is enough, but the store that Jiang Yan wants to open must not be small, so he has to say hello to the local official and obtain formal business qualifications.
Business taxes are an important source of revenue for a country.
After getting all this, Jiang Yan did not rush to open a store, but rested for a while to stock up on supplies and make advance preparations.
After the ten slaves recuperated quietly in the house for a day, they basically recovered their state, Jiang Yan asked Zhang Shun to lead them to the store first, divided into three batches, one group was responsible for cleaning and sorting out the store, the second group was responsible for purchasing some necessary raw materials in the market, and the rest of the people entered a busy state, and the 'Zhi Brain' began the work of alchemy and refining tools through the network with the assistance of the 'Zhi Brain', and made various raw materials into products that could be sold.
Production materials such as blank rune paper, metal and jade, as well as tools such as medicine furnaces, talisman pens, and empty medicine bottles all need to be purchased in large quantities from the market, and materials such as flesh and skin, claws and scales, as well as herbs, trees, and medicinal materials such as alien beasts, Jiang Yan directly hunted and gathered from the Barbarian Bone Mountains through a large number of alien beast sub-machine legions under his command, and then let a group of bladed feather birds fly directly 'airlifted' back.
After a few more data-based soul brains to help take care of affairs, Jiang Yan only needs to give an order for these trivial matters, and the blood demon remnant soul can handle them properly, which makes Jiang Yan very worry-free.
Later, Jiang Yan felt that the cost of purchasing jade and metal from the market was too high, so he simply ordered the Blood Demon Remnant Soul to pay attention to exploring the ownerless veins containing metals and jade when they hunted in the Barbarian Bone Mountain Range.
As a result, within a day, they really found a few underground mines in their hunting range, so Jiang Yan was also self-sufficient in terms of raw materials for metals and jade.
The process of finding the ore vein is not difficult, the blood demon remnant soul according to the beast illustrated data transmitted by Jiang Yan into the database of the network system, found several strange beasts with the talent of 'treasure hunting' that like to eat minerals, captured them, and then let Jiang Yan subdue them with their abilities, and they successfully found the mineral deposits through the natural abilities of these treasure hunting beasts.
Because there are countless high-level alien beasts inhabiting the boundary of the Barbarian Bone Mountain Range, the environment is relatively dangerous for humans, so even if he knows that there are mineral deposits in it, but because the mining cost is too high, few people care about it, so the mineral reserves found by Jiang Yan's forces are very rich, which is completely enough to meet his needs.
To this end, Jiang Yan spent a lot of effort to subdue a group of 'miner' type alien beast machines that were specially responsible for mining work, and handed them over to the blood demon remnant soul and other intelligent brains for overall command.
These miners are the 'Iron-clawed Scorpion', which resembles the Ground Scale Rat but is more adept at digging metal ores, the Blade Beetle, which is the size of a leather ball, likes metal, has a thick carapace, and has powerful mouthparts and bladed limbs that can cut through gold and iron, and the Iron-clad Scorpion, which is comparable to the husky, has six legs and two strong crust pincers, can quickly carry ore underground, and has good combat effectiveness to act as a guard in the underground mines...... They work together to exploit those deposits in a steady and efficient manner.
After the ordinary ore is mined by the 'miners' and transported back to the stronghold on the ground, there will also be a group of 'craftsman' type alien beast machines to build a stove workshop to carry out special refining and preliminary processing of the ore. For example, for alien beasts like Lux Ape that are similar to human beings and can do all kinds of work similar to human craftsmen, Jiang Yan also let the blood demon remnant soul and other intelligent brains search and capture a batch of them, and let him use his ability to collect them as a child machine and add them to the 'craftsman' alien beast group.
Even if these strange beasts didn't understand anything originally, after Jiang Yan installed a batch of craftsman skill software such as 'carpentry', 'iron', 'tailor', 'construction', etc., and then under the overall arrangement of Zhi Brain, they would be able to do the work of various workers.
Human hands, after countless years of evolution, the limb structure is far more suitable for the use of tools and manual work than many alien beasts, and the software for refining weapons and refining medicines, and even the skills of ordinary craftsmen is originally from humans, and it also requires humans to give full play to the best results, if it weren't for the differences in race and the adaptability of the software, the work accuracy and efficiency of these alien beast craftsmen are worse than those of humans under the same conditions, Jiang Yan would like to let them be responsible for directly producing the goods in the store.
Unfortunately, it is precisely because of this gap that Jiang Yan now only asks them to be responsible for the initial 'rough processing' of the raw materials required for the manufacture of goods.
Jiang Yan's power organization with the alien beast machine under his command as the main body is now becoming more and more presentable. Even the original Blade Feather Bird Valley has been expanded, with camouflage bunkers or caves built around the valley with rocks as the main body, for various production beasts to live in, and large warehouses have been built inside the valley to store various materials.
After a few days of hard work, this place is almost like developing into a town belonging to alien beasts, although their intelligence is not as good as that of humans, but relying on the network system, under the unified management of the brain, the 'hunting group', the 'mining group', the 'craftsman group', the 'transportation group', the 'guard group'...... All the 'inhabitants' have done their own work and cooperated in a small society with a well-structured structure.
After Jiang Yan granted several data-based intelligent brains the permission to mobilize the mental power of the neutrons in the network within a certain limit, and installed the software 'Soul Eater' on them, he also found that these intelligent brains, who were already tireless after digitization, basically did not need to rest now, because in the long-term working state, they only needed to absorb some of the spiritual power supplied by the many submachines in the network to supplement their consumption.
Therefore, although the number of data-based intelligent brain machines under Jiang Yan's command is only six or seven now, because of the various strange skills inherited from Jiang Yan, especially their ability to use 'distraction and multi-purpose' and the ability to work continuously, with the overall planning of the network system, even if the number of Jiang Yan's submachines has been repeatedly expanded, they can manage them in an orderly manner.
With such a complete logistics supply base, every once in a while, a team of blade feather birds would use the cover of the light and concealment rune jade to airlift a batch of materials into the store warehouse of Jiang Yan in Shengyun City, providing a steady stream of production raw materials for several employees in charge of production.
Not only production, but also the fighting beasts of the hunting group, under the command of Zhi Brain, carried out a sustainable development sweep of the huge area on the periphery of the Brute Bone Mountain Range, not only hunting or capturing a large number of scattered alien beasts, but also drafting a conquest plan for several detected alien beast groups with a social scale of hundreds to thousands of members.
However, due to the short time and the fact that the process of collecting new sub-machines can only be completed by Jiang Yan himself using abilities, these conquest plans are currently only a draft and have not yet been officially implemented.
Although Jiang Yan's handsets can use the ability network to connect with each other at will, even those data-based brains currently do not have the ability to link to unfamiliar objects outside the network out of thin air and then control data intrusion, so the steps to subdue the new handset can only be carried out by Jiang Yan himself.
For this, Jiang Yan deeply regretted that if he could even do such a thing as levying a new submachine by his subordinates, then he would be able to do it more easily.
"If you just drink tea and take a nap, the power under your command will automatically grow, how good it is......" Jiang Yan sighed more than once in his heart.
I wonder if the next ability will be able to meet his requirements if the version is upgraded?