And when they got up and left, there was a man who, though he stood up, did not immediately retreat, but stayed at the end, when the crowd departed, and he hesitated, neither retreating nor performing.

This person is not a bystander, it is Jiang Ci, the lord of Yanshan City, Yanshan is the territory directly under the jurisdiction of Jiang Zhen, the king of Yong, and this time Jiang Ci also came with Jiang Zhen to help Youxiong.

Seeing that Jiang Ci wanted to speak and stopped, Wu Zhongyuan vaguely guessed why he hesitated, the peak where the leopard beast is located is in the territory of Yan Mountain, the gestation period of the leopard is three months, according to the time inference, the leopard beast should have given birth at this time, Jiang Ci is likely to start this matter, the reason why he is spitting is undoubtedly because this matter is too confidential, Jiang Ci is not sure whether he should let others in the palace know.

"Jiang Ci, do you have good news to tell the widow?" Wu Zhongyuan asked with a smile.

"The saint is wise and martial, in a word. "Jiang Ci is the most capable of sycophants of all the city lords.

"How many?" Wu Zhongyuan asked again, the combination of the tiger dragon beast and the leopard beast is not necessarily Qiqi, only the tiger head and leopard tail, and the dragon claw and body are.

"There seems to be only one. Jiang Ci said.

"One?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned, in modern terms, the Tiger Dragon Beast and the Leopard Lin Beast are both hybrid breeds, and their offspring will inherit the genes of their parents randomly, and only one of them will be born, and the possibility of being poor and strange is very small.

"There seems to be only one," said Jantz, "for fear of alarming them, the Admiral will not dare to come too close." ”

"Okay, I see, I'll go myself. Wu Zhongyuan nodded and said.

Jiang Ci nodded yes and bowed back.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't tell everyone what he and Jiang Ci were talking about, and everyone didn't say anything to ask, Wu Zhongyuan would take the initiative to say if he wanted to say it, and if he didn't say it, he didn't want to say it, and the people below shouldn't ask what the leader didn't want to say.

Wu Zhongyuan had been away for half a year, and he didn't know anything about what happened during this time, and this time he left everyone in the Zhongtian Hall to listen to everyone's report.

Previously, Wu Zhongyuan had a brief conversation with the old blind man outside the palace, but it only involved the food issue, the old blind man was Xiangguo, in charge of the six ministries, this time he also reported, and the officials of the six ministries supplemented.

The old blind man knew that Wu Zhongyuan was most concerned about the people's livelihood issues, and he spoke in great detail, 100 days of rice and purple potato have been harvested at this time, and the main rations of the major cities are purple potato, that is, the potatoes of later generations, the storage period of purple potato is not more than one year at most, so it is preferred to eat, this thing can be used as a staple food, until modern times, many poor areas are potato staple food.

Previously, Wu Zhongyuan had made a decree to give priority to ensuring the food supply of the Sifang camp, and the rice and grain saved by the people were mainly supplied to the Sifang camp.

Because it is still in the hunting ban period, the meat is mainly based on the rabbit, the rabbit breed is brought by the black widow tribe when the tribe migrates south, last year Wu Zhongyuan had distributed the rabbit breed to the major cities, at this time the breeding of the rabbit has begun to take shape.

During this time, the armadillos of Heiji Mountain led by Wu Lao Er have been busy digging holes, seventy-two walled cities, each walled city has a number of Yi cities, and there are besieged cities under the Yi city, and at least one cave for refuge needs to be dug in a city, and those who rely on the mountain will dig caves, and those who have no mountains will dig holes, and this work is now nearing completion.

In the harvest season of 100-day rice and purple potato, the outer dao once tried to set fire to the rice grain, and attracted wild beasts to eat the purple potato, because Wu Zhongyuan had previously issued a ban on hunting, the people did not dare to harm the beasts that spoil the crops at will, the old blind man decided to act expediently after consulting with everyone, and hunted down the beasts that spoil the grain.

The old blind man was very apprehensive when he talked about this matter, and he did not relax until Wu Zhongyuan affirmed his practice, orders are dead, people are alive, and sometimes they have to be flexibly controlled.

At this time, the Yinma River has also entered the right track, and the currency that has entered the right track with commerce, the copper shell coin, collectively known as money, a shell coin is a money, and the value of a money is a pound of salt.

The people of Kuicheng and Zhou Raoguo have also settled down, and in this half a year, Dasha has carved out a wide road connecting Yiren and Middle Earth, passing through Kuicheng, and the destination is the Yuma River, where the salt and seafood can be shipped to the Yuma River for sale in a very short time.

At this time, in addition to the normal salt exchange and trading, Kuicheng and Yi people also donated a large amount of salt to Youxiong, at this time, their own reserves of salt are enough for the needs of the major walled cities for five years, autumn and winter are a good season for drying salt, and by the end of the year, they should be able to reserve enough salt to support ten years.

Yi people originally had some Tiangang crossbows and earth bows, after the road was opened, it has been sent to the Sifang camp, but the number is far from enough, at this time their own arsenal has been built and began to manufacture various weapons, the arsenal is composed of metallurgical craftsmen of the bird clan, Zhou Rao's firearms craftsmen, and Yi people who are good at making strong bows and crossbows.

The soldiers of the Quartet battalion have all been in place, according to his previous instructions, a large number of low-level warriors, 10,000 soldiers in each battalion, 2,000 warriors, Li Wanzi is in charge of the ministry, and has been busy with Zhu Qianwei for a while to select warriors of all levels stationed in the camp.

The old blind man always wanted to sketch a complete map of the Central Plains, thinking that he would command the battle in the future, but he was busy with official business at this time and could not do it himself, and Zhu Qianwei and Li Wanzi needed to often travel with each other from the Sifang camp, so the old blind man entrusted them to record the mountains and rivers on his behalf, and the map of the Central Plains had taken shape at this time.

Wang Xinran is the queen of the middle palace, but before that she was an officer of the 18th Bureau, people in the system often hold meetings, she does not feel strange to similar meetings, when the old blind man speaks, she will occasionally open her mouth to add, mainly for some matters in the arsenal, the quality of the gunpowder made by the rat clan before is very poor, it cannot be used as a propellant, and the firearms made are limited, and she is trying to improve this problem.

After getting the Mixed Yuan Ding, Jiang Nan has been studying it, although the research is still in the theoretical stage, but there is already a general context, the Mixed Yuan Ding is different from the ordinary Dan Ding, although the Mixed Yuan Ding smelting pill does not need to be proportioned to the five elements, but there are great variables, it is not a messy spiritual object thrown into it to refine a high-grade pill. If you want to open the furnace, the sum of the spiritual energy contained in various spiritual objects must reach the weight of condensing a jade yuan spirit pill, and below this amount, the mixed yuan ding will not be able to start.

It is also true that the limit of the mixed Yuan Ding can quench the elixir is the jade yuan cultivation, the so-called jade yuan is the ultimate of the golden immortal, but the spiritual object is thrown in, and there may not necessarily be a jade yuan pill, it may also be a number of other grades of pills, the sum of the aura of the pill will not be reduced, but the aura will be dispersed, the most unlucky is a bunch of red elixir, under normal circumstances, the blue elixir is the majority, if you are lucky, the purple elixir will also be there, and the black elixir of the three void cultivation is relatively few, but it is not very few. As for the white elixir of the three spiritual cultivations, it is extremely rare, and the golden elixir of the three yuan cultivation may be opened tens of thousands of times without a single one.

In addition, after the furnace of the mixed Yuan Ding is opened, the elixir that comes out is often very mixed, not a single grade, a furnace out, it is possible to mix different grades of elixir, although the success rate of alchemy is 100%, but the advantages and disadvantages all depend on luck, to put it bluntly, it is a gamble.

After discovering this drawback of the mixed Yuan Ding, Jiang Nan did not hide it, but told the old blind man in time, and the old blind man also told those who wanted to borrow the mixed Yuan Ding, I thought that this uncertainty could make everyone retreat, but I didn't think it would make them even more crazy, everyone has a fluke mentality, this is the same as buying a lottery ticket, they are all going to five million, in case of a jade yuan gold pill, it will be directly to the sky.

In addition to refining and improving the qi replenishing elixir, the mixed yuan ding can also quench other targeted elixirs, such as poison repellent, healing and other elixirs, which do not need to reach the amount of jade yuan, as long as the spiritual objects are prepared according to the formula recorded on the bronze medal, they can be tempered.

Wan Shanhong has a collection of herbs in the Southern Wilderness, and in the past six months, he has also sent people to the Southern Wilderness to follow the map, but the harvest is not very ideal.

If the first and second in command are the same character, the work will definitely not be done well, the first and second in command complement each other is the best partner, Wu Zhongyuan is very generous, and the old blind man likes to be careful in calculations, and in this half a year, he received a large number of borrowed "deposits" from mixed Yuan Ding, the so-called deposits are all kinds of spiritual objects.

As long as someone wants to borrow it, the old blind man agrees and accepts the deposit, and when the other party can't get together the spiritual objects needed to open the furnace, the deposit will naturally be confiscated.

Even if you get it together, you have to pay rent, and the rent is also a spiritual object, and if the other party wants to refine the pill, you have to offer the same amount of spiritual object, to put it bluntly, if someone else refines it once, you will earn it once.

This kind of behavior of the old blind man is called calculating at best, but it is black at worst, and he has no unscrupulous profiteers.

The 100 or so people who helped them fight against the rebels before basically paid a deposit, and these people are still waiting for the furnace to open the alchemy in October, in case the Yellow Emperor changes hands, the previous deposit will be in vain.

In addition, the old blind man is also crazy to collect money, the coast of the East China Sea in a war, his own prestige is far and wide, the large and small tribes inside and outside the Central Plains have come to pay tribute to the ministers, the old blind man is more and more than Shen, as long as people dare to send, he dares to receive, in a very short period of time gathered a large number of all kinds of war materials.

"Those people came to Nagong to seek refuge, and if they come to ask for help in the future, how can we sit idly by?" Wu Zhongyuan was a little worried.

The old blind man said, "Holy Lord, with all due respect, we will not accept their tribute, and you cannot sit idly by when they come to ask for help. ”

Wu Zhongyuan thought about it and found that what the old blind man said was indeed reasonable, he was not the kind of person who would not save him when he saw death, even if others did not give gifts, he came to ask for help with snot and tears every day, and he couldn't let them sit still and wait for death.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer, the old blind man knew that he was worried, so he said, "We have stored a lot of spiritual objects these days, enough to open the furnace more than ten times, and the saint can test the mixed yuan tripod ......"