After the seventy-fifth year of Emperor Yitian entered the winter, the situation around Juquanling was already making Ding Shuang, Zhou Jingyuan, Wu Meng and others cry and laugh. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The situation that Chen Hai said at the beginning was formed, but at this time, there were eight Taoist temples such as Shichengling and Mojia Workshops around Juquanling, representing the nine major forces such as the Dong clan and Yanjing in Hexi, and at this time, there were nearly 20 foundry factories independent of Juquanling, which were the eyeliner of other small and medium-sized sects and sect forces in Juquanling.

Even in the foundry of Juquanling, there are more than twelve master craftsmen above the Mingqi Realm, and there is only Su Yuan who belongs to the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion. Outside of Juquan Ridge, there were as many as forty or fifty people from the Ming Realm powerhouses who had gathered, representing more than a dozen overlords who had reached into Juquan Ridge.

The situation of the wolves is formed, and their big fat sheep has survived temporarily, but the big fat sheep wants to decide its own fate from now on, I'm afraid it will be more difficult.

Juquanling has just had the first snow of the year, and the snow is not heavy, and there is only some white accumulation between the mountains.

Although the scenery of Juquanling and Juquan Lake was extremely beautiful at this time, Zhou Jingyuan, who rushed to the Zhongfeng Bamboo Forest to see Chen Hai, did not have a good mood to enjoy the scenery.

The bamboo forest is located at the foot of the cliff of the middle peak, and a waterfall falls down from the 100-meter-high bank, forming a pool flow, bypassing the middle peak, and going to the big stream at the east foot.

In addition to the cliff cave opened up a few secret rooms for diving cultivation and refining weapons, Chen Hai's residence in Juquanling is a few bamboo houses in front of the bamboo forest.

At this time, Chen Hai was discussing kendo with Sun Buregret by the stream, and Su Aya was squatting on the stone bank, watching a small whitebait fish swim in the crystal clear water.

Seeing that Sun Buregret was here, Zhou Jingyuan's resentment could not be vented for the time being.

Seeing that Zhou Jingyuan was holding back something and couldn't say it, it was really uncomfortable, Chen Hai smiled and said, "Senior Brother Sun is not an outsider, what can't you say?"

After glancing at Sun Buregret, Zhou Jingyuan thought that they had some grievances on their side, and it would be okay for Hexi to know, so he said: "Today, the representatives of the eight Taoist academies have all jointly come to the door, and they want to reduce the price of the quenched iron material supplied in the next phase by three percent, they are really too deceitful." In this way, the profit we can get from the quenched iron material is very small, and the price is even one-tenth of that of the smelted and quenched iron......"

The situation of wolves is formed, and no one wants to see other families swallow the fat sheep alone, but that doesn't mean that the wolves won't join forces to shear the wool on the fat sheep?

At this time, Juquanling also controlled the output of quenched iron on the surface, but the price of quenched iron was controlled by other forces, and it was no longer Juquanling's family to say it.

Even the Shichengling Daoyuan, which represents Hexi, has joined forces with the other seven Taoist institutes to restrict Juquanling from raising the price of quenched iron.

No one is stupid, they can obviously estimate how low the cost of the quenched iron material produced by Juquanling is, how can they continue to buy it at ten times the high price?

Although the two large-scale smelting furnaces are about to be put into use, and the daily output of quenched iron in Juquanling will be increased to 40,000 catties by then, Zhou Jingyuan calculated carefully, and the benefits they can really get from them are even far less than they were at the beginning of the year, so why doesn't this make him complain?

According to his thoughts, it was better to agree to the conditions of the Black Yan Army, lead the elite of the 30,000 Black Yan Army to re-enter Qintong Mountain, control the area north of Zuojin Valley, and save the bird spirit of today.

"Also, there are a few master craftsmen in the foundry, and they are also ready to make moves these days, saying that they will set up a master association, so that the armor and puppet refining can push the old into the new - they seem to have good intentions, but the hidden intentions behind them are really not telling. Zhou Jingyuan said angrily.

Sun Buregret's face was full of embarrassment, he was also one of the master craftsmen of Juquanling Casting at this time, and he also knew that the craftsmen would be a master.

The establishment of the Craftsmen Association within Juquanling said that it would not interfere with the high-level management of Juquanling, but after it was really established, the middle and senior craftsmen within Juquanling became a force, not to mention that they would interfere with the management, and it was very likely that the capital would be replaced by waterways.

In the final analysis, the strength of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion itself is too weak, but it occupies a big treasure that is enough to change the pattern of the world, how can it be alone?

Since the Hexi side did not have the ambition to monopolize Juquanling, they were afraid of public anger, so they still followed the opinions of other families in lowering the price of quenched iron and the preparation of the Craftsmen's Association.

Although Sun Buregret has a good personal relationship with Chen Hai, he can only follow the orders of the sect and the Hexi Protectorate in this kind of matter, and he believes that Chen Hai will not easily give in to the matter of the Craftsman Association, after all, it involves the future dominance of Juquanling, but he should make some concessions in other matters to fill the appetite of the families a little.

Chen Hai stood with his hands in his sleeves and looked into the distance, in the mountain pass less than twenty miles away from Juquanling, the city called Liquan had already been built in a rudimentary form.

The construction of the city of Liquan has nothing to do with Juquanling or Tongbei Mansion, but is jointly promoted by eight Taoist institutes such as Shichengling, and will be jointly managed by the eight Taoist institutes after completion.

When the city of Liquan is completed, and the wide road connecting Liquan and the outside world is opened, the status of Juquanling will be further weakened.

Now that someone wants to hold some kind of craftsman meeting in Juquanling, there is an attempt to overhead their side, so it is no wonder that Zhou Jingyuan will be angry.

Although the situation evolved and developed much faster than Chen Hai expected, he did not feel too surprised and angry.

At this time, Juquanling, starting with the huge supply of quenched iron materials, has actually formed a super-large-scale armor and weapons casting distribution center, and thousands of excellent armor are cast every month and exported to various places.

And the craftsmen of all the clans and clans have gathered in Juquanling, so that for the first time in thousands of years, Yanzhou has appeared outside the school palace for the first time in thousands of years, an exchange platform that can exchange armor and weapons and magic weapon casting, so that the middle and low-level puppets and weapons manufacturing technology can unimaginably flourish.

Chen Hai's personal energy is always limited, it is impossible to take all aspects into account, and more often than not, he still needs to work together, but the manpower of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion is still very limited, and there is not even a master craftsman in the Mingqi Realm at the earliest.

The primary machine beasts that Juquanling had originally supplied to the Mojia Division had improved a lot at this time, which was precisely what many craftsmen were able to fully communicate with.

In this process, Chen Hai himself was also extremely beneficial in the study of the puppet technique, but others thought that he had obtained the ancient inheritance and did not think that it would help him much.

If he only considered finding a way for himself to dominate and divide the localities among the various forces, and Juquanling formed the current situation, he would undoubtedly not be considered a success, but he could not be regarded as a failure.

Unless you don't want to develop the big treasure of the lake sand mine, otherwise, if you can form today's balanced situation, it is already quite successful, and the power of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion is still too weak, so you can't monopolize the big treasure of Juquan Lake.

The lord of all the lords, who eats meat and does not spit out bones, no one will tolerate a small force to monopolize Juquanling under the side couch.

However, at this time, each family wanted to set up an organization like the Craftsmen's Association to seize the dominance of Juquanling, which was too hasty.

Chen Hai glanced at Sun Buregret, and couldn't help but weigh Hexi's attitude, although Hexi was the first to set up a Taoist academy in Shichengling, but it did not occupy more interests in Juquanling, what would Hexi think, what would the prince Cai Chou think, or maybe even if the Craftsmen Association was to be established, the Dong family should be allowed to stand up and take the lead, so that they could take more interests and balance their hearts?

Although things were generally developing according to Chen Hai's original vision, the more he found that many interests became more and more complicated, and it was difficult for him to break free.

“……”

At this time, a long rainbow swept from the direction of Shichengling, Chen Hai, Sun Buregret, and Zhou Jingyuan looked at each other, but after a while, they saw that it was Pei Jinhua, the law enforcement elder of the Shichengling Daoist Academy, wearing a purple and green suit, and a graceful imperial sword flew over.

Pei Jinhua used to be the head of the Seven Peaks of the Taiwei Sect, and he entered Yanjing with the Jinqu delegation three years ago, and then stayed in Yanjing, and actually stayed in Dong Ning to play the role of a protector - Dong Ning returned to Hexi gloomily, and Pei Jinhua went to the Shichengling Daoist Institute to serve as a law enforcement elder.

Chen Hai didn't know what Pei Jinhua was doing when he suddenly came to Juquanling, so he stepped forward and saluted, "Why did Elder Pei come to Juquanling to be a guest today?"

Pei Jinhua is middle-aged, but it is also full of charm, Chen Hai greeted him with a smile, but her beautiful face was stretched there, standing on the blue and shining spirit sword, and she didn't say that she wanted to come down and take a breath, and said directly: "Hexi wants to marry Xiqiang Kingdom, I'll come and tell you." ”

"Dong Ning wants to marry Jinzhou?" asked Chen Hai in a lost voice.

Pei Jinhua didn't want to explain more, and after glancing at Sun Buregret, Zhou Jingyuan, and Su Aya, he destroyed the sword technique and flew towards the Shicheng Ling Dao Courtyard.

Pei Jinhua suddenly came to report the news, Sun Buregret was a little confused, thinking that Chen Hai refused the marriage of the county lord of Yuecheng in public, and it was known to the world, and it was said that Qin Muhou Dong Shou was ashamed and angry afterwards, and wanted to kill Chen Hai to vent his anger, but Chen Hai saw the opportunity quickly, and fled to Wen Boyuan's house to escape for a while, this matter has been almost a year, everyone is almost forgotten, what did Pei Jinhua suddenly come to do here?

Zhou Jingyuan knew that after refusing to get married, Dong Ning had sent someone over overnight to inform Chen Hai to run away, which shows that Dong Ning has a deep affection for Chen Hai, but what Chen Hai thinks about Dong Ning, Zhou Jingyuan doesn't know, but thinks that since Chen Hai has rejected Dong Ning's marriage contract, the Dong family wants to marry Dong Ning to the Xiqiang Kingdom in exchange for the peace of the Western Frontier, even if Chen Hai feels uncomfortable, this is a fact that no one can change.