Chapter 184: Juquan Ridge
Su Aya accompanied Chen Hai to the top of Juquan Ridge, under the sunset, the Juquan Lake in the northeast corner of the foothill was sparkling, as if hiding thousands of gold and silver, and the layers of waves lapped the stone bank, stirring up waves seven or eight meters high. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is hard to imagine that a mountain lake with a radius of forty or fifty miles, and the cliffs near the shore can stir up such high waves.
With such a big wave, ordinary ships have to take a lot of risks when they dock, and it is no wonder that there are very few fishing boats on Juquan Lake, even if there are no black scarf thieves, no boat will enter Juquan Lake.
Such a big wind and wave is really dangerous, not to mention that there are still two fierce giant crocodiles lurking at the bottom of Juquan Lake over the years.
According to the description of the nearby mountain people, the two giant crocodiles at the bottom of Juquan Lake are twenty or thirty meters long, fierce and abnormal, and in the early years, there will be Xuan Xiu from time to time to kill demons and eliminate harm, but every time Juquan Lake is stirred up into waves, and in the end, those who were arrogant and arrogant when they first arrived were killed and escaped.
Even if one or two extremely powerful sword cultivators occasionally pass by, and the two giant crocodiles hide at the bottom of the lake, those extremely powerful sword cultivators are helpless.
Juquan Lake is the big rift valley between Juquan Ridge and the surrounding peaks and mountains, the mountain lake is formed only after the Tong River comes from the water, it is hundreds of meters deep, the dark river cave at the bottom of the lake is different from each other, and the terrain is very complicated.
Even if a strong person above the Enlightenment Realm wants to sneak into the bottom of the lake to hunt these fierce lake beasts, he is not sure of winning. After all, the bottom of the lake is not the main battlefield of the human race's Xuan Xiu, and those two xenomorph giant crocodiles also obviously have mastered the supernatural powers of the water system, and their speed under the water is extremely fast.
Fortunately, Juquan Lake undertakes the water from the Tong River, and a large number of fish and beasts gather from the upstream, and the two giant crocodiles can hunt enough prey at the bottom of the lake, and they will not go ashore to hunt man-eating beasts. The mountain people worship the giant crocodile as the god of the lake, and from time to time they will slaughter cattle and sheep and throw them into the lake, and the two sides have been safe for so many years.
Even if the black turban thief occupied Juquanling, he didn't think about getting rid of these two giant crocodiles.
Su Aya saw Chen Hai frowning and looking at Juquan Lake, thinking that with Chen Hai's spirit, the side of the couch would never allow demon beasts to hibernate, he estimated that he wanted to find a way to lure those giant crocodiles ashore to get rid of them, but these giant crocodiles had been dormant in Juquan Lake for some years, if they could lure the giant crocodiles ashore to hunt, it would not be a problem for a long time, she wanted to see what special means Chen Hai could have.
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In the east, south, and west of Juquan Ridge, the mountains are undulating, and within the field of vision, there are several streams flowing out from the depths of the mountains, and eventually all of them merge into the Tong River or Juquan Lake.
In the area of Juquanling, the Cao clan, who was the first to migrate over a long distance, was busy tidying up the stone village with the craftsmen and craftsmen of the Medicine Master Garden, and the weeds that grew half a person high in front of the house were cleared.
Not only did the Cao clan move into Juquanling, but Zhou Jingyuan led the craftsmen and craftsmen to move westward and join Chen Hai, and the new foundry was naturally built directly in Juquanling......
Juquanling was once entrenched by black turban bandits, and the leader of the bandits was also a person who cultivated himself, Chen Hai saw that there were relics of buildings such as practice rooms and scripture rooms in Juquanling.
In the early years, this gang of black turban thieves bewitched the people and plundered the countryside in the west of Tongbei Mansion, and they were deeply hated by the locality.
Tongbei Prefecture has sent troops to suppress many times, but the deep road of Juquanling Mountain is dangerous, and the thieves are well-trained, and they have been repeatedly injured, until this time with the north side of the main force of the rebels, Juquanling can be regarded as getting rid of the black turban bandits.
Juquanling is said to be a dangerous road in the mountains, but the official road is built to Heifenggang, which is 60 miles away from Juquanling, and the mountains are rugged for 50 or 60 miles to the west, and there are still some dangerous trails opened by mountain people to pass through, but they cannot be used by a large number of soldiers and horses; and there are giant crocodiles in Juquan Lake, but boats cannot come from the Tonghe waterway.
Before the rebels retreated north, most of the cities and villages in Tongbei Province were destroyed, but the cottages in Juquanling were relatively intact.
Perhaps the leader of this group of black turban bandits was reluctant to destroy the nest that had been entrenched for many years, or perhaps they thought that the nest left behind would not be used by the Xiyuan army, and it was likely that it would not take long for them to counterattack back, which saved a lot of time and energy for the construction of the foundry and the westward migration of the Cao clan.
From the scale of buildings such as the school field, the military dormitory, and the martial arts hall, it can be roughly known that there were three or four thousand thieves in Juquanling at its peak.
Before the black turban thieves occupied, there were also several clans in Juquanling that took root here.
In addition to the Juquan Lake at the northern foot of the water, the other three sides of the valley have opened up nearly 10,000 acres of fields; there are traces of medicinal herb cultivation in the mountains, and there are even the remains of an iron mine in the back mountain, but after the black turban thieves occupied, the farmland, medicine fields and iron ore fields near Juquanling have been abandoned, and even the mountains around Juquanling for forty or fifty miles are uninhabited......
All this has provided great convenience for Chen Hai to redevelop Juquanling.
In addition to more than 100 craftsmen, craftsmen and more than 1,000 people such as the Cao family led by Zhou Jingyuan, Chen Hai also asked Wu Meng and Ge Tong to move their clansmen to Tongbei and Juquanling to settle down.
How to relocate and resettle more people, as well as recruit young people from the hungry people in Tongbei Prefecture to build roads, develop nearby mountains, forests and lakes, and even restart iron mines, lumber yards, and quarries, these are all things that Cao Feng and Cao Shan's father and son are familiar with, and they don't need Chen Hai and Wu Meng, Ge Tong, Ding Shuang, Zhou Jingyuan and other core figures to worry too much.
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Su Aya couldn't guess what Chen Hai was thinking in his heart, and gave up his military power to say that he wanted to devote himself to penance and cultivation if he ignored the world, but Chen Hai did everything possible to occupy Juquanling, and moved the Cao family, Ding family, and Ge clan people to live in peace, where did he look like he ignored the world?
But to say that Chen Hai has the heart to manage worldly power, how can the three or five thousand clans who gather in Quanling be comparable to the military power of the thirty or forty thousand tiger and wolf division of the first battalion of the Xiyuan Army?
What's more, there is no contradiction or conflict between controlling the military power of the first battalion of the Xiyuan Army and operating Juquanling.
At this time, it was good that Chen Hai didn't even interfere much in the affairs of Tongbei Okura, and stayed in Juquanling all day during this time, which made Su Aya puzzled in her heart, thinking that Chen Hai gave up the military power of the army of thirty or forty thousand tigers and wolves and did not grasp it in his hands, did he think that three or five thousand weak mortals could really toss what tricks in the land of Juquanling?
"I've been looking for you for a long time, the young marquis and the girl Ziling came here to see the scenery," Zhou Jingyuan walked up the steps to the top of the mountain, and two craftsmen from the Spirit Clearing Realm followed him, handed over a scroll in his hand, and said, "The sample you want from the young marquis, we will draw it according to your instructions, if there is no problem, we will still try to make one or two things to see how the effect is......
Su Aya wanted to know what the drawing was, but Chen Hai took the drawing, turned around slightly, and turned her back.
Although Zhou Jingyuan didn't know about the entangled relationship between Su Aya and Chen Hai, it involved core secrets, and it would never be revealed to the eyes of others.
Su Aya has been serving Chen Hai by Chen Hai's side during this time, and naturally knows that Chen Hai stayed in Juquanling, in addition to concentrating on cultivation, the main thing is to lead craftsmen and craftsmen to build a unique machine chariot, thinking that this drawing is to build a core component of the machine chariot?
Chen Hai and they cleaned up two foundries in Juquanling as soon as possible, one outfield, and used the ready-made cottage courtyards, which are currently mainly responsible for the repair of ordinary armor and war weapons; one is the inner field, which is located in a cave halfway up the mountain in Juquanling, and is usually directly responsible for Zhou Jingyuan and Chen Hai's two most trusted craftsmen, and it is strictly forbidden for irrelevant people to enter, and it is impossible to get close.
Even if Su Aya is Chen Hai's personal maid, she is not qualified to enter the infield, and the craftsmen in the infield are all old men who followed Chen Hai and Zhou Jingyuan in Mengyi City at the earliest.
Su Aya didn't have a chance to go into the infield, nor did she have a chance to peek at the drawings, so she naturally didn't know what Chen Hai and the mechanical chariot they were going to build during this time looked like.
Seeing Chen Hai's brows frowning slightly, and then looking at Zhou Jingyuan and the two craftsmen with solemn expressions, Su Aya thought to herself, could it be that the development of the organ chariot had encountered some problems, and the drawings drawn by Zhou Jingyuan and them did not satisfy Chen Hai?
When she was in Hexi, Su Aya really didn't take a role like Zhou Jingyuan seriously, but in the past few years, Zhou Jingyuan has won the trust of Chen Hai, and he is obviously over forty years old, and he has even cultivated the Linghai Secret Palace, and at this time he has even stepped into the middle stage of the Spirit Realm.
The two craftsmen who were in charge of the infield at the same time as Zhou Jingyuan have also improved by leaps and bounds in the past two years.
Su Aya used to feel that Chen Hai was really willing to invest in Zhou Jingyuan and others, but at this time, thinking that Chen Hai even took out four Tongmai Pills to help her improve her cultivation, how could she have treated Zhou Jingyuan's descendants badly?
Wu Meng and Ge Tong have even stepped into the late stage of the Soul Clearing Realm to cultivate, and they have the hope of opening up the sea of ancestral knowledge.
In the past, this was almost impossible to happen to the children of the Han clan such as Wu Meng and Ge Tong.
It is no wonder that Wu Meng, Zhou Jingyuan and other descendants are loyal to Chen Hai and will not heal.
Of course, after Chen Hai rose to prominence in Hexi, whether it was with Chen Lie's support or his repeated military exploits, the cultivation resources he mastered were too sufficient, which allowed him to support the promotion of his descendants regardless of the cost.
Even if Su Aya followed Chen Hai all day long, she couldn't figure out how many resources Chen Hai had in his hands.
She is also very strange sometimes, the rewards for military exploits are all detailed, Chen Hai is in charge of Tongbei Okura, since he can fill his own pockets, it is impossible to have no bottom, but these days when he sees Chen Hai's investment in Juquanling, where does it look like a bottom?
Not only did Wu, Ge, Ding, Zhou, Qi and others improve their cultivation extremely quickly, but with the addition of the guards left by Chen Hai in the northern warehouse of Tongbei, there were already more than 20 descendants above the Soul Realm; even Shen Kun, who stayed in the Jade Dragon Camp in Hexi, also opened up the Spirit Sea Secret Palace a few years ago and successfully stepped into the Spirit Realm.
In the younger generation, Shen Kun's son Shen Xiu and Zhou Jingyuan's daughter Zhou Qingyun and other four people have outstanding qualifications, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and they have all successfully stepped into the Spirit Breaking Realm, no weaker than those sect lords' descendants, but the fundamental reason behind them is inseparable from Chen Hai's strong support.
Shen Kun and his son Shen Xiu, as well as Zhou Qingyun and other teenagers, escorted Ding, Ge and other clan relatives to move to Juquanling a few days ago, and also decided to stay in Juquanling to help Chen Hai.
Think about it, when Chen Lie was first named the Marquis of Zhaoyang Pavilion, there were only twenty or thirty generals of the Soul Realm under his command, and in just two years, Chen Hai, as a branch of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, already had twenty or thirty Soul Realm descendants called.