Lin Ji has never cooked crocodile meat, and there is no place to look up recipes on the Internet. But he knows that no matter what kind of meat, with enough green onions, ginger and chili, and then cinnamon star anise, the taste is almost the same, so after the meat is fried, it is still fragrant.

Lin Ji tried to fry a few pots, and after the taste was okay, he asked the very diligent full-time cook to take the spatula and serve it himself.

It's not the same now. Lin Ji didn't serve it, and no one dared to move the chopsticks. If he fried a few more pots, no one would dare to move the dishes on the table when they were cold.

Over the past few years, the dinner table habits at this time have been somewhat similar to those of later generations.

After Lin Ji toasted to the red monkey and waited for the people who came back from afar, everyone said that they had a homely meal, and occasionally raised a glass to enhance their feelings or thank the leader.

Almost all of the people at this table in the forest are the core figures above the commander of a thousand commanders. After Lin Ji was half-full, he raised his voice and asked, "Is there really no one who wants to be this foreign minister?" ”

The inauguration of the forest trail will also lead to the establishment of a new kingdom structure.

Under the king, three major institutions of power will be formed. The first is the Military Academy. The Military Academy specializes in the management of the national army, is responsible for recruiting and training professional soldiers, and is responsible for national defense, border defense, war, etc. The Slaughter Society is the commander. Broken Teeth, Fu Wolf, Yellow Leopard and others served as generals, each in charge of an army or several departments of the Military Academy.

The second is the Government Council. The Government Council manages all kinds of administrative affairs in the country. The leader is the prime minister, who is appointed by the hair arc, and Izuka is the deputy prime minister. In addition, there are departments of agriculture, industry, smelting, education, transportation, diplomacy, reserves, medical and health care, and propaganda.

By the way, Lin Xi decided to set up a new customs.

The third is the House of Elders. The House of Elders consists of several institutions such as the Council of Elders, the Secretariat, the Office of the Grand Elders, and the subordinate courts. The work of the secretariat is mainly to equip the illiterate elders with literate secretaries.

In addition to this, the King's direct agencies include the Police Department, the Office, the Military Intelligence Department, the Logistics Department, the Honorable Management Office, and several other departments.

Candidates for these departments have basically been decided. Of course, there are also uncertainties. For example, this foreign minister.

In future generations, the diplomatic department is a sweet spot, and it is estimated that everyone will rush to ask for it. It's just that now the situation is a little different.

Looking outside the forest city, it is all a barren area, except for a Mao tribe in the north, which is more decent, the other tribes are generally only three or five hundred people. If these commanders were asked to communicate with these tribes in a low voice, they were really unwilling. Even if it's the Mao tribe, it's just a clear swim that can be played. None of them want to bother.

Lin Ji looked over at a glance and found that these people were either killing talents or reckless, and finally came up with a few delicate thoughts, and they had already been arranged. There was also some disappointment in my heart. There are still few talents.

He originally thought of two candidates, one was Mingyu and the other was Shenglan, and their personalities were quite suitable for doing this. Helplessly, Mingxi's identity and style of acting were not welcomed, and after Lin Ji proposed it, none of the people agreed to it. Just now, Po Tu arranged for someone to come back, and he also participated in his cooking in the forest traces.

Katsu scale's personality is more suitable for this. But this guy doesn't know how to learn. In recent years, the teachers who have been sent to Tiger Lynn have not been treated very well by him. Now he still can't read a basket of words. Coupled with the fraud just now, Lin Xi really didn't want to use him.

Lin Ji looked at Yuan Xiao and said with a smile: "Yuan Xiao, why don't you be the foreign minister?" ”

When Yuanxiao is not angry, he has a smile on his face, and he is still quite affable. Outsiders don't understand him, and they may still be fooled by him.

Yuan Xiao didn't refuse, but just asked: "Can this Ministry of Foreign Affairs belong to the Military Yuan?" ”

His meaning is obvious, diplomacy, diplomacy, not to fight, let others see the force here, to ask him to negotiate in a low voice, that is unlikely.

Lin Ji tapped on the table, wondering if there was a need for this. Hair arc coughed at this time, and glanced at Yuan with a dissatisfied.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the establishment of his government affairs yuan, and now Yuan Xiao proposes to set it out, what does this mean?

Yuan Xiao thought of this notoriously competitive and competitive hair, and his heart was not big, so he hurriedly changed his words: "Well, I mean, can our Ministry of Foreign Affairs be equipped with five hundred elephants and have their own action power over small tribes?" It does not have to be under the name of the Military Yuan. ”

The arc of the face improved, and continued to eat and drink.

Lin Ji thought for a while and gave a number: "One hundred." ”

Now an elephant can be paired with three to five warriors. Really gave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 500 elephants, and Yuan Xiao might dare to be tough with a big guy of the Mao tribe. This would lead to a full-scale war, and Lin Ji didn't want to just annex the deer, and everything would drag the whole country into the quagmire of war just after a little rudiment.

A hundred elephants, even if you give 500 people, this can deal with a tribe of 1,000 people at most. A tribe of this size will be wiped out when it is destroyed, and there is no pressure on the forest traces.

As soon as he heard that there were not as many people as his subordinates now, he immediately put aside his burden: "Then I won't do it, you can find someone else." ”

Lin Ji said: "I'm just a proposal, do it yourself or not." But you've learned geography for nothing. Is there only one place on the planet that we are currently in? We're basically controlled to the east, and we're going south into the forest, so how many places are there? Flowing against the Yangtze River to the west, those snow-capped mountains don't live under people? Crossing the Mao tribe to the north, the grassland is tens of thousands of kilometers wide, and there will be fewer tribes on it? Besides, this is still our business in Asia, but also in Europe, Africa, America, and Australia...... These can be contacted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of course, when the time comes, when the time comes, there will be not enough manpower, and there will not be enough elephants, so you can match the ship and add manpower...... Who's going to think about it again? ”

In the end, Lin Ji looked up and asked.

"They have an arrangement, they have an arrangement, it's me, it's me." Yuan Xiao hurriedly stopped others from agreeing and agreed first. The world is so big, everyone wants to see it, and Yuan Xiao thinks it's good that he can go to see it first.

Lin Ji said: "Tomorrow I have to continue to renovate the house, you can talk to Bayang first, draw the sphere of influence, tell him the boundary of mutual non-aggression, if he is willing to give us the Huai River to the south of the Qinling Mountains, we can increase the goods we provide in the future." If he wants our caravan to trade in their territory, we can give him a tenth of the proceeds of the trade as a tax. ”

The palace is said to have been completed, but most of the place is still rough, and it will take a lot of time to move the glass windows from the small town to install them. If he wants to improve the key area or his own living area before the ceremony, then he has to keep an eye on it. Otherwise, if you hand it over to a group of inexperienced people, no one knows what it will look like.

In addition to decorating the house, all kinds of ceremonies, the process of the ceremony, and all kinds of details must also be watched by the forest traces, and many of them have to be rehearsed again, otherwise the ceremony will go wrong, it will be ridiculous.

It's best for his subordinates to talk about these things first, and then they can't talk about him. Before talking about this, the most he can do is to meet politely.

Yuan Xiao thought of what others had said before, and asked, "What if he wants to go and pick mushrooms?" ”

Lin Ji knocked on the table and said, "Tell him that we are free to fall in love, as long as we are willing." ”

The leader of Bayang thought about picking mushrooms all night, and fell asleep under the influence of alcohol in the middle of the night. I didn't think I had slept long, and I was woken up by the sound of the same horn and footsteps outside. He was so angry that he rushed out of the so-called hotel, only to find that this was not his tribe, but the strange and strange Chaolin City.

Outside, there were teams of runners, some even leading elephants or deer, and there were other busy figures of women and women around them. In the morning light, some things that could not be seen clearly at night also became clear, and the white walls and green tiles or lead-gray ground in the distance filled him with a strange feeling. This is a completely different place from the messy and primitive Mao tribe.

After Bayang suppressed his anger and found a convenient place, those people's morning exercises were basically over. A ten-year-old walked out of the team and had breakfast with him.

If it weren't for the fact that this young man had enough followers with him, as well as a vicious snow monster, he felt that he was no different from the other ordinary youths in the Mao tribe. If there were, it would probably be cleaner.

Bayang even felt that the young man opposite seemed to be stunned, and he couldn't see the anger and violence in his eyes.

Lin Ji served noodles to Bayang like a big boy next door, and introduced him to pork stuffed buns: "This pig is still too little, we are reluctant to slaughter, today I am grateful to you." This is not the same as the taste of wild boar, of course, the domestication is not complete, and there is still some smell, so the ginger is added......"

In this kind of chatter, Bayang felt that if he slapped him, he might be able to kill this ignorant young man, so as to conquer this large tribe in one fell swoop.

But when he thought about the scene, he thought that maybe things were not so simple.

Clipping a bun and stuffing it into Bayang's hand, Lin Ji changed a pair of chopsticks to eat noodles. After eating two bites, he smiled at Bayang and said, "Before, Po Tu told me something about your mother, and I thought we could talk about it somewhat." I'm a different person, except for the people around me...... In fact, I am also looking for other people who have a common topic...... Well, it doesn't matter. ”

"After a while, I'll let Yuanxiao take you around and have a look, if you have any ideas, you talk to him first...... In fact, we are alive and have been pursuing two things, one is love and the other is profit. Love is related to the question of mating rights, and I understand that you have emotions for me because of this. But that's not my fault...... Well, then again, now that you are the leader of the Mao tribe, in fact, the two of us should talk more about interests. For example, do you want to build a city like the one outside? Do you know how to accumulate wealth? …… We can pay you taxes after we go deep into your tribe and trade. Each time we trade what we get is divided into fifteen parts, one of which is given to you, and you can slowly accumulate wealth......"

After breakfast, Lin Ji left Yuanxiao, the foreign minister, and a few others, and he was busy.

At this time, Bayang realized that during the whole breakfast, he only heard Lin Ji say something like "we are neighbors, we should be friendly and develop together", and did not talk about any substantive issues - for example, he forgot to ask Lin Ji the price of picking mushrooms.

Thinking about it, the rhythm of the whole breakfast was firmly grasped by Lin Ji. Bayang suddenly had some ridiculous feelings when he was a child with his mother.

Although he had all kinds of negative emotions towards Lin Ji, he didn't know when it started, and he felt that what Lin Ji said was very reasonable. Even if he hates Lin Ji, there are actually some things that can be discussed. Moreover, he was still very moved by the proposal of collecting wealth to build a city. It's even more heartwarming than taking away the mushrooms.

Thinking of this, Bayang's heart tightened, and he finally looked at Lin Ji completely. This person can subdue the tiger barbarian and conquer the deer, which is really not simple.

There are more things that Bayang wants, so he is not in a hurry to talk about the mushroom picking, but just raises his heart and looks at the arrangements of Chao Lin Cheng.

Yuan Xiao received such a task for the first time, and he didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he asked Lin Ji and called Qian Mian as a helper. The two once loved and killed each other in the land of the deer, and they also established a certain tacit understanding. At this time, there is no problem with cooperation.

In addition, Yuanxiao let Mingyang, who is more familiar with Bayang as a companion, as a lubrication on both sides. After Yuan Xiao became the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mingyu will be his subordinate from now on. Mingjun naturally has no opinions, and he is positive.

Mingyu didn't know how to open the situation when he saw Yuanxiao, so he simply suggested listening to Lin Ji and taking a look around with Bayang.

In the central square, the cement paving has come to an end. More people tripped the gravel and cement together, shoveled it to the ground, then flattened it and knocked out the air holes, then flattened it with a stone mill pulled by an elephant, and finally pressed out the horizontal line.

Elsewhere in the square, someone was sprinkling water on the floor that had been paved yesterday, and more of the ground was already dry and looked like a lump.

Mingyu said: "This is a thing invented by our king, called cement. If you build a city in the future, it's better to exchange some of this kind of thing with us. The price is very affordable, and a young man can exchange two or three times as much cement as him. But it's so sturdy. ”

Mingyu has managed the voices of these people and knows how to demonstrate his products. He took out a stick and smashed it against the solid ground. The wood broke in response, and there were naturally no traces of the concrete floor.

The price of exchanging two or three bags of cement for a young man is indeed ridiculously expensive. But the price is basically the same now and for external transactions.

Three or four young people for an axe, two young people for a horse lantern, and a two-hundred-pound deer for a pot of wine, these are all normal prices.

The price of a few dragon dollars for an axe is the internal price.

Bayang is much more convergent than yesterday, just look, was not responded to and Mingyu topic.

In the distance, more scaffolding had been removed, and the mountain-shaped building in front of it was completely exposed. The tiled façade reflects the light along with the green glass, making it almost as if the water has been placed vertically. It also makes people feel that it is not a human thing.

Mingyu said: "Those reflective things are all things that our king made out of the kingdom of God, and these are all priceless treasures. It won't be sold at any price. ”

The glass in this building was dismantled directly from the small town, and it is very different from the transparent glass that was issued to other people, so naturally it cannot be sold as an ordinary commodity.

But it doesn't matter, these green ones can't be sold, and there are countless glass products that can be sold.

A few people walked around the commercial street with Bayang, and he couldn't be silent anymore. I designate a lot of things as a later product in a row. He even deliberately proposed to ask for several large floor-to-ceiling glass, and he wanted to build a completely transparent house in the Mao tribe.

Mingyun habitually wanted to give him an offer all the way, but was stopped by Yuan Xiao. Just let people write down what he wanted.

It took a whole day to walk around these. The little money brought by the people of the Mao tribe was quickly exchanged for small things that could be exchanged on the street.

In the evening, Yuan Xiao came to Bayang with a list and a large map: "For these things you specified, if you allow us to enter your territory to trade, we can give you at least five thousand dragon coins a year in taxes." ”

The price of dragon coins and tiger coins is much higher in the Mao tribe than in Chaolin. Sometimes a few dragon coins can be exchanged for a young man. This is caused by the opacity of the market.

On the Asabayashi side, the population will mainly be exchanged from the north, but if you have to pay taxes, you will naturally pay money.

Bayang had probably recovered his normal thinking ability, and smiled at Yuan: "You are fifteen to give one is too little, I want to give three to one." ”

"This can't be done, our cost is very high. Many of us men are ...... for these goods The casualties were too severe. Fourteen copies for one. ”

"Five for one."

"Thirteen for one."

"Ten for one."

"Deal."

"......" Bayang suddenly felt as if something was wrong.

"We did some research, and you said that the north side is all your tribe, but it doesn't seem to be. Some places are not from the Mao tribe, and we have to confirm this. Yuan Xiao then went on to talk about the division of forces.

"To the north, the deer are all from the Mao tribe."

"What we mean by this is to make it clear which areas are not taxable. In fact, we also have cognition...... In such a small place, there are actually not many tribes left. If you admit it, I can ask our king and send you a few pieces of that kind of big glass. As our king said, there is no way to copy it. It is also priceless. ”

"Deal. Wait, last question......"

"The habit on our side is to be free to love. As long as you are not married, you can pursue it, and the woman agrees. ”