Chapter 7 System Upgrades
"Damn, it's gone, there's nothing, this fire is amazing." A personal soldier ran out of the valley and walked up to Zhu Changyuan, complaining a little, "Brother, what are you doing, it's much more fierce than tung oil." ”
Later, Jin Guofeng also followed, but he didn't go to the battlefield, he pointed to the brothers around him with some embarrassment, and said: "Let the little prince laugh, the soldiers are like this, the court is in arrears, and the brothers are counting on these spoils." ”
Unconsciously, Jin Guofeng's name for Zhu Changyuan has also changed, from the previous boy, to the little brother, and then to the current little prince.
Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath, didn't even dare to look back at the valley behind him, and said, "General Jin doesn't have to be like this, just teach me Changyuan." There is a way: "Brothers have found something good?" ”
Jin Guofeng shook his head, "It's all burned to ashes." Then he asked, "Where did the little brother get all that oil, and what kind of oil was it, so violent?" ”
Zhu Changyuan didn't answer, deliberately changed the topic, and said, "I don't know how the battle is going forward, does Governor Wu know the situation here?" ”
Jin Guofeng suddenly realized and said, "Bad thing." Hurriedly turned back, gathered the more than 20 surviving soldiers, and ordered: "Brothers, rest in place for an hour, kill horses, eat meat, and then hurry to Ningyuan." ”
Next, there was no need to kill the horses, just find some half-baked dead horses on the battlefield just now, cut off the horse meat and roast it on the spot, and the soldiers ate it one by one.
The mountain breeze was cold, especially in this season of steep spring, everyone did not dare to sleep in the mountains rashly, so they only ran to the stream a few miles away to boil some water, drank it, and then followed Jin Guofeng towards Ningyuan City.
When I went to Ningyuan, I happened to pass by Gaotai Fort, and everyone basically rode a horse with two people, and they didn't go fast until the next day.
The entire Gaotai Fort was almost in ruins, and the fortifications built by the Ming army around it were completely destroyed, and there were countless dead bodies. Because Gaotai Fort was behind the Guanning defense line, except for the group of cavalry burned to death by Zhu Changyuan, the rest of the Qing soldiers also retreated as soon as possible after looting.
The remaining soldiers and civilians who survived the fort were disposing of a large number of corpses inside and outside the city at this time.
Jin Guofeng had important tasks, and he separated from Zhu Changyuan in Gaotai Fort, and galloped straight to Ningyuan, leaving a horse for the two when he left.
Zhu Changyuan and the others walked into the palace, it was empty, and when they returned to the courtyard, they were already full of devastation, and the people in the mansion were killed and injured countless times, and there were small open flames everywhere, and smoke was in the sky.
"Anyone? Uncle Wang...... Brother Chang Yu, cousin Ling'er......" Zhu Changning's voice was hoarse, this is his home, and he almost cried when he lost it suddenly.
Walking into the house, it was also a mess, all the rooms were searched, almost everything of value was gone, and even the iron pot in the kitchen was removed by those Qing soldiers.
"Woo woo......" Zhu Changning cried, these people who died were his most familiar relatives and friends.
Seeing that Zhu Changyuan didn't shed a single tear, Chang Ning said: "Why don't you cry, isn't it uncomfortable?" ”
"Does it help to feel uncomfortable?" Zhu Changyuan picked up Chang Ning, and went around various places in the palace, and found a beautifully shaped blue and white porcelain in a dilapidated room.
"Hey, it's good, it's worth a lot of money." Zhu Changyuan smiled, but Zhu Changning squinted coldly, and said, "You think about this at this time?" ”
"Cut, is it useful to be uncomfortable, we have to live!" Zhu Changyuan looked around again, but didn't see anything useful, so he put away the blue and white plum bottle and secretly put it in the small cart.
Zhu Changning was uncomfortable for a while, and his mood was slowly not so bad, after all, his father worked in the capital, and his mother had been dead for many years, and in the end, there were no immediate relatives who died here.
"Squeak." Suddenly, in the dilapidated hut, a section of wood under the bed was slowly pushed out, and then, under the frightened eyes of Zhu Changyuan and the others, the two of them crawled out.
"I ...... You scared us to death, I thought it was a ghost. Zhu Changyuan said angrily.
It was none other than Zhu Changyu who arched out from under the bed, and a small white hand was exposed underneath, and after a while, half of his head was exposed, his eyes looked outside, and he said, "Pull me." ”
Zhu Changyuan saw what kind of cousin it was, and he disliked being a hillbilly before, but at this time, the family was in trouble, and those unhappiness were also left behind by him, and he stretched out his hand to pull her.
How did Ling'er's cousin suddenly retract her hand, looked at Zhu Changyuan, and whispered, "Your hands are dirty." ”
Zhu Changyuan listened to her words, he was almost angry, and looked at his hands, which were indeed a little dirty, and they were full of dirt because of the night's travel.
"I'll come." Zhu Changyu pulled Ling'er out with his divine hand.
Zhu Changyuan smiled coldly and said to Chang Ning: "Let's go, don't care about them." "Get out of the house.
After searching in various rooms in the palace, he didn't find anything of value anymore, so he said to Zhu Changning: "Now that the army is in chaos, Uncle Wang doesn't know where he went, there is no way to stay here, do you want to go to the mountains with me?" ”
Zhu Changning had no other way, looked at the dilapidated scene of the palace at the moment, nodded, glanced in the direction of Zhu Changyu and Ling'er, and asked, "What should the two of them do?" ”
Zhu Changyuan said: "Don't bother to care about him, come with me." ”
The two rode a horse left by Jin Guofeng and walked towards the mountain. This ** are the ironclad war horses of the Qing cavalry, usually with a great load, and now they have taken off the iron armor and only camel Zhu Changyuan and the two, which are much lighter than the weight of the iron armor, running wildly all the way, arriving in the mountains in about two hours, it is already past lunch, and it is about two o'clock in the afternoon.
Ah Jiu and the Wang family were plowing in the field, and when they saw Zhu Changyuan and Zhu Changning coming over, they hurried over to salute.
Zhu Changyuan said: "Don't be polite, don't be polite, hurry up and get busy, you can't delay planting." He said to Ah Jiu again: "You go to make some food, Chang Ning and I haven't eaten yet." ”
Ah Jiu said: "Yes, young master." Seeing the tattered appearance of the two of them, they didn't dare to ask more.
Ah Jiu didn't cook a meal for a while, and the two of them ate it simply, and then slept in Zhu Changyuan's room. Probably because I didn't close my eyes all night, I slept until dawn and didn't even eat dinner.
In late spring and morning, the sunlight is a little weak, but when it falls on the ground and shines on people's bodies, it can be regarded as a little warm.
Zhu Changning's complexion looks good, much better than yesterday.
Zhu Changyuan came to the dry land at the door early in the morning, and saw that the father and son of the Wang family were driving two oxen to plow the land, and they had completed a small half, and another worrying question came to mind.
Seeds, but also fertilizers.
In ancient China, a large part of the reason why the yield of land was very low was because of the barren land, whether there was timely fertilization, and then the problem of seeds. Without good seeds, yields naturally can't keep up.
What Zhu Changyuan is facing now is this problem, since he wants to farm, he must follow the high-yielding one, otherwise, isn't it a waste of his golden finger?
However, the problem is that the weight of the seeds and fertilizers will be thousands or even tens of thousands of catties, and it will be transported by this small cart, and I don't know when it will be.
Go back to the room, close the door, bring up the interface of the system, click on the inventory, and there is an icon behind the cart icon, which is the image of a horse-drawn cart.
A little god hand, a dialog box comes out above: the two realms of transport carriage, it costs 10,000 contribution to buy, whether to buy or not.
There are two buttons below, one "Yes" and one "No".
Zhu Changyuan was happy immediately, with 10,000 contributions, Lao Tzu now has more than 601,000 in his pocket.
"Yes." I ordered it right away.
Unfortunately, sadly, there is a red dialog box below: the purchase of a secondary means of transportation requires the system to be upgraded to the second level, and whether to upgrade it now.
"Yes", "No".
Clicked "Yes." ”
Then there is another dialog box: upgrade the system to level 2, it costs 500,000 points of contribution, whether to upgrade or not.
"Yes", "No".
"What?" Zhu Changyuan's eyes widened like copper bells, upgrading a system requires 500,000 contributions, and I only have a total of 600,000, okay, no, I have to spend 10,000 to buy a carriage.
"What a fucking fuck." Zhu Changyuan scolded. Don't think it's easy to earn contributions, how did you get this time? Killing, killing a person is more than 1,000 points, and the 500,000 contribution value is obtained by him killing 500 Qing soldiers and cavalry.
What if you don't run into this battle? What if you hadn't killed so many people? So how do you earn these points until the Year of the Monkey?
"Forget it, I don't want to think so much." Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath, finally made up his mind, and clicked "Yes".
"Ding ......" The voice in his head sounded, and the mechanical and indifferent voice came: "The host system has been upgraded to level 2, and the level 2 authority has ......."
Looking at the loss of 500,000 contribution points, Zhu Changyuan did not have a trace of joy, this is enough points for him to stay in modern times for more than ten hours.
Ruthlessly, he clicked again and bought a carriage.
Walked out of the house, found an open place, got the carriage out of the system, and looked at it to satisfaction. Not only is there a car, but there is also a horse that is almost realistic to the extreme, flesh and blood, and can breathe.
"It's amazing." Zhu Changyuan looked at the carriage again, it was a very wide, but also very cumbersome car. The front and back are nearly three meters long, even if it is less than three meters, it is definitely more than two meters, and it is two meters wide, and there is a pair of frames blocking the front and back of the car, and one wheel on the left and right, all of which are inflatable rubber wheels, which are clearly the carriages in reality.
Zhu Changyuan often saw this kind of car when he was in the countryside, a long time ago he sold rice, exchanged watermelons, and so on, and in the era when there were no motor vehicles, honest farmers and uncles used this kind of car to deliver various products to the countryside.
Yes, staring at his car, Zhu Changyuan laughed twice, this car, if it is loaded to death, it should not be a problem to load three or five tons. As for whether this horse will die of exhaustion, that's a joke.
The quality of the things exchanged in the system is very good, including the horses.