For beings above the innate level, faith power is also a great supplement.

Fang Yun also asked the system for the last time to find out that it turned out that he had been absorbing the power of faith all these years, but the system had absorbed it on his behalf. A small amount is deducted to keep the system running, and most of it is reserved as a task reward.

Of course, Fang Yun could also choose to naturally absorb and transform into true qi. However, there is a bottleneck in the general martial arts, not to mention the congenital, even if it is acquired, the first-class martial arts will become super-first-class generals, and the super-first-class promotion will be congenital.

Some people are stuck in this bottleneck and may not be able to break through it until they die, but Fang Yun has the help of the system, although he needs to do tasks, there is no bottleneck, so it is up to him to decide how to use these power of faith.

Over the years, those who have received Fang Yun's favor will set up an immortal position for him, and worshipping every day will produce faith power. However, unless you reach the innate level, you will not be able to absorb this pure energy even if you receive worship every day. It can even be said that you can't even feel it.

There are also those followers of the Taiping Sect, as the Tiangong General of the Taiping Sect, Fang Yun can also enjoy a certain faith bonus. As the number of believers increases, the number of attribute points that can be increased by the system after each mission is completed. This is not difficult to see by comparing the task bonus ratio of ten years ago and ten years later.

Of course, there is also a part of the power of faith, which is used as the energy needed for the lottery at all levels. At this time, Fang Yun knew that it turned out that these prize TMDs were really torn apart and teleported from another time and space.

The smaller the causal intervention in this space-time, the less energy will be consumed, so don't look at science and technology as a piece of paper or a book. The impact itself on this plane is even more significant. Therefore, the more advanced the technology. The higher the level of energy is required to transmit.

These are some of the principles of how the system works. However, after the system's explanation, Fang Yun understood a lot. I used to think that the system flow thing was very illusory or unrealistic, but it turned out that it could be so sci-fi.

Now that he knew the power of faith, Fang Yun also planned to make good use of it.

The next day, he suggested at the court meeting that he decided to set aside an area to build a new martial god temple and put down the unrest in China after the Yellow Turban Uprising. A group of military generals who have made outstanding contributions to the unification of China are painted into portraits and placed in the hall to enjoy the admiration and worship of future generations. At the same time, the Hall of Magi was formed, and a group of scholars who had made outstanding contributions were painted into portraits and put into the hall to enjoy the admiration and worship of future generations.

This should have been something that would have been done after the world was decided, but Fang Yun still paid attention to utilitarianism. Since faith can help these innate generals become stronger quickly, then why waste the power of faith?

The only problem is not that there are more gods, then the power of scattered beliefs will increase. This is also the main reason why both Christianity and Islam are monotheistic religions.

These years, it has been going on for thousands of years. Neither the civil servants nor the generals could stop this temptation. Confuse. After Fang Yun made this suggestion, General Wenchen and Wu unexpectedly agreed to this matter. However, Guo Jia thinks that it should be summarized after reunification, otherwise there will be too many people to worship.

Fang Yun felt that the more beliefs that were divided, the better, on the one hand, it could make them stronger, and on the other hand, it would not make them too strong. Once it is strong to a certain extent, it is also a threat to him.

Guo Jia's proposal was obviously not accepted, and as a result, he still chose the place and built two large halls, the Martial God Point and the Magi Palace. Fang Yun said that some of the civil and military generals who entered the two halls were in order, in no particular order, and as long as they were qualified, they could enter the hall to receive offerings. In the final analysis, it is also to prevent them from making unpleasant trouble in order to compete for the ranking.

After finishing the matter of faith, Fang Yun also began to actively arrange and began to prepare for the recovery of Yanzhou.

But before that, a battle report from Xi Zhicai was hurriedly delivered by his own soldiers. When Fang Yun opened the battle report, he had been practicing with joy and anger all these years, and he couldn't help but show joy at this moment.

According to Xi Zhicai's battle report, just a month ago, after two years of preparations, in fact, after building dock forts, building highways and railways, hoarding materials, and personnel environment adaptation exercises, they launched a surprise attack on the Western Regions in March this year.

It's really a place of yellow sand, and it's unusually arid. Fortunately, there are abundant materials, and Yan Xing is also very familiar with this place, and Lu Meng is also growing rapidly, not to mention the strategizing of Xi Zhicai.

In two months, they had destroyed three small Western Regions countries, and at the same time had five small Western Regions countries declare allegiance. Xi Zhi only knew Fang Yun's character, so after receiving allegiance, he had already sent the other party's royal family to Jinyang's side, and Fang Yun would decide how they would be placed.

After reoccupying the city of Wubao, which was occupied by the Qiang, Xi Zhicai said that he would further recover other small countries in the Western Regions, and finally complete the reactivation of the Western Regions Protectorate.

At the same time, he said that he had already sent an envoy to the legendary kingdom of Dawan, hoping to re-establish friendly relations between the two countries. The key is to be able to get enough Dawan BMWs from them, even sweat BMWs.

Admittedly, the Sweaty Horse lacks durability, but it is very explosive at short range, and it is relatively large, making it the best choice for cavalry charges. As for Fang Yun's favorite Mongolian horse, it is smaller in size and not as fast as the Dawan horse, which is good for long-distance running or riding and shooting, but when used for charging, it is completely sadistic.

According to Xi Zhicai, at present, they have begun to clean up Wubao City and begin to use it as the seat of the Western Regions Protectorate. At the same time, it is also hoped that a highway from Yumen Pass to Wubao City can be built, preferably by railway, so as to deepen the connection between Liangzhou and the Western Regions to a greater extent.

Fang Yun was very happy with this result, and the Western Regions, that is, Xinjiang in later generations, began to return to the embrace of the Han Dynasty, using it as a base to continue westward, maybe he could go on an expedition to Rome in the future. However, he is not very interested in the Western world, after all, most of the area is still wild now. Many local aborigines still live a life of drinking blood.

Even if you want to trade. I'm afraid there are no products that I can get my hands on. At most, some primary products like olive oil. But if you can get some spices in the Mediterranean, or even in Arabia and Africa, it's a good choice.

Fortunately, the much-needed cotton has begun to be bred and the experimental field has been built, so we can start to popularize cotton products from next year, right? At that time, whether it is a cotton wool for disinfection, or a cotton quilt or something, it can be sold.

In this way, even if it is winter. People can also be active for a longer time, unlike in the past, almost all of them are nested at home in winter, and even a large number of babies and elderly people die in winter.

Fang Yun found Tian Feng and asked about the construction of a railway or highway, and Tian Feng said that if a secondary road is built or a dirt road is built, the use of the construction corps can save a certain cost.

The implication is that it can only support the construction of a secondary highway, and the highway above the first level is not even a thought. As for the railways. Then don't count on it, the treasury doesn't have that much money to put on it.

Ultimately. After all, the treasury is not a existence that serves a certain project exclusively. You'll need to make a budget every year and set aside about 10% for emergency savings. During this period, every expenditure, such as infrastructure construction, agriculture, commerce and industry, health and medical care, culture and education, etc., will be tilted in accordance with this year's policy priorities.

This means that the more money a project takes, the less money it does for several others. However, it is not stable today, which means that the part of military spending must account for at least 40% of the total budget, otherwise it will be difficult to maintain the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and the consumption of daily training.

This year, it is necessary to focus on the development of Yangzhou, so this has led to a decline in construction funds in the four prefectures of Bingzhou, Youzhou, Sizhou and Jizhou. If we were to develop the Western Regions, all the work would have to be stopped temporarily.

In desperation, Fang Yun could only write an order to Xi Zhicai, asking him to manage the Western Regions well, reduce foreign wars, and at least wait until next year to continue the war. As for the road, it will not be able to start until next year, and we will have to see the situation.

But I didn't want to, as soon as the military order was issued, another report was sent back again. This time I was obviously much more anxious than the first time, and the guards who delivered the letter were also dusty, and they didn't seem to have rested much before rushing to the place in a panic.

"Great joy! Ma Chao, the general of Zhenxi, according to the general's words, really found a huge salt lake west of Jincheng County. The salt lake is huge, and the salt is very pure, and the production is huge! The guards came to Fang Yun with a stumbling face, and reported with a joy that could not be concealed.

What are the biggest fears of outlanders? That's the salt problem!

Away from the sea, especially in times of war, it is not easy to obtain table salt. In addition to some natural rock salts that have become crystalline, there are more well salts that are harmful to the body. Of course, it is not that well salt is toxic, but the process of this era will cause it to be mixed with barium sulfate and other toxic substances, so it will cause harm to the human body.

In the inland areas, the price of salt has always been high, and there is no way to lack this thing. Well salt is so popular that the few salts trafficked from coastal areas can be sold for sky-high prices, and even rock salt prices are frighteningly high.

In recent years, Fang Yun has adopted the method of drying salt, which has increased the production of salt, but the problem of restricted transportation, the price of salt in Liangzhou, Yongzhou, and even Hanzhong is still very high. Therefore, Fang Yun naturally thought of Qinghai Salt Lake.

It's just that Qinghai Lake is in the plateau area, in order to be able to go up and adapt there, Ma Chao has spent a lot of effort, just look at this guard, you can know that the cheeks are all plateau red, it can be seen that the days of looking for salt lakes are indeed not very comfortable.

However, it is a good thing that it can be found, at least the problem of salt in the inland areas has finally been solved.

And this time, there is no need for Fang Yun to pay money, as long as the existence of the salt lake is published in the newspaper, and the state officially bids for external bidding, then naturally a large number of businessmen will pay for road construction, or even joint ventures to build roads. Salt is even more lucrative than gold mines in this era.

However, Fang Yun said that no matter who wins the bid, they must pay 10% of the profits to Ma Chao and the soldiers who jointly discovered the Qinghai Salt Lake, which is the legal proceeds of their expedition.

In this way, he also intends to encourage exploration, which will have a good effect on the discovery of Southeast Asia, Australia, and even the Americas. (To be continued......)

PS: The Western Regions began to recover, but the most valuable thing was the discovery of the Qinghai Salt Lake.