When Zhou Qingfeng walked out of the council hall of Ehekulun, he felt that he was being watched by a group of bellebes in the city. They watched Zhou Qingfeng leave as if they were looking at a fool or a wronged person - this situation was really not good, as if there was a big pit waiting for Uncle Zhou to jump in.

"Brother Jia, are those guys all looking at me?" Zhou Qingfeng didn't look back, so he asked the little brother hiding in his shadow.

"Yes." Jia Gang said.

"Why are they looking at me like that?" Zhou Qingfeng thought to himself that if his idea of attacking the west was not good, wouldn't it be good if they opposed it? But not only did they not object, but they also agreed collectively. But they agreed to agree but did not act with Zhou Qingfeng. The strangest thing is that they just stared at Zhou Qingfeng, and Chu Ying, who was afraid that he would escape, didn't speak, and also let him go west.

"I don't know, I don't know what these Jurchen leaders think." Jia Gang couldn't explain it.

Zhou Qingfeng couldn't help but open his eyes and tried to see his fortune. It turned out that the purple color that represented chance had disappeared, and instead a circle of black that represented danger lingered around him.

It's easy to understand that the purple color disappeared, after all, Zhou Qingfeng has encountered a lot of trouble in Ehekulun for so long, and he has also gained a lot. But what's the danger now? This is not good, only bad is about to happen.

Zhou Qingfeng didn't understand after thinking about it, so he simply asked Abahai after returning to his courtyard in the city. But when Abahai heard that he was going to raise troops to attack the Jianzhou Department in the west, he refused to say anything more except that he sneered at him that he was bound to fail if he didn't know what to do. This made him feel even more that something was wrong.

"Maybe I should ask Old Man Sun, the old man has lived in Ehekulun for a long time, maybe he can figure out the thoughts of Ucha and the others." Zhou Qingfeng couldn't get an answer here in Abahai, so he had to change the direction of consultation. But he wanted to find the old man Sun who was the steward of Wucha, but he learned that the other party had been sent out of the city to contact the tribes in the north who were willing to join after the discussion just now.

It's still the kind that can't come back in the short term.

Hiss...... it's troublesome, the information channels are cut off.

Zhou Qingfeng felt even more worried, and even began to wonder if his decision to 'go west' was right? He rushed to the fort site outside the city, ready to gather the more than a dozen slave management he had personally selected for a small brainstorming meeting. He was now eager to hear from many sources. But before he could gather the personnel, trouble would come.

As the chief of the general affairs section of the management office, the female slave Sun Ren is absolutely dependent on Zhou Qingfeng's descendants. This woman was raised in bitter water, but she was very diligent in her appearance. The continuous strengthening of education does not say that she has been trained to become a talent, but she also has some ability. When she saw Zhou Qingfeng, she said anxiously: "Chief, Dashan Beizi has just sent someone to ask us to return his more than 400 slaves to him. ”

After Zhou Qingfeng arrived at Ehekulun, he only had fifteen Han slaves on hand. Except for Sun Ren, the other slaves were useless, and even two of them were sold by Zhou Qingfeng. The labor force he wanted to build the fortress outside the city was borrowed from Dashan Beizi, and Chu Ying also sent his own 400 slaves.

"Darshan wants his slaves back?" Zhou Qingfeng thought that his fortress had been built, and it was not cost-effective to raise too many slaves, so he nodded and said, "Just return it, and return the worse ones to him." ”

Just sent Dashan away, Chu Ying also sent someone here. The other party also asked Zhou Qingfeng for slaves, saying, 'Master Chu Ying is about to take action against the wild girls in the north, and he wants to return all the slaves he sent at the beginning'.

......, everyone has taken action to get their slaves back.

Zhou Qingfeng couldn't help but exchange more than 300 elite slaves for 1,000 ordinary slaves before he was glad about himself, if it weren't for that, now he would have no one available in his hands. The slaves who were changed before have now been recuperated for more than a month, and their physique has improved a lot. Now that he wants to return it to others, it really makes Zhou Qingfeng feel a little distressed.

However, Zhou Qingfeng didn't find an excuse to drag it out, but just selected not very good slaves from his own hands and returned them to Chu Ying and Dashan. In this way, the human resources on hand immediately dropped to more than four hundred.

"Chief, we don't have more than four hundred slaves." Sun Ren was in charge of the general affairs and knew the number of slaves on the construction site best. "We have only over 1,300 men at most. Although the chief was benevolent and generous in eating, drinking, and taking medicine than other masters, more than 50 people died on the construction site in the past month. ”

Zhou Qingfeng nodded, knowing that this was inevitable, the slaves had poor physique and high mortality rates. More than 1,300 people died after heavy physical labor, and only about 50 died, which is already a very good situation.

Sun Ren said again: "Three days ago, the Jianzhou Department sent people to attack us, and the chief led the team to resist. But we were still hacked to death on the spot, and more than a dozen others died. After all, we now have just over 350 people. ”

These more than 350 people can be regarded as all the forces that Zhou Qingfeng has gathered in the two months of his busy work in Ehekulun. Among them, there were more than 60 management and technical backbones, and more than 70 slave soldiers died. The rest were more than two hundred more obedient slave laborers. But to be organized and disciplined, it takes a longer period of training.

Zhou Qingfeng sat in the office room of the construction site, with a table of the current slave population at hand. He frowned and redivided the remaining 350 people and said, "I want to go west, and all the backbones and soldiers must go with me." Slaves gather a hundred and come with me. More than a hundred people remained to complete the construction of the fortress. ”

The triangular riverbank fortress is almost ready to be repaired, although it took Zhou Qingfeng a lot of thought to repair this fortress, but he is not sure if he will come back after going west? So he decided to take all his descendants with him as much as possible - this fortress may not be usable, but the project of repairing this fortress has trained many people who can use it.

Zhou Qingfeng gathered the backbone of his subordinates and inquired about the 'westward expansion'. But his subordinates were all slaves, and even Sun Ren, who had made the most progress, habitually obeyed his orders. The men didn't even know the difference between going west and north. When Zhou Qingfeng explained his strategic concept, they all felt that the master of the 'chief' had a good idea, and they had no opinion.

It's a vain question to ask!

"How many days do you have enough food to eat? I'm going to bring out all the carts on the site to load food, tools, and weapons, and I'm going to see how far I can go this westward expansion. Zhou Qingfeng had a bit of a headache, he didn't have a detailed map in his hand, and he didn't know anything about the Jianzhou village west of Ekhkulun and east of Hetuala.

After letting Sun Ren and the others go to work, Zhou Qingfeng called Jia Gang out of his shadow and ordered: "Is it more convenient for you to move in the wild?" ”

Jia Gang replied: "It's not convenient for me to show up during the day, but I move quickly at night. If I had been alone, I would have been able to travel back and forth between Ekhkuren and Hetuara in six or seven days. If you add surveys along the way, ten days is enough. ”

"Ten days?" Zhou Qingfeng secretly pondered and said, "Ten days is almost enough." I will prepare for the expedition in ten days, and you will use ten days to figure out the situation in the west, including roads, villages, enemy guards, etc.

I believe that my judgment is correct, and that going west is the only way to survive, and waiting for Nurhachi to come to the door like a turtle is the way to die. If I could, I'd get out of here. ”

Although he was very puzzled by the reaction of the Jurchen nobles in the city, Zhou Qingfeng still decided to make a plan according to his own intentions, and he couldn't change it casually. He judged that even if the Jianzhou Department planned to assassinate again, it would not be in the near future, so he sent Jia Gang to collect intelligence - after all, the fog of war is too much of a headache.

Next, Zhou Qingfeng personally began to mobilize for the war, which was also a new job for him. The better you prepare before the battle, the less trouble you will encounter in battle. War is not just the moment when the two opposing sides face each other, in fact, a lot of work determines the victory or defeat of the enemy before the duel.

Zhou Qingfeng constantly imagined various possible plans, and took his initiative very seriously. This kind of mobile phone practice with wild Jurchen cannon fodder to beat Jianzhou Jurchen is not much, and he has a lot of brains for this.

And when the sky was slowly darkening, Zhou Qingfeng was still thinking blindly at his desk. Suddenly, there was a wariness in his mind, and he felt that something was approaching him in the dark.

After mastering the way of the military formation, Zhou Qingfeng used it for his own defense. He linked the ten slave soldiers' Zhihai and arranged them around his office room, everything the slave soldiers heard and saw would be transmitted to Zhou Qingfeng's head synchronously, and the auditory enhancement effect of the 'Mending Heaven Stone' also appeared on the slave soldiers' bodies, which greatly strengthened Zhou Qingfeng's control over the surrounding environment.

A slave soldier saw a black shadow scurrying in front of him, and immediately asked. But the black shadow disappeared in an instant, and it was impossible to determine its identity. Zhou Qingfeng was very afraid of death now, and would never let go of any possible attacker, he immediately ordered more soldiers to explore the surroundings, but still found nothing.

After tossing for an hour, Zhou Qingfeng sat down at the desk again, and found that he had an extra bag on the table. He hurriedly asked who sent this bag? When no one could answer, he had to ask a substitute to open the bag and see what was inside.

The bag was opened, and the contents were poured out, but they were not explosives, poisons and other harmful things as Zhou Qingfeng imagined. Rather, there were stacks of talisman seals, and there were more than fifty of them. Some Fu Seals Zhou Qingfeng recognized, while others had never seen them at all. After confirming that there was no danger, he cautiously stepped forward and flipped through it, and found that there were several books besides the talisman seal.

"Give me Jian'er, Marble." Zhou Qingfeng pursed his lips. 'Yunshi' is Gu Yuanwei's road number, and this is actually a book given to Yang Jian by his cheap master. "The Essence of Talisman Making", "The Correct Solution of Talisman Characters", and "Thirty-six Ways of Talisman Diagrams" are all books related to talisman making."

Zhou Qingfeng had copied a lot of books in the Guo family's bookstore, and he vaguely remembered books on talisman making. There are records in these three books in front of me, which are about how to draw runes, how to prepare materials, the meanings and changes of various runes in the runes, and the explanations of 36 common runes.

This is a set of talisman learning tools, which should be Yang Jian's body. Thinking of the haunting black shadow that had just appeared outside, Zhou Qingfeng couldn't help but wonder - who was so kind to send this thing to him? Yang Jian has to die of distress!