The old man was holding a bone staff with an expressionless face, and the young man's face was six or seven points similar to that of Brother Wu, and he was carrying a package in his hand.

The young man took a few steps forward to check on Brother Wu's injuries before saying, "My name is Uto, and it was my father who you injured just now." ”

"Huh? So, Your Excellency is here for revenge? ”

Uto glanced at Zhao Feng deeply and said, "No, I'm here on behalf of the Great Elder. "The high elder of the shepherds is similar to the high priest of the barbarians.

"I don't know what the noble elder has to say?"

Na Uto didn't speak, and the other leaders of the tribe were summoned before he said: "The Great Elder said that I, a shepherd, respect the temple and have no grievances with the barbarians. ”

"In addition, the one who encouraged my father was a man named Meng Yong, and here it is." After saying that, he threw the package on the ground, and there was a gurgling roll out of it.

Seeing this, Zhao Feng only frowned. After looking at it again, he asked, "Not a shepherd?" ”

"No, this person has an unknown background, he is doing business in Caohai, and he is my father's guest."

"I understand, please report back to the Great Elder, I will send people to discuss with the neighboring tribes, demarcate the border, may the barbarians and the shepherds be like stars in the sky, shining together forever."

After listening to this, Uto returned: "I will repay the Great Elder, Master Zhao, he will have a chance to meet one day, and then I will let you know that not everyone in my Wutu tribe can be bullied, so I will leave today." ”

With that, Uto threw the brother on the ground onto a horse and said a few words to the other shepherd leaders, who whistled and turned to the south.

"They're leaving?" Ku Dong and the others are also relieved, the enemy is outnumbered, this is really a fight, and it is not necessarily who wins and who loses.

"Uncle Ku, in the future, when patrolling the border, try not to conflict with the shepherd, the great elder of the shepherd is very remarkable." Zhao Feng said.

"Amazing?"

"Yes, our barbarians are surrounded on all sides, the situation of the shepherd is better, but it is also the enemy on the back, the Tiantai garrison is gone, the shepherd is too late to be happy, and I have a conflict with the barbarians, there is no benefit, the Wutu tribe has just made a move, this great elder has found the clue, of course, it is possible that he has long been eyeing this Meng Yong, as soon as the Wutu tribe made a move, they immediately took the initiative to clean up the portal, and also sent someone to show goodwill to me, a little monk, this is not an ordinary person's mind, it seems, the shepherd also wants to coexist peacefully with my barbarians, just this point, The Great Elder was a great measure. ”

The episode of the shepherd's invasion was revealed, and Zhao Feng couldn't wait to return to Xiyuan City.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Old Man Zhen waiting at the door with a wine bottle, and when he saw Zhao Feng coming back, he asked, "Your kid is back with all his beards and tails, is it a big victory, or has he surrendered?" ”

"Of course it's a big victory, the old man has no confidence in me?"

"Of course, the fierceness of the herdsmen in Northern Xinjiang is famous, and for thousands of years, the Tiantai Imperial Court has not been able to obey them."

"Am I a barbarian?"

"I can't say it's bad, if you want to say that in the mountains, forests and swamps, you barbarians don't say it, but this is the Beacon Fire Plain."

"Old man Zhen, don't talk about these idle articles first, you see, this marriage is also over, you should always show off the secret recipe, right?"

Old Man Zhen laughed and said, "You are really in a hurry, so you came to ask what secret recipe?" However, seeing that Zhao Feng's face was a little dark, Old Man Zhen had no choice but to say: "Okay, okay, this secret recipe is not complicated, on the way I came, I saw that there were several big islands on the sea, and when I looked at the shape, I knew that it was a volcanic island, and there must be volcanic ash on this island, and this volcanic ash was mixed with lime, and it would become a kind of stone slurry mixed with water, which would soon solidify and harden, just used to fill the joints. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Feng felt that there was a door, but he was not at ease, and asked, "What will happen to this mud when it meets seawater?" "He knows that the sea is very corrosive.

"Haha, what's in the seawater, salt, you eat sea salt, we Taiyue people in the mountains, what salt do we eat?"

Zhao Feng really didn't know, Old Man Zhen continued: "Tell you, we eat pool salt, this method was used to repair salt canals and salt ponds in the early years, what is the difference between this salt water and sea water?" ”

Zhao Feng was relieved, but Old Man Zhen's words reminded him and reminded him of a method of refining sea salt - drying salt. If you want to say that this method of drying salt, since ancient times, there are records of the Nu people, and the method of drying salt is also very simple, that is, digging a shallow pool, putting seawater into it, and drying it can receive coarse salt. Now, there are many countries in Tianxing Continent that use it, but Donghong Continent is still mainly boiled salt, mainly because of the climate.

However, the climate of this beacon fire is dry, and there is a lot of wasteland by the sea, so it is most suitable for drying salt. Over the years, the Tiantai Kingdom has been very strict with the herdsmen in northern Xinjiang, and the salt shortage in northern Xinjiang is well known, but the herdsmen do not have the conditions to boil salt, so salt has always been repeatedly banned. Zhao Feng thought that if he could dry the sea salt, he would exchange it with the herdsmen for charcoal, cattle and sheep, and those herdsmen would not refuse this business. Zhao Feng mentioned this matter to Mu Cheng and the others again, and everyone also felt that this business was done, after all, this salt trade was profitable everywhere.

That's it. After some conversation, Zhao Feng realized that Qi Yingying, who looked delicate and weak, actually had a spiritual source, but the spiritual source was too messy, so he couldn't embark on the path of spiritual cultivation.

On the second day, Zhao Feng convened everyone to discuss the matter, and selected many useful people from among the slaves, they were either literate and hyphenated, or had management experience, and initially set up the team, Zhao Feng arranged for Mucheng to send an envoy to the herdsman tribe, demarcate the boundary, discuss the sale of salt, and arranged for Hong Jiao to go to buy sea ships and grain, and it took a whole day to sort out all the things.

On the third day, Zhao Feng said goodbye to his wife and took Old Man Zhen to various places for field investigations. It took 10 days to travel to most of the Beacon Plains, select a quarry by the sea, determine the location of the water channel, survey the canal near the port of Dongyuan, and demarcate a salt field for drying salt. When I returned to the West Plains, a large section of the canal had been dug up. Seeing that everything was on the right track, Zhao Feng was able to settle down and finally had time to cultivate.

Since he bought the beast eggs, Zhao Feng has the beast eggs in his body no matter where he goes, but whenever he has time, he uses them to cultivate, and after more than 20 days, the entry of "Holding Toad Jin" is very limited. In addition to his own cultivation, Zhao Feng taught "Yanhai Gong" to his wife, so that she could practice in her spare time, not seeking to fly to the sky and the earth, but to prolong her life. And Qi Yingying is not exactly a young lady, her mother died early, she learned to be a housekeeper when she was in Mengshan City, and she was also proficient in the method of counting, Zhao Feng let her take care of the finances, and after a few days, it seemed to be the same.

The handover of Fenghuo Yuan was also very smooth, since receiving Zhao Feng's money, the old general Zhong no longer delayed, and handed over the two fortresses in advance. However, Zhao Feng and the others took over the fortress, but they felt that the fortress was gloomy, and it was not as grand as when the army was stationed. Zhao Feng urged the pupil technique to check, and found that a newly filled land was very suspicious, digging open the soil layer, only to see layers of bones piled under the soil, cattle and sheep are not counted, and there are a lot of bones, obviously, this is the evil created by the original garrison of Fenghuo. When this army was there, the blood and evil qi of tens of thousands of people suppressed the yin qi and resentment here, and now that the army has withdrawn, the yin spirit here has grown. As a last resort, the barbarians had to use the barbarian spirit technique to clean up, and hundreds of barbarians performed it together to reduce all the yin spirits and grievances here. Zhao Feng set up a barbarian spirit statue here again to suppress it, and then it was over.

After more than ten days, Hong Jiao bought a boat and returned, not only bringing back ten sand boats, but also a lot of grain and charcoal. These sea boats bought from the Tian family are all old ships, with low and flat bottoms and shallow drafts, but they are stable and not easy to run aground, which are very suitable for offshore transportation, and are used to transport stones, lime, and charcoal. The Tian family didn't want Zhao Feng to gain the ability to sail, and if he wanted to obtain an ocean-going ship, he had to rely on the craftsmen of the Thousand Stars Kingdom. Everything is ready, the canal will officially start, under the dispatch of Old Man Zhen, all the industrial affairs are carried out in an orderly manner, and Zhao Feng's subordinates are also admired.

Spring went to summer, four months flew by in a blink of an eye, and the beacon fire had changed. Most of the canal next to the fortress has been dug out, and half of it is paved with stones, so it is no problem to open the sluice gate to release water in winter. Even the Dongyuan Canal has begun to excavate, and I am afraid it will take next year to open. However, there are also things that annoy Zhao Feng, the barbarians in the Western Realm are really casual. In order to warn everyone, Zhao Feng personally gave the barbarians who were making trouble a "discussion", and then they were all sent to work in the quarry.

In the past four months, Zhao Feng has been inspecting the construction site every day, and then going home to practice, and his life has been very fulfilling. In the past four months, Zhao Feng's skills have improved greatly, and he has actually advanced to the second level of the Spirit Source Realm, which seems to have a vague connection with the beast egg. The fly in the ointment is that since Zhao Feng got married, Xing Mengmeng actually hid and always stayed in Wentian Village Hot Spring to practice, and it is said that he has advanced to the Spirit Source Realm, but when Zhao Feng arrived in Wentian Village, he avoided it early, obviously angry.

On this day, Zhao Feng was inspecting the construction site, and the servant Feng Ming came with an anxious face, reporting that there were five temple guests at home, one of whom was Sang Ye, the new hall master of the Tiantai Branch, and his wife Qi Yingying and Senior Brother Xing were accompanied. Zhao Feng didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed back, and after greeting with the five monks, he took a serious look at the Sang Hall Master, only to see that his face was black and red, his hair was curly, and there was a golden vertical line in the center of his eyebrows, not like a person from the Donghong Continent, but like a monk from the Nanze Continent. The guest and the host sat down, and the mulberry hall master explained the intention. It turned out that this trip to the Beacon Plains was still coming to the Blood Sand Valley. these months.