Zhang Zhongjun handled the other materials at will, but the five hundred secret books and five hundred sets of weapons and equipment were firmly in Zhang Zhongjun's hands.

This is a normal thing, you can go straight to the peak of the marrow washing realm as soon as you read and study, of course, you have to firmly grasp it in the hands of the monarch, if this thing is distributed by the people below at will, it is impossible to make a group of strong people with strange hearts and detached from morality.

Because Zhang Zhongjun has an inexplicable connection with tens of thousands of people, he knows very well that his hundreds of retainers are no longer very reliable.

Although this is human nature, your monarch is absent all the year round, and the place is oppressed, and the courtiers want to hug other thighs, and this thighs are still other nobles in the same country, it is really human nature to have such a change of mentality.

But the normal feelings of such a person are not permissible for the monarch, because the monarch thinks that even if he dies, his courtiers must continue to be loyal. This is also human nature for the monarch, but the status of the two sides is different, and their positions are different, so their ideas are naturally different.

Because of this, Zhang Zhongjun didn't get up to investigate the change in the mentality of his retainers, after all, people just think about it, and even if they show it, they can't implement it because of the existence of tens of thousands of people, it can be said that there is no real crime, and they will not be convinced to punish people for this reason, and it is not good to say it.

Damn, when you are away, other retainers still keep your foundation for so long, and there is no merit and hard work, but as soon as you come back, it doesn't matter if you don't reward you, you still have to settle the idea of surrendering in the time of suffering?

So Zhang Zhongjun didn't take it seriously, and he also rewarded the retainers and subjects who had jobs and performances, but for who the 500 cheats were rewarded, there was absolutely no matter for the retainers.

Anyway, it's not a disadvantage to the retainers, right? At least he made the three-star Flame Fist open to them to learn, as long as their qualifications and strength can keep up, the original secret book is open to them and let them learn, this kind of treatment is extremely rare in the entire Great Chen Dynasty, so it is impossible to say that Zhang Zhongjun is harsh in this regard.

As for the goal of the 500 cheats, there is no need to think about it, of course, it was selected from the group of soldiers who were recruited at the beginning. At the very least, these soldiers are full-time fighters, and their strength is higher than that of ordinary lords, and they have also received all-round training, and their knowledge is not proficient, but they can be called broad.

The most important point is that the connection between the soldiers and Zhang Zhongjun is one level higher than that of the people, so in such a situation, how can Zhang Zhongjun choose other people to improve his strength?

So with Zhang Zhongjun's order, five hundred of the most elite soldiers selected appeared in front of Zhang Zhongjun.

As for cultivation, they will work their own, and officers at all levels will also advise them. As for the scattering of cheats, it is impossible, but when they receive the cheats, they read them on the spot, and then the cheats become streamers and disappear into their heads. And cheats have strange restrictions, so they can't spread it to the outside world if they want to.

After doing these things, Zhang Zhongjun quieted down and began to desperately collect the information he could collect, began to check the changes in the Great Chen Dynasty, and at the same time asked about the construction of the territory during his rest.

As the days passed, the five hundred soldiers had reached the peak of the marrow cleansing realm, and began to wear matching weapons and equipment to patrol around the territory, and at the same time, they also taught tens of thousands of strong men training in their spare time as part-time instructors.

With such a group of armed guards, coupled with the increasingly expanding and powerful city walls with abundant materials, if the soldiers of the Viscount of the Chen clan came ten times more last time, they would be able to hold out for a long time.

In seven days, the information that Zhang Zhongjun was able to collect was not very detailed, most of it was rumors from businessmen and the contents of notices made public by the government.

This information is naturally impossible for the imperial nobles to brush up on the content of Mao Qi in various parts of the empire, and only a few talks about the incident in the imperial noble house, mainly talking about the so many provinces of the empire, how many more aristocratic troops are in each province, and then roughly said which places across the country have rebels under the banner of rebellion, where there are some gangs that are not falling, which places have good public security, and which places have chaotic public security.

Looking at the whole intelligence, it is actually equivalent to an introduction to the security situation of the empire, and it is mainly biased towards serving merchants. But it's normal, Zhang Zhongjun doesn't know how many ways to find this information, and as for the information on real military affairs, he has no way to buy it.

After reading it, Zhang Zhongjun could only pout, because judging from this intelligence, there were few safe places in the entire empire. Oh, the city is still very safe, and even the town is safe, but the wilderness is almost full of robbers, and the caravan does not hire strong guards when traveling, and I am afraid that it will be looted as soon as it leaves its own territory.

Because the intelligence shows that in addition to the robbers who were very noisy before, there are also the aristocratic troops who suddenly popped up and had no assets except people, and they will also change their guises to rob.

Because the intelligence suggests that many caravans, obviously black and white, have a very wide range of people, and the guards are also very strong, even if they go in and out of the places occupied by the rebels, there is no problem at all, and it may even be a caravan that specializes in doing business with the rebels.

After the investigation, on the surface, the places where these caravans had accidents were all wilderness, but in the archives of the government, those places were all the territory of a certain nobleman.

So it turned out that it was all too normal for these nobles, who were so poor that they had only the power of arms, to loot the caravans that passed through their own territories.

Therefore, this information specifically reminds the caravan that when passing through some noble territories, you must say hello in advance and spend some money to buy roads, because as long as you do this, the nobles will not dare to rob because of various concerns, but the nobles must also protect the safety of the caravan in their own territory.

For this, Zhang Zhongjun could only pout helplessly, but he didn't care, his own territory was full of materials, and if he really wanted to trade, he only had trade with Guangnan City, and Guangnan City was very close to his territory, and so many soldiers in his territory were enough to protect the safety of the trade road.

(End of chapter)