The Yanmen Army is a force on the surface, and how many troops there are and how many cultivators there are is is no secret to those who have a heart.

If the Tianyuan Royal Court wants to destroy the Dadan Department and complete the unification of the grassland, it must pay close attention to every move of the Yanmen Army before the war, and will also arrange corresponding military forces to deal with it during the war.

If Zhao Ning wants to ensure that this battle in the coming year can achieve its own goals, it must have an elite force outside the existing military power sequence.

A thousand Imperial Qi Realms, plus the Amethyst Stone Rune Bow, were the surprises that Zhao Ning had prepared for the Tianyuan Royal Court.

Thanks to the improvement of "Qingyun Jue", many people of the Zhao clan who were originally not good in cultivation qualifications were able to achieve the Imperial Qi Realm.

But relying on the "Qingyun Jue" alone, although this number is far less than five hundred, plus the existing "Idle Qi Realm Clansmen", it can only barely make up for most of them.

The remaining part needs to find another way, and in Zhao Ning's plan, it is not difficult for this part of the cultivators to be born, and the method is just four words: use the resource pile.

This resource, of course, has to be a new resource, and the amount is not small. In other words, the Zhao family needs a new source of wealth.

Amethyst is counted as one, and it can bring great wealth.

Under the instruction of Zhao Ning, Yipinlou took advantage of the collapse of the Liu family to half-acquire and semi-seize Liu's private industries, shops, and gray transactions, because the timing was well chosen, and it also gained a lot.

With these, the Zhao clan's five hundred Imperial Qi Realm will be available.

After Yipinlou annexed the territory and wealth of the White Clothes Society and the Goshawk Gang, its strength increased greatly, and now it can be called wealthy, and it has also cultivated a number of new imperial qi realms.

However, considering that the time is too short, there are not many new Qi Realm cultivators, and Yipinlou still has to maintain the operation of its own gang, so if you want to give Zhao Ning five hundred cultivators at once, you have to mobilize some of Yipinlou's forces outside Yanping City, and you have to recruit some good players in the rivers and lakes.

All in all, it was not easy to gather a thousand Imperial Qi Realm cultivators to gather a new cultivator, even if two or three nobles of the family worked together, they would not be able to do it in their spare time.

This is almost the fruit of everything Zhao Ning did after he was reborn.

"Forty days later, I'm going to train these people in secret so that they can become qualified warriors on the battlefield. Before you do this, find a corresponding hiding place for me. Zhao Ning finally commanded.

The Zhao clan is a general, and the cultivators in the clan are all excellent soldiers, and when they arrive on the battlefield, they only need to familiarize themselves with their subordinates and comrades first, and they can immediately participate in the battle.

But the cultivators in the rivers and lakes are different, they don't know the battle formation, they don't know the rules, they don't know the rules of the army, they don't know how to use various military equipment, and even their combat skills are far from the combat skills in the army.

Zhao Ning must first train them with the people of the Zhao clan, and also let them get acquainted with each other and run in.

Fortunately, the cultivation has reached the level of the Imperial Qi Realm, and there is a foundation in the rivers and lakes to climb and fight, and it is not difficult to train. If you are teaching ordinary people, a few months is not enough.

After saying this, Zhao Ning saw that Hu Honglian had no doubts, so he asked him about the two things he explained to Yipinlou, and how he did it.

The first thing is to monitor the situation of several locations that Zhao Ning drew out such as Feixue Lou and the previous life during the Battle of Yanping City.

The second is to search and excavate Zhao Yujie's wings in the rivers and lakes, and find Zhao Yujie's own traces.

"We've followed a lot of noteworthy people these days, but nothing unusual about it, whether it's a pawn who delivers vegetables and fruits, or a high-roller who spends a lot of money or makes trouble. Hu Honglian told the truth.

Zhao Ning pondered for a moment.

After the fall of the Goshawk Gang, Xiao Yan became cautious and temporarily kept quiet, which was a normal choice.

Now that things have only passed a short time after all, maybe the other party will wait for the end of the New Year and take obvious action in the spring of next year. However, surveillance cannot be stopped, let alone relaxed.

Exploring the matter of Zhao Yujie's wings in the rivers and lakes, Yipinlou has made some progress.

When Zhao Ning came over last time, he speculated about the place where Zhao Yujie's wings were located, and then Yipinlou used a large number of people, especially the ruffians who had nothing to do in the streets and alleys, and monitored those high-ranking and dignitary industries, especially those industries that could live in a lot of people and had a certain degree of concealment.

After some time, they finally found some suspicious locations.

"According to our investigation, in 19 large shops, including Lanshan Silk Village and Nanzhu Treasure Pavilion, there have been unfamiliar faces with exquisite temperament and eye-catching recently. Some of them have fierce faces, and even have scars on their hands and faces.

"Most of these people came out at night, some went to the kiln, some came out to buy food, quite a little bit of holding back for a long time to let off steam, and they all came out in a hurry and hurried back, acting quickly and cautiously, full of vigilance. It is certain that these people live in these shops.

"We tried their skills by making some of the local ruffians pretend not to walk long, or to fight with each other and to get some of them into a fight. The feedback received varied.

"Some ruffians were beaten, others were not. The former all showed obvious traces of cultivation, and although the latter did not reveal cultivation, some of them showed extraordinary strength and reaction speed.

"What's even more strange is that these guys, who are obviously not good at stubble, even if they are offended by the ruffians, and they don't look angry, they rarely fight back, they all speed away, like a rat crossing the street as a thief. ”

After saying this, Hu Honglian took out a few pieces of paper, which recorded some of the locations she said, and some of them had remarks at the back, indicating which family's property it was, and whether they had tried the suspicious characters who came out of it, and what the other party was.

Zhao Ning took the paper and browsed it, and found that there were several families involved, the Xu family, the Pang family, and the Zheng family in the door, and the Zhou family in the door.

In Zhao Ning's opinion, beating a ruffian who has no hidden cultivation is a normal reaction, even if it is a strange face with a strong temperament, it may also be a normal personnel transfer of the family

People who have scars on their bodies and are obviously vicious, but who can't avoid the ruffians who offend them, most of them have ghosts in their hearts, or they have orders in their bodies.

"Xu's?" Zhao Ning noticed that the vicious people who didn't do anything to the ruffians basically came out of the Xu's shop.

Zhao Ning began to think: If these people were the remnants of the White Clothes Society and the Goshawk Gang, and they had been absorbed by Zhao Yujie, under the current circumstances, she could only let them stay at the foothold and not come out.

But these cultivators are outlaws in the rivers and lakes, not serious sergeants and meticulous work, they are used to being uninhibited, they are not so disciplined, and they can't help but sneak out to vent their physiological needs after holding back in the compound for a long time.

When he came over last time, Yipinlou failed to find these remnants of the White Clothes Club and the Goshawk Gang, Su Yeqing was quite guilty at the time, although he didn't show much dissatisfaction, but he was somewhat disappointed, and he was also assassinated by Zhao Yujie's dead soldiers, with Su Yeqing's temperament, he must blame himself even more.

I didn't see her today...... She must have been involved in this matter herself.

In short, Yipinlou spent a lot of manpower to monitor the big shops of the nobles of the family, and finally found these white-clothed people and the remnants of the Goshawk Gang who came out to breathe. This is also in line with Zhao Ning's existing expectation of using Yipinlou to light up the streets and alleys of Yanping City.

Since these people who behaved strangely in Yipinlou were all in the Xu family's shop, if they were really the remnants of the White Clothes Society and the Goshawk Gang, it would mean that Zhao Yujie had entered the Xu family!

Even, she may have come to Xu Minglang's side!

If so...... Zhao Yujie is really creative.

"You've done a great job. As you intended, focus on monitoring the shops of those who are unusually responsive to further confirm their identities. Zhao Ning put away the paper.

If he wanted to quickly confirm whether those people were cultivators or not, he could completely ask the people from the Governor's Mansion to find an excuse to inspect those shops.

With the prestige of the Duwei Mansion in Yanping City now, it is not difficult to do such a thing, even the shops of the Xu family do not dare to stop it head-on.

But in this way, there is always some movement, if it arouses Zhao Yujie's suspicion, it is not good to startle the snake.

"From now on, send Yuan Shen Realm cultivators to monitor the Xu family's shops day and night. Tomorrow I will send a portrait over, if I find the woman on the portrait, whether it is in the daytime or not, whether it is in the public or not, I must kill it at any cost!" Zhao Ning's face was as pale as iron, and he gave an order to Hu Honglian.

Since he found Zhao Yujie according to the map, Zhao Ning naturally didn't think of anything else, and clearing the other party in the simplest and most effective way was the best and only choice.

As the leader, Zhao Yujie will always go to these shops to meet these people.

As long as she shows up, it's her time to die!

No, it's not enough.

Zhao Ning added: "Send the elite of the Yuan Shen Realm again to squat near the Prime Minister's Mansion, once you find the woman on the portrait, you will also attack and kill it at any cost!"

It is possible that Zhao Yujie will not contact those cultivators in person, but she can't leave the Prime Minister's Mansion, right?

Hu Honglian felt Zhao Ning's awe-inspiring killing intent, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly took the order.

Zhao Ning took a sip of tea, recovered his water-like mood, and asked Hu Honglian slowly: "Where did Xiaoqing go?"

Hearing that Zhao Ning was paying attention to Su Yeqing's movements, Hu Honglian's peach blossom eyes instantly rippled, and he smiled from the bottom of his heart, covered his mouth and chuckled: "She personally took people to monitor those shops, and to see what she meant, she had to find out all the accomplices of the person who assassinated you before!"

Zhao Ning smiled, a trace of warmth swelled in his heart, and he didn't say anything more.

Hu Honglian suddenly sighed leisurely, restrained his charming smile and said solemnly: "We didn't do a good job in the affairs of Xinxiang, and at the last moment something went wrong and was discovered, if Miss Zhao hadn't come over in time, the matter would have been smashed in my hands."

"This is the first thing that Yipinlou did for Zhao Gongzi after getting the benefits of Zhao Gongzi's great fortune, but it was done like this, and we couldn't help it.

"The incorporation of the White Coat Society and the Goshawk Gang also lost a lot of people, the problem is that they are in Yanping City, but we couldn't find them out in time, and finally caused Zhao Gongzi to be assassinated by these people, we are really shameless.

Xiaoqing held her breath and vowed to do something worthy of you, so she personally took people to monitor those shops. I heard that she hadn't closed her eyes for several days, and the first to notice the abnormality was the manpower she personally arranged......"