Jiang Ning didn't say anything, it had nothing to do with conscience. Even if he took Jin Wushuang's corpse out of the ring, and then asked Ye Chen to find a few masters to accompany him, enter the Red Forest Plain, and dig up Xia Youliang's bones, it would not change any facts in the future.

Don't look at Ye Chen's appreciation of himself, these words seem to be talking about the news in the back, but they are actually already dialing himself.

But as long as he "doesn't know each other", even Ye Chen will take the initiative to sell himself, and he can still sell it for a good price.

Jiang Ning was silent, and said for a while: "Thank you for the city lord's care, if the envoy comes, I will answer whatever I ask, and if I don't ask, I won't answer, and try to be objective." ”

"You don't need to look at it, you're just lucky, in this matter, you are a small person who can't be smaller, and no one will pay attention to you. It just so happened that the imperial court ordered that twenty additional battalions of officers and soldiers should be added to Licheng, and Master Xia also solved the cultivation problem for you. After the official goes back, take some pills and yuan stones, and let your righteous brother bring them to you. During this time, you continued to hide here, cultivating hard by the way, striving to break through the half-step innate nature. After the rumors passed, the official asked you to serve as a guard of the city guards. ”

The petty military attache who is in charge of supervising the logistics warehouse of Lichengwei, but the real officer.

"City Lord Xie, my subordinates still have a word to say, Shiliang Mountain was ambushed, although the enemy is very strong, but the scene I saw when I turned my head was that the two battalions of city guards were about to collapse at the touch of a button, and they didn't even have a decent counterattack. Soldiers are more expensive than more ......."

The officers and soldiers of the Yue Dynasty are not compulsory soldiers, and the state capitals and counties need to bear the soldiers' food, grass, armor, carriages, horses, houses, clothes, and salaries, and salaries, ordinary soldiers are not paid much, but the generals above the captain level also have to pay them some cultivation resources, and there are rewards when they go out to perform tasks, and there are pensions for the seriously injured and sacrificed, otherwise who will work for the imperial court?

Under normal circumstances, the imperial court will not pay this money, and most of the taxes will be borne by the localities.

If the number of local officers and soldiers is small, the financial situation is good, the court gives preferential treatment, and does not take away a large amount of taxes, there will be enough finance to train an elite army, and vice versa.

Lichengwei originally had nineteen battalions of officers and soldiers, and there were also some good players above the congenital stage, such as Dao Hanqing in his battalion, if he was ranked by cultivation, he could only rank between thirty or forty. The reason is also simple, these officers and soldiers do not have any production, except for occasional outings to perform tasks and some tactical training, the rest are all put on cultivation, and each battalion will act on behalf of the city lord's mansion to teach and explain to the soldiers some exercises and combat skills suitable for the army, not necessarily metaphysical cultivation, but also some physical cultivation, of course, are relatively low-level and widely spread exercises. If it is a person with outstanding qualifications, it will be immediately allocated and focused on training, but after the birth of the product family system, the children of ordinary families have less and less room to rise.

However, except for these few good players, the rest of the Licheng guards of the Nineteenth Battalion are generally very poor, and some are not as good as Jiang Ning, who is only seventeen years old in cultivation.

The reason for this is simpler, Licheng is located in the border area, the terrain is relatively closed, the population is not large, not to mention the abundance of production, and the product will have some tax reduction and exemption policies, so the tax revenue is not high.

There are still some official industries in Licheng, but in the same way, the income is not very good, and some industries have also suffered losses.

However, Licheng had to feed a lot of people, officials, officials, officials, officials, all kinds of miscellaneous servants, plus the officers and soldiers of the 19th battalion, so the finances have been very tight. Without adequate financial support, where can a strong army be trained?

The officers and men of the 19th Battalion are all working so hard, and if the officers and men of the 20th Battalion are added, they will not even be able to pay their salaries when the time comes.

Therefore, Dao Hanqing said earlier, Jiang Ning's face changed.

He doesn't have much affection for the Moon Dynasty, and he doesn't have any feelings for Licheng, except for a few people, think about what he has encountered in Licheng over the years, how does he love this land?

However, if there is a crisis, there is a strong army and no strong army, it is different, especially if the enemy may be a group of ferocious desolate clans and demon cultivators.

"Dao Hanbai, you're too worried," Ye Chen smiled, and his eyes showed appreciation again. Can you imagine it for ordinary people?

"This time, the imperial court not only asked Licheng to add 20 battalions of officers and soldiers, but as far as I know, all the surrounding counties have ordered them to increase the number of officers and soldiers. As for the issue of provisions, the imperial court has ordered that various materials be transferred from the inner prefectures to assist the counties in ensuring the supply and consumption of the soldiers of each battalion. ”

"It seems like I'm smart...... The lord of the city, can you grant the next request of your subordinates? ”

"What request?"

Jiang Ning said about building a cave, this is not a house to renovate at home, the back mountain also belongs to public land, Jiang Ning is just a child of a fake family, if you want to dig a cave in the mountain and build a cave, you must get the consent of the city lord's mansion.

"Why did you build this cave house?"

Jiang Ning briefly said the reason again: "My subordinates can also buy a house, but it is close, and my eldest brother and I can take care of each other." ”

"That old woman opposed the marriage of the sword guard back then, it is not unreasonable, your stepmother is useless in other aspects except for being beautiful. ”

The temperament is not good, there is no cultivation talent, the IQ does not seem to be very useful, and the mother's family is not angry!

However, Jiang Ning doesn't think like this, as a man, most people will like women with gentle personalities.

A gentle character like the Jiang family, if it is replaced by a rational and united family, it can be regarded as a treasure. Of course, if it is placed in the knife house, it is equivalent to roasting it on the fire, and what is even more tragic is that her brother married a sister-in-law who likes to take advantage and is also insatiable.

It was just a trivial matter, Ye Chen also agreed, he looked at the sky and said, "You go back." ”

"Yes. Jiang Ning hurried back to the cave again.

He looked far away, and there was no one around...... It's mainly summer now, and after a while, some teenagers who like to play in the knife family will come to hunt together from time to time, and stay here at that time, if you are not careful, it will be easy to be discovered.

Jiang Ning took out the ring and looked at the corpse of the young man inside in a daze, as well as the letter.

Xia Youliang had a premonition, so he didn't let himself go to the Sword Hall immediately after he could escape, but let himself hide for a while. Of course, from the heart, the problem of cultivation has been solved, and Jiang Ning's desire to go to the Sword Hall is not strong. If you want to go, you still have to go, you promise to have a bright summer, and you must abide by it.

However, this puddle of water is too muddy, and even Jiang Ning suspects that the people in the Tianji Pavilion who congratulate the Queen Mother on Christmas, are all fakes.

"We'll have to wait and see for two or three years. ”

Although the Sword Hall is a behemoth, but this time the situation seems to be very bad, this is the real immortal fight, he rushed into it rashly, and he didn't know how he died.

"I don't know what Xia Youliang wrote in the letter?"

......

Dao Hanqing put down the wine and food and said, "Hey, the aura here seems to have become dense. ”

It's not that it seems to be dense, it's very dense, pitiful, Dao Hanqing still can't figure out the difference.

Now is not the time to let Dao Hanqing know, Jiang Ning immediately diverted the topic: "Brother, let's go out for a walk." ”

"Good. ”

The bushes outside were very dense, and the two of them pushed away the bushes vigorously, walked out of the cave, and sat down on a rock.

Jiang Ning looked up at the charming moonlight.

The world is vast, and even the moon is much bigger than in the previous life, and now it hangs in the sky like a huge silver platter.

Jiang Ning said: "The city lord agreed to let me build that cave. ”

"Second Brother ......"

"I've made up my mind, there are other uses, you'll know in a while. ”

"Okay, City Lord Ye also informed me, by the way, he also asked me to bring these two things to you. Dao Hanqing took out a small package from his waist, which contained two bottles of Qi Pill, which was not a Qi Pill on the market.

There were also more than a dozen medium-grade Yuan stones, and Dao Hanqing looked at them with some envy.

Or let's put it that way, or exchange them for ringing coins, which can be exchanged for more than 10,000 ringing coins. Ruyi Liquor Store is operated by Aunt Li, and the business is not bad, the total income of a year is only about 10,000 ringing coins, and when Jiang Ning bought it, it was only a total of 12,000 ringing coins.

The small house in Jiangning only has 900 ringing coins, Dao Hanqing bought the house of the Xiong family from others, the area of the house is not small, but it is only 3,000 ringing coins, and the grocery store that Dao Hanqing bought for the Jiang family is located on the edge of the commercial district, together with the commercial goods in the store, there are only more than 21,000 ringing coins in total.

Medium-grade Yuan Stone, and it is more than a dozen medium-grade Yuan Stone, which is also a luxury for Dao Hanqing.

"Brother, envy. Jiang Ning said jokingly.

"Hehe," Dao Hanqing smiled: "Don't make fun of me, try to break through the half-step innate." ”

So obviously there is no blood relationship, but in Jiang Ning's heart, he is not a relative, but a relative. The two are righteous brothers, but the relationship is better than ordinary brothers.

"Do you want to," Jiang Ning continued to joke, and also put Yuan Shi under Dao Hanqing's nose to play.

"Don't be funny. ”

"I'll give it to you if I want it. ”

"This won't work," Dao Hanqing immediately said.

He didn't know that Jiang Ning couldn't break through for a reason, and he didn't know that Jiang Ning had already solved it. According to the past, these resources were indeed too wasteful for Jiang Ning. But there are many things that cannot be about interests or interests.

Jiang Ning didn't force it, anyway, Dao Hanqing would know it after a while.

"Brother, has the matter of the Jiang family been resolved?"

"Solved. ”

"Did you really want to send them?"

Dao Hanqing sighed.

"Or your aunt thought in her heart at the time, this fool, don't be in vain, take it first and then talk about it, if you want something in the future, ask the sister-in-law to go, and the sister-in-law will agree!"

"No, after it was resolved, my mother also sighed lamentingly. ”

"I don't believe it, at most two or three months, they will come to your door and beg for something. ”

"Kneel won't give them anything...... Second brother, don't talk about this, Xiaomeng asked me to ask you for something. ”

"What's that?"

"I told Aunt Li that you are not dead, but she doesn't believe it, so she has to ask me to ask you for a jade pendant to prove it. ”

Jiang Ning was a little hesitant, not mentioning how much the jade pendant was worth, it was already the only thing left to him by his relatives.

Dao Hanqing misunderstood and said, "Actually, Xiaomeng is not bad. ”