The death of the old man with the jade belt, although Xiao Yu absorbed a lot of energy, but as Qiu Ye said, these vitality made Xiao Yu climb to the peak of frost is already the extreme, and it is difficult to advance a single inch after the vitality in Xiao Yu's sea of qi is saturated.

Xiao Yu could only dissipate his excess vitality with a little regret, feeling the star rising in the sea of knowledge that was several times brighter than the star turned by the Demon Sect Elder's pupils, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. There is no Weiyang Sword Sutra, but there are more than a dozen stars derived from the pupils, and Xiao Yu's soul is not too flawed. Now there is this star transformed by the soul of heaven and man, although it is only a remnant star, it is enough to make Xiao Yu's soul under the realm of heaven and man no one can be hurt.

At present, Xiao Yu has entered a bottleneck stage in the realm of cultivation, and if he wants to take a step forward, unless he steps into the realm of heaven and man and achieves the "Five Qi Dynasty Yuan" of the five veins of initiation, there is no point in simple penance.

As for how to take a step further, Xiao Yu is still more inclined to seek an opportunity in the opening of the Wujiao Ancestral Court on August 15, but it is only July 30, and there is still half a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and before going to Qishan, Xiao Yu still has to arrange the affairs in the royal court.

Now that Xiao Yu can be completely in his hands, that is, the royal court, if he wants to zoom in on the grassland, many things are not something that Xiao Yu can decide in one word, after all, there are still Huang Hanji and Shen Dongzan. These two people are Xiao Yu's help and Xiao Yu's resistance, at least for now, Xiao Yu can't get around the two of them.

While Xiao Yu was pondering, heavy footsteps came from outside, and Lin Yinping rushed into the Zhenbei Mansion with five hundred guards.

After Qiu Si returned the mixed yuan umbrella to Xiao Yu, he left quietly, and almost at the same time, Lin Yinping asked the five hundred guards to stay outside the door, and walked into the small courtyard with only the outline left.

At this time, the Zhenbei Wangfu was really desolate, full of broken bricks and tiles, broken ruins, and the entire West Cross Courtyard had almost been razed to the ground, leaving only the hut where Autumn Leaves was hiding like a flock of chickens.

Xiao Yu faced Lin Yinping, looked down at his feet, the spreading ravines were vertical and horizontal, and said with a slight surprise: "I'm sorry." ”

In addition to worrying Lin Yinping again, of course, it was because the West Cross Courtyard was Lin Yinping's residence. Lin Yin has been holding it for more than ten years, but it is ruined today, Xiao Yu is still a little unhappy.

Lin Yinping shook his head and said with a smile: "The house is destroyed and rebuilt, as long as you are fine." ”

Xiao Yu said softly: "Today's battle is of great benefit to me. ”

Lin Yinping glanced at him, and snorted lightly: "I have a virtue with my father, every time I finish a battle, I know how much I won, have you ever thought of someone who is afraid of you?"

Xiao Yu knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he immediately silenced, and after a while, he cautiously changed the topic and said, "How is the situation in Lin Cheng and Zhumadian." ”

Lin Yinping glared at him, but he didn't dwell on this topic, and said: "The situation after the reopening of the trade route is not bad, because of the ban on the trade route some time ago, these caravans have a lot of backlogs, and now they are pouring in, and in terms of salt and iron tea, there is no need to worry about it this year." By the way, Xu Lin also transported a batch of things, which now exist in Lin City. ”

Xiao Yu asked, "What is it?"

Lin Yinping said with a smile: "You would never have imagined that it was a thousand heavy crossbows, plus 10,000 matching crossbow arrows, and more than 100 sets of fish scale armor and 300 Mo knives. ”

Xiao Yu was slightly surprised, "A thousand heavy crossbows, I remember that this thing is not cheap, even if it is mass-produced, the cost of a single crossbow is more than twenty taels of silver." The cost price of a thousand heavy crossbows is 200,000 taels of silver, as well as those fish scale armor and Mo knives, a set of fish scale armor costs 1,000 taels of silver, adding up to more than 300,000 taels of silver, what does Xu Lin want to do?"

Now that Xiao Yu defeated the Red Lady on the grassland, more than one discerning person can see that the next step is to Da Zheng to crusade against Xiao Yu, at this time, Xu Lin and Xiao Yu exchange business and trade, after all, it is a mutually beneficial thing, but Xu Lin also sent Xiao Yu such a batch of military funds, especially the heavy crossbow, which is the only magic weapon for the army to deal with cultivators. There are even special siege ballistas, and the crossbow arrows alone are the thickness of a person's hug, which are specially used to deal with cultivators in the realm of heaven and man.

Of course, Xiao Yu would not think that Xu Lin was on his side, no matter what, he was still the governor of Da Zheng's central capital.

Xiao Yu pondered for a while and said, "I heard that Xu Lin, the governor of the capital, is the same as the princes of the Eastern Capital, who are all clear and noble on the surface, but greedy for money behind their backs?"

Lin Yinping frowned and said uncertainly: "I have met Xu Lin once, and I don't think he is a person who loves money, or that his love of money is just a means of self-defilement." After all, a talent with needs and weaknesses can make Emperor Zheng feel at ease. If Xu Lin is too high, I am afraid that Emperor Zheng will not rest assured that he will use him to guard the northwest gate of Dazheng. ”

Xiao Yu nodded, admitting that what Lin Yinping said was indeed very reasonable, after all, a person who can go from a low-level lieutenant with nothing to one of the five major governors today, Xu Lin's heart can never be so impetuous.

Xiao Yu asked, "What did you do with those heavy crossbows?"

Lin Yinping replied: "I put this batch of supplies in Lin Cheng and gave back to Xu Lin 3,000 medium horses. However, during this period of time, the war horses were also seriously damaged, and there were not many horses left in the horse shop except for our own use. ”

Xiao Yu nodded, "How much money do we still have?"

Lin Yinping thought for a while and replied: "Originally, there was not much left, but after occupying the royal court, you raided the house again, and now it has not been counted, I estimate that if you remove slaves and pastures, only gold, silver and jewelry, it will probably be more than 10 million." ”

Ten million taels seems like a lot, but it is the vast majority of the property of a royal court, although Xiao Yu has not worked as an errand in the household department, but since he was a child, he also knows that Da Zheng's annual tax is about 40 million taels of silver, which is still the number after deducting the deductions of officials at all levels in the state capital and county.

Xiao Yu sighed, the grassland is a corner of the land after all, even in its heyday, it is just to cross the central capital, and the soldiers are under the eastern capital, and even ninety percent of the grassland people have never seen the appearance of Jiangdu, Xiao Yu has an absolute advantage in the face of Da Zheng, who occupies six points of the world, regardless of military strength and financial resources.

Of course, if Dazheng crusades against the grasslands, he will not exhaust the strength of the whole country, and generally take the Northwest Frontier Army led by Zhongdu as the main force, and then use the strength of Shaanzhou, Xihe Prefecture, and even Hanoi Prefecture as support. Today's Shaanzhou, Xihe Prefecture can be said to be deeply influenced by Xu Lin's Northwest Frontier Army, although it is not as good as the herdsmen of the Northeast Frontier Army, but also the border of the two states is already all over the border army of the Central Capital, these camps are not from the imperial court household department, but directly rely on the taxes of the two states to support, now the capital has achieved self-sufficiency, and the Northwest Frontier Army headed by Xu Lin has faintly become a prince. Xiao Yu smacked, could it be that Xu Lin wanted to use Da Zheng to fight against the grassland and become the second shepherd?

But no matter what, Xiao Yu's first thing to do is to stabilize the situation on the grassland, he said to Lin Yinping: "Yinping, I have worked hard in the past few days, and all the money obtained from this raid will be exchanged for tea, salt, iron, and grain. And our marriage, let's put it off for a while. ”

Lin Yinping didn't speak, but raised his head to look at Xiao Yu, and somehow, he remembered a sentence, called Guangji Grain, slow to be the king.

Both of them have changed so much over the course of the year.