Dali Palace, flowers, dancing girls, wine, feast, in a burst of feasting, everyone frequently toasted.

This is a family banquet held by Emperor Duan Zhengchun of Dali, and the people invited are naturally Chen Can and Wang Yuyan's daughters.

Duan Zhengchun looked at the girls beside Chen Can with a complicated expression, he really didn't expect that of his five daughters, that stinky boy married four at once.

And it was the first time he knew that the force called the "Dragon" country next door to him, and the person behind it was the kid in front of him!

Chen Can's ambition, Duan Zhengchun can't see it, but whenever he thinks that his four daughters are all this kid's pillow people, Duan Zhengchun's heart can't harden.

Faced with Chen Can's request for an "alliance", Duan Zhengchun finally agreed!

Maybe he wanted to open it, or maybe he thought of Chen Can's future heirs, and he also had a part of Duan Zhengchun's bloodline, and the two sides were very harmonious in the next negotiation.

Duan Zhengchun even took the initiative to open a trade route to Southwest Yi, and from then on, the two sides could trade with each other!

Chen Can didn't expect Duan Zhengchun to be so upright, which also gave him a new understanding of the weakness of the Duan family.

Chen Can stayed in the Dali Palace for a week, and his uncle Duan Yu accompanied his daughters to visit the entire Dali City.

Seeing Duan Yu's sunny smile without any scheming, Chen Can also sighed secretly in his heart, if in the future, there is really a day when the two sides meet each other, and he will definitely leave the Duan family in one vein and one way to live.

After the exchange and inspection, Chen Can's crisis was mostly missing.

With the cover of Dali and the market of Dali, the development of the "Dragon" country will be faster and safer.

In the next two months, Chen Can has been busy with government affairs, plowing the fields at night, day and night.

Hard work still pays off after all.

Ah Zhu was the first to get pregnant, then Mu Wanqing and A Bi were also pregnant, and in the end, only Ah Zi and Wang Yuyan were left without moving.

In the face of Wang Yuyan's loss, Chen Can could only serve harder.

After two months of recuperation, although there has not been much effect, the development of the "Dragon" country is progressing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

With the opening of trade routes and the gathering of population, the local business in Southwest Yi has gradually formed a scale.

In the past, the Southwest Yi forces were intertwined, and the transportation was mostly inconvenient, and those who were doing business had to pay ten or eight times for protection along the way, and their personal safety was not guaranteed, which caused the local prices to remain high!

And now, everything is solved, Chen Can encourages business, the commercial tax is only one-tenth of the value of the goods, and there is no repeated charge, and the tax can be paid once, which can be unimpeded.

Even for the commodities in short supply in the southwest, Chen Can also introduced a support and subsidy policy, which not only greatly enriched the local commercial quantity and output, but also attracted a large number of businessmen.

The most important thing is safety, once in order to avoid the local forces, many merchants were cautious, that is fearful, many trade routes, are the trails in the primeval forest, can only use mules and horses, small batch transactions!

And now, the newly built cities in the southwest have all opened official roads, and groups of caravans can wholesale tons of goods at one time to return!

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If you want to get rich, the policy of building roads first is the first policy that Chen Can implemented after he occupied the local area!

Since the opening of trade routes with Dali, the merchants of the two places come and go frequently, and the territory of Dali is almost in a very short period of time, it is flooded with goods from the southwest, and the most important thing is that it is also good and cheap.

The goods in the Southwest Yi area, compared to the same goods in this era, can be said to be the price of cabbage!

The improvement of the process of salt, sugar and other industries, the price of commodities in all walks of life, steadily declined, compared with the prices of other countries, the price of this land in the southwest, the life of the common people, is simply heaven!

Take salt as an example, in the past, in the southwest Yi, there was no less than 150 wen per catty of salt, and even more than 300 wen in some areas!

And now, the price of salt that the local people buy is eight cents a catty, and the rest

The purchase price of the country's merchants is only five cents a catty, and this still includes the tax price!

You must know that the price of salt in Dali is usually 80 wen a catty, while the wholesale price of Nanxi Yi has been as low as 5 wen.

It is conceivable that when the surrounding forces heard about the salt price in the southwest, they almost flocked to it.

The price of salt in Dali, in just two months, has dropped from 80 Wen to 20 Wen today!

The reason why Dali can still maintain the price of 20 wen is because the local salt tax includes 5 wen, which has long since increased the cost of procurement.

Chen Can did not adopt the ancient policy of high salt tax, in other countries, salt tax is an extremely important income in tax revenue, and in Southwest Yi, salt is just a commodity, Chen Can never thought of monopolizing this huge benefit with high prices.

In addition to the salt, which is closely related to the common people, other commodities produced by Xinanyi were also robbed by caravans from all sides.

Among them, white sugar and cloth are the most sought-after things, and white sugar is sought-after because this thing has never appeared, because it is rare.

And cloth is the real big killer of the Dragon Kingdom, because Chen Can improved the textile machine, and then added a water-powered loom, the efficiency has increased dozens of times, and the output of cloth has increased rapidly.

Although the price is only 30% cheaper than usual, this thing can be used as money in this era, and almost all merchants have an inexplicable desire and demand for cloth.

Because of the shortage of raw materials, the cloth of the Dragon Kingdom is far from meeting the demand, Chen Can purchased a large number of cotton seeds in the Western Regions, and after the beginning of spring, a large amount of cotton will be planted in the local area.

There are also countless commodities in the Dragon Country, which have flowed into neighboring countries through various channels, and even farm tools have become sought-after goods.

Originally, Chen Can was still worried about the crisis from the Great Song Dynasty, but this winter, there was a serious snowstorm in Liao, and as the winter just passed, a large number of Liao troops began to assemble on the border, preparing to come to the Great Song Dynasty to fight the autumn wind.

As a result, the army of the Great Song Dynasty paid almost all its attention to the border of the Liao State, so that it had no time to take care of the barbarian land in the southwest.

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There is another main point, although Chen Can is now considered to have controlled the Southwest Yi, he did not build a country, nor did he claim the title of emperor, which in the eyes of outsiders, is purely a place where a powerful earth overlord has been replaced!

In the eyes of the Song people of this era, Southwest Yi is a place full of miasma, mosquitoes, snakes and ants, which is not suitable for survival at all!

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The most important thing is that Chen Can has not waged a large-scale war since he recuperated, although commerce and trade are prosperous, but in the eyes of other forces, he is not afraid.

For the Great Song Dynasty, Chen Can made two preparations, the first was to spend a lot of money to cultivate a large number of Erwuzai, let them operate in the capital, and spend millions of silver every year.

The second preparation is to provoke friction between the two countries from time to time on the border between Western Xia and Liao, so that there will never be peace on the border of the three countries.

Once there are signs of easing in the border area, the generals of the two armies will inexplicably die from assassination, and over time, the contradictions on the border between the two sides will never be eliminated, and local conflicts will break out!

Compared with the crisis of Dali and the Great Song Dynasty, the country that really has ideas about Southwest Yi now is Dayue.

The Li family of Dayue has been strong in recent years, and has been constantly conquering the surrounding forces, and the results are not bad, and even there have been several wars with Dali, and they have basically won, which makes the Dayue monkey more and more arrogant!

Southwest Yi was originally a three-way zone, but suddenly a strong force appeared, and the neighboring Dayue Kingdom naturally had ideas.

However, Chen Can has been guarding against the Dayue monkeys, and they have tried several times, but they have been solved by Chen Can sent a master, and in the end they can only end up without a problem.

Fortunately, the main enemy of Dayue is a few small regimes in the northwest, and they have not thought of sending troops to the southwest for the time being, and the two sides have some small frictions, and they are still far from the point of war.

At present, the overall peace of Southwest Yi is relatively peaceful, and Chen Can quickly seized this precious time to develop!

The real purpose of Chen Can's recuperation is to train soldiers!

The Western Regions raised horses to make money to buy resources, the southwest struck iron to train troops to prepare for war, and the local arsenals were built one after another, and the improved iron factories finally smelted steel, armor, and long knives from the arsenal.

After the implementation of the conscription system, the number of troops has increased exponentially, and now there are more than 5,000 cavalry and nearly 80,000 infantry.

After two years of service, most of these soldiers will automatically retire, except for a small number of elite soldiers who will remain.

The identities of these retired soldiers will automatically be transformed into militiamen, idle farmers and merchants, and automatically become soldiers in wartime, in just ten years, Southwest Yi will enter the scene of all the people being soldiers, and Chen Can will have millions of soldiers and horses at any time!

The remaining elites who are proficient, some of them will be planted in various caravans, becoming walking military camps, spread over several surrounding countries and forces, once a war is launched in the future, these people will cooperate with the military at any time to launch an attack from the enemy's interior!

In order to prevent the military strength of the "Dragon Country" from being exposed, the military camp is 50 kilometers away, all of which are designated as military no-man's land, and in this land, 100,000 troops are hidden, which will not cause any waves.

What Chen Can needs now is only time!

Before I knew it, it was the middle of May, and Chen Can had to leave immediately for the trip to Shaolin Songshan in June!

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Chen Can didn't make a big fuss, because Ah Bi was pregnant, Chen Can only took Ah Zi and two entourages, and set off lightly.

Everyone hurried up, and when they arrived at the Shaolin Temple, there were still three days left before the martial arts conference!

It is rare for the Central Plains martial arts to have a once-in-a-century event, and thousands of martial arts people have poured into the entire Songshan area!

Chen Can is here, and finally saw Qiao Feng, who has been absent for more than a year!

When the two brothers met again, they felt very cordial, and they drank a meal of wine again until dawn.

During the year, although the two brothers did not see each other, they exchanged letters almost every other month, and they knew each other's situation.

Whether it is Chen Can's Southwest Yi or Qiao Feng's beggar gang, earth-shaking changes have taken place in this year.

If the total number of beggars is close to one million, it is distributed throughout the Great Song Dynasty.

The Beggar Gang originally had its own spy organization, but now with Chen Can's financial support, they have established branches in Liao, Western Xia, and Tubo.

Not only that, in the past year, the beggar gang has cultivated nearly 2,000 people, and Qiao Feng has personally sat in charge for more than half a year and trained a large number of martial arts masters!

It can be said that today's beggar gang is already the Central Plains martial arts, and it deserves to be the first gang in the world.

Those martial arts gangs will only pass on the family heirloom martial arts to their heirs, or a few core apprentices, where will they mass-produce martial arts masters like the beggar gang!

There are many lost martial arts cheats in the martial arts, Chen Can got a large number of them from Yanziwu and sent them to Qiao Feng, and there are even a lot of Shaolin seventy-two stunts.

Shaolin's eighteen Arhat formations and the beggars' dog-fighting formations, these are all well-known formations in martial arts, and now they are also integrated into training.

In fact, Chen Can's army has also cultivated a large number of military masters, even more and more elite than the beggars.

Learning martial arts is about talent, and every recruit who enlists in the army, during the recruit period, will practice the basic internal strength and heart method under the guidance of the instructor, and then match it with a set of boxing techniques.

After the three-month recruitment period, those soldiers who have martial arts talents will be screened, and some will focus on light martial arts in the next three years, some will mainly practice swordsmanship, as well as swordsmanship, and so on.

Shaolin Temple is worthy of being the world's first martial arts library, Shaolin Temple's horizontal martial arts, is a first-class tough guy martial arts, especially suitable for military exercises, in the "Dragon Country" barracks, almost every soldier, have mastered the most basic Shaolin horizontal practice of kung fu.

The martial arts of the Xiaoyao Sect are too advanced and too evil, once it spreads, it is estimated that it will change the whole world, especially the Northern Pluto Divine Skill, once it spreads, it will be a disaster!

So Chen Can is only in the spirit

In the Eagle Palace, eight people were selected to study, including four of Meilan Zhuju.

The martial arts of the Xiaoyao faction are the real hole cards of Chen Can after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the future, and they are the secret legends of the royal family, just like the current Dali Duan clan.

The martial arts of the Duan clan in Dali have spread for hundreds of years, although they were eventually lost, but it has also given the Duan clan the power to protect themselves for hundreds of years.

Chen Can looked at Qiao Feng's laughing appearance, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, if he hadn't appeared by himself, Qiao Feng would have died now.

It's a pity that this guy is in his thirties, and there are still a group of men around him, and he doesn't know how good women are at all, Chen Can wondered if he should give him a few beauties.

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But after thinking about it, Chen Can still give up, now is a critical period, Qiao Feng will wake up one day.

If Qiao Feng really has no heirs in his life, then Chen Can will let his son and daughter recognize him as a godfather in the future, and let him live his life as a free prince.

While drinking, the brothers plotted the next arrangement, although there are usually letter exchanges, but this face-to-face communication can be regarded as a real heart-to-heart!

As for the matter of the martial arts alliance leader, the brothers never discussed it too much.

For Chen Can, the position of the leader of the alliance is already in the pocket of the two brothers, and no one can compete for it!

Ye Erniang has been imprisoned in the secret stronghold of the beggar gang, and now she has also been brought.

Ye Erniang never committed suicide, and Chen Can told her that when the time was right, she would be allowed to see her biological son.

Ye Erniang is now in a semi-crazy state, and she keeps talking about her Bao'er, and she only has the obsession of seeing her own son.

For a woman like Ye Erniang who has done a lot of evil, a thousand cuts are light, and Qiao Feng naturally will not have the slightest pity!

After the master of the martial arts alliance arrived, the first thing was to break the majesty of the thousand-year-old Shaolin, and now the only one in the martial arts that is still recognized as a famous and decent family is only the Shaolin Temple.

Therefore, once you sit on the leader of the martial arts alliance, the first thing you will do is to deal with the matter of Shaolin Abbot Xuan Ci, so that the thousand-year-old prestige of Shaolin Temple will be ruined, and it can be regarded as a dismount, and you will better control the Central Plains martial arts from now on!

Finally, the red glow on the horizon rose again, Chen Can finished the wine in the bowl, wiped a handful of water stains on the side of his mouth, Chen Can looked at Qiao Feng, and finally said slowly.

"Big brother, I thought about it again and again, but I still feel that the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance is still not suitable for me to sit in, so let the eldest brother be the leader of the martial arts alliance!"

Qiao Feng put down the wine bowl, looked up at Chen Can in surprise, and saw that he was not joking, so he replied in confusion.

"Second brother, why don't you want to be the leader of this martial arts alliance?"

Chen Can shook his head, and then said solemnly.

"Big brother, Southwest Yi's side, now there are all kinds of things to be done, many things are inseparable from my decision-making, there are still many remnant forces within Southwest Yi, and they are not yet fully integrated, all of these things are inseparable from me, I really can't take a break from dealing with the affairs of the Central Plains Martial Arts, so I can only trouble Big Brother!"

Qiao Feng frowned and pondered for a moment, then nodded.

"Okay, second brother, this position of the leader of the martial arts alliance, I will sit on your behalf for the time being, wait for a few years, and when your side is settled, I will return it to you!"

Chen Can's eyes lit up, and then he nodded solemnly!

Why are you grieved?