In the past five or six years, Li Zijun has mostly been cultivating on his own behind closed doors, and only occasionally he will ask Bilbo for advice due to magic problems, and even the people who have studied with him cannot be found. Now that Li Zijun has the ability to protect himself, he wants to go out alone and hone himself, so that it will be more conducive to him to continue to cultivate.

Li Zijun also understood that if he wanted to leave the Seine Peninsula, I am afraid that his sisters would never agree. Therefore, he only set his goals within the Seine Peninsula and relied more on the liliang of nature to train himself. But before that, he had to go back to Salat City to say hello to his second sister, and he began to pack his bags.

But before Li Zijun could go out, Bingham slammed open his door and rushed in.

After Meredith's capture, the Cult's scam against Bingham was completely exposed, and with little effort, Meredith told the truth of the matter. In order to gain Bingham's complete trust, Li Zijun let him participate in the whole process of the interrogation of Meredith, and Bingham finally understood everything!

It's just that what makes Li Zijun a little unbelievable is that after Bingham learned the truth of the facts, not only did he not show any anger and frustration, on the contrary, when he learned the news that 'Lisa' was not dead, he actually smiled like a child. Li Zijun was initially worried about irritating Bingham, but was later defeated by his curiosity, and he asked Bingham about the reason for his performance.

Bingham's words completely moved Li Zijun:

"As long as she's alive!"

After hearing this, Li Zijun completely regarded this kind dwarf as his brother.

After such a thing happened, Bingham of course could not rush to the capital again, so he stayed behind to help Li Zijun make all kinds of practical machinery. The bed crossbow has long been a thing of the past, and the waterwheel, the hand-cranked stuffing machine, and the hand-cranked dry bucket, these even some strange things in Li Zijun's mouth have become a reality in Bingham's hands. While Li Zijun lamented Bingham's exquisite craftsmanship, Bingham also admired Li Zijun's rich 'imagination'! They established a deep relationship in such exchanges.

A few days ago, on a whim, Li Zijun chatted with Bingham about the catapult and the crossbow. Bingham, who was aroused, forced Li Zijun to draw the graphics of the two things.

Looking at the crooked graphics he drawn, Li Zijun was also a little embarrassed. But fortunately, his explanation was quite clear, and Bingham finally figured out his intentions, and then Bingham disappeared! This is a habit of Bingham, as long as he is obsessed with something, he will disappear in front of Li Zijun's eyes for a while.

Seeing the sloppy Bingham looking elated, Li Zijun immediately guessed that this guy must have made a breakthrough in some aspects, but before he could ask what it was, Bingham had already pulled him out of the door.

Although Li Zijun is just thirteen years old this year, his height has reached 1.75 meters, while Bingham is only 1.2 or 3 meters. Li Zijun began to see the expressions of the people around him, and he was still a little embarrassed, but he couldn't shake off Bingham's hand and embarrassed this dwarf brother, so he had to follow Bingham hard. Later, he found out that Bingham would only do this to him alone, and he also understood that Bingham really regarded him as a friend who could share happiness, and he became accustomed to Bingham's crazy state.

"Young master, look at it, is this the crossbow you said?" Bingham took something from the workbench and handed it to Li Zijun's hand, and the people in the workshop also looked at him with expectant eyes.

Ever since Bingham made the bed crossbow, Li Zijun realized that it was a waste of time for Bingham to spend all his time making weapons. So he mobilized a large number of craftsmen on the Seine Peninsula, and Bingham selected dozens of craftsmen to assist him in processing the products, freeing Bingham from the tedious craft. In this way, Bingham has more time to think about the integration of Zuihou, which also greatly improves Bingham's role.

In order to speed up the production schedule, and at the same time to delay the leakage of the secrets of the weapons in his hands, Li Zijun conveyed the concept of standard parts to Bingham. In this way, it is only necessary to let those craftsmen process a single part and consciously isolate them, selecting only the most credible craftsmen to assemble the zuihou. In this way, the possibility of leaking secrets caused by the mass production of weapons such as bed crossbows can be minimized, and at the same time, it can also improve the proficiency of workers and speed up the delivery of products. Just for Li Zijun's proposal, Bingham admired him even more, of course, this does not rule out Bingham's somewhat sycophant elements.

Receiving the hand crossbow handed over by Bingham, Li Zijun felt a little different from his impression in his previous life. First of all, the overall appearance was a bit thicker, which also made the crossbow heavier than he expected. This is also something that can't be helped, this shijie's smelting jishu is still very primitive, and it can only make up for the shortcomings in strength and hardness in a stupid and black way. However, its weight is still within the range that ordinary soldiers can bear, and under normal circumstances, it will not affect its use.

Secondly, this crossbow bowstring is made of Warcraft internal tendons, and the difference in materials will inevitably affect the use effect. But it's much better than you expected!

What surprised Li Zijun the most was that Bingham actually processed the hand crossbow into a folding type according to his requirements, which also greatly enhanced the concealment of the hand crossbow.

"How's the range?" Li Zijun said with his crossbow in his hand.

"The range is more than 150 meters, but the effective range is only guaranteed to be 80 meters! However, the hand crossbow is within 30 meters, and it can completely shoot through all steel armor without magic support. Speaking of which, Bingham became proud.

"Let's go, let's go to the weapon shiyan field and try it. Li Zijun walked out of the room with a crossbow, and Bingham followed him to the weapon shiyan field.

Since Shiyan's weapons here need to be kept secret, Li Zijun issued an order to enter the martial arts arena without mercy. Therefore, in addition to the necessary staff, only Bingham followed Li Zijun here. Li Zijun shot a few arrows through Wangshan, as Bingham said, the effective range of the hand crossbow is 80 meters, and the flight speed of the arrows is not inferior to the hand crossbow in Li Zijun's memory in his previous life. Immediately after, Bingham asked someone to take out a cuirass and put it opposite Li Zijun. Li Zijun adjusted the distance between himself and the bull's-eye, Bingham was very modest, Li Zijun experimented to penetrate this cuirass within thirty-five meters without any problems. Li Zijun tried the arrow again, and it took some effort, but there was no problem for ordinary soldiers to fire three or five arrows in a row.

"If I need three hundred crossbows, how long will it take for you to give them to me?" asked Li Zijun, looking at Bingham, as he swept his crossbows. He was very happy with this thing, and he hoped to be able to arm himself and his sisters' personal guards as soon as possible.

"With the number of workers we have at the moment, it will take at least a year to make three hundred crossbows, and this will affect the production of bed crossbows and catapults. Bingham said after a moment's deliberation.

In order to keep his secret to the greatest extent, Li Zijun has always controlled the number of craftsmen who can enter this mountain villa to less than 100. The processing industry of this shijie completely needs to be completed by human beings, and the lack of people will inevitably affect the production speed of products. This is also a helpless thing for Li Zijun, if too many people join in, it will bring great pressure to secrecy. Li Zijun didn't want to spend a long time making wedding dresses for others.

"If I only need thirty, can I be faster!" Li Zijun thought for a moment, and he lowered his goal to the amount of training. As for when it will be fully equipped, we can only wait until later.

"Work day and night, fifteen days should be done!" Bingham replied after a moment's thought, gritting his teeth.

"Well, Bingham, tell all the craftsmen that in these fifteen days all the craftsmen's wages will be tripled, and that they will have three days of paid rest when they are done. Li Zijun said generously.

After Li Zijun finished speaking, he originally thought that Bingham would leave immediately, but he didn't know that Weishenme, a person who is usually in a hurry, writhed in front of him today.

"Bingham, just say anything, this is not your style!" Li Zijun patted Bingham on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"My father was the son of a dwarven tribal leader who left the tribe because of something. In recent years, the survival of the tribe has become more and more difficult, and they have found my eldest brother during this time, hoping that we can help them. Bingham said this, and looked at Li Zijun timidly.

A few years ago, while Li Zijun dug up the Dark Moon God Cult, he also unceremoniously took over their property on the Seine Peninsula, and Bingham's deceived property was also among them. In order to win over Bingham, Li Zijun waved his hand and returned all these properties to him.

Bingham also knew that he was not suitable for business, and after winning the forgiveness of his eldest brother Carpenter, he re-entrusted the property to Carpenter. Carpenter would visit Bingham every month and tell him about the property. A few days ago, when Carpenter came to visit Bingham, he mentioned the matter of the dwarven tribe and hoped to ask for Li Zijun's help through Bingham.

"Where do they all come from, can they all be trusted?" Li Zijun immediately understood what Bingham meant after listening to his words, Li Zijun didn't have any big requirements in other aspects, but there must be no problems in terms of loyalty. He didn't want the weapons he had worked so hard to get would cost a bunch of white-eyed wolves.

"They have always lived in the mountains of the Seine, and they used to help the nobles of the Seine Peninsula to forge some weapons to make ends meet. In recent years, the nobles' guards have been co-opted by you, and they have lost their business, and the veins they occupy have dried up, and their lives have become more and more difficult. In order to survive, they were going to send some people out of the mountains to make a living, and the eldest brother said that their skills were good. If you are willing to take them in, they will never dare to betray you for anything, as a dwarf, I can still guarantee that!"

After Li Zijun incorporated the guards of the Seine Peninsula to form a coalition army, he has been purchasing military supplies from the Empire. Unexpectedly, his actions also affected the livelihood of this dwarf tribe, and he touched his nose with some embarrassment.

"There are still mineral veins in the Seine, how come I've never heard of this!" Li Zijun suddenly thought of another key question.

"Half of the Seine Peninsula is mountains, and although there are not many mineral deposits, there are still them. It's just that some veins are deep in the mountains and are difficult to develop. If our tribe wants to get out of the mountains, it will take at least half a month, and it is usually difficult for them to interact with people from outside, which is one of the main reasons why I dare to vouch for them. ”

"How many people are there in their tribe? Do you mind if I, an outsider, come to see them?" Li Zijun heard Bingham say this, and suddenly became interested in the dwarven tribe.

"There are more than 100 of them here this time, all of them are skilled craftsmen, and I don't know how many people there are in the tribe. If you take them in, Young Master, they shouldn't refuse your request. It's just that I heard them say that they are having a hard time now, and there is really nothing to see there! Besides, I heard from my eldest brother that the road is not smooth, so you better not go, young master. Bingham somewhat regretted telling Li Zijun about the tribe, and he didn't want this friend to be in any danger.

"Don't worry, it's all right! You go to the account office and get two hundred gold coins, and settle your brothers first, and if the money is not enough, go back to the account office to get it. I'm going back to the city in the next two days, I have to say hello to the second sister first, and you can also prepare, and when the crossbow is finished, let's go to your tribe together." After Li Zijun finished speaking, he didn't care what Bingham wanted to say, and pushed him out of the door directly.

Soon Li Zijun left the villa on a horse and ran towards the city of Zarat. Li Zijun has been such a person all these years, and he likes such a person to constantly feel the changes in Sarat City on the road. At first, Jenny also managed Li Zijun a few times, but seeing that he 'refused to change his teachings' and really didn't encounter any danger, he went.

Since the success of the salt drying method, the cost of salt production in the Seine Peninsula has finally come down. The usual drag has brought quite rich benefits to Li Zijun. In just three years, Li Zijun has reversed the appearance of Sarat City's debt-based operation, and there is still some surplus on the books.

It's just that Li Zijun also knows that it is impossible for the salt drying method to be concealed for such a long time, rather than letting the imperial court force him to hand over the process of the salt drying method at that time, it is better to take the initiative himself, and maybe he can exchange it for some other discounts. But what Li Zijun didn't expect was that after he reported the secret of the salt drying method, the emperor suppressed him and blocked all news about the salt drying method.

In the following year, the emperor closed all the salt works except the Royal Salt Works and the Seine Peninsula Salt Works, and at the same time drastically reduced the price of salt at both ends of the purchase and sale period. At that time, everyone wondered if Li Zijun had offended the emperor Bixia, otherwise how could his old man put such a heavy burden on Li Zijun's shoulders! The emperor's decree even gave hope to the nobles of the Seine Peninsula, and they all thought that the day of their turnaround was coming. Unexpectedly, the emperor's second decree came down immediately after, and he actually preached Edlaide's meritorious work in making salt, and promoted him to the first class. Now everyone seems to understand again, and it is rumored that this is the emperor preparing for the crown of Edlaide. When the nobles of the Seine Peninsula got the news, they immediately stopped talking, and they didn't even dare to contact them at will.

Although Li Zijun guessed that the emperor might give him some rewards, he didn't expect the reward to be so big, if it wasn't for the blood relationship, he would have believed the rumor a little. In order to confirm his bloodline again, Li Zijun even stole a drop of Jenny's blood to test the crystal ball, but he still didn't find anything abnormal, he should be the son of Earl Acheson!

Just when Li Zijun was full of doubts, the emperor was loved by all the people in the empire because he lowered the price of salt in the Dongyu Empire. Suddenly, the emperor's prestige among the people rose to an unimaginable height, and even Li Zijun was well received.

The most important thing is that while Li Zijun obtained a large number of gold coins, the salt industry began to drive the development of the city of Salat and the entire Seine Peninsula.

The extremely competitive price of salt in the Dongyu Empire attracted a large number of illegal salt dealers from various countries, and they directly led to the development of the infrastructure of Sarat City. At the same time, due to the existence of the trading habit of barter, the city of Sarat gradually developed a large trade market, and merchants from the Turk-Hungarian Empire, the Monlin Empire, and even the distant Ziqing Empire poured into the city of Zarat, which directly led to the economic development of the Seine Peninsula.

Li Zijun was also very surprised by the sudden development opportunity, but he had seen too many such changes in his previous life, and he quickly calmed himself down, and he correctly guided the development of the Salat City business district according to the experience gained in his previous life.

Soon, the merchants who came to Salat City began to find that the environment of Salat City became cleaner and more hygienic, the law and order became more and more orderly, and the transactions became more and more fair and reasonable. Merchants who wanted to exchange shoddy goods in the city of Salat would be immediately confiscated and driven out. As for those who want to pretend to be the boss and help the city defense army maintain social order, the next day he will be seen tied to a stake at the city gate like a dead dog. 'Make a fortune with your ability, the city of Sarat welcomes you, and if you want to come to the crooked way, the Seine Peninsula will educate you!' These two sentences were made into two signs by Li Zijun and hung on the city gate to enter the city of Zarate, and under these two signs, there are wooden stakes for those who educate people. These stakes have been vacant for the past two years, and no one wants to be the object of education anymore!

But what made the merchants happiest was that the Seine Peninsula was the only territory in the Dongyu Empire that only collected taxes once. As long as you pay the tax once when you enter the city of Sarat, you can walk around the Seine Peninsula at will, which also gives merchants more room for profit. At the same time, Li Zijun also introduced many preferential policies such as mortgage loans and transaction guarantees on the Seine Peninsula. After the efforts of Li Zijun's siblings in the past few years, the city of Salat finally developed into an important trade area of the Dongyu Empire, improving the economic embarrassment of the Seine Peninsula.

The economy has achieved rapid development, and Li Zijun has more room to maneuver in terms of funds, and he began to increase investment in the coalition forces on the Seine Peninsula while improving the infrastructure of the Seine Peninsula.

After several years of careful training by the soldiers of the Royal Guard, the coalition army on the Seine Peninsula has completely changed its loose and scattered appearance, although there is still some distance from the goal of Li Zijun's iron army, but the coalition army on the Seine Peninsula has the prototype of a regular army.

In order to further enhance the combat effectiveness of the coalition forces and temper the command ability of the commanders, Li Zijun also secretly sent middle and high-ranking cadres of the coalition forces to the Tiger Bandit Regiment for trial training.

Of course, Li Zijun did this for another unspeakable purpose, that is, to more accurately grasp the wind and grass of the Tiger Bandit Group. This team is of extraordinary significance to the Li family, and Li Zijun will never allow them to have even the slightest problem! He has never relaxed his monitoring of the Tiger Bandits.

Speaking of information, Kelvin gave Li Zijun an unexpected surprise! He was originally just a transitional candidate for Li Zijun, but Li Zijun didn't expect that this taciturn guy was actually very good at figuring out people's psychology, and his selection and positioning were very accurate. In just a few years, Li Zijun has established a capable intelligence team from scratch, successfully planted eyeliner around most of the nobles in the Seine Peninsula, and established special contact points between various cities on the Seine Peninsula.

Thinking of this, Li Zijun's heart was full of pride, he lowered his horse's speed, slowly paced into Salat City, and walked towards the Hou Mansion.

Li Zijun inherited his consistent style of shaking off his hands and being the shopkeeper, and waited leisurely for Bingham's good news in the Hou Mansion. But Bingham didn't wait, but Kelvin took a secret letter and walked in with Jenny with a solemn expression.

"Wells is preparing to defect, when did this happen?" took the secret letter from Kelvin's hand, and only glanced at it, which startled Li Zijun, he looked at Kelvin and asked with a serious expression.

"Five days ago, Wells suddenly placed Sherrill under house arrest, and then he left the garrison with some of his men and rushed to the second supply point of the Tigers, where he stayed until he waited for a contact officer. Young Master, what should we do now?" Kelvin asked as he looked at Li Zijun nervously.

"Has Wells seen anyone before, with his personality, he shouldn't dare to do such a thing without strong support!" Li Zijun looked at Kelvin with some suspicion and asked.

"Wells had seen a woman named Belinda a little over a month earlier, but they had not been talking long and had left quickly. This woman is so tall that our men can't follow her, and we don't know where she's gone. Later, we found out through the news from the capital that she was a subordinate of the Ninth Prince, and the news said that she was most likely the Sword Saint! At that time, I thought that this woman had not been in the Wells camp for long, and nothing should happen, so I just asked people to keep an eye on Wells. But I didn't expect that a month later, something like this would happen. Kelvin felt that Li Zijun's eyes were getting more and more stern, and his voice was getting quieter and quieter. I don't know Weishenme, although Li Zijun is just thirteen years old, the people of the Seine Peninsula seem to collectively ignore his age, and no one dares to treat him as a child.

"Kelvin can't be blamed entirely on this matter, he has also discussed the situation with me before, and this is also our common opinion. Jenny, who was standing next to Li Zijun, saw Kelvin's panicked look and helped him explain.

Hearing Jenny say this, Li Zijun's expression softened a little, and his brain began to spin at high speed. Wells' matter must be resolved as soon as possible, they have hidden the secret of the Li family, if the Tiger Bandits really get out of his grasp, it will be a devastating blow to the Seine Peninsula, and so many years of hard work will be ruined!

Li Zijun forced himself to calm down as soon as possible, only then could he make the right decision and solve the crisis in front of him.

Wells Weishenme wants to choose to defect when the Seine Peninsula is getting stronger, what kind of conditions does the other party offer to make him do such a betrayal of the family? Li Zijun began to deduce in his mind the experience and character traits of Wells.

Wells is the ridiculous result of Grandpa Ed's drunkenness with a half-hidden widow. Due to Wells' extremely humble status, Li Zijun's grandfather has always refused to accept their mother and son into the city of Zarat. Except for regularly sending some money and food to their mother and son, he rarely visits them again. It was not until after the death of the old earl that Acheson took him back to the Marquis Mansion for education because of his brotherly affection. Zuihou also placed him in the Tiger Bandit Regiment and made him the leader of the Tiger Bandit Bandits. Years of social experience at the bottom have always suppressed Wells's nature, and after arriving at the Tiger Bandits, his inferior nature was exposed little by little, and his lust, greed, and selfishness were presented one by one. It's just that Wells does have some abilities, and the Tiger bandits have developed well in recent years, which made Acheson resist the idea of replacing him.

A few years ago, under the joint pressure of Colorado and Sheryl, Wells could still have some scruples. But since Colorado was transferred back to the Seine, Sherrill couldn't hold Wells down. At the same time, due to the heavy damage of the wolf bandit group in the Meron Mountains, it has been in a weak position among the three major bandit groups over the years, and under the advantages of one another, Wells took the opportunity to incorporate many small bandit groups, and they have surpassed Sherrill a lot in strength.

Originally, after Boswell returned to Sarat City, Li Zijun wanted to send him to the Tiger Bandit Regiment and unite with Sheryl to restrain Wells, but the coalition army had basically completed its initial training at that time, and it was in urgent need of someone to command. After thinking about it, Li Zijun finally left both Colorado and Boswell in the coalition as the chief and deputy commanders.

Unexpectedly, the momentary negligence at that time actually left such a big hidden danger for himself, and while Li Zijun secretly regretted it, he also hated the scum of Wells's family even more! What did the other party impress him? The characters of beauty, money, and power flashed in front of Li Zijun's eyes one by one, and suddenly he seemed to have grasped something, and his usual harmless smile appeared on his face.