When Lei Changye sailed back to Chang'an Jinchangfang, it was already seven days after leaving for Shazhou. In the past seven days, more than 6,000 former Prancing Circus painters from various towns in the Tang Dynasty found Bai Yinyi and joined the army from the Protector's Mansion.

Yu Xuanji's arrangement bureau was completely mobilized, integrating hundreds of arrest divisions, bad people, and Wuhou in Chang'an City, and investigating all the official examinations, official identities, and Jianghu backgrounds of all these 6,000 people in seven days, and compiling them into materials and handing them over to Dongfang Shuo, Mao Sui, who was in charge of recruiting, and Mi Zhu, who was responsible for supplying food and wages.

Zixin, as the deputy leader of the Martial Alliance, also actively mobilized the members of the Martial Alliance to enter the Baiyin Volunteer Army, helping the political envoys to do the spiritual education and mobilization work of the Baiyin Yicong, and at the same time secretly established a good relationship with the major factions in the army.

To Lei Changye's surprise, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and Xiao Qiao secretly joined the Baiyin Yi Congsi with a large number of big players who were mixed with the Pure Yang Sect, and they were also familiar with Zixin and others, which was quite a bit of a taste of not knowing each other.

He inquired side-by-side, and it turned out that Sun Ce and the others were too involved in the prancing circus, and they were already immersed in it and couldn't pull it out. Especially Sun Ce, after seeing the hundred-year history of the Western Regions, he was sad and indignant in his heart, and only thought about entering the Western Regions after enlisting in the army, making an earth-shattering fuss and venting his anger.

As soon as Sun Ce entered the Baiyinyi Army, he was regarded as a key training object by Dongfang Shuo, Zixin, Mao Sui and others, chatting with him every day, desperately instilling in his mind the military regulations and army building spirit of Baiyinyi's army, and completely treating him as a brainwashing experiment.

At the beginning, Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao were still very disgusted by their behavior, and kept sneering at them, reminding Sun Ce that these guys were uneasy and kind. Unexpectedly, in the next few days, Sun Ce would not cause trouble at every turn like before, and he would dance the big blade when he didn't agree with him. The conversation with him has become much smoother than before.

Sun Ce became a particularly organized, disciplined, extremely self-disciplined, and always maintained a high-spirited posture of a professional soldier. Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao watched his transformation, and their mouths were not convinced, but brainwashing is so easy to use, why not use it. They no longer stopped Dongfang Shuo, they were clever around Sun Ce, but they were curious about what would become of Sun Ce's successful brainwashing in the end.

When Lei Changye returned to Chang'an, Sun Ce was still in the process of slow transformation. He became a commander in the southern camp of Chang'an, commanding a thousand recruits and practicing Zhenghuan.

When Lei Changye first met him, he met at the opening ceremony of the Martial Alliance, from the position of the hostile sides. But it was Zixin who really fought with him. Lei Changye didn't have much of a holiday with him, so he could only be regarded as a familiar face.

Lei Changye greeted him, encouraged him a few words, and hurriedly walked into the Protector's Mansion. What he wanted to find was Wang Mang, the director of the Craftsman Division, who had cooperated with him to create a quasi-magic weapon for twisting, suction, and dredging.

Among the many big players, Wang Mang is the one with the most ideas, and his skills are really good, and his thinking is also extremely advanced. Lei Changye felt that in this Tang Dynasty Fantasy World, it was Wang Mang and his thinking that were the easiest to collide with sparks, and they had the potential for development.

When discussing the plan to send troops to the Western Regions with everyone, Jia Xu's reminder was still fresh in his memory. That is, Datang's demand for the Western Regions is not as strong as that of Xihu. At this time, Datang was in a very weak period. However, Xihu's period of weakness was delayed a lot because of the existence of Master Wanzang.

This led to the fact that Xihu's military strength and national strength were both stronger than those of Datang, and the demand was higher than that of Datang. Even if Lei Changye used his various manipulations to help Zhang Yichao control the Hexi Corridor. The endless raids of Xihu's cavalry will also make the Tang Dynasty's rule in the Western Regions continue to weaken.

Even if in the end, Xihu finally perished according to the final trajectory of history. The newly generated Hu forces in the Western Regions will also eat the Tang Dynasty's stronghold in the Western Regions in one bite.

Unless Lei Changye can come up with a way to make money in the Western Regions, closely link the interests of the Hexi Corridor and Datang, so that the maintenance of the Hexi Corridor will not only not cost Datang's money, but also become an opportunity for Datang's stability and prosperity.

The method he thought of was now only possible for Wang Mang to cooperate with him.

In "The Five Elements of Mozi", because of the paper man paper equestrian, and in terms of flight, there are also flying fish boats and various spirit pets, Lei Changye has never thought of trying to make a rune Dao driven machine.

In fact, the "Five Elements of Mozi" records the manufacturing method of the Flying Fish Boat. This is the remnant of Lu Ban's Feilai Hall manufacturing method. Because there are a lot of unknown things in the Flying Fish Boat, Lei Changye first only refined a manufacturing method similar to a hovercraft, and later improved it to become the Flying Fish Lady's Ship.

During the transformation process, through the celestial dock of the ship hoist, Lei Changye saw a lot of new formations from the pattern of the Flying Fish Lady's ship. These formations corroborate each other with many formation records in the independent article of "Mozi Five Elements", which is dedicated to talking about various Taoist tools manufactured by Momen machinery.

Since then, the countless vague Mozi mechanical manufacturing methods in the Taoist Instrument Chapter have the potential to continue to be explored and developed.

Lei Changye has been very busy since the successful transformation of the Flying Fish Ladyship, and he has no time to calm down and study how to perfectly match these exquisite formations with the records of the Five Elements of Mozi to create a new Mozi Machine.

For example, the Five Elements of Mozi records the beginning and end of Luban's wood flying bird manufacturing method. The wooden bird made by Lu Ban was due to structural problems that led to frequent mechanical accidents, and was finally abandoned by Lu Ban.

However, Lu Ban must have solved the problem later, otherwise it would be impossible to create the Flying Fish Palace, and finally left the remnants of the Flying Fish Ship. This shows that the problem of the failure of the wooden bird can be solved.

Of course, Mu Feiniao's steps are still a little too big for Lei Changye. What Lei Changye wanted to create was a desert crossing tool that could be driven by mana - the camel cart.

Originally, he had a better means of transportation, which was the silver Pegasus. It's a pity that the silver pegasus is summoned by relying on the cooperation of paper horsemanship and the ghost realm spirit array, and it is specially used by the rune who summons the spirit of the ghost horse.

Lei Changye can't lend it to anyone. Unless Lei Changye uses a painting body that consumes jade talismans to control it. And the mana and jade talisman consumed to summon it and drive it are considerable, plus the jade talisman consumed in the painting, a silver Pegasus occupies too much resources. Even if Lei Changye is a jade talisman boss, he can't afford to consume it.

He wanted to build a Mozi mechanical car for Datang traders who were interested in crossing the desert to become foot traders. Once this kind of car is built, it only needs to consume his Heavenly Thunder Talisman and can last for a fixed period of time.

In this way, he can sell or rent this kind of car with his Tianlei Fu package, not only to earn high profits for himself, but also to greatly facilitate the Datang business travel to sell goods in the Western Regions.

As long as the silk, embroidery, Tang Sancai, valuable handicrafts and various pearls of the Tang Dynasty are transported to the countries of the Western Regions in a faster and cheaper way, and a large amount of gold, silver and copper coins from Europe, Persia and Dashi can be earned, so as to enrich the treasury of the Tang Dynasty and make the Western Regions a lifeline for the Tang Dynasty. The governance of the Western Regions will naturally become the basic national policy of the Tang Dynasty, and it will not be easy for a hundred years.

In order to realize this dream, Lei Changye first needed to make the camel cart, which was recorded more comprehensively in Mozi's Five Elements and was very close to the finished body. Because the Five Elements of Mozi is the collection of the Shushan Patriarch, many of the Taoist methods are the same as the Shushan Taoist methods, so the first thing that Lei Changye thought of was Wang Mang. Because he is also specialized in the Shushan Dao method.

When Lei Changye saw Wang Mang, he directly took out all the records about the camel cart in Mozi's Five Elements and spread them out in front of his eyes. Wang Mang's eyes lit up, and he immediately sat down at the table and watched greedily.

"Alliance leader, are you going to make a new magic weapon again?" Wang Mang asked with understanding.

"Senior Brother Wang, the external skeleton of this magic weapon has basically been written very clearly in the records, and the only thing that is relatively vague is the construction of the internal magic circle. Why don't you help me make the external skeleton first, and I'll study the internal magic circle, and let's go our separate ways and go hand in hand. Lei Changye said.

"Alliance leader, once this camel cart is made, this thing can directly cross the desert without supplies. Wang Mang suddenly caught Lei Changye's thoughts.

"Yes, that's exactly what I wanted. Lei Changye smiled mysteriously.

"It's worth a lot of money, Alliance Leader, we don't have to worry about military spending. Wang Mang smiled and clapped his hands, "I'll do it." ”

"Let's go. Lei Changye patted him on the shoulder. Wang Mang's words reminded him that there were 11,000 Baiyin soldiers in Chang'an recently.

This time, every Baiyin Yizuo was recruited according to the treatment of the conscription system, and according to the usual monthly salary for each person. Because it is a campaign to the west of the country, the money is doubled, so it is two yuan per person a month, plus the killing of the enemy, and each person needs at least 50 yuan in military salary after a year of fighting, which is 550,000 yuan.

According to Lei Changye's determination of the number of Baiyinyi soldiers who meet the standard, there should be about 80,000 people, plus officers at all levels, political envoys, and military and civilian husbands, I am afraid that the total salary of 100,000 people will be raised, which is 5 million yuan a year.

If the Western Expedition lasts for two or three years, fifteen million guan will be gone.

Recently, Mi Zhu often looks worried, and he is secretly talking about something when he meets people, I am afraid that he is talking about this sky-high military spending.

When Lei Changye thought of the camel cart, he didn't think about using it to relieve the pressure on military spending, because he now has enough money to deal with it for two or three years. He just wanted to make the Western Regions another blood transfusion line similar to the eight towns in the southeast of the Tang Dynasty. But now that I think about it, wouldn't it be nice if we could still earn back the military budget by camel carts?

He has plenty of money on hand, so he can build a bunch of new workshop enterprises in Datang, and rely on Xianyintu to establish a real cyber Datang. The Creation God may have wanted to make a war plane similar to the god list. But can he just make it a cyberpunk plane?

Lei Changye couldn't help but rub his hands when he thought of this, everything depends on whether this camel cart can be invented.