The old man was stunned for a moment before he reacted, he was fooled by Jiang Xingchen again, and he was so angry that he jumped in the secret vault and scolded the little bastard for being sinister, seeing Xiaolong covering his mouth and laughing secretly, he was nagged by the old guy for a long time just now, and this is a relief for him.

The old man turned his head and glared at Xiaolong fiercely, and then ran out of the secret vault with a smoke

After Jiang Xingchen left the basement, he kept his head down and pondered, going through the information he had just connected over and over again. Although a big step has been made, these are all superficial things, what is the essence of the mercury ball, why it can affect people's consciousness, what is the relationship with the Great Shang Dynasty, and the nature of the formation, these are not at all clue.

"Chu Xue, I want to raise a group of shadows and form an intelligence department!" Jiang Xingchen thought for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said.

"Raising a shadow, do you want to" Tang Chuxue was a little surprised, and the first reaction in her mind was that her husband was going to compete for hegemony.

Jiang Xingchen shook his head and explained: "We have too few sources, and many times the news we get comes from the cooperative firms, which is very unfavorable for us to control the movements of all parties."

Jiang Xingchen had never considered this aspect before, but this time to lure the snake out of the hole, the personnel he could send were limited, and he realized the shortcomings in this regard. Just by sending out more than 100 people to find out the news about the mercury ball, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

After connecting those messages just now, he thought of a direction, which was the relics of Dashang. The so-called relics of the Great Shang Dynasty do not refer to the royal family of the Great Shang, but the relics left by the entire Great Shang Dynasty, which have been discovered by Xuanyuan Tianzong, Chongming Island, Ahong Island, and other forces in the early years. Since it is concluded that the mercury ball is related to the Great Shang, it may be possible to find clues from the ruins of the Great Shang.

However, at this time, the manpower problem has once again become an obstacle, and there are not enough shadows to probe in various places and monitor any unusual movements in various places, and it is impossible to find anything at all. That's why Jiang Xingchen mentioned this to Tang Chuxue.

Tang Chuxue smiled and said, "I'll do this thing, our Xingchen Territory has a developed business, and we can arrange it by opening more shops in various places." Or you can directly cooperate with the commercial houses in various places, and you can send people over with a random reason. In addition, you can also send more reporters to Xingchen Monthly, but it is not easy to find trustworthy people!"

When Tang Chuxue said this, her eyes lit up. She thinks more than Jiang Xingchen, not only in intelligence, but also in military affairs, she is also ready to expand. Now the total combat strength of Xingchen Ling is only 6,000 including private soldiers, and only Mingque Island is his own on the sea, even if you add the sand thieves mobilized from the desert, it will be more than 10,000 when you are full, which is too little for Xingchen Ling's current stall.

Previously there was not enough population, there was no way, and it was almost impossible to recruit troops from the empire. But now that the Star Leader has pacified the overseas forces, there will be no problem with personnel, and it is completely possible to pull up an army from overseas.

Immediately, as soon as she said her thoughts, Jiang Xingchen immediately nodded: "Then this matter will be hard for you, how much money do you need to ask Grandpa Fu directly, we are very rich now!"

Tang Chuxue chuckled: "I won't worry about the money, even if the family is gone, you can sell it at a sky-high price if you make some vitality wine!"

Jiang Xingchen nodded and instructed in a low voice: "The first thing is to find the ruins of the Great Shang Dynasty."

Back at the lord's mansion, Tang Chuxue immediately started the matter of shadows and army expansion. Jiang Xingchen continued to study the formation

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, at the end of August, after the summer carnival has passed, it also marks the end of the summer tourist peak, and the number of tourists is rapidly declining.

However, for the staff of Xingchen Ling, it is even busier. Since the summer carnival, a large number of song and dance troupes and the heads of performance venues in various places have come to Xingchenling to inquire about the purchase of microphones and speakers.

At this time, it is just in time for the autumn harvest, and a large number of crops are ripe and need to be harvested, dried, and stored.

At the same time, the manganese ore in the grassland began to be excavated, and the miasma and poison of the iridium and osmium ore in the southern wilderness were also cleaned up, and a large number of personnel needed to be invested in preparation for mining.

On the Xianning side, the synthetic ammonia experiment was successful, and it was necessary to immediately establish a synthetic ammonia plant on the coast to facilitate alkali production

With so many things coming together, the town hall is like a wind-wound clockwork, and Mei'er can't go home until late at night every night, and go back to work as soon as dawn comes. The same is true for Tang Chuxue, she has a lot of work. Jiang Xingchen was studying the formation with all his might, and he had no distractions. The two children had to be handed over to Ling'er and Catwoman again.

At this time, news came from Dali that ten ports had been built and could be opened for berthing. For this news, Qin Manwu came to Xingchen Territory again, the world commercial bank has priority access to overseas, and she has been waiting for the port to be completed for a long time.

In this case, Jiang Xingchen stopped researching, on the one hand, arranging freight ships for the Tianxia Commercial Bank, and on the other hand, equipping them with some unique products of Xingchen Ling

After arranging the affairs of the world's commercial banks, Jiang Xingchen reinvested in the study of the formation. But two days later, another important news came that the great railway connecting the ice fields was finally completed.

Jiang Xingchen, who got the news, was ecstatic, which meant that the energy problem would no longer be a constraint in the future, not only could the needs of the Star Collar be guaranteed, but it could also be transported directly from the ice field to the Cursed Land.

Jiang Xingchen then ordered to prepare for the trial operation, and wrote a letter to the Land of the Damned, asking the young master of the Mu family to speed up the progress of the construction of the steel ship.

A day later, a train with dozens of storage tanks in Xingchenling's railway station slowly started, and Jiang Xingchen and the old man were on this wagon leading to the ice field, and he wanted to see the scenery along the big railway with his own eyes

In mid-September, the first train laden with combustible ice arrived in the Cursed Lands. Han Xiaowu and Mu Shaozhu personally came to the train station to greet Jiang Xingchen, both of them were full of excitement, and the fuel problem was finally solved.

Jiang Xingchen got off the train, without saying a word, he picked up the young master of the Mu family and went to the shipyard, the fuel storage on the ship also needs cold storage, this job must be done by him

He had been in the Cursed Land for almost half a month. In the past half month, he not only built a cold storage in the bilge of the steel ship with a temperature-controlled pressure array, but also worked hard for a few days at the synthetic ammonia plant under construction along the coast.

When Jiang Xingchen returned to Xingchen Ling, it was already the beginning of October, and three days after he plunged into the study of the formation again, Jiang Xingchen's cheers suddenly came from the old village of Xingchen Ling! (To be continued.) )