Half an hour later, in an ordinary house, Xiao Yi saw Lin Wan and the three of them hiding here.

"Childe, are you injured?" asked the sword with concern.

"Out of the way, just rest for the night. Xiao Yi waved his hand and said, "What's wrong with him?" Xiao Yi asked, pointing to the unconscious monk.

"Brother Xiao, the monk was too seriously injured, although he took medicine, but I don't know if he can carry it today. Lin Wan shook her head and said

Xiao Yi nodded, and when he saw the monk's appearance when he entered the house, he knew that half of his life was gone.

"Brother Lin rescued the unquit monk on the street that day, but he met him, and the sword three has been looking for the master who has not quit, does Brother Lin know whose disciple the monk is, why didn't the master make a move?"

"Brother Xiao, it's the first time I've seen him that day, and it's only because there is a lot of relationship between the masters, and it's really hard to tell Brother Xiao about his background, maybe it's better to let him say it in person when he wakes up. But I think Brother Xiao also saw it, in today's tribulation, he desperately protected me from escape, and he is not an ungrateful person. ”

"Well, Brother Lin, help me help him up, I'll help him. ”

Xiao Yat has studied medicine for a period of time, and is very familiar with the meridians, acupuncture points, and organs.

After the two of them helped the monk up, Xiao Yi first examined the monk's body in detail with a huge divine thought, then connected several big points with his right finger, and finally used his skills to help the monk return to the source and open up the blocked meridians.

The monk's injuries were too serious, and after about two hours, Xiao Yi withdrew his strength and put him down. Xiao Yi was just about to get up, only to feel that his body was empty, his mind was dizzy, and the sword hurriedly supported him, but his true qi was seriously depleted and he was a little weak.

"Brother Lin has a plan to make peace in the future, although the monk's injury has been suppressed by me, and he can heal his own injury when he wakes up in another hour or two, but I am afraid that he will not recover in a few months. If I'm not mistaken, my previous strategy to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf was not successful, and your hiding place today should be Jian San notified by the Tang family. Unexpectedly, I gave an opportunity for the Tang family and Jian San to cooperate, and the Tang family, the head snake of the land, helped the people of the Ten Thousand Swords Academy to find it, and they would find you sooner or later. ”

"I don't know what Brother Xiao thinks?"

"Two ways, the first is that I will find a way to arrange for you to get out of the city as soon as possible, but there is a risk, because Jian San will definitely step up to guard the city gate. The other is to find a way to inform the monk's master and inform the monk's situation. ”

"Since there is the help of the Tang family, it is impossible to go out of the city quietly, and as for his master, I am afraid that it will not be able to quench the thirst of the near water. If I think about this matter again, there will always be a way, Brother Xiao can rest assured. Lin Wai glanced at Xiao Yidao.

In this way, the two of us will take their leave first, and if there is anything, we can find a way to inform the people who are left nearby.

When Xiao Yi and the others arrived at Xiao's house, it was almost dawn, Xiao Yi lay on a recliner in the room, recovering his true qi while thinking about the situation in the mountain city. The difficult Jian San and the Tang family, which needs to be solved urgently, seem to have a sense of unity, the mysterious Lin Wan duo, the hidden Qi family, and the woman in white who is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe but has extraordinary martial arts.

Xiao Yi had a headache, if it was just on the surface, it would be fine, if the Wangyue Sect behind the Tang family and the Wanjian Academy behind Jian San also exerted their strength, could he and the Xiao family resist.

"No, you can't face Jian San and the Tang family at the same time, you have to find a way to break each one, but how to operate, the cards in your hand are still too few. The injured Lin Wan and the others are afraid that they will not be able to help in the short term, and it is even more impossible for the old fox Qi to be a gunman for himself. Xiao Yi had a headache. The strength of the Xiao family is naturally good in the mountain city, but in terms of high-end combat effectiveness, the only master, the old man Xiao Hong, is only eight layers, and his exercises are average, and his combat effectiveness is barely about the same as Lin Wan.

While sorting out one thing after another, I was thinking about ways to break the game.

Around noon, Xiao Yi recovered his true qi, and the minor injuries were almost recuperated, and when he went out, he saw the bell girl falling asleep on the stone bench outside the door.

Xiao Yi started boxing in the open space on the side, but because he had just recovered, Xiao Yi did not practice intense boxing, but played a very soft boxing method, that is, a boxing method that had not been practiced for many years - Tai Chi.

This set of boxing techniques is naturally known to everyone in the previous life, and after he came to the world of martial arts, he naturally practiced several sets of punches and feet that he had seen in his previous life. Although for some reason, his memory is excellent, and he remembers many boxing moves that he had only seen occasionally in his previous life.

In Xiao Yi's opinion at this time, many of the moves he knew in his previous life were certainly wonderful, but most of them were unsystematic, and there was no internal strength method to match them, so his power was naturally limited. Even this most familiar set of Taijiquan, which was highly evaluated in the previous life, could not be used against the enemy, and it seemed that the only use was to turn these fragmented moves into food and become their own heritage.

Abandon distracting thoughts, give up thinking, move with your heart, and beat a set of 24-style Tai Chi several times in a row, before slowly finishing work, although you can't face the enemy in person, but if you say that you can relax your muscles and bones, activate the meridians and Tai Chi is still good, especially after cooperating with Xiao Yi's Taoist internal strength, there is a feeling of refreshment after playing.

Xiao Yi was about to go out after the activity, only to see a guard in the distance leading a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in, the girl was baby-faced, her skin was very white, she seemed to be dressed as a subordinate, but she was wearing silk and satin, and a hosta on her head.

"Hua'er has seen the young master!" It turned out that the girl who came was one of the two maids who grew up with Xiao Yi since childhood-Hua'er.

Xiao Yi came to the mountain city from Qingxian, Qin'er waited with him, and Hua'er was left in the mountain city by Xiao Yi to deal with things.

"Very good, it's finally here, and everything is taken care of?"

"Yes, young master, the manpower has been laid out, most of the people are scattered to all parts of Qingzhou, and a few capable people came to the mountain city with me this time to listen to the young master's orders. ”

"Well, help me do two things, one is that I don't feel at ease on my father's side, although he has made a lot of arrangements, but I still have to know the news from his side as soon as possible. The second is to ask Qingzhou Lincheng your people to pay attention to whether there are masters from Jizhou to the mountain city recently, Wangyue Sect is in Jizhou, and Lincheng should be the only way to come here, if there are masters above the ninth layer who may come here, tell me as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, young master. ”

After that, nothing happened in the mountain city for more than ten days, until the morning of more than ten days later, Xiao Yi had just finished breakfast with Liu and Xiao Zhan, and went to the study to read a book, only to see the painting hurriedly come in.

"Young Master, Lord County Shouhuangfu, please come over as soon as possible. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The Emperor said that a big man wants to see you. ”

Huangfu Gao, about forty years old, is a two-rank jinshi, and has made remarkable achievements in the mountain city for so many years. Through the efforts of him and the two previous county guards, Shancheng developed an ordinary county town into the largest city in Qingzhou, with a population and economy that surpassed the provincial capital of Qingzhou.

In recent years, there have been more and more rumors that the Qingzhou Assassin would move the Qingzhou Yamen to the mountain city, but considering that the mountain city was too close to the Turkic territory after all, it did not receive the support of other officials, especially the Northwest Army. However, it can also be seen that Huangfu Gao is indeed a capable person.

The county guard mansion is not very luxurious, and the scale is not large, but it is a little more solemn than the Xiao family's mansion.

Under the leadership of his subordinates, Xiao Yi saw soldiers in iron armor all the way, these soldiers had bright armor, sharp eyes, and exuded a thick murderous aura. It is especially noteworthy that there are nearly 100 crossbowmen.

Xiao Yi was vigilant in his heart, as a person in the rivers and lakes, he was afraid of these disciplined soldiers, Xiao Yi believed that fighting against well-equipped soldiers, a four- or five-layer Jianghu master could fight against ten well-trained soldiers, but if a hundred four- or five-layer Jianghu experts fought against a thousand well-trained soldiers, it would be five or five.

And if these thousand soldiers are heavy armored cavalry or crossbow soldiers, then ordinary innate masters are afraid and dare not fight against them easily.

As for the generals of the imperial court, they are also very helpless about the people who come and go. This is also the reason why the imperial court and the rivers and lakes have always been jealous of each other, safe and even, and even interdependent.

Entering the main hall of the county guard's mansion, there were three people in the main hall at this time, one of them was about sixty or seventy years old man in Chinese clothes sitting facing the door. The official in his forties who sat with the old man in his hand should be the county guard Huang Fugao.

It is worth noting that behind the old man stood a man in white, the man was holding a long sword, about early in his thirties, with a resolute face and slightly closed eyes.

"Xiao Yi, the grass people, greets you. After Xiao Yi finished speaking, his thoughts naturally swept over the three of them

"Huh!" the old man in Chinese clothes was just about to speak, when the man in white behind him opened his eyes suddenly, and pulled out the long sword a few inches with his right hand.

At the same time, Xiao Yi only felt that a divine thought no less than his own locked on him, which provoked his divine thought to be released in an instant, and under the hedge of the two divine thoughts, in an instant, the clothes of several people in the house were windless.

Xiao Yi's complexion changed greatly, although his cultivation was not low, but what really made him proud was the power of his naturally strong divine thoughts, Jian San, who was also a ninth-layer with him, and the woman in white and even the non-precepted monks were considered to be the best in the ninth middle school cultivation, but the divine thoughts alone were less than half of his own, which was also the reason why Xiao Yi was able to be undefeated or even slightly superior in several battles with these famous ninth-layer masters.

And this person not only easily perceives his own divine thoughts, but even the appearance of divine thoughts that are not below him. And as the guard's long sword was pulled out a few inches, a cold sweat broke out behind Xiao Yi, as if he felt the sharpness and coldness of the long sword.

Innate master, if he is not a real innate master, even if it is Old Man Qi in person, he will not put so much pressure on himself.

"It's strange, the power of divine thought should obviously be the innate realm, and the martial arts cultivation is still the day after tomorrow!" The man in white muttered, but sensing that Xiao Yi should have unintentionally released his divine thoughts, not intentionally peeping, he withdrew his long sword, took a step back and stood still, without the slightest intention of explaining to the other three.

The old man in Huayi looked back at the man in white, and then said to Xiao Yi:

"Xiao Shaoxia, this is Master Ji of Wenyuan Pavilion University, Master Ji came to Qingzhou this time to inspect the disaster relief situation, and also to deal with the matter of your Xiao family's official salt by the way."

Xiao Yi was surprised when he heard this, but he didn't expect to be shocked by the scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion, you must know that there are only three substantive officials in the entire Xia Kingdom from the first rank or above, and these three are three scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the three of them assist the emperor in handling almost all state affairs. Therefore, the six Shangshu, the imperial history of the Imperial Observatory, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, the history of the state assassins, the three divisions, the border army, and so on were all under the control of the three scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion

And the Master Ji in front of him is one of the three scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion, and he is also the Master Ji of Rites with the title of "Ji Qingtian".

In this way, the scholar should be the legendary white hero who was born in the rivers and lakes in white, and it is said that a few years ago, the white hero was impressed by the master of Qingtian Ji and became his personal guard. And the reason why people are so concerned is because Bai Daxia is recognized as a grandmaster-level master of the innate realm.

"Xiao Shaoxia, this new high-grade refined salt is reportedly made by you, is it possible?" Scholar Ji's voice was slightly hoarse, but it was full in the middle of the term.

"My lord, this high-grade refined salt is indeed refined below, and mass production is possible, but if it is mass production, professional equipment and manpower are required, and it takes a lot of time to build. ”

"What about the cost, how does the cost compare to the cost of the high-quality salts that are circulating in the market?"

"In addition to the equipment and personnel that need to be upgraded and trained, the cost is not high, about sixty percent of the high-grade refined salt on the market, and the cost of coarse salt for peaceful civilians is about the same!"

"What, it's like this!" Master Ji and Huangfu were shocked, according to the two of them, the price of this kind of high-grade salt, which is as white as snow and has an excellent taste, must be twice as expensive as ordinary salt, even if it is not ten times that of ordinary salt, but they did not expect that the price would have such an advantage.

"Little friend, would you like to dedicate this recipe to the imperial court and use it to promote the world?" said Master Ji. Master Ji can't help but be happy, salt, iron, tea three goods have always been controlled by the imperial court, the imperial court's tax revenue accounted for nearly half, with this new refined salt imperial court's tax increase is not a problem, don't underestimate this tax, that is nearly one million taels of silver per year.

"Naturally, I am willing to give it to the court first, so that it can be regarded as repaying Xia Guo's nurturing for more than ten years. ”

"Haha, what a young man who doesn't forget the grace of the country!" Master Ji can't help but be happy, as a top bachelor with strategic vision in Xia Kingdom, he immediately saw a business opportunity far above a million taels of silver, that is, to exchange salt far beyond the quality of other countries for the war horses and iron weapons of neighboring countries, so isn't it a new strategy for a strong country, even if the central institutions of neighboring countries can see through the drawbacks, but those with vested interests will definitely take the risk of smuggling to come to Xia Country to exchange.

"In this way, you can't treat Xiaoyou badly. Immediately, Master Ji took out a blank piece of paper, Xiao Yi was far away, but he vaguely saw that it was stamped with the official seal of Master Ji, and then Master Ji wrote a letter and handed it to the adjutant outside the door.

"I have quickly informed the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Industry in the capital, personally named Xiaoyou as the special envoy of Qingzhou Salt Transport, the official residence is five products, and after receiving the edict a few days later, Xiaoyou will be responsible for guiding the restructuring of Qingzhou Thirteen salt farms, and the salt farms will fully cooperate at that time. Wait for the success of the new green salt refining in Qingzhou and then find a way to promote it to the southern coastal areas."

"Master Xie Ji" Xiao Yi said deeply.

"In addition, salt affairs are very important, Lord Xiao will start with one of the thirteen salt farms, and then start with the other twelve salt farms when the salt farms here are successfully restructured, so it will be safe. ”

"Xiao Shaoxia, no, you should be called Lord Xiao, you can start from this salt farm in the mountain city, and the official can fully cooperate with Lord Xiao. "Huangfu Gao Dao.

"Alright, two adults, let's start here. In addition, I will go back and instruct to add the best refined salt to the top of the high-quality refined salt, and the production of the best refined salt in the early stage is insufficient, and the main sales areas are set in the Kyoto area and the Qingshu area. ”

"Master Ji, the salt produced by the major salt farms is produced by the government, and the major salt merchants go to the salt farms to pick up the goods after buying salt from the capital, and the production of this superb refined salt is not in this year's production plan, I wonder if the sales share of this year's superb refined salt can be handed over to the lower officials?"

"Master Ji doesn't know, Lord Xiao's family has been in business for generations, and he is a well-known grain merchant in Qingzhou, and he does have the strength to do this business," said Huangfu County Shou.

"Hehe, the two adults misunderstood, in fact, for the imperial court, which salt merchant buys the salt is the same, but since there is such a relationship. In this way, in the future, the sale of the best refined salt in Qingzhou will be handed over to the Xiao family every year, right?"

"Thank you, my lord!" "Before, it was just enough to secretly mine a small salt well for dozens of people to maintain the expenses of nearly a hundred people, but this time I am afraid that I can directly double the Xiao family's financial resources by obtaining the salt merchant business in the entire Qingzhou area.

"Well, that's the end of the matter, the official still has official business, and the two adults will see you later. With that, Master Ji strode out of the county guard's mansion.

"Thank you Uncle Huangfu this time!"

"The virtuous nephew is polite, in the future, you and I will be regarded as officials in the same dynasty. ”

"I also want to thank Uncle Huangfu for his recommendation, and Uncle is the county guard of Shancheng, the largest city in Qingzhou, a dignified four-grade official, and the little nephew is not in the officialdom, and he became a five-grade petty official by chance. In the future, I will ask the emperor's uncle to support you!" Xiao Yi said.

"Virtuous nephew, uncle is a few years older, if you don't dislike it in the future, you can often come to the house to walk around. ”

"Thank you, Uncle!"