Li Xian himself has experienced many life and death dangers along the way from the cultivation of internal force to the opening of the Jing Yuan Sea, until the recent opening of the Qi Sea, but this is only to achieve the highest martial arts Dao Fruit, he took the most difficult path, ordinary martial artist cultivation, before opening up the sea of knowledge, there are actually not so many life and death passes, it just consumes time and energy.

After Ma Hansan obtained the Dao Seed, he cultivated according to the method of the Chaos Tribulation Sutra, and fought countless life-and-death battles in the Guardian Force, spending about half a year cultivating his internal strength, and another half a year to open up the Jing Yuan Sea, and his foundation was quite solid.

Of course, Li Xian was able to easily defeat a second-order master in the first-order realm, and after reaching the peak of the first-order, he could also win when he met a third-order combat power master like Zuo Shaoqing, Ma Hansan did not have such a strong combat effectiveness, and he would be defeated when he met Zhao Hu, who had just entered the second-order realm, but this was also considered high-class among ordinary first-order masters.

As for General Zhao Hu, when he followed Chen Qian originally, the Mixed Yuan Sect was extremely poor, even as a relative of General Zhao Hu, he could get some Jing Yuan Dan at most, and he didn't have a share in the Dao or anything, and even the exercises were simplified from the Chaos Tribulation Sutra.

It wasn't until Li Xian was recognized by Xie Yingnan that he solved the mystery of Chen Qian's inheritance, and later his relationship with the Sanyuan Concept became increasingly close, and after completing the inheritance of the Chaos Tribulation Sutra, Zhao Hu General also obtained the complete exercises, and finally obtained the Chaos Dao Seed that he had always wanted to get, which was used to open up the Qi Sea Dantian and be promoted to the second order.

It's just that after all, General Zhao Hu has wasted a lot of time, and his own qualifications are mediocre, so whether he can be promoted to the third-order grandmaster realm or not is a matter of two words.

In any case, after Zhao Hujiang tried Ma Hansan's martial arts, he understood, don't look at Ma Hansan's martial arts now, he has just entered the first order, but he is young, and he has learned profound and complete martial arts from the beginning, and the probability of entering the third order in the future is much higher than his own, even if he can't, his martial arts will be far above him after entering the second order.

Li Xian originally received 1,500 Chaos Dao Species, of which 700 were given to officers in the army and disciples of the original Chaos Yuan Sect, etc., and the other 500 were given to young craftsmen who had established special merits, and the remaining 300 could not find a suitable candidate for a while, so they could only keep it for the time being.

Nothing else, the Dao seed given to the craftsman is definitely the only thing, that is, Xuan Zheng of the Three Yuan Concept felt a little violent after knowing it, but after all, the two factions were different, and they couldn't dictate Li Xian's decision.

However, from Li Xian's point of view, this decision was a stroke of genius, with the existence of these craftsmen who had obtained the Dao Seed, the climbing speed of the industrial technology tree under Li Xian's command immediately increased several times, which was more important than a few more martial arts warriors, at least for Li Xian.

In short, according to Li Xian's instructions, the Donghai Island side began to mobilize the fishermen and hunters of Leizhou to recruit and train new soldiers and expand the troops, not to mention it.

The East China Sea Island side is in full swing, and Macao's Chen Guangsheng side has also received the latest instructions.

Originally, Chen Guangsheng was appointed as the commander of the Independent Regiment, and during this period of time, relying on the British not attacking, he trained soldiers day and night, and he made a lot of achievements.

In the past few days, he has received the latest instructions, which actually says that this independent regiment should be upgraded to a regular regiment, or that he himself should be the head of the regiment.

In addition, Chen Guangsheng's side also needs to train an independent regiment to assist the regular regiment, of course, the head of the independent regiment will be designated by Li Xian's side.

This is regarded as an official position and has been promoted by one level, and he is theoretically equal to Wang Xiaoming and others, Chen Guangsheng can't help but be extremely complacent.

However, Li Xian also had instructions on his side, asking Chen Guangsheng to firmly control Macau and be prepared for a surprise attack by the British at any time, and at the same time, he also asked Chen Guangsheng to clean up the port wharf and prepare to trade tea with the British.

The previous requirements were not enough, it was just a matter of course, but trading with the British at this base station was a bit shocking, which made people like Chen Guangsheng, who have always been flexible, drop their jaws and feel a little overwhelmed.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Li Xian's side really sent a group of people over, including Zhang Sicheng and Hu Chong, who were old in Haimao, such as Zhang Sicheng and Hu Chong of the Thirteen Banks of Guangzhou, so that Chen Guangsheng understood that his commander was going to play for real.

It's just that Chen Guangsheng also feels a little strange, even if his own coach is on a whim, but the British ** team has been killed so much, will he really be willing to trade with the Sanyuanli coalition army.

"Of course the British are willing to trade tea with us. During this time, Li Xian finally took the time to go to Foshan to meet with Wang Jiuxuan, discuss the current military strategy, and assured Wang Jiuxuan that it was an excellent time to trade tea with the British.

"However, at the moment of fierce fighting between the two sides, will the British still be willing to trade?" Even with Wang Jiuxuan's knowledge, he also felt that Li Xian's move was a bit risky, and it was likely to turn into a hot face and a cold ass.

"Trade is trade, war is war. Moreover, the purpose of the British war was to expand trade, so how could they refuse to do trade. Li Xian, however, was hopeful about the tea trade with the British.

"Now is the best time to trade tea with the British, the Sino-British war lasted longer than the British estimated, and had a great impact on the trade between the two sides, so that the price of tea in Europe tripled.

Before the war, the British government repeatedly instructed the expeditionary force not to affect the import of tea as much as possible, and even asked the British army not to attack Canton.

In Guangzhou, the tea shipped from other places could not be sold, and the inventory was seriously overstocked, so I could receive tea at half the usual price and sell the tea to the British, and the price could be more than 50% higher than before the war. Li Xian explained excitedly.

"Okay, I don't understand business matters, you can preside over it.

However, is it really good to trade with others when they are fighting to the death?" Wang Jiuxuan was a little skeptical.

"What's this, I said early that trade is trade, and war is war. What I sell is not arms, but the most typical light industrial agricultural products, and even if someone wants to say that I am a traitor, they will not put it on my head. Li Xian didn't think so, and didn't care at all.

"Besides, we're short of money right now.

Our ranks are getting bigger and bigger, and our weapons are constantly being updated, and 200,000 oceans a month are barely enough to sustain us.

If we really want to build the contingent into a strong army, and at the same time build an industrial base to prepare for a full-scale war in the future, then there will not be enough money.

So, make as much money as you can now. Li Xian said.

"All-out war, you say?" Wang Jiuxuan thought for a moment. "You said that the day is not far off when we will officially raise the flag and rebel, right?"

"Yes, not too far. Li Xian nodded and said. "Until then, we're going to be as prepared as possible.

By the way, I would also like to discuss with you that by taking advantage of Foshan's developed iron industry and the fact that there are many blacksmiths, we should develop more military industries and produce some commercial muskets for sale to subsidize military expenditures. ”

"Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds like a powerful one. Anyway, in this place of Foshan, you can just toss it around. Wang Jiuxuan spread his hands and said.

According to Li Xian's command, from Leizhou Donghai Island to Macao, to Foshan and Sanyuanli, and to the Shilipo Free Trade Zone outside Guangzhou, the four major bases and trading areas of the Mixed Yuanzong and Sanyuanguan coalition forces have all moved, becoming more and more lively.

Later historians have commented on the situation in this period:

Li Xian played a very big game of chess in a very short period of time, on the one hand, he arranged a delicate and tenacious big game for the city of Guangzhou, and on the other hand, he constantly dug into the corners of the city of Guangzhou, plundered its materials and talents, and laid a solid foundation for the next step of the rebellion.

During this period, even the British troops, as outsiders, felt the unusualness in the air, and only the Qing court officials in Canton, fortunately that the situation had not deteriorated too much, did not know that the vicious and murderous rope had long been quietly put around their necks.

(Tianjin)