Chapter Seventy-One

Zou Wu was silent for a while and said: "According to the family secret agent report, the Qian family has one congenital consummation, one in the middle and late stages of congenitalization, and three in the early stage of congenital, and the strength is not weak. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAs for whether there is a hidden strength, it is not clear. However, I heard that they are very close to the Jiaolong Gang, and many disciples in the clan are doing ministry in the Jiaolong Gang. ”

When Zou Li heard this, he said: "The strength is indeed not weak, but if we only have this strength, we will still win." The congenital consummation is dealt with by me, and the middle congenital stage is handed over to the little sister, and at present, the little sister has reached the early stage of the fourth layer of qi training, plus the magic weapon I gave, the middle stage of the congenital is not a problem. The second brother went to deal with one, and he won two out of three games.

I think that since they said that they could not ask for foreign aid, they also knew the strength of our family, so they might as well use their psychology of underestimating the enemy to raise the stakes and sue them, the green forest and mountains are dozens of miles long, and a few inns and restaurants, and a thousand acres of fields are not enough. It is proposed that the inns, wharves, restaurants in Hekou Town and the wharve-inns in Zhongxian County should also be added. Otherwise, don't bet. ”

Zou Wu smiled when he heard this: "You kid has a big heart. ”

Zou Li said: "Don't send the business to the door in vain. In this way, as long as it is properly managed, the family's daily expenses and the cost of the guards should be sufficient. And when we make such a request, the Qian family still thinks that we dare not fight?"

Zou Wu said: "Okay! It's up to you, the success or failure of the family's prosperity is here!" After speaking, he got up and went to reply to the Qian family's challenge.

At this time, Zou Li stayed in the hall alone and didn't know what to do, Zou Hai and Zou Tao were in retreat, and the little sister and Yu'er were also pulled by their mother and aunt to talk. Zou Li had nothing to do, walked out of the courtyard alone, climbed the high mountain and looked at the island opposite.

This place is classified as a forbidden land, but in fact, it is only inhabited by Zou Wu's family. Since Zou Wu was made an earl by the King of Chu, he was both excited and nervous. I was excited that I also had to be given the title of earl one day, and I was nervous that if I hadn't been able to kill the bandits at that time, Li'er wouldn't have been in danger? At the same time, I was glad that Li'er was lucky and qualified.

He knew that his son must have an adventure, but he didn't want to ask, cultivating immortals and cultivating immortals was about chance, and without chance, cultivating for a lifetime might not be able to break through to the Qi cultivation period. It's like my father's grandparents and my father-in-law's house.

Since Li'er entered the Crouching Tiger Gang, he has provided his family with Qi Induction Pills, Qi Training Pills, and Spirit Stones for cultivation. Now that he has obtained the Purple Yun Pill that has broken through the innate nature, even the Qingyuan Pill has sent back a lot. These should all be taken from others, which is indispensable for strength and opportunity.

The reason why the king of Chu made himself an earl was just because he saw the potential of Zhong'er and wanted to pull him in his car. Otherwise, at most you can reward some spirit stones, and there is no need to make yourself an earl.

To be made an earl is to assume the responsibility of defending the family and the country for the king of Chu, and within five years, a guard of five hundred people must be formed, of which three hundred are ready to respond to the call of the king of Chu at any time, and the cultivation of the leader cannot be lower than that of a martial artist in the early stage of innate or a second-level cultivation of qi. Isn't this just in line with myself and Tao'er?

However, having the title is also an opportunity for the Zou family to rise, and this opportunity is something that the Zou family must not miss.

The state of Chu has a rule: you can't be knighted unless you have a great merit, Zou Li saved the elders of the Chu royal family and the daughter of the king of Chu, which is not a great achievement, but can be named an earl, although it is the lowest rank in the title, but it is also a knighthood, and ordinary people may not be able to obtain it in a few lifetimes, so Zou Wu got it so lightly. After getting the title of earl, he did not get good land, but he gave him a useless mountain, and gave him a million pieces of silver as the cost of building the government.

In the state of Chu, its titles are divided: the upper is the king, and the lower is the duke, the marquis, and the uncle. The worst counts have a town as a fief, a marquis a county, and a duke a county or counties. The taxes within the fief are the lord's salary, and the lord needs to raise a certain amount of troops according to the size of the title.

The duke is 5,000 guards, 1,000 guards, the marquis is 3,000 guards, and the guards are 500, and the earls are 500 guards, and the guards are 100. Otherwise, it will be punished as rebellion.

The Zou family had 500 guards, built in five years, although the pressure was very great, but Zou Wu did not flinch, and after getting the fief deed, he conducted a careful investigation of the Green Forest Mountain Range, and decided to form four cities from the Green Forest Mountain. Of course, only one main city can be formed first. The other three cities are just a mountain villa.

The main city is the place where it is now under construction, and by filling in the rocks on the hillsides and valleys, it has now formed a flat land with a length of five miles and two miles square, forming a T-shaped structure with the peninsula where it lives. Originally, Zou Wu wanted to put his place of residence on a large point island opposite, and considered that it was not good for the Earl's Mansion to be too far away from the town, so he classified this place as a forbidden land, and then came to build the Earl's Mansion after the town began to grow. Now it is just a former village that is used as an earl's house.

In the past, there were thousands of people living here in the whole green forest and mountainous area, but after the mountain was settled, many people were drowned by floods, and most of them had to go out because the fields were submerged, and now there are only more than 1,000 people left.

Due to the high mountains and cold waters, it is difficult to grow rice, and these people rely on hunting for their livelihood. The river is rising, and the mountains and forests of the entire green forest mountain are gone, and these people have no way to go, and they are extremely poor. After the king of Chu divided this place into the fief of the Zou family, Zou Wu organized these people to open mountains and fill the land, build houses and towns.

As long as they work, each person has silver to take every day, and there are grains and daily necessities purchased by Zou Wu in advance on the mountain to sell, and these people are grateful to Zou Wu and work very diligently. Zou Wu also recruited teenagers from these families who were between the ages of fifteen and eighteen and volunteered to serve as soldiers, so that hundreds of people were recruited. In addition, Zou Wu purchased more than 100 teenagers from the slave market, and selected more than 10 teenagers from the clan who were training, and temporarily formed a guard of 200 people.

Who knew that at this time, he received a challenge from the Qian family in Zhong County. In the Shenzhou Continent, where martial arts are respected, it is a great insult not to accept challenges, and it is difficult to survive in society. Therefore, Zou Wucai was in a hurry to summon Zou Li, but who knew that Zou Li returned home early because of the message sent by his father in the early days.

Since the formation of a lake due to the collapse of the hillside of the Green Forest Mountain, there are three small islands on the entire surface of the lake, except for the peninsula where Zou Li is now standing. Two of them joined together when the water was falling, and when the water was full, the mountain was flooded into two small islands.

Zou Wu saw that the water between the two islands was not deep, and a few months ago, he sent people to build two embankments between the two islands, connecting the two islands together, and no longer affected by the rising and falling water, and named it "Ershan Island".

The other is called "Lone Peak Island" because there is only one mountain. Zou Li is now looking at these two islands, the lone peak island is oval, about three miles long, about two miles wide, the lone peak is towering, and the name is very commensurate.

Ershan Island is about 12 miles long and about 6 miles wide. There is a mountain peak on each side of Ershan Island, which is named after the mountain. Its peaks are steep, flowing springs and waterfalls, as if it were dry land rising in the middle of the lake, and the surrounding mountains seem to be born for it, and its height is even higher than where Zou Li stood.

Between the two peaks was an undulating mountain range, and at this time, more than a dozen immortal cultivators and more than a dozen martial cultivators were placed on the opposite island. Immortal cultivators and martial cultivators are just on one side of the mountain. Immortal cultivators are guided by Zou Hai, and martial cultivators are guided by Zou Li's ancestor Zhang Lao Dart. At this time, Zou Hai was in retreat on the mountain, and Zou Tao also went to retreat after receiving the elixir provided by his eldest brother.

The place where Zou Li stood was about four or five miles away from the larger island opposite. After watching for a long time, Zou Li suddenly became interested and wanted to go to the opposite island to have a look. I found a small boat and rowed to the opposite shore. I haven't seen my ancestor for several years, so I should want to see him.

Moreover, how well these teenagers trained, Zou Li also wanted to know.

Zou Wu's plan for the second island: the big island is a training place for children, and the smaller island is opened up to specialize in planting four-grade and five-grade ordinary medicinal materials. These two islands usually prohibit people from entering the islands. At present, the two islands can only be docked by the Zou family's special ships.