The second day of June. Long Chuan was eight years old. It's been a year since he spoke.

Long Zheng personally escorted a batch of immortal cultivation materials to Fucheng yesterday. This is also the first time in these years that the Long family has taken the initiative to advance a whole month in advance, sending half a year's immortal cultivation materials to the Mansion City Lord's Mansion.

In the past year, in the matter of raising materials for cultivating immortals, several things have happened in Dongcheng that are not very special, and there are one or two things that are not even known to outsiders.

One of them was the person in charge of the Treasure Pavilion, who was secretly replaced by Cen Shen. Not many people, including the Dragon Mansion, know the inside story. The big shopkeeper is still the round-faced old man. The cabinet's personnel power, financial power, diplomatic power, and other major powers are still in his hands. It's just that some keen people and men of the Long family in the pavilion noticed that the big shopkeeper and Cen Shen never had any disagreements with Cen Shen on the identification and pricing of immortal cultivation materials.

It is because of such a small change that is not known to outsiders, but the Treasure Pavilion has acquired more and more immortal cultivation materials. The reason is simple. Cen Immortal Chang identified the treasure, which was not only fast, but also extremely accurate. Fast, it reduces the waiting time for people who come to do business. Accurately, it eliminates the risk of customers being deceived. There were also some people who took the things that had been identified by Cen Immortal Chang to other places in the East City, and even several other cities for identification. However, the quality identified in other places has never been higher than the quality identified by Cen Xianchang.

Gradually, everyone in Dongcheng knew that if anyone had immortal cultivation materials in their hands and wanted to sell them at a fair price, the best choice was the Treasure Pavilion. Over time, in several other cities, people also began to come to the Treasure Pavilion to sell the immortal cultivation materials they held, especially the things in good condition.

The other is that Jubaoge has opened a larger branch on East Street than the original main store on West Street, which is called a flagship store. What the flagship store means, everyone is not clear. However, everyone can see that this flagship store, both in terms of scale and its importance, is no less than the old Jubaoge store on the original West Street. After the flagship store opened, Cen Xianchang personally came to sit here.

As soon as the flagship store of the Treasure Pavilion opened, it immediately gave a lot of convenience to those who went on adventures outside the city to hunt for treasures. Don't say anything else, but from this point, everyone walks from the East City Gate to this flagship store, which is one or twenty miles less than walking to the original old store of the Treasure Pavilion. The east gate is the main gate for treasure hunters to enter and exit.

The original similar shops in the East Side are located on West Street, and everyone understands why. After all, among the four main streets of the east, south, west, and north centered on the City Lord's Mansion, the west street was the farthest away from the direction of the east gate where the demon beasts attacked. Having these stores there is the safest and safest option.

Now, as soon as the flagship store of the Treasure Pavilion opened, some people in the city immediately talked that the Long family did this purely to facilitate everyone to buy and sell treasures, so they did not hesitate to take some risks to open such an important store on East Street. As soon as this kind of discussion came out, the people of Dongcheng, who had begun to enjoy the benefits and benefits brought by the various new measures of the Long family in the past year, were full of praise for the Long family. The flagship store of the Treasure Pavilion has also become the most popular place for the trading of immortal cultivation materials in the eastern city. In addition to mortals, there are some immortal cultivators who come to the surroundings of Sifang City for trials, and they also trade materials that are not suitable for their own use here, in exchange for immortal cultivation materials that they can use.

Third, the number of people who signed up to join the army in Dongcheng seriously exceeded the standard. After the Long family erected the monument to the heroes of Dongcheng, held a public memorial service, set a public memorial day, and added various benefits to the families and families of those who joined the army, the people who queued up to sign up for the army every day in Dongcheng were about to collapse the threshold of the recruitment department.

It is a good thing that there are many people who want to join the army, which means that Dongcheng no longer lacks soldiers. But there were too many, but it also made Long Zheng scratch his head. The reason is simple, the capital city has a limit on the army limit of each acropolis, that is, 200,000 people. Everyone understands this limitation. After all, there are only 500,000 soldiers in Fucheng. You have an acropolis, if you make a hundred thousands, what does it mean?

Besides, the prefecture only pays a part of the military salary to the soldiers of each acropolis within the limited range. The rest of the salaries and expenses had to be raised by the respective acropolis. 200,000 soldiers, for Dongcheng, is equivalent to every 100 people are responsible for sharing the various expenses of a soldier. If more is recruited, even if the city allows it, the Long family will not be able to afford it. If you want to increase the weight of the people in Dongcheng, it is definitely a matter of anger and resentment.

However, the Long family has another moth.

After the number of soldiers reached the upper limit of 200,000, the Long family did not completely turn away other applicants for the army. Instead, the Long family gave these people a new establishment and name, called Militia, which means, also the people and the soldiers. When the farm is busy, these people honestly work at home, and by the way, they play the role of a thief prevention and arrest thief. When the farming is not working, these people go to the militia training camp designated by the Long family to train, and they can also receive a part of the salary.

The amount of this salary is naturally much less than that of regular soldiers. However, participating in the training of the militia training camp during the slack time can not only learn the skills of a soldier, but also earn a job of extra money with peace of mind, so why not do it? It is better than a large group of old men who sit under the big tree every day and grind their teeth and farts to watch their little daughters-in-law, right?

Moreover, the City Lord's Mansion also said that when some of the regular soldiers are discharged, the City Lord's Mansion will give priority to selecting people from among the well-trained militia to replace those who have been discharged. What made the militiamen even more excited was that the city lord's mansion said that when there was a police in the eastern city, if the militia needed to go into battle to kill the enemy, the calculation method of the militia's military merits was the same as that of regular soldiers.

As long as the militia has meritorious service in combat, they can still receive medals, their families can enjoy all kinds of benefits of the soldiers, and they can hang glorious plaques at home. If you are unfortunate enough to be shrouded in horse leather, you can also go to the monument, enter the martyr's cemetery, and be remembered by the people of Dongcheng for eternity.

The people of Sifang City know that every time a demon beast rushes into the city, it doesn't matter if you are a soldier or a commoner, as long as you can catch it, you will also bite it. Demon beasts will not treat you favorably because you are a common man. In this case, there is danger left and right, it is better to fight together, no matter life or death, you can bring some benefits to the family. And if you become a militiaman, you can learn more martial arts and have more chances of winning, right?

After these militiamen had been training for several months, and they didn't know who was leading the way, someone suggested that they should go outside the city to search for those immortal cultivation materials and hone their killing skills. The Long family did not block this too much, but sent instructors with strong martial arts and masters of the Long family to lead the team, divided into several small units, and took turns to train outside the city.

These militiamen of five big and three rough gangs formed a team to go on a treasure hunt, and the effect was naturally much better than those ordinary people, and the casualties were much smaller. After collecting all kinds of immortal cultivation materials found by these people, they were collected by the militia training camp and sold to the Treasure Pavilion. And the treasure pavilion also buys these materials back from the militia at the market price, and never makes any discounts. Over the past few months, even the regular soldiers have been jealous of the militiamen's income.

However, the last thing the militia was used to at first was that in the militia training camp, in addition to teaching the dancing of guns and sticks, and marching in the army, they also had to teach literacy. It's a pity that everyone is a coarse person who is bitter and haha, and he can't recognize a person who is a word when he falls down, and he has to spare most of an hour every day to hold the thin pen and practice writing crookedly.

However, it doesn't matter if you're used to it or not, you can't practice it. There are regulations in the militia training camp that literacy must be assessed. If you fail to pass the assessment three times, you will get out of the way. Moreover, how many characters can be recognized is a necessary condition for whether or not you can become a regular soldier in the future. Just to write his name, in the militia training camp, I don't know how many men burst into tears when they had nightmares at night. And after a long time, when everyone met again, what they asked was not the classic "have you eaten", but "can you write".

Three months after the vigorous literacy campaign was carried out in the militia training camp, the regular soldiers began to suffer from this horrific mission.

In this matter, the City Lord's Mansion is not so strict with the requirements for regular soldiers. After all, part of the salary of these soldiers came from Fucheng, and the Long family could not forcibly drive the soldiers home because they were illiterate. However, the Long family has the Long family's methods.

From time to time, the Long family would select some militiamen who knew a lot of words to "communicate" with regular soldiers. Among the regular soldiers, the people who participated in the "exchange" could not be designated by the generals, but must be randomly selected by the people sent by the city lord's office. Everyone doesn't compete in martial arts, only in writing, who can write their own names, and who knows more words. If the regular soldiers lose, the Long family will not beat you, and will not scold you. It's just that the city lord's mansion will give prizes to the winning militia in front of the regular soldiers.

Then, the proud appearance of those militiamen and the sighs of those people sent by the city lord's mansion, hating iron is not steel, and you are just mud that can't support the wall, can make those soldiers who lost Wenbi want to die of shame. What's more, waiting to lose the Wenbi soldiers, there are also the ruthless sticks and military law of the military judges.

After a few games, the regular soldiers and the militia secretly fought over this matter. When the regular soldiers defeated the militia who came to "exchange" for the first time in Wenbi, that guy, that scene, that formation, was really noisy with gongs and drums, and firecrackers rang out in unison. In the words of the veterans, even after repelling the attack of demon beasts, it was not so enthusiastic.

The last thing was that the original Treasure Pavilion and the other shops of the Long family that traded such items had hired immortal cultivators as treasure connoisseurs. Before these immortal cultivators were accepted by the Long family as treasure appreciators, they all went to meet with Cen Immortal Chang face-to-face. Among them, the person in the Immortal Sect who replaced Cen Immortal Chang and became the treasure connoisseur of the old store of the Treasure Pavilion became the real person in charge of the old store within a month.