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Chapter 321: Misfortune diverted from the east!Land reclamation outside the territory (ask for a monthly ticket)
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Liaoyuan County, seafood home.

"Haiweiju" is a thousand-year-old restaurant, and it is also the most luxurious and high-end restaurant in Liaoyuan County. Its main products are all kinds of seafood delicacies.

Its history can be traced back to the time when Liaoyuan County was just opening up wasteland.

The reason why it has been able to stand for so many years is because the owner behind it is the Liaoyuan Cao family, a family of the fifth-rank Zifu.

this day.

Haiwei lives on the top floor, with the best view and most luxuriously decorated box, and two distinguished guests are ushered in.

One of them, a middle-aged man dressed in brocade clothes and elegant temperament, is the owner of this "Haiweiju", the owner of the Liaoyuan Cao family, Cao Bangning.

And another monkey-cheeked man with a shrewd temperament and a small mustache on his chin was Liu Tianming, the patriarch of the Liu family of the sixth-rank family in Qing'an County.

The two sat down at the table one after another.

The shopkeeper of Haiweiju brought all the waiters to serve the dishes, carefully poured the wine, and after seeing the ceremony, he retreated respectfully. At the same time, he told the waiter outside the door to keep the door and strictly forbid anyone to approach the box.

Naturally Xiaoer didn't dare to be negligent, and assured him that he would not mention it for the time being.

At the same time, in the private room, Cao Bangning, the patriarch of the Liaoyuan Cao family, also enthusiastically poured wine and food for Liu Tianming, and warmly greeted him to eat and drink.

"Come here~ Patriarch Tianming, you only come here twice a year, it's rare for us to get together. Brother is the host today, you can eat and drink freely, brother here has enough good food and good wine... ..."

"Patriarch Tianming, try this. This is the top-quality fourth-order lobster that was just delivered from the sea today. The chef of the restaurant specially cooked it with a secret method. It is delicious, smooth and tender, without any fishy smell. This is a seafood home. Special dishes that you can't find anywhere else..."

"And this, this is one of the three treasures of the deep sea, the sea tea spirit fish. Only this season of the year..."

For this table of dishes, Cao Bangning can be said to have spent all his money.Money is the second priority, but the most important thing is that there are several dishes in which the ingredients used are tributes with very little production. Usually, even he himself is reluctant to eat more, but now, he uses them all to entertain Liu Tianming.

And Haiweiju's kitchen has been busy since the night before, and it has been busy until now, and it is only now that it has organized such a banquet with all kinds of colors, fragrances and flavors.

And Liu Tianming did live up to expectations, eating and drinking to his heart's content.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Liu Tianming was almost done eating, so he put down the wine cup and looked at Cao Bangning: "Patriarch Bangning, you have really cost me money today~ Don't worry, I will definitely give you the best price for this year's grain price, I would rather earn less by myself It won't hurt you at all."

Liaoyuan County has a lot of people and little land, and a considerable part of the food consumed every year needs to be purchased from other counties.Among them, Qing'an County, known as the "granary" of Daqian, and just next door to Liaoyuan County, has naturally become the main source of grain in Liaoyuan County.

Liu Tianming travels between east and west on weekdays, and what he does is grain sales.

As one of the largest aristocratic families in Liaoyuanwei, the Cao family of Zifu bought a lot of grain from him every year.

However, Cao Bangning was heartbroken when he heard this, and couldn't help but secretly cursed "Old Fox".

He didn't believe Liu Tianming didn't know what happened to Cao's recently.Saying this at this moment, it is clear that I am pretending to be confused, waiting for him to ask him personally~
But even if he knew this, he had no choice but to put on a shameful expression, stand up and bow to him deeply: "Patriarch Tianming, to be honest, Lao Cao, I invited you here today because I have something to do Please. Seeing that our two families have maintained a direct marriage relationship for many years, I ask you to give me a hand."

"Oh~ brother Cao, you're out of your league if you say that. We're all one family, so why don't you ask for it?" Liu Tianming hurriedly supported him, "Get up quickly. How do you want me to help you brother?" , You said, brother, I will help if I can."

He was very enthusiastic on the surface, but secretly smug in his heart.

Cao Bangning, an old guy, relied on being the patriarch of a fifth-rank family, and his aunt was Cao Youqing, a core disciple of the Holy Land. He usually looked at people with his nostrils, but now that something happened, shouldn't he be blamed?

The two of you came and went back and forth for a long time, showing the "deep friendship" between the two sides with "true feelings", and then finally calmed down and started to talk about business.

"Brother Tianming, didn't your youngest daughter marry into the Zuoqiu clan? I heard that she is still a direct descendant." Cao Bangning poured a glass of wine for Liu Tianming and said, "Look, can you pass me a message for you Let the girl help me make peace."

"This one……"

Hearing this, Liu Tianming, who was so forthright just now, suddenly looked embarrassed.

Joke~ It was with great difficulty that he married his daughter into the Zuoqiu Clan's direct lineage, and it was because of this that the Zuoqiu Clan was willing to give him a portion of high-quality grain for sale.

He wouldn't waste the few connections his family had saved so hard for Cao's mess.

Of course, he definitely wouldn't say that on the surface, but said euphemistically: "Brother Cao, you also know that the Zuoqiu family is different from our family. The head of the family is at least a heavenly man, and the first head of the family is In 200 years, there were a lot of descendants of the direct line. Although my youngest daughter married a direct line, she was only a direct grandson, not the eldest grandson..."

Cao Bangning knew that he would not agree so easily, so he took out a gold ticket from the storage ring and stuffed it into his hand very smoothly, saying sincerely: "Brother Tianming, you must help me! I can count on It's only you! I don't ask for anything else, just ask your daughter to help me make a deal, and ask Zuoqiu's Zifu ancestor to agree to meet and talk with my ancestor, that's enough. "

"Oh, what are you doing?"

Liu Tianming stroked the texture of the gold ticket and found that it was a purple gold ticket, and the smile on his face suddenly became more sincere.Hearing that Cao Bangning just wanted to talk to the Zuoqiu family, his mind was instantly settled.

He immediately put away the Zijin ticket, and made a guarantee: "Brother Cao, don't worry, I will ask my daughter to help you talk about it when I go back. However, I can't guarantee whether it will work out or not. This matter I have to make it clear to you in advance."

"Of course, of course. Brother Tianming has done me a great favor if he agrees. I won't blame Brother Tianming whether this matter succeeds or not."

Cao Bangning naturally nodded again and again without saying anything.

The two chatted a few more words, and the meal was almost finished.Soon, Liu Tianming Shi Shiran left Haiweiju.

After he left, the forced smile on Cao Bangning's face finally couldn't last anymore and disappeared in an instant.

"Hey~"

He sighed heavily, and couldn't help feeling worried.

This time my aunt hastily killed the Zuoqiu clan's Tianjiao, which can be regarded as offending the Zuoqiu clan severely.

Although on the surface, if the children of the family join the Holy Land or the Academy, they are regarded as members of the Holy Land, and the family side can not be implicated.But the Zuoqiu family has lost a celestial arrogance, and has been exposed to such a big scandal, and has suddenly become the laughing stock in the eyes of many aristocratic families, how can they let it go?
They can't do anything about the Holy Land, and they will definitely vent their anger on the Cao family.Even if there is no action on the surface, the Cao family will definitely be punished secretly.

Compared with the Zuoqiu family who ruled Qing'an County and had four or five Zifu ancestors on the bright side, the Cao family was just an ordinary fifth-rank family, and there was only one Zifu ancestor in the family. Not to mention, the background and industry he possessed were completely crushed by the Zuoqiu family.

If the Zuoqiu family really took action to punish the Cao family, the Cao family would not be able to resist at all.

Now, the safest way he can think of is to ask his ancestor to come forward and talk to the ancestor of the Zifu above Zuoqiu Qingyun.If they can negotiate, although the Cao family will inevitably have to pay some price, it can be regarded as having survived the disaster.If you can't agree...

Hey ~
Cao Bangning couldn't help but sighed again.

This Liu Tianming acted quickly and cunningly, and his actions may not be reliable.He can't bet all his treasure on Liu Tianming, it's better to make two-handed preparations.

He paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, while thinking about the countermeasures in his mind, he walked slowly out of Haiweiju.

"Congratulations to the master."

At the entrance of Haiweiju, the shopkeeper and a group of shop assistants stood respectfully in a row.He didn't heave a long sigh of relief until he saw Cao Bangning get into the carriage, as if he had survived a catastrophe in a trance.

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The "grievance entanglement" between the Zuoqiu family in Qing'an and the Cao family in Liaoyuan led to a change in the situation, which has nothing to do with Wang Shouzhe for the time being.

After Wang Shouzhe became a great talent and returned to the family after his troubles, he devoted himself to intense work.

The Changning Wang family, which has accumulated strength for more than 20 years, finally started a new round of expansion.

For Wang, this is an imperative development.

Even though Wang's annual income reaches millions of dry gold, aside from massive expenses, he can save as little as 200 million dry gold.It seems that there is a lot of money, but as the family's Tianjiao and the big Tianjiao gradually reach the realm of heaven and man, this small amount of funds will be stretched.

What's more, a new generation of young people in the Wang family is constantly being born.Under Wang's concept of multiple births and excellent child care, the unexpended expenses will become larger and larger.

In addition, the total population of Ping'an Town today has exceeded 15, which is slightly congested, and the internal land reclamation and development have also encountered bottlenecks.

The only way to develop is to inherit the wishes of Zhou Xuan's ancestors and open up wasteland.

Zhouxuan Pass!
It was the checkpoint built by the ancestor Zhouxuan who spent huge sums of money and countless painstaking efforts. It protected generation after generation of Wang's disciples, as well as tens of thousands of people in Ping'an Town.

After leaving Zhouxuan Pass, there is a narrow cliff corridor, which is the only way to go outside the area in the direction of Ping'an Town.

For a long time, casual cultivators and descendants of aristocratic families have gone out of this place to explore and adventure.If you are unlucky, you will throw your body into the wilderness.If you are lucky, you will have a lot of money.

Now in this corridor, a cement concrete road more than four feet wide is being laid. (In Dagan country, foreign characters have no commendatory or derogatory meaning, but only represent goods from overseas.)
To build a cement road, it is necessary to tamp the dirt road with a stone roller first, then throw a thick gravel cushion, then use a stone roller to tamp the gravel layer little by little, then pour the concrete layer with cement, and smooth the surface of the concrete. face treatment.

The process is simple and simple, and the core material is cement.

Today, the price of cement sold by Lianhe Industry to the outside world is as high as about [-] cents per load ([-] catties), which is only half of the price of ordinary grain.

It can be seen that cement is originally a luxury building material.Therefore, not every family has the capital to build cement roads.

In Wang Shouzhe's plan.

This high-quality cement road named "Shouzhe Road" is more than four feet wide, enough for five carriages to run side by side, and the length has reached a full eighty miles!If it is replaced by the earth, the widening of the cement road for only eighty miles is not a big project.

But for Wang, the internal cost budget for this road has reached 21 dry gold, and 3000 people will be employed before and after, and the construction period will reach six months.

The "Shouzhe Road" project has a very tight construction period and needs to be completed before the next rainy season.Otherwise, once it is delayed until March next year, the difficulty of construction will increase dramatically.

It will shuttle through the land outside the territory, and at the end of eighty miles away is an open canyon sky moat, which is a corridor terrain where two mountain ranges pass in parallel.

Whenever opening up wasteland outside the territory, one must first choose a natural moat to build a pass.Otherwise, no matter how well developed this piece of land is, once the beast horde comes and is irresistible, the loss will be incalculable.

To be honest, today's "Shouzhe Pass" construction site is not ideal.

It's just that after surveying the terrain within a radius of two or three hundred miles, the construction site of Shouzhe Pass can be regarded as the best of the best.The rest of the terrain is far inferior to the construction site of Shouzhe Pass.

The reason why the "Shouzhe Pass" construction point is called unsatisfactory is that the canyon corridor is too wide.Compared with the narrowest and optimal construction point, the pass must be built to be ten miles wide!
A pass ten miles wide!Looking at the whole Dagan is also rare.

The "Zhouxuan Pass", which the Wang family had been proud of before, was only a hundred feet wide, far less than a mile wide.

It can be seen how majestic the "Shouzhe Pass" that has not yet been built.

This is also one of the reasons why, for more than a hundred years, no family has opened up wasteland outside Zhouxuan Pass.The difficulty and cost of building a pass of that level is definitely not something that ordinary seventh-rank families can afford.

Even, most of the sixth-rank families may not be able to build them.

The reason why the Wang family, headed by Wang Shouzhe, dared to build the "Shouzhe Pass" was because Wang's annual income was very high, and secondly, he had a lot of experience in concrete construction.

Estimated by drawing budget.

This "Shouzhe Pass" plus the Urn City requires a total of 4000 million tons of cement, 8000 million tons of crushed stones, 200 million steel bars smelted from crude iron, and high-quality thick stones for walls and paving. 9000 million tons.

It is planned that 1 people will participate in the project.

The total construction period of "Shouzhe Pass" and its urn city alone will reach ten years, with a total cost of about 400 million dry gold.This does not include the cost of setting up Shenwei Cannon on Shouzhe Pass in the future.

(Lao Ao roughly drew a rough draft of the manuscript, and briefly calculated the amount of engineering, material and cost. There is no way, Lao Ao was very unprofessional when he was young, and he was a project budgeter for a year or two, and he even passed the exam. At that time, the textual research was relatively simple...so it was somewhat obsessive-compulsive.)
It is naturally impossible to transport such a huge amount of engineering materials through the "Shouzhe Road". First, the transportation volume is too large, and second, the transportation cost is too high.

Therefore, before the construction of "Shouzhe Pass", it is necessary to build cement factories, quarries, and civilian dormitories around the construction site.

Of course, these are not the biggest difficulties in building infrastructure outside the region.

The biggest difficulty actually comes from danger and uncertainty.The Wang family had to take advantage of this autumn and winter to carry out a large-scale sweep of the "Shouzhe Pass" to wipe out all dangerous animals and plants.

While building the "Shouzhe Road", it is also necessary to constantly patrol and clean up the road to ensure the safety of the people who built the road.

Based on the above.

Relying entirely on the Wang family to open up wasteland is really too difficult.

The in-law alliance families headed by the Wang family have also joined this great wasteland reclamation plan. Each family needs to allocate some manpower, mobilize the people under its jurisdiction to participate in the civilian husband team, and need to bear part of the funds.

Of course, among them, the Wang family contributed the most, and among the 15 civilians under their rule, they could mobilize the most.The Wang family will go all out to carry out this wave of extraterritorial development, and will get the most profit share in the future.

Wang's machine started rumbling.

Longzuo County City, inside Tianyuan Danfang.

Wang Shouye, the alchemist trained by the family, is carrying out his mission.

"Brother Wenshan, thank you for taking the time to refine these one hundred first-grade 'Detoxification Pills'. Please keep this [-] dry gold."

"Brother Jingfu, thank you for taking the time to refine these two hundred first-grade "Healing Pills". Please keep these four thousand gold tickets. I hope you can refine more when you have time."

Land reclamation outside the territory is a highly dangerous and uncertain systematic project. Detoxification pills and healing pills are both indispensable strategic materials. The former can dissolve most relatively low-level toxins, and the latter can effectively heal injuries and save lives.

However, such first-grade pills are only effective for Qi Refining Realm and mortals.It has almost no effect on monks in the Lingtai Realm, and the reason is very simple. The transition and transformation of life levels make them stronger, and even minor poisons and minor injuries can do nothing to them.

But once they are all poisoned and injured, the low-grade detoxification pills and healing pills will not be effective.

Therefore, some third-rank and fourth-rank Huadu Pills, Good Fortune Pills, etc. have to be prepared a lot.These were either refined by Wang Shouye himself, or entrusted to other high-grade alchemists.

With Wang Shouye, a high-quality alchemist, as long as Wang is willing to spend money, there will be no shortage of elixirs below the fourth rank.There are only four grades of pills, or above four grades, because the materials are precious and scarce, so they may not be available in sufficient supply.

In addition, Wang Shouye is also batch-refining the third-grade elixir "Qi Ling Pill", and occasionally getting a Qi Ling Pill often requires six or seven hundred thousand gold.However, relying on the amethyst royal honey supplied by Luo Jing as the main material, Shouye can refine "Qi Ling Pill" in large quantities, and the cost will also drop a lot.

For the vast majority of families, Qi Ling Pill is not very useful.

Its greatest effect is to raise a waste qualification that is close to low-grade qualification to low-grade D with a high probability.

Qualifications such as low-rank Ding, although still the lowest qualifications among all Xuanwu monks, the chance of breaking through the Lingtai realm is very low.But after all, he can be regarded as a Xuanwu monk.Many ordinary family generals, even many low-grade family members, are basically at this level.

In addition, Qi Ling Pill can also slightly improve the people who are originally low-rank qualifications. The lower the blood qualification, the better the effect.

Of course, the Qi Ling Pill is the first one that is effective, and the second one is very weak.

But even so, Qi Ling Pill's effect on the Wang family is immeasurable.The Wang family has its own spiritual testing platform, which can roughly test whether those who are not qualified to enter the rank are close to the low rank. If they are given Qi Ling Dan to train them, they can serve as clan generals in the future and alleviate the embarrassing situation of the Wang family's shortage of manpower.

It is more or less effective for the bloodline cultivation of the clansmen, which is better than nothing.

Except that Wang Shouye was stationed in the county city, while purchasing and refining pills and sending them back to Wang's through Shouda Commercial Bank.The rest of the tribe are also working hard to operate everything.

For example, Wang Zongyao, the family's craftsman, supervised blacksmiths and craftsmen to create hoes, shovels, logging axes, saw blades for land reclamation, bow clusters, spears, iron shields, machetes, shotgun iron sand, etc. Wait.

Now, Wang Luotong and his wife, who are in charge of the Wang's ranch, are breeding and training heavy draft horses and horses for riding in the North on a large scale, as well as raising a large number of pigs, cattle and sheep to produce more flesh and give them to pioneers and farmers. More nutritional supplements for folk husbands.

Not to mention relying on hunting to supplement, there are fewer wild beasts in the nearby area, and some wild meat is not enough for the hunting team to supplement.

In addition, Wang's fishing brigade, Zhuwei Lake fish farming team, etc. have stopped selling fish and meat products to the outside world.Instead, they are hoarded to support the team of land reclamation outside the territory to ensure daily nutritional intake.

The focus of everything revolves around the big event of opening up wasteland outside the territory.

Time flies by.

Early October.

The sky is getting colder, and the blue-green sky is turning to waxy yellow.

The "Shouzhe Road" outside the territory is being built in full swing. In just a few months, it has advanced to fifty miles.The progress of the project is faster than the original plan.

The royal family Hai who lives in the Changning Wang family is after all a passionate young man who can't sit still.He took the initiative to invite Ying to join the land reclamation and suppression team, leading a team of family generals and clan soldiers to patrol outside the territory and eliminate dangerous creatures all day long.

With Tianjiao's aptitude and good strength, he has made him look good, and he is already quite loved by the generals and soldiers.

Wang Shihai loves and hates the Changning Wang family. What he loves is that there are so many interesting things in this place, and there are waves of freshness.However, he hates that the family members of the Changning Wang family are all too high-ranking, and he is quite uncomfortable getting along with him.

Of course, there are also Wang Shining, Wang Shicheng, etc. who made him feel a little warm.It's a pity that Changning Wang's "Shi" and "Ying" generations are still little brats. No matter how kind he feels to Wang Shihai, he won't be able to hang out with little brats every day.

this day.

Wang Shihai returned with a full load and led the team to the station.

Suddenly!

On the "Shouzhe Road", which has been more than half built and some sections have been put into use, a woman in a light green dress appeared. What is very strange is that she was wearing a weft yarn hat and a long bamboo hat hanging from her waist. There is a flute, and a string of bells hangs on Hao's wrist.

Every time she took a step, she seemed to appear silently several feet away, and the crisp bell rang away with the wind.

A gust of wind blew past, revealing half of her delicate and beautiful face.

In an instant, Wang Shihai was fascinated by it, and he felt as if he was electrified by this temperament.

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　6200, the plot is moving towards the end of the third chapter~~ The content is too much to write and I am a bit tired~ Ask for a monthly ticket

　
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