Take the earth to enshrine the gods

Chapter 171 The Phantom of Taixuzong

On the eighth day of May, it was sunny.

Li Bai has already reported the situation in Shendu. After Qian Yuan read it, he asked Guo Jia to discuss the matter in the study, "Feng Xiao, what do you think about this award?"

"Your Highness means that you can influence the imperial court's reward?" Guo Jia is so smart.

"Almost." Qian Yuan was in a good mood, and explained with a smile: "The imperial court has discussed the reward several times, but there is still no conclusion, so let us make our own request, but it can't be too outrageous."

With Qian Yuan's military exploits this time, it is impossible to be promoted to the title of title. After all, he is already a prince, and if he goes up, he will be crowned king. The court will be very cautious.

It is even more impossible to expand the fief.

After much deliberation, the ministers of the court and central government seemed to be able to only reward some gold and silver treasures, so it seemed a little thin, and it was unlikely to reward too much, and the court was not rich.

Guo Jia thought for a while, and said, "In this case, we can take the opportunity to ask the court for a batch of military supplies." The blockade of the western and southern borders has not been lifted, which has become a heart problem for Guo Jia.

You can't always ask for help from the fifth family, right?

That's not realistic either.

"That's a good idea." Qian Yuan agreed very much. The court didn't say anything else, weapons and armors were piled up like a mountain, so it shouldn't be a problem to take the opportunity to ask for a batch.

Qian Yuan also knew that although the Bing Jia Division had already started to operate, after all, the foundation of the fiefdom was too weak to really meet the needs of the army, let alone carry out strategic reserves like the imperial court.

"For the Bing Jia Division, we still need to recruit more craftsman apprentices." Qian Yuan instructed, the feeling of being blocked is not good, and he still hopes to achieve self-sufficiency as soon as possible.

"promise."

Guo Jia agreed, he also had this idea.

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Qianyuan had a plan, and the court was very happy.

In late May, after repeated communication between the two parties, the final decision on the reward for Qianyuan was finally reached, and the imperial court officially issued an order.

Reward 20 spirit stones, 100 million taels of silver, 3 sets of weapons and armor, [-] stones of spirit rice, [-] boxes of pills, [-] monsters, [-] large siege equipment, and some other war materials.

It is more than enough to replace all the fiefdom's army with weapons and armor.

Lingmi and other materials are also enough to support the needs of the fiefdom's army for two years. Qianyuan took advantage of the opportunity to set up an arsenal under the Bing Cao, which is responsible for storing and keeping war materials such as weapons and armor.

In this way, it can be regarded as barely breaking the war material blockade of the fiefdoms in the west and south.

Qian Yuan will not admit defeat obediently, he has already launched lobbying activities in the western border, especially the southern border, contacting local arms dealers, trying to pry open a gap in the blockade.

The Fourth Legion couldn't afford the weapons and equipment in the entire southern border, and instead occupied them to prevent merchants from selling them to Qingqiu City, which had already touched the interests of the local weapons merchants.

Through the new district in the east, Qianyuan has no influence in the southern business circle.

With the power of this great victory, those officials, families, and chambers of commerce in the southern border who did not get together with the fifth prince are also happy to establish some kind of relationship with Qian Yuan.

Under the efforts of many parties, Qian Yuan still didn't believe that the fifth prince could hold on forever.

There are always times when you can't hold on.

He also wanted to take the opportunity to test how deep the fifth prince's operations in the southern border were.

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In May, another thing that made Qianyuan happy-someone found rubber trees in Yiyi Mountain.

The latex that flows out of the rubber tree when it is tapped is the natural rubber obtained by coagulation and drying, and is the main raw material for making rubber.

Natural rubber has the characteristics of strong elasticity, good insulation, plasticity, water-proof, gas-proof, tensile and wear-resistant, and has a wide range of uses.

For the industrialization of fiefdoms, rubber is also indispensable.

Therefore, after restarting the industrial plan, Qianyuan hired an expedition team to go deep into the mountains and forests to find rubber trees, and finally the hard work paid off.

Qian Yuan immediately sent a letter to Pei Ju, the prefect of Yiyi, asking Pei Ju to organize people to transplant the rubber trees and choose a suitable place to build a rubber plantation.

After the rubber plantation is completed, you can consider building a rubber factory.

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The Spring Campaign ended, and the Eastern Continent calmed down again.

The construction of the fief is orderly.

Driven by funds and policies, Yiyi Mansion is slowly recovering, and the new district of Yiyi City is also under construction, which is expected to become a new engine driving the economy.

The aftermath of last year's mass cleansing has finally dissipated.

In the entire fief area, a massive spirit field transformation plan is in full swing, and Hu Cao's industrial funds to support spirit beast breeding and spirit grass planting are also in place one by one.

After the two spiritual stone mines discovered in the Zulong Mountains began to be mined, and with the rewards from the imperial court, the fiefdom's tight finances finally eased.

Already able to support the development of Lingnong.

Among them, the overall large-scale development of Qingqiu Mountain, Yiyi Mountain and the adjacent Zulong Mountain Range has also been included in the annual plan of Zhennan Wangfu.

All of these are consolidating the land of Lingnong.

In Qianyuan's words, it is to walk on two legs, not only to ensure the basic material needs of the people, but also to develop a higher level of spiritual agriculture industry.

foreign trade.

With the further opening of the Water Pass, it has become an important hub between the Dagan Dynasty and the Quicksand Kingdom. The Zhennan Palace can retain more than 10 taels of silver every month just for tariffs.

Minwei Mansion looked jealous, and also wanted to end the confrontation with the Liusha Kingdom and open up border trade. After all, compared with the Weishui Pass, the Qingshui Pass in the Minwei Mansion is the main pass.

The Fifth Brigade of the Second Division of the Southern Army was stationed in Qingshui County.

It's a pity that the Quicksand Country doesn't agree at all.

Because in the eyes of Liusha Kingdom, the nature of Qianyuan's fief is different from that of other counties in Dagan, and they never gave up their ambition to capture the Dagan Dynasty.

The opening of Feishui Pass is a special product under special conditions.

Can't be envious.

After the imperial court allocated the Yiyi Mansion to Qianyuan, there were only three mansions left in Zhaoyao County, and it became the weakest existence among the twelve counties in the empire, and the situation was very embarrassing.

Correspondingly, the status of Zhaoyao County in the empire is also declining.

Not to mention the other counties, even Qianyuan's fief, after two years of rapid development, they could faintly compete with the court of Zhaoyao County.

No wonder the county is in a hurry.

In fact, if possible, Qianyuan really wanted to improve the relationship with Zhaoyao County, and use the advantages of Zhaoyao County's talents and funds to develop fiefdoms for mutual benefit.

It's a pity that Sun Zhaolin, the prefect of swagger, is a die-hard member of the Five Princes Group.

The two sides have no room for maneuver at all.

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As June arrives, the weather turns hot.

People are also prone to restlessness.

On this day, Lu Bing, the commander of the Black Guards, suddenly returned to the Zhennan Palace and reported something to Qian Yuan, which was the result of the investigation of Taixuzong.

After working for more than half a year, Lu Bing finally got some useful information.

"Your Highness, it is basically certain that a long time ago, Taixuzong disciples went down the mountain, and under the guise of recruiting disciples or guests, they were active in the territory of Zhaoyao County." Lu Bing said surprisingly.

Qian Yuan frowned, "What is their purpose?"

"I don't know." Lu Bing shook his head.

"Those who associate with members of the Taixu sect, do they know that the other party is from the Taixu sect?" There is a clear stipulation in the Dagan law that those who collude with the sect will be punished as treason.

"According to the investigation of the subordinate officials, some of them are not clear, but some families are simply branches of the Taixu Sect, and the high-level members of the families are even disciples of the Taixu Sect."

"Is that so?!"

Qian Yuan felt that things were getting more and more difficult.

Taixuzong's downfall was definitely not just for the purpose of recruiting disciples, but also for other shady purposes.Reminiscent of Taixuzong's empty mountain gate and the weird martyrdom, Qian Yuan became more determined.

They must be planning something.

As much as the Daqian dynasty feared the sects, so much did these sects hate Daqian.

"Your Highness, do you want to make a move?" Lu Bing's eyes dimmed.

"No." Qian Yuan waved his hand, "Don't startle the snake, you sort out the relevant information immediately, and I will report it to the imperial court." As a powerful royal family, Qian Yuan must not sit idly by.

"understand!"

Lu Bing bid farewell and left.

(End of this chapter)