Cub Nursery

Under the guidance of Dahei, the three marching ants are very well-behaved.

"Follow the steps, step by step, and come to meet the ant marching monster every day." Yan Xun said, "With Dahei as your guide, you will be much more relaxed. But don't relax too much. After all, this is a monster with great strength. Everything has to be done with the help of other Dao soldiers."

The marching ant demon is not only able to carry boulders, but also has very strong teeth. If it really wants to bite people, it will definitely hurt the muscles and bones.

"Yes!" roared the brown pig.

The dark ant marching monster in the cage is a very powerful monster. Although it was the first time for the brown pig to see it, he had already heard from the soldiers that this monster was powerful.

Now that I have a domesticated one, the brown pig is excited and proud. He must be trained like Master Yan's Dahei, who will follow him no matter where he goes. He especially likes to shake his tentacles and is very obedient.

The brown pig was not good enough before, he had never been on the battlefield, and he had never killed monsters, but he helped clean up the battlefield and saw the dead body of the big monster. He should have hated all monsters, and he should have opposed the domestication of ants marching monsters .

But at this moment, the brown pig's unintelligent brain suddenly figured out, instead of driving out all the monsters, why not domesticate them and use them for their own use?

Killing the monster is a one-and-done thing, and it will only make enemies, but if it is successfully domesticated, the monster can become its own power.

The brown pig suddenly understood why the Conservation Hall opened all the way from the capital to the border town, because there was no cement building of the Conservation Hall in the border town, and some people called it the Conservation Hall Railway Station.

Lord Yan is so kind to those cubs, does he also want to use their power for his own use?

But the cubs are not simple monsters like the marching ants, they are smarter, and they are still little talents now.

It was rare that the cubs and Brother Huan were resting, so Yan Xun asked them to go for a walk outside in the fields together.

The cubs also brought charcoal, iron racks, and a basket of chilled meat slices, chicken wings, chicken legs, tofu, vegetables, etc. Yan Xun helped bring some dried tofu and many wooden boards.

The wooden boards are laid on the ground tightly, and then the dishes are placed, and you can sit on it and wait to eat.

Jing Fengye led the flame cub to make a fire, and the snake body cub got a lot of pure water...

The Shan Shan cubs sat on the wooden board and helped the cubs pass things, while saying to Brother Huan: "In the future, there will be a tofu festival in the border town. This year, many outsiders have gone to the capital city for the tofu festival. There are huge crowds of people, and the sound of gongs and drums. Even standing on the top of the building, you can’t see the end at a glance.”

There are merchants who get up early in the morning to buy bean curd, and there are merchants who come to the capital several days in advance to prepare.

Not to mention there are performances on the cement stage, singing, storytelling, acting, and even a scene where the Guiyuan insect bud demon sieges the city.

The Shaking Mountain cub didn't speak vividly enough, he just tried to say what he saw, thought, and noticed as much as possible.

Brother Huan listened very seriously.

He was born in a border town, and has never left the border town. He has seen the big monster, and he has seen the Guiyuan insect bud demon attack the city several times. Now he has also seen the train, and he has also entered the textile workshop as a steward. He has also heard some old people say The prosperity of the capital city was never as vivid as this time.

"My lord said that there will be a tofu festival in the border towns in the future." Shaking the mountain cub said, "There will also be schools in the border towns. This place is no worse than the capital city."

In fact, it is much worse and not safe enough. There are no rich families, no royal family, no pavilions, only low earthen houses, and only military households who are struggling to survive.

But looking at the busy cubs, watching Yan Xun holding a bamboo stick to the iron net, and brushing oil with a brush, Brother Huan found that it was true, the border town was no worse than the capital city.

The marinated meat slices are grilled on an iron grid, and the fat drips onto the charcoal, immediately igniting a small cluster of flames.

Yan Xun brushed the sauce carefully with a brush, saw Jing Fengye squatting next to the skewered meat, and said with a smile: "Master Jing, come and taste the taste of my grilled meat..."

The meat has just changed color, because it is cut extremely thin, there is no need to worry about it being cooked.

Jing Fengye hurriedly stood up, bit the piece of meat in Yan Xun's hand, stared at Yan Xun's hand for a while while chewing, and then said: "It's delicious."

"I'll let you taste the saltiness." Yan Xun cast a sidelong glance at Jing Fengye, and tasted a slice by himself.

His lips are thin, and the meat slices have a lot of sauce. When eating, a lot of them stuck to his lips. Yan Xun stuck out his tongue and licked it, but didn't notice that Jing Fengye swallowed, and nodded in satisfaction, "The saltiness is just right, It should be brushed with a layer of honey in advance."

Put the grilled meat slices on the plate, Yan Xun pushed Jing Fengye.

Jing Fengye didn't move, took advantage of Yan Xun's inattention and leaned over to kiss him on the lips, then quickly walked away with the plate.

The cubs have already put away the noodles, snacks, etc. that do not need to be baked, and they also brought a special charcoal stove to boil water, and the tea is ready.

"Brother Huan, sliced ​​meat is delicious, eat more." Shaking Mountain cub hurriedly asked.

"En." Brother Huan was still a little cautious, but he had never seen the delicacy in front of him. After eating some for the first time, his eyes lit up, and he talked to the cubs again, and he soon became more relaxed. .

The scale of the textile workshop is getting bigger and bigger, and three more warehouses have been built.

As long as the military households in the border towns are able to work, except for those who are too young or too old, they basically go to the textile workshop.Although Brother Huan is still a child, he has become the chief manager, and Yan Xun is very satisfied in every aspect.

"Looking back to expand the textile workshop, cotton and silk are divided into two workshops." Yan Xun said casually while eating sliced ​​meat, "Separation is conducive to competition, otherwise it will be easy to slack off in the long run."

"En." Brother Huan nodded vigorously.

Nowadays, the textile workshops are extremely large, and they all distribute uniform cotton clothes, and they all go to the canteen to eat and get wages.

At the beginning, when I suddenly entered the workshop from a situation where I could not eat enough to wear clothes, and would starve to death, everyone around me was grateful, everyone was very grateful, full of energy, and wished to regard the textile workshop as my own home, and everything was done properly. It's good to be proper.

But it's definitely not going to go on like this.

Yan Xun intentionally guided Brother Huan, "How are the people in the workshop doing now?"

"All the work is done very well, and there are some who actively want to learn to read." Brother Huan finished speaking cautiously, seeing that Yan Xun did not speak, and the cubs were also eating snacks, and did not look this way. Only the Shan Shan cub winked at him, Brother Huan was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly realized.

What Yan Xun wants to hear should not be such words, but everything that others may not be able to see, but as a chief executive, he must see things.

"Some groups are full of acquaintances, some people work slowly, and others will help." Brother Huan said carefully, "There are also some children who often finish the work at hand because they are clever enough. In the rest of the time, I often have fun. The stewards often have acquaintances under their hands, and sometimes they can't save face to manage..."

At the beginning, apart from the stewards selected by Yan Xun, there were also stewards recommended by military households. They were all recommended by acquaintances, and there was affection for each other. If they made a mistake, they would be ashamed to manage them.

As he spoke, the sweat dripped from Brother Huan's face.

He thought that Yan Xun had built such a large textile workshop, so that the fields in the border town were full of cotton and mulberry trees. It was good for the military households in the border town, and everyone should be grateful. The problem of turning a blind eye.

If things go on like this for a long time, will the military households in the textile workshop form cliques, and will the words of his chief manager still be useful?

At this time, Brother Huan remembered Yan Xun's words about separating the workshops, and suddenly became enlightened.

"This is an inevitable process." Seeing Brother Huan sweating nervously, Yan Xun quickly comforted him, "In the past, everyone's goal was to survive, but now this goal has been achieved, and they can eat and wear warm. So what are you thinking now? Let’s talk about it.”

Yan Xun said, looking at the cubs.

"I need to save money on hand, and send my children to study when the school opens in the border town."

"Climb up and become a small steward, a big steward."

"I want to promote my relatives, so that everyone can help each other in the future."

"The life in the border town has become so good that relatives from my hometown can also move in..."

"The machines in the textile workshop can be adjusted. Does the weaving cloth not have to be so fine? In that case, more cotton cloth will be produced..."

"Silk can be mixed with inferior silk to produce more silk."

"The machine is worn out. If it is worn out artificially, can we make money from it?"

The little cubs talked to each other, as if they had seen someone think, say, or do this with their own eyes.

Brother Huan was dumbfounded, he had never thought of it.

"Then, what should I do after that?" Brother Huan was a little confused, "My lord, I, I..." Can someone like me still be in charge?

Deaf, blind, and stupid, these things seemed so common to the little cubs, but he couldn't think of them.

"Everyone has selfishness, which is normal. What we need to do is to guide them and control the general direction." Yan Xun talked eloquently, "The textile workshop is divided into two, and there is competition on both sides. In this way, it will be very easy for everyone to work. Positive. Dispatch the stewards and take care of people you are not familiar with, so that you can solve the problem of face. The skilled craftsmen in the workshop can be drawn out individually and take turns to be on duty. Each person is responsible for part of the machine wear and tear, and there are special people for the quality of cotton and silk Check, if something goes wrong, everyone in the workshop will have to deduct wages..."

"There are still many places that need people in the border towns. Relatives of military households can be allowed to move in, but they can't enter the workshops, and they can do other things."

"If this happens, all the contradictions will be resolved. But in the future, this kind of contradiction will continue to repeat itself, and we will have to think of new tactics at that time."

"Being a steward is not just about arranging work and supervising subordinates. You also need to set your sights high and wide, see the direction outside the workshop, and be a qualified helmsman."

Yan Xun was persuasive and persuasive, and told Brother Huan a lot.

He believes that brother Huan is smart enough to reveal some things at a glance, and he also knows where he should stand.

After the meal, Brother Huan went back and thought about it for a long time. Sure enough, he not only thought about all the methods Yan Xun said, but also thought about it more thoroughly.

In this way, brother Huan, the big manager, is completely settled.

Outside the outer city wall, the brown pig also got a whole set of battle robes, which he put on happily, and walked slowly forward with the marching ants.

With Dahei as an example and detailed regulations, the brown pig can now lead his ant marching demon to act alone.

After strolling around outside, the brown pig brought the ants marching monster back through the small door.

Yan Xun had already been waiting with Dahei, and when he saw that the three ants marching monsters had come back, they were standing next to the Taoist soldiers without moving, he nodded in satisfaction and said, "I'm going out of the city tomorrow, are you ready?" ?”

"Get ready!" the brown pig roared, and at the same time, a sense of pride surged in his heart.

He hasn't gone deep into the demon country yet, but he is not afraid.

No matter what kind of monsters or dangers the Daoist soldiers of Daqin face, they will not be afraid.

What's more, the truth about Guiyuan's siege of the insect bud demon has come to light, the imperial court has rewarded the generals of the border towns, and even allocated a lot of food and grass, all the Taoist soldiers are excited and want to make contributions.

Now that the opportunity is in Brown Pig's hands, no matter how stupid he is, he will not let go of this opportunity.

There is a temporary wooden shed under the outer city wall, where the marching ants live.

Outside the wooden shed, soldiers armed with guns took turns protecting it for twelve hours. After the first few days of contact, the brown pig has now lived in the wooden shed, eating and living with the marching ants.

The scary-looking, dark-covered, and extremely powerful ant marching monster is not good-looking, but after getting along with each other these days, the brown pig thinks that the ant marching monster he was assigned is very good.

When sleeping at night, the ant marching monster will lie on the windy side to protect the brown pig from the wind, and the tentacles will thump the brown pig from time to time. Although the teeth are extremely sharp and ferocious, it never touches the brown pig.

The group of cubs said that the ant marching monster is actually very stupid, and its brain can't think about things, but it has a weak intelligence and can conduct benign guidance.

But the brown pig always feels that the ant marching demon next to him is very smart. When he followed the rules step by step, he made no mistakes every time, and none of the precautions mentioned by the cubs happened. The tacit understanding between the ants marching demons.

Then look at that big black that is a circle bigger than other ant marching monsters, it can almost understand what Yan Xun said, as long as Yan Xun simply said a few words, big black can complete the action according to the action, and big black Hei only ate what Yan Xun gave him, even if others gave Dahei braised pork, Dahei would not eat it.

Thinking of Dahei, the brown pig's heart became hot, and he wanted to raise the marching ant beside him like that, and then he could ride the marching ant and gallop across the demon kingdom!

Before going to bed, the brown pig reached out and touched the tentacles of the marching ant demon, and then closed his eyes.

On the second day, the brown pig got up and led the ant marching monster around the outer city wall before going to the small gate to wait for Yan Xun.

Yan Xun came slowly with Dahei and a group of Taoist soldiers behind him.

This is not the first time to go out of the city, Yan Xun didn't talk nonsense, he simply led people out through the small gate.

Outside is the territory of the demon country, and there are dead grass everywhere, who would have thought that there is only one city wall separated, and inside the outer city wall are patches of cotton fields and mulberry fields?

"Bring a few more ants and marching monsters back this time." Taking advantage of the time to rest, Yan Xun hurriedly said, "There will be monsters attacking the city again in a few days, and our chances of coming out may not be many..."

All the soldiers were silent.

Unlike the Iron Claw Hyena Monster and Guiyuan Bug Monster, these two monsters can only attack the city for a small amount of trouble, and even if they do, they will cause Taoist soldiers casualties, but compared with the monsters that will be encountered next, they are nothing. on what.

When Yan Xun left the outer city wall, the camp in the border city had already begun to concentrate on training Dao soldiers.

Dao soldiers with high cultivation level practiced the most rigorously. Those who were too low to go to the battlefield began to practice as auxiliary soldiers. Even the old people from military households in border towns who did not go to work in workshops became nervous. If necessary, they would also Will go to the battlefield to help.

Yan Xun never saw it with his own eyes, he just heard a few words from Brother Huan.

Although the monsters that attacked the city next were not big monsters, they could be called big monsters. The spread of the battlefield may affect all the outer city walls, and a general must be there to take action. Ordinary Taoist soldiers can only be restrained.

With such an intensive attack frequency by monsters in the Yao Kingdom, the frontier city has no chance to breathe, and even the lost Taoist soldiers may not be able to make up for it.

The border town is much crueler than the seaside.

"Let's go." Yan Xun took out his pocket watch and looked at it, then stood up and said.

The Taoist soldiers stood up silently and continued to move forward.

According to the detection of the Demon Observation Tower, the Marching Ants on the hillside once scattered to find the three stolen Marching Ants, but they soon returned to the back of the hillside, apparently not persistently looking for them again.

As for the way of communication between the marching ants, through the observation of the cubs and the observation of the observation tower, Yan Xun discovered that the marching ants communicate with each other through antennae instead of making sounds with their mouths.

The angle at which the tentacles swing, the frequency of their rotation, etc. are special symbols of communication.

Although I haven't figured out how the tentacles communicate, but when they approached the hillside, Yan Xun immediately grabbed Dahei's tentacles, and the other three Dao soldiers did the same.

Dahei didn't resist, and obediently lay beside Yan Xun, as if he didn't know that the hillside in the distance was the nest of the marching ants.

Yan Xun picked up the binoculars and looked at it: "Use the old method to catch some."

"Success." Jing Fengye immediately took out the mechanism and started to assemble it.

Most of the Taoist soldiers who came this time were not the first time. They had already seen the power of Jing Fengye's tricks, but even so, they couldn't help but marvel.

It was the first time I saw the brown pig, and the eyeballs were about to fall off.

The wolfhound made of iron sheets can actually walk forward step by step under the guidance of the mechanism, and can also climb slopes, which is really amazing.

After a while, an ant marching monster was caught, followed by the second and third...

After catching ten of them, Yan Xun said: "Get out!"

Everyone didn't speak, and quickly unfolded the green cotton cloth, wrapped the marching ants, and ran away after seeing them.

Yan Xun turned his head, Dahei also turned his head, and did not look back at the hillside.

After running for a long time in one breath, the hillside behind him was completely invisible, even with a telescope, so Yan Xun announced to rest.

Everyone immediately took out dry food, heated it with lime, and devoured it.

"If these ten can be brought back successfully, we will observe them for three days before we come out." Yan Xun said in a low voice, "The matter of marching ants is very important, I want to take this opportunity to catch more..."

It's like going to a wild horse herd to catch a horse.

"My lord, if there are too many people coming out, will they be discovered by the demon country?" Black Bear worried, "The day is approaching, if the hopper frenzy comes early, it will definitely attract the big demon."

"I do have some ideas, and we will discuss them later." Yan Xun put off.

Everyone stopped talking, and after a short rest, they continued to rush back.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the outer city wall.

Speed ​​up, and successfully entered the outer city wall. At this time, everyone really relaxed, sent the ant marching demon into the cage, and went back to rest one after another.

Along the way, Yan Xun rode Dahei for an average distance. He was not tired at all. He helped to appease the captured ten marching ants, and said to the Taoist soldiers, "Arrange domestication as soon as possible, and wait for these in the future. The marching ants can come in handy."

Dao Bing naturally knew the priority of the matter, and immediately went to Yang Qiong to report the matter.

The next day there was Yang Shuning, who was selected by Yang Qiong to domesticate the marching ant demon according to the regulations.

"My lord still needs to rest for the next three days." Jing Fengye stopped Yan Xun in the room, and said in a deep voice, "Old Huo said, I want my lord to rest more."

"I know." Yan Xun gasped, "Go and call the cubs, I have something to discuss."

Although the rest is a rest, Yan Xun is still not idle.

Jing Fengye stared at Yan Xun for a while, then went to call the cubs.

Yan Xun sat on the kang and touched his belly, but still found nothing, he couldn't help but wry smile.This time I was pregnant with a baby, I took advantage of it, my strength became stronger, and my energy improved a lot, but this time I came back from the city, I still felt a little tired.

Not only Jing Fengye was worried, but he himself was also very worried. It was not easy to conceive this baby, and he was the first one who would not want something to happen.

Fortunately, although the body is a little tired, there is still no discomfort in the stomach.

But Yan Xun sat on the kang directly, waiting for Jing Fengye to call all the cubs, and hurriedly said: "How is the observation result these few days?"

"The results came from the Demon Observation Tower. It was said that the marching ants dispersed again. This time, they searched for a wider area. It took about two hours before they withdrew. Looking at it now, the marching ants have returned to normal."

"It's similar to what we speculated. The marching ants should be more powerful in group intelligence."

Yan Xun pondered for a moment and said: "If you catch the ants when the marching monsters are scattered, will you encounter more severe resistance?"

The flower tree cub and the war rabbit cub looked at each other and said in unison: "Yes!"

Since the marching ants can disperse to find their companions, it means they know that their companions are lost. At this time, the marching ants should be on alert, and if they encounter a situation, they may attack immediately.

"Since the ant marching monster is the wisdom of the crowd, is it possible that there are special soldiers in the nest?" Yan Xun raised his conjecture again.

It is not difficult to guess that there are several species of insects in Daqin that are similar to group intelligence, highly social, and the division of work between individuals is clear. Some are responsible for production, some are responsible for reproduction, and some are responsible for vigilance.

Yan Xun also led the cubs to observe the general life of these insects. At this time, he made a guess, and the cubs immediately thought of it.

"Eighty percent possible." Flower Tree Cub said.

The Cub War Rabbit then added, "If there really is one, it's probably not easy to domesticate."

"Well, let's imagine a few plans..." Yan Xun thought for a while.