Protect Our Patriarch Chapter 80: Diverting trouble to the east! Opening up wasteland outside the territory (asking for monthly tickets)
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Liaoyuan County, Haiweiju.
"Haiweiju" is a thousand-year-old restaurant, and it is also the most luxurious and high-end restaurant in Liaoyuan County. Its main product is a variety of seafood delicacies.
Its history can almost be traced back to 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 fifth-grade Zifu family.
This day.
On the top floor of Haiweiju, a private room with the best view and the most luxurious decoration welcomed two distinguished guests.
One of the middle-aged men, dressed in brocade clothes and elegant temperament, is the owner of this "Haiweiju" and the head of the Liaoyuan Cao family, Cao Bangning.
The other one with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, a shrewd temperament, and a mustache on his chin is Liu Tianming, the head of the Liu family of the sixth-rank family in Qing'an County.
The two of them took their seats at the table one after another.
The shopkeeper of Haiweiju led the waiters to serve the dishes, carefully poured the wine, and after seeing the courtesy, he respectfully stepped out. At the same time, he told the waiter outside the door to guard the door and strictly prohibited anyone from approaching the box.
Of course the waiter didn't dare to neglect, and kept repeating his affirmations, let alone mentioning them for the time being.
At the same time, in the private room, Cao Bangning, the head of the Liaoyuan Cao family, also began to enthusiastically pour wine and add dishes to Liu Tianming, and warmly greeted him to eat and drink.
"Come, come, come~ Master Tianming, you only come here twice a year, it's rare for us to get together. Today, my brother is hosting, you can eat and drink as much as you want, brother, there are enough good dishes and good wine here Enough..."
"Master Tianming, try this. This is the top-quality fourth-order lobster just delivered from the sea today. It was specially cooked by the restaurant chef using a secret method. It is fragrant, smooth and tender, without any fishy smell. This It’s a specialty of Haiweiju, but you can’t get it anywhere else…”
"And this, this is one of the three treasures of the deep sea, the sea turtle fish. It is only found in this season every year..."
For this table of dishes, it can be said that Cao Bangning spent a lot of money. Money came second. The key was that the ingredients used in several dishes were tributes with very low production. Normally, even he would not be willing to eat more, but now, he used them all to entertain Liu Tianming.
The kitchen of Haiweiju has been busy since the night before, and it has been busy until now to prepare such a delicious and delicious banquet.
Liu Tianming lived up to his expectations and had a great time eating and drinking.
After three rounds of wine, the five flavors of food are gone.
Liu Tianming had almost finished eating, then he put down his wine cup and looked at Cao Bangning: "Master Bangning, today is really costing you~ Don't worry, I will definitely give you the best price for this year's grain prices. Would you rather me? If you make less money, you won’t suffer any loss.”
Liaoyuan County has a lot of people but little land, so 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 located right next to Liaoyuan County, has naturally become the main source of food for Liaoyuan County.
Liu Tianming travels between the east and the west on weekdays, and his business is food sales.
As one of the largest families in Liaoyuan Guard, the Cao family of Zifu naturally purchases a large amount of grain from him every year.
However, Cao Bangning was troubled when he heard this and couldn't help but cursed "old fox" secretly.
He didn't believe Liu Tianming didn't know what happened to Mr. Cao recently. When I say this now, it is clear that I am pretending to be ignorant and waiting for him to ask him in person~
But even though he knew this, he had no other choice but to put on a ashamed expression, and stood up to bow deeply to him: "Master Tianming, to be honest, I invite you here today, Lao Cao, In fact, we are asking each other for something. Considering that our two families have maintained a direct marriage for many years, please be sure to give me a hand."
"Oh~ Brother Cao, you are out of touch when you say this. We are all one family, how can we not ask for anything?" Liu Tianming quickly supported him, "Get up quickly. Do you want brother You tell me how I can help, brother, I will definitely help if I can."
He looked very enthusiastic on his face, but he was secretly proud of himself.
This old guy Cao Bangning relies on the fact that he is the head of a fifth-grade family, and his aunt is Cao Youqing, a core disciple of the Holy Land. He usually looks at people with his nostrils. Now if something goes wrong, shouldn't he have to blame him?
The two of them went back and forth for a long time, showing their "deep friendship" with "true feelings", and then finally stopped and started talking about business.
"Brother Tianming, didn't your youngest daughter marry into the Zuoqiu family? 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 a message to me? , ask your girl to help make peace."
"This..."
When he heard this, Liu Tianming, who had been so generous just now, suddenly looked embarrassed.
Joke~ He finally managed to marry his daughter into the direct lineage of the Zuoqiu family. It was because of this that the Zuoqiu family was willing to give him a portion of high-quality grain for sale.
He would not waste all the connections his family had managed to save just to ruin things for the Cao family.
Of course, he would not say that openly, but said tactfully: "Brother Cao, you also know that the Zuoqiu family is different from our aristocratic families. The head of the family is at least in the realm of heaven and human, and A family head lasts for one or two hundred years, which leads to a large number of direct descendants. Although my youngest daughter is married to a direct descendant, she is only a direct grandson, not the eldest grandson..."
Cao Bangning had known that he would not agree so easily, so he easily took out a gold ticket from the storage ring and stuffed it into his hand, saying sincerely: "Brother Tianming, you must help me! I You are the only one I can count on now! I don’t ask for anything else. I just want your daughter to intercede for me and ask the Zuoqiu clan’s Zifu ancestor to agree to meet and talk with my ancestor. That’s it. That's enough."
"Oh~ How can this be so embarrassing?"
Liu Tianming stroked the texture of the gold ticket and found that it was a purple gold ticket. The smile on his face suddenly became more sincere. Hearing again that Cao Bangning just wanted to talk to Zuoqiu, he immediately felt at ease.
He immediately collected the purple gold tickets and made a guarantee: "Brother Cao, don't worry, I will ask my daughter to help you when I get back. However, I can't guarantee whether the peace talks will be successful or not. . I have to make this clear to you in advance."
"Of course, of course. Brother Tianming has done me a great favor by agreeing. Whether this matter succeeds or not, I will not blame Brother Tianming."
Cao Bangning naturally nodded repeatedly without saying a word.
The two chatted for a few more words, and the meal was almost finished. Soon, Liu Tianming asked Shiran and left Haiweiju.
After he left, the forced smile on Cao Bangning's face finally couldn't hold on anymore and disappeared instantly.
"Hey~"
He sighed heavily, unable to help but feel worried.
This time my aunt rashly killed the Zuoqiu family's genius, which was a serious offense to the Zuoqiu family.
Although on the surface, if a family member joins the Holy Land or Academy, they are considered to be members of the Holy Land, and the family will not be implicated. But the Zuoqiu family lost a talented person, and was exposed to such a big scandal, and suddenly became the laughing stock in the eyes of many aristocratic families, how could they let it go?
If they can't do anything to the Holy Land, they will definitely vent their anger on the Cao family. Even if they don't take action openly, they will definitely punish Cao secretly.
Compared with the Zuoqiu family, who dominates Qing'an County and has four or five Zifu ancestors on the bright side of the family, the Cao family is just an ordinary fifth-grade family, with only one Zifu in the family. Not to mention the ancestor of the mansion, the foundation and industry he owned were completely crushed by the Zuoqiu clan.
If the Zuoqiu family really takes action to punish the Cao family, the Cao family will 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 Zifu ancestor above Zuoqiu Qingyun. If they can reach an agreement, although the Cao family will inevitably have to pay some price, it can be regarded as overcoming this disaster. If we can't reach an agreement...
Hey~
Cao Bangning couldn't help but sigh again.
This Liu Tianming acts quickly and cunningly, and his actions may not be reliable. He couldn't put all his money on Liu Tianming, so it was best to be prepared.
He paced with his hands behind his hands, thinking about countermeasures in his mind, and slowly walked out of Haiweiju.
"Congratulations to the head of the family."
At the entrance of Haiweiju, the shopkeeper and a group of waiters stood in a row respectfully. When he saw Cao Bangning entering the carriage, he breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had survived a disaster.
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The "gratitude and grudges" between the Zuoqiu family in Qing'an and the Cao family in Liaoyuan led to the change in the situation, which has nothing to do with Wang Shouzhe for the time being.
As Wang Shouzhe became a great genius and returned to the family after his troubles were resolved, he devoted himself to his intense work.
The Changning Wang Family, which has accumulated strength for more than 20 years, has finally embarked on a new round of expansion.
For Wang, this is an imperative development.
Although Wang's current annual income reaches millions of dry gold, aside from the massive expenses, he can still save a little two million dry gold. It seems to be a lot of money, but as the geniuses in the family gradually reach the realm of heaven and humanity, this small amount of funds will be stretched thin.
What's more, a new generation of young people in the Wang family is constantly being born. Under Wang's philosophy of having more children and raising more children, the unexpended expenses will become increasingly huge.
In addition, the total population of Pingan Town now exceeds 150,000, which is slightly crowded, and internal land reclamation and development have also encountered bottlenecks.
Only by inheriting the wishes of ancestor Zhou Xuan and opening up wasteland to foreign countries is the fundamental way to development.
Zhouxuan Pass!
It was a checkpoint built by ancestor Zhou Xuan with huge investment and countless efforts. It protected generations of Wang disciples and tens of thousands of people in Ping An Town.
Out of Zhouxuan Pass, there is a narrow cliff corridor, which is the only way to the outside of Ping'an Town.
For a long time, casual cultivators and disciples of aristocratic families have gone out to explore and adventure outside the territory from here. If you are unlucky, your body will be thrown into the wilderness. If you are lucky, you can get a lot of money.
A cement concrete road more than four feet wide is currently being laid in this corridor. (In Daqian Country, the word "foreign" has no positive or derogatory connotations, it only means goods from overseas.)
To build a cement road, you need to first use stones to tamp the dirt road, then put on a thick layer of gravel, then use stones to compact the gravel layer little by little, then use cement to pour the concrete layer, and The concrete surface is glossy.
The process is simple and simple, and the core material is cement.
Today, the price of cement sold by United Industry to the outside world is as high as about two coppers and fifty cents per load (one hundred catties), which is only half the price of ordinary grain.
It can be seen that cement is a luxury-grade construction material. Therefore, not every aristocratic family has the capital to build cement roads.
In Wang Shouzhe's plan.
This high-quality cement road called "Shouzhe Road" is more than four feet wide, can accommodate five carriages running parallel, and is a full eighty miles long! On Earth, a mere eighty miles of widened cement road would not be considered a big project.
But for Wang, the internal cost budget for this road has reached 216,000 gold, which will require 3,000 civilians, and the construction period will be 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 travel through the land outside the territory. At the end eighty miles away is an open canyon, which is a corridor terrain with two mountain ranges running parallel to each other.
Whenever you open up wasteland outside the territory, you must first choose the natural chasm to build the pass. Otherwise, no matter how well developed this land is, once the beast tide comes, it will be irresistible and the losses will be immeasurable.
To be honest, the current "Shouzheguan" construction site is not ideal.
After only conducting terrain surveys within a radius of two to three hundred miles, the Shouzheguan construction site can be considered as the best of the worst. The rest of the terrain is far inferior to the Shouzhe Pass construction point.
The reason why the "Shouzhe Pass" construction site is called unsatisfactory is mainly because the canyon corridor is too wide. For the relatively narrowest and most optimal construction point, the pass must be built ten miles wide!
A pass ten miles wide! Looking at the whole Daqian, it is also rare.
The "Zhouxuan Pass" that the Wang family had always been proud of was only over a hundred feet wide, far less than a mile wide.
It can be seen how majestic the "Shuzhe Pass" that has not yet been built is.
This is also one of the reasons why for more than a hundred years, no family nearby has opened up wasteland outside Zhouxuan Pass. The difficulty and cost of building a pass of that level are beyond the reach of an ordinary seventh-grade family.
In fact, most sixth-grade families may not be able to build one.
The reason why the Wang family, headed by Wang Shouzhe, dared to build the "Shouzhe Pass" ambitiously is that the Wang family's annual income is very high, and the second is that they have a lot of experience in concrete construction.
Estimated budget based on drawings.
This "Shouzhe Pass" plus the Wengcheng requires a total of 40 million tons of cement, 80 million tons of gravel, 2 million tons of steel bars smelted from crude iron, as well as walls and paving The number of high-quality thick stones reaches 90 million tons.
The number of people planned to participate in the project will reach 10,000.
The total construction period of "Shouzhe Pass" and its urn city alone will reach ten years, with a total cost of about 14 million dry gold. This does not include the cost of erecting divine cannons at Shouzhe Pass in the future.
(Lao Ao made a rough sketch of the manuscript, and briefly calculated the amount of work, the amount of materials and the cost. There is no way, Lao Ao was very unprofessional and worked as a project estimator for one or two years when he was young, and he even passed the exam Certificate, but the test was relatively simple at that time...therefore it was somewhat obsessive-compulsive.)
It is naturally impossible to transport such a large amount of engineering materials through the "Shouzhe Road". Firstly, the transportation volume is too large, and secondly, the transportation cost is too high.
Therefore, before building "Shouzhe Pass", it is necessary to build cement factories, quarries, civilian dormitories, etc. around the construction site.
Of course, these are not the biggest difficulties in overseas infrastructure construction.
The biggest difficulty actually comes from danger and uncertainty. Wang had to take advantage of this autumn and winter to conduct a large-scale sweep of "Shouzhe Pass" to eliminate all dangerous animals and plants.
While building the "Shouzhe Road", it is also necessary to continuously patrol and clean up the road to ensure the safety of the civilians who built the road.
Based on the above.
It is too difficult to rely entirely on the Wang family to open up wasteland.
The in-law alliance families headed by the Wang family have also joined in this large-scale land reclamation plan. Each family needs to allocate part of its manpower, mobilize the people under its jurisdiction to participate in the ranks of civilian husbands, and needs to bear part of the funds.
Of course, the Wang family contributed the most money, and among the 150,000 civilians under their rule, they also had the most people to mobilize. The Wang family will go all out to carry out this wave of overseas development and will gain the largest share of profits in the future.
Wang's machine is running rumble.
Longzuo County City, inside Tianyuan Danfang.
Wang Shouye, the alchemist trained by the family, is currently on his mission.
"Brother Wenshan, thank you for taking the time to refine these one hundred first-grade 'detoxification pills'. This is 2,500 dry gold. Please keep it."
"Brother Jingfu, thank you for taking the time to refine these two hundred first-grade "Healing Pills". These are four thousand gold tickets. Please keep them. I hope you can refine some more when you have time."
Otherland reclamation is a systematic project with high risks and uncertainties. Detoxifying Pills and Healing Pills are indispensable strategic materials. The former can resolve most low-level toxins, while the latter can effectively heal injuries and save lives. .
However, first-grade elixirs like this are only effective for Qi refining realms and mortals. It has almost no effect on Lingtai realm monks, and the reason is very simple. The jump and transformation of life levels make them more powerful, and even minor poisons and minor injuries can't help them.
But once they are all poisoned and injured, low-grade detoxification pills and healing pills will not be effective.
Therefore, you have to prepare a lot of third- and fourth-grade poison pills and fortune pills. Wang Shouye either refined some of these himself, or commissioned other high-level alchemists to refine them.
With Wang Shouye, a high-quality alchemist here, as long as Wang is willing to spend money, there will no longer be a shortage of elixirs below the fourth grade. Medicinal pills that are only Grade 4 or above may not be available in sufficient supply because the materials are precious and scarce.
In addition, Wang Shouye also refines the third-grade elixir "Qiling Pill" in batches. Occasionally getting a Qiling Pill often requires six to seven hundred gold. However, relying on the amethyst royal honey supplied by Luo Jing as the main material, Shouye can refine the "Qiling Pill" in large quantities, and the cost will also be reduced a lot.
For most families, Qiling Pill is not very effective.
Its greatest effect is to upgrade a scrap qualification that is close to low-grade qualification to low-grade D grade with a high probability.
Low-grade D-level qualifications are still the lowest among all Xuanwu monks, and the chance of breaking through to the Lingtai realm is very low. But after all, he can be regarded as a Xuanwu monk. Many ordinary family generals, and even many members of low-level families, are basically at this level.
In addition, Qiling Pill can slightly improve people with low-level qualifications. The lower the blood qualifications, the better the effect.
Of course, the first pill is effective, but the effect of the second pill is very weak.
But even so, the effectiveness of the Qiling Pill on the Wang family is immeasurable. The Wang family has its own spirit-measuring platform, which can roughly detect whether those who are not qualified for the first-class are close to the lower-class. If they are given the spirit-enlightening pill to cultivate, they can serve as clan military generals in the future, alleviating the embarrassing situation of Wang's shortage of manpower.
It is more or less useful in cultivating the bloodline of the clan members, which is better than nothing.
In addition to Wang Shouye stationed in the county, he purchased and refined elixirs and sent them back to the Wang family through Shouda Trading Company. The rest of the tribe is also working hard to run everything.
For example, Wang Zongyao, the family's weapon refiner, supervises the blacksmiths and craftsmen to make hoes, shovels, logging axes, and saw blades for clearing wasteland, as well as crossbows, spears, iron shields, and machetes for killing wild and dangerous beasts. Shotgun, iron sand, etc.
Wang Luotong and his wife, who are now in charge of Wang's large ranch, are breeding and training Northland heavy draft horses on a large scale, war horses for riding, and raising a large number of pigs, cattle and sheep to produce more flesh and provide More nutritional supplements for pioneers and farmers.
Not to mention relying on hunting to replenish the food, there are already fewer ferocious beasts in the nearby outer areas, and the wild meat obtained is not enough for the hunting team to replenish it.
In addition, Wang’s fishing team, Zhuwei Lake fish farming team, etc. have stopped selling fish and meat products to external parties. Instead, they were hoarded to support the teams opening up wasteland outside the territory to ensure their daily nutritional intake.
The focus of everything revolves around the major event of opening up wasteland outside the territory.
Time flies by.
Early October.
The sky is getting colder, and the green sky is turning to waxy yellow.
The construction of the "Shouzhe Road" outside the territory is in full swing. In just a few months, it has advanced to fifty miles away. The progress of the project is faster than the original plan.
Living in the royal family of the Wang family in Changning, he is still a passionate young man who can't rest. He volunteered to join the clearing and eradication team, leading a team of family generals and clan soldiers to patrol outside the territory and eliminate dangerous creatures all day long.
With his genius qualifications and good strength, he managed to live in a decent way and was already quite popular among the generals and soldiers.
Wang Wanghai has a mixture of love and hate for the Changning Wang family. What he loves is that there are so many fun things in this place, and the freshness comes one after another. What he hates is that the clan members of the Changning Wang family are all too senior, making him quite uncomfortable getting along with them.
Of course, there are also royal family members such as Wang Guangning and Wangwang Cheng who make him feel a little warmer. It's a pity that the "Shi" and "璎" generations of the Changning Wang family are still little kids. No matter how friendly the royal family feels, they won't hang out with little kids every day.
This day.
The royal family returned with a full load again and led the team to the garrison point.
Suddenly!
On the "Shouzhe Road", which has been more than half constructed and part of the road section put into use, a woman wearing a light green dress appeared. What was very strange was that she wore a weft hat on her head and hung around her waist. He was playing a flute and there was a string of bells hanging on his wrist.
Every time she took a step, she seemed to appear quietly a few feet away, and the crisp ringtone drifted away with the wind.
A gust of wind blew by, revealing half of her delicate and beautiful face.
In an instant, Wang Wanghai was fascinated by the sight. He felt as if he was electrocuted by this temperament.
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