Chapter 80: Diverting Trouble to the East! Opening up Wasteland Outside the Territory (Please Ask 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 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 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 them, a middle-aged man with an elegant temperament and dressed in brocade clothes, is Cao Bangning, the owner of this "Haiweiju" and the head of the Liaoyuan Cao family.

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 in Qing'an County.

The two of them took their seats at the table one after another.

The shopkeeper of Haiweiju led all 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.

Naturally, the waiter didn't dare to neglect, so he kept repeating his affirmations and put them aside for the time being.

At the same time, in the box, Cao Bangning, the head of the Liaoyuan Cao family, also began to pour wine and add dishes to Liu Tianming enthusiastically, 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 freely, brother, we have enough good food and good wine... …”

"Master Tianming, please 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 is considered a seafood restaurant. Specialties you can’t get 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.

And Liu Tianming lived up to his expectations and had a great time eating and drinking.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Liu Tianming had almost finished eating, then he put down his wine cup and looked at Cao Bangning: "Master Bangning, you really spent money today~ Don't worry, I will definitely give you the best price for this year's food prices. I would rather make less for myself." You won’t suffer at all.”

Liaoyuan County has many 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 west on weekdays, and his business is food sales.

As one of the largest families in Liaoyuan Guard, the Zifu Cao family 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 beg him in person~

But even though he knew this, he had no other choice but to put on a shameful expression, and stood up to bow deeply to him: "Master Tianming, to be honest, I invited you here today, Lao Cao, because I have something to do. I beg you. Seeing 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 a family, how can we ask for help?" Liu Tianming quickly supported him, "Get up. How do you want me to help, brother?" , you said, brother, I will definitely help you if I can."

He showed great enthusiasm on his face, but he was secretly proud of himself.

The 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 you? My girl can help me make peace."

"this……"

Upon hearing this, Liu Tianming, who had been so generous just now, suddenly looked embarrassed.

What a joke~ He finally managed to marry his daughter into the direct lineage of the Zuoqiu family. It was only because of this that the Zuoqiu family was willing to give him some high-quality grain for sale.

He would not waste all the contacts his family had managed to save just for Cao's troubles.

Of course, he would not say this openly, but said tactfully: "Brother Cao, you also know that the Zuoqiu family is different from ours. The head of the family is at least in the realm of heaven and human, and the first head of the family is One or two hundred years have led 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! What can I count on now?" It’s just you! 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 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 put away the purple gold ticket 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 reconciliation will be successful or not. This matter I have to tell you clearly 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 in the family, the Cao family is just an ordinary fifth-grade family, with only one Zifu ancestor in the family. Not to mention, the foundation and industry he owned were completely crushed by the Zuoqiu clan.

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 Zi Mansion 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 agree...

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 master 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 the troubles were over, he devoted himself to his intense work.

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

For Wang, this is an inevitable development.

Even though Wang's annual income now reaches millions of dry gold, aside from the massive expenses, he can still save a little over 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, new generations of young people in the Wang family are 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 Ping An Town has exceeded 150,000, which is slightly crowded, and internal land reclamation and development have also encountered bottlenecks.

Only by inheriting the aspirations 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 family disciples and tens of thousands of people in Ping'an Town.

Coming 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.

Currently, a cement concrete road more than four feet wide is 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 use stones to tamp the dirt road first, 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 polish the concrete surface. Surface treatment.

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 shuttle 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.

When opening up wasteland outside the territory, the first choice is to build passes in natural chasms. 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.

However, after conducting a terrain survey 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 "Shouzheguan" construction site is called unsatisfactory 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 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.

Even 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 was because, first, the Wang family's annual income was very high, and secondly, it had 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 high-quality thick walls and high-quality walls. The stones amounted to 90 million tons.

It is planned that the number of people participating in the project will reach 10,000.

The total construction period of "Shouzheguan" 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. When he was young, Lao Ao worked as a project estimator for a year or two in an unprofessional way, and he even passed the certification test. But At that time, the research was relatively simple...therefore it was somewhat obsessive-compulsive.)

It is naturally impossible to transport such a huge 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 difficulties actually come 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 the road to ensure the safety of the civilians who built the road.

Based on the above.

It is really 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, 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 started rumbling.

Longzuo County City, inside Tianyuan Danfang.

Wang Shouye, the alchemist who was the focus of the family's training, was on his mission.

"Brother Wenshan, thank you for taking the time to refine these one hundred first-grade 'antidote 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". Please keep these four thousand dry gold tickets. I hope you can refine some more when you have time."

Land reclamation outside the territory is a systematic project with high risks and uncertainties. Detoxifying Pills and Healing Pills are both indispensable strategic materials. The former can resolve most low-level toxins, and 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, it is necessary to prepare a lot of third- and fourth-grade poison-repelling pills and good 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 quantities 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 a low-grade qualification to a low-grade D grade with a high probability.

Although the low-grade D-level qualification is still the lowest qualification among all Xuanwu monks, 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, the Spirit-enlightening Pill can slightly improve those with low-level qualifications. The lower the blood qualifications, the better the effect.

Of course, the first pill of Qiling Pill is effective, and the effect of taking the second pill is very weak.

But even so, the effect of Qiling Pill on Wang's 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 Ling Qi 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, supervised the blacksmiths and craftsmen to create hoes, shovels, logging axes, and saw blades for clearing wasteland, as well as crossbows, spears, iron shields, machetes, shotguns, and iron sand for killing wild and dangerous beasts. wait.

Wang Luotong and his wife, who are now in charge of Wang's ranch, are breeding and training heavy draft horses in the north, war horses for riding, and raising a large number of pigs, cattle and sheep on a large scale to produce more bodies for pioneers and pioneers. Folks need more nutritional supplements.

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 matter of land reclamation outside the territory.

Time flew by.

Early October.

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

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

After all, he is a passionate young man who lives in the royal family of the Wang family in Changning. 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 talent as a genius and good strength, he managed to live a decent life 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 the royal family members Wangwang Ning and Wangwang Cheng who make him feel a little warmer. It's a pity that the Changning Wang family's "Shi" and "璎" generations are still little kids. No matter how friendly the royal family feels, they won't hang out with little kids every day.

This day.

Royal Hai 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 was wearing a weft hat with a weft hat hanging on her waist. The flute, and a string of bells hung on Hao's wrist.

Every time she took a step, she seemed to appear silently a few feet away, and the clear ringtone drifted away in the wind.

A gust of wind blew by, revealing half of her delicate and clear 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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