Protect Our Patriarch

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Liaoyuan County, home to seafood.

"Haiweiju" is a thousand-year-old restaurant, and it is also the most luxurious and high-end restaurant in Liaoyuan County. The main product is a variety of seafood delicacies.

Its history can almost be traced back to when Liaoyuan County just opened up wasteland.

The reason why it can stand for so many years is because the owner behind it is the Liaoyuan Cao family, a fifth-grade purple mansion family.

this day.

The seafood on the top floor, with the best scenery and the most luxuriously decorated box, welcomed two distinguished guests.

One of them, dressed in brocade clothes and elegant temperament, was Cao Bangning, the owner of this "Daiweiju" and the Patriarch of the Cao family in Liaoyuan.

The other sharp-mouthed monkey cheek with a shrewd temperament and a small moustache on his chin is Liu Tianming, the head of the Liu family of the sixth family in Qing'an County.

The two people took a seat in the table one after another.

The shopkeeper of Haiweiju brought all the staff to prepare the dishes, carefully poured the wine, and retired respectfully after seeing the gift, and at the same time told Xiaoer outside the door to guard the door and strictly prohibit anyone from approaching the box.

Xiao Er naturally didn't dare to neglect, so he packed up the tickets one after another and didn't mention it.

At the same time, in the box, Cao Bangning, the owner of the Liaoyuan Cao family, also began to enthusiastically pour wine and add vegetables to Liu Tianming, and warmly greeted him to eat and drink.

"Come and come~ Patriarch Tianming, you only come here twice a year. We are rare to get together. Today, brother is a host, although you open up to eat, open up to drink, brother here is enough for good food and good wine... "

"Patriarch Tianming, try this. This is the top-grade Tier 4 lobster just delivered from the sea today. It is specially cooked by the chef of the restaurant with a secret method. It is delicious and smooth, without the slightest smell. This is regarded as a seafood residence. You can’t eat other specialties..."

"And this, this is one of the three treasures of the deep sea, Haitu Lingyu. Only in this season of the year..."

For this table of dishes, Cao Bangning can be said to have paid a lot of money. The money is the second best thing. The key is that there are several dishes in which the ingredients are tributes with very little output. He usually doesn't want to eat too much, but now, they all use them to entertain Liu Tianming.

And Haiweiju’s kitchen has been busy since the night before, and it has been so busy until now that such a table of delicious banquets has been renovated.

And Liu Tianming did live up to expectations, eating and drinking very much.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Liu Tianming had almost eaten, so he put down the wine cup and looked at Cao Bangning: "Patriarch Bangning, today is really costing you~ Don’t worry, I will give you the best price for this year’s food price. I would rather make less money myself. It won’t hurt you at all."

Liaoyuan County has more people and less land, and a considerable part of the food consumed every year needs to be purchased from other counties. Among them, known as the "granary" of Dagan, and located in Qing'an County next to Liaoyuan County, naturally it has 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 Liaoyuanwei, the Cao family in Zifu buys food from him every year is naturally not a small amount.

However, when Cao Bangning heard this, he was embarrassed and couldn't help but yelled "Old Fox" in secret.

He didn't believe Liu Tianming would not know what happened to the Cao family recently. Saying this now, it is clear that I am trying to understand and be confused, waiting for him to ask him in person~

But even if he knew this, he had no other way. He had no choice but to put on an expression of shame, and bowed deeply to him when he stood up and gestured: "Tianming Patriarch, let's not hide it, old Cao, I invite you to come today, but there is something wrong. Seeking each other. Seeing that our two families have maintained a straight line of marriage for many years, please do not hesitate to give me a hand."

"Oh~ Brother Cao, you just said this. It's all a family, why don't you ask for anything?" Liu Tianming quickly helped him, "Get up. How do you want my brother to help me? , You said, brother, if I can help, I will definitely help."

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

This old fellow Cao Bangning relied on being the head of the fifth-grade family, and his aunt was Cao Youqing, the core disciple of the Holy Land. He usually used his nostrils to see people. Now that something happened, didn't he have to ask him?

The two of you came to me for a long time, and showed the "deep friendship" between the two sides in a "true feeling", and then finally stopped and started talking about business.

"Brother Tianming, isn't your youngest daughter married into the Zuoqiu clan? I heard that it's still a protagonist." Cao Bangning poured a glass of wine for Liu Tianming and said, "Look, can you give me a message and let you The girl helps to make peace."

"This one…"

Upon hearing this, Liu Tianming, who was so bold just now, suddenly looked embarrassed.

A joke~ he finally married his daughter into the Zuoqiu family's lineage, and it was only by this that Zuoqiu would be willing to allocate a portion of the high-quality food to him and sell it abroad.

He wouldn't consume the personal connections that his family had so hard to accumulate for the trouble of Cao's family.

Of course, he would definitely not say that on the face of it, but euphemistically said: "Brother Cao, you also know that Zuoqiu is different from our aristocratic families. The head of the family is at least in the realm of heaven and human, and the head of the family is One or two hundred years, resulting in a large number of direct descendants. Although my youngest daughter is married to a direct descendant, she is only a direct grandson, not a direct 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, saying sincerely: "Brother Tianming, you must help me! I can count on it now. You are the only one! I don’t ask for anything else, as long as you ask your girl to help me make love, and ask Zuoqiu’s ancestor of the Purple Mansion to agree to meet and talk with our ancestor, that’s enough. "

"Oh~ why is this so embarrassing?"

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

He immediately put the Zijin ticket away and set up a package ticket: "Brother Cao, don't worry, I will ask my girl to help you when I go back. However, I can't guarantee that I will make peace when I say peace. I can't guarantee it. This matter. I have to tell you clearly in advance."

"Of course of course. Brother Tianming is already helping me by agreeing. Regardless of whether this happens or not, I won't blame Brother Tianming."

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 any longer and disappeared instantly.

"Hey~"

He sighed heavily and couldn't help feeling worried.

This time the aunt rushed to kill Zuoqiu's Tianjiao, which could be regarded as offending Zuoqiu's family.

Although on the surface, the children of the family who join the Holy Land or the Academy are regarded as the people of the Holy Land, and the family side can not be involved. But the Zuoqiu clan lost a Tianjiao and was exposed to such a big scandal, and suddenly became a laughing stock in the eyes of many families. How could he give up?

They can't help the holy land, they will definitely take the Cao clan to anger. Even if he didn't take action on the face, he would definitely sanction the Cao clan secretly.

Compared with the Zuoqiu clan who ruled Qing'an County, there are four or five Zifu ancestors on the bright side of the clan, the Cao clan is just an ordinary fifth-grade family, and there is only one lone Zifu ancestor in the family. Not to mention, the foundation and industry he possessed was completely crushed by the Zuoqiu family.

If the Zuoqiu clan really took action to sanction the Cao clan, the Cao clan would not be able to resist it at all.

Now, the safest way he can think of is to ask his ancestors to come forward and talk with the ancestor of the Purple Mansion 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 act may not be reliable. He can't bet all the treasure on Liu Tianming, it is best to prepare with both hands.

He paced with his hands in his hands, while thinking about the countermeasures in his mind, he paced slowly out of the seafood house.

"Respectfully send to the owner."

At the door of Haiweiju, the shopkeeper and a group of guys stood in a row respectfully. He had been waiting to see Cao Bangning getting into the carriage before he let out a long sigh of relief, as if he had survived a trance in a trance.

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

As Wang Shouzhe became a great arrogant, but returned to his family after his troubles, he devoted himself to the intense work.

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

For Wang, this is an imperative development.

Regardless of the fact that Wang's annual income has reached millions of dry gold, he can save two million dry gold aside from massive expenses. It seems that there are a lot of them, but with the Tianjiao in the family, after the big Tianjiao gradually reach the realm of heaven and human, this little amount of funds will be stretched.

What's more, the younger generation of Wang's young people are constantly being born. Under Wang's concept of multiple births and better education, the unpaid expenses will become larger and larger.

In addition, the total population of Ping An Town today has exceeded 150,000, which is slightly crowded, and its internal reclamation and development have also encountered bottlenecks.

Only by inheriting the wishes of Zhou Xuan's ancestors, opening up wasteland to the outside world is the fundamental way of development.

Zhou Xuanguan!

It was the level built by Zhou Xuan ancestors who spent huge sums of money and effort. It sheltered generations of Wang's disciples and the tens of thousands of people in Ping'an Town.

Going out of Zhouxuan Pass is a narrow cliff corridor, which is the only way to go outside the territory of Ping An Town.

For a long time, casual cultivators and children of aristocratic families have traveled out of here to explore and take risks. If you are unlucky, you will throw the corpse into the wilderness. If you are lucky, you can get a lot of money.

Now in this corridor, a cement concrete road more than four feet wide is being paved. (In major countries, foreign characters have no commendatory or derogatory meaning, and only represent commodities from overseas.)

To build a cement road, it is necessary to first ram the dirt road with stone, then pour a thick cushion of gravel, and then use stone to ram the gravel sub-layer a little bit, then use cement to pour the concrete layer, and lighten the surface of the concrete.面处理。 Surface treatment.

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

Nowadays, the price of cement sold by United Industrial Co., Ltd. (100 catties) is as high as two pieces of copper and 50 jiao, which is only half the price of ordinary grain.

It can be seen that cement is a luxury-grade construction material. Therefore, not every 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 and can accommodate five carriages in parallel, and the length has reached a full eighty li! If it is changed to the earth, the widening of the cement road in a mere 80 li is not a big project.

But for Wang, the internal cost budget for this road has reached 216,000 dry gold, and 3,000 civilians will be used before and after, and the construction period will reach six months.

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

It will shuttle on the land outside the region, and at the end of eighty miles away is an open canyon skygrass, which is the terrain of the corridor passing by two mountains side by side.

Whenever you open up wasteland outside the territory, you must first choose the place of the sky to build the pass. Otherwise, no matter how well this piece of land is developed, once the beast tide arrives, it will be irresistible, and the loss will be immeasurable.

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

Only after the terrain survey within two to three hundred miles, the construction site of Shouzhe Pass is already considered to be as inferior as possible. The rest of the terrain is far inferior to the construction site of Shouzhe Pass.

The "Shouzhe Pass" construction site is called unsatisfactory mainly because the canyon corridor is too wide. Relative to the narrowest and most optimal construction site, the pass must be built to be ten miles wide!

Ten miles wide pass! It's rare to see the whole big job.

The "Zhou Xuan Pass", which the Wang family had always been proud of, had a total width of less than one hundred feet, which was far less than one mile wide.

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

This is also one of the reasons why there has been no family in the vicinity for more than a hundred decades, and it has opened up wasteland outside of Zhouxuan Pass. The difficulty and cost of construction of that level of pass is by no means the ordinary seventh-grade family can afford to build.

Even almost, the vast majority of sixth-rank aristocratic families are not necessarily able to build.

The Wang family, headed by Wang Shouzhe, dared to ambitiously build the "Shouzhe Pass" because firstly, the total annual income of the Wang family is very high, and secondly, they have a lot of experience in concrete construction.

Estimated after drawing budget.

This "Shouzheguan" plus Wengcheng requires a total of 40 million pallets of cement, 80 million pallets of gravel, 2 million pallets of steel bars smelted with thick iron, and high-quality barriers and paving. The stones reached 90 million dan.

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

The total construction period of "Shouzhe Pass" and its Weng City alone will reach ten years, and the total cost is about 14 million dry gold. This does not include the cost of erecting supernatural cannons on Shouzhe Pass in the future.

(Lao Ao drew a rough sketch of the manuscript, and briefly calculated the amount of engineering, material quantity and cost. No way, Lao Ao was very unprofessional as a project budgeter for one or two years when he was young. At that time, the textual research was relatively simple...it was somewhat obsessive.)

It is naturally impossible to transport such a large engineering material through the "Shouzhe Road". First, the transportation volume is too large, and the second is that the transportation cost is too high.

Therefore, before the construction of the "Shouzhe Pass", it is necessary to build a cement factory, a quarry, and a dormitory for civil servants around the construction site.

Of course, these are not the biggest difficulties for infrastructure construction outside the region.

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 the "Shouzhe Pass" to eliminate 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 build the road.

Based on the above.

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

The in-law alliance family headed by Wang has also joined this large-scale land reclamation plan. Each family needs to allocate a portion of its staff and mobilize the people under its jurisdiction to participate in the ranks of the civil servants, and need to bear a portion of the funds.

Of course, Wang's investment is the most, and among the 150,000 civilians under his control, the civilians who can mobilize are also the most. Wang will go all out to carry out this wave of extraterritorial development, and will obtain the largest share of benefits in the future.

Wang's machine rumblingly started.

Longzuo County City, Tianyuan Danfang.

As the family's key training alchemist Wang Shouye, he is carrying out his mission.

"Brother Wenshan, thank you for taking the time to refine this one hundred first-grade'Detox Pill'. This is two thousand five hundred dry gold. Please collect it."

"Brother Jing Fu, thank you for taking the time to refine the two hundred first-grade "Healing Pills". This is the four thousand dry gold tickets. Please collect them. I hope you can refine more when you have time."

Reclamation outside the territory is a highly dangerous and uncertain system engineering. Both Jiedu Pill and Healing Pill are indispensable strategic materials. The former can dissolve most low-level toxins, and the latter can effectively heal injuries and protect lives.

However, this kind of first-grade pill is only effective for the refinement realm and mortals. It has almost no effect on the cultivators of the Lingtai Realm, and the reason is also very simple. The transition and transformation of life levels make them stronger, and small poisons and small injuries are nothing to them.

But once they are poisoned and injured, it is not the low-grade Detoxification Pill and Healing Pill that are effective.

Therefore, some third-grade and fourth-grade poisonous pills and good luck pills have to be prepared a lot. These were either made by Wang Shouye himself, or entrusted with other high-rank alchemists.

With Wang Shouye, a high-quality alchemist, as long as Wang Clan is willing to spend money, there will be no shortage of pills below Grade 4. There are only four products or more than four products because the materials are precious and scarce, so they cannot be supplied in sufficient quantity.

In addition, Wang Shouye also refined the third-level pill "Qing Ling Pill" in batches, and occasionally getting a Qi Ling Pill, often requires six to seven hundred dry gold. However, Shouye relied on the amethyst bee and royal honey supplied by Luojing as the main material to refine the "Qing Ling Pill" in large quantities, and the cost would also drop a lot.

For most families, Qi Ling Pill is not very effective.

Its greatest effect is to upgrade a waste product qualification that is close to the inferior product qualification to the inferior product qualification with a high probability.

Although it was still the lowest qualification among all basalt cultivators, the chance of breaking through the Lingtai realm was very low. But in the end, he can be regarded as a basalt monk. Many ordinary family generals, and even many low-grade family members, are basically at this level.

In addition, the Qi Ling Pill can also slightly improve those who are originally low-grade aptitude, and the lower the blood aptitude, the better the effect.

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

But even so, the effect of Qi Ling Pill on Wang Clan is immeasurable. The Wang clan has its own spiritual testing platform, which can roughly detect whether those who are not qualified to enter the grade are close to the low-level. If the Qi Ling Pill is given to train, it can serve as a clan soldier in the future and alleviate the embarrassing situation of Wang clan's shortage of manpower.

For the blood culture of the tribe, it is more or less effective, which is better than nothing.

In addition to Wang Shouye stationed in the county town, purchasing and refining pills, and sending them back to Wang through Shouda Commercial Bank. The rest of the tribe are also working hard to operate everything.

For example, the family refiner Wang Zongyao supervised the blacksmiths and craftsmen to build hoes, shovels, wood axes, saw blades for land reclamation, as well as bows, crossbows and arrows, long spears, iron shields, machetes, shotguns, and iron sand for clearing beasts. Wait.

Now, the two Wang Luotong and his wife who are in charge of the Wang’s ranch are large-scale breeding and training of heavy-duty horses in the north, riding war horses, and breeding a large number of pigs, cattle, and sheep to produce more flesh for the pioneers and Folks have more nutritional supplements.

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

In addition, Wang’s fishing team, Zhuwei Lake fish farming team, etc., have stopped selling fish and meat products to the outside world. Rather, they are hoarding to support the teams that open up wasteland outside the territory to ensure their daily nutrient intake.

The focus of everything, UU Reading www. Uukanshu.com revolves around the major event of land reclamation outside the territory.

Time flies by.

Early October.

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

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

Living in the royal sea of ​​the Wang family in Changning, after all, he is also a passionate young man who can't stay idle. Actively invited Ying to join the wasteland reclamation team, with a team of generals and clan soldiers, patrolling outside the territory and eradicating dangerous creatures all day long.

With Tianjiao's aptitude and good strength, it made him look good, and he was already quite loved by family generals and clan soldiers.

The Royal Family Sea loves and hates Changning Wang Clan. What he loves is that there are too many fun things in this place, and there are waves of freshness. What hates him is that Changning Wang's family members are all too high, and he is quite uncomfortable to get along with.

Of course, there are also royal family Ning, royal family Cheng, etc. that make him feel a little kind. It's a pity that Changning Wang's "Shi" and "璎" generations are still petty kids. Even if his royal family feels kind, he won't be mixed with petty kids every day.

This day.

The royal family returned home again, leading the team to the stationing point.

Suddenly!

On the "Shouzhe Road" where more than half of it has been built and part of the road section is put into use, a woman wearing a pale green dress appeared. What is very strange is that she is wearing a weft hat on her head and a stick hanging from her waist. Dizi, there is a string of bells hanging on Hao's wrist.

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

A gust of wind blew, revealing half of Qingyan's face.

Suddenly, the royal family was stunned, and he felt as if he was electrocuted by this temperament.

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