Protect Our Patriarch - Chapter 375

[Chapter 80: Misfortunes are drawn to the east!]

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Liaoyuan County, seafood home.

“Seafood House” is a thousand-year-old restaurant, and it is also the most luxurious and high-end restaurant in Liaoyuan County. Its main products are all kinds of seafood delicacies.

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

The reason why it has been able to stand for so many years is because the owner behind it is the Cao Clan of Liaoyuan, a five-rank purple mansion family.

this day.

On the top floor of the Seafood House, with the best view and the most luxuriously decorated box, two distinguished guests were ushered in.

One of them, a middle-aged man dressed in brocade clothes and elegant temperament, is the owner of this “sea food house”, the owner of the Cao family in Liaoyuan, Cao Bangning.

Another sharp-mouthed monkey with a shrewd temperament and a moustache on his chin is Liu Tianming, the head of the Liu family of the sixth-grade family in Qing’an County.

The two took their seats one after another.

The shopkeeper of Haiweiju brought all the staff to order the dishes, carefully poured the wine, and respectfully withdrew after seeing the ceremony.

Xiao Er naturally didn’t dare to neglect, and made a lot of promises not to mention it for the time being.

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

“Come come come ~ Tianming Patriarch, you only come here twice a year, it’s rare for us to get together. Today, brother is the host, you can eat and drink openly, brother, you have enough good food and good wine… …”

“Patriarch Tianming, try this. This is the top-quality fourth-order lobster lobster that was just delivered from the sea today. It was specially cooked by the chef of the restaurant with a secret method. It is delicious and tender, without any fishy smell. This is a seafood house. special dishes that you can’t get anywhere else…”

“And this, this is one of the three treasures of the deep sea, the sea tea spirit fish. It is only available in this season every year…”

For this table of dishes, Cao Bangning can be said to have invested heavily.

Money is the second priority. The key is that the ingredients used in several dishes are tributes with very little output. Usually he is reluctant to eat more, but now, all of them are used to entertain Liu Tianming.

And the kitchen of Haiweiju has been busy since the night before, and it has been busy until now, and only then has such a table full of flavors and fragrances come out.

And Liu Tianming really lived up to his expectations, eating and drinking quite happily.

Three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

Liu Tianming was almost done eating, so he put down the wine cup and looked at Cao Bangning: “Patriarch Bangning, today is really a waste of money for you~ You can rest assured, I will give you the best price for this year’s food prices, 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, the so-called “granary” of Dagan, and Qing’an County, which is next to Liaoyuan County, has naturally become the main source of grain for Liaoyuan County.

Liu Tianming travels between east and west on weekdays, and he is in the business of selling food.

As one of the largest aristocratic families in Liaoyuanwei, the Cao clan of Zifu naturally buys not a small amount of food from him every year.

However, when Cao Bangning heard this, he felt a stumbling block in his heart, and couldn’t help but scolded “Old Fox” secretly.

He didn’t believe that Liu Tianming would not know what happened to the Cao family recently.

Saying this at this moment, it is obvious that he is confused when he understands, waiting for him to ask him in person~

But even if he knew this, he had no other choice, so he put on an expression of shame, stood up and bowed deeply to him: “Patriarch Tianming, to be honest, Lao Cao, I invited you today, but there is something wrong. Seeing that our two families have maintained a direct marriage for many years, I also ask you to pull my brother and me. ”

“Aiya~ Brother Cao, you’re out of sight when you say this. We’re all a family, so what do you ask for?” Liu Tianming hurriedly supported him, “Get up. How do you want my brother to help? , you said, brother, if I can help, I will definitely help.”

He had a very enthusiastic look on his face,

My heart was secretly smug.

This old guy, Cao Bangning, relied on himself to be the head of the fifth-grade family, and his aunt was also the core disciple of the Holy Land, Cao Youqing. He usually used his nostrils to look at people. Now that something happened, shouldn’t he have to ask him?

The two of you came and I saw each other for a long time, and showed a “deep friendship” between the two sides with “true feelings”, and then finally stopped and began to talk about business.

“Brother Tianming, isn’t your youngest daughter married to the Zuoqiu clan? I heard that it is still in the direct line.” Cao Bangning poured Liu Tianming a glass of wine and said, “Look, can you give me a message for you The girl can help you talk and make up.”

“this……”

Hearing this, Liu Tianming, who was still very forthright just now, suddenly looked embarrassed.

Joke~ He managed to marry his daughter into the Zuoqiu clan’s direct line, which is why Zuoqiu clan was willing to give him a part of the high-quality grain to sell to him.

He wouldn’t consume the connections he had finally saved for Cao’s troubles.

Of course, he definitely wouldn’t say that on the bright side, but said euphemistically: “Brother Cao, you know that Zuoqiu’s family is different from us. 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 grandson…”

Cao Bangning knew that he would not agree so easily, so he took out a golden 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. It’s only you! I don’t ask for anything else, just ask your daughter to help me with a relationship, and ask Zuoqiu’s Zifu ancestor to agree to meet and talk with my ancestor, that’s enough. ”

“Oh~ what’s so funny?”

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 much more sincere.

Hearing that Cao Bangning just wanted to talk to Zuoqiu, his heart was settled.

He immediately put away the Zijin ticket and made a package ticket: “Brother Cao, don’t worry, I will definitely ask my daughter to help you talk when I go back. However, I can’t guarantee whether the reconciliation will be successful or not. I have to tell you in advance.”

“Of course, of course. Brother Tianming has already helped me a lot by agreeing. Whether it is successful or not, I will not blame Brother Tianming.”

Naturally, Cao Bangning nodded again and again without saying a word.

The two chatted for a while, 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 hold it any longer and disappeared instantly.

“Hey~”

He sighed heavily and couldn’t help but feel worried.

This time, the aunt rashly shot to kill the Zuoqiu clan Tianjiao, which can be regarded as an offense to the Zuoqiu clan.

Although it was explained on the surface, if the family members joined the Holy Land or the Academy, they were considered people of the Holy Land, and the family side could not be involved.

But the Zuoqiu Clan lost a darling, and was exposed to such a big scandal, and suddenly became a laughing stock in the eyes of many aristocratic families, how could they just let it go?

They can’t do anything about the Holy Land, and they will definitely piss off Cao’s.

Even if he doesn’t act on the surface, he will definitely punish the Cao family secretly.

Compared with the Zuoqiu clan, who dominated Qing’an County and had four or five ancestors of the Zifu family on the bright side of the clan, the Cao clan was nothing more than an ordinary fifth-rank family, and there was only one ancestor of the Zifu family alone in the family. Not to mention, the heritage and industry they possess have been completely crushed by Zuoqiu’s clan.

If the Zuoqiu Clan really took action against Cao Clan, the Cao Clan would not be able to resist.

Now, the safest way he can think of is to invite his ancestor to come forward and talk to the ancestor of Zifu above Zuoqiu Qingyun.

If we can negotiate, although Cao’s will inevitably have to pay some price, it can be considered to have survived this disaster.

If we can’t talk…

hey~

Cao Bangning couldn’t help but sighed again.

This Liu Tianming acted quickly and cunningly, and his actions may not be reliable.

He couldn’t bet all on Liu Tianming, so he had better prepare with both hands.

He paced with his hands behind his back, thinking about the countermeasures in his mind, while pacing slowly out of Haiweiju.

“Congratulations to the master.”

At the door of Haiweiju, the shopkeeper and a group of guys stood in a row respectfully.

He didn’t let out a long sigh of relief until he saw Cao Bangning got into the carriage, as if he had survived a catastrophe.

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The “grievances and entanglements” between the Zuoqiu clan in Qing’an and the Cao clan in Liaoyuan led to a change in the situation, which has nothing to do with Wang Shouzhe for the time being.

As Wang Shouzhe became a great arrogance, but after returning to the family with troubles, he devoted himself to the intense work.

The Changning Wang Clan, who had accumulated strength for more than 20 years, finally started a new round of expansion.

For Wang, this is an imperative development.

Don’t look at the fact that Wang’s current annual income reaches millions of dry gold, but aside from the massive expenses, he can save a small two million dry gold.

It seems that there are a lot of them, but with the Tianjiao at home, after the big Tianjiao gradually reaches the realm of heaven and man, this little bit of funds will be stretched.

What’s more, a new generation of Wang’s young people are constantly being born.

Under Wang’s concept of multiple births and prenatal care, the unopened expenses will become more and more huge.

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

The only way to develop is to inherit the will of Zhou Xuan’s ancestors and open up wasteland to the outside world.

Zhou Xuanguan!

It was a checkpoint built by Zhou Xuan’s ancestors with huge sums of money and countless painstaking efforts. It sheltered generations of Wang’s disciples and tens of thousands of people in Ping’an Town.

When you get out of Zhouxuan Pass, there is a narrow cliff corridor, which is the only way to go outside the territory in the direction of Ping’an Town.

For a long time, loose cultivators and disciples of noble families have gone abroad to explore and adventure from here.

With bad luck, the corpse will be thrown into the wilderness.

If you are lucky, you can get a lot of money.

Now, in this corridor, a cement concrete road with a width of more than 40 feet is being laid.

(In the country of Daqian, foreign words have no positive or negative connotations, but only represent goods from overseas.)

The construction of the cement road requires first ramming the soil road with stone rollers, then throwing on a thick gravel cushion, then using a stone roller to compact the gravel layer a little, and then pouring the concrete layer with cement, and lightening the concrete surface. face treatment.

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

Today, the price of cement sold by United Industries is as high as 50 cents per load (100 catties), which is only half the price of ordinary grain.

It can be seen that cement is a luxury building material.

Therefore, not every family has the capital to build the gray road.

In Wang Shouzhe’s plan.

This high-quality gray road called “Shouzhe Road” is more than 40 feet wide and can accommodate five carriages running side by side, and its length has reached a full 80 miles!

On earth, widening the cement road for a mere 80 miles is not a big project.

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

It will shuttle across the extraterritorial land, and at the end of it eighty miles away is an open canyon, which is a corridor terrain that is crossed by two mountains in parallel.

Whenever you open up wasteland outside the territory, you must first choose the land of moat to build a pass.

Otherwise, no matter how well developed this piece of land is, once the beast tide is irresistible, the loss will be immeasurable.

To be honest, today’s “Shouzheguan” construction site is not ideal.

Just after a topographical survey within a radius of two or three hundred miles, the construction site of Shouzhe Pass was considered to be the best of the worst.

The rest of the terrain is far inferior to the construction site of Shouzhe Pass.

The reason why the “Shouzheguan” construction site is called unsatisfactory is mainly because the canyon corridor is too wide.

Relative to the narrowest and best construction point, the pass has to be built ten miles wide!

A ten-mile-wide pass!

It is rare to see the whole big dry.

The “Zhou Xuan Pass”, which the Wang family had always been proud of, had a total width of just over a hundred feet, far less than a mile wide.

It can be seen how majestic the “Shouzhe Pass” that has not been built yet.

This is also one of the reasons why there has been no family in the vicinity for more than 100 decades to open up wasteland outside Zhou Xuanguan.

The difficulty and cost of constructing a pass of that level is by no means affordable for an ordinary seventh-rank family.

In fact, the vast majority of sixth-grade aristocratic families are not necessarily able to build.

The reason why the Wang family headed by Wang Shouzhe dares to build the “Shouzhe Pass” is that firstly, the total annual income of Wang’s family is very high, and secondly, he has a lot of experience in concrete construction.

Estimated by drawing budget.

This “Shouzhe Pass” plus the Weng City requires a total of 40 million dan of cement, 80 million dan of crushed stone, 2 million dan of steel smelted from crude iron, and high-quality thick walls and paving. The stones amounted to 90 million dan.

The number of people planned to participate in the project will reach 10,000.

The total construction period of “Shouzheguan” and its Wengcheng alone will reach ten years, and the total cost is about 14 million dry gold.

This does not include the need to set up Shenwei Cannon on Shouzhe Pass in the future.

(Lao Ao made a rough sketch of the manuscript, and made a brief calculation of the engineering quantity, material quantity and cost. No way, when Lao Ao was young, he was very unprofessional and worked as a project budgeter for one or two years, and he also passed the exam, but At that time, the research was relatively simple…it was somewhat obsessive-compulsive.)

It is naturally impossible to transport such a huge amount of engineering materials through the “Shouzhe Road”. First, the transportation volume is too large, and second, the transportation cost is too high.

Therefore, before the construction of “Shouzhe Pass”, it is necessary to build a cement factory, a quarry, and a dormitory for the people around the construction site.

Of course, these are not the biggest difficulties in developing infrastructure outside the region.

The biggest difficulty actually comes from danger and uncertainty.

The Wang family had to take advantage of this autumn and winter to carry out 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 laborious.

The in-law alliance family headed by the Wang family has also joined this plan to open up wasteland. Each family needs to allocate a part of the manpower, and mobilize the people under its jurisdiction to participate in the team of civilian husbands, and need to bear part of the funds.

Of course, among them, the Wang family contributed the most, and among the 150,000 civilians under his control, the people who could mobilize the most were also the most.

The Wang family will go all out to carry out this wave of extraterritorial development, and will gain the largest share of benefits in the future.

Wang’s machine is running rumblingly.

Longzuo County, in Tianyuan Danfang.

Wang Shouye, an alchemy master trained by the family, is on his mission.

“Brother Wenshan, thank you for taking the time to refine these 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 4,000 dry gold tickets. Please keep them. I hope you have time to refine more.”

Reclamation outside the territory is a highly dangerous and uncertain systematic project. Detoxification pills and wound healing pills are both indispensable strategic materials. The former can defuse most of the relatively low-level toxins, and the latter can effectively heal injuries and save lives.

However, like this first-grade medicine pill, it is only effective for Qi refining realm and mortals.

It has almost no effect on the cultivators of the spiritual stage, and the reason is very simple. The transition and transformation of the life level make them more powerful, and the small poison and the small injury can’t help them.

But once they were all poisoned and injured, the low-grade detoxification pills and healing pills would not be effective.

Therefore, some third-grade and fourth-grade poison transformation pills, good luck pills and the like also have to be prepared a lot.

These were either made by Wang Shouye himself, or they were made by other high-grade alchemists.

With Wang Shouye, a high-quality alchemist, as long as the Wang family is willing to spend money, there will be no shortage of medicinal pills below the fourth rank.

There are only 4th grade or above 4th grade medicinal herbs because the materials are precious and scarce, and they may not be able to supply abundantly.

In addition, Wang Shouye also refined the third-grade elixir “Qi Ling Dan” in batches. Occasionally getting a Qi Ling Pill usually required six or seven hundred dry gold.

However, Shouye relies on the amethyst royal honey supplied by Luojing as the main material, and can refine “Qi Lingdan” in large quantities, and the cost will also drop a lot.

For the vast majority of families, Qi Lingdan does not have much effect.

Its greatest effect is to raise a scrap qualification that is close to the low-grade qualification to a low-grade grade with a high probability.

Qualifications such as low-rank Ding, although it is still the lowest qualification among all Xuanwu cultivators, the probability of breaking through the spiritual stage is very low.

But after all, it can be regarded as a Xuanwu monk.

Many ordinary family generals, and even many low-rank family members, are basically at this level.

In addition, Qiling Pill can also improve the quality of people who are originally low-grade, and the lower the quality of bloodline, the better the effect.

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

But even so, the effect of Qi Lingdan on Wang’s family is immeasurable.

The Wang clan has its own spiritual testing platform, which can roughly measure whether those who are not qualified are close to the low-grade quality.

For the bloodline cultivation of the clansmen, it is more or less useful, which is better than nothing.

In addition to Wang Shouye stationed in the county town, while purchasing and refining medicinal pills and sending them back to Wang’s through Shouda Commercial Bank.

The rest of the tribe are also working hard to operate everything.

For example, Wang Zongyao, a family smelter, supervises blacksmiths and craftsmen to create hoes, shovels, logging axes, saw blades for land reclamation, as well as bow and arrow clusters, long spears, iron shields, machetes, shotgun iron sand, etc. Wait.

And now the husband and wife Wang Luotong, who are in charge of Wang’s ranch, are breeding and training heavy-duty draught horses in the North, riding war horses, and raising a large number of pigs, cattle, and sheep to produce more flesh for the pioneers and farmers. More nutritional supplements for the people.

Not to mention relying on hunting to supplement it, there are already fewer beasts and beasts in the nearby territories, and getting some wild meat is not enough for the hunting team to supplement itself.

In addition, Wang’s fishing team, Zhuwei Lake fish farming team, etc., have stopped selling fish and meat products to the outside world.

Instead, it is hoarding to support the teams that open up wasteland outside the territory and ensure daily nutritional intake.

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Time flies by.

Early October.

The sky is getting colder, and the turquoise of the sky is turning to sallow.

The “Shouzhe Road” outside the territory is in full swing, and in just a few months, it has advanced to fifty miles away.

The progress of the project is faster than the original plan.

The guest lived in the royal family of the Wang family in Changning, and after all, he was also a passionate young man who could not rest.

He took the initiative to invite Ying to join the wasteland scavenging team, with a team of family generals and clan soldiers, patrolling outside the territory and slaying dangerous creatures all day long.

With Tianjiao’s aptitude and good strength, he has made him look good, and has been loved by family generals and clan soldiers.

The royal family has both love and hatred for the Changning Wang family. What they love is that there are too many fun things in this place, and the freshness is wave after wave.

What he hates is that the clan members of the Changning Wang family are all too senior, and he is quite uncomfortable getting along with them.

Of course, there are also royal family Ning, royal family Cheng, etc. who make him feel a little kind.

It’s a pity that both the “shi” and “ying” characters of the Changning Wang family are still little kids. No matter how friendly his royal family feels, they won’t mix with little kids every day.

this day.

The royal family returned with a full reward, and led the team to the garrison point.

Suddenly!

On the “Shouzhe Road”, which has been built for more than half of the road and has been put into use, a woman wearing a light green long dress appeared. What is very strange is that she wears a weft hat on her head, and a hat hangs from her waist. Dizi, Hao still has a string of bells hanging on his wrist.

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

A gust of wind blew past, revealing half of her delicate and graceful face.

In an instant, the royal family was fascinated, and he felt as if he was electrocuted by this temperament.

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[End of this Chapter]