In the dead of night, Wei Yuan stood on the main peak of the boundary, looking far into the distance.
In his perception, the sky in the northwest was dimly illuminated by lights, where Wucheng was located. Yu Zhizhuo discovered large mineral veins around Wucheng, built a mine, and built more than a dozen blast furnaces directly at the entrance of the mine.
The blazing fire really reached the sky and made the sky red.
There are also some fields in the realm that glow slightly in the night. Those are the fields where spiritual rice is planted. The spiritual rice will glow slightly after it grows. If it grows into a field, it will look like a sea of ​​gleaming light at night.
Several cities still have lights shining. There are more and more monks in the boundary city, and they are full of energy after casting. Many people work all night long, just hoping that if they can work more, they will have a greater chance of winning the next war.
The new grain fields had been planted, and when the seeds sprouted, Wei Yuan received thousands more fortunes.
Mortals are simple, especially these war-torn people. Only when they see the seedlings growing in the fields can they think of the day of maturity and harvest. These fields are the hope for countless people to live.
The spiritual energy in the medicine garden is becoming more and more intense, almost visible to the naked eye. The cultivation of Master Chuhe is getting better and better, which shows how successful the medicine garden is.
Wei Yuan suddenly felt emotional. If there were no alien races around and no immortals in the sky, then this land would be the paradise described in the book. It is a pity that the aliens are still cruel and the immortals are always aloof to the mortals living on the earth.
Generally speaking, sometimes immortals are more terrifying than aliens.
Under the night, many people were quietly coming in and out, or using certain Taoist techniques, and then their Taoist power soared into the sky and disappeared in an instant.
The boundary of the realm is now more than a thousand miles, and it is really impossible to completely seal it. Moreover, there are more and more caravans coming and going, and it is unclear whether the Taoist spiritual objects sent by the messengers are sent by the caravans, or if someone has ulterior motives.
It is impossible to keep muskets and gunpowder secret, and they will be leaked sooner or later. In fact, after wiping out Yue Jinshan's 10,000 heavy cavalry, Wei Yuan was ready. The surrounding enemies might have a way to deal with it, and they might even pull out a musketeer team of their own.
However, what Wei Yuan did not expect was that the Xu family was so slow to react. When the 300,000-strong army came over, they went their own way and had no special tactics to deal with muskets.
Wei Yuan felt that he was the one who made the decision. But if he studied Yue Jinshan's battles, he would never have fought like this. But the fact is that the Xu family's 300,000 troops still fought an old-fashioned war. The Xu family was like a twilight warrior.
old man, slow and stubborn.
But after this battle, not to mention the world was shocked, at least the Western Jin Dynasty was definitely shocked by the government and the public. Now there must be muskets and ammunition on the desks of many important people, and perhaps imitation has begun in workshops around the world.
But this is a matter of time, and Wei Yuan has been mentally prepared for a long time. In Wei Yuan's mind, the most important thing now is not the technology of the musket, nor the formula of gunpowder, but the information written by Xu Wenwu, the most authentic information about the outer world.
According to the records, it is a magical world that can make hundreds of millions of people live a prosperous life without any great power.
Now in the study behind Wei Yuan, there is a whole room of history books stacked up. During this period, Wei Yuan read local chronicles from various places, and relatively more from the Western Jin Dynasty. After reading these local chronicles, Wei Yuan finally discovered this world.
The key difference from Xu Wenwu's outer world: in this world, ordinary people have no value.
Within the Nine Kingdoms of Damang, as long as ordinary people cannot cast bodies, then ordinary people are really worthless. As Wei Youcai said back then, there is only so much land and so much food, and if there are more people than a certain level, some people will starve to death.
As long as there is stability for more than ten years, the population will spring up like mushrooms after a rain.
As long as ordinary people can cast a body, even if they have only completed the muscular realm, one person can work as hard as two or three ordinary people. And they eat only half as much as ordinary people.
This is even more true after entering the battlefield. A dozen cast warriors wearing armor and armed with sharp weapons can kill an army of more than a hundred ordinary people without any suspense. The greater the number of troops, the greater this ratio will be.
When the Nine Kingdoms encountered natural disasters and civil uprisings occurred in various places, no matter how ordinary the training of the cast body officers and soldiers was, if a few thousand people dared to attack when encountering tens of thousands of peasant soldiers, they would often be able to defeat them.
Therefore, an ordinary person without a cast body is useless, whether as a soldier or for the people. There are special regulations in the Nine Kingdoms. After casting a body, you can enjoy various privileges and conveniences. The Western Jin Dynasty just went a little more extreme.
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If the body cannot be cast, it is not very popular as a sacrifice to the witch clan. It needs to go through a series of complex treatments, strengthen and cleanse, and then it can serve as a base in large-scale sacrifices.
Moreover, it has been stated in countless scriptures that most of the offspring of ordinary people are also ordinary people. Therefore, the lineage theory in various scriptures is very popular, and even the marriage of ordinary people in the territory of some aristocratic families must be approved by the lords.
These scattered things were connected together by Wei Yuan, and finally pointed to a conclusion: mortals are worthless.
Therefore, the policies of various countries are more or less intentional to suppress the number of mortals. Some directly drive mortals to go to the battlefield, and some are to recruit mortals for labor all year round. A more tactful approach is to ignore major disasters, so that people will starve.
A bunch of people died.
Wei Yuan couldn't help but think of the hungry people's rebellion he encountered when he first met people. Looking back now, Ji Guo may not have no solution, but he was deliberately indulgent from top to bottom. However, it is different in Qingming, because there is a moment of beings.
Existence, even the most ordinary mortal can become a mainstay on the battlefield.
Many people who were thought to be unable to cast Taoji in their lifetime also achieved Taoji in Qingming. If Taoji is like this, why can't it be possible to cast a body?
Wei Yuan thought of Fang Hetong's three articles. The two articles "Li Yan" and "Li Meng" were really magical skills in body casting. It's a pity that he died early, and this foundation was lost.
Wei Yuan is ready to wait for the ten directions glazed golden fire, the six paths of armor and the second sacred wood to mature, and then the next step is to study how to lower the threshold of body casting and allow more mortals to cast bodies. Under the night, the land of Qingming is approaching Wei Yuan
The world of dreams comes closer.
A seemingly empty place on the edge of the boundary was used to separate the two boundaries and create a small independent world.
A figure quietly came here, and when he was looking around, suddenly darkness spread and covered him, and then the ground became empty, as if there was nothing.
The figure's eyes flashed, and a green mountain and green water appeared in front of it. A middle-aged man was sitting under the tree, holding a wine glass in his hand, smiling at him. But although the man was smiling, there was no smile in his eyes.
The middle-aged man said slowly: "My place is isolated from heaven and earth. Unless an immortal is present, no one can notice it. You don't need to be nervous, but you will have to cover it up when you go back."
The people who were taken into this world were all wrapped in black robes. This cloth robe also had the ability to isolate spiritual consciousness and was not an ordinary product. His voice was hoarse and he said: "I came here at great risk of life and death. I
You have to see things first!”
The middle-aged man's face darkened, his pupils suddenly turned into golden vertical pupils, and scales appeared faintly on his neck. The whole small world was suddenly filled with murderous aura, and all the scenery was distorted and might break at any time!
The man in black robe said: "It's not that I don't believe you, I don't believe anyone now. My little request won't make you so angry. I also want to remind you that as long as you are within the realm
, your luck will become abnormal and easily get out of control. You'd better be careful, because if your whereabouts are exposed, you may not be able to escape."
The abnormality on the middle-aged man's body gradually subsided, but he still felt inexplicably disgusted just looking at the man in black robe. He took out a box the size of a palm and placed it on the table.
The man in black robe couldn't wait to open it. Inside was a ruby ​​the size of an apricot, exuding an alluring fragrance. Seeing it, the man in black robe suddenly swallowed his saliva, and his breath fluctuated violently.
He didn't dare to look any further and quickly closed the box. It took a while before his heartbeat calmed down.
The middle-aged man waited quietly until the man in black robe calmed down and said: "This top-grade blood necklace can not only extend your life, but also improve your human qualifications. If you are lucky, you may be able to inherit some of its talents during its lifetime.
ability."
"This piece is a bit small...it's not enough."
The middle-aged man sneered: "Just such a piece, the price in your human race is more than 500,000 taels of immortal silver! With your little ability, if you didn't have this opportunity, would you have a chance to smell it in your life? You want to
If you don’t do it, I’ll find someone else!”
The man in black robe immediately put the box into his arms, then took out a pocket, and took out a variety of daily necessities from it, which looked very ordinary. "This is a history book he has read; this piece of paper was written by him
It was discarded and thrown into the wastebasket;...this is a piece of hair that fell from him."
The middle-aged man inspected each item carefully, while the man in black robe stood beside him, not daring to express his anger, looking extremely nervous. After a while, the middle-aged man finally nodded and said: "That's enough."
The man in black robe suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
The middle-aged man opened his mouth, sucked all the debris into his belly, and then said: "Find a chance to leave, otherwise don't blame me for not warning you in advance."
The small world disappeared like a bubble, and the middle-aged man turned into a black line and disappeared out of the sky in an instant. The man in black robe also turned around and walked towards the realm, blending into the night. In the study, Wei Yuan put the hand in his hand
He put down the history books and came to the pile of books in the corner of the room. While reading, he suddenly had a new idea and needed to compare it with another book.
Wei Yuan quickly took out the local chronicle and began to flip through it quickly. However, he suddenly glanced at the pile of books and felt that it seemed a little thin.
However, he exchanged a large amount of history books and there was no room for them in his study. Moreover, Wei Yuan's spiritual consciousness was so strong that he would remember it after reading it once. There was no use keeping the books. There were only local chronicles of small places and this kind of books.
There are basically no books that anyone reads. Wei Yuan only needs to go back and look for them occasionally. After all, when he first read them, he just skimmed them and did not read them word for word.
The history books Wei Yuan had read would be moved to the warehouse and stored for others to review. However, except for himself and Zhang Sheng, almost no one read these books. Only Sun Yu and Feng Tingyu occasionally took a few books back to read.
Chapter completed!