As the supplies from Hanyang Pass were gradually transported back, eight hundred Taoist soldiers also returned to Qingming. After briefly experiencing the life of a horse bandit, all the Taoist soldiers were very excited and wanted to change their profession.
Wei Yuan hurriedly drove them all to practice to prevent their thoughts from wandering. If the Taoist soldiers handed over by the sect turned into horse bandits, the teacher was afraid that he would come to clean up the sect.
Some more disciples from the Cui family came one after another, totaling 500 people. They, 800 Dao soldiers and 200 realm monks, are the members of this period's Daoji crash course.
Suddenly expanding to 1,500 people, Wei Yuan felt a little stressed.
Wei Yuan originally had different procedures for Tao soldiers and realm monks. To put it simply, they would have one more chance to forge the Tao foundation according to their own wishes. If they failed, they would choose the Tao foundation template provided by Wei Yuan.
But after discussing with the cultivators in Taichu Palace, Wei Yuan finally decided to let the Cui family disciples use the same procedure, that is, giving them one more chance. Although this would consume the remaining Qingming Pond water, Wei Yuan's instinct
I feel that it is also important to maintain basic fairness within the same group.
There is one more Daoji template provided in this issue, which is the launching flying sword that Wei Yuan just made.
This flying sword has no complex shape or superfluous functions. The only magical thing is that the second half of it can explode, thereby promoting the first half to accelerate flight and increase its power. If loaded into a special magic weapon gun, it will be a large weapon.
Powerful flying sword bullets.
Precisely because of its simplicity, it has once again expanded the scope of the human-level Taoist foundation and once again made a significant contribution to the expansion of the immortal Tao in the human world.
But this flying sword can be cast into multiples. In other words, depending on the individual's talent, it may be one, three or five, or even more.
With Wei Yuan in front of them, the cultivators in Taichu Palace had already used their own brains to research new Tao foundations. They soon discovered that as long as they were shameless, it was basically not difficult to develop a new Tao foundation.
So Yu Zhizhuo took out the Five Geng Golds, and Sun Yu got the Congenital Breathing Water.
The old Taoist of Hoe He originally wanted to use a water or wood path foundation, but he already had six paths of divine wood energy, A and B, and it was a bit difficult to break the lower limit. So he thought about it for a long time and developed a beast-controlling fairy heart. This foundation is good at winning the favor of spiritual beasts.
It is easier to adopt powerful spiritual beasts as spiritual pets.
However, these three are all elders of Wei Yuan after all, and they are somewhat proud of each other. Although the new Daoji templates are stronger than those developed by Wei Yuan, their names are much inferior.
After settling the people who want to cast the road foundation, the 300,000 Xu family and military prisoners of war have almost been dealt with. Most of those who can go back have gone back, and the rest are helpless. At this moment, there are
Two hundred and ninety-nine thousand.
Wei Yuan picked an afternoon and gathered everyone together. Three hundred thousand people gathered in one place, which was like a sea of ​​people. When Wei Yuan climbed onto the high platform, everyone fell silent, knowing what Wei Yuan was going to say next.
It's about your own destiny.
Wei Yuan mobilized his Tao power and added a little dragon energy obtained from the dragon bones. The true dragon was born with dragon power, and its suppression of lower creatures was extremely terrifying, far more obvious than the laurel fairy tree and the ice glass sacred tree. Therefore, Wei Yuan
As soon as Yuan opened his mouth, the people who were closer to the high platform immediately trembled uncontrollably, and many people even collapsed to the ground.
"Look, who is this?"
Two monks escorted Xu Chunyuan onto the high platform, and there was a sudden commotion in the audience. Immediately, someone recognized Xu Chunyuan, and passed it on to ten people, and everyone knew it in the blink of an eye.
Wei Yuan said: "This person was originally the guard envoy of Hanyang Pass, and now he is standing here. So the Xu family can't save you, and no one can save you! Now, what I want to talk about is the arrangement for you. Here
Under this system, as long as you conscientiously complete the assigned tasks, you may be able to get rid of your current status, and you may even become an officer under my command."
Next, Wei Yuan announced a new identity mechanism. This mechanism has two lines: merit and cultivation. The starting point for everyone is criminals. Criminals are like prisoners, and the punishment for making mistakes is also extremely severe.
There are dozens of serious crimes of beheading. The offenders who have accumulated enough merits are soldiers. These soldiers are not ordinary soldiers, but similar to military prison camps and death camps.
After the soldiers, there are civilians, and then there are the registered officers and soldiers. This is the identity line.
As the cast body cultivation level increases, there will be corresponding preferential treatment, more tasks can be undertaken, and meritorious achievements will be accumulated faster. Each cast body realm has many exclusive tasks.
If the cast body reaches the level of bone forging and you are willing to sign a blood contract, you can directly bypass the sinners and become a soldier.
The meritorious service required to upgrade your status is different for each level. It is not much to be promoted from a criminal to a soldier. If you are diligent and do not commit any crimes, you can be promoted in one year at most. But it will take three years to go from a soldier to a civilian, and from a civilian to an official.
It takes six years.
Wei Yuan has not yet refined this mechanism. His initial idea is to subdivide the criminal stage into more than a dozen stages, first fast and then slow. The first few levels can be upgraded in a few days, and then it will take more than ten days, or even a few days.
Ten days, even hundreds of days.
There are many similar systems in history books, and they are also mentioned in Xu Wenwu's materials.
After the new identity mechanism was announced, all the prisoners became much quieter, and the original uneasiness disappeared a lot. Otherwise, according to the usual practice, there were suddenly so many prisoners, and if the food was not enough, some of them would probably be killed. Now.
With this complex mechanism, it is obvious that Wei Yuan does not intend to kill them.
The most important task of the sinners at the moment is to open fields. Together with the newly joined refugees, they will open up wasteland at the edge of the boundary. It is far away from the boundary stone, and the transformation of heaven and earth has just begun. The newly opened fields may not produce more than 200 kilograms of grain.
.But now that he has enough manpower, Wei Yuan’s first step is to open up one million acres of farmland first, and then talk about other things.
Then some of the criminals and refugees who were literate, accomplished in casting, and relatively intelligent would be sent to Yu Zhizhuo's office to undertake tasks such as mining mountains, mineral processing, and building furnaces and bridges.
Some of the remaining people were dragged to build cities and dig underground fortifications.
Wei Yuan has always been wary of the Xu family, and to be honest, he is not at ease with the Western Jin Dynasty. If the Liao people in the north had not fought hard, the Western Jin army might have arrived in the border area.
However, Wei Yuan and Zhu Xiu also had some differences, mainly on the nine Qing Ling trees that Wei Yuan brought back this time. Although Qing Ling trees are only spiritual plants, they can improve the surrounding world environment and enhance spiritual energy on a large scale.
According to Master Chuehe's idea, all nine trees should be planted in the medicine garden. In this way, a nine-gong spirit gathering array can be set up, which will greatly increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the medicine garden, and the growth rate of all spiritual plants in the garden will increase accordingly.
Others had no objections. Only Yu Zhizhuo proposed an alternative plan, which was also the Nine Palaces Spirit Gathering Array. If placed in the forging workshop, both the output and quality could be improved by one level. However, the cultivators still felt that according to tradition, this level
The spiritual tree should be placed in the medicine garden.
However, in the end, Wei Yuan only placed three trees in the medicine garden and set up a Xiaosancai Spirit Gathering Array. The effect of this array was only equivalent to 20% of the Jiugong Array. The remaining six spiritual trees were planted in the mortal fields, especially a few
Around the Corrupted Lands.
This can inhibit the expansion of mulch, protect the mortal fields, and at the same time increase the yield of the mortal fields. Calculated, approximately two million kilograms more grain can be obtained in one season.
Because of this matter, there was a rare quarrel among the cultivators.
One of the differences is that the cultivators believe that all mortals need to do is not starve to death, and that feeding them is a benevolent act in the world. An important resource like the Qingling Tree has more important uses and should not be used on mortals.
Only then did Wei Yuan discover that the cultivators had already complained about him for always tilting his resources towards mortals, and when it came to the important matter of allocating the Qingling Tree, things finally broke out.
Even if the immortals treat everyone equally, from the perspective of the output of the entire realm, there are still differences on whether to set up the Nine Palace Formation in the Medicine Garden or disperse it to the mortal fields to benefit more. If you look at it from this perspective, then Yu Zhizhuo’s plan becomes
Very competitive.
The breastplates, weapons and tools produced by the forging workshop are in short supply, especially the breastplates, which can be sold to the outside world as much as they are available. The increase in output and quality can be counted as fairy silver. Use the extra fairy silver to go
The amount of grain purchased must be more than two million jins.
To be honest, Wei Yuan couldn't win the argument on any of these two points. In the end, he had to use his identity as the Realm Lord, plus the fact that the spiritual plant was directly awarded to him by True Lord Huang Yun, thus ending the argument.
Wei Yuan couldn't explain why, but he just instinctively felt that if his fields didn't produce enough food, he would panic.
After the quarrel was over, the cultivators became harmonious again, forgetting all the unhappiness they had just had.
Sun Yu said: "The curse of cause and effect came suddenly this time. I think it may not be a coincidence."
Master Chuehe's eyes lit up and he said slowly: "You mean, there is a traitor?"
Sun Yu nodded: "Otherwise, there is no way to explain it. Recently, I took advantage of the recovery from my injury and used hexagrams to calculate the heavenly secrets. The hexagrams indeed show that the curse of cause and effect is related to the traitor."
Yu Zhizhuo said: "It is not easy to investigate this matter. We only need to spend some time and resources, and first set up a large array to calculate the secrets to prevent the traitors from confusing the secrets. Then we will check all the people who can go to the main peak one by one.
Most likely, we will be able to get results. If not, we can expand the scope even further and there will only be a total of more than 2,000 people. We can always find them."
Feng Tingyu suddenly said: "Some people left the realm before and after that, and we can't let them go."
All the cultivators nodded, feeling that it made sense, but they did not change their views on Mingwang Palace because of Feng Tingyu's occasional flash of inspiration.
Wei Yuan had already thought about this matter and thought about it many times, and then said: "There may be a traitor, but he must be very cleverly hidden. If we conduct a large-scale search, we may be able to catch him, but there is a high possibility that he is wrongly caught."
There are many similar incidents in human history, and most of them turned into sensational cases with wide implications."
Speaking of this, Wei Yuan smiled and said: "Anyway, the curse of cause and effect can't kill me. There are not many things that can kill me. A traitor will not gain anything even if he is caught. I think now
There are so many things to do, so don’t bother yourself.”
Zhu Xiu thought for a moment, and although they were still reluctant, they all agreed with Wei Yuan's idea.
Ningzhou, Qianqiu City.
Fan Donghe was exhausted and walked out of Suye Hall. Suye Hall is the Xu family's important place to collect intelligence and clean up traitors, and it has always made people talk about it. Since the day he returned, Fan Donghe has to go to Suye Hall every day to report and accept
The interrogation lasted several hours.
After all, Fan Donghe was the Dharma Prime Minister, had strong fighting ability, and had no evidence of surrendering to the enemy, so the deacons of Suyetang were quite polite to him and did not punish him. After daily interrogation, they would let him go home for the night.
But others did not receive such treatment. Those officers who were released by Wei Yuan were all captured as soon as the Xu family took over Hanyang Pass again. The core of the inquiry was only one question: Why did Wei Yuan release him?
got them.
How can there be an answer to this question? The officers gave various answers. Such answers would not satisfy the deacons, so they were punished. There were more than a thousand officers captured from Hanyang Pass this time, and they stayed up all night long.
Zhongye was overcrowded, and the torture rooms were simply not large enough. Many single-person torture rooms had to be crammed with four or five people, and everyone was squeezed in and tortured together.
The officers knew that the matter could be big or small, but if it fell into the hands of Suyetang, it would only become bigger rather than smaller, so they tried their best to mobilize their families, hoping to be able to move out. So the deacons of Suyetang made more or less frequent moves.
Made a fortune.
Chapter completed!