Martial arts long journey

Chapter 17
Youdao is poor in culture and rich in martial arts. The medicinal materials, weapons, etc. needed to practice martial arts do not need to consume a lot of gold and silver.

Although Zhou Yan was the eldest son of the Zhou family in Yanzhou Prefecture, his monthly allowance was far lower than his three cheap younger brothers, but it was only a few dozen taels of silver.

Putting it in the homes of ordinary people, these dozens of taels of silver are enough for daily expenses, but it is far from enough to support a warrior to practice martial arts.

For example, the Exercise Pill that can help warriors strengthen their bodies, even if it is a first-grade pill that has just stepped into the rank, the minimum cost is 100 taels of silver.

And the blood-quenching pill that can temper blood is even more expensive, and each one costs nearly a thousand taels of silver.

Based on Zhou Yan's current monthly allowance, even if he saved for a year, he would not be able to buy a quenching blood pill.

Not to mention that with the improvement of martial arts strength, the auxiliary pills needed become more and more precious, and the gold and silver costs are naturally greatly increased.

Now the fat meat of the Zhou family mine, which is nearly 40 taels a month, can almost be said to be put on Zhou Yan's mouth, how could he not take a bite?
To Zhou Yan, the Zhou family in Yanzhou Mansion had no sense of belonging at all.

In addition, he was not only relegated to the Zhou family's mine, but also murdered by the Zhou family.

Therefore, whether the Zhou family's business is losing money has nothing to do with Zhou Yan. Naturally, it is impossible for him to think about the interests of the Zhou family.

If it wasn't for Zhou Yan's lack of strength in martial arts now, just relying on the fact that someone in the Zhou family murdered him, he might have turned against the Zhou family directly.

Now that he just cut a sum of refined ore from this mine, Zhou Yan naturally wouldn't feel any guilt.

"Come with ears!"

Zhou Yan casually brought Xu Huang to his side, leaned into his ear and whispered: "Make groups of ten miners in the mine and chain their feet together so that they will not be hindered from digging, and they will not be affected. They will not be allowed to come together again to cause unrest.

As for the Zhou family, it is said that the miners have inconvenient legs and feet, which reduces the output of the mine. "

Hearing Zhou Yan's instructions in his ears, Xu Huang's eyes couldn't help but brighten up, and then he said a little discouraged: "My lord, this method can be avoided, but even if we keep a part of the refined ore every month , and there is no way to sell it!"

"It's okay, just follow my instructions. As for the channel of concentrate, I will figure out a way!"

Zhou Yan waved his hand and said with a light smile.

Concentrated ore is one of the basic materials for casting weapons, Zhou Yan couldn't believe that he still couldn't find a buyer.

"Okay, the villain just locked up those slave miners."

Seeing that Zhou Yan had made up his mind, Xu Huang immediately gritted his teeth and said in response.

Xu Wang, who had already swallowed the 'Five Poisons Corroding Heart Pill', knew that he could not disobey Zhou Yan's order, so Xu Wang no longer hesitated, and immediately turned around to arrange for those slave miners.

After all, Xu Wang can be regarded as Zhou Yan's confidant now, after waiting for Zhou Yan to cut off the refined ore, he will certainly not lose his benefits, so why not give it a go!

"and many more!"

However, at this moment, Zhou Yan suddenly called Xu Huang back.

"Deacon Xu, what do those miners eat every day?"

Afterwards, Zhou Yan pointed at the sallow-faced and emaciated slave miners, frowning and saying.

"Back to the eldest son, in order to prevent the slave miners from breaking out in turmoil, there is only one meal in the mine every night, a bowl of porridge with wild vegetables, and a thick steamed bun for each meal."

Although Xu Wang didn't understand what Zhou Yan meant, he still answered truthfully.

"So much? No wonder there will be riots in this mine for a long time."

Hearing Xu Wang's words in his ears, Zhou Yan couldn't help murmuring, and then he only heard him say to Xu Wang loudly: "Deacon Xu, from now on, I will provide the miners with a breakfast every day, and those who work diligently will add more food every three days. A meal of meat!"

Zhou Yan's voice, which he didn't deliberately lower, even passed into the long queues that were queuing up and walking out of the mine tunnel.

In an instant, all the slave miners turned their heads in unison, staring at Zhou Yan in disbelief.

You must know that a slave miner in Zhou's mine had to dig at least three hundred catties of ore every day to be able to eat, and this was just barely enough to eat.

If you want to get more things, you need to exchange for more ore. Every [-] catties of ore can be exchanged for an extra piece of rough bread or steamed buns, and every [-] catties of ore can be exchanged for a piece of meat.

Many slave miners have never tasted meat since they were bought by the Zhou family at a low price.

However, Zhou Yan now took the initiative to help them add an extra breakfast, and even promised to have meat every three days. They couldn't believe that such a good thing would happen to them.

"What are you looking at? This is the eldest son of the family. He will be in charge of our mine in the future, so he will keep his word.

The eldest son pities you, so I give you a higher treatment, but once I find out that you have failed the eldest son's mercy, don't blame me for not having eyes with the sword in my hand! "

Feeling the surprised gazes cast by those slave miners, Xu Xuan snorted and said.

As the chief deacon of the mine, Xu Wang possesses martial arts strength at the pinnacle of physical training. His status in the eyes of these slave miners is definitely not comparable to that of the previous deacons who did not know martial arts in the Zhou family mine.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Xu Wang to let these slave miners break out of turmoil as ordered by just relying on a few words.

Now that Xu Wang had spoken to confirm Zhou Yan's words, it naturally made the slave miners no longer have any doubts in their hearts.

"Thank you, Eldest Young Master, for your kindness, thank you, Chief Deacon, for your kindness..."

After the slave miners looked at each other, they knelt together and kowtowed.

"Get up!"

Looking at the slave miners kneeling on the ground not far away, Zhou Yan said loudly.

Zhou Yan actually knew in his heart that those slave miners didn't have any complicated ideas at all, as long as they could fill their stomachs every day was enough.

If it wasn't for the Zhou family's mines oppressing them too much, it would be impossible for them to risk their lives to cause a riot.

Now Zhou Yan feeds these miners a meal every day in order to give them enough physical strength to work.

Zhou Yan was willing to come to take charge of the mine in order to get away from the Zhou family's eyes and ears and have enough time to practice martial arts. Naturally, he would not really waste his time on managing the mine.

Since adding an extra breakfast can make those miners feel grateful, why would Zhou Yan not do it?

What's more, when those miners have enough physical strength, they can extract more concentrated ore, which will allow Zhou Yan to reap huge benefits.

(End of this chapter)