Kunlun one millet

Chapter 105 Provoking hatred for no reason

"You send these pictures to the craftsman's workshop, and let the craftsmen there build the utensils according to the pictures."

Zhao Mi handed some pictures to Zheng Siyuan, and the other party took a look, and found that they were a few big hammers with strange shapes, and various mortise and tenon gear teeth matched with them.

"What is this?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

"The wooden pound used to pound the talisman cotton wool." Zhao Shu stretched his waist: "Didn't you take me outside the city the day before yesterday to see the waterwheel pounding rice? That thing can indeed replace human power, but it needs to be slightly modified. I have already informed Marquis Anyang of my idea, and he will arrange it for us at the Waterwheel Workshop."

"Understood." Zheng Siyuan rolled up the blueprint and brought a bamboo tube at the same time: "This is the latest batch of talisman arrows, please take a look at the deacon."

Zhao Shu took the bamboo tube a few feet long, opened the cover, and inside were bundles of wooden arrows with runes, and the clusters of arrows were slightly reddish in color.After contemplating it for a moment, Zhao Mi nodded and said:
"That's right, as expected, we still need to use the copper water casting method. In this way, we don't need to sacrifice individual arrows."

Even though Jindingsi was able to forge talisman arrows earlier, when the new army practiced soldiers and horses and practiced martial arts, it was found that talisman arrows were not as easy to use as talisman soldiers. Often, one shot would exhaust the magic power, and the sacrificial power of each talisman arrow The level of training is uneven, and it is difficult for soldiers to adapt.

In the usual way, how could ordinary soldiers dare to be dissatisfied with the spells and spells refined by the monks in the temple?But Zhao Mi was not tired of the tedious work, and personally communicated with the officers and soldiers of the new army. After learning the specific situation, he immediately worked with Zheng Siyuan, Shi Huoguang and others to improve the craftsmanship of the talisman arrow sacrifice.

In the end, after several trials and experiments, it is no longer the previous method of refining arrow branches alone, but similar to the method of alchemy with water, casting a spell on the boiling copper water, chanting sutras, and casting the copper water enlightened by the spell on the arrow cluster , and then placed in a separate mandala to stagnate and condense to consolidate the charm.

The advantage of this method is that it can sacrifice talisman arrows in batches, and the effect is consistent.It's just that this kind of talisman arrow may not be able to hit everything. At best, it has the armor-piercing sharpness of Jinhuo Shuangsha. If it is used properly on the battlefield, even wearing armor and holding a shield can't stop the power of talisman arrows.

As for the ballista iron arrows used to attack the city, or the talisman arrows that can track the enemy, Zhao Shu or Zheng Siyuan had to sacrifice and make them alone, even among the new army, they were rare.

After sending batches of talismans and arrows to the school grounds, Zhao Mi also met General Wei, and the two exchanged pleasantries, from the talisman soldiers and arrows to the recent border wars.

"Could it be that the Jiuli Kingdom invaded again?" Zhao Mi asked.

General Wei said solemnly: "It's the hogbeak people who live in the mountains, but they don't fly under the banner of Jiuli Kingdom."

"The pig-beaked people? Those pig-headed people?" Zhao Mi was puzzled: "Didn't they already belong to Jiuli Kingdom?"

Among the mountains and mountains of Jiuli Kingdom, there are also various barbarians who are not human but human, and non-beast but beast-like. The hog-beaked people are one of them. Their facial features, mouth and nose are like pigs, so they got the common name of pig-headed barbarians.

General Wei waved his hand and said: "The southern barbarians of Jiuli state claimed that the hogbeak people had never been sealed by them. The territory of the beak people.

To put it bluntly, he wanted to get rid of the notoriety of breaking the Shouyang Mibing Covenant with this, and let those pig-headed savages fight instead of them.However, the battle is not too intense now. Although Zhutou Man is strong, his number is not large. At best, he has slaughtered a few villages. "

Zhao Mi was a little dazed when he heard the words. It was half a year ago that he was assassinated in Jibao Pavilion.During this period of time, I have been focusing on offering sacrifices and making magical objects and spells in Jinding Division, and the years have passed from winter to spring without knowing it.I am in Dongsheng, enjoying peace and peace, and I am unaware of the war in the distance.

"Then what is the court going to do?" Zhao Mi asked: "Does the lord want to send a new army to conquer?"

"It's not up to me." General Wei shook his head and paced back and forth: "By the way, I heard that the Yingzhou Meeting will be held soon. Does Marquis Zhenming want to show his skills?"

"General Wei is laughing at me again." Zhao Mi said, "Yingzhou Meeting is a grand meeting for the king to select talents to serve the country. Zhao is now the deacon of the Jinding Division, so why bother to compete with others for the limelight? What about? Don’t you think you’re not annoying enough?”

"Marquis Zhenming don't need to worry about some gossip in the market." General Wei said.

Since the downfall of the Zheng family in Jiujiang and Zhao Mi's title as Marquis of Zhenming, all kinds of news about him have spread in Dongshengdu.

The most terrible point among them is that Zhao Mi's proposal to the country's ruler to investigate the land and people, somehow leaked to everyone in the government and the public.Some local officials tried to figure out what they wanted, but before they got a decree, they took the initiative to investigate the big households under their jurisdiction, or simply took the opportunity to blackmail them.

Sure enough, there was a lot of commotion in some places, and it even happened that the rich and powerful people surrounded the county government with their servants, threw bricks and set fire to it.

For this reason, the ministers of the DPRK and China had another dispute.One side thinks that the country's main government will issue an order to stop checking the land and people, so as to stabilize the people's hearts;

As for Zhao Mi who instigated this incident, since he was granted the title of Marquis of Zhenming, it was inevitable that people would suspect him. He was considered to be the king who used it to test the hearts of the government and the wild, to see if he could use this to carry out a land and population investigation across the country.

"The sun and the moon are not clear, but the millet produces light. A hundred grains are not abundant, but the millet is full of warehouses. All the people are in trouble, but the millet is happy..."

Zhao Mi in the carriage smiled wryly when he heard the nursery rhymes on the street, and he couldn't care less about those street children who spread and sing songs after taking a piece of cake.

Returning to Zhenming Hou's mansion in the north of the city, after the Jiujiang Zheng family left, this deep house compound was owned by Zhao Mi.

It's just that the Hou's mansion is a little deserted now, Zhao Mi has no family members, and Zheng's slaves and servants have all been dismissed.The Marquis of Anyang couldn't stand it anymore, so he sent dozens of servants to Zhao Mi to take care of his daily life and clean the house.

"Master Hou, arrest Si Lai, he is currently in the living room."

As soon as Zhao Mi started, a housekeeper came to report.

"Department of Arrests?" Zhao Mi muttered to himself, and came to the living room to see two people, one was Lieutenant Lu from the Institute of Rewards and Punishments, and the other was Sicheng Yan, the arresting officer.

"Keep your lords waiting for a long time." Zhao Mi stepped forward and cupped his hands, apologizing repeatedly.

Yan Sicheng and Lu Xiaowei got up to return their salutes. Zhao Shu asked the housekeeper and servant to leave, and asked, "The two adults came to visit in person, what is the important matter? Could it be that there are still doubts about the Jibao Pavilion case that have not yet been clarified?"

"That's not true. The reason I came here this time is because I got a tip that someone may be doing harm to Marquis Zhenming recently." Yan Sicheng said.

"It's not good for me?" Zhao Mi was taken aback, "Is another assassin from Jiuli Kingdom coming to kill me?"

Yan Sicheng replied: "Recently, we have conducted a rigorous search inside and outside Dongsheng Capital and captured the spies and spies of Jiuli Kingdom one by one. Marquis Zhenming can rest assured for now."

Zhao Mi's eyes were deep: "Yan Sicheng might as well speak out."

"The ones who really want to harm Zhenminghou may be people in the country." Yan Sicheng said: "The current situation in the government and the opposition, I think Zhenminghou has heard about it. A few days ago we captured a few Jiangyang thieves and learned that Recently, on the green forest road of Huaxu Kingdom, someone unexpectedly offered a reward to the Marquis of Zhenming."

"Green forest bandits, offer me a reward?" Zhao Mi raised his finger to himself.

He felt that it was a bit confusing. It was obvious that in the past, the imperial government would attach a reward when issuing arrest documents in order to catch thieves.Why is it the other way around this year, it's my turn to be rewarded by the green forest bandits?
Yan Sicheng laughed dryly: "Marquis Zhenming doesn't know something. These thieves from the rivers and oceans and the giant bandits from the green forest can be regarded as a serious problem in our Huaxu Kingdom. Not to mention the chaos of the Five Kingdoms War. Huaxu's refugee army was abolished, but many things were not done well at that time, causing some troops to rebel. Some troops were abolished on the surface, but in fact they turned into robbers, bandits, and howling mountains and forests, and they were too close to the local wealthy families dense."

Zhao Mi was almost used to hearing these things, and asked: "That is to say, the fact that I have spoken to the lord to save the land has touched the interests of those local wealthy families. These people plan to gather a group of Jiangyang thieves to deal with me?"

"Exactly." Yan Sicheng replied.

Zhao Mi sneered and said, "I've been underestimated, what kind of thieves dare to trouble me?"

"This is what we want to tell the Marquis of Zhenming." Lu Xiaowei said: "These thieves are not all ordinary people. There are also monsters and evil cultivators in the dangerous mountains and swamps they occupy."

Zhao Mi asked: "Oh? Isn't this the duty of the arrest department?"

"Ashamed, what the arrest department can really control is only the area inside and outside Dongsheng Capital." Yan Sicheng sighed: "And those hiding places for thieves and evil spirits are mostly dangerous mountains and rivers, and it is difficult for an army to attack. If there are only a few monks Enter, if you are in an ambush, it will be difficult to escape."

Zhao Mi didn't criticize him harshly. Although the arrest department has the duty to arrest evil spirits, it is inevitable that they will be constrained by various parties in handling the case, and there are not so many monks who can be sent out to fight against evil spirits.

In fact, being able to mobilize monks from various houses to participate at the same time as Xingluo County suppressed the bandits is already the largest war for monks from the Huaxu Kingdom to participate in the war since the suppression of the army in the first Yang of the Five Kingdoms.

As for Xingluo County's suppression of the bandits, there are many entanglements involved, and Zhao Mi guesses that there is also the intention of the king to judge the various houses.

But no matter how you say it, there are always very few monks in the world, and it is impossible that Cao Zuo, an official in the government office, is all monks.

This is also the reason why Zhao Mi has concerns about the Dao Kingdom in the world.How complicated and difficult is the military, political and civil affairs of a country?With the current number of monks in the Huaxu Kingdom, even if they were all sent out to take up important positions, they would not be able to fill the ranks of officials in the Huaxu Kingdom.What's more, the level of cultivation is not necessarily related to whether you can manage military, political and civil affairs.

Zhao Mi himself has experienced it himself. Even if he concentrates on Xuanzhu, he is still number one in Huaxu's country, but he still knows little about the specific military and political affairs, and he is far inferior to a veteran official like Wang Juncheng.

If someone like Zhao Mi is really allowed to manage the military and the people's livelihood, I'm afraid it will hurt one side immediately.

Not to mention the monks who are truly devoted to the immortal way, if they deal with all kinds of mundane affairs all day long, not to mention hindering their pure cultivation, they will work hard physically and mentally and self-destructively as time goes by.

In fact, there are still a few monks in the halls of Huaxu Kingdom who are truly worthy of great responsibilities. Even Liang Tao, who is also a master of the state, walks in the court on weekdays and relies on fractal changes to meet people.And how many monks in the world can stand shoulder to shoulder with Liang Tao?This Liang Guoshi himself is a rare anomaly.

Even if Liang Tao can really create a Taoist kingdom on earth, how many monks can he actually manage in the future?If the Taoist officials in various localities were just mortal officials who had changed their names, I am afraid that the situation would not be much different from the current situation.

Even if Zhao Mi was able to lay down the rituals covering the entire Huaxu Kingdom, the result would be nothing more than Liang Tao proving the way of immortality and commanding the ghosts and gods of a country. A group of monks will not be created out of thin air to help govern the country.

"Marquis Zhenming?" Yan Sicheng whispered several times, waking up Zhao Mi who was in deep thought.

"I'm sorry." Zhao Mi rubbed his brows lightly: "Jinding Company is busy with work, and my mind is in a trance. What did the two adults say just now?"

Yan Sicheng said: "It's about the safety of Marquis Zhenming. Although our arresting department can guarantee that the area inside and outside Dongsheng Capital will not be haunted by evil spirits, if we go to the mountains and fields, the arresting department may be powerless."

"I understand, just try not to stay away from Dongshengdu, right?" Zhao Mi asked.

Yan Sicheng cupped his hands and said: "Actually, with Marquis Zhenming's cultivation technique, the evil spirits dare not offend you. But now you are shouldering the responsibility of Jindingsi. If you make a mistake, it will be a great loss for the court. We Don't dare to ignore it."

"Thanks to the two adults for telling me, Zhao will keep it in mind." Zhao Mi nodded.

In fact, Zhao Mi was not surprised by what the arrest department said.Now I am afraid that there are many local wealthy families who can't wait to eat meat and sleep with Zhao Mi.If it wasn't for his cultivation skills and being an upstart in the imperial court, he would have been secretly entangled in killers and assassins to come to Dongshengdu to stage a good show of smashing skulls with a sledgehammer in broad daylight.

"By the way, Mr. Zhao still has something to ask." Zhao Mi asked, "What happened to the two demon assassins from Jiuli Kingdom earlier?"

Yan Sicheng smiled and said: "Those two people have been abolished, their limbs have been cut off, but their lives are temporarily spared. When the lord orders the conquest of Jiuli Kingdom, they will be beheaded and sacrificed to the flag to strengthen the morale of the army." .”

Zhao Mi nodded silently: "I heard that Qing Luoyi is a half-demon, so what is the origin of the other wolf-headed monster? Is he also a half-demon?"

Xiaowei Lu interjected: "We checked and found that his appearance was transformed by a demon."

"Monster transformation?" Zhao Mi's thoughts moved, and he suddenly thought of the young master of the Dai family in Chengyang County, and the monster driving the walking dead in Xingluo County.

"That's right." Lu Xiaowei said: "According to the monster, he took a kind of medicine called 'Danglu Zhuanggu Pill', and then the monster changed into this appearance. There is more than one person in the ghost city."

"Could it be that the Jiuli Kingdom has mastered the method of using pills to activate demon transformation?" Zhao Mi was very surprised. Even the Yaochi Kingdom, which has mastered the method of demon transformation, can't obtain the mana of the divine bird for soldiers only by taking it. Pills can do it.

"Jiuli Kingdom is far more mixed with evil spirits than Huaxu Kingdom, so it's not uncommon for any kind of strange things to happen there." Yan Sicheng said: "However, these southern barbarians are destined to become this kind of inhumane monster after taking the demon-changing elixir. His appearance is completely invisible. As long as he shows himself in front of others, he will be exposed immediately, and Marquis Zhenming doesn't have to worry too much."

(End of this chapter)