Chapter 1079: Trouble Delivered to the Door

He Lingchuan didn't say a word. The courage test was set by him, and both the Great Wind Army and the Yuheng Army had similar tests. This was the last hurdle for new recruit admission, and also the most difficult one; ten not taking two was the norm.

When meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins. Those without a bit of courage, without a bit of bravery, without a bit of adventurous spirit, what battlefield are they going to? Honestly go back to farming.

"Cowards." Lu Feiyan "cut" a sound. "Why do you think you joined the army? If you don't take risks and don't risk your life, you can eat and drink well?"

She looked down at the bottom of the cliff: "This is just testing courage, not letting you die. Only one fell to death in two months, which is much lower than the casualty rate on the battlefield."

The person who shouted to quit didn't know who she was and mocked: "If you dare, you jump."

Lu Feiyan looked at him sideways: "I jumped, will you follow?"

That person was speechless.

"How about you? How about you?" Lu Feiyan was also mischievous, insisting on asking them one by one.

Three or four people in a row didn't make a sound, and only two new recruits were flushed with anger: "If you dare to jump, we will follow."

Lu Feiyan looked at He Lingchuan. Seeing her gaze calm and fearless, he smiled: "I'll trouble Miss Lu to demonstrate for the little ones, and I will personally give you a prime shop on the main street."

Lu Feiyan snapped her fingers: "Deal, it's a deal."

She threw her cloak to Wanzai Feng, said "Help me hold it," and then walked to the edge of the cliff. At this moment, she suddenly understood why He Lingchuan told her to bring a few more sets of clothes a few days ago.

Phew, she had been calculated.

She opened her arms to the crowd, smiling: "I'll wait for you at the bottom."

With that, she tilted her body backward and fell vertically.

So many people jumped off the cliff to test their courage, only she jumped backward.

Before falling off the cliff, she didn't forget to wave to the crowd and give a brilliant smile.

Everyone leaned over the edge of the cliff and saw her falling straight down, head down and feet up, entering the water with a "plop," the waves being few and light.

A very crisp but not loud high-cliff dive.

Including He Lingchuan, everyone couldn't help but applaud.

The drop of eight zhang was nearly thirty meters.

But the water splash was pressed too beautifully; if one only listened and didn't look, one would think it was just a small stone falling down.

Wanzai Feng waited for a few breaths and nodded: "The waves didn't turn red, she's fine."

As soon as the words fell, Lu Feiyan drilled out of the water, jumped onto the reef on the shore, and waved to the people on the cliff, indicating that she was fine.

The Soul-Stealing Mirror murmured: "This girl is quite crazy."

He Lingchuan smiled: "Not bad, very not bad."

This Eight-Zhang Cliff only looked terrifying, but in fact, three reefs were moved away from the deep water nine feet below the cliff, and the water nest was chiseled deeper, so the high-cliff dive had a deep water buffer of nearly three zhang.

As for the jagged reefs "directly below," it was just a parallax. Without a level ten gale, the person falling off the cliff would never hit there.

There were people who fell into a coma during the courage test, but no one had ever fallen to their death.

Wanzai Feng's "someone fell to their death two months ago" was just to scare these new recruits.

If someone had fallen to their death, would they not jump? Because it was unsafe?

Was the battlefield safe? People had died on the battlefield, so soldiers wouldn't rush forward? Seeing the girl jump without saying a word, the two new recruits who had bet with her rushed forward one after another, and with a loud shout, they went down.

He Lingchuan looked and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, pass."

Another new recruit's face turned blue and white, and suddenly turned around and ran back.

Wanzai Feng caught up in two steps and grabbed his collar: "A real man keeps his word!"

Before this person could react, he felt his body light, flying out of the cliff like riding the clouds and mist!

"Ah—"

The scream was interrupted, and there was a splash in the water.

"Not as brave as a woman." Wanzai Feng clapped his hands, "Next!"

With Lu Feiyan demonstrating, the big men in line also gathered their courage and jumped down five or six in a row.

Lu Feiyan was agile and soon returned to the cliff. Wanzai Feng found that she had already changed into a dry set of clothes, and only the tips of her hair were still dripping.

Lei Ni immediately handed over a white towel, Lu Feiyan untied her long braid, and asked He Lingchuan while wiping her hair: "I set an example for your new recruits, the shop you promised me can't be broken, right?"

"Rest assured, it won't be missed." He Lingchuan smiled. "The land deed will be presented later."

Lu Feiyan was satisfied, took a gold hoop, and tied her thick long hair loosely behind her head.

This young lady finally had a touch of gentle beauty, and the soldiers nearby cast frequent glances of attention her way.

She took the cloak from Wanzai Feng, said thank you straightforwardly, and then asked He Lingchuan: "I see your manpower here is very mixed, with refugees, the Bailong tribe, and archipelago pirates, aren't you afraid of not being able to manage it?"

"What is there to fear?" He Lingchuan smiled. "I only worry that there are not enough people."

Lu Feiyan asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Oh? What do you want so many people for?"

"Only with many people can we be bold." He Lingchuan also answered intentionally or unintentionally, "Otherwise, there are too many people coveting Yangshan, and I told them that this place is not as good as it looks, but they just don't believe it."

"How is this place not good?" Lu Feiyan sighed. "I've only been here for half a day and I want to live here for a long time and not leave, not wanting to return to the front line filled with smoke."

Lei Ni responded on the side: "Yes, no one wants to fight."

He Lingchuan stood with his hands behind his back: "Someone has to defend the home and country."

"Exactly." Lu Feiyan nodded. "You are more transparent than my mother; she grumbles all day long, saying that women shouldn't be on the battlefield."

At this time, a white egret descended from the sky and landed beside He Lingchuan, spitting out a note from its mouth.

He Lingchuan opened it casually, looked at it twice, and handed the note to Wanzai Feng: "Trouble is coming. The test is suspended, let's go out for a walk."

"Yes!" Wanzai Feng looked and understood, waving to his subordinates, "Withdraw!"

He Lingchuan looked apologetic and said to Lu Feiyan: "Trouble has come to the door, the guard exercise in the afternoon is canceled. I'm very sorry for making you run for nothing."

"Gaining a prime shop, how can it be said to be running for nothing?" Lu Feiyan was curious, "What kind of trouble is this, is it convenient to talk about it?"

"The Qinglong tribe in the east received a batch of grain from us, but they defaulted on the final payment; the manager sent by the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce to urge payment was also greatly humiliated."

"Qinglong tribe?" Lu Feiyan thought for a while, "Isn't that a tribe of the Ya Nation?"

"Yes." He Lingchuan led the crowd down the mountain while saying to her, "Business is not done like this. We have to talk about reason with the Qinglong tribe."

"Talk about reason with them, you..." Lu Feiyan said this, suddenly reacting, and gave a long "Oh."

It was the message delivered by the white egret sent by Guan Ke just now.

The Yangshan Archipelago had just sold a batch of grain to the Qinglong tribe of the Ya Nation, and as a result, the other side defaulted.

Recently, the winter wheat had a bumper harvest, and the Yangshan Archipelago kept enough for its own use, and the rest could be sold out.

This year, the rainfall was sufficient, the sun was bright, and there was mostly good weather. If there were no accidents, the autumn harvest three or four months later would be even more overflowing.

Ding Zuodong and Guan Ke had long since found buyers, and as soon as the grain was harvested, they began to load ships for transport. Recently, cargo ships queuing to leave the port was a common sight by the sea of the Yangshan Archipelago.

Undoubtedly, the major buyers of this grain were the various merchant caravans of the Mou Nation, but He Lingchuan also instructed his subordinates to sell a portion of the grain to the Ya Nation in the east.

Among them, the Qinglong tribe ordered the most, but after the Yangshan Archipelago delivered the grain to their door, the Qinglong tribe said the wheat grains were shriveled and the quality was too poor, refusing to pay the final payment.

But He Lingchuan knew very well that the grain sold by the archipelago was spot-checked and qualified when in stock.

Since that was the case, the manager sent by the Yangshan Archipelago wanted to take back the grain, but the other side wouldn't let them, saying it had already been thrown away.

The Qinglong tribe only paid the deposit, but wanted to take all the grain? How was this different from open robbery? When the manager of the Yangshan Archipelago went to urge payment for the second time, the Qinglong tribe caught him, shaved his head bald, painted it with eye-catching red paint as humiliation, and robbed him from inside to outside, leaving only a pair of pants to cover his shame, and then drove him onto the ship amidst mocking laughter.

The manager returned to the Yangshan Archipelago, and Guan Ke reported this to He Lingchuan.

"The Qinglong tribe's credit is worrying, and even other tribes of the Ya Nation around them don't like to trade with them." Wanzai Feng said while walking, "They haven't done business with us before, right?"

"They bought grain from the Yangshan Archipelago twice before, both times paying for the goods, and it was only the third time that they wanted so much, and then they defaulted." So it was premeditated.

"I heard from the clansmen that the rainfall in the south of the Ya Nation this year was less, and the harvest was average, so I'm afraid many people will go hungry."

"The Ya Nation didn't use Yuan power to regulate?" One of the functions of Yuan power was to promote favorable weather. The Ya Nation had been very strong in recent years, and Yuan power should be very abundant.

"It should have been used, otherwise it would have become a great drought this year, right?"

"Average harvest" was already much better than "no harvest," thanks to the regulation of Yuan power.

Heaven has its regularities. No matter how powerful Yuan power was, it couldn't make dry soil directly become fertile fields, otherwise why would Panlong City defend the Chipa Plateau to the death? "The harvest in the south of the Ya Nation is not good?" He Lingchuan pondered. "This is not good news for the surrounding countries."

The Ya Nation's territory was not small, but it was mainly barren grassland, and the south was the most important grain-producing area, the big granary of the whole country.

If this country was short of food, with its temper, hmm...

Wanzai Feng thought that the Island Master didn't know about the Qinglong tribe and fell into a big pit, but he didn't know that this was the opportunity He Lingchuan had been waiting for for a long time.

Raising an army for a thousand days, using it for a moment.

He had been recruiting for nine months and training for nine months, and it was time to test the quality.

Lu Feiyan immediately said: "Take me with you, okay?"

He Lingchuan looked a bit surprised: "Miss Lu, there may be conflicts going there, not to mention the journey is a bit far, it takes two days by boat."

"The exercise wasn't watched, isn't it better to watch a real battle?" Lu Feiyan smiled. "My brother has already set off for the front line, and he doesn't lack me for the time being, I have plenty of leisure now."

"Swords and guns have no eyes..."

"I can protect myself." A faint light flashed in Lu Feiyan's hand, and she pulled out a long sword and made a sword flower.

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