Chapter 345: Mirror Valley Garrison Commander Luo Ming, Beast Tide, Great Xia Six Armies

Third year of Great Xia, the ninth day of the ninth month, second half of the night.

The turmoil caused by Xia Hong's breakthrough in the inner city in the first half of the night is not mentioned for now. For everyone in the outer city and all outposts in Great Xia, the time node of early September is actually extraordinary.

Because early September is the second maturity period of the Ice-Solid Tree every year. At this time, the trees are full of crystal fruits.

Crystal fruits, this type of food that can only maintain warmth and cannot bring cultivation gains, are naturally not considered precious materials in Great Xia today, but the Logging Department still classified them as key reserve materials.

The reason is simple. First, crystal fruits can be mashed and mixed with water, and then seasoned with beast meat powder to make supplementary food for children, which can significantly improve the child's physique; secondly, crystal fruits can not only be used as staple food, but also as a spice after being ground into powder, which can significantly increase the aroma of food.

Crystal fruits are key reserve materials, so the Ice-Solid Trees that bear crystal fruits naturally became the focus of the Logging Department.

The tree species transplanted most in the main road of the outer city is indeed Ice-Solid. People who like to do things counted them, and there are a total of 582 Ice-Solid trees in the outer city, and with the continuous new progress made by the Hunting Department in the exploration of the three major resource areas, the number is still increasing rapidly.

Compared to the early days of Great Xia, in order to find a few Ice-Solid trees, one had to risk their lives. Now the 582 trees in Xia City, the number is really shocking. Many people think that Great Xia has transplanted all the Ice-Solid trees from the three resource areas of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, Arrow Bamboo Forest, and Long Mountain to Xia City.

"It is impossible to transplant all of them to Xia City. Major outposts also need to live. If not a single Ice-Solid tree is left, you can't take beast meat as staple food. That is a cultivation resource. Xia City now has more than 800,000 people, and it is still lacking."

At the south entrance of the Mirror Valley outpost, about twenty people gathered here.

Li Baihe heard Xu Kang behind him, and immediately denied him, then smiled and said: "The activity range of our Rogge camp in the early years was only one kilometer on the east periphery of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, and it was normal to find only 21 trees. Counting other camps, the total estimate was not 50. 582, it is indeed too many."

After saying these things, he paused and continued: "Xia City transplanted a total of 582 Ice-Solid trees, not to say that the hunting team only found so many, but only so many are needed. Xia City doesn't just transplant this kind of tree. Chen Fragrance, Green Water, Blue Jade, Green Saliva, Fragrant Cold, White Angelica, Jade Bone, Cold Crimson... there are at least dozens of precious trees that need space to transplant. Ice-Solid trees also occupy the cheapness of being able to be used as staple food, otherwise there would not be so much space left for it in the city."

Xu Kang understood after hearing this, and nodded lightly.

"Alright, I brought you here tonight, specifically to observe the combat power of the army. Why are you talking about Ice-Solid trees?"

At the very front of the line, Mirror Valley Garrison Commander Luo Ming turned his head and interrupted the two who wanted to continue discussing.

Although Luo Ming is the Mirror Valley Garrison Commander, Li Baihe and Xu Kang, and he are all brothers of life and death, so they will naturally not be scared.

Li Baihe nodded with a smile and said: "Isn't this just taking advantage of the Ice-Solid tree to talk about the affairs in the outpost? Brother has been serving here as a garrison commander since July last year. The monthly profit creation value of Mirror Valley is between 300,000 and 350,000, and it ranks in the top five every time. It was not a full year last year, so it was not easy to say. This year is different. In the first eight months, the data for six months is very eye-catching. If it weren't for the impact of the beast tide in January and May, our Mirror Valley's accumulated profit creation value would not only rank eighth now.

This time the army has finally come. If it can solve this beast tide that happens every four months in one fell swoop, this year will not be discussed for now, and our Mirror Valley will definitely have no problem impacting the top three next year!"

Hearing Li Baihe's words, including the captain Luo Ming, Xu Kang, Shang Ping, and the twenty-odd members of the Luo Yang team, all showed approval.

Especially Luo Ming, hearing Li Baihe's last sentence that Mirror Valley has no problem impacting the top three next year, nodded heavily, his face full of certainty.

Returning to Great Xia, it is already the fifth year. Luo Ming, including the old Rogge people like Li Baihe, had long ago successfully walked out of that psychologically unbalanced and unwilling state.

Psychological imbalance is because of the huge status gap. Now they have clearly realized that the core reason for the status gap has never been identity, nor because of their past behavior, but because of strength.

After clearly realizing this, Luo Ming completely put down the identity of the former leader of Rogge camp and completely regarded himself as an ordinary member of Great Xia.

With this cognition, his growth speed was surprisingly fast.

Returning to Xia City five years ago, Luo Ming first created the Luo Yang team with old brothers like Li Baihe. Because he himself had broken through to the limit of 30,000 *jin* when he was in Beehive, and Li Baihe and others were not much worse, the strength of the team was not weak as soon as it was created. Soon, it was promoted to a medium-level hunting team in the second year.

The fifth year of Great Xia, which was November the year before last, Luo Ming successfully broke through and became the first Cold-Resisting Realm expert in the team. Then in the first half of last year, Li Baihe, Xu Kang, and Shang Ping broke through one after another. The Luo Yang team, which had four Cold-Resisting Realm experts, naturally logically impacted the high-level team.

In June last year, Luo Ming led the team to successfully hunt a high-level Bai Pi in the Arrow Bamboo Forest. That was the third type of high-level cold beast they hunted. So after handing over that Bai Pi to the Camp Needs Department of the main building in the inner city, the Luo Yang team successfully promoted to the 508th high-level hunting team under the Hunting Department.

The 508th high-level team, after hearing this number, Luo Ming's face showed a wry smile. He thought that after the Luo Yang team was promoted to high-level, he, the captain, would have a place in Great Xia, not to mention being able to enter the vision of the Lord Xia Hong, at least the Chief Administrator Xia Chuan and the Hunting Department Head would notice it.

Clearly, he thought too much.

Luo Ming was a bit angry in his heart. After all, he was a person who could sit on an equal footing with Xia Hong in his early years. It was fine that the status gap between him and Xia Hong became so large, but even Xia Chuan, Yuan Cheng, Qiu Peng, and former subordinates Luo Yuan and Zhao Long now had a status much higher than his, which he naturally found hard to let go of.

So after realizing that even if he broke through to the Cold-Resisting Realm and led the Luo Yang team to be promoted to a high-level hunting team, he could not make up for the status gap, he moved other thoughts.

At the end of June last year, when the Luo Yang team was just promoted to a high-level hunting team, Great Xia newly established the East City Eighth District. The original Mirror Valley garrison commander Li Longkai was promoted to the deputy military preparation of the East Eighth District Camp Needs Department, and the position of Mirror Valley Garrison Commander became vacant.

Learning this news, Luo Ming immediately went to the Jurisdiction Department to sign up for competition.

All official positions in Great Xia are currently divided into six ranks: Chief Administrator is first rank; eight departments' heads are second rank; deputy heads are third rank; the eight districts of the outer city and major outposts such as Long Mountain, Wuyuan, and East Ridge have fourth-rank heads and fifth-rank deputies; small outposts such as Beehive, West Ridge, Zhaoyang, and Bai Yuan have sixth-rank garrison commanders.

Of course, Great Xia has more than these official positions, but these official positions are mostly used as representatives to distinguish them.

Mirror Valley is also a small outpost, so the Mirror Valley Garrison Commander is also a sixth-rank official position.

Although it is the lowest sixth-rank official position, the competition is also extremely fierce. Especially since Great Xia has so many Cold-Resisting Realm experts now, in the case of more monks and less porridge, the process of Luo Ming taking office is naturally not so smooth.

The standards for the Jurisdiction Department to select garrison commanders are three items: personal strength, overall strength of the hunting team, and management ability. Fortunately, Luo Ming is not weak in these three items, so he stood out among a group of competitors and finally successfully became the Mirror Valley Garrison Commander.

After becoming the garrison commander, knowing the concept of profit creation value, and realizing that strength alone is not enough, and the outpost profit creation value is the only way for him to continue to climb to the top of Great Xia, Luo Ming naturally

Upon becoming a Garrison Commander and learning the concept of "Profit-Creation Value," he realized that strength alone was not enough, and that the outpost's Profit-Creation Value was the only way for him to continue climbing toward the top of Great Xia. Luo Ming naturally put all his heart and soul into this.

Mirror Valley is just north of the Arrow Bamboo Forest, and there are no other outposts nearby, so the resource endowment is actually quite good. But since the third year of Great Xia, after the north wall of Xia City was expanded to the south of the Arrow Bamboo Forest, the situation became a bit tricky.

The north wall was already adjacent to the Arrow Bamboo Forest, so Xia City naturally split off a portion of its hunting teams to begin entering the Arrow Bamboo Forest to hunt and gather. In this way, Mirror Valley's monopoly on the Arrow Bamboo Forest was naturally broken.

After Luo Ming took office at Mirror Valley, he did put in quite a bit of effort. He brought a large group of low- and mid-level hunting teams from Xia City and invited a large group of professionals from the eight logging divisions of the outer city to teach the people in the outpost to identify plants and impart gathering techniques. Finally, he spared no effort to urge everyone in the outpost to hunt, gather, and survey. As a result, in the two months since he took office, just as Li Baihe had just said, Mirror Valley's Profit-Creation Value had repeatedly hit new highs, consistently between 300,000 and 350,000, ranking in the top three among the many small outposts, and the performance was indeed quite good.

It wasn't until early September of last year, when the beast tide that occurs every four months in the Arrow Bamboo Forest arrived, that Mirror Valley's Profit-Creation Value for the entire month was less than 50,000. Luo Ming was stunned.

Only then did he remember the beast tide that occurs every four months in the Arrow Bamboo Forest, and at the same time, he realized why he had been able to become the Mirror Valley Garrison Commander so smoothly. Everyone knew about the beast tide and understood that being the Mirror Valley Garrison Commander was a thankless job; it was very difficult to make progress in terms of Profit-Creation Value. After taking the post, one just had to endure, so the people who competed with him for the position at the time were actually of average strength.

Later, he inquired around and learned that after the first Garrison Commander of Mirror Valley, Yue Feng, was promoted to a Longshan Guardian, the person who succeeded him, Li Pingkai, had endured in the position of Mirror Valley Garrison Commander for a full four years before being promoted to Deputy Military Commander of the East Eighth District, which confirmed his thoughts.

Subsequent developments were also as he expected. Although he could maintain Mirror Valley's Profit-Creation Value in the top three of all small outposts during normal months, the data would drop sharply in the months when the beast tide arrived, and the ranking would fall significantly.

"The Profit-Creation Value for the six normal months totals 1.89 million, but the two months with the beast tide add up to only a little over 70,000. That is to say, the total for the first eight months of this year is 1.96 million. This September is a bust again. For the last three months of the year, even if we can reach 350,000 each month, Mirror Valley's total Profit-Creation Value for this year will only be 3.01 million. Never mind eighth place, I estimate we won't even be able to keep the top twenty!"

After Luo Ming calculated it, his brows were full of gloom.

In the previous five years, Great Xia's overall territory hadn't actually expanded much, but relying on the investigation and exploration of the Longyou land, many new outposts had been added. Now, not counting the eight districts within Xia City, there are as many as 26 external outposts.

Not counting the three major outposts of Longshan, Dongling, and Wuyuan, the remaining twenty-three small outposts compete on Profit-Creation Value. Who doesn't want to climb higher? The twenty-three garrison commanders racked their brains to improve their outposts' Profit-Creation Value. Usually, the data gap itself is not large; sometimes the gap between one position and the next is less than a thousand.

Like Mirror Valley, where the Profit-Creation Value drops to one-tenth for three months every year, even if it doesn't hit rock bottom by the end of the year, it will likely be in the bottom five.

In this way, never mind climbing higher, I might even be ridiculed by others and punished by the Deputy Inspector when I return to the jurisdiction department to report on my duties at the end of the year.

Fortunately, the turning point appeared this month!

Minister Xia Chuan suddenly attached importance to the beast tide in the Arrow Bamboo Forest and gathered the elite six armies of Great Xia to station in Mirror Valley at the beginning of this month. It looks like he intends to completely solve this beast tide that occurs every four months in the Arrow Bamboo Forest.

As long as there is no beast tide in the Arrow Bamboo Forest in the future, Luo Ming absolutely has the confidence to raise Mirror Valley's annual total Profit-Creation Value into the top three.

"Big Brother, do you think it's because Mirror Valley's Profit-Creation Value is too low that even the Minister couldn't stand it anymore, which is why he brought a large army to solve this matter?"

Hearing Li Baihe's inquiry, Luo Ming lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then immediately shook his head.