Chapter 350: Calculation and being calculated, Dongling

Village-level outposts contribute to North Shuo once every six months.

The materials contributed each time are 60 jin of jade bones, 1,000 jin of beast blood, 5,000 tons of iron ore, and 7,500 tons of coal. Therefore, in the next five years, the total contribution materials of the three Dongling families will be 1,800 jin of jade bones, 30,000 jin of beast blood, 150,000 tons of iron ore, and 225,000 tons of coal.

Such a massive amount of contribution materials, even if shared among the five families, is an extremely astonishing burden.

They are just village-level outposts.

1,800 jin of jade bones, based on 3 jin of bone output per high-level Cold Beast, is a full 600 high-level Cold Beasts. Shared among the five families, each family has to hunt 120 more high-level Cold Beasts in the next five years.

This... how is this possible?

Contributing 60 jin of jade bones every six months is determined by Beishuocheng based on the hunting ability of village-level outposts. Village-level outposts can only hunt 3 to 5 high-level Cold Beasts per month. Zhu Ridge is slightly stronger, but it is impossible to exceed 10.

The key is that hunting high-level Cold Beasts is risky.

If you are lucky, the Cold-Resisting Realm people will be injured. If you are unlucky, people will die.

There is also consumption. The pills, traps, weapons, and bows used for hunting all need to be exchanged for things in Beishuocheng. They have no silver and can only exchange them for large amounts of iron ore, coal, beast meat, and beast blood. Of course, like Zhu Ridge, whose hunting ability overflows, they can also use precious jade bones to exchange.

Not to mention these, even if the five families smash the pots and sell the iron to gather the materials, do these Cold-Resisting Realm people not cultivate?

Buying pills for Cold-Resisting Realm cultivation in Beishuocheng also costs money.

Don't forget, the contribution materials of the three Dongling families for the next five years are added to them, and they have their own contribution once every six months.

It is not to say that they cannot take it out. The five families have also stood for decades in North Ning Mountain, and they have saved quite a lot of family business over the years.

The problem is, after taking out all the materials for contribution, do they still want to develop themselves?

The cultivation speed of the Cold-Resisting Realm is already slow. Without pills, there is no way to talk about strength growth. In this way, the risk of hunting high-level Cold Beasts will be even greater;

Do the Earth-Digging Realm limits not break through? Without new Cold-Resisting Realm people, the camp's hunting ability will only get worse;

Without new Earth-Digging Realm people, even the mining ability will decline. In this way, a vicious cycle is formed. Under this vicious cycle, the strength of the outpost will only get weaker and gradually enter extinction.

Zhu Tong naturally understands this truth. This competition today is his calculation of Dongling. As long as Dongling loses, they will basically not be able to turn over in North Ning Mountain in the future.

It's just that no one expected that the one who lost was himself.

Of course, it was not just him. Facing Lu Yang's inquiry, the leaders of the remaining four families also had iron-blue faces and couldn't say a word.

Any objections?

Of course, but Zhu Yang has already left.

What else can they do?

Unite and play rogue!

Zhu Tong silently looked at Nie Ying, Bai Bo, Wan Tianhe, and Yang Quan, and seemed to have made some determination. He was about to speak.

"Leader Zhu, and the four leaders, you should all know clearly why Dean Zhu Yang didn't dare to force people with power just now, right?"

Unexpectedly, Lu Yang spoke first, throwing a question to the five.

Zhu Tong and the five were stunned, and the words in their throats were instantly held back.

Wang Tao behind Lu Yang took a small step forward and smiled lightly, "Our great Lord of North Shuo, Yang Zun, is known for being a man of his word. The nine towns of Mo'ao have always had the beautiful talk that 'getting ten thousand taels of silver is not as good as getting a promise from Yang Zun.' With such a Lord, the people of North Shuo have naturally developed a tradition of keeping their word. As the Dean of the North Shuo Inspectorate, how could Zhu Yang take the lead in ruining the Lord's reputation?"

Yang Zun's reputation for keeping his word is well-known among the nine towns of Mo'ao.

It is rumored that more than a hundred years ago, when Yang Zun was still in the Cold-Resisting Realm, he was seriously injured in a hunt and was saved by a giant outpost. He promised that outpost that no matter what trouble they encountered in the future, they could come to him once, and he would help solve it.

At that time, North Shuo was also just a giant outpost, and Yang Zun was only in the Cold-Resisting Realm. People just treated him as polite and didn't take it seriously.

As a result, who knew that in the next fifty years, Yang Zun's cultivation climbed steadily, and North Shuo also emerged on the southern foothills of Mo'ao Mountain. The outpost's strength grew stronger day by day, and finally ranked among the nine towns.

And the giant outpost that saved him at that time was destroyed by Jin Shan Town, one of the three northern towns, ten years ago.

Originally, this matter should have passed like this. After all, when that outpost was destroyed, they didn't take the initiative to ask Yang Zun for help.

Unexpectedly, the descendants of that outpost really mixed into Beishuocheng by chance, saw Yang Zun with their own eyes, and directly mentioned the matter of that year, asking if Yang Zun still remembered.

Things from more than fifty years ago, and it was just a giant outpost. Even if Yang Zun didn't remember, I am afraid no one would say anything.

But he not only remembered, but also agreed to the man's request, helping their outpost find Jin Shan Town for revenge!

You know, Jin Shan has the longest history among the three northern towns. At that time, it was recognized as the head of the nine towns. No one expected that Yang Zun would go to trouble Jin Shan Town for a promise from more than fifty years ago.

The two towns of Jin Shan and North Shuo fought fiercely. The final result was that the culprit who destroyed the giant outpost was beheaded by Yang Zun himself. After this battle, Jin Shan Town not only suffered a big loss but also lost the title of the head of the nine towns, which was a big loss of face.

The saying that "getting ten thousand taels of silver is not as good as getting a promise from Yang Zun" has been widely circulated among the nine towns of Mo'ao since this incident.

Not to mention other things, Yang Zun's reputation for keeping his word was hit at once. Since the people of Beishuocheng who regard Yang Zun as a great Lord naturally have to follow his example.

Zhu Yang didn't dare to force people with power, which was certainly due to the fear of Gu Tianxiong and Dean Huang, but the deeper reason was that he didn't dare to ruin North Shuo's reputation for keeping his word.

Before the competition started just now, Lu Yang asked repeatedly whether he was here on behalf of the North Shuo Inspectorate today, and Zhu Yang also gave a clear answer. Every word and action of his represents North Shuo.

Then he dared to force people with power today to help Zhu Ridge play rogue. With He Wuyang's witness, if the matter is poked in front of Gu Tianxiong and Dean Huang, it is light to set him a crime of ruining North Shuo's reputation.

If he is set a crime of ruining the Lord's reputation, it will be serious.

The environment of the Ice Abyss determines that the Lord of any outpost is an existence that is absolutely supreme and regarded as a god by everyone in the outpost. For a powerful town-level outpost like North Shuo, it is even more so.

Of course, Does Does Da Xia is the same.

The Does Does Da Xia Prison Department has clear laws and regulations. If anyone dares to insult the Lord's reputation, the light punishment is one year of corvée, and the heavy punishment is direct execution.

Whether Yang Zun himself cares about insulting the Lord's reputation is not certain, but in Beishuocheng, his large group of supporters will definitely not agree.

This is the core reason why Zhu Yang didn't dare to force people with power today.

He was already old, and being sent to Jingxi this time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was being marginalized by the Inspectorate.

Many people are staring at his position as Dean!

Such a serious crime as insulting the Lord's reputation, once he carries it, no matter what the final result is, he will definitely not be able to keep the position of Dean.

In other words, such a crime, even Zhu Yang dare not carry, then the leaders of the five Zhu Ridge families dare to carry it?

Lu Yang looked down at the five, his face full of smiles.

Of course not!

He has eaten these five families today.

"Leader Lu, five years, it's really too much..."

After a long silence, Zhu Tong finally spoke.

His tone carried a threatening meaning. After pausing, he continued in a low voice, "Handing over so many materials, my five families basically have no way to live in the future. We cannot agree. Even if you poke this matter to Dean Gu, we cannot take it out."

"That's right, Leader Lu, we simply can't take out so much."

"Not to mention anything else, 150,000 tons of iron ore, shared among each family is 30,000 tons, which is almost the total mining volume of half an iron mine. It is impossible for my five families to let people dig mines every day for the next five years."

"So many things, forgive my Yanggu, I can't take it out."

"My Wanxing is the same, I can't take it out."

The four leaders hurriedly expressed their positions behind Zhu Tong.

Looking at the five people's expressions that they clearly didn't intend to admit the account, the smile on Lu Yang's face gradually collected, and his eyes instantly lowered.

"Leader Lu, why not..."

"He Wuyang, shut up!"

Seeing that He Wuyang intended to help the five of them, a look of joy appeared in Zhu Tong's eyes, but this trace of joy was scared away by Lu Yang's angry rebuke.

Lu Yang actually directly scolded He Wuyang and told him to shut up.

How dare he?

Not only Zhu Tong, but the four leaders Bai Bo, and even Zi Jing and Hong Fan standing behind Lu Yang, were stunned.

The leaders of the seven families all looked up at Lu Yang first, and then their eyes shifted to He Wuyang, who was scolded to shut up behind them.

Next, a scene that was extremely strange to them happened!

He Wuyang's face first flushed with a flush of red. It could be seen that he was extremely angry, but he was so angry that he forced his face to return to normal after three or four breaths, and then, as if nothing had happened, turned and left the venue.

………………

He Wuyang, a proper North Shuo black-labeled inspector, was scolded by a village-level outpost leader and actually left without saying anything?

The scene that happened at this moment caused a shock to the hearts of the seven leaders that was a hundred times stronger than Zhu Yang leaving just now.

Why?

Why?

Zhu Tong and the seven were terrified at this moment, their minds full of confusion.

"Since you can't take out so many things, why did you dare to propose this competition to me at the beginning? You were sure that my Dongling would definitely lose, right?"

With the scene of He Wuyang being scolded and retreating just now, Lu Yang's low and angry voice was much more deterrent to the five Zhu Tong.

The five didn't dare to look at him and lowered their heads instantly.

Seeing that the five were still in the posture of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, Lu Yang sneered twice and continued, "Admitting defeat is an unchanging truth since ancient times. You probably think that even if Dean Gu knows about this, he won't care about your little things, it's nothing more than a punishment, so even if you don't give it, I can't help you, right?"

The five continued to lower their heads and said nothing.

"If you think so, then you are very wrong!"

Lu Yang sneered in a deep voice and continued, "Since you don't give it, then my Dongling will take it ourselves. From today on, my Dongling will send people to patrol the North Mountain line every night. None of your five families will want to step into North Mountain again!"

Zhu Tong and the five were all lowering their heads at this moment. After hearing this, the expressions of the five were stunned, and then their expressions became strange.

All eight families live on the North Mountain line, and although there are frictions, there is no worry of mutual annexation. Therefore, the specific locations of the eight families are known to each other.

The problem is, blocking the North Mountain line, how could Lu Yang do it?

Dongling has twenty-nine Cold-Resisting Realm people and more than four hundred Earth-Digging Realm limits. Its strength is indeed the head of the eight families, but wanting to block the entire North Mountain line, not to mention Dongling, even adding Zi Qiang and Hong Yuan, the three families together is absolutely impossible.

Zhu Ridge alone has fourteen Cold-Resisting Realm people, plus the other four families, the total number of Cold-Resisting Realm people in the five families is at least over forty. This is just the Cold-Resisting Realm. The number of Earth-Digging Realm limits and Earth-Digging Realm groups, the total number of the five families is only more than the three Dongling families. How can they block it?

"Come in!"

Lu Yang seemed to be able to see through the thoughts of the five. He sneered first, then turned to the periphery of the Zhu Ridge outpost and shouted.

"Who is it, dare to trespass on Zhu Ridge Village!"

"All stand still."

"Enemy attack, there is an enemy attack..."

Several urgent screams suddenly came from the periphery of the outpost. Hearing the final enemy attack warning, Zhu Tong and other Cold-Resisting Realm people, including the people in the Zhu Ridge outpost below, instantly changed their faces.

"Zhu Da, you go out..."

Zhu Tong was about to send his second brother out to see, but before he finished speaking, more than fifty people rushed into the periphery of the outpost. Seeing the speed at which the fifty people were walking on the ground, their expressions instantly stiffened.

A total of fifty-eight people rushed in from the periphery of the outpost. The leader was Zhu Shun, the military officer of the Dongling Camp Supplies Division. The fifty-seven people behind him were all wearing black iron armor. The silver forging patterns on the iron armor were dense and had thousands of lines, almost competing with the black. ===== CHAPTER 351 =====